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Volume 10: Ordained by Heaven to Live Longevity and Longevity Chapter 26: Huazhou

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    The enemy's attack was thwarted, and the crowd in front retreated, suddenly crowding the already loose formation, and soon became a chaos and a rout. A large number of weapons and wooden shields were thrown on the ground, and the flags fell down.  Several rounds of volleys from the Shence Army's muskets were deafening and powerful. In fact, they killed at most several hundred people. Compared to the size of the rebel army, they only caused a small proportion of casualties. However, they lacked experience and could not withstand such high intensity.  If there is a conflict, the birds and beasts will disperse when frightened.  They also don't have the awareness of the battlefield: if they retreat like this, they will die even more miserably.  Pursuit and killing is the main factor in achieving results.

    As expected, as soon as the opponent retreated, the cavalry in the rear of the Shence Army received orders to pursue them. The cavalry, armed to the teeth and covered with iron, rushed forward impatiently.  The knights on the tall horses quickly caught up with the rebels, slashing and killing them from a high position, and killing them calmly from behind. This was not a battle at all, but turned into a massacre.

    The smell of gunpowder smoke and blood mixed together is disgusting, and the chaos of people and horses on the battlefield is also clear at a glance.  The fleeing people dropped their weapons and ran around desperately.  Victory or defeat has been decided. A large group of people are frightened and have lost military discipline. No matter how many people there are, it will be difficult to save the defeat.

    Xue Chongxun kicked the horse in the belly and led the guards down the hillside. Yin Ci clasped his fists with excitement on his face and said: "The rebels cannot withstand His Majesty's troops and horses, the battle is decided!"

    "The cavalry was ordered to give up covering up the defeated army, quickly maneuver eastward, cross Huazhou City and move to the south bank of the Yellow River, destroying all ferries and ships." Xue Chongxun said calmly.  He only has a few thousand cavalry, but the rebels have tens of thousands of rebels inside and outside Huazhou. It is obviously risky to march straight in now. The biggest danger is to be surrounded by superior forces.  But when Xue Chongxun saw the situation on the battlefield, he thought that the enemy soldiers were already frightened, and it would not be difficult to break through to their rear with a quick attack.

    Yin Ci immediately agreed with his decision and asked the messengers to convey military orders. He also asked the infantry to abandon the artillery array and advance to occupy the high ground where the rebels had been. The rear army escorted the artillery formation and moved eastward.  The situation at this time has become a full-scale attack.

    "Cui Qigao has seen the range and power of the Dragon Tiger Cannon, and can easily judge that the fortifications of Huazhou City cannot withstand it. His Chinese troops will not stay in the city to defend the city, and will definitely find a way to cross the river and escape to Hebei. Now dispatch the cavalry to control the Yellow River  The south bank can cut off their escape route."

    At this time, the cavalry troops who had received the military order had separated from the central army and quickly disappeared. There were only seven or eight thousand combat troops left in the eastward attack. Therefore, Xue Chongxun and others did not rush to chase the fleeing soldiers, but maintained the team.  Xing calmly advanced eastward without encountering any resistance along the way.  The uprisings of this era are actually fundamentally different from the uprisings of the 20th century. There is no way to fight against the elite army, and they simply collapse at the first touch.

    The scouts reported the intelligence from the front, and no organized armed forces were found eastward to the foot of Huazhou City.  So the Shence Army brought its cannons and swaggered slowly towards Huazhou City.

    The "decisive battle" in the morning didn't last long. It didn't even take half an hour from the start of the battle to the conclusion of the victory. The rest of the time was spent chasing and escaping.  The Shence Army spent almost the whole day not fighting, but marching all the time.

    In the evening, the cavalry sent troops to report that they found a pontoon bridge, dozens of ferries and a group of rebel horses northeast of Huazhou City. They defeated the rebels in one charge, then destroyed the pontoon bridge and burned all the ferries.  At this time, Xue Chongxun's army was still about ten miles away from Huazhou City. They did not plan to attack the city overnight. With the advantage of long-range weapons, there was no need to choose night fighting.  So the troops picked a place to cut wood and set up camp.

    Yin Ci believes that the rebels in Huazhou City may make a last ditch effort to raid the barracks tonight, so they must be prepared.  He ordered the soldiers to take turns to rest at night and maintain a large number of troops ready for war at all times. He also sent soldiers to cut down a large number of trees nearby and lit piles of bonfires on the crop fields outside the camp. The area within a few hundred steps was brightly illuminated by the fire.  Deep trenches were dug around the area, and a large number of open and hidden sentries were set up to ensure nothing went wrong.

    If the enemy troops attack the camp tonight, they will face a musket formation blocked by a fence. It will probably be much more difficult to break in than in the daytime battle. During the day, the rebels have a high position and have an advantageous position, and the Shence Army musketeers  There was no time to dig trenches and set up obstacles to block the situation, so it was impossible to survive such a situation. It seemed impossible to become brave enough to die at night.

    But it was a very quiet night. There was no movement the whole night. It was so quiet that even the noise of summer insects could make people upset.

    Early the next morning, the Shence army broke out and reorganized their troops. Huazhou City was only ten miles away.  Xue Chongxun could imagine the destructive scene of cannons roaring and bricks and earth flying up and down the city an hour later.  When they were ready to set off, they suddenly reported that an envoy had arrived from Huazhou City, saying they were here to negotiate peace probably to surrender.

    After waiting for a while, two envoys came to the army.  They are in tandemWalking over calmly, the person in front held a volume of documents in both hands.  When he was about a hundred steps away from Xue Chongxun and the generals, a military general knocked the envoy to the ground and ordered him to kneel here and make a surrender.  The general roughly snatched the document from the messenger's hand and brought it up for him.

    Yin Ci took the document first, unfolded it and handed it to Xue Chongxun.  Xue Chongxun didn't look at it and said, "Ask him, where is Cui Qigao?"

    A military general repeated the story loudly, and the envoy could only reply loudly: "Your Majesty, the traitor Cui Qigao has disappeared without a trace. He did not enter the city after the battle yesterday. The guilty ministers and others were forced to disobey Your Majesty because they were coerced by him, and now they can only beg for sin.  I will never dare to raise Huazhou soldiers as enemies against His Majesty again."

    Xue Chongxun handed the document in his hand to the person next to him. Hearing the messenger call Cui Qigao a traitor, he knew without looking that he was surrendering. He said: "Let him go back to deliver the message. Since he is begging for sin, both inside and outside Huazhou City  The rebels should leave the city, lay down their weapons and surrender, and hand over the four city defenses to the Shence Army. I will be at the foot of Huazhou City in an hour. If they have not surrendered their weapons by then, I will attack the city immediately."

    There was no room for negotiation, Xue Chongxun expressed his position and immediately ordered the army to set off.  The two envoys were also put back.

    An hour later, the Shence Army advanced to the foot of Huazhou City. They saw four gates wide open, and many people and horses were pouring out, throwing their weapons and headscarves onto the piles of things on the ground.  The soldiers of the Shence Army were waiting in formation, with gunpowder and lead bullets loaded, but they did not move over to drive them away, waiting quietly for the enemy soldiers to disarm.  After a long time, a group of unarmed people came from the north. They were probably surrendered soldiers from the barracks outside the city.

    The number of troops outside the city was several times greater than that of the Shence Army. Cui Qigao actually managed to hijack so many troops from Huazhou, Hebei and other places. In just a few months, the scene was indeed terrifying.

    When the surrender troops were almost out, Yin Ci ordered the heavily armed troops to go up and surround the crowd, and set fire to the piles of various crude weapons.  At first, the soldiers were cautious when seeing so many people, but gradually they became less polite. They whipped and insulted them while driving the crowd away.  Then the infantry of the Shence Army entered the city on horseback and quickly took control of the city gates, city towers, urn gates and other important city defense areas. The flag with the word "Tang" written on the city tower was thrown down, fell on the suspension bridge and was repeatedly trampled by horse hooves.  A new flag was quickly raised on the flagpole, with the big character "Jin" on it.

    Then Xue Chongxun and a group of military generals swaggered towards the city gate. Kneeling at the city gate were a group of officials and generals without hats. Many of them were wearing the official uniforms of local officials of the Jin Dynasty. Some of them were probably officials who had surrendered to Cui Qigao.  , the official uniforms of the Jin Dynasty were originally the same as those of the Tang Dynasty, these people didn't even move their "butts" and didn't even change their official uniforms.  In fact, it¡¯s not just the clothes, it¡¯s also the people who are officials. Many of them were officials in the Tang Dynasty and are still officials in the Jin Dynasty.

    Xue Chongxun thought of someone and reined in his horse next to a group of kneeling Huazhou civil and military officials. He turned around and asked, "Is Zhou Ji here?"

    In the middle, an official with gray hair but well-maintained skin hurriedly kowtowed: "The guilty minister is here."

    Xue Chongxun pointed his horsewhip at him and asked: "I treat you well and entrust you with the governorship of the state. It's fine that you failed to defend the land and fulfill your responsibilities. Why do you want to join the traitor, betray the monarch and harm your colleagues?"

    Zhou Ji crouched down and said in a helpless tone: "The traitor is using the whole family of the guilty minister to threaten me. I am really helpless. This thief has taken over my daughter and used my wife and children as hostages. I wish I could eat his flesh alive."  , there is absolutely no intention of surrender"

    Xue Chongxun interrupted him coldly: "Li Yi's family doesn't have a wife or children?"

    Zhou Ji was speechless and his face was stained with cold sweat.

    When the troops entered the city and came to the gate of the state government office, Xue Chongxun turned around and said to Yu Wenxiao: "Find out all the members of Zhou Ji's family and don't let any of them hide."

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