I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

"General."

Liu Liangzuo's actions were completely beyond the expectations of many of his subordinates, and no one had time to stop them. By the time they found out, Liu Liangzuo's neck was already gushing out of blood.

Seeing this situation, many people panicked and had different thoughts at the same time.

There are soldiers loyal to Liu Liangzuo who are full of grief and anger, ready to fight to the end, to avenge Liu Liangzuo. Some people were ready to escape from the north gate, trying to escape to Nanjing to rely on the Qing army to make a comeback.

But more generals were ready to surrender, and they found that Wu Changqing's Ming army was even stronger than the Qing army. It is too difficult and dangerous to fight against such an army.

If he escaped back to Nanjing, he would continue to fight Wu Changqing in the future. Instead, it is better to fall to the Ming army now, and then follow the Ming army to bully the Qing army.

If you are now facing the Ming army, you will be able to make great achievements in the future and have a good future.

On the contrary, if they flee back, they will inevitably experience the fiasco of today again in the future.

That's what Xue Guiren thought. In fact, he didn't fight the Qing army very much, but he heard that the Qing army was very powerful.

But with Wu Changqing's army, he had already fought several times, and each time it was a disastrous defeat, which made him have a "fear of Wu disease" in his heart, and now he is unwilling to fight Wu Changqing again.

As soon as the general died, their army became a piece of scattered sand, divided into three parts.

Those who were not very smart rushed to the gate of the city, wanting to do their last dying struggle.

Some generals who were still optimistic about the Manchu Qing Dynasty fled to the North Gate with some of their personal soldiers.

Those generals who wanted to surrender directly arranged for their own soldiers to spread the news of Liu Liangzuo's death, and tried to find a senior general of the Ming army to surrender.

After the news of Liu Liangzuo's suicide spread, the Qing army on the city wall immediately fell into a panic, and many soldiers lost their weapons. Either flee to the city, or simply kneel and surrender.

In short, most people have given up to continue to resist, it is meaningless.

Dong Tianbao's department opened the door, and Dong Tianbao rushed in first. Next is the time to capture the prisoners. There is no danger anymore. Taking credit is the most important thing.

Usually at such times, those soldiers would take advantage of the chaos to rob and rape women.

However, this time Dong Tianbao gave a death order. Whoever dares to do so will behead his head directly and will not be condoned.

He knew that Wu Changqing cared very much about the people, and he also cared about his reputation. If you commit adultery and robbery, no amount of credit will be worth it.

Although many soldiers at the bottom were dissatisfied with this order, but dissatisfaction turned into dissatisfaction, and most of them chose to obey for the sake of their lives.

Only a very small number of people will choose to take the risk.

"Brother Dong, stay safe."

Xue Guiren brought nearly a thousand subordinates, Liu Liangzuo's head in his hand, came to Dong Tianbao, and smiled at Dong Tianbao.

He was not stupid enough to kneel down and surrender like other wandering soldiers. He directly chopped off Liu Liangzuo's head and presented it to the Ming army as a certificate of honor.

At the same time, he also controls the direct line troops of more than 1,000 people under him. With these trump cards, even if he surrenders, he can become a big official in the Ming army.

"Xue Guiren, you are really cruel enough to even kill Shangguan."

Dong Tianbao sneered, his relationship with Xue Guiren was not very good.

"The person who knows the current affairs is Junjie. In this respect, I am far inferior to Brother Dong. If I had been like Brother Dong earlier, I would not have ended up in the current situation. Now, I hope that Brother Dong can ignore the previous suspicion and accept the next brother. "

Xue Guiren flattered, and now that Dong Tianbao is in the Ming army, he has no choice but to do it.

"Humph."

Although he didn't like this guy, Dong Tianbao didn't do anything excessive. After all, Wu Changqing's strategy now is to give preferential treatment to those generals who voluntarily surrender anyway.

This is also for the sake of long-term consideration, weakening the will of resistance of some generals of the Qing army, and making it easier to recruit and surrender in the future.

The city of Changzhou was still under siege, and those Qing troops who had escaped from the north gate were being chased and killed by Wu Changqing's cavalry battalion.

The absence of one of the three circles does not mean that the missing side is completely ignored.

Putting a cavalry unit here is definitely a nightmare for those deserters.

The cavalry didn't even need to use a knife, they chased the rout soldiers for a few miles, and the rout soldiers could only lie on the ground panting.

Therefore, after seeing the appearance of the Ming cavalry, the routed soldiers threw away their weapons and knelt aside and waited to be captured. Anyway, the Ming army did not kill prisoners, and surrendering could save their lives.

The fate of these fallen soldiers after being captured will be very different from the fate of the soldiers who surrendered in the city.

Those who surrendered in the city showed that they were not loyal to the Qing Dynasty in their hearts, and could be directly incorporated to enjoy the treatment of soldiers.

And these people who escaped and were caught were obviously more unreliable. In the future, there will be jobs like filling the moat, which will be left to them.

As for those generals who escaped, the fate was even worse.

For these Manchu loyalists, Wu Changqing's attitude has always been to kill them directly.

As the supreme ruler of a regime, Wu Changqing must not show mercy to the enemy. Those who deserve to be killed must still be killed.

After spending several hours cleaning up the mess, Changzhou finally regained its calm.

"In this battle, our army killed about 800 people, more than 400 people were seriously injured, and more than 1,000 people were lightly wounded. About 3,300 enemy troops were killed and nearly 10,000 were captured.

About a thousand people escaped and disappeared.

Among them, the main enemy general Liu Liangzuo was killed in battle, and the deputy general Xue Guiren voluntarily surrendered anyway. The rest of the guerrillas numbered five thousand households, fifty-three officers below a thousand households, and twenty-three enemy generals captured.

Countless ordnance was seized, about 600,000 catties of food, 60,000 taels of silver, and some other property..."

The statistician reported the results, and many generals had smiles on their faces.

It was another big victory. After this battle, they had completely wiped out Liu Liangzuo's army, and at the same time occupied Changzhou, and the territory expanded by thousands of square kilometers.

In ancient times, as long as the big city was basically controlled, the surrounding villages and towns were all controlled.

For those rural towns without city walls and without professional soldiers stationed, there is no other way to go except to look down at the wind.

With the increase of territory and the expansion of power, their power has also risen.

Following Wu Changqing, these generals have become phoenixes one by one, and the little people who were not in the mainstream can now often appear in the court.

Official positions and titles are also about to come down.

For them, being able to get these is already very satisfying, and at the same time, they are more determined to follow Wu Changqing. Only by following Wu Changqing can they get these benefits.