After Xu Tianchong led the guards to surrender, the north gate of Fuzhou City was completely captured. Yang Zhen immediately asked Xu Tianchong to accompany him and climbed to the top of Zhenhaimen Wengcheng, stopping the chaos in the Zhenhaimen area.

By this time, Qiu Zhenhai, Hu Changhai, Gao Chengyou and others had led their troops about halfway into the city.

Xu Tianchong's adopted son Xu Zhankui, who mistakenly put Yang Zhen and others into the city in the first place, was also tied up and escorted in front of Yang Zhen.

Xu Zhankui was originally afraid of being questioned by his selfless adoptive father, so he went to the top of the city and learned that his adopted father Xu Tianchong had led his people to surrender, so he immediately knelt down and begged for surrender.

He was Xu Tianchong's adopted son, and he was on good terms with Shen Yongzhong, so Yang Zhen naturally accepted his surrender, asked people to untie him, and asked him to follow Shen Yongzhong.

After all the people outside the city had entered the city, Yang Zhen summoned the generals to the top of Zhenhaimen City. He first explained the situation, asked all the generals to meet Xu Tianchong and his son one by one, and then quickly made arrangements.

First, Xu Tingxuan, the son of Xu Tianchong, led Zhang Chen, Qiu Zhenhai, Hu Changhai and other people who had just entered the city, and took the heads of Hong Qiyuan and his son to the east gate, that is, Mingtong Gate, to take over Fuzhou Dongcheng and Dongcheng.

Guard team.

Second, let Shen Yongzhong and Xu Zhankui lead Li Lu, Yu Liangtai, and Gao Chengyou, holding Xu Tianchong's military order, to the south gate, Ying'en Gate, and take over the south gate of Fuzhou and the south gate guard team.

Yang Zhen himself took the rest of the people who entered the city, leaving Xu Tianchong to sit on the Zhenhaimen Urn City with him, waiting for dawn.

Around Haishi that night, good news came one after another from the east gate and south gate. Niu Lu, led by Hong Qiyuan who was stationed at the east gate, saw the Xu Tianchong warrant held by Xu Tingxuan and the heads of Hong Qiyuan and his son, and led by their respective superiors.

He immediately chose to surrender.

Although they did not pull the money rat tail off their heads like Xu Tianchong and his son did, they did not dare to be vague. When they chose to surrender, they raised their knives one by one and cut off the money rat tail that symbolized surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

Interracial braids.

After Zhang Chen followed Xu Tingxuan and took over the east gate, according to Yang Zhen's advance order, he asked Qiu Zhenhai to lead his troops to take over the defense of the east gate of Fuzhou City, and at the same time withdrew Hong Qiyuan's troops who were originally stationed at the east gate.

They were handed over to Xu Tingxuan, who ordered them to follow his musketeers and Gao Chengyou's team to sweep from east to west.

The situation at the east gate was slightly different. After meeting Shen Yongzhong and the Xu Tianchong warrant held by Xu Zhankui, most of the troops stationed at the south gate chose to surrender, but a small number opened the door and fled south.

Shen Yongzhong asked Li Lu for an order, willing to lead people out of the city to pursue and recover those who fled to Jinzhou? But Li Lu refused on the spot.

What a coincidence? Those more than a hundred troops who fled south were not able to escape very far.

They were stopped at the Shahe Bridge, eight miles south of Fuzhou City, by Yang Shen's troops who had already taken a boat deep into the interior and seized the Shahe Bridge in advance.

After Yang Shen and the others returned from Jiangjunshi and headed south, they searched for the coast closest to Fuzhou City, and finally arrived at the mouth of Fuzhou River.

As soon as night fell in Fuzhou Bay, mist rose everywhere on the sea and river. The generals of the response fleet, who were originally unwilling to alert the enemy, finally decided to send a team of people to take a boat to explore the inland from the mouth of the Fuzhou River.

In this way, riding the tide that rose at night and poured into the river, they reached the Shahe Bridge eight miles outside the south gate of Fuzhou City.

With this Shahe Bridge, ships at sea could not go deeper inland. Therefore, under the deep night and rising fog, Yang Shen and others had difficulty in determining their direction, so they had to stop the ship and land here, and occupied this bridge that cuts off the north and south.

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Fuzhou River was named after Fuzhou City, but before it was named Fuzhou River, it was also known as Dasha River.

Therefore, the stone arch bridge on the Fuzhou River connecting the north-south post road is called Shahe Bridge.

And this Shahe Bridge is a must-pass point on the way from the south gate of Fuzhou City to Jinzhou.

As a result, all those who chose to cut off their braids and surrender in the city survived. Only the more than a hundred people who fled south from the city were not spared. They were all beaten by Yang Shen's troops, using small artillery shells, muskets, and grenades.

He died on the north side of Shahe Bridge.

At the same time, these people who fled south from Fuzhou City also brought news to Yang Shen and others that Yang Zhen had entered the city through the north gate of Fuzhou City.

After hearing the news, Yang Shen and his troops were overjoyed. On the one hand, they sent a team of troops to stay at Shahe Bridge to block this hub of communication between the north and the south and respond to the fleet led by Yuan Jin. On the other hand, they led most of them to raise the banner.

, lit up the torch, and went straight north to the south gate of Fuzhou City, Yingenmen, to enter the city.

By the time they arrived outside the Yingenmen Urn City after a long journey, Fuzhou City was already a scene of bright lights and bustling atmosphere, mixed with howling ghosts and howling wolves.

Fuzhou City is quite small, with government offices, official warehouses, private residences, barracks, as well as various temples and palaces such as Zhenwu Temple, Guandi Temple, and Chenghuang Temple.

But even though it is big, it is not big. In total, there are only two streets in total.

One of them runs from north to south, starting from Zhenhai Gate in the north gate and going straight to Yingen Gate in the south gate. The other runs from east to west, starting from Mingtong Gate in the east gate and going straight to the bottom of the west city wall.

These two streets are cross-shaped and intersect vertically at the Bell and Drum Tower in the center of the city. To the north, it is called North Street, to the south, it is called South Street, to the east, it is called East Street, and to the west, it is called West Street.

There were originally several Manchu Tatar Niulu with white flags and white flags stationed in the city, but these Niulu had all been mobilized one after another by Duduo and Dorgon not long ago, heading north and transferred to the western Liaoning front line.

Including Niu Lu, a heavy soldier of Xushun Gongbing under Zhengbai Banner who was originally stationed in Fuzhou City, also followed Zhengbai Banner Han Army Mele Zhangjing Dalhan to the front line of western Liaoning.

Therefore, in Fuzhou City at this time, in addition to the four Zhengbai Banner Han Army Niulu brought by Xu Tianchong from Jinzhou City, there were only the family members, wives and children of the Tatar Niulu with Two White Banners who had not yet withdrawn.

When the Manchu Tatars went out to fight, whether it was horse or cloth armor, they basically brought their own saddles, horses, food and equipment, as well as their own soldiers and servants. After they captured something, some of it went to the public and some to themselves.

The purpose of bringing servants with them was mainly to allow them to take care of wounded soldiers, horses, and baggage during wartime. After the war, it also allowed them to bring back more captured heads and looted supplies.

Because they had this habit, when the two white flags in Fuzhou City were full of Tatar vests and infantry, as well as the Han army Wu Zhen Chao Haniulu were ordered to go out, almost all the strong men in the city were recruited.

Nowadays, there are only thousands of households with old, weak, women and children left, scattered in various private houses and courtyards in the alleys of the four blocks in the southeast, northwest and northwest of Fuzhou City.

That night, after dark, these people immediately implemented Xu Tianchong's curfew order. Although they heard the hustle and bustle in the direction of Zhenhai Gate, none of them dared to go out to visit.

Every family extinguished the lights and closed their doors tightly, waiting for the "chaos" caused by unknown reasons in the city to end soon.

However, what they didn't know was that when the "chaos" in the city finally ended, it was also the beginning of their bad luck.

As early as when Yang Zhen assigned his troops to take over the east gate and south gate, he had already given them orders to control the entire city.

All government offices, official warehouses, public treasuries, and temples in the city were temporarily sealed, and looting was expressly prohibited.

Including the residences and barracks of the generals under Zhengbai's Han Army Xushun Gongbing Xu Tianchong in the city, pardon orders were posted for protection.

As for the rest of the population, that is, the family members, private residences, and property of the Tatars who were originally stationed in Fuzhou City but are now on the expedition, are not included in the sealing protection.

There is no need for Yang Zhen to say much about these things, especially after following Yang Zhen in the battle against Xiong Yue in southern Liaoning, the troops in Gaizhou all knew Yang Zhen's attitude after the city was broken.

Therefore, when Hu Changhai, Gao Chengyou and others began to attack the Manchu Tatar family members who had closed their doors in the city, Xu Tianchong's subordinates, who were actually of the same origin as them, immediately joined them.

These people originally had deep hatred against the Manchu Tatars. After surrendering ashore, they traveled to various places and suffered all kinds of cowardice. Finally, they were incorporated into the Zhengbai banner, and were also ridden by Manchu superiors to dominate them.

So at this time, the Manchu Tatar Shangguan and his family members, wives and daughters who had once lorded it over them became their first targets.

In particular, people like Xu Tingxuan, Xu Zhankui, and Shen Yongzhong were very familiar with the Manchu Tatar settlements in the southeast and northwest areas of Fuzhou City. They led their troops from east to west and from north to south, breaking in, looting, and killing.

It's completely familiar.

The night is long, but it will eventually pass.

After several hours of chaos, Fuzhou City once again returned to calm. When daylight dawned in the east, the wanton revenge on the families of Tatars who lived in private houses in the city finally came to an end.

At this time, all the Manchu Tatar men, old and young, in the city were slaughtered cleanly. Their heads with money and rat tails were all for military merit. After an inventory, there were enough heads.

Those who were lucky enough to survive, including hundreds of female relatives and hundreds of clothes, were left behind after experiencing various things and temporarily served as handymen and women accompanying the army in the city.

Yang Zhen did not have to behead all the Tatar men in the city. If his group of troops were now the main force of the advance camp for the Eastern Expedition, then there would be no need for him to do this again.

However, the composition of his current troops is a bit too mixed. For some of them, if the city is broken, there must be good things to do. Otherwise, the army will be resentful and unstable. This is one of them.

Secondly, Yang Zhen wanted Xu Tianchong's men to completely switch to his side, so he had to resort to this strategy.
Chapter completed!