On the night of November 17, Qing Dynasty heavy artillery outside Qingchang Gate continued to blast the city wall.

Knowing that the city was about to be breached, while the Qinglu heavy artillery bombarded the city wall, the main force of the Qinglu horse and infantry charging into the city was also deployed outside Qingchang Gate.

At the same time, in order to prevent the North Korean troops in the city from escaping when the city was broken, Huang Taiji specially arranged for Jierhalang, the king of Doluozheng County, to ambush a heavy army in the southeast direction across the Datong River outside the Datong Gate.

Just waiting for the North Gate city to be breached and the people in the city to flee toward the Yellow Sea Road, catch them all in one fell swoop.

As for outside the west gate, that is, Jinghai Gate, the Qing Dynasty did not deploy its elite main force.

First of all, it is not the direction leading to Hwanghae Road or Hanyang City, but exactly the opposite direction.

Secondly, it is not close to the coast.

Moreover, given the precedent of a large number of soldiers and civilians from Dingzhou City falling into the sea and dying, Huang Taiji and Jierhalang did not think that the people from Pyongyang City would escape to the sea.

At the same time, when they were resting in Dingzhou City and Anzhou City, they already knew that there was ice on the coast.

Therefore, even if the fleet that launched the bombardment off the Chongcheon River Estuary did not leave, it would not be able to reach the shore.

So outside Jinghai Gate, only a few patrol horse teams were sent to conduct private patrols from time to time.

But this just gave Che Zhongliang and the others the opportunity to enter the city under cover of darkness, and also gave Shen Qicheng and the others a chance to escape through the west gate when the city was breached.

Amidst the rumbling of waves of artillery outside Qingchang Gate in Pingyi North City, the Korean rebels, horse and infantry, totaling more than 15,000 people from all walks of life in the city, quietly gathered in the streets and alleys inside Jinghai Gate.

Some of them rode horses and some walked without horses. They only carried weapons, dry food and some gold and silver. They were ready to flee the city when the North Gate was breached and the Qing Dynasty invaders entered the city.

The night was dark, with torches dotting the sky, and the atmosphere was heavy and depressing, yet filled with excitement about escaping.

About an hour after Che Zhongliang entered Pyongyang City, the Qingchang Gate wall, which had been continuously bombarded by Qing Dynasty heavy artillery for a day, collapsed, and the sound almost shook the whole city.

At this moment, Jinghai Gate suddenly opened, and the Shen brothers took the lead and led all the people in the city to rush out of the city.

At the same time, behind them, the troops who had been arranged long ago began to set fire to the city of Pyongyang.

Soon, fires broke out in the city of Pyongyang. The fire spread with the help of the wind, which delayed the entry of Qinglu Baya La soldiers and Alhachao Hama soldiers into the city and occupied the whole city. It also gave the Pingyang Korean rebels who fled in an emergency a chance to win.

time.

However, the strength of the Baya soldiers from Qinglu Zhenghuang and Xianghuang's two banners was not ordinary. When they rode their horses through the whole city as the fire spread and did not encounter the main force of the Korean rebels who defended the city, they immediately judged that the Koreans were

Fleeed.

When their vanguard soldiers rushed to the east gate of Pyongyang Fucheng, no one was seen near the south gate. The two brothers Gualja Torai and Gualja Sohai who led the team quickly mobilized a large number of troops and turned towards the west gate.

The Baja soldiers from Jilhalang Xilan Banner who were ambushing in the southeast of Pyongyang City also reacted quickly. When they saw the fire in the city from a distance, they knew that the city had been destroyed.

However, they waited and waited but saw no bustling crowds in the direction of Datong Gate. Instead, they discovered that there was a lot of movement in the west of Pyongyang Fucheng, so they immediately sent out detective horses to rush there.

The team led by the Shen brothers to escape from the city only lasted about half an hour when the Qing soldiers chasing them out of the west gate captured the tail of the team.

One party is desperate to escape from the land of right and wrong, fearing that they will be left behind and not daring to turn back and fight.

The other side pursued them relentlessly, and they were mostly cavalry or elite infantry on horseback.

As soon as the two sides came into contact, the entire situation became one-sided. The Shen brothers' escape team suffered heavy losses at the end of the group.

Fortunately, the location of Pyongyang Fucheng is relatively south compared to places such as Zhenjiang Fort and Dingzhou City, so the ice conditions on the offshore sea surface are not as severe as those at the Yajiang Estuary or Chongcheon Estuary.

This allowed the fleets of Lin Qingye and Yu Liangtai to anchor near the coast and directly provide artillery support for the fleeing troops brought out by the Shen brothers.

Lin Qingye's and Yu Liangtai's fleets each have five heavy cannons, which make the total number ten together.

These heavy artillery ships fired from the sea, and the impact point of the cannons could reach within three or four miles above the coastline.

If you add in the distance of jumping and running on the frozen ground, if everything goes well, you can cover several more miles.

At the same time, Yu Liangtai's fleet was equipped with dozens of sky cannons.

In order to meet the fleeing team brought by the Shen brothers from Pyongyang Fucheng, Yu Liangtai personally landed ashore and set up a defensive artillery array near the coast where the fleet was anchored.

Finally, relying on the explosive shells fired by these cannons, the Qinglu cavalry teams that followed the Shen brothers and almost rushed to the coast were pushed back.

But even so, when the daylight came out on November 18th, when the fleet set sail, after counting the people who had successfully boarded the ship, and receiving the final number of sinking vessels, I couldn't help but feel grief-stricken.

Crying loudly in public.

Glutinous rice

Of course, Shen Qicheng burst into tears in public, which does not rule out the element of public performance. In order to appease the people and win people's hearts, he is absolutely capable of doing this kind of thing.

However, the reason why he was like this was because the losses of this escape trip, which he had planned for a long time, far exceeded his previous estimation.

If you flee when the Qing army is approaching the city, you will definitely suffer losses.

Although he chose the time to escape when the Qing army broke into the city, he also avoided the east or south roads, but unexpectedly escaped from the west gate to the nearest coast under the cover of night.

However, they still did not escape the pursuit of Qing soldiers and horses. The team of more than 15,000 people was reduced by more than half, and in the end, only more than 7,100 people were left.

Even the Anju pastoral envoy An Kecheng, who fled all the way from Anju City to Pyongyang Fucheng, was missing and failed to reach the coast where the fleet was anchored.

Of course, not all the troops who failed to escape to the coast were killed. Although most of them were killed, some became prisoners, while others escaped to other places under the cover of night.

In addition, the fire arranged by Shen Qicheng and others before they fled Pyongyang Fucheng also caused a lot of trouble to the Qinglu army.

The fire in the city burned all night and until the afternoon of the 18th, and then gradually extinguished with the arrival of another heavy snow.

But at this time, the fire had devoured almost everything. The government offices, houses, food, grass, and ordnance in Pyongyang City were nothing left for the soldiers and horses of the Qing Dynasty.

By the time Huang Taiji entered the city, although the fire in the city had been extinguished, it was still dark and full of ruins with thick smoke, making it no longer suitable for settlement.

Therefore, only halfway into the city, Huang Taiji withdrew full of disappointment and resentment.

They camped overnight outside Qingchang Gate in Pyongyang Prefecture. In the early morning of the 19th, facing the wind and snow, they led the army south and headed straight for Hanyang City.

The leader of the Li Dynasty, Li Ju, who was in Hanyang City, began to have trouble sleeping and eating, and was worried since he received the news from Huanghaedao that the Qing troops had arrived outside Pyongyang City.

When he heard that the city of Pyongyang had fallen and that the Qing army had not stopped, he was not only worried, but also panicked.

On November 20, Li Ju issued an order at Changdeokgung Palace in Hanyang City and sent troops to search and capture a large number of pro-Ming officials and their families, including Kim Sang-heon, Kim Ji, Song Si-yeol, and Song Jun-gil, and imprisoned them.

At the same time, Li Zhu once again urged Cao Cao and Shen Qiyuan to send troops to hunt down the relatives of the generals of the Northern Erdao uprising who were previously convicted of treason.

Among them are the relatives and family members of Lin Qingye, the navy commander of Nansan Road, and Liu Lin, the military commander of Ping'an Road.

However, the relatives and family members of these people had already arrived at the coast near Ganghwa Island a few days ago and were taken to sea by the fleet sent by Lin Qingye.

Therefore, on November 21st, Bing Cao judged Shen Qiyuan to just send people to randomly arrest some refugees who had fled from the north. They gathered together men, women, old and young, then put up signs to identify themselves, blocked their mouths, and muddle-headedly They beheaded them in public to make up for the loss.

It’s just a pity for Kim Sang-heon, Kim Ji, Song Si-yeol, Song Joon-gil and others.

In the original history, although these pro-Ming officials advocated resistance to the Qing Dynasty and the resistance to the Qing Dynasty, most of them only advocated anti-Qing Dynasty and resistance to the Qing Dynasty in their private letters or semi-public remarks.

First, although they advocated respecting the Ming Dynasty and opposing the Qing Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, they mostly stayed in speeches, letters and various memorials, and rarely openly raised troops to fight against the Qing Dynasty.

Secondly, their remarks, whether in memorials or books, have a limited scope of influence and have no consequences.

Although several of them suffered bad luck because of this, such as Jin Sangxian, after being exposed and reported, he was captured by soldiers sent by the Qing Dynasty and imprisoned in Shengjing City for several years.

However, as the Qing captives entered the Pass and moved south, their attitude towards the Koreans became gentle, so he was not killed. In the end, because of his old age, he was returned to the Li Dynasty and lived to be over eighty years old.

As for other staunch pro-Ming officials, their positions gradually changed with the demise of the Ming Dynasty, and their attitudes gradually changed, and they were not executed because of their pro-Ming stance.

But this life is very different.

At the beginning, when Yang Zhen reached the secret agreement on Ganghwa Island and evacuated from Ganghwa Island, he gave the emperor and ministers of the Li Dynasty a list and asked them to re-activate these pro-Ming officials.

Yang Zhen had good intentions at the time, hoping that these pro-Ming officials would no longer be suppressed and could be reused.

After Yang Zhen evacuated, these pro-Ming officials were indeed gradually employed.

Except for Kim Sang-heon, although the others did not hold important official positions, they returned to the small court in Hanyang City and served in places where the elite gathered, such as Sungkyunkwan, Hongwengwan, and Sijianyuan.

After Yang Zhen sent troops to capture Zhenjiang Fort, an uprising against the Qing Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty broke out in the Northern Second Road of the Chao Dynasty. Of course, Hanyang City was not peaceful either.

The pro-Ming Dynasty officials who had already stood in the Ming Dynasty, led by Kim Sang-heon, Kim Ji, Song Si-yeol and Song Jun-gil, began to appeal and wrote letters one after another, asking the country's leader Li Jie and the important ministers of the Uijeong government to seize the opportunity to raise troops.

Revolt against the Qing Dynasty and return to the Heavenly Dynasty.
Chapter completed!