Chapter 629 The dust settled, Dorgon and Dodo were captured alive!

Duoduo's counterattack soon became a tragedy.

The defenders' counterattack at the breakthrough was expected by the Hu Ben Army in the morning. All the cannons in the artillery battalion had aimed at this area. When the defenders had just assembled, a large number of grape bullets poured down. The dense marbles poured down like raindrops, without any gaps. How could the Tartars' flesh and blood bodies resisted? They could only be knocked to the ground one after another.

As a result, before the counterattack was launched, the Duoduo organization had lost most of the counterattack power. The streets were full of corpses, and wounded people lying in pools of blood and groaning in pain. The remaining half were also shot hard by the Tiger Ben Army around the breakthrough, and they were defeated. Even if the Tartars were brave, they would only be abused in the face of absolute superior forces.

The rebels who cooperated with the Tartars seemed to have received some strange signal. When the cannons of the Tiger Army fired, they buried their heads into the alley next to them, and all disappeared. The Tartars behind were anxious and angry, but they had no choice. For Dengzhou City, the rebels were obviously more familiar with them, and they were the local tyrants here.

Compared with the brave Tartars, the rebels knew better how to save their lives in battle. When the Hu Ben Army was shelling, the rebels hid in their hiding places and refused to come out. As a result, in the previous battles, most of the people who were killed were the Tartars, and the rebels did not suffer much casualties, and most of them looked for opportunities to escape.

In the past, the Tartars were very strong and could suppress the rebels at any time, so that the rebel soldiers would not dare to act rashly or not listen to the Tartars. When launching a battle, as long as the Tartars were pressing the formation behind, the rebels in front would not dare not fight to the death. However, at this time, the Tartars' pressure was no longer effective.

"Kong Youde!"

"You bastard!"

Seeing the actions of the rebels, even Duoduo knew that there must be a problem. He even dared to conclude that the actions of these rebels must be related to Kong Youde's direct instructions. He turned to find Kong Youde, but found that there was no trace of Kong Youde. This old guy must have noticed something was wrong, so he first found a place to hide.

For a long time, due to the food distribution, a considerable crack has emerged between the Tatars and the rebels. Although Dorgon attaches more importance to Kong Youde and the power of the rebels, he inevitably prioritizes the food distribution. After all, he is the Beile of the Tartars and the banner owner of the Zhengbai Banner. No matter from any perspective, he cannot focus on Kong Youde's rebels.

This caused the rebels to be seriously insufficient for food, and some even starved to death. It was impossible to say that the rebels had no resistance. When Dengzhou City was besieged, the number of Tartars was only more than 2,000, while the number of rebels was as high as 8,000. However, Duoduo believed that it would be easy to suppress these rebels with the strength of the Jin army.

In fact, this is true. During the six months of being besieged, although the number of rebels was large and even though the rebels were very dissatisfied with the distribution of food, they did not dare to reveal it. Because the more than 2,000 Jin army was fully capable of destroying all the rebels. It was in this case that Kong Youde did not dare to express it in the slightest even if he had thoughts in his heart. On the contrary, he seemed more loyal than ever.

However, at this moment, Duoduo felt the crisis. With the entry of the Hu Ben Army and the consumption of the large number of living forces of the Great Jin Army, the pressure on the rebels could no longer be achieved. After the previous battle, the casualties of the Great Jin Army had exceeded one thousand, and the remaining number may be less than a thousand, and it was still severely dispersed and effective command could not be formed at all.

On the contrary, in previous actions, Kong Youde's rebels were very likely to gather together through some secret channels. In other words, the current rebels should not act according to the face of the Jin army. Maybe they would even secretly attack the heads of the Jin army. After all, there seems to be a policy on Zhang Zhun's side, one person's head forgives the crime and two persons make meritorious.

In desperation, Duoduo had to retreat, and he himself followed him into the alley next to him. Since in the previous battles, the main attackers were the Great Jin Army, and the main focus of the Tiger Army was also the Great Jin Army, the Great Jin Army suffered heavy casualties. Duoduo's subordinates used to have about a thousand people, but now there are only a few people around him.

Many of the surviving Jin soldiers were also dispersed. No one knew where they went or how to find them out. As he walked, Duoduo found that the number of people around him was getting smaller and smaller, and in the end there were only five people. These five people were his personal soldiers, and they were exhausted due to the constant fighting. Duoduo planned to go to Dorgon immediately and discuss what to do at the last moment.

Suddenly, a group of people rushed out from the side, surrounded Duoduo in the middle without asking any questions, and then waved his weapons and slashed and slashed. Duoduo could see that these people were the rebels under Kong Youde's men and the most elite servant in his hands. Obviously, Kong Youde was going to be detrimental to him.

Duoduo was anxious and angry, and immediately drew out a scimitar and started fighting with the rebels. However, the rebels were large in number. Moreover, they seemed to be asking the Tartars to fight to the death. I don’t know what method Kong Youde used to motivate them. After the fight, all five personal soldiers around Duoduo were killed. More than a dozen people died in the rebels. Duoduo was covered in blood and continued to fight.

"Bang!"

Suddenly, Duoduo was hit hard on his forehead, his body became weak, and he fell into a coma. The rebels immediately carried him up and evacuated quickly.

...

When Zhang Zhun came near the breakthrough, Duoduo disappeared, Kong Youde disappeared, and the defenders' counterattacks all collapsed. The situation seemed to be better than expected. I thought it would take at least two hours to compete for the breakthrough, but in fact it calmed down in half an hour. Scattered gunfires kept coming, but it had nothing to do with the competition for the breakthrough.

The soldiers of the Chuangzi Camp continued to expand the control range of the breakthrough along the streets. The conscience-free cannons and the Destroyed Cannons were also moved in, and they kept firing explosive packs at any suspicious places around. The sharpshooters under Hao Linyong were also scattered to various blocks, and the possible Tartars were eliminated at a fixed point.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

The explosive packs kept exploding, razing all the buildings near the landing point to the ground. Whether there were enemies hidden in the building, I would just go through it first. The huge shock wave vibrated and shook the entire Dengzhou City. It has to be said that this shock effect is actually quite good. Many Tartars who were trying to use the buildings to resist had to retreat backwards to avoid the explosion range of the explosive pack.

The Hu Ben Army continued to advance forward, steadily expanding its territory one by one. In this process, the counterattacks of the Tartars appeared intermittently. Occasionally, the hidden Tartars could use their own cold arrows to make one or two of the Hu Ben Army fall to the ground. However, the sporadic casualties were not in Zhang Zhun's eyes, nor could they stop the Hu Ben Army's advancement.

As long as the Hu Ben Army progresses smoothly, as long as it can completely eliminate the Tartars in Dengzhou City within three days, it is nothing great to pay a little casualties. Therefore, Zhang Zhun constantly asked all troops to speed up the advancement and must completely control the area around one mile around the breakthrough after dark.

Two hours later, the Hu Ben Army had expanded to a hundred feet away. Zhang Zhun was quite satisfied with this progress. At the same time, judging from the situation below, the casualties of the troops were not very large. So far, only a dozen people have unfortunately died, and two or three hundred Tartars were killed by them. At the same time, more than 500 rebels were captured.

Zhang Zhun was not very interested in the Tartars. However, the rebels who were escorted down made Zhang Zhun pay more attention. These rebels were all thin as if they were skinny and bone-like. When they walked around, they seemed to be dying. It seemed that a gust of wind could blow them down. Many people's eyes were still seriously sunken, and their eyes were dull, which may be due to long-term vitamin deficiency, which led to severe glaucoma.

It can be seen that they were indeed starved. Their status in Dengzhou City was obviously not as good as that of the Tartars. Their food equipment was obviously much less than that of the Tartars. No matter how brave a person was, he was already depressed after being hungry for half a year. Perhaps, when they were treated as traitors, they didn't think of today. The siege of these six months was enough for them to regret it. If they had known this, why should they have been in the past?

"The officer and the soldiers are detained separately."

Zhang Zhun instructed the officer to escort him.

The officers of the rebels must be cleaned up, and no one can be kept. But ordinary soldiers... If it were in the past, Zhang Zhun would have ordered them to be cleaned up, and no one should be left. The Hu Ben Army has never shortened soldiers. What should these traitors who rebel against the country do? Are they wasting food? The Hu Ben Army should not support these traitors!

But later, Zhang Zhun decided to forgive their lives. They were indeed traitors, but they were not actively traitors, they were passive. In addition to killing them, there were other better ways of punishment, such as putting them in a pit to do dark work, etc. They were still valuable and could still extract benefits from them. If they were killed, there would be nothing left.

Zhang Zhun found that he was becoming more and more kind. Well, to be precise, he was becoming more and more hypocritical and more utilitarian. If he followed his previous personality, he would definitely kill all these traitors. He would not let anyone go. However, for political needs, he realized that he could not do this.

If he killed too hard, the rebels in the future would fight to the death, and no one would be willing to surrender to the Hu Ben Army. To be honest, in the hands of the Tatars, the number of rebels was really quite large. Previously, due to the continuous victory of the Tatars, the Ming army that surrendered to the Tatars in Shenyang, Liaoyang, Dongjiang Town, Ningyuan and other places would not be less than 50,000. He could not let these rebels work hard to fight for the Tatars. Damn, dirty politics!

With the gradual advancement of the Hu Ben Army, the counterattacks of the defenders seemed to be intensifying. The main reason was that they were desperate and had to fight to the death. According to the situation summarized by the front line, the people who fought to the death were all the Tatars, and the rebels' counterattacks were very weak. This was consistent with the speculation before the war. The Tatars were indeed resisting stubbornly, while the rebels basically lost their combat effectiveness for various reasons.

Zhang Zhun looked at the sky, it was already evening. It was obvious that before nightfall, the Hu Ben Army could not completely control Dengzhou City. However, judging from the current progress, it might take another day to clear the defenders tomorrow. This was a day ahead of the original three-day plan. This was a good thing. The sooner the Hu Ben Army's troops were freed up, the more beneficial it would be for the next step of action. Zhang Zhun looked ahead and said calmly: "Let's open up the Cross Street first."

Every town in the Ming Dynasty must have such a long cross street. This is mainly to facilitate the mobilization of military power. The Hu Ben Army controlled the long cross street, which was conducive to the mobility of military forces. At the same time, strategically speaking, the Hu Ben Army controlled the long cross street, which was equivalent to cutting Dengzhou City into four pieces and cutting off the relationship between each other. The defenders distributed in the city were divided into four pieces. After the division and siege was completed, it would be very beneficial to the clearance of the Hu Ben Army.

According to the deployment, the soldiers of Pinzi Camp took the lead in heading north. The soldiers of Chuangzi Camp attacked the east and west sides at the intersection of Cross Street. In the buildings on both sides of Cross Street, Tartars occasionally fired cold arrows. The soldiers of the Tiger Army who were attacking were also caught and fell down from time to time. However, such a blocking force could not stop the advance of the Tiger Army. When night fell, Cross Street was successfully opened. Today's main combat mission was considered to be completed.

After a simple dinner, Zhang Zhun came to the prefect's office. The Tiger Ben Army Marines had completely controlled the place. Before dark, Fang He had sent someone to report the battle situation to Zhang Zhun and get the next action plan from Zhang Zhun. According to Zhang Zhun's order, the main task of the Marines was to control the North City and prevent the Tartars from being attacked by the Tiger Ben Army in the south. When they could not bear it, they would flee to the North City.

Seeing Zhang Zhun arrive, Fang He came up to report and said, "Sir, we have worked hard for a long time but still cannot find Dorgon."

Zhang Zhun's expression remained unchanged and said as if nothing had happened: "He must be still in the city. If you search slowly, you will always find him. If you can't find him today, you will continue to look for him tomorrow."

Of course he would not believe that Dorgon was missing. The surrounding area of ​​Dengzhou City had been blocked tightly. Where could Dorgon, a living person, go? He must be still in the city! At most, he was just looking for a secret place to hide it. The area of ​​Dengzhou City is large or small. If he can't find him for the time being, he will always find him in the future.

Fang He nodded and said, "Tomorrow we will send someone to continue searching."

Zhang Zhun nodded and repeatedly emphasized: "Search carefully! You have to see people when you live, and you have to see corpses when you die!"

Zhang Lingyun and Fang He agreed to go.

Then, Zhang Zhun entered the cellar of the prefect's yamen to check the seized gold, silver and jewelry.

Seeing the cellar full of gold and silver, Zhang Zhun's first feeling was that he should have conquered Dengzhou City as soon as possible. If he took Dengzhou City as soon as possible and controlled all the gold, silver and jewelry in his hands, the Hu Ben Army would not have financial difficulties. The troops could expand their troops quickly, and all the fourteen battalions were full, so he was not afraid of Huang Taiji going south at all. However, then again, if he had captured Dengzhou City in advance, without this bait, Huang Taiji would not have been so active in going south.

After all, it was Dorgon's responsibility. Dorgon was such a fool. He had plundered so much money, but he didn't send it back to Liaodong in time and stored it in Dengzhou City. Could this guy be like Amin at the time, wanting to establish a new mountain? Amin wanted to be independent in North Korea, but he didn't want to go back to Chenyang. Dorgon accumulated wealth in Dengzhou City, and most of the time he had the idea. This kid probably wanted to be the king of Shandong in the Great Jin Kingdom. It would be better for him to do this, and it would be a good thing for the Hu Ben Army to be cheaper.

So much gold, silver and jewelry is really raining in time. The tight finances of the Hu Ben Army can be effectively alleviated. After defeating Huang Taiji, the Hu Ben Army can further expand its army, increase its personnel, and increase its equipment. There is even a lot of money that can allow Xue Zhidie to start manufacturing the Dragon God Ship. It is the ultimate killer battleship on the East Asian sea! The displacement of 600 tons, coupled with the great power and long range of the Red Barbarian Cannon, even if it faces the Zheng Zhilong Pirate Group head-on, there is nothing scary.

However, seeing the gold and silver jewelry loaded in each box, Zhang Zhun could only shake his head helplessly. This was the entire property of the wealthy families in Laizhou Prefecture and Dengzhou Prefecture. Those wealthy families, fearing Zhang Zhun's policies, took their property and ran to Dengzhou Prefecture to take refuge. As a result, they all suffered from the Tartars' poison. All their assets fell into the hands of the Tartars. At that time, Zhang Zhun secretly felt that a large amount of silver had been flowed to Liaodong, greatly enhancing the strength of the Tartars. Now it seems that most of the silver was successfully intercepted by the Tiger Army.

I hope that the gentry of Hejian Prefecture can make timely decisions and transfer their property to the territory controlled by the Hu Ben Army in time. Otherwise, their property would be taken away. Compared with the poor Laizhou Prefecture and Dengzhou Prefecture, the assets of the Hejian Prefecture would be much more abundant. If the Tartars tried their best to plunder, they might be able to plunder millions of taels of silver.

Zhang Zhun sent someone to count all the wealth in the cellar. As a result, two hours later, it was only a rough result that came out late at night. A total of 630,000 taels of silver, 4,400 taels of gold, and countless other gold and silver jewelry. The specific value of these things will be found only after Chen Lingfei was responsible for selling the stolen goods. It is estimated that it will definitely not be less than 500,000 taels of silver.

Zhang Zhun was so excited that such a huge seizure in one battle. Zhang Zhun was still very impressed by Dorgon's ability to make money. However, this guy's stinginess made Zhang Zhun despise it. For so much money, Dorgon didn't even give it to his subordinates, which seemed too unreasonable. However, the Tartars were trapped in the city and needed food and other materials, not silver. Even if Dorgon gave the money, what's the use? Silver cannot be eaten as food!

"Dorgon, Dorgon, you are really making wedding clothes for others this time."

Zhang Zhun shook his head and said to himself.

When he was planning to see Dorgon, he must ask in person why Dorgon was so stupid that he grabbed so much gold, silver and jewelry, but did not take him back to Liaodong, but instead placed him in Dengzhou City. This was obviously a gift to him! However, there was no chance to see Dorgon alive. Zhang Zhun estimated that maybe, at this moment, Dorgon had committed suicide in some hidden corner.

"grown ups!"

"grown ups!"

Gao Hongtu and Zhang Shenyan also went to the cellar one after another.

Seeing so many silver liang stacked so neatly, both of them couldn't help but their eyes shine. It's not that they were so greedy, but that such a seizure was really exciting. Zhang Shenyan was also worried that Dengzhou City would be destroyed by the Hu Ben Army, where would the funds come from in the future reconstruction? Seeing so much silver liang, he immediately calmed down. As long as Zhang Zhunyun came out a little, there would be no funding problem in the reconstruction of Dengzhou City.

"Dengzhou City is indeed a Feng Shui treasure land!"

Zhang Zhun was in a very good mood after such a rich seizure, of course he said with a smile.

"It's a pity that Dorgon and Dodo were not captured, otherwise everything would be perfect."

Zhang Shenyan said with a little regret.

"It should be no problem to catch two people, but the possibility of survival is not high."

Zhang Zhun nodded and said with some regret.

"If you can't catch a living person, you can't die."

Gao Hongtu said excitedly.

"Sir, Kong Youde sent someone to ask for a visit!"

Suddenly, Lu Yidian came in from outside to report.

"Kong Youde?"

Zhang Zhun was stunned and asked suspiciously.

Is the great traitor Confucius good?

This guy actually has the courage to send someone to see him?

He wouldn't naively think that if he surrenders to himself, he can survive?

Zhang Zhun never had any mercy to do this traitor who harmed the country and the people!

Gao Hongtu and Zhang Shenyan looked at each other and were also a little surprised. Kong Youde actually sent someone to find Zhang Zhun at this time. Could it be that he wanted to rebel again? He rebelled from the Great Jin Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty? Apart from this, the two of them really couldn't think of any other reason.

"Yes, he does claim to be sent by Kong Youde."

Lu Yidian answered cautiously.

From his expression, we can see that he was also very disgusted with Kong Youde's visitor. No one in the Hu Ben Army had a good impression of him. However, since the other party had a request, he still conveyed it to Zhang Zhun.

"How many people have come?"

Zhang Zhun frowned and said.

"Just one. No weapon."

Lu Yidian answered.

Zhang Zhun paced back and forth in the cellar, frowning quietly. Kong Youde sent someone to see him at this time just to survive. However, at this point, Kong Youde was still thinking about living. Was he a little naive? He thought the Hu Ben Army would let them go? After thinking for a while, Zhang Zhun finally came out. He wanted to see, Kong Youde, a big traitor, sent someone to prepare to say something to him.

After leaving the cellar, Zhang Zhun and others came to the prefect's office outside. Sure enough, an officer in Ming army uniform was walking around uneasy. His body was very thin, as if only a piece of skin was placed on the skeleton, and he could tell at a glance that he was tortured by long-term hunger. Seeing Zhang Zhun come out, he hurriedly bent down to salute, and said respectfully but weakly: "Secretary Yang Gou meets the governor."

Zhang Zhun looked a little weird and said to himself: "Foreign dog?"

Damn, you are still a foreign dog, I think you are a local dog! You are wrong, saying that you are a local dog but you are insulting the dog! Everyone knows that dogs are the most loyal and will not betray their masters. But the person in front of you has betrayed their motherland.

Yang Gou obviously didn't know what Zhang Zhun was thinking about, so he didn't dare to speak, so he had to stop awkwardly. He could feel that the Hu Ben Army around him had contemptuous and disgusting eyes at him. There were only two big words "traitors" engraved on his forehead. Thinking of the Hu Ben Army's punishment methods for traitors, Yang Gou felt a little chilling.

Zhang Zhun said coldly: "What did Kong Youde send you to do?"

Yang Gou hurriedly said, "General said, he wants to make a deal with you."

Zhang Zhun shook his head and said, "I won't make a deal with a traitor."
To be continued...