"Yes, we don't have artillery now, we can only rely on grenades. Are you sure?" Liu Zhenyu looked at the three soldiers standing in front of him, looking forward to them.
The leading soldier thought for a while, "Master, can the grenade blow up the city gate, I don't know, we can put these grenades on the city gate and detonate it."
"Well, as long as it can be detonated safely, I don't believe that Gongbu's gates are made of iron." Liu Zhenyu felt a little relieved. Since Yuan Chonghuan and Zhu Youjian have tried both, there is no reason why Gongbu won't work.
The three soldiers paid a military salute to Liu Zhenyu, and then ran to the city gate with a hand thunder.
Liu Zhenyu's gaze followed the soldiers until they completely disappeared in the city gate.
Before long, Liu Zhenyu saw two soldiers coming out of the city gate, "The last soldier should be detonating the grenade."
"boom!"
With a loud noise, not only the Tibetan soldiers on the head of the city were startled, but the Ming troops outside the city were also stunned by the huge roar. It turns out that the grenade is so powerful when placed together.
The gunmen stopped shooting temporarily after the roar sounded because they could not find the target on the front of the city.
Liu Zhenyu yelled: "Watch the city closely and cover the soldiers back."
There were only two soldiers who came back, "The division seat..."
"How? Did the city gate explode?"
"It exploded. The city gate was made of wood. It was only covered with a layer of iron sheet. It was completely exploded."
Liu Zhenyu looked around, as if the soldier who was talking to him just now was not there, "Aren't you three? Is there one more?"
"Military seat, the squad leader, in order to detonate the grenade, he has sacrificed..."
"What? Sacrificed? Why didn't you hear that the Liaodong Army said that people would die?" Liu Zhenyu felt that it might be that the Liaodong Army thought that people were dead.
"Master, the time for the detonation of the grenade is too short to be avoided by human speed. The squad leader is for us... himself..."
Liu Zhenyu was a little depressed, but he spread this depression completely on the Tibetan army, "If you enter the city, if you encounter any resistance, you will kill it."
The soldiers of the 191st Brigade immediately rushed towards the city gate.
There used to be a few defenders inside the city gate, but with a loud noise, they were all stunned, and now their ears were still "buzzing", and they couldn't even hear the footsteps of a large number of Ming troops entering the city.
After the Ming army entered the city, when they saw a few defenders, they immediately pulled the trigger, and those Tibetan soldiers became ghosts under the gun.
After the soldiers entered the city, they seized the head of the city and expanded the search area to kill all the Tibetan soldiers in front of them.
Liu Zhenyu walked at the end of the 901th Brigade. When he passed the city gate, he saw the body of the squad leader.
The squad leader was lying on the ground, apparently the shock wave from the explosion of the grenade, pushing him from behind. His back was filled with fragments from the explosion of the grenade, and the whole back was like a hedgehog or a porcupine.
"Pick up the squad leader's body, bury it well, and set up a tombstone for him." Liu Zhenyu took off his military cap and saluted the squad leader. The soldiers who followed Liu Zhenyu also saluted one after another.
When Liu Zhenyu entered the city, the Ming army had already occupied the entire east city gate, and the soldiers were waiting for new combat orders.
"With the battalion as the unit, move freely. One battalion guards the city gate. If someone wants to leave the city, he will kill him, as soon as possible to accept the soldiers outside the city to enter the city."
The sound of flintlock guns suddenly rang throughout the city. All Tibetans with weapons in their hands were forced to die in the city. Even if they were holding farm tools, they would probably be substitutes for Tibetan soldiers. Otherwise, they would take them in the city. What to do with farm tools, there is no farmland in the city.
After the 190th and 903rd Brigade entered the city, the Ming army got closer, especially the 190rd and 903rd Brigade. They were all cavalry and wielded their swords. As long as they met Tibetans, Whether it's the army or the people, it's all hacked to death.
Some soldiers are unlucky and even a Tibetan can't meet them, so they broke into civilian houses and falsely accused the civilians of being soldiers, so that their sabers were stained with blood.
In the evening, the defenders in the city were basically eliminated. The Tibetan soldiers who escaped by chance put down their weapons and mixed with the people. They were originally the people, so it should be said that they returned to the people.
On the grounds of searching for Tibetan soldiers, the Ming army began to enter the homes of Tibetans on a large scale. In fact, there was basically no direct communication and exchange between the Ming army and the Tibetans, and there was no need to say anything to them. The Ming army entered the house. The reason is mostly to deal with his own chief.
From the Tibetan homes, the soldiers did not find any property. Even the large families in the city had very limited property. This disappointed the soldiers who broke into the Tibetan homes hoping to make some small fortunes.
I don’t know who suggested that Tibetans believe in Buddhism and that a large amount of property may be gathered in the temple. Therefore, a large number of Ming troops poured into the city’s Hongjiao monastery Cozonggongba Temple and Baijiao monastery Gangpu Temple.
Sure enough, the soldiers found a large amount of gold and silver jewelry from the temple. Faced with the obstruction of the monks, the soldiers did not hesitate and chopped them with knives. Some soldiers suspected that the source of the huge amount of property in the temple is unknown. Arrest him.
Although the soldiers entered the city, they didn't have time to sleep peacefully throughout the night. They searched everywhere in the city. When you left, he returned, and the Tibetans spent the night in fear.
Only Liu Zhenyu is sleeping.
At dawn, Liu Zhenyu, who was still sleeping, was awakened by the soldiers.
The officers of the various units reported the results to him one after another. After preliminary sorting, a total of more than 14 thousand taels of gold, more than 16 thousand three hundred taels of silver, as well as jewels, classics, and grains of unknown value were found.
These properties mainly come from temples, and secondly from government offices. Ordinary Tibetans do not have much wealth.
However, the soldiers searching for the government office reported to Liu Zhenyu a message that surprised him: in the warehouse of the government office compound, more than 400 corpses were found. The blood had already solidified. They died at least a day ago. It can never be killed by soldiers of the 55th Division.
"Why are they killing their own people?" Liu Zhenyu also didn't understand. These Tibetans who believed in Buddhism were too unpredictable. "Is it a dispute between sects?"
"Is it a sectarian dispute? We don't know. The clothes on these corpses are similar to Tibetans. They may be Tibetans. The only question is that there are no Tibetan braids on the heads of the female corpses."
"Little braids?" Liu Zhenyu remembered. Zangnu, no matter her age, as long as she still has hair, would wear a lot of braids. He thought of the riots that occurred in Uszang this time against the Han people. Surprised: "Have you checked?"
"Return to the Master's seat, not yet. We don't speak Tibetan. The investigators must ask about this."
"Okay, let the investigators immediately check to see if they are Han Chinese." Liu Zhenyu was a little irritated. The Ming army originally came to rescue the Han people. If the Ming army came, the Tibetans would be afraid of the Han people and the city. The Ming army from the outside should cooperate with the outside, so if these Han people are killed, then these Han people will die unjustly.
The Ming army has arrived, and seeing these Han Chinese who have been bullied by the Tibetans is about to be free, but they have not been able to see the victory of the Ming army. They died in the darkness before dawn.
It was almost noon when the investigative information came back to Liu Zhenyu: "Master, the main force of the Tibetan and Pakistani army has been wiped out outside the city, and the local officials of the Tibetan and Pakistani Khan have also been killed by the soldiers. The ordinary people have no idea. It took a long time to ask about things in the warehouse before I got some inaccurate information."
"Don't be long-winded. It's important to say, are they Han Chinese?" Liu Zhenyu was very dissatisfied with this long-winded investigation. He kept thinking about whether this siege was too hasty. If you wait for ten When all the nine armies arrive before attacking the city, will these people and the squad leader not have to die? He already blamed himself for this.
"We worked hard, and finally found out that three days ago, hundreds of Han Chinese who refused to obey the discipline were locked up in the warehouse." The interrogation was also unable to determine whether these corpses were Han Chinese.
"Don't you end up saying that?" Liu Zhenyu is already convinced that these hundreds of Han people have been killed by Tibetans. "The Tibetan costumes on the corpses may be hidden by the Tibetans. They deliberately let them before they die. They did, but they ignored the braids on Zang Nu's head."
"It may be the case." The investigation can only give a rough idea. In fact, he also speculated like this.
Liu Zhenyu's blood gathered in his forehead instantly, "Pass my military order, slaughter the city."
"Master, think twice, after all, they are people, not soldiers, not executioners." Seeing the division commander's anger, the personal soldiers hurried to comfort him, "Da Ming has military orders."
"If I kill my people, I will retaliate a hundredfold. When will they treat Han Chinese as human beings?" Liu Zhenyu gritted his teeth, and suddenly lowered his voice to the soldiers and said, "The army is in Chayu, isn't it the same?"
"This..." The soldier was speechless.
The order of the massacre was quickly communicated, and the soldiers who had been tossing in the city all night raised the saber in their hands again. This time, the saber was aimed at people who had no resistance, including the elderly, women and children.
In Gongbu City, blood is flowing into rivers, and the hell on earth is nothing more than that.
The inhabitants of the city were killed, and the soldiers searched for property again. This time, they searched generously. They searched for any place where property might be hidden, and it was only three feet away from digging the ground.
Thinking of property, the soldiers will naturally not let go of the rich and oily temple, although the temple has already been searched by them.
The soldiers surrounded all the temples, and even the temples outside the city were not spared. They first relied on military orders to slaughter the monks in the temple, and then searched for all their belongings. Finally, there was a fire.
Before Mu Qiyuan arrived at Gongbu, Liu Zhenyu had already processed the corpses. The corpses of Tibetans were gathered outside the city and burned clean in a big fire. The corpses of more than 400 Han were transported outside the city for burial. Up.
After two slaughters of the city in Chayu and Gongbu, there were almost no Tibetans in the east of Gongbu.
As the Nineteenth Army moved westward, Lin Chengxiang's 20th Army was facing the main force of the Mongolian Heshuote Ministry in Kemu.