"Rebellion?" Jirgalang was stunned when he heard these two words. "How is it possible?"
"It's absolutely true. I saw with my own eyes the flag of the Ming Dynasty flying on the city wall!" the scout said quickly.
"It doesn't make sense," Jirgalang still didn't believe it.
Because he really couldn't think of who could start a rebellion.
First of all, it’s definitely not Tengji Special.
He was the first to get the news after Teng Jite was released, and immediately summoned him to the central military camp to personally inquire about the whole story.
Teng Jite said that in order to come back alive, he pretended to surrender to the Ming army, but in fact his heart was still with the Qing Dynasty.
Of course, Jirgalang would not easily believe Tengjit's words.
Facing a powerful enemy, it is better to be cautious.
In order to prevent Teng Jite from turning his fake act into reality, he transferred Teng Jite and all his troops to the central army and mixed them with the Eight Banners soldiers.
There was not a single Tengji special soldier in Jinzhou City.
Therefore, it was definitely not Tengji Te who started the rebellion.
Secondly, they are not North Korean soldiers.
Although he transferred Korean soldiers from the eastern front to garrison near Jinzhou City, these Korean soldiers were all outside the city and never entered the city.
Who could that be?
With this question in mind, Jirgalang walked out of the central military tent and looked to the east.
Jinzhou City was just three miles away to the east of him.
However, due to the distance, he could not see the specific situation and could only see the outline of the city wall in the distance.
"Prepare the horses, I want to go nearby to check out the situation." Jirgalang ordered.
"Yes." The personal soldiers immediately brought the war horses and left the camp with Jirgalang to Jinzhou City.
Jinzhou City was probably built in the early Liao Dynasty.
"History of Liao" records: In the early days of Liao, the Khitan leader Yelu Abaoji built Jinzhou with Han prisoners of war and set up the Linhai Army Jiedushi to garrison it.
The twenty-fourth year of Hongwu.
The then commander Cao Feng built a brick city on the original site of the old city.
In the 12th year of Chenghua, the city was expanded.
In April of the seventh year of the Tianqi reign, Yuan Chonghuan submitted a memorial requesting the repair of the city.
In July of the first year of Chongzhen, the construction of Jinzhou City was completed.
After its construction, Jinzhou City had a circumference of about eight miles and a height of about two meters. It was shaped like a plate and was commonly known as Pancheng.
There are four gates in the city, namely Ningyuan Gate in the east, Yong'an Gate in the south, Guangshun Gate in the west and Zhenbei Gate in the north.
There is a tower on the gate and a barbican inside, which is easy to defend but difficult to attack.
In addition, there is another urn city to the east of Jinzhou City, called Guanxiang City.
The city is less than four miles long and ten and a half feet high.
On March 8, the 15th year of Chongzhen, Zu Dashou, who had run out of food and supplies, surrendered to the Qing Dynasty here.
Zu Dashou's surrender not only meant the complete end of the Battle of Songjin, but also announced that the Ming army's troops outside the Great Wall were almost completely lost.
Jirgalang and his entourage soon arrived near Jinzhou City.
When they were about a mile away from the city, the scout leading the way stopped his horse.
"Why don't you move forward?" Jirgalang asked coldly.
"If we go any further, I'm afraid Your Majesty will be in danger." The scout replied.
"There is no danger," Jirgalang said unhappily. "In order to deal with the Ming army, I have moved all the artillery in Jinzhou City outside the city. If the people on the city want to launch a sneak attack, they can only use bows and arrows! Not to mention that bows and arrows cannot reach a distance of more than a mile, and even if they can, they cannot hurt me."
The scout stood there awkwardly, at a loss as to what to do.
"Let's go," Jirgalang took the lead and rushed towards Jinzhou City.
When they were about a hundred steps away from the Jinzhou city wall, the group stopped.
Jirgalang used his clairvoyance to look at the city wall and found that there was indeed a Ming Dynasty flag flying on the wall.
This flag is weird.
In his understanding, flags will spread out and flutter when encountering wind.
Although the flag was unfurled, it did not flutter, but was fixed in the air without moving.
"This flag..." Jirgalang pointed at the flag, his head full of question marks.
"Your Highness, this should be a paper flag. The person who raised the flag was afraid that the paper flag would be blown away by the wind, so he fixed the four sides of the flag with bamboo poles, so it looks a bit strange."
"So that's it!" Jirgalang suddenly realized.
Just as he was about to check again, an Eight Banners scout came up to him quickly and said, "Your Majesty, I found an arrow with a note tied to it outside the city. It said that the Han people in the city are in rebellion. Please send troops to suppress the rebellion immediately."
After the scout said this, he handed the note and arrow in his hand to Jirgalang.
Jirgalang took the note and looked at it carefully.
The words above are written in Manchu, the handwriting is a little sloppy, but clear.
"What do the people on the city wall say?" asked Jirgalang.
"They didn't say anything. They just shot arrows when our people got close." The scout replied.
Jirgalang picked up the clairvoyance and looked at the city wall again, his expression becoming more serious.
All signs indicate that the rebellion is real.
He was fighting a bloody battle with the Ming army in the front, and the people in the city took the opportunity to rebel.
It’s a pity that his tens of thousands of troops were fine when they came, but they can’t go back!
Jirgalang wanted to get angry, but then he changed his mind and suppressed his anger.
If you look into it, he has an unshirkable responsibility.
In order to resist the Ming army from crossing the river, he not only moved the artillery in the city to outside the city for use, but also transferred most of the defenders of Jinzhou City to outside the city to participate in the defense, leaving only some old, weak and sick people in the city to guard the city gates.
This gave the rebels in the city an opportunity to take advantage.
As a result, rebellion was inevitable.
"Shout out to the city immediately, open the city gates now and I will forgive you for what happened. If you continue to resist, I will massacre you after I enter the city!" Jirgalang ordered.
As soon as the soldier who delivered the message reached the foot of the city, he was forced back by arrows from the city.
Jirgalang was furious and continued to order: "Quickly gather 5,000 soldiers and horses to attack the city!"
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