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Chapter 508 Pressure (1)

More than 10,000 troops of Jingzhou were annihilated more than 2,000 enemy cavalry, Samushka's right arm was disabled and became a disabled person, with more than 3,000 casualties. The news was like wings, flying towards Chenyang and Beijing.

Huang Taiji received news within one day. In anger, he almost wanted to send heavy troops to attack Lushunkou, destroy all the Jingzhou army, and avenge more than 2,000 cavalrymen.

"Your Majesty, you must not. If you really send troops to the Southern Barbarians, they will spend a lot of money and food to pretend to build a city in Lushunkou, but wouldn't it just to lure our army to attack?"

Jirhalang was so angry that he hurriedly advised. Jirhalang's father Shurhalchi was imprisoned by Nurhaci until death, and his brother Amin was imprisoned by Huang Taiji until death. According to the saying, Jirhalang should have a unique hatred with Huang Taiji.

However, it is strange that Jirgalang is loyal to Huang Taiji, and Huang Taiji also trusts him very much.

Huang Taiji slapped the table and said angrily: "Did you just watch the Southern Barbarian show off his power in Lushun? How can you swallow this tone!"

Jirgalang was always cautious, but today he was like a different person, and said earnestly: "Master, it is not difficult to completely eliminate this group of southern barbarians. However, if you pay the price of thousands of casualties for this, it will be a bit unworthy."

Jiergalang's words were honest, which made Huang Taiji calm down for a moment. In fact, Huang Taiji was not unaware that the isthmus of Jinzhou was narrow and not suitable for cavalry to maneuver and maneuver on a large scale, so the Qing army could not play its advantages. If we really wanted to attack Lushunkou, there would be heavy casualties without a good geographical location.

The reason why he threatened to completely eliminate the Jingzhou army was nothing more than venting his anger.

Huang Taiji was silent for a while and said worriedly: "There are tens of thousands of Han people in the Southern Dynasty, and my Jurchens are only more than one hundred thousand. Not to mention exchanging life for life, even if the Han people exchange the lives of ten people for the life of a Jurchen warrior, it is a heavy burden that we cannot bear!"

Jirhalang only now knows what Huang Taiji is worried about. Huang Taiji is nothing more than worrying that the Jingzhou army's losses are almost the same as Samushka. If one life is really exchanged for another life, I am afraid that the final outcome of the Jurchens will be the extermination of the clan.

As for Lushunkou, it is just a city. If it is lost, it can be recaptured. Where is the warrior important?

As the saying goes, the time is worse than the place, and the place is worse than the harmony of the people. It has become a consensus among the Qing Dynasty to strengthen the ethnic group as much as possible and plunder the population. In fact, since Huang Taiji ascended the throne, in addition to completing strategic deployments in Mongolia and North Korea, the most successful thing is to win over Mongolia, the Han people in Liaodong, forming the Eight Banners of Mongolia and the Eight Banners of the Han Army, greatly enriching the combat power of the Qing Dynasty.

Jiergalang also had this view and immediately bowed: "The emperor is wise and it is better to let them consume money and food than to deal with the Southern Barbarians south of Jinzhou. Does Zheng Fulin have the courage to cross Jinzhou and enter the broad and flat Fuzhou? According to the news sent back by Prince Rui, the Ming court and Lin Chunhong were in trouble because of the title of title. Lin Chunhong then immediately fought against Liaocheng and refused to go north. Maybe, when Prince Rui adds another fire, it is not impossible for Lin Chunhong to meet the Ming court. At that time, wouldn't the Southern Barbarians in Lushunkou retreat without fighting?"

In terms of reason, Huang Taiji naturally agreed with this view, but Samushka suffered such a big loss. If Huang Taiji did not show a tough attitude of revenge, most Jurchens would be disappointed. Therefore, the so-called "let the Southern Barbarians of Lushunkou ignore it, they must not be mentioned from Huang Taiji.

Jiergalang was more cautious, but when it comes to exploring the emperor's heart and the emperor's mind, he might not even be as good as a seventh-rank sesame official in the Ming Dynasty. Seeing that Huang Taiji was still stubborn, he vowed to take revenge, and was anxious. He was about to persuade him again, but was interrupted by Huang Taiji impatiently and said, "I have decided, so there is no need to say anything more!"

Jirhalang was worried day and night. However, what surprised him was that Huang Taiji had no movement at all. Jirhalang Daqi told Fan Wencheng about this.

Fan Wencheng only heard halfway and understood what Huang Taiji meant. He gave Jier Harang a few words, and Jier Harang immediately realized that he immediately gathered several civil officials and military generals, and wrote a memorial, trying his best to prevent Huang Taiji from sending troops to Lushunkou.

Huang Taiji pretended to denounce him seriously. In the end, considering that all the civil and military officials in the court "oppose" them, he gave up his plan to avenge Samushka.

So, except for Lushunkou, which was still busy building the city, the whole of Liaodong became quiet.

Liaodong has become quiet, but in northern Zhili and Shandong are in chaos, and something ridiculous happened.

Ajige led a unit and went south through Baxian and Renqiu, burning, killing, looting, and gaining countless gains. When Ajige's troops pointed directly at Hejian Prefecture, Ajige suddenly discovered that there was a city west of Hejian Prefecture, with a strong city and a vast pond, majestic and spectacular. There were several moats around, more than 30 enemy buildings and twelve city towers.

Ajige, based on his intuition, judged that there must be great people living in this city, or that there are countless money, grain and wealth in the city.

Ajige was very moved and immediately gathered nearly 7,000 troops to surround the city, and began to attack day and night. What surprised Ajige was that there were more than a hundred cannons in a small county town.

Ajige suffered a great loss all of a sudden, and he further strengthened the city's crucial judgment. He attacked the city with all his might. He also specially transferred five red cannons to bombard the city wall day and night.

When Dorgon heard that Ajige was competing with a small county town, he couldn't help but be surprised. He was about to go and see what was strange about the county town, but he was dissuaded by the newly surrendered Han gentry.

The gentry told Dorgon that the city was called Suning, which was the hometown of the eunuch Wei Zhongxian. When Wei Zhongxian was in power, he invested a full 600,000 taels of silver to rebuild Suning City.

Dorgon was amused and cried, and immediately asked Ajige to inform him. Ajige was ashamed and slaughtered all the villages around Suining in anger, without even letting go of a wild cat.

This is just a small episode and has no impact on the overall situation. As for the people of Suning, I don’t know whether to thank Wei Zhongxian or resent him.

The Grand Canal from north to south, after crossing Hejian Prefecture, turned a corner and extended southwest, with commercial cities such as Dezhou and Linqing along the way. Dorgon led the Eighth Route Army, roughly along the Taihang Mountains and the Canal, and when he crossed Hejian Prefecture, the Eighth Route Army slowly gathered and finally met in Jizhou.

As we headed south, the entire Northern Zhili was harmed. Countless people died under the iron hooves of the Tartar cavalry, and we could never see the sun in the eleventh year of Chongzhen again; countless wives and daughters were humiliated, and they lived without a face to live in the world, and they all committed suicide; countless people were strung together like cattle and sheep, driven away, and life was worse than death...

There is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles, and the corpse is exposed in the wild. The more miserable it is, the more miserable it is!

The tragic situation may be passed down by word of mouth or through the refugees who escaped the clutches of the Tartars, spreading to the south, causing the people in Shandong to become increasingly excited and began to scold the Tartars.

At the beginning, the people's resentment was concentrated on the Tartars, wishing they could eat their meat and drink their blood. After a while, the people gradually turned their fingers and vented their dissatisfaction on the court, hating the court's ineffective resistance and wasting their money and food, but they raised a group of useless soldiers.

As the year was approaching, the year was approaching. As the canal was cut off, the people who relied on the canal to make a living were fewer means of making a living; a large number of refugees flocked to Shandong, and Shandong, which had not much grain storage, was even more difficult; the people were all in panic due to the evils of the Tartars...

Various factors are intertwined, and the anger of the people is beyond replenishment.

Gradually, voices cursing Lin Chunhong appeared in Shandong.

"The Longping Hou had only more than 10,000 soldiers, and was not prepared for the army and the food was insufficient. He bravely went to the national crisis and advanced to the front line of Dezhou, fighting with the Tartars with one sword and one shot... But Lin Chunhong was still in control because the court had not won the title and had 60,000 or 70,000 elite soldiers... Such a traitor and evil person is really disgusting..."

"Why is it because there is no title? In my opinion, Lin Chunhong just wants to rebel! He wishes the court and the Tartars fought to the death and benefited the fisherman. This traitor has ulterior motives and actually wants to be in the position of 95, and it is not an exaggeration to cut him into pieces!"

"I heard that after Lin Chunhong arrived in Liaocheng, he looked for beautiful women everywhere. Riyu's daughter was so exhausted that he couldn't move..."

"The emperor should issue an order to take Lin Chunhong's head to thank the world, and then send another good general to command the Jingzhou army and fight to the death with the Tartars!"

...

All kinds of voices are strange and bizarre, and Lin Chunhong is compared to Cao Cao, even better than Cao Cao. Moreover, these sounds are quite high, often one point true and nine points false, making the people unable to distinguish between true and false.

These voices inevitably reached Lin Chunhong's ears, and Lin Chunhong sneered: "Diet is coming, and he is still thinking about causing trouble, committing his own evil, and not living!"

Lu Shiming had already rushed to Liaocheng from the Central Plains Army. At this time, he was beside Lin Chunhong, frowned and asked: "The people behind him are probably not only Longping Hou, King Lu, King Heng and King De!"

Lin Chunhong snorted and said, "The Tartars are naturally among them. Isn't the Tartars dead to the forefront? Dorgon would use his power to exert force, and he is a strong enemy!"

Lu Shiming was full of worries and said, "The common people are ignorant, and spreading rumors is inevitable. As long as you survive this period, it will be over. The Tartars and the Lord have long been openly hostile to us, and spreading rumors is inevitable. However, the governor is so sure that there is no shadow of the court behind these rumors?"

Lin Chunhong was stunned and said, "There is such a possibility, but the possibility is not very high. None of these matters. The most important thing is that the soldiers are excited and seeking war is getting stronger and stronger. If they keep pressing like this, something may happen! Does General Manager Lu have a good idea?"

Lu Shiming said decisively: "It's all caused by idleness, so that these soldiers can move. Moreover, it is better to be dispersed rather than blocked. It is better to order the Cavalry Army and the Longwu Army to send a unit to go out of Liaocheng to perform reconnaissance, occlusion and other tasks. In addition, increase the training efforts and focus on promoting the Lushunkou battle examples..."
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