Ao Bai heard that Dai Shan said that there were dead people buried under the snowdrift, and immediately asked someone to clean up the snowdrift, and sure enough, a large number of corpses were found in the snowdrift, from the place in front of him to Nanguan I am afraid that there are not more than ten miles, and the road surface of these ten miles is covered by thick snowdrifts, if there are corpses buried under these snowdrifts, it will be a big number.

Watching the soldiers continue to dig out the corpses from the snowdrifts, Dai Shan and Ao Bai's faces became more and more solemn, and more and more corpses were dug out, some lots had none at all, and some lots were more than a dozen or even dozens of them huddled together. Most people don't have many external injuries on their bodies, and their faces are blue and black, and they should have died holding their breath, and some of them have wounds on their bodies, which seem to have been killed and thrown into the snowdrift.

It is surprising that there are so many dead people under the snowdrifts, but what is even more surprising is that all the roads that used to be very flat here have been dug up, and there are deep pits and mounds of earth everywhere, which are so hard that people can barely cross them, but horses certainly can't get through.

Dai Shan's soldiers continued to clean up, and he led people up the hillside with Aobai, only to see the corpses of the Jurchen soldiers scattered on the hillside, and these people had obvious fatal wounds on their bodies. Some of them were wounded in the back, and it seemed that they were killed by the pursuers when they found the enemy fleeing, and the wounded in front of them were strangely gathered in a circle or half a circle, as if a huge monster was standing in the middle and was constantly harvesting the lives of the Jurchen soldiers.

Dai Shan nodded and went down the mountain again, observed the corpse under the mountain again, and picked up the half-truncated knife casually and looked at it again, pondered for a long time Dai Shan suddenly said: "It seems that we have been fooled again, General Ao Bai left some people here to clean up the snowdrifts, and the others followed me from the sea ice to Lushun quickly, if I expected it right, the people who ambushed here were Ming troops, and now they may have left Lushun, I hope it is still too late to catch up with them." ”

Dai Shan and Ao Bai led more than 40,000 people to ride fast horses to Lushun, the road was full of snow and could not pass, so they made a detour over the frozen sea, and soon came to Nanguan. There are also some corpses of Jurchen soldiers at the foot of Nanguan, but today everyone is numb to see the corpses, so they don't have the heart to feel strange, what really makes people feel strange is that the ground at the foot of Nanguan is also all uneven, anyway, it is a deep pit connected to a mound, and the ground from north to south to east and west is densely covered with this kind of deep pit and mound.

Dai Shan stopped his horse and asked, "Do any of you know what's going on?" If you want to dig so deep and there are so many pits, it is not good to dig it in ten days and half a month, and besides, the ground is frozen in winter, how can you dig it? ”

A guard next to him said: "Report to Erbeile, when I went to Ningyuan City to clean up the corpses of the fallen soldiers two days ago, I happened to hear the Ming army talk about something, they said that they had a special army of tens of thousands of people. ”

Dai Shan asked suspiciously: "What special army still has tens of thousands of people?" ”

The guard said: "It seems that it is an army that specializes in building roads and cities, and I heard that they are not very good at fighting, but digging pits, breaking roads, repairing walls, and building houses is easy to come at hand, and it takes ten days and half a month to dig these pits, and it will only take two or three days to reach them." ”

Dai Shan thought about it and ordered the troops to continue to bypass the sea, and then go ashore and speed up, although the road was difficult, it was less than an hour to reach Lushun. The city of Arthur can no longer be said to be a city, because the walls, gates, and houses have been reduced to bricks and stones, and the empty ruins make people feel more lonely and helpless than the wilderness and desert.

Dai Shan angrily asked the guard: "Could it be that this city was also done by those special armies of the Ming army?" ”

The guard whispered: "It should be, it should be great to repair the wall, and it should be great to tear down the wall." ”

Dai Shan ran around Lushun City, looked at the traces on the ground, and then shouted, "Everyone take weapons and come with me." After saying that, he took the lead and ran to the west, everyone drew their knives and rushed forward after him, until they rushed to the ice in front of them before slowing down, and after a while, the guards around him said: "Erbele, you can't go any further, the sound of the horse's hooves stepping on the ice has changed, indicating that the ice is already very thin, and it will be dangerous to walk further." Dai Shan helplessly stopped his horse and looked forward, only to see countless ships on the sea a mile or two away in the afterglow of the setting sun.

At night, Dai Shan ordered to camp and rest on the hillside in front of Nanguan, and by the way, he looked everywhere for any dead people in other places, and burned them all after he found them. Although there has been no snow for a few days, the snow on the hillside is slowly melting, which makes the air even colder, tens of thousands of people lined up for more than ten miles under the Nanguan, almost blocking the southeast bank to the northwest bank, fortunately, there are many dead branches on the hillside, everyone lights a fire and roasts around the fire.

After dinner, Ao Bai came over, and he saw Dai Shan sitting down on the fire and said: "Erbeile, we came from the northwest bank, and we started to take people from the southeast bank to go around, and the road was dug up to a pulp, how many people do you say this Ming army has to dig the road?" ”

Dai Shan said: "Does General Ao Bai remember the traces of the Ming army pushing the boat into the sea that he saw on Juehua Island ten days ago? ”

Ao Bai suddenly realized and said: "Could it be that Ningyuan's Ming army came here by boat to cause sabotage?" What is their purpose? ”

Dai Shan said: "Their purpose is to cut off the necessary road from Jinzhou to Nanguan, force our Jurchen soldiers to dismount and fight with them, and then they used a plan to kill the 20,000 people who came to support from Yizhou, of course, because these 20,000 people were proud and arrogant, they were completely annihilated." ”

Ao Bai thought for a while and said, "I haven't figured out what's going on until now, can Erbeile tell me what you thought of?" At noon, you said that 1,000 people in Jinzhou City were killed by someone on the night of the 27th day of the first lunar month, can you tell us what happened? ”

Dai Shan said: "This is very simple, only a few dozen of a thousand people fell to the ground and everyone else could stand on the ground, indicating that the Ming army took advantage of its unpreparedness to kill these dozens of people, while others were killed while they were asleep." Think about it, it's impossible for soldiers to stand there and let people kill? The reason why they were able to stand upright on the ground was because they were all lying upright and were killed together in a short time, so it shows that the army entered the city at night and there were still many people. ”

Ao Bai asked: "I can understand being killed at night, but many people come in and the guards at the door don't call the police?" It is impossible for them to kill all the guards without alerting the others, and even if they disguise themselves as our soldiers to enter the city, the passwords for entering and leaving the city are constantly changing. ”

Dai Shan said: "There is only one explanation, these people have just left the city and know the password to enter and leave the city. ”

Ao Bai asked again: "This can barely be explained, but how can it be sure that it happened on the night of the 27th day of the first lunar month?" ”

Dai Shan said: "When we evacuated Ningyuan City on the evening of the 27th, it was still snowing heavily, and the snow stopped on the 28th. There is no snow on the dead people standing in Jinzhou City, which means that they were only put out by the Ming army on the 28th, but the snow on the city wall is very thick, indicating that it must still be snowing in the sky after the guards on the city wall were killed, so that the snowflakes can cover the traces of their struggle and fight, so that they can be calculated that they were killed on the night of the 27th. ”

Ao Bai nodded and asked: "I have two questions, one is how did the Ming army get the order to enter the city?" Second, why did they put all their soldiers on the streets? ”

Dai Shan sighed and said, "At first, I couldn't figure it out, but then I remembered that there were fewer and fewer people along the way, and I finally figured it out." On the night of the 25th, my father Khan received a report from the defenders of Jinzhou that a large number of Ming troops had been found near Jinzhou on the 23rd, and they had not attacked the city for four days. You don't mean it's here to play, is it? They must be taking people and things around the world, so there are fewer and fewer people in the more than 100 miles from Hongzui Fort to Jinzhou, and most of the people here are Han Chinese, so they don't need to force them to take away many people. ”

Seeing Ao Bai nodded Dai Shan continued: "I calculated like this, the defenders of Yizhou divided 20,000 troops after receiving the order of my father Khan on the 26th, prepared for half a day and set off overnight, and came to Jinzhou in the afternoon of the next day, when they found that there were a large number of Ming troops outside the city, and these 20,000 people immediately went out to fight and chased all the way. When chasing halfway between Jinzhou and Nanguan, the Ming army went up the hill and fled. At this time, the road ahead was dug up, and only people could pass and could not ride horses, so the 20,000 soldiers divided into two roads, one way up the mountain to continue the pursuit, and the other way dismounted and walked on the rotten road to Lushun, at this time the result of their total annihilation was inevitable. ”