Lin Yi's army of more than 100,000 drove out of Jinzhou, with flags and flags, fluttering trumpets, swords and guns, covering the sky and the sun.

There were horse teams, and there were foot soldiers, and the rows and rows of new muskets of the musket battalion looked majestic and solemn. There was also a baggage battalion, five or six hundred red-coated cannons, driven by thousands of soldiers driving away the livestock, and formed a long line.

There were sailors and warships that carried them across the Xiaoling River, crossed the Daling River, and continued to advance north.

It was more than a spectacular scene!

As early as the Wanli period, the army of the Ming Dynasty did not dare to operate outside the city of Jinzhou. The Battle of Salhu in 1619 can be said to be the disgrace of the Ming army and the rise of the Later Jin.

Nurhachi only with 60,000 troops, defeated the Ming Dynasty's four-way army, more than half of the more than 100,000 Ming army casualties, Nurhachi created a classic example of "no matter how many roads you come from, I only fight all the way through", casting the legend of winning more immortal with less, which is the strategic decisive battle between the Houjin and the Ming Dynasty, which directly led to the rise of the Houjin.

Since that battle, the Later Jin army has conquered more than 70 cities of the Ming army, and its capital has also moved from Hetuara to Shengjing, which is later known as Shenyang.

Since then, the border army of the Ming Dynasty did not dare to easily cross beyond Jinzhou, leaving only a leather island to contain the Later Jin (Qing) army, but it was soon uprooted by others.

Although famous generals such as Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan ran Liaodong and created a myth of defeating the elite of the Eight Banners, on the whole, the battle between the Ming Dynasty and the Later Jin (Qing) army lost more and won less, and what has been handed down is that "the Jin army is not more than 10,000, and it is impossible to fight if it is more than 10,000." ”

Later, Jinzhou, Ningyuan and other important military towns fell one after another, until the Qing army entered the Guanda, and the Ming Dynasty fell.

Now Lin Yi's anti-heaven crossing, in just eight years, there is a border army pawn, boiled into the Ming Dynasty, the battle against the Tartars has also expanded from inside the pass to outside the pass, not only won the victory of the battle of Shanhaiguan, but also subdued Ningyuan Jinzhou, and now Jinzhou has been played, pointing at the Qing imperial capital.

This is the Ming Dynasty from Wanli, several generations of emperors did not dare to dream of it, Wanli after the emperor is only keen on carpenter work, for the Ningjin defense line outside the gate he is not very concerned, in the future brother and brother and is Chongzhen, although the Ningjin defense line outside the gate has been brilliant, but in the end ended in failure.

This strongly stimulated the Tartars' desire to plunder, knocked in every three or five times, patronized twice a year, trapped the Ming Emperor's capital to go north to Beijing, plundered hundreds of thousands of people and livestock, countless gold, silver and jewelry, killed people and goods, and committed crimes, which are difficult to write.

When Emperor Chongzhen was anxious, he still dreamed of peace talks with the Tartars, and even thought of the compromise and concession policy of "agreeing to give them whatever he wanted".

At that time, not to mention the fight outside the city of Jinzhou, the Ming army did not even dare to go outside the Shanhai Pass, even in the pass, the Tartars came and it was also precarious, the officials and the common people competed for their lives together, it was simply a lookout for the wind, the most sinful of course was the common people, displaced, homeless, life like mustard, think about what was miserable at that time.

Those days are gone, and Lin Yi is now personally commanding the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Ming Dynasty to fight out of Jinzhou City with great vigor and high spirits, and he wants to go back to the hometown of the Tartars.

What a spirit and majesty is this?!

This is a new atmosphere that has rarely been seen in the Ming Dynasty since 1619 for more than 20 years.

Now these soldiers of the Ming army, whether they are cavalry or foot soldiers, are facing up, their chests are pulled, their waists and eyes are straight, their eyes are blazing, looking into the distance, looking down on the earth, and their spirit is no less than "majestic and high-spirited, crossing the Yalu River." ”

However, on the way, Lin Yi told his generals that from now on the policy towards the Qing army would be changed, no longer killing and surrendering, and allowing them to surrender as prisoners.

"Brother Lin, why is this?" It was Xiaoying who took the lead and asked puzzled.

Lin Yi said with a smile: "The reason why we wanted to kill all the Tartars and traitors in the past and not allow them to surrender is because they are aggression and the crimes they have committed are heinous, and they should be punished like that." But now it's different, from now on, we're going to go abroad, we're waging a war of conquest, not a war of aggression against the Tartars, and if we kill them all, who else will we conquer. ”

"No, Brother Lin, the imperial capital of the Qing Dynasty was also the territory of the Ming Dynasty before, including the capital of the Later Jin Dynasty, Hetuala City, which was also the territory of the Daimyo, and that Nurhachi is said to be the horse boy of Li Chengliang, the commander of the Ming Dynasty, and it was only later that they rose between the white mountains and black waters, so they should all be destroyed."

"If you want to say that, it will be endless, so where did the territory before the Ming Dynasty come from? We won't talk about things that are too long, that's history, it's the things of our ancestors, but the things of the past twenty or thirty years are things that our generation or two have experienced, so we can't help but talk about them. ”

"Brother Lin, according to what you say, isn't it an invasion when we send troops outside Jinzhou City this time?"

"We are not an invasion, it is a just war, we want to teach those Manchu Tartars a lesson, the war was provoked by them first, not by us, besides, you just said, whether it is the Qing Dynasty or the Houjin, their territories were originally Ming Dynasty, and they were all border tribes of the Ming Dynasty, so now we are conquering them, not any aggression."

"Oops, the more I listen, the more confused I become."

"You'd better be foolish, you'll understand later."

Lin Yi said in his heart, this girl has to ask endlessly, and he has no words to explain to her.

In fact, who can tell the story between the state and the nation? Right and wrong, for thousands of years, there have been endless disputes, and what has been staged is the law of the jungle, that is, the survival of the fittest.

Princes and generals, would you rather have a kind? Jiangshan Sheji, that is the world of everyone, not the world of one family and one surname, the virtuous live in it, and the virtuous lose it.

In a word, it is a king and a loser, and his mouth is two skins, how can he be reasonable!

Listening to the conversation between Lin Yi and Xiaoying, Zhezhe covered his mouth and smiled beside him, and did not interject, willing to be a listener.

In any case, Lin Yi's military order has been passed down, and from now on, the Qing army will be allowed to surrender, and the surrendered Tartars will no longer be killed, and they must be treated differently.

Military orders are like mountains, especially Lin Yi's army, which has iron discipline, which can be summed up in eight words, that is, orders are forbidden, and no one dares not to implement them.

More than 100,000 troops and horses are like bamboos everywhere they go. Now the situation has completely turned over from a few years ago, where the Ming army went, the Qing army fled, the Ming army was invincible, and sometimes it was able to conquer eight cities at most a day.

It is still two or three hundred miles away from Shengjing, the capital of the Qing Dynasty, and victory is in sight.

During this period, the king of the dynasty, Li Liang, secretly sent an envoy again to ask Lin Yi when and how the 50,000 imperial troops who entered the Qing Dynasty to cooperate in the war would defect.

Lin Yi responded to them with a smile, don't worry, there will be a place for them at that time, the envoy of the country took a reassuring pill and happily took the boat back.

The Qing Dynasty's Jingshi Shengjing was in sight, and Lin Yi thought of the matter of changing horses and generals, if Song Xiance was really accurate, Lin Dan Khan's wives should still be alive, for the sake of Bahrain and Ezhe, for the sake of Daming and Chahar and the alliance together, they must be saved and saved.

This is a plan to exchange the dead for the living, with two dead people and a living person, to be precise, this living person is also a short-lived person, to exchange a few living women from the imperial capital of the Qing Dynasty, the specific details must be well planned.

Because these people, whether they are alive or dead, are not ordinary people, and those who die are all powerful people, and those who are alive are all noble people.

Lin Yi dared to plan such a plan, because the women he wanted to save were not only Lin Danhan's wife and Bahrain and E's mother, they now have another identity, that is, they are the concubines or Fujin of the Qing Dynasty, to put it bluntly, they are all the women of the emperors and princes of the Qing Dynasty.

To save such a few people is tantamount to digging out the flesh of a tiger's mouth.

When there was nothing to do along the way, Lin Yi also thought about this matter repeatedly, promising to do things with people and do loyal things, not to mention that this matter is very important to Daming, and the specific plan is now about to come out.

The key to the plan to change the generals is Hong Chengchou, and now he must be taken down.

While camping and resting at night, Lin Yi took Zhang Hua and several other guards to the camp where Hong Chengchou was held......

Lin Yi sent troops to Jinzhou City this time, of course, he had to take Hong Chengchou with him, not only with him, but also with the British prince Azig of the Qing Dynasty and the first warrior of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Ao Bai, of course, these are two corpses.

Fortunately, the weather in this area is not too hot now, but it is also spring, so it is not good, because it has been many days, it is a refrigerator without a corpse, Lin Yi used some wine and ice cubes to freeze, this is in the Northeast, it is still easy to find ice cubes in the spring season, wine and ice cubes, preserve the corpses, the effect is still good, otherwise these two corpses would have been moldy and deteriorated.

The wounds of the swords and the wounds of the sword on their bodies were brought in by a cobbler, and they sewed up what should be sewn and mended what should be mended. The hair fell out and they were replanted. Money rat tail, put on armor, put on armor, in fact, the helmet and armor are full of ice and wine, otherwise people will not be able to get close at all, so try to keep the corpse.

Three prisoner carts have been made, and now these two corpses, of course, cannot sit in the prisoner cart.

But along the way, Hong Chengchou sat in the prisoner car, and when the soldiers left Jingzhou City, Lin Yi took him out of the prison, loaded him into the prisoner car, and escorted him away.

Hong Chengchou knew that he would definitely not survive this time, and fell into the hands of Lin Yi, which was estimated to be worse than falling into the hands of Emperor Chongzhen.

When the two armies fought, the Manchu Tartars and the traitor army lost the battle, and they did not surrender, at least they had to lose their heads, and the crimes were extremely heinous, as well as torture such as Ling Chi Che split.

It's really unlucky, how did it fall into the hands of this person? This time it seems that he is guilty......

Hong Chengchou regrets it now, he knew today, why bother in the first place? regretted that he should not have surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and became a traitor. also regretted that when Jinzhou City fell, he should have committed suicide ruthlessly.

In just a few years, he sat in Jinzhou and fell twice, the first time he fell into the hands of the Tartars as a Ming minister, and the second time was that he fell into the hands of the Ming army as a minister of the Qing Dynasty.

That is, he has two chances, if even once he breaks his mind by himself, there will be no today's incident, it will be a knife at most.

Moreover, if he commits suicide for the first time, he can still have a reputation of being loyal to the country and leave a name in history.

If the latter suicide occurs, that is, when Lin Yi rushed into the Jinzhou Marshal's Mansion a few days ago, he put the sword across his neck, and he can't do it after all, if he grits his teeth and breaks himself off that time, there will be no pain today.

And now it's too late to say anything, I didn't grasp the opportunity to break myself off twice, and now I can't die if I want to, so I can't torture myself if I want to.

Along the way, Hong Chengchou sat in the bumpy prisoner car, thinking wildly, and began to think about tea and rice, for several days, the water and rice did not touch his lips.

Originally, when he was imprisoned in Jinzhou City Prison, he also decided that if he wanted to die, he would have to die a full ghost.

Because the hunger made him so terrible, for several months, first the amount of food was reduced, from the bottom to the top, and finally all the food was reduced, and finally all the food in the city was eaten, and the bark, grass, roots, and dirt were eaten, and finally it was so unbearable that it had reached the point of cannibalism, which he had witnessed with his own eyes.

Therefore, Lin Yi put him in prison, and he ate when he gave him food, and drank when he was given drink.

But then Lin Yi brought him out of prison, and he felt that his end was coming.

Because people are afraid of death, Hong Chengchou is certainly no exception.

In this sense, humans are the same as animals. When threatened by pain, people and animals will be aggressive, which is the instinct of the body, and it is the nature of people and animals.

In this respect, there is no shame in being afraid of death.

But the essential difference between humans and animals is that they are rational and can think. No matter how powerful an animal is, it is afraid of death, but people are different. Although I am also afraid of death, for the sake of ideals and beliefs, for justice and truth, and for something worth insisting on, I think that death cannot be given up and shaken, and this is a hero who stands up to the sky.

On the contrary, those who are afraid of death because they forget their righteousness for profit, seek only profit, and turn black and white upside down, and even do not hesitate to harm others in order to save their own lives, and even betray the interests of the motherland and the people, this is a shameful fear of death.

Hong Chengchou is undoubtedly the latter.

He didn't eat tea and dinner in the past two days, he was already very thin, plus he was trapped in Jinzhou for several months, hungry skin and bones, and now he has lost weight three times.

The cheekbones are prominent, the eye sockets are deep, and they can only be described as skinny, which means that if the cart is going to be bumpy and bumpy, it can shake his old bones apart.

But along the way, the Ming army did not treat him badly, neither beat nor scold, nor arraignment, three meals a day, eating, drinking and Lazar, all like ordinary people.

But where can he eat? Every time a meal was delivered, the soldiers took it.

He originally thought that Lin Yi was going to send him to the imperial capital of the Ming Dynasty in Guannai to march north to Beijing and be sentenced to death. But then he saw that he was not going to Guannei, but to Shengjing, the imperial capital of the Qing Dynasty.

Could it be that he was dragged to Sheng Shangjing in front of Dolgon, the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang and his little master of Shunzhi, humiliating him and torturing him, and then punishing him?

When he was thinking wildly, Lin Yi came in with Zhang Hua and a few others.

Seeing Lin Yi, Hong Chengchou was stunned......