Despair!

The arrival of the New Year did not bring the slightest good luck to the Great Qing Kingdom, but made the Great Qing Kingdom look like a declining group. There is no doubt that the Qing Dynasty in the twenty-first year of Tiancheng was undoubtedly completely shrouded in a cloud of despair.

In fact, when the war first broke out, they were not as desperate as they are now, and the reason why they are so desperate now, in the final analysis, is because the policy of the Ming Dynasty towards them has changed.

The so-called policy change, in fact, only changed from the initial "extermination" to a more flexible treatment - as long as they were willing to surrender, the Ming army could accept them.

Of course, this acceptance is not unconditional, and those who surrender will be screened and then dealt with by law. No one knows how they will be punished, but it is certain that the surrendered Qing army did not know that they would be screened and interrogated. They just saw life – a glimmer of life!

Even if there is only one glimmer of life, people will not miss it.

Originally, those who knew that they were going to die. After seeing this glimmer of life, they made the choice that was most beneficial to them. As a result, after the surrender of the Qing army in Andijan, there were continuous surrenders of the Qing army.

Surrender, for many Qing generals, seemed to be a way to save their lives. They are willing to believe and believe that Daming will let them go, and of course, they also believe that Daming will not let them go easily. To be sure, they will lose their land, their coats, but at least they will be able to save their lives.

In the past, they had no choice, but now the Ming Dynasty has given them a choice, if they don't seize the opportunity, then I'm afraid there is only one way, which is to continue to flee all the way south like a lost dog, or flee to Persia, or flee to Afghanistan.

Fleeing south?

What is Size? Where is the end of the earth again?

Even if they reach the ends of the earth, whether Daming will let them go or not is still between them.

Surrender!

A seemingly helpless, but extremely realistic choice was placed in front of the Qing army generals, many of them, whether they were Jurchens, Mongols, or Han Chinese, made the same choice in front of Sheng, at least there was not much disagreement.

Especially those generals who have calculated in their hearts, calculated the past, and finally came to a conclusion that they have not killed the Han people, they feel that they have not been stained with the blood of the Han people, so they naturally do not need to worry about the retaliation of the Han people.

So there is no psychological burden on the head.

The generals on the front line recognized the reality clearly, which directly led to the capture of more than a dozen cities without a single shot of the Ming army, and their surrender also put the Qing Dynasty in danger - the front peak of the Ming army was already approaching Jingnan City, the capital of the Qing Dynasty.

Jingnan City, there are many fortresses outside the city, several fortresses guard the surroundings of the city, thousands of elites of the Eight Banners in the fortress, are waiting for the arrival of the enemy, that is, two days ago, the elite rangers of the Eight Banners have been in contact with the reconnaissance cavalry of the Ming army, and the two sides have a skirmish battle less than 100 miles away from Jingnan City. Although the Qing army's rangers suffered a loss to the Ming army's scouts by virtue of their numerical superiority, everyone knew that a big war was about to break out!

This is the last battle between the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty!

Everyone knows the outcome of this battle or what you will do, and there is no second choice.

The first month of the 22nd year of Xingqian is about to pass, and the figure of the large army of the Ming army finally appeared in the area less than 100 miles away from Jingnan, and at this time the dark clouds over Jingnan seemed to be ominous, a sudden heavy snow began to fall from the evening of January 28, and the thick snow on the ground covered the area of Fangyuan for 100 miles, and it seemed that it was going to fall.

It was a snowfall not seen in decades, and even in the cold winter of previous years, such heavy snow was extremely rare. The sudden heavy snow immediately slowed down the pace of the Ming army, hindered the transportation of their logistical baggage troops, and even plunged the army into chaos, and some troops had to temporarily change their plans and stop advancing towards Jingnan.

The change in the weather changed the precarious situation in Jingnan, and also gave the Qing Kingdom a chance to breathe. It also made those who were in a desperate situation finally breathe a sigh of relief.

At least. I can finally live a few more days.

Jingnan, which is dressed in silver, although it is the capital of the Qing Dynasty, always looks a little weird, and the reason why it is strange is because the buildings in the city have both Chinese colors and heavenly colors. Although the Manchu Qing Dynasty had rebuilt many of the buildings of the Heavenly Style into Chinese-style buildings, and demolished many of the Heavenly Buildings, many of its past Heavenly Buildings were still everywhere, and the kind of modifications made to save money only made the city look extremely strange.

Just like the imperial palace located in front of the square, although it has a large roof in the Ming style, the stone walls and other buildings of the imperial palace are all in the heavenly way, which is modified on the basis of the old palace, so it looks a little strange and even looks uncomfortable. Just a few blocks away, there are narrow cobble-paved streets, rows of brick and mud houses, lined up one after another, and many small shops, their doors hung with cloth flags fluttering in the wind, and colorful cloth flags with Chinese characters written on them, reminding people that the owners of these houses have long since changed. It's just that now in these dim houses, the owners have a sad face. Now they no longer have the leisurely self-satisfaction of the past, nor the arrogance in front of the slaves. Only worries about the future were left on his stuffy face. And, of course, the desire for life.

"Hey, how can you not withdraw?"

Sitting in the room, he was a little bored and put on the number robe, Qing'a lifted the fire gun and waist knife again, and his face was full of unwillingness. When he went out, he saw a woman with a high nose and brown eyes washing clothes in the yard, and his son smacking his fingers half-awake and half-asleep in the package behind her.

"I'm going to Fort Mighty, mother-in-law, you're living alone."

"Yes, sir."

The woman responded in stiff Chinese, even if it is a Jurchen person now, it is only in Chinese, not for anything else, but for the opportunity to be confused when she escapes for her life in the future. What if you can pretend to be Han and escape?

There are so many Han people in the world. There's always a place for them. The mountain is high and the emperor is far away, who will care when the time comes, he is not a real Han person, as long as he tells others that he is a Han person.

When Qing A went out, he saw Li Laosi and Duo Keming, and he walked over to greet him. Then the three of them chatted as they walked.

Looking up at the sky and looking at the smaller snowflakes, Qing'a sighed.

"Hey, it looks like this snow won't be able to fall for a few days."

"Ten percent won't be able to fall for a few days, I've thought about it, as soon as the snow stops, the Ming army will fight ten out of ten!"

"Ten out of ten?"

Duo Keming looked at Qing A, then at Li Laosi, and then said.

"Li Laosi?"

He swallowed hard and asked tentatively.

"Your kid's family is from Beizhili!"

Among them, only this kid is a real Han Chinese.

"Handan, why did the master think of asking this?"

Li Laosi was surprised.

"Do you think I talk like someone from Beizhili?"

Duo Keming said while thinking about Li Laosi's accent, so he spoke very slowly.

"My family is from Handan, and I came out more than ten years ago, no, it's really not very good, so I got here, and I didn't make a living there?"

"You kid wants to escape!"

Dockmin wiped the sweat from his palms on his pants, swallowed his saliva, and then said.

"It's not that I want to escape, it's not that you don't know what kind of crime we've suffered all these years! When the master fled, there was food and drink along the way, we were full and hungry along the way, in the past, we fled to the Western Regions, and we could grab points and grab points along the way, but we could flee south, that place in Afghanistan, I heard, everywhere except for stones or stones, you know, what do the locals say? "We have stones", but can stones be eaten as food? Even if they fled to Persia, so many people fled over, they still had to fight and kill with others, maybe they would not be as good as this dog when the time came! ”

Dockmin pointed to a wild dog on the side of the road, which was scavenging in a rubbish heap by the roadside.

"This is also a dog that can be eaten in rotten vegetables. But let's, if we run south. It is estimated that he will not even be able to eat, and he may have to starve to death on the road. ”

"If you say this, you're going to be killed!"

Qing'a and Li Laosi said a little nervously. There are some things that you can't say, and if you say them, you will definitely lose your head.

"Kill the head? Kill whom! Who the hell doesn't know, guarding Jingnan like this must be a dead end. ”

"What's going on? You have to obey the orders of the army. ”

Li Laosi smiled, but the smile was very unnatural. How could they not know what kind of situation they were in now, but what other way was there besides resigning to their fate?

"Listen, listen to it again, but I'll really lose my life here!"

Seeing the patrolman coming in front, Duo Keming didn't speak again, Qing'a and Li Laosi hurriedly pretended to be in a hurry and continued to walk forward, and the three of them walked very fast.

When the patrolmen had walked over, they saw that they had gone far away. Duo Keming still said in a somewhat slow Handan tone.

"Fourth, listen to it...... In my words, you may be able to hear the tone of the flag man......"

Li Laosi said with a smile.

"Well, I sound pretty much it, boy, maybe others really think you're from Handan!"

Duo Keming's eyes stared at Li Laosi and said.

"It's just that I really think of me as a Handan person, it's okay if others say the wrong thing, maybe I say the wrong thing, and when the time comes, I will lose my life." I'm not afraid of anything! But I'm afraid that I will say the wrong thing, and when the time comes, not only will I lose my life, but even my family will die! ”

"You're going to run away with them?"

Staring at Duo Keming, Qing'a sneered.

"No matter how you escape, no matter how you flee there, you can speak Handan, will your mother-in-law do? Will the kids! ”

Li Laosi took over and said.

"That's right! What a few of them said was not very good! ”

"Not Mali? That's no way, who let them mix with those natives every day! ”

After Duo Keming finished speaking, he said cautiously.

"I've thought about it, as long as you escape from Jingnan, then flee south, flee to Persia, escape from Persia to the seaside, get on the boat from there, and then flee to the Zhou State, which is Wu Sangui's Zhou State, in a few months, our hair can grow a lot, it's not like other places, when you get there, you will pretend to be a Han person, Zhang Wang Zhao Li will have a random surname, and when the time comes, we will be Han people......"

Duo Keming's idea made Qing A's heart flutter for a while, and he immediately asked in a low voice.

"You're pretty sure."

In these years, few people are willing to die, as long as there is a choice, he is willing to live. Even if it's to be a deserter.

"Ten percent!"

Docmin said patiently:

"Ten percent sure, listen to me! Let's live in Persia first, first, first grow your hair long, the second is to take a look first, practice the accent of speaking, and then think about the background, I thought, we are the ones who came out to do business, I heard Long Liuye say that there are also many Han traders in Persia, and they also marry wives and have children in the local area, so that we have a chance, and when we flee to Zhou in the future, we can have a saying about this......"

Obviously, he was already prepared and had a full plan for the future, and as soon as he said this, several people around him looked at him with shocked expressions. Obviously, I didn't expect him to think about it so thoroughly and so carefully.

Then, in the surprise of everyone, Duo Keming looked at Li Laosi and said.

"Fourth master, you are a Han person, the customs of the Han people or something, you know better than me, you stay here, even if you survive, you have to be regarded as a traitor, let's go together, there will be a way to live."

When Duo Keming lobbied Li Laosi, Qing'a, who was still opposed, agreed.

"That's right! What the master said is right, the fourth master, if you go together, with you there to greet you, people will definitely not doubt it! ”

This will make Qing'a admire Li Laosi in his heart, even if he is a flag soldier, but he also wants to live. He didn't want to waste his life here.

I went, and he didn't approve of running away because there was no way to escape, and he didn't know where to run or what to do after he fled, but now it's the same, and Dockmin has explained where they should flee and what to do after they escape. But why sit here and wait?

Li Laosi lifted the fire gun without saying a word, he just walked silently.

His mind was in turmoil, he also wanted to live, and he even had the idea of running away. However, it was not as much as Duo Keming thought, and as he walked, he asked again, intentionally or unintentionally.

"Master, how many of you are there?"

Duo Keming doesn't seem to be a brother, he is a smart person, since he can come up with such a foolproof solution, there must be other people around him. The solution must have been made by someone else.

"Many! And much more! In addition to me, there are ......"

Glancing at Li Laosi, Duo Keming said.

"Anyway, there are a lot of people, Fourth Master, you know, who the hell doesn't want to live? Sell your life to your master, this life has been sold for decades, and the Aixin Jueluo family has to find a way to die, and we have to find a way to live! ”

"Alive!"

Li Laosi almost shouted.

"When there are too many people, when they flee south, they will be designated to let the Persians be killed as men and horses, what can be done when the time comes?"

Docmin was stunned for a moment, he really didn't expect this.

"But there are fewer people, and when you escape, if you run into bandits, you won't even have a chance to save your life."

"It's those people, but they're all things that don't know whether to live or die!"

Dockmin took over and continued.

"If we have fewer people, let alone bandits, just those herdsmen, maybe they will rob us, and those who leak knives, but many of them have fled to Persia, and when they see us, it is not the enemy who meets and kills us!"

"That's not the truth, Fourth Master, along the way, the risk is gone! There are too many people, and robbers don't dare to mess with us easily, do they? ”

Everyone knows that it's a good thing to have more people at this time. After all, there are many people, and those bandits and robbers don't dare to provoke them easily.

"Hey, I said, two masters, you are confused, we are running for our lives, dragging our families with us, even if we fight, I am afraid we will not be able to take advantage. The more people there are, the easier it is to have accidents, and if you do this, you will definitely not be able to do it! Besides, if you think about it, if thousands or even thousands of people break into Persia like that, won't the government send troops over when the time comes? Even if we fled to the south, so many people fled to the Zhou State together, others would not get to the bottom of it! ”

After saying it in one go, Li Laosi shook his head vigorously and said.

"There are too many people, let alone fleeing for their lives, I'm afraid I don't even have a chance to escape."

was ordered by Yu Tao, he had his own plans and opinions, and obviously did not agree with what they said, and the team of people fled together

"Then what do you say?"

Dockmin laughed miserably.

"Is it possible to leave them all here?"

"You definitely didn't come up with this idea yourself!"

Li Laosi's rhetorical question made Duo Keming silent for a while, and then opened his tightly closed mouth.

"The fourth master is shrewd, it's really not what I came up with."

"And there's more than one Han Chinese, right?"

There are some things, as long as you think about it a little, you can always come up with the reason, he thought for a while, and then said.

"Actually, I've also thought about escaping, it's not good if there are more people, it's not okay if there are fewer people, if there are more, there must be more troubles, less, if you escape for thousands of miles, whether you can survive or not, it's not certain!"

"What's going on?"

Qing'a looked at Li Laosi, then at Duo Keming, and then asked.

"Fourth Master, don't you have any other ideas?"

"There is an idea, but this idea is also a bit risky!"

Li Laosi said directly.

"Risk?"

Swallowing hard, Qing'a stared at him and asked.

"What are the risks? Fourth master, can you tell me your idea? ”

Everyone looked at Li Laosi with blank eyes, wanting to hear his method from him, but Li Laosi did not answer them immediately, but swallowed and foamed, and then said.

"Actually, this thing is easy to do, brothers, listen to me......"