Yuan Chonghuan is not tired of living, but people who have been on the battlefield for a long time will look at life and death more and more, from the second year of the Apocalypse to the sixth year of Chongzhen, he stayed in Liaodong for ten years, during which he did not know how many wars he had experienced, watching thousands of people die in front of him, death is really nothing to him.

This topic seemed to be a bit heavy, and Qi Yuangong was not familiar with the bloody struggle in the court, so he simply diverted the topic and said: "Lord Yuan, what are you going to do with the civilians between the Santaizi River and the Liao River?" ”

This problem is indeed very important, the land between the Santaizi River and the Liao River is fertile, the water is abundant, in the Xiaoice River period when the drought is more serious, this is already a rare oasis in eastern Liaoning, so, although this is located on the front line, Houjin did not let the land be wasted, according to previous reports, there are more than 100,000 Han people cultivating here, but I don't know if he rushed over, Huang Taiji ordered the Han people here to be taken away, after all, he was delayed for nearly a month west of the Santaizi River.

Yuan Chonghuan pondered for a while, and then muttered: "That's it, let's see the situation tomorrow, if Jiannu doesn't attack tomorrow, it is estimated that they will not be able to find a suitable place to cross the river to fight in a few days, take advantage of these few days I will send Guan Ning Tieqi to collect the civilians in this area, when the time comes, they will stay here if they want to stay here, if they don't want to stay here, they will trouble you to send them to Dongfan, what do you think?" ”

The more civilians moved to Dongfan, the stronger they became, Qi Yuangong was very clear about this, and he naturally couldn't ask for civilians to move in, he nodded again and again: "Okay, anyway, we have to transport materials back and forth, and the boat to go back is equivalent to being empty, just pulling civilians to Dongfan." ”

Will Huang Taiji come to attack the Great Liaohe Fort that has just begun to dig the foundation?

It's really hard to say, because he didn't expect Yuan Chonghuan to be so bold and dare to run with his ass, as soon as he crossed the river, people occupied the place where he crossed the river!

He thought that Yuan Chonghuan should take advantage of this rare time to repair Xining Fort, first gain a firm foothold on the west bank of the Liao River and then make plans, but he never thought that he crossed the river with 200,000 troops overnight, crawled and rolled in the night, tossed for a few hours, and finally returned to Haizhou.

Huang Taiji heard the report, and was very annoyed, this Yuan Chonghuan is getting bolder and bolder, he dares to run with Lao Tzu's ass, if it weren't for the fact that his 200,000 troops had just rushed back to Haizhou and urgently needed to rest, he really wanted to lead the army back and beat this guy.

At this time, he really couldn't do it, because the 200,000 troops under his command had not rested since midnight yesterday morning, first filling the trenches, then eating cannonballs, and then retreating all the way to the river crossing site to cross the river overnight, and then marching for a few hours in the night before running back to Haizhou, this way, it is not bad to exhaust people to death, now let them attack the Ming army, they are estimated to be unable to climb!

In this case, he could only send scouts to closely watch the movements of the Ming army, and wait until his army was rested.

In other words, although they ran back to Haizhou City, there was still no camp tent, and the baggage had to wait for all parts of Liaodong to be sent, how could the 200,000 army rest?

His order was to advance the city and live with the people!

The Later Jin Dynasty is sometimes so unscrupulous, although the later mites seem to be a relatively civilized feudal dynasty after the Qing Dynasty dominated the world, but during the Later Jin period, the Jurchen rulers were really a bit uncivilized for the people under their rule, especially the civilians in Liaodong.

Whether it is Nurhachi or Huang Taiji, they are all virtuous, when they need these civilians to grow food, they are full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, as if they are good to the civilians, once they have something or the civilians resist, they will not talk about benevolence and morality, so they will bully you, what's wrong? Defy? Kill!

For example, at this time, Haizhou City has a total population of more than 100,000, and 200,000 troops are pouring in, how can they live?

Huang Taiji doesn't care so much, a population of more than 100,000 is more than 20,000 households, and each household lives in a team, ten people, isn't this just a place to live!

At this time, Haizhou City, it was called a chaos, a team of soldiers broke into the door, poured into the homes of civilians, and couldn't describe this chaos with chickens and dogs.

Chickens still want to fly? Kill them all and stew!

Dogs still want to jump? It's all killed and stewed!

The whole Haizhou City is full of shouts and curses, and even mixed with terrible cries for help, these soldiers are tired and hungry one by one, and the anger is still very big, and the slightest resistance, that is, a violent beating, it is not good to cook for them, or a violent beating, and when they are full of food and drink, they still want to vent the fire, and the woman who is a little bit of posture is all unlucky.

Haizhou City was "lively" for a morning before gradually returning to calm, the 200,000 army tossed for more than ten hours and was really tired, they left people to take turns on duty and then began to rest, and the civilians in the city were hiding in their corners at this time and choked in despair, they didn't even dare to cry, because crying would usher in a violent beating, these beasts, killing people is not worth their lives!

It's not that the civilians of Liaodong don't want to resist, on the contrary, their sense of resistance has always been very strong, but every time they can't get the support of the Ming court, they only usher in the brutal suppression of the Houjin, and over time, these civilians are slowly despairing, they can only bury their hatred deep in their hearts and let the Houjin bully.

However, once there is a chance, they will still break out, and the civilians in Haizhou City will not be able to break out at this time, because the entire Haizhou is fully stationed with 200,000 Houjin troops, and the people in the city are only more than 100,000 in total, they are looking for death, and the people between the Santaizi River and the Liao River are different, they finally ushered in a golden opportunity, because the Ming army came over!

Yuan Chonghuan told Qi Yuangong that if Jin did not come to attack Da Liaohe Fort after the next day, he would send Guan Ning Tieqi to collect the common people, and Huang Taiji would not be able to launch an attack at this time, because the grain and grass of the 200,000 army were almost lost, and it would take time to raise them from all over Liaodong, and it would be impossible to raise them in one day.

The next day, there was no movement on the east bank of the Liao River, and Yuan Chonghuan finally sent the Guanning Iron Cavalry to begin to collect the Liaodong civilians between the Santaizi River and the Liao River.

Why do you want to send Guan Ningtie to ride there, can't you just send someone to inform you?

Of course not, the civilians of Liaodong under the rule of the Later Jin Dynasty were not the same as the ordinary people under the Ming Dynasty.

The common people under the Ming Dynasty, especially the peasant households in the countryside, did not see a single court official all year round, and they were basically squires; Later, the civilians of Liaodong under the rule of Jin were under the surveillance of Zhushen all the time, and the people who controlled them were directly the Eight Banners Niulu and Jiala, in short, they were actually serfs under the supervision of the Eight Banners Army.

Although Huang Taiji retreated, it is impossible for those Zhushen, Niu Lu and even Jia La, who supervise the civilians in Liaodong, to retreat, and Zhu Shen is actually the reserve soldiers of the Eight Banners, if you want to talk about combat effectiveness, it is not much worse than the ordinary Ming army, so Yuan Chonghuan sent the Guanning Iron Cavalry, one is to collect the civilians here as soon as possible, and at the same time, it is also to deal with those Zhu Shen, Niu Lu and Jia La.

On this afternoon, Zu Zehong, a guerrilla general of the Guanning Army, set off with five thousand Guanning iron cavalry, and his destination was Dawa, which was about 20 miles away from the Daliaohe Fort, where there was a huge pimple lake, and the water was very abundant, so the drought that swept the entire northern part of the Ming Dynasty had no impact on it, according to the previous espionage information, there were more than 20,000 civilians in Liaodong who were guarded by a Zhenglan Qijiala named Yasiha, working hard, and planting grain for Jiannu.

The Guan Ning army is basically from Liaodong, and even some people originally have this hometown, so they don't need anyone to guide them, let alone inquire about the path, just have their own people to guide them, and they will definitely not get lost.

Originally, there were several villages near Xining Fort and Da Liaohe Fort, but when the Ming army came, the people in the village were relocated, and even, Yuan Chonghuan led the army all the way from the Santaizi River to Xining Fort and never saw any civilians, so he was not sure if Huang Taiji had ordered the relocation of the civilians here, if it weren't for the pieces of farmland placed there, and it was not deserted, he would even think that this place was also like the side of the Santaizi Hexi case, which was formed into a buffer zone by Houjin.

Zu Zehong led Guan Ning Tieqi to run wildly all the way, and ran directly for more than ten miles, only to see a village next to the road that seemed to be a figure shaking, he immediately waved his hand without hesitation, and shouted: "Fence up." ”

"Boom", five thousand Guan Ning Tieqi immediately followed him to the right and directly surrounded the village.

Zu Zehong stood at the entrance of the village and said directly to a young man next to him: "Pillar, what kind of pimple is this?" ”

The young cavalry of the Guanning Army looked at it carefully, tried to think about it again, and then estimated: "This pimple seems to be Zhangjia Village." ”

Zu Zehong asked again: "Are there any people from Zhangjia Village in the team?" ”

The young cavalry pillar shook his head and said, "No, but Uncle Shan, the chief flag officer of the thirteenth battalion, seems to be from Yanjiabao nearby." ”

Zu Zehong nodded and said, "That's okay, you go and call Uncle Mountain Ghost to come over." ”

Zhu Zi nodded, beat his horse and ran in the direction of the thirteenth battalion, and after a while, he led a middle-aged man in his thirties to beat the horse.

The middle-aged man seemed a little excited at this time, the so-called cowardice in the countryside, he was really a little afraid to go back to the village to see that his father and fellow villagers had been harmed by Jiannu.

When Zu Zehong saw his expression, he couldn't help but quip: "What's the matter, Uncle Mountain Ghost, I've never seen you so nervous in fighting with Jiannu, what are you afraid of at this time?" ”

The ghost of Zongqishan arched his hand and said embarrassedly: "Aren't I worried about the fathers and villagers of Yanjiabao, another village will be Yanjiabao, I am really a little unsure." ”

Zu Zehong comforted when he heard this: "This army is in chaos, life and death are up to heaven and not by people, look down, by the way, is this Zhangjia Village?" ”

The ghost of Zongqi Mountain arched his hand and said: "Yes, little general, this is Zhangjia Village." ”

Zu Zehong waved his hand and said: "Okay, you go up and shout and let the villagers come out, they seem to be hiding in the house." ”

The ghost of Zongqi Mountain nodded, and directly stepped forward and shouted loudly: "Folks, I am Yan Mountain of Yanjiabao, don't be afraid, Lord Yuan and General Zu have led the army back, from now on, this is the territory of our Ming Dynasty again!" ”

After he finished shouting, there was not much movement in the village, and after a while, an old man in his fifties came out of a courtyard not far away, and asked in a trembling voice: "Mountain ghost, is it really you?" ”

When Yan Shan heard this, he took a look at it, then turned over and dismounted, ran up and choked up, "Second uncle, why are you here?" ”

Coincidentally, this person was his cousin's grandfather, and the old man looked at Yan Shan carefully, and then pounced on him and said excitedly: "Mountain ghost, it's really you!" ”

Yan Shan grabbed him, nodded vigorously and said, "Yes, yes, it's me, it's me, the second uncle, why did you come to Zhangjia Village." ”

The old man was full of tears, shook his head painfully, and said: "Yanjiabao is over, after you ran out, Jiannu was angry and angry, and directly set fire to Yanjiabao, I am not bad, I am old, I escaped a knife, Erwa, dogs, and their twenty or thirty-year-old boys were all killed by Jiannu!" ”

"Ahh When Yan Shan heard this, his body shook and he almost didn't stand firm.

At this time, someone suddenly stretched out a big palm from behind, helped him, and then patted him on the shoulder and said: "Uncle Mountain Ghost, don't think so much, we are here to save people, the dead, we can't save them, we can only save the living." ”

Hearing this, Yan Shan wiped away his tears and nodded, "I know, little general." ”

Seeing this, the old man beside him couldn't help but be curious: "Why does this general look so familiar?" ”

Yan Shan hurriedly introduced: "Second uncle, this is the son of General Zu, General Zu. ”

What General Zu, General Zu, if you say this in another place, people will definitely think that you are sick, but no one will think that you are sick when you say this in Liaodong, especially in the west of the Liao River, everyone in Ningyuan's ancestral family knows it, and no one knows it.

When the old man heard this, he immediately arched his hand excitedly and said: "It turned out to be General Zu, why did I say that I looked so familiar, disrespectful." ”

Zu Zehong smiled and shook his head and said: "Old man, you're welcome, I still have to ask you for help, please help shout and let the villagers come out." ”

When the old man heard this, he nodded excitedly, and then opened his voice and shouted: "Folks, it's General Zu, General Zu has led the army back!" ”

At this time, the entire Zhangjia Village immediately exploded, and almost all the people opened the door and ran out, shouting excitedly: "Is it really General Zu, is it really General Zu?" ”

Seeing this, Zu Zehong arched his hand and said loudly: "Folks, isn't it Ning Yuan's ancestor Zu Zehong, the ancestor of the family!" ”

When the people of Zhangjia Village heard this, they immediately surrounded them excitedly and said, "It's really like, it's really the son of General Zu." We are saved, the imperial army is coming, General Zu is coming! ”

In fact, General Zu does not necessarily refer to Zu Dashou, the ancestral family can be called a general, Zu Dale, Zu Dacheng, Zu Dabi, and their father Zu Chengxun are all called Zu Da General by the people of western Liaoning, in short, Ning Yuan's ancestral family has a loud reputation in Liaodong, it is simply incomparable, and even, Chongzhen also specially ordered someone to build a merit archway in Ningyuan City, on the book: Ning Yuan Zu's family, left book: four generations of Zhenliao, right book: merit in Qianqiu!

However, in history, the final ending of Zu Dashou was not very glorious, and later generations had mixed evaluations of it, the most representative of which was a folk couplet circulated in Liaodong:

A generation of famous generals, according to the outside of the customs, inside the customs, can be called reciprocating loyalty;

The two dynasties are two ministers, disobedient to the former master, negative to the latter master, and are really not human inside and out.

At that time, he defended Jinzhou and resisted the main force of more than 100,000 Qing troops, Hong Chengchou was ordered to lead more than 100,000 main forces of the Ming army to help, but he was defeated in a daze, and he surrendered almost without doing anything.

It should be said that before the surrender of the mite Qing, Zu Dashou was born and died for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, and he made a lot of military exploits, and even, in order to defend the city, he also did a lot of tragic things, of course, that is history, now that Zhang Bin is here, these tragedies should not happen again, and Zu Dashou can no longer be forced to surrender.