The war on the Dongjiang River lasted through these cold months in a repeated tug-of-war.

Huang Taiji constantly sent people to infiltrate and organize the Jurchen tribes in the Dongjiang occupied area, and even some clothed Han people rose up to rebel, Mao Jue was not ambiguous, if you dare to oppose Lao Tzu, you dare to kill, anyway, the biggest reason in China is the exchange of courtesies, Confucius has also said: repay grievances with virtue, how to repay virtue? Repay grievances directly! Repay virtue with virtue! There are countless dirty things you have done in the Central Plains, why can't Lao Tzu do them.

However, after all, the Jurchens are not the Han people of the Central Plains, the Han people have a huge population base, the entire Qing State plus the newly conquered Liaoxi Corridor is less than three million people, the Songhua River area is even more sparsely populated, plus the Han people, the population base is also more than 400,000 people, under this repeated tug-of-war, the local population is completely suffered a catastrophe, because the rebellion was executed shockingly reached tens of thousands, and the corpses were so large that the jungle between Kuanchengzi and Hadaling was hung everywhere with frozen corpses.

Later, regardless of whether you followed the rebellion or not, the Dongjiang crusade brigade only attacked, the villages were all burned down, those who dared to resist were hanged, and the rest were driven to the north of Heilongjiang, the weather was cold, and I don't know how many people died of freezing and disease, just like the victims when they migrated from inside the gate to outside the pass, and the corpses lodging on both sides of the road were everywhere.

Which time did Jiannu return from the looting of the Guannai not be such a scene? The Dongjiang army, which had already decided to retaliate, was as hard as iron and had no mercy at all.

Under such a toss, at the beginning of spring, from the west of the Great Xing'an Mountains to the east of the Yalu River, about the later Jilin Province, the Qing State was devastated, in addition to some villages hidden in the deep mountains and old forests are too remote, there is not much strategic value, the entire Jilin vice capital of the United States was burned to the ground, the population was plundered to Heilongjiang as slaves, down to tens of thousands of people hidden in the deep mountains and old forests, the entire battlefield is almost left with the Dongjiang Army's own 200,000 troops.

It can be said that even if Huang Taiji won this battle, the Qing State would also lose, and the social productive forces before the war could not be restored within more than ten years.

But all this, Huang Taiji can only watch, Chongzhen fifteen years ago, has entered the highest peak of this Xiaoice River period, even he did not dare to order the Qing army to brave the bad weather in the ice and snow to storm the Dongjiang military camp with artillery and ice and snow wall protection, can only use the scale of cavalry to launch a surprise attack on Mao Jue's flank.

It's just that even if the ice and snow melt in March, there is not much hope for the Qing army.

"How is this possible!"

Once again, he led the army out of the Great Wall of Liaodong and looked north with a telescope, and Huang Taiji's brows immediately tightened.

Indeed, the ice and snow wall is dissipated and melted, although Liaodong is still quite cold at this time, but it is also the residual snow melting, revealing the earth, even the corpses that have been scraped outside and frozen for a winter are dripping with water beads, but just behind the remnant snow wall that has melted most of it, the once familiar low and dilapidated figure of Hada City has completely disappeared, replaced by a lead-gray new city, the stone-high city wall is as high as six or seven meters, and there are dense shooting battlements on it, Hessesen's red cannon looked down murderously, and in front of the city wall, there were still some hidden castles that could not be found without paying attention, and only then did they reveal the dark fortress less than half a meter above the surface.

Don't look at this thing as inconspicuous, during the Battle of the Dongjiang River, Huang Taiji had already suffered the loss of this thing! The bow and arrow outside can't shoot in, the Dongjiang soldiers inside can hide obscenely and shoot black guns, and there is a secret passage under this thing that leads directly to the back wall fort, even if you throw the burning charcoal into it, the people inside can run, you can't catch it, and you will be angry to death.

During the Battle of the Dongjiang River, Huang Taiji had seen the exquisite craftsmanship of the large and small turtle shells built by Mao Jue, but he never imagined that such a strong stone city would rise from the ground in three months, and it was the coldest three months of the cold and the earth.

TK's execution is frightening.

And it's not just that the city is strong, it's just a strong city, just surround it, like the Dalinghe City built by Zu Dashou, besieged for several months, hungry to the point of cannibalism, isn't it still broken.

However, Mao Jue is Emperor Chongzhen, a poor ghost who is much richer, three months in winter, a train of canned rice to the south, even Huang Taiji now does not know how much food is stored in Siping City in front of him, when he looked, he happened to see the Dongjiang army at the head of the city holding a lunch box and pulling a box lunch, there was actually a guy who felt like that, holding chopsticks to him and smiling, showing a mouthful of big yellow teeth, angry he threw the telescope down fiercely, and then sighed deeply.

Mao Jue This is a copy of the battlefield of the Songjin War, the Siping City in front of you is Jinzhou City, let you surround it, but you besiege the city, Lao Tzu will fight your besieging troops inside and outside, Hong Chengchou was poor at the beginning, stalemate for more than half a year, and the Qing State almost did not collapse, not to mention the rich Mao Jue, who is still a fierce army of more than 200,000 under his command.

And what is more difficult than the Songjin War is that the fight with Hong Chengchou is on the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the entire abandoned land that cannot be cultivated is the Guanningjin defense line in western Liaoning, and the Qing State can still be cultivated in its own territory, but now the battle line is really pressed at the door of his own house, if you don't fight him Siping City, Mao Jue will not be polite to you, and he will come to beat you when he turns his head.

This time it's not just as simple as harassing the frontier, just like when the Houjin broke into the Great Wall of Liaodong to rob the Ming Dynasty, Mao Jue's cavalry drove straight into the mouth, burning and looting near Shengjing on the Liaodong Plain, he Qingguo was not to think about farming this year, even if he survived this year, Mao Jue's conscience found that he had withdrawn his troops, and next year's spring famine would have to make him Jianzhou Jurchen fall apart.

This battle was fucking unfair from the start! Thinking that Mao Jue's cavalry locusts would come in like that, Huang Taiji's scalp was numb, and he entered the customs and looted several times in a row, he knew too well the lethality of such scoundrel tactics!

"Your Majesty, are we still attacking the city?"

It was also an incomparably difficult face to face, Dolgon hesitantly put down the binoculars and asked hesitantly, but Huang Taiji, who heard this, hesitated for a few seconds before gritting his teeth.

"Let Zu Dashou, Xia Chengde's troops go up first, outside this Hada City, dig a trench for me first!"

The city still has to be attacked! Fight to the death on the battlefield, and there is still a glimmer of life, but if you sit back and wait for death, it is really called waiting for death!

However, after gritting his teeth and roaring, Huang Taiji's eyes looked westward again, and his voice continued to command in a hurried and hoarse voice.

"I'm sending envoys, let Zaisang, Gulbush and others march quickly!"

"Slaves obey!"

A shout resounded under the Zhenghuang flag, stepping on the muddy fields, the Qing army, which had been dormant all winter behind the Great Wall of Liaodong, seemed to be like a reviving black bear, and fiercely poured out of the nest.

Ning Jinmingjun, who had just surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, was worried, looking at the heavy cannons at the head of Siping City in the distance, and in the whip scolding of the masters of Jianzhou behind him, he picked up the hoe with a complaint.

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Although it is not yet a chance to win, but in terms of the battle situation, Mao Jue is obviously much easier than Huang Taiji. Now even if Mao Jue does not fight, it is beneficial to him, more than five years of rich Heilongjiang black soil tuntian, even if the Dongjiang River is not cultivated for two years, it is enough for these two million people to eat, he still has maritime trade, and the Japanese state acts as a granary.

But Huang Taiji is different, even if he opens a border market with Daming, how much grain can he buy? Jianzhou Jurchen made a fortune by robbing, their shortcoming is a protracted war, fighting for national strength, and it must be Mao Jue who has the last laugh.

This is also the most stable way to play, but like Huang Taiji, Mao Jue doesn't like this beating.

In the next year, it has been the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, and in another year, the once glorious Ming Dynasty will die at the hands of Li Zicheng! This is a godsend! The Qing Dynasty in history took this opportunity to soar and soar into the sky, and Mao Jue was unwilling to let go of this time, Mao Jue was actually more anxious than Huang Taiji.

It's useless for him to be anxious, Dongjiang tactics and equipment are indeed ahead of the Qing Dynasty, but it is not to the point where machine guns hang cavalry, the safest way is to lead Huang Taiji to his preset battlefield to fight!

Mao Jue's Chinese army is located in Yitong Fort, although the place is not big, the strategic location is extremely important, backed by Jilin City, ready to rush to the aid of Siping City, Huang Taiji is digging a pit with a shovel, Mao Jue's army is also knocking and beating, he is building roads!

In the crunching sound, several horses pulled heavy stone mills continued to walk on the road, smoothing the road paved with gravel cement lime, the nearby Hada Mountain was unlucky, and the heavy blasting sound came and went one after another all day and night, and the Japanese slaves transferred from the north carried the mine and picked up the falling rocks and transported them out of the mountain.

There is also a huge steam stone crusher at the other end, which is smashed downward with a big hammer, and the smoother the road, the more materials Mao Jue can transport from the north.

On the edge of the newly repaired road, there are still people crying constantly, but they are driven forward by the whip wheels crackling, those are the local aborigines, Huang Taiji plundered the population of the Central Plains to be coated slaves, Mao Jue is also a good learner, these people just fill the shortage of labor caused by the transfer of young and strong, and are distributed to each household separately by the left-behind government as slaves

As for how innocent those who were originally Han people and had to be slaves, Mao Jue couldn't take care of it, who made you all wear a money rat tail and a pig's tail? The only way to do this is to pardon those who are hardworking and willing to do so at a later date.

Outside was noisy, but inside the house, Mao Jue was sad and looked at the huge strategic sand table.

"Overseer! There's new news coming from Kannai!"

After a salute, a large pile of black books were piled up on Mao Jue's desk, and he hurriedly went out of the door, opened a copy casually, and at first glance Mao Jue smiled bitterly and shook his head, it was another bill, sent by Lu Zhong! And this cost is more than silver taels, and it still falls on Yuan Chonghuan.

Not to mention, unlike Sun Chuanting in history, after this Yuan Inspector took office, he could toss better than him, this head robbed the salt pond of the Qin Palace, and in two months, Yuan Chonghuan reclaimed the more than 100,000 acres of tuntian that was reclaimed on the north bank of the Wei River during Sun Chuanting's reign, but was embezzled by the Qin Palace.

He formed a caravan protected by the troops, introduced the native cloth of Bashu from Hanzhong, brocade, plus the salt of Huamachi, out of Yulin, sold to Mongolia and Qinghai, and exchanged for livestock leather and other goods from the grassland, and then turned south again, and resold these things to Jiangnan in Sichuan.

In the past half a year, the long-depleted Qinchuan business road in Hanzhong has revived a lot in his hands, but the Ming Dynasty has been rotten to the roots, the more capable of doing practical things, the more jealous people are, these days impeached Yuan Chonghuan and the people for profit, corruption, bullying the clan's twists and turns flew into the palace like snowflakes, and Emperor Chongzhen's suspicion and impatience were obviously committed, and he was more and more dissatisfied with Yuan Chonghuan's immobility.

Fortunately, there is a Lu Zhong, and fortunately, the Ming Dynasty is rotten to the roots! If you have money, you can do whatever you want, Mao Jue's Jinyi Wei leader is throwing a lot of money, and he also hires officials to suppress the Qin Palace, and those who have nothing to do with each other, such as Chen Yan, Wei Zaode and other civil officials, so that the matter is suppressed, otherwise Yuan Chonghuan would have gone to the prison again.

Of course, the last person to pay the bill has to be Mao Jue, which has been spent a total of thirteen times from last year to this time, and has reached more than 900,000 taels of silver.

However, after reading the bill with a bitter face, Mao Jue's heart was a little calmer when he looked back, and this silver was not a white flower.

In more than a year, Yuan Chonghuan swelled from 4,000 men and horses who had just arrived in Shaanxi to more than 60,000 people, not counting the troops of He Renlong, Gao Jie, Bai Guangen and other military leaders, who were formed by himself, and the Qin army that listened to his orders, and the landlords who benefited from trade in Yulin Tongguan and other places also enthusiastically joined the army.

The Ming Dynasty can't stumble for a few days anyway, but the stronger his Qin army, the longer he can contain Li Zicheng, if he can't take Shaanxi, Li Zicheng will not attack the east to fight the Beijing division no matter what, maybe he can drag out a Chongzhen for 18 years, maybe 19 years.

The later the time drags on, the more fully prepared the Dongjiang River can be, and when the time comes, he will clean up the Qing Kingdom, sort out Mongolia by the way, and then enter the customs to seize the world, and then the certainty will be much greater.

Without hesitation, he owed the word to stamp it, and turned around, but Mao Jue cautiously commanded to his side.

"Don't tell Chiyohime about this!"

"Got it, master!"

I don't know how many times I've heard this, but Adriana didn't raise her head, and she didn't answer the words, only Sakurahime, who was in charge of the guard, agreed with a smile.

Putting aside Yuan Chonghuan's information, Mao Jue did not continue to review it, but put his eyes on the sand table again, stared at it a few times, and suddenly turned out Lu Zhong's letter again.

"By the way, send a message to Jingshi again!"

While going through the previous records one by one, Mao Jue hurriedly said the order again.

"Let Lu Zhong find a way to find a way to find out all the information about the cases of the imperial court rewarding the Mongolian tribes in the past years, and send it to Liaodong, so that Song Xiance can come from Wula, Jilin."

"The concubine obeys!"

(End of chapter)