In the mid-spring of the twelfth year of Longwu, Emperor Zhu Cizhi of the Ming Dynasty officially issued an edict to wage war to Liaodong, and the Beiyang Naval Division of the Ming Dynasty raided Jinzhou and captured Jinzhou in one fell swoop, and then 30,000 soldiers and horses of the Shandong Military Region crossed the sea and landed in Liaodong, and quickly captured Fuzhou, Gaizhou and other coastal cities.

Zhu Cizhi took the veteran general Yuan Shu as the governor of Liao, launched an attack on Liaodong in mid-March, and led his troops to Jinzhou with Li Dingguo, the governor of the Shanxi Military Region, as the vanguard.

The Qing army stationed in Jinzhou is the general Wu Sangui, the two sides gathered a large army in Jinzhou to start a series of bloody battles, at the same time, the Beiyang Naval Division Governor Zheng Chenggong, gathered 20,000 soldiers and horses to cut off the Daling River, from the back to the Qing army to launch a fierce attack, Haoge urgently ordered Bolo to lead the army to rescue, and at the same time sent the general Tunai to rescue Jinzhou through Mongolia.

On April 19, the Boluo army reached Panshan and encountered a Ming army, which attacked the Ming army and defeated the Ming army of 1,800 people. Immediately led the army to march in the night, day and night rushed to Jinzhou rescue, to Guangningwei, the army did not have time to set up the formation, the Ming army of 40,000 horses suddenly appeared, Bo Luo commanded the army to attack, broke the Ming army, took advantage of the victory to pursue more than 20 miles, unexpectedly fell into an ambush. It turned out that all this was Li Dingguo's plan to lure the enemy, in order to ambush Boluo's department.

Li Dingguo gave an order, the whole army attacked, the sound of artillery shook the sky, crushed the Qing army formation, the Ming army took advantage of the situation to attack, and tens of thousands of soldiers were especially brave; The Qing army was suddenly attacked and was defeated by the Ming army, Bolo led the army to go straight in, was surrounded by the Ming army, the army could not find the way to break through, Bolo commanded the generals to rush and kill, unfortunately fell into the quagmire, the arrows were shot out, so he pulled out the sword and the Ming army rushed to kill, after exhaustion, he died in the battle, and then the 20,000 elite soldiers lost more than half.

The news of Bolo's death in battle was transmitted back to Shengjing, and the entire Liaodong, in an instant, seemed to be in chaos.

The battle of Jinzhou was in full swing, the Ming army gathered a large army to besiege the city, and did not attack, but bombarded the city defense with artillery day and night, Wu Sangui led the army to kill many times, but was blocked by the Ming army, and had to retreat back to the city to hold on, the Ming army besieged the city for more than two months, the grain and grass in Jinzhou city was exhausted, Wu Sangui's department will Ma Bao, * open the city gate, surrender the city, Jinzhou city broken, Wu Sangui set fire * in the official residence.

When the Qing army general Tunai took advantage of Mongolia, he saw that the Mongolian Horqin steppe tribes under the influence of the Qing court jointly attacked, robbed and killed Tunai, and offered prisoners to the Ming army to express their obedience. Just when the Ming army attacked Liaodong, the Korean Kingdom also responded with troops, and cooperated with Shi Lang, the chief soldier of the naval division, to lead the army to attack from the Yalu River, involving the Qing army's troops, Shi Lang led the army to capture Zhenjiang Fort, Phoenix City, Shimen Pass, Lianshan Pass and many Qing army pass fortresses in Liaodong in one fell swoop.

On June 20, the Ming army more than 200,000 soldiers and horses assembled outside the city of Dingliao, two days to conquer the city of Dingliao, Prince Li Mandahai, Sabi, Feiata and others have been killed, on the first day of the seventh month, the Ming army besieged Shenyang, which is also the capital of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Shengjing.

More than 200,000 Ming troops, 40,000 Qing troops, if it was 20 years ago, the Qing army did not care, absolutely brave to fight, but today, the Ming army has already been reborn, combat effectiveness is strong, although the combat effectiveness of individual soldiers is not as good as the Qing soldiers, but the weapons and equipment, the quality of soldiers and other aspects are stronger than the Qing soldiers, it is no longer five to one, if from the overall quality point of view, the Ming and Qing sides of the battlefield strength comparison may reach ten to one.

The Ming army has 400 advanced artillery, the Qing army still uses more than ten years ago artillery, the total number is only 30, the Ming army of 200,000 people is almost everyone with flintlock pistols, and the Qing army has less than half of the soldiers with arquebuses, the Ming army's grain and grass savings can support them to besiege the city for several years, and the Qing court is at most supported for half a year, the Ming army has won great victories, morale is high, and the Qing army is demoralized, the veteran Zilharang and Azig have died long ago, and there is a shortage of generals, in the face of such a situation, Emperor Shunzhi was also helpless.

On July 4, three days after the Ming army issued a letter of persuasion, there was no response from the Qing court, the Ming army began to attack the city, hundreds of artillery launched a fierce bombardment of the city, the sound of artillery could be heard dozens of miles away, in the face of the Ming army's day and night bombardment, the Qing army Nikan decided to fight to the death, trying to break through, retreating to the deep mountains of Jianzhou in order to make a comeback, but it backfired, after leaving the city was surrounded and suppressed by 100,000 Ming troops, Nikan and others were killed, less than 5,000 people fled back to the city in embarrassment.

On July 19, the Qing court Shunzhi Emperor decided to surrender after the Taimiao sacrifice to the heavens, not because he didn't want to fight, but because the strength was not good, even the last only reliance on Nikan had been killed in battle, there was no one in the court, after Haoge ascended the throne, he wantonly purged Dolgon's power, there were many people who lost their officials and dismissed their posts because of this incident, or died of this incident, Dolgon died of grief, Haoge also died of illness shortly after taking power, and the court was unscrupulous to help him support this situation.

On July 20, Yuan Shu accepted the surrender of the Qing court, reported to the imperial court, moved the important ministers of the Qing court and hundreds of people from the royal family into the customs, and the Longwu Emperor Zhu Cizhien enshrined Shunzhi as the Marquis of Shunming, and scattered his family throughout the Central Plains, and at the same time according to the policy left by Cao Bianjiao, Liaodong was divided into three major provinces of Liaoning, Heilongjiang and Jilin, and officials were dispatched to govern, and at the same time 600,000 people from Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, and Shaanxi provinces were relocated out of the customs, enriching the population of the three northeastern provinces.

In the fourteenth year of Longwu, Zhu Cizhi sent Li Dingguo, the governor of the Northeast Military Region, and Li Chengdong, the governor of the Shanxi Military Region, to attack the Mongolian tribes under the pretext that they had helped the former Qing Dynasty against the Ming Dynasty, and sent 50,000 troops to attack the Mongolian tribes.

In the spring of the twenty-fifth year of Longwu, Taiwan's spring is long, the severe cold of winter seems to have nothing to do with here, the first month is already the sky is heating and clear, the sixty-five-year-old Cao Bianjiao's body is still very tough, in Changhua City, Taiwan, there is his mansion, not luxurious, but very spacious, the children have grown up, they have already sought their own future, and his wife and concubine have many people gone before him, and now there are only Kou Baimen and Liu Ru are two people by his side.

"Old man, let you go pick melons and fruits, why are you lying there still again, is it that the children are not there, so they can't move you?" Kou Baimen is still very charming, he is nearly twenty years younger than Cao Bianjiao, and now he is only in his early forties, and the years still leave him a trace of youth.

"I'm reading the letter, this is Lao Jiu sent someone back from Luzon, this kid has opened three branches in Luzon, specializing in selling porcelain, saying that he wants to come back to see us during the Dragon Boat Festival?"

"That's a good idea! It's been two or three years, and it's time to come back! ”

Now among Cao Bianjiao's children, none of them stay by her side, the girls are all married, and two of them are married to young descendants in Taiwan, but they are not by Cao Bianjiao's side, and the rest are either engaged in overseas trade, or enter the dynasty as officials and generals, and Cao Bianjiao doesn't want to worry about it.

"Old woman, pass on the general's military order, let them all rush back before the Mid-Autumn Festival this year and celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival together! Violators are engaged in military law! Cao Bianjiao suddenly sat up from the bamboo chair and shouted.

"Hehehe......" Kou Baimen and Liu Ru laughed when they heard this.

(End of book)