Chapter 39 Liaodong Peninsula

Dai Shan died, and in the end, he failed to fight for a fair match. His body was almost shattered by the firecrackers, and half of the more than 30 gunners aimed at him.

The remaining armor soldiers were not spared, and their heads became Zhang Dou's trophies. This is an important resource, and a real slave in Daming can receive 50 taels of silver.

But there are 50 taels that will definitely not be able to buy the head of the real slave, and in the underground trading of Liao Town and Dongjiang Town, the head of the real slave can buy 200 taels of silver at a moment.

Having a head means military merit, and having military merit can lead to promotion. If an official has a head, he can report his merits to the imperial court, and having merit means rewarding.

Therefore, the head of the real slave has always been a priceless and in-demand commodity, and has always been loved by military attaches at all levels in the Ming Dynasty. With these heads, Zhang Dou's march was even slower.

Originally, they needed to carry a large amount of gunpowder, artillery, food and other materials, but now there were so many more heads, so they entered the state of marching at a turtle speed.

After killing all the Jurchens, Zhang Dou found an unexpected joy again. He actually found Bai Wenxuan among the dead, who hid in the pile of dead people and pretended to be dead at the beginning of the battle.

When the Ming army cut off the Jurchen's head, he couldn't pretend anymore, and the thing knelt in front of Zhang Dou and wept bitterly. tells how he was captured, how he saved the country, and pretended to take refuge in the Jurchens.

He is in the Jin country, and his heart is in the Ming, how can he defend the Ming people and prevent the captured Ming soldiers from being abused. In short, he said that he was the only good man in the world, although he said that he was extravagant, but it was inevitable to use a fact.

Bai Wenxuan surrendered, he was a traitor. Now that Bai Wenxuan was captured and surrendered, Chen Ce's Ming army was still wiped out as in history.

When they heard that the Jurchens were deceitful and the soldiers were dying with the enemy with their flesh and blood holding the powder keg, these strong men shed tears.

When they heard that the traitor was Zhou Dunji, the Zhejiang soldiers all gritted their teeth and looked at the white pole soldiers. And the white pole soldiers led by Qin Shi all lowered their heads in shame, and later it was Zhang Dou's words that opened everyone's hearts.

The white pole soldiers are their brothers who fight side by side, and they are real heroes and heroes. Zhou Dunji is the scum who kills the good and takes the merits, and he is the tumor that the imperial court forced into the white pole soldiers.

Scum like this will harm a group of people wherever they go, so their enemy is Zhou Dunji, a son of a bitch. The white pole soldiers are also victims, and they should be united. Fight together to eliminate the Tartars and prosper the Ming Dynasty.

History hasn't changed, the only difference is that they killed more Jurchens. Zhang Dou sat weakly on the ground when he heard the news, and his little butterfly flickered his wings desperately and did not change the fate of the Ming army.

The only thing that changed was that there was a traitor Zhou Dunji in the Ming army, and Zhou Dunji had no chance to rebel in history, he had already died on the north bank of the Hunhe River.

It was Zhang Dou who desperately defended the pontoon bridge, and this traitor fled to the south bank and had a chance to surrender to the Jurchens. In this way, Zhang Dou still has a certain responsibility for the destruction of the Ming army.

But if he did not hold the pontoon bridge, then the Ming army would not have a chance to retreat at all. Who can say anything about this!

Even if there is really no Zhou Dunji, there may be others. So is history really immutable? No matter how hard Zhang Dou stirs his wings, there is no way to change history?

And what about him! Will he be able to change his fate? He didn't know, but he believed that since God could let him return to Daming, then his fate would be in his own hands.

My life is up to me!

Throughout March, the war raged in Liaodong, and the Later Jin Jurchen Nurhachi first captured Shengjing, and then attacked Liaoyang, Anshan, and Gaizhou.

Subsequently, he marched into Jinzhou and successfully held Liaodong in his own hands. Among them, the Battle of Hunhe wiped out the last elite of the Ming Dynasty, and Yuan Yingtai, the governor of Liaoyang, set himself on fire.

The Ming army was not the opponent of the Jurchens, so they had to defend the line of Jinzhou and Ningyuan. When the news reached the capital, the world shook. The civil officials of the Manchu Dynasty collectively wrote a letter for Yuan Yingtai asking the Emperor of the Apocalypse to posthumously give him a title and give him a generous gift to his family. and strictly investigated Chen Ce and Qi Jinyi's criminal responsibility for greedy merit and loss of Liaodong.

The little emperor of the Apocalypse handed over this task to Wei Zhongxian, and as a result, Wei Zhongxian poked out a different battle report. Yuan Yingtai was incompetent, and his indiscriminate command led to the erosion of Liaodong.

Afterwards, he also falsely accused the Liaodong military generals of clearing their names, although they defended Liaoyang. But too much is too much, not only did not get the nickname, but also faced the long public mouth of the Ming Dynasty.

The Emperor of the Apocalypse gave the nickname to the Liaodong military generals who died in battle, Chen Ce, Qi Jin, and the Qin brothers were rewarded, and even Zhang Dadou was given the title of a county man.

However, he doesn't have any relatives, so these rewards are just in name.

Although there was no change in the court, Wang Dong, the master of ceremonies, was sent to Fengyang to guard the emperor's mausoleum because he concealed the truth of the war for Yuan Yingtai.

In the future, the nine-thousand-year-old Wei Zhongxian was transformed into a pen in the inner court, reaching the peak of eunuchs.

The Liaodong Peninsula has always been known for its beauty and richness, and Changsheng Island is also a dazzling pearl on the Liaodong Peninsula. The Ming Dynasty once established a guard here, but it was never the government's final say.

Gaizhou has always been the most ideal location for maritime trade in Liaodong, but it has always been an important military center for the imperial court. The business there has always been controlled by those big families, and some small maritime merchants who want to traffic goods from Liaodong have no choice but to settle for the next best thing, trafficking goods to Changsheng Island.

For a long time, it was the most important smuggling place in Liaodong, and the silk, tea, ironware, and grain of the Ming Dynasty were transported to Changsheng Island, while the ginseng, deer antler, and mink produced in Liaodong were loaded here and shipped to all parts of the Ming Dynasty.

Changsheng Island is said to be an island, but it is only about 3 miles from the nearest place to the mainland. Standing on the beach at low tide every time the tide falls, you can see the situation on the island, so as soon as Gaizhou was lost, the Ming army withdrew here.

Since Nurhachi occupied Liaodong, he gave the entire Liaodong Peninsula to Liu Xingzuo, and he also intended to marry his daughter to Liu Xingzuo.

Liu Xingzuo was a Liao citizen who was plundered by the old slave during the Wanli period, and was deeply valued by the old slave because of his bravery in battle. Especially in the battle against Liaoyang, he was the first to climb the head of Liaoyang City, and he was a famous Han general under Nurhachi.

Liu Xingzuo himself still has a strong impression of the Ming Dynasty, he watched the people of Liaodong become slaves under the hands of the Jurchens, they couldn't eat enough every day, and they had to make cattle and horses for the Jurchens, and his heart was uncomfortable.

Look at those women Allah can arbitrarily humiliate the wives and daughters of the Han people, and they can kill the Han slaves at will. Sometimes, he asked himself whether it was right or wrong to give his life to the Jurchens.

Therefore, after he got the Haizhou, Gaizhou, and Fuzhou given to him by Nurhachi, he tried his best to make the people under his rule live better, so that they would not live so hard.

And Jinzhou also gave Zhou Dunji who surrendered to Hunhe, and Zhou Dunji began to learn from the Jurchens after winning Jinzhou, wantonly robbing ordinary people, forcing them to become slaves, and working for him made Jinzhou complain.

He sneered at Liu Xingzuo's woman's benevolence, and he secretly pondered in his heart. Since Liu Xingzuo has his heart towards the Han people, sooner or later he will replace Liu Xingzuo's position and become a member of the party with heavy troops.

Zhou Dunji has summed up a truth for many years as an official, if you want to be an official, you have to have money. Quite a big official has to have a lot of silver, so the first thing he did when he took office was to scrape the ground.

The rich man with abundant oil and water had been shaved clean by Allah, and Zhou Dunji had to extend his hand to the poor people. But the poor people could scrape out a few taels of oil, so Zhou Dunji, who was driven crazy by the silver, set his sights on Changsheng Island.

This is the base camp of Liaodong sea trade smuggling, as long as it occupies here, it can be said that it is a daily income and a wide range of financial resources. But after all, this is the closest to Liu Xingzuo's Fuzhou, so he just sent a small number of troops to the island at first to see Liu Xingzuo's reaction.

When he saw Liu Xingzuo's indifference, he couldn't help but become bolder. He sent a total of 500 soldiers to the island and began to control the maritime trade here.

In the past month, Zhou Dunji has eaten with a mouth full of oil. There are 20,000 taels of silver just from the profits from smuggling, not counting his clever snatching and kidnapping for extortion!

Those who can eat the bowl of rice of maritime merchants are not good people, they are maritime merchants at sea. When encountering weaker peers, they occasionally made a cameo appearance as a pirate, so after they were bullied by Zhou Dunji, they joined forces to drive the 500 soldiers out of Changsheng Island.

Zhou Dunji was furious after hearing the report of his subordinates who had fled from defeat, and immediately ordered 1,000 men and horses to fight on Changsheng Island. After two days of fighting, Zhou Dunji, who had lost 300 men, finally landed on Changsheng Island.

When he blocked the maritime merchants in the only small town on the island, this guy did not go on a killing spree, but began to negotiate with the maritime merchants.

He knew that blindly killing was not the way to go. In case the sea doesn't come, the place of Changsheng Island is useless. Just when the negotiations were about to make progress, someone came to report.

"Report! Checkmate! Big things are not good! The brothers on the docks were attacked and the ships were robbed by thieves! ”