The Grand Canal, thousands of trough boats spread all over the river, each boat is heavy, very difficult to drive north, from time to time there will be a few boats colliding together to block the river, provoking the soldiers on the boat to scold, along the official road along the river black pressure a large number of people carrying the cart to walk forward, women and children closely followed behind their relatives, they were tired and staggered but did not dare to stop, the Eight Banners and Liaodong people were around, constantly urging to hurry, but these guys hung their heads like eggplants beaten by frost, There is no longer the arrogant spirit of the past - the battle of Qihe was defeated, the first time there was a surrender of the formation, Haugbel also fled back, the confidence of the Qing army collapsed, everyone returned to their hearts like arrows, fought more than 2,000 miles south from the side wall, fought enough and grabbed enough, and now it is time to go home.

But the northern retreat was not smooth, the Qing army entered the customs this time to gain a huge harvest, captured a population of nearly 600,000 people, robbed a million taels of silver, tens of thousands of taels of gold, countless other property, livestock, too many things to catch up with, just after Texas, the Fengzhou army caught up, the rangers turned around like flies, the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry repeatedly drove them away, but after a while they turned back, but also openly surrendered to the Qing army, as long as they were willing to surrender, promise not to kill, not to fight, not to collect property, when the brothers who came to the door to treat. Some guys listened to the nonsense and ran away with them, mainly Lao Zhenglan and the people with blue flags - Mang Gurtai and Amin are not in vain, they are finished, but there are still many remnants, and Erlu, as the new representative of the stubborn forces, is very attractive to these people.

Although there were not many defectors, they had a great impact on the morale of the army, and many people were holding their bulging pockets and making small calculations, after all, no one wanted to have their lives to rob money and not spend their lives - the Qing army wanted to walk and could not move, and it seemed that the prospects were not good.

In a dilapidated Guandi temple by the canal, the Qing army generals sat together with sad faces, staring at a few bigwigs silently-Dolgon sat in the position of the commander again, but he was much more embarrassed, and he had to look at Yue Tuo and Abatai around him before speaking; Yue Tuo's health has suddenly improved in the past two days, and he can walk a few steps on the ground and say a few words vaguely, which everyone thinks is not a good sign; Abatai continued to hold his cigarette stick and swallow the smoke, smiling at Dorgon from time to time, trying not to offend anyone, especially a cautious man like Dorgon, as he always did; Only Hauge still looked indifferent, and sat on the chair with a big grin; Du Du didn't come, he is really crazy now, talking nonsense all day long, and someone has to watch over him.

"Elu deceives people too much, we have to chase after Shandong, this king thinks that it will not work if we don't fight, otherwise we won't be able to get out, Seventh Brother, you say yes?" After Dorgon finished speaking, he immediately turned his face to look at Abatai's face, the relationship between the two of them has been surprisingly good in the past two days.

"Master, the minions have money in their pockets, and they are all in a hurry to go home, and they can't fight." Turg is a solid mountain with a white flag, and hurriedly reminds his master.

Bai Yintu is a person with a yellow flag, not afraid of Dolgon, lost face after losing the battle, and was looking for an opportunity to vent, very ignorant to turn over the old account: "I shouldn't have divided the troops at the beginning, the Elu cavalry consumed amazingly, and it couldn't last long, so I was in a hurry to fight a decisive battle, we were better to fight when there were many people, and this division of troops gave him a chance, and now I want to fight too late!" ”

"Bai Yintu, what do you know about a minion, I think it is a clever plan to divide the army and cut off the back road of Erlu, and the bad is bad for those Chahar rebels, and the minions in the family are no wonder to the master," Abatai immediately scolded Bai Yintu, and then said to Dolgon with a smile on his face, "Old Fourteen, Bai Yintu, this minion is not rough, now is really not the time to fight, let the minions keep the captured population and property home, the most important thing is to let the minions keep the captured population and property home, Seventh Brother is old, you are young and understand a lot of reason, and you still have the big idea." ”

"Where is it, Brother Qi has fought all his life, and he is a famous general of my Qing Dynasty, you can do what you say." Dorgon smiled brightly at Abatai.

Dolgon and Abatai pushed back and forth, and the generals watched coldly, these two brothers were still fighting vigorously two days ago, why did they turn their faces and become affectionate again, they were so thick-skinned! Hauge was impatient, slapped the table and shouted: "You two don't talk nonsense, take up your ideas, either risk your life to fight Erlu, or throw your people and property and run for your life." ”

"Then listen to Yue Tuo." Dorgon and Abatai replied in unison, and then stared at Yueto together.

"Withdraw, Erlu, wolf, feed him," Yue Tuo said, looking up, intermittently.

"That's right, let's throw all the people who can't walk to Erlu, see if he dares to chase him?" Dolgon immediately applauded, in fact, he wanted to run the most, but he was embarrassed to say it.

"Elu is used to being poor, and he can't walk when he sees money, what we have is money, and what is not easy to bring is given to him, anyway, we also owe a lot of debt to Fengzhou, which happens to be written off." Abatai echoed with a smile.

The generals of the Qing army laughed, as if they had taken a big advantage.

There were not many Fengzhou troops pursuing the Qing army, the main force stopped in Dezhou to rest and recuperate, and began to prepare for leaving home, Li Yu only led the cavalry right association, Chahar, Khalkha, and Oirat three battalions to chase into Zhili, Zhang Mengcun's auxiliary soldiers followed behind to do miscellaneous - Li Yu planned to blow the Qing army away, and did not want to fight with the Qing army.

The newly returned Deshenzhuang gang and the Han people of Liaodong were eager to make meritorious contributions, and hundreds of people followed, shouting along the way to surrender and rebel, and the Qing soldiers and civilians who fell behind were also very happy, and they were guaranteed not to take away their money, and they immediately abandoned their weapons and surrendered - no one is a fool, and it is safest to follow behind the ass of the Fengzhou army at this time. Li Yu was surprised to find that there were two or three thousand more prisoners around him before the battle was fought, so it was easy to take advantage of it and continue to chase, but after chasing along the canal to Wuqiao, he knew that the big trouble was coming.

Wu Bridge, almost a thousand boats were parked on the canal, densely packed the entire river, and the sea of people on both sides of the river blocked the road to the north tightly - did the Qing army want to fight hard, Li Yu received a report from the scout, and hurriedly led the iron cavalry to catch up. The scene in front of people can't cry and laugh, the Qing army is not like a war, but is lazy, the people who stand in the way are all kinds and varied-there are more than 200,000 men, women and children sitting on the ground honestly, looking at the costumes should be the people in the Guannei, standing in front of the crowd with open chests and shouting and shouting to listen to the accent is the Eight Banners Banner, next to the people holding broken knives and spears to follow the coaxing is undoubtedly the Liaodong Han people, these people see the Flying Tiger Banner is more excited, singing and blowing the trumpet, and the black smoke and miasma are chaotic.

"Erlu Batulu, we are Lao Zhushen, there are Ming people who want to go to Liaodong to farm, they can't walk, no one will take them in, there will definitely be a dead end, you don't care about it, just order the arrows."

"Erlu Batulu, our horse is dead, stay here and the Ming people will not let us go, you said that you will treat us as brothers who run the door, then let's go to Fengzhou to run the door."

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The Eight Banners Ding was talking nonsense, the Han people of Liaodong were helping on the side, and some people also sang "Let's fight, Fengzhou, Fengzhou will conquer the world, Fengzhou people will never be slaves" - these guys also learned to sing this song, Fengzhou iron horses are stupid, strange things happen every year, but I have never seen this kind of farce. Li Yu is also a little helpless, he definitely doesn't dare to use force, some of the people in the Ming and Qing countries who want to trouble him are that there is no good fruit to eat if they cause a bloody case, but if they don't use force, they can only withdraw their troops!

The common people are not easy to mess with, and the Fengzhou Iron Cavalry turned the horse's head and retreated very interestingly, and the people by the canal immediately followed in a black pressure. Oh no, being relied upon, Li Yu's heart was cold, and he was thinking about whether he should run away in a shameless hurry, and chased a few horsemen behind him - the Qing army sent representatives to negotiate.

"Stinky boy, Qi He almost killed me in the first battle, don't say that you let me go, I don't accept your affection, Niu Colu's family has lost face this time, how should this account be calculated?" When the Qing army representative saw Li Yu is punch - Turge, the eighth child of the Eyidu family, Li Yu had a close relationship with his family's sixteenth Jipilon when he was in Shenyang, and by the way, he was also familiar with Turge, this old brother unceremoniously vented his dissatisfaction, Li Yu quickly diverted the topic and asked about his little brothers, Turge glanced at Li Yu, and said slowly: "Aobai and Zhun Ta are not bad, the year before last they crossed the sea to conquer Phi Island and made great contributions, and the emperor directly promoted them to the third class Melle Zhangjing, and gave them the number' Baturu', my family's sixteenth is almost, and those who are not civil and military can only be a guard with a knife in front of the emperor by the emperor's side. ”

"It's all good, I have long seen that Aobai, Zhun Ta and Kubilong have a future, and they will be able to become big officials in the future."

"Don't talk about the future, what about the present? We have a long way out of the customs, and we have to be ready to fight with the Ming army at any time, and those who can't walk have to hand it over to you first, and then come back. ”

"Why, the people you can't take away are pushed to me, I can't afford to raise them," Li Yu shouted, and when he saw that Turg was about to turn his face, his mouth immediately softened again, "I took a look, there are about five or six thousand people in the Eight Banners and Nikan, I'll take them in, so many people in the Guannei I can't help it, you just hand it over to the government and let them go home by themselves, alas, how many people have you taken captive?" ”

"Nonsense, where did we take captivity? Five or six hundred thousand people, we have to fight and work again, how can we rob so many people, obviously they want to go out of the customs to find a way to live, I sometimes wonder if the population of the Ming Kingdom is too large, their emperor intends to stuff people into us," Turge called out unconvinced, and then said to Li Yu with a wicked smile, "You must accept all the people, and it is also your business to find the Ming State Mansion, you can't let us go to the Ming State Mansion, but we are very reasonable, see the boat on the river is not, We have left you countless belongings, at least worth 500,000 taels of silver, so let you take advantage of it, we used to borrow money from you and the money we owe on credit, plus the money of the settlers this time, and settle the accounts with 400,000 taels, and you can pay us back 100,000 taels when you go back. ”

It's too bullying, the people who can't take it away push it to me, and the rags that I don't want are left to me, and I have to make a lot of money by repaying the debt, Li Yu's face sank and said: "Forget it, I'll leave immediately, and I don't want anyone anymore." ”

Turg laughed: "You stopped in Texas for nothing, who told you to chase us into Zhili, this is the price, I handed over anyway, and you can leave after a while, but you want to run late, believe it or not, I burned all the boats on the canal with a fire, so that you can't get a son, I remind you, these Ming people go home is also a dead end, they will definitely pester you, you can kill people, but this has nothing to do with us." ”

Li Yu's chest rose and fell with anger, and he pointed at Turg and couldn't speak, Turge smiled and comforted: "Forget it, you just admit it, we are very friendly, will the Ming court be so generous?" I'll tell you one more thing, Yue Tobel is dying, and he may not survive to get out of the customs, so let him finish the last journey easily, and he also asked me to bring a letter, you can take it and read it. ”

Yue Tuo's letter is very short, and the handwriting is also very messy: Erlu, the Qing soldiers are not afraid of war, and if they continue to fight, they will lose both, we can't get out, and the Ming Kingdom will never let you go, Fengzhou and the Qing Dynasty are too weak, and only by joining forces can we balance the Ming Kingdom.

After reading the letter, Li Yu covered his face and squatted on the ground for a while, and then asked in a low voice: "Brother Turge, the two brothers Yuetuo and Sakhalian are in their prime, what happened?" Is it ...... the four Baylors?"

"Don't think about something, don't ask about it, it's better not to know anything." Turg lowered his head and whispered.

When the auxiliary forces arrived, they took over the boats on the canal and counted their belongings in front of Turg. The Qing army is really tricky, leaving 200,000 taels of messy variegated silver, gold, jewelry, and silk are a lot, but they are not of much use to Fengzhou and the Qing Kingdom, and the most annoying thing is that there are still a lot of calligraphy and paintings. Zhang Mengcun scolded, thinking that this pile of tattered was worth at most 200,000 taels of silver bills, and casually threw the list in Turge's face.

The Fengzhou army walked back like a defeat, and more than 200,000 people followed behind their buttocks without a single step, giving each of them five dollars of silver and refused to leave, saying that this money was not enough to eat, and Qiding and Liaodong Hanmin simply patted their waists to say that they were not short of money. The prefectures and counties along the way saw this group of people, and they were so frightened that they immediately closed the city gates, and the local government unanimously claimed that unless the imperial court allocated money, they would never take in refugees, and the town of naturalization would solve the trouble by themselves - the Qing army did not want to chase anymore, so they could only go back to Shandong first to try to resettle the people, and Li Yu felt that the governor of Shandong had a good character and might be able to help.

Yan Jizu was in Texas, and when he heard that the naturalized army had won another big battle, and brought back countless people and property, he jumped and ran to the canal to greet him, and when he saw Li Yu, he took the trouble to praise it, and Li Yu blushed, but when he heard that he was asked to help resettle the refugees, his face immediately changed.

"Li Shuai, you're dizzy, most of these people are from Zhili, why does Shandong care about them? Hurry up and send them home, the official can't afford to support them. Yan Jizu unceremoniously refused.

"Lord Yan, you patrol Shandong, you have the responsibility of pacifying the army and the people, you have to take care of these people when they arrive in Shandong, if you dare to force the people, our family will not be finished with you," Liu Wenzhong is a native of Zhili Qian'an, and he knows the suffering of the people in his hometown best - the Qing army's captivity is true, but it is mainly aimed at the government and rich households, and the poor people still look down on it, and the most serious disaster to the people is the government and the official army. The Qing army gave the captured population a bite to eat and promised to go to Liaodong to divide the fields, the common people often half-pushed, after all, Huayi's defense is not as important as giving a meal to his wife and children, but as long as he followed the Qing army on the road, it is impossible to turn back in the future, Liu Wenzhong can't bear to feel the suffering of the villagers, and wants to say a word for them, "The people are bitter, they have no livelihood when they go back to their hometown, and they have to be scolded by the people around them, which is almost a dead end, it is better to stay in a foreign land to make a living, and Lord Yan can't pity these people." ”

"The official can't do anything, since Li Shuai wants to be a good person, let's bring people to Fengzhou." Yan Jizu flicked his sleeves and turned to leave, Ma Shiying said to persuade the governor and chased after him.

Wang Fang rubbed his hands vigorously and said: "This is trouble, Fengzhou and Shanxi are unable to settle so many people, and there is a plague in Jinan and Dezhou. ”

Li Yu covered his head and thought for a while, then helplessly sighed to Du Wenhuan, who had been silent: "Old handsome, I'm in trouble again." ”

"It doesn't matter, Yan Jizu doesn't want to take care of it, we will force him to take care of it, Shandong has been suffering from natural and man-made disasters for many years, and a large area of land is uncultivated, just to be able to raise the people, this is a good place, a stone of millet was only sold for two dollars and five cents of silver during the Wanli period, and Shanxi also buys grain from Shandong all the year round, let's leave some people here to do a big job," Du Wenhuan waved his hand disapprerovitously, and said to Liu Wenzhong very sincerely, "Father-in-law Liu, take your return to Beijing for a trip, naturalize and be loyal to the emperor, and you must offer a trophy, There are also gifts from you and the fathers-in-law of the inner court, you just have to pick whatever you want, in addition to the silver, you can take as much as you want, by the way, I mentioned to the emperor that there are many displaced people in Shandong after the war, and the governor Yan Jizu intends to raise his own money and grain to support the people, and hope that the court will approve it. ”

"We understand, you just wait for the good news." Liu Wenzhong's face bloomed with joy, and he ran away as soon as he slipped away.

As soon as Liu Wenzhong went out, Du Wenhuan's complexion changed greatly, and he said to the Fengzhou generals in the big tent: "As soon as we left, Ni Pet, the general soldier of Shandong, and Zu Kuan and Li Chongzhen, who were sent into Shandong by Sun Chuanting, came out and coerced the local government to pay for food and wages, Yan Jizu and Song Xuezhu were anxious about this, and Xu Hengchen also sent news that the rotten soldiers robbed and plundered around Jinan, and did all kinds of evil, and the gentry and the people suffered a lot, and a few businessmen who did business with us were also looted. If the Shandong official army is shattered and cannot afford to collapse, Yan Jizu will feel frightened and have to cooperate with us. ”