There were more than 100 Houjin soldiers in this team, divided into five or six teams, the most advanced ones were already miles away, and the last ones had just appeared.

They were fully armed, appeared on both sides of the road, in the broken road is the Han Dingkou who has been searched out and has not escaped, as was the case when they fled to Shanhaiguan, these Han people are also supporting the old and the young, but everyone has a sad face, and there is no panic or hope on their faces, because they have faced the worst end.

The Manchu soldiers were shouting and scolding on their horses, and there were also some Han bannermen, who were black camp soldiers, and they scolded the prisoners who walked slowly in Liaodong Han, and ordered them to go faster.

Cheng Fang and the others have been hiding in the grass, this is the outer edge of the Thirteen Mountains, they are the sharp sentry that came out to observe the enemy's situation, three days ago, a team of selected dead soldiers sneaked through the Jurchen cavalry patrol and garrison area, and went to Ningyuan.

Now the forts in western Liaoning have been lost, Ningyuan is the nearest city from the Thirteen Mountains, recently from the west to the wind, Wang Zaijin intends to give up all the land outside the pass, increase the Shanhaiguan garrison from 40,000 to 80,000, and then build three heavy passes, strengthen the defense of Shanhaiguan, abandon the land outside the pass, all the people move inward, and place it in Yongping Mansion to Zunhua and other places.

In March, Wang Dajin went to Liaodong, and the court was divided into two factions, one faction wanted to restore the cities and forts in western Liaoning, and the other faction was on the side of Wang Zaijin, who was only willing to repair the mountain customs and save the silver to enrich Jizhen.

Ning Yuanshou should be on Wang Zaijin's side at this time, after all, this person is one of the bigwigs of the Donglin Party, with a high position and a great chance of winning.

More than a month ago, the imperial court ordered the ancestor to repair the city, and after such a long time, this person dragged on and had no intention of contributing.

In the past few months, the situation from Guangning to Shanhaiguan has changed, and after the victory of the Houjin, the forces of all parties on the side of the Ming Dynasty are still fighting each other, and the plan to defend the war is still inconclusive, continuing the tradition of internal strife since the first year of the Apocalypse.

The people sent by the Thirteen Mountains wanted to risk their lives to sneak to the area of Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan to find out the actual news.

If the first group of people does not return for a long time, the second group is to lead the people to set off.

There are now more than 100,000 people on the thirteen mountains, most of them are the people who fled from around Guangning City, the land of Liaoxi, there are nearly a million people, hundreds of thousands of people have fled to Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan, and many have fled into the Guannei, and there are hundreds of thousands of people who have fled to the islands of Juehua, and hundreds of thousands of people have been captured by the Houjin soldiers, and a small number of people are scattered in the countryside. The number of people who have been successfully hiding must be quite large.

Only the people here in the thirteen mountains are the most, gathering more than 100,000 people, Yang Er and Bi Mazi and other Jianghu giants have made a lot of preparations in advance, the mountain area is very large, there are dozens of villages, there are water sources, wild vegetables, wild fruits, plus some stored grain, for the time being, there is not much trouble, but once the summer and autumn pass, into the winter, more than 100,000 people gather in the mountains, the supply is cut off, the food is consumed, and then there is only a way to starve to death.

As for the strong attack, there are not much fear on the thirteen mountains, more than 100,000 people, there are as many as 20,000 or 30,000 Ding Zhuang men, the folk customs of Liaodong are indeed fierce at this time, and those who dare not resist have been captured, even if there are still many Liao people in the Houjin ruling area at this time, there are still many Liao people who are willing to resist and forget to die, and many people will flee when they find the opportunity, a few years later, only one-tenth of the Liao people of six or seven million people died, and the Liao people at that time could not talk about plagiarism and bravery, after all, those who dared to die had all died in the cruel slaughter and famine, The rest of the people can only survive, and the blood and courage have been exhausted.

Now the thirteen mountains are mainly Ding Zhuang men who dare to fight, and there are a lot of weapons, Bi Mazi and Yang Er are both heroes, and they are the head of the regimental training recognized by the government, and they have prepared a lot of weapons earlier, and then they have been building spearheads on the mountain for a while, and every man in the prime of life has tried to hold weapons, there were originally many hunters in the mountains, and Ding Zhuang also has a lot of good marksmanship, so the number of archers is also very large.

There are also high mountains and deep streams, it is difficult for cavalry to enter, the mountain beams of the thirteen mountains are one after another, outsiders do not know the geographical advantages, it is difficult to rest assured that they can go deep boldly, otherwise once they are ambushed, there will be heavy casualties in a melee in the valley, even if the Eight Banners are brave and brave, they may not have the courage to run in and send them to death.

Now the key is still in the grain, with food, the Thirteen Mountains are enough to fight until the winter, and the Jurchens will never stay in the winter and spring, it is estimated that the dispute in the imperial court has already had a result, and the Thirteen Mountains will be easy to decide when the time comes.

"Dongyu is going to kill someone." Yang Yi, who was beside Cheng Fang, suddenly spoke in a low voice, pointed to a team of pigtailed soldiers in front of him and scolded in a low voice: "A group of beasts, the dog is the king of the day." ”

Many men lying in the grass scolded in a low voice, Dongyu really wanted to kill a group of people, all of them were frail old men selected from the team, these old people were more than half a year old, and their bodies were weak, in fact, they were all trying to move forward, trying to fight for their lives, but there were these people in the team, the speed of the team was too slow, if the old man did not die, even if he was scolded and whipped, the speed of the team would still not be fast.

In the long procession, fifty or sixty old people who walked slowly were singled out, some of them were sluggish, some of them had frightened faces, and most of the old people, whether men or women, were loudly urging their families not to make trouble and to go back quickly.

Some children also cried, and the family quickly covered the children's mouths, and then Jin Bing thought that the children were also a drag, and if there were children crying, it was also dangerous, and it was easy to be killed.

More than a dozen Houjin soldiers came over with knives, and dozens of people rode horses to separate the family members from the elderly.

A man scolded and rushed over, and a armored Bashiku suddenly rode forward, and the tiger and tooth knife in his hand were stretched, and everyone saw the flash of the knife, and the man cursed and was beheaded, and his mouth seemed to be still open and closed in mid-air.

This Bashiku seemed to be very satisfied with his sword, he looked at the entire Han team with very indifferent eyes, everyone lowered their heads, no one dared to make a sound, and no child dared to cry.

"Behead them."

Bashku didn't say much, but rode away slowly, and the horses walked forward slowly and leisurely, and everywhere they went, there was a dead silence.

A group of Jurchens ordered the old man who was picked out to kneel, and then cut off the head with a knife in his hand, they looked very indifferent, as if they were doing a trivial thing, killing people is too common for these flag soldiers, after the war in the past few years, Daming killed more than 100,000 soldiers alone, almost every flag soldier has several lives in his hands, as well as the slaughter of Tieling, the slaughter of Kaiyuan, hundreds of thousands of Han soldiers and civilians died, and these dozens of people in front of them were killed almost instantly.

The family members and relatives of the old man who was killed couldn't help but kneel down and cry, the head hit the ground with a bang, several flag soldiers were full of life, jumped off the horse and walked over, the Han people on the side quickly pulled these people up and continued to walk, and the flag soldiers saw this and slowly walked back, straddled and rode back on their horses, and continued to patrol around.

Although it is a team like escorting a flock of sheep, under such means, people look at dozens of headless corpses on the side of the road, looking at the bloody land, at this time, even the bloody and brave men are afraid, so they can only run harder, and go to places such as Liaozhong and Liaodong, becoming a coat like cattle and horses.

Many people do not yet know that what awaits them is further suffering, more suffering, endless suffering...... More than half of the thousands of Han people who walked here did not live to the Chongzhen period, and more than ninety percent did not live to the peaceful years after the Qing army entered the customs.

"Brute ......"

Yang Yi saw that the heads with pale hair were cut off, this man who ignored life and death almost collapsed, if it wasn't for the lives of his partners, Yang Yi would definitely jump out and fight with these Eight Banner soldiers.

"Calm down." Cheng Fang pressed Yang Yi, and everyone was angry, but everyone could suppress their emotions...... During this time, and even in the past few years, this kind of scene has been watched too much.

The flag soldiers who escorted the people gradually walked away, and then a large number of people pushing carts came over, these people were all young and strong men, they were escorted together by the Jurchens, collecting the last wealth of Liaoxi, whether it was tattered clothes or broken furniture, or all kinds of collected grain and miscellaneous grains, all kinds of sundries, all things piled up together, many of them were tattered that the people in the city did not want, these things were still collected together, and slowly pushed to Liaodong with a small car.

After all, the Eight Banners are a barbarian tribe that has just come out of the mountains, their productivity is too weak, and they have been poor for many years, and they have gradually gotten rid of the most primitive poverty after obtaining the land of Liaodong in recent years, but the materials and wealth of Liaoxi are still very important to them, and they will never give up easily.

The convoy was still escorted by cavalry, from far to near, the convoy near had already passed to the Sancha River, and there were still traces of carts under the distant sky, small groups of cavalry armed with spears or knives, and the red tassels on the top of their hats jumped gently on the horizon.

"It'......s hard to sneak over," Cheng Fang whispered to Yang Yi: "But it's not without a chance, the captives are still mainly looting, and the troops besieging us are mainly the two yellow banners and Han soldiers, most of them are camped at the foot of the mountain, we just need to sneak here, set off after dark, and rush to the road at night, after a night, we are far away from Ning, as long as we are careful of the small Jurchen sentinels." ”

Yang Yi's eyes were a little blood-red, and he said: "Actually, what does it matter if you don't go or not, now Shanhaiguan to Ningyuan and Juehua, relying on the soldiers and horses of Jinguan and Zu Dashou, adding up to less than 10,000 paces, and then there are the white pole soldiers guarding Shanhaiguan, four or five thousand people, and the remaining battalion soldiers are a small number of reinforcements from various towns, most of them are defeated and routed, and they are unbearable.

From Ningyuan to Shanhai, these tens of thousands of soldiers and horses are really the last embers, the number of soldiers is not much, and the family is even more scarce.