Dai Shan and Duoduo didn't dare to slack off, they walked for another day with trepidation, and sent people to search several ways nearby, and finally found no trace, so they breathed a sigh of relief.

At this time, counting the losses, it is even more infuriating, the Han people are dead, they are running, there are few people left, and there are less than 8,000 bannermen, that is to say, nearly half of the people and horses have been lost along the way.

Before the two had time to remorse, the worse news came.

The left-behind flag keepers in nearby Niulu came to report one after another, saying that Shengjing had been burned by Amin, and Huangtaiji's eldest son Haoge was also beheaded and placed on the top of the Jingguan outside Shengjing City, and the ancestral land of Hetuala, which was also looted by Amin, was burned to the ground.

Dai Shan and Duoduo didn't believe it at the beginning, when did that powerful and powerful Dajin fall to such a miserable state, if these people didn't tell a lie, then Dajin... Daikin is in danger.

The closer to Shengjing, the more people came to report these things, the three of them became tigers, and the two gradually believed it, and when they arrived outside Shengjing City, they saw the pile of Jingguan that was not small, and then Shengjing, which was already ruined, and then it was completely believed.

Counting with his fingers, today's Jianzhou Jurchens are full of less than 40,000 people, including the old and weak women and children, and their situation at this time is even worse than when the old slaves raised their troops.

If the Ming Kingdom marches on a large scale, just employing people will probably make them destroy the country and exterminate the species, not to mention the threat of Dongjiang Town and Amin.

Thinking of Amin, Daishan and Duoduo both hated it so much, and they had some sympathy before, but they didn't expect him to stab Dajin so bloodily a few times, if it weren't for this person, Dajin's situation would not be so bad.

No matter how fearful, afraid, or resentful, it is useless at the moment, and the top priority is to gather all the banner people together, so as not to be taken advantage of by other forces because of the dispersion, which will cause more losses to the people.

Dai Shan and Duo Duo had to unite and jointly take the identity of the Great Belle (Duo Duo held the Four Banners and was already on an equal footing with Dai Shan, and became the Great Belle in the name of the name, and Mang Gurtai's brother Dege took over the Zhenglan Banner and became the Little Baylor), and ordered all the banner people in Liaodong to concentrate on Liaoyang to keep warm.

Originally, with their current situation, retreating to Hetuara was the best choice, which was conducive to recuperation, but Hetuara was also destroyed, lacked protection, and was too close to Dongjin Mountain, and Amin's threat hung over them all the time, but it was not as safe as Liaoyang.

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At the beginning of September in the fourth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, the autumn tiger was still ravaging, and the battle of the Daling River, which gathered the attention of the Ming, Jin and Mongolian parties, was because of the advent of a plague, which lasted more than two months, and ended in such a hurry.

In the original history of this battle, Huang Taiji besieged the city, negotiated peace, attacked fortifications, and played reinforcements twice, which lasted three months before and after, not only the elite of the Ming Dynasty outside the pass was basically destroyed, but also forced down the city guards Zu Dashou, Zu Kefa, Zu Zerun, Liu Tianlu, Zhang Cunren and others.

Although Zu Dashou later rebelled, it did not affect the glory of the Later Jin in the Battle of the Daling River, according to later generations, that is, the Later Jin won a strategic victory, and its significance was not inferior to the Battle of Salhu and the Battle of Songjin, which accelerated the process of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty.

However, the emergence of the plague interrupted this historical process, not only Huang Taiji, Mang Gurtai, Dolgon, and Azig died, but also many of the "shining" Belle Bezi in the process of conquering the Central Plains, such as Shuotuo, Abatai, Dahai, Shi Tingzhu, etc., also died after contracting the plague.

In addition, Li Dingguo took Amin and Hai Dongqing and others to wreak havoc in the hinterland of Houjin, and when Dai Shan and Duoduo returned to Shengjing with a few Jianzhou Jurchens who had survived their lives, they were greeted with devastation and had to shrink to the left of Liaoyang.

After this battle, the Houjin degenerated from a local power full of vitality and able to wrestle with the Ming Dynasty into a weak tribe that was dying and could be blown away by the wind at any time.

The Ming army in the city of Dalinghe, the situation is not much better, before the war, even the soldiers and the people, a total of more than 30,000 people, after the war there are less than 8,000 people left, the rest of the people, etc., all died of illness, and because the city is narrow, the place is not enough, can not be buried, piles of corpses are just put like this, until the smell is rotten.

But fortunately, the Daling River was finally saved, and the whole battle did not take long compared with the original history, and the supporting army ended before it arrived.

"Squeak..."The tooth-aching scream sounded slowly, and after a month, the gate of Dalinghe, which had not been activated for a long time, finally opened.

After confirming that Jiannu had evacuated, Zu Dashou ordered the city gate to be opened, and according to the pre-arrangement, sent several horsemen to Jinzhou to deliver the letter.

In addition to sending letters, it is more important to clean up the dead bodies in the city and bury them together with the dead bodies outside the city, otherwise, not only will the epidemic continue to worsen, but even this pungent stench will make people unbearable.

There are also fortifications outside the city, earthen walls and moats, which must also be filled in one by one, and cannot be left unattended.

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In the middle of September of the fourth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, an urgent recital from Sun Chengzong, the governor of Jiliao, was sent to Beijing, and its content made the court breathe a sigh of relief.

Due to the rampant plague, Jiannu suffered heavy losses, and retreated on their own, and the soldiers in Dalinghe City also died a lot, in order to avoid the continued spread of the plague, Sun Chengzong ordered Zu Dashou to lead the army to continue to stay in Dalinghe, and then how to deal with it, this problem, the governor threw it to the imperial court.

Later, the Ming court argued for a long time about this matter, and some suggested that they should continue to increase their troops in the Daling River and expand their armaments to resist the strong enemy, and some people believed that the Jiannu had declined, and it should be appropriate to chase the poor and send troops to attack the Yellow Dragon.

Just when the two sides were not convinced by each other and were arguing, a new voice appeared.

This new voice first began with the excerpt of a small speaker.

In short, he said in the recital that he had read medical books and had good friends with colleagues in the Tai Hospital, and inferred that the epidemic in eastern Liaodong was caused by the change of seasons and the epidemic.

The most terrible thing about this epidemic is that it can contaminate people's mouths and noses and spread to each other, which is considered to be a terrible disaster, and the tragic situation of the Daling River is the best evidence of it.