Huang Taiji returned to Shengjing in embarrassment, and there were less than 1,000 people under his command, and he had never suffered this kind of loss in the decades since he went to war, of course, the last time in Datong was also counted, but most of the 80,000 dead and wounded in Datong were Mongols, and now these 50,000 people are almost all Houjin people. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

This time it was still crippled by Chongzhen, and the shadow in Huang Taiji's heart was several times heavier than last time, although this defeat was the reason why various opponents took advantage of the time and place, but Huang Taiji was sad and began to doubt himself.

He couldn't think of where his chance was to capture the Ming Dynasty, he couldn't even capture the mere city of Jinzhou, but he knew that the number of troops in that city was only fifty or sixty thousand at most, and then he counted on the grassland, and the army stationed there in Horqin was enough to make it difficult for him to advance an inch, so he felt that his greatest possibility was to collect the northeast, and then spend his life looking for a way out.

He received the news that Dolgon had roughly gained a foothold in Moxi, but due to the lack of his own troops, Dolgon did not blindly expand, and it was also an embarrassing situation that could not be up or down, for Huang Taiji, this kind of help was dispensable and may not be able to get, the Korean Peninsula was also unknowingly occupied by the people of Phi Dao, and it was simply impossible to storm it, and only due north was not surrounded by Ning Zhiyuan's forces, and Huang Taiji found that he had been trapped.

He couldn't find any boundaries or directions to expand, and a little further north due north would be ice fields, or would he cross the grasslands to make a living elsewhere? Although Huang Taiji was anxious to find a way out, and he was also good at taking the sword sideways, he was not decisive enough to leave the Manchurian Jianzhou, which had survived since the Later Jin had wisdom, so all he could do was to repair the city wall and expand the scale of the city wall in order to resist the future artillery attack, while training the army to recuperate.

The loss of 50,000 people did not have much impact on him, and no one in the Northeast could threaten his rule now, and the support of tens of millions of Han people was definitely a terrible thing, and Huang Taiji felt that if it weren't for this, he might have been in a different place by now, which was the most correct thing he had done so far.

Regardless of whether Huang Taiji found out or not, he was already full of fear of Ning Zhiyuan, this is a naked fact, just from the fact that his army of 50,000 has reached a dead end, and he would rather fight against the water than go to Ning Zhiyuan's territory to seek a glimmer of life, it can be seen that what he hopes for now He has long been unaware of, and the great ambition of conquering the world seems too far for him.

Even now, he hasn't even officially fought with Ning Zhiyuan.

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Sailing out to sea is also a new thing for Li Jun, because Ning Zhiyuan's tone seems to be very concerned about this small island, so he also came in person, Jinzhou Pidao is already running in an orderly manner, if he leaves him, he can't live, it will really be an accident, he has never tried to put himself in such an important position, presumably he just wants to be a general before the battle.

Li Jun was a little excited in his heart, now with a large-scale army of more than 100,000 people in the invasion of this scale is also unprecedented, it can be said that except for those thieves who claim to have a million people under their command at every turn, no one has ever brought such a large number of men and horses, and a large part of them are really soldiers and horses recruited locally after the invasion of the Korean Peninsula.

There are nearly 200,000 Han soldiers in Phi Dao and Jinzhou, but if they want to disperse to many cities, they can't draw many people, although because the soldiers under them are very polite and kind, basically no one will resist, and even the policy is more wise, and the politics have won the support of many local people.

Even if they are not Han Chinese, they are still very obedient, which shows how unreliable the people who want to run around for a living all day long have a nation-state, and most of these spiritual nobility are just talking points after worrying about food and clothing, and the people at the bottom are the best and easiest creatures in the world to fool and satisfy.

Wako Island is not far from the Korean Peninsula, sailing for three or two days to arrive, hundreds of ships landed on the shore, perhaps it is the influence of the officials who defended the city Ning, Li Jun did not have a good impression of these short-looking and obscene people on the island, after a few rounds of artillery bombardment, the dwarf city began to crumble, looking at the dwarfs who came out to meet the enemy with half-curved Tang knives, Li Jun felt that the trip would be very smooth, and began to consider the extent to which the humane destruction that Gongzi said should be completed.

For these outsiders are not good, the outsiders are very angry, this familiar accent gives them an impression, the island and the outside world have never been closed, until now they are all around the trade, once a few decades ago they were also brilliant and want to expand outward, and this crappy North Korean accent of the North Koreans is the object of their conquest, obviously they have been hung up and beaten back and forth many times, if it weren't for the thigh of the Ming Dynasty to find the field, the Korean Peninsula would have been their territory, and now these defeated generals still dare to come to them for trouble?

For the weak, they are angry and want to bully as much as they want, although this thing that can shoot is really powerful, although... This crossbow is indeed very powerful.

Soon they felt a little strange, this battle was fought without any problems, the key is just a small problem that can't be solved, that is... They found that they couldn't get close to each other at all, well, every time they were halfway there, they were shot by that kind of big crossbow and pierced through the intestines, like a string of strings, and they seeped into each other when they looked at it.

So they gave up these short-legged Dongyang horses, and rushed up with Japanese swords, and then faced soldiers with spears, this was a very simple massacre, if it weren't for Li Jun's desire to reduce some unnecessary male population for the Korean Peninsula, things would actually be much simpler, but even so, the Korean soldiers who had been simply trained were much stronger than the Japanese in terms of strategy and weapons, and this was a group of Japanese who had been frightened out of their courage.

These men can be tortured and killed without care, whether it is civilians or soldiers, please feel free, this is the most indulgent of Li Jun's subordinates, he has some doubts that it will not be good if these soldiers kill the wild temperament, but fortunately, he wittily used these North Koreans as executioners, if it is really wild, then it happens to kill them together, Li Jun himself really can't think of this idea.

He also stayed on the Korean Peninsula for some time, and the people here seemed good to him, he didn't know why his son always treated these people a little extremely, and the Japanese still had a grudge against the Ming Dynasty, but these Koreans have always surrendered as weak, right?

And in comparison, these women on the island can be treated a lot more gently, Li Jun thought about the imbalance between men and women that Ning Daguan said, these women in childbearing age are trophies, and naturally they will not be wantonly killed by these Koreans, in short, women and treasures are from the Ming people, um.

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Chen Biao, who had enough to eat and had nothing to do, and Li Dingguo, who had barely pacified Henan, began their journey to Outer Mongolia at the signal of Ning Zhiyuan.

They don't have any purpose, to put it simply, they lack manpower, so they have to grab a large number of free labor through war, Li Dingguo of course also feels that the less than 100,000 people he caught before to build the city wall of the entire grassland is too slow, so the more slaves of this kind, the better, and under the destruction of artillery fire, these are not difficult things, although the people of the tile spurs are very primitive and ferocious.

Even like the Houjin, they were able to eat human flesh not long ago, but after Genghis Khan's unification, they also spent that period of ape-like days, so according to the human heavens, their combat effectiveness is roughly equivalent to that of the Houjin people, which is also the reason why Huang Taiji and even the Houjin people in another time and space have not been able to conquer them until the Han people are unified.

The heavy armored cavalry cannon and explosives hurt these savages very much, this is something that their countrymen have never seen before, obviously everyone is charging and fighting, what the hell is it that suddenly exploded in their rear, and then one by one thick arrows were shot over, and they didn't give them any chance in one go, and they didn't even suffer a big loss without even a short encounter, and even the people and horses died in a mess.

Only then did they realize that these invaders were all hard ideas.

For these wild people who are accustomed to being free, they have nothing to invade, after all, they are surrounded by wild people who are similar to them, so they are always in mutual aggression, and whoever is stronger can live a more nourishing life, but now they are collectively bullied, and then, they choose to close the city.

After a few days of familiarization, Li Dingguo's thoughts in these savages are running wherever they go anyway, and their combat effectiveness is strong, so the chance of catching them alive is not great, and it is almost impossible for them to surrender as free laborers, but thinking that if this vast grassland is conquered, it will also be a famous achievement in history, so he immediately put Ning Zhiyuan's matter of catching labor behind, and began to bomb mercilessly in line with the principle of killing and not crippling.

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For Chongzhen, Ning Zhiyuan didn't take the initiative to attack him, and he wouldn't take the initiative to provoke the tiger's teeth, at least not yet.

Fighting a victorious battle and destroying nearly 50,000 Houjin soldiers made him regain some confidence, although Yang Sichang and Lu Xiangsheng and other generals are emphasizing the accident and chance of this matter, but what is not accidental?

Chongzhen has ordered his family to claim the body, but he is not confused to go home and take the lead in disposing of the corpses with broken limbs and stumps, Lu Xiangsheng said that he has no choice, it is too normal for Chongzhen to encounter this matter if he is not decisive, he feels that he should even thank Chongzhen for not taking him down, in short, this matter consumes a lot of energy and time.

Lu Xiangsheng now insists on drinking a can of medicine prescribed by the doctor every day to prevent possible plagues, thinking of this, he has a panic, he can die, but he must not die so aggrieved in such a tragic situation, although from the current situation, he knows very well in his heart, the probability of Daming turning over is basically equal to the probability of the rooster laying eggs, but he still has to work hard.

It's another dark night, and the moon and stars are still a little cool at night.

Lu Xiangsheng walked in the city to patrol the night, he even felt a little depressed, yes, because of Chongzhen's good deeds, now the capital can be seen everywhere white mourning decorations, the hazy white lights swaying incense burners and full of grief-stricken crying alleys, in the night there are bursts of echoes that make Lu Xiangsheng frown, for a child from a common family to resonate with him, the whole city is immersed in such a sad atmosphere and feels like it is about to explode at any time.

He began to think about whether it was right for him to do this, of course, in fact, opening the city gate and surrendering or directly arresting Chongzhen was the most correct thing to do, and Ning Zhiyuan's approach outside the doctor would not hurt the people, but of course Lu Xiangsheng couldn't do this kind of thing, so he flashed self-deprecation.

He found that there was a servant in front of Li Dingfang's mansion sprinkled with white powder, which was naturally recognized by Lime Lu Xiangsheng, but he was still very puzzled about Li Dingfang's intentions, and he also entered the mansion and asked about it, and then the answer he got made his heart even heavier, too, what purpose can he do such a thing at this moment.

But can this thing really control the epidemic? Lu Xiangsheng was fully equipped with the idea that he believed in it, but he was wiped out by Li Dingfang's words, how can there be so much lime in the city now?

Lu Xiangsheng also wanted to know where there was lime, and said to Chongzhen that he would go out of the city to buy it? Shaking his head, he felt that anything could make him nervous and reverie for a while, in the past, even if he died, he would not change his face, but now there are too many things for him to consider, he thinks that it is enough to just talk to Yang Sichang.

Compared with Chongzhen, Yang Sichang is undoubtedly more calm and reliable.

So on the second day, the outside of Yi'an Palace was the first to be covered with lime.

Wang Chengen himself finished swaying and then informed Zhang Yan that there would not be much danger of infection in Yi'an Palace, where there were not many outsiders entering and leaving the palace, but Chongzhen still put this in the first place, and the relationship with Zhang Yan over the years was definitely not fake, that was Chongzhen's spiritual belief when he had never ascended the throne.

Zhang Yan knows it, but she doesn't feel anything else, no matter what, she has done enough for Chongzhen, and she can't do anything now.

Wang Chengen has been left in Yi'an Palace by Zhang Yan, but the relationship with Chongzhen is still very close, these Zhang Yan don't care, as long as Wang Chengen doesn't tell her secret, and the reason why she wants to come Wang Chengen is also bottomless, it is true that she is a very mature harem leader, but watching her stomach still have no reaction day by day has to make her depressed.

"That's... Queen Mother, why don't you let the old slave go and let the imperial doctor come and see? Wang Chengen said with some apprehension, his voice sharp and low.

Zhang Yan was a little moved, but she still shook her head, the previous imperial doctor had disappeared after seeing her, and it would be a little conspicuous if there was another one.

Wang Chengen breathed a sigh of relief and nodded.

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PS: I watched the mother-humiliating murder case today, and what touched me the most was not the son who killed for his mother, nor the villain who was full of evil, but the policemen who came and patted their butts and left.

Really, the world's police still serve a few people after all.