Liaodong, Shengjing.

When Cao Yue occupied Shengjing, he almost completely destroyed the city built by Huang Taiji. After Dolgon returned to Shengjing with his army, he had to start a large-scale restoration project. It's quick to destroy a city, but it's much slower to repair it, and after a few months, there's not much progress. All the gates of Shengjing have been built, but the houses in the city, including the palace and other noble residences, are still being restored. According to Dolgon's estimates, it would be at least a year before the Qing nobles who lived outside the city wanted to move back to Shengjing City.

Fortunately, the cold winter has passed, and Liaodong has also begun to enter spring, and the people of the Qing Dynasty living in tents have finally gotten rid of the hard days. Dorgon hoped that when another winter came, everyone would have a warm and firm place to stay out of the cold.

He changed his life, evolving from living on grass to living in a sturdy house like the Han people, and never returned to the hard life of the past. Restoring Shengjing City as quickly as possible and returning to live in warm and comfortable houses is the urgent wish of all Jurchen nobles. But no matter how capable Dorgon was, he could not build a city in a few days. There is also the imperial palace, which takes more time, and the national strength of the Qing Dynasty is far less than before, and most of the wealth has been destroyed by Cao Yue. Even if the palace can be restored, it will not be as imposing as before.

Fortunately, except for the restoration of Shengjing City and the Imperial Palace, which is a bit of a headache, there is nothing else to worry about.

Spring came, the spring grass began to sprout, the horses had fresh forage and began to grow fat, and the Qing soldiers could go to war everywhere, plunder the wealth, destroy the enemy and improve the life of the banner people.

Just when Dolgon was thinking about which direction to fight in the spring, a piece of exciting news came from the pass, and the more than 100,000 rogues led by Li Yan and Liu Zongmin turned north for some reason and rushed to Datong.

After receiving this news, Duoduo was broken, and he ran to Dolgon as soon as possible, saying that he would lead the army to the south again, attack Datong, and take advantage of Cao Yue and Liukou to fight to the death, take advantage of the fire to rob and wipe out the main force of the Datong army to avenge the great revenge.

Dolgon was also shocked by this news, he was sure that the news was correct, Liu Zongmin and Li Yan's army of more than 100,000 troops was rapidly moving north, preparing to attack Datong, he couldn't sit still, and immediately convened the important ministers of the court to discuss countermeasures.

Because the Qing Dynasty suffered a catastrophe last year, Cao Yue became a public enemy of the Qing Dynasty, and everyone wanted to kill him as soon as possible. Datong was attacked by a strong enemy, and the excellent opportunity to take advantage of the fire to rob arrived, and almost everyone supported taking this opportunity to march south again, break through Datong, and find Cao Yue to take revenge.

Expeditioning south again, detouring through Mongolia, and attacking the Ming Dynasty from the south from the direction of Datong became the consensus of all Qing nobles.

Because of the failure of the last time Duoduo led the army to the south, Geng Zhongming's men and horses were almost all annihilated, Dolgon and others realized that the combat effectiveness of the Datong army was extraordinary, and this time they did not underestimate it, and Dolgon decided to personally lead the army to the south.

Duoduo, Hauge, Azig and others all led the army to the expedition, except for most of the people in Zierharang who stayed in Shengjing with the blue banner and beware of the possibility of Hong Chengchou in Liaodong attacking north, the rest of the men and horses almost all went out to fight, including about 60,000 people in the eight banners of the Han army, about 70,000 people in the eight banners of the Mongolian army, and more than 30,000 people in the Jurchen female banner, totaling about 160,000 troops. This is almost the army of Jiannu, which shows how vengeful Dolgon is.

As soon as the order to go out was given, the army of more than 100,000 Jiannu began to move south rapidly.

When he personally led the army south to conquer Datong, Dolgon did not forget to set up a "Lost Soul Array", ordered a Mongolian Eight Banners to open in the direction of the Daling River, and made a gesture of continuing to attack Songshan and Jinzhou, so that Hong Chengchou and his men and horses in Liaodong did not dare to easily withdraw south to reinforce Datong.

Before setting out on the expedition, Dolgon made an oath to the ancestors of the Qing Dynasty that this southern expedition must wipe out Cao Yue's men and horses, stir up the Ming Dynasty, bring Cao Yue back to Shengjing, and cut it in front of the temple with a thousand knives.

Before leading the army to set out, Dolgon also entered the palace to say goodbye to Bumu Butai.

"Concubine Zhuang, I'm leaving, I'm going to capture Cao Yue's family to avenge my revenge in the Qing Dynasty!" Because the little emperor Fulin stayed with Bumu Butai, Dolgon also treated Bumu Butai with courtesy, but the care and tenderness hidden in his words could be heard by anyone, "You have to take care of your own life, pay attention to your body, you are about to give birth, don't be busy all day." ”

"Thank you for the regent's concern, the concubine will pay attention to her body. I hope that our Qing army will be able to win the southern expedition this time and succeed immediately," Having said that, Bumu Butai always felt that there was something in his heart, and he was not very willing to Dolgon to capture Cao Yue to Shengjing, and then die with a thousand knives. She didn't know why she had such a thought, thinking that it should be a child in the womb who was about to be born.

Thinking that this child with Cao Yue was about to be born, Bu Mu Butai really didn't know what it was like in his heart.

In the early days of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the management of the harem was not as strict as after entering the customs, and there was no strict record of which concubine the emperor was lucky, so Bumu Butai was pregnant, and not many people suspected that there was something wrong with it, even the empress dowager Zhezhe, also thought that the child in Bumu Butai's womb was Huang Taiji's.

These women who were violated by Cao Yue that day, in addition to knowing that they themselves were violated by Cao Yue, did not know for sure that other people were also violated by Cao Yue, but they just guessed that someone might be violated by Cao Yue. This is a very shameful thing, and it can't be known by outsiders, and afterwards Zhezhe strictly ordered that no one should leak what happened in the palace that day, otherwise he would be severely punished.

Zhezhe herself was violated by Cao Yue, and she didn't tell anyone. Of course, Bumu Butai would not tell others about being asked to sleep by Cao Yue several times, but she knew that many people, including Zhezhe and Namu Zhong, knew that she was violated by Cao Yue. And she also knew that Zhezhe, Namu Zhong and others were also insulted by Cao Yue. It's just that she is the most unfortunate and is pregnant with Cao Yue's flesh and blood.

Bumu Butai knew that she couldn't give birth to this evil seed, otherwise she would have endless troubles, and she didn't know if she doubted whether the child in her womb was Cao Yue's evil disorder. When talking to her aunt Zhezhe, Namu Zhong and others, she also tried various methods to test their tone, but she didn't try anything to reassure her. In order to avoid trouble, Bumu Butai can only make up lies to deal with the possible suspicions of others.

However, she tried a lot of methods, but she couldn't get rid of the child in her womb, and the little thing in her belly grew very tenaciously. After trying almost everything, Bumu Butai finally gave up his intention to kill the child in his womb and prepared to give birth to him.

This is a very helpless decision, so that Bumu Butai does not know what mood he is in.