The British Mansion, the main hall.

When the many nobles calmed down a little, the British bluff finally asked the question that everyone wanted to know.

"Virtuous nephew, how are you going to fight this battle of Liaodong?"

Zhu Daolin, who was in the chest, replied truthfully: "Zhengqi is combined, and the strong attack and sneak attack are launched at the same time......"

"There is no need to worry too much about the battlefield on the eastern front on the Yalu River, in the past year, 40,000 soldiers of the Dongjiang New Army have been training hard day and night, and the three assault battalions that have been formed two years ago have continued to infiltrate the hinterland of Liaodong, and there are nearly 100,000 people to help in the war after the war, so even if the price paid is higher, it will reach Liaoyang within five days of the launch of the campaign."

"After the 20,000 horses on the middle road attack the mouth of the Zhuang River, they will go straight to Gaizhou and attract the Tartar troops who stay in Liaoyang and other places as much as possible."

"On the western front, starting from Guanglu Island, 20,000 soldiers will forcibly land with the assistance of dozens of warships, encircle the city of Jinzhou, which is defended by 2,000 Tartars and 3,000 Liaodong rebels, and then concentrate more than 200 artillery pieces of various types to bombard at the same time......"

"You don't want Golden State City anymore?"

Everyone was taken aback when they heard this, Xu Hongji and Zhang Gongwei were also taken aback, and the two of them who were worried before never asked Zhu Daolin how to fight.

Zhu Daolin said: "I really don't plan to ask for this Jinzhou Acropolis, no matter how many innocent people live in the city, I will bombard it, and then the whole army will go north, and never stop!" ”

"To tell you the truth, before leaving Liugong Island and going to Beijing, I issued a death order to the commanders and military judges of the various ministries participating in the war, requiring them to tell all the soldiers before the war how the Houjin Tartars killed my Ming soldiers and civilians over the years, how we will treat them, and pay back the blood debt, there is no ambiguity!"

"Our army will not leave a single prisoner in this battle. We will not accept a single Houjin civilian, let alone care about a certain village or town, and destroy it with artillery, rockets, and explosives packs whenever there is resistance, so we have been preparing for a year, hoarding hundreds of ships of weapons, ammunition and siege explosives on Phi Island and Guanglu Island. ”

"As long as the goal of eliminating the Liaodong Tartars can be achieved. Even if all the people and all the buildings in the entire territory of Liaodong are destroyed, they don't care. ”

"Those who didn't have time to destroy, burn and kill were all handed over to the tens of thousands of Liaodong refugees who followed up, so that these people who hated the Tartars could dispose of them themselves, and half of the seized materials, whether gold, silver, cattle and horses, were distributed to the people of Liaodong who participated in the war, so as to help these people rebuild their homes after the war."

The nobles were stunned by Zhu Daolin's firm words full of hatred, and after a long time, Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, let out a long sigh and broke the silence:

"Virtuous nephew. Except for Ran Min, the killing god of the Sixteen Kingdoms period, no one dares to do this, even if you win this battle, I'm afraid you won't have many of your 100,000 soldiers left! ”

Zhu Daolin replied helplessly: "I know that the casualties will increase exponentially in this way, and I will be accused and cursed by the doctors who come to do it, but if I don't do this, when will I be able to knock off this butcher's knife that has been hanging above my head for decades?" ”

"Only by completely knocking down the Houjin Tartar, which is the most harmful like maggots attached to the bones. In order to concentrate on quelling the turbulent riots in the country, otherwise the Golden Tartars will break through the pass and plunder at both ends in three days. Your predecessors will also be shocked every day, and you will not be able to live in peace! ”

"As for casualties, this is inevitable, whether it is a general who will become famous and his bones are withered, or whether he is a crockpot Inoue who died on the battlefield, for the stability and happiness of more people in my Ming Dynasty, no matter how big the price is, it is worth it......"

"Tell me the truth. Even if these 100,000 soldiers die at any cost, the big deal is that the little nephew continues to scatter his family wealth, recruit troops and buy horses, and it only takes half a year to train an army of 100,000 to fight in all directions, as for infamy. As for criticism or even slander, hehe! The little nephew can't take care of so much......"

"A hundred years of life, like a white horse passing through a gap, even if it leaves a reputation for the ages, it can be regarded as a brilliant history, not to mention that history is written by the victors, take a step back and say, as long as it is beneficial to the vast majority of the people of the Ming Dynasty, why bother with infamy......"

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In the early morning of the next day, the 20,000 troops of the Houjin and 40,000 Mongolian cavalry broke through the upper fort and besieged Xuanfu.

The bad news spread to the capital, causing a panic, and the frightened and angry Chongzhen Emperor quickly gathered his ministers and urgently discussed countermeasures, but the Chinese Wu had already broken his courage, and one by one he was helpless.

Emperor Chongzhen was in a hurry, and quickly sent someone to summon Zhu Daolin, who had not woken up from a hangover, into the court, hoping that Zhu Daolin would abandon his previous suspicions, come forward, and discuss countermeasures with the Manchu civil and military forces.

In less than two hours, a detailed emergency report came:

Datong also fell into the encirclement of the Houjin army after Xuanfu, because the defenders of the two cities could not shrink as in previous years, and defended with all their might, the enemy army successfully besieged the city, and repeated the old tricks, divided into four roads of men and horses to plunder south, crazy looting along the way, arson and killing, and the other 20,000 Tartars under the leadership of Azig killed the security guards in the west, and the entire northern line of more than ten states and counties instantly fell into a hellish catastrophe!

Zhu Daolin suggested that 50,000 troops from the 200,000 troops guarding the capital should be immediately transferred to aid Xuanfu, or that the Guanning army should set off from Jinzhou to cross the Liao River and feint to attack the enemy in eastern Liaodong.

In the face of the Chinese martial arts of the dynasty, Zhu Daolin simply stood aside, no longer spoke, and completely despaired of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military ministers who had rotted to the bone, so that after the dispersal of the dynasty, he left without saying a word, ignoring the bitter retention of a group of nobles and eunuchs in the inner court, until after lunch, under the bitter pleas of Xu Hongji, Zhang Zhiji, Zhang Yixian and others, he entered the palace again, and entered the imperial study room to have a last open and honest conversation with the young Chongzhen Emperor, It was not until the next morning that he was respectfully escorted out of the palace by a group of eunuchs from the inner court.

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In the seventh year of Chongzhen, July 17, early morning.

More than 10 warships and 20,000 soldiers under the command of Zhu Daolin suddenly launched a thunderbolt to capture the mouth of the Zhuanghe River, which was only garrisoned by 2,000 Tartar soldiers.

At noon on the same day, Zhu Daolin, under the farewell of hundreds of nobles and generals of the main battle faction in Beijing, left the capital and rushed to Tianjin, where he joined the 3,000 guards who had arrived in a hurry and were already waiting at the canal wharf in Tianjin, and drove directly to Jinzhouwei by steam carrier and five large cargo ships of the Four Seas Commercial Company.

As soon as Zhu Daolin left the capital, another bad news came quickly:

Tens of thousands of peasant troops who escaped from the carriage gorge by deception suddenly rose up and made a comeback, once again capturing seven county towns such as Pucheng and Hancheng, and the number of thieves and rebels soared from more than 100,000, and tens of thousands of thieves such as Zhang Xianzhong, the eight kings of Bashu, turned around and went north to fight in the front line of Hanzhong.

In the afternoon of the same day, Xu Hongji and Zhang Gongwei returned to Jiangnan under the entrustment of Emperor Chongzhen, and according to the latest plan, they used the water division and land division to blockade the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and increase troops in Fengyang.

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