In the blink of an eye, the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, which was full of disasters and difficulties, has passed, and even, inadvertently, the fourteenth year of Chongzhen has passed for half a year.

Compared with the thirteen years of Chongzhen, which was full of disasters and difficulties, the fourteen years of Chongzhen made a good start. Although the Ming Dynasty was forced to negotiate peace with the Qing State, the government and the opposition were excited and pleasantly surprised by the fact that the result of the peace negotiation was perfect, unexpectedly perfect.

The lands of Liaoxi that were lost after the defeat of Songjin were finally taken back without a single knife or shot, relying on the lips and swords of the Duke of Chu at the negotiation table and the cannons outside Shenyang. Not only did they get back the Songjin and other places that were lost after the Battle of Songjin, but even the Dalinghe City lost in the defeat of the Daling River a few years earlier, and even the Guangning and Yizhou lost in the Battle of Guangning during the Apocalypse.

Moreover, in Liaodong, the imperial court also successfully kept the Jin, Fu, and Zhenjiang lands that were defeated last year. Although the Ming Dynasty had to admit that the Qing State and the Ming Dynasty were equal Eastern Dynasties, the situation outside the customs finally stabilized again. Since the defeat of Songjin, the worries of the government and the opposition for months have finally disappeared, and the haze above their heads has been swept away.

"It's a pity, if it weren't for the defeat of Songjin, the imperial court had the elite of Liaodong led by the Duke of Chu, and after killing Huang Taiji last year, maybe he would be able to take advantage of the situation to recover Liaoshen in one fell swoop and drive the Tartars back to Jianzhou's lair." While the officials and people of Beijing were excited and relaxed, they couldn't help but feel a little regretful.

"Yes, I heard that the Duke of Chu had already besieged Shenyang, but Songjin was defeated, Dolgon led a large army to come back to help, and the imperial court issued thirteen orders to Shenyang in one day, asking the Duke of Chu to withdraw his troops. In the end, the Duke of Chu withstood the pressure, fought wits and courage with the Tartars in Shenyang, confronted him for more than half a year, and finally forced the Tartars to sue for peace, which led to the result of taking Liao, Hai, and Gai Zhuzhou in exchange for the land of Liaoxi. ”

In the teahouse of Jingshi, several guests were chatting, talking about the most sensational thing in Jingshi at the moment.

"Oh. Liu Yuanwai, how do you know so clearly, where did you hear the gossip? ”

"What kind of gossip, I have evidence here." Another tea guest was not happy, and as he spoke, he took out a stack of papers from his arms, "See, the Times issued in Hubei has a full page on it, which is dedicated to the war in Liaodong." Since the entry of Chu into Liao last year, the Times has begun to set up a full-page special report. They also have many war correspondents, all of whom personally send back the latest war reports from the battlefield in Liaodong, which are written in great detail, and there are commentators' articles and editor's notes in each issue. In addition, there is the most famous Danqing master, who drew a picture about the war in Liaodong. ”

As he spoke, he raised the newspaper a little smugly.

"Could it be the same Times that often publishes all kinds of buying and selling information and advertisements?" The person opposite him, Zhao Yuanwai, heard it and said busily.

"That's right, it's the Times, the head office is in Wuchang, Hubei, but they have branches in several surrounding provinces. Among them, Luoyang, Henan Province and Dengzhou, Shandong Province have a branch. Once every five days, after the newspaper is printed, it is immediately delivered for sale. Nowadays, we also have several sales points in the capital. Every issue of Dengzhou is sold in the morning, and we in Beijing can buy it from several sales points in the evening. It's very popular now, and every time the newspaper arrives, it sells out. ”

"I'm still an old customer, so I got a subscription delivery qualification. Every issue of the newspaper arrives and they deliver it to their door. ”

Zhao Yuanwai took the newspaper and looked through it carefully, he had heard of such a thing before. But today is the first time I saw it. He flipped through it and found that there were a lot of newspaper pages, rich in content, current affairs in the world, news from all over the world, and even business information from all over the world, as well as many poems by literati, among which there was indeed a special page, which was dedicated to writing about the war in Liaodong.

He even saw a drawing at a glance.

Printed drawings in black and white, without bright colors, but what is depicted on the drawings is clear.

"This is the ceremony of signing and exchanging peace books, the nine-headed bird flag of my Ming Chu army, the square dragon flag is the flag of the Tartars."

"Well, that's right, the one under the nine-headed bird is the Duke of Chu, he is really handsome and young, and he is extraordinary. The pig-tailing one across from him was the captive king Dorgon. ”

"The Duke of Chu is really my Ming Dynasty's savior god of war, if it weren't for him, the Tartars might have broken through the pass and plundered again last year."

"Yes, the hero of the Duke of Chu is also, I heard that he will enter Beijing in triumph in a few days, and he must go to Tianjin in person to greet him, a heroic figure of the Duke of Chu."

"Go together, go together. Such a hero, wouldn't it be a pity not to see one! ”

"Haha, you have to hurry up then, now there is a rumor in Jingshi that if you don't know Zhu Jiye, it is in vain to call yourself a hero."

When countless people in Jinggi in the Ming Dynasty were preparing to go to Tianjin to welcome the triumph of the Duke of Chu and see the heroic demeanor, Dolgon and other Qing people in Shenyang finally waited for the day when Liu Jun withdrew his troops and returned south.

At this time, it was already June, and Liu Jun withdrew all the Ming troops except for the three cities of Shalingbao in Shenyang. Now, the Ming army in the Three Forts is also about to be evacuated.

On the same day, Dolgon came to see off a group of Eight Banner generals, and from a distance of several miles, he watched the Ming army withdraw from the castle in a neat row and form a formation outside the city.

"It's too cheap for them." Duoduo looked at the nine-headed bird flag fluttering in the wind.

Dolgon was just silent, and after a long time, he sighed slowly, "Don't worry, Liu Jun is not far from death." ”

"What?" Azig asked puzzled, "Do you have any tricks?" Ambush? Assassin? ”

Dolgon shook his head, and Dai Shan on the side replied for him, "The so-called high merit is the master, and there are clouds and birds to hide the bow, and now we have reached a peace agreement with the Southern Dynasty, and the two sides have called off the army and made a truce. Liu Jiye can be said to be extremely accomplished, this time when he goes back, how can the Southern Dynasty rest assured of him? It was precisely when Prince Rui understood this that he advocated peace with Ming. ”

"If you want to kill, you don't have to do it yourself. To deal with an immortal general like Liu Jiye, it is not the best strategy to attack and take hard, and it is a clever plan to kill people with a knife. ”

Azig and Dordor were surprised, while Haug was thoughtful.

"How powerful Yue Fei was when he fought against our ancestor Houjin, but in the end, he was such a fierce general, but he died not in the battle, but at the hands of the Southern Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers. Now that we have reached a peace agreement in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming people have regained Liaoxi, and the situation outside the customs is far beyond the past, at this time, do you say that they can still tolerate a military general like Liu Jun, holding such a strong army? ”

Dolgon snorted coldly, "You've all listened to me, within a year." You must keep a low profile for me, and you are not allowed to do anything that provokes the Southern Dynasties. ”

"Understood. The more we show reverence for the Southern Dynasties, the more comfortable they will be at unloading and killing donkeys. Dodor laughed.

Dorgon didn't smile at all.

The Qing Dynasty suffered too much damage under Liu Jun's men, the emperor was beheaded, and the land seized by Liaoxi was forced to be returned. Although most of the Eight Banners are still preserved, in the more than a year since Liu Jun crossed the sea into Liao, he has captured more than one million people in the Qing Dynasty, destroyed countless cities and ponds, and lost countless properties.

With millions of people lost, Dorgon is out of breath just thinking about it. How many people did the Qing Dynasty have? There are only more than 300 cattle in the Eight Banners of Manchuria. The flags, including their families and minions, together are no more than a million people. Relying on years of captivity from the Ming Dynasty and Korea, plus the Han people in the land of Liaodong conquered, there were only a few million.

Now in more than a year, Liu Jun has taken away a million people. Not to mention the thousands of miles of land that was destroyed into red land, plus Liaoxi was regained, North Korea was once again taken away by the Ming Dynasty, as well as Lushun and Zhenjiang, and the national strength of the Qing Dynasty regressed by at least ten years.

The current Qing Dynasty. It is true that they do not have the strength to provoke the Southern Dynasty anymore.

Now Dolgon only expects that after Liu Jun, a great hero, returns to the dynasty, he will be killed by the emperor of the Southern Dynasty, otherwise, maybe another year or two. This Hades is going to be killed again.

Dorgon didn't believe in the peace agreement at all, it was just a piece of paper. Once the Ming army stabilized the defenses of Liaoxi, they could come back at any time.

Liu Jun retreated very slowly, marching only thirty miles a day. He was extremely cautious and refused to give the Qing army any chance to turn the tables. Every night, they have to build a camp by the river. Under the cover of the naval division warship, he was not afraid of the hard barracks.

Fortunately, the Qing army did not attempt to attack.

In July, Liu Jun withdrew into Liaoyang, and after resting in Liaoyang for half a month, Liu Jun led his troops to take the transport ship of the water division from the Liaohe River down the river into the sea, and in mid-July, all the Chu troops withdrew to Lushun.

At this point, the northward operation launched last autumn has finally come to a successful conclusion. After nearly a year of fighting in the north, the Chu army achieved remarkable results, killing Huang Taiji, breaking through Gai, Hai and Liaozhou, and besieging Shenyang, breaking the castles of Fushun and Salhu, killing more than 10,000 Qing troops before and after, capturing more than 60,000 Qing troops, and moving back to more than 400,000 people from Liaodong.

Dozens of cities were broken, more than 300,000 taels of gold were seized, more than 17 million taels of silver, and many jewelry treasures such as pearl jewelry, and countless herds of cattle, horses and sheep.

The Qing army entered the customs several times in the past, and each time it had to plunder hundreds of thousands of people, millions of gold and silver, and the gold and silver treasures that the Qing army had secretly seized were not counted. This time, Liu Jun's Northern Expedition, which lasted for more than half a year, and when he won many battles, he also grabbed the spoils of war. Especially through the thorough sweep of the Black Flag Army, coupled with the demolition and relocation of the port, they have gained a lot.

No wonder the Tartars like to enter the customs so much, who doesn't like this kind of battle, which can not only weaken the enemy's military strength, but also capture the enemy's wealth and materials, strengthen themselves and weaken the enemy, this kind of combat method Chu Jun likes it too much.

Liu Jun didn't feel distressed about giving up the Liao and Hai Prefectures that had already been captured, anyway, they had also conquered the Gaifu Prefectures at the beginning, but in the end they still gave up. If they want to stay in Liaoyang, it will touch the bottom line of the Tartars, and then they will fight to the death, Liu Junshou or not.

Now with such a result, Liu Jun is actually very satisfied.

Ships enter Jinzhou Bay, cross the Jinzhou Isthmus from the Jinzhou Canal, and enter Qingniwa Port, and you can see a busy and lively scene of the port from a distance.

In the bustling port dock, there are many black skull flags in it.

This surrendered army, which was surrendered and incorporated after conquering Gaizhou, was first organized into four associations in order to make up for the lack of troops in the north. In the past six months in Liaodong, these soldiers were sent out by Liu Jun to sweep the source, which really made the Tartars miserable, and also collected a large amount of grain and grass materials for Liu Jun, and also swept the rear of the Tartars, seizing a large number of money, grain and materials.

Their scale also swelled rapidly, and at the beginning there were only less than 20,000 people in the four associations. But now, Lushun's Black Flag Army has eighteen temporary associations.

"The first thing to do when you go ashore is to deal with this Black Flag Army first." Liu Jun looked at those black flags and said secretly, the war in northern Liaobei is over, and the mission of the Black Flag Army is over. (To be continued.) )