On the fourteenth day of the first month of the sixth year of the Great Tomorrow Apocalypse, Nuer Ha led an army of 60,000 to the south, and crossed the Liao River on the seventeenth day of the first month. Of course, it is now a cold and snowy winter, and the Liaohe River has been frozen for many days, and the ice is thick enough to carry the Jiannu army. Jiannu stepped on the ice and snow and crossed the river with ease.

As Nu'er Ha Chi predicted, the Ming army really did not dare to intercept it, and the crossing of the river was unusually smooth. Stepping on the land on the other side of the Liao River, the Jiannu soldiers cheered in unison. This is the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and they can do whatever they want and loot at will.

Huang Taiji stood on the shore and looked into the distance, and now there was a dead silence here, and there was no one at all. The ground was covered with snow, and it could be faintly seen that it was staggered, and it should have been a field. He ordered a snowfield to be dug up, and saw that there was no grass and no wheat underneath.

Nu'er Ha Qi asked, "Old Eight, what are you looking at?" ”

"Back to Father Khan, I'm looking to see if there are any fields planted by barbarian farmers here."

"What do you see?"

"It looks like it's been deserted for a long time."

Nu'er laughed and said, "Of course. We in the Qing Dynasty often come here to hunt, and when we see a barbarian, it is an arrow, and who else dares to come here to farm. ”

Huang Taiji sighed in his heart, he really has no culture, there are no farmers to farm, where to grab grain. I heard that the barbarian fishermen use large mesh nets to fish, that is, to put small fish and catch big ones, so that small fry can grow up. Otherwise, the big fish and the small fish will be fished out together, and there will be no fish to catch in the future. The barbarian fishermen still have this kind of insight, but Father Khan's vision is not long-term enough, and he will kill all the barbarians in Liaodong, and he will be happy, who will be robbed in the future.

He echoed with a wry smile.

On the march, he quietly and carefully observed the situation on the road, the situation was more severe than he thought, the farmers of the Ming Dynasty seemed to have completely abandoned the land, and he did not see even a single crop. Of course. Because it was not published in the "Di Bao" supplement, he did not know that this was the result of Zhu Youcheng's policy of "giving soldiers but not to the people." Of course, if Nu'er Ha Chi did not drive all the Han people who had no time to flee to the west of the Liao River to be slaughtered, the peasants who were reluctant to land would still plant crops here.

The army moved forward, and it was almost evening. The soldiers in front suddenly cheered in unison, as if they had seen something good.

Huang Taiji stepped forward and looked carefully, it turned out that there was a small city in front of him. A few big characters on the city gate, he knew, wrote "Xiping Fort". The gates were unlocked, but wide open. A small group of soldiers with swords and guns in their hands slowly walked into the city as if they were facing a great enemy, and there was a burst of cheers for a long time. Then there was a roar of mourning.

Huang Taiji's heart tightened, could it be that he was ambushed?

Soon, the group of soldiers rushed out and reported to him: "Eighth brother, there is nothing in it. ”

Huang Taiji didn't know why, and walked into the city. The soldier's report was not accurate, it was not that there was nothing in the city, there were houses in the city. There were many houses, but there were no soldiers, no civilians. No money, no food. The Ming barbarians evacuated very cleanly, all the things that could be demolished on the house were demolished, and the ones that could not be demolished were not smashed, but they were just placed there as they were, and time seemed to stand still here. When the soldiers of Jiannu now have nothing to grab. Angry, Da Ming can't be shameless to this point. As the saying goes, thieves don't go empty, there's nothing here, let's take what we take. Don't let me move a brick.

A few Jiannu rushed into the people's kitchen, carrying a note in their arms that read "Iron pot for stir-frying". When they saw the stove, they were happy, but when they reached out and wanted to take the pot on the stove away, they only touched the ashes of the pot in one hand, and it turned out that the iron pot on the stove had already been carried away by the people of the Ming Dynasty.

They couldn't help but look up to the sky and shout: "Shameless, stingy." How much is an iron pot worth, this also has to be taken away, so you are not afraid of breaking it on the road if you can't hold it steadily. ”

Enraged, they wanted to set fire to the city.

Huang Taiji hurriedly stopped and said, "Release the water to raise fish." If we burn this place, the barbarian people will not come again, and there will be nothing to rob again. Moreover, the next time we attack Daming, this can be used as a good barracks, saving us from building a temporary camp. ”

While he was talking, Nu'er Ha Chi arrived on horseback and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

A soldier said, "We're going to burn down this hellish place, and the eighth elder brother won't let it." ”

"Old eight, don't learn the kindness of a barbarian's woman. Burned, anyway, it was built by barbarians, and it was all burned. ”

As she spoke, Nu'er Ha Chi took the lead and threw a torch at the house.

The houses of the Ming Dynasty were all civil structures, which were extremely flammable, and the Jiannu set fires everywhere, and soon Xiping Fort became a large bonfire. While leaning on the bonfire to keep warm, the Jiannu soldiers cursed loudly that the people of the Ming Dynasty had moved all their things away, leaving them with no chance. The robbers criticized their masters for being well prepared, which was a ridiculous joke. The historian of Jiannu has probably been idle for too long, and he actually recorded it. It's a pity that the Manchu script is a self-created script, and it was quickly lost, and later generations of experts who studied this period of history did not know what was recorded on it, so the bravery of the Jiannu soldiers was not passed on, which is a pity.

Nu'er Ha Chi soon regretted it, for he had gone some further way, and had not come across a fort again, so he had to camp in the wilderness. But now it's winter, and it's the coldest time. The tent can keep out the wind and rain, but it can't keep the cold out. If you are stationed at Xiping Fort, although there is nothing in the house, it is a house, and it is somewhat warmer.

Of course, Nuer Ha Chi will not apologize to Huang Taiji, but he complains that the people of Daming are coming. Is it enough to build a Xiping Fort? Why don't you build a Dongping Fort again. I don't know if Uncle Jiannu likes to set fires, so build a few more fortresses to make them feel comfortable.

After a night, Nuer Ha Chi ordered that if he encountered the uninhabited city of Daming again, he was not allowed to set fire to it.

Huang Taiji sneered in his heart, Father Khan is really stubborn and self-serving, and he will not repent until he suffers.

Jiannu then encountered many more cities, but without exception, they were all evacuated cleanly, and there was a huge ash pile in the middle of several cities, which was probably the food burned during the evacuation. Dai Shan sent people to dig, but unfortunately the Ming army burned it so thoroughly that they didn't even leave a little dregs for them.

Nu'er Hachi's family, including the calmest Huang Taiji, began to shout and scold, greeting Gaodi's female relatives and ancestors in unison. Why is it not good to do things so desperately, as it was? Leaving the people of the Ming Dynasty to slaughter Jiannu, leaving money and grain for Jiannu to loot, anyway, they don't go to Beijing, and they don't even dare to do the dream of being the emperor of the Central Plains. Don't do it next time, if you do it again...... If they do this again, they really can't do it.

In this way, the Jiannu soldiers starved and came to Ningyuan City. It was a long march, the fourteenth day of the first month, and the twenty-third day of the first month before arriving at Ningyuan City. The Jiannu soldiers were even angry, there was not a single Ming man to slaughter them along the way, no Ming woman to rape them, no property to rob them, they only had to walk, walk, or walk.

Nuer Haqi set up a large camp five miles north of the city, and divided another army to block the retreat of Ningyuan City. Da Ming evacuated too cleanly, he held back the fire in his belly, this time he had to kill Ningyuan City without leaving a chicken dog.

Of course, if the defenders of Ningyuan City were willing to surrender, he didn't mind leaving the defenders' lives. The life of the Jiannu soldier is precious, he is reluctant to sacrifice when he is attacking, if there are some cannon fodder troops, he can attack the fortification at will, and he will not feel distressed if he dies anyway. The defenders of Ningyuan City are the best choice for the cannon fodder army.

He called a clothed minion - the so-called clothed slave was a slave whose body belonged entirely to the nobles of Jiannu. This clothed slave is named Yang Yanyu, originally a businessman of the Ming Dynasty, and took refuge in Jiannu during the first battle of Salhu, because he was good at patting horses, and finally became the overlord of the clothed slaves, and his subordinates were in charge of several clothed slaves, but in the eyes of Jiannu, he was still a clothed minion.

Nu'er Ha Chi told Yang Yanyu to bring a letter to Ning Yuan's city defender, ordering the master general to open the door and dedicate the city, if successful, he would become the overlord of the overlords of the coated minions - his subordinates could take care of a few more coated minions.

How dare Yang Yanyu go, he went to hug Jiannu's thick legs because he was afraid of death, and now he ran to the Ming army to persuade him to surrender, isn't he looking for death?

Nuer Ha Chi first reasoned with him, saying that the barbarian army was hypocritical and would not kill the messenger, and besides, the barbarian army was also afraid of the Tianwei of the mite army, and the messenger who killed the mite Qing would suffer ten times or a hundred times the retaliation, and his safety was absolutely guaranteed. Seeing that Yang Yanyu still cried and refused to go, Nuer Ha Qi pulled out the knife and put it on his neck, what kind of overlord among the coated minions, isn't it just a coated minion?

Yang Yanyu took Nu'er Ha's handwritten letter and left the barracks step by step, he hoped that Nu'er Ha Chi would suddenly have a conscience and tell him to go back. But Nu'er Haqi's conscience was obviously eaten by dogs, so he had to go to the city with a white flag and call for the door.

The general who defended the city was Zu Dabi. When he saw the Jiannu envoy coming, he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly sent his own soldiers to inform Yuan Chonghuan, who was chatting with the guests in the city.

Jin Qiliang looked at it from the side and said, "There is no need to inform Lord Yuan, the purpose of the envoy sent by Jiannu is nothing more than to persuade him to surrender. , the messenger who came to persuade him to surrender was either a traitor or a slave, and he was killed with an arrow. ”

Zu Dabi shook his head and said, "Lord Jin is slow, Ningyuan City's city defense affairs, no matter how big or small, are under the jurisdiction of Lord Yuan. If Lord Yuan said to release the arrow, he would be the first to release the arrow. But before I got the instructions of Lord Yuan, I couldn't move a single soldier. ”

Jin Qiliang had no choice but to glare at the traitor Yang Yanyu on the city wall, hoping to kill him with an angry gaze. It's a pity that Jin Qiqi didn't practice special functions, and stared at the traitor for a long time, Yang Yanyu was just scared to fight under the city, but he just didn't die. (To be continued!)

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