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Chapter 259 of the second volume of the Song of Winter's Song is in hot pursuit

"Your Excellency's military order, you will never be allowed to fight a decisive battle with the Qing captives under Shuozhou City!" Yang 6 Kai spoke seriously.

Zhai Zhe smiled bitterly and shook his head, of course he wouldn't do this. He did not go to great lengths to enter the fortress in order to kill the only men and horses under the city of Shuozhou, if it was only 10,000 horses from Abatai, he dared to stay on the outskirts of the city to help defend it, and when he heard that Dorgon's army was close behind, he lost the courage to fight.

"Brother Yang, did you hear the voice scolding me in Shuozhou City?" Zhai Zhe looked lonely.

Yang 6 Kai was a little angry, and said: "What do the fools in the village know, a pair of eyes are only staring at the gruel in their own pot, if they all follow their ideas, this Ming Dynasty will not have to resist the Qing Dynasty's Koubian." ”

"So I can't stay in Shuozhou City, I'm afraid that the situation on the battlefield will be ruined at a critical juncture." Zhai Zhe gave himself a good excuse. He now has some experience of the difficulties of being a Ming military general, he met Lu Xiangsheng, a governor who understands military affairs. If someone else ordered him to stick to Shuozhou, he could only be helpless.

The four thousand cavalry retreated overnight in the direction of the pass according to the initial plan, and the scolding left by Zhai Zhe was even greater. This time, even the official gentry in the city couldn't sit still, and they wrote to Wu Fu, the governor of Shanxi, to denounce the Datong border army for fearing the enemy like tigers, and fled when they saw the Qing captives. Wu Fu is a native of Jiangsu, born in the Donglin Party, and has a good relationship with Lu Xiangsheng, so he knew his plan and silently suppressed these complaints for Zhai Zhe.

In late March, after experiencing the twists and turns of the Battle of Shifuling. Dolgon led a large army to invade Shanxi, besieged Shuozhou, and the elite soldiers and horses did not stop, and went south for a hundred miles to capture Shenchi County in one day, and were blocked by Ningwu Pass. Holding the border forts of the counties of the Ming army, Dolgon was like a fish in water, and the nearly 10,000 people gathered in Shenchi County all fell into the hands of the Qing captives.

The city of Shenchi County is full of black smoke, and the people here have not been plagued by soldiers for decades, and they have tasted the suffering brought by the troubled times. Shenchi is located between Datong and Taiyuan, and is more than ten miles away from Ningwuguan, an important town in Shanxi. The People's Mutiny Army did not wantonly plunder to the north, the Qing captives did not invade so south, and the surrounding disasters were repeated, and they lived peacefully for more than ten years, but after all, they still couldn't escape.

Dolgon stood ten miles outside the city, and the Jurchens shouted and drove the people out of the city, and countless people fell and died along the way.

"Tell the prince, there is food in the city!" A fast horse galloped in front of Dolgon, and the siege of the city dismounted.

"How much?" A gleam flashed in Dorgon's eyes.

"There are twenty or thirty thousand stones!"

With so many people in the city, of course there would be food, and Dolgon's sinister gaze swept over the piles of refugees who had gathered miles away, and he now had no food to feed them. Tens of thousands of Mongols in the steppe were eyeing him, and he was not able to escort them to Liaodong.

"Let these people come together one by one!" He stretched out his hand to the refugee camp.

"Wow!" That Ala-egzhen was ordered to leave.

After about two hours, the city of Shenchi County calmed down, and the mule and horse carts coming out of the East City Gate lined up and headed north. This food is only enough for the army to eat for five or six days, the pressure on Dolgon is increasing, after the rainy season comes, the road from the steppe to transport military food into the congestion is more difficult, the Mongols are like a sharp blade hanging over their heads, he knows that the city of Shuozhou has a large population, the soldiers are good enough to eat, if they can be captured, they can solve the urgent need.

The people of Shenchi were surrounded by bright knives, and they didn't dare to come out, Dolgon inspected for a week, and ordered: "Let half of these people and squires go back to Shanxi, saying that as long as the Ming Dynasty hands over the murderer Zhai Zhe, the murderer of Yue Tuo, the remaining half of them can go home safely." ”

"Wow!"

The refugee camp resounded with the cries of their wives being separated, and the Jurchen soldiers would not be able to persuade them well, and they would immediately leave a different place if they did not obey the order.

Five thousand people left the camp and headed south, and Dolgon witnessed these people hovering in front of the Ningwu Pass, and the defenders of the pass did not dare to open the door when they saw the Jurchen cavalry in the distance. If the Ming Dynasty did not make mistakes, he would have no chance of winning this war, but the Qing Dynasty has grown from the mistakes of the Ming Dynasty over the years.

"Retreat, I want to capture Shuozhou City!" Dorgon turned his horse's head.

"What about the rest of the Han Chinese?"

"Qingzhuang stays, and the rest of the people are beheaded outside Shenchi City!"

The Qing soldiers and horses retreated to Shuozhou, and Dolgon urgently mobilized artillery battalions to enter the fortress to prepare for the storming of Shuozhou City.

Late at night.

The sound of hooves and calls on the mountain road was mixed together, torches dispelled the gloomy darkness, and a cavalry galloped through the mountain road west of Shenchi County. Zhai Zhe immediately led the cavalry to arrive after getting the news from the pass, but it was too late. After dawn, the muddy cavalry arrived at the silent county town of Shenchi, and the grass outside the eastern city was full of dense corpses, blood mixed with stagnant water.

Zhai Zhe glanced at it, and immediately turned his back, he had been fighting hard outside the fortress for many years, and there were dozens of lives killed by his own hands, but he had never seen such a hell on earth, this is war, this is even more slaughter! Wrath! Anger ensued, and a great sense of powerlessness invaded his body.

In this moment, he suddenly understood what he was doing for.

Xiao Zhiyan and Feng Qin, who accompanied him, couldn't hide the compassion on their faces, they had killed, but they had never done anything against the defenseless people.

Only Yang 6 Kai looked as usual and said, "Go into the ground and bury all these people!" He followed Lu Xiangsheng to chase down thieves in the Central Plains, such a situation is commonplace, when Lu Xiangsheng defeated Gao Yingxiang under the city of Chuzhou, and saw that Gao Yingxiang slaughtered nearly ten times the corpses of the people.

The cavalry dismounted and dug a large pit in the rain-soaked land, mixed the corpses in one place, and piled them up in the earth.

"I don't want to run away anymore!" Zhai Zhe stood opposite Yang 6 Kai, his expression tangled, "Maybe this disaster is really brought in by me." ”

"Don't be impulsive! You are now the only cavalry in Datong Town that can maneuver! Yang 6 Kai sternly warned, "It is difficult to endure for a while, and only then will there be a day when you will raise your eyebrows, if you fold here, the adult's mind will be in vain." ”

"But ......"

Yang 6 Kai stretched out his hand to stop him and said: "My lord's plan is to stick to Xuanfu and Shifuling, give up Shanxi, clear the grain and grass, and not last long. The second half of this sentence should be Lu Xiangsheng's original words, Yang 6kai unconsciously imitated Lu Xiangsheng's tone when he said it, so that Zhai Zhe could experience Lu Xiangsheng's helplessness and expectation at that time.

"You are a general of Datong, you must obey the orders of the general, the last time I ambushed Abatai, the lord has severely reprimanded me." Yang 6 Kai confided the truth.

Seeing that Zhai Zhe was silent, Yang Liukai was worried that he would not be able to figure it out, and revealed: "My lord said in the letter that the right time will let you fight, and you must fight, if you are really anxious, it is better to let the Mongolians outside the fortress do it." As long as the grain route outside the fortress is broken, even if the Qing capture Shuozhou City, it will not last long. ”

Zhai Zhe heard it clearly, and his heart was cold, Lu Xiangsheng was ready to leave Shuozhou City.

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