On the sixth day of the third month of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Yueyang came to the outside of Shengjing City, and the 100,000 army lasted for dozens of miles.

On the way from Jinzhou to Shengjing, the army led by Yue Yang was not hindered in any way, and it is estimated that Dolgon also knew that it was useless to send people to intercept it, and the army arrived at Shengjing City very smoothly.

Surrounded by a group of generals and guards, Yue Yang came to a distance of two miles from the outside of Shengjing City to watch the wall of Shengjing City.

Shengjing, formerly known as Shenyang, is the twenty-first year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1388 AD), Liaodong is the commander of the envoy to command Min Zhong to supervise the construction, Shenyang was occupied by Nurhachi in March of the sixth year of the Mandate of Heaven, and the capital was officially moved to Shenyang in the tenth year of the Mandate of Heaven, and the name was changed to Shengjing after the Emperor Taiji ascended the throne. After the Manchu Qing Dynasty occupied Shenyang, after reconstruction, the current Shengjing City Pool is more than ten miles long, the city is two feet high and nine feet, there are eight city gates and eight streets, which means that the eight flags are shared.

Looking at the tall city wall of Shengjing and the Manchu soldiers who were constantly patrolling the city wall, Yue Yang thought in his heart how to break through this fortified city, and after thinking about it, he turned his head and asked the people around him: "Shunbao, you have been in Jinzhou for more than a year, how much do you know about the situation of the defenders of Shengjing?" ”

Shunbao said without thinking: "Qi Yu Hou Ye, these days at the end of the day will continue to send people to inquire about the news of Shengjing, according to the stall report, now Shengjing City has gathered about 80,000 Tartar Eight Banner soldiers, 40,000 Han Army Banners, 20,000 Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers and horses, and more than 200,000 people in the Eight Banners in the city, it can be said that most of the Tartar soldiers and horses have gathered in Shengjing City today, as long as the Tartars in Shengjing City can be completely annihilated, the remaining Tartars are not enough to worry about Liaodong Keping!" ”

"Hmm!" Yue Yang praised: "It seems that your preparations are good, but it is not easy for us to conquer Shengjing this time, looking at the posture of this city, Dolgon is ready to fight them to the death." ”

The generals nodded silently at the dense patrol soldiers at the head of the city, these people are all veterans who are used to fighting, and naturally know what huge energy will erupt when an army puts life and death on the line.

Yang Guozhu also said on the side: "Don't worry, Master Hou, we know this truth, although our Xuanda is far superior to the Qing army in terms of morale and equipment, but we are also clear about the fierceness of the Tartars." I will never underestimate the Tartar because of this, the lion still needs all our strength to fight the rabbit, let alone us. ”

"What Lord Yang said is that we all understand the truth of the trapped beast fighting, and we are ready to fight the Tartars to the end before we come." The surrounding generals chimed in.

Seeing that everyone unanimously expressed their attitude, Yue Yang was also very pleased, it seemed that the generals were not stunned by the achievements and advanced equipment of the Xuan army over the years.

He praised: "It's good that you can clearly understand this, although we have repeatedly defeated the Qing soldiers over the years, but the more this is the case, the more we should be careful, and everyone should understand the truth that the arrogant soldiers will be defeated." Ben Hou won't say much. The order is given, and the whole army will immediately set up camp, and from tomorrow we will begin to dig trenches and cast earth walls, and firmly besiege the Tartars! ”

"Ah......h

"What?"

Yue Yang issued an order that shocked everyone, and all the generals began to look at each other. According to the temper of this marquis of Yue, shouldn't he immediately deploy artillery to attack the city? Shouldn't the Tartars be drowned with buckshot and cannonballs? Why hasn't there been a war for more than a year, and this marquis has changed his temper?

It's just that they don't understand, but since the military orders have been issued, they still have to resolutely implement them, and with the issuance of orders one after another, the 100,000 Ming army immediately took action to surround the huge Shengjing City. Early the next morning, the Qing army, which was waiting at the head of the city, was surprised to find that there was no expected tragic siege battle, and not a single shell fell into Shengjing City. Countless Ming troops turned into farmers, and in the midst of a flurry of dirt, the Ming army began to dig trenches, erect barbed wire, and put on a long-term siege rhythm, and the Manchu emperor's face immediately changed after the news reached Dorgon's ears.

"Okay, you Yue Yang, you want to trap us! Come. Immediately summon all the banner lords Baylor and the ministers to the palace to discuss the matter! ”

Soon, the banner owners and ministers left behind the things in their hands and came to the Chongzheng Palace. Looking at the many princes Belle Dolgon, he said with a calm face: "Ladies and gentlemen, you have also seen the actions of the Ming army, and the Xuan army is clearly going to trap us alive." I wonder how you're going to deal with it? ”

As soon as Dolgon's words fell, Hauge immediately stood up and said loudly: "Your Majesty, you have been raising food these days. The food currently stored in our Shengjing is enough for us to eat for at least three months, if the people in the city are allowed to save a little, it is not a problem to eat for half a year, then Yueyang wants to starve us to death It is a dream! ”

"Well, Prince Su has a point." Ao Bai also echoed: "Since Yue Yang wants to starve us to death, then let's spend it with him, and see who can't consume it first!" ”

Everyone on the side also nodded, in their opinion, the Xuan army was far away from the Guannei, and it was not easy to rely on the food transported from the Guannai to support the army of more than 100,000 for a long time, the road was long and difficult, not to mention that it might not be able to hold up for half a year or three months. Moreover, the outside of the gate is not as good as the inside of the pass, there are few people everywhere, and it is not feasible to raise food on the spot, if Yue Yang insists on consuming it, it must be them who will suffer.

Everyone discussed for a while, and most people thought that Yue Yang did not take advantage of the current high morale of the Xuanda army to attack the city was a faint move, as the saying goes, once the morale is low, this battle will not be easy to fight.

After discussing for a long time, Dolgon had no choice but to let everyone disperse and strengthen their guards to prevent the Ming army from suddenly attacking the city. Although Dolgon didn't know what medicine was sold in Yueyang's gourd, he always felt that something bad was about to happen, and he was very upset.

Not to mention that the Manchu high-level leaders in Shengjing were puzzled by Yueyang's actions, even the same was true on the side of the Xuan army, after several days of intense civil engineering work, the 100,000 army had already surrounded Shengjing City with many obstacles such as trenches, barbed wire fences and thistles, etc., if the Qing army in the city dared to rush out, they would not rush to the Xuan army with corpses.

In the handsome tent of the Xuan army's barracks, Yue Yang was sitting on a chair holding a book and slowly flipping through it, and Yue Shunbao was standing in front of him, but his expression was a little anxious.

"Young Master...... Are you really going to trap the Tartars to death? The little ones have heard that the Tartars had hoarded a lot of food before this, and it would not work to trap them to death for less than half a year. ”

Since there were only two people in the handsome tent, Shunbao naturally used the title he called when he was a scholar for Yueyang. In Shunbao's opinion, only in this way can he show that his relationship with Yue Yang is different.

Yue Yang put down the book and looked at Shun Bao and said lightly: "You kid, how many times have I sued you." When looking at the problem, we should focus on the overall situation. Let me ask you, what is the purpose of our dispatch to Liaodong this time? ”

Shunbao said without hesitation: "Naturally, it is to capture Shengjing and completely cripple the Tartars." ”

"Hmm!" Yue Yang nodded: "Now there are indeed almost all the soldiers and horses of the Tartars and more than 200,000 people stationed in Shengjing City, but do you know that there are at least hundreds of thousands of Tartars distributed around Shengjing in the huge Liaodong?" If we just annihilate the Tartars in Shengjing City, what about the hundreds of thousands of Tartars left? Do you know that these Tartar people who have formed mortal enemies with us will not come back in decades or a hundred years? So we either don't do it now, or we have to completely solve these hidden dangers! ”

Hearing this, Shunbao's heart couldn't help but jump violently, "Young Master...... You...... You don't want to give these hundreds of thousands of Tartar people to ...... Let's get rid of it all, right? ”

There should be 780,000 Tartars entrenched in Liaodong, about 300,000 in Shengjing City and soldiers, and the rest are distributed in the vast land of Liaodong with Shengjing as the center. Hearing Yue Yang say that he wanted to deal with all these Tartars, wouldn't that mean that he would kill them all? Hearing this, Rao is Yue Shunbao has been a soldier for so many years, and countless people have been killed, and he can't help but feel chills in his heart when he hears this.

Seeing Shun Bao's frightened look, Yue Yang couldn't help but laugh and scolded: "Where did you kid go, even if I am ruthless, my young master will not be so vicious as to kill all the Tartars." ”

Shunbao cautiously asked, "Then you are ......?"

Yue Yang pondered for a moment before saying, "I plan to let Wu Chengfeng scatter all the cavalry out, gather all the Tartars he can find within a radius of two hundred miles, and then move to live in Guannei, what do you think?" ”

"All moved to Kannai?" Shunbao muttered two sentences and muttered for a long time, and then slowly came back to his senses. "You mean to let these Tartars live with us Han people...... Well...... Wonderful...... Wonderful! Shunbao patted his thigh vigorously and said excitedly: "There are hundreds of millions of Han people in our Guan, if all these Tartars are moved into the Guannei and dispersed to various places in my Ming Dynasty for resettlement, it will be like a spoonful of oil falling into a pot of water, and in less than a few decades, there will be no need to worry about the Tartars for the disaster!" ”

"The children can be taught!"

Hearing this, Yue Yang smiled. Coming from another time and space, he naturally knew that the most powerful thing of the Chinese nation was not force, nor Confucianism, but integration and assimilation.

Yes, that is, assimilation. Starting from the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, the Chinese nation developed from a small tribe in the Yellow River Valley and slowly grew stronger, integrating with the surrounding tribes one after another. In the end, it developed into the largest country in Asia and even in the world, relying on integration and assimilation, as long as any nation is intertwined with the Chinese nation. In the end, it will become a part of the Chinese nation, which is the most powerful part of the Chinese nation.

Yue Yang can't kill all the hundreds of thousands of Tartars, so it will be assimilated, and it is certain that as long as those hundreds of thousands of Tartars migrate into the pass, after decades or even hundreds of years, they will completely merge with the Chinese nation.

Suddenly, Shunbao asked again: "What if there are those Tartar people who refuse to migrate into the pass?" ”

It's just that as soon as Shunbao's words came out, he knew that he had asked a stupid question, because he had already seen the answer from the murderous aura that was inadvertently revealed in Yue Yang's eyes.

It's just that although Shunbao knew this answer, another question came up again, "Young master, can you do this small thing, why let Wu Chengfeng do it." You...... You also ...... also married Miss Xu to him, where is this kid worthy of Miss Ying......"

In the end, Shunbao's voice is getting lower and lower, Shunbao grew up in Yuejiazhuang since he was a child, it can be said that he grew up with Yue Ying, in his heart, he regards Yue Ying as both a master and a sister, and a figure like a golden branch and jade leaf, according to the young master's current status and identity, even if the young lady wants to marry, she should marry a prince or marry an important minister in the court, Wu Chengfeng, a guy from a military family, is definitely not worthy of his own miss. Since he knew that Yue Yang was going to marry Yue Ying to Wu Chengfeng, he couldn't figure it out, but he didn't dare to question Yue Yang, and now he took this opportunity to express the complaint in his heart.

Looking at Shunbao's lowered head, Yue Yang sighed lightly and said softly: "Shunbao, I know your concern for Ying'er. But this is Ying'er's own choice, I, as the eldest brother, just hope that she can live happily, and my father-in-law's family does not need marriage to consolidate their position. The fame of the husband should be obtained immediately, how can he pin the prosperity of the family on the belly of the woman! Speaking of this, Yue Yang's tone became excited.

Listening to Yue Yang's words, Shunbao's face showed a look of guilt, and he lowered his head and said, "Young master, the little one is wrong. ”

Seeing Shunbao bow his head and admit his mistake, Yue Yang smiled slightly and patted him on the shoulder: "It's good if you understand!" A few days ago, Uncle Fu reported to me, saying that he had set a family affair for you, and the woman was the daughter of a deputy general in Shanxi, which is very good! ”

Shunbao, who was still with his head down, suddenly turned red, and he stammered and just wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Yue Yang: "What are you blushing about, kid." When a man gets married, a woman gets married, and you're not too young, it's time to ask a daughter-in-law to take care of you! I already know about this, and when this battle is over, I will guarantee you to the imperial court as the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, and hand over this place to you, you need to manage it well, understand? ”

"Small...... Young Master Xie cultivated! Shun Bao knelt down in front of Shun Bao with a puff, and his voice became choked, he knew that his current qiē was given by Yue Yang. If it weren't for Yue Yang's support, he would have been just a little scholar all his life, and he could only marry a maid or a tenant's daughter who could work in the fields with an ordinary appearance. How can there be today's glory and wealth, and now the young master has even said that after solving the affairs of Liaodong, he will report to the imperial court to promote himself as the chief soldier of Liaodong. This position is amazing, it is equivalent to handing over the huge Liaodong and tens of thousands of elite soldiers to himself, what a kind of trust this is, it is difficult for him to repay the young master's great kindness in his life.

"Alright. Don't pee, the manly husband bleeds and sweats without tears, and if you really want to repay me, you can do things well. Don't disgrace me! ”

"Young master, the little one understands!" Shun Bao wiped his tears and stood up again, he knew that everything he said now was false, and the only way to repay him was to do something good for the young master......

Yue Yang led tens of thousands of troops to surround Shengjing City, neither attacking nor shouting, just silently digging trenches to repair the camp every day, posing as if they were planning to besiege for a long time, and the Manchu princes and ministers in Shengjing City were not in a hurry, in their opinion, if these Ming troops from afar continued like this, sooner or later they would retreat due to supply problems, as long as they could survive until that day, they would win. But what these people didn't know was that while they were secretly relieved, the various villages scattered around Shengjing were subjected to unprecedented catastrophe.

"Didi......"

In a burst of shrill trumpets and hurried horses' hooves, dozens of heavily armed Ming cavalry rushed into a village, driving hundreds of villagers to the village square, and an officer with a sword in his hand rode on horseback and looked coldly at the Tartar people who were driven away. Most of these people were old people, women and children, and these people were looking at the Ming cavalry who had suddenly broken into their homes with a look of horror and hatred, but many of the women and children were crying in fear.

Looking at these people, the officer led by him said coldly in jerky Manchu: "Everyone listen, we are Ming officers and soldiers, and today we will be moved into the customs by the order of Marquis Yue!" Congratulations, from today onwards you are all my Ming people, no longer have to worry about three meals a day in the future, as long as you enter the customs, Marquis Yue will give you food, seeds, farming cattle, as long as you are diligent and mix food and clothing is not a problem, now give you half an hour to hurry home and pack your things, then go with us! ”

As soon as the officer's voice fell, everyone was in an uproar. An old man in his sixties shouted: "You Ming dogs, we Jurchens are all people of the Immortal Heaven, this is the land given to us by the Immortal Heaven, and we will not enter the customs with you!" ”

The officer didn't get angry when he heard this, but instead showed a strange smile, "So you don't want to follow us into the customs?" ”

"Of course!" The old man patted his chest and said, "Unless you carry Lao Tzu's corpse over!" ”

The officer squinted at him and asked, "Oh, is there anyone who doesn't want to go to Kannai?" ”

"And me!"

"I ...... Count me in! ”

Soon a few old men stood up in the crowd, although these old men were old, but both their figures and expressions showed traces of fierceness, and it was obvious that these people were definitely not good at stubble when they were young.

"Bang ......"

"Bang ......"

As soon as the words of these old men fell, several gunshots like firecrackers rang out, and blood splattered on the bodies of several old men who stood up, and the old man in front looked at the officer with wide eyes, clutching his chest in disbelief, his eyes slowly dimmed, and finally fell to the ground with a muffled sound.

The officer raised the short gun in his hand, which was still emitting faint green smoke, blew lightly, and asked lightly, "Who else doesn't want to leave now?" (To be continued......)