"Dumb, dumb......." The ice phoenix poked its head out of the corner and beckoned to the woodland servants who were busy not far away.

After seeing Zhou Qingfeng's 'baby', Binghuang really didn't leave. Jia Gang under her was transferred to Jinzhou, and such a rare ghost cultivator naturally had to be sent to Wen Ruolan to serve as a research object. It should help in the development of spirituality.

In fact, Zhou Qingfeng also wanted to send Binghuang and Dumb as well. This desolate alien species that has been reincarnated countless times, a mountain spirit and wild monster that is close to the forest, is also an extremely rare sample.

It's just that this topic is not so easy to talk about, so Zhou Qingfeng first threw Dumb to Xu Bing for training. This seemingly incompetent spirit is used to count the fields and explore minerals. It was a good arrangement to send it to the Ministry of Mines to help Shi Stone in the later stage.

As for the ice phoenix, it is more difficult for this little girl to work than to ascend to the sky. After blasting the city wall, she deliberately went to the more than 20-meter gap that was blown up to check, and then she hung on Zhou Qingfeng's buttocks and cried all day, scolding Zhou Qingfeng for bullying children. This will find Dumb who was working under Xu Bing, called the other party over, and said in a low voice: "Dumb, am I kind to you?" ”

Hearing this, Dumb knew that the little phoenix was going to make trouble. It replied angrily, "Master, what are you going to do again?" ”

"What do you mean by a bad thing?" Binghuang scolded angrily: "That Zhou Qingfeng is necrotic, he used so much black powder to scare me." I will go and steal all his treasures, and scatter them into the rivers, and throw them into the fields, and into the woods. There are certainly not many such powerful things. I stole it from him, see if he dares to scare me?! ”

Binghuang crossed his waist, stepped on his feet, and asked Dumb, "Say, can you help me?" ”

Dumb sighed again, "That black powder is actually a Taoist alchemy, and it's not a precious thing, there are tens of thousands of catties in the warehouse, how can you steal it?" ”

"You lied to me!" Binghuang raised his head angrily, "The moment Zhou Qingfeng blew up the city wall, it was like hundreds of ninth-level masters casting spells at the same time, and the moment it exploded made my brain stupid." Taoist gunpowder is not so powerful. How can there be tens of thousands of catties? Do you think it's cabbage growing in the ground? If you want it, you can do it! ”

"There are really tens of thousands of catties, Zhou Qingfeng personally took me to see it. He said that this is produced in some kind of industrial nitrate field, and it sounds like a cabbage in the field, which grows when it is planted and planted. Dumb felt that his speculation should be the truth.

Binghuang refused to accept this fact, and shook his head desperately, "Impossible, absolutely impossible." If he is so powerful, won't I be bullied to death by him in the future? Thinking that he used so much black powder to blow up, my immortal body was about to be wiped out. I couldn't sleep at night for the past few days, and I felt scared when I thought about it. ”

Little Phoenix is insecure, and her mind is full of thoughts. Dumb refused to mess with her, she slipped away without saying goodbye the next day, Zhou Qingfeng couldn't find her, and asked Dumb only to learn that the girl dropped a sentence - you are all too bad, I want to go to my mother for help.

"Why is this girl so naughty?" Zhou Qingfeng was also helpless.

Dumb explained: "The ice phoenix has countless lifetimes of memories, but she will only recover the memories of that age until she reaches a certain age. She's only eight years old now, and she only has countless memories of being eight years old. If she wants the memory of being twenty, she will have to wait until she is twenty years old. So now she is a very naughty child, especially noisy. ”

"Ugh......." Zhou Qingfeng sighed: "Then who is her mother?" Another ice phoenix? ”

"No, Ice Phoenix's mother is Fire Phoenix." Dumb said.

"Where is this fire phoenix?"

"I guess it's in the Imperial Palace. Flood desolation xenomorphs tend to live with real dragons when they become adults. There are many old monsters with extremely high cultivation in the capital of the Ming Dynasty. The fire phoenixes in this life are hundreds of years old, so they shouldn't run around. ”

"Since Binghuang has a mother, how could she be trapped in Ehe Cullen in the first place?"

"The desolation and aliens are like this, it doesn't matter if you have a child, this is called experience. Anyway, they can re-enter reincarnation after they die, and it is not a matter for them to suffer a little. ”

"Who is the father of the ice phoenix?"

"The ice phoenix has no father, and their phoenix clan only has females, and they can conceive a fetus by condensing essence and blood."

It's amazing!

"Well, it's gone." It was impossible for Zhou Qingfeng to chase after her, and no one could harm the girl on a snowy day, so he could only go with her.

In this way, from January to February, Liaodong was still bitterly cold, and everything within the 'revolutionary army' was proceeding in an orderly manner. Liaodong City was gradually emptied, and no population or materials were left. Houses that cannot be moved are also demolished and burned as firewood. Except for a few monuments of some historical value, the others did not even give Nurhachi a single tile.

The work of clearing the fortified walls was carried out extremely intensively, and from Liaoyang to the south, all towns were cleared without exception. If the Jurchens wanted to attack the 'revolutionary army' from this road, they had to bring a large number of auxiliaries to re-operate - this was easy to destroy, but difficult to build, and Huang Taiji would have to work at that time.

At the end of February, the temperature began to rise, and the garrison of Hupiyi began to retreat south. It wasn't until Huang Taiji's sentry detective rode cautiously outside the Tiger Skin Post for several days that he found that the enemy here had slipped away before the early spring thawed. When he sent people to Liaoyang again, he found that the capital of Liaodong had turned into a broken and empty city.

Four large gaps more than 20 meters long were blown around the city wall, and the collapsed city wall filled in the moat outside the city. The city was littered with rubble, and there were few decent houses in sight. Originally, the most prosperous place in eastern Liaodong had become a ghost domain, and no shadow could be seen. This place has completely lost all the functions of a military town and the center of Liaodong.

Huang Taiji rode into the city and saw this devastation, and sighed in his heart with hatred. He asked a scholar beside him, "Xiandou, how far is Liaoyang from Haizhou?" ”

The scholar is in his early twenties, and he is very young. He bowed down and replied: "Back to the master, according to the records of "Liaodong Chronicles", Liaoyang is about one hundred and twenty miles away from Haizhou. ”

"Where's the distance from Gaizhou?"

"Another hundred and thirty miles from Gaizhou."

"Then in the more than two hundred miles, how did Zhou Qingfeng transport people over, and how did he move the entire city?"

"According to the scouts, there are people in the 'revolutionary army' who are good at building ice roads, and in winter they use the ice and snow on the ground to build a road for climbing the plow. Therefore, it is extremely fast and convenient to transport and ship. ”

Huang Taiji also heard about the ice road. He went outside the city to check again, but found that the 'revolutionary army' had destroyed even the ice tunnel when it left. Judging from the traces left on the ground, this ice road is extremely smooth, and it is even a two-lane road. Judging from Huang Taiji's eyes, this amount of work will not be small.

"If I am asked to build more than 250 miles of ice roads in winter, I am afraid that I will have to die tens of thousands of Baoyi Ahha." How many revolutionaries died? Huang Taiji asked again, "Besides, just building an ice road can empty a city?" I don't believe it. ”

The young scholar didn't dare to talk nonsense, but he suggested to Huang Taiji: "If the master wants to know this number, it is not difficult, send people to the suburbs of the city and both sides of the road to check, if there are a large number of slaves who build the road are exhausted and frozen to death, they will definitely not be buried too far." Maybe there are a lot of bones on the side of the road. ”

Huang Taiji really didn't believe in evil, and made a lot of efforts to find out the strength of the 'revolutionary army'. He sent people to investigate the surrounding areas of Liaoyang, and even asked the scouts to go more than 100 miles to the city of Haizhou. This hard work has finally paid off, and even some Han people who did not follow the migration have been caught, and they know how much the 'revolutionary army' has lost in the process of moving away a city.

In the bitter cold environment, it is impossible to move more than 100,000 people and huge quantities of materials without dying. However, the specific death toll was much lower than Huang Taiji's estimate, and the Jurchens found many burial cemeteries, and the total number of bones found did not exceed 500. Most of them are Liaoyang locals who have been relocated, and most of them are elderly people.

This number should not be complete, but even if it is several times more, it is not much. Huang Taiji was extremely surprised by this, and he personally interrogated the captured Han people in Liaoyang, and learned that the 'revolutionary army' had obtained a large amount of grain in and around Liaoyang, and that a quarter of this grain had been taken out to feed the migrating population.

The poor people in Liaoyang not only did not suffer much this winter, but even grew a few catties after eating enough. It is precisely because they found that they could eat enough with the 'revolutionary army' that the people of Liaoyang not only did not resist the relocation, but actively cooperated, wishing to leave this ghost place where war might be fought at any time as soon as possible, and they did not hesitate to break their homes and businesses.

"It's hard, it's too hard." After Huang Taiji found out the truth, he said several words 'difficult'. After he took Liaoyang, he had the intention of moving the troops forward. But it's useless to just come over, and you have to transport slaves here to live. It was also 120 miles from Shenyang to Liaoyang, and it took half a month to move 10,000 people.

If you don't do a lot of things yourself, you don't know the difficulty at all, and transporting 1,000 people is completely different from transporting 10,000 or even 100,000 people. This kind of overall relocation involves too many details, and not paying attention to an inconspicuous place will drag down the overall efficiency.

Huang Taiji set up a temporary camp in Liaoyang, which was always about 2,000 people, and it was difficult to transport food if there were too many people. Because Liaoyang has no way to raise food on the spot. The young man who followed Huang Taiji to counsel the military affairs 'Xian Dou' felt very painful because of this, and he had already brought all his classmates and teachers from the Shenyang County School over, but the efficiency of administrative management was extremely low.

It was not until the beginning of March that the temperature rose again, and the number of slaves from the direction of Shenyang gradually increased. After learning of the situation of Liaoyang City, Nurhachi specially sent one of his generals with 10,000 troops, asking to continue southward and wait for an opportunity to seize Haizhou.

After these 10,000 horses arrived in Liaoyang, Huang Taiji personally greeted him, and greeted the general with great respect: "Uncle Yidu, with you here, I feel at ease." ”

Who is this man?

It was Nurhachi's general who followed him when he raised his army, brave and good at fighting, deeply trusted, and gave the name 'Baturu' to the yellow banner of the commander, the chief officer of the left wing, one of the five ministers of Dajin, Niu Colu. Forehead is also both.

The veteran was in his fifties, not very strong, but his face was weathered, his limbs were thick, and he was not angry. He came on horseback, covered in armor, stretched out his hand to help Huang Taiji and said, "Sibeile, your father Khan said that you encountered a great enemy, and specially ordered me to come to help in the battle. I have brought twenty of the Ox Records and Yu Ding from the Yellow Banner, and this great enemy, even if it is as strong as iron, will crush him this time. ”

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