Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Last Tartar

In the capital, a newsboy is shouting through the streets.

"The latest movement of Jiannu. General Zuo killed another thousand people in Daningwei, and Huang Taiji fled in a hurry to the direction of Shenyang. Of the 200,000 men, less than 20,000 remained. ”

The newspaper is also a must-have for travelers. Lu Xiao has been making it out for a while. This war made Daming Bao completely popular.

The main reason is that Daming Daily, as an official newspaper, can get the first-hand news of this war as soon as possible. And the people of the capital who witnessed the defense of the capital division were very interested in the emperor Taiji who fled in a hurry.

They were desperate to know when the Great Celestial Empire would be able to cut down this tartar.

In the past month, listening to the news of the defeat of the Tartars once a day, and knowing how many people he was beheaded by Zuo Liangyu, it has been a great pleasure for the people of Beijing.

A month of running away has made Huang Taiji physically and mentally exhausted. But he hasn't given up yet, because Shenyang is not far away. Although the city does not have many supplies, there are still some of them.

Over the years, he has intended to move the capital to Shenyang, so he still attaches great importance to the city. This southern expedition also regarded this place as a base camp, and of course there was a certain amount of spare grain and grass reserved.

As long as he is allowed to enter the city, with the advantage of Shenyang's city wall, he will naturally have room for maneuver.

As soon as he thought of this, Huang Taiji was full of energy again. But when he saw his tired soldiers, he felt like a knife.

At the time of the expedition, there were 200,000 troops, of which 100,000 were the elite of the Tartars. The other 100,000 people, some of whom were Han Chinese troops who had surrendered in the early years, as well as slave soldiers, and soldiers who came to support them from the stick side.

But now what!

All the miscellaneous soldiers are lost. Of the 100,000 Tartar elites, there were only more than 10,000 left. And the armor is discarded, and the morale is completely lost. This hit a very self-conscious Huang Taiji.

However, as a generation of heroes, he still quickly adjusted his mentality. After all, hope was right in front of him, so how could he give up.

After more than ten days of hard running, Shenyang City finally appeared in front of him. Looking at the Manchu royal flag on the city wall in the distance, Huang Taiji breathed a sigh of relief. The heart in his chest finally let go.

That's right, it's all my heart. That's just the Ming army's gossip, and I even took it seriously.

When he came to the city gate, Huang Taiji immediately sent someone to call the door.

Because scouts had been sent to inform them in advance, the soldiers defending the city did not hesitate at all and immediately opened the door to greet them.

Seeing the city gate open, the soldiers rushed in. Huang Taiji finally breathed a sigh of relief. In any case, he still kept the last family foundation. It's a big deal to go back to Laozhai and lurk for a few years, and then you will still compete in the world.

The soldiers defending the city were very well prepared, and directly brought hot soup and dry food to their comrades. This made the tired Tartars suddenly moved.

Seeing this, Huang Taiji did not reprimand excessively. The soldiers had suffered with him, and they should be allowed to rest at this time.

The gates weren't very wide, and it would take a little time for the soldiers to get in all of them. Huang Taiji himself was exhausted. Still, he pulled himself together. casually called a soldier beside him and asked him to send the general who was guarding the city to come and receive the order.

Huang Taiji didn't notice that the soldier glanced at him with a strange gaze, and then turned to leave. But Huang Taiji waited left and right, and never waited for the generals to come to receive the order.

There was a strange sense of horror in his heart for no reason. Immediately opened his mouth to call out to his guard, but strangely, the guard did not respond. At the same time, he actually heard the sound of fighting outside the door.

Huang Taiji didn't care about his anger, ran out of the door to take a look, and the scene in front of him made him vomit blood on the spot.

His soldiers are being slaughtered. The soldiers, who had been running for more than 40 days without sleep, thinking that they would finally be able to rest, were suffering a brutal massacre.

They had just drunk hot soup and eaten. It was when he was drowsy that a troop of cavalry suddenly rushed out of the city, and it was a harvest for the group of soldiers who could not stand up.

And Huang Taiji noticed a terrifying phenomenon. That is, the gates are closed. Only a part of the Tartars entered Shenyang City. And now, the group of people who entered has been slaughtered. The ones out there...... Huang Taiji didn't dare to think about it. He just wanted to know what was going on.

Oddly enough, the killers of those dressed Tartar soldiers, the unscrupulous killers of their 'colleagues'. But no one came to kill him.

Soon Huang Taiji saw the problem, those people were not Tartars at all, not his people. Those people turned out to be Han Chinese. Shenyang City doesn't know when, it has been taken by the Han people. He even used this to lay a trap and lure himself into the bait.

And in this way, with the last team, he plunged headlong into this trap that had been laid for an unknown amount of time.

Suddenly, Huang Taiji once again remembered the scolding of the soldier on the wall of the capital division before the siege. Is there really a Ming army who made a detour to the back of his village? But how did they get there? With so many people, it is impossible to completely avoid his sentry. How exactly do they do it?

It can't be, absolutely impossible!

How is Lao Zhai, could it be that he was really burned by him?

As soon as he thought that this matter might be true, Huang Taiji felt that his blood was surging all over his body, and he had a rush to vomit blood and die on the spot.

The fight comes and ends quickly. Thousands of soldiers, in just a stick of incense, were slaughtered by the group of killers who had been prepared for a long time.

He even saw several of his guards desperately breaking out of the encirclement, wanting to come over to protect him. But then he was slashed to the ground by a young man armed with a long knife.

When the last guard fell, Huang Taiji found that everyone was looking at him, as if waiting for something.

Huang Taiji also vaguely felt something, and he looked at the crowd. There's a young man coming.

Everyone was making way for him, and the kind of adoration, admiration, in the eyes of those soldiers, almost overflowed. Huang Taiji was very familiar with this kind of look, and once upon a time, his subordinates also looked at him like this. But now......

He didn't even have to guess to know who the person in front of him was, there was no doubt that this was the general of the Ming army named Lu Xiao. I've never seen that one before. But the entire road to the south is full of people with his shadow.

Huang Taiji settled down and opened his mouth.

"Lu Xiao, you are also a hero, can't you see that the Ming Dynasty is already in decline. I, the Qing Dynasty, am the future co-masters of the world. You have the talent of the world, I am the true son of heaven, the two of us practice, the world is in hand. What do you think? ”

Lu Xiao didn't speak, just looked at Huang Taiji with a strange gaze.

It was a long time before he spoke.

"To dominate the world, you need people. Your soldiers are dead. ”

"It's just a momentary defeat. As long as I can return to Laozhai, I will be able to pull out a strong army in less than ten years. As long as you ......"

"There is no more Lao Zhai." Lu Xiao interrupted Huang Taiji and said a sentence that made Huang Taiji directly break the defense.

"Your old village has been reduced to ashes, including all the surrounding villages, all the fertile fields, including the mountains and forests that you have relied on for generations. Everything has been reduced to ashes. I burned it!

Huang Taiji only felt a sweetness in his throat, a mouthful of blood spurted out, and the whole person fell directly to the ground.

Suddenly, he even heard Lu Xiao whispering in his ear.

"Listen, these screams, those are the last Tartars outside the city, being strangled by the Ming army. Your Majesty, soon you will be the last Tartar in this world! ”

Huang Taiji completely lost consciousness.