Qi Hu Qi Baihu, with a cadre of his men, rode horses, and returned to the Cattle Army Fort.

The place of the Scalper Fort is quite large, and there are five or six hundred people living in it.

Qi Hu just sat down, thinking about whether he should find a way to take revenge on He Xuan, otherwise he would have no face, but thinking of He Xuan's terrible skills, he still couldn't help shrinking, and he didn't dare.

At this moment, he suddenly saw several puffs of wolf smoke rising from the distant sky, and his face couldn't help but change.

Wolf smoke, liters are also regular.

Generally, a bunch of wolf smoke indicates that the number of people is less than 100.

Two beams of wolf smoke indicate that there are less than 500 people.

Three beams of wolf smoke indicate that a person is between five hundred and one thousand.

More than four beams of wolf smoke indicate that there are more than 1,000 people.

And the two beams of wolf smoke coming from the distant sky, are the other party between 100 and 500 people?

It doesn't seem to be too big.

Qi Hu thought so, but saw that in the other direction, two more puffs of wolf smoke floated up.

At this time, Qi Hu's face couldn't help but change, and he understood why.

Of course, according to another way of saying it, that is to fight grass valleys.

The locust plague in 1639 involved the entire northern part of the Ming Dynasty. The territory of the Qing Dynasty was also connected to the north of the Ming Dynasty. The locusts don't care about you, what the Ming Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty does, they fly over the same way, and eat and eat like crazy. The Qing country originally had few grain fields, and it was also a disaster year when the locusts made such a fuss.

However, the Qing Kingdom's military strength was stronger than that of the Ming Kingdom, so after encountering a natural disaster, their first thought was to attack the cities of the Ming Kingdom, rob the grain, and rob the money.

The cities in the north of the Ming Kingdom have also been plagued by locusts, and now there is also no food, but isn't there money?

As long as the Qing State grabbed the money, he could buy a lot of grain through the Jin merchants.

Here, I have to mention Jin Shang.

In the late Wanli period, after Nurhachi betrayed the Ming Dynasty and established the Later Jin regime in Liaodong, the foreign trade business of the Jin merchants was severely hit. Because in the face of the attack of the Later Jin, the Ming Dynasty army was repeatedly defeated, so it used economic warfare to carry out an economic blockade of the Later Jin.

At that time, the situation was that the Later Jin army broke through the towns of the Ming Dynasty and looted a large amount of gold and silver, but these gold and silver that could not be eaten and drunk not only failed to enhance the strength of the Later Jin regime, but because there was too much gold and silver, it caused inflation and weakened its strength.

The Jin businessmen who encountered problems in development saw an opportunity to make a fortune. The Jin merchants had all kinds of materials urgently needed by Houjin in their hands, and Houjin had a large amount of gold and silver in the eyes of the merchants. Thus, the classic saying in "Capital" - if there is a 50% profit, they will take risks, if there is a 100% profit, they will go crazy, if there is a 200% profit, they dare to trample on the principles of everything in the world - has become a reality. The two sides hit it off, and the Jin merchants began to risk their lives, violating the ban of the Ming government, smuggling grain, gunpowder, metal, salt and other materials to the Houjin. Among them, Fan Yongdou, Wang Dayu, Wang Dengku, Tian Shenglan and other eight are the most famous.

Moreover, these Jin merchants not only smuggled materials, but also collected intelligence about the Ming Dynasty for the Later Jin regime. Li Guangdou wrote in the article "How Did China's No. 1 Merchant Gang "Jin Shang" Decline?": "At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Later Jin Dynasty rose, and in order to pursue greater profits, the Jin merchants even engaged in the business of 'connecting foreign countries'. According to history, Houjin's gunpowder, eighty percent of the grain, and more than sixty percent of the metal were all provided by the Jin merchants. Even Gyeonggi intelligence, down to the names of the guards at each pass, the number of soldiers, and the details of equipment, were provided by the Jin merchants. It can be said that the Jin merchants made great contributions to the overthrow of the late Ming regime. ”

The Later Jin army continued to bleed from the Ming Dynasty through war, and the Jin merchants continued to transfuse blood for the Later Jin regime through smuggling, and eventually, the Ming Dynasty collapsed under internal and external attacks. Therefore, Wen Jianping said in "Jin Shang, the Gravedigger of the Ming Dynasty": "If there is no financial strength of the Jin Shang, there is no courage of the Manchu army, and it is impossible for the Manchu Qing Dynasty to defeat the Ming Dynasty and seize the Han world, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the Jin Shang were the gravediggers of the Ming Dynasty." ”

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After Qi Hu found out that the Qing soldiers were coming to invade the border again, he immediately issued an order: "All obey the order, everyone, return to the military fort immediately." Close the gates and prepare for battle. ”

He can't even think about Qingshandun now, and he will protect his life first.

As soon as the people in the Scalper Military Fort heard Qi Hu's words, their faces changed greatly, and they naturally knew the horror of the Qing army's invasion of the border. Everyone mobilized, the city gates that went back to the city, the city gates that locked the city gates, the city walls that went up to the city walls, the ones who went to the treasury to move the defensive materials, everyone was ready to fight a tough battle.

Qi Hu stood on the city wall: "I hope those Qing soldiers don't target me." ”

Sometimes, the Qing soldiers aimed directly at some towns and towns, and did not look down on the military forts.

Qi Hu hoped that this would be the case.

But before the scalper fort was ready, dust was flying in the distance.

An army approached on horseback.

This army, about three or four hundred people.

All on horseback.

One by one, they either wore helmets on top of their heads, or they wore extremely ugly money rat tails.

The person riding at the front was a middle-aged man with an extremely tall figure and wearing silver armor, this person had leopard eyes and was holding a large knife.

Beside him, on both sides, and a little behind, were warriors on horses, all dressed in silver armor, holding tiger spears or long knives in their hands, and bows and arrows on the sides of their horses.

And the people who rode behind were all dressed in cotton armor, holding long knives in their hands, and bows and arrows were placed at the waists of their horses.

These people, awe-inspiring, slaughtered.

They are the devils who have stepped out of the fog!

They are the devils who trample on peace!

The person at the head is a bull record of the Qing soldiers.

Niu Lu is the name of the official position, and the smallest military unit of the Qing soldiers is a Niu Lu, and there are 300 soldiers under a Niu Lu.

And now, it is the time when the Qing State is at its peak and the country is the strongest. There are 308 Manchurian cattle records, 76 Mongolian cattle records, and 16 Han army cattle records, a total of 400 records.

In the entire Qing Kingdom, there were a total of more than 100,000 troops.

And the leader of this Qing army, Niu Lu, is called Suotu, Suotu, which originally means warrior in Manchu.

Suo Tu looked at the scalper fort that was locking the city gate, but had not yet been completely locked, sneered, waved his hand, and shouted in Manchu: "Siege!"

With a brush, the Qing soldiers under him attacked like a fish.

Seeing this, Qi Hu's heart couldn't help but tighten, and this was what he was most afraid of. He could only call to the hundreds of soldiers under him: "Fight! If you don't fight, you will only die." ”

But he said it easily, the Ming army under him was not elite in the first place, and they were hungry and full all year round, so how much combat effectiveness they had. When they encountered the Qing soldiers who were strong and strong, and their numbers far exceeded them, they collapsed almost instantly. The brave Ming army in front stepped forward to fight, but was immediately hacked to death.

The Ming army in the back saw that the Ming army in front of them was like this, and they no longer had the heart to fight, and fled frantically, but where the speed of people was as fast as horses, they were also caught up and hacked to death quickly.

Where is this fighting, this is a one-sided crushing, one-sided slaughter.

The Ming army was quickly hacked to death!

The families of the soldiers, women and children were running away, but they were caught up by the Qing soldiers who were riding behind them, and they stabbed from behind, brushing forward, leaving behind the crazy laughter of the Qing soldiers.

There are even a few Qing soldiers, compared to the killing game, than in a certain period of time, which kills more people.

Here, all of a sudden, it became a hell on earth.