The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 254 Who's the People?

"Greetings to General Ding." Tong Puhan knelt down in front of Ding Yi with a low eyebrow and a flattering expression on his face.

There was also a group of kneeling behind him, all of them were mid-level officers of the Han army Zuo Ling and below, there were about 60 people.

Ding Yi looked at them indifferently, everyone was so greedy for money, it really made people want to chop off their heads.

He thought for a while and said slowly: "Brother Tong, get up, everyone is Han Chinese, brothers, get up, don't be too polite."

"General Ding is benevolent and righteous." Tong Puhan was overjoyed, and the Han officers behind him were also overjoyed. It seemed that we were right to surrender.

"Although we won this battle, there are still many things to do, and we need the help of Tong brothers." Ding Yi said.

Tong Puhan naturally agreed.

Then Ding Yi ordered that the more than 4000 Han troops who surrendered drive all the people in the city out of their homes and gather outside the city.

Tong Puhan immediately led someone to do it.

There are more than 1 original Ming people in this city, plus a few hundred later Jin and Mongolian people, the total is about [-].

It took half a day to gather all of them outside the city.

In addition, more than 300 various wooden carts and carriages were found from the city, 200 intact military horses, more than 500 mules of various kinds, more than 3000 cattle, more than [-] sheep, thousands of chickens and ducks, etc. were all rushed outside the city, and a large number of Ordnance supplies gathered together.

Then, Ding Yi ordered more than 4000 Han troops to set fire to the entire Gaizhou City, fill up all the wells, and burn all the rivers in the city where the corpses of the Jin soldiers were thrown, and where there were grass and trees. .

All houses, all burned down.

After Ding Yi gave the order, Tong Puhan was dumbfounded.

In history, only the late Jin army destroyed the city and houses after capturing the city of the Ming people, and no Ming general has ever done this.

Mao Wenlong also occupied Jinzhou Fuzhou back then, but he had never done so before.

Not only did Ding Yi do this, but he did it even more ruthlessly than Hou Jin. He burned Gaizhou to the point where no grass could grow, and throwing corpses into the river was even more vicious.

Some Lushun generals also have doubts. This Gaizhou is much larger than Jinzhou. We will rebuild it in the future, but will it cost a lot of manpower and material resources?
"That's better than letting Hou Jin occupy this place."

"After Jin occupied this place, he owned more than [-] mu of fertile land in the surrounding area."

"If they are not stationed in Gaizhou, it will be difficult for them to farm."

"If you want to be stationed in Gaizhou, you have to rebuild."

"War between the two countries is not a simple military confrontation."

"Economy, construction, logistics are all important."

"If they want to rebuild Gaizhou, they will waste a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, and delay their other development and construction steps."

"This is good for our Lushun army, not bad."

After listening to Ding Yi's explanation, everyone finally understood.

For example, they want to rebuild Jinzhou, mobilize more than 2 people, and provide a large amount of grain and resources, which greatly delays the construction and development of other places in Lushun.

If the Hou Jin did not rebuild Gaizhou, what would happen to the fertile land around Gaizhou?
Rebuilding Gaizhou will require more manpower and material resources.

At around [-]:[-] p.m. that day, a great fire ignited throughout Gaizhou City. The flames soared to the sky and continued to burn for five days and nights. This event will shock the entire Dajin Kingdom in the future.

When the whole city of Gaizhou was surrounded by raging fire, Ding Yi was taking about [-] surrendered troops, driving various carriages, and preparing to return to Lushun with the whole army.

At this time, there were still more than 1 people standing there in a daze.

But when the Ming army began to let them leave Gaizhou with the troops, suddenly, I don't know who took the lead, although wept loudly: "I won't leave, this is my home."

"I'm not leaving either." Many people cried and shouted, and even began to push the Ming army.

Zhao Dashan, Mao Xin and others looked at each other in disbelief.

Ding Yi's face was also very ugly. He didn't expect that the people of Gaizhou had been tamed by Hou Jin for too long.

"What should we do? Many Ming people refuse to leave?" Zhao Dashan remembered that Mr. Ding liked people the most, but right now the people refused to leave unless they were forced to do so with a knife.

But once the knife is raised, the reputation will be bad.

Ding Yi thought to himself, this is not necessarily the people of the Ming Dynasty, Gaizhou was one of the earliest cities occupied by the Hou Jin, and many people lived here for more than ten years.

He could only shake his head and sigh: "We can't help the Liao people on Phi Island, and we can't control them."

"Even if they don't want to leave, we won't force them. You can send someone to yell at them. Those who are willing to leave will be taken away. Those who are unwilling will not be forced."

Many people here have been tamed and brought back with reluctance, they might still be a scourge in the future.

The main reason is that there are too many people. If more than 1 people are brought back, the potential danger is relatively high.

So Ding Yi made a decision to let Empress Jinhuang Taiji know that he would vomit blood. He set fire to Gaizhou, took 1 soldiers, abandoned more than [-] people, and returned to Lushun.

But when they saw that the Ming army ignored them, some of the more than 1 people at the scene wanted to follow the team and chased after them.

Naturally, Ding Yi also kept people behind, and shouted when he saw anyone: "The people only go back to Jinzhou, hoard their land and live in Jinzhou. If you want to, just follow us."

"Can we go back to Tongzhou?" Sure enough, some people asked, it seems that after Jin entered the customs last time, he was arrested.

"No, only settle in Jinzhou."

Many people watched them leave numbly, neither asking nor chasing them.

In the end, there were only more than 600 people who were willing to follow Ding Yi's army back to Jinzhou.

Most of the people stood there blankly, not knowing what to do. These people were ruled by Hou Jin for too long, and many of them have already been tamed.

After the army walked for five miles and the people were no longer in sight, Ding Yi immediately ordered the cavalry to set fire to the rice along the road.

Set fire to the rice that everyone around can see.

Immediately, a cavalryman said that the rice field is now in the period of roasting, and the rice field is very hard. It can be walked on horseback, and then chopped with a knife, which saves time and is more efficient.

Ding Yi agreed.

So thousands of cavalry under Zhang Jing's troops rode along the surrounding fields and stepped on the fields, slashing with their knives at the same time.

The rice is chopped off in flakes.

Houjin hoards at least 10,000+ mu of land on the road from Gaizhou to Jinzhou.

Except for the bad roads for horses, almost [-]% of them were destroyed by Ding Yi's soldiers and horses.

And every village that these hoarding fields passed through was originally a concentration of Houjin villages, and they were also burned.

Tong Puhan watched the Ming army pass through every village all the way, taking away everything that could be taken away, and burning the ones that could not be taken away, and destroying all the fields that could be destroyed. , A hundred times more ferocious than the Houjin army back then.

He couldn't help but think that that day, he chatted with Li Shuitai, two generals of the Han army. Li Shuitai said that Ding Yi, a famous general, is different from other famous generals. In prosperous times, this person must be a traitor, and in troubled times, he must be a hero.

This person is immortal, and in the future, it will definitely be a serious problem for Da Jin's confidantes.

Tong Puhan wanted to laugh when he heard that, of course he knew exactly what talents there were in the Ming army.

In the current Ming Dynasty, there is no good general who can fight against the Hou Jin.

Combined, Mao Wenlong and Zu Dashou can be counted as half.

Even if there were really good generals in the Ming Dynasty, it would be useless for any good generals to be commanded by Chongzhen.

Tong Puhan said with a smile at the time: "With the Emperor Chongzhen behind him commanding, plus his useless civil servants of the Manchu Dynasty, it is useless for you to give the Ming Dynasty ten Han Xins."

"Only I, Dajin, are invincible in the world."

Tong Puhan laughed at Li Soltai at the time, thinking that he made a fuss and was scared by Ding Yi after the first battle.

But seeing what Ding Yi did today, I finally knew that Li Soltai was right.

In the Ming Dynasty, no one could compare to Ding Yi.

Only he set fire to Gaizhou and gave up more than 1 Ming people, which is impossible for any Ming general in the world.

Mao Wenlong couldn't do it either.

If this guy has an army of [-] in the future, he might really destroy Houjin.

And judging from what he did to the people of the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that even the Ming Dynasty will be destroyed together in the future.

But he didn't know that the common people of the Ming Dynasty in his eyes were already the common people of the late Jin Dynasty in Ding Yi's eyes.

(End of this chapter)