I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 323

Chapter 322

Qiao Zhaolin struggled desperately: "You can't catch me, I...I..."

Qiao Zhaolin was preparing to move out of Wu Zongda's backer, however, he found a Jin Yiwei holding a writing brush and preparing to record.

Qiao Zhaolin immediately came to his senses. Jinyiwei is not Dali Temple and the Ministry of Criminal Justice, let alone the Department of Justice. When encountering a general big case, whether it is Dali Temple or the Ministry of Criminal Justice, I am afraid that if the big bosses involved are involved, the major incident will be reduced to a minor one. .

But Jin Yiwei is different. These guys are hounds kept by the emperor in captivity. They specialize in biting bosses.Whether it's a famous minister, a cabinet boss, or a minister of the Six Departments, let's not talk about the far ones, let's talk about the near ones. In the sixth year of the apocalypse, Yang Lian, the minister of Gu Ming, and Zuo Guangdou, the prime minister of the Zuo Temple of Dali Temple, all died in the Inside Jin Yiwei's imperial prison.

Qiao Zhaolin knew very well that it was useless for him to bite Wu Zongda out. Instead, Wu Zongda would go to prison with him. Thinking of this, Qiao Zhaolin didn't struggle anymore. If Wu Zongda was willing to save him, he would do everything possible to save him. If he is willing to save him, then it will not be too late for him to confess Wu Zongda.

The hundred households of Jinyiwei who were in charge of arresting Qiao Zhaolin were very happy, and they did the errands ordered by them with almost no effort, feeling very happy.

Qiao Zhaolin was then loaded into a carriage, transported out of the capital, and Qiao Zhaolin was delivered to Cheng Shijie, and 3000 taels of silver was in his hands. He cooperated with Jin Yiwei, and Cheng Shijie had always had a good reputation, saying it was 3000 taels of silver. With this amount, Cheng Shijie was very generous in bribing Jin Yiwei.

An ordinary two-wheeled carriage drove all the way to the banks of the Baihe River. After leaving the city, Qiao Zhaolin obviously felt that something was wrong. Qiao Zhaolin got annoyed, so he took off the three-month-old socks and stuffed them directly into Qiao Zhaolin's mouth.

……

In Liaoyang, Sun Zhichen looked at the latest information in front of him. Huang Taiji really had no good intentions. He just chopped off the heads of the Mongols who died of froze or starvation and sent them to Liaoyang to exchange for food.

Sun Zhichen smiled lightly: "Huang Taiji thinks he's smart, and he will definitely shoot himself in the foot! Don't you know that our commander-in-chief is already prepared!"

"Then let the notice go? Let's act?"

"Take action!"

If Huang Taiji simply used military means to solve the problem of insufficient food for slaves, in fact, neither Zhou Ning, chief of staff of the Ning Navy, nor Sun Zhichen, director of the Liaodong Management Committee, had enough experience to deal with Huang Taiji.

However, Huang Taiji decided to be smart and wanted to take advantage of the advantage and not suffer the loss, so this move was exactly in the arms of Sun Chengzong. During the Battle of Dalinghe, Sun Chengzong originally thought that after Zhang Chun's troops arrived in Jinzhou, he would rest for a period of time. After Shanhaiguan's 8000 Guanning Army, 2 Sichuan Army, and [-] Zhejiang Army arrived in Jinzhou, there were [-] more horses, and Huang Taiji was basically powerless if he wanted to eat this Ming army.

In order to eat 4 horses under Zhang Chun's command, Jiannu lost nearly [-] and won a disastrous victory.But the problem is that Huang Taiji used a trick to Sun Chengzong, which can also be said to be a conspiracy.

Huang Taiji asked a businessman from Dalinghe to let him out to spread rumors in Jinzhou City, which is actually not a rumor, but what he saw and heard in the city.In July, when Dalinghe City began to be rebuilt, it was unexpected that the city had not yet been built, and the army of slaves came to the city, enclosing the third and outer third floors of Dalinghe City tightly, making it impenetrable.As the food ran out, the story of everyone eating each other began to spread in Jinzhou City.

At this time, the people in Jinzhou City couldn't sit still, and began to force Sun Chengzong to order Zhang Chun to reinforce Dalinghe City. As a result, they were defeated. After [-] Ming troops fought fiercely, more than two-thirds of the troops were killed in battle. The rest surrendered to Jiannu.

Now Sun Chengzong used the same trick on Huang Taiji, it can be said that he used his own way to return it to him.

In a dilapidated courtyard in Shenyang City, several Mongolian generals chatted together.

"Have you received any food?"

"It's here, each family will be divided according to the head, and each person will have a fight!"

"Me too, I got food too!"

"Hey, do you know? How did these grains come from?"

"how did it get here?"

"It is said that the heads of our Mongolians were exchanged with the Ming people!"

"Ah, it's true, don't talk nonsense, if this word gets out, you'll lose your head!"

"Can you talk nonsense? I was on duty last night. I was on a business trip to send a batch of things to Shilipu outside the city. On the way, the axle of a large cart broke, and the things on the cart fell off. Guess what it is?"

"what?"

"Human heads, densely packed with human heads!"

"Then it can't be concluded that it is the head of our Mongols, right? Besides, why do Ming people want a head?"

"You don't know that, do you? The head of Jiannu is worth 50 taels of silver in Ming Dynasty, and the Ming people bought the head from Jiannu as a military exploit. So, a while ago, we were all short of food , and now there is food again!"

"hiss……"

A Mongolian general took a deep breath: "Don't mention this, I don't know yet. The nine members of the Sena family under my command have not seen them for a while. It is said that the whole family froze to death. We Mongolians have always Don’t be afraid of the cold, even if every household freezes to death, you heard that there are nine people in a family, and all of them freeze to death?”

"This is exchanging the heads of our Mongols for food from the Ming people..."

"Be careful!"

I don't know when, some things about exchanging Mongolian heads for food spread in Shenyang City.At the beginning, it was only spread in the streets and alleys, and soon it spread to every corner of Shenyang City, and then spread to the rear like a plague, and it got out of control in a blink of an eye.

The Mongolian tribes who had originally taken refuge in Huang Taiji suddenly became overwhelmed and panicked, and their eyes on the Jurchens became unfriendly.

The crowd in Shenyang City was furious. You must know that Manchus and Mongoliaes intermarried, and there were almost no pure Jurchen dignitaries. Just like Huang Taiji, seven of his fifteen concubines were Mongolians.Dorgon's ten wives and six Mongols, like Daishan and Yuetuo, are almost all in the same situation.

Queen Zhezhe, the daughter of Mongolian Horqin Beilemangus, naturally had to ask clearly in the face of this rumor. In front of Huang Taiji, she asked directly: "King Khan, are you taking the head of our Mongolian and using it with us?" Has the Ming traded for food?"

When Huang Taiji heard this, he was furious and said: "Who is spreading rumors and disturbing the morale of the army? Thoroughly investigate! We must thoroughly investigate!" King Khan was angry, so it was no small matter, and the people below immediately dispatched to start a thorough investigation.

The investigation process was not smooth. The Mongols thought that the Jurchens were going to gag them, and they reacted violently. They even fought against the Jurchens, and the situation almost got out of control.

In desperation, Huang Taiji had no choice but to convene a meeting of the leaders and ministers of the Mongolian, Han, and Jurchen tribes in the Kingdom of Jin to truthfully report the details of the deal with Ming to everyone, including how much Mongolian heads would be exchanged for how much food.

This time, the Mongolian general believed it at all. You must know that in the past, the heads of Jiannu belonged to the heads of real slaves in the Ming Dynasty. The head of the Jurchens?

It wasn't until now that Huang Taiji realized that what Ning Haijun had used for him was a conspiracy, and he had no way to quibble. Such a large-scale transaction could not be hidden from anyone, even if Huang Taiji explained that the heads of these Mongols , all because of freezing to death, or starving to death, it's just waste utilization.

When a leader loses his credibility, it is time to perish. Huang Taiji has no choice but to sit on the sidelines and watch the Ming army fight against Mobei Mongolia. His idea of ​​reaping the benefits of fishermen is shattered.

……

The news that Jing'an Fort was conquered by the Mongolian army spread quickly.After receiving the news, the surrounding Mongolian army, which was attacking in front of various passes, quickly moved to Jing'an Fort.

At this time, Jing'an Fort seemed to be a broken dam, and the Mongolian army from Mobei rushed towards Jing'an Fort like a flood. Smoke, thick smoke is a signal, which makes the Mongolian army very excited.

In the eyes of almost all Mongolian soldiers, as long as they break through the defense line of the Great Wall, they can enter the pass smoothly, killing the cowardly Han people with heads rolling and blood flowing into rivers.

Going south along the Jing'an Ancient Road, after more than ten miles, you will be on the bank of the Baihe River. Normally, crossing the Baihe River is not easy, but now that the Baihe River has been frozen solid, the Mongolian warriors can rush across it smoothly.

However, when the Mongolian army arrived at the banks of the Baihe River, they were surprised to find that there was a field line of defense on the banks of the Baihe River. About two or three thousand soldiers of the Ming army in black armor were building snow walls with shovels and patting the snow with shovels. In fact, if boiled snow water is poured on it, it will freeze into an ice wall in an instant.This kind of ice wall is actually not very high, it seems to only reach the chest of a person, which is a little over four feet.

Among these Ming soldiers, there were many peasants in ordinary clothes. They burned snow water, built snow walls, and built snow walls. They were very busy.

What surprised the Mongol army the most was that the defense line of the Ming army was extremely long. This ice wall spanned various river valleys from east to west, and it looked like five or six miles.More than [-] soldiers of the Ming army were arranged on a position five or six miles wide, which seemed very thin.

These soldiers of the Ming army did not care about the increasing number of Mongolian troops, but continued to build ice walls. Originally, the Ning Navy should dig trenches and arrange barbed wire. This is the Ning Navy's trench defense system, but it is a pity. It was too cold, and the soil was frozen solid, making it impossible to dig trenches.

Therefore, in this case, only this method can be used to deal with it.

The cold wind is like a knife, and the twilight is like iron.

Thin flakes of snow fell from the gaps in the clouds, adding a bit of whiteness to this vast white world.Silver snakes dancing in the mountains, wax statues flying in the past, broken Qiongyu splashing jade at the waterfall, if it is a peaceful year, it would be a great pleasure to invite friends, bring a pot of spirits and ride horses in the wilderness to enjoy the snow scenery.

However, in this time of war and chaos, this picturesque scenery is an out-and-out hell in the eyes of the fleeing people. The thick snow makes them unable to eat grass roots, and the biting cold wind makes birds and beasts flee far away. There is nowhere to find the prey, and even cut the human body, cutting out a series of bloody wounds, making them howl in pain.

At this time, Jin Yiwei sent Qiao Zhaolin to Cheng Shijie.

"Duke, please forgive me!"

The moment Qiao Zhaolin saw Cheng Shijie, he knew what was going to happen to him. Cheng Shijie ruled the army very strictly. Since the establishment of the Ning Navy, the Ning Navy has never had a general who abandoned the city and fled, let alone a general who fled without a fight.

"I spare you, who spared these people!"

Cheng Shijie grabbed Qiao Zhaolin's hair by the sideburns and pointed at the refugees in ragged clothes with red feet from the cold: "Are you sorry for them?"

Looking at these people, Qiao Zhaonian clenched his fists.In a trance, he thought of his grandfather again.His grandfather, Qiao Rui, was from a frontier army. He was brave and good at fighting. He fought many battles with the Mongol Tartars. The best time was when he entered the enemy line alone and cut off the heads of eight Tartars. Shangguan was dumbfounded.

This old man is in his 60s, and he still dances with guns and sticks, plays with stone locks, and works hard every day. He is very disdainful and even disgusted with his grandson's efforts to make money.He often said to Qiao Zhaolin: "When you put on this battle robe, you should work hard in the barracks, train soldiers, and repair armor. Taking advantage of the camp is just heresy!"

For Qiao Rui's teaching, Qiao Zhaolin didn't take it seriously. Throughout his life, Qiao Rui had fought fierce battles with Tartars and climbed out of the ghost gate many times, but he was only a vice president until his death.

However, relying on top and bottom management, he became the garrison of Jing'an Fort before he was 30 years old. In fact, when he was the garrison, he was six years younger than Cheng Shijie was the garrison of the Ninghai Navy.

"The last general..."

Qiao Zhaolin had no intention of begging for mercy at this moment, he knew that Cheng Shijie would definitely kill him, in fact, Cheng Shijie would not spare him.

Cheng Shijie said: "As a soldier, the enemy is facing the enemy, and you have abandoned tens of thousands of people and fled south. What face do you have to let this commander spare you? If this commander spares you, how wronged are the people who died under the iron hooves of the Mongolian Tartars?" ?”

"I'm following orders from above!"

"Orders from above, if the people above tell you to eat shit, will you eat it? If the above make you a traitor, will you do it?"

"I obey orders!"

"Humph!"

Cheng Shijie looked at the Ning Haijun beside him and said, "It's true that the soldiers obeyed the orders, but do you listen to the orders of the superiors?"

"Do not listen!"

"Come on!"

"exist!"

"Make a wooden donkey cart, let Qiao Zhaolin ride a wooden donkey, serve good wine and good food, let all the towns and castles on the nine sides have a look, this is the fate of abandoning the city and fleeing!!"

Qiao Zhaolin's face turned pale with fright. The wooden donkey is a kind of punishment. It is more than three feet high and as short as a bench. Inch wide a crossbar.In the middle of the face, there is a donkey saddle of willow wood, on which is tied a wooden pestle with a round head, but it can be moved up and down. As long as the wheel moves, the pestle will agitate.A donkey's head and a donkey's tail were built at the front and back...

This kind of punishment is to punish women who do not obey women's morals and commit adultery. It is actually possible to use it on men. The feeling is naturally conceivable.

After Cheng Shijie's order was issued, many Jin Yiwei brought this kind of torture equipment over, and as soon as Qiao Zhaolin was put on the wooden donkey cart, Qiao Zhaolin's dung door was bloody, and he howled, not like a human voice.

Watching this scene, the members of Jinyiwei felt a chill in their crotch.

To say that they Jinyiwei is ruthless, but compared with Cheng Shijie, it seems almost meaningless.

Of course, what happened to Qiao Zhaolin was his own fault, and he couldn't blame others.

Cheng Shijie then said to Zhao Wencai who had just arrived at the bank of the Baihe River: "Zhao Wencai!"

"The end is here!"

"The reconnaissance cavalry, the guard cavalry, and the cavalry are all entrusted to you. All the cavalry of the Ning Navy, follow your command, and immediately cross the Great Wall pass. When you reach the Great Wall, you will fight on your own. Don't care about what happens inside the pass. To eliminate the Mongol Tartars that you can see, this commander wants to see if the Mongols are hard-hearted and can ignore the family and relatives behind them!"

"Don't worry? Marshal, if the last general brings all the cavalry, you will only have five or six thousand people around you!"

"This commander has the most elite infantry equipped by our Ning Navy, and besides, this commander does not stick to it all the time. This commander only needs to stick to it for half a month, which is enough to let the Tartars know that their rear is facing a huge threat, forcing them Withdrawing the troops, could it be that five or six thousand elite soldiers can't defend even half a month!"

It was only then that Zhao Wencai discovered that Cheng Shijie was not only ruthless in running the army, but also ruthless to the enemy. In fact, he was also ruthless to himself. More than [-] infantrymen of the Ning Navy's military guards, plus some artillery, wanted to deal with tens of thousands of Mongolian troops without any danger. Keep it, this difficulty...

"Don't worry about the Great Wall defense line, attack the follow-up troops of the Mongolian army until the Tartars withdraw!"

Speaking of this, Cheng Shijie's expression was a bit ferocious, showing a chilling grin: "I want to see how they break through the defense line formed by our army's parapet, minefield, muskets and cannons in the wilderness!"

This is to show that chariots and horses are attacking each other.

Cheng Shijie has no better way, because the cavalry of the Ning Navy is limited after all, and the Mongolian army is too much, relying on more than 1 cavalry.This level of cavalry could not hold the Great Wall defense line at all. The only way was to attack the follow-up troops of the Mongolian army and force them to return for help.

If the cavalry is divided into small groups of firefighting teams, it is hard to say whether they can defeat the Mongolian cavalry, which is several times larger than them. Even if they can win, it is estimated that they will kill [-] enemies and lose [-] themselves. Ning Haijun can't afford this After losing the cooperation of the cavalry, the infantry regiment will be harassed and attacked by the Mongolian cavalry from all directions. Even if they are well-equipped and have powerful cannons, it is difficult to escape from the endless harassment. It is not impossible to be dragged to death by the Mongols.

Thousands of knights galloped along the official road, black helmets, black military uniforms, black battle flags, stern faces, all of which have long been famous in the land of China, even children can call them The name Ning Haijun!
They all carried the shiny Chongzhen eight-year-style rifles on their backs, a long and narrow cavalry-style Miao knife on their waists, and leather bullet pouches full of pointed bullets and paper-cased gunpowder. The bayonet knife with four terrifying blood grooves is attached to the thigh. The sharpness is completely up to personal preference. Some people sharpen it sharper than a razor, while others don't bother to sharpen it.

In addition, on their horseback hung an ammunition bag containing ten bullets and some spare bullets.The few weapons on these guys are all extremely sophisticated. It must be expensive to raise such an army. Wherever they go, all the generals salivate and call them "good soldiers".

With the dispatch of the Ning Navy cavalry, this could not be concealed from the observation of interested people at all. Not long after the Ning Navy cavalry was dispatched, Meng En reported to Cheng Shijie: "Marshal, if there is no accident, the Mongols will soon get Information, our Baihe camp has become an empty camp!"

"You come to command this battle, tell the brothers, give me a slow fight, don't fire all at once, give the Mongols hope, let them see that as long as you work harder, you can break through our defense line!"

"Yes……"

PS: Today, there are two updates, 1 words.The great flood in Zhuozhou, trapped upstairs, can only code words, asking for a guaranteed monthly pass.

(End of this chapter)