Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 684
The Yellow River, the mother river, nourishes the Chinese nation. However, the Yellow River is like the soul of the Chinese nation. It is majestic and unruly. Every time the Yellow River dies, I don’t know how many people in the Central Plains will be ruined. In order to tame this yellow dragon, I don’t know How many generations have carried sand and rocks on their backs and built the river for thousands of miles. Over the years, the towering embankment of the Yellow River has firmly locked the river in it, and through this embankment, the people on both sides of the bank can cultivate the fertile land on both sides with peace of mind.

But today, this embankment of the Yellow River, which has accumulated countless generations of painstaking efforts, ushered in a destructive breath of death.

Jinglongkou Yellow River Embankment.

Countless torches were moving up and down the embankment in the dark, and one after another huge openings were dug out on the embankment that could not even be nailed in, and barrels and barrels of black powder were stuffed into it, and the lead wires They were dragged out one by one, and at ten o'clock in the morning, tens of thousands of catties of gunpowder had been completely mixed into the embankment. Looking from a distance, Dorgon's face showed a look of excitement, and that handsome head showed a wolf-like expression. cruel smile.

"The Han people actually have such a dragon vein. The Han man named Hou Fangyu deserves a lot of rewards. This water dragon is just like how Guan Yu flooded the Seventh Army back then. The Yuyuan thief should feed the fish and turtles in the water. Let's see how they still disturb me. Great Qing! Hahaha!"

"Yeah, drown those Han dogs!" Hearing that the regent couldn't bear it anymore, he raised his head and laughed excitedly, and a group of Manchu nobles also laughed excitedly. However, following Dole Next to Dagon, with his head slightly lowered, Fan Wencheng, the big traitor, not only didn't have a smile, but showed a lot of sadness.

Once the flood is released, the Yuyuan Army will indeed be unable to support it. However, it will be reduced to Zeguo together, and there will be millions of innocent people in Henan, North Zhili, and Shandong hundreds of kilometers away. Killing millions of people unjustly for the sake of Hongtu's hegemony, even if he did, he couldn't bear it.

In the future, the old man will be punished by God!
Sighing in his heart, Fan Wencheng turned his head slightly unrepentantly, looking at the excited master Dorgon, and listening to Hou Fangyu mentioned in his mouth.

He has heard of this son, one of the four sons of Jiangnan, the son of Hou Xun, the former Minister of the Household Department, who is quite famous in Donglin!He is the empress of Daming's loyal minister!Didn't the Yuyuan Army support their Daming County King?What made him come up with such a vicious strategy?
However, Fan Wencheng couldn't allow Fan Wencheng to think too much, the east had already revealed a fishy belly, and at the same time, the Qing army had almost retreated, and an extraordinarily ferocious wave appeared on Dorgon's face, and he waved his hand violently , Dorgon roared and roared.

"fry!"

More than a dozen bundles of fuses were ignited at the same time, and Sisi burst into flames and sparks, just like the fire of burning souls in hell, rushed towards the Yellow River embankment, and finally submerged in the loess embankment as simple as the people of the Central Plains Suddenly, a trace of calm before the storm lingered in everyone's eyes, and a moment later, a big explosion roared the entire Yellow River Dam as if the sky was falling apart.

Countless earthworks spewed out from the thick body of the Yellow River embankment, and many of the shocking Qing troops even couldn't stand still and fell to the ground. However, even after suffering such heavy losses, the Jinglongkou embankment still protected the people of the Central Plains with its solid body. In the last 11 seconds, 11 seconds later, under Dorgon's frowning gaze, there was a bang, and a powerful stream of water gushed out from one of the blast holes, and then a stream of water arrows shot out one after another. Under the huge water pressure, The embankment of the Yellow River was completely torn apart, and the gushing water of the Yellow River slammed on the plain like a dragon with claws and claws, rushing thousands of miles southeast.

The Yuyuan Army started in Caozhou and hid in the Yuyuan, which stretches for hundreds of miles. Every time it killed the Qing army who came to attack and suppress, crying for their parents and mothers, they were dizzy. Relying on this place, the Yuyuan Army can also advance and retreat. Shou, turned the huge Shandong upside down.

At around nine o'clock in the morning, the patrol team under Ren Qi's command was still patrolling the edge of Yulin as usual. Suddenly, a heavy shock came from afar. Jiannu's Eight Banners cavalry had slaughtered countless bloody roads in Shandong. The army seems to be familiar, but on the plains, the Han people's rebel army is indeed no match, but in this dense Yulin, it is a battle between dragons and tigers.

Laughing proudly, the head of the Yuyuan Army waved his hand familiarly, and the rebels under his hands immediately carried hoes and knives and ambushed in the dense forest, and monkey-like soldiers climbed up big tree.

However, this shock was too great. After about two or three minutes, it was obviously different from the sound of horseshoes. The archer looked forward as hard as he could, however, the dense yulin also blocked his sight until another dozen seconds passed...

"Run, Dashui! Huanglong has stopped talking!"

A terrified cry came from the mountain monkey's mouth. Before the other Yuyuan soldiers could react, the mountain monkey jumped down from the tree like crazy, and staggered back in fear. However, he didn't run far. The soldiers had already seen the rushing and roaring thing clearly, and they also yelled in fear.

On the horizon, a roaring yellow monster rushed fiercely into the elm forest, and the solid elm tree was knocked down by the flood, no matter how strong the warrior was, they couldn't resist the power of heaven and earth, screaming in fear, these people also turned their heads and ran away .

Unfortunately, it was too late. In just a few seconds, the surging flood had swallowed up the entire army, and they pushed southeast with that indomitable momentum.

In a few days, hundreds of miles around turned into a yellow flood zone. Under the impact of the surging Yellow River, countless villages and towns were bulldozed, and white corpses floating on the water, catfish in the river, and so on could be seen everywhere. The school of black fish and other fish quickly became fatter, but the blood-red eyes were scary.

Similarly, the Yuyuan army suffered a fatal blow, and the flood almost destroyed everything. After the flood, the Qing army launched a large-scale attack. Caozhou, Dongming, Dingtao, Wucheng and other counties fell one after another, and Li Huajing was captured. , Ren Qi and other leaders were killed, the rebel army was killed, and more than 20 people were drowned, and Li Huajing actually involved one person. The three towns in Jiangbei surrendered. The former Shandong general Liu Zeqing, on April 25, Liu Zeqing's family and Dozens of generals including Li Huajing and Liang Min were killed.

To be honest, Liu Zeqing's death is not a pity. He was purely a speculator. Seeing that Song Qingshu's victory in Jiangnan restored the situation, and there were rebellions everywhere in Shandong and Henan, he thought that the general situation of the world had changed, and just now he ordered his troops to infiltrate the rebel army. , in an attempt to regain some merit, but the destruction of the Yuyuan Army dealt a heavy blow to the Northern Anti-Qing Rebel Army, and Jiangnan's barrier in the north was removed.

In mid-June, Shandong was completely pacified by the Qing army. Standing on the ruins where the flood flowed, surrounded by the astonishing stench of rotting corpses, Dorgon not only showed no mercy, but showed incomparable excitement, walking in the On the mud, hundreds of thousands of horsemen pulled a long line without front and rear. The eyes of the Eight Banners cavalry who had just experienced the slaughter became even more bloodshot. Just opened, this is a division of tigers and wolves.

The day before yesterday, Zhang Qi, the last two leaders of the Yuyuan Army, had just been killed. Ren Fuxing, Dorgon didn't even fix it, and directly supervised the army going south.

At this time, Song Qingshu's army has also penetrated into Zhejiang, and is besieging Zhoushan. There is no natural danger between Huaihe River and Huaihe River. In Dorgon's view, the Yangtze River is just paper. Throwing the whip to cut off the flow, and finally killed a series of cities such as Yingtian and Songjiang who dared to resist the Qing Dynasty, and turned them into ruins.

As for Hou Fangyu who came up with the idea, Dorgon had already left him behind, and he was just a smarter Han dog.

The army marched south from Linqing, approaching the Yellow River, and was about to reach Xuzhou. When Dorgon was most ambitious, a dozen cavalry barged their teeth and stopped him from behind, the king regent.

"Prince Regent, Prince Zheng, Prince Li, Prince Zhuang, King Keqin, please return to Beijing as soon as possible!"

"What? Call me back at this time, are they crazy?"

In an instant, Dorgon's substantive murderous intent almost overwhelmed Prince Zheng, who had reported the letter, with his toothbrush. Holding back his trembling, the toothbrush kowtowed fiercely again.

"Regent, the Wa country has launched an eastward invasion and has already invaded North Korea! Banner owners and nobles are already impatient, I implore the regent to return to the army as soon as possible!"

Dorgon felt his head buzzing.

North Korea is one hundred and eight thousand miles away from the capital, and it is quite far from Shengjing. In fact, the life and death of North Korea has little impact on the overall situation. Even if the Japanese can fight again, North Korea is a thousand-year-old country after all, and it is still possible to resist for a year. At that time, Dorgon estimated that he had already killed Jiangnan into a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood.

But North Korea touched the sensitive hearts of those Manchu nobles in the capital.

Daming is too big, Jianzhou Jurchen culture is too shallow, and they are full of fear of Daming. When they first occupied the capital, the Jianzhou nobles who advocated grabbing a vote and then returning to Liaodong even once dominated the mainstream. If Dorgon was not a A leader who is fierce and decisive enough may rewrite history.

This is the case, for the minority regimes that were annexed by the Central Plains in history, the upper class of Jianzhou is still full of sense of crisis. For more than 200 years, the Qing Dynasty sealed the Northeast with wicker borders and moved most of the original residents of the Northeast. Going out, leaving the Northeast empty for more than 200 years, just in case the Central Plains cannot stand, you can go back.

Even if he paid a heavy price for it, the reason why Kangxi's famous Yaksanibuchu battle is worthy of special mention is that it sent hundreds of thousands of troops to the northern Sakhalin Island in Heilongjiang without the support of the rear. Compared with the lack of development in the mainland, Tsarist Russia invaded so aggressively in the late Qing Dynasty, but until the border ban almost existed in name only, the people of the Central Plains who broke through the Guandong even established a few small regimes, and the Qing court was reluctant when it was really helpless. open-border immigration.

In this case, the Japanese may occupy the retreat of the Manchus. One can imagine the shock of the Qing court!

No wonder the Nanban Song bandits went to fight Lu Wang Jianguo with confidence, so he still has this skill!
After being dizzy for a few seconds, Dorgon suddenly stared at Prince Zheng like a wolf, and asked sternly.

"Who else did you tell the news to?"

"Go back, go back to the Regent, the little one will come to meet you directly..."

He obviously felt a sense of danger, but under Dorgon's majesty, he still habitually stammered his answer, but before he finished speaking, suddenly, a gleaming waist knife was already slamming chopped down.

With a puff, hot blood sprayed the tent, and a dripping head rolled out. He walked out of the tent with a knife covered in blood, and rested towards the door. He swung his knife sharply.

"kill!"

(End of this chapter)