Ming Empire

Chapter 102 Preparing to take advantage of the fire
Liaodong, Shengjing.

When Cao Yue occupied Shengjing, he almost completely destroyed the city built by Huang Taiji.After Dorgon led his army back to Shengjing, he had to start a large-scale restoration project.It is very fast to destroy a city, but it is much slower to restore it. After a few months, there is not much progress.All the city gates in Shengjing have been built back, but the houses in the city, including the imperial palace and other residences of nobles, are still under restoration and construction.According to Dorgon's estimate, it will take at least a year before the Qing nobles living outside the city want to move back to live in Shengjing.

Fortunately, the cold winter has passed, Liaodong has also begun to enter spring, and the people of the Qing Dynasty who lived in tents finally got rid of their hard days.Dorgon hopes that when another winter comes, everyone can have a warm and firm place to keep out the cold.

Life has changed, from living on grass to living in solid houses like the Han people, and I can never go back to the hard life before.It is the urgent wish of all Jurchen nobles to restore Shengjing City as quickly as possible and return to living in warm and comfortable houses.But no matter how capable Dorgon is, it is impossible to build a city within a few days.There is also the imperial palace, which takes more time. Today's Qing Dynasty is far less powerful than before, and most of its wealth has been destroyed by Cao Yue.Even if the palace can be restored, it will not be as grand as it used to be.

Fortunately, except for the restoration of Shengjing City and the Imperial Palace, which is a bit of a headache, there is nothing to worry about in other aspects.

Spring is here, spring grass begins to sprout, horses have fresh forage, and begin to grow fat. Qing soldiers can fight everywhere again, plunder wealth, eliminate enemies and improve the lives of bannermen.

Just when Dorgon was thinking about which direction to fight in the spring, a piece of exciting news came from the pass. The more than [-] bandits led by Li Yan and Liu Zongmin diverted to the north for some reason. Attack Datong urgently.

After receiving this news, Duo Duo was overjoyed. He ran to Dorgon at the first time, expressing that he would lead his army to march south again, attack Datong, and take advantage of the fire when Cao Yue and the bandits were fighting to the death. , To wipe out the main force of the Datong Army in order to avenge the great revenge.

Dorgon was also shocked by the news. He was sure that the news was correct. The 10,000+ army of Liu Zongmin and Li Yan was heading north quickly to attack Datong.

Because the Qing Dynasty suffered a catastrophe last year, Cao Yue became a public enemy of the Qing Dynasty, and everyone wanted to kill him quickly.Datong was attacked by a powerful enemy, and an excellent opportunity to take advantage of the fire came. Almost everyone supported taking this opportunity to go south again, break through Datong, and seek revenge from Cao Yue.

Going south again, bypassing Mongolia, and attacking Daming from the direction of Datong, has become the consensus of all Qing nobles.

Because the last time Duduo led the army to the south, he suffered a failure and almost all of Geng Zhongming's troops were wiped out. Dorgon and others realized that the combat effectiveness of the Datong Army is extraordinary, and they will no longer underestimate it this time. , He personally led the Southern Expedition.

Duduo, Hauge, Azig and others all led the army. Except that most of the Jierhalang Xianglan Banner stayed in Shengjing to guard against the possible northward attack of Hong Chengchou in Liaodong, the rest of the troops almost all went out, including the Han army. There are about 6 troops in the Eight Banners, about 7 in the Eight Banners of Mongolia, and more than 16 in the Jurchen and Female Banners, totaling about [-] troops.This is almost a soldier who built slaves and devoted all his strength to the country, which shows how eager Dorgon is to take revenge.

With the order to go out, the army of 10,000+ slaves began to move south quickly.

When he personally led the army to conquer Datong in the south, Dorgon did not forget to set up an "Ecstasy Array" and ordered a Mongolian Eight Banners to march towards the Daling River, making a gesture of continuing to attack Songshan and Jinzhou, so that Hong Chengchou of Liaodong And the troops under his command did not dare to retreat south easily to reinforce Datong.

Dorgon made an oath to the ancestors of the Qing Dynasty before the expedition. During the southern expedition, Cao Yue's men and horses must be wiped out, disturbing the Ming Dynasty, and bringing Cao Yue back to Shengjing. Cut in front of the ancestral temple.

Before leading the army to set off, Dorgon also entered the palace to say goodbye to Bumbutai.

"Concubine Zhuang, I'm leaving. I'm going to capture Cao Yue to avenge my great Qing!" Because the little emperor Fulin stayed with Bumbutai, Dorgon also used his subordinate However, anyone can hear the care and tenderness hidden in his words, "You have to take good care of yourself, pay attention to your body, you are about to give birth, don't be busy all day long."

"Thank you Regent for your concern. I will take care of my health. I hope that our Qing army's southern expedition will be a success, and it will be successful soon." Although he said this, Bumbutai always felt that there was something in his heart, not very I would rather Dorgon catch Cao Yue to Shengjing, and then die by hacking.She didn't know why she had such thoughts. After thinking about it, she should be a child who was about to be born.

Thinking that the child with Cao Yue was about to be born, Bumbutai really didn't know what it was like.

In the early Qing Dynasty, the management of the harem was not as strict as it was after entering the customs. There was no strict record of which concubine Huang Taiji got lucky with, so Bumubutai was pregnant, and not many people suspected that there was something wrong with it. , even the empress dowager Zhezhe believed that the child in Bumbutai's womb belonged to Huang Taiji.

The women who were raped by Cao Yue that day, apart from knowing that they were raped by Cao Yue, didn't know for sure that other people were also raped by Cao Yue. They just roughly guessed that someone might be raped by Cao Yue.This is a very shameful thing, and it cannot be known by outsiders. Afterwards, Zhe Zhe strictly ordered that no one should leak what happened in the palace that day, otherwise they will be severely punished.

She didn't tell anyone about Zhezhe being raped by Cao Yue.Of course, Bumbutai would not tell other people that she was asked to sleep by Cao Yue several times, but she knew that many people, including Zhezhe and Na Muzhong, knew that she was violated by Cao Yue.And she also knew that Zhezhe, Na Muzhong and others were also bullied by Cao Yue.It's just that she was the most unfortunate, pregnant with Cao Yue's flesh and blood.

Bumbutai knew that she couldn't give birth to this evil seed, otherwise there would be endless troubles. She didn't know if she suspected whether the child in her womb was Cao Yue's evil.When talking with her aunt Zhezhe, Na Muzhong and others, she tried various methods to test their tone, but she didn't find anything that reassured her.In order to avoid trouble, Bumbutai could only fabricate lies to deal with other people's possible suspicions.

However, she tried many methods, but she couldn't shed the baby in her belly. The little thing in her belly was growing very tenaciously.After trying almost all methods, Bumbutai finally gave up his plan to kill the baby in his womb and prepared to give birth to him.

This is a very helpless decision, which makes Bumbutai wonder how he feels.

(End of this chapter)