Chapter 37: The Fork in the Road of History
"This demon!"
Dorgon said weakly. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Of course, he was not hit like this by Yang Feng destroying his batch of military rations, although a lot of grain stocks in Jinzhou were burned, it was no problem to continue to support him for a month.
And that's when transport is completely cut off.
But Yang Feng definitely can't make their transportation completely cut off, all he can do is to attack and harass and minimize the grain transported to Jinzhou, and this is not fatal to the Qing army, what really scares Dolgon is the current location of this demon, at first he was in the north of Lianshan, then to Jinzhou, and now he has appeared in the snake station, and then it is Niuzhuang, and then it is Liaoyang, and then it is Shenyang.
He was making his way to the hinterland of Manchuria.
He is only one person, he can easily avoid any search, even if he scatters all the 40,000 banners left behind, he can still move forward silently, a hill, a forest or even a grass, can make the efforts of tens of thousands of people to search for it come to naught, and it is a vast land within a radius of hundreds of miles, there are countless small mountains, woods and grasses that can provide him with a hiding place.
What's more, if the troops are not enough, even if they find him, is it not the same as sending him to death?
And once he arrives in Shenyang......
Dorgon shuddered.
It would be a disaster, the snake post died one hundred and twenty people, all of them were banner people, the population on the west side of the Liao River was small, but after crossing the Liao River, there were Zhuangzi of banner people everywhere, if he continued to kill like this......
Dorgon slammed the table hard.
He now regretted that he had provoked this demon.
"What about Ahun?"
Duoduo asked cautiously.
"Stop the siege of the city, send people into the city to contact them, and say that we can withdraw the army, but they must call the dog emperor back, and we can borrow troops, and we can also enter the customs according to the route they designated, but they must also ensure that they fulfill their promises."
Dorgon said with a gloomy face.
It is pointless for him to attack Ning Yuan now, the Dog Emperor has made it clear that he doesn't care about Ning Yuan, as long as the Dog Emperor keeps killing in Manchuria, what is the use of him even if he can enter Shanhaiguan? The old nest has been copied by others, will he take tens of thousands of Eight Banners athletes to realize the ideal of winning the Central Plains? That's just a joke, if you want to go south, Shanhaiguan is no longer the most important, let the dog emperor come back to restore the stability of Manchuria. He has only been out for more than ten days, and thousands of men in the Eight Banners have already died in his hands, if he continues to wander around, the hundreds of thousands of men in the Eight Banners will be able to harm him for a few years?
This is the real heart-wrenching.
"Na Ahun's ......"
Dodor said.
But then he also knew that it was meaningless, and he stamped his foot hatefully, and went out full of grief and anger to arrange for someone to sue for peace.
However, summation is also troublesome now.
"The emperor is not here, we can't call the shots!"
Li Yutian said with a teacup.
He is really fearless now, before Dolgon attacked for two days in a row, he and the Ningyuan defenders blocked back, the Ming army lost less than five hundred in the two days of battle, and the Qing army lost at least two thousand, understanding that even if there is no emperor, he can actually block the enemy's Ming army's morale is high, even if Dolgon continues to attack, he is not afraid, at least he has nothing to fear before the food and ammunition run out, so he has the calmness to discuss this issue slowly with a teacup.
But Holohui, who came on behalf of Dolgon, did not have such a good attitude.
This guy who failed to intercept Yang Feng last time knows very well what a terrifying monster it is, and he also knows very well what a catastrophe this monster will cause if he tosses in their lair, and now he has not entered the real settlement area of the banner people, he has already killed all the way to the blood, if he crosses the Liao River, it will not be a sea of corpses and blood! Now that most of the young and middle-aged people of the Eight Banners are in Ningyuan, are those old, weak, sick and disabled just like the little lamb in front of this monster? He had seen how the Dog Emperor had killed people, and when he thought of those torn corpses, he felt chills all over his body now. In fact, at this time, those banner men on the east bank of the Liao River, Zhuangzi, had already begun to flee and hid in the nearest castles.
"Then please call your lord back!"
He lowered his profile and said.
"Who knows where the emperor is now? You can't find him, so how can we find him? ”
Li Yutian said.
"This is easy, your monarch is currently active on the west bank of the Liao River, you can send someone to take your sailor warship, enter the Liao River and go upstream, and patrol and shout with the banner of your army on the Liao River, if you hear and see it, can you show up and meet?"
He Luo will say.
"Sailor?"
Li Yutian groaned.
"Alright then, let's try, but don't engage in any more intrigues, otherwise it will be difficult to say what His Majesty will do if he is angry again."
He said.
"Gong Li, what else do you think we can do with your master's ability?"
He Luo would say with a wry smile.
The rest of the matter is simple, the Qing army lifted the blockade of Ningyuan, Li Yutian quickly sent people to the sailor base on Juehua Island, in fact, he didn't know that there was actually a sailor of the Ming army there, the original Denglai sailor went south with Huang Fei, they didn't think about sending warships to blockade Liaodong Bay, and the messenger arrived on Juehua Island to know that this was actually the Longwu camp of Shanhaiguan. After they escaped from Ninghai City, under the leadership of a capital division, they took a warship north to Juehua Island, and simply used Juehua Island as a base to attack the Liaohe estuary out of the psychology of invitation, and went north to harass the Liaohe estuary.
"How is Shanhaiguan?"
Li Yutian asked Nadusi.
"Back to the old pavilion, the situation is extremely critical, the rebellion of nearly 200,000 troops besieged, the north and south wing cities, Ninghai City, Weiyuan City have all fallen, Pingxi Hou's army is trapped in the city to defend it, I just went back four days ago, but it is still holding on."
Naduth said.
"It seems that this saint has to be taken back, princess, you have to go for a trip, no matter what the saint wants to do, be sure to ask him to take care of it."
Li Yutian said to Wang Chengen.
It can be seen that he is also very close to the emperor.
Wang Chengen didn't say anything, then agreed, and after a little preparation, he left Ningyuan to board the warship of the Longwu camp, and then went straight north to Liangfangkou, entered the Liao River and went upstream.
As for Dolgon in Ningyuan, at this time he simply took the initiative to withdraw his troops to the north, and now he is eager to take the western front to enter the customs and raid Beijing, and he is not interested in continuing to entangle, in fact, he has already regretted it.
If it weren't for the Ming army's proposal to borrow troops, his army would have already gone out of Miyun to smash Beijing, and it happened that Li Zicheng's army was dragged by the Ming army in Shanhaiguan, he could take advantage of the weakness to rush in and break through Beijing before Li Zicheng returned to the division, and it was the borrowing of the Ming army that made him see the hope of capturing Shanhaiguan. As a result, Shanhaiguan was not captured, but it became a bloody battle against Ning Yuan, who was originally going to cooperate, but killed into a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, he really doesn't understand why the dog emperor let go and robbed his own capital, Li Zicheng, who has a deep hatred in the sea of blood, doesn't care, he has to fight him to the death, this is completely speechless, if he doesn't have time, he really wants to go to the dog emperor and ask:
Why is that, you, Tamar?
Who is your enemy, me and Li Zicheng?
However, he has no time now, the most important thing now is to return to the original route, more than 70,000 Eight Banners withdrew to Jinzhou as fast as possible, and then went west to the direction of the modern Chaoyang and then turned south, together with some of the vassal Mongolian cavalry, a total of 100,000 troops disappeared into the mountains and mountains of Rehe in later generations. The next time they reappeared, it was already Miyun more than half a month later, and the trajectory of history was broken into a fork in the road by Yang Feng, as for where they ended up, it depended on how he tossed next.
And Wang Chengen also lived up to expectations, after cruising on the Liao River for five days, he finally found their Emperor Majesty, who was carrying a big axe and setting a raft to cross the Liao River, and then went to Liaoyang and other big cities to have a walk.
"I still want to go to Shenyang to meet that little cub of Huang Taiji!"
His Majesty the Emperor said dissatisfied.
"Your Majesty, the community is important, Shanhaiguan is in danger, I'm afraid Your Majesty will have to preside over it personally, as for Huang Taiji's little cub, you might as well let him live for a few more years, and when the siege of Shanhaiguan is lifted, it's not too late for us to go south to counterattack and recapture Beijing and then clean him up."
Lao Wang said with a smile.
Of course, he didn't know that the emperor had such a quick change of heart, just because he was in a hurry to tell Li Zicheng the unfortunate news, and then he sat on the tower of Shanhaiguan City to watch the ultimate showdown between Li Zicheng and Dolgon.
"In that case, let him live for two more years!"
Yang Feng said.
After that, he carried the giant axe and was about to get on the boat.
"Your Majesty, the slave maid thinks that Your Majesty might as well go south to the beach and board the boat again, and we will have to go back to Niuzhuang City, if that Tartar has bad intentions, it may be dangerous."
Lao Wang said busily.
He is telling the truth, they have a total of ten warships into the Liao River, with this strength, if the Qing army is really blocked by cowboys, there is only a dead end, before the emperor finds it, of course, the Qing army will not attack them, but now that the emperor has found it, especially after boarding the ship, then I dare not guarantee what will happen to the Qing army, after all, the two sides also have a deep blood feud.
"Afraid of what?"
Yang Feng said: "Show my banner and see how dare they do?" ”
"Uh, slave and maid."
Lao Wang hurriedly said.
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