In a blink of an eye, the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, which had many disasters and difficulties, even inadvertently, the thirteenth year of Chongzhen passed half a year.

Compared with the 13th year of Chongzhen, the 14th year of Chongzhen was a good start. Although the Ming Dynasty was forced to negotiate peace with the Qing Dynasty, what made the government and the public excited and surprised was that the result of the peace talks was perfect, unexpectedly perfect.

After Song Jin's defeat, the lands lost in western Liaoning were finally brought back without a single shot, relying on the Duke of Chu's swords and swords at the negotiating table and the muskets and cannons outside Shenyang City. Not only did they take back Song Jin and other places lost after Song Jin's battle, but they even brought back the Dalinghe City lost in the defeat of Dalinghe a few years ago, but they even brought back Guangning Yizhou, which was lost in the Battle of Guangning during the Apocalypse.

Moreover, in the Liaodong side, the court successfully saved the Jinfu Zhenjiang area that was captured last year. Although the Ming Dynasty had to admit that the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty were on par with the Eastern Dynasty, the situation outside the pass finally stabilized again. Since Song Jin's defeat, the worries of the government and the people for several months have finally disappeared, and the haze above their heads has been swept away.

"What a pity. If it weren't for Song Jin's great defeat, the court had the elite Liaodong led by Duke Chu, who had killed Huang Taiji last year, and might have taken advantage of the situation to recover Liaoshen and drive the Tartars back to Jianzhou's nest." The officials and citizens in the capital were excited and relaxed, and they couldn't help but feel a little regretful.

"Yes, I heard that the Duke of Chu had already surrounded Shenyang, but Song Jin was defeated. Dorgon led a large army back to aid. The court issued thirteen orders to Shenyang within one day, asking the Duke of Chu to withdraw his troops. In the end, the Duke of Chu resisted the pressure and fought wits and courage with the Tatars in Shenyang for more than half a year, and finally forced the Tatars to seek peace. This resulted in the fact that they now use the Liaohai Sea to build the land of various prefectures and exchange it for the western part of Liao."

In the teahouse in the capital, several guests were chatting, talking about the most sensational thing in the capital at present.

"Oh, Mr. Liu, how did you know so clearly? Where did you hear the rumor?"

"What kind of gossip? I have evidence." Another tea chef was unhappy. While saying that, he took out a stack of paper from his arms. "Did you see? The Times published in Hubei have a full page that specializes in the war in Liaodong. Since the Chu State entered Liaoning last year, the Times has set up a full page special report. They also have many war reporters. They personally sent back the latest war reports from the battlefield in Liaodong. They wrote very detailedly. There are commentators and editors' notes in each issue. In addition, there are the most famous masters of painting and painting pictures about the war in Liaodong."

He spoke and smugly raised the newspaper.

"Is it the Times that often publishes various trading information and advertisements?" Mr. Zhao, the man opposite him, said hurriedly when he heard this.

"That's right, it's the Times. The head office is in Wuchang, Hubei, but they have branches in several surrounding provinces, including one in Luoyang, Henan and Dengzhou, Shandong. Every five days, the newspaper is printed, and it is immediately delivered to the surrounding area. Now our capital also has several sales points. Every issue in Dengzhou is available in the morning, and we can buy it from several sales points in the evening. Now it's very popular. Every time the newspaper is delivered, it's sold out."

"I am still an old customer, so I have obtained the qualification to order and deliver the newspapers. They personally deliver them to their doorsteps every issue."

Mr. Zhao took the newspaper and looked carefully. He had heard of such a thing before, but this was the first time he saw it today. He looked through it and found that the newspaper had a lot of pages and rich content, including current affairs in the world, news from all over the world, and even commercial information from all over the country, as well as poems from many literati. There was indeed a special edition, which was specifically about the war in Liaodong.

He even saw a drawing at a glance.

The black and white printing drawings do not have bright colors, but what is depicted on the drawings is very clear.

"This is a ceremony of signing, exchange and book exchange. The nine-headed bird flag of our Ming Chu army, and the square dragon flag is the flag of the Tartars."

"Well, that's right, the one under Jiutou Bird is Duke of Chu. He is indeed handsome and young, and powerful. The one opposite him is Dorgon, the king of the king, who is dragging a pig tail."

"The Duke of Chu is really the God of War for the Ming Dynasty. If it weren't for him, the Tartars might have broken through the pass and plundered again last year."

"Yes, the hero of Duke of Chu is also heard that he will enter Beijing in triumphal days. At that time, he must go to Tianjin to greet him in person, and block the hero of Duke of Chu."

"Go together, go together. Isn't it a pity that you don't meet each other?"

"Haha, you have to get up early by then. Now there is a rumor in the capital that if you don't know Zhu Jiye, it's in vain to call him a hero."

While countless people from the capital of the Ming Dynasty were preparing to go to Tianjin to welcome the triumphant success of Chu and see the heroic spirit, Dorgon and the Qing people from Shenyang finally waited for the day when Liu Jun withdrew his troops to return south.

It was already June, and Liu Jun withdrew all the Ming troops in Shenyang except Shaling Fort. Now, the Ming troops in the three forts are also about to evacuate.

On that day, Dorgon brought a group of Eight Banners generals to see him off. After several miles away, he watched the Ming army retreat from the castle in an orderly manner and form a formation outside the city.

"It's too cheap for them." Duoduo looked at the nine-headed bird flag flying in the wind.

Dorgon just remained silent. After a long time, he slowly sighed, "Don't worry, Liu Jun is not far from death."

"What?" Azig asked in confusion, "Do you have any subsequent moves? Ambush? Assassin?"

Dorgon shook his head, Dai Shan on the side replied for him, "The so-called great achievements are so great that the master is shocked, and there are clouds and birds that have good bows. Now we have reached a peace agreement with the Southern Dynasties, and the two sides have stopped their troops and truce. Liu Jiye is extremely successful. How can the Southern Dynasties feel at ease with him when they go back this time? It was because Prince Rui understood this that he strongly advocated peace talks with the Ming."

"If you want to kill someone, you don't have to do it yourself. To deal with a famous general like Liu Jiye, it is not the best way to attack and take a strong attack. Killing someone with a knife is a clever plan."

Aziger and Dodor were both surprised, while Haug was thinking.

"How powerful was Yue Fei when he fought against our ancestors and the Later Jin Dynasty, but in the end such a powerful general did not die in the formation, but at the hands of the rulers and ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty. Now we have reached peace talks in the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming people have regained Liaoxi again. The situation outside the pass is far beyond the past. At this time, do you think they can tolerate a general like Liu Jun and hold such a powerful army in his hand?"

Dorgon snorted coldly, "You all have to listen to me. Within a year, you must act low-key and not do anything that provokes the Southern Dynasty."

"I understand. The more we show awe of the Southern Dynasty, the more they will feel at ease to kill the donkey." Duoduo laughed.

Dorgon didn't have any smiles.

The Qing Dynasty suffered too much damage under Liu Jun's men. The emperor was killed and the land captured in western Liaoning was forced to return. Although most of the Eight Banners were still preserved, it has been more than a year since Liu Jun crossed the sea to Liaoning. It has captured more than one million people in the Qing Dynasty, destroyed countless cities and fields, and lost countless property.

It was a loss of one million people. Thinking about it, Dorgon was breathless. How many people were in the Qing Dynasty? The Eight Banners of Manchu were only more than 300 Niulu, and the members of each banner, plus their families and slaves. The total number was only one million. With the years of plunder from the Ming Dynasty and Korea, and the Han people in Liaodong that were captured, they were only a few million.

Now, in more than a year, Liu Jun has taken away one million people. Not to mention that it was destroyed into a thousand miles of land. In addition, western Liaoning was lost again, North Korea was taken away by the Ming Dynasty, and Lushun Zhenjiang. The national strength of the Qing Dynasty has been regressed for at least ten years.

The Qing Dynasty now does not have the strength to provoke the Southern Dynasty anymore.

Now Dorgon only hopes that Liu Jun, a great hero, will be killed by the emperor of the Southern Dynasties after returning to the court. Otherwise, perhaps in another one or two years, the King of Hell will be killed back.

Dorgon didn't believe in that peace agreement at all, it was just a piece of paper. Once the Ming army stabilized the defense in western Liaoning, they might come back at any time.

Liu Jun retreated very slowly, and only marched for thirty miles a day, and was extremely cautious and refused to give the Qing army any chance to turn the tables. Every night, he had to build a camp by the river and cover it with naval warships. He was not afraid of hard work.

Fortunately, the Qing army did not try to attack.

In July, Liu Jun retreated to Liaoyang. After resting in Liaoyang City for half a month, Liu Jun led his troops to go down from the Liaohe River and into the sea on a navy transport ship. In mid-July, all the Chu troops retreated to Lushun.

At this point, the northward battle initiated last autumn has finally ended successfully. After nearly a year of northward battle, the Chu army achieved remarkable results, killing Huang Taiji, breaking through the three prefectures of Gaihai and Liao, and encircling Shenyang, breaking the castles of Sarhu in Fushun, killing more than 10,000 Qing troops, capturing more than 60,000 Qing troops, and moving from Liaodong to return to more than 400,000 people.

Dozens of cities were broken, and more than 300,000 taels of gold and more than 17 million taels of silver were seized. In addition, many jewelry treasures such as pearls and jewelry were numerous, and there were countless cattle, horses and sheep.

The Qing army had entered the pass several times in the past, and each time they had to plunder hundreds of thousands of people and millions of gold and silver. The gold, silver and treasures that the Qing army had privately captured were not included. This time, Liu Jun spent more than half a year on the Northern Expedition and fought many victories, and they also robbed the spoils a lot. Especially through the thorough sweep of the Black Flag Army and the demolition-style transportation, they had gained a lot.

No wonder the Tartars like to enter the pass so much. Who doesn’t like such a battle? It can not only weaken the enemy’s military strength, but also capture the enemy’s wealth and materials, strengthen themselves and weaken the enemy. The Chu army likes this way of combat.

Liu Jun did not feel sorry for giving up the prefectures of the Liaohai Sea that had already been captured. Anyway, they had conquered the prefectures at the beginning, but they did not abandon the prefectures in the end. If they wanted to keep Liaoyang, they would touch the bottom line of the Tartars. At that time, they would fight to the death to seize them, but Liu Jun would still not defend them.

Liu Jun is actually very satisfied with the result now.

The ship enters Jinzhou Bay, passes through the Jinzhou Isthmus from the Jinzhou Canal, and enters Qingniwa Port. You can see the busy and lively scene of the port from afar.

At the bustling port pier, many black skeleton flags appeared in it.

This surrendered army, who was surrendered after conquering Gaizhou, first organized four alliances to make up for the shortage of troops going north. In the past six months in Liaodong, these surrendered soldiers were released by Liu Jun and sent them to sweep their posts, which really made the Tatars miserable. They also collected a large amount of food and supplies for Liu Jun, swept the rear of the Tatars, and seized a large amount of money, grain and supplies.

Their scale also expanded rapidly. At the beginning, there were only less than 20,000 people in the Four Associations. But now, the Black Flag Army in Lushun has 18 temporary associations.
Chapter completed!