Chapter 301 The War End

"Take the sea?"

Su Na's eyes lit up when she heard this, then patted her forehead hard and suddenly said, "Yes, why didn't I expect that Haizi should freeze now, and the people could pass by the sea. Even if the Nanming barbarians seized Shanhaiguan, so what? Hahaha..."

“It’s more than that.”

Duoduo smiled slightly, pointed to more than 2,000 sleds that had been built and said, "With this thing, the soldiers will be exempted from the pain of long journeys, and it is faster and more comfortable than riding a horse!"

"Oh?" Suna couldn't believe it, "What's this thing? Is it so magical?"

Duoduo smiled and said, "You will know soon."

Shandong, Zhangqiu Town.

The Hong Madam Yi was afraid in Wang Pu's arms and said reluctantly: "Mr. Marquis, you must come to Kaifeng quickly."

Wang Pu bent down his head, buried his mouth and nose into the red lady's hair, sniffed deeply, and said softly: "Baby, at most two months, I will come after the military and political affairs of Shandong and Northern Zhili are arranged."

"Yeah." The Hong Madam nodded lightly and whispered, "I'm waiting for you."

Liu Qingyan nodded gently and whispered: "Through the interrogation of Jiannu's prisoners, it is now certain that Dorgon brought a total of nearly 60,000 Jiannu's Eight Banners and 180,000 Mongolian cavalry during this southern expedition, with a total force of 240,000! However, in the two Jining Battles and the Shagou River Battle, our Central Army only annihilated 7,000 Jiannu's Iron Cavalry and more than 20,000 Taurus cavalry, and more than 20,000 Jiannu and about 140,000 Taurus soldiers died in internal strife."

Wang Pu Ning said, "That is to say, there are still nearly 30,000 Jiannu and more than 20,000 Tartar soldiers missing?"

Liu Qingyan said again: "The Henan army of Hongniangzi intercepted and killed more than 10,000 Jiannu and more than 10,000 Tartar soldiers in the Liaocheng area, so only more than 10,000 Jiannu and thousands of Tartar soldiers were missing. The whereabouts of thousands of Tartars must have flown westward and became scattered soldiers, but more than 10,000 Jiannu is not a small army, so it should be difficult to hide from the exploration of the Henan cavalry."

Wang Pu said: "So let's continue."

Liu Qingyan said: "Does the Marquis remember what the messenger sent by Ezhe to seek peace before the decisive battle in Jining?"

"Of course I remember." Wang Pu said, "That guy is Huluwen, saying that Dorgon had already made up his mind to burn his boats. He also asked Duoduo to lead more than 10,000 Zhengbai Banner elite soldiers to escort all the war horses in the Liberation Army to Dongpingzhou. Near... Qingyan, do you mean that the whereabouts of more than 10,000 Jiannu, who was missing, were the more than 10,000 Zhengbai Banner elite soldiers taken away by Duoduo?"

Liu Qingyan said: "The Eight Banners of Jiannu have been through countless battles of all sizes and sizes, and can be called elite troops. Such an army will not collapse even if it is defeated. Most of the Jiannu who were intercepted by Henan cavalry near Liaocheng are collectives based on various banners. There are few Jiannu alone. This is enough to show that the whereabouts of more than 10,000 Jiannu, who are missing, did not collapse, but had escaped Liaocheng before Hongniang's Henan cavalry arrived in Liaocheng."

Wang Pu Ning said, "You mean, these more than 10,000 Jiannu had already crossed Liaocheng and fled north before Hongniangzi's Henan cavalry arrived in Liaocheng?"

Liu Qingyan nodded slightly and said, "Mr. Marquis still remembers that before the Battle of Jining, the girl had a premonition that Dorgon seemed to be arranging his funeral. Now it seems that Dorgon has indeed had a premonition that Jiannu might be defeated in the Battle of Jining, so he arranged the funeral in advance. Dodo led the elite troops of Zhengbai Banner to Dongpingzhou just a cover. It was Dorgon's real purpose to flee back to the outside of the pass with more than 10,000 elite troops of Jiannu."

"It seems that's true." Wang Pu Senran said, "What a Dorgon, he actually kept such a move!"

Liu Qingyan said: "Now I can only rely on General Tang Sheng. If he can capture Shanhaiguan before Duoduo, he might be able to intercept this group of Jiannu. Otherwise, if this group of more than 10,000 Jiannu escaped from the pass, it would probably take a lot of trouble to solve them in the future. After all, outside the pass is not as good as the Central Plains. First, the logistics supply line is too long, and second, Liaodong is the land of Jiannu and is at the doorstep of others."

"It's useless." Wang Pu waved his hand and sighed, "Even if Tang Sheng occupied Shanhaiguan, it would be impossible to stop Duoduo's more than 10,000 Jiannu from escaped back to the outside of the pass. Shanhaiguan was not able to go through. Jiannu could still go through Xifengkou, Miyun, Xuanfu, and Datong. Even if he couldn't go through land, Jiannu could still go back to Liaodong from the sea."

"On the sea?" Liu Qingyan said in surprise, "Jiannu has no navy, how can he walk on the sea?"

Wang Pu smiled bitterly and said, "It's cold in the north, and the sea will freeze in winter, and the ice layer is several feet thick. Even the iron armored heavy cavalry can walk freely from the sea. If Duoduo could build sleds, it would be even easier. His more than 10,000 Jiannu would no longer have to suffer from the pain of traversing mountains and rivers, and he could go home in a carriage."

Liu Qingyan said somewhat disappointedly: "So... Is there no hope of intercepting this group of Jiannu?"

"There is no hope for interception." Wang Pu said sadly, "I can only wait for the future. However, Jiannu's vitality has been greatly damaged in the battle of Jining. The more than 10,000 Jiannu taken away by Duoduo can no longer cause any storm. Moreover, once Jiannu is weak, the Koreans and Mongolians will not buy their accounts anymore. If they lose North Korea's food supply and the Mongolians' wings, Jiannu will no longer pose a threat to the Ming Dynasty."

Speaking of this, Wang Pu said again: "In the Battle of Jining, the Mongolian Tartars were also greatly damaged, and the four Korqin tribes near the Great Wall suffered heavy losses. They could no longer pose a threat to the Ming Dynasty. The threat to the court now is Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and Wu Sangui, the dog traitor."

Taiyuan, Shanxi, Wu Sangui's mansion.

Wu Sanfu quickly walked into the warm pavilion and said to Wu Sangui and Wu Sanfeng who were sitting in the pit: "Brother, second brother, the spy sent has been back, I've found out all of them!"

Wu Sanfeng said anxiously: "Tell me quickly, what is the result of the Battle of Jining?"

Wu Sanfu sighed and said, "The second brother guessed that Jiannu was defeated, and it was a crushing defeat! Sixty thousand Jurchen Eight Banners and 180,000 Mongolian cavalry, but he was defeated by Wang Pu in Jining in less than 40,000 Central Army!"

"What!?" Wu Sanfeng said in a lost voice, "The entire army was destroyed?"

"What's wrong?" Wu Sanfu spread his hands and said, "Now Wang Pu's main force of the Central Army has entered Beijing. I heard that even Shanhaiguan has been recaptured."

"I really didn't expect it." Wu Sanfeng said sternly, "The Central Army of the Ming Dynasty is so powerful!"

"Oh by the way." Wu Sanfu said again, "The spy brought back another news. I heard that the leader of the bandit Hong Madam in Henan was the young widow who had just died. He actually hooked up with Wang Pu, the ungrateful wolf. The slut Hong Madam was passionate about love and actually wanted to take the Henan army to accept the court's amnesty."

"What, the Henan army wants to accept the court's amnesty?" Wu Sanfeng was shocked and said to Wu Sangui, "Second brother, the Central Army has now reached Beijing, and Hongniang's Henan army plans to accept the court's amnesty. In this way, our Wu family in Shanxi is attacked from three sides. Why not retreat to the grassland as soon as possible?"

Wu Sangui waved his hand and said calmly: "If you are not busy, the Central Army will not attack Shanxi in a short period of time, at least not until the beginning of next spring."

Wu Sanfeng said: "Why are the second brother so sure?"

Wu Sangui said: "Although the Central Army is powerful, they are not iron-clad. They will be tired and trapped. Moreover, the Central Army has equipped a large number of firearms, and the ammunition of the firearms is consumed very much. The Central Army's ammunition must be replenished from Nanjing. The logistics supply line is too long. Therefore, before the supply is in place, the Central Army will definitely not launch an offensive again."

Wu Sanfeng said: "Isn't there any Henan army with Hongniang?"

"Henan Army?" Wu Sangui laughed loudly, "Mr. Hong and Wang Pulian were passionate and wanted to give the Henan Army as a gift to Wang Pu, but the soldiers of the Henan Army may not agree. If nothing unexpected happens, the Henan Army will soon collapse. Brother, third brother, please watch. The Henan Army will never accept the court's amnesty so simply."

Looking at Wu Sangui's confident expression, Wu Sanfu asked suspiciously: "Second, have you made arrangements?"

"It's hard to say now." Wu Sangui said, "But there will be news soon."

Beijing, Ten Princes Mansion.

The main force of the Ming Central Army had already entered Beijing, and the Ten Princes' Mansion became Wang Pu's temporary headquarters.

If Wang Pu is also Princess Changping's fiancé (because Wang Pu has revised the Ming Dynasty law, the legal marriage age for men and women has been raised to 20 and 18 years old respectively. Princess Changping is only seventeen years old this year, so she cannot marry Wang Pu), and living in the Ten Princess' Mansion as him is not considered over the rules.

At this time, the large number of defeated soldiers who flew in Shandong, Henan, and the Beizhi prefectures had basically been eliminated. Most of the remaining small number of defeated soldiers hid in the deep mountains and forests. If these scattered soldiers were eliminated, they could no longer rely on the Central Army. They had to rely on the "Northern Cowboys" from the northern five provinces in the future.

At this point, the Battle of Jining was completely over, and Shandong and Beizhi provinces were completely restored.

However, it is regrettable that these two originally extremely prosperous provinces have almost become barren lands at this time. Shandong is better. Dengzhou, Laizhou and Qingzhou in the east are relatively minor because they are far away from the battlefield and the people are not injured or killed.

But Bei Zhili has completely become an ineffective place where "white bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles"!

Before Jiannu entered the pass, the population of Beizhili was more than 5 million. However, by the end of the Jining War, the total population of Beizhili had dropped sharply to less than 500,000. The original population of Beijing was more than 300,000, but now there were less than 30,000 people! About two million of them fled to Henan, and nearly 500,000 others fled to Nanzhili, and the remaining more than 1.5 million died tragically under the butcher knife of Jiannu!

The economic production of the entire Northern Zhili, Shandong Yanzhou, Dongchang and Jinan prefectures had been completely destroyed. Jiannu committed heinous atrocities in the Central Plains. Wang Pu led the Central Army from Jining all the way north to Beijing. Along the way, he encountered only a crowded market town, and there was only one family left in the entire town. That family survived because they hid in the deep mountains.
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