"After a while, the cannons hit the city. Look, the walls of the outer city of Nanjing are mostly made of earth. Although they are not considered disrepair in age, the walls are thin and can definitely be blown away by bombardment!"

When Hou Fangyu explained, Cao Eryu, who was smiling, just kept nodding.

In fact, as early as last year when he entered the south of the pass to plunder, the Qing Dynasty had already mastered the skills of using red barbarian cannons to attack the city. In history, next year, it was the time when the Qing Dynasty used red barbarian cannons to expand its results. In Tashan, the Qing Dynasty used red-clothed cannons to attack Tashan City. With only one day of artillery bombardment, the wall of Tashan was blasted open. The Qing army's heavy armored infantry soldiers rushed in outside the city, and the entire 7,000 defenders in the city were wiped out. After Tashan fell, the Qing army attacked Xingshan again, and soon collapsed the Xingshan city wall. The Ming army defended the city without fighting.

...

Kong Youde's betrayal was the core disaster. After entering the pass, the Qing Dynasty went south. Although the gentry and people in Jiangnan resisted fiercely, most of the Qing troops equipped with red barbarian artillery were vulnerable. The solid city walls would be bombarded at one day or several days, and then... they slaughtered the entire city. The cannons destroyed the knight's castle in Europe and also destroyed the city in China.

"... In a word, the city will not be broken!"

"You mean, don't you just blow up the city wall?"

Listening to Hou Fangyu's explanation, Cao Eryu seemed a little confused. What does this mean?

"If you don't break the city? What's the point of blasting the city wall?"

"Just blow apart, let's blow the upper half away, so that they know that as long as we want, we can attack the city at any time. Then, what will happen to those people in the city?"

"Chaozong, do you mean that Mr. Beile doesn't plan to attack the city?"

Cao Eryu said in confusion.

"It's not that we don't plan to attack the city, it's not that we are strong! Attack...even if we break the outer walls and the inner walls, and..."

Shaking his head, Hou Fangyu glanced at Jiangbei and then said.

"Besides, Master Beile is planning to surround the area and attack the aid! If Nanjing City is broken, how do you think you can surround the area and attack the aid?"

The attacking of aid was a long-standing style of play outside the pass, and Cao Eryu naturally knew about it very well.

Then they talked about other things. For example, Hou Fangyu really wanted to know Liaodong. Of course, it should be said that it is Manchuria now. Cao Eryu naturally explained his curiosity one by one. Although Jiangnan is very good, in Cao Eryu's opinion, Jiangnan is not as good as Manchuria. Naturally, his mouth was praised for Manchuria. Even in his mouth, Liaodong, a bitter and cold place, became Jiangnan on the frontier. Compared with Hou Fangyu, he naturally sneered. If it was really that good, it seemed that he would even sharpen his head and wanted to enter the pass.

When the slaves under Nanjing were there to communicate their feelings warmly and communicate how to be better as slaves, better serve their masters, and repay them, they didn't know at all that the vast land of Liaodong in their mouths would have completely changed. At least in the short term, it would be impossible for them to be "the Jiangnan outside the border" anymore.

...

Thousands!

On the land of Liaoyang covered with ice and snow, thousands of sled cars stretched for dozens of miles, driving towards the south under the drag of galloping horses. The sound of whips echoed in the air. Although it was cold and frozen, people's hearts were warm.

The sound of horse hooves, whips and people's cheerful laughter. For these people who have regained their freedom, they do not know what is waiting for them, but the feeling of being a human again makes everyone immersed in this long-lost freedom.

Behind them, the Chenyang City, where many Han people's blood and sweat were flowing, was emitting thick smoke. Before evacuating Chenyang, they not only lit all the buildings inside and outside Chenyang City, but also knocked down the city walls.

Along the way out of Chenyang, there were burning villages everywhere. The Baoyi Aha who lived worse than death in the village, after killing his former master, either rode his horse or drove a cart to follow the team retreating south.

The vast team looks particularly spectacular. What is the size of a million troops?

Zhu Guoqiang didn't know, but nearly 400,000 people drove more than 400,000 sleds, but they stretched for dozens of miles. Fortunately, it was in the Liaoyang Plain. Fortunately, the frozen land of thousands of miles became a natural road, otherwise such a huge team would be difficult to retreat.

However, even so, controlling hundreds of thousands of people is still an extremely difficult task. In order to retreat smoothly, in addition to withdrawing 70,000 young and strong men, using the Qing army weapons seized in Shenyang to form a regiment of tyrants, the remaining nearly 300,000 people were organized into a team of thousands of people, with 150 sled cars for each thousand people.

It took three days before the team had to set off, but even so, there were still many problems on the march, such as scattered teams and people falling behind, which were inevitable. So the cavalry had to be like shepherds, taking charge of the periphery while reminding the teams of thousands to maintain their formation.

After leaving Shenyang for a day, as the sun sets, the sky becomes gray and the cold wind blows from all directions after night. Almost instantly, the temperature drops a lot.

The people took out quilts and other objects and wrapped them on their bodies. They may not have many quilts as coats, but they snatched a lot from their former master's house. People touched the cotton coats and quilts covered on their bodies, and they all smiled on their faces, although they also had cotton coats, but what they wore and used as slaves were worn and worn. Wearing new clothes seemed to be a matter of their previous life. How could the masters wear new clothes?

The vast Liaoyang Plain may provide convenience for the movement of hundreds of thousands of people, but as a plain, there is no place to cover the wind and snow. There are endless snow fields everywhere. Although they are covered with cotton pads, after camping overnight, they still rely on their own sled car to form a place to hide from the wind.

Under the command of the officers and soldiers, the refugees circled more than 150 large sled cars, and then stood it up to cover the wind and snow. Behind the sled cars was a horse, and the innermost circle was where people lived.

All the sled carts were like wooden walls, forming circles on the snow field, and hundreds of bonfires were burning on the snow field. While the people were preparing for the overnight stay, Zhu Guoqiang, who was sitting on the fire pit in an intact village, looked a little solemn.

"I only walked less than a hundred miles!"

Staring at the map, Zhu Guoqiang said to Wan Shouqi and the others.

"From Chenyang to Jinzhou, it is almost seven hundred miles. According to the plan, we should resist within seven days. The places we need to pass along the way include Liaoyang, Fuzhou, and Jinzhou. Now there is no suddenness of the city. Therefore, it is a problem to fight these cities or not, this is a problem!"

Looking up at Wan Shouqi, Liu Hanyi and others, Zhu Guoqiang asked back.

"Everyone talks about their thoughts?"

"The prince, the most important thing now is to withdraw people to Lushun as much as possible. We delayed three days in Shenyang. When we set off, Huang Taiji had already set off. This means that we are at most two days ahead of them. If we delay time on the siege, we may delay time, and then we will lose the big picture because of a small loss."

"Yes, Prince, although Liaoyang was a major city in Liaodong in the past, after Jiannu robbed and massacred, it is now just a small city with a population of more than 10,000. In terms of size, it is even less than the small county towns in the pass, Fuzhou and Jinzhou are generally the same. Back then, the people in the city were either killed or plundered and distributed to Jiannu and became their Baoyi Aha..."

As a person who knows the situation in Liaodong best, Zhang Chun naturally has a more say. His words made Zhu Guoqiang raise his eyebrows and then said.

"If Jiannu killed our soldiers and civilians, it would be a pity if he could pass the city and not enter..."

After thinking about it, Zhu Guoqiang asked.

"Where are the people in this village who know about the situation in Liaoyang?"

Soon the people in Zhuangzi were found. When they heard that the prince wanted to understand the situation in Liaoyang, because Zhuangzi was only ten miles away from Liaoyang, the people in Zhuangzi naturally knew very well. They said everything they said and explained clearly the situation in Liaoyang City.

"The prince, there are five thousand Jiannu and their families in Liaoyang City. The Zhuangzi outside Liaoyang City is their flags and land. The grain collected by the Zhuangzi and the pigs raised by the Zhuangzi are usually handed over to the city for their food and food. Now most of the Jiannu have gone to the battle with the chief. The rest of the remaining people in the city are old, weak, sick and disabled. If they attack for a strong force, they will use cannons to kill the city wall first. It is estimated that they can get it in half a day..."

Looking at Liu Hanyi, Zhu Guoqiang asked:

"What they mean is that everyone living in the city is Jiannu?"

"There are also some Han people who can go to the city to serve, they are all slaves who are willing to work hard for Jiannu and the most reliable people. After all, they dare not use Han people easily, for fear of poisoning the Han people. When Jiannu first captured Liaodong, they were attacked and killed alone and poisoned by eating. This was a long time for them, so they were extra careful."

When Nurhaci first occupied Liaoshen, the Han people's resistance was one after another, and even Nurhaci's horse was poisoned to death. Faced with the strong resistance of the Han people, he not only tried to massacre the Han people as much as possible to completely eliminate the Han people physically, but also ordered the Jurchens to bring weapons when traveling, and they could not act alone, and the things sold by the Han people could not be eaten. In fact, such distrust, let alone the distrust of the Han people now, has not disappeared until the Qing Dynasty. How could the colonial rulers believe in the ruled slaves?

"Um,……"

Nodding slightly, Zhu Guoqiang raised his brow and sneered.
Chapter completed!