The north wind is howling, and tiny snowflakes are falling down one after another. Almost out of sight, the continuous mountains are covered with a layer of white gauze.
Winter came very early in the fifth year of Chongzhen's reign in the Ming Dynasty. As soon as October entered, several snowfalls fell in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, covering the narrow plains and vast mountains with a thin layer of white gauze.
However, the first snow that fell early did not stop Dorgon's army from returning in triumph.
The triumphant army was, of course, very...chaotic!
Yes, it’s messy, huge and messy!
On the way to the north, there is a marching team that is so huge that it has no boundaries. Even if it is standing on a high slope next to the road and looking south and north, there is still no boundary. The number of people in the entire marching team is probably no less than 2.78 million!
But this marching team, which seemed to have 2.78 million people, was actually very messy. Because this team is not composed entirely of regular troops, but a small number of Hou Jin's Eight Banners soldiers holding close to 250 million North Korean people.
In addition to the 250,000,000 Korean people dragging their families and crying, there are also countless livestock and vehicles loaded with food and various supplies in the marching team... There are cattle Cars, carriages, and human-powered wheelbarrows. Looking at the North Korean men and women who still had some strength, they used all their strength to push the wheelbarrow that creaked and screamed because of the heavy load.
The car can still "scream", but the person is already on the verge of crying and has no courage to give out his last cry.
Because the ferocious Eight Banners heavenly soldiers have used whips, swords, and horse hooves more than once to tell them the reality: they are already dead and already in hell...
The master of this man-made hell is Lord Mojin Baylor from the Kingdom of Jin. Oh, no, his official name is Mergen Daiqing Baylor (Smart Baylor) Dorgon.
This young man, Baylor, who was only 20 years old, made great contributions to Huang Taiji's stable rule in the war against Korea, a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty.
In this conquest that lasted for a year, Dorgon not only broke through dozens of Korean cities, large and small, and captured Pyongyang, the capital of Xijing, and Hanyang, capital of Wangjing, but also laid down a siege that made two generations of great Khans, Nurhachi and Huang Taiji, resentful. The island!
An even greater military exploit than the capture of Pi Island was that Dorgon's advance was so rapid that the soldiers and civilians in northern North Korea had no time to escape and became the spoils of war for the Jin Army!
Yes, people are also the spoils of the Later Jin Kingdom!
To be honest, the country of Hou Jin was indeed extremely cruel. In the eyes of the Eight Banners generals who had made a hole in them, living human beings were just talking trophies. After the victory and return, they were distributed together with the animals.
Even when counting the results of the battle, the captured and captured people are combined and calculated...
After the people and livestock are brought back together, they will be distributed together. And Zhengding of the Eight Banners of Houjin, who was assigned to Korean serfs, would never treat them well.
Because these humanoid animals are originally talking cattle and horses, they can be used to death. Just use the dead people and catch new ones.
In the historical Battle of Bingzi (which took place in the ninth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty and the first year of Chongde in the Qing Dynasty), five to six million Koreans were plundered back to Liaodong and became slaves.
According to Korean records, at that time, the Qing army "suffered fierce flames and the houses were empty." All cities that had been occupied and ravaged were turned into ruins.
As for the Koreans who were plundered by the Qing army, except for a few who were returned to the rear after the Qing army entered Guan Dingding and Beijing, the rest were annihilated in the long river of history...or to put it more popularly, they were treated as consumables. No more waste.
To a certain extent, food production in the Hou Jin Dynasty (the Qing Dynasty before entering the customs) treated human lives as consumables!
Compared with this Bing Zi, Dorgon's current results seem to be smaller...
However, unlike Bingzi's random "not seizing land" situation, this time Hou Jin is robbing people and land!
Land was seized as far as Pyongyang (the west coast area north of Pyongyang was occupied by Houjin for a long time), and people were captured in Gyeonggi and the Yellow Sea (in Gyeonggi Province and Hwanghae Province).
The reason why the Ping'an Road territory with Pyongyang as the core was left was mainly to facilitate the next robbery, and also to gradually occupy the entire Korean Peninsula - if Li Xin hadn't brought 5,000 people across the sea to save the Korean Kingdom The Li Dynasty royal family also established an anti-golden base on Jianghua Island. Dorgon may now have swallowed the entire peninsula in one go.
However, the existence of Li Xin and the North Korean royal court made Huang Taiji and Dorgon's idea of a quick victory come to nothing.
Because the Eight Banners soldiers brought into North Korea by Dorgon, Azig, and Duduo were not many, totaling more than 10,000 people, it was impossible to effectively control the entire North Korea. If you want to take North Korea quickly, you can only destroy the imperial court at once, and then make good use of the traitors in the court to seize the entire territory while North Korea is leaderless.
However, Li Xin took control of King Li Zhu before Dorgon did, and Dorgon's quick victory came to naught.
But Dorgon was not simple either. He chose a two-pronged strategy of occupying land and robbing people. Now he finally returned with a full load... Looking at the mighty North Korean people walking, and then looking at the world north of the Yalu River in the distance.
Dorgon, the Lord of Great Jin, finally took a long breath and said to his left and right: "With these slaves and food, our Great Jin Kingdom will be able to live a better life for the next two years!"
"How come it's only been two years?" Azig smiled and said, "Twelve-year-old, you don't know yet, right? The Southern Dynasty has had a hard time in the past two years... This year there was another major disaster, with floods flooding three provinces. , millions of people have no food to eat, and Emperor Zhu has no choice but to lead the hungry people south to beg for food. Our opportunity has come!"
Duduo also smiled and said: "What's even more exaggerated? The Southern Emperor went to beg for food, but left a four-year-old or maybe five-year-old prince to look after the family and supervise the country. Isn't this a joke?"
Dorgon snorted: "What can a child do to supervise the country? Didn't we also take advantage in Yanshan and Liaoxi?"
"Didn't we send troops to North Korea to cover us last time?" Duduo said with a smile, "The Great Khan was feigning an attack on the Western Front... but this time it was real!"
"He's going to deal with that four- or five-year-old...Zhu Cixiang?"
I don’t know what’s going on, but every time Dorgon mentions Zhu Cihong, he always feels like his hair is standing on end!
Duduo shook his head, "It's not to deal with Zhu Cixuan, but to deal with his younger brother Zhu Cixuan... This child is only three years old this year!"
Dorgon frowned and thought to himself: If you can't beat the four-year-old Zhu Cixuan, why are you going to bully the three-year-old Zhu Cixuan?
Azig on the side suddenly asked: "No, Old Fourteen, where did your news come from? Why don't Old Twelve and I know this?"
Duduo lowered his voice and said with a smile: "Fan Wencheng's wife wrote to me and told me!"
Dorgon shook his head, "Old Fourteen, you...this is not good!"
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"Great Khan, the book of Twelve Baylor says that this time we really won a great victory and gained a lot... It seems that we don't have to worry about running out of food in the next battle."
Shenyang, Palace of the Great Khan.
Fan Wencheng was dutifully reporting the latest news to Huang Taiji.
He seemed to be in a good mood today, not only because his wife had just given birth to a fat boy with a full face, but also because his Fan family's farm finally had a good harvest this year.
This year is rare and there has been no drought. Although there have been heavy rains for days in the summer, there are no overhanging rivers like the Yellow River in Houjin, and the cultivated land is far away from the mountains, so there is no fear of flash floods. So it rained heavily, but floods didn't happen.
It’s been a good year!
In addition, apart from the Dorgon brothers sending troops to North Korea so far this year, Houjin has not fought many wars. It can be said that the weather is smooth, everything is safe, and we are recuperating... Winter is about to come now, and the time for Hou Jin to use force is coming.
But this time, the one that Huang Taiji, the Great Khan of the Later Jin Dynasty, wanted to deal with was Zhu Cixuan, the three-year-old king of the Ming Dynasty!
