"If His Majesty has any scruples and allows the three-party coalition forces to evacuate...and escape, the Northern Campaign will fail, and then these children will be sinners!"
"Fuck you, according to you, you should just run over and watch hundreds of children burn to death? Watch hundreds of young women being raped?"
"You will never have children with such a cruel heart. If you are not a father, you will never understand what it means to be a father!"
"The war is for the peaceful and stable life of the people. We can exchange the lives of our children for victory. It doesn't matter if we don't fight this war!"
"Haha... Compared with the stability of the Ming Dynasty's border for hundreds of years, what are these hundreds of children?
If you give up the pursuit because you are worried about these hundreds of children, then other enemies will follow suit in the future. If Jiannu can use it once, he will use it a second time. The northern expedition will never succeed.
The borders of the Ming Dynasty will never be peaceful. People in the north will always be harassed. How many people will die every year? Have you settled this account?
Your Majesty can save these children, but can you also save those abducted girls and tens of thousands of people? Long-term pain is worse than short-term pain.
Today, Jiannu can unite with Mongolia and Fusang, and in the future, he can contact foreign enemies in more places, and more people will die. In other words, their death will allow more people to survive, which is a great merit.
War is inherently cruel. The death of these people is exchanged for complete victory. After the war, the court will erect monuments and temples for them, and the people of Ming Dynasty will pay tribute.
With such great merit and the luck of the court, if you go to hell, you will have to stand up to welcome him, and then be reborn into a good family. This deal is worth it! "
"Yes, the fact that the Jian slaves were so insane fully reflects their cruelty and further proves the importance and necessity of their complete annihilation.
If they can do this today, who knows what cruel things they will do in the future? "
"The accounts cannot be settled like this, this is human life..."
"Don't talk about what you have and what you don't have. War is a redistribution of interests. Isn't this just settling scores?"
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Due to the human shield incident, the entire Ming Dynasty was divided into two factions, Yu Quan and Yu Lie.
But gradually, the idea of agreeing to exchange the lives of tens of thousands of people for victory in the war took the initiative. This is human nature, and it has nothing to do with oneself.
Chongzhen doesn't know this yet, but even if he knows it, it probably won't shake his mind.
On the third day of the army's pursuit, Shenyang was attacked by 2,000 Ming troops. The moat bridge piers were blown up. Thousands of nobles and servants who left the city were intercepted and killed. News that heads were everywhere outside Shenyang reached the moon by the Yalu River. In the camp of the slave-building alliance army.
Huang Taiji was furious and smashed everything in the tent.
On the fourth day, hundreds of children outside Liaoyang City who were trying to prevent the Ming army from pursuing were rescued, and news came again that more than two thousand cavalrymen had been burned to char.
After hearing the news, Huang Taiji went berserk.
Yagyu Muneki said coldly: "It doesn't matter, we have retreated into North Korea safely and unscathed. Besides, we still have hundreds of women and more than 40,000 civilians on our hands.
So what if the Ming army bypasses the Yalu River? If they want to destroy us, they must first blow up these 40,000 people. We are already in an invincible position! "
"Tian Conghan, those who achieve great things will not stick to trivial matters. The hundreds of golden children and girls captured by the Ming army will be killed.
As long as we win the battle, just kill more Ming people to avenge them,
As for your small population in Dajin, it doesn’t matter. After occupying the Ming Dynasty, you have a vast territory and resources to slowly tame the Han people.
When the time comes, it doesn't matter if one person marries ten or eight, or gives birth to ten or twenty, but I'm afraid your warriors won't be able to survive.
Ten years later, the population will increase ten or twenty times. Do you still care about such a small population?
To put it more cruelly, as long as you people from the royal family of the Eight Banners are still there, what do those ordinary banner people matter? "
"If you are still angry, then go to the camp where Han people are imprisoned and kill hundreds of them to relieve your anger.
Or get a few Han women to vent, the war is coming, you need to stay calm, otherwise, you really will never have a chance again! "
"Ben Khan understands!"
Huang Taiji's voice was very flat, and the attitude in his words could not be heard.
But everyone knows that no matter who it is, no matter who it is, they will not be able to calm down when encountering such a thing.
On the eighth day, the army arrived at the Hushan Great Wall. After repairing for half a day, they crossed one step into North Korea on Chidao, and then quickly stepped on the pontoon bridge built by the Tiger Guards and quickly entered North Korea.
On the tenth day, the Ming army arrived at the border of Yiju, North Korea, and set up camp about 20 miles away from the three-party coalition forces of Jiannu and Jiannu. Flintlock mines were planted around 500 meters away.
In the big tent, all the generals gathered.
Yuan Keli looked at Wei Yang, the commander of the Huben Guards who was the forward: "Tell me about the situation!"
"Mr. Yuan Ge, the slave-building coalition is currently occupying the area from Moon Island to Sinuiju with Sinuiju City as its back.
Ten to twenty thousand people were recruited from North Korea, and countless trenches were dug around the middlemost sergeant camp. Then large holes were dug in the trenches, leaving enough passages for the cavalry to charge! "
"According to our estimates, Jiannu set out from Liaoyang and captured at least 30,000 Ming people along the way. When these people worked during the day, they were divided into groups of ten, tied to their waists with ropes, and guarded by Jiannu sergeants.
At night, ten people were tied together back to back with their hands on their backs and placed outside the camp. At the front was a trench nearly three meters deep and three meters wide.
Moreover, a system of sitting together was implemented. As long as one person escaped, all the others would be pulled out and beheaded. According to the final inquiry, at least a thousand people were killed together because of their escape.
The food they ate was leftover by their sergeants, and they were given it to them only after it went rancid. There was only one steamed bun a day. "
"Mr. Ge, the camp of the tripartite coalition of Jiannu and slaves is more than four miles away from the front camp where the people are detained. In other words, our Hongyi artillery cannot attack their sergeant camp.
And the excavated soil was used to build a mixed earth and wood wall about one meter high between the outer camp and the inner camp. Although it is not high and not strong, it is impossible for the Fo Lang machine gun and the Tiger Crouching Cannon to attack! "
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After listening to Wei Yang's report, the faces of all the generals in the tent were a little ugly.
They have no control over the life and death of North Korean people, but what about the more than 30,000 people in Ming Dynasty?
If we attack during the day, the army will be discovered before it gets close, and the civilians will become the targets of the flying thunder cannons.
If we attack at night, the people will not be able to escape.
In this case, if you want to completely destroy the slave-building coalition, you can only bomb these people.
Chongzhen also shook his head slightly and used the people as human shields. This strategy was not uncommon in history.
Especially in the eight-year war in modern times, Fuso used this method many times, and hundreds of thousands of people died under this strategy.
"Do you have any solution?"
Facing Yuan Keli's inquiry, the generals were silent, and had no other option but to crush him.
"Okay, let's go out and get ready. Let me think about it!"
The generals left the camp with shameful expressions, and Yuan Keli had a tangled look on his face.
After a while, he said softly: "Your Majesty, I would like to know if anyone from the Jinyi Guards has infiltrated into the Jiannu Camp, and what level of people can he come into contact with?"
Chongzhen's eyes narrowed and he said calmly: "What do you want to do?"
