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During the Battle of Dongjiang, Huang Taiji had seen the exquisite craftsmanship of the turtle shells built by Mao Jue, but he never imagined that such a solid stone city would rise from the ground within three months, and it was still cold The three months with the coldest ground freeze.

Dongjiang's execution is frightening.

And it's not just that the city is strong, it's just a strong city, just surround it, like the Dalinghe City built by Zu Dashou, it was besieged for several months, and it was so hungry that people cannibalized it, it was still broken.

However, Mao Jue is a poor man like Emperor Chongzhen who is much richer. For three months in winter, a train of canned rice is pulled southward. At that time, I happened to see the Dongjiang army at the top of the city holding a lunch box and pulling the boxed lunch. As if a guy felt that way, he smiled at him with chopsticks and showed a mouthful of big yellow teeth. He was very angry. He flicked the binoculars down, and then he let out a deep sigh.

Mao Jue copied the battlefield of Songjin War. The Siping City in front of him is Jinzhou City, let you surround it, but when you besiege the city, I will attack your siege troops from inside and outside. At the beginning, Hong Chengchou's clinking sound, the stalemate lasted for more than half a year , and the Qing Dynasty almost collapsed, not to mention the rich Mao Jue, who still has a capable army of 10,000+ under his command.

What's more difficult than the Songjin War is that the fight with Hong Chengchou was on the land of Ming Dynasty. The whole thing that was abandoned and could not be cultivated was the Guanningjin defense line in western Liaoning. The Qing Dynasty could still cultivate it in its own territory. Now the battle line is really under pressure at home. It's the door, if you don't hit him in Siping City, Mao Jue won't be polite to you, and he will hit you when you turn around.

This time it’s not just as simple as harassing the frontier. Just like when Hou Jin broke into the Liaodong Great Wall to rob Daming, Mao Jue’s cavalry drove straight in along the opening, burning, killing and looting near Shengjing on the Liaodong Plain. Thinking about farming, even if he survived this year, Mao Jue's conscience realized that if he withdrew his troops, the spring famine next year would make his Jianzhou Jurchens fall apart.

This battle was fucking unfair from the very beginning! Thinking of Mao Jue's cavalry locusts charging in like swarms, Huang Taiji's scalp became numb, and he entered and robbed several times in a row. He knew too well the lethality of such rogue tactics!

"Your Majesty, shall we still attack the city?"

Also showing incomparable difficulty on his face, Dorgon put down the binoculars hesitantly, and asked hesitantly, but Huang Taiji hesitated for a few seconds before he gritted his teeth.

"Let Zu Dashou, Xia Chengde's troops go first, and dig out the trenches outside Hada City first!"

The city still has to be attacked! If you fight to the death on the battlefield, you still have a chance, but if you sit and wait for death, it is really waiting to die!

But after gnashing his teeth and roaring, Huang Taiji looked westward again, and continued to order in a hasty and hoarse voice.

"I am sending envoys to let Zaisang, Gulbush and others advance quickly!"

"The slave obeys!"

A shout sounded under Zhenghuang's flag, stepping on the muddy field, the Qing army, which had been dormant for the whole winter behind the Great Wall of Liaodong, came out viciously like a black bear recovering.

The Ning Jinming army, who had just surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, looked at the heavy cannons on Siping City in the distance, and in the midst of the whips and curses of the Jianzhou masters behind them, they turned their hoes full of complaints.

Although the chances of winning are not yet in hand, Mao Jue is obviously much more relaxed than Huang Taiji in terms of the battle situation. Dongjiang has accumulated a lot of money, and with ten years of achievements, he can attack in one fell swoop! Even if Mao Jue does not fight now, it will be beneficial to him. The fertile black land of Heilongjiang has been cultivated for more than five years. Even if the Dongjiang River is not cultivated for two years, it will still be enough to feed the 200 million people.

But Huang Taiji was different, even if he opened a border market with Daming, how much grain could he buy?The Jianzhou Jurchens made their fortunes by plundering. Their shortcoming is the protracted war and fighting for national strength. Mao Jue must have the last laugh.

This is also the most stable style of play, but just like Huang Taiji, Mao Jue doesn't like it.

In the new year, it has been the 16th year of Chongzhen, and in another year, the glorious Ming Dynasty will perish at the hands of Li Zicheng!This is a god-given opportunity! The Qing Dynasty in history took advantage of this opportunity to soar into the sky, how could Mao Jue let this moment go, Mao Jue was actually more anxious than Huang Taiji.

It's just useless for him to be anxious. Dongjiang's tactics and equipment are indeed ahead of the Qing Dynasty, but it is not to the point where the machine gun can hang the cavalry. The safest way is to lead Huang Taiji to his preset battlefield to fight!

Mao Jue's central army is located in Yitong Fort. Although the place is small, its strategic location is extremely important. With Jilin City as its back, they rush to help Siping City at any time. When Huang Taiji is digging a hole with a shovel, Mao Jue's army Also beating and beating, he is building roads!

Amidst the creaking sound, several horses walked over the road continuously with heavy stone rollers, flattening the pavement paved with gravel, cement and lime. The nearby Hada Mountain was unlucky, and there were heavy blasting sounds all day long. One after another, the Japanese slaves transferred from the north carried the mines and picked up the fallen rocks in disgrace, and transported them out of the mountain.

There is also a huge steam crusher at the other end, which is pounding down with a big hammer. The smoother the road, the more materials Mao Jue can transport from the north.

On the side of the newly built road, there were still people crying, but they were driven forward by the crackling of the whip. Those were the local aborigines. Huang Taiji plundered the population of the Central Plains to be a coated slave. Mao Jue also learned from it. They looked good, these people just filled the shortage of labor force caused by the transfer of young and strong, and they were distributed as slaves by the remaining government to each household

As for how innocent those who were originally Han Chinese had to be servants, Mao Jue couldn't care less, who made you all wear a pigtail with a money rat tail?We can only wait for a pardon for those who are willing to do it in the future.

There was a commotion outside, but inside, Mao Jue was frowning, looking at the huge strategic sand table.

"Supervisor! There is new news from the pass!"

At this time, a new staff officer rushed in hurriedly. After saluting, a large pile of black leather books was piled up on Mao Jue's desk, and he hurried out the door again. Mao Jue shook his head with a wry smile, another bill was sent by Lu Zhong! Moreover, the cost of more than two silvers still fell on Yuan Chonghuan.

Not to mention, unlike Sun Chuanting in history, after Yuan Dushi took office, he was able to toss more than him. This one robbed the salt pond of Prince Qin's mansion. In two months, Yuan Chonghuan reclaimed the north bank of the Weihe River when Sun Chuanting was in power. However, the 10,000+ mu of farmland embezzled by the Qin Palace was taken back.

Not to mention the wow wow that King Qin robbed, this old man Yuan even snatched business from Lao Dongjiang. He formed a caravan protected by troops, and imported homemade cloth and brocade from Bashu from Hanzhong, plus flowers from Huamachi. Salt is exported from Yulin to sell to Mongolia and Qinghai. After exchanged for livestock leather and other goods from the grasslands, it goes south again and resells these things to the south of Sichuan.

In the past six months, the long-exhausted Hanzhong and Qinchuan trade roads have been revived a lot in his hands, but the Ming Dynasty has rotted to the root. The more capable people are, the more jealous they are. These days The memorials of impeaching Yuan Chonghuan for competing with the people for profit, corruption, and bullying the clan flew into the palace like snowflake movies, and Emperor Chongzhen's suspicion and anxiety were obviously committed. He was more and more dissatisfied with Yuan Chonghuan's inaction.

Fortunately, there is Lu Zhong, and fortunately the Ming Dynasty is rotten to the root! If you have money, you can do whatever you want. Mao Jue's head of Jinyiwei spends a lot of money and hires officials to suppress the Qin Palace. Chen Yan, Wei Zaode and other civil servants were arguing with each other, and this was the only way to suppress the matter, otherwise Yuan Chonghuan would have gone to the sky prison long ago.

Of course, Mao Jue had to pay the bill in the end. From last year to this time, there were a total of 90 expenditures, which had already reached more than [-] taels of silver.

But after reading the bill with a sad face, Mao Jue felt a little relieved when he looked back, the money was not a waste of money.

In more than a year, Yuan Chonghuan expanded from 4000 troops when he first arrived in Shaanxi to more than 6 people. This is not counting the troops of He Renlong, Gao Jie, Bai Guangen and other military leaders. , Landlords who benefited from trade in Yulin, Tongguan and other places also actively joined the army.

The Ming Dynasty would not be able to jump around for a few days no matter what, but the stronger his Qin army, the longer it would be able to contain Li Zicheng. If he could not take Shaanxi, Li Zicheng would not attack the capital anyway. Maybe he could It may be 18 years or 19 years after Chongzhen was dragged out.

The longer the time dragged on, the better prepared Dongjiang would be. When the time came to clean up the Qing Dynasty by himself, he would sort out Mongolia along the way, and then enter the customs to seize the world, and the confidence would be much greater.

Without hesitation, he wrote down the words and stamped them, and when he turned his head, Mao Jue cautiously ordered to his side.

"Don't tell Chiyohime about this!"

"Understood, sir!"

I don't know how many times I have heard these words, Adelaina didn't raise her head, and didn't answer the words, only Ying Ji, who was in charge of the security, agreed dumbfoundingly.

Putting down the information from Yuan Chonghuan, Mao Jue did not continue to review it, but put his eyes on the sand table again, looked at it with a frown, and suddenly turned over Lu Zhong's letter again. out.

"By the way, send another letter to the capital!"

While looking over the previous records one by one, Mao Jue hurriedly gave orders again.

"Let Lu Zhong find a way to find out all the information on the court's rewards to the Mongolian tribes in the past, and send them to Liaodong, so that Song Xiance can come from Ula, Jilin."

"The concubine obeys!"

Chapter 488. Cruel tug-of-war

After a quiet winter, the two armies, who were suffocated with anger, seemed to be about to burst out of their depression in a short period of time. The ice and snow melted, and it took only ten days for the earth to thaw, and the small half of Liaodong land was already ignited with flames of war.

The first is Siping City.

The Liaodong Ming army who surrendered was also from digging. It seems that turning a hoe is several times faster than fighting. In ten days, they have dug five winding ditches outside Siping City, just like blooming lotus flowers. Pinto turned to the towering city.

But in Dongjiang, Kong Youde, the commander-in-chief of Acheng Army, has never had a passive defensive temper. How could he easily abandon the position outside the city and be pushed into the city to be a coward?As soon as the war started, Huang Taiji encountered a fierce counterattack.

"Get ready, Master Fatty!!!"

A low wall of wooden frames was carried by engineers and quickly set up in front, followed by Dongjiang riflemen who lined up to follow quickly. They came out of the bunker too suddenly. This section of shouting, followed by crackling bullets came like a storm.

It was a sudden massacre. Within a few hundred meters of the front, Jiangjun who was digging a hole with a hoe suddenly had a bloody hole burst out of his body or head, and screamed and fell into the newly buried hole.

"Go! Those who fill up the two layers of ditch will be pardoned!"

Chief of Staff Shen Rui's voice sounded again, and it was their turn to play again, with a large basket of soil on their arms, followed by the dwarfs of the half-orc regiment, Zhang Ruolin ran out panting, the trench was three feet away from the city wall. A hundred meters, it was really a sprint for a hundred meters, panting, the basket was separated from the mud and stones, and the corpses of the soldiers who had just been shot were buried in the pit together.

The time for the surrender is still short, before they were robbed by the Qing army bandit group to enjoy its benefits, they were sent to be cannon fodder and coolies to dig a hole. Ning Jin's surrendered troops were already angry, and they were willing to give up their lives. Turn around He ran as fast as he could, ignoring the embroidery army supervisor behind him, jumping around with his whip and cursing angrily.