"Uncle Thirteenth, I can't trust Uncle Fourteenth."

"Your Ma, what do you think is the difference between your Emperor Ama and your Emperor Grandpa?"

Hongzhou looked at the sick Uncle Thirteen, and suddenly had a bad premonition. This question is not only a problem, but more like a certain attitude towards life and death. When asking such a question, it often means facing a very severe test. Since he couldn't think of the answer, Hongzhou shook his head.

"Emperor. Your Emperor is the Emperor, and your Emperor Ama wants to be the Emperor. We all have been with your Emperor and have survived countless storms and finally settled down. They have worked hard for your Emperor and received high officials and generous salaries from your Emperor. They think these are justified. Your Emperor Ama doesn't think this is justified, so they naturally have to rectify the court. You have seen some things afterwards, guess what they think in their hearts."

"Please give me advice." After Hongzhou said, he waited for Lao Thirteen to speak with great care.

The Thirteenth Old Smiling Wonderful Smile, "They thought that what your father took from them was their things. As for this country, it was your father's things."

Hongzhou was stunned for a moment and couldn't help but shout, "Isn't this crazy about losing my heart!"

"They are not crazy. They know that they can't beat Huo Chong, and they will die even if they go to the battlefield. They are thinking about whether there is a way out. If Lao Ba wins, will he defend the capital city to the death? I think Lao Ba will not. We Manchus are living outside the pass, but if they can't beat him, they can't quit outside the pass. But they don't understand why Huo Chong would let us go."

Hongzhou's face turned pale with anger. He had thought of countless explanations, but he didn't expect such a key point that Uncle Thirteen pointed out. If Uncle Thirteen said it was true, the thoughts of those who went to Shengjing would be too dirty! It was simply disgusting!

"If you let your fourteenth uncle lead the army, it is not that he can win, nor is it that he is so reliable. It is that your fourteenth uncle doesn't want to go back outside the pass, and even if you can't defend the capital, your fourteenth uncle will...ah, cough cough..."

Lao Shisan started to cough violently, and this cough seemed to cough out all his lungs. Hongzhou first helped Lao Shisan beat his back, but it was useless. In desperation, he could only invite the imperial physician in.

Seeing that Hongzhou was about to leave, the Thirteenth Old reached out and grabbed Hongzhou's sleeve, used all his last strength, and said reluctantly in the cough: "The emperor uh cough...hehe...hehe...hehe...hehe...hehe...hehe...hehe...hehe...hehe...hehe...hehe...hehe...hehe...hehe...hehehe...hehe...hehehe...hehe...hehehe...hehehe...hehehe...hehehe...hehehe...hehehe...hehehe...hehehe...hehehe...hehehe...hehehe...hehehe...hehehe...hehehe...hehehe...hehehe...hehehehe...hehehehe...hehehehe...hehehehe...hehehehe...hehehehe...hehehehe...hehehehe...hehehehe...hehehehe...hehehehehe...hehehehehe...hehehehehe...hehehehehe...hehehehehe...hehehehehe...hehe

Hongzhou nodded repeatedly, but ordered the imperial physician to treat the Thirteenth son quickly.

As he went back, Hongzhou repeatedly recalled Uncle Thirteen's words. The more he thought about it, the more he felt it made sense, the more angry he felt. If Uncle Thirteen said, Hongzhou would serve Manchu instead of Manchu serving Emperor Hongzhou. The good world would actually have the smell of flying when the disaster came.

After returning to the palace, Hongzhou tossed and turned, unable to sleep at night. It was not only Hongzhou who couldn't sleep, but also Lao Shisi. Thinking of himself as he really wanted to fight with his brother's life and death, how could he sleep? He thought about it but couldn't find a plan to defeat his brother in one fell swoop.

I couldn't sleep, so Lao Shisi turned over and sat up, walked to the window and opened the window. The outside of the house was not as cold as I thought, but he saw snow falling in the air.

It was already the eleventh month of the lunar calendar, and it was time for it to snow. Lao Shisi looked at the shadowy snowflakes and suddenly had an idea. What if the food route is cut off? It would be very difficult to transport after it snowed in the pass. Lao Ba entered Shanhaiguan, and his transportation line was longer. As long as the food route was cut off, he would probably trap Lao Ba in Luanzhou.

With a preliminary idea, Lao Shisi closed the window and lay back on the bed to sleep.

The general king came out again, and the capital was shocked. The fourteenth old man led a hundred thousand men to Luanzhou. It was fine at first. The snow was not too cold and the road was not even very slippery.

However, after two days of going out, two news came from the capital. The first one was naturally sent by Lao Si's people. After being the Prime Minister of the Cabinet in the past two years, although most of the party members were competing for the situation, at least they would not let Lao Si's eyes be disgraced.

Seeing the news that Lao Thirteen had returned to heaven, Lao Thirteen didn't know what his emotions were. If he said he was sad, of course he was a little sad. He said he was not happy, but Lao Thirteen didn't feel very happy. Just when he couldn't figure out what he was thinking, a feeling emerged. Lao Thirteen cursed hatefully: "You are dead... Brother Thirteen."

For many years, Lao Shisan has been the hardcore of his brother Yongzheng. I don’t know how many battles have occurred between Lao Shisan and Lao Shisan. However, after scolding, Lao Shisan felt sad. After the "Thirteenth Brother" said, he was already crying.

After crying for a while, he just calmed down. The Sisi of Lao received the news sent by Hongzhou. Seeing that Hongzhou had not concealed it, the Sisi of Lao was relieved. If his nephew had been foolish, he would probably not have sent the news so quickly. The Sisi of Lao did not want to see the emperor sitting in the capital behind him, and he did not believe in his emperor.

Since he knew that Lao Thirteen had passed away, Lao Thirteen was even more excited and commanded his men to march in the snow.

Ortai and Yue Zhongqi brought back a 120,000 army during their lifetime. Hongzhou first gave the 14,400 and 30,000 troops. The 30,000 troops could not be arranged in a long snake formation. Instead, they marched in several ways.

Two days later, all 30,000 troops arrived at the Qing army camp outside Luanzhou. After all, Aisin Gioro Basai was a veteran and the camp was built quite sturdy. When he learned that the fourteenth old man was going to lead his army, he had already started to build a new camp with a siege.

After 30,000 troops arrived at the camp, there was already a fire to roast. Although the residence was crowded, it could be used even if it was crowded. However, Lao Ba did not calm down and immediately sent his troops to attack the water-filling place here.

Basai immediately sent people to compete with the Shengjing rebels for water. The two sides fought fiercely and many people died. They fished out the bodies from the gurgling river water. After the bloody smell in the water dissipated, Basai's subordinates quickly fetched water and went back.

Although the snow melts, it is water, but this method can only be used for emergency response. The reason is very simple. When the weather is cold, the snow will not melt itself. If you want the snow to melt, you have to burn it with fire. The snow is actually very fluffy. A large pot of snow melts, which often only floods the bottom of the pot.

It takes a lot of firewood to melt so much water, which is not worth the effort. If you drink snow water directly, it will feel very bad and has a rustic smell.

In comparison, the river water in winter is much better and clear.

After taking enough water and letting go, Lao Shisi discussed with Basai the idea of ​​cutting off Lao Ba's grain road. Basai said regretfully, "Master Fourteen, I have tried it. Shengjing's rebels are very careful in defending, which has ruined a lot of our troops."

Lao Si thought that it might be successful in one fell swoop, but he didn't expect that he was not the only one who thought of this method. But Lao Si still didn't give up, "Is there too few people sent?"

Basai could understand Lao Sisi's mood. If he could cut off Lao Ba's food and grass, he could nail Lao Ba to Luanzhou and unable to move. However, Basai still answered bluntly: "No. On heavy snow, if our army dispatches a large army, it would cause the Shengjing rebels to cut off the food route of that team. Even if he takes action, he would have to wait until the snow is about to melt."

After all, Lao Sioux let the soldiers go and knew that fighting was not a joke. He could only sigh: "I don't know if I should think of the snow as soon as possible."

The next day, Lao Ba actually sent someone to compete with Lao Si Si for water. Lao Si Si did not expect Lao Ba was so persistent. The people sent to fetch water were ambushed in small ambush, which damaged many people. Fortunately, the water source was very close to Lao Si's camp. When the large group of people were dispatched, Lao Ba's men retreated.

On the third day, the people who flew the water were raided again, and the double-anti-anti-de-fight was in a bloody battle. Many people died in the river, and it was not until night when the water was flew.

The eighth old man was so harassed that the fourteenth old man ordered the first ambush. Unexpectedly, the people who went to ambush had frozen all night and even died of two people, and they did not wait for the eighth old man to harass the people.

The fourteenth brother was so angry that he had no choice but to send someone to continue to ambush.

For three days, I never saw anyone who continued to attack. Lao Shisi was angry and sent someone to attack the place where Lao Ba was fetching water. However, Lao Ba was ambushed by Lao Ba. He didn't even see the water source, so many people were lost.

The two sides just persisted for a few days, and the snow had stopped. At first, the snow melted a little, and suddenly two more days of north wind blew dry and burned the wet ground. However, they saw the clouds covered and snow started to fall again. This time, it took two days. This time, unlike before, the snowflakes fell on the ground and did not melt. Soon, the snow was more than a foot thick.

At this time, Lao Si knew that it was impossible to raid Luanzhou. At least it was unlikely to raid before the snow melted. However, Lao Ba could not come out, and both sides had to stare at each other with big eyes.

On the first day of the 12th month of the first year of Kunlong, Lao Shisi was discussing what to do with Basai, and saw the Basai's personal soldiers blushing and shaking slightly. Half an hour ago, Lao Shisi had noticed it. However, it was Basai's personal soldiers, and Lao Shisi didn't want to say anything. However, the personal soldiers were shaking left and right, and when Lao Shisi and Basai had to stop, they looked at this guy, they saw the guy blushing and falling softly as if he was drunk.

The personal soldiers next to him rushed forward to check, reached out and touched the guy's face, and exclaimed: "He is so hot!"

Several of the personal soldiers of the Ming Basai also tried it and quickly reported, "Prince, General, this brother has a high fever."

Basai's order, "Send it down and rest."

Lao Shisi didn't think anything was wrong, but the high fever in the military camp soon became more and more. The next morning, on the morning of the second day of December, officials from all the battalions came to report that many appeared in their camps.

From this time to the fifth day of December, typhoid fever and cholera broke out in the military camp. At least 15% of the people either had high fever or vomiting and diarrhea. Or had high fever and vomiting and diarrhea.

The camp was already crowded, so the soldiers could not take care of so many places at this time. When they were sick, they drowned everywhere, which made the already unpleasant barracks even more covered by an unpleasant smell.

Even the Fourteenth brother knew that things were going big. If this continues, let alone war, just falling ill will defeat these more than 70,000 people.

After discussing with Basai, Basai also knew that something was wrong. However, he did not propose to withdraw his troops, but suggested that he immediately submit a memorial to Hongzhou to tell the current dilemma in the army.

Although it was difficult to walk on the road, the news was sent to the capital in one day. After reading this, Hongzhou gave the content to the minister of the Military Affairs Office. Liu Tongxun looked at it and looked very frightened. Before Hongzhou asked, Liu Tongxun took the initiative to say: "Your Majesty, when Li Chuang went to a stone, there was a plague in the army. You have to be careful at this time!"

Hongzhou knew that Liu Tongxun had studied the history of conquering Shandong traitors in the Shunzhi era, but he did not know that Liu Tongxun had studied the history of the Eight Banners entering the Pass. After asking, he knew what happened at that time.

It turned out that a piece of stone refers to Shanhaiguan. Wu Sangui led 40,000 troops to guard Ningyuan (now Xingcheng, Liaoning) and prevented the Qing army from entering Shanhaiguan. When the Dashun army was approaching the capital, Wu Sangui was ordered to lead troops into the pass and enter the capital of the capital and arrived in Fengrun (now in Hebei). When he heard that the capital had been broken, Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian hanged himself and returned to Shanhaiguan.

Li Zicheng ordered the Ming general Tang Tong to lead 8,000 troops to Shanhaiguan to recruit surrender. Wu Sangui repeatedly thought about it and decided to surrender. He led his army to Shanhaiguan to Beijing. When he arrived at Xishahe Post Station in Yongping (now Lulong), he met his family who escaped from Beijing. He learned that his father Wu Xiang was tortured by peasant soldiers in Beijing and his beloved concubine Chen Yuanyuan was seized. So he changed his original intention and refused to surrender to Li Zicheng under the banner of revenge for Emperor Chongzhen, and returned to Shanhaiguan and attacked Tang Tong's troops.

Upon hearing the news, Li Zicheng summoned civil and military ministers to discuss countermeasures and decided to do both the expedition and pacification. When Tang Tong repeatedly asked for help, Li Zicheng ordered General Liu Zongmin and others to lead about 100,000 troops (some say 60,000) to Shanhaiguan on April 13th. In order to win Wu Sangui, he brought the Ming Dynasty crown prince Zhu Cixuan and Wu Xiang to accompany the army.

Wu Sangui expected that he could not fight, so he sent an envoy to Dorgon to ask for help. The Qing army met Wu Sangui's envoy at Wenghou (now Fuxin District, Liaoning), so he changed his way from Lianshan (now Huludao City), and went on a line in Ningyuan day and night, and rushed to Shanhaiguan. The Qing soldiers set off on the ninth day of the April 20th. On April 20th, the Qing soldiers arrived in Lianshan (now Lianshan District, Huludao City). Wu Sangui repeatedly urged troops. The Qing soldiers knew that Li Zicheng's army was approaching Shanhaiguan, and rushed day and night, and marched for more than 200 miles a day and night for a total of 13 days.

Li Zicheng was infected with a plague in the capital, and many problems had occurred during the marching. However, because he broke through the capital, he forced Chongzhen to death. He was very confident when he fought with the Ming army. He ignored the epidemic and fought with the Qing army and Wu Sangui coalition forces on a stone.

During this period, the Dashun Army actually fought well, but in the end it was because of insufficient troops. Unexpectedly, the Qing army joined and was eventually defeated.

In this battle, the Qing army not only captured Shanhaiguan, but also annihilated tens of thousands of people in the core old camp of Li Chuang. Li Chuang was exhausted and he no longer had the power to compete for the world. Li Chuang, who once destroyed the Ming Dynasty, entered the countdown to his destruction.

After hearing Liu Tongxun telling such an old story, Hongzhou felt uneasy. He was uncertain in his heart and immediately wanted to ask Uncle Thirteen. Then he thought that Uncle Thirteen had passed away and he was separated from life and death from now on, and he could no longer rely on Uncle Thirteen's wisdom. Hongzhou's eyes turned red and he almost burst into tears.

The military ministers next to him were all smart, so they immediately advised Hongzhou not to miss Lao Thirteen too much. It would be better to make a decision quickly.

Hongzhou's first thought was to withdraw the army first. However, the thirteenth uncle clearly stated on his confession that the army cannot be withdrawn. Once the troops are withdrawn to Tongzhou, it will only make the shaken members in the capital make a choice.

But if the troops were not withdrawing, would most of the more than 70,000 people outside Luanzhou City die of illness?

Thinking about it, Hongzhou asked the ministers how to deal with such a situation.

The ministers of military operations did not speak, and Hongzhou looked at them without a certain idea. Several Manchu ministers looked at Hongzhou, as if they wanted to find an answer from Hongzhou's face. This made Hongzhou angry. What he wanted was the high-powered ministers who came up with a plan, not the plan that Hongzhou liked to say. If he only wanted to hear what he wanted to hear, Hongzhou felt that he might as well draw lots! At least the answer he got from drawing lots might be considered real will.

The military ministers may have seen Hongzhou see through the thoughts of the military ministers, but no one expressed his opinion in the end. Hongzhou was so angry that he asked Liu Tongxun, the youngest here, "How do you think we should deal with it?"

Liu Tongxun answered decisively: "Send a doctor to treat first."

Hongzhou thought this method was feasible at the time, so he immediately ordered the imperial physicians to prepare the treatment plan immediately and prepare any herbs needed.

After giving a reliable order, Hongzhou continued to ask: "What's next?"

Liu Tongxun thought about it again, "Report to the emperor, I feel that I cannot withdraw. If I withdraw, where should these people be placed? They have been infected, and wherever they go, they will definitely cause diseases in the local area. If they are asked to return to Beijing, wouldn't the capital be protected?"

Hongzhou originally thought about the story of Uncle Thirteen, so he did not agree with the withdrawal of troops. At this time, Liu Tongxun pointed out a more realistic and cruel situation. Hongzhou no longer knew what to say except sighing.

At this time in Luanzhou, Lao Ba went out of the city himself. Tens of thousands of people were lined up on the snow in front of him. Every team of soldiers was surrounded by travel equipment.

Standing on the high platform, Lao Ba raised the wine bowl in his hand high. The tens of thousands of people had already poured the wine. In addition to the wine, the soldiers also took out the warm paper bag from their arms and took out the spicy rabbit legs from them.

The wine in the bowl exudes the unique flavor of Shandong potato soju. If you drink it directly, your stomach will really not be able to bear it. You have to cooperate with meat to feel comfortable.

Lao Ba raised the wine bowl and shouted to everyone in the audience: "Brothers are all our Manchu heroes. Although this attack is dangerous, it is hard for everyone. I wish you all the victory and success! Come on, I will do this bowl of wine first. When I win, I will hold wine for everyone in the capital to celebrate the merits!"

After saying that, Lao Ba drank potato and sour wine in one sip. He felt that it was like a fire passing through his throat to his stomach, and then it expanded like a fiery fire.

After drinking wine and eating meat, tens of thousands of people began to move. In the snow, people and horses moved towards the south.

Tens of thousands of people drank the wine in one sip, and then ate the rabbit's legs directly. The rabbit's meat was not much, but fortunately it tasted enough and it tasted very satisfying.
Chapter completed!