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Chapter 367 Winter is coming

Three days later, Zuo Liangyu died, and the generals of the 36 towns held a funeral for him, but the people celebrated each other. After all, Zuo Liangyu's military discipline was the worst among all generals of the Ming Dynasty. Wherever he went, he was now stationed in Wuchang. I don't know how many families were destroyed and the people in Wuchang suffered a lot.

No one of the generals of the thirty-six towns went to vote for Li Xin. They had their own knowledge of their own affairs. The military disciplines under their command were too bad. If they went to vote for Li Xin, they would inevitably be liquidated. After some consideration, the thirty-six towns, nearly 200,000 troops all went to vote for King Gui.

Zuo Menggeng followed Zuo Liangyu's words and did not inherit military power. He took it as a rich man with peace of mind. However, the ancients paid attention to the debts of fathers and sons. How could Zuo Liangyu's overwhelming blood debts be written off because of his death?

A few days after the soldiers in the Thirty-six Town left Wuchang, Zuo was destroyed by a mysterious figure. Dozens of children in the family, including Zuo Menggeng's youngest son, were all killed. Zuo Liangyu's body was also dug out, filing his bones and raising ashes!

When the news spread, many people felt secretly sorry for what retribution is, this is retribution!

The soldiers and horses in the thirty-six towns did not return to Wuchang to avenge Zuo Liangyu. It may be that the Zuo family was destroyed and they were afraid that they would end up like this in the future. After all, the situation in the world is not decided. If Li Xin reaches the extreme in the future, they will definitely liquidate them.

Before we knew it, summer went and autumn came. In September, the rice fields in Jinzhou were golden and harvested. Dorgon had already returned to Shenyang and stayed at Duoduo to guard Jinzhou. The bandits were unable to launch an attack on Jinzhou because they had fewer troops left in Ningyuan, and Jinzhou's defense was much more relaxed than Dorgon at that time.

This is actually the norm, and no army can be in a state of high-intensity combat readiness for a long time.

Although Jinzhou is located in a mountainous area, there is always the saying that there are five mountains, one water and four parts of the fields. The proportion of cultivated land is still large. During these days and nights, some men in black suddenly appeared in the fields around Jinzhou, splashing tinder oil into the rice fields and igniting them along the wind direction.

Autumn is already dry, and the rice fields are about to be harvested, and the water in the fields has been drained. In an instant, dozens of fires ignited one after another and swept away.

Standing at the top of the city, you can clearly see that the fire lines are advancing rapidly in the rice fields, with thick smoke covering the sky, and the eyes are so painful.

"Hurry, go and report to Prince Yu!"

The guard general was frightened and rushed down the city to report to Duoduo.

"Prince Yu, Prince Yu, it's not good, there's a fire outside the city!"

Duoduo was sleeping soundly in his arms while holding his beautiful concubine. He heard the news outside and sat up in shock.

The rice fields outside the city are affiliated with the Qing army's banners, with about 100,000 hectares. Based on the per mu of rice, one hectares of one hundred stones, and one hundred thousand hectares is 100 million stones of grain. It is related to the annual rations of the military and civilians in Jinzhou. Some of them have to be paid to Shenyang. Duoduo dared not neglect and rushed to the top of the city immediately.

I saw fires everywhere in the thick smoke, and countless black dots shuttled through it to extinguish the fire. However, the sky was dry and the fire was dry, and the wind was used to extinguish it.

"Damn it!"

Duoduo was shocked and angry!

By dawn, the fire finally went out. It was not extinguished, but was burned out naturally. After counting, only a few thousand hectares of rice fields remained, and the rest were burned out too much, which meant that almost no grain was harvested this year. The city, along with the nearby fortresses, hundreds of thousands of soldiers, civilians and livestock, would not be able to survive.

This is really cruel!

The whole city was filled with crying, and the year of hard work was burned by the enemy army. Seeing that the cold winter was approaching, I don’t know how to spend this winter.

In the past, when Ningyuan and Jinzhou were controlled by the Ming army, they never dared to burn the food of the Qing Dynasty, for fear of angering the Qing Dynasty and attracting cruel revenge, but the bandits dared to kill them.

The people were furious and asked Duoduo to fight to burn the grain fields of the bandits. Duoduo thought he would not attack the city, and was not afraid of the bandits in pure field battles. He personally led 30,000 troops to Ningyuan.

At the top of the city wall, artillery was already set up, and the soldiers carried live ammunition, but Gu Yanwu and Li Shengde laughed at each other.

Because Ningyuan did not have farming, all the people were taken away. Ningyuan only had garrison troops for the time being, and the consumption was not very large. There was no need to learn from the ancient times to farm. Relying on blood transfusions in Jiangnan, it was enough to support Ningyuan's army.

"Where is Tian, ​​where is Tian!"

Duoduo looked at the barren land in the countryside and was furious.

Most of the food and grass of the bandit army were stationed on Juehua Island, and he was out of reach. Some soldiers even lost their lives because they were too close to the city. Although the number was only nearly a hundred, they were in a panic.

In the end, Duoduo left in disappointment.

A few days later, the news that Jinzhou's food and grass were burned out by a fire reached Shenyang, casting a shadow on the whole city.

The weather was getting colder and colder. In order to prevent the Qing Dynasty from jumping over the wall, Li Xin transferred another 20,000 troops to Chahar to assist Ezhe to prevent the Qing army from raiding and plundering the livestock of herdsmen. Ezhe did not dare to neglect it. He knew that once it fell into the hands of the Qing Dynasty, what was waiting for him would be a very cruel way of death.

The entire Chahar grassland was mobilized, with livestock, cattle and horses migrating along the Great Wall, strengthening the walls and clearing the fields, Shi Kefa mobilized a large amount of materials to assist Chahar. After all, he is still a strategic ally at present. He does not give money or help him overcome difficulties. With Ezhe alone, he cannot stop the Qing army at all.

Sure enough, at the end of October, Ajig led 50,000 elite troops to Chahar to sweep the country. Unfortunately, all the livestock had been transferred, and there was nothing on the grassland except the withered grass.

In early November, Ajige ventured into the Great Wall, and Fei San and Ezhe were on guard. Tens of thousands of musketeers lined up in rows of black muzzles. Thousands of artillery pieces formed dozens of square formations under the cover of infantry, and there were tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry around.

Ajige knew that he had no chance, and he remembered You Xin's death of the bandit army, and he did not dare to use the Qing warriors to die, so he had to return in disappointment.

When Ajige returned to Shenyang, the first snow of this winter fell in Shenyang. In the chilly wind, heavy snow fell down, and the ground was white. Some ordinary people, even people, even digging the snow and digging grass roots to eat, their fingers were frozen red.

"Bad slave, get out!"

Suddenly, a sharp shout sounded in front of him, and several Han people were also digging for grass roots, but were scolded by a man who rushed over.

One of the Han people begged: "Master, we haven't eaten for two days. You can do it, please leave these grass roots to us."

Another person said, "Yes, you all have food rations, so where do you need to eat grass roots? We Han people have already lost food. Please do it."

"It's all the Li Xingou thief who killed thousands of swords. If he hadn't been against me, the Qing Dynasty, how could we have fallen to the point of eating grass?"

"Only after we have enough food, we can have the strength and follow the Manren to enter the pass to kill and rob people!"

The remaining two people joined in.

"roll!"

The man snorted coldly: "The food ratio is not enough to eat. I'm only three or two meters a day. Get out!"

Unexpectedly, the four Han people did not leave, but their eyes flashed.

"What, do you want to rebel?"

The whole person felt that the atmosphere was not right and pulled out his waist.

"Damn it, I was robbed of eating grass roots. I wanted to starve me to death, kill him and eat his meat!"

A Han man couldn't bear it anymore, so he raised a stone weighing about twenty kilograms beside him and smashed it hard to the head full of people.

"Bang!"

The man was so hungry that his hands and feet were sore and weak, and he was unable to dodge. He suddenly had his head blossomed and he fell to the ground.

"Kill, take it quickly and kill!"

The remaining three people rushed up, choked their necks, snatched the knife, and beat the man to death in a few strokes. Ajig looked at him from afar and couldn't stop drinking.

"Rareless, go and kill those traitors!"

Azig was furious.

The followers around him chased forward and killed the four Han people!

"What a big courage!"

Azige's anger remains unchanged.

A follower advised: "Prince Ying, now that he is short of food, I am afraid that the Han people in Shengjing will no longer be so respectful, so I should discuss countermeasures with the Regent immediately."

"snort!"

Ajige snorted angrily. He also believed that the current situation was related to Dorgon's mistakes. Then he went to discuss with Dorgon? He felt that Dorgon was not as good as him. If he was the regent, the Qing Dynasty would not have fallen into such a field.

However, he did not express his dissatisfaction with Dorgon in front of his subordinates, but just waved his hand: "Let's go!"

The group rode forward. Although they were not hungry along the way, there were countless hungry people, especially the Han people. Even if Ajige looked at them, he felt a sense of shock in his heart.

He felt that something big would happen sooner or later.

"Hmm? Where does the meat smell come from?"

Suddenly one of them sniffed the nose.

Another person distinguished for a moment, swallowed and said, "It seems to be the taste of braised pork, that's it, Mr. Fan's mansion!"

"Fan Wencheng?"

Ajig narrowed his eyes and waved his hand, "Let's go and visit Mr. Fan with me!"
Chapter completed!
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