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Chapter Twenty-fifth Heaven's Punishment

Chen Jin, whose courtesy name is Tianzhang, was a native of Jinzhou, western Liaoning. Like other members of the Liaoxi generals, he also rose step by step with the establishment and expansion of the Guanning Army during the Tianqi period when the war in Liaodong was not even affected by the war in western Liaoning. By the Chongzhen period, with the construction of Dalinghe City, he had been appointed as the chief minister of Dalinghe River until the far-reaching Battle of Dalinghe.

On July 27, the fourth year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji led a large army to set off from Chenyang in order to eliminate Dalinghe City, which began to extend to Hexi. By the sixth day of the August 19th, after gathering Mongolian reinforcements, about 50,000 Later Jin troops surrounded the unfinished Dalinghe City, which was stationed by more than 13,800 Ming army and 20,000 merchants.

Although the Qing Dynasty had begun to imitate the Red Barbarian Cannons since Huang Taiji gained power, they did carry their own Red Barbarian Cannons in this battle, and used by the unnamed Wuzhen Chaoha Han Army. However, for the Qing army, there was still a lack of means of siege. At the same time, Huang Taiji also dug four trenches and a wall more than ten feet high around the city, making Dalinghe City unsettled.

The siege failed to break out, and reinforcements did not arrive. During this period, the Wuqiao mutiny broke out. The food was quickly eaten. The Guanning army in the city first killed horses and fed meat. After the horses were almost finished, they started eating people and corpses. There were only a few high-ranking officials and one or two liters of food. Historical records: "The bones of cooking are not known in ancient times."

Chen Jin was just a Dusi at that time, and he could not compare with Zu Dashou, nor He Kegang, Zu Kefa, and Zhang Cunren's senior generals were naturally indispensable. In the end, even a concubine he loved very much on weekdays was not spared.

Zhuang Chuo, a native of the Song Dynasty, wrote in "Chicken Ribs": "Old and thin men called "Ruan Bu" fire, women with little mugwort are called "Sheng Sheep", and children call "Harmony bone rot": "And they are two-legged sheep."

The young woman had a tender skin, and the same was true for Chen Jin's concubine. After siege for a long time, he had never eaten mutton for a long time, but after killing his concubine that day, the taste really reminded him of mutton. Even when he ate it, he closed his eyes and ate it as mutton.

Twenty-years have passed, and Chen Jin has not had mutton, but like now, he is also in the siege of the city as he was in Daling River. Especially when he remembered the concubine who was said to be a son, but after eating that concubine, he still has no children and drinks some wine. Chen Jin, who has a increasingly violent temper, naturally refuses to swallow this bad breath and always asks someone to vent his anger.

"Tell me! Who did you bastard give me the cooking of human flesh for me?!"

Hearing this, the chef collapsed directly to the ground, trembling like autumn leaves in the wind. In a flash, his feces and urine flowed, and he couldn't even say a word.

Seeing a turbid flowing out of the chef's crotch, Chen Jin naturally refused to step forward and whipped his hand dirty, and directly pulled him down and executed him directly. However, before the anger was gone, Chen Jin, who was carrying the horse whip, saw Lu Pichang, the servant who had just been escorted to the chef, and whipped him in the face with a whip.

"The dog slaves who are not eyed have been kept a close eye on those cooks. If they poison their masters, I will kill them, but they will call you dog slaves the hearts, right?"

Since Chen Wen rose step by step in western Zhejiang, Chen Jin has not had a comfortable life. He is naturally in a high position and is extremely cold. There are many people who want to pull him off.

Originally, he, the governor of the court, had already received rave reviews by destroying Siming Mountain, capturing Zhoushan, and his previous aid to Fujian. Even Shunzhi once praised him as his slave's outstanding ability in public. But now, Fujian's reinforcements have not begun to turn into a mudflat, and Chen Wen, who has surrounded him in the city twice. Even though this second time was voluntary, he had experienced the depression of being besieged before he became famous, and he did not want to experience it again even once.

"Dog slave!"

"A dog thing that doesn't have eyes."

“…”

After a word of anger, the whistling of the whip that tear apart the air and the endless blood marks on Lu Pichang's body in a flash, the slave curled up on the ground did not dare to move. After being by Chen Jin for a long time, he naturally knew Chen Jin's temper. He was beaten for taking off his anger at this moment. He could get out of here as long as Chen Jin's anger was relieved, but if he aroused his anger, he could only pray that Chen Jin would let him go for the time being because of other things.

After a long time, Chen Jin was tired, so he took his own care of other trembling servants to go back and rest, waiting for tomorrow's decisive battle.

Chen Jin returned to the room, but Lu Pichang was still lying on the ground and did not move. He dared to react until Li Jinzhong and Chen En, who had always been friends, carried him back to the room and had been beaten to pieces.

"Today, hey, I'm unlucky."

"Brother Lu, you can't say that. Who knew that the master would think of a few pieces of mutton on the human flesh? I see, the master is going to be driven crazy by the Ming army commander outside the city..."

Hearing this, Li Jinzhong immediately blocked Chen En's mouth, then hurried to the door, opened the door and looked out, and after confirming that there was no one around, he closed the door again.

"If you know some things, it's hard to say. The people in the Governor's Mansion are so irritating. Who knows who is listening to our corner of the wall? If it falls into the master's ears, we may not be able to die quickly."

Li Jinzhong has always been the leader of their slaves. When Chen En and Lu Pichang saw that Li Jinzhong said this, they immediately stepped back. But the next moment, they saw that the man who was still persuading them to be cautious suddenly darkened.

"Today is Brother Lu, yesterday is Brother Chen, the day before yesterday is me, and the day before yesterday is Brother Li Zhong, and even more counting, I can't count it. You can't hold on like this anymore. If you continue like this, then we will have to follow Chen Qi's footsteps."

Chen Qi was a family slave of Chen Jin before. He was beaten to death because Chen Jin was not upset at that time. These things were seen by their own eyes. When Li Jinzhong mentioned this, Chen En and Lu Pichang's faces turned pale, as if they would be the same as Chen Qi in the near future.

"Brother Li, why don't we run away."

"Escape?" Li Jinzhong shook his head with a wry smile, and then his eyes became as sharp as a knife. "The city is the master's world, and the outside of the city is the Ming army. Even if you can escape from the city, your brother's identities will be dead. Unless..."

"Unless what?" The two looked at each other, and Chen En quickly got up and ran to the door, opened it slightly, observed it for a while before coming back to continue asking questions.

"Brother Li, if you have a way, just say it, let's listen to you."

"All right."

Li Jinzhong took a deep breath and then told his plan. He had been thinking about this plan for a long time. The Ming army outside the city will attack the city tomorrow. If it cannot be defended, it means death. Even if it is defended, it may not be possible to survive. You must make a decision as soon as possible. If you want to do this, it is difficult to do it, and someone must help you work together.

Listening to Li Jinzhong throwing out the plan that had been brewing in hatred for a long time, Chen En and Lu Pichang were shocked at first, but the experiences of these days made them quickly throw the danger behind their heads in fear, but there was still a problem that needed to be confirmed in time.

"The ones on duty today are brothers Li Zhong..."
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