"Korqin is finished."

Halfway through the way north to Heilongjiang, Dorgon received an urgent report sent by Jirhalang. In the battle of Huolinhe, 130,000 Mongolian princes allied forces raided the unprepared Korqin Four Ten Banners. This was a raid and a massacre.

The Mongolian princes chased and killed for seven days and seven nights, from the Huolin River to the vicinity of Chenyang in Shengjing. The Qing army left behind in Chenyang did not dare to rescue him at all, and watched the thousands of Korqin cavalry who finally escaped outside the city were chopped and killed.

After the Mongolian princes raided and annihilated the four main forces, they followed the Thousand-mile grassland of the Zhelim League like a strong wind. On this huge grassland, the four Ten Flags suffered a devastating blow.

“How many are left?”

“No one left.”

The Inner Minister Ta Zhan sighed a long time and shook his head helplessly. He was Dorgon's cousin, his mother was Nurhaci's daughter. His father was a hero of the founding country of the Qing Dynasty. In today's Qing Dynasty, he was well-known and had a strong position, so he was deeply trusted by Dorgon.

Dorgon was stunned.

The four Korqin tribes had a population of less than 500,000, and that was all over. The Mongolian tribes competed for power, and the right-wing Tumot drove the left-wing sect leader Chahar to Liaodong. It was after Chahar arrived in Liaodong that he joined forces with the Urianha people in the north to cause rebellion in Liaodong, which greatly reduced the power of the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong, and the Jurchens had the opportunity to take the opportunity.

After that, it was precisely because of his marriage with Korqin that the Jurchens turned around and drove Chahar to Hetao again. Behind them, Chahar went westward, defeated Tumote and went on a expedition to Qinghai, while the Jurchens married Korqin, constantly wooing and conquering the Mongolian tribes in the east, and eventually the new overlord of Liaodong, the Later Jin.

After Tumot and Chahar, the two Mongolian heroes who were in the past, were greatly reduced due to civil war, the Jurchens took the opportunity to fight westward and defeated Tumot and Chahar one after another.

At that time, the two major tribes, which had a population of one million, were first in civil strife and then massacred by the Jurchens, leaving only more than 10,000.

Korqin could not have been able to join Tumot and Chahar at all. However, over the years, its strength has increased rapidly, and the two-wing six flags have been established, with hundreds of thousands of people. With the remaining three and four flags, the population is no less than 500,000.

But now, it's over in a flash.

"They were destroying themselves." Dorgon was heartbroken and had to say hatefully. He advised Korqin and others to move north with him, but these people continued to delay. In the end, they surrendered to the Han Dynasty secretly. But these stupid guys ended up being deceived by the Han people. They were driven away by a tiger and swallowed the wolf, and killed all the people with a knife.

Dorgon was angry that he did not fight, but he felt even more heartbroken by the Jurchens' loss of a powerful ally.

With a population of 500,000, it is considered the strongest part in Monan. If they were there, the Jurchens would have more confidence in resisting the Han people, but now they have lost their lips and teeth.

"Those surrendered to Han tribes are too stupid. Don't they know that except for Korqin, the Mongols were weaker and could only let the Han people knead them in the future?"

"There is never a short-sighted person in the world." Dorgon sighed. However, he also knew in his heart that from the perspective of the Mongolian tribes, they would have no choice but to do so.

Back then, Yuan lost the Central Plains and retreated to the northern part of the Mo River, splitting apart, but his strength was still there. During the time of Dayan Khan, he unified the eastern part of Mongolia. It is said that when he was the strongest, the combined population of the three major parts of Mongolia could reach tens of millions.

But how many Mongolian tribes are there now?

The tribes in the south of Mo alone are estimated to be about one million, and the tribes in the north of Mo alone will not exceed one million.

This is the strength of the Mongolian tribes in the eastern region, with less than 2 million people. Among them, there are only more than 400,000 young and strong people who can ride horses and hold bows.

The total of real warriors may not be 200,000.

But this is not a whole, but composed of many tribes. Especially after the civil strife of the Mongols and the conquest of the Qing Dynasty, each part was a number of wing flags, and the alliance flag was established, and the strength of Yue was weakened.

The right-wing Tumot and the left-wing Chahar were already weak. Among the Mongolian tribes, they could not even find a leader with enough prestige.

In the northern part of the desert, three khans stood together.

This is the cause planted by the Jurchens back then, and now it is the Jurchens who swallow the bitter fruits they bear.

The Jurchens conquered the Mongolian tribes for not long, but they further destroyed the Mongolian tribes, leaving them without the leading sheep, and also greatly reduced their population and their strength was greatly weakened.

This was originally a plan that the Jurchens had been secretly proud of, but after the Han army's northern expedition, the weak Mongols were like a pile of sand. They were unable to resist the Han people, and they were even unwilling to resist at all, and they all surrendered to the Han people in one go.

This was something the Jurchens had not expected at the beginning.

They worked hard to weaken the Mongols, but in the end they all got the Han people.

What they had never done, the Han people did.

With an order from Liu Jun, the tribes gathered together with Chifeng, and Liu Jun divided the princes into possession of the princes. Then the princes gathered elite troops and dispatched 130,000 troops to kill the rebel Korqin, who was caught off guard.

The four troops had a population of more than 500,000, and no less than 100,000 were killed by the coalition forces of more than 100,000, and the rest were captured. Those coalition forces were like robbers, robbing whatever they saw, regardless of men, women, age or age.

"The Han people paid a high price. Before sending troops, they said that a young prisoner of war was ten yuan and the head was eight yuan. Now they have all doubled, and a young prisoner of war was twenty yuan, and the head was twenty yuan. Therefore, the coalition forces were too lazy to catch the captives, so they directly cut the level and took them to receive rewards."

On the prairie, Jingguan was filled with headless corpses of four herdsmen. Their heads became certificates for them to invite rewards to the Han Dynasty.

Now the Han Dynasty has relaxed trade with the grassland, and it is not only a tea-horse trade, but also a silver dollar is used as settlement currency. Compared to bartering, it is more convenient to trade with silver dollars.

Dorgon realized that the Han people increased their rewards and put the price of heads and captives for the same sinister purpose. This is to encourage the coalition forces to kill people directly to rank. After all, with the same reward, there is no convenient way to take a captive.

In the face of this greatly improved reward qualities, many Mongolians would rather cut people and use their heads to exchange for reward silver than take prisoners of war directly to be their own slaves.

In this way, Liu Jiye did not have to use one soldier and one soldier on his own. He not only destroyed the four tribes of Korqin, but also killed these populations directly, not giving each tribe a chance to grow.

He is very treacherous and ruthless.

Ta Zhan said in confusion, "Wouldn't Liu Jiye behave in this way and he would spend millions of silver dollars to destroy the four Korqin tribes. Is it worth it?"

"Of course." Dorgon said that the four tribes of Korqin, especially Korqin, are strong. If Liu Jun accepts his surrender, the dominant Korqin may break the balance of Mongolian tribes in the south and north of the desert. In the future, Korqin may even replace Tumote and Chahar and become the new leader of Mongolian tribes.

Once a leader appears in a scattered Mongolian tribe, this is an extremely dangerous sign, which will endanger Liu Jun's feudal strategy on the grassland.

Although there are a large population of hundreds of thousands, if they can be captured, it will become a great fortune. But the Han Dynasty has the most lacking population. They have more than 200 million people, and any county in the Central Plains has a population of 100,000, and a prefecture has a population of hundreds of thousands.

As for ordering a high reward, it will cost millions or tens of millions of silver. But is Liu Jun short of money? No, he is not short of money. For him, millions and millions are a drop in the bucket.

Moreover, Dorgon believed that Liu Jiye was not the kind of person who would throw money around at will. The money he threw out would come to his pocket again in a blink of an eye.

These silver dollars were rewarded to the Mongolian coalition forces. It was impossible for the Mongolians to take the silver dollars they received to their tribes, so that was meaningless. If you have the opportunity to buy Han people's goods, they will definitely spend them.

Liu Jun can collect the rewarded silver through the transaction after replacing it. Moreover, such transactions will definitely be more profitable than sales in Central China, and Liu Jun can even collect taxes again. In short, no matter how you look at it, Liu Jun will make a sure profit without losing money.

The real loss was the Mongols, an alliance of hundreds of thousands of people, which perished like this.

Their strength will be further reduced. Now, the population of tribes in the south and north of the desert is less than two million, so it is even more impossible for them to escape the control of the Han Dynasty.

On the surface, they obtained a lot of spoils and silver cattle from this war, but in fact they lost the future. Moreover, they also invested the future of the Qing Dynasty.

"The Nine Kings, Prince Zheng, was worried in his letter, and he was afraid that the Mongolian tribes would take advantage of the situation to attack Liaodong. Now there are many Mongolian soldiers who have deployed troops on the east bank of the Liao River, and are eyeing Shenyang and Harwen cities."

Dorgon was also worried. The Mongolian coalition had just destroyed the four Korqin tribes, but after a new victory, he did not pay much price. As a result, he was full of money. At this time, it was not impossible for them to send troops to attack the Qing Dynasty.

These short-sighted Mongolian tribes can really do anything.

"Where is the Han army? What is the situation of the various units of the Han army?" Dorgon asked.

In the previous war, the Han army did not participate from beginning to end, and that was purely the Mongolian civil war.

"According to our horse Explosion report, when the attacks of various Mongolian troops began, Liu Jiye had moved to Chaoyang, western Liaoning. Some of the 100,000 Han troops who accompanied him continued to be stationed on the Tuhe line of Chifeng, and some followed him to the western Liaoning area. Now, these two troops are stationed in Chifeng and Chaoyang, and there is no abnormal movement."

"Where are the Liaodong Han troops stationed in Guangning, Jinzhou, Lushun, Jinzhou, Zhenjiang and Kuandian?"

"They all remained unmoved, and there was no abnormal transfer. The Nine Kings and Liu Jiye may not want to tear up the peace agreement that had just been signed by themselves."

Dorgon sneered a few times. The peace agreement was originally intended to be torn up after signing. Liu Jiye’s current strength did not have to worry about this peace agreement at all. Liu Jiye has not mobilized his troops yet, so he would never be concerned about any peace agreement, but he must have other considerations.

Perhaps Liu Jiye was planning a bigger offensive conspiracy, and Dorgon felt that he was in a dilemma now. He could not make up his mind to give up Liaoshen like this. But if he didn't give up, he had to send troops to guard it, but with the current situation, how much is enough?

If there is less, it will only be annihilated by the Han and Mongolian coalition forces for nothing. If there is too much, he will not be able to take it out. (To be continued.)
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