Qi Hu Qi Baihu, with his men, rode back to Huangniu Military Fort on horseback.

The Huangniu Military Fort is quite large, with five or six hundred people living in it.

Qi Hu had just sat down, wondering if he should find a way to take revenge on He Xuan, otherwise his face would be He Cun, but when he thought of He Xuan's terrible skills, he still shrank and was a little afraid.

At this moment, he suddenly saw several wolf smoke rising from the distant sky, and his face changed.

There are also regularities in the rise of wolf smoke.

Generally, a bouquet of wolf smoke indicates that the number of people is less than a hundred.

Two bouquets of wolf smoke mean that there are less than 500 people.

Three bunches of wolf smoke mean that people are between five hundred and one thousand.

More than four bunches of wolf smoke mean that there are more than one thousand people.

And the two bulbs of wolf smoke coming from the distant sky, were there between one hundred and five hundred people?

It seems that the scale is not too large.

Qi Hu thought so, but saw two more wolves smoke floating in the other direction.

At this moment, Qi Hu couldn't help but change his expression and understood why.

This is, the Qing soldiers invaded the border! Of course, according to another saying, that is, to hunt grass valley.

This locust plague in 1639 AD involved the entire northern part of the Ming Dynasty. The territory of the Qing Dynasty was also connected to the northern part of the Ming Dynasty. Locusts would not care about whether it was the Ming Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty. They flew over and ate wildly. The Qing Dynasty originally had few grain fields, but it was also a disaster for locusts to make such a disaster.

However, the Qing Dynasty had a stronger military power than the Ming Dynasty, so after encountering natural disasters, the first thing they thought of was to attack Ming Dynasty's cities, rob grain, and rob money.

The cities in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty were also subjected to locust plagues. There is no food now, but isn’t they rich?

As long as the Qing Dynasty grabbed the money, it could buy a lot of food through Shanxi merchants.

Here, I have to mention Shanxi merchants.

In the late Wanli period, after Nurhaci betrayed the Ming Dynasty and established the Later Jin regime in Liaodong, the foreign trade business of the Shanxi merchants suffered a severe blow. Faced with the attacks of the Later Jin, the Ming army was defeated repeatedly, so they used economic wars to impose an economic blockade on the Later Jin.

The situation at that time was that the Later Jin army captured the towns of the Ming Dynasty and plundered a large amount of gold and silver. However, these gold and silver that could not be eaten and drunk could not enhance the strength of the Later Jin regime, but instead, too much gold and silver caused inflation and weakened its strength.

Shanxi merchants who encountered problems in development saw the opportunity to make money. Shanxi merchants had various materials urgently needed by the Later Jin, and Hou Jin had a large amount of gold and silver that the merchants were jealous of. Therefore, the classic saying in "Das Kapital" - if there is 50% profit, they will take risks; if there is 100% profit, they will go crazy; if there is 200% profit, they will dare to trample on the principles of everything in the world - it becomes a reality. The two sides hit it off, and Shanxi merchants began to risk their lives, violated the ban of the Ming government, and smuggled food, gunpowder, metal, salt and other materials from the Later Jin. Among them, the eight most famous ones, Fan Yongdou, Wang Dayu, Wang Dengku, and Tian Shenglan.

Moreover, these Shanxi merchants not only smuggled materials, but also collected information from the Ming Dynasty for the Later Jin regime. Li Guangdou wrote in the article "How did the "Shen Shangs" in China's No. 1 merchant gang decline?": "In the late Ming Dynasty, the Later Jin Dynasty rose. In order to pursue greater profits, Shanxi merchants even engaged in the "interconnection with foreign countries". Historical records, the gunpowder of the Later Jin, 80% of the grain and more than 60% of the metal were all provided by the Shanxi merchants. Even the information from the capital of the capital was meticulous to the names of the generals, the number of soldiers and the fine equipment of each pass were also provided by the Shanxi merchants. It can be said that the Shanxi merchants made great contributions to subverting the late Ming regime."

The Later Jin army continued to bleed from the Ming Dynasty through war, and the Shanxi merchants continued to smuggle blood to the Later Jin regime. In the end, the Ming Dynasty collapsed under internal and external attacks. Therefore, Wen Jianping said in "The Shanxi merchants, the gravediggers of the Ming Dynasty": "If there was no financial resources of the Shanxi merchants, there would be no courage of the Qing army, and the Qing Dynasty would not be able to defeat the Ming Dynasty and seize the Han world. It is not an exaggeration to say that the Shanxi merchants were gravediggers of the Ming Dynasty."

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After Qi Hu discovered that the Qing soldiers came to invade the border again, he immediately issued an order: "All members obey the orders, everyone will immediately return to the military fortress. Close the city gates and prepare to fight."

Now he doesn't even bother to think about Qingshandun's affairs, so he will protect his life first.

When the people from Huangniu Military Fort heard Qi Hu's words, their faces changed drastically. They naturally knew the terribleness of the Qing army invading the border. Everyone mobilized them to return to the city gate, lock the city gate, go up the city wall, and go to the warehouse to move the defensive materials to move the defensive materials. Everyone was ready to fight a tough battle.

Qi Hu stood on the city wall: "I hope those Qing soldiers don't focus on me."

Sometimes, the Qing soldiers targeted them directly at some towns and looked down on military forts.

This is what Qi Hu hopes for.

But before the Huangniu Military Fort was ready, dust was flying in the distance.

An army approaches on horseback.

This army has about three or four hundred men.

Everyone rode on horseback.

One by one, you have to wear a helmet on your head and keep an extremely ugly rat tail of money.

The person riding a horse in front was an extremely tall middle-aged man wearing silver-light and silver armor. He had a leopard eyes and was attached to a big knife.

Next to him, on both sides, and behind him, there were also warriors riding on horses. Everyone was wearing silver armor, holding tiger spears or long swords in their hands, and bows and arrows were worn on the side of the horse.

The people riding behind were all wearing cotton armor, holding long swords in their hands, and bows and arrows were placed on the waist of the horse.

These people are so powerful and solemn.

They are the devils who step out of the fog!

They are the devils trampling on peace!

The person who was in charge was a Niulu from the Qing army.

Niulu is an official title. The smallest soldier unit of the Qing army was Yiulu, and one Niulu had three hundred soldiers under it.

Now, it was the time when the Qing Dynasty was at its peak and its national strength was the strongest. There were 308 Manchu Niu Records, 76 Mongolian Niu Records, and 16 Han Army Niu Records, with a total of 400.

The entire Qing Dynasty had a total of more than 100,000 troops.

Niu Lu, the leader of the Qing army, was called Suotu. Suotu, which originally meant a warrior in Manchu language.

Suotu looked at the yellow bull army fort that was locking the city gate but not completely locked. He sneered, waved his hand, and shouted in Manchu: "Siege the city!"

After a moment of bluffing, the Qing soldiers under his command attacked like fish.

Seeing this, Qi Hu couldn't help but feel nervous. What he feared the most was this situation. He could only call out to the hundred soldiers under his command: "Fight! If you don't fight, you will only die."

But he said it was easy. The Ming army under his command was not elite. He had hunger and fullness all year round, so he had no combat power. When he met a strong army and a strong number, he almost collapsed instantly. The more brave Ming army in front came forward to fight, but was immediately hacked to death.

The Ming army behind saw that the Ming army in front was like this, and no longer had the will to fight and fled wildly, but the speed of the people was no longer as fast as the horses, and they were caught up and killed quickly.

This is not a battle, it is a one-sided crushing and a one-sided massacre.

The Ming army was quickly hacked to death!

The soldiers' families, women and children, were running away, but were chased by the Qing soldiers riding behind, and rushed forward with a knife, leaving behind the crazy laughter of the Qing soldiers.

There were even a few Qing soldiers who killed more people than the murder game than in a certain period of time.
Chapter completed!