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Little Ice Age.

It was already snowing heavily in Shengjing (Shenyang) in early December.

With the arrival of severe winter, the Qing court had to stop various military activities.

In the palace.

The little emperor Fulin still sat high on the dragon chair like a mascot, trying not to doze off.

Below, the four auxiliary kings were still discussing matters.

In fact, Dorgon and Jierhalang were mainly talking.

Daishan sat back in his chair, as if asleep.

As for Hauge, he sat at the end with a dark face and said nothing.

He lost power due to the defeat of his troops entering the customs last spring. Under the sanctions imposed by Dorgon, Daishan and Jierhalang, he now only has the power to listen to the government and no longer has the power to discuss the government.

Even his subordinate Niu Lu was deprived of more than half of his money.

It can be said that he became a marginal figure among the core senior officials of the Qing court.

Under such circumstances, Dorgon insisted that he come to listen to politics, which in his opinion was tantamount to humiliation.

It's strange that his face looks good.

Ji Erhalang frowned slightly and said: "In the previous battles to capture Huanghaidao and the northern part of Jiangyuan Province, the North Korean army mostly used Yi State firearms."

"From this point of view, Wei Guo does not have any questions about our capture of North Korea."

"So, is Hong Chengchou's guess that the Wei State wants to drive the Qing Dynasty to annex North Korea? Is it wrong?"

Dorgon said, "I also had this doubt, so I asked Hong Chengchou again, and he said that it was probably because Wei Guo felt that we had almost no losses when we occupied Ping'an Road and Xianjing Road."

"The State of Wei was worried that we would be too big to lose in the future, so it supported North Korea with a batch of weapons."

"In addition, according to the information from our high-level spies in North Korea, these firearms from Wei State were not given away for free, but were paid for by North Korea, but the price is slightly cheaper."

Jierhalang couldn't help but sigh after hearing this, "Liu Sheng really doesn't care about his face. He actually wants to collect money from North Korea for some old firearms."

"According to historical records, during the Japanese Rebellion in Imjin, the Ming Dynasty supported North Korea almost unconditionally."

Dorgon smiled and said, "Isn't this a good thing for the Qing Dynasty? If the Wei Kingdom has no idea of ​​annexing North Korea and directly sends troops to attack Liaodi, I'm afraid we won't have any chance."

"That's right." Jierhalang nodded first, and then said worriedly, "But even so, I don't have much chance of clearing the Qing Dynasty."

"Although the State of Wei hopes that we can destroy North Korea first, if we delay for too long, they may find out what we are thinking."

"When the time comes, the State of Wei will definitely change its strategy and send troops directly. If we can't stop it, the Qing Dynasty will be over."

Dorgon also felt helpless.

This feeling of putting the destiny of the country in the hands of the enemy made him uncomfortable.

But there is nothing to do.

He sighed, "It takes one day to delay - now we are also vigorously developing firearms such as muskets, cannons and grenades."

"As long as there is enough time, the gap between us and the Yi army in terms of firearms will become smaller and smaller. Or we can find more ways to restrain their firearms."

"Besides, if the situation is really difficult, we are not without backup options."

Hearing Dorgon talk about the "backhand" thing, Jierhalang's expression became more serious and dignified.

He said: "Have you really decided to cross the sea and capture Ezo Land?"

Dorgon nodded, "If we can't stop the Wei army in the future, that will be our only way to survive."

"At that time, if the Wei army does not cross the sea to pursue us, we can use Ezo and Kuwu as our base to look for opportunities to attack Japan, cede its land and rob its population." "If the Wei army crosses the sea to pursue us and does not give us a way to survive, Then we can only take a big ship and risk crossing the ocean to go to what the Westerners call America."

Ji'erhalang shook his head, "According to what the Westerners say, it is very difficult to cross the ocean. We lack experience, so we can say that we have a narrow escape from death."

"Besides, even if we can cross the ocean, how many people can we carry with us?"

"If we really get to that point, we might as well surrender to the Wei Kingdom - they won't leave us no way to survive, right?"

Dorgon sneered, "Ordinary Jurchens may have a way to survive, but we, the Aixinjueluo clan, have absolutely no way to survive!"

Jirhalang did not want to discuss this issue.

He just hoped that he would never have to make these two choices.

So he changed the topic and asked, "How will we use troops against North Korea next year? But according to the original plan, we will gradually occupy Gangwon Province and Gyeonggi Province?"

"That's the only way." Dorgon nodded, "I hope it can paralyze the country of Wei and buy a few more years."

At this moment, Hauge, who had been listening, finally said, "Is it all over?"

"Why, does King Su have any thoughts on this matter?" Dorgon rarely gave Hauge a chance to discuss politics.

Hauge stood up and hummed: "If you can't defeat the Yi army, you just want to run eastward, or even cross the ocean to go overseas. Have you forgotten that we Jurchens make a living by fishing, hunting, bows and horses?"

"Instead of gambling your life overseas, why not go to the north or the west? Isn't the vast grassland more suitable for us Jurchens?"

After saying that, he took care of himself and left.

Dorgon and Jierhalang looked at each other and fell into deep thought for a while.

Even Daishan's intermittent snoring stopped.

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Time enters the fifth year of Qianyuan Dynasty, 1646 AD.

March eighteenth.

Liu Sheng issued an order to order Peng Youyi, the Duke of Yanmen County and the commander of the Second Division of the Standing Army, to bear the seal of General of the Eastern Expedition and become the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Expedition Army.

He also ordered Yuan Shizhong, the commander of the Sixth Division of the Standing Army, to bear the seal of General Zhendong and become the deputy commander of the Eastern Expedition Army.

As for the Eastern Expedition Army, it consists of the Second Division and the Sixth Division of the Standing Army, as well as two independent infantry brigades and two independent cavalry brigades, with as many as hundreds of thousands of people.

On March 25, more than 100,000 troops marched out of the Great Wall in two directions: east and west.

Among them, the Eastern Route Army targeted the cities in western Liaoning and was unstoppable all the way out of Shanhaiguan.

Within ten days, they successively captured important cities and villages such as the former Ming Guangning garrison, Ningyuan garrison (Ningyuan city), Guangning Zhongzuo garrison (Jinzhou), Yizhou garrison, and Guangning garrison (Guangning city). fort.

The forwards fought all the way to the banks of the Sancha River (Liao River) before being ordered to stop and build a defense line on the spot.

The Western Route Army swept through the eastern tribes of Monan Mongolia.

These Mongolian tribes either fled to the Horqin Grassland in the northeast; or they surrendered to Dawei and severed relations with the Qing court.

Faced with such a fierce offensive by the Yi army, for a while, the Qing Dynasty was in turmoil.

Dorgon and the other four auxiliary kings, as well as the ordinary Jurchen tribesmen, were all nervous, fearing that the Yi army would continue to march eastward and attack Shenyang and even Hetuala in one fell swoop.

In April, the Northeast also becomes warmer.

However, Shenyang Palace gives people a feeling of severe cold.

Dorgon stood up directly from his seat and said in a tone that could not be denied: "We can't stay in Shenyang anymore - the forward of the Yi army is only more than two hundred miles away from here. If we don't pay attention, we may be Trapped in the city.”

"If that's the case, the Qing Dynasty will never have any chance. We must move as soon as possible and return to Hetuala!" (End of this chapter)