Saving the Ming Dynasty: I can exchange bodies with Chongzhen

Chapter 22 A full six hundred!

Although the Ming army entered Shengjing City, the battle was not over.

The Ming army issued an order: Any resistance among the Tartars will be killed. Any Manchu Eight Banners members found will be killed on the spot. Manchu nobles will be killed on the spot.

On the east side of the city gate, the Mongols and Koreans were not so kind to the Tatars. They killed anyone they saw, and the ditches they dug were filled with corpses.

Often the Ming army let them go, but the Mongols and Koreans behind them would come and stop the poor Manchu people and hack them to death with their swords.

Especially the Koreans, who were mostly used as cannon fodder and treated like livestock during the Qing Dynasty. It is easy to imagine the backlash they are experiencing now.

All the original Korean soldiers in Shengjing City turned against the Qing Dynasty. They took up swords and guns and looked for the Manchu Tartars in the city and drove them out like cattle and sheep. Anyone who stopped or behaved abnormally was killed directly.

Regardless of gender, age or status, anyone who obeyed the orders would be arrested, and anyone who looked dishonest would be killed directly.

The hands and feet were stacked together, densely packed like fish scales and lice. Even in winter, the smell of blood and stench was still hard to eliminate.

The shouts and cries of killing were deafening on the streets.

Later on, it developed to the point where anyone who was a Tartar would be killed.

So much so that the ice surface of the river in Shengjing City was covered with corpses and blood, which directly dyed it red.

It is conceivable how much hatred they had for the Manchu Tartars.

When Chongzhen reported the matter to Li Banghua, Li Banghua was also surprised because most of his energy was spent on arranging the Ming army's pursuit.

In principle, the Mongolian and Korean troops south of the desert were considered reinforcements and of the same level, so there was no way to give direct orders, only the emperor could give orders.

By the time Zhu Changgan's order reached Shengjing City, the massacre had lasted for four days.

During these four days, Shengjing was completely transformed into a slaughterhouse, with the stench of blood everywhere and the streets littered with broken limbs and corpses.

Corpses were piled up like hills in the streets inside and outside Shengjing City.

The massacre ended with the emperor's order. The corpses of the Manchu nobles were piled up like fish scales in the Jingguan, which were built several feet high in the east and west directions of Shengjing City.

The streets were littered with corpses. The Ming army organized civilians to clear the bodies for seven days. The burning continued, and the mountains outside the city were full of graves as there was no room for burial.

This caused all the golden rat-tail whips on the streets to almost disappear. The exact data is unknown, but the monks in charge of collecting the bodies have a rough estimate that about hundreds of thousands of Manchu Tartars were buried.

This does not include falling into a well, suicide, or hanging.

After the Qing soldiers were cleared out, the Tartar women and children captured by the Mongolian and Korean soldiers naturally could not be sent to Mongolia and Korea south of the desert. Instead, they were all classified as slaves and sent to the southern part of the Ming Dynasty. They were then dispersed to various parts of the Ming Dynasty to grow sweet potatoes.

In the next few years, the Ming Dynasty wanted to promote the cultivation of sweet potatoes, and they came in handy.

……

Chongzhen looked at Shengjing City with endless emotion in his eyes, "I never thought I would actually see this day."

It may take some time to completely eliminate the Qing Dynasty, but the fall of Shengjing is enough to prove that the Ming Dynasty has completely defeated the Qing Dynasty's national strength.

Go south to eliminate bandits, go north to pacify the invaders, the era that Zhu Changgan talked about is actually coming.

Hongniang looked at the somewhat neurotic Zhu Yonggan, opened her mouth, but in the end said nothing.

The closer I get to him, the less I realize I understand him. He always reveals something unbelievable inadvertently. What kind of person is he?

This made her want to get to know the other person even more.

Hongniang hesitated for a long time, but finally she clenched the spear in her hand, walked away a little, and went to practice spear fighting by herself.

……

Not far from the central army, there were also two people whispering.

A young man whispered, "Master, you said that Prince Xin would be an emperor? You know what, he really seems to have that kind of temperament." "How could Master be wrong?" The old blind man leaned on his walking stick, stroked his beard, and said confidently, "Our lineage is knowledgeable, just learn from us!"

"Then should we follow Sun Kewang, Shi Daoshen and the others?"

"No, just follow Prince Xin. You must understand who is the root and who is the branch. What we need to do is to follow the root, and then we will be able to soar to the sky and bring prosperity to our family."

The old blind man swore solemnly.

"Old blind man? You two are not dead?" Chongzhen finally discovered these two people at this moment.

"Thanks to the prince, we two ran away."

The last time the Tartars attacked the central army, no one paid attention to him, a blind man. He and his apprentice ran faster than anyone else, and now they are running back again.

……

A wilderness of dead leaves in the snow. In the vast snow, the dead leaves are almost invisible due to the thick snow.

Under the cover of white, a dead silence permeates the air, making people feel sad and lonely.

A group of soldiers stepped past the windowsill, making a rustling sound.

The leader was none other than Li Dingguo. After he captured Shengjing City, he did not stay for long but continued to pursue the nobles of the Qing Dynasty with his men.

There was no other reason. He was unwilling to accept the fact that Dorgon was not caught.

But as he chased, he suddenly found that his brother had not caught up.

"General, have we spotted a large group of Tartars ahead? Most of them are bondservants, servants, and women."

Li Dingguo's eyes suddenly lit up. "So we caught a big fish? How many people are there?"

"Only twenty thousand!"

Li Dingguo: "What about us?"

"A full six hundred!"

Li Dingguo: "What else can we say? Let's kill him!"

……

There was heavy snow falling all over the sky, making people shiver. Grand Secretary Ganglin, who was Dorgon's confidant, fled along one route with Dorgon's harem and descendants, while Dorgon fled along another route led by the soldiers of the two yellow flags.

This was done in order to leave bloodline for the Qing Dynasty.

If Dorgon was blocked by the Ming court, the children in the wombs of Hai Lanzhu and others would be the hope of the Qing Dynasty in the future.

In order to escape the pursuit of the Ming army, this group of people took small paths. In addition, it was snowing heavily, and as they walked, they suddenly found that they were lost.

Just as I was hesitating, suddenly a burst of shouting and killing came from the hillside!
"Tartars, your grandfather is here——"

The shout breaks through the barrier,

Immediately afterwards, a large group of troops descended from the sky and hammered into the Qing camp like a sledgehammer.

The sound of muskets, the clash of swords and spears... the blood waves surged to the sky, spreading in the heavy snow.

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ps: There are still about 30,000 to 50,000 words. I owed you a few chapters before. After thinking about the recent updates, I will just write them as free chapters. I know you guys don’t need that money, so I would like to express my humble apologies.

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