Of course, the soldiers and horses of the Zhenghuang and Xianghuang banners who followed Huang Taiji to Hanyang City, as well as the soldiers and horses of Huaishun King Geng Zhongming and Gongshun Wang Kong Youde, also made huge gains.

In addition to the harvest of various gold and silver goods, grain and grass supplies, the number of people and livestock captured by conquering cities and lands along the way was not much less than that of Prince Zheng Jierhalang's blue-inlaid flag.

Regarding those captured Koreans, Li Zhu, the leader of the Qing Dynasty and the Ning Kingdom after the country's name was changed, also made a vague proposal to Huang Taiji, hoping that the Qing soldiers and horses could return the captured Korean men, women, and children on their way east.

To the new He Ningguo.

Although the name of the Li Dynasty was changed, the people who were captured or kidnapped were still his subjects and the people of Prince Ning.

However, Huang Taiji told him very clearly that all the captured soldiers, horses and young men of the Qing Dynasty were obtained by the soldiers of the Eastern Expedition of the Qing Dynasty through hard fighting. Even though Huang Taiji was the leader of the Eight Banners of the Qing Emperor, he did not order the soldiers to

The truth is that we pay for it in vain.

Huang Taiji's final reply to Li Zhu was that he would redeem it if he wished.

The meaning is also very clear, that is, to ask Li Zhu and his ministers to spend money and food to redeem the captured people.

However, after experiencing a series of changes, Li Zhu was no longer able to control the palace and treasury in Hanyang City. How could he have any extra money and food to redeem the captured people?

Therefore, this matter had to be put aside for the time being, and eventually it was settled.

In this way, a few days later, on the morning of December 6th, Huang Taiji, who had entered Hanyang City for more than ten days, finally packed his bags with satisfaction and led the Han Dynasty of Zhenghuang, Xianghuang, Xianglan and Kong Geng.

The army's heavy artillery team, accompanied by a large number of Korean servants, began to return westward.

Huang Taiji lived very comfortably in Changdeokgung Palace in Hanyang City. He had everything to eat and drink. At the same time, he had Li Jie, the beauty in the harem of Lord Ning, and countless beauties in the palace, Wen Xiang.

Nephrite sleeps at night and is at your side during the day.

The conditions in all aspects are countless times better than those spent outside Zhenjiang Fort, especially the food and shelter on the way east.

Because of this, Huang Taiji originally wanted to stay a little longer, but when he thought that Zhenjiang Castle was still in the hands of Yang Zhen, and that his rear area was always under threat from Yang Zhen's troops, he felt like he was sitting on pins and needles.

Don't feel down.

Thinking that he had already done what he needed to do and got everything he needed to get, he ordered the division to return west on the sixth day of December.

When they arrived, the total number of banner and horse infantry soldiers under Huang Taiji's command was only over 20,000. Apart from the weapons and mounts they carried, they had almost no supplies.

But by the time they returned, the horse, infantry, chariot and artillery team of more than 20,000 people had increased seven or eight times, and they were now 140,000 to 140,000 to 50,000 people.

Of course, the elite Manchu, Mongolian and Han troops of the Bagala Camp and the Aliha Chaoha Camp, which are affiliated to the three banners of Zhenghuang, Xianghuang and Xianglan, are still the more than 20,000 people they came with. There is not much reduction in personnel, and there are no

How to increase.

However, the newly compiled Chaoren Qingzhuang Dingkou under Xianghuang, Xianghuang, and Xianglan, including the newly compiled Chaoren Niulu and the Chaoren follower Aha assigned to each banner and armor, were added out of thin air.

More than 35,000 people.

Especially under the Manchurian Niulu under the Three Banners, a serious flag soldier or an armored man from Xinzhou was almost always served by as many as two or three captured imperial soldiers.

Even the two Han army princes, Huaishun Wang Geng Zhongming and Gongshun Wang Kong Youde, each received thousands of mengniu and the remaining young and strong men from the court.

Huang Taiji ordered to distribute the population of the strong and old people of the court who were obedient to King Kong Youde to more than 6,000 people. If he didn't pick and choose too much, it would be enough for him to rebuild several people of the court who were subordinate to the king's soldiers.

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Of course, among the huge team of Qing captives returning to the west, in addition to the young and strong men who can be divided into cattle records and the servants, there are also many more, in fact, the old, weak, women and children who have no one to redeem them.

Refugee people.

The fate of these people was even more miserable. Even if they did not freeze to death, starve to death or die of illness when they were forced to follow the team heading north, they would end up as slaves who could be bought and sold when they arrived at Zhenjiang Fort or behind the Qing Dynasty.

The fate of these people is worse than that of the vested Aha.

Of course, also included in the large team returning to the north from Huangtai Ji were Shen Qiyuan, who had been renamed as the military commander of the Hening Kingdom and the marshal of the North Second Road, and his two thousand imperial camp halls that were originally stationed in Nanhan Mountain City.

Soldiers and horses and the 3,000-forced Haobao army originally belonging to the Seoul Prefecture.

Huang Taiji asked Jin Zidian to serve as the so-called marshal of the Nanshan Road Army and Horses. He led a large number of Korean soldiers and horses from Hanyang City and Gyeonggi Province who had shaved their heads and changed their clothes to suppress the scattered civil uprisings in the local area. He also asked Shen Qiyuan to serve as the North Second Army.

Marshal Dao Bingmadu led his troops to Pyongyang Fucheng, which of course had a special purpose.

Regarding this special purpose, whether it is Jin Zidian or Shen Qiyuan, they all know it well.

Gu Guo

At least in Shen Qiyuan's view, Huang Taiji did this just to draw away the Korean troops inside and outside Hanyang City and near Gyeonggi Province, so that Li Jian and the ministers of the government did not dare to resist and were unable to resist.

Without Jin Zidian and Shen Qiyuan, two ministers who were well-known among the important officials of the court, Li Zhu was left with the only guard general Gu Renyi who commanded the troops and horses of the guard hall.

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However, Gu Renge's Guard Hall only had five commanders at the front, rear, left and right, totaling 2,500 people.

Ju Renge's troops and horses alone were no match for the troops and horses of the banner camp led by Jingjin Beilenikan, the minister of supervision in the Namhan Mountain City.

In this way, even if the main force of the Qing soldiers led by Huang Taiji left the court, Li Zhu, who was changed to the leader of Hening Kingdom, and his trusted ministers would still be suppressed to death without any change.

opportunity.

But regarding this point, Shen Qiyuan didn't have much resistance.

For him, instead of staying in Hanyang City to be a military judge who is destined to have no real power, it is better to draw out the trusted generals he has deployed in the imperial camp and lead them to the Northern Second Road to take charge.

Although doing so would temporarily keep him away from the king of Hanyang City, Li Zhu, and the new Hening Kingdom's small court, it would also allow him to temporarily leave the place where right and wrong were unclear for a while.

In particular, Pyongyang Fucheng and the Second North Road are closer to the heart of Yang Zhen's Jinhai Town, making it easier for him to get in touch with Yang Zhen, the general of the Ming Dynasty who conquered the east.

In this way, on the morning of December 6th, Shen Qiyuan led the men and horses he had transferred from the Imperial Camp Hall and the number plate troops of Seoul Prefecture, and gathered 5,000 horse and infantry people, mixed with the large team of Huangtai Ji's squadron, and marched We headed north, sleeping in the snow and ice.

On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, they followed a huge group of people and marched through Kaicheng.

On the evening of December 12th, they followed a large group of people and arrived to camp outside Fengshan City.

It was not until the afternoon of December 15th that they finally followed the large group of people and arrived at their destination - the dilapidated Pyongyang City.

It was only then that Huang Taiji personally summoned Shen Qiyuan once in the camp where he had been stationed in the north of Pyongyang Fucheng.

Huang Taiji personally arranged a lot of things for Shen Qiyuan, the marshal of the Northern Second Army of Hening Kingdom.

First, he was asked to vigorously implement the order of shaving hair and changing clothes in the Second Northern Province of Hening State in the name of Marshal of the Military and Horse Command of Hening State.

The second is to ask him to gather the displaced refugee people from the Second Road in the North as soon as possible, gather them together, and then draft them into soldiers and station them in various places on Ping'an Road, so as to prevent the area east of the Yajiang River from having no soldiers stationed and eventually being overrun by the soldiers from Jinhai Town. Occupied by horses.

Third, he was asked to sit in the capital of Pyongyang and send troops to wipe out the rebels who had fled and hid in the mountains and countryside before.

At the beginning, after Huang Taiji led his army across the Yangtze River and marched eastwards, he first defeated the capital city of Yizhou, and then divided his troops to attack the city and seize the territory. Although the troops from all walks of life were invincible for a while, they could not deal with the small groups of rebels who scattered and fled and hid in remote areas. But they did not have time to pursue and suppress them.

Previously, Bao Chengxian, the newly appointed academician of the Secretariat, and others were on their way from the rear to serve in Huang Taiji's army. They encountered several harassments and ambushes by small groups of Korean rebels.

Although the losses are not big each time, they should not be underestimated.

After Bao Chengxian met with Huang Taiji and reported the situation, Huang Taiji became interested.

Although these small groups of Korean rebels scattered in the mountains and forests of the two northern roads are currently weak and insignificant, if they are turned into bandits and occupy the mountains to become kings, there will be endless troubles.

After all, the land east of the Yajiang River and the north of Ningguo is mainly mountainous, and the farther north you go, the higher the mountains and the denser forests. Once a small group of rebels from the imperial court became a climate there, it would probably be very harmful to the hinterland of the Qing Dynasty. There will never be peace.

Of course, in addition to this, Huang Taiji also arranged a fourth thing for Shen Qiyuan, which was to ask him to gather the refugees in Pyongyang Fucheng, and after strengthening the team, he was ready to lead the two troops from the north of Ning State to participate in the capture. The purpose of the Battle of Zhenjiang Fort.

Faced with Huang Taiji's so-called "grace", Shen Qiyuan "agreed" one by one.
Chapter completed!