"Dumby, Dumby …" Ice Phoenix poked her small head out from a corner and waved at the busy Woodland Servant not far away.
After seeing Zhou Qingfeng's' treasures', Ice Phoenix really didn't want to leave. Her subordinate, Jia Gang, was transferred to Jinzhou. Such a rare ghost cultivator would naturally be sent to Wen Ruolan as a research subject. It should be helpful for the development of spiritual mechanics.
In fact, Zhou Qingfeng also wanted to send Ice Phoenix and Dumby. This was a primitive mutant that had reincarnated countless times, a mountain spirit and wild monster that had an affinity with the forest, and was also an extremely rare specimen.
It was just that this topic was not so easy to talk about, so Zhou Qingfeng first threw Dumby to Xu Bing for training. This seemingly incompetent spirit was very useful for statistics of the fields and prospecting for mines. It was a good arrangement to send it to the Ministry of Mines to help Shi Dong in the later stages.
As for Ice Phoenix, it was harder to get this little girl to work than to climb to the sky. After blasting the city wall, she deliberately went to the more than 20 meters gap that had been blown up to check, and then she hung behind Zhou Qingfeng's butt and cried all day, scolding Zhou Qingfeng for bullying a child. At this time, she found Dumby, who was working under Xu Bing, called it over, and said in a low voice, "Dumby, did I do you a favor?"
Hearing this, Dumby knew that this little Phoenix was going to cause trouble. It replied angrily, "Master, what bad things are you going to do again?"
"What do you mean bad things?" Ice Phoenix scolded angrily, "That Zhou Qingfeng is so bad. He used so much gunpowder to scare me. I will go and steal all his treasures, and scatter them into the river, into the fields, into the woods. There must not be a lot of such powerful things. I'll steal them all for him. Let's see if he still dares to scare me?! "
Ice Phoenix put her hands on her hips, stomped her feet, and asked Dumby, "Tell me, will you help me?"
Dumby sighed again. "That black gunpowder is actually a Daoist alchemy material. It's not like it's something precious. There are tens of thousands of pounds in the warehouse. How are you going to steal it?"
"You lied to me!" Ice Phoenix raised her head angrily, "When Zhou Qingfeng blew up the city wall, it was as if hundreds of Level Nine experts were casting spells at the same time. The moment it exploded, my mind went blank. Daoist gunpowder wasn't that powerful. Moreover, how could there be tens of thousands of kilograms? Do you think those are cabbages that grow in the ground? If you want it, you can have it! "
"It really is tens of thousands of kilograms. Zhou Qingfeng took me there to see it personally. He said that it was produced in some industrial saltpeter field. It really sounds like cabbages in the field that grow and grow. "Dumby felt that his speculation was probably the truth.
Ice Phoenix refused to accept this fact, and shook her head desperately, "Impossible, absolutely impossible. If he was that powerful, wouldn't I be bullied to death by him in the future? Thinking of him using so much black gunpowder to blow up the city wall, my immortal body would also be turned into ashes. I haven't been able to sleep for the past few nights. Just thinking about it makes me scared. "
Little Phoenix didn't feel safe, and her mind started to let her imagination run wild. Dumby didn't want to mess around with her. The next day, she actually slipped away without saying goodbye. Zhou Qingfeng couldn't find her. After asking Dumby, he found out that the girl left behind a sentence — — You're all too bad. I'm going to find my mother for help.
"Why is this girl so naughty?" Zhou Qingfeng was also helpless.
Dumby explained, "Ice Phoenix has countless memories, but only when she grows to a certain age will her memories of that age recover. She's only eight years old now, so she only has countless memories of when she was eight years old. If she wants the memories of when she was twenty years old, she has to wait until she's twenty years old. So now she's a very naughty child, and especially loves to cause trouble. "
"Alas …" Zhou Qingfeng sighed, "Then who is her mother? The other Ice Phoenix? "
"No, Ice Phoenix's mother is Fire Phoenix," Dumby said.
"Where is this Fire Phoenix?"
"She should be in the palace. Prehistoric mutants often live with real dragons when they grow up. There are many old monsters with extremely high cultivation in Daming's capital. The Fire Phoenix in this life is already hundreds of years old, so she shouldn't be running around. "
"If Ice Phoenix has a mother, why was she trapped in Err and Kulun back then?"
"Prehistoric mutants are all like this. They don't care when they have children. This is called training. Anyway, after they die, they can enter the cycle of reincarnation again. A little suffering is nothing to them. "
"Then who is Ice Phoenix's father?"
"Ice Phoenix doesn't have a father. Her Phoenix clan only has females. Once they condense their blood, they can conceive."
Amazing!
"Alas, she's gone." Zhou Qingfeng couldn't chase after her, and no one could harm the girl in the snow, so he could only let her be.
From January to February, Liaodong was still bitterly cold. Everything inside the 'Revolutionary Army' was carried out in an orderly manner. Liaodong City was gradually emptied, leaving no people or materials. The houses that couldn't be moved were also torn down and used as firewood. Except for a small number of historical sites, not even a tile was given to Nurhachi.
The work of strengthening the walls and clearing the fields was carried out very strictly. From Liaoyang to the south, all towns were cleared without exception. If the Female Zhenren wanted to attack the 'Revolutionary Army' from this road, she had to bring a large number of auxiliary soldiers to rebuild the city — it was easy to destroy, but difficult to build. At that time, Hwang Tae-gil would have a job to do.
At the end of February, the temperature began to rise, and the garrison of Tiger Skin Station began to withdraw to the south. When Hwang Tae-gil's scouts carefully wandered outside Tiger Skin Station for a few days, he found that the enemy had slipped away before the early spring thawed. When he sent people to Liaoyang again, he found that the capital of Liaodong had become a broken and empty city.
Four large gaps of more than 20 meters long were blown up around the city wall, and the collapsed city wall filled the moat outside the city. The city was full of rubble and dirt, and not a few decent houses could be seen. The originally most prosperous place in Liaodong had become a ghost town, and not a single person could be seen. This place had completely lost all the functions of a military town and the center of Liaodong.
When Hwang Tae-gil rode into the city and saw the devastation, he sighed in his heart with hatred. He asked a scholar beside him, "Xiandou, how far is Liaoyang from Haizhou?"
The scholar was about 20 years old and very young. He bowed and answered, "Master, according to the 'Records of Liaodong', Liaoyang is about 120 li away from Haizhou."
"What about Gaizhou?"
"It's another 120 li away from Gaizhou."
"Then how did Zhou Qingfeng transport the people over a distance of more than two hundred li, and how did he move the entire city away?"
"According to the scouts, there are people in the 'Revolutionary Army' who are good at building ice roads. In winter, they use the snow and ice on the ground to build a road specially for sledders. Therefore, transporting people is extremely fast and convenient. "
Hwang Tae-gil had also heard about the ice roads. He went outside the city to check, but found that the 'Revolutionary Army' had even destroyed the ice roads when they left. But judging from the traces left on the ground, the ice roads were built extremely smoothly, and it was even a two-lane road. In Hwang Tae-gil's eyes, the amount of work involved would not be small.
"If I, Big Gold, were to build this more than 250 li ice roads in winter, I'm afraid tens of thousands of people would have died. How many people in the 'Revolutionary Army' died? "Hwang Tae-gil asked again." Besides, just building an ice road can empty a city? I don't believe it. "
The young scholar did not dare to talk nonsense, but he suggested to Hwang Tae-gil, "If Master wants to know this number, it's not difficult to send people to the suburbs and both sides of the road to check. If a large number of slaves died of exhaustion or freezing to death, they must not be buried too far away. Maybe there are a lot of skeletons on the side of the road. "
Hwang Tae-gil really did not believe in heresy, and in order to find out the strength of the 'Revolutionary Army', he put in a lot of effort. He sent people to investigate around Liaoyang, and even let the scouts go more than 100 li to the city of Haizhou. This hard work was finally fruitful, and he even caught some Han people who did not follow the migration, so he knew how much the 'Revolutionary Army' lost in the process of moving a city.
It was impossible not to die when migrating more than 100,000 people and a huge amount of materials in a bitter cold environment. But the specific number of deaths was far lower than Hwang Tae-gil's estimate. The Female Enlightened Master found many cemeteries, but the total number of skeletons found was less than 500. Most of them were local people of Liaoyang who were migrated, and most of them were old people.
This number should not be the whole number, but even if it was several times more, it would not be much. Hwang Tae-gil was very surprised. He had personally interrogated the captured Han people of Liaoyang, and he learned that the 'Revolutionary Army' obtained a lot of food inside and outside Liaoyang, and a quarter of this food was used to feed the migrating people.
Not only did the poor people of Liaoyang not suffer any hardship this winter, but they even gained a few kilograms after eating every meal. Because they found that following the 'Revolutionary Army' could fill their stomachs, the people of Liaoyang not only did not resist the migration, but they also actively cooperated with it. They could not wait to leave this godforsaken place where war could break out at any time, and they did not hesitate to destroy their homes and businesses.
"Difficult, too difficult." After Hwang Tae-gil found out the truth, he said the word 'difficult' several times. After he took over Liaoyang, he had the intention to move the troops forward. But it was useless to just move the troops, and they also had to move the slaves to live. Shenyang was 120 li from Liaoyang, and after moving for half a month, they did not even move 10,000 people.
There were many things that one would not know if one did not do it personally. Moving 1,000 people was completely different from moving 10,000 or even 100,000 people. This kind of overall migration involved too many details, and if one did not pay attention to an inconspicuous place, it would drag down the overall efficiency.
Hwang Tae-gil set up a temporary camp in Liaoyang, and it always had about 2,000 people. If there were too many people, it would be difficult to transport food. This was because Liaoyang had no way to gather food on the spot. The young man who followed Huang Taiji to supervise the military affairs, Geng Dou, felt even more miserable because of this. He had already pulled all of his classmates and lecturers from Shenyang County's school over, but the efficiency of political management was extremely low.
At the beginning of March, the temperature rose again, and the number of slaves from Shenyang gradually increased. After Nurhachi learned about the situation in Liaoyang, he specially sent a general under his command with 10,000 troops, and requested to continue south to seize Haizhou.
After the 10,000 troops arrived in Liaoyang, Hwang Tae-gil personally came out to greet them, and very respectfully greeted the general who led the troops, "Uncle Eyidu, I feel at ease with you here."
Who was this person?
He was a general who had followed Nurhachi since the beginning of the war. He was brave, good at fighting, and deeply trusted. He was given the title 'Batulu', the commander-in-chief of the left wing of the Bordered Yellow Banner, and one of the five ministers of the Great Jin, Niohuru Eyidu.
This old general was already over 50 years old. He was not very strong, but his face was weather-beaten, and his limbs were thick and strong. He came on horseback, fully armored, and reached out to help Hwang Tae-gil up. He said, "Fourth Beilei, your father Khan said you encountered a great enemy, and specially ordered me to come and help. I brought 20 of Niu Lu's regular soldiers and leftovers from the Bordered Yellow Banner. Even if this great enemy is as hard as iron and stone, we will smash him this time. "
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