The Later Jin soldiers sent their divisions to pounce on the Tieshan area, and their actions were quite fast. The main force kept moving south. All the villages and towns along the way were almost wiped out. Only the strong men were kept, and their hair was shaved as coats or servants. Most of the elderly, weak, sick, disabled, and useless women and children were massacred.

After the winter of Liaodong, thousands of miles of fertile fields were turned into snow. In such weather, even if the Later Jin soldiers did not take action, those who fled to the wilderness would probably die of cold and starvation after a few days.

What Cao Zhenyan saw along the way was most miserable scene in the world.

Half a month ago, although these people lived a hard life, they could at least live a safe life together, working hard to pass on their bloodlines.

Now everything is over, and a large number of braided soldiers like black tides have conquered everything and destroyed everything.

Cao Zhenyan led a large team of coattails to be responsible for many errands. This time Dorgon was ordered to go out with him, which was a training for this underage prince.

In this matter, Huang Taiji did not intend to make things difficult for Lao Shisi. During the establishment of the Later Jin Dynasty, the kings made great contributions, which was inseparable from this inheritance of cultivating relatives and nobles.

There was snow everywhere, and logistics supply required a large number of two-wheelers and unicycles. Of course, the Jurchens were unwilling to devote too much energy to logistics supply, but there was no way. North Korea was too poor. Not to mention that it was far worse than that of a wealthy place like western Liaoning.

Liaodong still has famines for years. Even so, there are large plain areas. In North Korea, there are many mountains and few fields in the north, and the production of fields is limited. The two nobles in North Korea do not know how to be polite to the people's strength. A small amount of wealth is concentrated in Seoul and divided by the two nobles.

Wherever the Eight Banners soldiers went, they had plundered the local people's food and wealth as much as possible, but were still not enough to provide enough food for the army, and they could only transport grain supplies from Liaodong. This made the senior officials such as Amin very angry and dissatisfied. They had returned from killing Liaoxi and killing Yu. This time they attacked North Korea, which seemed to be a loss. It was really unworthy.

As this dissatisfaction fermented, Huang Taiji was not completely incapable of taking any measures. He ordered the residents of Guanzhuang in the Taizi River to eliminate the old and weak, and tens of thousands of Han people followed the army to North Korea to eat. Only when the food in Liaodong was sufficient could these Han people return to their original Guanzhuang to live one after another.

Although Huang Taiji had released his kindness to the Han people at the beginning of his succession to the Khan throne and began to reuse Han generals and Han officials one after another, in the face of cruel reality, this kindness was too weak and powerless.

"Mingli, you can rest for a while." Cao Zhenyan looked at Li Mingli, who was sweating profusely, and smiled and asked the good brother to rest for a while.

It was cold and the ground was covered with corpses, the remaining snow and melted frozen soil formed quite a large area of ​​mud. The horse hooves and boots of the Eight Banners soldiers trampled the road to pieces. At night, this large area would freeze again. If the open road was not leveled, the road surface that would freeze into a strange shape the next day would seriously affect the passage of the convoy.

Cao Zhenyan and countless coat leaders, including the flag manager, had the task of constantly collecting weeds and making them into straw mats, leveling the ground and laying straw mats, so that the road surface can be kept flat for a long time.

This is a man-consuming approach, that is, the Later Jin regime, which is completely uncompromising the people's power and treats the Han people as a ox and horse, can use this method.

Many migrant Liao people had already died along the way. They had been hungry for a winter and came to North Korea to say they were "just eat" but there was no food supply along the way. They had to continue to participate in labor. People died almost every moment on the way.

Li Mingli is much better. Cao Zhenyan has always helped him a lot. Li Mingli's family is not short of food. In his Niulu, Li Mingli is considered a good match. He has the task of raising the flag and crossing the river. He also has the task of guarding the river and fishing. These errands can be used to supplement the family's plan.

Moreover, after Tiancong Khan succeeded to the throne, the status of the Han people was slightly improved. At least all the banners were strictly ordered by the Khan, and the Han people were not allowed to be killed without reason. In this way, everyone's life safety was much more guaranteed than before.

But his personal insignificant fate is inconspicuous under the torrent of the general trend. During this campaign between the seventh year of Tianqi and the Chongzhen period, tens of thousands of Han people were moved to Korea to eat. In the sixth year of Tianqi to the seventh year of Tianqi, Liaodong still suffered constant disasters. The silver and grain looted from western Liaoxi were limited and needed to be regarded as strategic military reserves and could not be distributed to Han people. The war in western Liaoxi in summer was not good for the summer of Tianqi, and a lot of reserves were consumed for nothing. Now the Jurchens had to tighten their belts to live, so tens of thousands of Liao people were driven to North Korea in history. This time, the scale was significantly larger. The official villages of each banner were moved out of the whole village.

Another variable is that in the original history, the Jurchens bought grain from Shanxi merchants continuously. After the Great Famine in the sixth year of Tianqi, around the second year of Chongzhen, Liaodong purchased a large amount of grain from Shanxi merchants, which also relieved Huang Taiji's considerable pressure.

Moreover, Guangning was in hand and contacted Korqin. The Jurchens were constantly attacking the Chahar people, suppressing a large number of Mongolian tribes, and gaining a large number of Dingkou and war horses. In this time and space, this advantage was gone.

This time, due to the huge scale of food waste, Li Mingli, Zhao Gui and others were almost caught off guard and were notified to go on the road with the flag heads and Hanmins in Niululi. A small number of armored soldiers cooperated with the flag heads to escort them. Nearly 100,000 Liao people walked in batches and came to the North Korean territory together.

This transfer was undoubtedly a failure. North Korea did not have much grain storage. After a few months, Amin and others were forced to evacuate. The Liao people exiled to North Korea gradually returned to Liaodong and continued to reclaim land and farm for Jurgen Harum, producing limited food and handing over it. They were struggling on the brink of life and death.

This situation did not gradually change and improve until the second year of Chongzhen. After entering the pass in the second year of Chongzhen, the Jurchen army obtained a large amount of grain and Dingkou. The area of ​​reclaimed wasteland was expanded on a large scale. Then the Chahar people were completely conquered and the Jurchens gained greater strategic advantages. After the second year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji would send Eight Banners troops to the pass every few years and obtain a large amount of materials, including gold, silver and iron, a large amount of grain, animal husbandry, and population. These were quite effective in supplementing the weak national strength of the Later Jin. By the 14th year of Chongzhen, the Later Jin could have besieged Jinzhou for a long time and used trench warfare to compete with the Ming Dynasty for national strength.

"I'll ask them to rest for a while." Li Mingli agreed loudly. His robe was stained with black mud and snow, and his whole body was cold. The warm hat on his head fell off at some point, revealing his bare scalp, and a small braid as thick as a chopstick was hanging behind his head, entrenching like a dead snake.

Li Mingli made a hand gesture behind him. The coaters who had been trimming the road breathed a sigh of relief and sat down on the side of the road.

More women and children have been sitting by the roadside for a long time, and the elderly and weak have long been unable to walk, but they still have to continue walking under the pressure of swords and guns. Many people fall to the ground while walking and can never get up again.

If you can struggle to walk, no one will fall down. Everyone knows that even if you are not cut by the Jurchens's sword, falling into the snow will be a dead end.

Many women are feeding children, but their shriveled chests do not have much milk or water at all. Many children keep making cunning howls.

Adults all understand that before they reach the destination, most of these babies will die. If they were in the original official village, many of these babies might have grown up, but now they will probably die prematurely.

Everyone's eyes were dull and had no reaction to the tragic things in front of him.

Since the 47th year of Wanli, there have been too many similar things happening in the past ten years, and people's emotions have been overdrawn again and again.

If a person's family had long been destroyed and only a few people were left in the entire family of more than a hundred people, or even alone, his grandparents, parents, brothers, wives and children had already died in disasters again and again, then his emotions as humans were gone. Basically, living is no different from walking corpses.

Li Mingli walked to the edge of a forest land in the north, and all the Baoyi flag slaves in his official village gathered together. More than a hundred Baoyi in Niulu had died in this Niulu until now, and even his bodies could not be buried. There were armored vests or marching armor along the way to supervise the Liao people who moved to North Korea. If they hesitate and resist, they would be killed immediately, without any sympathy.

"Daya, eat some cake." In such a team, Cao Zhenyan could not give Li Mingli too much care. Suddenly, Li Mingli was reluctant to give up the intelligence network here and did not start the escape route as soon as possible. As a result, he and Zhao Gui's family were entangled in a large Liao civilian team. With tens of thousands of people, Li Mingli could only starve like everyone else. After many days of labor and hard work, coupled with concern for his family, this strong Liaodong man had already lost a lot of weight and his eyes were deeply trapped in his eyes.

Take out two mixed grain cakes from your arms, Li Mingli glanced at Zhao Gui's family beside him, and handed the remaining two to Zhao Gui's wife.

"Sister-in-law, Zhao Gui is pushing the cart in front." Li Mingli said: "Don't worry, he has food and strength."

Those who do not have the strength to do things as they are ordered will be punished without exception. At the least, they will be whipped and beheaded.

Zhao Gui's wife took the pancake with tears in her eyes, and only broke a small corner of her own, and all the rest was distributed to her children.

Li Mingli sighed heavily. His son was held in his wife's arms and was only less than three years old. The Li family's living conditions were good, and the children were white and fat. After such a difficult trip, even if the adults saved all their food for the children, the children had become dark and thin.

Li Mingli was an orphan earlier. After giving birth to this son, he regarded it as a treasure. This is his root, and the future and hope of the Li family. He could not imagine whether he could withstand such suffering if his son died halfway.

Many times he had regretted it. The Military Office had already reminded him whether to send his children and wife to Kuandian in advance, but Li Mingli was worried that this would expose himself and implicate Zhao Gui and Cao Zhenyan, so he refused many times.
Chapter completed!