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However, some common people are still sensible people. They can see who is really fighting against the slaves. Some gentry cannot see it and raise some food to send to Lu Xiangsheng. At least the troops led by Lu Xiangsheng are not completely starved of food, because

Without food, it will collapse on its own.

Under such circumstances, Lu Xiangsheng, wearing mourning clothes and leading thousands of Tianxiong soldiers under his command, pursued him from the capital to the Julu area. At this time, Gao Qiqian also attracted tens of thousands of Guan Ning's troops to Jilu.

In the Ze area, the distance between the two armies was only less than fifty miles.

Lu Xiangsheng ushered in the last battle of his life here.

The cowardice of the Ming army was discovered by the Jiannu soldiers soon after they entered the pass. In fact, they were worried about pushing the Ming army into a panic at first, so they jumped over the wall and fought with them in a decisive battle. However,

They went all the way south, attacking cities and territories. It was obvious that the Ming army was not far away from them, but many of the Ming army watched them plundering from a distance, but did not come up to cause trouble for them at all.

Dorgon was confused by this behavior at first, but he soon saw the reason. These Ming troops had no intention of fighting to the death with their slave army. Above them, they must be thinking about other things now. Most of these

To put it bluntly, the Ming army was carrying out an armed parade under orders, but they had no courage to fight to the death with their slave-building troops. They were afraid of the enemy from top to bottom. Now the slave-building soldiers became even more unscrupulous, so they dared to do so.

They went all the way south and reached the territory of Guangping Prefecture, but they didn't even encounter a single battle.

Only Lu Xiangsheng's army was obviously different from other Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers. Only Lu Xiangsheng's army, after leaving the capital and going south, always hung behind the Jiannu army, and Jiannu would hate him when he was in trouble.

So Jiannu realized the difference between Lu Xiangsheng and other Ming Dynasty soldiers and officials. Only Lu Xiangsheng wanted to truly fight against their Jiannu army.

Jian Nu also felt uncomfortable being cared about by Lu Xiangsheng so much. He was followed by Lu Dadao, who was always looking at them eagerly and wanted to pounce on them and bite them. If they were blocked by Lu Dadao on the way back this time, if something went wrong,

Wouldn’t it be a big trouble?

So Jiannu decided to completely eliminate Lu Xiangsheng, and the location was chosen in the Julu area.

Everyone knew what happened next. Jiannu mobilized more than 30,000 troops and surrounded Lu Xiangsheng's troops. Lu Xiangsheng sent people to ask for help from Gao Qiqian, but Gao Qiqian refused to send reinforcements to rescue Lu Xiangsheng. In the end, he watched helplessly.

Lu Xiang died in the battle and died heroically for his country.

At this point, the morale of the soldiers has completely disintegrated. If an official treats a patriotic and loyal minister like this, can a soldier still fight to the death?

Therefore, after Jiannu eliminated Lu Xiangsheng's troops, he immediately launched a fierce attack on the tens of thousands of Guan Ning troops led by Gao Qiqiansuo and other officers and soldiers.

Gao Qiqian feared Jiannu as much as a tiger or wolf, and the troops he led were even more unbearable. They collapsed without fighting. Under the pursuit of Jiannu's army, they were defeated. Gao Qiqian only led a small number of officers and soldiers to protect him and fled the battlefield.

However, tens of thousands of elites from the northern part of the Ming Dynasty were also completely destroyed by Gao Qiqian in this battle.

Chongzhen did not know what happened to Lu Xiangsheng. Lu Xiangsheng and his friend Yang Tinglin wrote several memorials to impeach Yang Sichang, Gao Qiqian and others, but they were all intercepted by Yang Sichang and others.

Even after Yang Sichang heard the news that Lu Xiangsheng died in battle, he still didn't dare to believe it. He sent people to check the battlefield. As a result, the people he sent found Lu Xiangsheng, who was wearing sackcloth and dead with several arrows and swords on the battlefield. After replying to Yang Sichang,

Yang Sichang still suppressed the news and did not tell Chongzhen.

Because the news that Yang Sichang wanted most was not that Lu Xiangsheng died fighting the Jiannu army on the battlefield, but that he wanted to hear that Lu Xiangsheng was defeated and fled. In this way, he could blame Gao Qiqian for the defeat.

Lu Xiangsheng's behavior also concealed the group's shyness and avoidance of fighting.

Even after Lu Xiangsheng's death for dozens of days, the imperial court did not send anyone to collect his body. Instead, local people heard the news and rushed to the battlefield to find Lu Xiangsheng's body. Someone donated a good coffin and temporarily buried Lu Xiangsheng's body.

stand up.

All this information was concealed by Yang Sichang and others. For dozens of days, Chongzhen did not know where Lu Xiangsheng was. It was not until he could no longer hide it anymore that Yang Sichang had to inform Chongzhen of the news of Lu Xiangsheng's defeat and death.

Chongzhen then sent people to collect Lu Xiangsheng's body and bring it back. However, due to the obstruction and frame-up by Yang Sichang and others, Lu Xiangsheng did not receive any commendation from Chongzhen after his death, nor did he receive any pension from his family.

As for the slave-building army entering the Pass this time, they actually did not think about seizing the world through this entry. Their purpose was still very simple. It was still to enter the Pass to plunder and coerce the people out of the Pass. Fundamentally,

Continue to weaken the Ming Dynasty's ability to rule in the north. One day, when the time is right, they will send their troops to enter the pass again and seize the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, after Lu Xiangsheng died in battle and they defeated the Ming army led by Gao Qiqian, they immediately continued to plunder the north. Yang Sichang miscalculated the southward route of the Jiannu army and believed that when the Jiannu troops went south to invade Shandong, they would definitely go to Dezhou.

Going south, he believed that Dezhou was the key to guarding Shandong, so he sent an order to Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong at the time, to gather all Shandong soldiers and horses to set up defenses in Dezhou to prevent the Qing army from going south.

However, the slave chief Yue Tuo saw through the Ming army's arrangement. He did not rush straight towards Dezhou at all. Instead, he entered Beizhili first, went straight west to Shanxi, and after plundering, turned east again and bypassed Dezhou.

It leads from Linqing to Shandong, crosses the Huitong River, and then goes straight to Jinan City.

At this time, Jinan only had a few hundred local warriors and a small number of reinforcements from Laizhou, which could not hold Dezhou at all. In addition, the Ming army generals had no fighting spirit. The first month of the year was originally a time for the people to enjoy the rare and peaceful atmosphere of the New Year.

, Jinan City was announced to have been captured by Jiannu.

The German king Zhu Youshu and the Fengguo general Zhu Enshang, who were arranged to settle in Jinan, were all kidnapped by the slave army. When the city was destroyed, the slave army massacred the city of Jinan. The blood of the people killed in the city flowed into rivers, and tens of thousands of people were killed.

In addition, the entire city of Jinan was raided by the Jiannu army, and a large number of people within a radius of dozens of miles inside and outside the city were abducted by the Jiannu.

But the slave chief Yue Tuo also died of illness in Jinan City after conquering Jinan City. This can be regarded as a kind of retribution!

At this point, Jiannu has made a lot of money along the way. In addition, Yue Tuo died of illness, and the army along the way lost its commander. In addition, Jiannu was also afraid of going too deep into the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty. Once the Ming Dynasty reacted, he summoned all the troops from all over the world to defend the capital, resulting in

If their escape route is cut off, things will be in big trouble.

So after Ji'an Nu conquered Jinan in the first month of the year, the slave army finally stopped moving southward and began to pack up their troops, driving a large number of plundered people back to the outside of the pass.

During this several-month raid southward, Jiannu gained a lot of money. Many Eight Banners soldiers carried valuables on their backs, and they also robbed a large number of livestock, mules, horses, cattle, pigs and sheep.

etc., and also plundered a large number of carts, filled with various supplies they captured.

Several groups of Jiannu soldiers and generals captured a total population of five to six million people. They drove these captured people and carried all kinds of stolen goods for them, and began to return to the outside of the pass in a mighty manner.

It is impossible to say that Jiannu is not nervous at all. Now they have captured too many people, and these captured people are several times greater than their military strength. If they encounter a strong resistance from the Ming army,

, once these captives riot, it will not be easy to suppress them, and I am afraid they will not be able to stop them.

But human nature is undoubtedly sad. These captive people of the Ming Dynasty were as docile as sheep, and were driven towards their unknown future by the slaves. Although they were reluctant, they did not leave their homeland.

, but they were afraid of the swords and guns in the hands of Jiannu, and few of them even thought of resisting.

Moreover, there were many Jiannu cavalry, and they all knew that even if they escaped, they would soon be caught up and killed by the Jiannu cavalry, so they were like a group of sheep, driven towards Guanwaixing by the Jiannu.

Along the way, the slaves would not give them any good food to eat. Every two days, they would throw them some steamed buns that they could not tell what they were made of, as if they were alms, and that would be regarded as their rations.

Just these cornucopias became the things that the captive slaves fought for. At this time, the despicability of human nature was completely aroused.

Some of the slaves, who were physically strong, bold, and had dark hands, did not dare to go against Jiannu, but they began to show their strength among the slaves.

With their ability to fight, they quickly gathered some scoundrels among the slaves and became the accomplices of the slaves to control these slaves. Whenever the slaves gave them some food, they would use force to kill them.

Most of the food they eat is controlled by themselves, and then distributed like charity to some slaves who obey them.

The old and weak among the crowd would certainly not be able to snatch food by force, so among the captured people along the way, some old and weak soon starved to death, and even their bodies were robbed.

Some people secretly cut the flesh from these corpses, eat them secretly, and even trade them.

Jian slaves captured a large number of women. These women would definitely not be able to fight for food to survive by relying on their physical strength. Therefore, these women had to sell their bodies in order to survive with a mouthful of food.

Some bastards among slaves, after grabbing food, used the excess to buy women. When camping, they could even live in temporary shacks with only a piece of food.

In exchange for the steamed bun made of Hei Huhu's who-knows-what stuff, they could get a young lady to sleep with them.

The despicability of human nature has been completely revealed at this time. The humanity of many people has been completely wiped out at this time. Although it is sad, this is the law of survival, survival of the fittest and survival of the strong, which is reflected at this time.

Incisively and vividly.

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