Time continued to advance, crossing 1616 into January 1617.

Liaodong is cold, the river is frozen, and the hydropower machinery cannot be used.The people who fled were still inevitably frozen to death.In order to reflect the superiority of the "Revolutionary Army" system and enhance social cohesion, Zhou Qingfeng ordered the Guard to deploy and focus on the reception of a large number of frail children.As for the elderly and seriously ill, there is no way to do it, but they can only give up.

The Revolutionary Army has built thousands of large-scale shelters around the city.Wood and soil are used as building materials, and hollow walls are used for insulation.The internal setting is set up, and even the doors are set into two ways to avoid cold air entering, ensuring 24-hour room temperature on zero.

In order to fully implement these relief measures, Stone's steel mill had to stop work and heat thousands of tons of coal that were hard to hoard.Trained workers in the factories were sent to the grass-roots level for supervision.The high-level of the "Revolutionary Army" can not sit idle in a warm room, patrol around every night every day, and strictly investigate and deal with all kinds of illegal and undisciplined things.

The forces gathered by the "Revolutionary Army" today are not easy to come by and must be cherished.At present, when the little nigger can't bear the supplies at hand, if a large number of refugees can't survive a disturbance, everyone will be finished.Just stay through the coldest two months and wait until the spring blossoms.

But at this point in time, the construction of slaves who had been in Shenyang for half a year took action.

City of Haizhou.

The earth is frozen and the snow is falling.

Zhou Qingfeng, wearing a leather robe, stood on the wall with white air, and his face looked gloomily toward the road to the north.There are occasional dog-drawn sleds outside the city, which is the only land-based means of transport that can be used in winter.Even if it was freezing cold, he tried his best to make limited external contacts, so the dog sled appeared.

But the sled is good, the dog is difficult to find, and the horse is very inconvenient to move in the snow.Now there are only a dozen sleds to the four guards of the peninsula, barely ensuring that the information everywhere continues.A few days ago, Wang Kunpeng's security department came to the news that the real woman in Shenyang had taken action.The sheriff immediately arrived.

The sled came to the city, and only a small seam opened to let people in.There were two people in the sled, one of them was Wang Kunpeng.This boy had a lot of courage after mastering the magic.Many of his men have also been repaired, and the ability to field activities in winter has been greatly improved, and the efficiency of external spying has been significantly improved.

Zhou Qingfeng came down from the city wall, and Wang Kunpeng pulled the sled on another person and said, "This is our 'Revolutionary Army' young handsome."

The other man was on his knees.Zhou Qingfeng took a help and found that the other party was an elderly woman.Wang Kunpeng reminded us, "Tell us about the young man you saw in Shenyang."

The old woman cried out, “Lord, give us the Lord.”The Tatar took Shenyang and arrested people everywhere, first they took my two sons, and then they took my daughter-in-law and grandson.Last month, even my old man was arrested.”

“Say it is important.”Wang Kunpeng drank impatiently on the side.

The old woman cried and wailed and continued: "I was also caught by them to cook, and I saw that there were a lot of caravans suddenly in the city recently."They are all Han Chinese, but they just speak in an accent, but they are not Liaodong.I heard them say that they had come from the Mongols and brought with them a number of armour and weapons.The leaders of the city were glad and broke, and took them to drink.”

Wang Kunpeng took a broken arrow from his pocket and handed it to Zhou Qingfeng, saying, "This old woman's family is finished, and she has escaped to Liaoyang."It was just that Liaoyang City was closed and did not take any outsiders, and our investigators found her.This is what she brought from Shenyang."

Zhou Qingfeng took the arrow, a look is the newly created three-pointed cone, and there are still a vague mark left behind when it was created.He even recognized the word "big same" in the face.Wang Kunpeng said, “This is not our Liaodong arrow, but it is from the other side of the town of Datong on the nine edges.”I don't know if it was the one who lost his fortune just to make money and sold the military money to the slaves around the old way."

"It was the helper of the forgotten promotions, and they jumped out in advance."Zhou Qingfeng took the arrow in his hand and ordered the old woman to be resettled, "How much military money did the slave have?"

“It’s hard for us to get close to Shenyang.But from the words of the old woman, the number is certainly not small.”Wang Kunpeng said, "We had already emptied the arsenals of Shenyang, the craftsmen were all moved, and the slaves occupied more slaves in Shenyang."But now someone is giving them knives, guns and arrows and armour.”

With the armour, the slaves can be expanded.Nurkhach had tens of thousands of troops in his hand, but they lacked iron tools, and when they were poor, they could only use arrows with bones.Now he not only got a large number of Liaodong Ming Army's ordnance, but also continued to provide them with supplies.

Wang Kunpeng continued: "The subordinates intercepted the Liaodong governor Li Weihan sent to Ming Ting, saying that the slaves occupied the Ming army of Fushun and Shenyang, and only more than 9,000 horses were obtained, and there were countless various formalities.Although most of the armaments is decaying, the construction of slaves will inevitably be repaired.They do not care about human life at all, and what they gain is bound to be great.”

“What about food?Is there enough food for slaves?”Zhou Qingfeng asked.

“Not enough.”Wang Kunpeng said with certainty, "Our people secretly approached Shenyang, and they died a large number of people before winter."But the dead were the Han Chinese who had been taken as slaves by them, or the Han people who had been robbed of food.The real woman herself has taken a lot of money to eat, much better than the days in the ravines of the past.”

The war has destroyed agricultural production, refugees have fled in large numbers, and many places in Liaodong have not even been able to harvest last year's autumn grain.Even the “Revolutionary Army” is an organization that tries its best to protect the population at the bottom.The kind of su slaves and Mingting that do not care about the death and life of the people, hunger is a large number of corpses.

According to historical records, during the more than ten years of raging in Liaodong, the population of Liaodong has dropped sharply.The people of the East in the future are actually moving from other places.The original Liaodong natives were almost dead.And this history is constantly playing out around the peak of Zhou Qingfeng.

In 1616, the Liaodong grain production was greatly reduced, and Mingtin no longer shipped grain to the occupied areas, and it is conceivable that Nurkhach would not be satisfied.The management of the slave society is extremely rude and simple, the real women do not produce, and when the plundered food population is exhausted, they will start the war again if they have tasted the sweetness.

"When the weather picks up in February and March, the buildingnu will inevitably attack Liaoyang."The morale of the Ming Army is now extremely low, and Liaoyang cannot hold at all.When Liaoyang falls, Haizhou is their next target.”Zhou Qingfeng closed his eyes slightly, and the entire Liaodong map appeared in his mind, "How is the Ming Army?"

"Yang Hao sitting in the town mountain customs has not been moving, but Du Song went out to Jinzhou before, Liu Tao to Guangning."Li Weihan, the governor of Liaodong, was trapped in Liaoyang and had been begging for withdrawal.The court could not die, but he did not give him supplies.Recently, the fellow sent a lot of people to contact us with the "Revolutionary Army", and it seems that he intends to come to us."

Zhou Qingfeng nodded his head.Li Weihan was trapped in Liaoyang, although it was cold and cold, but it was as if it was roasted on the fire, which was extremely uncomfortable.In October last year, the guy sent someone to contact him, but did not say that he would surrender, but instead recruited the "revolutionary army".He didn’t bother to pay attention to such a fool and simply ignored him.Until now, to the point of dying and living, Levi-han also ignored his face and directly demanded to surrender.

Surrendered?

Liaoyang city can run all the run, leaving tens of thousands of old and weak and reluctant to leave the family.The former cannot run, the latter regards the "revolutionary army" as an enemy.But if Liaoyang is given to Nurhachi, it is too cheap for each other.

According to the plan of the "Revolutionary Army", locking up Gaizhou is the bottom limit of resisting the invasion of slavery.Gaizhou, the western gate in and out of the Liaodong Peninsula, must not be lost, and Pingchuan, the first horse after the loss, could not stop the enemy's superior forces.Therefore, Zhou Qingfeng planned Haizhou on the northern side of Gaizhou as the forefront and strategic buffer of the struggle against the enemy, and could not support it before retreating to Gaizhou.

What if the strategic buffer continues to extend to Liaoyang, more than 50 kilometers away?

"Xin Peng, you sent someone to run a trip to Liaoyang, and asked Li Weihan if he would like to fight a defeat?"If he is willing to fight, I will allow him to evacuate Liaoyang with a little broken soldier and personal goods.If he does not want to, wait until he dies.”

Wang Kunpeng immediately understood the meaning of Zhou Qingfeng, "The subordinates understand, this will send someone to do it."

The dog pulled the sled and rattled left Haizhou City, and Zhou Qingfeng informed Xu Bing and others behind his thoughts.That night, Li Weihan, who was trapped in Liaoyang, got the news from Zhou Qingfeng.Because there is a real woman in the north and a young handsome man in the south, he is like a mouse in a wind box in Liaoyang, and he is angry on both sides.

In the second half of last year, Nurhachi continued to send people to let Levihan surrender.The Liaodong governor gritted his teeth without consent.But now it is late in the winter, and the whole city is in a desperate situation.Every day a large number of frozen bodies were thrown from the walls into the moat, and he had to think about his way back.

Whether it is abject or an anti-throw, Li Weihan actually does not want to.He still had great illusions about Daming, but Mingting did not let him go.When Zhou Qingfeng came to the idea of defeating the retreat, the Liaodong governor finally brightened his eyes - defeated the war and retreated, the court could not blame me?It is better to lose the official or the dismissal than to die.

This was a real hit, and Li Weihan immediately sent a cronies to Haizhou to discuss the matter.Zhou Qingfeng allowed him to take away the troops, and the official squire could leave.However, goods must be restricted and inspected, and the city must not be deliberately destroyed.It is necessary to leave enough benefits to the "Revolutionary Army", otherwise it is really to attack the city.

Li Weihan has been in Liaoyang for half a year, and there is no card in his hand.He happily agreed to Zhou Qingfeng's request and summoned the Ming Army and the official squire who had been trapped in Liaoyang to discuss.He said bluntly to the crowd: "The 'Revolutionary Army' is about to attack the city, the official is determined to break through, are you willing to go with the officer?"

The gentry in the city had already received the news, and everyone had already recognized the situation.The slave chief in the north is barbaric, the young man in the south is fierce, and no one wants to stay and die, or will withdraw.Although some people insist on taking all the property away, Li Weihan is a fool who does not want money and life.

By mid-January, Zhou Qingfeng sent a battalion of high cattle from the Guard to attack Liaoyang and control the evacuation of Li Weihan after controlling the city gate.The Guard has completed the expansion of the second phase of 5,000 people, a battalion of more than 1,000 people can be described as strong soldiers, sharp armour, and the evacuation of the Ming Army beggars have a world of difference.

When Li Weihan was driving out of the city, he saw a team of disciplined and well-trained soldiers, and he could not help but sigh: "Ffall, fallacy, this world will change hands."