Cao Zhenyan was playing the rotation from the second half of the night to before midday. It took more than two hours to calculate the time, which was quite hard.

But he had no choice but to complain that he was Baoyi, and even the fourteenth prince's position was quite low.

As the person around the Fourteenth Prince, he was sent over with a few Niulu from the Yellow Banner and a large number of Han people. This place he was extremely familiar with and imprinted in the depths of his soul and dared not forget for a day.

On the left side of the body is the official road leading to Guangning. The old avenue has been completely abandoned and covered with weeds. The road surface has become even more bumpy after being damaged for a long time. At the eastern end of the official road, Guangning City has been almost demolished. Some Jurchens live outside the abandoned city, with corpses and abandoned houses everywhere inside, and no one wants to live in it.

The Jurchens placed an encirclement for more than ten miles on both sides of the official road. With the rugged mountains, the two holes in the east and west were tied up. People traveling to western Liaoning and Kuandian on the mountain all walked out of the gaps in the encirclement... This is conceivable. Thousands of people were placed in a place of more than ten miles, and although they were all cavalrymen, it was impossible to tie the surrounding pockets tightly.

The main reason was that Sahalian lost a lot of white armor after he returned. After Sahalian returned, he was severely punished by Lao Khan. After that, no senior executive tried to conquer the Thirteen Mountains with a strong attack.

It was impossible to fight, and the Thirteen Mountains were also pure infantry, which poses little threat to the food route. If it were not for maintaining the stability of the food route and cutting off the hope of the Ming army to recover Guangning, there would probably be too many troops on the Thirteen Mountains.

Historically, the Later Jin Dynasty did have garrisoned troops in Guangning, but it took a short time and withdrew in about half a year. Of course, it was also the evacuation after the city was destroyed.

It was in this context that Cao Zhenyan rushed to Shisanshan with several Niulu and a large number of coats during the rotation. The Eight Banners of the Later Jin Dynasty were a whole of interests, and there were small groups under the large group, including major Beile and small Beile, banner owners Beile and Niuluezhen. Of course, it was impossible for a flag to bear the responsibility independently, but the Eight Banners rotation.

Even if the 14th Prince's Niu Lu is directly under the Khan, it is said that it is for the little prince, the 14th Prince does not have the ability to manage independently. This time, the 14th Prince sent people around the 14th Prince to come over, which is also a chance to train these people. In the future, the little prince will gradually grow, and these people will become powerful arm helps around Dorgon, helping the little prince quickly enter the situation and truly control the fifteen Niu Lu.

It was dim and snow was still falling in the sky. Cao Zhenyan felt cold and hard when he crawled out of his shack.

The Later Jin soldiers lived in very few well-preserved houses, and on one side were all low-level officers among the Jurchens. Ordinary flag guards, Mongolians and Han people all lived in the wild ground nests.

Dig down in the wilderness, dig out a space where one person can barely lie flat, then use weeds to weave straw mats and cover them with compaction, and then woven straw mats to block the holes. This is the best environment for Jurchens when living in the wild.

Of course, the grass nest is covered with hay. It is not very cold to live in this way, but of course the premise is that there is no wind or snow.

Yesterday night, the north wind was howling, and ice and snow covered the earth. The surface temperature suddenly dropped below minus 20 degrees Celsius. This is a very common situation in Liaodong, and it only hurts these people who are sticking to the wild.

When Cao Zhenyan came out, a lot of coats also came out of the straw shed.

On such a cold morning, those who come out to take turns at the early morning are the lowest-ranking people, including Cao Zhenyan.

No matter how powerful it is in the Han group under the name of the masters of each banner, Cao Zhenyan already has the identity of Zhang Jing again.

He was originally from a general. He helped Shi Tingzhu cast cannons together two years ago and made contributions.

In addition to the slave that the 14th Prince appreciates, it is nothing great to give Zhang Jing.

Except for a group of more lowly Han people who had to rely on Cao Zhenyan, those Jurchens didn't look at him directly, but were just concerned about the Fourteenth Prince, so no one deliberately made things difficult for him.

Ordinary Han people would be killed if they were not careful. When a man came to please him with Cao Zhenyan's mail, more mans had already come over to hunch and prepared to go on a tour with Cao Zhenyan.

This is a group of poor people whose backbone has been broken. Cao Zhenyan has sympathy for them, but he also has disgust.

Whenever he saw this group of slaves who were used to being servile and had no bottom line, Cao Zhenyan would think of Li Mingli, who was far away from the mouth of the pine tree.

Although he had never been captured, nor had he been re-brainwashed and trained by the people on Mount Thirteen, Li Mingli also burst into a strong sense of resistance.

Even without Cao Zhenyan's help and support, Li Mingli would definitely choose to escape or secretly cooperate with Dongjiang or Hutchison. This is the last choice that a person's unyielding soul will definitely make, and there is no other possibility.

Similarly, under heavy pressure, some choose to escape, some resist, not afraid of death, and some accept it, hoping to survive.

Some people take the initiative to surrender, hoping to survive this cruel storm and be able to live better than before.

Without time to pay attention to these servants in front of him, Cao Zhenyan had his own inspection mission to complete. Even if he was Zhang Jing in the subordinate, even if he was the servant of the 14th Prince, as long as he dared to ignore military discipline, Zhang Jing, a Jurchen, would dare to kill him, and would not be liquidated afterwards.

More than a dozen people pulled out their horses from the covered straw hut, and more than thirty people had no horses, so they could only walk in shabby archers.

The horses were well taken care of. Most of the coattailers had no horses, only a small number of Han flagmen who had official positions or had flags to carry war horses, and most of them were inferior horses of low character. Even so, having a horse and not having a horse are important symbols of different identities.

At this time, Mongolia was far from being completely conquered by the Jurchens, and Huang Taiji did not go deep into the grassland to attack Lin Danhan. The entire Inner Mongolia and Outer Mongolia did not surrender to the Jurchens' conquest. The lack of war horses was still quite large. Even the flag managers had no horses when they were on the battlefield, so they could only follow the army on foot. Fortunately, the speed of people was not much slower than the speed of horses during long-distance marching, and it was impossible for war horses to keep moving forward at high speed. They would lose weight in a few days and lead to death. In the case of long-distance marching, humans' tolerance is much stronger than horses.

Nearly fifty Han people were mostly wearing archers, with quivering sounds behind them or on the side of the horse's belly, and light and heavy arrows were placed inside.

Over the years, most of the Han people who were qualified to be selected into the Qigujiao territory were former Han soldiers. They were originally from Liaodong soldiers and mostly military families. In the natural environment of Liaodong, most of them were good at archery. In the Jurchens, they also strengthened their original abilities. After a few years, the Han people who survived and were selected into the Qigujiao territory were actually not at least under the Jurchen flag, and they were even comparable to the armored warriors.

On such a miserable and cold morning, more than ten people rode their horses through the valleys and woodlands on both sides of the official road. More than thirty people scattered into long linear arrays, and then did a more careful search.

If Mingjun leaked in on their prescribed route, the camp behind him would be attacked, and all the dozens of people would be executed. So even if it was snow fall overnight, it would be quite difficult to ride horses or walk. Everyone, including Cao Zhenyan, dared not relax at all. Everyone did not speak silently, quietly staring at the land covered with snow and the roads exposed to the remains, as well as the collapsed buildings and dilapidated courtyard walls.

The tips of the dead grass appeared under the shallow snow, and soon the horse's hooves stepped on again, trampling the dead grass and snow into a solid ball.

After traveling five or six miles north and south, Cao Zhenyan raised his palm and signaled the team to pause.

This place is closer to Guangning’s abandoned city. The city foundation is only one person left, and it is clearly located in front of everyone. There are many houses that have not collapsed in the core area of ​​the city foundation. It is hard to believe that it was still the center of a very prosperous city more than two years ago.

The Drum Tower is quite tall, and the wooden building is of course completely gone, and the cornerstone below is quite conspicuous.

When Cao Zhenyan was a teenager, he went to Guangning to do business with his father. He knew that to the west of Gulou was Yaqian Street, Liaodong General Mansion, and the eunuchs' mansion. The mansions of many civil servants and generals were lined up in Yaqian Street. Then to the south were the Academy, Confucius Temple, Gaohuang God Temple, Guansheng Temple, and the core area of ​​Guangning was just before the fallen building.

Cao Zhenyan had seen it many times and knew that there were still Jurchens living in the villages and buildings outside the city foundation, but he just couldn't help but take a look at it.

The cold wind blew on my face, and everyone couldn't help but shrink their necks, making them warm as much as possible.

Everyone's face and hands are covered with thick badger oil on their exposed skin. Thick oil can effectively resist the invasion of the cold wind. Without the protection of oil, the skin exposed in such wilderness and in such ice and snow is likely to be frostbitten by the severe cold.

Several wild dogs appeared near the broken city base.

The Jurchens did not eat dogs or killed dogs. Of course, these dogs were domestic dogs raised by Han people in Guangning City. After their owners were killed, they should have survived by eating dead people. Now they probably rely on hunting wild animals for a living.

These dogs have become wild, their eyes glowing green. After confronting these humans for a moment, they slowly retreated under the leadership of a leading big dog.

Cao Zhenyan looked indifferent. He was already used to everything in front of him.
Chapter completed!