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Chapter 424 The Intention of the Ming Army in Shanhaiguan (Third Change)

Noisy... The red-hot iron was imprinted on the young scholar's chest, making a scalp-numbing sound, and one could even smell the meat being roasted.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" The son of the old official screamed violently under the high temperature!
"Sanggong!" His wife cried out in despair.

"Don't you want to die? Do you think I will let you go so easily?" After Liu Zongmin took back the soldering iron, the young scholar's chest was bloody and bloody, and he barely let out a breath.

Liu Zongmin put the red-hot iron back into the coal stove, and then came to his wife in front of the young scholar.The lady was tied to a wooden frame, looked at Liu Zongmin approaching in horror, and said tremblingly, "You...what are you going to do..."

"Of course it is to let your husband-in-law die in endless pain." Liu Zongmin showed some terrible smiles, and then tore off the lady's clothes...

Similar scenes happened in every corner of the capital. The capital, which had not been looted by the peasant army, gradually lost order. Various tortures were used on officials of the Ming Dynasty and some aristocratic families.Even later, it gradually evolved into the fact that as long as they are rich, they will be patronized by Dashun soldiers!Not only was the family bankrupt, but even his wife and daughter were snatched away by Dashun soldiers!

Zhang Yuan, who was in charge of supervising this matter, also found that he had underestimated the destructive power of the peasant army.In the final analysis, this is still a group of unproductive robbers.

Unrest gradually appeared in the quiet capital, and the people were panicked. Zhang Yuan, who was in the prison, also received news from his soldiers about General Dashun's extensive use of torture.

"These guys can really make trouble." After Zhang Yuan found out, he had no choice but to act as if nothing had happened, and continue to interrogate the official in front of him who was identified as a corrupt official.

Originally, he only needed to hand over 3 taels of silver, but because he handed it in too fast, Zhang Yuan was keenly aware that this was a big fish, so he had already spit out 12 taels of silver under torture.

"I really don't have...no other property..." the bloody man with no part of his body intact said out of breath.

"It seems that he has tried his best, so stop interrogating him. Let's see how much the prisoners in other prisons can spit out." Zhang Yuan was quite satisfied with the harvest of 12 taels of property.

"Sir, don't you continue to interrogate him? This guy spends money like his life. We have only spit out 12 taels until now. If we continue the interrogation, maybe we can spit out 15 taels." A soldier interrogating said.

Zhang Yuan simply said: "If you continue to torture this guy, he will die."

Compared with the generals of the Dashun Army who bullied officials who couldn't pay enough silver and wealthy families, Zhang Yuan can be said to be quite dedicated, interrogating corrupt officials one by one, trying to squeeze them out.

The bloody horror that spread throughout the city has just begun.Firstly, the officials were raided and interrogated because they wanted to hand over their military funds, and then some generals of the Dashun Army also raided some well-known wealthy families in order to expand their achievements and fill their pockets!Later, it evolved into ordinary soldiers and began to openly rob civilian women, and the capital made a mess!The angry people in the capital couldn't bear the atrocities of the Dashun army, and started a small-scale frontal bloody conflict.

"You guys stay to serve the bed tonight." Li Zicheng sat in the harem and selected some good-looking court ladies and concubines from it.

Moving with a group of big men all the way from northern Shaanxi to the capital, he felt that he could finally rest for a few days, so he began to indulge his primitive desire.The maids and concubines who were left by him were rewarded as trophies to his capable subordinates.

Zhang Yuan ranked first in meritorious service, so Li Zicheng rewarded him with the most court ladies and concubines.However, Zhang Yuan politely rejected Li Zicheng's kindness and changed it to asking for silver taels.Li Zicheng didn't say much, and directly rewarded Zhang Yuan with 5 taels of silver.Compared with the tens of millions of taels of silver that Zhang Yuan collected, this amount of silver is simply nothing.

When the capital was in chaos and Li Zicheng was enjoying the rare victory, the general of the Dashun Army who went to Shanhaiguan with a letter from Li Zicheng to surrender came to Shanhaiguan.

Yuan Chonghuan, the supervisor of the Ningyuan defense line, has already shrunk the main force from the front line to the vicinity of Shanhaiguan.In the north of Shanhaiguan is the Liao army, and in the south is the Dashun army. This group may be the most elite group of Ming troops who have reached the point where they must make a choice.

"Master Supervisor, Li Zicheng sent envoys to surrender." General Zhao led his troops into Yuan Chonghuan's house and met Yuan Chonghuan.

There is another person in Yuan Chonghuan's mansion. This person has a bald head, but he wears the uniform of a Ming Dynasty officer and soldier, but Zhao Lediao doesn't recognize this person at all.Generally, there should be no one who can go in and out of Yuan Chonghuan's residence that Zhao Ratejiao doesn't recognize.

"This is Wei Long from the Intelligence Department of the Liao Army, and this is the commander-in-chief, Zhao Lediao." Yuan Chonghuan introduced the two to each other.

"It turns out that the people who returned to the Liao Army have also found you, Master Superintendent!" Zhao Lediao said in surprise.

"Really? It seems that your Liao army has infiltrated our Ningyuan defense line very powerfully in the past two years, and you can find our generals." Yuan Chonghuan looked at Wei Long with a half-smile.

"We were enemies in the past, so some things are reasonable and normal." Wei Long replied without leaving any openings, "It seems that the intruders have also come to you, and you can sit on the ground and raise the price."

Yuan Chonghuan and Zhao Liaojiao looked at each other, then turned to Wei Long and said, "No, I don't plan to sit on the ground and raise the price. Our tens of thousands of defenders in Shanhaiguan are willing to surrender to the Liao Army unconditionally and let the Liao Army deal with it."

"Is it so straightforward? Are you not afraid that our military lord will reduce you to civilians?" Wei Long asked in surprise.

"It's so refreshing. We believe that the Liaodong General Army can wipe out the intruders and let the Chinese people recuperate. Daming has been in chaos for decades, and the three major conquests of Wanli have exhausted the foundation of Daming. If no one can revive the country, I am afraid it will It is the great misfortune of our China." Yuan Chonghuan said.

Zhao Lijiao, who was next to him, also agreed: "Don't think that we don't know what is going on outside the pass because we are guarding the Shanhai Pass. The prosperity and strength outside the pass are obvious to all. It's just that the news we reported to the court has never been understood by the court officials. They can't even imagine what trains and electric lights are. How can we explain them? So we can only watch you grow stronger and helpless. And we have reasons to believe that your Liao army is actually many times stronger than the robbers. "

"Then how do you plan to send the envoy sent by Li Zicheng?" Wei Long asked again.He wanted to see the sincerity of Yuan Chonghuan and Zhao Ratejiao in this matter.

"We will let him crawl out of Shanhaiguan." Yuan Chonghuan said suddenly, "I wonder if your army is satisfied?"

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