Ancestors, please don't crawl out again.

Chapter 36: Tongtian Pattern Transforms into a Human Stick
When Emperor Taizu Gao returned to Shimen after completing his battlefield inspection, the envoys sent by the Qing Dynasty to seek peace were already waiting there.

"Asking for peace, what qualifications do you have to ask for peace?"

Emperor Taizu Gao seemed like a god, high in the sky, looking down at his feet.

"Your Majesty, if Your Majesty opens the way and allows us to return to Jiangbei, the King of England will swear to heaven that he will withdraw his army north of the Yellow River and return all the lands occupied by Jiangbei to the Ming Dynasty. He will also return the daughter of Emperor Chongzhen and all his royal family members. From now on, the Yellow River will be the boundary between the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty."

The messenger Tan Tai said tremblingly while lying on the ground.

This time it was not a surrendered official, but a genuine Eight Banners Manchu, and he even had a sky-high pattern.

"What about north of the Yellow River?"

Yang Feng said.

"Your Majesty, the land north of the Yellow River was not seized by the Ming. It was obtained by the Qing at the request of the people, who entered the pass to rescue it from Li Zicheng."

Tan Tai said cautiously.

The next moment, Emperor Taizu Gao descended from the sky and stepped on his back.

He fell to the ground in an instant like a toad stepped on by an elephant, and his limbs suddenly stretched out, even making a dull sound of air flow.

"How dare you bargain in front of me?"

Yang Feng said.

"Your Majesty, if you refuse to let us go, then the tens of thousands of your descendants in our hands will all pay for our lives."

Tan Tai said weakly.

"Hahahaha, this kind of unfilial descendant must die even if he falls into my hands. As a member of the royal family, you should be a shield for the country. You can die on the battlefield, you can commit suicide to show your will, but you cannot surrender. Surrender is a capital crime. You just want to see if you can use them to threaten me, to see if you can negotiate with me and keep the land you have seized. Then I can tell you clearly that in the past you were Jiannu and had a chance of survival, but now you are Qing monsters and have no right to live on the land of the Ming Dynasty. I will kill you all.

It makes no difference whether you surrender the land you occupy or not.

You are not qualified to occupy an inch of Ming Dynasty land, let alone the land north of the Yellow River. Even Liaodong belongs to the Ming Dynasty, and even the land outside the border wall belongs to the Ming Dynasty.

In the past, the Ming Dynasty took pity on you and allowed you to live on Ming Dynasty land. If you were loyal to the Ming Dynasty, you could live on Ming Dynasty land forever. But now you have betrayed the Ming Dynasty, and you are no longer qualified to live on Ming Dynasty land. You deserve to die if you set foot on Ming Dynasty land.

understand?
Cut him into a human stick, put it in a jar, and send it to Wuchang to hand it over to the Qing demons there. Let them tell Dorgon to wait, because his younger brother has been cooked by me, and I will cook his older brother next, and it will be his turn soon.

As for the descendants of the Zhu family in his hands, kill them all at will, and it would be best if you kill them all."

Yang Feng said.

Two soldiers then stepped forward, dragging the severely injured Tan Tai to the side, then lifted a guillotine and shoved one of his arms into it...

"Don't forget your nose and ears."

Emperor Taizu Gao personally guided their work.

"Grandfather, I feel something is amiss. If they truly wanted to escape, they could have deceived you. Although you would surely see everything, these fools have no idea that you are omniscient. Now they even dare to covet the land north of the Yellow River. This doesn't seem like they are truly seeking to escape."

Prince Huai said cautiously.

"You really can't guess what they want to do?"

Yang Feng said.

Prince Huai was so frightened that he immediately knelt down and kowtowed.

"Grandpa, I only have a vague guess, but I dare not conclude."

He said.

"explain."

Yang Feng said.

This guy was obviously too happy and a little carried away.

"I suspect they know they have no way to escape. Our Great Ancestor is a divinely powerful being, and he sees everything clearly. Even if they try to deceive our Great Ancestor, it will be useless. Therefore, they are using this to sow discord between us and the imperial clan. There are now rumors circulating everywhere, saying that our Great Ancestor is not real. If our Great Ancestor ignores tens of thousands of imperial clan members, these rumors will only multiply. Even the ignorant masses will be misled by them. It's inevitable that some will use this to resist our Great Ancestor, causing civil unrest in the Ming Dynasty and giving the Qing demons a chance to breathe.

After all, if Ajige's troops were completely wiped out, the Qing army would be almost cut in half, and Emperor Taizu would take advantage of the victory and advance, and the Qing army would be completely unable to resist.

The capital will be recovered soon.

But if the Ming Dynasty falls into civil unrest, the Qing demons will have a chance to catch their breath."

Prince Huai quickly spoke out his true feelings.

"So, do you think we should take care of these royal family members?"

Yang Feng said.

Prince Huai...

This is a gift!

Talk about management?

Then you are obviously accusing Emperor Taizu of not caring about the life and death of the royal family, and even vaguely doubting the authenticity of Emperor Taizu.

Don’t care?
Are you so eager to kill someone with someone else's knife to eliminate dissidents so that you can become emperor?

He was sweating coldly there.

"Hahahaha!"

Yang Feng couldn't help but laugh.

Prince Huai knelt there, smiling awkwardly. Tan Tai, standing beside him, had quickly turned into a stick and was placed in a jar. He had to be bandaged to ensure he could reach Wuchang alive.

A number of Qing troops remained in Wuchang, commanded by the First Baturu himself. Oboi, with 5,000 Qing troops, remained in Wuchang. He was quite busy during this period, as Ma Jinzhong, Wang Yuncheng, and others had already joined forces with He Tengjiao and were attempting a counterattack on Wuchang. Meanwhile, Wang Guangtai in Xiangyang had also rebelled. Ultimately, news of the Qing's disastrous defeat in Nanjing had already spread far and wide. Regardless of the true power of Nanjing, the local forces throughout Huguang were determined to retake Wuchang.

They knew very well that the Qing Dynasty's campaign to the south had been a complete failure, and whether Ajige could escape back to Wuchang or not would not change this.

If he escaped back, he would have to give up Wuchang.

Before giving up, they would definitely massacre people along the way to plunder as much wealth as possible, so even in order to protect their own wealth, the gentry in various places had to arm themselves.

Of course, they no longer need to worry about that now.

"Send the order, counterattack!"

Emperor Taizu Gao said.

front.

"Grandpa Taizu's decree, counterattack!"

"go ahead!"

……

Countless shouts rang out.

Although everyone is a little confused about this order...

It was indeed very confusing. After all, the young and strong men had only been holding on because they were on the defensive.

They relied on dense chevaux de frise, wooden stakes, breastworks, those heavy bamboo poles, etc., to withstand the attacks of the Qing army and even the Bayara bannermen. But it would be an exaggeration to say that they had the ability to counterattack. They didn't even know how to counterattack. But now, looking at the golden figure in the sky, they still moved forward as if by instinct, walked out of the gaps in the breastworks, entered the passages opened by the Qing army, and stepped on the corpses left by the Qing army to walk out of their advantageous area.

There is no difference in their tactics and defense.

Countless bamboo poles...

Of course, there is no breastwork to serve as a support point now.

But this is not a problem. They can just lift up some barricades, and they have enough people, even more than enough.

Having more people carrying the barricades in front won’t affect anything at all.

Similarly, the weight of dozens of kilograms of bamboo is not a problem, because no one uses it alone, and two or even three people work together.

So, countless bamboos were held high in the hands of the densely packed young and strong, just as they had done in the previous defense. Because they might be damaged, there were even auxiliary personnel holding them as spares in the back. They were also replacements. Joining the battle would earn them one hundred taels of silver, and now the young and strong were rushing forward like crazy. After all, that was one hundred taels, even for a peasant family, many years' income, not enough to buy their lives. But with Taizu above them, as long as they were not killed directly in battle, they would not die.

The chance of death is small.

The returns are extremely high.

Now you still need to fight to get to the front line.

And among these bamboos, there are countless people providing close combat cover, and even throwers responsible for long-range attacks follow.

Even the trebuchets followed.

A small combined gun is nothing more than a wooden frame, and four people are enough to carry it. If four people are not enough, eight people can be used.

Even the barricades and wooden stakes that had previously made the Qing army helpless became a trivial matter. If the wooden stakes blocked the road, they could just be dug out, and there was no shortage of people to dig holes.

Just take down the barricades.

This huge formation moved slowly but never stopped.

It's like a huge, slow steamroller, rolling forward bit by bit.

The Qing troops on the opposite side were stunned. They never expected that these unruly people would actually attack.

Of course, this is what they liked. Immediately afterwards, a large number of Qing cavalry mounted their horses. After the young and strong men finally ran over the chevaux de frise, they began the attack without hesitation.

The Qing troops rushed to the front of the formation, drawing their bows from horseback, and unleashed heavy arrows at the young men. Under their precise shooting, the young men were repeatedly struck and felled, but replacements immediately rushed forward to replace the fallen men. The young men who were shot were carried aside and quickly arranged in a group. Then, Emperor Taizu Gao cast a spell and were revived to full health. They pressed forward like vigorous dragons, waiting to rejoin the battle. The men in front ignored the arrows fired by the Qing army and marched forward in formation.

They didn't even consider protection.

You can shoot as much as you want.

We can be resurrected anyway.

In fact, the Qing army's hit rate was not high.

They did not have any armor protection, but there was a dense patch of bamboo in front of them, and those behind them also extended spare bamboo in front of them.

This thing is at least close to ten meters long, so of course it has to extend out in front.

This thing can block arrows. Even in these days there are bamboo armors. Even if you can shoot through it, the arrow shaft will be stuck. Most of the Qing army's arrows were stuck in it.

Although the Qing army was in ruins, they continued to shoot arrows at the young and strong men.

The two sides fought in such a strange way. One formation moved forward and continued to crush the enemy slowly. Although many young and strong men were hit by arrows, they didn't care at all because they had resurrection cards. Although the Qing army kept killing their opponents, they could not stop their advance, so they could only keep retreating.

Soon a problem arose that both sides had overlooked.

"Arrows, who has any arrows left?"

A Manchu warrior from the Eight Banners, whose quiver was empty, shouted anxiously.

Beside him, another Eight Banners Manchu warrior was also anxiously looking around, trying to find a companion with a spare arrow...

(End of this chapter)