Ancestors, please don't crawl out again.

Chapter 42 Why? Can’t Ling Chi be repeated many times?

"Emperor Taizu Gao, Ajige is right here!"

Hong Chengchou waved his burning coat and ran desperately through the mountains and forests, like a young man chasing his dream...

Of course we have to sell Ajige!

With his intelligence, he knew that Ajige would definitely kill him.

Fu Lehe's performance just now has clearly proved that he is now the most hated person by tens of thousands of Eight Banners warriors in this forest.

It was he who persuaded Ajige to take this path, and it was he who caused almost one-third of the males of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty to be trapped and died here...

As for the fact that if they don't take this path, it will be a dead end, they will definitely not consider such a thing.

They were in despair and had to find a target to vent their anger. Although the real culprit who led to their situation was the demon in the sky, the demon was invincible. They could only be afraid and had no ability to retaliate. The only one left was Ajige, but Ajige was the master after all, so only he, the dog slave, had to bear everything.

He is a dog slave.

Because at that time he was still a bondservant of the Bordered Yellow Banner.

He understands.

As an elite who has fought his way through the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, what is there that he doesn't understand?

It is standard practice for the master to vent his anger on the servants when he fails. Now he needs him to lead the way to escape, so of course he has to coax him. Once he is useless, Ajige will be the first to chop off his head.

Since Ajige was going to chop off his head sooner or later, he might as well take the initiative and sell Ajige.

What if it can be sold at a good price?
Emperor Taizu Gao was cruel, but he wasn't unreasonable, right?
then……

"Emperor Taizu Gao, Ajige is right here!"

He looked at Emperor Taizu Gao swooping down, and pointed at the cave and shouted excitedly.

At the same time, Fu Lehe was the first to rush out.

"I'll kill you, you little dog!"

He roared angrily.

"Emperor Gaozu!"

Hong Chengchou looked at the sky anxiously.

The golden figure had stopped and was hanging in the sky not too high, looking at them with interest.

"Emperor Taizu, I, the former Minister of War and Governor of Ji and Liao, Hong Chengchou, was captured at Songshan. I have always yearned for the Ming Dynasty. Today, I have the great honor of meeting you, Emperor Taizu..."

Hong Chengchou knelt on the ground and shouted anxiously.

At the same time, Fu Lehe slashed at him with his sword, but Hong Chengchou was not powerless. He rolled on the ground to avoid the blow and grabbed a handful of dirt and threw it at him. Fu Lehe was caught off guard and was hit in the face. He instinctively covered his eyes. Hong Chengchou was also a ruthless person and suddenly jumped up and rushed forward. Fu Lehe was not his father. In fact, he did not have much battlefield experience. Most of the three generations of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty were seriously weakened. Otherwise, when they became the backbone of the army, they would not have been beaten by Old Wu. He was unexpectedly knocked to the ground by Hong Chengchou.

Fortunately, his father also rushed out with others at this time. The knife in Ajige's hand flew out immediately, but at the moment it hit Hong Chengchou, it fell strangely.

Before Ajige could wake up from his confusion, Hong Chengchou had already grabbed the knife and chopped him down.

The knife hit Fulehe's face. The latter was rubbing his eyes with his hands because he was blinded, and the knife cut his hands and face together.

He screamed and instinctively stabbed out with the knife in his hand.

The knife stabbed Hong Chengchou's leg.

The latter also screamed, but he was also a ruthless man. He endured the severe pain and raised the knife to chop Fulehe's face again.

This time the chop was more severe, the knife got stuck in the bone, and blood oozed out.

Of course, at the same time, the Qing army generals behind him also arrived. The swords of two Qing army generals chopped him on the back almost at the same time. Hong Chengchou screamed and fell to the side. Then Ajige also arrived. He drew his short sword and stabbed Hong Chengchou suddenly, but the latter still avoided the fatal blow while rolling. Then another Qing army general arrived, and his sword also fell. Hong Chengchou rolled on the ground, being chopped by the sword again and again...

"Taizu, save me!"

He said, stretching out his hand weakly.

"I didn't see any former Ming Dynasty Minister of War or Governor of Ji and Liao. I only saw a bunch of Qing demons killing each other."

Emperor Taizu Gao, who was eating melons, said calmly.

Ajige and others seemed not to see the demon above their heads. They were just chopping Hong Chengchou very seriously, as if Hong Chengchou was extremely evil. However, for some reason, their swords did not hit the fatal spots.

So Hong Chengchou was still able to roll over, scream, and stretch his hands towards the sky with anticipation.

"Grandpa, I have already turned the tables, I have already turned the tables..."

He begged weakly.

"A traitor is a traitor, so if you betray once and then betray again, it will cancel it out? Then next time, can you betray the Ming Dynasty again, and then shout to the Qing demons that you are rebelling? By jumping back and forth like this, you can make yourself a loyal and righteous person? But unfortunately, we are usually used to calling such people "traitors of three surnames."

Emperor Taizu Gao said.

Of course, Hong Chengchou was no longer able to answer at this time.

As Ajige and others hacked at him with their swords, he could only groan weakly and twitch.

At this moment, a large number of young and strong men and soldiers had surrounded here. They came here because they saw that Emperor Taizu Gao was hanging here. Now they were watching Ajige and others cutting Hong Chengchou into pieces with a knife. No one stepped forward to intervene. Just as Emperor Taizu Gao said, everyone didn't see any former Minister of War and Governor of Ji and Liao who had rebelled, but only saw a group of Qing demons killing each other.

Betrayal is betrayal. If you can come back and continue to enjoy wealth and glory after betrayal, how can you be worthy of those who would rather die than surrender? When those who would rather die than surrender disappear into the dust because of death, and those who betrayed finally enjoy wealth and glory for generations through repeated betrayals, everyone will become a betrayer.

Heroes are already precious. If heroes have to die with grievances, then no one will be a hero anymore.

Ajige and others chopped Hong Chengchou to pieces until he was almost unrecognizable, and then they silently threw away the knives in their hands.

"It has come to this, it's nothing more than a slow slicing."

Ajige said ferociously.

"One?"

Yang Feng smiled.

"One game isn't enough, we have to have at least eight or ten games."

He went on to say.

Ajige looked at him blankly, probably finding it difficult to understand this sentence. After all, the most he had done was lingchi.

how?

Could lingchi be repeated several times?

Of course, the young and strong men around him were not interested in his thoughts. They immediately swarmed up and pinned Ajige and others down and tied them up.

"Grandpa, this guy is dead!"

A young man pointed at Fulehe and said.

The latter died due to excessive blood loss, after all, his father did not save him.

Yang Feng landed immediately afterwards, poked Fu Lehe with his Fang Tian Hua Ji and sucked him in, then threw the intact Fu Lehe out.

Before the latter could react, the young men rushed forward. One of them was smart and had a blacksmith's hammer in his hand. He hit Fu Lehe on the leg with the hammer. Fu Lehe screamed in pain and was held down and tied up by the other young men.

Yang Feng walked up to the dumbfounded Ajige and waved his Fang Tian Hua Ji with a smile...

"Why, do you think that lingchi can't be repeated many times?"

He said.

Ajige's capture did not end this war, which was arguably unprecedented in scale.

The scale of the battle was truly unprecedented. On the southern front alone, those mobilized or driven by Yang Feng to join the battle included those driven north from Poyang, reinforcements from Nanchang, and even those who had heard the news and joined voluntarily from nearby areas. After all, a Qing soldier's head commanded a hundred taels of silver, and many were tempted. By the third day, nearly the entire city of Fuliang had volunteered to join the battle. Adding in the presence of several counties east of Poyang Lake, the total number of men actually participating in the battle on the southern front exceeded 600,000.

Because the Shimen River Valley passage was not able to accommodate them, those who later participated in the battle actually had to take routes through the mountains and forests, including several nearby paths that the Qing army was not aware of.

The number of Ming troops marching south on the northern front was 300,000, and together with the young and strong men who followed them from all over the place along the way, the total number actually exceeded 500,000.

One million and one hundred thousand.

This is not the kind of war where there are only tens of thousands of people participating but only a few hundred thousand.

These were the 1.1 million troops who were actually deployed to the battlefield, although not that many actually engaged in combat with the Qing army.

But this scale is unprecedented, a battle of the largest scale ever seen.

The Qing troops trapped in the encirclement actually numbered less than 60,000, and the battle actually lasted for two months. After the Qing troops were dispersed, the young and strong men who had arrived from all over the country, eager for the 100 taels of silver per head, continued to search the mountains and forests. However, it was not just for the silver. After all, these Qing troops were very likely to turn into small bands of bandits, posing a serious threat to public security in various places. It was impossible for the regions to maintain this state for long, and maintaining militarization cost money.

While Emperor Taizu Gao is paying, young and strong men from all over the country are gathering together to quickly clean up the situation as much as possible to ensure that they will not have to face the bandits alone in the future.

However, some people have learned to kill innocent people and take credit for their achievements in the later period...

The tail of the money rat is not distinguishable enough.

Because you can cut it down first and then process it, or you can bundle it up first and process it before cutting it.

One hundred taels is enough for many people to have this kind of cleverness.

So they had to add another set of armor, a human head plus armor, and the armor couldn't be new, so it was not impossible to make a set quickly with one hundred taels.

In short, Yang Feng finally harvested 54,000 heads.

Five million four hundred thousand taels.

As for those who participated in the war, there was one million taels, which was also fulfilled.

However, the identification standards are quite strict. It is easy to do during the initial battle, but it is very difficult to clear and identify them in the later stages.

and so……

On the third day after capturing Ajige, that is, after the large-scale battle ended, Emperor Taizu Gao quickly announced the victory of the Battle of Shimen.

From now on, all they can do is exchange their heads for silver.

But even so, he still paid more than five million taels of silver for this, plus ten taels of silver for each person who was present. In the end, Emperor Taizu Gao paid a total of more than 20 million taels of silver for this war.

This silver...

He paid the money without any pressure.

After all, he had confiscated no less than twice the amount from the nobles in Nanjing alone, and he also made three million in Nanchang, plus the Prince of Huai and the Prince of Yi who was later forced to contribute to the military expenses also contributed a lot.

(End of this chapter)