If you ask Zhu Cixiang what he wants to see most now, it must be the success of Gao Jie's Northern Expedition.
Gao Jie also lived up to his father's trust and submitted the written good news to the emperor before the Chinese New Year.
In addition, Gao Jie also gave Zhu Cihong a great gift, which was to capture Zukefa.
This guy himself did not have a high status among the ministers who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, but because he was the adopted son of Zu Dashou, he was still made a pseudo-general soldier of the Green Camp by the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
It's a bit exaggerated to hold a prisoner dedication ceremony just for Zukefa, and Zhu Cixiang didn't think it was necessary to mobilize so many troops.
He directly issued an order to the Ministry of Punishment, ordering him to escort the prisoner to the West City for execution as soon as the body inspection was completed.
The method is naturally Lingchi.
For a traitor like Zuk Kefa, it was too easy to kill him with one knife.
Even if he was cut into pieces with a thousand swords, it would not be able to relieve the hatred in Zhu Cixang's heart.
The weather in Nanjing is warmer than in the north, but because it is in the Little Ice Age, the streets of Nanjing are still chilly in winter.
Xishikou was already crowded with people, and people from all over the city were looking forward to this great show.
Beheading was Huang Ming's official way of executing prisoners, and they were all used to it.
But Ling Chi can't always see it.
The most profound thing that impressed the people of Nanjing was that Qian Qianyi, the leader of the Donglin Party who wanted to commit rebellion, was tortured and had to be cut with more than 3,000 knives before he died.
Nearly half a year passed, and they finally waited for another execution in Lingchi.
It was normal to be a little excited.
Soon, the prison car escorting Zukofa slowly moved toward the execution ground.
The people threw rotten vegetable leaves at Zukefa.
Zukofa, who was gagged, could only make a whining sound.
When the prison car stopped, two soldiers came forward and roughly pulled Zukfa out, pushed him to the execution platform, and tied him up.
The next step is to hand it over to the executioner.
At this moment, Zukofa had given up resistance and allowed himself to be manipulated by the executioner.
The executioner first tore off the thin red uniform on Zukefa's body, and then took off the wooden piece tied to Zukefa's mouth.
For such a big traitor to be executed, it would be too easy for him to silence him.
He should have let out a miserable cry and acted like a fool at the last moment of his life.
The cold wind blew against Zukfa's naked body, causing him to tremble.
He knew that begging for mercy was useless, so he simply closed his eyes.
After all preparations were made, the executioner placed a fishing net over Zukfa's body, so that his muscles would naturally protrude.
Before execution, a knife is usually cut on the prisoner's forehead so that the hanging skin can cover his eyes so that the prisoner cannot see the horror of the execution.
But today the executioner will not cut this knife.
Because Zukefa is not worthy.
The ancestral family has been favored by the emperor, and in Liaodong, they are like a local emperor, but they surrendered to the Qing Dynasty without hesitation, without any backbone.
This kind of shameless villain who works as a villain should be punished by everyone.
Another executioner forced his eyes open, and then the executioner in charge began the execution.
This time he wanted to challenge his limit and see if he could cut more than five thousand cuts.
Zuko was determined not to cry out, but when the executioner cut his chest for the first time, he couldn't help but cry out.
It hurts so much, it hurts so much Thinking that he would have to endure this kind of pain thousands of times in the future, Zukofa's heart palpitated.
"Cut him, chop him, chop this traitor."
"Those who work as slaves for the Tatars must not let them die happily."
"I want to buy him a piece of meat" "Tear out his heart and see if it's black."
Under the execution platform, the crowd was furious.
The smell of blood completely stimulated these people who were busy making a living on weekdays.
At this moment, their thoughts were the same, which was to make Zukfa feel the maximum pain before his death.
For Zukfa, death is not terrible.
What is terrible is the amount of pain and tremendous pressure he endured before death.
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At first, he could disperse the pressure by shouting in pain, but after shouting dozens of times, his voice became hoarse and he couldn't make a sound even if he shouted.
The torture lasted for more than two hours.
When the executioner finished the last cut and cut off Zukefa's head, the excited people rushed to the execution platform and rushed to buy the meat cut from Zukefa's body.
For most of them, although they cannot go into battle to kill the two Tatars in person, it would be great if they could eat their meat raw.
Compared with the Nanjing people watching the execution at the West Market Execution Ground, Zhu Cixiang in the Forbidden City obviously had more important things to do.
Duduo led the army back to Beizhili.
After Azig strangled Li Zicheng in Jiugong Mountain, he also returned to Shaanxi.
There are various signs that the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not want to start a decisive battle with the Ming Dynasty in this cold winter.
The reason is very simple.
The cost of fighting in winter is too high.
He said that the army led by Azig, with more than 100,000 people eating horses and chewing horses a day, would consume a lot.
If the supplies were cut off, it would be extremely terrible.
It is unrealistic to transport grain from Shaanxi to Huguang.
Not to mention that under the current situation, the whole of Shaanxi cannot collect so much grain.
Even if it can be scraped together, the long distance from Shaanxi to Huguang will also cause serious food losses. .
We must know that transporting grain by land is much more serious than transporting grain by water.
However, the only way to transport grain from Shaanxi to Huguang is by land.
As for grabbing food, it is even more unrealistic.
There are not many places to plunder food in winter.
As long as the Ming Dynasty adheres to the strategy of strengthening the walls and clearing the country, hundreds of thousands of Qing troops may starve to death.
As for the Qing troops of Duduo's tribe who returned to their division, it was mostly to drive away Gao Jie.
Gao Jie caused great chaos in Henan and Beizhili, and the Manchu rule in these two provinces was greatly threatened.
Dorgon is an extremely conservative person, and he will certainly not risk his lair being robbed by Dodo.
After comprehensive consideration, Zhu Cixiang believed that the Manchus must have wanted to wait until the end of the year, preferably the beginning of spring, before making further plans.
Now Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, and Beizhili are connected together.
As the area under his control increases, a serious problem is posed in front of Dorgon.
That's how to feed so many armies.
You must know that the Qing army is not only the Eight Banners Army, but also vassal soldiers from Wu Sangui, Shang Kexi, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and other departments, as well as the Green Camp Army that has surrendered in its entirety.
The entire army combined has hundreds of thousands of people, and it will definitely not be able to last for long just by storing food.
Even if they tighten their belts and rely on Shanxi merchants to purchase food, they can last for at most half a year.
This means that Dorgon must conquer Huguang or Shandong to solve the problem of feeding hundreds of thousands of troops.
From this perspective, there must be a battle between the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, and it is likely to be after the beginning of the next spring.
When the canal thaws in spring, at least the Manchu Qing Dynasty can rely on the canal to transport military supplies when attacking Shandong to reduce losses.
What Zhu Cixiang had to do was to prepare for a rainy day and arrange thousands of miles of defense in advance
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