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Chapter 912

The official road about three miles southwest of Dalinghe Fort in Liaodong is surrounded by endless wilderness on both sides. There is a flat river here, densely covered with weeds, and one or two hills and hills can be seen occasionally, but they are not too high.

It was already [-]:[-] noon, and the sun gradually began to tilt towards the west, but just beside the official road ahead, there were two troops confronting each other, the distance between them was less than [-] steps.

Between the two armies there were eleven cavalry warriors riding on horseback. They were the soldiers sent by the Qing army to persuade them to surrender.

Even when their own side was at a temporary disadvantage, the Qing army still maintained a lofty attitude. It was obvious that they had won successive victories in many years of battle, especially the deep-rooted contempt for the Ming army, which was beyond words.

Lin Fangping, as the head general of the Tiger Guard Battalion, was extremely calm at this moment. He stopped everyone from following along, and rode forward alone, only stopping at a distance of more than [-] paces from the Qing army who came to persuade the Qing army to surrender.

At this moment, he held the rein in his left hand, and did not hold any weapon in his right hand. He seemed to be sitting on his horse leisurely, and asked loudly, "Who are you, who dare to come to persuade a certain person to become a slave?"

The tall and straight general of the Qing army on the opposite side burst into laughter, and then replied: "I am the imperial family of the Qing Dynasty, and the Ministry of Industry is in charge of Xihan. The lives of Liu Er and others will be rewarded by high-ranking officials and nobles."

Lin Fangping then asked with a smile: "Hong Taipai and others came to persuade XX to surrender, what kind of official position did he promise to XX?"

When Xihan heard him ask about the award, his face became more colorful, and he shouted with a smile: "My emperor appreciates your performance today. If you are willing to submit to our Qing Dynasty, you will be granted the title. King, it's not impossible.

Don't you know, when Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming returned from crossing the sea, my emperor not only greeted him in the field, but also immediately proclaimed him king, and still commanded his old troops.

According to this example, if you sincerely submit to the Qing Dynasty, you should immediately lay down your weapons and kneel down to greet His Majesty the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty. If you don't want to make you king, you will at least be a first-class duke.

What's even more rare is that you can still lead the old ministry and be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty. "

"Hahaha……"

After Lin Fangping heard this, he couldn't help laughing up to the sky. After a while, he stopped laughing, and under the watchful eyes of Xi Han and others, he said loudly: "It's really ridiculous. You are a slave, and you dare to come and persuade a certain person to vote for you!" Shun, how ridiculous!"

While Xihan was stunned, Lin Fangping continued to curse angrily: "I think that old slave Nurhachi was also a minister of my great Ming Dynasty, and he was the commander of the Zuowei Capital of Jianzhou, and he was named General Dragon and Tiger.

However, he didn't want to serve the king, but secretly developed a rebellious heart, entangled a gang of villains, bullied the Jurchens around, and even deceived the people with evil words, committed treason, troubled Liaodong, captured my city, slaughtered my people, and plundered I have money.

How could such a treacherous and evil person, who wished to capture him personally, submit to him? It's really ridiculous, ridiculous! "

On Xihan's side, the more he listened, the more he felt that something was wrong, but it was too late to stop him, and his face was even more furious when he heard it.

Just when Xihan was stunned all the way, Lin Fangping shouted again: "Xihan, listen carefully, the general of a certain family has something to bring to slave chief Hongtai."

He suddenly raised his right hand up high and shouted: "Boys, what are you waiting for from our master?"

"Mr. Hong made a clever plan. He lost his brother and lost his army. When someone kills him in Shenyang City, he will be robbed of one empress and four noble concubines!"

The unanimous roar of more than three hundred Tiger Guard soldiers here can be heard from several miles away, and they kept on repeating this sentence again and again, louder and louder, until the voice of the slave chief Huang Taiji was heard. in the ear.

Suddenly, Lin Fangping's right hand dropped suddenly, and all the soldiers behind him also shut up at this moment, but just when Xihan thought it stopped, another cry came.

"Xuanfu Zhang Cheng has something to tell Hong Tai, the slave chief. Since he took over the army, he first killed Yue Tuo'er, and then killed the slave king Duoduo. In the coming year, today, a certain will march into Shenyang, capture the slave king Hong Tai, and rob the sea. Lanzhu is happy for me!"

This roar shocked the jaws of Xi Han on the opposite side.

You must know that although Yue Tuo and Duoduo were nobles in the Qing Dynasty, they were Baylor and princes, but since they were killed by Zhang Cheng, they would always have to avenge their revenge. Although Huang Taiji felt distressed, he did not take his heart too far.

However, this Hai Lanzhu is different, she is Huang Taiji's darling, his reverse scale, and she is the only one, not one of them.

Now, the Ming army on the opposite side shouted so loudly in such a large audience, in front of a group of Qing officials and Ba Yala soldiers, and still despise insulting words like this, what should we do?
With this in mind, he didn't look at Lin Fangping who was opposite, but quietly turned his head to look at the way he came from, as if he wanted to wait and see the change of Huang Taiji's face.

But the distance is so far, there are fifty or sixty steps, how can we see clearly?

At this moment, there was a rush of horseshoes, and Xihan suddenly looked back, and saw the Ming army who had been talking with him just now, riding his horse slowly towards the east.

He was surrounded by only a few Ba Yala warriors, and he watched the Ming army retreating slowly in front of him, but he no longer had the guts to pursue the enemy alone.

But at this time, there was another noise from the own army behind him. Hearing this, Xihan immediately led the crowd to gallop back, and the distance of dozens of steps was reached in an instant.

Before he got off his horse, he saw Jue Luo Shuo Erkun galloping towards him, and shouted: "Xihan is in power, the emperor wants the head of that dog."

Xihan was taken aback for a moment, but then he understood everything. It must be the Ming army's shouting that stimulated Huang Taiji, which made him really angry, and asked in surprise: "How about the emperor's holy body?"

Jue Luo Shuo Erkun just replied: "The emperor has a nosebleed again, and Ebi Long Angbai is waiting on him."

After he finished speaking, he rode his horse and galloped away, leading more than two hundred Ba Yala warriors to chase eastward.

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In the main hall of the official hall of Dalinghe Castle, Huang Taiji said with a weak breath, "Zhang Cheng, I will definitely make you look good!"

Xihan, Ye Bilong, Weng Adai and others who were waiting on the side were shocked when they heard the words. It seemed that Huang Taiji had never hated a person so much since he inherited the Khan throne.

And he's still the kind of person you can only hate, but there's nothing you can do about him!
It turned out that Weng Adai, the deputy governor of the Zhenglan Banner of Manchuria who was stationed at Dalinghe Fort, learned that Huang Taiji was approaching Dalinghe, so he immediately mobilized two hundred cavalry and went out of the city to meet him.

However, in a canyon three miles southwest of Dalinghe Fort, he was ambushed by the Ming army. At first he thought it was a small group of sentry cavalry from the Ming army, but after the battle he realized that it was an elite Ming army with no less than a hundred cavalry.

But when Weng Adai took it seriously, this Ming army always kept a close attitude with it, and did not love to fight, and always fought and retreated.

This made Weng Adai very annoyed. Although the number of the Ming army in front of him was half smaller than his own, its armor was excellent, and the horses under his crotch were all fat and well-built.

Because Weng Adai came out of the fort this time only to meet Huang Taiji, he never thought that he would meet the elite of the Ming army, so they all rode one by one, so they couldn't change trains, so they kept a distance from the Ming army and couldn't chase after them completely. entangled.

After chasing like this for a long time, Weng Adai suddenly woke up and realized that this Ming army cavalry was delaying their own troops, and they must have other plans.

However, when he ignored this Ming army and led the knights to the west to look for Huang Taiji, this Ming army chased after him and harassed him continuously, making him miserable.

In this way, when he led his troops to Huang Taiji's side, the battle here was completely over, and the Ba Yala guards beside Huang Taiji suffered heavy casualties.

And he himself was so angry that he vomited two mouthfuls of blood at the last few words of the Ming army, which caused another epistaxis.

But the Ming army retreated swaggeringly, Weng Adai and others had no choice but to welcome Huang Taiji back to Dalinghe Fort first, and at the same time send several groups of arresting troops to search for the traces of the Ming army.

On the other hand, they hurriedly dispatched their fast horses to the Zhenglan Banner camp on the bank of the Xiaoling River, informed Prince Su of the situation at Hauge's side, and asked him to send troops to support him.

After all, nearly [-] of the [-] Ba Yala guards around Huang Taiji were killed or injured, and many generals were killed in battle. It can be said that the loss was heavy. The battle where Duoduo died at the foot of Changling Mountain.

For example, Minister of the Interior, Chaopin Gongtazhan; Xianghuang Banner Baya Lajia Lazhangjing, the Ministry of War right to participate in politics, and Minister of State Chaohar; Zhenghuang Banner Baya La Niu Luzhang Jingzhang Guli; Buyan's forehead and others all died in this battle.

In addition, Niu Luzhang Jing Afuni, Niu Luzhang Jing Zhente, Niu Luzhang Jingmai, Fende Pashiku Mudege and others all died in this battle.

Although he also killed nearly [-] Ming soldiers before the battle, he suffered a defeat after all, and the defeat was without any suspense, and it could even be said to be a crushing defeat.

This is actually an important reason why Huang Taiji vomited blood!
You must know that the vests in the Qing army are already elite fighters, and Baijia Bayala is the elite of the elite.

In this battle, the [-] Baya warriors of the Qing army fought against more than [-] cavalry of the Ming army, and they were defeated so thoroughly when they were superior in force. How could Huang Taiji accept this?

Especially after experiencing the disastrous defeat in Changling Mountain, he encountered such a blow again. After 17 years of painstaking efforts, he worked hard to achieve the current situation.

But this series of disastrous defeats made him feel confused about the future of the Qing Dynasty. Could it be that the decades of sweat and blood of his father and son have come to an end?
What kind of person is Zhang Cheng? Is he the nemesis specially arranged by God to prevent the rise of the Qing Dynasty?
In fact, Guan Suigong's concubine Hai Lanzhu's illness was just the straw that broke the camel's back.

Even without this incident, after Huang Taiji's defeat in Changling Mountain, facing the predicament of the Jinzhou war, he was almost physically and mentally exhausted. At this time, the news came that Hai Lanzhu was seriously ill. As the only most important person in his life, how could Teach him not to go to see Shengjing for the last time.

Huang Taijiben was suffering from a hidden illness. Under the multiple blows of the defeat of Changling Mountain, Duoduo's death in battle, and Hai Lanzhu's serious illness, he repeatedly vomited blood, and his epistaxis was unstoppable, and his body was already extremely weak.

This time, he was intercepted by the Ming army on the way home, and even though the troops were all superior, he was still defeated. If it were in the past, it would have been unthinkable.

However, this time, it happened to Huang Taiji himself. Under his nose, he could clearly see what happened on the battlefield. The warriors were not invincible, nor were they desperate.

But this Ming army was indeed too strong, so strong that Huang Taiji couldn't believe it.

In his memory, perhaps only the Ming army under Mao Wenlong in Pidao had such fighting courage, and only Zhang Pan from Lushun could have such bravery.

In fact, if such a defeat happened to other Qing generals, Huang Taiji only needs to punish the leading princes and Baylors for the crime of ineffectiveness in the battle, and it will not have much impact on the overall situation.

Because in this way, everyone will think that it is not that the Ming army has become stronger, but that the leaders are not strong!
But today is different. After all, Huang Taiji was on the front line in this battle, and he could no longer let others take it on his behalf. Moreover, in this battle, the Ba Yala warriors with the majority of troops were defeated by the Ming army.

In any case, I can no longer justify myself!

Huang Taiji knew in his heart that as long as the warriors of the Qing Dynasty agreed that the Ming army was cowardly and fearful of war, they would fight even more bravely on the battlefield.

When each other rises, the Ming army will be even more afraid of the Qing warriors, frightened before the battle, and fleeing before the battle can be seen from time to time. This is actually a psychological tactic.

But now, the most powerful Ba Yala warriors on our side have all been defeated by the Ming army, and they are still under the superiority of troops. Once it spreads among the Qing army, it will definitely have an impact on the morale of the army.

This is what worries Huang Taiji the most!

That's why, under such circumstances, he ordered Chengzheng Xihan of the Ministry of Industry to lure the Ming army to surrender to him in front of the battle. What he thought was that if this strong army could really submit to him, not only would it not hurt his own morale, it would instead It was the morale of the Ming army that was hit.

But I never thought that this Ming army from the Xuanfu not only refused to surrender, but also insulted himself with such words. The most unbearable thing for Huang Taiji was that they also insulted Hailan, the concubine of Guan Sui Palace who he loved the most. beads.

It was only then that he couldn't hold back the suppressed anger and resentment in his chest. Under the watchful eyes of everyone in front of the battle, he even spat out two mouthfuls of blood, but the matter has come to this point, it is useless to think about it, and he can only try his best to remedy it.

Huang Taiji lay on the soft bed, and asked in a weak voice, "Do you know how many troops the Ming army has?"

Everyone in the hall looked at each other, not knowing how to reply for a while, after a moment of silence, Xihan, the Minister of Industry and Commerce, cautiously replied: "Return to the emperor, Ariake who intercepted the royal driver rode hundreds of horses..."

"Oh?"

Huang Taiji only listened to half a sentence, and asked a lot of questions in his nose, which shocked Xihan, but he reacted very quickly, and quickly changed his words: "...Ming rides nearly a thousand horses, with excellent armor and military equipment, especially The iron cannon is far better than the three-eyed blunderbuss, and it is the sharpest when fired casually."

When he said this, he paused again, and secretly observed Huang Taiji's face.

(End of this chapter)