Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 262 Turg's Desperation
The outbreak of the barbarian disease was not purely due to the continuous rain. Of course, compared to the cold and dry climate in eastern Liaodong, the heat and humidity in the south really made people uncomfortable. Not to mention the Jianghuai region, even Shandong made them very uncomfortable. Before Haizhou, there had been a large-scale epidemic among the captive soldiers, so Abatai gathered the whole army and had to recuperate in Shandong for a period of time before returning to Liaodong.

In other words, if you don't come to Haizhou, the robbery and looting operation of the captive soldiers will be over.

But can you not come to Haizhou?

Going south to Haizhou, for Turg, is not a purely military issue, let alone a looting issue, but a political issue.

This involved the power struggle of the Eight Banners. Who called the captured beizi was Abate's son Boluo, and he was also one of Abate's most beloved sons.

Due to political considerations, it was inconvenient for Abate himself to mobilize the army to go south to rescue his son, because driving the army out of self-interest would definitely give excuses to political opponents, and if there was a slight setback, the political price paid would be too great.

As the son of Nurhachi, Abatai held a high position, second only to the banner owners of the banners.

This time, as a general under orders, he commanded the armies of various banners to plunder all parts of Shandong. Obviously, his status will be further improved after returning. Duo and the others led by the banner masters were in themselves Huang Taiji's win over Abate and his suppression of the other princes Baylor.

So Abate got this opportunity. Although he commanded the elite of each banner, he was under a lot of pressure. I don't know how many eyes were on him, and he wished to see Abate make a fool of himself. The disease was raging, and he ordered the whole army to go south to rescue his son. The bad political impact caused by this was beyond the reach of a high-ranking figure like Abatai.

Therefore, in the case of a large-scale disease, Abate did not dare to take political risks to go south. At that time, the result of the battle would not be mentioned. The disease and injury alone would be all on Abate's head. In fact, he may not be able to Suppress the opposing voices in the army and let the army obey the order to go south, because once he proposes to go south, the generals under his banners will inevitably oppose and obstruct it.

As a high-level figure in the Eight Banners who was second only to the banner owner, Abatai walked with difficulty and had to be cautious in every step, not daring to let his political opponents find a way to attack him with a little bit of taint, so he didn't dare to take risks.At the same time, Abatai couldn't help himself. As the coach, he was constrained everywhere, and every order might be questioned by the generals of other banners.

However, as a minister in charge, Turge's status is far worse than those of Nurhachi's descendants. On the contrary, he is more able to bear some stains. He can respond flexibly and persuade several generals who are close to Abatai, as well as the support of the upper three banner generals directly under Huang Taiji. He can completely mobilize 1 troops, which is enough for Turg.

Therefore, Abate cannot go south, but Turg can.

Turge is Gushan Ezhen of the Xiangbai Banner, an internal minister, and one of the eight ministers, but in fact he is just a dog leg of Huang Taiji, the eye of Huang Taiji placed in the Xiangbai Banner, and the main weapon that Huang Taiji uses to check and balance himself. The political opponents are just the nails of the brothers Duo Duo, the owner of the White Banner, and Dorgon, the owner of the Zhengbai Banner.

Abatai had no way to send troops to rescue his son in front of many political opponents, so as to give people an excuse, but Turg, as his deputy, didn't care if he brought a partial division.

Of course, Turg also has risks. The people he brought are injured and died, and they will face punishment after returning, but Turg can fully bear this risk, because if these injuries are placed on his head, it is just for looting As for the price he paid, at most he was greedy and caused trouble. Under the blessing of Huang Taiji, he was fined a few horses at most. Compared with the political influence that Abatai sent troops and was said to be for selfish labor forces, some punishments are nothing to worry about. However, in exchange for Abatai's gratitude, he made great contributions to securing this strong support for Huang Taiji.

This kind of political gain is really too great, far exceeding the income from looting a Haizhou.

However, it is not that Turge has not considered the situation that Haizhou cannot be defeated. If Haizhou is really difficult to defeat, Turge also intends to return after throwing down a hundred or so lives.

So Turge has always planned, if Haizhou is easy to fight, then take it in one fell swoop, as long as you can save Boluo, it doesn't matter if you can't, just bring back the body.

If Haizhou City is not easy to fight, he will attack casually, throwing a hundred and ten lives back, and then tell Abate that the Ming army threatened his son's life, so he dare not attack hard, and Abate has nothing to say It can be said that Abatai had to grit his teeth and owe Huang Taiji a favor for the one hundred and ten lives thrown at Turge.

But Turge didn't expect Haizhou to be a hard nail, which was harder than he imagined. On the first day, he was given a big blow, and Mr. Qian from Nanjing played tricks on him first, and agreed Surrendered, but finally sneaked into the city.

It doesn't matter if he surrenders falsely, anyway, Turge doesn't really want to kill many people, and it doesn't even matter whether Haizhou City is hit or not, he just wants to show Abatai a gesture of saving Boluo.

But Yang Chao actually bombarded Turg's camp at night, which made it difficult for Turg to ride a tiger, because no matter how you look at it, it is a kind of humiliation. The cannonballers could only move to the camp in embarrassment, and if Turge was just pretending to show Abate, whether Abate could fall into Huang Taiji's favor or not, Turge himself would become a laughing stock.

It is true that Turge is Huang Taiji's confidant in Xiangbaiqi, but his life in Xiangbaiqi is definitely not easy. It is not an exaggeration to describe it as walking on thin ice. He made a small mistake a few years ago, and he was dismissed by Huang Taiji However, although he later took the opportunity to reinstate him, it also made Turg more careful in doing things.

This time Yang Chao deceived and bombarded Turge's camp in a humiliating manner, forcing Turge to move the Qushan camp from the foot of the mountain to the mountainside. The leader of the Baylor Banner should give Huang Taiji a test. He has really done his job. He was able to resume his job last time. I'm afraid he won't have the chance this time. After all, Turge is not young enough to stand this Ups and downs over and over again.

Turg's status is lower than Abatai's, and he has no personal interests involved, so he is more able to bear stains. Turg can bear a little bit of setbacks, such as the stains of losing a battle. One or two small failures are harmless, but this To be deceived, and to force him to move the camp by cannon fire, is not a small stain, it is a great shame.

Therefore, when Yang Chao opened fire, it was already doomed that Turge's Haizhou battle could not be lightly tasted, and a result had to be achieved.

That is, Haizhou must be breached, and Haizhou must be cleaned up, and the shame on oneself will be washed away, so as not to affect Turg's political future. Those Baylor princes with white flags have long been eager to pull out the nail of Turg If they caught the opportunity, even Huang Taiji would have to sacrifice Turg again out of political considerations.

Therefore, since Yang Chao stole into Haizhou City and bombarded the Qushan camp, Turge was already fighting for his own political future, instead of speculating to gain Abatai's gratitude, so Haizhou did not Take it down, and you must not leave!

However, the subsequent attacks exceeded Turger's expectations again and again. He thought that Haizhou City would be difficult to fight, but he never thought it would be so difficult.

Just filling up the moat lost hundreds of people, even if they were all coats, but it also made the masters feel distressed, and they had to promise them that more coats would be added to suppress their emotions.

On the first day of the official siege, hundreds of people were lost as a result, and they were all soldiers.

But at this time, Turge was only slightly surprised. It's not like he had never fought such a vicious battle. Liaodong also had such a stubborn household, such as Zhao Liaojiao and others he met back then.

However, over the past few years, the soldiers and civilians of the Ming Dynasty have become weaker and weaker. Especially in the pass, the Ming army encountered is simply vulnerable. Even a strong city is not invincible. The cities of the Ming Dynasty could block their advance. For example, Surabaya, which was easily captured this time, almost won by climbing the city wall. The people in the city either abandoned the city and fled or knelt down and begged for mercy.

But Haizhou has been unable to step up the city wall.

But Turg still believed that as long as his own people climbed the city wall, the Ming army would definitely collapse, so he attacked regardless of the casualties, but still failed to attack the city wall, and instead dropped nearly a thousand corpses.

It wasn't until this time that Turg felt embarrassed, and he even did not hesitate to win over the Mongols at both ends of the first mouse, and continued to attack the city wall with the help of [-] Mongolian troops. At the same time, he mobilized Bayara guards to attack the west wall. city ​​walls.

At this time, Turg did not dare to be careless at all, so he was very well prepared for this sneak attack, and was even quite conservative at one time. He asked the elite soldiers not to take risks after they stepped into the city, and first built a solid wooden wall to form a stable foothold. Then let all the Bayara soldiers he brought join forces, gather at that foothold, and then launch an attack.

Turg felt that his plan was very safe, and he also used the strongest force at hand, but he did not expect that the powerful force of nearly a thousand elite soldiers of Bayala brought in his hand was defeated!
And the defeat was terrible, almost completely wiped out, but after having obtained a solid foothold, and gathered more than 1000 Bayara elites, and calmly formed a stable formation, they were all wiped out All of them died in battle except for less than a hundred who hadn't set foot on the city yet.

After this battle, Turg was completely helpless and in a state of despair.

Obviously, not to mention the loss of thousands of soldiers, and nothing to gain, if he just went back like this, his future would be completely ruined.

One must know that the Bayara elite soldiers he sent out were not only those with white flags bordered by him, but also those with red flags, blue flags bordered with yellow flags, not only those of other princes Baylor, but also Huang Taiji's own guards. All these elite soldiers were defeated by him, not to mention the other princes Baylor, even Huang Taiji would not want to let him go.

Therefore, even though Turge was still besieging the city, he felt that he was driven into a desperate situation. He could only force the siege of Haizhou to continue, hoping for a miracle to happen.

How could a miracle happen?
The first is that Haizhou City was stunned and surrendered by itself, which Turger didn't believe.

The second is that Abatai came to rescue him out of righteousness, but this made Turge feel ironic. He originally came down to the south for Abatei, to win Abate's favor, but he didn't expect that he was reduced to the point where he needed The point where Abate came to the rescue.

But Turg was not very willing for Abate to save him.

Because Abatai, as the general who was ordered to lead the whole army, had already issued an order to gather the whole army in Shandong to rest, but instead of going north to Qingzhou to join Abate in order to rescue Boluo, he mobilized all he could. People went south to Haizhou, although his real purpose was to rescue Boluo, but this kind of thing can't be used as a banner. After all, Abatai didn't ask him Turg to help him first, and second, he would never admit that Turg was helping him. .

Because Abate is the commander-in-chief of the entire army, his son was captured and captured. As a father, Abate is not very good at rescuing the exhausted army.Therefore, he absolutely cannot admit that he has anything to do with Turg going south, and will even do everything possible to assume that Turg acted without authorization and came to Haizhou to plunder. It's very righteous, if that's the case, Turg will not only be dismissed, but his life will be ruined if he fails.

Therefore, Turg does not want Abate to help him at all. As long as Abate goes south to help him, it is tantamount to admitting that Turg is trapped in Haizhou and needs rescue, and Abate will definitely play the banner, because he does not play a rescue map Erge's banner, if he can't get it right, he will be sent to the south of Haizhou for other purposes, it's an excuse to save his son.

So Turg only asked Abatai to pretend not to know that he was going south, and waited for him to go back in Shandong, even if it helped him a lot. Of course, it cannot be concealed. The failure of Haizhou will definitely be covered by other banner owners The prince used it to speak out and put pressure on Huang Taiji.

Turg didn't hope that Abate would go south to help him. If Abate didn't come to help him, he was helping him, and Abate came to help him, but he was harming him. Can't wait to go south, under the banner of saving Turg, put Turg to death, and at the same time have a chance to rescue the son in Haizhou City, why not do it.

Haizhou will not surrender, and the coach will not come to help. Turger can only expect the third miracle to happen.

That is, the Haizhou people couldn't stand the siege, they went out of the city to break through, and then they were chased and killed by him and wiped out.

As for whether Haizhou City will break through, Turger is not sure, but there is always hope and there is always a chance. The soldiers and civilians in Haizhou City may not be able to bear the nervousness, maybe because they are out of ammunition and food, as long as the siege continues, they will always break through of.

But how long is this time, ten days, one month, half a year?Turge is really not sure, because last time Jinzhou was besieged for more than half a year, and in the end it was really exhausted. Zu Dashou even ate up all the people in the city before surrendering. This has to make him a little worried. If If you Haizhou people persist like this, Turg really doesn't know what to do.

But he can only persevere, he can only persevere, and he will fail if he goes back. Persistence still has hope, and he only hopes that this hope will receive results.

"Go, go, call all masters above Jialazhangjing to come to me!"

Impatient with the complaints from his subordinates, Turger asked him to invite other officers to come. He had to encourage them again, at least everyone persisted for ten days!
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In this chapter, I will write about the cause and effect, so that everyone can understand why the captive soldiers attacked so tenaciously.In the beginning, they came here for the captive Abate's son Bo Luo Beizi captured by Yang Chao, but later it became the coach Turg's own business, and they got deeper and deeper step by step, and finally had to fight Yang Chao.

(End of this chapter)