Chapter 204: My Emperor Taiji also wants to save face
Retreat or fight to the death?
This is a big issue that cannot be negotiated in a short period of time.
Even if Huang Taiji had the intention to avoid the Ming New Army, this kind of big thing was not something he could decide alone.
After all, this is a life-and-death choice for the entire people, and if you are not careful, it will lead to unpredictable consequences.
The main reason is that now that Dajin Guo has no way to retreat, one more step back, even if it returns to Shengjing City, what can it do?
At that time, the new army of the Ming Dynasty continued to advance, where did it retreat at that time?
You can't take your clansmen back to the mountains and forests to be savages, right?
If that were the case, where would the food for millions of people come from? It is estimated that the race will soon be wiped out and will die out on its own.
For seven or eight days in a row, in the council hall of the City Lord's Mansion in Liaoyang City, there was always a lot of noise until late at night, and the lights of the figure were extinguished.
To fight or not to fight, how to meet it? The battle will be lost!
Retreat and retreat, how to retreat? Where to retreat?
The various Ezhen adults of the Houjin Kingdom have racked their brains these days, and they can't sleep at night, and they are almost sad and white-headed.
There is no way, it is true that everyone was beaten by the Ming New Army and lost any temper.
People's guns are far away, and they are powerful.
Even those crossbows and strong bows have to exceed nearly half of their own range, and those new troops of the Ming Dynasty are also strictly disciplined, orderly, and immobile like mountains.
With such a huge gap between the two sides, what do you use to fight each other?
The Houjin warriors, the only tactic they are good at, cavalry charge, is simply to send them to death endlessly!
"Manguo" Ranger tactics?
You have to be able to get close to each other, and the enemy shoots you before they can get close, so what's the use?
Poisoned? Set?
People are not stupid, they will sit there obediently and wait for death!
These scout squads of the Ming New Army are unimaginably powerful, and there are extremely large numbers, how can they have the opportunity to show you such a third-rate conspiracy.
Others are simply upright, pushing and crushing all the way, and they don't show any loopholes for you to exploit.
Thinking about it, there is no half-counting.
In the past, you were all fearless and brave and brave, but now you are speechless and ready to cry.
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"Guys, are we going to argue any more?"
This is already the noon of the ninth day that Huang Taiji came to Liaoyang City, and he is now expressionless, looking at everyone coldly, and said slowly.
Now that the situation is critical, the matter cannot be delayed.
This morning, scouts from all walks of life reported that the new army of the Ming Dynasty would be able to reach ten miles outside Liaoyang City at the latest at dusk today.
Moreover, the information located in the west, northwest, east, and northeast of Liaoyang City has all been blocked!
There has been no news from the strongholds of the military forts in these directions, and they must have fallen to the enemy.
As for the south, southeast, and southwest directions of Liaoyang City, as the three-way army of the Ming New Army pushed forward all the way, even the villages were all demolished by the enemy!
Those military fort strongholds, naturally, could not be spared.
Now, there is only due north left, and there is still a way out.
However, at most, at dusk today, the enemy will form a siege of Liaoyang City, then this Liaoyang City is a dead place, and there is absolutely no way to survive it.
"Great Khan!"
"Great Khan!"
At this time, in front of Huang Taiji, there were a queue of civil and military ministers on both sides, and one person from each crossed the crowd and shouted in unison.
Everyone looked at it, weren't they the two hardcore traitors Fan Wencheng and Li Yongfang? 4E
It seems that the two of them are already in a hurry and don't want to wait any longer.
According to the heinous sins committed by the two of them against the Han people, once Liaoyang City is surrounded by the new army of the Ming Dynasty, they will definitely not let go of the two of them and their whole family, and even the nine clans will be exterminated together!
Therefore, these two big traitors really can't sit still.
Moreover, the enemy will soon arrive in Liaoyang City, and there is no time to delay now, and if it goes on like this, they will all die without exception.
"Great Khan, I can't wait any longer, I have to evacuate Liaoyang City immediately!"
"That's right! Great Khan, stay in the green mountains, not afraid of no firewood, it's time to make a final decision. ”
"Great Khan, thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi, now that the Ming Empire is rampant, we will have a chance to make a comeback in the future."
"Laughing first is not necessarily the winner, laughing at the end is what our Dajin Kingdom wants." ……
The two of them were anxious, and they couldn't wait to quote scriptures, and persuaded Huang Taiji endlessly.
I have to say that these two hardcore traitors are worthy of being stinking guys for 10,000 years, they are reasonable and well-founded, there is no repetition, and their eloquence is excellent.
If they were born in Zhu Youxiao's previous life, it would be a pity not to engage in pyramid schemes, two proper pyramid scheme bosses.
Time passed in the saliva of Fan Wencheng and Li Yongfang, and soon a quarter of an hour passed, and the two of them spoke dryly, and finally stopped chattering.
It is very strange today, there are so many people from the Great Golden Kingdom who are here, and none of them have come to interrupt their rhetoric, they are all standing motionless with pale faces, like big logs.
"Everyone, stop talking!"
Huang Taiji shook his fat body a little, stood up suddenly, and shouted, "Lone decides, immediately start the preparations for the great retreat, but anyone who does not obey, no matter who he is, how high his status is, will be killed!" ”
"I'll do it!" ……
Everyone stepped forward in unison, stood up with their heads held high, and said in unison.
In fact, everyone had reached an agreement last night and made this extremely difficult and infinitely aggrieved choice.
The current Huang Taiji is just announcing it in public.
The two hardcore traitors, Fan Wencheng and Li Yongfang, who did not know the inside story, came forward to present the narrative, just to ensure the majesty of Huang Taiji and preserve the face of the Great Khan, so as not to cause an uncontrollable situation in which people's hearts were dissolved.
Now it is a time of 100,000 urgency, and there is no room for slackness, and all the lords of Ezhen have left in a hurry and began to prepare for the retreat.
In fact, the basic retreat preparations, although everyone argued on the surface, secretly each was almost ready.
Now we have to do it, but the last step.
Not only here, but even in Shengjing City, Huang Taiji sent ten Niu Lu's two yellow flag soldiers three days ago, led by Ao Bai, to go back to Shengjing City to prepare for retreat in advance, and pack up all kinds of belongings.
With Huang Taiji's strategy, of course it won't be like this.
Six days ago, he had already sent nearly a hundred scout teams to all the strongholds and villages of the Dajin Kingdom north of Liaoyang City to organize a large retreat of the people.
The retreat of the whole clan is inevitable, and there is nothing to do, but he wants to leave an empty northeast for the new army of the Ming Dynasty.
I ran away with my people, and I can't let the enemy pick it up.
Let those armies of the Ming Empire slowly clean up the mess in the vast northeast, so as to delay the speed of the other party's pursuit.
It's just that he is not sure, will the enemy give him so much time, or will he run away with so many personnel, cattle, sheep, horses and supplies?
He's just trying his best now, and there's no pressure in his heart.
In his heart, he always felt a faint uneasiness.
This uneasy feeling came from the fact that he couldn't figure out why the enemy was marching so slowly.
Is it really the logistical weakness of the Ming New Army, so this incomparably steady strategy of advancement was adopted?
You must know that between the two countries, they are already on the same page, and they are enemies of life and death.
Those Ming New Army, without any reason, will let themselves and the whole Houjin clan go.
This question, even if he thinks about it, he can't think of any reason.
If you can't figure it out, you can't figure it out, so it's better to evacuate Liaoyang City as soon as possible, so as not to be dumplings made by the enemy.
At that time, there were no tears even to cry.