Madman Tan knew that the president still wanted peace talks, and the more fierce the fight now, the more beneficial it would be to peace talks.

After counting the casualties, the Bao army lost a little more than 3,000 soldiers, and more than 2,000 were seriously wounded and lightly wounded, and the damage was not small.

However, compared to the huge death of about 26,000 people killed by Jiannu, the damage of the Bao army was not serious.

Madman Tan immediately asked people to report to the president.

Tonight, President Wei had hardly slept well all night, the explosions were too dense, and the sound of gunfire and grenades was very dense.

It is clearly a head-on war of attrition.

President Wei also sent a regiment of troops to meet him, and Mang Gurtai suffered the greatest casualties, precisely because he was attacked by the enemy on his back and back, and a regiment that was met by the Bao army came to meet him was beaten with an extra stick.

After President Wei learned about the battle situation on the front line, he immediately verbally commended the soldiers and let the army continue to garrison.

At the same time, Wu Xuexia made new terms for peace talks, increased the compensation to 12 million taels, and had to cede Weiningbao and Qinghebao as treaty ports.

President Wei didn't rest all night, and Nurhachi didn't rest.

Nurhachi is already old, and his health is not as good as when he was younger, and it has been several years since he went downhill, so he asked several groups of people to visit the situation ahead.

At the beginning, it was said that the Jin army had won a big victory, and it was covering up, and it had already broken through the defense line of Wei Bao's army.

Nurhachi and the generals were still happy.

After a while, it was said that the Jin army was defeated and was being pursued by Wei Bao's army.

Nurhachi and the generals couldn't figure out the situation, but fortunately they sent Abai and Tang Gu to lead 20,000 troops to meet as soon as possible, otherwise it is estimated that this battle would be fought by the treasure army under Shengjing.

Huang Taiji and Dai Shan knelt in front of Nurhachi with a disgraced face.

Nurhachi couldn't bear to blame the two of them, and now he knew the specific situation of the battle.

Everyone present did not dare to speak.

Cong Gulen Gege and Da Yu'er stood in the far corner.

"Wei Bao increased the compensation to 12 million taels, and had to cede Weining Fort and Qinghe Fort as treaty ports! We can't fight head-on, you say, what now? Nurhachi asked.

There is still no one to make a sound, who dares to talk nonsense at such a moment.

Losing consecutive battles, this is something that has never happened, Dajin Country has not been defeated, but no matter how powerful the opponent is, he has no ability to defeat the iron cavalry of Dajin Country again and again in such a short period of time, and it is in the territory of Dajin Kingdom.

Is this still an invincible Eight Banners Iron Horse full of more than 10,000 people?

"Great Khan, for the sake of today's plan, sit back and watch the changes, stick to Shengjing City, they want to fight, let's take it!" Bao Cheng said first.

"Isn't that a shrunken turtle? Isn't that a large area between the Liao River and the Hunhe River being let Wei Bao's soldiers and horses act recklessly? If I can't protect my people, what will others think of me? Even his hometown was bullied like this, what else to talk about conquering Korea, conquering Mongolia, and sweeping Liaodong!? Nurhachi coughed, feeling the sweetness of his throat, and he didn't know if he was vomiting blood, so he quickly swallowed it, and motioned in pain to drink.

Immediately, a waiter brought mare's milk wine.

After Nurhachi drank it, the people were even more uncomfortable, holding their heads in sadness, they were almost unable to sit still, they had never encountered such a big crisis, and as many people died as they sent.

Still no one dared to speak again.

It took a while for Nurhachi to adjust his breath, and said bitterly: "Huang Taiji, Dai Shan, you go and negotiate with Wei Bao!" If there is no silver, it is even more impossible to cede the territory! The two sides should strike their troops and not invade each other. As for the DPRK, we have cancelled our plan to attack the DPRK this time, which can be regarded as sincerity. ”

Huang Taiji didn't dare to raise his head, and said in his heart that your conditions are too far from the conditions proposed by Wei Bao, so there is no need to negotiate.

But Huang Taiji still stubbornly said, "Father Khan, is this the final bottom line?" ”

Nurhachi thought for a while, sighed and said, "You can make a slight concession, you can control it yourself!" ”

"Yes, Father Khan." Huang Taiji did not count on this negotiation.

At this time, Huang Taiji still felt that peace talks were unnecessary, although Wei Bao's army had strong frontal combat capabilities and a strong advantage in firearms, but Dajin Guo was not completely helpless, as long as he didn't want to destroy the invading enemy in one go, and use the mobile advantage of iron cavalry to deal with the enemy, the Bao army didn't want to take advantage of it.

"This peace talk is headed by Huang Taiji, okay, you all step down! Tell the army to strictly guard the perimeter of Shengjing City, and when you see Wei Bao's men and horses, you don't have to rush and kill them head-on, just prevent them from disturbing the people, especially not allowing them to invade the pastures and farms of our Manchurians. "Nurha equator.

Everyone agreed in unison, "Yes, Great Khan." ”

The speed at which everyone retreated was very fast, only Dai Shan and Huang Taiji walked very slowly after leaving.

"Brother, when do you go to negotiate, I'll go with you." Cong Gulen Ge Dao.

Huang Taiji was upset, and said coldly: "Nonsense, I don't know if Wei Bao will talk to us in person, and I don't know where they want to talk, you should go to have fun?" Maybe my brother and I will go here, and there will be more luck and less luck! ”

Huang Taiji is ready to die, and is ready to use his life to let his father Khan see that it is impossible to negotiate with Wei Bao, so that the entire Dajin Kingdom will fight a decisive battle with the Bao army.

"I'm not afraid!" Cong Gulen Gege said resolutely: "And I don't believe that Wei Bao is an extremely vicious person, he has repeatedly proposed peace talks, and he has a certain sincerity!" ”

"Conggulun, have you seen Wei Bao?" Dai Shan wondered.

Tsungulen was shocked and speechless.

Huang Taiji sighed, since he wanted to negotiate with Dai Shan, and he had a very good relationship with Dai Shan, he didn't want to hide it, so he told him what happened when he met Wei Bao in southern Liaoning.

"Hmph, this guy really has the ability, as a commander, he dares to disguise himself and mix in to be a meticulous worker." Dai Shan seems to have heard a mythical story.

"There is no disguise, he is what he is, he just doesn't reveal his identity." Cong Gulen Gege spoke for Wei Bao.

"Take Gege with you, if Lord Belle wants to negotiate peace, it will definitely be helpful to bring Gege there." Da Yu'er said.

Huang Taiji dotes on Da Yu'er very much, and recognizes Da Yu'er's wisdom very much, and he didn't make a sound when he heard the words.

Dai Shan is not a smart person, but he is not a stupid person, he also saw this, and asked: "Huang Taiji, don't you want to negotiate peace with Wei Bao?" I don't think it hurts us to talk about peace, as long as Wei Bao doesn't scrape too fiercely! Since Cong Gulun and Wei Bao have been in correspondence for a long time, they have a friendship after meeting. ”

"The key Great Khan wants to negotiate peacefully, otherwise he won't let the two Belle Lords go in person, you are representing the Great Khan! If Wei Bao is willing to marry Cong Gulun, peace talks can be made! Da Yu'er said.

When Cong Gulun heard this, his face turned red all of a sudden.

Dai Shan's eyes lit up, "This is true, if Wei Bao is willing to marry Cong Gulun, he is the son-in-law of my Dajin Kingdom, then we will pay some silver out, it can also be regarded as a dowry for Cong Gulun, and it is not a drop price, it is easy to say for both sides." ”

Huang Taiji had never thought about this before, and now that he was reminded by Da Yu'er, he also felt that the feasibility of this matter was very high, but he still shook his head and said, "No!" Even if the talks are completed this time and the two sides strike their troops, will the peace talks really be beneficial to our Dajin country? Now Wei Bao's territory is larger than ours and the population is larger than ours, and when Wei Bao develops, it will not be this kind of strength! Think about it, Wei Bao only dispatched more than 10,000 people this time, and we have no time to deal with it, if Wei Bao dispatches an army of 100,000 this time, can my Dajin Kingdom still survive? Haven't they been driven back to the old woods to the north? ”

"If you don't talk about it, if you continue to consume it like this, let's not do anything, at most two years, without the Ming army calling, we won't even be able to eat at that time, and we can only retreat to the deep mountains and old forests! Also, Wei Bao's men and horses are in our territory, and he has fewer dead people than us, so not only do we not have to worry about production in the rear, but we can also make it impossible for us to produce! If Wei Bao becomes the son-in-law of the Great Khan, even if he is not of the same mind as us, at least if he becomes an enemy of my Dajin again, he will be morally infamous! "The more Dai Shan thinks about it, the more he feels that if he can succeed, it will be a good thing for Dajin Guo!

Huang Taiji didn't speak.

"I'm going to go and say to the Great Khan, will you go with me, or will you go alone?" Dai Shandao.

"Brother, don't be in a hurry, don't tell the Great Khan first, let's meet with Wei Bao first, I'll send someone to contact Wei Bao's people now, see where to talk, and see if Wei Bao is willing to meet in person! If Wei Bao didn't mean this, and now tell the Great Khan, the Great Khan agreed, but Wei Bao didn't agree, didn't he make the Great Khan angry? "Huang Taiji Dao.

Da Yu'er nodded and said, "What Lord Belle said is right, there is no need to rush to tell the Great Khan that he knows, you can test Wei Bao's meaning first." ”

"Good! That's it! Take Conggulen to meet Wei Bao! Dai Shan stroked his palm.

"I'll go too." Da Yu'er said.

Dai Shan smiled: "Yes, you are resourceful, multiple people have multiple ideas, I think the Han people have always paid attention to faith and righteousness, and will not embarrass the negotiation envoy." ”

Huang Taiji saw that Dai Shan said so, so he could only agree.

Cong Gulun secretly wondered what you said was lively, why didn't anyone ask me if I was happy or not?

The thought of marrying Wei Bao made Cong Gulun feel a fever in his face.

Cong Gulun didn't know whether he wanted to or not, and he didn't think about it, but he didn't say anything against it.

Huang Taiji sent someone to contact Wei Bao's people, and the news reached the camp of the madman Tan, and the madman Tan did not dare to slack off, so he quickly passed it on to President Wei.

Huang Taiji made it clear that Wei Bao would meet in person, otherwise everything would not be discussed, and as for the meeting place, Wei Bao could be casually argued.

And it was made clear that he and Daishan would participate.

Huang Taiji and Dai Shan have enough weight in the Jin country, and as negotiators, they are qualified enough.

"Jiannu is very atmospheric, and the meeting place is actually whatever we want." Wei Bao laughed.

"But the president is at least at the same level as Nurhachi, and even higher than Nurhachi, because our strength is stronger than that of Jiannu!" Wu Xuexia said: "If Nurhachi doesn't participate, the president can just appoint someone to be a representative." ”

"Forget it, there's no need to dwell on this, they all said that we will set the place for negotiation, so let them come here." Wei Bao doesn't want to delay, he wants to reach peace talks with Jiannu as soon as possible, as long as Liaonan, North Korea, and Weijiazhuang have a few years of stable development, isn't it simple to clean up Jiannu.

This blow to Jiannu made Wei Bao's self-confidence skyrocket.

It is still the beginning of the Heaven and Earth Society, and it has only been developing for more than a year in total, and there is still a month between two years.

It will already be able to face hard steel Jiannu, and wait until next year, the year after next, as long as you come up with enough shells and bullets and grenades for one performance, even if you only send out one division of troops, it is very easy to capture Shenyang City, Jiannu's nest, in one fell swoop.

With two divisions, they can basically crush Jiannu.

Three divisions, that is, hanging.

Wei Bao thinks that three years is enough!

As long as there are no major changes within the Heaven and Earth Society, it is enough for the outside to maintain the status quo.

"Then let's talk here, and then the president will see them through the curtain." Wu Xuexia said.

Wei Bao nodded neatly: "Okay, let people reply." ”

"When will you meet them?" Wu Xuexia asked.

"The sooner the better, tomorrow. Tomorrow afternoon. Wei Bao smiled: "If they come too early, I still have to get up early, it's a cold day." ”

After Wu Xuexia saluted, she retreated.

Although they are already husband and wife, the rules around President Wei are getting bigger and bigger, and they are almost equivalent to the imperial standard.

Sometimes after staying in his own place for a long time, Wei Bao doesn't really want to go back to the Ming court, in his own territory, he is the emperor, and in the Ming court, he is still just a positive fourth product.

In his own territory, if he wants to sleep until what time he sleeps, if he is in the capital, with Wei Bao's current level, he already needs to get up early to go to the morning court, then he has to leave in the middle of the night every day, and he has to wait before dawn.

It's good to be able to go to court on time every day, but the key emperor shows up for half a month and a month, runs in vain every day, and has to get up early, Wei Bao doesn't like to look for abuse.

Huang Taiji heard that Wei Bao had agreed to meet tomorrow, and sneered, "Hmph, he's in a hurry enough!" ”

"This shows that Wei Bao really wants to achieve a result in peace talks as soon as possible, and he doesn't want to fight!" Da Yu'er said: "Now it can be seen that this person is full of ambition, not only working on an errand in the Ming court, but also desperately developing soldiers and horses in the local area, which is not good." ”

Although Da Yu'er's words were not finished, Huang Taiji suddenly understood what Da Yu'er wanted to say, "You mean that this person wants to be Cao Cao?" In the future, when the strength grows, the Son of Heaven will order the princes, and when the strength is accumulated, he will replace him and change the dynasty of the Ming Dynasty? ”

"Yes, he is not the only one who has this kind of mind? It's just that this person is only fifteen years old, and he has such ambitions and means, and he is indeed the biggest opponent of my Dajin country. Da Yu'er nodded.

"That's why I'm reluctant to negotiate peace with him, we can't develop him." Huang Tai Chi Dao.

"That's not necessarily, the Ming Emperor is incompetent, the court is corrupt, and he has already complained, and the world is starving! He wants to develop secretly, don't we know that he is broken behind his back? I don't believe that if the emperor knew that Wei Bao already had such strength in the local area, he would still be able to sit idly by. Han people often say, borrow a knife to kill! Da Yu'er smiled.

Huang Taiji's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he nodded: "You are still smart, there are many things you can think of, but I can't think of it!" ”

"It's not that Lord Belle can't think of it, Lord Baylor's resourcefulness is a hundred times better than me, it's Lord Baylor's concern that is chaotic, I'm a woman who is not in the court, and the position of seeing things is different from Lord Baylor." Da Yu'er smiled.

Huang Taiji comfortably took Da Yu'er into his arms, and cherished this beautiful side Fujin.

I just felt that I couldn't find the direction in a groggy way a while ago, and suddenly I had a direction!

The best way to deal with the people of Da Ming is to let them fight each other and let them fight among themselves!

The Dajin Kingdom can develop like this, isn't it thanks to Li Chengliang, is it the Ming Dynasty that raised the Dajin Kingdom?

Back then, Li Chengliang was able to raise the Jin Kingdom, and now Wei Bao, why can't he become the second Li Chengliang?

Thinking of this, Huang Taiji couldn't help but start to change his mind, and even hoped to make peace with Wei Bao immediately.

In fact, Li Chengliang is not too laissez-faire with Nurhachi.

Li Chengliang's cultivation of Nurhachi is a concentrated embodiment of the Ming Dynasty's method of "helping the weak and suppressing the strong" in public in the Jurchen tribe.

Many years before Nurhachi, Li Chengliang had implemented a similar technique, targeting the Hada tribe of the four Jurchen tribes in Haixi.

Hada is of the same origin as Ulla, and its first chieftain Wangji Wailan (Wanyan Wailan) is the fourth son of the old chieftain of Ula Clan, Keshna, who led part of his tribe to the Hada River to stand on his own in the tribal civil strife.

At that time, among the four departments of Haixi, Ye He was not only the strongest, but also unruly to the Ming court, while Wangji Wailan had a high political intelligence and was very loyal to Li Chengliang.

Li Chengliang vigorously supported the Hada Ministry, and gave Wangji Wailan the order of "Wang Zhong (Wangji Wailan is Wanyan, the Han surname is Wang)", so that Hada relied on the support of the Ming Dynasty to develop rapidly when Wang Zhong and Wang Tai were two generations of chiefs, and became the political leader of the four departments of Haixi and some of the Jianzhou Ministries.

In turn, Li Chengliang also used the power of Hada to suppress Ye He very well.

It can be seen that Li Chengliang and Hada are taking the political cooperation they need.

However, in Wangtai's later years, there was a civil strife in the Hada tribe, and Yehe took the opportunity to encroach on its population territory, and Hada declined.

Therefore, Li Chengliang hopes to find another political rookie among the Jurchens, and the requirements are to be obedient, loyal to the court, not to disturb the border, and to be able to crusade against the disloyal tribes as the minions of the court.

Nurhachi was the best fit for that at the time.

Before Li Chengliang was impeached by the imperial court and resigned, he had been relatively effective in controlling Nurhachi, and basically everything was under control.

The impeachment of Li Chengliang by the Ming court's gossip officials was nothing more than crimes such as corruption, nepotism among the descendants of the family, and the growth of local forces.

These are indeed true, but the dismissal of Li Chengliang, the successor chief military officer, the economic strategy, the understanding and control of the situation in the eastern Liaodong region, and the control of the Jurchen tribes are not as strict and strong as Li Chengliang.

Therefore, Nurhachi's strength is great, and the fault is not Li Chengliang's laissez-faire.

It was the internal tilt of the Ming Dynasty officialdom, which drove away Li Chengliang, who could subdue Nurhachi, and could not find a capable person who could be qualified for Li Chengliang.

Huang Taiji is familiar with history, and he knows the history of the rise of the Dajin Kingdom well, after being reminded by Da Yu'er, how can he not understand these truths.

Therefore, the rise of the Jin Kingdom has little to do with Li Chengliang's support.

It was Nurhachi who made good use of the Ming court and killed Li Chengliang.

The Jurchens themselves were propped up by the Ming Dynasty in order to restrain the Mongols.

Since Yongle ran the Northeast, the Ming Dynasty has been implementing a divide-and-rule strategy in the Northeast, with the Jurchens not only being its key targets, but also the Jurchens being the stage of the tripartite game between Mongolia, the Ming Dynasty and Korea.

Thus, the Jurchens were able to remain divided for hundreds of years.

From the late 16th century to the early 17th century, with the successive weakening of the Mongols, Korea, and Ming dynasties, the external forces that influenced the political trend of the Jurchens gradually disappeared, so that the Jurchens obtained the historical conditions to complete unification, which was the fundamental reason for Nurhachi's rise.

In the context of this era, even without Nurhachi, the historical mission of Jurchen unification would have been fulfilled by others.

On the other hand, the Jurchens in history have never lacked capable careerists, from Dongshan to Wangtai, and then to Nikan Wailan, which did not want to unify the Jurchens, but in the 14th and 16th centuries, there were many powerful countries around Northeast Asia, and a divided Jurchen was the most beneficial for Mongolia, Korea, and the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, in the geopolitical environment at that time, the Jurchens lacked the strength to complete unification on their own.

In addition, the Ming Dynasty never gave up its control over the Jurchens, and at the beginning the Ming Dynasty imposed economic restraint and military deterrence on the Jurchens, even in the Wanli period, the Ming Dynasty did not give up its monitoring of the Jurchens.

According to the "Records of Mingshenzong", from the fifteenth year of Wanli and 1587, when Nurhachi unified the state, there was no shortage of calls for the Jurchen threat theory in the central Ming Dynasty.

In the thirty-sixth year of Wanli, Xiong Tingbi served as the governor of Liaodong, that is, he expressed his anxiety and vigilance about the rise of Jianzhou in the song.

However, the Ming Dynasty has been unable to make an effective response in view of the problem of national strength, and even Xiong Tingbi only advocated strengthening armaments and improving the defense capability of Liaodong, which shows that by the middle of Wanli, the Ming Dynasty had implemented a contraction policy in Liaodong, which was the result of the decline of the Ming Dynasty's national strength.

The Ming Dynasty in the Wanli period was in a period of comprehensive contraction, and the out-of-control ethnic groups were not only the Jurchen family in the northeast, but also the rebellion of Yang Yinglong in the southwest, the brewing of the Mongol invasion of Qinghai and the rebellion of Lu'an, and the harassment of Yunnan by Burma, all of which were specific manifestations of the decline of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, to see Li Chengliang as the person who caused the rise of the Jurchens is really too exalted to him.

The next day, early in the morning, Huang Taiji and Dai Shan set off with Cong Gulen Gege and Da Yu'er.

There were only twenty people with him, one was to show sincerity, and the other was useless to bring more people.

Nearly 40,000 troops have filled the belly of the treasure army in just a few days, and no matter how many people they bring, it is in vain.

If Wei Bao wants to kill them in his own territory, it will really be like crushing ants.

On the bank of the Hunhe River, the scenery is good.

President Wei's big tent is also very beautiful, and it is in no way inferior to the sweat tent of Jiannu Nurhachi.

The reason why there are so many people under the rule of the Heaven and Earth Society is that it has been integrated, there are four million Han people, most of them are from the Liao people in eastern Liaoning, as well as those from western Liaoning, and there are many people from Shandong, Beizhili, and Northwest China.

They were all young and middle-aged people who fled the famine and couldn't eat enough, and some old and weak women and children were accepted in the later period.

For the rest, there are millions of North Koreans!

The Mongols numbered nearly half a million people.

There are nearly 500,000 people from the south.