Everyone was stunned in the face of this sudden word, and turned around to look only to find that it was His Royal Highness the Imperial Father, the Regent, who slowly walked up from behind the screen and sat on the dragon throne to listen to the government.

The eunuch who came with small steps behind him hurriedly recited, "Jurchen language: Your Royal Highness the Emperor and Father Regent have arrived!" The ministers of the princess Baylor bowed down. ”

The Manchu civil and military ministers in the audience, as well as the kings of the banners and the Baylors, patted their sleeves and knelt down to salute, and when they were called up at the end of the salute, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was called up by the Manchu Qing Dynasty Zhenglan Beizi and the Li Fan Yuan: Aixin Jueluo Boluo, who came forward to report "Jurchen language: Emperor Qiyu, imperial father regent, slaves A few days ago, when dealing with the affairs of the two departments of Monan and Mobei, they found that there were nomadic hunting areas and residential areas, and there were also many Ming and Han people mixed in it, perhaps to avoid war? Most of them have not yet shaved their hair, and they are mixed in the nomadic areas and occasionally steal cattle and sheep, and the slaves dare not call the shots without military power! ”

And for this matter, the regent of the Manchu emperor also heard a little, this is because the first emperor (Emperor Taizong Wen of the Manchu Dynasty: Aixin Jueluo Huang Taiji) ordered that it is not allowed to slaughter and abuse the Han people without permission, which has led to the continuous flight of Han people to the north in recent years, he feels that if he rashly kills these people, although he can establish his authority, but also lose part of the hearts of the people, after all, they are now in the situation of whether to enter the customs and rob, and if they do not do it well, it will cause a civil uprising.

Therefore, the regent of the Manchu emperor did not dare to be careless, he thought for a while and felt that he took a step back and opened the sky, so he ordered: "Jurchen language: Lone has heard a little about this matter, but you must not be reckless, the emperor has ordered to treat the Han people well, how dare Lone forget?" Immediately ordered the Metropolitan Procuratorate to allocate patrols and disperse to various places to appease the people, especially the pacification of the Shuntianfu area of the Ming Empire in the north of the Guannai must be indispensable. ”

This was a good suggestion in the eyes of the Manchu Domain, so he asked for it.

And then the regent of the Manchu emperor is going to talk about what he wants to say in combination with the ministers, as everyone knows, he gathered heavy troops and the general army of the Ming Ning Yuanwei before: Wu Sangui, and jointly attacked the Li thief Kou Bing Pass, and now the Ming Emperor is empty, and there are only two things in front of the Qing Empire, first; Occupy the territory of Shanhaiwei in order to expand the territory of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and secondly, enter the customs and rob to preserve the power outside the retreating army, and when the Central Plains forces continue to fight and lose both, they are waiting for opportunities to rob so repeatedly.

When this idea was announced to the public, almost all the civil and military ministers in the main hall agreed that they should choose, and the second idea, the first one felt unrealistic?

Why? Because at this moment, the number of Manchu Qing people and troops is only more than 100,000, even if you add the Mobei and Southern Mongolian tribes, the strength is only about 260,000, you must know that the Central Plains is more than this number of troops, although the current Liukou is defeated, but the number of troops is not less than hundreds of thousands, after all, the battle of a stone The regent of the Manchu emperor can still see a little tired, and let's talk about the power of the Southern Ming Empire, according to the Manchu Han people's bachelor: Hong Chengchou, to analyze at least one million people.

For such a large and more numerous Manchu Qing than their own, they would never dare and could not casually develop their territory into Guannai, because the current situation is not clear, and the Guanning Iron Cavalry stationed in Beijing does not know whether they will cooperate with the Dashun army together, so the Manchu emperor's father and regent also think that the second article is advisable.

But in fact, he didn't think so in his heart, he felt that since the Central Plains had no owner, it was better to take the opportunity to occupy the land and drive away the Liukou, and it was not impossible to turn Beizhili into the land of the Qing Dynasty, and even be bold enough to move the imperial capital Shengjing to the Forbidden City! After all, Daxingfu, the central capital of the Jin Kingdom, and the capital of the Mengyuan Empire, are all set in the Forbidden City established by Emperor Yonglewen, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, and it is also a symbol that is conducive to stabilizing the Qing Empire's rule over the Central Plains and sweeping the world.

However, the current forces simply do not allow it in terms of troops, and I don't know what will happen? So as soon as the words were spoken, they were immediately opposed by countless people, first of all, the Manchu kings Beile and Beizi felt that it was inappropriate, how could there be so many Han people to obey their rule? Once I am afraid that they are really invincible and can escape back to Guanwai, and then will the Mingshun forces unite to deal with the Qing Dynasty?

Although it is currently under the slogan of avenging the monarch's father (Chongzhen) to enter the customs to chase and kill the Liukou Shun army, but once the capital is moved to the Central Plains and does not leave, it will be different, and when the Han people awaken and organize, they are afraid that the Manchu Qing Dynasty will not even have scum left, so in case the civil and military ministers decided to persuade the Manchu Emperor Regent to give up this plan, after all, the Manchu Eight Banners are invincible, and there is a bottom line, and it is not as powerful as the Mengyuan Iron Cavalry that swept across the Eurasian continent, and now it is the age of firearms, and the cavalry is just a mobile battle, Not suitable for siege.

After this exhortation and the recognition of military strength, the regent of the Manchu emperor decided that the matter was to be considered, and announced on the spot that everyone would retire and disperse.

Here in the territory of Qingdu County, Baoding Prefecture, which is under the command of the Northern Zhili Daning Capital, there is a sound of horses' hooves on a steep slope, like a galloping of thousands of horses, and a closer look is actually wearing a black iron placket ring arm armor, and the army wearing a bowl and a straight top flag is generally hung with a three-eyed god gun and a waist knife on the waist, and the rear team seems to have a horse riding force wearing cotton armor and cloth armor holding a yellow flag and a white flag towards the county seat.

Judging from the position, the distance between the front team and the rear team is about a mile away, and the front team is fast and well-equipped, and there are follow-up soldiers pushing field firearms such as fire chariots, attack artillery, Dingliao general cannons, red-coated cannons, and Yuan Rong vehicles, which are obviously better than the cavalry of the rear team, and even the morale of the front team is relatively high.

Therefore, the two detectives in coarse cloth clothes in the bushes, looking at this from a distance, couldn't help but sigh that the murderous aura of the chasing soldiers in the front team was too heavy.

Then when he came back to report the news, there were already many wounded people in the jungle with white cloths, the soldiers ran too fast, and one stumbled and fell to the ground, and hurriedly got up and reported: "Your Majesty, the rebel general Wu Sangui is coming to Qingdu County with Guanning Iron Cavalry and Dongyu Tartars, is our army advanced to the city to block the enemy?" ”

After brewing his emotions, he picked up the water bag and drank the saliva of Emperor Dashun: Li Zicheng, waved his hand and ordered, "Let the left battalion control the general Cihou: Liu Fangliang, bring a team of people to fight these turtle suns and rub their sharp energy." ”

When the soldier received the order, he immediately turned around and ran to report the news.

Cihou, the general of the Dashun Left Battalion in the city: Liu Fangliang, who had just arrived, had not had time to repair the soldiers and horses, and received the news that the military order was going to march.

He was demoralized and led the army westward, and he also needed a victory to improve the morale of the army, so he did not hesitate to take the order to wave his division out of the city, and went out of the city with a trident in his hand under the banner of the general of the left battalion.

At the same time, due to the fast speed of the Guanning iron cavalry of the front team, almost all of them have already come out of the ambush circle, leaving only the Manchu Qing Yellow and White Banner armies to advance slowly in the rear, as if they intend to use the Guanning Army as cannon fodder? Or is it testing the loyalty of the Guan Ning army?

However, the leading commander Ming Ning Yuanwei Founding Duke and Manchu Ping Xibo: Wu Sangui, also knew in his heart the thoughts of Dongyu Jiannu, and his role as the vanguard of the pursuit of the Liukou Shun army was also purposeful? One is to avenge the concubine Chen Yuanyuan and chase her back by the way, and the other is to introduce the Eastern Tartars into this Central Plains plague, even if they can't eliminate it, at least they may lose both, but is this really the case?

Next, the archers of the Shun army who had laid the ambush covered their faces with cloths one by one, and after the soldiers picked up the buckets and poured a puddle of black dirt on the ground, they fell sideways in rows, and the archers of the Shun army began to stick arrows into the ground when they saw this, and aimed at the two banners of the Eastern Tatar cavalry a hundred paces away on the Xuan.

As the artillery battalions of the Shun army on the position not far away led the army to open artillery bombardment, the archers of the Shun army cooperated to let go of Xuan, and the arrows that were stained with dirt were like poisonous arrows stabbing the enemy, especially when the cotton armor that penetrated the Dongyu Tartar was shot in the arms or legs, the infection was quite strong.

However, due to the fact that the cotton armor of the Toyo Tartar is still wrapped in (a small number of iron armor pieces), it is almost difficult to shoot through the important parts of the body without shooting with a large bow and arrow! Even a firecracker can withstand some of the impact.

However, the general Qi Hou of Zuo Guoyi of the Dashun Middle Battalion: Gu Kecheng led the fire gun team and spearmen to rush and kill, while the rest of the infantry and heavy cavalry set up a formation to wave flags and interspersed in the bushes, and made the banners of the generals of each battalion appear to be a large number of ambushes.

The ambushed Dongyu Jiannu were not fools, and when they learned that there was a movement of the Liukou Shun army nearby, they began to organize Baturu and the Iron Pigeon from the Manchu Qing Dynasty to Gushan Ezhen and the third class Ang Bang Zhangjing: Tatara Yingordai, led by the manchu to pounce into the woods, charging while using the usual archery method, drawing arrows and shooting at the place where there was movement.

Seeing that the Eastern Tartars had successfully taken the bait, and the general of the Dashun Left Battalion, Cihou, was not to be outdone, he let some of the cavalry charging at the headquarters shoot with bows and arrows, and the rest of the cavalry changed their weapons to kill in front of the Eastern Tartar cavalry for white-knuckle combat, so as to make up for the defeat of the last stone battle outside Shanhaiwei Pass.

The situation must be obvious, before they get close, the Shun army is still effective in attacking the Eastern Tartar archers, but when it comes to close combat, they have to change all their weapons and fight the enemy.

These rogues in the Central Plains are either bandits or vagrants, and they are not the opponents of the Manchu Dynasty at all in terms of white-knuckle warfare, and they will repeat the defeat of a stone in a short time!

Forcing the general of the Dashun Left Battalion to lead the army to retreat very unconvinced, he was chased and killed by the Manchu Yellow Banner cavalry, but fortunately there was a cover of the Shun artillery battalion to successfully retreat.

And the general soldiers of the Mingning Yuanwei who were marching in the front team also realized that there was a situation? He immediately ordered the army to turn around and rush towards the gate of Qingdu County, but on the way, he was stopped by Yang Kun, the left general of Ming Ning Yuanwei, and persuaded him, "Lord General Soldier, are you in such a hurry to go back now to help the Eastern Tartars?" ”

Seeing that the general soldier of Mingning Yuanwei bowed his head and was silent, General Mingning Yuanwei Zuo had to continue: "Secondly, we don't have to rush back to help the Tartars, we just need to make a gap from the side and make a sample!" Think about it now, you are the founding father of our Ming Dynasty! Although the Tartar entered the customs by avenging his father, it may not be unpredictable in the future! ”

Hearing this, the general soldier of Ming Ning Yuanwei felt reasonable, and he did not intend to surrender to the Manchu Qing, after all, he still held the great tomorrow in his hand, so he decided to fight from the side to assist in the battle.

Soon, the Manchu Baturu and the iron pigeons on this side entered the woods, but the forest was full of trees and the terrain was complicated, and the Liukou Shun army took advantage of this terrain to change places with one shot, so that the Eastern Tatars could not figure out the direction.

Just when the Tartars were in chaos, the general of Dashun Zhongying Guoyi, who was hiding in the woods, quietly gave an order to the soldiers, and as soon as he finished speaking, the soldiers smiled quietly and nodded to show that they understood.