Wang Huazhen watched Lin Dan Khan set off before walking back, knowing that his brigade was walking slowly, so he first sent a fast horse to transmit the news back, and the military affairs institute immediately passed it to Ningyuan City after receiving the news.

Xiong Tingbi, the overseer of the Northeast Military Region in Ningyuan City, was discussing the military situation with Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Liaodong, and immediately sent people to inform their respective men and horses as planned after receiving the news from the Military Affairs Yuan. Xiong Tingbi ordered Man Gui to lead 20,000 cavalry to Yizhou City, along with Xu Chengming's 20,000 troops from Guizhou, and Zu Dashou's 30,000 troops retreated along the Daling River until Dalinghe Fort finally became an empty city. Yuan Chonghuan ordered Wu Xiang's 7,000 cavalry to hand over the defense of Yizhou to Mangui, and led the army to quietly return to Ningyuan in case the enemy attacked. All the men and horses moved quietly, and only a few soldiers in Jinzhou City heard a few horse calls at night.

December 23 is the day when the king of the stove goes to heaven, and people from all over the world have to buy some stove sugar sacrifice stoves on this day, so that the king of the stove can go to heaven to say good things. On this day when everyone was preparing to celebrate the New Year safely, Huang Taiji led the army to the city of Dalinghe Fort, he himself brought 40,000 elites, plus the original 20,000 people here, a total of 60,000, Dolgon because there was no one to replace him, he was afraid that he would go straight to the Amin Department and not be able to stop Mao Wenlong, so it would take two days to arrive. Huang Taiji was confident that he would definitely be able to set foot on Dalinghe Fort with his 80,000 people, so he came to Dalinghe Fort without concealing his generosity.

Hearing that the army had a large water dragon cannon to defend the city, Huang Taiji specially gave some people a leather robe with oil on it, and asked them to put on armor and then rush up to fill the ditch with a shield, he believed that as long as the trench under the city wall was filled, the high city wall was nothing. But people are not as good as heaven, when he came to the city of Dalinghe Fort with his team in high spirits, he found that the previous 20,000 troops had taken Dalinghe Fort, of course, to be precise, an empty city.

Seeing that the Ming army was more generous than himself, Huang Taiji was taken aback, and when he entered the city, he saw that the roads were clean and there were no scattered remnants, indicating that the Ming army did not flee in a panic because of his arrival. There were no useful clues left in the house, and it was impossible to analyze why the Ming army left suddenly, and I heard the report that there were at least sixty or seventy thousand Ming troops besieging Jinzhou, and even if they wanted to leave, they should fight a battle and leave again, so they left calmly without saying a word, and there must be some conspiracy in it.

Huang Taiji didn't know the essentials, so he called a Mongolian general who had originally come here, and when he saw that this person was thick and bearded, he didn't like it, and asked in a deep voice: "You have been watching here, and you don't know that tens of thousands of Ming troops are gone?" Any idea why they left? ”

The bearded man said: "A few days ago, we only heard the constant sound of horses' hooves, and we were worried that the Ming army would continue to increase its strength, and who knew that they were constantly retreating." These people are really cunning and incomprehensible, maybe they are afraid of the Great Khan Tianwei so they fled and don't know, go to Jinzhou to ask if they know. ”

Probably in order to cooperate with the bearded man, someone reported that Li Yongfang, the guard general of Jinzhou, was coming, and Huang Taiji immediately ordered someone to call Li Yongfang to come in and speak. After Li Yongfang entered the tent, he first met and then thanked Huang Taiji for coming to relieve the siege in person, and finally said that Sun Degong would come to see him later because of his inconvenient legs, and Huang Taiji was impatient to listen to those clichés and asked: "When did the Ming army leave?" Know where they went? ”

Li Yongfang said: "The first Ming army to besiege and besiege the city were infantry, and after attacking twice and being repulsed by us, they did not come to attack again. About five days ago, thousands of cavalry came from the direction of Yizhou, and the infantry all left, and we were wondering that the Ming army was going to attack the city with cavalry, who knew that the day before yesterday suddenly disappeared, it is estimated that the Ming army was the first to withdraw most of the men and horses, and the rest of the men and horses retreated at night, because only cavalry remained, so they retreated quickly. However, looking at the footprints, whether they were infantry or cavalry, they all withdrew separately, all the way to the west and probably to Ningyuan, and all the way to the northeast, it is estimated that they went to Yizhou. ”

As soon as Huang Taiji heard that Li Yongfang was watching the Ming army leave, he immediately became angry and said angrily: "Sun Degong's leg is lame, is your leg also lame?" Seeing the enemy retreat and not chase, are you now only going to retreat into the city and not ride horses? ”

Li Yongfang didn't dare to defend when he saw that Huang Taiji was angry, but he lowered his head and didn't speak. Huang Taiji felt that he shouldn't be angry at this time, so he took a breath and asked, "Why don't you go out of the city to chase the enemy?" Is it really cowardice? ”

Li Yongfang thought for a while and said: "Don't hide it from the Great Khan, we only have 20,000 people, while the Ming army had nearly 80,000 at that time, and the new equipment of the Ming army is endless, very powerful. In order to prevent the Jinzhou city gate from being bombarded by the Ming army's artillery, we blocked several city gates with big stones, so we came out a little slowly, asking the Great Khan to forgive me. Later, when we saw the retreat of the Ming army, we only opened a city gate in order to find out where they were hanged from the city, worried that the Ming army would kill the horse pistol and only open a city gate. ”

Huang Taiji knew that Li Yongfang was right to be careful, but he still said: "I don't care how careful you are, now you go back and let Sun Degong don't have to come to see me, you just need to find out where the Ming army went and what reason it withdrew." ”、

At this time, someone under his command came to report that he had found a letter in a large house, and this letter was specially addressed to Huang Taiji, and asked Huang Taiji if he was presenting it now. Huang Taiji also wondered if anyone would write to him and ask someone to show him the faith, but his subordinates opened it and took a look at it to know that the letter was written by Xiong Tingbi, the overseer of the Northeast Military Region. Xiong Tingbi said in the letter that this letter was written on the orders of the Ming Emperor, in order to redefine the relationship between the two sides in the future, in order to achieve peace in the past few years, everyone was negotiating, because some misunderstandings caused the two sides to resume the war, now is the time to restore rationality and talk about it.

The letter said that during the previous negotiations, the Ming Dynasty set some harsh conditions, one was to let the Jurchens immediately lay down their arms and submit to obedience, and if they did not submit, they would be expelled from the north of the desert. The revised plan was to restore the boundary line of the Hongwu period, and the Jurchens retreated to the east of the six forts such as Dadian and Kuandian, and the Jurchens retreated to the north of 30,000 Wei with 30,000 Wei as the boundary. If Huang Taiji agreed that the Ming could confer his official position and trade with the Jurchens on schedule, peace would be achieved and further fighting avoided.

In order to show the sincerity of the Ming side, the Ming troops besieging Jinzhou had already withdrawn, and the place where they were withdrawn was not concealed, and Huang Taiji was clearly told that it was withdrawn to Yizhou and Ningyuan. If Huang Taiji is willing to negotiate on this basis, he can send someone to Yizhou to negotiate, and if he is not willing to negotiate, he can also send troops to Yizhou to compete.

The letter that Tianqi asked Xiong Tingbi to write to Huang Taiji showed a meaning, that is, he wanted to take the territory occupied by the Jurchens lightly and skillfully without a little effort, Shenyang, Tieling, and Liubao are now occupied by the Jurchens, and the Ming side will not agree to ask the Jurchens back. As long as a house and a piece of land are occupied by others, it is not easy to get it back, and there is still the government as the master to uphold justice, and now if you want to get back a large piece of land from a group of people with strong fighting power, unless the Jurchens are all stupid or all moved by the Dharma.

Huang Taiji took a map and looked at it, and saw that there were mountains on both sides of Yizhou but a large open field in front of him, so he decided to go and see for himself if he could annihilate the 40,000 Ming troops here. Ningyuan's Guancheng is well repaired, not to mention, Yizhou is a small city, as long as it takes some effort to capture it, it is not difficult, but it is whimsical to retreat to the west of Liubao north of 30,000 Wei, and if you don't give them some power, these Ming army tails will go to the sky.

At this time, Sun Degong also came in a sedan chair, saw Sun Degong saluting himself with a tired face, and saw Li Yongfang who had not left on the side, remembering their contribution to the city back then, so he said to them with a pleasant face: "Okay, you should go back and continue to hold Jinzhou, the dug door hole and the blocked door hole are maintained as they are, so as to prevent the Ming army from stealing the city again." I'll rest here for two days and then go to take Yiju in person, do you think Yiju is good to capture? ”

Li Yongfang didn't speak, only looked at Sun Degong, Sun Degong said: "Yizhou's defense was weak back then, and I was afraid that the Ming army would succeed in a sneak attack, so I have asked people to strengthen it in the past few years. The two sides of Yizhou are not far from the mountain, it is not easy to surround for fear of being attacked by the enemy from the mountain and the city, if you want to attack, it is best to attack directly head-on, it is recommended that the Great Khan move some artillery from Jinzhou to bombard the city gate and city wall, and the enemy has no need to worry about the artillery. ”

Huang Taiji nodded and said: "You once transported cannons from Jinzhou to Yizhou in order to take revenge, it is said that it will not take a day to transport the road is not difficult to walk, if you want to transport a few cannons from Jinzhou, it will take about a few days to dismantle and transport them over?" ”

Sun Degong said: "There are now more than a dozen cannons in Jinzhou, and we will dismantle a few of them and transport them to Yizhou for three days at most. ”

Huang Taiji said: "Okay, you go and prepare now, and in three days I will see the cannon appear under the city of Yiju." ”

Three days later, Huang Taiji came to the city of Yizhou, looked at the mighty and majestic soldiers behind him, looked at the eight cannons lined up not far in front, Huang Taiji nodded with satisfaction, he called a clerk and said: "The emperor of the Ming Dynasty has made a retreat, and has given us a grace to go to Mobei to gnaw the sand, I also want to come to salute first and then soldier, let the Ming army know that we are not unreasonable people, you write a letter for me now and I will send someone to shoot into the city." ”

The clerk respectfully asked, "May I ask how the Great Khan villain should be written?" ”

Huang Taiji said: "You wrote that Dajin Tiancong Khan was very moved when he read the letter of the Ming Emperor, and his soldiers were also very happy, and they were ready to accept the advice of the Ming Emperor to retreat to the east of Liubao." But Ben Khan has eight strong men who disagree, to compete with the Ming army, if you can't win, there is nothing to say, but if you win, tens of thousands of people in the city of Yizhou are the spoils of Ben Khan, you need to redeem the Ming with silver and grain, ten stone grain for a person Tong Su is not deceitful. ”

The clerk asked puzzledly: "May I ask which eight strong men are the Great Khan?" Do I need to write my name? ”

Huang Taiji laughed and said: "For the time being, there is no name, tell the eight strong men of the Ming army Ben Khan are these eight cannons, if they are afraid, they can go out of the city and surrender before noon, Ben Khan absolutely guarantees their lives." ”