Seeing that he asked where the Dorotes were, the leader of the reconnaissance team said, "They have fled to the southwest, and it is estimated that the escapees have lured us into pursuit, while the others have been prepared in ambush on the mountain." ”

"How do you know they're Dorotes?" And how do you know that they will ambush ahead? ”

The captain said: "In recent years, we have sent many teams to contact the Karaqin, but they were all intercepted and killed by the Dorotes, and according to those who escaped by luck, the Dorotes' usual trick is to send people to provoke first, and then ambush people behind. The accents and decorations of the people who began to ambush here suggest that they were Dorots, and that they were clearly well prepared, otherwise who would have bothered to cover this pit with planks and dust and withered grass? ”

Seeing that the leader nodded with the intention of pursuing, the captain said again: "Although the general has brought a lot of people, he must also guard against the ambush of the Dorotes, and I don't know how many people they ambushed this time, so it is best to send some more people to avoid being ambushed again." ”

Zuo Ling thought for a while and said, "If you wait for those hateful Dorotes, you will not be able to escape, I will go after you first, report to the Great Khan, and ask him to send someone to answer you." After saying that, he beat his horse and left, and the soldiers behind him also shouted and chased southwest.

The captain of the reconnaissance team had to ask someone to escort the wounded soldiers back to find someone to treat him, and he himself went to report to Huang Taiji. Huang Taiji brought tens of thousands of people to Daning this time, and it is not entirely correct to say that he was a sneak attack, it should be regarded as an attack and expulsion≡ after returning to Huang Taiji from the two departments of Boiling Han and Naiman, many Taiji of the Alakchut Department came to vote one after another, making Huang Taiji feel that he was already expected to return in Mongolia. I heard that Lin Dan Khan was still in Daning, and Huang Taiji was ready to go out in person to ask Lin Dan Khan to move, and by the way, take a look at the surrounding form of the new territory.

Hearing that the reconnaissance team said that the other team Dorot was setting up an ambush and preparing to destroy their reconnaissance team, and there were already people leading people to pursue, Huang Taiji thought to himself that these people were not worthy of attention. He thought that Lin Danhan's intention was to use these hundreds of people to delay himself for some time, I was afraid that Lin Danhan still had some things that he hadn't handled well, and he could just go and catch him off guard. Thinking of this, Huang Taiji said to his brothers, Dolgon and Duoduo, beside him: "Since there are people who are going to hunt down those damned Dorotes, we should let go of our hands and feet and march towards Daning, and see if Lin Dan Khan wants to fight me or retreat west." ”

"Then we will go west along the Monk River," said Dolgon, and march westward through the original garrison of the Han Ministry, and at most we will be able to reach Daning in one evening at most." ”

Dordor asked, "Will those Dorotes have a grand conspiracy?" Will 500 people fall into a trap if they chase it? ”

As if to confirm his words, the second group of reconnaissance teams came back and said: "Report to the Great Khan, the situation ahead is not good, the five hundred troops pursuing the Dorotes seem to have met the enemy in the mountains§ The soldiers heard the shouts of people and the sound of horses and weapons clashing, but there was no sound for a while, and our five hundred men did not come back, please tell the Great Khan what to do next!" ”

Dolgon changed color when he heard this: "It is not something that a few hundred people can do if five hundred people lose their combat effectiveness in the blink of an eye, and not a single one has escaped, or I will take two thousand people immediately?" ”

Huang Taiji was also a little incredulous at first, but then slowly calmed down, he thought for a while and asked, "How many people did the Dorotes ambush us in the past?" ”

Dorgon said: "Generally there are about two or three hundred people, and it should be easy for two or three hundred people to ambush twenty or thirty people." ”

Huang Taiji asked: "Then if we want to make our five hundred people lose their combat effectiveness in a blink of an eye, no one has run back, how many people do you think it will take if you do it?" ”

Dolgon thought for a moment and said, "If the terrain is favorable and the enemy does not perceive it, two thousand men should be able to do it, but are there at least two thousand Dorotes in the mountains?" ”

Huang Taiji asked again: "Since it is at least two thousand people, it is impossible to ambush a reconnaissance team of twenty or thirty people, which means that the Mongols have already known about our operation this time, what do you say Lin Dan Khan will do after knowing our action?" ”

Dolgon thought for a moment and said, "If he wants to fight us in a decisive battle near this Nuruerhu Mountain, he has no chance of winning, and according to the information we have obtained, he has not gathered the people scattered on the grassland at all, and he has less than 20,000 men at most. ”

Huang Taiji thought for a while and said: "For the sake of safety, Dolgon will lead 7,000 men to chase the enemy from the left side of Nuluerhu Mountain, and Duoduo and I will lead the rest of the people to take the Laoha River to Daning, the road is gentle and wide, and I am not afraid of what the Mongols will do." Dolgon paid attention to safety when chasing the enemy all the way, and if he couldn't catch up with the enemy, he would first go to Lingyuan and then go west along the Daling River, and he heard that the army had built a lot of castles on the side of the Daling River, and the mouth of the two rivers was built a fortified city, you probe across the river to listen to the truth and don't provoke them ♀, some Ming troops only know that they have no ambition to hide in their shells, and they will come to clean them up after I finish cleaning up the Mongols. ”

Dolgon said, "Well, after I have crossed the mouth of the two rivers, I will go north, and I will meet you in Daning along the Laoha River. ”

After Dolgon broke up with Huang Taiji, he chased 7,000 people to the southwest, and after passing two mountain passes, he found that there were traces of fighting along the way, and when he passed a large mountain pass, he found more than 200 corpses lying on the ground, and one by one the broken hands and feet showed that the battle was very cruel. Seeing that there were still some horse corpses in the distance, Dolgon asked people to check and found that the battle had been over for a while, counting the five hundred people who were chasing and killing the Dorots all the way, and when they chased here, they changed from pursuers to prey of the Dorotes, but only two hundred people died here, and more than two hundred people did not know where to go.

Dorgon had the surrounding traces look closely, and found that no one had walked in any direction other than the tip of the trail that continued to retreat southwest, which ruled out the possibility that the rest of the people had fled to the mountains. There are only two possibilities left, that is, the remaining two hundred people either flee to the southwest or all of them are captured, since the enemy is prepared and has superior forces, it is impossible for the surrounded people to retreat and escape, and it is even more impossible to break through the enemy line and escape to the southwest, no matter what, they must catch up first, whether it is to rescue the soldiers or avenge the dead, they must first find those damned Dorots.

Dolgon led the men all the way to the southwest, although there was no trace of grass to observe in winter, but there would be horseshoe prints on the mud and sand on the road to analyze, and occasionally some scattered horse manure on the road, so that the Jurchens could follow the direction of the Dorots. When he came to a fork in the road in the afternoon, Dolgon did not care when he saw that the terrain on both sides was not very dangerous, but wondered which way to pursue the horseshoe prints on both sides. Seven thousand people are pursuing on the side of the mountain that is not very familiar, and it would be stupid if the troops were divided, and it is likely that there is a fork in the road behind, is it necessary to constantly divide the troops? In that case, I might be annihilated by the Mongols.

Fortunately, someone immediately solved the problem for him, and several soldiers rode to report that ten corpses had been found on the road ahead, all of them Jurchen soldiers. Dolgon went to see it himself, and found that it was the soldiers who came to pursue the Dorotes, their hands were tied and they died on the ground with their eyebrows and angry eyes, it seems that they were first captured and then killed] There are blood holes in the throat and chest of the soldiers, and the blood is solidified and dried due to the cold in winter, this tragic situation makes the Jurchen soldiers angry one by one, and they have asked to go after and kill those damned Dorots immediately.

Dolgon, though brave, was still a fifteen-year-old child, and although he tried to keep himself calm, fifteen was an impulsive age, and seeing the situation in front of him and the shouts of the soldiers around him, he could not help but immediately order a pursuit along the road. I didn't see a single Dorot on the way, but I could always see the obvious traces of their escape, and even if there was a fork in the road, I always threw a few Jurchen corpses, as if I was afraid that the Jurchens would not find the way, so I gave ♀ them some corpses, one was to guide the way, and the other was to ignite the fire, that is, to make the mood that gradually calmed down with the long-distance bumps cause anger again.

Fortunately, the people on horseback are not as troublesome as the people in the Guannai, they have to drink tea when they are thirsty, they have to cook when they are hungry, and they have to cover up when they go to the toilet. The Mongolian soldiers didn't need to stop eating and drinking on the horse, so they chased all the way to Ling Yuan, ran for two hours in one breath, ran for about two hundred miles, and when it was dark, everyone thought about how to rest.

As soon as Dorgon dismounted and rested, he heard the soldiers beside him shout: "Look ahead, are those people with torches damned Dorotes?" ”

When Dolgon looked at it, he saw a group of people walking rapidly on the opposite mountain, and if he looked at the scale of the torches, there should be thousands of people, and he said to himself, if you find a place to hide, I may not know where you are, since you want to expose yourself, you can only blame yourself for your bad life. He thought for a moment and ordered his soldiers to mount their horses and continue the pursuit, whether the people in front of him were Dorots or not, they would surely ask for news if they were caught.

It is possible that someone was chasing after them, and those who fled in front slowly reduced the number of torches, and it seems that they also knew that too many torches would expose themselves. Dolgon sneered twice and told the soldiers to light the torches, since they were exposed, there was no need to hide their strength, so that those who escaped knew that there was no escape. After Ling Yuan, he ran for dozens of miles, and after a few turns, he came to the edge of a high cliff, and by the light of the torches, Dolgon saw that the terrain was also a little treacherous, and was thinking about whether to send someone up to the top of the mountain to take a look, only to hear a burst of muskets, and then some soldiers fell to the ground.

Dolgon was frightened and told people to shoot back while firing arrows, and thought to himself, when did this Dorot be equipped with muskets? The enemy, who had occupied a favorable terrain in the dark, could not continue to pursue him in any case, so he immediately ordered his men to camp on the spot, and prepared to see what was going on at dawn the next day.