forty-one

Above the side hall, the silence seemed to be heard by dropping a needle. Huang Taiji knelt on the ground, Nurhachi leaned on the tiger skin Taishi chair, and next to him sat the eldest concubine Abahai, the three of them did not speak, and the air seemed to be a little frozen.

Huang Taiji thinks that his personal guards are all hardcore cronies who have the same heart as him, and he is not afraid of leaking the news. At the same time, on the way back, he had secretly ordered his subordinates to secretly block all the passages on the border of Jianzhou, and Hai Dongqing, who had been secretly trained, was also released in the sky and was ready to snipe the strange carrier pigeon at any time. Do your best to intercept all the news from the Ming army, especially the few people who were captured by the Ming army, these people are in big trouble.

He confirmed that his father could not have known the news, because he was the head of the intelligence system and had a unique advantage in the blockade control of intelligence. But even the "Ice Prince", who is usually known as the "immobile ice prince", felt irrepressibly weak and short of breath when facing Nurhachi.

No one can lie in front of Nurhachi and still be completely calm, especially when those knife-sharp eyes pierce the depths of your soul, and you will have a terrible feeling of being completely transparent from top to bottom.

"Didn't meet the Ming army? But why? The silence lasted for about five minutes, and the conversation finally began again.

"This ...... Probably because the Ming army was cowardly and incompetent, our army defeated Zhang Chengyin under the city of Fushun, and the Ming army in eastern Liaodong was already frightened, so they retreated before fighting. Huang Taiji quietly sent out a sycophant again.

"Retreat before you fight? Where did the Ming army retreat without a fight? ”

Huang Taiji was shocked that something was wrong, and he heard Nurhachi ask like this, and if he went around and around, he wanted to get out of Goatyu Fort, and it seemed that he asked this intentionally. He replied stubbornly: "It's everywhere, Erchen passed by the Ming army castle and entered the fort to check, but found that the Ming army here has fled. ”

"He didn't know you were coming, but why did he flee? Could it be that your marching route has been detected by the Ming army in advance? If so, do you think it was an accident or an inevitability? Nurhachi's words are interesting and seem to imply something. With Huang Taiji's cleverness, he actually heard that the meaning was to ask him if the news of this secret mission had been leaked out in advance, causing his destination, Weining Camp, to be destroyed in advance.

But he wasn't sure if this was another temptation, although he knew that it was Manggutai's ghost, but there was no evidence, and after weighing the pros and cons, he finally chose to pretend not to know. Anyway, he believed that the impact on Nurhachi had already been made, and it was up to him to discover that the effect was much stronger than suing here.

"I don't know what you do with this errand?" Nurhachi clearly expressed his dissatisfaction, "I said that this matter is very important, but you are so careless......" As he was speaking, a voice suddenly came from outside the hall, "King Qiyu Khan, there is a military information coming. ”

"Come in!"

Outside the door, Li Yongfang walked in with his head down, did not squint, did not look at Huang Taiji who was kneeling on the ground in embarrassment, knelt down and presented a small note in his hand to Nurhachi. Nurhachi unfolded slightly, frowning just by looking at his brow. "Yue Xiang, is this Yue Xiang again? Huang Taiji, didn't you say that those horse thieves were not Han Chinese? Why did this Yue Xiang know about the Weining Camp? ”

Huang Taiji only listened to the word Yue Xiang for a moment, and his mind suddenly buzzed, and his first reaction was that his trick had been exposed. After Li Yongfang surrendered, his father seemed to intend to use his connections to form another intelligence network, although he was nominally his leader, but once his father overstepped the command, he had no choice. But it was just a little panicking, and he quickly regained his composure.

Because he felt that Li Yongfang's intelligence did not seem to be as lethal as he imagined, which could be seen from his father's attitude.

So he lay on the ground again and confessed his guilt. claimed that he didn't see that those horse thieves were pretending to be Han Chinese, and he didn't cut down the grass and eradicate these people so that they escaped some fish that slipped through the net and caused the leakage of news, presumably this matter was planned by the Ming army, pretending to make the city to suppress bandits, in fact, both sides were one family, and destroyed the Weining camp by the hands of horse thieves, and then used the excuse of officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress, in fact, it was a double reed to hide people's eyes.

"If the Ming army planned, where did the Ming army get the news?" Huang Taiji is worthy of the name of a wise general, and his explanation is reasonable, and he made up a large set of words without even blinking his eyes, and he spoke fluently and calmly. The dissatisfaction in Nurhachi's words seemed to be slightly lessened, but this sentence was addressed to Abahai beside him.

"King Khan, we can get the news, and the Ming army naturally has a chance. We are not the only one in the world who is tracking down Gao Huai's hidden gold, and Yue Xiang's family has the White Lotus Sect as a disciple, so it is difficult to guarantee that it is not the news that he got from them. "Now that a lot of information has been shared, Abahai and Huang Taiji have been shared, and the two smart people can naturally deduce the general ins and outs of the matter, and Nurhachi has also told the two of them some information, so that Abahai can understand Yue Xiang, a Han who once captured him.

This is also reasonable, "Besides, those so-called horse thief captives all died mysteriously after being escorted into Qinghe City, which is obviously that Yue Xiang is killing people, and it is likely that he has mastered some secrets and wants to keep them alone." Now Abahai and Huang Taiji began to actively draw their eyes to Yue Xiang's body.

"The son is willing to atone for his sins, please ask his father Khan to order, and the son is willing to lead the banner to Qinghe to capture that Yue Xiang and sacrifice it to his father Khan's horse." Huang Taiji pleaded in a low voice, although his voice was not high, but there was a kind of firmness in his tone. He wasn't sure if his dad had been fooled by his and Abahai's double reed, and he wasn't the kind of person who was easy to fool. He had a feeling that Nurhachi had been in control and that nothing could be hidden from him.

After a long silence, Nurhachi finally made a decision. "Huang Taiji returned in vain this time, and the five cattle of the white flag were punished and filled into the yellow flag, you and the forehead retreat, you don't have to be responsible for this matter anymore. Spread the word for good! ”

Huang Taiji didn't distinguish anymore, and it was already unexpected to get this result. Finally dealt with the most serious problem in the past, five Niu Lu accounted for one-fifth of his whole flag strength, although there were a lot of them, but his errand in charge of intelligence was not exempted, indicating that his father did not want to make a big deal about it. In short, no one complains this time, but they complain that they are too careless to be calculated, and now they have lost their troops and won such a result, they can only say that they deserve to be unlucky.

But why is it Daishan? The moment he turned and retreated, the corner of his eye swept over Abahai's face, but he saw that her face was calm, as if Daishan had nothing to do with her.

He had already learned about Dai Shan and Abahai's private relationship from Yue Xiang, although he didn't know how Yue Xiang learned this important information that even he didn't know, but since he had it, he couldn't help but use it. Not to mention that now all kinds of open guns and hidden arrows have frequently launched attacks on him.

In that case, let's fight. After Huang Taiji withdrew from the side hall, he glanced at Li Yongfang. He was convinced that Li Yongfang had done something to save him with the information that had been struck, and he could guess the reason for his actions. It is conceivable what the status of a Han general is in the world of the Jurchens, and this general has become a reuse by Nurhachi, which gives others a reason to exclude him and hate him.

Now it's time to find someone to form an alliance, and both need the support of allies. And he saw the same meaning in Li Yongfang's eyes......

On the outskirts of Hetuala, in the camp area of the Blue Banner.

It is close to the banks of the Suzi River, and there are fertile fields along the banks. The cultivators were ploughing in the fields under the watchful eye of the blue-clad and blue-armored bannermen. In the distance, the barracks were bustling, and from time to time horsemen and foot soldiers came and went, all of them looking like wandering wrecks and shouting, similar to a group of unorganized and undisciplined bandits, in stark contrast to the strict discipline of the white flag.

On the school field in the camp, a strong man who was more than nine feet tall and looked like an iron tower stood there with his upper body, showing a black bush of chest hair, and tied up with a horse. A black and shiny braid was wrapped around his neck, but he had a thick hemp rope tied around his waist, and the hemp rope was stretched straight, because on the other side there were four strong men pulling like a tug-of-war.

The crowd next to him was surrounded by three layers and three layers outside, everyone waved their arms as if they had taken drugs, stamped their feet and shouted wildly, and some people were making bankers, and there were constantly people taking silver and copper coins to bet, as if which side of the gambler's tug-of-war would win.

Although these four people used their strength to eat, but the strong man seemed to have his feet rooted in the ground, angry eyes and eyebrows stretched enough strength to fight against them, and finally suddenly retreated, showing amazing divine power, actually dragged the four people to the ground, the victory has been divided, everyone shouted and scolded, and the gamblers who bought the four people to win next to them scolded them for being useless.

The strong man laughed, reached out and picked up a bottle of wine from the side, poured it into his stomach, and shouted: "You waste, even if there are four more grandfathers, I am not afraid." Today I will open your eyes, come! As he spoke, he waved his hand, and immediately someone brought a log with the thick mouth of the bowl.

The strong man laughed wildly, his majestic figure spun suddenly, and the braid on his neck flew up like a whip, and everyone next to him cheered loudly. I saw that the strong man kept shaking his head and turning around, and the braid behind him hung with the whistling wind flying up and down with his body, although everyone was shouting loudly, they still couldn't suppress the terrible sound of the wind blowing in the air.

Just when a knight dressed as a scout came in from outside the camp, the strong man's braided skills also danced to the **, only to hear him shout violently, his body spun up violently, and a black strong wind swept violently on the log, and the thick wooden stake with a bowl mouth was interrupted by the waist, and everyone was shocked by the huge power, first exclaimed in unison, and then shouted loudly.

The brawny man laughed triumphantly, only to see the scout squeeze into the crowd. By the time the scout whispered in his ear, his eyes were as big as brass bells.

"What are you talking about?! All dead!? The strong man's face was full of hideousness, and the green tendons on his head were bursting out, as if he was about to eat people. The scout shuddered with fear, "Lord Baylor...... Slaves should die, slaves ......" The strong man's teeth were gritted, and his eyes were bloodshot: "Huang Taiji, you kid is so ruthless!" Bring it to me quickly and find the man surnamed Wang! ”