After sending two guards to follow Zhang Xiang'an, Nurhachi said to Dai Shan: "Prepare to leave tomorrow, first go to Lushun to get rid of Mao Wenlong's bastard, and then attack the Mongolian Khalkha Department." ”

Dai Shan asked, "Why is that?" ”

Nurhachi said: "There are still people in the Khalkha tribe who are not sincere to my Dajin, this time they did not protect your ninth sister, Ben Khan has an excuse to go to punish them and grab some cattle, sheep and livestock by the way, and come back, and only rob the Mongols if they can't grab the Ming army." ”

Dai Shan asked: "Father Khan is not worried about forcing them to the side of the Ming army?" ”

Nurhachi said: "Their hatred with the Ming Dynasty is too deep to be resolved, and besides, we are only fighting against some of their disobedient tribes." ”

Although Nurhachi returned like an arrow, the Jurchens still waited for another two days before leaving, because after the rib girl came back, she first cried a lot, crying while telling her bitter hatred for Yang Gongchun, the eunuch next to the apocalypse, until Nurhachi promised to enter Beijing one day and give Yang Gongchun to her casually, the rib girl smiled. Just as Nurhachi was about to move back to the army, the rib girl said another thing, she explained that the army allowed the Jurchens to send people to retrieve the bodies of the Jurchen soldiers under Ningyuan City, because the Ming Emperor had ordered that from this year onwards, the heads would no longer be exchanged for military merit and silver.

In order not to chill his soldiers, Nurhachi ordered people to collect the bodies of the dead soldiers under the leadership of the Ming army, although it was burned on the spot, it took two days, during which people also took time to sign a written peace agreement with the Ming army supervisor Gao Di, because Zhang Xiangan passed on the holy decree of the apocalypse, and Gao Di signed this peace agreement without any pressure.

Although it is a peace agreement, there is not much peace sincerity in it, the agreement only says that the Ming army must not attack Mobei, and once the Jurchens attack Ningyuan Pass, it will be considered a crime. There was a disagreement between Ningyuanguan and Mobei, and sitting down to negotiate was only an option, and settling the dispute with a knife and gun was also an act of tacit consent from both sides. Before all the different demands of the two sides for the ownership of Liaodong are resolved, Daming and Dajin have a coexistence relationship of competition and no cooperation.

At the beginning of February, Nurhachi led more than 50,000 remnants of the defeated army to return to Shenyang to recuperate, leaving 50,000 good soldiers for Dai Shan and Ao Bai to take away the hated Mao Wenlong. In fact, when Nurhachi listened to his brother Shuerhaqi in Yizhou talk about the 20,000 people who went to rescue Lushun and had not returned, and there was no news from Jinzhou, he had a bad premonition in his heart, and it was prudent to send 50,000 elite soldiers to drive Mao Wenlong away, and it was enough to send a maximum of three or five thousand people in the past, but now it is better to be careful and careful.

Dai Shan led 50,000 horses to break up with Nurhachi and hurried to Lushun, several battles in Ningyuan City were very frustrating, although the number of casualties on both sides was about the same, but in recent years has been accustomed to victory, and the results of mutual victory and defeat represent shame in Dai Shan's eyes.

There was nothing unusual along the way, but as soon as I passed the Red Beak Fort, I noticed that something was wrong, there were fewer and fewer people to see on the road, and there was not much smoke in the village when it was time to eat, and this sense of desolation became stronger and stronger as the army of 50,000 continued to move south. After walking more than 100 miles, he came to Jinzhou City, and when he saw the flag on the head of Jinzhou City, Dai Shan's heart was relaxed.

Daishan ordered the army to stop outside the city, first sent someone to inform Aobai, who was in the back of the formation, to temporarily stop the men and horses and come to the front, and then ordered the small soldiers to go to the front of the city to shout. After a while, the little soldier who went to the front of the city to shout came back and said that no one answered in the city, and the four city gates were like this and all of them were closed, which made Dai Shan suddenly vigilant. He shouted: "Everyone prepare swords, guns, bows and arrows, Jinzhou may have fallen into the hands of the Ming army, go to a thousand people to prepare a cloud ladder, and General Ao Bai will attack the city as soon as he arrives." ”

The time for a meal also arrived, saying that he had ordered his subordinates to camp and cook on the spot, and asked what the situation was in front of him. Dai Shan said: "There is no one in Jinzhou City with the four gates closed, I estimate that there may be an ambush of the Ming army in the city, General Ao Bai should pay attention to both sides of Jinzhou City, and now let the soldiers have lunch first, and prepare to attack after eating." ”

Ao Bai agreed to go to the arrangement, and after his soldiers finished lunch, they first ordered a thousand people to set up a cloud ladder to climb the city, and saw a thousand people set up a dozen cloud ladders to climb the city without any obstruction, Dai Shan not only did not look happy but became more anxious, as if he felt that something unpredictable would happen.

Sure enough, it took a while for someone to come back and reply, and with a very frightened expression on his face, one of the soldiers said: "Report to Erbeylor, a thousand people stationed in Jinzhou are in the city, but ......"

Dai Shan asked, "But what?" If they're all here, why don't they come out to see me? Do you sleep in your room? ”

"They didn't sleep in their rooms, they all stood on the street, but they were all dead," said the soldier. ”

Dai Shan said angrily: "What nonsense? How can you stand on the street when you are dead? ”

Xiao Bing said: "The little one is not talking nonsense, Erbeile will know when he goes in and takes a look." ”

Dai Shan thought about it and left, Ao Bai and other soldiers hurriedly followed, and when they entered the city, they saw that there were many sundries on both sides of the city gate, thinking that someone had blocked the city gate with these sundries. After walking inward for a short time, I saw a thousand Jurchen city guards standing on the street in front of the yamen, all of them empty-handed and unarmed, each with wounds on their bodies, and their bodies were covered with ice, indicating that these thousand people were dead.

Judging from the expressions on the faces of these people, some were surprised, some were angry, some were very confused, as if they didn't understand how they could be killed, some fell to the ground because their bodies were bent at various angles, and everyone else stood in order.

But this is nothing, the most bizarre thing is the two leading generals, two people sitting on the chair in front of the door as if drinking tea, the one on the left looks up at the sky, and there is a teacup on one of the outstretched hands, which is quite a bit of "raising a glass to invite the bright moon", but his eyes are closed and the cup is on the back of his hand. The one on the right was lying on the table as if he was sleeping, but his head was two or three inches off his neck.

After reading it, Dai Shan turned his head and asked Aobai: "What does General Aobai think of this?" ”

Ao Bai thought for a moment and said, "They were killed unprepared, otherwise they wouldn't be like this." ”

Dai Shan asked: "Then General Aobai can see who killed them?" And when were they killed? ”

Ao Bai shook his head and said, "I really can't see this below, what does Erbeile see?" ”

Dai Shan said: "I only see three things, one is that they were killed on the night of the twenty-seventh day of the first lunar month; Second, the 20,000 people who came to support were also unlucky; The third is that someone is in the old camp and wants to hold us back, so we should leave here immediately and go to Lushun, maybe we will understand everything when we get to Lushun. ”

Ao Bai said: "Then go to Lushun first, and how about Erbeile then responding?" ”

Dai Shan said: "There may be danger in the front, General Ao Bai had better send someone to carefully reconnoiter in front before entering the army, if you encounter strange things on the road, just wait, I will come here after cleaning up." ”

Ao Bai said proudly: "Thank you Erbeile for your concern, I will naturally be careful to enter the army, but the soldiers under my command are not vegetarians." After saying that, he turned around and urged the horse to leave.

From Jinzhou to Lushun to pass through Nanguan, Jinzhou to Nanguan in the middle of this section is a slope on both sides, the coastal section is slightly flat, you can enter the army, although Ao Bai said easily, but still be careful to let people explore the way. He took 20,000 people along the west side and did not dare to divide the troops, and as soon as he walked out of less than ten miles, some small soldiers reported that the road in front was blocked by heavy snow, and there were many dead Jurchen soldiers under the hillside, about hundreds, and a large number of dead Jurchen soldiers were also found on the hillside, about two or three thousand, and the strange thing was that the Jurchens who died on the hillside all died very strangely, as if they were killed by some huge monster.

As soon as Ao Bai heard that he didn't dare to make his own opinion, he immediately asked someone to go back and report to Dai Shan, and after a while, Dai Shan came to the bottom of the hill to observe carefully. Seeing that Dai Shan carefully looked at the dead people under the hillside and the scattered weapons around him, and from time to time he looked up and down, left and right, and kept nodding, Ao Bai asked, "What did Erbeile see?" ”

Dai Shan said: "This is the 20,000 reinforcements that came to support from Uiju, and if I guess correctly, the snowdrifts are full of dead people!" ”