I believe in myself, born like a bright summer flower, unwielding, demonic like fire.

– Rabindranath Tagore (Indian poet, philosopher, and Indian nationalist)

Before the three Dolgon brothers and the two Dudu brothers led 100,000 cavalry south into Langxiang Province, Shulhaqi and Murhaqi, who had received a notice from Dolgon in advance, had already personally led 40,000 elite cavalry under their command to the junction of the two provinces.

Although the two brothers, Shulhaqi and Murhachi, are Nurhachi's younger brothers, the relationship between them and Nurhachi is not harmonious, which determines that they cannot regard their brother's three sons and two grandsons as their closest relatives.

In fact, the reason why they personally led a large army to the junction of the two provinces to meet the three brothers of Dorgon and the two brothers Dudu was not because the latter five were their blood relatives, but because the army of 100,000 controlled by the latter five was an unusually powerful military force.

However, no matter how ruthless the truth hidden in the darkness is, there will be a high-sounding reason to cover it up, and Shulhazy and Murhazy led an army to meet Dolgon and others, and the banner was to welcome their nephews and nephews to Longchamp Province as 'guests'.

"Second brother. Murhaqi, who was standing at the front of the army, asked Shulhaqi with a worried face: "Do you think that the three brothers Azig and Dudu will willingly accept our command after they come? ”

"Heh, what about the descendants of the eldest brother?" Shuerhaqi, who sneered, said with disdain: "When the eldest brother was alive, he didn't be able to do anything to our brothers;

"That's the same!" Shulhazy's confident attitude made Murhazy's heart settle down a little: "Even if he is the eldest brother, when he was still an adult, if he did not have the support of our brothers and the five ministers, where would he have the power and status he has today?"

"That being said, you can't afford to underestimate these five young boys. There was a faint hint of worry between his eyebrows, and he said: "Especially Chu Ying's two sons, they can endure humiliation and live to make a comeback today, which is not comparable to ordinary people." ”

"Second brother, I don't think the two boys Du Du and Nikan are worth mentioning at all. Murhazy shook his head and retorted: "It is valuable to endure humiliation and burden, but it also wears down their belligerent heart;

"Whether they are worthy of being the nobles of our Jurchens or not, they are now all members of our Aixin Jueluo family. Shulhazy said in a flat tone: "After we meet later, don't be too cold to them, after all, they are all our nephews." ”

"Second brother, you can rest assured of this. In the face of Shuerhaqi's advice, Murhaqi smiled slightly: "Our relationship with the eldest brother is not good, it does not mean that I will deliberately embarrass his sons and grandchildren; ”

"That's good!" Shulhazy, who was relieved, seemed to sense the movement coming from afar, and did not say anything to Murhaqi, but raised his head to look into the distance, where the smoke and dust rising into the sky were moving rapidly.

The three Dolgon brothers' Zhenghuang Banner had a full 80,000 Jurchen cavalry, and the two blue banners of Dudu Nikan had 10,000 Jurchen cavalry; the total number of Jurchen cavalry was as high as 100,000.

Azig and the other four people, with Dolgon as the core, did not show any joy when they saw Shulhazi and Murhaqi who greeted each other with smiling faces;

The warm greetings at the junction of the two provinces lasted less than ten minutes, and Shulhaqi, who represented the Lower Five Banners, warmly invited Dolgon and others to lead the army to the capital of Langxiang Province, which was already the base camp of the Jianzhou Jurchens under the Five Banners.

Dolgon and others, who led the army south to seek a union with Shulhaqi and Murhaqi, would not refuse Shulhaqi's invitation, and the 140,000 Jurchen cavalry went straight to the capital of Langxiang Province.

With the addition of 100,000 cavalry of the Three Banners under the command of Dolgon, the total number of troops gathered by the Jianzhou Jurchens in the territory of Langxiang Province has reached an astonishing 200,000 people; this is only the Eight Banners cavalry of the Jianzhou Jurchens, excluding some Tianlong puppet troops who have defected to the Jianzhou Jurchens.

After the group arrived at the capital of Langxiang Province, all the Jurchens of the Jianzhou Province in Langxiang Province, the Eight Banners Banner Lord Beile, came to the capital of Langxiang Province under the call of Shulhaqi and Murhaqi to discuss the specific matters of overthrowing the puppet Khan Emperor Taiji.

In order to determine their legitimacy and authority, Shuerhaqi, Dolgon and others, who insisted that Huang Taiji was the true and false khan of Jianzhou, redivided and abandoned the new Eight Banners of Huang Taiji and his supporters with the 200,000 Eight Banner cavalry stationed in Langxiang Province.

Among the new Eight Banners, the two Yellow Banners were headed by Dolgon and Shulhazy respectively, and the 80,000 cavalry of Dolgon's Yellow Banner would be reduced to 60,000, and the 20,000 cavalry would be supplemented with Dudu Nikan's two Blue Banners at 10,000 each.

The bannermen of the two red flags, Beyler, were Murhaqi and Urgudei, respectively, and commanded the 20,000 cavalry under their own command, while the two white banners, Beyler, were Solgo and Subahai respectively, and the 20,000 cavalry under their own command were under their command.

The two blue banners were headed by Dudu Nikan, Dolgon's elder brother Azig and younger brother Dordor were to serve as Gushan Ezhen (i.e., Dutong Belle) of the two blue banners, and the 10,000 cavalry of each of the four Belles constituted the 40,000 cavalry of the two blue banners.

In addition to the Jianzhou Jurchen cavalry, the new Eight Banners jointly formed by Shuerhaqi, Murhaqi, and Dolgon also had an eight-banner subsidiary army composed of 40,000 Tianlong Empire's puppet troops, and each banner was evenly distributed to 5,000 auxiliary armies.

Shuerhaqi, Dolgon and others couldn't hide the eyes of Huang Taiji in Langxiang Province, and since everyone had completely moved towards antagonism, Huang Taiji, who was already a generation of heroes, would naturally not be idle; in order to maintain his own legitimacy, he also began to rebuild the Eight Banners.

The 30,000 cavalrymen with blue flags that originally belonged to Huang Taiji were directly changed to two yellow flags by Huang Taiji, and the 30,000 cavalrymen with the positive blue flag who originally belonged to Daishan were changed to two red flags by Huang Taiji.

Huang Taiji, who had newly recruited 70,000 cavalry, first replenished his strength with the Yellow Banner to 30,000, and then handed over the Yellow Banner with a strength of 20,000 to his eldest son Haoge;

In order to fulfill his promise, Huang Taiji appointed Dai Shan as the banner owner of the red flag, and appointed Dai Shan's eldest son, Yue Tuo, as the flag owner of the red flag.

The newly formed four banners, including the two blue flags and the two white flags, each flag was composed of 10,000 newly recruited cavalry; among them, Mang Gurtai and Abatai were respectively appointed by Huang Taiji as the banner owner of the two blue flags, and Abai and Tang Gu were appointed by Huang Taiji as the banner owner of the two white flags.

Because the total strength of the Eight Banners under Huang Taiji was only 130,000, far less than the 200,000 troops of Shulhaqi, Murhaqi, and Dolgon, he also recruited 40,000 puppet troops of the Heavenly Dragon Empire in Mulhouse Province to serve as a subsidiary army of the Eight Banners cavalry.