Surrounded by all the troops, seeing that the towering Jinzhou City in the distance has become clearly recognizable, Huang Taiji, who has been idling with Daishan, finally made up his mind in his heart.

This attack on the Ming Dynasty, although there were all kinds of surprises about the battle situation, but Huang Taiji is also a veteran of the battlefield after all. And unlike the generals who only focus on the battlefield in Houjin, Huang Taiji, who has been in charge of Houjin logistics for a long time, still has a fairly sober strategic mind.

led the army to the city of Ningyuan, and really saw the city defense system of Ningyuan, and Huang Taiji finally understood the reason why the old Khan Nurhachi abandoned the attack on Ningyuan at the beginning of the year.

At the beginning of the year, Huang Taiji followed Nurhachi's attack on Juehua Island and won a great victory, but as soon as he saw that he could not transfer out the defenders of Ningyuan, the old Khan Nurhachi firmly abandoned Ningyuan City and returned.

At that time, Huang Taiji was still muttering to himself in his heart, today he saw Ningyuan City with thick walls, and Huang Taiji understood that Ningyuan City, which was full of troops and heavily guarded, was really difficult to capture in Houjin.

However, although he knew that Ning Yuan was difficult to attack, Huang Taiji was still actively preparing to try it. Huang Taiji was going to use the Han army flag to test how strong Ningyuan's city defense was.

Using the Han army flag to test Ningyuan's city defense, in addition to considering that retreating without a fight would affect the morale of the army; More importantly, Huang Taiji deliberately reduced the number of some Han military flags.

Houjin, or Huang Taiji, really can't afford to raise so many soldiers now!

In the Nurhachi era, although the Later Jin won many foreign wars, the Later Jin in Liaodong had been devastated and withered.

From the end of the fifth year of the Apocalypse to the beginning of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, in just half a year, Nurhachi launched three large-scale wars in a row, which made Houjin consume the last bit of grain and grass stocks.

What made it difficult for Houjin to bear was that in these three battles, in addition to the defeat of the Mongolian Khalkha Tribe, Houjin failed to obtain enough captures in the two battles of Ningyuan and Juehua Island of the Ming Dynasty.

After years of drought and not enough war captures to supplement it, the fragile economic chain of Houjin finally collapsed completely in the spring of the sixth year of the Apocalypse.

In the spring of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, an unprecedented large-scale food shortage broke out under the rule of the Later Jin. Within a few months, Hou Jin was already starving to death.

In order to fight the food shortage, although Huang Taiji tried his best to buy grain from all over the surrounding area, compared to the hundreds of thousands of people under the rule of Houjin, the little grain that Huang Taiji bought could only be regarded as a drop in the bucket.

Of course, the grain bought by Huang Taiji at a high price did not stabilize the grain price of Houjin, but it brought miraculous effects to stabilize Huang Taiji's sweat position.

It is precisely because of the grain in his hands that Huang Taiji can smoothly let the Jurchen banners go east to Korea and fight Lushun in the south.

It is precisely because of the grain in his hands that Huang Taiji can quickly complete the reorganization of the Han army flag. And with the power of the Han military flag, he subdued the Jurchen banner lord Baylor.

It can be said that if it weren't for the lack of food in each banner, how could these Jurchen banner owners Baylor be so easy to subdue?

However, after subduing the Jurchen Zhubeile, and taking advantage of the situation to replace Amin with Zilharang, and successfully collecting most of the Jurchen Eight Banners (Huang Taiji now directly controls the two yellow flags, and indirectly controls the blue and red flags, and the positive white flag is also his ally), the role of the Han military flag to Huang Taiji is no longer so important.

What made Huang Taiji even more unbearable was the huge number of Han military flags, which made his already very scarce grain and grass even more overstretched.

The advantage brought by the number of Han military flags has now become a heavy burden for Huang Taiji.

Entering the battlefield of Ningjin and finding that the first line of Jinzhou had little harvest, Huang Taiji was already vigilant.

The seizure was insufficient, the grain and grass were scarce, and Huang Taiji really had the heart to give up the Han army flag. Leaving 50,000 Han army flags to Mang Gurtai is the embodiment of Huang Taiji's thoughts.

Seeing the improvement of the combat power of the Han army flag, he wanted to preserve the cultivation of the Han army flag, how could he know that Huang Taiji gave command to Mang Gurtai, in fact, he wanted to use the hands of the Ming army to reduce the number of Han army flags. This is also the real reason why Tong Yangxing repeatedly hoped that Huang Taiji's order to 'stop the siege' could not be obtained.

As for the report reported by Tong Yangxing, the battle report of the obvious improvement in the combat power of the Han Army Banner, Huang Taiji did not take it to heart at all. Huang Taiji actually didn't believe that a simple purchase and reorganization could make the combat power of the Han Army Banner reborn?

Until...

Until, Huang Taiji saw with his own eyes that the banner soldiers of the Han army, under the fierce artillery fire at the head of Ningyuan City, could still endure casualties and persist for a long time without collapse. Only then did Huang Taiji believe Tong Yang's report.

It's just that the combat power of the Han Army Banner has improved by leaps and bounds, but it has brought a great problem to Huang Taiji.

Do you want to give up the Han military flag?

Huang Taiji, who has always been known for his fairness and wisdom and good at making decisions, really feels so difficult to make a decision this time.

The combat power of the Han Army Banner has indeed improved rapidly, and the fighting spirit and fighting spirit of the Han Army Banner have indeed made Huang Taiji see their potential to become elite soldiers.

With this potential, coupled with the huge number of Han Army Banners, the future combat power of Han Army Banners will become more considerable, and it should not be underestimated.

But it is precisely because of this that Huang Taiji feels even more embarrassed in his heart.

The number of Han army banners is too much, and once the Han army banner successfully transforms into elite soldiers, the number of Han army banner soldiers will definitely pose a great threat to the Jurchens.

The consequence of the growth of the Han military flag, as a Jurchen, then Huang Taiji had to think a little more.

Why did Nurhachi break up all the Han army and turn it into a slave army? Why did Nurhachi use massacres to reduce the number of Han Chinese?

After taking the position of Houjin Great Khan, Huang Taiji now finally understands Nurhachi's worries.

Han military banners, Han people, they are not inherently weak, they really have the ability to destroy the Jurchens.

Learn from the old Khan Nurhachi, because the Han people are dangerous, don't you need it?

When the Azig division sent back the expected large reinforcements of the Ming army, they arranged for the whole army to abandon the attack on Ningyuan and retreat to Jinzhou. On the one hand, Huang Taiji's heart was filled with indescribable bitterness.

In the face of such a behemoth as the Ming Dynasty, what qualifications does Hou Jin, or his Emperor Taiji, have to choose not to use Han people?

Without the Han people, the old Khan Nurhachi, who is as strong as the unparalleled army, can be regarded as a hundred victories in decades of war, but in the end, before his death, Houjin was on the verge of collapse.

Old Khan Nurhachi is like this, his imperial Taiji army is not as good as that of Old Khan, what can he do?

Han people, he Huang Taiji must not be without.

Originally, Huang Taiji always believed that the strengths of the Han people were civil governance and logistics. The strength of the Jurchens was fighting and fighting. Absorbing Han Chinese can just make up for the shortcomings of the Jurchens.

There is no way, the Jurchens, who are good at fighting and fighting, have too obvious defects in civil governance and logistics.

The sudden outbreak of the combat power of the Han army completely disrupted Huang Taiji's cognition. Shocked, on the way back to Jinzhou, Huang Taiji has been thinking about a question: how to use the Han people?

How to use the Han Chinese?

Looking at Jinzhou City, which has become clearer and clearer in the distance, and then looking at the big Beile Daishan who still maintains respect in the casual chatting along the way, Huang Taiji's heart suddenly brightened.

As long as it can be used by him, what about the Han people?

In the same way, if it can't be used by him, what can the Jurchens do?

Looking at the Zhenglan Flag Camp that was already in front of him, for the first time in a few days, a relaxed smile appeared on the corner of Huang Taiji's mouth.