But today's Huang Taiji's mood is very bad, some time ago they fought Ningyuan, thinking that with far more than Hong Chengchou so many times the force, Ningyuan City should be a matter of hand-to-hand capture, but did not think that Hong Chengchou, a stubborn man, led the troops to defend Ningyuan City for nearly a month, and finally under the internal response of the rebel general, they broke through Ningyuan City, beat Ningyuan and mobilized his army, except for the final defeat of tens of thousands of Ming Liao troops, slaughtered a group of Ming troops and Han people, nothing was fished, Just caught the Liaodong general soldier Zu Dashou, but let the governor of Jiliao Hong Chengchou flee into the sea at the last moment, disappeared, originally he wanted to capture Hong Chengchou alive and force Hong Chengchou to surrender, in this way, there is Hong Chengchou surrendering to his Qing Dynasty, presumably the next entry will be followed by many officials of the Ming Dynasty, things can be done smoothly, not to be able to Hong Chengchou's identity, even the Ming army in Shanhaiguan can be surrendered.

But in the end, Ning Yuan fought down, Hong Chengchou still ran away, although he caught Zu Dashou, but Zu Dashou was seriously injured, after he was captured, he didn't survive for three days, so he left in his military camp, but it was the achievement of Zu Dashou's reputation for loyalty and bravery, in this battle except for the deputy general Xia Chengde surrendered to them, the rest of the Ming generals almost all died, so he fought this battle, although he won, but the significance is not significant, just to clear the last line of defense of the Ming army outside the Shanhaiguan, It greatly weakened the strength of the Ming army against them.

Although the results were not as good as he initially expected, but he still won the battle, and also tested the results of his Jiannu army in the past two years, the establishment of the Han Eight Banners greatly enhanced their ability to attack fortifications, and the quality of artillery began to be stronger than the Ming army, which he was still more pleased with, and Ning Yuan had a special significance for them Jiannu, at the beginning their father wild boar skin and he had attacked Ningyuan City many times, but in the end they all returned, and failed to defeat Ning Yuan, and now Ning Yuan's achievement, made his power and prestige even more prosperous among Jiannu, so Huang Taiji was still very happy to be able to conquer Ningyuan City.

Originally, in Huang Taiji's opinion, Ning Yuan, there were only a handful of more than 20,000 Ming troops left in Shanhaiguan, and this time he gathered all the forces of the Qing Dynasty to go south, knocked on the pass and entered to sweep Yanyun first, and it was just a matter of time to take down the Ming Jingshi, so he ordered Dolgon to lead an army of 70,000 to set off first to take Shanhaiguan!

In Huang Taiji's thoughts, Wu Xiang, who guarded Shanhaiguan, was not a powerful person, and when he fought with them Jiannu, this guy had escaped from the battle, so they all thought that as long as Dolgon's army pressed the border, Wu Xiang would definitely give up Shanhaiguan, either flee or surrender to them, he still hoped to force Wu Xiang to surrender by peaceful means, and it would be better to take Shanhaiguan lightly.

But he didn't think about it on the way to Shanhaiguan after he oversaw the army, but received an urgent report from Dolgon, saying that Wu Xiang refused to surrender, and killed their envoys, and now a Xingtian thief suddenly appeared in Shanhaiguan, forcing Wu Xiang to fall to the side of the Xingtian thief, Xingtian thief and Wu Xiang's Ming army joined forces to defend Shanhaiguan, Dolgon overseer army attacked Shanhaiguan, but suffered defeat, lost a lot of Han army banner soldiers and horses, so Dolgon declared himself guilty, asked Huang Taiji to speed up to Shanhaiguan, discuss the matter of Keguan.

Huang Taiji was taken aback when he heard this, and secretly scolded Dolgon in his heart for being an incompetent person, and even killed Dolgon in an instant, and wanted to simply take this opportunity to clean up Dolgon, and put the two white flags of Dolgon and Duoduo into his hands, but calm down and think about it carefully, he can't do this, although since he succeeded to the throne, he has tried his best to weaken the strength of Dolgon, Duoduo and Azig brothers over the years, and took their two yellow flags, and weakened their strength, and raised the power of his son Hauge, But because of nature, the two white flags of Dolgon and Duoduo have always been very united, the strength of these two white flags has always been very strong, and they are always in the second position among the eight banners, if he wants to clean up Dolgon now, it is impossible for Dolgon not to fight back, and once it is not good, they will first mess up on their own, which is not in line with his plan, so Dolgon He still can't move for the time being.

So Huang Taiji had to lead his troops to Shanhaiguan, and on the way he met Dolgon and Duoduo and other generals who greeted him, and set up a large camp on the spot.

Huang Taiji as the emperor of the Qing Dynasty drove the expedition in person, it can be seen that this time he can be said to be bound to enter the customs, the Qing Dynasty generals are basically accompanied by the left, and the armies also followed Huang Taiji to the Shanhaiguan at this time, so Huang Taiji even summoned the ministers and began to discuss the next move.

Huang Taiji didn't mention Dolgon's plea at all, but comforted Dolgon with warm words, as if he trusted Dolgon very much, and told Dolgon and Dolgon that they don't have to worry about this matter, victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, no one expected such a change to happen in Shanhaiguan, and no one expected that the people of the Xingtian Army would come so quickly, and they actually gave up the Ming Jingshi and did not enter, and drove to Shanhaiguan, and forced the Shanhaiguan guard Wu Xiang, which was something they did not expect in advance. So Dorgon and Dodor don't have to worry about them.

So Dolgon told the situation in Shanhaiguan in detail in the big tent, and told everyone in the tent that Wu Xiang and the Shanhaiguan defenders under his command had completely fallen to the side of the Dazhong Army, and with lightning speed, he suddenly purged the generals in the army who originally planned to serve their Daqing Dynasty, and replaced them with a group of his cronies and generals who tended to defect to the Dazhong Army, and it was impossible to convince Wu Xiang and the Ming army under his command that it was impossible to convince Wu Xiang and the Ming army under his command, so this fantasy could no longer be considered.

And now there are about 20,000 people along the way of the Xingtian Army, and they have also united with the Ming army under Wu Xiang, and entered the front line of Shanhaiguan to deploy defenses, which greatly enhanced the strength of the defenders in the Shanhaiguan area, making the total strength of the Ming army and the Xingtian army in Shanhaiguan reach about 40,000 (a bit overestimating their strength!). At the same time, there are nearly 20,000 people to help in the war (also by false rumors, in fact, at this time, that is, a few thousand people are good!). Therefore, the next step is to attack strongly, and it is possible to capture Shanhaiguan.

This situation suddenly made Huang Taiji and the generals of Jiannu have a little headache, who of them does not know the power of Shanhaiguan, although their strength is strong, far more than the strength of the Shanhaiguan Ming Army and the Xingtian Army, but the other party is in the Xiongguan, completely occupy the geographical advantage, and now it is already united to deal with them with the enemy, Jiannu army, from the inside, it is basically impossible.

But the storming of Shanhaiguan, you have to die, and there are fewer dead people, the biggest problem of their Jiannu is that there are few people, the entire Jiannu people are now only about 200,000 people, and many of them have the identity of water, the main composition of their army is mainly Mongolians, Liaodong Han people, and some of them are Koreans who accompany the expedition, can these people sell their lives?

But this time to the south, their initial idea was to take Shanhaiguan, the Daming Xiongguan Pass that had stopped them for decades, break through the pass and enter the land of Yanyun, and seize the Daming Jingshi first, resulting in a fait accompli.

Repeated raids and plundering, so that these Liaodong Jiannu have seen the wealth and pleasant climate of the Central Plains, they are now not satisfied with just occupying the land in Liaodong, in their opinion, they have full strength to go to the Central Plains to get a piece of the pie, why do they Jiannu have to live in those bitter cold places in Liaodong, and can't rule the Central Plains like their ancestors established the Dajin Kingdom?

So this is the reason why Huang Taiji mobilized so many soldiers and horses to the south this time, and the generals and ministers who accompanied the expedition also thought like this.

Even the hardcore traitors like Fan Wencheng, Geng Zhongming, Kong Youde, etc., all believe that Jiannu should go south to enter the customs, take Yanyun and Dazhong in the future, and lay the foundation for the next step in the fight for the world, these hardcore traitors know their own identity very well, since they have become traitors and become Jiannu's domestic dogs, then their reputation as traitors cannot be washed away, the only way to block the mouths of the people in the world is to help their masters take the world, relying on their masters' knives, forcing the people of the world not to call them traitors, Therefore, they are willing to be pawns and serve the masters of Jiannu.

As for the Mongols, needless to say, there is no way for them to be suppressed by Jiannu, only to be Jiannu's lackeys, although a little outsider, but after all, their Mongolian tribes are not united with each other, so under the high pressure of Huang Taiji, they don't dare not serve in front of the Jiannu army, not to mention that every time the Jiannu army enters the army, they can also make a little cheaper and share some slave wealth, so they can only follow it.

After listening to Dolgon's words, these banners and mountains all looked at Huang Taiji, Huang Taiji was quite helpless, the current situation was not as simple as he originally expected, all things were after Wu Xiang took refuge in the Xingtian Army, and then they had to be overturned and rearranged.

So Huang Taiji asked these banner owners who were planning in his big tent, so these banner owners naturally had to discuss and come up with their opinions and suggestions, of course, those who could make suggestions were limited to those banner owners like Dolgon, the banner owners of the Mongol banner and the banner owners of the Han army, and they only listened.

So this group of Jiannu banner owners have a good argument, some people say that they have a strong Qing army, although the Ming army and the Xingtian army in the Shanhaiguan area are now united, but the strength is still far inferior to them, they are now many generals, they can rely on the advantage of the force to break through the Shanhaiguan, in one fell swoop will slaughter these stubborn defenders in Shanhaiguan, after capturing Shanhaiguan, they will set foot in the area of the Ming Jingshi.

Some people also suggested that the first-line defense of Shanhaiguan is strengthened, and it is probably unwise to forcibly break through the customs, but it is better to divide the troops and break through the customs from other places, and then the army will attack Shanhaiguan from behind after entering the customs, and then seek to attack the Ming Jingshi Shuntianfu after breaking through the Shanhaiguan.

It is expected that the Ming army and the Xingtian army will not sit idly by and watch them attack Shuntianfu, but can only go to the Jingshi to seek a duel with them, and then Shanhaiguan will not be self-defeating, and it is not too late to seek to defeat them.

(I've been out for the past few days, and I'm late for thanking my friends, I'm sorry!) I make up for it today, and I would like to thank the three brothers who are unhappy and cowardly, Xinli, and brave 1023 for their rewards! ）