After the news of Yizhou's defeat reached Shenyang, the Jurchen nobles in the city suddenly panicked. Although the person who presided over the state affairs in Shenyang City was Jierharang, the one who guarded Shenyang City was the ninth brother of Fei Yingdong, the fifth minister of the founding of the country. Wei Qi, these two people are also Huang Taiji's cronies who stayed to guard the national capital.

But one of the main reasons why they can become Huang Taiji's cronies is that neither Zierharang nor Wei Qi has any desire for power, from another point of view, that is, the two rarely express their opinions in the court, and they usually take Huang Taiji's opinions as their own opinions.

This also made it so that after the news of the defeat in Yizhou was transmitted back to Shenyang, the remaining imperial court did not make any decision immediately, and wasted nearly 10 days in vain and did nothing. In order to prevent Huang Taiji from catching his sore feet again, Derge did not give up Yizhou City at the first time, but sent someone to ask Yue Tuo.

At this time, Yue Tuo had not been able to figure out how the Zhenglan Banner had failed, so he did not agree to the withdrawal request of the Derge class, but asked the Derge class to hold on to Yizhou for a few days under the pretext of waiting for Shenyang's opinion.

In Yue Tuo's opinion, the city of Yizhou, which he personally repaired, could not be easily captured by the Ming army. If the Dergers can hold on to the tired Ming army in Yiju City, then they still have a chance to turn the tables. Otherwise, even if he was close to Huang Taiji, it would be impossible for the Great Khan to return from Korea without curing him.

And Yue Tuo himself also accepted this defeat, he felt that this defeat was too inexplicable, his side had not really exerted his strength, and the Zhenglan Banner, which had always been strong, was inexplicably defeated. Although the envoy sent by the Derge class said: The Ming army's firearms were fierce and the projectiles were raining down, at least hundreds of Hongyi cannons were used, and the cavalry units that were charging under the blue flag were all eroded.

But Yue Tuo doesn't believe this kind of nonsense, he is not a newcomer who has never been on the battlefield, so he naturally knows the power of the Ming army's firearms. Didn't the Ming army that the Heavenly Mandate Khan faced at the beginning use firearms? The Mandate of Heaven Khan defeated them with a chariot and archers, and now that they have such a powerful cavalry team, can't they still deal with the Ming army's firearms that are slow to reload and shoot at a short distance.

As for the so-called hundreds of Hongyi cannons, it is even more nonsense. As a close confidant of Huang Taiji, Yue Tuoke has seen how the Hongyi cannon is cast. Gathering the national strength of Houjin, only 40 Hongyi cannons have been cast in the past two years, and most of the firing range is not as good as the original Hongyi cannons, and each cannon weighs three or four tons, which is difficult to pull more than ten pairs of bullocks. This made how could Yue Tuo believe that the Ming army was able to transport so many cannons to the front line in such a short period of time, and the Zhenglan Banner stationed in Yizhou City was unaware of it.

However, Yue Tuo's delays caused great trouble to the remaining imperial court in Shenyang, and Zilharang and Wei Qi did not understand what Yue Tuo meant. Huang Taiji gave them the authority to be responsible for the security of Shenyang, and if the Ming army attacked in a big way, they could support Yizhou and Liaohe. However, Huang Taiji did not give them the power to completely control the armies of the two places.

Yue Tuo, as the chief general of the Yizhou side, whether to let the Derge class withdraw from Yizhou City, this is a matter of his words. Now that Yue Tuo has sent the request of the Derge class to Shenyang, what kind of decision does he want them to make? Zilharang and Wei Qi could only send people to inquire about Yue Tuo on the one hand, and ask for the opinions of the Baylors on the other.

Soon one bad news after another came to Shenyang, and the Ming army in Dalian and Lushun actually took the initiative to attack, defeated the Houjin army stationed in the north of Jinzhou, and was going deep into the Fuzhou and Gaizhou areas, plundering the people in these places.

And Azig crossed the Daling River with more than 6,000 people, and when he wanted to plunder the back road of attacking the Ming army in Yizhou, he was intercepted by the Ming army in Jinzhou. His majesty was strict, and he refused to give up crossing the river when he saw that the Ming army occupied the advantageous position. Under his persecution, 300 armor soldiers with white flags crossed the river at night, but the boat was only halfway through, and the Ming army used magic in the camp, and the Ming army shot white light from the corner tower to inspect the river, illuminating the river as if it was day, and the night crossing of the white flag armor soldiers was immediately seen through by the Ming army.

Under the fire of the Ming army's bows, muskets, and artillery, less than 50 of the 300 armor soldiers escaped, and the others were either shot by the Ming army or sank in the Daling River. Such a head-on blow finally made Azig give up his plan to cross the river, and now he is confronting the Ming army of Jinzhou by the Daling River.

After summarizing these information, Zilharang finally determined that the Ming army had a major attack. So he finally stepped forward and made a decision, thinking that the positive blue flag should be withdrawn and the strength should be maintained first. Yizhou City couldn't run away, and the Ming army could only demolish the city at most, but this was not a loss for Houjin. After the Great Khan returned to Shenyang and the Ming army returned to Jinzhou, Houjin was naturally able to easily restore this place.

If the Ming army wants to defend here, that's exactly what I want. Within hundreds of miles near Yizhou, there was only one Jinzhou that could support the defenders of the Ming army in Yizhou, and Yizhou became a salient part of the Ming army's defense line. If the Ming army occupied Yizhou, it just gave Houjin a chance to send reinforcements.

However, when the order of Shenyang to stay in the imperial court reached Yue Tuo, Yue Tuo had no way to send this order to the Derge class. Because the Ming army built a long trench and a low wall along the city of Yizhou, and besieged the entire city of Yizhou. After being besieged by the Ming army in the area where the Daling River enters the mouth of the Great Wall, the Subudi Division, which defended the west side of the city of Yiju, surrendered to the Ming army under the persuasion of Zhuoerbi's people.

In this way, the Karaqin tribes north of Yiju turned from allies of the Later Jin into enemies. Yue Tuo's more than 7,000 horses were suddenly isolated, and after the Ming army surrounded the city of Yizhou, they united with more than 7,000 cavalry led by Mao Yuanyi and Zhou Wei to surround Yue Tuo's headquarters north of the Daling River, which had the meaning of encircling and annihilating the red flag first.

Yue Tuo had to retreat across Yiwulu Mountain and return to Beizhen. At this time, Yue Tuo no longer suspected that Zhenglanqi had any conspiracy, but was worried that Zhenglanqi would be completely annihilated by the Ming army or simply surrender to the Ming army. Such an incident was more unbearable for him than to suffer a defeat, and there was no precedent for a single banner to be surrounded and annihilated since the founding of the Later Jin Dynasty, and Yue Tuo did not know how to face Huang Taiji who returned from North Korea.

While Yue Tuo sent the situation in Yizhou back to Shenyang, he was angry and asked Jierharang to bring a large army to help, and with the power of the red flag and the blue flag, he rescued the Zhenglan flag first. The news sent back by Yue Tuo made the Zhubeiles who stayed in the imperial court in Shenyang panic, this time no one wanted to shirk their responsibilities, everyone wanted to save the Derge class and the Zhenglan Banner, otherwise Jin's national fortune would be really bad.

Zilharang hurriedly took 15,000 men gathered from Shenyang to Beizhen, and these men and horses accounted for about seventy percent of the defenders of Shenyang. Wei Qi also began to select the strong men of the various banners in the city and recruited them as temporary troops to guard Shenyang, while he took most of the remaining defenders to guard the Khan Palace in the city to prevent any accidents.

Although Wei Qi was cautious, the transfer of most of the defenders of Shenyang gave a chance to the three beylers who had been unknown for most of the year. After being demoted to Dorobel for the crime of holding the imperial sword by Huang Taiji, Mang Gurtai finally knew the ferocious methods of this younger brother.

In the past six months, Huang Taiji has not only slandered his reputation and slandered him for killing his mother for glory, but also isolated him from the Zhenglan Banner, and constantly suppressed his cronies in the Zhenglan Banner. On this expedition to North Korea, Huang Taiji also asked him for his opinion and asked him if he was willing to go to North Korea with him.

However, at someone's suggestion, Mang Gurtai pushed down Huang Taiji's request on the grounds of a recurrence of his old illness. On the night when Zilharang set out with the army, the anxious Mang Gurtai finally waited for his advisor again, Song Xiance in the Daishan Mansion.

After entering Mang Gurtai's study, Song Xiance lifted his cloak and saluted Mang Gurtai and said, "I've seen Sanbeile." ”

Mang Gurtai, who had been waiting impatiently, immediately came over to help him up, and said hurriedly: "Mr. Song doesn't have to be polite, I waited for the opportunity you said, but waited..."

Song Xiance interrupted Mang Gurtai and first checked the movement outside the study window. Mang Gurtai frowned and said, "Since Mr. Song has come to my mansion, what else is there to worry about, everyone in the mansion is a brother who was born and died with me, and there are no outsiders here." ”

Song Xiance shook his head and said: "That's not necessarily, just at the front and back doors of the Sanbeile Mansion, there are houses rented by palace guards that are monitored all day long, and they change every 12 hours. Although the villain doesn't know if there are any people installed by the Khan King in the Three Belle Mansions, there must be one in the Manggu Zigege Mansion.

According to the villain's information, every time Sanbeile went to visit Mangguzi Gege, Gege's house slave Leng Monk Ji would meet with Wei Qi afterwards, so I guess what they were talking about must not be a good thing about Sanbeile. If the king is not secret, he will lose his ministers, and if he is not secret, he will be harmful. It's a gentleman's prudence and not out..."

Song Xiance's words made Mang Gurtai's face change suddenly, and he couldn't help but say angrily: "Why is the Great Khan here? I've backed down to this extent, does he really have to kill me? Leng Seng Ji, a minion, dares to betray me, I have to break it into pieces..."

Song Xiance didn't stop Mang Gurtai from venting his emotions, and when he regained some of his senses a little, he opened his mouth and said: "Don't say that there is no brotherly love in the emperor's family, even the love between father and son is not. Has the three Baylors forgotten the fate of Guangluo Baylor, Chu Ying, and the eldest concubine Abahai?

Since Sanbeile took a step back and let the Khan King ascend the throne, he should not have made the four major Beylers rule together, so that the Khan King can still remember the benefits of Sanbele. The name of the monarch and the minister is determined, how can there be a reason for the courtier and the king to rule the world together. If the king of Khan does not deal with the three great beylers, I am afraid that he will not even be able to sleep well. ”

Mang Gurtai's heart was annoyed and regretful, and after a long moment, he held back his anger and asked Song Xiance for advice: "But now that the matter has come to this, sir, you must show me a clear way, right?" ”

Song Xiance stared at Mang Gurtai's gaze for a while before he said confidently: "There is one way, I don't know if Sanbeile is willing to go." ”