Since Mang Gurtai threw out the idea of revering the Manchu and suppressing the Han and restoring the old system of the first Khan in front of the children of the clan, Huang Taiji had to focus most of his energy on sorting out the relationship between the Manchu, Mongolian, and Han ethnic groups within the Later Jin State, and recondensing the consensus of the upper class of the Later Jin Dynasty.

He first persuaded Yue Tuo, and through Yue Tuo, he temporarily stabilized Dai Shan and the two red flags not openly supporting Mang Gurtai's statement. Then the blue flag and Amin's trade benefits were exchanged for the support of the soldiers of the two yellow flags and two white flags.

After receiving the support of the soldiers of the Four Banners, Huang Taiji and Yue Tuo respectively went to persuade the young children of the clan and the Eight Banners to use the military merits and wealth that they could obtain after the outbreak of war, and lured these young people to support the war against the Ming.

By the time Dolgon signed the agreement with Tian Hongyu, Huang had regained the support of most of Houjin's relatives. The indecisive Dai Shan saw that Huang Taiji had won the support of two yellow flags and two white flags, and the blue flag and red flag were inlaid because the flag owner Baylor was loyal to Huang Taiji, and his attitude was a little ambiguous, so the situation in the court became a situation in which he and Mang Gurtai fought against the four banners.

Dai Shan obviously has no intention of living and dying with Mang Gurtai, he has always been on Huang Taiji's side, and he feels that even if the system of the four major Baylor co-governance is canceled, Huang Taiji should also see that he has always supported him, so that he can maintain his current glory and wealth.

Therefore, when Huang Taiji convened the parliamentary meeting again, Dai Shan changed his attitude and instead supported the idea of going out to conquer the Ming Kingdom.

Dai Shan's statement immediately made some Jurchen relatives and nobles who were still waiting to turn against them, and even the conservative forces who still wanted to use Mang Gurtai to fight for their own interests were silent.

Huang Taiji ignored the ugly-faced Mang Gurtai, and after controlling the situation in the court, he immediately promoted the preparations for war against the Ming Kingdom. If he only wanted to test the attack once, after Mang Gurtai jumped out to oppose it, Huang Taiji raised the standard of this operation, trying to use this war to identify the position of these Jurchen relatives and nobles in China.

At the initiative of Yue Tuo and Zilharang, the forward troops who went out were quickly settled. At this time, one of the advantages of the undecided Houjin system was revealed, and after Baylor, the owner of the Eight Banners, made the decision to go to war, the Houjin immediately transferred to the wartime system, and no official dared to come forward to advise and say that the warlike will die.

Each flag is an independent combat unit, and as long as their combat missions are properly arranged, all combat preparations are the affairs of each flag itself. Therefore, once the banners decided to send troops, the speed of mobilizing the troops of their own banners was quite fast, which was unimaginably fast for the Ming army before the staff-logistics system was established. At the beginning, the Ming army in Liaodong was repeatedly attacked by the Jurchens because of its slow response.

Because it was relying on the local area to attack the Ningjin area, compared with last year, the offensive distance of the Houjin army was greatly shortened, so that the Houjin could mobilize more troops and resources. After discussing with everyone, Huang Taiji decided to mobilize 45,000 men and horses for this expedition, including 25,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners, 6,000 Mongols, 3,000 Korean musketeers, and 11,000 Han troops.

However, although the decision to go to the army was decided, how to fight this battle made everyone talk about it again. Mang Gurtai raised his head and studied the beams of the house, and put on a picky look. Daishan, on the other hand, was submissive, saying that he was all subject to the decision of the Khan.

The two battle-hardened big Baylors were reluctant to come forward, and only Huang Taiji himself was left to formulate a combat strategy for this battle in the country, and the others were obviously not qualified enough.

Since his accession to the throne, Huang Taiji has fought Korea, Lin Dan Khan and the Mongolian tribes of Liaodong, and won every battle. Only the battle of Ningjin in the first year of Tiancong and the battle of the expedition to the Ming State last year, these two attacks on the Ming State were not victorious. Therefore, he also knows very well that this third battle against the Ming must not be lost again, otherwise the right to discuss the war with the Ming State in the future may not be in his hands.

It was Huang Taiji who also thought twice, learned the lesson of the failure of the last attack on Ningjin, and laid out a battle plan, he ordered the guards to take out the map of Ningjin, and then pointed to the drawings and said to everyone.

"The main purpose of my country's expedition this time is to test the reality of the Ming people on the Ningjin defense line and to respond to the so-called military exercises of the Ming people.

Therefore, we did not plan to directly attack the two cities of Jinzhou and Ningyuan this time, but adopted the method of besieging the city and sending reinforcements, luring the Ming people to send troops to rescue them, and then engage them in the field.

How to besiege the city and send reinforcements, I thought it would be divided into three parts. First of all, in the past two years, we have been at peace with the Ming army in Liaodong, and the Ming army stretched out its hand across the Daling River and cultivated land in the east of the Daling River. Although the Ming army stopped building forts around the Daling River, many villages were built to the east of the Daling River.

Yizhou and Beizhen in the upper reaches of the Daling River are in the hands of our country, as long as our army goes down the river from Yizhou, it can sweep away the fortresses of the Ming people in the north and east of Jinzhou. However, the result of the last time we fought all the way was that the Ming people abandoned the fortress and fled back to Jinzhou, which strengthened Jinzhou's defense capability.

So this time we have to change the number of battles, Zierharang, you lead a small number of troops down the Daling River, don't care about the behind, insert between Jinzhou and the Daling River as soon as possible, and isolate the villages east of the Daling River from Jinzhou.

Yue Tuo led the main force with red and blue flags to the south from the old border of Quang Ninh, staying near Da Mao Fort, pretending to attack the fortress, but besieging but not attacking. There are still several fortresses between Damaobao and Jinzhou, and if our army fails to capture Damaobao for a long time, the Ming army will inevitably relax its vigilance against your troops.

Once the Ming army finds out the strength of our army in the Daling River, it is very likely that it will send troops to meet the soldiers and civilians in the Daling River area and return to Jinzhou. Then when the Ming army left the city, Yue Tuo left a small number of troops to monitor the forts, and then directly inserted it under the city of Jinzhou, cutting off the return route of the Ming army out of the city.

Dolgon with two white flags is stationed in Beizhen, and once the Ming army goes out of the city to rescue the soldiers and civilians of the Daling River, you will go to meet Zilharang and encircle and annihilate the Ming army in the area of the Daling River. This is the first stage of the operation.

If the Ming army in Jinzhou refused to go out of the city to rescue, then it proved that the defenders of Jinzhou lacked the courage to take the initiative to fight with us, so after Jilharang and Dolgon gathered the soldiers and civilians in the area of the Daling River, they were stationed in the west and north of Jinzhou to monitor the movements of the Ming army in Jinzhou.

Yue Tuo led his army to continue to cross the Xiaoling River along the old side, stopping at the location of Dafu Fort on the Daughter River. If the Ningyuan defenders receive the news that Jinzhou is besieged and send troops to the rescue, then you cross the Daughter River to the east and cut off the back route of Ningyuan's reinforcements between Xingshan and Songshan, while Dolgon attacks from Jinzhou in the direction of Xingshan, trying to besiege this reinforcement in the Songshan area. This is the second stage.

Once we have surrounded the defenders of the Ming army at Songshan, I will personally come to your aid with my reserves. We set up an ambush at both ends of Songshan, and when the Jinzhou defenders came to the rescue, we ambushed the Jinzhou defenders; If the Ningyuan defenders send troops to rescue again, we will ambush the Ningyuan defenders. If Ning Yuan's two reinforcements can be eliminated, then Ning Yuan's garrison will almost be exhausted.

The third stage is that we either take the opportunity to attack Ningyuan, or besiege Ningyuan City and then fight the Ming army from other places to help..."

Huang Taiji's plan sounded perfect, but Mang Gurtai sneered and said, "What if Ning Yuan's Ming army doesn't send troops to rescue? So should we be stationed under the city of Jinzhou to bask in the sun, or should we just go home? ”

Mang Gurtai's taunt made Huang Taiji's forehead bruise, but he still stubbornly suppressed his temper and said with a smile: "Sanbeile is worried, but in order to prevent such a situation, we will let Ningyuan's Ming army send troops to aid Jinzhou." ”

Huang Taiji's words made Dai Shan also a little moved, he turned his head to look at Huang Taiji and asked how to let Ning Yuan's Ming army come to the aid, and Mang Gurtai over there was already unconvinced and shouted: "King Khan is joking, if you can order Ning Yuan's defenders to come to the aid of Jinzhou, if you are not the military secretary of the Ming State, you have to be the emperor of the Ming State." Could it be that the emperor of the Ming Kingdom that you can still command, King Khan, can't give an order? ”

Huang Taiji still replied with a good temper: "I don't have such a great ability to command the emperor of the Ming Kingdom and the secretary of the military department. However, I am somewhat sure that the defenders of Ningyuan will come to the rescue. The Ming Kingdom carried out a rebellion in Liaoxi Town this year, didn't many generals and local gentry from Liaoxi Town defect to our country?

These generals of Liaoxi Town are very familiar with the troops and generals stationed in Ningyuan and Jinzhou, and those gentry who defected to us also have many relatives in the army.

Therefore, I plan to ask these gentry to contact their relatives in the Ning Yuan army. After we severed the connection between Jinzhou and Ningyuan City, I asked the Ming troops who surrendered to us to pretend to be messengers from the Jinzhou defenders to ask Ningyuan to send troops to relieve the siege. And the relatives of those gentry, after hearing the news, will naturally instigate Ning Yuanshou to send troops. Therefore, there is still a chance to mobilize the Ningyuan defenders to aid Jinzhou..."

Without waiting for Mang Gurtai to ask any more questions, Yue Tuo and Zilharang had already taken the lead in praising the wisdom of the Khan King, and under the leadership of the two of them, a voice praising Huang Taiji suddenly sounded in the Great Political Palace.

Huang Taiji squinted his eyes and enjoyed the cheers of these Jurchen nobles, before waving his hand to silence them, and then asked Dai Shan and Mang Gurtai with a smile on their faces, what else did they have to say about the plan of this expedition. Dai Shan naturally complimented: "The Khan King is wise, and the ministers of Zhubeile, Beizi and the banners are so supportive of this plan, and the ministers are stupid, so they have no opinions to mention." ”

Mang Gurtai looked at the performance of everyone in the hall, and also knew that the general situation was difficult to disobey, so he said to Huang Taiji in a stiff tone, "The minister has no objection." ”

Huang Taiji secretly remembered the performance of these two people, and then he got up and said to everyone: "Everyone go back and prepare for it, the Ming army is said to have held a military exercise on the tenth day of last month.

I give you five days to prepare, and before the 15th of October, Yueto and Zilharang will arrive in Yiju, and in three days, Jilharang's army will appear at the Daling River..."