Although a few people such as Huang Taiji and Dai Shan carefully questioned Du Du, they understood Du Du's so-called identity as an envoy, but he was just passing the word for Ming Guo.

But most people don't want to understand this fact, they just think that Du Du, as the Dorobelle of the Later Jin Kingdom, how can he accept the order of the Ming Emperor and return to the camp of the Later Jin Kingdom as the envoy of the Ming State to negotiate. In their eyes, Du Du's behavior is undoubtedly a betrayal of the Houjin Kingdom.

Although Du Du is usually short-tempered, he is not a stupid person. From the gaze of these Jurchen relatives and nobles looking at him, he felt the malice of being ostracized. Previously, these Jurchen relatives stayed away from him, but they were afraid that they would be considered to be close to Du Du's Chu Ying party, and they didn't have any feelings about Du Du himself.

But now these people look at Du Du with a complete look at him as an anomaly, even a traitor. Huang Taiji, Dai Shan and others obviously didn't mean to stand up for Du Du, and after learning what was going on with Du Du's identity as an envoy of the Ming Kingdom, they immediately began to command the evacuation of the troops in the camp.

As for the negotiations with the Ming Kingdom, even Huang Taiji lost interest at this moment. Huang Taiji had hoped to start a genuine peace negotiation with the Ming Kingdom. In addition to buying time for the retreat of Houjin, he also hoped to use this peace negotiation to draw an end to the battle of Vaming.

He enthusiastically invited the Mongolian tribes to follow him into the pass and conquer the Ming, but the situation was like a bamboo at the beginning of the breakthrough, and both the Jurchens and the Mongols were very excited. But now, the east and west roads have suffered setbacks one after another, although the biggest losses are still the Mongolian tribes and the Ulut Mongol banner, but for Huang Taiji, this war he launched has become a tiger's tail.

If the Later Jin army withdrew from Guannai in such a disgraced way, for Huang Taiji, the war not only did not achieve the purpose of the expedition, but also dealt a blow to his prestige in the Later Jin and the Mongol vassal tribes.

However, no matter how unwilling Huang Taiji is, he also knows very well that the chance of recovering the disadvantage in this war is not great, unless the commander of the Ming army has a hot brain and makes mistakes continuously, then the Houjin army still has a chance to turn the tide of the war, but now it seems that this chance is extremely slim.

It is impossible to recover the disadvantage on the battlefield, but if you can save some face in the negotiations, then you can barely cover up the fact that the Houjin army was defeated in this war.

As long as the Ming army sent people with the same status as the Later Jin negotiators to negotiate with them, no matter what the outcome of the negotiations was, it could be regarded as a confirmation that the Later Jin and the Ming were countries of equal status, just like the Liao and Song dynasties in history.

However, the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom actually asked Du Du to serve as the envoy of the Ming State, and Du Du actually accepted it for a little favor from the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom, and this negotiation obviously could not continue, and if it continued, it could only become the laughing stock of the Later Jin State.

After a few brief conversations with Du Du, Huang Taiji temporarily suspended the negotiations with Ming Guo on the grounds that the conditions proposed by the two sides were too far apart. Of course, this is not because Du Du served as an envoy of the Ming Kingdom, and the terms of exchange for Jurchen prisoners brought back by Dolgon were also unacceptable to Huang Taiji.

Huang Taiji could accept the exchange of the fugitive's family for Jurchen captives, but Chongzhen's proposal to exchange Sun Degong's family for these Jurchen captives was difficult for him to accept.

Sun Degong was the greatest hero in the Battle of Guangning, and without him betraying the Ming army, the Later Jin Army would not have won the Battle of Guangning so easily. But for the Ming Kingdom, Sun Degong must have been the biggest criminal in the Battle of Quang Ninh. The Emperor of the Ming Kingdom asked Houjin to send Sun Degong's entire clan back, obviously not to reward him.

If Sun Degong's entire clan was executed by the Ming Emperor after returning to China, then who would dare to surrender to Houjin and contribute to the Houjin State in the future? But if he rejected the proposal of the Ming Emperor, it would undoubtedly be equivalent to abandoning the Jurchen soldiers who were captured by the Ming army.

At present, most of the Jurchen captives in the hands of the Ming people are two white flags, and if Huang Taiji refuses the conditions of the Ming people to exchange prisoners in public, he will not only make the two white flags completely disappointed in him, but also cause the dissatisfaction of other Jurchen relatives and nobles. After all, in the eyes of these Jurchens, the lives of 100 Han people are not as good as the lives of 1 Jurchen.

And there are now more than 100 Jurchen captives in the hands of the Ming people, and Huang Taiji also does not dare to easily give up the lives of nearly two Jurchen soldiers in Niulu. Otherwise, the contradictions between the Jurchens and the Han people in the Later Jin Dynasty will intensify again.

Since his accession to the throne, he has been trying to improve the political status of the surrendered Han people in the Later Jin Dynasty, trying to turn this huge ethnic group into the foundation of the Later Jin State, and become an important force in the external resistance against the Ming State and the internal containment of the Jurchen Eight Banners. Huang Taiji's approach is naturally not without opponents, at least the old people who have been following Nurhachi do not approve of it.

Under Nurhachi's policy of governing the Han Chinese, except for those Han Chinese who were slaughtered, the remaining Han Chinese became slaves of the Jurchen nobles, cultivating the fields and making various consumer goods for these Jurchen nobles.

After Huang Taiji ascended the throne, he has always limited the number of Han slaves kept by the Jurchen relatives and nobles, and constantly turned the slaves into free people, and protected their lives and property. In addition, he also promoted the power of Han officials in the court of the Later Jin, and made them his mouthpiece in the court.

It's just that Huang Taiji's methods are clever, using the same means as boiling frogs in warm water, although the Jurchen relatives and nobles are uncomfortable with the promotion of the status of Han officials, but because the promotion of the status of Han officials is extremely slow, it does not threaten the status of the Jurchen relatives and nobles, so they still unknowingly accept Huang Taiji's policy.

However, this prisoner exchange incident directly exposed the contradictions between the Jurchens and the Han people in the Later Jin Kingdom. No matter which side Huang Taiji chooses, it will have unpredictable consequences. Therefore, he simply suspended the negotiations and postponed the exchange of prisoners for the first time.

Of course, in the face of the request of Dolgon and the two white flag generals, Huang Taiji did not tell the truth, he said to Dolgon and the others to avoid the important and light: "The top priority now is to withdraw from the pass first, so as to avoid being blocked by the heavy snow.

As for the exchange of prisoners, none of the exchange candidates requested by the Ming Emperor were in the army, and the exchange could only take place after we returned to Liaodong.

In this case, why should we agree too early, it is better to sharpen the character of the Ming people first, maybe after we return to Liaodong, the Ming people will make some concessions.

After all, Sun Degong is a meritorious man, even if we can't protect him, we must try to protect his family, otherwise who among the Han people will report for us in the future? And if we agree too early, with the problem that the Ming people are not good at keeping secrets, maybe Sun Degong will already know the news before we reach Liaodong.

If he commits suicide or flees with his family, what should we do in exchange for the captured soldiers? ”

After exchanging glances with the two white flag generals beside him, Dolgon said in a retreat: "Lord Khan, when I was in the Santun camp, I had already met the captured two white flag soldiers, and I had promised those soldiers that I would exchange them back as soon as possible. Since our army is now going to suspend the negotiations, how can we inform those captured soldiers of this matter when we send someone to reply to the Ming people? ”

If it weren't for these captured soldiers, the Houjin wouldn't have to inform the Ming people about the suspension of negotiations, but now that there are so many Jurchen Mongol captives in the hands of the Ming people, even if they want to suspend the negotiations, they can't just break it so rudely.

Huang Taiji looked at everyone's expressions and knew that everyone was very concerned about the exchange of prisoners, and it was obviously an extremely difficult candidate to find someone to inform the Ming people to suspend the negotiations without provoking the Ming people.

After his gaze patrolled around the crowd, he finally fixed his gaze on Du Du, "I think, this problem should be left to Du Du to solve." Since he can serve as an envoy for the Ming Kingdom, he must be able to convey our meaning to the Ming Emperor very well, so as not to let the Ming people misunderstand us, and finally let the Ming people attack our soldiers. And Du Du must be able to dispel the doubts of the captured soldiers about our decision..."

Under the guidance of Huang Taiji, this trouble soon fell on Du Du's head. Du Du knew very well that the task given to him by Huang Taiji was not a task that could be completed at all, and it was obvious that he had been regarded as the person to bear the blame when there was a problem in the negotiation.

Not to mention how entangled Du Du's heart was, the other Jurchen nobles in the Later Jin Army finally accepted Huang Taiji's proposition. Compared to the captives in the hands of the Ming people, their own safety is obviously the most important thing at the moment. Even Dolgon and the generals of the two white flags did not continue to dwell on the matter of exchanging prisoners.

When Huang Taiji, east of Zunhua, retreated towards the Zunhua camp with the last thousands of troops, a fiercely debated military meeting was also being held in the Ming army camp at the east exit of Shimen Gorge.

In the cowhide tent in the middle of the camp, dozens of Ming army generals were sitting together to discuss combat matters, and Sun Chengzong, the commander of the Ming army on the West Road, the chief of staff of the wartime base camp, and the chief of staff of the General Staff, listened to the arguments of the people below with a solemn face.

On his left hand sat Yuan Chonghuan, Mao Yuanyi and other members of the General Staff or generals of the New Army, while on his right were Cao Minglei, the general of Baozhen, Sun Chuanting, the prefect of Luoyang, and Lu Xiangsheng, the prefect of Daimyo.

After Yuan Chonghuan and Guiyingcha captured Malankou, they took advantage of the situation to enter the pass from Malankou, successively captured several nearby forts, and opened up the connection with the main force of the Ming army on the West Road. Compared with the terrain outside the Guan, which was difficult to move and resupply, Yuan Chonghuan quickly explained Guiyingcha and led the army to move closer to the main force of the Ming army on the west road of Guannei, leaving only more than 1,000 men and horses to search for the whereabouts of 36 tribes along the Great Wall.

On December 6, after the Ming army on the Western Road repelled the attack of the main force of the Houjin, Sun Chuanting also arrived at Shimen with the carefully selected main force of the 5,000 Henan New Army.

With the addition of Yuan Chonghuan and Sun Chuanting and others, the garrison of the Ming army camp on the West Road soon exceeded 40,000, and the Houjin army on the opposite side also lost the ** attack on the Ming army camp after the failure of the attack on the 6th.

After this situation of confrontation between the two armies was formed, Yuan Chonghuan, Mao Yuanyi and others insisted on continuing to hold on, after all, this was endorsed by the emperor's order, and as long as they held the camp, they would not be at fault.

However, after Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng confronted the Houjin army for several days, they began to suggest to Sun Chengzong that they should send troops to attack the Houjin army on the opposite side.

At first, the dispute between the two sides was restrained, but as time went on, the argument between the two sides became fierce, which forced Sun Chengzong to convene today's meeting, intending to discuss a decision.