Chapter 830: To Each His Own Mind

The news that Mang Gurtai crossed the city gate and did not enter reached Huang Taiji's ears that night, which made Huang Taiji even more angry.

The next day, the clash between Huang Taiji and Mang Gurtai on the way back from the withdrawal and tearing their faces in public quickly spread among the upper circles of the Eight Banners of the Later Jin State.

For this, it is natural that some people are happy and some are worried.

However, in general, the trouble between Mang Gurtai and Huang Taiji has reached this point, and it is a piece of news that makes them a little relieved to Dai Shan and other Eight Banner nobles who stayed in Shenyang.

It's not that Daishan likes to gloat, or that they are short-sighted and can't see the dispute between the two of them and the harm to Dajin Kingdom.

Rather, it is said that the reckless behavior of Mang Gurtai has dispersed the blame for their ineffectiveness in the rear.

Considering the future of Dajin Kingdom, Dai Shan is of course secretly worried and anxious.

This time, the Huangtai Jixing Division led the army to the west, and almost took away most of the main forces and elites in Dajin, but now there are few left who can return to the country smoothly.

A scheming figure like Dai Shan, of course, can see that this defeat is a heavy blow to the Dajin Kingdom.

But then again, the two yellow flags, the blue flag, and the inlaid red flag that Huang Taiji took away suffered heavy losses, but it also made the Zhenghong flag owned by Dai Shan suddenly become the strongest of the eight flags of the Dajin Kingdom.

Although the current situation is not conducive to the overall situation of the Houjin Kingdom, it is beneficial to the status of the Daishan family in the Houjin Kingdom.

At the same time, the news of Huang Taiji's return with his army also spread to Zhenjiang Fort, where the Yalu River estuary and the Andong Town Guard Mansion were still facing each other across the river.

Since the Ming army of Dongjiang Town broke through the defense of the Yalu River, bypassed all the castles without attacking, and directly rushed into the hinterland of the Dajin Kingdom, burning the old city of Hetuara into a white ground, the blue flag lord Jierharang, who led the army to sit on the defense line of the Yalu River, has been worried and has difficulty sleeping.

Although his brother Amin has been imprisoned, he is not dead after all, and Amin's eldest son, Hong Ketai, is still running under Daishan, Babutai, Haorge and others, working hard to free his father and seek to return the family property under the blue flag.

Now that he has led the blue flag to guard the front line of the Yalu River, but he has not been able to prevent Shang Kexi's troops from infiltrating Hetuala, so that it has caused such harm, if Huang Taiji asks for guilt after returning, what should he do?

In this way, while anxiously waiting for news from Shenyang, the banner owner of the blue flag, Jierharang, launched an attack on the Ming army's fort on the other side of the Yalu River again and again.

However, these attacks, in addition to causing more losses to the Zhenglan banner and destroying some military and civilian cantonments distributed along the river on the other side, did not capture any decent cities, nor did they achieve other decent results.

By March, as the ice on the Yalu River began to thaw and melt, even this costly cross-river offensive could no longer be carried out.

It was in this kind of confrontation across the river with the Ming army in Dongjiang Town that Jierharang received the news that Huang Taiji had returned from defeat.

Three days later, Zilharang received an order from Tiancong Khan Huang Taiji to immediately go to Shenyang to attend the Eight Banners Council of the Dugong Hall of the Khan's Palace.

If it weren't for the news that there had been a conflict between Sanbeile Mang Gurtai and the Great Khan Huang Taiji on the way to Liaodong, Zilharang would definitely be worried about this will.

But when he learned that the three beylers had openly turned against the Great Khan, and had returned with his army, he was relieved.

Although he was negligent in this battle to defend the rear, it was an insignificant mistake compared to the public opposition of the three Bel Manggul.

Moreover, the Great Khan Huang Taiji personally led more than 100,000 Jurchen and Mongol tribesmen to go on the expedition, but in the end not only did not achieve the expected results, but also lost troops from the four banners of the expedition and returned defeated.

Compared with this defeat, it is commendable that he held Zhenjiang Fort on the defense line of the Yalu River and blocked the main force of Dongjiang Town.

Therefore, after receiving the will of the Khan King from Shenyang, Zilharang put down his worries, took a guard army to swing his teeth, and rushed to Shenyang City.

The banner lord who rushed to Shenyang, the capital of the Dajin Kingdom, almost at the same time, and Dolgon, the banner master of the Zhengbai Banner who guarded the direction of southern Liao.

At this time, Dolgon, who was only eighteen years old, had been the master of the White Banner for many years, and the majesty he had formed from holding a high position for a long time, coupled with his innate wise temperament, often made the ministers of the White Banner who were on his left and right forget his real age.

Before the news of Huang Taiji's defeat, Dolgon and Zilharang were in a similar state of mind.

The Ming army defending Denglai Town and Lushun Town advanced by land and water, and raided and captured Fuzhou City, which made the Liaonan defense line of Dajin Kingdom suddenly retreat more than 100 miles.

Although the loss of Fuzhou City is not the responsibility of his Dolgon, but the commander of the entire Liaonan defense line is him, if Huang Taiji wants to take this opportunity to find trouble with him to punish him, he is indeed at a loss for words.

When Azig died in Korea, Hwang Tai Ji united with other banner lords, including him Dolgon, Baylor, and took this opportunity to bring down Erbel Amin, which made Dol very impressed.

When he first heard the news of the defeat and death of his younger brother Duoduo, Dolgon was furious, and led the army of Zhengbai Banner south to Fuzhou, and after meeting the army with white flags, he attacked Fuzhou City for several days without hesitating to be killed or wounded.

Immediately afterwards, in order to mobilize the Ming army in Fuzhou City to fight, Dolgon ordered the army with white flags to attack Jinzhou City all the way south under the leadership of the Minister of White Flag Ilden, the Assistant Minister Samushka and Gushan Ezhen Turge and others, and then Dolgon personally led the white flag all the way to the army and horses, and ambushed the road south of Fuzhou City.

However, Dolgon lay in ambush in the ice and snow for nearly a month, and did not wait for the Ming army in Fuzhou City to go south out of the city and relieve the siege of Jinzhou City.

On the contrary, it was the army with a white flag that led the army to storm the city of Jinzhou, and after besieging Jinzhou for more than a month, the weather on the Liaodong Peninsula turned to a bitter cold, and the army led by Yilden, Turge and others was away for a long time, and the grain and grass gradually became unsustainable, and finally had to withdraw the army.

Later, the news that the Ming army in the Korean direction had crossed the Yalu River and invaded the hinterland of Daejin came one after another, and Dolgon immediately retracted the entire line and withdrew all the troops of the two white flags to the north of the city of Fuzhou.

At the same time, in accordance with Dai Shan's order, he still guarded the front line of Gaizhou and Haizhou with a white flag, and only stationed the army with a white flag in the area of Wulizhai and Xiongyue City in the north of Fuzhou City, to prevent the Ming army in southern Liaoning from suddenly going north to the hinterland of Dajin Kingdom.

In this way, the Liaonan defense line of the Dajin Kingdom was attacked earlier than the defense line of the Yalu River, and it also fell into the stage of confrontation earlier.

Now that two months have passed, and a hundred days have passed since the defeat and death of Dorgon, Dorgon's pain of losing his brother has gradually faded and dissipated, and the original idea of avenging his brother regardless of the gains and losses has also disappeared.

All I think about every day is how to maintain my position and strength in the two white flags under the current situation.

Needless to say, the white flag was given to Dolgon when the old slave was alive, and now it is Dolgon's forbidden.

As for the white flag, now that his own brother Duoduo is dead, who will fall into the hands of him in the future?

Originally, Duoduo died of illness shortly after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, and Duoduo already had several sons at that time, and the eldest son, Doni, was old enough to inherit his title.

But in this life, Duoduo, who is now fifteen years old, has no son, and after his death, his white flag is destined to fall into the hands of others

So how can we ensure that the white flag can still obey its orders as in the past after having a new flag owner?

This is the question that Dolgon cares about the most now.