Confucius once said that there must be weapons in literary affairs.

Huang Taiji, a slave chief who is familiar with Han classics, certainly knows this sentence.

Therefore, Huang Taiji pretended to stabilize the Ming Dynasty in the name of peace, and then rest assured that the strategy of conquering Mongolia in the west, then tearing his face and leveling the Dongjiang River, and finally conquering the Ming Dynasty, although it had already taken shape under the planning of Fan Wencheng and others.

But he still believes that before negotiating peace, the Ming Dynasty should first be given a dismissal, and then submit a letter to negotiate peace, so that it will be easier for the Ming Dynasty to accept.

This is also the reason why he insisted on besieging Guangning on three sides with a large army, and then waited for the Ming army to come to the rescue and carry out a siege to help.

This time, after Huang Taiji explained his plans and plates, including Mang Gurtai, the not very cooperative banner owner, he no longer quarreled to attack Guangning.

Because Huang Taiji's tricks are a chain of tricks with one ring on top of another.

If the first step is not smooth, then the rest will not be easy to show.

It's a pity that although Huang Taiji's tricks are good, he met the current Chongzhen Emperor who has crossed over.

Now this Emperor Chongzhen, although in many ways similar to the one in history, but there are also many differences, at least in terms of cherishing his reputation and good face, he doesn't care about the loss of a city and a place.

In particular, Guangning, a city that has changed hands several times between the Ming Dynasty and Jianyu, whether it is the old slave Nuer Hachi, or the current slave chieftain Huang Taiji, they all regard Guangning, a city that hangs more than 200 miles north of the Ningjin defense line, as a wound that constantly bleeds to the Ming Dynasty.

After taking Guangning several times, they were all evacuated soon after destroying the city wall, and then after the Ming army recovered, it spent a lot of financial and material resources to rebuild, and after the reconstruction, the captives came to besiege again, first besieged the point to send reinforcements, and then destroyed the city and then withdrew again, so for decades, endlessly.

How can this Chongzhen Emperor be fooled now?

At the same time when Huang Taiji and others were in their own tent of the Khan, discussing his plan to delay the army and even kill people with a sword, a small group of cavalry from the direction of Jinzhou, with fast horses and whips, rushed into the city from the south gate of Guangning City.

The situation of the Ming army messenger rushing into the city of Guangning naturally could not hide the sentries sent by Huang Taiji, so when the Ming army messenger rushed into the city of Guangning at the same time, a small team of these people immediately rushed back to the camp and reported the situation to Huang Taiji.

Huang Taiji had just received the news, pondered for a moment, and was about to speak, when he heard another sound of footsteps outside the big tent.

A tall young man in leather armor, bald head, and a money rat tail opened the curtain and entered, knelt down on one knee and said:

"Repay the Great Khan! The Ming army in Quang Ninh abandoned the city and broke through! About 1,500 horsemen have already left the south gate and are rapidly heading south! Dare to ask the Great Khan, do you want to intercept the guard sentry scattered in the south?! ”

Hearing this, Huang Taiji was stunned for a moment, then thought for a while, sighed and said, "That's it! Don't intercept them, let them go! ”

Since the Ming army in the city dares to abandon the city, it means that the young emperor of the Ming Kingdom has already made a will, and it seems that there is a clear person in the Ming court!

Now that the defenders have withdrawn, there will be no more reinforcements, and the ambushes on the left and right flanks have suddenly declared useless, and it may be difficult to stop the return of these 1,500 men just by relying on the rangers scattered in the south.

Thinking of this, Huang Taiji said to the strong man who entered the big tent to report the matter: "Ao Bai, you go outside the tent and wait for a while!" After a while, I will take Niu Lu under your command, follow the Ming cavalry all the way, and go to Jinzhou. When you arrive in Jinzhou, drop off a letter in the city, and then you can go straight back to Shenyang! ”

This strong man who came in to ask for instructions was none other than the warrior Ao Bai under the yellow flag.

Aobai, inlaid with yellow flag Guerjia clan, his grandfather is the grandson of Suoerguo, the leader of the Suwan tribe.

The so-called Su Wan Department, in fact, is the early Ming Dynasty in the Songhua River along the establishment of Su Wan River Wei, also called Suwen River Wei, at that time the Ming Dynasty to the Northeast ethnic minorities to adopt a policy of restraint, through the method of tribute and reward, these tribes into the rule.

But in fact, they are all self-governed, saying that they are guards, but in fact they are all semi-independent tribes.

But all the larger tribes have a guard, and the patriarch is the commander, and at the same time, he is also hereditary, and there is no rogue official.

Ao Bai was born in Su Wan Hewei, and his grandfather was also the hereditary commander of Su Wan Hewei, but in the Wanli period, after the rise of the Jianzhou Wei Jurchens of Nuer Hachi, the last commander of Su Wan Hewei made the Suo Erguo soldiers defeated and surrendered, and the troops were scattered and merged into the Jianzhou Jurchen Eight Banners, and finally incorporated into the Huang Huang banner that is now still led by Huang Taiji.

Therefore, in this way, Ao Bai actually has an enmity with Jianzhou Nuzhen.

But after forty or fifty years have passed, the history of Su Wanbu has long been drowned and unheard, and Aobai, who is only in his early twenties now, only knows that he is a hereditary Niu Lu Ezhen under the banner of Mosaic, and of course he has no thoughts of revenge.

And because the Zhenghuang Flag and the Yellow Flag are now in the hands of Huang Taiji, the boundary between the two Yellow Flags is not as clear as between the other Eight Banners.

Huang Taiji left Haoge with the main force of the yellow flag in Shenyang this time, but he still brought some of the warriors under the yellow flag with him, and Ao Bai was one of the young talents he was quite optimistic about.

Ao Bai heard the order, went out of the tent and waited, and in the tent, Huang Taiji quickly dictated a letter to Lu Shanji, the governor of Jiliao, to the effect that:

"The emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty sent his greetings to Lu Shanji, the governor of Liaodong of the Ming Kingdom, and other officials:

"Our country has lived in Liaodong for generations, and has always been loyal and obedient to the border, and there is nothing to do with Erming.

"First of all, Ye He and I originally belonged to the same country, and during the Wanli period, the monarchs and ministers of the country intervened in the affairs outside the border, and divided our country into two.

"Then the monarchs and ministers of the country protected Yehe, bullied Jianzhou, repeatedly invaded, and hated seven times.

"My first Khan knew that the monarchs and ministers of the Erguo country were incompatible, so he sued the Tianxing division and raised troops in anger.

"Fortunately, the emperor blessed and protected my country, first gave my country the land east of the Liao River, then gave my country the land west of the Liao River, and then gave my country the land of Mongolia and Korea.

"Now I heard that the new emperor of your country, Chongzhen, was a young man, first stopped fighting in Liaozuo, and then opened a border exchange market with Mongolia, which can be seen from the wisdom.

"And the new emperor of your country has made the eldest daughter of Korqin Left-wing Jaisangbel as a concubine, and she is already a relative of the emperor of my Great Jin Dynasty.

"Therefore, I submit a letter to the emperor to show the beauty of our country's general agreement and peace.

"I am willing to negotiate terms with the Ming Kingdom, rebuild the old good, and not invade each other, so as to reassure the people."

In addition to these words of the crowned Tang Emperor, the letter also wrote the conditions and requirements of Huang Taiji's peace.

The condition is that Huang Taiji can go to the emperor's name, continue to call Khan, and so on.

And his request was that the Ming Dynasty should cure the crime of Mao Wenlong in Dongjiang Town, who repeatedly raised troops to attack and harass the people of Houjin Land, and so on.

In the afternoon of the same day, Huang Taiji handed over the letter to Aobai, and Aobai immediately took 300 horses under his command to chase the footprints of Cao Wenyao's department and gallop towards Jinzhou.

That night, Cao Wenyao led his cavalry to Jinzhou, and half an hour later, Ao Bai led a Jurchen cavalry under Niu Lu to Jinzhou outside the city.

At this time, He Kegang, the chief general of Jinzhou, who had been prepared for a long time, learned that there were hundreds of cavalry in Jianyu, and followed Cao Wenyao's troops to the city of Jinzhou, and immediately climbed to the head of the city and prepared for battle.

For the defense of Jinzhou, which is now nicknamed the "Octagonal City" by the soldiers of the Ming Army, He Kegang is full of confidence, not to mention that there are only a few hundred people, even if Huang Taiji personally leads tens of thousands of troops to attack, He Kegang is not afraid at all.

The original Jinzhou City was a fortified city in Liaozuo, especially after becoming the top priority of the Ningjin defense line, it was continuously built.

After the battle of Salhu, nearly 20 years of addition, the original boxy Jinzhou City, because of the construction of four huge urn cities outside the four gates, has become an irregular oval, and from the summer of the first year of Chongzhen, the eight huge fortress forts built outside the four urn gates have made this Jinzhou city have eight more sharp corners, and are nicknamed "Octagonal City" by the soldiers guarding the city and the people in the city.

It was precisely because of the eight fortress forts outside Jinzhou City that Huang Taiji did not dare to directly bypass Guangning and besiege Jinzhou, but chose to attract the Jinzhou defenders out of the city to the north, hoping to destroy the Ming army in the field.

At this time, the fort on the right side outside the north gate of Jinzhou City was brightly lit, and He Kegang, the deputy chief soldier of Liaodong Town and the commander of the front road of Liaodong, led Zu Dale, the deputy general of Jinzhou, and Jin Guofeng, Jin Guoqi and other cadres and colonels who had abandoned the Daling River and Xiaoling River, stood in this fort protruding sixty steps away from the city, watching the Jianyu cavalry galloping back and forth outside the city, neither daring to approach, nor refusing to leave.

Zu Dale, the deputy general of Jinzhou who looked like a mighty man with big ears and big ears, looked at the Jianyu cavalry roaring under the city, and then looked at He Kegang, the main general who was calm and relaxed, and said: "He is in control, Dongnu deceives people too much, and the last general is willing to go out of the city to fight!" ”

He Kegang was just about to speak, but suddenly saw the captives under the city riding with bows and arrows, shooting arrows towards the fort above the fortress.

The fortresses of Jinzhou City are all with roofs, such as having the cement concrete this weapon to build the city, a Jinzhou City to build ten or eight fortresses with spires, it is really easy.

But even so, seeing a long arrow flying through the hole in the fort with a whizz, the generals in the fortress were still in a commotion.