Why did he divide his troops?

Is it because he is so ambitious that he wants to capture Hetuara and Shengjing at the same time with his 50,000 horses?

No, quite the opposite.

Tang Xidong knew very well that in such a situation, it was difficult for the Shenyang guards who wanted to break through the Jurchen Shengjing Han people.

So he had to prioritize it.

He told Zhang Xiahai: Seven days to Shenyang, otherwise he will lead troops to evacuate Liaodong.

also warned Zhang Xiahai: Don't care about his life and death.

It's because he already has a very clear plan in his heart.

Compared to Shengjing, Hetuala's attack was a little easier.

And compared to Shengjing, for the real Jurchen, Hetuara is also ten times more important.

10,000 people went deep into Liaodong and attacked Hetuara directly in order to attract Jurchen troops and relieve pressure on Zhang Xiahai.

There are some things that cannot be said explicitly, not because they cannot be said, but even if they are said, they will be bad.

Tang Xidong as the king of Shanxi.

How dare Zhang Xiahai let Tang Xidong lead his troops into danger alone?

So Tang Xidong can't say.

Hetuara was far farther than Shengjing, but Tang Xidong only brought 10,000 men, including only 3,000 infantry, and the speed of the march was much faster than that of a brigade of 40,000 men.

Tang Xidong hopes that he can make a time difference.

But even so, Tang Xidong still has no chance of winning, and 40,000 people can't beat Shenyang.

Doing your best is often a cover for knowing that you can't do it.

When you arrive at Hetuala, you have to bypass a border city in eastern Liao, Tielingwei.

Therefore, Tang Xidong had to consider left and right in the pursuit of speed and covering up his tracks, and for the first three days, he rose day and night.

Liaodong is empty, and there has been no war in the rear of Houjin for a long time, but it makes it easy for 10,000 people in Tangxidong to go all the way east around Tielingwei, bypassing Tielingwei, and then it can be said that the road is smooth, except for a few small castles on the road to Hetuala, there is no big city.

After passing through Tielingwei, Tang Xidong no longer concealed his movements.

Day and night hastened towards Hetuala.

And at this time.

Mang Gurtai had already taken the blue flag under his account and went straight to Shengjing City.

The banner of the blue flag fluttered under the city.

The city gate of Shengjing was closed, and the two Eight Banner Jurchens of the Red Flag and the Red Flag were waiting for the city.

Mang Gurtai was assigned to guard the ancestral land, but the blue banner under the tent was still led by him.

At this time, the Zhenglan Banner suddenly came to Shengjing with great fanfare, and the people in the city didn't know that Mang Gurtai was coming.

Mang Gurtai came, with soldiers, but Huang Taiji was not in the city.

The meaning of the inside is very clear even to the most ordinary tribal soldiers of the Jurchens.

A long arrow shot into the city wall with Mang Gurtai's handwritten letter to Daishan.

At this time, as the main general of Shengjing, Dai Shan happened to be in the city tower.

The letter arrived in his hands as soon as possible.

There is only one sentence on Mang Gurtai's letter: The second brother pushed the eighth brother to the throne of Khan, and his life will not be guaranteed today, has the second brother ever regretted it? Would you like to sit still?

The shortest words pierced Dai Shan's deepest heart.

Of the four major Baylors of the year, Amin was imprisoned, Mang Gurtai was assigned, and Dai Shan followed Huang Taiji every day, but he was also the most closely guarded person.

The situation of the three people is really the same, what Mang Gurtai can feel, Dai Shan can also empathize.

Therefore, Dai Shan hesitated instantly.

But I have to say that Dai Shan's biggest advantage is that he has self-knowledge, and his greatest self-knowledge is that he knows that he is an indecisive person and it is difficult to achieve great things.

Dai Shan, as one of the four great Baylors, admired Huang Taiji's ascendancy back then, because he knew that he was not the king.

At the same time, he was advocating Huang Taiji's ascendancy, and giving up Amin and Mang Gurtai, which shows that he sees the character of the two very clearly.

Hou Jin Zhisheng, Amin and Mang Gurtai are not the best candidates.

Even at this moment, when the Mang Gurtai soldiers were approaching the city, Dai Shan still thought so.

But Dai Shan was really indecisive, knowing that Mang Gurtai was not the best person to call Khan, even if he knew that Mang Gurtai was difficult to resist Huang Taiji, he still hesitated at this moment.

Because he is old, the older he gets, the more afraid he is of death, or Dai Shan strives to pursue a good ending for the rest of his life.

But Huang Taiji couldn't give him the end of his life.

The red flag and the red flag are in hand, and they pushed Huang Taiji to the sweat position back then, but even so, now Huang Taiji is still pressing him step by step.

His face was as respectful as that of an eldest brother, but secretly he wished that he would die immediately.

The arrival of Mang Gurtai is a very tempting thing for Dai Shan.

Dai Shan hesitated.

But he will not immediately agree or reject Mang Gultai.

So he used the procrastination trick.

The reply is only four words: Let me think again!

May I think again?

Four simple words contain a lot of meaning.

For Mang Gurtai, the four-word reply is actually to give him his own confidence, because Dai Shan is hesitant to think about it.

So for the sake of four words, Mang Gurtai garrisoned the city, and really gave Dai Shan time to think twice.

The development of many things does hide a lot of coincidences and accidents.

Mang Gurtai gave Dai Shan a second thought.

Daishan is at an impasse.

However, Tang Xidong didn't know all this.

If he had stepped into Liaodong two days late, he might have been able to be a fisherman who competed with clams and fishermen for profit.

But at this time, Tang Xidong had already led his troops to Salhu, which was not far from Hetuala, with great fanfare.

At that time, more than 100,000 elites of the Ming Dynasty were buried.

At this time, the Jurchen cavalry finally detected Tang Xidong's whereabouts.

Pegasus whipped back to Sheng Jing and Hetuala.

Tang Xidong was still a step faster by Zhang Xiahai.

When Tang Xidong came to Salhu, Zhang Xiahai took 40,000 new troops and just came to the Acropolis of Tieling.

The 40,000 Ming troops suddenly killed from the flank and rear, and the shock to Houjin was not something that could be reacted to for a while.

Zhang Xiahai doesn't care so much.

Tielingwei is a pass on the road to Shengjing.

Zhang Xiahai can let Tielingwei pass, but the fate of bypassing Tieling and going straight to Shengjing may be to be attacked from front to back or cut off his retreat, so Tielingwei must be defeated first.

So Zhang Xiahai began to attack the city, and Houjin began to report the military situation to Shengjing separately by two scouts.

At this time, Mang Gurtai had just given Dai Shan time to think.

Under Shengjing City, the blue flag is deadlocked with the red flag and the red flag.

Tieling Wei, 5,000 Jurchens with 3,000 Han soldiers prepared to defend the city.

Salhu, Tang Xidong took 10,000 people, stayed a little, and began to remember the last trace of glory lost by the Ming Dynasty - the battle of taking the initiative to attack the Houjin base camp.

The cold wind of Salhu was blowing.

It seems that the air reveals a smell of rotting corpses that have not yet gone away, and the whimpering cold wind seems to tell the 10,000 new troops the pathos of the Han people who were once buried here and whose bones have not been collected.

The bones buried in the mountains and wilderness have been blown by the cold wind and washed away by the torrential rain for a long time, and as long as you look at it with your eyes, you can see the pile of white bones that expose the soil.

These people will never be able to return home, not even to their country.

They are the heroes of the Ming Dynasty, and many years later, they have become lonely ghosts in a foreign country of the previous dynasty.

For a hundred years, no one will ever remember that they were buried here.

Losers always seem to be accustomed to being forgotten.