In this battle, the most casualties in the second town of the new Guards Army were the three battalions of cavalry brought by Ma Dengyun and Sun Zushou to the Lihuajian Water Gate.

These cavalrymen who rode on horseback to the city and fought on foot were not equipped with new firearms, and although the Qi sword armor on their bodies was very sophisticated, they were still not the opponents of the elite in terms of individual combat ability.

More than half of the 3,000 people who climbed to the top of the city to make emergency replacements were killed or wounded.

However, as the so-called mud and sand are exhausted, those who survived the crazy attack of the braided soldiers of the Jianyu Zheng Blue Banner naturally became the elite and became the backbone of the three battalion heads.

The morning after the fierce battle under Bauhinia Pass ended, the good news jointly signed by Wang Fu and Fang Kongzhi was sent to the direction of Juyong Pass by a team of urgently dispatched messenger fast horses.

At the same time, on the morning of November 17, Huang Taiji, who had planned to wait until the news of Mang Gurtai came to make a decision, again angrily led his Jianlu and Mongol armies to the foot of Badaling.

And all this starts with Du Xun following the two Horqin cavalry under Manzhu Xili to Huailai City.

On the morning of 16 November, Du Xun was full of anxiety and left Juyong Pass with two Horqin cavalrymen who did not understand the language.

The two Horqin cavalrymen from the command of Manzhu Xili, one in front of the other, sandwiched Du Xun in the middle, and went north along the military capital of the time wide and sometimes narrow.

After Manzhu Xili entered Juyong Pass, Emperor Chongzhen did not restrict his freedom, but asked Niu Juming to arrange him with his attendants and give the courtesy of the emperor's relatives.

After deciding on Du Xun as the messenger for reply, Niu Juming asked Manzhu Xili to choose two Horqin's attendants to accompany him.

Let's say that after Du Xun and the three of them left the exit of the valley where Badaling was located, the terrain gradually opened up, and the three of them turned west, all the way to the outside of Yulin Fort.

In Yulin Fort, the three of them met the Zhenghuang Banner Niu Lu Zhen He Luohui, who had been ordered to stay here to guard the Ming army in the direction of Juyong Pass.

As soon as He Luohui saw that the envoy came, he left one of the Ben Niu Lu's deputies to guard Yulin Fort, and personally took dozens of elite horsemen to escort the three to Huailai City.

Huang Taiji heard that Juyongguan had responded so quickly, and he was also anxious, so he immediately asked Du Xun and the three of them to be summoned to the former Huailaiwei Commander's Embassy where he lived now.

At the beginning of the afternoon of 16 November, at the same time that the fierce battle on the Bauhinia Ridge had just ended, Huang Taiji gathered in the palace in Huailai City, and the ministers of Beile, who had built the Yellow Banner and the Red Flag, and the leaders of the various tribes of Southern Mongolia and the Later Jin, gathered together again, and everyone was waiting for the reply sent by Juyongguan.

What exactly this answer looks like is quite important for many of them.

It would be great if the ministers of the Ming Dynasty or the generals guarding the town in the direction of Juyong Pass gave in, or even the monarchs and ministers of the Ming Dynasty Jingshi, who were not far from Juyong Pass, succumbed.

For for any truly wise leader is the best choice to surrender without a fight.

But what if the Ming Dynasty didn't give in?

The weather is getting colder and colder, and the Sanggan River is frozen, and people and horses can already walk on the ice.

This was of course a good thing for the cavalry-based Jianlu and the Mongol army.

However, so many Jianyu and Mongol troops entered the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, and there were strong cities such as Datong and Xuanfu, standing behind them.

Whether the next step is to attack or retreat, a decision must be made as soon as possible.

This is also the content of Yue Tuo, Darhan, Fan Wencheng and others who have repeatedly admonished Huang Taiji in the past two days.

Of course, this is also what Huang Taiji thinks now.

After all, the longer he stayed in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, the more distinct the unease he felt about the back road of Liaodong in his heart.

The Sanggan River is frozen, and the Yalu River will only freeze more thoroughly than the Sanggan River!

So the Ming army of Liaodong Town and Dongjiang Town, which have been recuperating for a year, heard that the main force of the Eight Banners of our Dajin Kingdom broke through the border and entered the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, will they continue to be honest?

It's okay if they keep being so honest, but if they are not honest, wouldn't the back road of Dajin Kingdom be dangerous?

If he can quickly cut through the chaos and enter the city of the Ming Kingdom, then everything is okay to say, and the iron cavalry of the Ming Army in Liaodong will definitely return to the division to rescue Beijing, in this case, only a Dongjiang Town, he Huang Taiji has not taken it to heart.

But now this situation is not quite the same as the original idea, between the army led by himself and the Ming Dynasty Jingshi, there is still a Juyong Pass.

While Huang Taiji continued to think about these annoying questions, he sent someone to spread the word that He Luo would bring an envoy from the Ming Dynasty to meet him.

After a few moments, He Luo would take Du Xun and the two Korqin cavalry to the lobby of the front yard of the palace where everyone was.

Du Xun tried his best to maintain his dignity as an envoy of the Ming Dynasty, but as soon as he entered the hall, he suddenly saw so many high-ranking officials and dignitaries in strange clothes and strange shapes sitting around the hall, and his heart immediately became timid, and his legs seemed to be drained of strength, so soft that he couldn't walk, and he trembled.

Seeing He Luohui and the other two Horqin soldiers suddenly kneeling on the ground, saying something in a loud voice, and saluting Hu Lu who was sitting on a high position in front of him, Du Xun could no longer maintain the dignity he wanted to maintain, and with a poof, he also knelt on the ground, staring at the ground, not daring to raise his head, and said tremblingly:

"Below, it is the minister sent by the Great Tomorrow Son to send the letter, Du Xun, the existing one, the Ming Imperial Court, the letter of state is here——"

Du Xun stammered and finished these words, untied a package from his back, placed it in front of him, then opened the package, took out a long box from it, and respectfully raised his hands above his head.

Du Xun's timid and cowardly appearance immediately attracted a burst of laughter from Houjin and Mongolian high-ranking officials and dignitaries in the lobby.

It seems that Du Xun's servile face and knees have verified all the prejudices against the Southern Dynasty in their hearts.

Huang Taiji originally saw that this envoy of the Southern Dynasty was polite and dignified, and thought that he must be a martyr selected by thousands of people, but he never expected that this person had just entered the hall and had just met, which was such a performance.

This made him laugh heartily suddenly, but also inexplicably felt a kind of disgust and contempt, it turned out that the emperor of the Southern Dynasty sent a eunuch.

After the establishment of the Later Jin Kingdom, the palace was small, and Nuer Hachi did not need eunuchs, and after Huang Taiji inherited the throne, his Khan palace was not large, and there were no eunuchs in it.

The use of eunuchs in the harem of the Manchu Qing Dynasty began almost after the occupation of the Forbidden City after entering the customs.

And they set up a rather vicious rule, that is, the Manchurians were not allowed to enter the palace as eunuchs, and they could only be castrated as eunuchs by Han Chinese.

All the eunuchs in the Forbidden City after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs were basically Han Chinese people from Gyeonggi.

After Du Xun finished speaking, he lay on the ground and did not dare to move, and Huang Taiji knew that he was originally a eunuch, so he did not have much interest in talking to him, and instead used Mongolian language to talk to the two Horqin cavalrymen.

Of course, Du Xun didn't understand Mongolian, so he naturally couldn't understand what those people were saying, but after a while, he heard the excitement of the slave chief and the other dignitaries in the hall.

Just as he was pondering what was going on, he only heard the slave chief's voice like a bell, and suddenly asked him in Chinese: "Du Xun, your son of heaven is in Juyong Pass at this time?!" ”

When Du Xun heard this, he suddenly raised his head, and seemed to understand something, it must be those Horqin cavalry who betrayed His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty!

Thinking of this, Du Xun suddenly raised his head and stared viciously at the backs of the two Horqin cavalrymen, but gritted his teeth and did not speak.

Everything about the Ming Emperor is a taboo topic for eunuchs who have been sent to the palace since they were children and raised in the palace, and they are not allowed to ask each other, and the people who are asked are not allowed to speak, even if you can read and write, you are not allowed to leave a single word.

Because whether it is the emperor's daily life note or the future record, it is the prerogative of civil officials, and the ministers are not allowed to interfere in the slightest.

Because of this, Du Xun has also been educated and cultivated such a habit since he was a child, once others ask him about the emperor, he will reflexively guess the person's intentions.

It's just that the person who asks at this time is the person who can decide his life and death.

It made him extremely troubled.

However, his entanglement, in the eyes of Huang Taiji and others, is obviously equivalent to explaining everything.

"Du Xun, Du Xun, you are just one of the people who can't survive in the Ming Kingdom, any man, if there is still a way to live, how can he tolerate entering the palace to be a eunuch?! And the reason why you have no other way to live is because the emperor of your Southern Dynasty has harmed you! ”

Huang Taiji was still sure in his heart at this time that the young emperor of the Ming Kingdom must be in the Guancheng less than a hundred miles away at this moment.

The state of hesitation, indecision, and difficulty in making trade-offs that the army had fallen into seemed to have suddenly seen a glimmer of light because of the arrival of this news.

The original plan was to send troops to the city of the Ming Kingdom and sign an alliance with the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom, can it be directly used in Juyong Pass?