By the end of March and the beginning of April, the weather in the northeastern wilderness outside the Guanxi was no longer bitterly cold.

Although the ice and snow on the mountains and fields near and far have not completely melted, the north of the Liaohe River at this time is already sunny and warm in the spring breeze.

Compared with the original wind and snow to the north of the Chechen Khan, marching south from Tieling and returning to Shenyang City in the hinterland of Liaoshen is no longer a torture.

The only bad thing is that after the snow melts, the road from north to south is very muddy, and after the trampling of the former military horse team, there is mud everywhere.

The two yellow flag men and horses, who were already incomplete and in tattered clothes, marched south this time, making everyone covered in muddy water, looking like beggars and dirty, and no longer had the same brilliance and grandeur as when they swore to march from Shenyang City.

Mang Gurtai, Leng Seng Ji and others, leading nearly 5,000 men and horses with the positive blue flag and nearly 10,000 horses with the two yellow flags, always maintained a distance of three or four miles, and followed behind and went south together without hurry.

Because of the burning and looting in the Hukou before retreating north, everyone got a lot of gold and silver.

Therefore, on the way to withdraw to Liaodong, compared with the two yellow flags and the red flags, although the people and horses under the Zhenglan banner were tired and disgraced, the overall morale has been maintained quite well.

Tieling is not far from Shenyang, but only more than a hundred miles away, and it is only about an hour's drive in the future, but in this era, the Eight Banners cavalry led by Huang Taiji has walked for almost a day.

Early in the morning of the first day of the first month of April, the yellow flag is in front, the yellow flag is in the center, the blue flag is behind, the army set off, to the afternoon of the day around Shenshi, the sun has begun to set west, Huang Taiji a walk stops and stops, and finally arrived at the north gate of Shenyang City.

As the forward battalion Niu Lu under the Yellow Banner, he had already led a group of people to arrive in Shenyang City in advance to report the news.

When Huang Taiji and his entourage arrived, a group of powerful ministers of the Eight Banners, such as Babutai, Babuhai, Dahai, Xifu, etc., who stayed in Shenyang under the leadership of Dabeile Daishan, gathered outside the muddy north gate of Shenyang City and knelt in the mud to greet them.

Huang Taiji rode on a horse, saw the big Bel Daishan kneeling in front, kept beating his horse to the front, and then dismounted, personally lifted Daishan out of the mud, and asked Ahdan, who was on the side of the guard, to take a horse and hand it over to Daishan.

Then, Huang Taiji didn't say a word, and with the support of Ahadan and others, he got on his horse again, and under the support of a group of Yellow Flag guards, he passed through the Eight Banners who were waiting at the Great North Gate and went straight into Shenyang City.

If it was left in the past, Dai Shan could come out to greet him in person, it would already be regarded as a mobilization of the people, and it would be very much to give Huang Taiji, the Great Khan, face, and he would never surrender his identity like now, kneeling in the muddy water to welcome the return of the Great Khan, not to mention that this Great Khan still led a defeated army back.

And the reason why he did this, of course, was due to his considerations.

First of all, when Huang Taiji led the army to swear to go on the expedition, he entrusted the heavy responsibility of staying in the hinterland of Liaodong to his shoulders.

After Huang Taiji left, the front line in western Liaoning has been calm, and the Fifth Route Army of Liaodong Town under the command of the Liaodong Governor's Mansion has not made any major moves except for putting on a posture of besieging the Daling River, and then preparing to besiege but not attack.

However, compared with the relatively calm western front, the southern and eastern fronts were in continuous war, and the Ming army divisions in Denglai Town and Dongjiang Town continued to launch attacks towards the rear hinterland of the Dajin Kingdom.

One of the most serious incidents was the destruction of the old city of Hetuara and the defeat and death of the White Banner Lord Dordor in battle.

The occurrence of these two events made Dai Shan's heart very uneasy.

Although Huang Taiji inherited the throne with his full support and has today, he also knows the heart of this younger brother very well.

As long as there is a chance to bring down or weaken the other banner owners of the Eight Banners, this younger brother will definitely not let it go.

Now he stayed in the rear, but he made a mess, although the real strategic place, only one Fuzhou city was lost, but the destruction of the old city of Hetuara and the death of Duoduo had an extremely bad impact.

Secondly, the western expeditionary army led by Huang Taiji was like a rainbow at the beginning, swept through the Mongolian steppe, and successfully entered Monan, but it did not take long to suffer a major defeat near Gyeonggi of the Ming Kingdom, and withdrew all the way out of the pass.

After sending Ganglin and Wu Nag to Monan to ask for Huangtaiji's division, the Eight Banners in Shenyang City were eagerly waiting for news of Huangtaiji's army.

In February of the New Year, the news of the defeat of Huang Taiji's army came one after another, and each one was more frightening than the other!

During this period, Huang Taiji fainted several times, and after being transmitted back to Liaodong, it was understood that he was seriously injured and critically ill.

And in the month of crossing the Hanhai Sea to the north, the army of Huangtaiji's army was completely cut off from the outside world, and some people in Liaodong even speculated whether the Great Khan had died on the way back!

Fortunately, during this period, because the cold weather in Liaodong was frozen to the extreme point of the year, the armies of Denglai Town and Dongjiang Town stopped attacking, and the Ming army that went deep into the northern hinterland of the Dajin Kingdom along the mouth of the Tumen River also withdrew to the east of the Tumen River.

Otherwise, with the panic of the Eight Banners magnates in Shenyang City, the hinterland of Liaodong in the Dajin Kingdom may fall into an even more unimaginable bad situation.

Under such circumstances, although Dai Shan was a big beylor, he was also worried that Huang Taiji, who had returned from defeat, would be angry with others, or blame the failure of the Western Expedition on the instability of the rear, so as to take the opportunity to his disadvantage.

So, after learning that Huang Taiji would lead the army to Shenyang City today, Da Beile Dai Shanxing Shi mobilized all the Eight Banners magnates and clan disciples in Shenyang City to go to the Great North Gate to greet them.

He also led these people in public, kneeling in the mud with great fanfare, showing Huang Taiji an unprecedented sense of surrender.

By the time Mang Gurtai led the army to arrive, there was only a mess left outside the Great North Gate, and Daishan, Babutai and other clans and high-level figures of the Later Jin State had already dispersed.

Only Mang Gurtai's own third son, Mai Dali, led a group of left-behind house slaves, as well as a few officials who remained behind with the Blue Banner were still waiting for their masters.

Mang Gurtai rode on his horse and hesitated outside the Great North Gate for a long time, and finally saw that it was dusk and night was falling, so he said to Leng Seng Ji:

"When he returned this time, his soldiers were tired, and his various Jiala Niulu were also damaged, so he should have entered the city immediately, so that everyone could return from their armor, so that the father could see his son, and the husband could see his wife.

"However, I have now resented the Great Khan, and before the Eight Banners of the Dugong Hall discussed the sin, Ben Beile entered the city and returned home for fear of his change!

"You are my right-hand minister, and on my behalf, you will lead your armor and banner to return first, stay in the city to take care of the flag affairs, and report the news to me at any time!"

Leng Seng Ji heard this and asked Mang Gurtai: "Where does the master want to go?" ”

Mang Gurtai looked at Shenyang City, pointed to the east with a horsewhip, and said: "I will take Mai Dali and the guards to swing their teeth, and temporarily go to Zhuangzi in Fushun Pass to settle down!" ”

Although Mang Gurtai has always been unpopular and arrogant, but the mutual glares with Huang Taiji that day also made him see danger from Huang Taiji's hostile eyes, and he didn't want to fall into the same fate as Erbel Amin.

If Huang Taiji turned his face after returning to Shenyang and destroyed the statement that Abatai had conveyed to him when he was in Tieling, then others would still have a chance in Fushun.

If Huang Taiji abides by the previous agreement after returning to Shenyang, and only takes five Niu Lu from him through the joint consultation of the Eight Banner Banners, then he is ready to accept this punishment for the time being, and then find an opportunity to seek justice.

That night, Mang Gurtai lingered outside the Great North Gate for a long time, and did not enter the city after all, but at nightfall, he led the most elite Zhenglan Banner guards under his command to swing their teeth and hundreds of horses, and roared eastward amid the stunned eyes of a group of greeters.

And Leng Seng Ji took the Zhenglan Banner thousands of flagmen and armor people who had been away from home for nearly half a year, and entered Shenyang City.