Huang Taiji is a character with unusually deep wisdom and a particularly firm mind.

Whether it was the expedition to the west to Chahar or the crusade to the south to defeat the Ming Dynasty, it was all a decision he made after repeated thinking and careful consideration.

After it is decided, it will not change easily, unless there is a major change in the precondition of the previous decision to go south.

During this trip to the south, although Huang Taiji also had several self-doubts and wavering, he still adhered to his original intention and insisted on his original decision every time.

This time, after returning to Huailai from the bottom of Badaling, it was the same.

Faced with the persuasion of Yue Tuo and others, Huang Taiji hesitated to come and go, but in the end he was still unmoved.

Because Yanguli and others died, the elite of the 3,000 Zheng Yellow Banner was wiped out, although it greatly surprised Huang Taiji's expectations, since Huang Taiji inherited the throne of Khan, such a loss has never been, but it is still not the kind of major change that is enough to change the national policy of the Later Jin Dynasty to conquer the Ming Dynasty.

After Huang Taiji's mood stabilized and his mood completely calmed down, he still wanted to try again after all.

Because the situation was originally very good, if the 3,000 people of Yanguli retreated in panic, how would the land of Southern Mongolia that had just been seized be consolidated, and how would the various tribes of Southern Mongolia that had just been surrendered, even including Horqin and other departments, and the various tribes of Mobei who still maintained a wait-and-see attitude towards their Dajin country, think of Dajin?

These issues may not be considered by Yue Tuo or Fan Wencheng and others, but he Huang Taiji, as the Tiancong Emperor of the Great Jin Kingdom who is interested in conquering the whole of Mongolia and then uniting Mongolia to conquer the whole world, cannot but consider it.

That night, despite the getting colder and colder, Huang Taiji still stayed in his own golden-domed tent outside Huailai City.

Yue Tuodu led the army to clean up Huailai City, and prepared the original guard commander and envoy office in the city for Huang Taiji as a palace.

But the city is full of men, women, and children killed, and the corpses of those who have been killed or committed suicide can be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys of the city, in the courtyards and houses, and even in the deep ditches and wells.

Yue Tuo took tens of thousands of servants from various Minan tribes who belonged to the Jurchens, cleaned up for a day, and successively cleaned out more than 30,000 corpses of men, women, and children from the city, but there were still some that had not been cleaned up.

Although this season is not worried about the rapid decomposition of a large number of corpses after the slaughter of the city and the plague epidemic, Huang Taiji, the Great Khan of the Jin Kingdom who likes to read Han classics, is still a bit of a gentleman who cooks far away to show his unbearable little arrogance and fake mercy.

After returning to the camp outside Huailai City, the emaciated Huang Taiji drove away everyone who accompanied him, and sat alone in his golden-domed tent, thinking about the next plan of the army he led.

The next morning, in the big tent outside the city, Huang Taiji summoned the ministers of Beile and the Mongol princes who were stationed in the Huailai area with him to discuss countermeasures.

First, since the opportunity to attack Juyong Pass has been lost, let us bear the burden of humiliation for the time being, and do not rush to attack Juyong Pass, which may hide great dangers.

Second, continue to divide troops to attack the unfinished cities around Huailai, loot the rich women of the Ming Kingdom, kill and drive away the merchants and people of the Ming Kingdom, and attract the Ming army on the front line of Juyong Pass to go out to the decisive battle.

Third, Huang Taiji accepted Fan Wencheng's repeated suggestions, and decided to try to make peace with the monarchs and ministers of the Ming Kingdom again, so that Fan Wencheng wrote a letter and prepared to be sent to Juyong Pass.

In this letter and letter, Huang Taiji once again hypocritically said that he led a large army to the west, just to conquer Chahar, and had no intention of destroying the Ming Kingdom.

He also said that the governor of Datong and the governor of Xuanfu all treated Lin Dan Khan as a guest, but they refused to see him and refused to accept his proposal to open a border market for trade and trade, so he had no choice but to go to Beijing to deal directly with the Ming Emperor.

And in this heart, he also put forward a request, that is, Mo Nan has changed hands, has been included in the territory of the Dajin Kingdom, the Ming monarchs and ministers want to recognize his status, from then on his status is far above Lin Dan Khan, and the city reward of one million per year given to Lin Dan Khan will also be transferred to him.

Moreover, the two countries are bounded by the Great Wall in the north of the country, and the north of the Great Wall is owned by the Dajin Kingdom, if so, he Huang Taiji is willing to immediately restrain his troops and lead the army north out of the Great Wall, and from then on the two countries will be at peace, and he will no longer go south.

Huang Taiji thought that he was already a concession by doing this, after all, at this time he led the army into the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming army he met along the way was not an opponent, so he could have a greater appetite and put forward higher requirements.

Therefore, on the morning of the second day after these matters were agreed, Huang Taiji asked Manzhu Xili, one of his brother-in-laws who had been serving him by his side since the Western Expedition, to take a team of Horqin's Mongol cavalry and carry the Chinese letters drafted for him by Fan Wencheng, and then go to Juyong Pass.

Choosing his brother-in-law to send a letter before the ceremony was, of course, Huang Taiji's ingenuity.

Based on the decades of grudges and hatred between the Jurchens and the Ming Dynasty, sending Jurchen ministers or generals over is purely looking for death.

However, even if the Ming Dynasty sent border generals or ministers in Juyong Pass not to kill them, just keeping them would be a loss for Huang Taiji.

This may not be the case with the Mongols who sent Mongols, especially those in Horqin.

Because the Horqin people are not Jurchens, but they are very loyal to the Jurchens and will not betray the Jurchens.

In addition, Manzhu Xili is from the Horqin left-wing Mongolian Borzigit clan, and is not only the elder brother of Huangtaiji's favorite concubine Bumu Butai, but also the younger brother of Hari Zhula, who is now included in the harem of the Ming emperor.

Speaking of which, this Manzhu Xili is also the brother-in-law of the current emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

With such a dual identity, sending Manzhu Xili to be a messenger is a very suitable candidate.

At the same time, early the morning of the second day after agreeing on the next plan of action, Huang Taiji sent a team of messengers to the army of Mang Gurtai, the main banner of the Zhenglan Banner.

Because on the first day of the imperial tent discussion, Fan Wencheng saw that Huang Taiji was hesitant and unwilling to withdraw so easily, so he made another suggestion to Huang Taiji, and at that time it was approved by Huang Taiji, Yue Tuo and the leaders of the Mongol tribes in Monan.

At that time, Fan Wencheng said to Huang Taiji and others: "Since Your Majesty is unwilling to withdraw from the army, then there is another suggestion here, minions!" That is, from the Bauhinia Pass, three hundred miles south of Juyong Pass, a detour into the Ming Kingdom Jingshi! ”

Fan Wencheng pondered and said: "After the minister heard that after the change of Tumubao that year, the Wara Mongol Taishi also attacked Juyong Pass first, and finally detoured to Yizhou through Bauhinia Pass, and approached the Ming Guojing Division, and finally arrived outside the Desheng Gate!"

"And the slave has also heard that when Mongolia rose to the grassland, Genghis Khan led a large army to the south, and also led the army to attack Juyong Pass, and then detoured from Bauhinia Pass to Juyong Pass, and broke the strong city in one fell swoop!

"And the Wanyan clan, which was set to be the capital in Yanjing, was also destroyed immediately, and a new emperor was set up in Kaifeng, and the land of Yanzhao fell into the hands of Mongolia from then on!"

When he said this, Fan Wencheng deliberately did not mention the fact that the Mongol army was destroyed that year, but it was actually the Jin State, but avoided talking about the Yan family.

But Huang Taiji, who was bright in his heart, of course knew what Fan Wencheng meant.

However, at this time, thinking of the history of Mongolia's destruction of Jin, Huang Taiji was dissatisfied with the name of Dajin Kingdom.

This country name was Nuer Hachiding, originally just to highlight the orthodoxy of the Jianzhou Jurchen among the Jurchens, symbolizing that the Jianzhou Jurchens inherited the mantle of the Dajin Kingdom hundreds of years ago, unified the Jurchen tribes for the Jianzhou Jurchens, and called on the Jurchen tribes to increase their persuasiveness.

But now, especially after Huang Taiji led the army to drive out Lin Dan Khan and subdued the Monan tribes, most of the steppes and tribes of Mongolia fell into the hands of the Jurchens, who had been slaves under the Mongols for one or two hundred years.

If the kingdom of Dajin ruled the Mongol tribes today, the persuasiveness would not be so great.

Huang Taiji, who has been secretly thinking about the issue of the country name since the pacification of the various ministries in Monan, listened to Fan Wencheng's words this time, and felt even more that it was necessary to change the country name.

Sure enough, after Fan Wencheng said the choice of Bauhinia Pass, the original Chahar Dou Tumen Gushan Dolzidarhan Jinong also said:

"These old stories and news, when the slave was in the Chahar department, I have heard people talk about it many times, thinking of the great military exploits of the Mongolian ancestors who swept the world back then, as the descendants of Genghis Khan, the slave is really ashamed!

"However, it is an indisputable fact that Bauhinia Pass is easier to conquer than Juyong Pass! Whether it's Genghis Khan, or the Warat Mongols, it's all this way! ”

In this way, on the morning of November 15, Huang Taiji, who was very worried, sent Manzhu Xili to lead a group of Korqin people to Juyongguan as messengers on the one hand, and sent the human world to the south to give orders to Mang Gurtai.

For Huang Taiji, he ordered Mang Gurtai and his subordinate Zhenglan Banner and Monan Mongol servant army to storm the Bauhinia Pass, but there was no pressure at all.

Because it's really a win-win-win thing for him.