Yue Tuo fled northwest from Quang Ninh, passing through the territory of the Horqin Mongols.

Horqin was now the most loyal ally of the Dajin Kingdom, and Yue Tuo was one of the four small beylers of the Dajin Kingdom, so Yue Tuo was warmly welcomed and entertained by the heads of the various tribes of Horqin until the Horqin royal court Tang Harik.

Korqin Great Khan Oba was out for something and was not in Tang Harik, Taiji Saisan heard that Yue Tuo was visiting, and trotted all the way out of the palace gate, he stroked his chest with his right hand, and bowed down to Yue Tuo: "Lord Belle! ”

Yue Tuo squinted at Seisan: "There is Rausei Santaiji, what about Oba Khan?" ”

"The Great Khan is not in Don Harrik," Cesan bowed to greet him, "Lord Belle, please!" ”

Saisang welcomed Yue Tuo into the main hall, and asked the maid to make fragrant tea: "This is the best tea bought from the Han people, Lord Belle, you can taste it." ”

Hearing the Han people, Yue Tuo was furious: "It turns out that Saisang Taiji has been secretly communicating with the Han people? ”

"Lord Belle," Seisang was embarrassed, "Seysang only has a little business dealings with the Han people, and does not have any dealings with the Ming court and army, besides, Belle Ye guards Guangning, and Saisang just wants to communicate with the Ming Dynasty, and there is no way out!" Haha, haha......"

At the mention of Guangning, Yue Tuo was even more angry, but he did not have a seizure, but picked up the teacup and drank tea.

"Smack!" The teacup fell to the ground, the fragrant tea overflowed, and the room was filled with the smell of tea.

"Lord Belle?" Seysang motioned to the maid to clean up the broken magnetic cup and re-serve Yue with tea.

"Sesantaiji, these Han porcelain, tea, Benbel is not blessed." Yue Tuo didn't look at the porcelain cup and fragrant tea in front of him.

Cesan wondered: What's wrong with this Yueto? Looking at this situation, he came to ask himself about his sin, is it because he did not make up for him the Mongolian cattle record?

But Saisanggui is the Taiji of Horqin, and Yue Tuo gives him such a face, and he can't get off the stage.

His respect for Yue Tuo is because Yue Tuo is one of the most relied on ministers of Huang Taiji.

When Nurhachi died, those who were eligible to succeed to the throne of Khan were the Great Beyl Daishan, the Second Beyl Amin, the Third Beyler Mang Gurtai and the Fourth Beyler Huang Taiji. These four Baylors are all the lords of one banner, and each holds a banner of soldiers, and it seems that for the sake of the Khan, the four Baylors of the Dajin Kingdom will meet each other with swords.

At this critical moment, Yue Tuo stepped forward.

He first persuaded his father, the Great Belle Daishan, to give up the struggle for the throne, and then together with Daishan, he persuaded the Dorgon brothers to support Huang Taiji together.

At the meeting of the "Eight Kings Discussion", they suddenly proposed that Huang Taiji should be appointed as the Great Khan, and Amin and Mang Gurtai were caught off guard and watched Huang Taiji ascend to the throne of the Great Khan.

After Huang Taiji ascended the throne of Khan, in order to thank Yue Tuo, he let him serve as the flag owner of the red flag, so that he and Daishan father and son each have a banner of soldiers, which shows Huang Taiji's trust in him.

Although Saisang is the Taiji of Horqin, Horqin is a collateral line of the Mongolian Golden Family, their ancestor is Genghis Khan's second brother Hazar, who has not been able to become the core of the Mongolian tribes, and has long taken refuge in the integration of the Mongolian steppe, and is the most trusted ally of the Dajin State.

In order to strengthen the relationship with the Dajin Kingdom, the Taiji of the various tribes of Horqin have married the Beile people of the Dajin Kingdom, and it is the current Great Khan Emperor Taiji of the Dajin Kingdom who is married to the Saisang family.

In the forty-second year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1614 AD), Saisang's father Mang Gusi married his daughter, that is, Saisang's sister Zhezhe to Huang Taiji as his wife, and in the fifth year of the Great Ming Dynasty and the tenth year of the Great Jin Mandate of Heaven (1625 AD), Saisang married his second daughter Bumu Butai, who was only thirteen years old, to Huang Taiji in order to strengthen the connection with Huang Taiji.

Huang Taiji is not only the Great Khan of the Dajin Kingdom, but also the brother-in-law and son-in-law of Seisan, but the women of the steppe people have no seniority at all, and they are the real chickens who marry chickens. In the history of later generations, in the seventh year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty and the eighth year of Dajin Tiancong (1634 AD), Saisang also married his eldest daughter Hari Zhula (Manchu name Hailanzhu) to Huang Taiji, which further consolidated his personal relationship with Huang Taiji.

In the harem of Huang Taiji, the middle palace Da Fu Jin is Sesang's sister Zhezhe, and Bumu Butai occupies the position of Fu Jin on the west palace side, and in the case of the temporary absence of Fu Jin on the east palace side, Saisang's sister and daughter occupy the first and second places in the Huang Taiji harem.

It can be said that the life and death of Huang Taiji's honor and disgrace have a great relationship with the Mongolian Horqin Department, especially the Taiji Saisang family.

With this relationship, Seisang respected Yue Tuo like a distinguished guest, but Yue Tuo made it clear that he was here to ask for guilt, and Seisang was also angry in his heart.

"Lord Belle came from Quang Ninh, and he was tired of saddle horses all the way, do you want to rest first?"

It's time to send off guests. Yue Tuo was furious in his heart: "Benbeile is used to the days of horses, and he has not yet traveled to the point where he has to rest before he is rich enough to travel such a way--Sesantaiji, the Ming army has transferred troops to Liaodong on a large scale, and Benbeile hopes to borrow some cavalry from Sesantaiji. ”

and transfer troops again. Seisang held back his anger: "How many Korqin's cavalry does Lord Belle want to transfer?" ”

Yue Tuo glanced out the window and pondered for a while: "Twenty thousand!" ”

"Twenty thousand?" Seisan's eyes were as wide as his mount, "Lord Belle, since Horqin was annexed to the Dajin Kingdom, he was limited to 100,000 by the Dajin Kingdom - the extra males have been killed, and now in Horqin, in addition to the old and the weak, the male can fight less than 30,000. ”

Yue Tuo was silent and continued to stare out the window, not knowing what he was looking at.

On the grassland, the male is the strength, and without the male, he can only be slaughtered by others, and Seisang is heartbroken: "Lord Belle, now is the time to take care of the young animals and save for the winter, the men are scattered all over the place, even the shaman, and they can't get them together - Lord Belle, how many soldiers did the Ming send to Liaodong?" ”

Yue Tuo thought to himself, simply say that the number is larger, first, it can scare Sesang, you can borrow more Mongolian soldiers, and second, you can also slightly reduce the responsibility for your defeat in Jinzhou, "According to the report of the spies of the Dajin Kingdom, the Ming Dynasty has increased hundreds of thousands of troops to Liaodong - how many soldiers and horses can Saisang Taiji lend to Benbele?" ”

"Hundreds of thousands?" Cesan fell into the abyss, and his whole body seemed to be hollowed out by something all at once.

No wonder Yue Tuo wanted to borrow troops from Horqin, but hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Ming Dynasty went north, making it clear that they were going to fight hard with the Dajin Kingdom, although the cavalry of the Dajin Kingdom was invincible, but the Han people were too numerous and occupied an absolute numerical advantage. Horqin is a small tribe, and it must not participate in the battle between the two powers when the victory or defeat is not scored.

Saisang made up his mind, and he stretched out his right hand and five fingers to Yue Tuo: "Lord Belle, the Horqin people have few soldiers, and they don't have the power of the Eight Banners and Tigers like the Dajin Kingdom, besides, this matter of transferring troops has to be discussed with the heads of various departments and Taiji, and Saisang can only give this number personally." ”

"What? Only 5,000? Yue Tuo lay on the recliner and calculated, if the five thousand Mongolian cavalry were concentrated, they might be able to break through the gun array of the Ming army, and when the time came, it was the Mongolian soldiers who were killed and wounded, so he would not feel distressed. For the sake of the five thousand soldiers, he didn't care about Ceissan's rudeness for the time being.

Seisang shook his head: "Lord Belle, you have regarded the small Horqin cavalry as the Eight Banners of the Great Jin Kingdom - Seisang can give up to five hundred cavalry." ”

"What? Five hundred? Yue Tuo "tom", got up from the chair, approached Seisang through the wooden table, raised his hand and pointed to Seisan's nose: "Sesan, do you treat Benbel as a begging for food?" ”

Yue Tuo's eyes were staring at Seisang's face, which was a bitter gourd face with wrinkled skin like a horse's neck, and when he raised his hand, he accidentally touched the porcelain cup with his fingers, and the porcelain cup suddenly overturned, and the tea flowed along the table to Seisang's waistband.

The maid hurried over and wiped the tea from the table with her sleeve.

Seisang took the opportunity to twist his head out of the window, and it seemed that a beautiful prairie pearl was walking outside the window, and muttered in a low voice: "Could it be that Dajin has such a big hand, and a person who asks for food can give five hundred cavalry?" Lord Belle, this is the limit given by Seisang, and it is necessary to discuss it with the Taiji of various tribes. ”

"You ......" Yue Tuo shuddered, unable to speak for a long time, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva, "Ben Beile is not well, so he will take his leave first." ”

Before Seysan could get up, he had already walked briskly out of the main hall.

"Then Lord Belle will rest first, and Seisang will greet Lord Baylor another day." Seisan's words reached Yueto's ears far away.

Seisang immediately called one of his personal guards: "Send someone immediately and rush to Quang Ninh without stopping to see what is going on there." ”

Ever since he met Yueto that day, Seisang had contracted the wind chill, and for four days in a row, he was bedridden, talking nonsense to the maids and guards around him from time to time, and the witch doctor had seen him several times, but he still did not get better.

Yue Tuo twice sent people to see him, but he was stopped by the guards guarding the door, who refused to receive any outsiders on the grounds that Taiji was seriously ill.

On the night of the fourth day, Seysan's personal soldiers returned, and he insisted on seeing Sessan, despite Seissan's serious illness, but the guards did not allow his own soldiers to enter Sesan.

The noise at the door alarmed Cesan in the hospital bed, and he smashed a porcelain bowl at the head of the bed.

The guards had no choice but to say to their own soldiers: "You wait first, I'll go see Taiji." ”

After a while, the guards came out, and he quietly approached the soldiers: "Taiji called you in." ”

The pro-soldiers looked back and there was no one around, and they slipped into the smoke.

"Taiji." The soldiers knelt down at Seissan's bed and bowed to him.

"Hurry up, why are you back so soon?" Hearing that the soldiers had returned, Seissan's illness was half cured.

The soldiers got up from the ground and leaned on the edge of Seisang's bed, "Taiji, the villain has not arrived in Quang Ninh, and the villain has met our spies on the road. ”

"Oh? What did the spies say? Seysan leaned against the head of the bed, wrapped tightly in a leather quilt, and his face was as pale as if he hadn't seen the sun in half a year.

"Taiji, something big has happened, Guangning of the Dajin Kingdom has been lost."

"Quang Ninh—huh? What did you say? Seysan sat up from the head of the bed at once, not at all looking seriously ill, "Who is talking nonsense?" How could Quang Ninh be lost? Aren't there still Jinzhou and Ningyuan in the south? ”

"Taiji, it's true, not only Guangning has been lost, but Jinzhou and Ningyuan have also been lost."

"What the hell is going on? You speak slowly. Seysan slowly leaned back to the head of the bed, his eyes constantly rolling.

"Taiji, the spy said that the whole army with the red flag was wiped out, and Yue Tuo was left with three hundred people around him, and the five Horqin Niu Lu were gone." The soldiers didn't know much about it, but the general result was that the spies still sued him.

"Is the message reliable?" Cesan was not at ease.

"Taiji, absolutely reliable, the spy was supposed to report directly, he said, the military flag of the Ming Dynasty has been planted in various cities in Liaodong, our brother has gone to Guangning, and more detailed information will be sent back soon."

Seisang was silent for a while, not knowing what he was thinking, he slowly exhaled air: "How many soldiers did Da Ming send to Liaodong?" ”

"The spies said there should be tens of thousands."

"Tens of thousands? Not hundreds of thousands? Could it be that Yue Tuo is lying? Saisang immediately thought that Yue Tuo had not told him about the loss of Ningyuan, Jinzhou, and Guangning at all, and was already lying.

Seisang muttered to himself: "There are nearly 10,000 horses with red flags!" ”