readx; In the middle of the night of the same day, on the west gate of Tongzhou City, forty miles east of the Beijing Division, a group of Qing soldiers was patrolling back and forth against the sassy autumn wind. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Thirty miles away, there is the Qing army's yellow flag and the large camp with yellow flags.

The Qing general who was responsible for guarding the west city gate was named Sun Degong, who was the general under the account of Wang Huazhen, the governor of Liaodong, in the Battle of Guangning. On that day, Wang Huazhen lightly attacked the enemy, and it was Sun Degong who was the pioneer. Unexpectedly, Sun Degong had already secretly colluded with the general Li Yongfang, and when he was about to fight, he took the lead in shouting "defeat", which caused the morale of the Ming army to fluctuate and be defeated. After the defeat back to Guangning, he instigated the defenders to mutiny, and then Kaecheng surrendered, and as a result, the Qing army took Guangning, the largest and strongest stronghold of the Ming army in Liaodong at that time, without a single soldier, which can be described as a great crime.

After the surrender of the Qing Dynasty, Sun Degong was assigned to the Han army with a white flag, and at first he was quite used by Nurhachi, so that he led tens of thousands of soldiers and people to move to Yizhou, that is, a piece of land on the south bank of the Yalu River that had just been snatched from Korea. As the so-called mountain is high and the emperor is far away, Sun Degong is quite proud there.

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and soon after, Erbel Amin led the Four Banners Army to the south to conquer Korea, forcing North Korea to sign an alliance under the city. In order to spy on Korea, Nurhachi ordered Sun Degong to rebuild the city in Uiju. In the event of a reversal in the future, the city of Uiju could be used as a springboard for an attack on North Korea.

It was the middle of winter, but Nurhachi ordered him to complete the work in the spring. Winter in North Korea is as cold as in Northeast China, and the land is frozen, making construction difficult. Sun Degong thought that he was already Nurhachi's important minister, and his words carried a bit weight, so he played according to the facts, explained the practical difficulties of construction in winter, and asked Nurhachi to give him a grace of three months, and wait until the ice and snow melted in the spring before starting construction.

But Sun Degong didn't make one thing clear: the Manchu rulers never regarded him as a human being, but only as an obedient dog. If the dog is obedient and bites whoever he tells him to bite, he will be rewarded with a bone; But if it is disobedient, barking and biting, it will be beaten violently, and it may be slaughtered and eaten dog meat. At that time, it will be useless to wag your tail and beg for mercy.

Sure enough, when Nurhachi saw that Sun Degong dared not carry out his orders, he immediately became furious, arrested him in Shenyang and charged him with death, and prepared to be executed the next day. Fortunately, at that time, Huang Taiji intended to buy the heart of the generals and prepare for his future struggle for the throne, so he pleaded with Nurhachi.

For the sake of Huang Taiji, Nurhachi did not kill Sun Degong. But his Yizhou City Lord couldn't do it, so he had to follow Huang Taiji with all his heart. In fact, Huang Taiji did not value Sun Degong, but his son Sun Sike, who could be regarded as a brave general. As for Sun Degong himself, Huang Taiji only made him a small grain officer, and to put it bluntly, he was a grain warehouse administrator.

This time, the Qing army entered the customs in a big way, and Sun Degong also acted with the army. After the occupation of Tongzhou, the Qing army captured 500,000 stone grain in the city. Of course, Huang Taiji was overjoyed, but he couldn't take all the food with him in the army, probably only half of it was transported, and the remaining half remained in Tongzhou City, and ordered Sun Degong and a few other generals to lead four thousand Han army banner soldiers to garrison here, and then transport it away together when the squad returned to Liaodong.

Sun Degong was greedy for life and afraid of death, and he was quite grateful to Huang Taiji for this arrangement, because in this way he would not have to fight on the front line like Tong Yangzhen. Obviously, the Ming army in Beijing was besieged by the Qing army, and the border troops of Shanhaiguan and Xuanfu were also blocked and could not pass. As for the soldiers and horses of Qinwang in other places, even if they come, they will first go to relieve the siege of the Beijing Division, and he is still very safe in Tongzhou. Even if there is really a Ming army to attack, because Tongzhou is too close to Huang Taiji's Zhenghuangqi camp, as long as he raises fire at the head of the city, Huang Taiji will immediately lead the army back to help, so he doesn't have to worry at all.

These days, although the battle under the city of Jingshi is in full swing, there is nothing on the Tongzhou side, and I have not even seen the shadow of the Ming army. Therefore, Sun Degong gradually slackened, although Huang Taiji had strict orders that he must patrol the city every night, he did not dare to disobey the order, but it was just a show.

The same is true tonight. Seeing that it was already the fourth watch weather, it was the coldest time of the night dew, Sun Degong yawned, and was about to go down to the city to find a warm room to sleep in him, when he suddenly heard the sound of a horse coat and a bell due west.

The so-called "horse coat bell" is the bell tied under the horse's neck, which is generally made of pure copper, one and a half inches in size, and the ringtone is crisp and pleasant when it shakes, and the sound can be transmitted far away. In the Ming Dynasty, because there were few copper mines and a large number of copper coins needed to be minted with copper, the war horses were not worthy of horse coats and bells. But in the Qing army, this thing was standard.

Therefore, as soon as Sun Degong heard the sound of the bell of the horse's coat, he knew that the Qing army was coming. But it was late at night, so he was a little more cautious, and immediately ordered his soldiers to stand at the head of the city, and quietly wait for the incoming army to appear.

After a few more minutes, a Qing army emerged from the dark night and approached the West City Gate along the official road unhurriedly. Look at the number of about 300 horsemen, and look at the outfit is the Qing army. In particular, each person dragged a "money rat tail" on the back of their heads, which was the standard hairstyle of the Jurchens.

Seeing that it was his own person, Sun Degong's heart had already let go of most of it, but for the sake of prudence, he still shouted loudly in Manchu: "Which flag is the person who came?" What's the matter at this late hour? ”

The Qing army under the city stopped their horses, and the generals led by them stepped forward slowly, and also replied loudly in Manchu: "The Han generals who defend the city are famous!" ”

Sun Degong became half a cut short when he heard this, because since people asked so, it meant that it was an authentic Eight Banners Army, but a slave like himself could not afford to offend. So he hurriedly smiled and said: "The last general, Sun Degong, was ordered by the emperor to guard the west gate of Tongzhou." ”

When the man below heard this, he shouted arrogantly: "We are the subordinates of Lord Aobai with the Yellow Flag, and my name is Tai Bitu, and I am the Niu Lu Ezhen of the Twentieth Niu Lu." On the orders of the emperor, I came to Tongzhou to transport grain and open the city quickly! ”

Sun Degong listened and said suspiciously: "Isn't there already 200,000 stone of grain in the army?" Why do you still need to transport grain? ”

The man immediately said impatiently: "The emperor called for grain transportation, so I just transported grain, why do you ask so much?" If you want to delay the emperor's plan, can you afford to be guilty? Get the hell out of here and open the city! ”

Sun Degong immediately broke out in a cold sweat when he heard this, thinking that he was almost slaughtered by Nurha Chi because of his mouth, why did he make this mistake now? Besides, this is Aobai's subordinates, so how can Aobai be provoked by himself?

So he trotted all the way down the city, ordering his men to open the gates and lower the drawbridge at once.

The general immediately urged the horse to cross the bridge. Sun Degong stepped forward flatteringly, and just wanted to say hello, but suddenly found that although this person was born as burly as an iron tower, his face was obviously not a man with narrow eyes!

But before he could exclaim, the tip of the saber had already pressed down on his throat!

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