"Yes, Great Khan!" Yue Tuo stood aside, but his heart was uneasy, he was ordered to besiege Xinguihua City, and it took almost two months to return in vain, and he also lost such an important general as Geng Zhongming. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Although he was very magnanimous on the surface, he was very ruthless to political opponents who might threaten his authority, and the widows of the old Khan, Abahai, Mang Gurtai, Amin, and Mang Guji (Mang Gurtai's half-sister) were either killed, or suddenly died after being condemned. Now that the brothers of Huang Taiji's peers have gradually retired, he has suddenly become a new threat to Huang Taiji, does the other party want to take this opportunity to kill himself?

"Hey, why have you been standing, come on, show Heshuo Baylor!"

Yue Tuo was thinking about his thoughts, when he suddenly heard Huang Taiji's voice, and when he looked up, he saw that Huang Taiji was scolding the guards on the side to show him a seat, and hurriedly replied: "Don't blame him, the Great Khan is the king, Yue Tuo is a minister, and it is also right to stand and wait!" ”

"Whatever you say, sit down!" Huang Taiji smiled: "What kind of monarch is not a monarch, those are all said in front of outsiders, in private, I and your father are not flesh and blood brothers?" If it weren't for the help of you and Brother Daishan, I wouldn't be able to sit in this position! Speaking of this, Huang Taiji sighed, his face was a little gloomy: "Hey, to tell you from the bottom of my heart, I have been busy with state affairs since I sat in this position, and I have made a lot of life between my brothers, and it is not as good as when Lao Khan was in power, everyone went out to hunt and drink together every once in a while, and lived happily." ”

"The Great Khan worked so hard for the sake of the legacy left by the old Khan and the good life of everyone." Yue Tuo followed Huang Taiji's words and agreed, but his heart was tense with a string, in his memory, every time Huang Taiji was about to attack someone, he would show special affection and gentleness, Mang Gurtai was like this, and so was Amin, today he treated himself like this, didn't he have to attack himself again. Thinking of this, Yue Tuo subconsciously touched the saber on the right side of his belt, but he felt empty, and he only remembered that when he entered the tent, he had already taken the saber away by the guards.

"Yes!" Huang Taiji sighed: "Or Yue Tuo, you know in your heart, to be honest, since I sat in this position, I haven't eaten a day of Ansheng and slept peacefully, lest I do something badly and do things unfairly, and ruin the foundation left by my father Khan." Do you remember that when I first ascended the throne, Angkun Duling of the Chahar Department surrendered to our Dajin Kingdom, and I hosted a banquet for him, but the Seventh Brother said that he didn't have good clothes to wear? ”

"Remember, Uncle Seventh really made too much trouble that time, and he lost the face of our Dajin Kingdom in front of the outside, and everyone wanted to strip off his title, but the Great Khan was very generous, and only fined him a few horses and a few pieces of armor!" Yue Tuo was stunned when he heard this, the seventh brother in the mouth of Huang Taiji is Nurhachi's seventh son Abatai, although this person is brave and good at fighting, and has made a lot of meritorious contributions, but because of his mother's humble background, and not favored by Nurhachi, so Abatai was not happy among Nurhachi's sons, and when Nurhachi died, Abatai was 38 years old when he was just a beeler, and there were only six cattle among the subjects, not to mention that he could not compare to the four major beylers of Mang Gurtai, Amin, Daishan and Huang Taiji, and even the later Zilharang, Dolgon, Duoduo, Azig, Yue Tuo and the others are far inferior, and when they hold a banquet, they have to be below your nephews. Therefore, when he was invited to that banquet, Abatai simply said that he did not have a decent fur to wear, and that the fur given by the old Khan had been changed into two for his sons to wear. Although Huang Taiji was angry, Abatai was from a humble background, and he did not get along with the other Baylors, so he reprimanded him and symbolically punished Abatai with a few horses and a few pieces of armor.

"Hey!" Huang Taiji sighed: "I also understand Lao Qi's thoughts, he doesn't want to die in battle, and he treats the soldiers under his command generously and makes a lot of meritorious contributions, but in the end, the younger brothers and nephews below climbed on his head one by one, Dolgon, Duoduo, they are all the only banners, but he only has a few Niu Lu, and he naturally has resentment in his heart, so although everyone said that he would be punished heavily, I only fined a few horses and a few sets of armor." In this position, there will always be people who are not satisfied with what you do, but there are some things you have to do, Yue Tuo, my big sweat is difficult! ”

"Everyone sees the difficulties of the Great Khan, even if there are a few who are unpopular, the Great Khan does not have to take it to heart!" Yue Tuo saw that Huang Taiji's face was gradually calming, and he knelt down as soon as he gritted his teeth and said: "Great Khan, I have a heavy trust this time, and I have not been able to take the fortress of the Ming army, and I ask the Great Khan to punish the crime!" ”

"Get up, get up!" Huang Taiji helped Yue Tuo up: "I have also seen that city fortress, it is not easy to attack, and there is a lot of grain in the city, and the weather is cold, so it cannot be surrounded for a long time." You didn't attack too many sergeants and wounded too many sergeants, and you did a good job of withdrawing when you saw that the situation was not good. ”

Yue Tuo heard that Huang Taiji didn't blame himself, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and the originally tight string gradually loosened, it seems that this time he was too careful, although the eighth uncle was ruthless, but he still knew the priorities, and the army would not play those tricks when he was outside.

"Great Khan, I don't know if there's any news from Hauge?"

Hearing Yue Tuo ask about his beloved son, Huang Taiji's face was immediately covered with a layer of haze, and after a long while, he replied in a low voice: "There is no news at this time, it should be more than auspicious!" ”

"Don't worry about the Great Khan, Hauge Ta Ji is a celestial person, and he will definitely be able to turn evil into good fortune!" Yue Tuo whispered a few words of comfort, but he also knew in his heart that it had been more than half a month since Hauge was defeated by Min Min, and if he could have escaped back, he would have fled back a long time ago, and if he hadn't escaped back now, most of them would have been killed in battle or captured.

"Don't mention this useless thing! After fighting for so many years, he still plays the trick of dividing troops in front of the enemy, how can Nurhachi have such incompetent descendants? I don't pity this son, but I pity the 2,000 elite soldiers who went with him! “

Yue Tuo looked at Huang Taiji's trembling fingertips, knowing that what his eighth uncle had just said was extremely insincere, and a brave and strong son that he had carefully cultivated was gone.

"Great Khan, what should we do next?"

"Yue Tuo, you come here with me!" Huang Taiji packed up his mood, walked to the map, and said while pointing: "We have two purposes for this western expedition: 1. To unite the Mongol tribes in southern Mo and call them Khan; 2. Break the border and plunder, strike at the strength of the Ming army's Xuanda Second Town, obtain its raw property, show the martial power of our Dajin, and at the same time win over the Mongolian ministries. The matter of saying that the Khan has been successful, and the raiding of the border shows that Wuwei has also become the majority. It's just that they didn't take the Naturalization City, nor did they go deep into the land of the Hetao, and the two departments of Chahar and Tumut still refused to accept the king, which is a bit of a fly in the ointment! ”

"The Great Khan is very true!" As the actual person in charge of the Houjin Military Department, Yue Tuo knew very well the purpose of Huang Taiji's expedition, and Huang Taiji's words were actually said in a good way, but in fact, the first article was only half completed, because the Khan of the joint Mongol tribes in southern Mongolia was by no means just asking the ministries to send representatives, and it was enough to simply hold a ceremony. In order to become the Great Khan of the Mongol tribes, Huang Taiji had to prove that he had the force to suppress any potential rebels and defeat possible invaders. But the problem is that in this expedition, the Houjin army failed to capture the city of Guihua, and secondly, it lost the battle in the pursuit of Chahar and Tumut, and even the eldest son of the Great Khan was lost. Both of these things are impossible to conceal in the past, and there is no doubt that Huang Taiji is a major threat to the throne of the Mongol Khan.

"You must have seen it all when you entered the city, right?"

"See? What do you see? Yue Tuo was a little confused by Huang Taiji's sudden words.

"Build a city, I plan to build a city here, it's called Shengle City!" Huang Taiji's face showed a reserved smile: "As long as my Dajin banner flutters on this Shengle City, those Mongolians will not dare to do anything even if they have ghosts in their hearts." ”

"Building a city?" Yue Tuo's head quickly calculated, this is not the first time that the Manchu Qing Dynasty built a city far from Liaodong itself, in 1629 after Huang Taiji led the troops to break the border and loot, when he withdrew, he left Amin among the four major Baylors to stick to the four cities of Zunhua, Yongping, Luanhe, and Qian'an near the border wall, as the entrance to the next invasion, but he didn't want Amin to be defeated by the Ming army, abandoned the city and fled, and Amin was also convicted and imprisoned to death. Historically, the Qing army rebuilt the city shortly after burning down the city of Guihua, and it became an important base for the Qing army to attack the Central Plains and control southern Mongolia. And since he couldn't take the Naturalization City this time, it was only right to choose to build a new fortress here to maintain a military presence.

"That's what the Great Khan said!" With his keen intuition, Yue Tuo felt a sense of bad omen, he thought for a while and asked: "I just don't know how many soldiers and horses should be left, if there are too many soldiers and not enough food and grass, if there are few soldiers, I am afraid that I will not be able to defend the city." ”

"I've thought about it!" Huang Taiji said with a smile: "Just build a small city within a radius of two or three miles, leave one thousand eight banners, one thousand Han troops, this looted a lot of property, and then use these goods from the attached Mongolian departments to select some strong men to guard the city, it will be winter soon, the two towns of Xuanda were looted very badly this time, I am afraid that there will be no two or three years to recover." Even if the Ming army really goes out, it will have to pass the spring ploughing of the next year, and my soldiers will arrive at that time! ”

"Then I wonder who the Great Khan intends to let defend the city?"

"I think you're the best candidate, but I don't know if you'd like to?"

Although the tent was as warm as spring, Yue Tuo's heart seemed to have fallen into an ice cave for three or nine days, it turned out that Huang Taiji had set a trap for himself around such a big bend! Just like when he dealt with Amin, he nominally entrusted himself with a heavy responsibility, but in fact, he drove himself out of the center of power and separated himself from his father Daishan. But can you refuse?

"Yue Tuo, Yue Tuo? Could it be that you have a better candidate? Huang Taiji had an inquiring expression on his face. Yue Tuo smiled bitterly in his heart, bowed down and said, "Since the Great Khan trusts Yue Tuo, then Yue Tuo will definitely stick to this city and die!" ”

"Don't say anything about the dead or not, it's very unlucky!" Huang Taiji saw that Yue Tuo readily agreed, and he was relieved in his heart, and simply smiled generously: "In this way, what do you need to defend the city, just say, I will definitely agree." ”

"The first is food, without food, you will definitely not be able to defend the city, and there is silver, without silver, those Mongols will centrifuge!" Yue Tuo made two requests in a row, Huang Taiji nodded again and again, motioning for him to continue, and finally Yue Tuo thought about it: "Finally, leave Kong Youde to me, he is proficient in artillery skills, Yuan Chonghuan used red-clothed cannons to defend the city in Ningyuan, which caused us a lot of trouble, and we can also follow their example this time." ”

"Okay, good, this method is good!" Huang Taiji said with a smile: "I left you with more than a dozen red-clothed cannons, you are my deputy Khan, after I return to Shengjing, all the Mongolian departments will be under your command!" ”

Kong Youde stood outside the tent, vaguely hearing the laughter coming out of the tent, and wanted to get closer to hear it clearly, but he was afraid of the white-armored guards standing at the mouth of the tent. He had also heard of the power struggle at the top of the Jurchen aristocracy, but as a Han and a general, he knew in his heart that he had no qualifications to stand in line at all, and the only way to save his life was to stay away and avoid whom, who supported whom in the center. But this time, he was besieged under the command of Yue Tuo, but he was dragged into this dangerous whirlpool, which is a calamity! Kong Youde was in trouble, but when he saw Yue Tuo coming out of it, he hurriedly greeted him, bowed down and saluted: "I have seen Heshuo Belle!" ”

"That's it, Master Kong, you go in, the Great Khan is waiting for you inside!" The expression on Yue Tuo's face was very relaxed, and Kong Youde was relieved when he saw it in his eyes. He arched his hand to Yue Tuo, entered the sweat tent, and when he came out a moment later, his face was already pale, and he was half a breath more than a dead man, and he saw Yue Tuo walking not far away, and when he saw him, he greeted him. Kong Youde couldn't hold back the depression in his heart, and paused and said: "Lord Yuetuo, where have I, Kong Youde, offended you these days, why do you want to harm me!" ”

"Master Kong, where did you start?" Yue Tuo's temper at this time was very good: "If you talk about artillery skills in the army, you are the first, since I want to stay in Shengle, who do you want if you don't look for the Great Khan?" ”

"This-" Kong Youde was speechless by Yue Tuo's words, he raised troops from southern Liaoning and fought for more than ten years, and even tied his head to the belt of his trousers in Denglai, not a timid person who was afraid of death. But it is one thing to have a knife and a shot on the battlefield, and it is another thing to have an open gun and a hidden arrow in the court. This time, it was clear that Huang Taiji was going to borrow a knife to kill people and deal with Yue Tuo, but he was dragged in by Yue Tuo, if Huang Taiji thought that he was Yue Tuo's comrade, he would not be enough to die for a hundred lives. But these words can't be put on the table and said, otherwise a person who provokes the relationship between the monarch and the minister can take his own life. Thinking of this, Kong Youde was annoyed and aggrieved, and finally came out with a sentence: "Lord Yuetuo, I am not the only one who knows artillery, I am just a Han person, why do you want to force me in?" (To be continued.) )