September 22, the first year of Dahua (Park 1640).

After Li Yan, the governor of Liaodong, and Huang Taiji, the emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, tested each other for several rounds, they had already roughly figured out each other's situation, and then both sides began to arrange their troops.

Li Yan gave an order, Wu Sangui led 13,000 infantry and 3,000 cavalry, Zu Dashou led 10,000 Jinzhou 7,000 infantry and 3,000 cavalry, and the Third Army 20,000 soldiers and 3,000 cavalry, a total of 49,000 troops, marched towards Shengjing.

With such a large army marching towards Shengjing, it was natural that the Manchu spies all over the land of Liaodong could not be concealed, and Huang Taiji, who got the news, immediately summoned hundreds of civil and military officials to discuss countermeasures.

On the Chongzheng Palace, Huang Taiji, who was dressed in a dragon robe, sat on the dragon chair with a majestic face, and today Huang Taiji was wearing auspicious clothes. A bright yellow satin is embroidered with a colorful cloud bat golden dragon twelve chapters auspicious robe, and the dragon robe is embroidered with nine golden dragons. Zhenglong embroidered to sit upright, a group of majesty, the dragon embroidered very energetic, seems to move but not move. The four dragons are embroidered in the most prominent position of the dragon robe - the chest, back and shoulders, and the four dragons are at the hem of the front and back plackets, so that there are five dragons in front and back, which means the ninety-five supreme.

The clothing of the emperor of the Qing Dynasty is basically divided into several categories: dresses, auspicious clothes, regular clothes, travel clothes, rain clothes and casual clothes, among which Huang Taiji wears regular clothes on weekdays, and auspicious clothes are only worn when there are major festivals or important events.

Today, almost all the ministers of civil and military affairs have arrived, including the banner owners of the Manchurian Eight Banners, the banner owners of the four banners of the Han Army Banner, and the banner owners of the two Mongolian banners, as well as several scholars of the Wenyuan Pavilion.

All of them didn't look good, including the white-flaged Banner Master Doduo, who was usually the most aggressive.

Huang Taiji coughed lightly twice, and said with some annoyance: "Zhuqing, Dahua is rampant, and he actually ordered Li Yan, the secretary of the military department, to lead a mere 50,000 horses to my Shengjing, what is the best way for Zhuqing to retreat from the enemy?" ”

Everyone looked at each other with a peek at each other, but in the end no one said anything. This scene is in stark contrast to the previous situation of excitement as soon as I heard about the southern invasion. Once upon a time, the high-level leaders of the Manchu Qing Dynasty had their eyes shining when they heard the southern invasion, and they regarded the Central Plains as a fat sheep to be slaughtered, but after being beaten by Pang Gang, they suddenly discovered that there was a ruthless man in the Central Plains, and he used tens of thousands of Manchu corpses to prove that there were also ruthless people among the Han people. He was ruthless in killing the Manchurians.

So the people were frightened, and now when they heard that they were going to fight with this ruthless man's command, their hearts were a little frightened.

Huang Taiji looked at the princes and ministers under the steps with dissatisfaction, and said dissatisfiedly: "Why, when I said that Dahua was coming, you were all timid?" Duoduo, you talk the most on weekdays, why don't you keep silent today? And you, Dorgon. Aren't you known as the wise general in our people? Don't talk either? And you, Abatai, you claim to be the bravest of the Manchurians, Baturu. Why are you dumb too? And you."

Whenever Huang Taiji called on a person's name, that person lowered his head and did not dare to speak, and let Huang Taiji scold on the throne, and everyone became ostriches.

In the end, Huang Taiji turned his head to Haoge, who had been standing beside him today, and said: "And you Haoge, did you leave your courage there after you went to Jinzhou?" ”

Since Hauge came back the day before yesterday, he has been stared at and ridiculed, including Dorgon, Dordor and many civil and military ministers, and Hauge, who lost the battle, can only endure his anger and make his liver boom in the past few days.

Hauge changed his old arrogance. With a bitter face, he bowed his head and said softly: "Father, the son is guilty, you can deal with the son." ”

"Hmph. Is it useful to punish you, to punish you? Huang Taiji's face was cold, for Haoge's defeat this time, Huang Taiji really hated iron and steel, and originally wanted to give him a chance to show his face. Unexpectedly, he was slapped in the face by Wu Sangui.

If it was a few years ago, Hauge would at least be demoted to the prince of the county, but there are too many princes and ministers who have suffered in the hands of Pang Gang in recent years, and if Dolgon and others demand that Hauge be severely punished, then their old accounts will inevitably be liquidated, and the boss will not laugh at the second child, so Dolgon and the others can only sneer and let him go.

Looking at the dejected Manchu Dynasty civil and military, Huang Taiji sighed secretly, the current situation and a few years ago Manchu Dynasty civil and military atmosphere is so different, when they heard that there was going to be a war, almost everyone would cheer, the clansmen would happily send their husbands, sons and fathers to the battlefield, because in their opinion, war means to have a steady stream of gold and silver wealth and food and cloth to go home.

The cowardice of the Han people has been proven again and again through decades of war, but I don't know when the Qingzhou Army represented by Pang Gang taught the Manchu high-level a good lesson, it turned out that the Han people killed the Manchus without mercy, from Beijing to Julu, and then to North Korea, Pang Gang and his troops gave them great damage.

A few years ago, the Manchu Qing Dynasty in its original heyday had at least nearly 200,000 troops, but after several years of attrition, now the Manchu Qing Dynasty has only a little more than 100,000 troops, which also makes the Manchu Qing from the top to the civilian feel the heavy pressure brought by the war. For the first time, they learned that war was not the wishful thinking of the past, and that the enemy's swords and guns could also bring death to them.

Seeing that the atmosphere in the main hall was too dull, Huang Taiji had no choice but to set his eyes on someone who was standing at the end of the left side, these people were Ning Wanme, Fan Wencheng, Kong Youde and other Hanchen.

Seeing Huang Taiji's eyes fall on him, Fan Wencheng secretly complained in his heart, a few days ago, he and then Haoge sent troops to Jinzhou has been criticized by everyone, how can he be embarrassed to speak out again? But the boss has an order, and he just doesn't want to fight.

Fan Wencheng stood up and said to Huang Taiji: "Your Majesty, the slave has something to say." ”

Seeing that Fan Wencheng finally stood up, Huang Taiji said happily: "Okay, Fan Aiqing has something to say, please speak up." ”

After secretly looking at the faces of the surrounding princes and ministers, Fan Wencheng said boldly: "Your Majesty, the slave thinks that this Dahua invasion of my Qing territory is no longer a question of whether to fight, but how to fight." Dahua sword pointed at Shengjing, our Qing Dynasty has no way to retreat, only to fight to the death with the enemy, otherwise how to be worthy of the late emperor! ”

Speaking of this, Fan Wencheng's voice became louder and louder, and his originally bent waist straightened up, and Abatai and the others on the side secretly frowned, but Fan Wencheng moved out of the late Nurhachi this time, but they couldn't say half a word of opposition.

"Fan Aiqing is right!" Huang Taiji patted the armrest, stood up and walked off the dragon chair, came to the center of the ministers, looked around, and glanced at everyone with a sharp gaze before saying: "Now that my Daqing has reached the most critical juncture, Dahua's purpose is already obvious, they want to completely uproot us, do you say we can agree?" ”

Speaking of this, no matter what everyone thought in their hearts, they could only raise their hands and shout: "No, absolutely not!" ”

"Your Majesty, let's fight with those Nikans!"

"Yes, our Qing Dynasty has never been beaten to Shengjing by adults since the founding of the country, where have the descendants of Nurhachi suffered such a great shame, the emperor, let's fight with them!"

Looking at the excited crowd, Huang Taiji nodded secretly, pressed his hand, signaled everyone to be quiet, and said to everyone: "There is nothing to say this time, since Dahua wants to fight, let's accompany him to the end." In this battle, I decided to fight to the death with Dahua. ”

"Hooray, hooray!"

"Fight to the death!"

The shouts of the crowd seemed to break through the glazed tiles of the Chongzheng Palace, but there was something hidden behind these shouts, and not everyone could know it.

Soon after the meeting, Huang Taiji and the ministers of civil and military affairs made a decision, because of the menacing Dahua, the Manchu high-level officials unanimously decided to send all the eight banners, even the most powerful Shangsanqi also all dispatched.

In the end, everyone counted that the Eight Banners sent a total of 100,000 troops, in addition to 40,000 troops such as the Eight Banners of Mongolia and the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, a total of 140,000 troops marched towards the Dahua Army led by Li Yan.

On the third day of October in the first year of Dahua, Li Yan set up a large camp at the foot of the Lion Rock outside Shengjing City, preparing to fight against Huang Taiji's 140,000 army. On the fourth day of the first month of October, Huang Taiji led the army to camp thirty miles outside the Lion Rock, although the two armies were only thirty miles apart, but what was strange was that the commanders of both sides did not seem to be in a hurry at all, and all slowly ordered their subordinates to slowly strengthen the camp and do a good job of defense.

Li Yan, who is a second-class member of the imperial court and a secretary of the military department, is sitting on a chair majestically, surrounded by dozens of generals sitting respectfully on both sides according to the size of their official positions. Wu Sangui and Zu Dashou led the generals of Liaodong to sit on the left, and the generals of the Third Army led by Li Yuan sat on the right, and the two sides were looking respectfully at Li Yan in front of them, waiting for him to give an order.

Li Yan first turned his head and asked Li Yuan on the right: "General Li, have the fortifications of the big battalion been completed?" ”

Li Yuan said respectfully: "Inspector Qiqi, everything is done, if the Tartars dare to come, I guarantee that they will not return!" ”

After listening to the answers between the two sides, Wu Sangui, Zu Dashou and others had a strange feeling in their hearts, they were obviously here to attack Shengjing, but at this moment, not only did they not seek a decisive battle with the other party, but instead set up fortifications, what the hell is going on? (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )