Camp of Slaves.

The horsemen of the Eight Banners battalions were soon summoned by Goshha to Dolgon's tent, and several horsemen seemed to have a premonition that something was wrong, and they knelt on the ground and did not even dare to breathe.

Dolgon's eyes were cold, and he asked in a deep voice, "I ask you, have there been any abnormalities in the war horses of the various battalions recently?" ”

The prince of Tushetu next to him immediately became nervous, at this time he really hoped that the war horses of the battalions of the Eight Banners were not affected by the horse plague, so that the guilt on him would be lighter, if the war horses of the battalions of the Eight Banners were infected with horse plague, Dolgon would not let him go easily, and even the Tushetu Department would disappear from the grassland.

Dolgon's gaze fell first on the white-flagged groom head.

The head of the groom with the white flag was the cousin of the concubine of the nineteenth chamber of Dolgon, and he had something to do with Dolgon, so he boldly responded: "If you go back to your master, the horses have indeed been a little abnormal recently. ”

Dorgon said coldly, "Tell me, what kind of anomaly? ”

The head of the groom responded: "About last night, dozens of war horses no longer eat forage, and then sweat all over, and the slaves didn't pay much attention, but this morning, the situation of war horses has increased by more than 100 people, the slave realized that something was wrong, and quickly went to the veterinarian, but the veterinarian said that these war horses are fine......

Dolgon suddenly roared without an image, "Why didn't you report such a big matter to me first?" ”

The head of the groom was startled and said in a trembling voice, "Minion...... Isn't the slave afraid that the master will work too hard, but the master does big things, and the slave can do these small things for him......"

"When will it be your turn to call the shots for me?" Dolgon pulled out his sword, the sharp tip of which was already aimed at the groom's chest, and said in a sinister voice, "Do it for you? Can you do it for you? Well! ”

"Ugh."

In the crisp sound of the sharp blade cutting through the flesh and bones, the cold blade had ruthlessly pierced into the chest of the groom's head, the sharp tip of the knife penetrated through the back, and a drop of red blood dripped down the blade, splashing on the ground, and in an instant it was red white carpet, like embroidering a delicate red flower on a pure white carpet.

When Prince Tushetu and the rest of the grooms saw this, they were terrified to death, and they were all frightened like chaff.

In the final analysis, whether it is Jiannu or Mongolian Tatars, they are all afraid of death, and there is no one in this world who is not afraid of death, the difference is that they have slightly different tolerance for death.

Dorgon drew his sword, turned his murderous eyes to another groom, and said in a fierce voice, "Are you red flags?" Is there anything abnormal? ”

The head of the horseman who was in the red flag was already so frightened that his teeth chattered: "Lord...... Host...... Master ......"

Dolgon brandished his sword and shouted, "Say! ”

The head of the horse groom who was in the red flag was so frightened that he fell to the ground and said in a trembling voice: "Yes, there are hundreds of ...... 100 War Horses ...... Different Anomalous ......"

"Poof!"

Before the horseman could finish speaking, Dorgon's sword had pierced his throat.

Dolgon then asked all the horsemen of the remaining six banners, but the result was the same, the horses of the battalions of the eight banners had all been affected, and none of them were spared!

At this moment, Dorgon fell like an ice cave.

The Ming army's surprise attack on Yanjing only forced the Qing army into danger, but the sudden horse plague in front of him extinguished the last hope of the Qing army, the Eight Banners Army, the Mongolian army, the Qing Kingdom, all the Manchus, as well as the efforts of the two generations of fathers and brothers and the ideals of Dolgon, everything, all fell into the bottomless abyss!

The Eight Banners Iron Cavalry lost its war horse, is it still the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry?

The Mongol cavalry lost its horses, so is it still the Mongol cavalry?

The Eight Banners Iron Cavalry and the Mongolian cavalry that lost their horses lost the mobile surname of the cavalry, they lost their only advantage, and they no longer had any advantage in the face of the Ming army. What to resist?

What's even worse is that Yanjing is also in danger, and the foundation of the Qing army in the pass is already in danger.

Once Yanjing is lost, the Eight Banners Army and the Mongol Army outside Jining City will become captives again overnight, and from Shandong to Liaodong or the desert for thousands of miles, how far can the Jurchens and Mongols who have lost their war horses escape? How many will survive and make it back to the gates? How many can escape back to the desert alive?

Hurried footsteps suddenly sounded outside the tent, and the figure flashed, and Duoduo and Azig had already opened the tent and entered.

Seeing the eight grooms lying in a pool of blood, as well as Prince Tushetu who was slumped in the corner of the tent, Duoduo and Azig's faces changed greatly at the same time, and they thought that Dolgon had been assassinated, so the brothers hurriedly stepped forward to hug Dolgon, and asked in a loud voice: "Fourteenth brother/old fourteen, what's wrong?" Are you okay? ”

Dolgon waved his hand with difficulty, as if he had aged twenty years old overnight, only in his early thirties, but his face revealed the Cangsang that only fifty-year-olds could have, and said indifferently: "Fifteenth brother, twelfth brother, it's nothing, I'm fine......

"How can it be okay?" Azig said urgently, "And what's the matter with these grooms?" ”

Dolgon took a deep breath and whispered, "They have concealed important military information from me, and I have only executed them according to military law, which is nothing. ”

Duoduo had already seen that Dolgon's expression was different, and hurriedly said, "Fourteenth brother, what happened?" ”

Dolgon waved his hand and said, "Brother Fifteen, Brother Twelfteen, don't ask anything, you go and gather all the lords of the Eight Banners, Beile, Beizi, and the princes of the Horqin, Khalkha, and Chahar tribes, and let them come to my tent, I have a major decision to announce." ”

Dordor and Azig looked at each other, and although they were suspicious, they did not dare to disobey Dorgon's will, so they had to take the order.

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In the city of Jining, the provisional governor was in charge.

After reading the sheepskin letter, Wang Puhaha laughed and said: "The ancients did not go alone, and the blessings were incomparable, it seems that this is not right!" ”

"Isn't this ......" Wang Pu shook the parchment letter in his hand, and then said, "Tang Sheng has just recovered Zhigu, and Jiannu's horse plague has just broken out, and this third good thing has come to the door again, hahaha......"

Scarface, Li Chengdong, Zheng Chenggong, Liu Qingyan, and Liu Ru are daughters all looked happy, looking at Wang Pu's expression, he knew that what was said in this letter must be a good thing, and the anxious Scarface said in a hurry: "Master Hou, say it quickly, who wrote this letter, and what did it say?" ”

Wang Pu threw the parchment letter to Scarface and said loudly: "This letter is a personal letter from Ezhe, the prince of Chahar of Mongolia!" ”

"Prince Ezhe of Chahar?" Scarface took the parchment letter and casually asked, "What the fuck is this birdman?" ”

"He's not a birdman." Wang Pu smiled, "He is the eldest son of the last Great Khan of the Mongols, Lin Dan Khan, and a descendant of the Golden Family of Mongolia, and he said in his letter that he is willing to secretly defect to help us defeat Jiannu, on the condition that he acknowledges that he is the Great Khan of Mongolia after the defeat of Jiannu." ”

"Fuck it." Scarface threw the parchment letter on the table and scolded, "This Mongolian Tartar is really shameless, seeing that Jiannu is no longer good, he wants to defect, he really wants to agree to this Tartar called Ezhe, who knows if this grandson will attack our Central Army behind his back in the future?" didn't say anything, clean up these Mongolian Tartars and Jiannu together! ”

"Yes, it's all cleaned up."

"Tartar is not well-intentioned, Master Hou, don't be fooled."

Ma Gong, He Mazi, Wang Huzi, Li Chengdong, Zheng Chenggong and other officers all attached Scarface's opinions.

"No!" Wang Pu Huoran raised his hand to stop the commotion, and a sinister smile suddenly flashed across his face, and said, "Why don't you agree to Ezhe's conditions?" Although the war horses of Jiannu and Tartar are finished, their hundreds of thousands of allied troops are still there, and the strength of the central army in Jining City is only more than 30,000 people. ”

Scarface and the others had nothing to say, they didn't know that Wang Pu was still secretly ambushing a cavalry, with more than 30,000 central troops in Jining City, it was not a problem to win the Jiannu and Tartar coalition forces outside the city, but it was really going to force them to be anxious, and the dog jumped over the wall in a hurry and bit back, but I was afraid that it would also bring a lot of casualties to the central army.

But then again, Wang Pu didn't dare to let the Red Lady's Henan cavalry directly join the Jining battlefield, Wang Pu really wanted to do this, the Red Lady's 40,000 Henan cavalry was also finished, and the horse plague thing would not separate relatives from the enemy and me, it could harm the war horses of Jiannu and Tartar, and it would also harm the war horses of the Henan army.

Wang Pu doesn't want the cavalry of the Red Lady to be reimbursed like this, and these 40,000 cavalry will be of great use in the future!

Therefore, the Henan cavalry of the Red Lady can only travel in Baoding, Zhending, and Hejian Prefectures at most, and is responsible for intercepting the rout of Jiannu and Tatar, but when Jiannu and Tatar are defeated from Shandong to Beizhili, I don't know how many small units they have dispersed, and the 40,000 cavalry of the Red Lady alone is obviously unable to kill them all.

In view of this, with the help of Ezhe, why didn't Wang Pu borrow it?

Wang Pu's purpose is to destroy the hundreds of thousands of Jiannu and Tartar coalition troops outside Jining City, and strive not to let a Jiannu and a Tartar soldier return to Guanwai alive and return to the desert alive.

"Go." Wang Pu said loudly, "Immediately hang the three-colored flag on the arrow tower of the east gate according to Ezhe's wishes." ”

"Yes."

Lu Liu agreed and took the order.

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Camp of Slaves.

The princes of Jiannu, the lords of the Eight Banners, Bel, Beizi, and the princes of the Mongol tribes had gathered in Dolgon to make their tents, but the prince of Tushetu did not know where he had been taken by Dolgon.

Dolgon pretended to look anxiously at the outside of the tent, and said loudly: "Prince Tushetu has not come by this time, it seems that he will not be able to come back, regardless of him, let's start first." ”

Raoyu County King Abatai asked loudly: "Old Fourteen, you gathered everyone overnight, what happened?" ”

Dolgon took a breath and said in a condensed voice: "I just learned that Wang Pu sent another army to attack from the sea, and now it has passed the sea off Dengzhou, and it will appear outside Zhigu City in five days at most, once Zhigu falls, the canal portal is opened, and the elite of this Ming army can go straight to the outside of Yanjing along the canal!" ”

"Huh?"

"What?"

"Wang Pu also sent an army to attack from the sea?"

The Jiannu nobles and the Mongolian princes in the tent changed color one after another.

Although Dolgon deliberately concealed the truth and did not say that the Ming army had actually captured Zhigu and was marching towards Yanjing, even so, these Jiannu nobles and Mongolian princes were still surprised, and their faces changed one by one.

"You don't need to panic." Dolgon raised his hand and said in a condensed voice, "This Ming army has just passed the sea off Dengzhou, and there are at least five days to go before Zhigu!" As long as the main force of our Qing Dynasty can capture Jining within five days and destroy the main force of Wang Pu's Central Army, this Ming army will no longer have to worry about it. ”

"Huh? Capture Jining? ”

"Do you want to storm Jining?"

"The master wants to fight a decisive battle with the Ming army?"

This time, even Duoduo and Azig changed their faces, and Duoduo was even more suspicious.

Just two hours ago, when Dolgon had a long talk with Duofeng, he told Duoduo with great certainty that the only way to win the battle of Jining was to besiege it for a long time, why did Dorgon change his mind after only two hours? Could it be that something irreparable happened, so he forced Brother Fourteen to change his mind?

In connection with what Dolgon said just now, Duoduo's heart jumped suddenly, and he had already guessed a rough idea: the partial division sent by Wang Pu to surprise attack Yanjing is probably not just as simple as just passing the sea off Dengzhou, it is likely that Zhigu has already been defeated, and even Yanjing may have fallen.

Thinking of this, Duoduo's face couldn't help but become solemn.

Duoduo is indeed the leading figure in Jiannu, he guessed it with just a few words, but he only guessed half right, the reason why Dolgon gave up the strategy of long-term siege and ordered to storm Jining was really out of helplessness, or out of a crazy mentality of trapped beasts!

Now the situation is very clear, the fall of Yanjing City is inevitable, and the full-scale outbreak of horse plague is no longer possible, once Dolgon orders the withdrawal of troops at this time, then these two things can not be concealed in any way, once the direct phase is known by the soldiers, then the end of the Qing army and the Mongolian cavalry will come.

The only thing Dolgon can go now is to tightly seal these two amazing news, and then drive the army to storm Jining at any cost, and bet this last one with Wang Pu!

If the bet wins, things may turn around.

Even if you lose the bet, the situation will not be worse than it is now.

If that's the case, why not bet all your chips on this one?

What's more, Dolgon's decision to storm Jining also had another sinister intention, that is, to bury more than 100,000 Mongolian cavalry, especially the tens of thousands of cavalry of the Horqin Fourth Division, under the city of Jining.

Only in this way, when the Jurchens were driven out by the Ming army in Liaodong in the future, they would also have the opportunity to flee to the desert...... It is likely that this was the last contribution of Dolgon's life to the Jurchens......

(To be continued)