Chapter Twenty-Five: Being an Elder Brother

The four major shells of the Dajin Kingdom - Heshuo Belle Mang Gurtai personally led the blue flag to come!

Dressed in armor and over forty years old, Mang Gurtai was majestic, and his eyes were shining.

Behind him was the two thousand most elite red armor wigglers of the Zhenglan Banner!

However, to the surprise of those Zhenglan Banner generals who were gearing up, Mang Gurtai sounded the gong and drum of the troops after a short glance at the battle situation, regardless of the fact that Tu Cheng had already won the victory, and as long as the last Ming army was cut off under the horse, the great achievement could be accomplished.

sounded again and again, and the gongs and drums of the troops became more and more urgent, and they were so anxious that they tried to scold their mother.

"Ezhen-sama, what should I do?"

Bashiku Erji looked at Tulai at a loss, not knowing whether to withdraw or not.

The banner played by the blue flag has shown that the banner owner Mang Gurtai is coming in person, and Erji's heart is beating a drum: That's the third Belle master!

Tu Yi is also hesitating, he is the person with the yellow flag, and the same as the yellow flag is the leader of the Khan King, and Mang Gurtai is only the owner of the Zhenglan Flag, he can't care about them with the yellow flag, if he doesn't listen to his orders, the flag system is also reasonable, after all, the Khan King did not designate Mang Gurtai to take care of his Niu Lu.

However, Mang Gurtai is the four great bezies, the brother of the Khan, and he runs the country together with the Khan, if he does not obey his orders, I am afraid that the consequences will be unpredictable. If you want to rectify your own little calf, it is a thigh pressing on your arm, for the sake of brotherhood, King Khan will probably not make decisions for himself.

Thinking of the consequences of offending Mang Gurtai, Tu Yi couldn't help frowning, but he was really unwilling, the commander of the Ming army was already ready to die, as long as he let the horse rush, without cutting with a knife, he could knock him under the horse and eliminate the hatred in his heart.

Since the old Khan raised his army, it is the first time that I have encountered such an arrogant general of the Ming army, and if I don't divide his five horses, what is the majesty of the Manchurian warriors!

Although this battle was difficult, it was won in the end, and the losses were larger, but if the troops were withdrawn at this time, it would be impossible to say if they returned to Yizhou, and they would have to make those Ming troops look down on the warriors of the Eight Banners.

Tu Lai couldn't make up his mind for a while, but the fatal sound of Ming Jin was like a ghost, and the horse armor soldiers also stopped the offensive, looking at Tu Lai blankly, not knowing whether Lu Dao would continue to kill the remnants of the Ming army or withdraw his troops according to the order.

On the battlefield, how can you be indecisive, after more than ten seconds, Tu Cheng made up his mind: if you don't listen to Mang Gurtai, as long as you win this battle, go back and tell King Khan about it, why should he treat me!

"Erji, pass my order and kill all the Ming troops!"

After making up his mind, Tu Yi waved his hand and asked Erji to send an order to the vest soldiers to ignore the retreat and kill all these damn Ming troops!

After Erji was stunned for a while, he confirmed that Niu Lu was really going to disobey, and then he replied repeatedly, "Chirp!" "I was about to give an order when I hit the horse, but I saw that the Mongolian soldiers with red flags all turned their horses and ran away!

"Gulbush, you old bastard!"

The red flag retreated alone, and Tu Lai was unexpected, so he scolded.

The dozens of yellow flag vest soldiers who were mixed with the red flag also ran along in confusion when they saw that the red flag had retreated. As soon as they ran, the vest soldiers who had not yet moved also thought that Lord Niu Lu had ordered the troops to retreat, so they hurriedly turned around and ran.

"Alas!"

Although Tu Yi was angry, he also knew that he couldn't do it if he didn't retreat, he was hesitant to disobey the order, and now he no longer insisted, he looked at Erji helplessly, and pulled the horse's head with his legs.

The moment the horse's head turned, Tu Lai vented all his anger on the mount, and whipped a few whips in a row, so painful that the mount couldn't stop screaming.

It is worthy of the yellow flag, the horse armor soldiers came and went quickly, and in the blink of an eye, they disengaged from the Songshan army and ran away.

During the withdrawal process, more than a dozen soldiers of the Songshan Army were cut down by the Tartars.

Dekeqin, who was still fighting with the Songshan cavalry battalion over there, saw from afar that the red flag and horse armor soldiers had withdrawn, and he couldn't help but panic, but fortunately, the bannermen were brave and good at fighting, and under the leadership of a few white-armored soldiers, they resisted the Ming army, which was more numerous, and gradually disengaged from the Ming army.

Jiang Wanli had the intention to catch up, but his subordinates suffered heavy losses, and the Tartars had a new army to join, so they rushed to pursue, but they were afraid that they would fall into the encirclement of the other party again.

Decisively ordered not to pursue, Jiang Wanli led the rest of the troops to quickly rendezvous with the remnants of the second battalion of Wuyong, and looked for Shi Dayong in the crowd.

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"Big brother, Tu Lai has already won, why do you want him to withdraw his troops?"

Beyledeg is a sibling of Manggultai and is more closely related than the other brothers. He was very puzzled by the eldest brother's withdrawal order, although Tu Cheng suffered a big loss, but this Ming army was defeated after all. Give them a little more time, this Ming army will be completely annihilated, and now the order to withdraw the troops is really against military reason. Anyway, the ancestors in Dalinghe City didn't dare to come out lightly, and they completely annihilated the morale of the Ming army to kill them, and showed the invincibility of the Eight Banners under Dalinghe City, isn't it very good.

Xu felt that the weather was too hot, Mang Gurtai took off the leather pocket and pointed gold helmet on his head, revealing a bald head, a piece of hair the size of a slap on the back of his head, and a slender braid, which was also very energetic.

Hearing his younger brother's question, Mang Gurtai said in a deep voice: "King Khan has a strict order, the Golden Tent has not arrived, and the Eight Banners are not allowed to contact the Ming army. After a pause, he snorted angrily: "Tu Cheng is so bold, when he left Yizhou, I gave strict orders again and again, but he dared to contact the Ming army without authorization, and he also lost a lot of manpower, I think he doesn't have me in his eyes!" Thinking that when the second brother was there, he was not at ease, but now that the second brother is gone, he thinks he can hug the thigh of the King of Khan! ”

The second brother said that Amin, the second son of Shuerhaqi, the second son of the Khan's father Nurhachi, who surrendered last year because he abandoned the city, is now imprisoned in Shenyang City. Hearing Mang Gurtai mention Amin, he also faintly had some opinions about the fourth brother, and Derge subconsciously didn't dare to speak. Fortunately, there are generals behind him, and he is not afraid that someone will dare to tell right and wrong, Derge felt a little calmer, and asked instead:

"Brother, Tu Cheng is the fourth brother's person, and he is not from our blue flag, but the loss is his soldiers and horses with yellow flags, what does it matter to us? Why do you have to order him to withdraw his troops? If Tu Cheng used this as an excuse to defend himself, the fourth brother might not be able to treat him, and most likely he would blame the elder brother for being troublesome. Derg reminded himself of his somewhat reckless fellow brother.

Mang Gurtai didn't take it to heart, but smiled softly, and then said to Derge: "Compared to the Great Linghe City in front of you, even ten Tu Lai people's heads are not enough to cut off. The King of Khan came with all the troops of the country this time, and it was inevitable for this Great Linghe City. Our Eight Banners not only want to destroy this Dalinghe City this time, but also ask him to let Sun Manzi know that he didn't come to the outside of the Dao Pass if he wanted to, don't say that if you build a city, you can't send a single soldier! Do you know how much preparation the Khan made for this big Linghe City, just as the Han people said, if you don't send it, you will be hit. Therefore, the Khan will never allow anything that does not obey his orders, and Tu Yi is killing himself this time. What we have to do is very simple, just do what we are told. Speaking of this, the corners of Mang Gurtai's mouth suddenly moved silently: "Since the King of Khan is not allowed to engage in war with the Ming army, I, as an elder brother, naturally have to follow his orders, lest outsiders say that I am a brother's boss." ”

"My brother is right."

While the two brothers were talking, the Mongolian soldiers with red flags and the horse armor soldiers with yellow flags withdrew one after another.

As soon as they saw Mang Gurtai and Derge, Tulai and Gulbush jumped off their horses together, knelt on the ground a few steps forward and kowtowed heavily: "The slave Tulai (Gurbush) has seen three beylers and ten beyles!" ”

Author's note: The Red Armor Swing Tooth Horn is the protector army after the Jin Reform Qing Dynasty, which is the elite of the Later Jin, and there are about 2 to 3,000 Red Armor Swing Tooth Horn soldiers in one banner.

The "fourth brother" in the mouth of Derge is Huang Taiji, but he is the eighth son of Nurhachi, but because of his mother, he has the nature of a son-in-law, so the four major Baylors are ranked fourth, and this article takes the "fourth brother" as the name.

The only sons born before Huang Taiji were Chu Ying (born to the first generation of concubines), Dai Shan (born to the first generation of concubines), and Mang Gurtai (born to the second generation of concubines). Although Huang Taiji's mother is not a concubine, because of her noble background and great favor, Nurhachi often calls Huang Taiji "the only son born to my beloved wife" and treats Huang Taiji as a concubine.

In the early years of the Mandate of Heaven, when the four major beylers were canonized, Chu Ying was dead, and Dai Shan and Mang Gurtai were ranked before Huang Taiji, and Shuerhaqi's sister-in-law Amin was also sealed before Huang Taiji because of his age (in Manchu customs, nephews and sons are almost the same as sons, so Nurhachi directly called his nephews Amin and Zilharang, nieces Sundai and Eshitai as children), so Huang Taiji changed from the eighth son to the fourth beyler.