When the news of Zu Dashou's death came, Huang Taiji was so shocked that he fell off the wine glass, Zu Zehong fainted on the spot, Zu Zerun and the two uncles were also instantly wooden, and it was hard to believe their ears.

Everyone in the tent was dumbfounded, even Zhang Chun was shocked, and he didn't understand why Zu Dashou was killed?

Most of the generals who surrendered to the army were thinking together, was it Huang Taiji's treachery and asked someone to kill Zu Dashou?

The suspicious gazes of the generals made Huang Taiji shocked and angry, overturned the table in front of him, rushed to Ah Shan and Darhan in anger, and asked sharply: "How did General Zu die, who killed my General Zu, is it the poisonous hand of your two minions..."

"It's not us, it's not us..." Ah Shan was so frightened that he hurriedly waved his hand, his head shook violently, and he shouted in fear: "The slave is bold, and he doesn't dare to kill Zu Dashou..."

"King Khan was angry, and Zu Dashou was not killed by his ministers and others, but died five miles outside Jinzhou City. When the minister and Ah Shan arrived, Zu Dashou was already dead, and his face was cut beyond recognition. If it weren't for the careful inspection by the ministers, it would be difficult to identify that it was Zu Dashou who died..."

Darhan is Huang Taiji's brother-in-law, and Huang Taiji is a family, but he is not as frightened as Ah Shan, a minion, but calmly tells the matter in detail. After finishing speaking, he kept his mouth shut and waited for Huang Taiji to ask again.

After listening to Darhan's narration, Huang Taiji's face became deeper and deeper, and when he finished speaking, he asked in a deep voice: "Have you ever found out who killed General Zu?"

Darhan shook his head and said, "When the ministers arrived, the murderer had already fled. But—" Speaking of which, there was a pause.

Huang Taiji hurriedly asked him: "But what, say it quickly."

Darhan hesitated for a moment and said, "However, according to the minister's calculations, the murderer of General Zu should be the Ming army in Jinzhou City."

Hearing this, everyone was shocked again, and Huang Taiji lost his voice and said, "Why did you say that?"

Darhan explained: "The minister said this because the place where General Zu was killed was outside Jinzhou City, and outside this city, except for our Eight Banners, it was a small group of his Ming army, and the murderer would definitely not be us, so only the Ming army in Jinzhou City could have this suspicion."

Darhan's analysis made everyone subconsciously nodded, in fact, in addition to the Jin army outside Jinzhou City, there was also a small group of people and horses in his Ming army, which showed that it was either the Jin army or the Ming army that killed Zu Dashou. Looking at Huang Taiji and the surprised appearance of Baylor, it doesn't seem to be a fake, the generals who previously suspected that Huang Taiji ordered the killing of Zu Dashou were all calm, but then they became confused, why did the Ming army in Jinzhou City kill Zu Dashou? Do they know what they have said?

"Strange, how did he Jinzhou know that General Lu Daozu would flee back late at night?" Dai Shan pursed his lips strangely and glanced at the people in the tent, "Could it be that someone leaked the news?"

Listening to Dai Shan's words, Huang Taiji was stunned, and hurriedly turned around and shouted: "Azig"

"Brother is here," Azig hurriedly stepped out of his seat.

Huang Taiji asked him: "After General Zu surrenders, can any of the soldiers and civilians in the city escape?"

Azig said with certainty: "King Hui Khan, after General Zu surrendered, his subordinates led the red flag into the city and moved all the soldiers and civilians in the city to the outside of the city, and carefully searched the city to make sure that no one was hiding in it before leaving the city. The younger brother dares to promise that unless he can fly, no one will escape."

"It's not that the Ming army fled, so how did the news leak?"

Huang Taiji frowned, that is, there were really Ming troops or people who fled back to Jinzhou, and Jinzhou only knew that Lu Daozu Dashou surrendered, and how did he know that Lu Dao would return to Jinzhou late at night, and lay an ambush on the way to wait for Zu Dashou?

This matter is too strange, unless the Ming army of Jinzhou can predict the prophet, it will be impossible to know in advance that the birthday of the ancestor of the Daozu will be returned to Jinzhou

Who exactly leaked the news?

Huang Taiji's doubts became more and more serious, and he believed that someone must have leaked the news to the Ming army. And in addition to himself, Daishan and Jierharang, Azige, Tong Yangxing, Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan and a few others, even Dolgon and their little Baylor don't know about Lu Dao, except for Zu Dashou's brother and son Zhi Lu Dao, the others don't know where Zu Dashou went. It is definitely impossible for the ancestral family to leak the news, but who will it be besides them? It can't be the second brother or Fan Wencheng?...

Huang Taiji didn't dare to think about it, but he heard someone crying out in his ears with grief and indignation: "King Khan, the minister knows who killed my father."

"Who?"

Huang Taiji took a sharp turn and found that it was Zu Zerun, the eldest son of Zu Dashou, who was shouting.

"It must have been Qiu Hejia, the governor of Liaodong, who killed my father" Zu Zerun gritted his teeth, his fists clenched tightly, and with that expression, he really wanted to eat Qiu Hejia raw.

Liaofu Qiu Hejia?

Huang Taiji was stunned for a moment, and asked Zu Zerun: "Why is the Scorpion Army so sure?"

Zu Zerun wholeheartedly believed that Qiu Hejia killed his father, and said hatefully: "Qiu Hejia has been at odds with my father since he was appointed Liaofu, and has repeatedly wanted to take away my father's military power. Qiu Hejia couldn't take away my father's military power, and he had a plan to build a new army, but after being stopped by my father and Jingluo, he regarded my father as a thorn in the eye, and his flesh cut my father trapped in the city, he Qiu Hejia did not try his best to rescue, but obstructed everywhere, I can't wait for my father to die in this city, so I can ask, if he didn't send someone to kill my father, who else in Jinzhou City has this leopard who dares to kill my father?"

Hearing Zu Zerun's words, everyone in the tent suddenly nodded in unison, and Zu Dashou's generals also said that it must be Qiu Hejia's poisonous hand, that is, Zhang Chun also felt that it was really the Jinzhou Ming Army who killed Zu Dashou, so it was really Qiu Hejia who sent someone to do it. However, he felt extremely happy, and he almost shouted that he had killed well

Huang Taiji also somewhat believed that Qiu Hejia killed Zu Dashou in order to fight for power, so as not to contact the old ministry to shake his position after returning to the city, but he still didn't understand a little.

"The scorpion army is right, but even if Qiu Hejia has the intention to kill your father, how did he know that General Dashou will return to Jinzhou tonight?"

"This..."

Zu Zerun was stunned for a moment, but he hadn't thought about this question.

Azig was anxious, thinking that Zu Dashou was dead, and this Jinzhou City could not be picked, so he simply proposed: "King Khan, Zu Dashou is dead, this Jinzhou City will not be able to be defrauded, but his troops in Jinzhou City are empty, and there are not a few soldiers who can fight, so it is better to lead his troops to attack by his brother Ming Ri, and capture him in one fell swoop, King Khan of Jinzhou City will lead a large army to Ningyuan and enter Shanhaiguan."

Dolgon also said excitedly: "There is a large amount of grain and grass for the Ming army in the city of Jinzhou, there are many merchants and gentry, and there is a lot of gold and silver wealth and population, it can be said that it is rich and oily, we have besieged the city for so long, and now we are short of food." It's better to attack Jinzhou and hug him hard."

Duoyi is even more impatient: "King Khan, let's set off tomorrow, and my brother is willing to be the vanguard"

However, Zilharan objected: "King Khan, the ministers think that it is better to be cautious. Jinzhou is a strong city, Qiu Hejia dares to defend the city alone, they must be ready to burn the jade, and they must have put great effort into defending the city. The Art of War: Soldiers are put to death and then come to life. The city of Jinzhou is now a dead place, and the casualties of the attack will be heavy. Moreover, our army has suffered heavy casualties, and all flags have been damaged, and it is still unclear what Jinzhou City is like now. Know yourself and know your opponent, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles. I don't know who he is, why fight? Therefore, the minister thought that he should first send spies into Jinzhou to find out the situation in the city, and to combine the inside and outside, so that the attack would be more certain and the casualties could be reduced. ”

Azig looked down on Zilharang's old Cheng and shouted dissatisfiedly: "Third brother, you are too cautious." In just one Jinzhou city, I have tens of thousands of iron horsemen in the Eight Banners, and one person demolished a brick for him, and also demolished him. ”

"No matter how strong Jinzhou City is, if no one comes to defend it, it will be like taking something from a bag, according to my opinion, this Jinzhou City can be beaten."

Dai Shan has always been a serious person, but he also thinks that Jinzhou can be attacked, because he knows that there are definitely not many defenders in Jinzhou City. Taking advantage of his illness, he wanted his life, if he didn't fight at this time, when the Ming army reinforcements arrived, it would be difficult to attack Jinzhou again.

Huang Taiji was noncommittal, and was silent there.

Zu Zerun was eager to avenge his father, and when he saw this, he hurriedly stepped forward and knelt on the ground, crying out: "King Khan, my father died unjustly, please King Khan to avenge my father"

The generals also knelt down and said in unison: "The ministers are willing to attack the vanguard of the Khan King."

"Hit Jinzhou, hit Jinzhou, hit Jinzhou"

Azig, Dolgon, Duoyi, Yuetuo, Shuotuo and other Baylors and those Manchu and Mongolian generals also asked for battle. The wealth in the city of Jinzhou has made them completely red-eyed.

Seeing that everyone agreed to attack Jinzhou, Huang Taiji did not hesitate, although what Zierharang said was reasonable, but Jinzhou City was empty now, and he was not afraid of being punished by heaven. It is better to conform to the will of the people, Ming Ri attacked Jinzhou, after breaking the city, take the wealth and food of the population and distribute the flags to make up for this loss, that is, after returning to the army, the people of the country are also happy, and they will not complain because of too many casualties.

Unexpectedly, Ning Wan and I risked the world's great disobedience, suddenly rushed forward, fell to the ground with a plop, kowtowed several times, and admonished: "King Khan, all Belles, have you forgotten the lessons of the Battle of Ningjin?"

Hearing this, everyone fell silent, and Huang Taiji changed color.

………

Ning Wan: I am talking about the battle of Ningjin refers to the May of the first year of Tiancong, Huang Taiji led the army of the Eight Banners who had just returned from North Korea to Hexi, and quickly captured the big and small Ling River and the right tunwei, and the castle built by Yuan Chonghuan in the Hexi area was trampled by the Jin army, and the only remaining fruit was Jinzhou.

On May 11, after the Jin army plundered the surrounding area of Jinzhou, it joined the city of Jinzhou and surrounded Jinzhou. Ming Dynasty Pingliao general soldier Zhao led the teaching and the eunuch Ji Yong jointly stationed in Jinzhou, because the city of Jinzhou had just been completed, Huang Taiji sent troops suddenly, the city defense work was not fully prepared, soldiers and migrant workers together only 30,000 people. However, the guard general Zhao Shujiao and the deputy commander-in-chief Zuo Fu, Zhu Mei and others are all veterans who have been in the fortress for a long time, and the generals are a little familiar, and the eunuchs of the supervising army also give full play to the function of supervision.

The rear Shanhaiguan also heard the news and entered a state of combat readiness, the general Man Gui moved from Shanhaiguan to Qiantun, Sun Zushou moved from a stone to Shanhaiguan, and Heiyunlong moved to a stone, pressing forward layer by layer, ready to respond to the front at any time. Yuan Chonghuan and Liu Yingkun, the eunuch of the supervising army, led Zu Dashou and others to guard Ningyuan in the center.

Huang Taiji's old trick was repeated, and 400 soldiers were released back to Jinzhou (some of them were jiān fine), intending to break through the fortress from the inside, but Zhao Shujiao and others had already learned from the previous experience and turned away the soldiers.

On the twelveth, Zhao led the sect and Ji Yong to send people down the city to make peace in the Houjin camp, so as to delay time, deploy city defenses, and wait for reinforcements. Huang Taiji wrote a letter of persuasion and asked the messenger to bring it back to the city, but the messenger was gone, so at noon that day, Huang Taiji gave the order to attack the city.

The battle was fierce, and the Jin soldiers took turns to launch a frantic attack from the west and north. The ladder was full of besieging soldiers, like ants climbing up a tree, and the heavy cart crashed headlong into the south wall, and some soldiers desperately dug the foot of the wall under the base of the wall. The Ming army in the city was also unrelenting, and Zhao Shujiao, Zhu Mei, Zuo Fu and others wore armor and personally went to the city wall to supervise the battle.

Since the construction of Jinzhou City has just been completed, there are still a lot of wall bricks left, which have come in handy at this moment, and soldiers, civilians and others have picked up bricks and greeted the enemy's head. For a time, the arrows rained down, the bricks fell like hailstones, and Houjin suffered heavy losses. The battle lasted from noon to night, and the Ming army repelled the enemy's attacks again and again, and the city of Jinzhou remained unmoved. Huang Taiji saw that the strong attack could not be successful, and it was getting late, so he ordered to retreat five miles back and camp, and at the same time ordered people to return to Shenyang to transfer troops.

From thirteen to twenty-five, both sides fought and talked, waiting for reinforcements. An even more tragic war is coming.

When Jinzhou was in danger, the governor Yuan Chonghuan led Zu Dashou and others to garrison Ningyuan, but insisted on not rescuing and refused to send reinforcements. Man Gui resolutely led the army to set out from the rear Qiantun, and the general soldier You Shilu reinforced Jinzhou, and the sixteenth march to the Lishan Mountain encountered the partial division of Houjin Grain Protection, and was surrounded. This partial division was led by the Great Bel Mang Gurtai, Bel Zir Harang, Azig, Yueto, Sakhalian, and Haug, and it was a strong force, and its strength was no less than that of the Mangui army.

Man Gui is the first warrior in the Ming army, he took the lead in rushing to the enemy, the two sides launched a fierce field battle, the Ming army fought bravely, the captives were very many, Man Gui slightly had the upper hand. Although Man Gui repelled the enemy, his troops also suffered casualties, so he led his troops to Ningyuan. After discovering Mangui, twenty-eight ri, Huang Taiji led the army of the Eight Banners to cross Jinzhou to attack Ningyuan, Mangui personally went out of the city to meet the attack, and led the Ming army to camp in the east of Ningyuan City, with his back against the city wall, arranged guns, and waited for him. Seeing that the Ming army was neat and morale was high, the Jin soldiers hesitated to attack, and the team retreated to the mountain to wait and see.

The ruling four major Baylor Daishan, Amin, Mang Gurtai and other three advocated retreat, Huang Taiji insisted on fighting, he personally led the army to rush to the Ming army, Daishan, Amin, Mang Gurtai saw this had to follow up in a hurry. The two sides started a life-and-death struggle outside Ningyuan City.

Man Gui led his lieutenant general You Shiwei and others out of the city to greet him, which was quite fatal, and Man Gui was also severely injured. The Jin army also suffered heavy casualties, Zilharang was seriously wounded in the Eight Great Beylers, Sakhalian the third son and fourth son Wakda of the Great Beyler Daishan were seriously wounded, and the guerrillas were killed in the Guerrilla Jue Luo Bai Shan and Beiyu Bashi. Huang Taiji saw that he couldn't take advantage of it, so he had to order a temporary withdrawal of troops.

At this time, Zhao Shujiao, who was guarding Jinzhou, saw that the main force of the enemy outside the city was leaving, and the men and horses were slack, so he suddenly opened the city gate and led the army to kill the enemy camp. Huang Taiji felt the danger of being attacked by the enemy on his back, so he withdrew his troops from Ningyuan and turned to attack Jinzhou again.

On the fourth day of the first month of June, Huang Taiji led the army back to Jinzhou outside the city and launched a crazy attack on Jinzhou again, but the Ming army still used the old three things of "cannons, bows and arrows, and bricks" to serve, giving the Jin army a heavy blow.

The Jin soldiers suffered heavy casualties, did not eat or drink, and were exposed to the hot sun, and their morale was very low. However, for the sake of his own face, Huang Taiji, who lost his red eyes, refused to withdraw his troops regardless of the lives of the soldiers, and forced the soldiers to attack the city. The battle lasted from morning to evening, and Huang Taiji received nothing but the corpses. had to give the order to withdraw the troops.

This battle was called the "Ningjin Victory" by the Ming Dynasty, but the Jin State only did not mention Ning Yuan for the Battle of Jinzhou, which shows that the Jin army regarded the opponent of this battle as Zhao Shujiao, the general soldier of Pingliao, rather than Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Liaodong.

In the battle of Jinzhou, the Jin army suffered more than 10,000 casualties, and the battle was stinking for several miles, so that no one wanted to mention the tragic battle of the year. Huang Taiji also did not want to mention this battle because it was a big defeat, so for many years, the Battle of Jinzhou was almost a forbidden area in the Jin army, and no one dared to mention it. Now Ning Wan I boldly put it forward, and used this to persuade Huang Taiji not to attack Jinzhou, so as not to repeat the mistakes of the past, and Huang Taiji couldn't help but hesitate. The battle was too bad, and now I am very scared when I think about it.

"This time, that time"

Just when Huang Taiji hesitated, Tong Yangxing stood up and said sonorously: "Back then, the Ming army defended Jinzhou with a lot of troops, and there were famous generals in the town, and there was a steady stream of reinforcements in the rear, but now the Ming army is trapped in a lonely city, and no soldier comes to the rescue, and there is no general to preside. And we are the master of great victory, with the power of great victory, attacking him a city that is only defended by thousands of old and weak soldiers, why not the king of Khan, don't hesitate, this time we are about to take Jinzhou, march into Ningyuan, and achieve great things."

As soon as he heard that the old ministers in the West House also supported the attack on Jinzhou, Azig became active again, and shouted: "The Elu is right, where we fall and where we get up, Jinzhou City used to be unbeatable, but now it is easy to take the first Khan for something, in order not for our Jurchen clan to be bullied by his Ming State anymore, now we defeated the Ming army, annihilated all the soldiers and horses of the Ming Kingdom outside the pass, and all his cities are now lying in front of us like unclothed girls, if we don't take it, God will be angry with us."

"Twelve Baylor, don't forget, we don't have siege equipment" Seeing that Azig and Tong Yangxing were still going to attack Jinzhou, Ning Wan was in a hurry, and hurriedly reminded him of the most realistic problem, that is, the Jin army did not have siege equipment.

Dolgon disagreed: "There are tools in Dalinghe City, let's make them overnight, and we can also get enough of the siege needs, this equipment is not a problem."

"Yes, siege equipment is not a problem, Ning Wan me, you don't want to be alarmist here again" Azig glared at Ning Wan and me.

Ning Wan was startled and looked at Fan Wencheng and Bao Chengxian, but the two shook their heads at him and signaled him not to persuade him again.

Ning Wan I sighed, and had no choice but to say to Huang Taiji: "If the Khan King really wants to attack Jinzhou, the minions have nothing to say, but the minions think it is best to send a group of men and horses to test it, if the Ming army in the city is ready to take precautions, in order to avoid unnecessary losses, it is better for the Khan to withdraw his troops and go back."

"Just talk too much" Azig saw that I was still talking there after Ning Wan, and was so angry that he wanted to rush up and kick him.

Hu Daxian suddenly came out of the generals, and said to Huang Taiji with an oath: "King Khan, there are no soldiers in Jinzhou City at all, at best, there are two or three thousand regiments of training and guards, even if Qiu Hejia requisitioned the people to help defend the young and strong, it will not help." With all due respect, this Jinzhou is indeed very easy to fight. ”

Huang Taiji shook his head: "Are you sure that there are only two or three thousand regiments in the city to train and guard the army?"

Hu Daxian nodded heavily: "The last general confirms, King Khan can rest assured, if King Khan doesn't believe the last general, you might as well ask Master Zhang." He knew best how many soldiers and horses there were in the city. After speaking, he looked at Zhang Chun with bad intentions.

"Shameless"

Zhang Chun was so angry that he picked up a tea bowl and threw it at Hu Daxian, Hu Daxian turned sideways, and the bowl smashed on Ah Shan, so annoyed that Ah Shan was about to fight.

Huang Taiji was overjoyed in his heart, didn't Zhang Chun's smash show that what Hu Daxian said was true, so there were really no soldiers and horses in Jinzhou City

God help me

If he does not take the empty city, he will stop it

Huang Taiji frowned, and there were ancestors over there shouting for him to avenge Zu Dashou, Huang Taiji finally got Zu Dashou, a good general, and he was going to use him as the pioneer of Zhengming, but he was actually killed by Qiu Hejia and was angry from his heart, and if he didn't avenge Zu Dashou, how could he explain to the generals.

Dai Shan observed the words and expressions on the side, and knew that Emperor Taiji of the Daoist Dao had already been moved, so he hit the railway while it was hot: "Since there are no defenders in Jinzhou, I will ask the King Khan to lead his sons to attack, and come to take the wealth in the city to make up for the loss of each banner; Second, you can also occupy Jinzhou, take Jinzhou as the base, and then attack Ningyuan; Three, you can also wash away the humiliation of the battle of Ningjin that year. ”

Huang Taiji didn't hesitate at the moment, but he didn't have the impulse, but ordered Azig to say: "Azig, Ming Ri will lead the red flag to supervise the four thousand Han troops to attack Jinzhou."

Azig was overjoyed and replied heavily: "The younger brother has received the order, and Ming Ri will definitely dedicate Jinzhou City to the King of Khan"

Seeing that Huang Taiji decided to attack Jinzhou, Jierharang was helpless, but fortunately, Huang Taiji wanted Azig to lead his troops to attack, and did not ask him to be on the blue flag, so that even if there were casualties, it was also a matter of inlaid red flags, as long as the strength of the blue flag was not damaged, he didn't bother to care whether Jinzhou would fight or not.

The brothers attacked Jinzhou for the first time, and Dolgon and Duoyi were also excited, and the two brothers discussed whether to allocate a few cattle from each of them to the red flag, so that Azig could successfully take Jinzhou.

At that moment, Azig was ordered to send 4,000 Han soldiers to surrender, and Dolgon led people into the city to get Ming army equipment, and the Han army craftsmen and soldiers who wanted to accompany the army rushed to make siege equipment overnight. The other flags were prepared accordingly, and the camp was very busy.

When the Jin soldiers heard that they were going to attack Jinzhou, the city was full of food and wealth, and there were countless Han people, and there were not a few defenders, all of whom were overjoyed. In the Great War, the casualties were too large and the gains were few, so the Ming people in Jinzhou City were needed to replenish the supplies. For a time, the Jin army was full of fighting spirit, and they all rubbed their fists and palms, and their morale was greatly boosted. Huang Taiji patrolled the camp, and couldn't help but feel that he had made the right decision, and he should take Jinzhou in one fell swoop to comfort the soldiers. ()