Emperor Fulin personally lifted up Ao, who was kneeling on the ground to ask for peace, showing a very appreciative and trusting face.

It is no wonder that Fu Lin attaches so much importance to this second-class duke and minister of the interior[1]Aobai-

Gualja Aobai, born in a family of military generals, is known as "the first Baturu in Manchuria". His uncle Fei Yingdong followed his father Solguo to Nu ~ Erhachi, successively served as Gushan Ezhen, "Zhong Ezhen", and was one of the "Five Founding Ministers of the Early Qing Dynasty [2]" before the establishment of the Jin State after the Mandate of Heaven.

In the second war of Emperor Taizong (Huang Taiji) in the early years of Chongde, Ao Bai began to emerge, showing his brave and fearless character, and since then he has been given the title of "Baturu" - just after the capture of Seoul, the "royal city" of Korea, Taizong sent Shuotuo, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi and others to lead an army to attack Phi Dao [3]. Phi Island is outside the mouth of the Yalu River, very close to the mainland of Korea and the mainland, is a strategic place, the Ming general Mao Wenlong once guarded this island, so that Taizong often felt threatened, so he attached great importance to it, thinking that "this island is comparable to a big city". However, Shuotuo and the others attacked unfavorably, and Taizong sent Azig to reinforce him. Before crossing the sea, Ao Bai said to Azig: "If I can't wait for this island, I won't come to see the king!" So he shouted and fought hard, "brave the arrows and stones to fight forward", and then raised the fire as a signal, attracted the follow-up troops, and captured the Phi Island. Taizong was very pleased with Aobai's performance, promoted him to the third-class Mel Zhangjing, gave him the title "Baturu", added six hereditary times, and allowed to attack again twelve times. Later, Ao Bai made many achievements in the battle of Songjin and the previous wars after entering the customs.

At the beginning of the sixth year of Chongde, when besieging Jinzhou and conquering the outer city of Jinzhou, Ao Bai successively led the escort army to defeat the Ming Dynasty's Xingshan and Songshan reinforcements, and conquered the Ming army's infantry camp on foot, so he was promoted from the third-class Meler Zhangjing to the first-class Meler Zhangjing, and was allowed to attack ten more times. In August of the sixth year of Chongde, the Ming army of Songshan broke through and was repelled by Aobai. Then, Ao Bai pursued Wu Sangui, Tang Tong, Bai Guangen and other Ming army units and won a great victory. As a result, in June of the seventh year of Chongde (1642), Ao Bai was promoted to the commander of the army, that is, Baya Laxu Zhangjing, which was actually equivalent to the position of the capital commander, that is, Gushan Ezhen, and became a figure with a high status among the generals of the Eight Banners.

In August of the eighth year of Chongde (1643), Emperor Ama Taiji of Fulin died suddenly, and there were three people who were the largest, highest and most qualified to succeed to the throne at that time: one was the eldest son of Emperor Taizong, Haoge, who was in the two yellow flag system; One is the two-white flag system, Emperor Taizong's younger brother Prince Rui Dolgon; One is the two red flag system, Emperor Taizong's elder brother Prince Li Daishan, of which the former two are the most fiercely contested. In this struggle, Ao Bai, as a nobleman with a yellow flag and the leader of the army, was loyal to Huang Ama and Huang Taiji. Fu Lin heard his own emperor say that in the second year of Chongde, Yue Tuo had sent people to sacrifice horses to Taizong at night, and Ao Bai used "this twilight when you go to bed, not when you sacrifice horses" as the reason, saying: "Shang has slept peacefully, and you want to be alarmed, and watch Mayer with candles?" "Block it. Afterwards, when Taizong heard about this, he was quite happy, and regarded the sacrifice of horses as a "violation of the law" and "ordered the law department to discuss the crime separately".

Ao Bai was so loyal to Emperor Taizong that he naturally resolutely supported Emperor Taizong's son to inherit the throne. Later, Fulin's imperial brother Haoge voluntarily withdrew from the struggle for the throne, and the kings and ministers discussed the canonization in the Chongzheng Palace. This forced Dolgon to stand on his own feet in a hurry, and elected Fulin, a doll who was only six years old at the time, to be the emperor.

Since Fu Lin succeeded to the throne, this worship has been even more featherful! In the second year of Shunzhi, Ao Bai was promoted to the first-class Angbang Zhangjing, and attacked Li Zicheng's army with Azig[4], and went straight to the Huguang area. In the first month of the third year of Shunzhi, Ao Bai led the army with King Haoge of Su to attack Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi peasant army. After defeating He Zhen in Hanzhong, he learned that Zhang Xianzhong had led the army to the Xichong area, and Ao Bai once again acted as a vanguard, taking the lead in sniping, and as a result, the two armies met. After defeating the main force of the Great Western Army, Ao Bai and others continued to penetrate deep into Sichuan, Guizhou, and other places, killing more than 1,000 officials of the Great Western regime, and basically eliminating the Great Western Army in the Sichuan area.

However, this time, Ao Bai not only did not get the opportunity to be promoted, but was excused for "stopping his reward [lài]" because of some trivial things, and almost lost his life. The fundamental reason for this is that he, as the backbone of the two yellow flags, took a stand against the white flag shili, which was inevitably attacked by the regent Dorgon. It was not until December of the seventh year of Shunzhi that the hateful "Imperial Father Regent" Dolgon died of illness and blessed himself with his own pro-government, that he was promoted to the third-class marquis Aobai Baturu to the first-class marquis with military merits, and later he was also a tosha Lahafan[5] as a second-class duke.

Since then, Ao Bai, as one of the ministers of the interior, has often been around Fulin, directly involved in the management of various affairs of the court, such as discussing the approval procedures of this chapter, contacting the Mongolian Horqin Department, conveying the will of the empress dowager to the emperor, paying tribute to the late princes and concubines, and advocating "reading to talk about martial arts", teaching himself to ride and shoot martial arts, assisting in the trial of prisons, etc., as if he had become a cadre who could write and martial arts! For Aobai's dedication and unswerving service to himself, Fulin is very clear and valued, and naturally he is also very trusted.

"Aobai, do you know what is on top of the Imperial Case?" Fu Lin pulled Ao Bai to the front of the imperial case and asked deliberately.

"Back to the emperor, these are all long and short shotguns, how can the slaves not know? It's just a cowardly thing used by foreigners. Although he is an important minister, Ao Bai, who was born in the army, still maintains the straightforwardness and strength of the emperor in front of the emperor, and he does not hide it, which is also deeply loved by Fulin.

But the conceited Ao Bai did not know that the "shotgun" he saw was not the old-fashioned "arquebus" commonly used by the Chinese and North Korean armies at the turn of the Ming and Qing dynasties. And Fu Lin knew this a day in advance.

"'Cowardly things'? Haha, nice! Not bad! Then tell me, the bow and arrow of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty? [piàn] knife or foreigner's shotgun? ”

“haha！ The emperor made fun of the minions! Needless to say? Naturally, the swords and arrows of our Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty are powerful! Those shotguns and birds, scaring and scaring Nanming's Nikan [6] stupid pigs, are useless to my Qing warriors! hahahaha……”

Aobai's loud laughter shook the tiles of the Yugong Palace as if they were buzzing, and Wu Liangfu withdrew from the hall with some irritability, trying to be quiet. The old fox actually saw it a long time ago, although this Ao Bai is not a clan, not even a "red ribbon [7]", but after the dead uncle and Shuo Zheng Prince Jierharang, the number one "Shou Chong Manchuria" iron, that is naturally indispensable to the Cining Palace, and even he has reminded the emperor several times, but he is not aware of the emperor's alertness!

"Gonggong Wu, the emperor called this king to come, I don't know what's going on?" Yue Le, the king of Anjun, who was walking here unhurriedly, greeted the emperor's close ministers from afar.

"Hey, the slave has asked King Anjun to say goodbye! In response to your words, the master was talking to Ao Bai about those shotguns, and the slave couldn't understand a word, so he came out to serve. Master, go in quickly, the master said, you don't have to pass it on when you come! "Wu Liangfu has an innate sensitivity to who is popular and who is the big tree he can rely on, and he naturally does not dare to slack off on Yue Le, who is currently popular and can be the emperor's right-hand man!

"In this way, thank you Gonggong Wu......" Yue Le walked away, and naturally quietly stuffed a small silver bag into Wu Liangfu's hand, ignoring the old slave's words of thanks behind him, and went straight into the main hall.

"Slave Yue Le greets the emperor!"

"King Anjun is here! Come on, come and hear what Aobai has to say about these Western things, haha! Fu Lin glanced at Yue Le, his eyes were obviously full of excitement, and he kept talking and laughing.

"Ao Bai to the king of Anjun, please be safe!" At this time, as a minister of the interior, Ao Bai still knew the etiquette, and took the initiative to salute Yue Le. "Lord Ao Bai doesn't need to be polite! What kind of joke are you telling the emperor here, Xiao Wang is also coming to have fun......"

"Haha, Ao Bai said, these shotguns are fake guns that don't work! haha…… The two armies played against each other, and the Ming army did not wait for the cavalry of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty to run in front of them, they were so frightened that they set fire to it, and the warriors of the Eight Banners dodged the projectile as long as they lay on the belly of the horse, and then they hit with all their might, and the Ming musketeers had not had time to complete the second reloading...... haha。 This centaur melee is still Eight Banners Xiao Yong! Fulin took over the conversation and laughed to himself.

"Lord Aobai, do you say that Ming Andali, is the battle brave or cowardly?" Yue Le just nodded to the emperor to indicate that he knew, and then said to Ao.

"The bravery of Lord Ming Andali is not under the micro-ministers."

"Then do you know why his 5,000 and 8 Banner Xiao Yong cavalry was trapped by 400 Rakshasa musketeers in Humar City?"

"Haha, although he is brave, he is still only a Mongolian knight, and he still does not know the key tactics of the Manchurian Eight Banners cavalry, that is, the dead soldiers go out and are erratic, the brave soldiers follow up, the wind and clouds, the cavalry is like the wind, and the swords and arrows are like a forest [8]!" Ao Bai finally couldn't bear it, reflecting his stubborn side. Of course, the response he received in Fulin's eyes was the praise of "using soldiers in a good way, confident and resolute".

"Xiao Wang has also led soldiers to fight, but I don't know if the wind and clouds of my Eight Banners army will be useful in the face of a strong fortress?" Yue Le naturally knew the essence of the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, but he was a little dissatisfied with this kind of stubbornness and not wanting to improve.

"It's as useful as ever! King Anjun, have you forgotten that the warriors of the Eight Banners are riding and shooting on horses, and they can hit every shot? Give me a battalion of elite soldiers, and I will run around that Humar city, and I can shoot half of the people in the city with these more than 1,000 horses! Ao Bai was also a little unconvinced.

"Your Majesty, the slave is here for this matter." Yue Le no longer paid attention to Aobai, and turned to Fu Lin and said.

"Oh, why did it come about? I'm just asking you to come over and watch these things like Western shotguns...... "Fulin is not the emperor of pleasure, as soon as Yue Le was persistent just now, he knew from Aobai's words that this "First Baturu of the Qing Dynasty" may not be all right.

"The second elder brother, Dorobelle Xuanye, asked the slave to report on his behalf, saying that he was willing to lead the three hundred Rakshasa soldiers captured in the Tongzhou camp to conduct a siege and fortification exercise with our generals who are good at fighting in the middle of the court[9]. Originally, the slave wanted to be a veteran, and asked the emperor to order the marshal to inlay the yellow flag with a battalion of people, but now it seems that Lord Aobai knows more than the slave the use of my Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty. I don't know if Lord Ao has this intention? Yue Le bowed lightly to Aobai, and stared at the No. 1 Baturu with a somewhat provocative look.

Fu Lin didn't speak very sensibly, just looked at Aobai.

"Your Majesty, Dorobelle is still young, on this battlefield, I'm afraid ......" Ao Bai and Yue Le are both Manchurian generals, and it is natural for each other to be a little unconvinced about the battlefield, and he doesn't take it to heart, but he first proposed that the second son of the emperor who is the lord of the Qing Dynasty is too young, and he will not win in time.

"Although Xuan Ye is young, I love the youth of the Xinjueluo family, and I should temper the territory since I was a child! Since he has this intention, Aiqing can rest assured and boldly verify it!" Fu Lin set the tone, if Ao Bai didn't agree, it would be looking down on the Aixin Jueluo family!

"The minions don't dare, the minions are willing to lead a battalion of thousands of horsemen with yellow flags, and try to compete with Lord Belle!" Worship with confidence and promise! With his own bravery and the lives of a thousand soldiers, a little one-year-old child plus 300 Rakshasa troops is like child's play!

Poor Aobai, I don't know that today I fell into the "trap" of my "emperor's kiss" and the "trap" of King Anjun from the very beginning - these two brothers just want to use the name of the first Baturu in the Qing Dynasty to verify whether what Xiao Xuanye said about "the power of firearms" is true. A few days ago, Hongyi deliberately recommended Aobai to Yue Le, on the one hand, to provide a real opportunity for his bold jihua to sharpen his assumptions about the cavalry tactics and the use of firearms in this era. On the other hand, it is necessary to establish his mythical invincible status as soon as possible in the minds of these Manchurian generals!

[1] In the Qing Dynasty, the commander of the guards was second only to the ministers of the guards, and was responsible for assisting the ministers of the guards. In the Qing Dynasty system, there was a "guard office", and the "Qing Historical Manuscript and Official Chronicles" said: "The guard office set up a guard minister, which is a product; Ministers of the Interior, from one product, six each". There are also a number of ministers. Assist the Minister of the Interior of the Guard to take charge of the command of the guards and the pro-army, protect the emperor, the status is quite respectful, and the guards are selected from the eight flags inlaid with yellow, yellow, and white (called the three flags) flags (the guards are divided into four classes, and there are also blue feather guards, etc.), and the Minister of the Interior assists in the command of the Minister of the Interior.

[2] The five founding ministers of the early Qing Dynasty refer to Guar Jiaxin, the male public Fei Yingdong, the new Hulu Hongyi public Yidu, the Dong E, the Wenshun Gong, He Heli, the Tong Zhonglie Gonghu, the Erhan, and the Jueluo Gongan Fei Yanggu.

[3] Phi Island, in the east of the Yalu River estuary, west of the Korean Bay, is also known as the Dongjiang River. Phi Island is 15 miles from east to west and 10 miles from north to south, and the island is basically not grassy and not large. However, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Phi Dao was located between Liaodong, North Korea and Houjin, and the sea surface on the north shore was 80 miles to Houjinjie, and the northeast sea was North Korea, which was related to the three parties, and the location was urgent. It now belongs to North Korea and was renamed linden [duàn] island. Phi Island is at the mouth of the Yalu River, only separated by a water from the mainland of North Korea, and the water surface distance is only equivalent to crossing a Yangtze River, and the north bank is North Korea's Xuanchuan and Iron Mountain. At that time, in the areas of Uiju, Anju, and Tiesan in North Korea, Han Chinese accounted for seven-tenths of the residents, and Koreans accounted for only three-tenths. Phi Island is about 80 miles across, and after Mao Wenlong was used as a base, he recruited Han people, and the momentum gradually grew. The Ming Dynasty specially set up a military region for him, called Dongjiang Town, and promoted Mao Wenlong to the general army. Mao Wenlong is the Ming Dynasty officially appointed the Dongjiang Army, the Dongjiang River is the Yalu River near the mouth of the Phi Island, and the Yalu River Zhangzi Island, Deer Island constitute a full momentum, the geographical location is located in the middle of Liaodong, North Korea, Shandong Denglai two states, known as the Kongdao. In Jin Yong's novel "The Story of Deer and Ding", there is a famous fake queen mother Mao Dongzhu, this Mao Dongzhu is Mao Wenlong's daughter.

[4] Aixin Jueluo Azig (August 28, 1605 - November 28, 1651), born in the 33rd year of Wanli, his biological mother Abahai, Wulanala clan, the prince of the Qing Dynasty of China, and the twelfth son of the Qing Dynasty Taizunu ~ Erhachi. A famous general in the early Qing Dynasty. Manchus, fierce and scheming. He was awarded Taiji at the beginning, and in the eleventh year of the Later Jin Mandate of Heaven (1626 AD), he was awarded Baylor for military merits, and in the first year of Chongde (1636 AD), he was named the king of Wuying County, and in the first year of Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty (1644 AD), he was awarded the title of Prince Shuoying. The status is second only to the four major Baylors. In the fifth year of Shunzhi (1648 AD), he used the general of Pingxi to supervise the army to conquer Jiang Huang's rebellion in Datong. In Jiujiang, he recruited the Ming army Zuomengeng. He asked to be crowned king, but the regent Dolgon refused. After Dorgon's death, he attempted to become regent, but was imprisoned and given to death.

[5] Qing Jue name. Han called the old a thousand presidents. In the fourth year of Shunzhi (1647), it was named "Tuosha Lahafan". In the first year of Qianlong (1736), the Chinese character was set as Yun Qiwei, and the Manchu script was the same as before.

[6] Manchu, Han Chinese.

[7] Another name for Jueluo in the Qing Dynasty. In the ninth year of Tiancong (1635), Qing Taizu stipulated that Jueluo should wear red belts to show his identity. Hence the name. The red ribbon is the name of the descendants of the side branches of the Qing Dynasty. Qing system, with Taizu Nu ~ Erhachi's father Takshi as the main clan, calling his direct descendants the clan; and the descendants of his uncles and brothers are Kyaw Luo. All Jueluo are marked by a red belt, so it is commonly known as a red belt. The royal family of the Qing Dynasty started from the generation of Taizunu ~ Erhachi's father Tashike, and then divided into two categories: "clan" and "Jueluo" according to the relatives of the relatives. All the descendants of the Tashike branch, that is, Nu~Erhachi and his brothers, are all included in the "clan"; Then there are the branches of Uncle Tashike's brothers, all of whom are called "Jueluo". According to the regulations of the Qing Dynasty government, the clan wore a yellow belt around the waist and a red belt on the body of Jueluo to show the special status. Therefore, the clan is also commonly known as the yellow belt, and the Jueluo calls the red belt. However, in comparison, Jueluo's bloodline is farther away.

[8] The cavalry of the Eight Banners Army was divided into two categories, one was called "dead soldiers", who rushed to the front during the war and were responsible for attracting the enemy (mainly the Ming army equipped with a large number of firearms) to shoot with firearms, so as to reduce the threat and gain time for the troops behind, which was a bit of a "death squad".

Dead soldiers wear heavy armor and carry shields, and generally only carry short weapons (swords, knives, hammers, axes, etc.), and can also engage in hand-to-hand combat once they rush into enemy formation.

The cavalry that rushed behind was called the "brave soldier" and charged after the dead soldiers. After the first shot with the enemy's firearms, take advantage of the time difference in reloading to rush into the enemy line and fight them.

The brave soldiers are good at riding and archery (the Eight Banners Army is good at riding and archery), generally only wearing light armor, launching long-range attacks with bows and arrows, and using large cold weapons such as broadswords, spears, ge, and halberds in close combat.

Because of the long interval between firearms firing at that time, this method of warfare was indeed effective, and in field battles, it was difficult for the Ming army to win even if it used a large number of firearms.

The Ming army had to cooperate with chariots, artillery, infantry (referring to the pikemen of the Zhuke cavalry) and archers, plus the advantage of firearms, to win.

[9] The term drill has been used since ancient times. bright

Feng Menglongqing, Cai Yuanfang, the seventy-fifth chapter of "Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty": "Then Sun Wu exercised the naval army at the mouth of the river. ”