Hong is too soon, no matter how those people in Lang Zhong and the two yellow flags cover it up, people with a discerning eye know that the Heavenly Destiny Khan will not last many days.

Dorgon has never been a fool, and among the brothers, his ability is not the first, but he is also the first, so he sees that the current situation is very delicate. The biggest question now in front of everyone is not how to defeat the Ming army and clean up the defeat in Shenyang, but who will inherit the throne of Hong Tai after his death.

For a long time, in addition to the iron rod of the two yellow flags, the people who supported Hong Tai were the Han military flag, the two white flags, and the people with red flags.

Mang Gurtai, who is in the blue flag, has never been a supporter of Hong Tai, and Zilharang, who is inlaid with the blue flag, is a wall grass, and he supports whoever is powerful.

Although Dai Shan, the lord of the Zhenghong Banner, seems to be a staunch supporter of Hong Tai on the surface, he can't hide the dirt that happened because of the election of the Khan King back then, not to mention that whether it is qualifications or merits, Dai Shan has never been worse than Hong Tai, so there is a lot of dissatisfaction within the Zhenghong Banner that Hong Tai is not Dai Shan's succession. If it weren't for Dai Shan's strong suppression, I don't know what would happen to Lu Dao.

Now that Daishan is dead, Dolgon is sure that the people who are in the red flag will not support Hauge's succession, and if they have to take refuge in one person, then this person must be Yue Tuo with the red flag.

Yue Tuo became a die-hard supporter of Hong Tai because of the strained relationship with Dai Shan's father and son, but this does not mean that he will still be loyal to Hong Tai after Dai Shan's death. If Hong Tai hadn't died, he might have suppressed the Zhenghong Banner and pledged his allegiance to Hong Tai, but it would have been a little difficult for him to lead the two Red Banners to Haoge as a vassal.

Counting up, as soon as Daishan and Hong Tai die, the most likely to compete for the Khan position is not only Haoge supported by the two yellow flags, but Yue Tuo supported by the two red flags, and the other is Dolgon, who is supported by the two white flags.

Judging from the cards, each of the three has two flags to support, the only difference is that Haoge occupies the name of righteousness, but this righteousness is not impossible to overthrow, at least until now, although Hong Tai is the only one in the south, but the heir to the throne of Khan did not say that his father died and his son died.

The Eight Banners King publicly promoted the Great Khan system, but the old Khan himself set it, as long as the old Khan's legacy was moved, Haoge's righteousness would have little weight.

On the side of the Zhenglan Banner, Mang Gurtai is also dead, and his younger brother Derge is in charge of half of the Niu Lu of the Zhenglan Banner, judging from the current situation, once Hong Taizhen dies of illness, it is unlikely that the Derge class will support Haoge to succeed to the throne. This is not because Derge will blame Hong Tai for Mang Gurtai's death, but Derge has never been a brother that Hong Tai values, and the bigger reason why he handed over the household department to him is just to appease Mang Gurtai's line.

As the actual banner owner of the Zhenglan Banner, it is impossible for the Derge class not to consider the subordinates of the Zhenglan Banner, Hong Tai personally deprived him of half of the Niu Lu belonging to the Zheng Lan Banner, as long as this half of the Niu Lu is not returned to his Zheng Lan Banner one day, he has no reason to support Haoge. And asking the people of the two yellow flags to return the Niu Lu people to the Zhenglan Banner, this is simply a fool's dream.

Whoever has more subordinates and more cattle has more power, which has never been a secret in the Eight Banners. Why can the two yellow flags be strong today, it is not because they continue to take the Niu Lu people from other flags.

If Hauge wanted the two yellow flags to return the troops of the positive blue flag in order to win over the Derge, I am afraid that he would be spurned by the two yellow flags before he became the Great Khan. People are very realistic, they support Haoge because Hongtai has brought them too many benefits, if they want to give up these interests because they support Haoge's succession, the people of the two yellow flags are not bad, they would rather support a Khan king who can continue to maintain the privileges of the two yellow flags, than support a Khan king who harms the interests of the two yellow flags.

Everyone wanted to be the Great Khan, Hauge thought, Dolgon even more, and everyone else must have thought too, and the question now is how to become the Great Khan after Honta's death.

In the past, there were rumors in the Eight Banners that when the old Khan was dying, he wanted Dolgon to be the Great Khan, but he was robbed of the Khan by Hong Tai's trickery, and forced Dolgon and their brother's biological mother Abahai to be martyred.

In the past, Dolgon never dared to think that the throne might be his own, let alone that the fourth brother he had always been loyal to would be his mother-killing enemy, but Hong Tai's illness couldn't help but make him have some strange thoughts.

On the cards, there is little hope that you can win, unless two white flags and two yellows and two red are in full swing, but this is obviously unrealistic. Dajin Er is not as good as before, and Shenyang's loss has brought the Eight Banners back to the situation ten years ago. Whether it is population or wealth, the Eight Banners have suffered heavy losses, and if there is infighting at this time, then Dajin will really die.

Dorgon was not stupid, he was not stupid enough to take such a self-defeating path, so he could only secretly figure out how to prevent Hauge from succeeding to the throne.

He and Azig had a secret discussion late at night, and after thinking about it, Azig even expressed his willingness to support Dolgon's candidacy for the throne. After the two discussed it again, the result was that they must immediately send troops to chase after the Ming army, suppress Haoge to succeed to the throne through the great achievement of defeating the Ming army, and at the same time win the support of Derge and Zilharang, as long as the two blue flags can support themselves, they will be the biggest winners on the card. As for the Han Chinese, Dolgon never thought that these Han officials would be an obstacle to his ascension to the throne of the Khan. As long as he shows the same trust as Hong Tai, most of these Han officials will come to kneel and lick themselves.

In order to ensure that he could become the new Great Khan of the Eight Banners, Dolgon secretly sent people to Quang Ninh to contact the Ebu Tong Yang in the West House, and sent people to Yiju to contact the Ebu Li Yongfang, as long as these two expressed their support for themselves, then the Han Army Banner would support them. At the same time, Dolgon also sent someone to contact his father-in-law, Sanggar Zhaibeile of the Korqin Division, but the letter did not say much, except that Hong was too ill to support him.

Dolgon believed that his father-in-law was not a fool, and that he should know what to do when he saw the letter. At the same time, Azig also took action, secretly sending messengers from large battalions one after another.

The same scene happened in the camp at the same time, and the people of the two yellow flags could be said to have openly sent people out of the camp to contact, and Dolgon and Azig knew very well what they wanted to contact. Neither side can control what the other side wants to do now, and what both sides need most now is time. The people below still don't know that the Heavenly Destiny Khan is about to die, how can the people above not know who to become the new Great Khan now.

Hong Tai was unconscious, and life and death were only a few days, and Abatai could not help but consider his own interests in addition to grief, and in the end, he entered Dolgon's camp.

Before dawn the next day, with the strong support of Azig and Abatai, Dolgon himself led the White Banner cavalry south to pursue the Ming army. Hauge and Duoyi, who arrived on the same day, learned that Dolgon was heading south, and they immediately ordered their troops and horses to go south. This time, the dispatch of troops was clear, Hauge's two yellow flag cavalry and Duoyi's white flag cavalry were hostile to each other, although they went south together, but they were each under the orders of the banner master.

After Dolgon sent his troops, he followed the path taken by the Ming army, and on the fifth day, he finally found the Ming army, and the white flag cavalry launched an attack on the Ming army without resting. Seeing that the Ming army was vulnerable, Dolgon was overjoyed, regardless of the dissuasion of his generals, he personally led the red armor to break into the Ming army, intending to fight and complete the victory.