At the Eight Banners Army garrison on the west shore of Lake Belga, several huge candles were lit in the big tent of Huang Taiji, and the more than thirty men sitting here were all the supreme rulers of the Eight Banners.

Huang Taiji looked at the princes of the banners who followed him all the way north to Russia, the eight banners reached a population of more than 3 million in their heyday, and more than 300,000 elite cavalry, and now the tribal population in Huang Taiji's hands is less than 400,000, and the number of iron cavalry is only more than 37,000. The first army of the Ming Dynasty on the east side of Lake Baikal opposite Huang Taiji was the trump card of the trump card in the central army of Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen, the descendant of the lineage, and the fully armed 50,000 fully mechanized army, these 50,000 people were invincible in this era. Under the condition that the supply can be guaranteed, the first army of the Ming Dynasty of the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen can sweep through the million cavalry corps.

Huang Taiji knows very well that no opponent can compete with Da Ming head-on, and Huang Taiji can't figure it out until now, just in a short period of seven or eight years, how did Zhu Youzhen do all this? At the time of Yuan Chenghuan's death, Huang Taiji had rejoiced for a long time, even after the Ming army updated a batch of superior equipment, because the number was very small, Huang Taiji did not feel that this was the main reason for the change in the situation between the two sides, the most terrible thing was that Zhu Youzhen was able to make the Ming Dynasty achieve a high degree of unity, a kind of spiritual almost crazy, almost the unity of worship of the gods, for the Ming Dynasty is so large and populous country, can achieve unified thinking, just by virtue of this, No one would dare to fight the brains of a giant like the Ming Empire, and the whole of Europe would not be able to unite together.

"Let's talk about it, what's next?" Even after experiencing unbearable failures in life, Huang Taiji is still very calm.

After Fan Wencheng's death. The chief strategist beside Huang Taiji is Ning Wan me. This man was only in his early twenties. But it is very important to the emperor, the second strategist Bao Chengxian was a deputy general when he was in the Ming army, and he was a high-ranking official like the governor of the Ming army, and he could only succumb to me after Ning at this time.

Ning Wan was young and talented, and he didn't flinch, and when he saw that everyone didn't speak, he said directly, "Your Majesty." Now it is best to avoid the edge of the Ming army, we have not had a few head-on encounters with the Ming army, and our Eight Banners army has no chance of fighting against the Ming army at all. ”

Everyone continued to be silent, and the high-level leaders of the Eight Banners at this time were no longer the Eight Banners masters and princes who thought of the Ming Army a few years ago, and thought of the Eight Banners when they thought of the Ming Tofu Army, and when they went to the Central Plains to loot and run rampant.

Huang Taiji nodded, "However, now that the two armies are facing each other, the Ming army will attack at any time, and we just got the news that more than a dozen nobles from southern Russia are rushing to Moscow, can we give up our own people?" ”

Ning Wan, I actually know that Huang Taiji already has a definition in his heart. Huang Taiji just wanted to throw away the people and flee for his life, after Huang Taiji came to Russia. Several requests to the Russian Tsar Romanov I to live south of the Ural Mountains were not granted. Huang Taiji was passively held in eastern Russia.

"Your Majesty, the hope of waiting for the Russians to fight against the Ming army is too slim, and the Russians have not really tasted the strength of the Ming army, even if Russia has a vast land and strength than the Ming Dynasty, but Weichen really doesn't think that the Russians have any ability to fight against the Ming army. The best way at the moment is to let the bannermen of the Eight Banners disperse with their tribes and retreat near the Ural Mountains, and the emperor continued to send a request to the Tsar on the one hand, and on the other hand, he used light cavalry to disperse and harass the Ming army, and he must not confront the Ming army head-on. "Although Ning Wan and I are young, my intelligence is by no means under Fan Wencheng, if I follow the original history, I can later become a pillar of the Qing Dynasty.

Da Ming is a relatively prolific traitor, Fan Wencheng, Ning Wan and me are all top traitors.

If history goes in the original direction, Hong Chengchou will almost be a traitor. Hong Chengchou first came from a scholarly background, and he read the books of sages and sages, so he naturally knew that filial piety and loyalty were faithful. The Ming court is extra careful, with strong ability, Wanli forty-four Jinshi two dozen or so, successively served as foreign officials, at the beginning of the Shaanxi Governor Senate, it can be regarded as smooth sailing, the suppression of thieves fully reflects the military genius, with a group of rabble general officers and soldiers even victory, all the way to the rank of the official and straight to the trilateral governor, when the Qing Dynasty, the progress was relatively slow, the Tartars exhausted their tactics, and even moved out of the woman's trick, Hong Chengchou surrendered, can say that the soft does not eat hard, even in terms of integrity, Anyway, compared to Fan Wencheng Ningwan's authentic traitor lackey, it is still a little stronger, which is also one of the reasons why Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen is still reusing Hong Chengchou in this life.

After listening to Ning Wan's words, Huang Taiji once again asked for the opinions of everyone present, and no one had anything to say.

Huang Taiji sighed slightly, "Since everyone doesn't have any good way, let's arrange it, each banner owner of the Eight Banners, each with an iron cavalry team of two thousand people, the upper three banners are commanded by me through Ning Wan, and the lower five banners are commanded by me through Bao Chengxian, and I lead the brigade to retreat to the west of the Ob River and the east of the Ural Mountains. ”

Bao Chengxian answered: "Your Majesty, that area is far away from the grassland, it belongs to the hilly forest belt, and it is full of mountains. Moreover, the Russians did not agree to us going so far, and even if we retreated to the west side of the Nisse River now, it was far beyond the scope of our activities in Russia that the Russian Tsar had set us to do in Russia. ”

Huang Taiji understood what Bao Chengxian meant, and interrupted Bao Chengxian's words, "I have a way to tell the Russians, I have already thought about it, and I will go back to my hometown in Shengjing, but now it seems unlikely, and it really makes no sense to hold the false name of the Qing Emperor, I want to surrender to the Russian Tsar and completely become a Russian tribal leader." ”

Everyone was shocked, even in the most difficult moments, no one had ever had the idea of taking refuge in a different race, although the Han people were also alien to the Manchus, after all, they were born from the same root, their skin color and physical appearance were the same, and they were psychologically closer, while the Russians were blonde and blue-eyed, which made it difficult for everyone to accept emotionally.

Dozens of banner lords, princes, and elders of various tribes knelt down together, "Your Majesty! ”

Huang Taiji waved his hand firmly, clutching the hilt of his sword vigorously, "No need to say more." Unless you have a better way. Stop thinking that we can defeat Zhu Youzhen. Only with a clearer understanding of our current strength can it be possible to turn over, and the Han people don't like to say that thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi? Let's vote for the Russians first, and wait and see how the situation changes in the Ming Dynasty, in fact, I am not as pessimistic as you think, on the contrary, Zhu Youzhen chose this time to personally conquer Russia, which makes me feel very happy. Think about it, although the Ming Dynasty has developed rapidly in recent years, after all, it has been weak for a long time, and the domestic political situation has only been suppressed by Chongzhen with high-pressure means, so many traditional literati, so many gentry who have been dismissed from office, so many imperial relatives who have been forcibly confiscated by Chongzhen and removed from the throne, these people are not three percent but two percent, and those who died in the war are ordinary people. The anger these people are squeezing now is like boiling oil, and a little spark will ignite it. If Zhu Youzhen wants to forcibly attack such a big empire as Russia, whether he wins or loses, this is a good opportunity for us, have you ever thought about it, if Chongzhen wins, the whole Europe will shake! At that time, several Europeans will be stronger than united, and the victory or defeat is not yet known, if Chongzhen loses, the consequences will be more favorable to us, which is needless to say, right? Therefore, the only thing we have to do at present is to preserve our strength, as long as we are full of people and there is still one person, one day we will get involved in the Central Plains again! ”

After hearing Huang Taiji's strategic analysis, everyone bowed to Huang Taiji's foresight, and these words gave the high-level leaders of the Eight Banners who were almost in a desperate situation with strong confidence, "The emperor is wise!" ”

"General, the Eight Banners seem to be preparing to retreat again!" Late at night, an adjutant reported outside Sun Chuanting's account.

Sun Chuanting answered, hurriedly put on his clothes and got up, and walked out of the big tent quickly, the weather in early spring was still cold, Sun Chuanting took a telescope to observe the movements of the Eight Banners Army on the other side of the Nisse River.

At this time, Sun Chuanting's heart was more anxious, and several reconnaissance platoons sent out reported that there was an assembly of a large Russian cavalry corps near the Lower Tunguska River, and now the pursuit of the Eight Banners to the east bank of the Nisse River, the material reserves of the First Army have reached the end of the strong crossbow, the First Army is mainly equipped with automobiles, which is to rely on cars to transport materials, and the emperor's request to the army is to minimize food consumption, which also allows Sun Chuanting to control the number of war horses of the Northeast Army at around 10,000. This sortie was only a cavalry brigade of more than 3,000 horses, and the gasoline was running out, the food was running out, and it was difficult to supply the rear. Although Emperor Chongzhen was only a few hundred miles away from the garrison of the First Army of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor did not interfere too much with Sun Chuanting's former enemy command, Sun Chuanting couldn't make up his mind now, and wanted to ask the emperor what to do next, but he didn't dare to ask, just kept sending the news back from the front, and the emperor's call back, most of them were three words, "Got it." “

"Hurry up and send a telegram to the emperor, tell the emperor that Jiannu is going to continue to flee westward, and find a large force of Russian cavalry gathering in the northwest direction of the First Army, and the lack of material reserves in the army to explain to the emperor clearly, remember, to be detailed." Sun Chuanting tightened his first button and wore his military uniform, Daming's current military uniform is already the standard military uniform of later generations, Sun Chuanting is a yellow-green military uniform, black riding boots, white gloves, very good-looking.

The adjutant asked, "General, do you want to assemble the team?" ”

Sun Chuanting waved his hand, "No, Jiannu wants to run and let them run, if the emperor really wants to make up his mind to chase, Jiannu can catch up wherever he runs, now no one dares to sneak attack our military camp, they dare to come and sneak attack It's okay, we in the province have taken great pains to find targets everywhere, pay attention to strengthening vigilance." ”

"Yes!" The adjutant gave a standard military salute.

Tossed by this, Sun Chuanting was completely sleepy, and simply took his personal guard to the observation tower, although Jiannu was not far from him, but there was no way to catch up and fight, this feeling was quite annoying.

In the city of Irkutsk, Zhu Youzhen was actually very annoying, he didn't sleep, he kept looking at the map, and he sat quietly under the oil lamp and smoked by himself.

After receiving the telegram sent back by the First Army, the officials of the telecommunications office did not dare to slack off and reported it directly.

The emperor came out this time, and did not bring the palace maid eunuch, the times have progressed, he has done it little by little, and the officials in charge of etiquette in the palace continue to play this book to advise the emperor, after a long time, knowing the emperor's temper, he went like this. Outside the emperor's residence are Yang Qicong and the armed eunuchs of Dongchang, and Chen Yuanyuan and Xiong Jiahui are waiting with him inside, and the two girls take turns on duty every night, and Xiong Jiahui is on duty tonight.

Xiong Jiahui came over with a telegram and said softly outside the house, "Your Majesty, have you slept?" ”

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen snorted, "Did Sun Chuanting send another message?" In. ”

Xiong Jiahui is fourteen years old, the flowers are general, if Chen Yuanyuan is already a rare beauty in the world, then Xiong Jiahui is bright, the appearance is close to the three of Empress Yi'an, Zhang Yan, Queen Zhou, Zheng Yuelin, maybe in two more years, it will be better than Queen Zhou and Zheng Yuelin, many ministers in the court have been talking in private about the emperor with a niece of King Gao Yingxiang by his side, and even someone has reported to the emperor that he has a secret recital, but the emperor has suppressed it, not only because he likes Xiong Jiahui's beauty, is also because of the style that Zhu Youzhen has always adhered to, Zhu Youzhen thinks that if a person has something, it is a person's business, not a family's business, and even sitting has been abolished, not to mention these.

Zhu Youzhen's policy has an extremely democratic side, but also an extremely dictatorial side, he has relaxed the restrictions on writing, loosened the restrictions on marriage, and banned the system of joint sitting, but he has not canceled a lot of torture that can only be used in the hands of feudal emperors. Pulling off the human skin directly and stuffing it with straw, Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen admired Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang's criminal law.

Xiong Jiahui knelt down in front of the emperor gently, and presented the telegram with both hands, Zhu Youzhen took the full text and read it, sighing slightly, secretly saying that Huang Taiji is indeed a respectable opponent, in history, if Huang Taiji did not die too early, the Qing Dynasty would stabilize the political situation in the Guannei, and the speed of prosperity was likely to be faster, if the Qing Dynasty produced three emperors like Huang Taiji in a row, it would not be difficult to unify the earth. With the richness of China, the excellence of the Chinese population, and the huge number, as long as we do not close our eyes and listen, it is really easy to become invincible in the world; if it were not for the prohibition of the private manufacture of iron and the use of firearms among the people, the century-old humiliation of China would have been impossible to happen.

Xiong Jiahui saw that the emperor frowned slightly, wanted to speak, but didn't dare to speak, waiting for the emperor's order to let her out, the emperor didn't say anything for a long time, and seemed to be in deep thought.

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen thought a lot, with the current resource situation, the industrial base of the Northeast is still very weak, it is very difficult to supply tens of thousands of people for expeditions, if you want to occupy Russia in the short term, it is almost impossible, Russia is too big, much bigger than the Ming Dynasty, and crossing the Ural Mountains to win Europe, it is impossible to do it in the short term, at least, such a large territory needs so many people, Emperor Chongzhen in his heart, vaguely felt that the policy towards Japan may have to be adjusted, But Zhu Youzhen really wanted to kill all the Japanese at once, and this contradiction made him seem uncertain now.

People in difficulty, in fact, are much calmer than people on the uphill road, Da Ming, who has just made a little achievement, did not make Emperor Chongzhen easier than before, but he is more tired, how to go in the future, he can't completely rely on Zheng Yuelin's ideas for him, he himself also has to make an accurate and reasonable judgment, although Zhu Youzhen is now in the north, but he knows very well that Da Ming currently needs to give a very reasonable attitude towards the outside world, and at the same time needs to immediately give an attitude towards Japan, There is no time for these two to drag on any longer. (To be continued.) )