Chapter 4, the twenty-seven moments of Chongzhen's four years (4)

The fourth moment: the nightmare of the darling of the times

In November of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Liaoxi, Daling River, the front line of the war between the Later Jin and the Ming Dynasty

The bitter cold wind howled fiercely in the wilderness, sweeping like a razor across this desolate and bitter cold land. The sky is leaden grey, giving it a chaotic atmosphere. It is as if the sun has become poor, stingy in reining in light and heat.

At a time when everything was depressed and should have been rare, the banks of the Daling River were noisy and unusually noisy - groups of Jurchen and Mongol sentinels roared back and forth two hundred paces away from the city wall, provoking the Daming Guanning army defending the city, and from time to time attracted the roar of several artillery.

And three miles away from the city walls, countless banners and tents covered the earth like a colorful carpet, and ant-clad slaves were busy between the camps, not being whipped to the ground by the overseers. As for the east of the Houjin Army, on the road leading to Liaoyang and Shenyang, there are still endless heavy vehicles coming. On the flagpole in front of the Houjin Army camp, the imperial flag of the Emperor Taiji Khan was fluttering high.

All the signs fully show that this is another huge battle that has a bearing on the success or failure of the country's fortunes.

-- After Yuan Chonghuan, who collaborated with the enemy and treason, was imprisoned and died, after the frightened cabinet ministers kicked the ball, the old handsome Sun Chengzong took over as the Jiliao Governor again. After Sun Chengzong took office, he first recovered several strongholds occupied by the Later Jin in the interior, re-restored the Great Wall defense line on the surface, and tried to persuade Zu Dashou, who had rebelled, to return to the Ming camp, which can be said to be an outstanding achievement.

But then, for the crucial Liaodong war, Sun Chengzong repeated the same old tune, ignoring the dilemma of the domestic civil uprising, and the financial, material and human resources were all extremely exhausted, and began to spend huge sums of money on construction, trying to carry out the fortress war he was most passionate about to the end - although this famous minister in the late Ming Dynasty had some talents, he really trusted the fortress war too much, thinking that as long as he hid in the castle and became a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, the enemy could not do anything to him. But in fact, when Houjin had enough food and grass and red-clothed cannons, the Ming army hiding in the castle was no longer a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, but a turtle in an urn

In any case, as the situation in the rear stabilized a little, Sun Chengzong ordered Zu Dashou to build a city on the Daling River and counterattack Houjin with fortress tactics.

-- Daling River City is located on the west bank of the Daling River, more than 30 miles away from Jinzhou, and more than 30 miles away from Youtunwei in Guangning, and there are large areas of hills and mountains between Daling River and Jinzhou. This city was built in Xuande for three years, and the city is 12 steps in Wednesday, one zhang wide. Jiajing 42 years rebuilt, built two zhang five feet high, since the Liaodong Xing army has been destroyed twice, the battle of Ningjin was demolished by the Houjin soldiers, not rebuilt, but the city foundation is still there. Zu Dashou led the elite Guanning army to repair the city this time, which was to build a wall on the original city foundation, and the stones demolished by the Houjin army were nearby, which was far faster than repairing the new city.

In this way, although Huang Taiji did his best to mobilize 70,000 troops after learning the information, he launched an attack on Dalinghe City. However, it was not until the Ming army completed the construction of Dalinghe City and the ordnance and grain were also rushed into the city that the main force of the Houjin army arrived at the front line.

On the eve of the war, there were about 5,000 elite soldiers of the Guanning Army of Zu Dashou, He Kegang, and Zu Kefa, and about 13,000 auxiliary soldiers drawn from Shandong and Henan, plus about 10,000 merchants and husbands accompanying the army. Tens of thousands of stones of grain, gunpowder, arrows, and swords were hoarded in Dalinghe City, which was enough to withstand long-term consumption. In the face of such a hard bone, even with the combat power of the Jurchen Eight Banners, it is difficult to gnaw it down for a while.

Therefore, Huang Taiji, who lost the first hand, put on a siege posture and ordered to dig a trench along the periphery of Dalinghe City, stretching for dozens of miles, which is almost equivalent to building an outer city around Dalinghe, and there are trenches in front and behind, and camps are set up behind the trenches to prepare for a protracted war.

In November, the barren suburbs outside the city of Daling River have completely changed compared with before the war, a magnificent earth city rises from the ground, in front of the earth city are three moats, the first two are slightly smaller, the depth and width are less than eight feet, these two small moats are followed by more than ten Houjin military camps, as the first layer of barrier to besiege the Daling River, by the Qigu Mountain Ezhen army to trap and defend. After the first layer, it is the main trench with a depth and width of more than one zhang, the soil dug out of the trench is built behind the main trench, forming a thirty miles around the city, the earth city with a height of one zhang and two feet, the mouth of the earthen city is built, the height reaches one zhang and five feet, after the earth city is the big camp where the flag owner is located, the small trench of the horse is also dug outside the big camp, forming the second barrier of the siege, and most of the flag guards are led by the flag owner, ready to support the first layer of defense at any time. There are all kinds of blue flags fluttering on the earthen city, many soldiers and coats walking among the winding trenches, and if you add some barbed wire, you can almost think that it is a battlefield on the Western Front of the First World War

-- Obviously, the Houjin army wanted to besiege the city of Daling River to send reinforcements, this was not some unfathomable strategy and tactics, and the Guanning army also understood it from top to bottom, and Huang Taiji wanted to lure the elite of the Ming army to send them to death. Jiliao Governor Sun Chengzong also understands it, and he also knows that most of them will have a big defeat again......

However, under the repeated pressure of those imperial historians and cabinet ministers in the court, as well as the various blind commands of the military department and scholars, Sun Chengzong had to reluctantly put together troops and horses, and repeatedly attacked Dalinghe City to relieve the siege. But these reinforcements themselves are mostly miscellaneous cards that have been in arrears for several years, and the generals who lead the troops do not have the courage to fight, and they are all "brave when they see the enemy, flee for the brave when they hear the wind, and flee by mishearing the news".

Under the repeated defeats, not only the morale of the Ming troops in Jinzhou and Ningyuan was depressed, but even rumors spread in Beijing, and people were panicked.

However, Huang Taiji's attack on Dalinghe City was also repeatedly hit on the head and bleeding - although Zu Dashou was famous for running generals in later generations, and he was so stained that he couldn't wash it, but after all, he was an experienced veteran ruffian, and once he was forced to show his real skills, he should not be underestimated: this person would never defend the city, and he had to go out of the city every day to toss, and the conspiracy and tricks were endless, and in just one month, he killed two Houjin deputy generals, three guerrillas, and Niu Luzhen, and more than 500 Jin soldiers were killed and wounded. The whole army of the Eight Banners was highly nervous by him. In addition, there is still a lot of food in Dalinghe City, and the military heart is also very stable, and the Guanning army defending the city is all veterans, fighting to the death in a desperate situation, its combat power is very considerable, several fierce battles after the siege, the Guanning army is only slightly down, Jiannu also lost a lot, and the entire Dalinghe City is still high-spirited.

Fortunately, the red-coated cannon that Huang Taiji did not hesitate to cast this year soon made a grand appearance, knocking out the outer fortresses of Dalinghe City one by one, and then began to shoot at the Ming artillery in the city, and finally reversed the situation again. It's a pity that Zu Dashou in the city is still trapped and fighting, and the Houjin army attacked the city several times, but he led the family to fight back. And in the artillery battle, the Houjin army also did not have much upper hand.

Seeing that the military operation has reached a stalemate, and the soldiers and horses on the front line are consuming huge amounts of grain and materials every day, the poor national strength of Houjin at this time, as well as the current situation of the severe drought in Liaodong and the thousands of miles of red land, it is really difficult to support such a protracted general mobilization operation. As a result, the dilemma of Huang Taiji had to turn to political methods, constantly shooting books at Dalinghe City or sending captured Ming generals to persuade him to surrender, but unfortunately there has been no progress so far.

Outside the city of Dalinghe, the big tent of the Khan King of the Houjin Army was silent, and the two sides were full of the eight banner owners, as well as the generals above the general officer of the banners and the general officers, most of these people had a tiger on their backs, and there was a money rat tail hanging on the top of their heads, and only some beards on their upper lips were left on their faces, and many of them had scars on their faces, and when they occasionally looked up, their eyes always revealed ferocity, so that the whole big tent was full of a cold barbaric atmosphere.

In the middle of the tent is naturally sitting Huang Taiji, and on the left and right are Mang Gurtai and Dai Shan. Huang Taiji's face was quite gloomy, Mang Gurtai's chubby wide face had an unruly gentlemanly color, and Dai Shan on the other side lowered his head and played with his wrench, looking contemplative.

On a stool in the center of the big tent, there was a reply from Zu Dashou who refused to surrender...... Zu Dashou's refusal to surrender itself is nothing, Huang Taiji actually knows very well that from the perspective of interests, Houjin can't give Zu Dashou any benefits. The current Guanning army has Liao salary and land, Zu Dashou himself has a large number of fields in Ningyuan, tens of thousands of tenants, Zu Dashou is the emperor of Liaodong, even Sun Chengzong does not dare to persecute him.

And if the Guanning army surrenders, no matter how generous Huang Taiji says, but in fact, it must be taken back to Liaodong by the Houjin army, and at most some fields can be distributed, and then it must be attached to the banners and completely reduced to a vassal of the Eight Banners, how can the current life be comfortable?

Therefore, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, Zu Dashou is absolutely unwilling to surrender Houjin... But what is more special is that Zu Dashou's letter of rejection was actually written on a fox skin, and this fox skin was deliberately sewn with nine tails - when he saw this fox skin with nine tails, Mang Gurtai's face became very strange, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he looked like he wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh. Dai Shan, on the other hand, lowered his head and was silent, but from Huang Taiji's point of view, it was obvious that his shoulders were shaking slightly. As for the generals under the tent, there were already many people who couldn't help but laugh out loud, and then quickly covered their mouths with their hands, making a look of sincere fear......

Looking at the appearance of all beings in the tent, Huang Taiji's face was naturally blue and white, but it was not easy to do, so he had to hold it in his heart with hatred.

Alas, when my father Khan Nurhachi raised troops with thirteen pairs of armor and announced the "Seven Hatreds" to defeat the Ming Dynasty, how powerful and devastating it was, sweeping through Liaodong like a sweep, and dripping with joy -- the Battle of Fushun, the Battle of Sarhu, the Battle of Tieling, the Breaking of Shenyang, the capture of Liaoyang, and the Lower Guangning...... The Ming army was frightened, won a series of brilliant victories, and confidently shouted the bold words of "the Jurchens are not satisfied with 10,000, and they are invincible".

However, after winning the battle of Guangning, the good fortune of the Jurchens who had been in the hands of heaven since they raised their troops seemed to have gradually disappeared - first, Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Town emerged in the area of Phi Dao and Lushun, which was like a bone appendage, always threatening the Jurchen's hinterland in southern Liaoning. With the birth of Dongjiang Town, the Later Jin regime sent troops on an expedition at any time, Mao Wenlong was going to come out to rob the rear hinterland of the Jurchens, and when the main force of the Houjin soldiers hurried back, he immediately retracted his head and hid on those islands and peninsulas, so that the Houjin army without a naval army could only sigh across the sea.

For this enemy who is as difficult as kraft candy, the Houjin army is undoubtedly very disgusted, and they have repeatedly sent troops to attack Mao Wenlong. However, the result of a series of crusades and battles gave birth to the real nemesis and nightmare of the Later Jin army - the Battle of Lushun, the Battle of Jinzhou, the Battle of Gaizhou, and the Battle of Nanguan...... One unexpected defeat after another almost ruined the Jurchens' reputation for bravery. Stepping on the bones of many Jurchen warriors, Huangshi, a nobody who once had a relationship with Huang Taiji, actually started on a desolate island and embarked on the road of a famous general step by step

After being defeated by Huangshi repeatedly, Huang Taiji, who had learned from the pain, managed to gather 70 heavy troops of Niu Lu, set up a net in the battle of Fuzhou, and led Huangshi's 3,000 soldiers and horses into the ambush circle. But even in a desperate situation of being completely unprepared and suddenly ambushed, Huangshi only let the infantry spear array charge with all its might, and the entire encirclement painstakingly designed by Huang Taiji collapsed and collapsed......

By the time the battle of Juehua Island broke out, no one in the entire Houjin army dared to confront Huangshi head-on. Seeing that he couldn't win this opponent on the battlefield, Huang Taiji had to use his brains in conspiracy and trickery, but the result was that he achieved the legendary prestige of Huangshi's "entering Liaoyang with a horse and beheading the slave chieftain alone" Although Huang Taiji knew very well that his father was not assassinated by Huangshi, but the problem was that no one believed it even if he said it

Fortunately, at this juncture when the Houjin Kingdom was repeatedly defeated, the people's hearts were panicked, and internal and external troubles were in danger, Huang Taiji, who was on the throne, finally showed that he shouldered the favor of fate, as the darling of the times, and he must be lucky to do anything, and suddenly the blessing fell from the sky, and he got the great help of Yuan Chonghuan, the international friend of Jiliao Governor and the Ming Dynasty, a mediocre Wenchen - not only transferred away the evil star of Huangshi, Yuan Chonghuan also sent Huang Taiji a large amount of military expenses and huge amounts of grain, and intimately helped him kill Mao Wenlong and starve the Dongjiang army to death, avenged countless Jurchen warriors, and then tried to mobilize troops to send Huang Taiji to annihilate, destroying the border defense forces of the Ming Dynasty little by little, and finally even almost opened the city of Beijing, forcing Emperor Chongzhen to sign the alliance under the city, repeating the scene of "Jingkang's shame" in the mouth of the Han people...... It's a pity that it fell short after all.

Next, Huang Taiji's luck began to become good and bad, both the majestic style of sweeping through the Ming Kingdom of Gyeonggi, the rich harvest of plundering Hebei and Shanxi, and the depression of being beaten by the Wendeng camp led by Chen Xin of Dengzhou. Last year, when the Jin army broke through Xuanda and swept Shanxi, it lost a battle in front of a guy named Wang Dou. Not long ago, the Eight Banners Brigade was knocked with a stick by Chen Xin's Dengzhou Army while they were still on Mi Island, killing and wounding thousands of people, and they lost some face...... Although it is still far from the threat of Huangshi to Jurchen in the past, some people have already begun to compare Chen Xin with Huangshi.

However, the above-mentioned loss of troops is only a small problem that is not too important for the Houjin army, which has a great cause, and what really makes Huang Taiji feel heartbroken is that the largest intangible asset since the rise of the Jianzhou Jurchens, that is, the battlefield myth of "the Jurchens are not more than 10,000 and are invincible", under the repeated blows of Huangshi, Chen Xin and others, as well as the counter-evidence that Yuan Chonghuan's treasonous conspiracy was exposed, it finally went bankrupt completely

-- With the Jiannu on the battlefield again and again, the invincible prestige of the Jurchen Iron Cavalry was beaten one after another huge discount, and finally completely collapsed, even the Jurchens themselves did not dare to continue to brag, but the morale of the Ming army from all walks of life in the world was all raised.

By the time of Chongzhen's fourth year, the Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty had already unanimously recognized that the combat effectiveness of the Jurchen Iron Cavalry was actually like that, and they would be beaten down with a little thought. And the reason why the Jiannu Tartars have been able to sweep Liaodong over the years, sweep Gyeonggi, and make such a big fuss is not that the Jurchen iron cavalry is too capable of fighting - in fact, these Tartars used in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms as military books are very unbeatable, and often they can't beat the infantry with cavalry, it is entirely because the Ming Dynasty has always been full of traitors and dark days, and there are constantly traitors and traitors who frame Zhongliang, which led to such an unmanageable rotten defeat.

As for why there are so many Wenchen and Wu generals who are confused, they actually give up their fame and fortune in the Ming Dynasty, lose their reputation and reputation, and go to the Jurchens one after another to be traitors, and even ambush the court as internal ghosts, even if they break the family and destroy the door, they must be among the demon masters in Jiannu, who are good at demagoguery, just like the Yellow Turban Road in the Three Kingdoms era at the end of the Han Dynasty, which can hook people's souls.

Therefore, the image of Huang Taiji in the minds of scholars in the Ming Dynasty has also changed from a fierce barbarian full of muscles, holding a mace, and outstanding martial arts to a cult high priest who wears his hair loosely, burns incense, and sacrifices boys and girls to the gods...... Or even worse......

According to the lyrics of some storytellers in Beijing, this Jurchen thief chief Taiji is the reincarnation of the nine-tailed male fox spirit of Daji in the Shang Dynasty...... Yuan Chonghuan and Yuan Supervisor of the year were careless in his evil ways, and since then he has been obedient to Huang Taiji, not hesitating to fight to be ruined, and to send food and money to fund Jiannu, and to kill Mao Wenlong to paralyze Dongjiang Town, take the initiative to weaken the Great Wall Customs, and finally help Huang Taiji break through the customs into Beijing, and cooperate with the outside to seize the 300-year-old Sheji of the Ming Dynasty.

And after Huang Taiji entered the customs and soldiers came to Beijing, the reason why Yuan Chonghuan repeatedly asked His Majesty the Son of Heaven to negotiate peace with Hou Jin was also Huang Taiji's trick: as long as Yuan Chonghuan fooled the emperor to the city wall to shout and answer, and accidentally glanced at Huang Taiji, under the full force of Huang Taiji's fox technique, Emperor Chongzhen would immediately be confused by evil magic, and obediently took off the dragon robe and gave Huang Taiji the throne, so that the Ming Dynasty fell overnight......

In addition to the above speculations, some people have cited empirical evidence: in the year when Huang Taiji led the Houjin army to ravage Gyeonggi, several crazy beauties with excellent looks but little brains appeared in various parts of Beijing. Not only did he not hide from the Houjin soldiers and horses, but he took the initiative to explore the location of the Jurchens' camp, and kept saying what he wanted to do with the fourth elder brother's woman. God knows when there was a fourth elder brother in Houjin Country? Who is Yinshen? However, at this time, Huang Taiji had already returned with a full load of Jurchen soldiers and horses, and these beauties just wanted to sacrifice themselves to feed the tiger and defect to the Tartars, and they couldn't find a place for a while. So in the end, some of them were sold into the Qinglou to receive customers, and a few were confined to the temple as madmen, but even if these women entered the temple, they were not at ease, they were crazy and shy, and they did many ugly things that were immoral, and finally they had to put them in a wooden cage and sink into the pond...... Now that I think about it, these poor women were probably unfortunately recruited when Huang Taiji was practicing Mei Gong, so they became so confused, crazy and immoral......

Because of the fact that this matter was said with noses and eyes, even some Jurchen and Mongolian magnates were suspicious after it was spread to Liaodong through various channels. For example, one night, Huang Taiji was very depressed, and the side Fujin Bumu Butai (later the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang) actually took advantage of his sleep to reach out to his buttocks and touch it, as if he wanted to find out if he really had nine tails......

For this kind of hateful rumor that denies his human identity, Huang Taiji, who should have been the darling of this era and has the blessing of the aura of "Mandate of Heaven", is naturally very angry, and has also tried to clarify and justify, but unfortunately it has no effect at all. On the contrary, the leader of the White Lotus Sect in the Central Plains actually sent a secret envoy to the outside of the pass, whimsically wanting to pull Huang Taiji into the sect and title him the "Supreme Nine-Tails Great Protector...... made Huang Taiji cry and laugh: Wait for these Ming demons, you really treat Ben Khan as a fox

To get back to the point, after receiving Zu Dashou's unique nine-tailed fox skin rejection letter, Comrade Taiji, who was recognized by the Ming government and the opposition as the world's No. 1 fox spirit emperor, no matter how much smoke in his heart, he had to depressively announce the end of the military discussion, everyone returned to the camp, paid attention to the night patrol and curfew, and beware of the night attack of the defenders in the city and the Ming army in Jinzhou, in short, this dull siege war continued to be fought for a long time.

As a result, many Jurchen generals had just taken a few steps out of the big tent, and they couldn't help laughing, which made Huang Taiji's face as black as the bottom of a pot, and he became more and more depressed.

However, just as the fox spirit Emperor Taiji, who was holding his breath, returned to his sleeping tent sullenly, and was about to rest and go to bed with some wine and food, he was completely discouraged by an unbelievable bad news, and even kicked the messenger out in a fit of rage.

“…… What the? The walled city of Ningguta was burned down by a group of big iron birds? What the hell are you talking about? ”

“…… Everything the Great Khan's servants said was the truth."

Looking at the furious Huang Taiji, the Ningguta guard who had just been kicked over, Sagari got up from the ground in pain and replied tremblingly. In the dim candlelight, the creature could be seen covered in tattered clothes, looking panicked and haggard, and a short head had grown on the top of his head—according to the Jurchen custom, it was to be shaved once every five to seven days, and it was clear that Sagari had not been shaving his head on time lately. But what Huang Taiji is concerned about now is, of course, not the length of Sagari's head, but what is going on in Ningguta (the old Guta Village of Changting Town, Hailin Town, Heilongjiang Province in modern times).

“…… Back to the Great Khan, as far as the minions know, things are probably like this......"

As the rear of the Later Jin regime, the area around Ningguta has been very calm since Nurhachi sent troops to defeat the Woji tribe in 161o, conquered both sides of the Suifen River, captured more than 10,000 tribes, and moved a large number of tribes to the Liaodong region. But just two months ago, a man claiming to be a member of the Urgu tribe of the Varkha tribe suddenly came to Ningguta to meet the guard Sagali and said that a group of pirates had occupied Vladivostok in the east.

Of course, the Ningguta guard Sagali could not ignore this news, and he hurriedly sent someone to Vladivostok to inquire about the news. But the inquiry was good, and it almost scared him to death—according to the reports from his men, the pirates were very strong, and last autumn they swept away hundreds of tribes of the Varkha tribe north of Vladivostok, and wiped out the powerful Urgu tribes there overnight.

And those pirates are very rich, and the spies who have seen those pirates say that the pirates are very elaborate in their clothing and accessories. Moreover, they also had firearms that could be connected, and they threw out explosive fire mines, and for this group of pirates who suddenly appeared, Sagari instinctively felt threatened. But Sagar was hesitant to attack Vladivostok next—since Ningguta was in the rear and there was no fighting all year round, he had only a few hundred soldiers at his disposal. Although he could recruit a group of young Jurchen tribes near Ningguta, the equipment of these tribal warriors was too poor, and they were not trained in military formations, relying on such a group of rabble with bone arrows and harpoons in their hands. How can you beat these powerful pirates?

After thinking about it, he finally took more than 300 people to Vladivostok, and under the banner of the Great Khan of the Later Jin, he pulled up a rabble from the nearby tribes and used them as cannon fodder to launch a tentative sneak attack on the pirate stronghold in Vladivostok...... Anyway, it's not your own people who die, and no matter how miserable the loss is, you don't have to be heartbroken.

As a result, this chaotic offensive unsurprisingly failed. The bullets and cannonballs fired by the pirates swept down the Jurchen warriors armed with bone arrows and stone axes. Not to mention that the cannon fodder from the nearby tribes was almost wiped out, and even the real Tartars brought by Sagari were mostly dead.

In the end, Sagari escaped from the battlefield with only 30 men, evaded the pursuers, and managed to sneak into the reckless mountains, and then it took several days before the wolf returned to Ningguta. But they were stunned by what they saw before them—Ningguta had been burned to the ground, and Sagari and his family, as well as many of his clan's bannermen, young and old, had been burned to charred in the city

So, seeing that he was already homeless, Sagari had to go all the way south to find the Great Khan to report the incident.

“…… According to a few surviving people on the Ningguta side, several huge iron birds flew from the east that day, which were very terrifying, and they could drop iron eggs from the sky that could explode and catch fire, and it was these iron birds that burned the city of Ningguta to the ground. And when I led people to attack Vladivostok before, I also saw a few iron birds flying in the air, rushing down from the sky and throwing exploding iron eggs, which scattered our attacking team......"

Sagari glared at her red eyes and cried, "...... The Great Khan, I beg you to avenge us, you must kill those bastards."

But Huang Taiji didn't promise it immediately, just Wen Yan comforted Sagari and asked people to take him down to rest. Then, as soon as he turned his head, he ordered his guards to imprison Sagari and the few retinues he had brought, and never let the news of Ningguta's burning spread, and the morale of the troops on the front line of the Daling River was shaken - although judging from the fact that Sagari had come all the way from Shenyang and Liaoyang, it is estimated that this bad news could not be concealed for a long time.

Later, looking at the map of Liaodong on the bed table, Huang Taiji frowned and drew a circle on the position of Vladivostok, and then felt that the mood was even worse - although Sagar's words may be exaggerated, it is probably true that a new hostile force has appeared on Vladivostok's side.

In this way, the Houjin regime, which was originally sandwiched between the Ming Dynasty, Korea and Mongolia and was attacked on three sides, and even the last stable rear of the Great Empire, would never exist again. Although Vladivostok is still far away from the core area of Houjin's rule, if those fierce pirates follow the channel of the Tumen River and go all the way to the left guard of Jianzhou, they can inflict ten times more damage on Houjin. is even more than the threat of Mao Wenlong in the past......

Oh, hell, you pirates are so powerful, why don't you raid the flower world of Korea, Japan, and Daming in the south, but instead have to be in the north in this bitterly cold savage land, and embarrass me Dajin, who also belongs to the poor? Huang Taiji rubbed his temples with a headache, feeling that his mind was full of chaos - out of the instinct of a military strategist, of course, he wanted to nip the scourge of Vladivostok in the bud, but at present, the country's military and material resources have been pressed on Liaoxi and filled in the Daling River, and it is impossible to have the spare strength to go on an expedition to Vladivostok.

What's more, because Huang Taiji had already bet too much capital on the battlefield of Dalinghe, he could no longer tolerate him to put away his chips and leave the field halfway. If he returned from the front line of the Daling River without success, it would severely dampen the morale of the people of the Eight Banners of Houjin and deal a heavy blow to the prestige and prestige of Huang Taiji. Even the position of the Khan King under his ass may not be very secure - even if he is not defeated, as long as he does not gain anything, it is equivalent to a loss.

“…… Alas, it's really a difficult state affair" Huang Taiji almost groaned in pain, and he didn't know what to do. However, just when he was in a bad mood and was about to lose his sleep, a messenger finally brought him a piece of good news.

“…… The Ming court drifted away from the grain and salary, and the famine broke out in Dongjiang Town, and the islands were starving? It's really good, please open your eyes, you must starve to death those untouchables who are enemies of my big gold, this is good, at least the southern Liaoning side no longer has to worry about being taken advantage of by the Dongjiang army."

Contentedly put away the letterhead, and with a very rare hint of good mood, Huang Taiji got into the quilt and closed his eyes groggyly.

However, what Huang Taiji, who was immersed in sleep, did not know was that even the good news he received at the last time was now outdated......

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