Chapter 338: Huang Taiji's thoughts

In Tunzhen, looking at the back of the retreating Ming army, the remaining Eight Banner soldiers actually had the feeling of the rest of their lives, and many people couldn't help cheering.

It's really not easy, most of the more than 2,000 flags were poisoned, and they slipped all night, and they all became soft-footed shrimp. There were only 500 people who were not poisoned, and they couldn't defend the entire Tunzhen at all, so they finally let the Ming army kill them. Seeing that those poisoned bannermen were powerless to resist the damned Ming army, and seeing countless people die tragically under the Ming saber, who knew that at this time, the Ming army actually retreated, so how could the surviving bannermen not be surprised? It's so hard!

"Those who can move get up and help the military doctors treat the wounded." Azig commanded, dragging his tired body.

"Yes, Lord Belle!" The surrounding bannermen looked at Azig with admiration and agreed.

In the battle just now, Azig took the lead in the front line, and there were more than 20 Ming soldiers who were killed by himself, and it was under his leadership that the Eight Banners guarded the main gate of Tunzhen, and did not let the Ming cavalry drive straight in, forcing the Ming army to rush into the town from the gap in the other wall.

The warriors of the Eight Banners, the most admired are the invincible fierce generals, how can a brave and considerate general like Azig not be respected? Even Mang Gurtai's personal soldiers, Goshha, looked at Azig with respect.

Compared with Azig, the real coach of the army, Mang Gurtai, did not perform very well today, and after fighting for half a day, many people did not see Mang Gurtai......

At this moment, the reinforcements came to the outside of Tunzhen, and the leader of the troops was Bei Zishuoto.

Azig personally welcomed out of Tun Town and welcomed Shuoto into the town.

"Two masters, something is wrong!" A banner man rushed forward and shouted at the two of them.

......

"This is the corpse of the fifth brother?" Azig looked very unbelieving, and secretly said that the Ming army was really amazing.

In front of him was a headless corpse, stripped of its armor and cotton robe, leaving only a pair of obscene trousers, and the pale corpse was frozen blue. From this corpse alone, no one can tell that this is the once majestic Great Belle Mang Gurtai.

"No, is there a mistake?" Shuo Tuo was dumbfounded, he couldn't believe it, he couldn't believe that the Eight Banners were invincible Baturu, and the Zhenglan Banner Master Mang Gurtai was extremely powerful and powerful in martial arts. will die here in obscurity.

Yes, it's probably a mistake, this corpse has no head, and there is no sign, how can it be Mang Gurtai? Many flagmen said in their hearts. There are still more than a thousand Qiding alive in the town, and more than a dozen Goshha around Mang Gurtai are still alive, how could he die? Impossible.

"That's right, this is the body of the master, and the master has a mole on his buttocks." A Goshha weeping and weeping.

Everyone hurriedly looked over, and saw that the corpse's pants had faded in half, and there was indeed a hairy black mole on the exposed buttocks.

How did this guy know that Mang Gurtai had a black mole on his buttocks? There were also some people who looked at that Goshha with bad intentions, and his face turned red when they looked at him.

"How so? What about the minions around the fifth uncle, how did you protect the fifth uncle? Shuoto was not in the mood to ask about the nonsense, but asked angrily.

The chief general of the dignified army, the master of the Eight Banners, is dead, and the personal soldiers around him, Goshha, are still alive, which is simply unforgivable!

"At that time, the war situation was urgent, and it was the master who asked us to go to reinforce other places, I don't believe you asked the master of Azig." The Goshkhas hurriedly explained, trembling with fright. According to the rules, Manggultai died, and none of the Goshkha who were responsible for protecting him survived.

"That's right." Azig sighed, "At that time, the Ming army rushed in from the gaps in the walled walls everywhere, and the troops in Tunzhen were empty, and the fifth brother had to send all the troops he could send to fill the vacancy. Well, people are dead, and now is the time to employ people, so don't pursue them too much. ”

"Yes, Uncle Twelve." Shuotuo bowed down and said, since Azig who was in Tunzhen at the time said this, Shuotuo had nothing to say. After all, in terms of relationship, he is just Mang Gurtai's nephew, but Azig and Mang Gurtai are brothers.

"In the past year, we have died too many people, first the fourteenth brother Dolgon, then Yue Tuo, and the fifth brother Mang Gurtai, three Baylors have died in the hands of the Ming army in my Dajin Kingdom." Azig sighed.

Hearing this, Shuo Tuo's eyes also turned red, Yue Tuo, that's his own big brother!

"All this was done by the damned Ming army, they invaded my Dajin National Park, burned, killed and looted all kinds of evil, countless of my banner people were slaughtered, and countless tun villages were burned by them! Eight Banners warriors, we must keep these in mind, we must kill the Bright Dog, and avenge our loved ones! Azig raised his fist and shouted angrily.

"Kill the bright dog and take revenge!" Shuoto also raised his hand and shouted.

"Kill the bright dog and take revenge!" The soldiers of the Eight Banners shouted one after another, shouting like thunder, shaking the snow on the eaves.

After shouting, morale was boosted, and Azig and Shuoto led the Eight Banners soldiers to clean up the battlefield. After counting, it was found that there were more than 650 headless corpses in Tunzhen alone, and most of the remaining people were injured. A battle caused more than half of the casualties of the two thousand Eight Banners directly under Mang Gurtai!

It's so miserable!

Shuotuo also understood what had happened, and knew that the reason why he fell into such a situation was not how strong the Ming army's combat effectiveness was, but that Mang Gurtai's subordinates were too careless and actually ate the well water poisoned by the Ming army, causing most of the Eight Banners soldiers to have diarrhea all night and directly lose their combat effectiveness.

It's really a general's incompetence to kill the three armies, and Shuotuo at this time has no sympathy for Mang Gurtai.

After packing up and resting, he ordered someone to send a letter to the Great Khan Huang Taiji to report the news of Mang Gurtai's death in battle, leaving some people to protect the poisoned Eight Banners soldiers who had not fully recovered, Azig and Shuotuo left Tunzhen with the army, and continued to search all the way south to find the retreating Ming army and rescue the women and children of the banner people who were held hostage by the Ming army.

However, the situation is not ideal, it is not that they failed to find it, on the contrary, in one day, they have found three retreating Ming troops, including the Dongjiang Army, and the Guiyi Army that the Ming Army incorporated after arriving in Liaodong, but these Ming troops knew that after the Eight Banners arrived at the news, the first thing they did was to kill all the women and children of the banner people, and then abandon the Hannu wrappers in the team, and fled on horseback.

After working hard for a long time, they only got a lot of banner corpses, which made Azig and Shuoto thunder. Shuoto wanted to follow the example of Mang Gurtai and kill all these clothed Han slaves, but was stopped by Azig.

"The population of my Dajin country is now declining sharply, and there are fewer and fewer people who can use it, and after killing all these Han slaves, who will still farm for us?" Azig said, Shuoto thought about it, and felt that what Azig said made sense, so he no longer insisted.

So they assigned people to escort these Han slaves back to the direction of Shengjing, and the two continued to lead the troops to search and advance.

When Huang Taiji received the news from Azig and Shuoto, he was leading the army on the way to Liaoyang, and when he saw the news of Mang Gurtai's death, he frowned slightly, and then his face showed grief.

"What's wrong, eighth?" Dai Shan asked with concern.

"Fifth brother, fifth brother, he's dead." Huang Taiji handed the letter to Dai Shan, and his lips trembled.

Dai Shan was taken aback, and hurriedly took the letter to look at it, and sure enough, he saw that the letter was the news of Mang Gurtai's death in battle, and to his surprise, the letter was signed by his second son, Shuotuo.

The news of the disagreement between Mang Gurtai and Huang Taiji is already well known, and Dai Shan instinctively feels that there must be something strange about Mang Gurtai's death, and the dignified banner master, and he is not the whole army annihilated, how can he die in battle? What's more, Mang Gurtai is brave and invincible, how could he die at the hands of the Ming army? And why was Mang Gurtai empty when he died?

Although the letter makes it clear, everything seems to be natural, and it was Mang Gurtai himself who sent Goshkha out to leave him unguarded. But Dai Shan is suspicious, because although Mang Gurtai is reckless, he is not stupid, how can there be no one around him? Where was Azig when Mang Gurtai died? All this has to be doubted.

But since his son Shuotuo was involved, Dai Shan didn't dare to guess, let alone talk nonsense.

With the death of Mang Gurtai, the leader of the opponents of Huang Taiji has been lost, and Huang Taiji's position can no longer be shaken! Thinking of this, Dai Shan couldn't help but sigh secretly.

"What does the second brother think of the death of the fifth brother?" Unexpectedly, Huang Taiji refused to let him go, and looked at Dai Shan with blazing eyes and asked.

Dai Shan lowered his eyes, hiding the complicated feelings in his heart, and then raised his head again, and said with a sad and indignant face: "The fifth brother is too careless and fell for the tricks of the Ming army, but I heard that it is the traitor Liu Xingzuo who leads the army, the eighth child, you want to kill Liu Xingzuo's family, and then crush Liu Xingzuo's brothers to ashes and avenge the fifth brother!" ”

"Liu Xingzuo's wife and her family have been killed by the Derge class......" Huang Taiji said with some embarrassment.

At the beginning, he cherished Liu Xingzuo's talents, and the old lady and family who had kept Liu Xingzuo did not dispose of it, and raised it in Shengjing, hoping to use his wife as a hostage to lure Liu Xingzuo's brothers back to Dajin Kingdom. Unexpectedly, it was to raise tigers, Liu Xingzuo didn't even care about the life of his wife, and took the Phi Island soldiers into Zhenjiang, making waves in the hinterland of Dajin Kingdom, and now even Mang Gurtai died indirectly in his hands.

The high-level leaders of the Eight Banners have a lot of complaints about Huang Taiji's kindness to the people of the Ming Dynasty, and now that Dai Shan's words have been transferred here, Huang Taiji is also a little speechless.

"These Ming people are too cruel, seeing that my Eight Banner Soldiers are chasing after me, they know that they are invincible, and they actually choose to kill the women and children of the banner people in the team, they are simply damned. Eighth child, in the future, you must not be merciful to the Ming people, and those Hannu who betrayed Dajin cannot be spared! Abatai followed.

Huang Taiji's face became serious: "One yard to one yard, all the Ming army and the Guiyi army that betrayed the Dajin Kingdom will be executed, but those ordinary clothed Han slaves are just forced to follow the Ming army, and they can't be generalized." ”

"Old eight......" When Abatai was about to speak, he was stopped by Huang Taiji raising his hand.

"I know that everyone hates the Ming Army, and I hate it too! But hate to hate, let's be more sensible. Let's think about it in the long run, after driving out the Ming army, we still need someone to farm for us, someone to weave and sew clothes for us, and build armor and weapons for us. Huang Taiji said.

Abatai suddenly stopped talking, and had to admit that Huang Taiji was right. Now after being attacked by the Ming army, the number of bannermen has been greatly reduced, and it is not enough to deter the Quartet, how can the precious bannermen be used for all kinds of trivial matters?

But if you can't even defend the last territory of Liao Shen, what will you talk about, it is better to kill yourself!

"Don't worry, this Liaodong is still from my Dajin Kingdom!" As if he had guessed what Abatai and the others were thinking, Huang Taiji said.

"The Ming army seems to be menacing, but in fact, it is just a strong external and internal force! Previously, it was all by sneak attack that he entered Jianzhou. Amin and Derg were so light that they ended up in the situation they are in. But now that we're back, the most elite Eight Banner warriors of the Dajin Kingdom have all returned, and the Ming army doesn't want to be like before. Now it's not that the Ming army wants to capture the entire Liaodong, but whether we want to leave all the Ming troops here! Huang Taiji's tone was full of strong confidence.

"The commanders of the Ming army overestimated themselves, and only tens of thousands of troops attacked Liaodong, and they dared to divide their troops! Thousands of people dared to go to Tieling Kaiyuan to loot, 20,000 people dared to come to Shengjing City, and 20,000 or 30,000 people dared to attack Liaoyang City. Huang Taiji snorted coldly, "Now that my Eight Banners cavalry has blocked the entire plain, then Lu Xiangsheng can't figure out where the main force of our army is, and he can't find the position of the main force of our army, so he can only stay in the camp outside Shengjing City." ”

"I have ordered Dege to lead his troops out of Shengjing to attack the thousands of Ming army divisions in Tieling! Now the Ming army attacking Liaoyang is exhausted, I personally led the army to Liaoyang, defeated the Ming army attacking Liaoyang in one fell swoop, and then returned to the division to destroy Lu Xiangsheng's department, and each was broken! What if the Ming army invades my Liaodong, this time I want to make them unable to return it! Huang Taiji gritted his teeth and said.

Guannei was frustrated, Jianzhou fell, everything in Dajin Country was pressed on his shoulders, these days, he was under heavy pressure, and he had to fight openly and secretly with opponents such as Mang Gurtai, and now it was finally time to reverse the situation!

Although the Eight Banners suffered great losses, the main force was still there, fighting in the hinterland of Liaodong, with strong mobility, and it could completely break through the Ming army!

As long as the invading Ming army is eliminated and the Praetorian Guard army trained by the Ming emperor painstakingly and solitarily is eliminated, the losses of the Ming army are also very large, and they will not be able to attack Liaodong for a year or two.

In a year or two, he will be able to recover his previous strength, send troops to the north, go to the old forest to capture the savage Jurchens, send troops to North Korea to capture the Korean people as slaves and farm land for the banner people, annex the small Mongolian tribes, and form the Eight Banners Mongolia! As long as the main force of the Eight Banners is there, I, Huang Taiji, have countless ways to quickly recover my strength!

It's a big deal to get together in ten years, and if it really doesn't work, I will give in to the Ming State and strive for peace with the Ming State. There are frequent internal strife in the Ming Kingdom, and he is still young, so there will always be an opportunity to send troops to attack the Ming one day!