But Huang Taiji was in a bad mood today. Some time ago, they attacked Ningyuan. They thought that it would be easy to capture Ningyuan City with a force that was far more than so many times that of Hong Chengchou. However, they did not expect that Hong Chengchou, a stubborn person, led his troops to defend Ningyuan City for nearly a month. Finally, with the support of the rebel general, he captured Ningyuan City. He mobilized all his troops to attack Ningyuan City. Except for finally defeating the Guan Liao army of the Ming Dynasty and massacring a group of Ming and Han people, he had nothing except that he finally defeated tens of thousands of Ming Dynasty Guan Liao army and massacred a group of Ming and Han people.

Youjiao, but only captured Zu Dashou, the general general of Liaodong, but let the governor of Ji Liao, escape into the sea at the last moment, and disappeared. He originally wanted to capture Hong Chengchou alive and force Hong Chengchou to surrender. In this way, if Hong Chengchou surrendered to him in the Qing Dynasty, he would probably be imitated by many Ming officials in the next pass. Things could be done smoothly. Maybe with Hong Chengchou's identity, even the Ming army in Shanhaiguan could surrender the heroes in the officialdom. (Pure text novel.com)

But in the end, Ning Yuan fought, and Hong Chengchou ran away. Although he captured Zu Dashou, Zu Dashou was seriously injured. After being captured by him, he did not survive for three days and left his army camp, which made Zu Dashou's name of loyalty and courage. In this battle, except for the deputy general Xia Chengde surrendered to them, almost all the other Ming generals died in battle. Therefore, although he won this battle, the significance was not great. He just cleared the last line of defense of the Ming army outside Shanhaiguan and greatly weakened the Ming army's strength to fight them.

Although the results of the battle were not as good as he had expected at first, he still won, and also tested the achievements of the Jiannu army in the past two years. The establishment of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty greatly enhanced their ability to attack and the quality of artillery began to be stronger than the Ming army. He was quite pleased that Ningyuan had a special significance for their Jiannu. At that time, their father Wild Boar Skin and he attacked Ningyuan City many times, but in the end they all returned in vain and could not conquer Ningyuan. Now Ningyuan's acquisition has made his power and prestige even more so among Jiannu, so Huang Taiji was still very happy to be able to conquer the lady of Ningyuan City.

Originally, in Huang Taiji's opinion, Ningyuan had only a handful of more than 20,000 Ming troops left in Shanhaiguan. With all the force of the Qing Dynasty this time, he gathered all the forces of the Qing Dynasty to go south, knocked on the pass and swept Yanyun first and took the Ming Dynasty capital, which was just around the corner, so he ordered Dorgon to lead a 70,000 army to set out first to capture Shanhaiguan!

In Huang Taiji's idea, Wu Xiang, who was guarding Shanhaiguan, was not a powerful figure. When he was fighting with them Jiannu, this guy escaped at the last moment, so they all thought that as long as Dorgon's army was approaching, Wu Xiang would definitely give up Shanhaiguan, either escape or surrender to them. He still hoped to use a more peaceful means to force Wu Xiang to surrender and easily take down Shanhaiguan. (Pure text novel.com)

But unexpectedly, on the way to Shanhaiguan, he received an urgent report from Dorgon, saying that Wu Xiang refused to surrender and killed their envoys. Now a Xingtian thief suddenly appeared in Shanhaiguan, forcing Wu Xiang to fall to the side of Xingtian thief. Xingtian thief and the Ming army under Wu Xiang joined forces to defend Shanhaiguan to death. Dorgon's command attack on Shanhaiguan was defeated and lost a lot of Han flag soldiers. Therefore, Dorgon was guilty and asked Huang Taiji to speed up his journey to Shanhaiguan to discuss the matter of defeating the pass.

Huang Taiji was shocked after hearing this and secretly scolded Dorgon as an incompetent person. He even had the intention of killing Dorgon in an instant, and wanted to take this opportunity to deal with Dorgon and take the two white flags of Dorgon and Duoduo into his hands. But calm down and think carefully, he could not do this. Although since he ascended the throne, he has tried his best to weaken the strength of Dorgon and Duoduo and Ajige brothers, and seized their two yellow flags and weakened them.

With their strength, they built up the power of his son Haoge. However, because of natural reasons, Dorgon and Dodo's two white flags were always very united. The strength of these two white flags has always been very strong and always in the second place among the Eight Banners. If he wants to deal with Dorgon now, Dorgon will not not fight back. Once it is not done well, they will be in chaos by themselves. This does not conform to his plan, so Dorgon still cannot move for the time being.

So Huang Taiji had to lead his troops to Shanhaiguan, and met Dorgon and Duoduo who were greeting him on the way, and set up a camp on the spot.

Huang Taiji was in charge of the army as the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty. This time, he was sure to win the entry into the pass. The generals of the Qing Dynasty were basically with him. At this time, the army followed Huang Taiji to outside Shanhaiguan. So Huang Taiji immediately summoned the ministers and began to discuss the next action.

Huang Taiji did not mention Dorgon's apology at all. Instead, he comforted Dorgon, as if he trusted Dorgon very much, and told Dorgon and Duoduo that he did not have to worry about this matter. Victory and defeat were common in military affairs. No one expected such an accident to happen in Shanhaiguan, nor did anyone expect that the Xingtian army would come so quickly, and actually gave up the Ming Dynasty's capital and drove to Shanhaiguan, and forced arriving at Shanhaiguan, Wu Xiang, a commander of Shanhaiguan. This was something they did not expect in advance, so Dorgon and Duoduo did not have to worry about the breakup of the marriage for free.

So Dorgon explained the situation in Shanhaiguan in detail in the tent and told everyone in the tent that Wu Xiang and his Shanhaiguan defenders had completely turned to the Dazhong Army. In a flash, they suddenly cleaned up the generals in the army who originally planned to serve their Qing Dynasty, replaced them with a group of his confidants and generals who were inclined to surrender to the Dazhong Army. It was impossible to convince Wu Xiang and the Ming army under his command, so this fantasy could not be considered.

Moreover, the Xingtian Army has about 20,000 troops, and has joined forces with the Ming army under Wu Xiang and entered the Shanhaiguan line to deploy defense, greatly enhancing the defense force in the Shanhaiguan area, making the total number of troops of the Ming army and Xingtian army of Shanhaiguan reach about 40,000 (a bit overestimating their strength!) At the same time, nearly 20,000 people have helped the war (it is also a rumor. In fact, at this time, only a few thousand people are good!), so the next step is to attack Shanhaiguan.

Such a situation immediately gave Huang Taiji and Jiannu generals a headache. No one of them knew the power of Shanhaiguan. Although their troops were strong, far exceeding the forces of the Ming army and Xingtian army of Shanhaiguan, the other party was in a powerful pass and completely occupied the advantage of geographical advantage. Now they have united to fight against their Jiannu army and dismantled them from within. It is basically impossible.

However, if you attack Shanhaiguan, you will die, and there will be fewer people. The biggest problem with their Jiannu is that there are fewer people. The entire Jiannu tribe has only about 200,000 people. Many of them have a lot of identities. The main structure of their army is mainly composed of the ancients, the Han people in Liaodong, and some are Koreans who follow the expedition. Can these people work hard?

However, this time they went south, their initial idea was to take down Shanhaiguan, the Ming Dynasty pass that had blocked them for decades, break through the pass and enter the Yanyun land, and seize the capital of the Ming Dynasty first, creating a fait accompli. In the future, they will compete with the emerging forces in the Central Plains, and follow the morale of the Song and Liao dynasties, seize a foothold that can move south at any time, no longer the same as before. Every time they go south to invade, they will take a small path and secretly enter the pass and withdraw back to the outside of the pass.

The repeated entry into the pass and looting allowed them, the Jiannu of Liaodong, to see the prosperity and pleasant climate of the Central Plains. They are no longer satisfied with just occupying the land in the Liaodong area. In their opinion, they are fully capable of getting a share of the Central Plains. Why did the Jiannu of Liaodong live in those bitter and cold places in Liaodong, and not rule the Central Plains like their ancestors established the Great Jin Kingdom?

So this is the reason why Huang Taiji mobilized so many troops to move south this time, and the Jiannu generals and ministers who followed the battle also had this idea.

Even the hard-core Chinese people like Fan Wencheng, Geng Zhongming, Kong Youde and others believed that Jiannu should go south to enter the pass, compete with Yan Yun and Dazhong in the future, laying the foundation for the next step of fighting for the world. These hard-core Chinese people knew their own identities very well. Since they had become Hanji and became Jiannu's family dogs, their reputation could not be eliminated. The only way to block the mouths of the world was to help their master take the world, relying on their master's knife to force the people in the world to not call them Hanjiān, so they were willing to be a front pawn and serve the master Jiannu's master.

Needless to say, the ancients were suppressed by Jiannu, and they had no choice but to be Jiannu's lackeys. Although they were a little bit outside, the ancient tribes were not united with each other. Therefore, under the high pressure of Huang Taiji, they dared not to serve in front of the Jiannu army. Moreover, every time the Jiannu army invaded, they could also make some cheaper and share some slave wealth, so they could only do it.

After hearing Dorgon's words, the Gushan Ezhens of the various flags all looked at Huang Taiji. Huang Taiji was quite helpless. The current situation was not as simple as he had expected. Everything was about to be pushed back and started again after Wu Xiang surrendered to Xing Tian Army.

So Huang Taiji asked the banner masters in his tent, so these banner masters naturally had to discuss and show their opinions and suggestions. Of course, the only ones who could make suggestions were limited to the banner masters of Jiannu like Dorgon, the ancient banner masters of the ancient banner masters and the Han army banner masters, and they could only listen.

So the Jiannu Banner Masters had a lot of arguments. Some people said that their Qing army had strong military strength. Although the Ming army and Xingtian army joined forces in the Shanhaiguan area, their military strength was still far less than that of them. They now have many soldiers and generals, and they can rely on their superior forces to break through Shanhaiguan and slaughter all these stubborn defenders in Shanhaiguan. After capturing Shanhaiguan, they flattened the Ming Dynasty's capital.

Some people also suggested that the defense of Shanhaiguan on the front line is strengthened, and forcibly breaking the pass is probably an unwise move. It is better to divide the troops and break the pass from other places to enter. Then, after the army enters the pass, attack Shanhaiguan from behind, and then attack Shanhaiguan after breaking Shanhaiguan and then plot to attack Shuntian Prefecture, the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

Some people even suggested that they split their troops to attack, break through the pass from other places, and attack directly at the capital, abandon Shanhaiguan without caring about it. It was expected that the Ming army and Xingtian army would not sit idly by and watch them attack Shuntian Mansion, and they could only go to the capital to seek a duel with them. At that time, Shanhaiguan would not defeat them without attacking them, and it would not be too late to seek to defeat them.
Chapter completed!