After Huang Taiji heard Duduo's neither soft nor hard rhetorical question, he stared at Duduo for a while. He saw that Duduo always avoided his eyes and did not dare to look at him face to face, so he didn't care about it anymore.

, but said to Duduo:

"The decisive battle with the Southern Dynasty in Western Liaoning is, for us, the Qing Dynasty, just a matter of encirclement and reinforcements. As long as you can draw all the elite soldiers from the Southern Dynasty's pass to outside the pass, I will consider you a great achievement."

At this point, Huang Taiji paused briefly, pondered for a moment, and then continued: "Of course, I'm not just asking you to lead the army alone. - Well, let's ask Prince Su Hauge to lead the troops with yellow flags.

, go with you."

As soon as Huang Taiji finished speaking, he saw a tall, burly, rough-looking man with a beard sitting next to King Beile in the Dazheng Palace. He suddenly stood up, bowed to Huang Taiji and said loudly:

"My son will obey Khan Amma's will!"

This tall, burly, rugged-looking man with beards was none other than Prince Hoge of Heshuosu, the eldest son of the Manchu Tatar puppet emperor Huang Taiji.

Although this Hauge was Huang Taiji's eldest son, he was not the son of Huang Taiji's favorite concubines in the harem.

His biological mother, Uranala, was once Huang Taiji's second great blessing. However, because she was rude in front of Nuerhachi, she was reprimanded by Nuerhaci, and was later abandoned and abolished by Huang Taiji.

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According to Nuerhaci's arrangement, Huang Taiji also married the third concubine from the Borzijit family of the Horqin tribe, the current Queen Zhezhe.

From then on, the position of Hauge, the eldest son, became very embarrassing.

Because of his mother, Nuerhachi didn't treat his grandson very well when he was alive. Even Huang Taiji himself didn't treat his eldest son very well either.

But no matter how unwelcome he was, this Hauge was Huang Taiji's only adult son after all, so after Huang Taiji inherited the throne, he made him Baylor.

When Huang Taiji proclaimed himself emperor, he went a step further and made him a prince, namely Prince Heshuosu.

Hauge was rude and illiterate, had a bad temper, and acted recklessly. He was not the type that Huang Taiji admired.

Therefore, although he is now thirty years old, Huang Taiji has no intention of making him his heir apparent.

However, this Hauge has his own strengths. He likes bow and horse hunting, is extremely powerful, and is very brave in combat. Over the years, he has followed Huang Taiji in the east and west, conquering the south and the north, and has established a lot of achievements.

Due to his outstanding achievements, he has gained more and more trust and reliance from Huang Taiji.

Especially for Huang Taiji, Hauge is his own biological son after all, and is always much more reliable than his half-brothers.

This time, Huang Taiji asked Duduo to lead his army to launch an offensive in western Liaoning. After thinking about it for a while, he asked Hauge to lead the soldiers and horses with yellow flags to follow him.

As soon as he came, his own two yellow flags also had troops, also called Duduo. Brothers Dorgon and the others had nothing to say.

Secondly, let Hauge go, so that he can keep an eye on Duduo on his behalf, lest he act against the will and fail to do his job.

Furthermore, as far as the public is concerned, luring the enemy with more troops and a stronger momentum will also help force the Ming army in western Liaoning to seek help as soon as possible, and will also help attract troops from the Ming Dynasty's pass.

At this moment, Huang Taiji saw that Hauge listened to his instructions and immediately agreed respectfully. He felt quite relieved. He nodded to him first, then pressed his hand and asked him to sit down. Then, he said to Duduo again.

said:

"I think it's up to you to decide which city you want to attack on this trip. You can attack Jinzhou, you can attack Songshan, or you can directly attack Ningyuan City. In short, if you want to defeat him, the troops of the Southern Dynasty will save him.

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"Remember, it doesn't matter whether you can defeat one or two cities on this trip. What really matters is whether you can mobilize the troops and horses in the Southern Pass to come out for rescue.

"You must know that the more soldiers and horses from the Southern Dynasty you attract during this trip, the greater your contribution will be. As for what will happen after attracting the soldiers and horses from the Southern Dynasty, when the time comes, I will personally lead the army to fight!"

Huang Taiji's strategy, to put it bluntly, is very simple. It is to let Duduo and Haoge lead their troops to surround the city on the Ningjin defense line of the Ming army, forcing the besieged Ming army to seek help from the pass.

After the Ming army's reinforcements left the pass, Huang Taiji personally led the main force of the Eight Banners to outflank the Ming army's retreat, encircle and annihilate them outside the pass.

At this time, the Manchu Tatars believed that they were the best in the world in archery, horse riding, and archery, so they were not worried about having a decisive battle with the Ming Dynasty army in the wild. Instead, they were looking forward to luring the Ming army out of the city for a decisive battle in the wild.

If Emperor Chongzhen really mobilized a large army and asked Hong Chengchou to lead him out of the pass and go north to Songjin to fight the Manchu Tatars, he would be playing into Huang Taiji's hands.

Historically, the Songjin War that began in the 14th year of Chongzhen was just such a well-designed trap.

Huang Taiji sent men and horses under two banners to surround Jinzhou for a long time, and planted a large number of fields between Jinzhou and Yizhou, making it appear that he would not give up until Jinzhou was taken.

Zu Dashou's men, who had originally thought of waiting for the Tatar army to run out of food and retreat, now panicked and felt that the last moment had arrived, so they began to continuously ask for help from Ningyuan, Shanhaiguan, and the capital.

However, the civil servants of the main war faction in the court of the capital of the Ming Dynasty did not know what was going on. They wrote to the emperor one after another to take charge of the war and impeached Ji Liao Governor Hong Chengchou for being cowardly and refusing to save him.

As a result, Emperor Chongzhen listened to the court's proposal, and instead of trying to pacify the country first and then fight against the outside world, it turned into a two-front war, and began to urge Hong Chengchou to lead his army to rescue Jinzhou.

Of course, the wily Hong Chengchou could see the treacherous plot of the Manchu Tatars, so he told Emperor Chongzhen again and again that there were not enough troops outside the pass to go north to Songjin to fight the Manchu Tatars.

He hoped that by raising the problem of increasing troops and increasing pay, Emperor Chongzhen would retreat and give up the idea of ​​going north to rescue Jinzhou, because he knew that the imperial court had no troops and no pay, and could not send a large number of troops out of the border.

But he didn't expect that this time he would be self-defeating.

Do you think there are not enough troops? Well, I will give you an army that will overwhelm the country.

Do you think the food and salary are not enough? Well, I will give you the food of the entire country.

The always staunch Emperor Chongzhen pressed on, mobilized the remaining elite officers and soldiers in the north of the Ming Dynasty, collected all the food and wages that could be collected, and transported them all outside Shanhaiguan.

After Emperor Chongzhen did this, Hong Chengchou secretly complained in his heart, but he had nothing to say, so he could only bite the bullet and set off north from Guan Ning to ask for help.

Although Hong Chengchou had long seen through Huang Taiji's plot and knew that the Songjin Land was a trap, he had no choice but to jump in with a trace of luck.

He originally thought that by moving step by step and building a camp step by step, he could avoid being defeated by the Manchu Tatars. He thought that after arriving at Songshan City, he could set up camp with Songshan City as his back and fight decisively with the Dun soldiers at the foot of Jinzhou City.

You can even attack Zu Dashou in Jinzhou City from both inside and outside, win a decent victory, drive away the Manchu Tatars besieging Jinzhou, and then withdraw your troops.

However, Hong Chengchou did not expect that after he arrived outside Songshan City, the Manchu Tatar army that was stationed under Jinzhou City tightly closed the camp and refused to take the initiative to fight with him.

In this way, the two sides actually confronted each other in the area between Songshan and Jinzhou.

At the same time, as soon as Hong Chengchou arrived and set up camp between Songjin and Huang Taiji, upon hearing the news, he immediately led an overwhelming army and quickly set off southward from Shengjing City.

They also took advantage of the rapid march of the Manchu Tatar cavalry to bypass Jinzhou and Songshan, as well as the area where the two sides were confronting each other, and directly outflanked the Ming army who was heading north for rescue. They dug long trenches and raised high forts, cutting off the Ming army's food routes and retreat routes in one fell swoop.

As a result, the Ming army's retreat was cut off, and the news spread quickly. The 130,000-strong army was in chaos without a fight, and was in panic all day long. It didn't take long for the Ming army to run out of food and fodder, and it got out of hand and collapsed without a fight.

The 130,000-strong army that Emperor Chongzhen finally mobilized from within the Pass did not even fight a decent battle. Suddenly, the whole army collapsed. Some fled, some died, and some surrendered. It was almost

The whole army was wiped out.

The countless guns, ammunition, chariots and horses, and provisions carried by Hong Chengchou's 130,000-strong army were all captured by the Manchu Tatars and fell into the hands of the Manchu Tatars.

This little trick of encircling a point to call for reinforcements was also a common trick used by the Manchu Tatars. It was actually not difficult to see through. However, due to various unimaginable mistakes, it eventually led to the defeat of the Ming Dynasty.

In the history of the Liaodong War in the late Ming Dynasty, there is nothing more depressing and heart-wrenching than this.

The day after Huang Taiji's meeting in the Dazheng Hall of the Puppet Imperial Palace in Shengjing City, the Manchu Tatars under the control of Hauge with yellow flags and the Manchu Tatars under Duduo with white flags quickly took action and ordered their troops.

Prepare all the food and grass and prepare for a long war.

A few days later, on the morning of September 21, the twelfth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, that is, the morning of September 21, the fourth year of Chongde in the Manchu and Qing dynasties, Prince Hauge of the Manchu Tatars and Shuosu, and Duoduo, the prince of Duoluoyu Commandery, came to visit each other.

A total of more than 20,000 soldiers and horses led the troops of our banner, gathered outside the Fuyuan Gate of Shengjing City, commonly known as the Daxi Gate, and accepted the inspection and review by Huang Taiji, the puppet emperor of the Manchu Tatars.

At noon that day, Duduo led his troops with white banners, Baya La and Alihachaoha, and marched aggressively at the front of the team. Hauge led his troops with yellow banners and supervised a large amount of grain and fodder behind them, all the way away from Shengcheng.
Chapter completed!