As soon as the two men entered the big tent, they knelt down on the open space inside the big tent door.

Such a momentary change immediately attracted the attention of the entire tent. Not only Huang Taiji looked at them with a frown on his face, but even the princes and ministers who had been afraid to breathe in front of Huang Taiji also secretly turned around.

Look towards where they are kneeling.

At this time, I heard Zhuo Butai, who was kneeling a little ahead, kowtow and say loudly:

"I am reporting to you, my master, that I am serving the country. I am here to help Duke Bohe, claiming that there is an urgent military situation and breaking into the camp late at night to ask for an audience with the emperor!"

"Bo Hetuo? Emergency military information?"

Huang Taiji's anger, which was about to burst out, was mostly dissipated in an instant with Zhuo Butai's report.

Bohetuo is the second son of the deceased Duoluo Raoyu County King Abatai.

Although he was the second son, he was a bastard, so he had no status in front of Abatai in the past, and he also had no status among the clan members.

Correspondingly, compared with his younger brothers Bolo and Yue Le, his intelligence is mediocre, and he usually cannot catch Huang Taiji's eyes.

But after Abatai died, especially after Boluo and Yue Le, whom Huang Taiji valued more, died, Bohetuo finally managed to get ahead.

Although Huang Taiji did not ask Bohetuo to inherit the title of Prince Duoluo Raoyu, in order to praise the military achievements of Prince Raoyu Abatai, he still gave Bohetuo the title of Duke of Fengfengfu, and then gave him a garrison title.

He was asked to go and practice for a military position in an important place.

For a while, Huang Taiji couldn't remember exactly where he had arranged this bet and entrustment when he decreed a posthumous gift to Abatai and paid for his heirs.

"Could it be that——"

When Huang Taiji heard that Zhuo Butai reported to him that the person who broke into the camp late at night to see him was Bo Hetuo, he thought of many things in an instant.

In particular, the so-called urgent military situation mentioned in Zhuo Butai's words made him even more inexplicably shocked.

Just when he was about to open his mouth to ask what the urgent military situation was, Bo Hetuo, who was kneeling on the ground after entering the tent, suddenly kowtowed and said:

"Master, master, something happened to Xiuyan Fort. Xiuyan Fort was destroyed by the Ming army!"

In a simple sentence, Bo and Tuo were already crying when they said the last word.

The frost on his head and face when he first entered the tent had melted away, making it difficult to tell whether his face was sweat, water or tears.

"Xiuyan Castle?"

Huang Taiji originally thought that something big happened in western Liaoning or Shengjing, but he didn't expect that the person Bohe Tuoyi came up to talk about was Xiuyan Fort.

"You slave, please speak up! How could Xiuyan Fort be broken? Where did the Ming army come from that could attack Xiuyan Fort?!"

"Reporting to your Majesty, in the afternoon of the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month, I received a report in the Xiuyan Fort, saying that hundreds of Ming army horsemen attacked and plundered Zhuangtun outside the fort. I personally led the troops out of the city to pursue them. The result was——

As a result, he was ambushed by the Ming army.

"The slaves bravely fought their way out of the siege and withdrew to Xiuyan Castle in the evening of that day. In the early morning of the 27th, the castle was surrounded by a large number of Ming troops. The slaves had no heavy artillery at the top of the city, not even a general cannon, but the Ming army's artillery was

There are dozens of doors!

"The slaves summoned all the young men in the fort to go up to the city in armor. Unexpectedly, the Ming army's artillery was extremely sharp, and the cannons fired fell into the city and exploded. The explosion was a piece, and the slaves - the slaves suffered heavy losses!

"In the evening of that day, while shelling, the Ming army took advantage of the cover of darkness to dig holes in the rammed earth of the city wall, buried a large amount of gunpowder, and blew up a section of the city wall. Thousands of people poured in.

"At that time, there were not many young men and strong men in armor left in Xiuyan Castle, and only the old, weak, women and children were left in the city. Seeing that it was impossible to do anything, the slave broke out of the city and rushed to the army to report the military situation to his master and plead guilty!"

These words are obviously what Bohetuo has been thinking about for a long time.

Otherwise, he would have been crying bitterly while reporting the causes and consequences of the loss of Xiuyan City, which would not have been so clear-cut.

Especially what he called a "breakout" was actually just asking people to open the back city gate at night and run out overnight.

At this moment, Bo Hetuo knelt on the ground, kowtowed and cried. The fur hat and neck protector on his head fell off, exposing his blue-white skull and the delicate skin and tender flesh of his head and face. Huang Taiji felt disgusted at the sight.

Although Abatai was tall and strong when he was alive, his son Bohetuo looked very weak, not like a martial artist but more like a scholar.

"Where is the Ming army?!"

"Slave - I didn't know it clearly at the time, but now that I think about it, it should be the Ming army stationed at Zhuanghe Fort, the same Ming army from the East Road of Jinhai Town that attacked Wudahai before!"

Although Wudahai's title is only that of a general supporting the country, he is from the clan after all.

In the past two years, princes from the clan, Beilebei, and their children have often died in battles, and many of them were more important than Wu Dahai. However, the deaths of the clan's children will still be reported to Huang Taiji in detail.

Therefore, Huang Taiji knew that Wu Dahai was attacked and killed on the north bank of the Yingna River.

But the earlier he knew this, the more annoyed he felt when he heard Bo Hetuo's report.

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"Since you know that the Ming army attacked Wudahai before, why were you so careless and neglected to take precautions?! How did Abatai, such a hero back then, give birth to a son like you?!"

Seeing Bo and Tuo crying with runny noses and tears, Huang Taiji felt very angry in his heart.

For him, in the past two years, not only had several of his contemporaries, Prince Heshuo and Prince Duoluo, died in battle, such as Prince Laoli Daishan, Prince Raoyu Abatai, Prince Yu Duduo and others,

Moreover, among the younger generation of clan members, several young talents whom he admired and valued also died one after another, which made him feel very sorry for them.

Among them were his eldest son and Prince Hauge of Shuosu, and Hauge's death made him heartbroken every time he thought about it.

Huang Taiji's shouting question received no response from Bo Hetuo.

Because Bo Hetuo didn't dare to make any excuse at this time, he was afraid that Huang Taiji would go crazy and he would be executed if found guilty.

But he was also feeling aggrieved.

The main general of Xiuyan Fort is Sarhuda, and the main garrison force in the area is also the Yichezhou Niulu led by Sarhuda and his son.

As a man who served the country with kindness, he actually only brought one of his own Niu Lu who was assigned to the world leader to accompany him and sit there.

Moreover, the purpose of his being sent there was nominally to train with Sarhuda and his son in the army, but in fact, he was asked to monitor Sarhuda and his son, which meant a bit of supervising the army.

Of course, the reason why he was sent to Xiuyan Fort was also because when the news of Abatai's death came and Huang Taiji generously rewarded Abatai's heirs, he named Bo Hetuo as a benefactor to the Duke of the country, and had selfish motives for calling him

Go to Jilharang to do business.

And Jierhalang had always been at odds with Abatai, and he didn't like him, so he simply sent him to Xiuyan Castle out of sight and out of mind.

Unexpectedly, something like this happened later.

At this time, Prince Zheng Jierhalang, who was kneeling not far in front of Huang Taiji, felt his heart pounding since he saw clearly that the person coming was Bo Hetuo.

Especially after listening to Bo and Tuo's cry, his mind was racing, fearing that Bo and Tuo would talk nonsense and involve himself.

Fortunately, after Bohetuo finished speaking, he did not blame him. Jierhalang felt a little relieved and thought about it for a while, feeling that this matter was related to him after all, so he said:

"Your Majesty, Xiuyan Fort and other places are in the rear. Originally, Sarhuda led his troops to garrison there. Later, there was a war at Zhenjiang Fort. The slaves were ordered to mobilize men and horses to counterattack, so they captured all the troops led by Sarhuda and his son.

Transferred to serve in the military.

"The emperor also knows what happened later. Sarhuda and his son were killed in battle, and the Niulu they led in New Mite Island suffered heavy casualties, with almost no one left alive. So——"

When Jierhalang said this, he paused, and other people in the big tent, including Huang Taiji himself, all understood what he was saying, and there was no need for him to say any more.

Just hearing these words, while others suddenly realized, Huang Taiji couldn't get rid of the anger in his heart, and even became more angry.

"Prince Zheng, do you mean to say that after the death of Sarhuda and his son in battle, the only people in Xiuyan Fort who were led by Bo Hetuo were Niulu?!"

"In addition to Bohetuo's Niulu, there are also more than a thousand families who used to follow Sarhuda and his son to cultivate wasteland and provide food in that area——"

"Absurd! Ridiculous!

Ji'erhalang originally wanted to continue explaining, because to him, a Baoyi Aha with two to three hundred Qizhou banner men who drove more than a thousand households to reclaim wasteland and provide food was considered a considerable force.

These people may not be strong enough for other tasks, but they should be more than enough to guard a small city surrounded by mountains.

Furthermore, Yang Zhen led a large number of the main Ming army in Jinhai Town and was besieging Zhenjiang Fort City.

Besides Yang Zhen, who has the courage to attack Xiuyan Castle?

When Sarhuda died in the battle, didn't you Huang Taiji also not expect that Xiuyan Fort would be in danger?

Of course, before Jierhalang could say these words, he was angrily interrupted by Huang Taiji.

Huang Taiji scolded two absurd sentences in succession, which not only succeeded in making Jierhalang shut his mouth, but also frightened Bo and Tuo to stop sobbing.

"Although Xiuyan Fort is not big, it is located between Gaizhou and Zhenjiang Forts. It has an important position. It fell into the hands of Jinhai Zhenming Army. The food road behind our eastern expedition army was under its threat.

"In the future, the east road from Gaizhou City to Zhenjiang Fort, or to Jinhai Town, will have to detour to Ximu City, and then detour to Phoenix City, which will add hundreds of miles of mountain road - it must be recaptured as soon as possible!"

Huang Taiji asked someone to find a map, looked at it again and again by light, and finally looked at Jierhalang and made up his mind.

But it is easy to make up your mind, but things are not easy to handle.

Seeing Huang Taiji staring at the words he said, Jierharang knew that Huang Taiji was obviously ready to send him to recapture it, so he immediately responded:

"Your Majesty, Xiuyan City was originally under my control. Now, no matter what the reason is, it is lost. It is my duty to send troops to recapture it. It is my duty.

"But I have been to Xiuyan Castle before. Although the castle is not big, the situation is quite dangerous. Now that the place has fallen into the hands of thousands of Jinhaizhen Ming troops, if our army does not have heavy artillery, it may be difficult to attack in a short time.

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