Update time:2012-12-01
When the news of Zu Dashou's death came, Huang Taiji was so shocked that he dropped his wine glass. Zu Zehong even fainted on the spot. Zu Zerun and his two uncles also instantly became wooden, unable to believe their ears.
Everyone in the tent was dumbfounded. Even Zhang Chun was extremely shocked. He didn't understand why Zu Dashou was killed.
Most of the surrendered generals were thinking at the same time, had Huang Taiji betrayed his trust and ordered someone to kill Zu Dashou?
The suspicious glances of the surrendered generals made Huang Taiji shocked and angry. He overturned the table in front of him and rushed towards Ashan and Darhan angrily. He asked sternly: "How did General Zu die! Who killed me, General Zu! Is that right?"
What a cruel attack you two slaves have done!..."[
"It's not us, it's not us..." Ah Shan was so frightened that he waved his hands hurriedly, shaking his head violently, and shouted in panic: "No matter how brave I am, I don't dare to kill Zu Dashou..."
"King Khan calmed down. Zu Dashou was not killed by his ministers and others. He died five miles outside Jinzhou City. When the ministers and Ashan arrived, Zu Dashou was already dead, and his face was chopped beyond recognition. I think the murderer was a ruthless person.
, I was afraid that someone would find out that it was Zu Dashou who died, so I took cruel measures. If I hadn’t carefully inspected it, it would have been difficult to identify that it was Zu Dashou who died..."
Darhan was Huang Taiji's brother-in-law, and he and Huang Taiji were in the same family. He was not as frightened as the slave Ah Shan, but calmly told the story in detail. After speaking, he stayed silent and waited for Huang Taiji to ask again.
After listening to Darhan's narration, Huang Taiji's face became darker and darker. After he finished speaking, he asked in a deep voice: "Have you ever found out who killed General Zu?"
Darhan shook his head and said: "When I arrived, the murderer had already escaped. But..." After saying this, he paused.
Huang Taiji hurriedly asked him: "It's just nothing, my brother-in-law, tell me quickly."
Darhan hesitated and said: "But according to my calculations, the murderer of General Zu should be the Ming army in Jinzhou City."
Hearing this, everyone was shocked again. Huang Taiji lost his voice and said: "Why did my brother-in-law say that?"
Darhan explained: "I say this because the place where General Zu was killed was outside Jinzhou City, and outside the city besides our Eight Banners, there were also a small group of detective cavalry from his Ming army. The murderer would definitely not be us. In this way,
Only the Ming army in Jinzhou City can be blamed for this."
Darhan's analysis made everyone nod subconsciously. In fact, apart from the Jin army, there was only a small group of Ming troops outside Jinzhou City. This shows that it was either the Jin army or the Ming army that killed Zu Dashou. Look.
The surprised look on Huang Taiji and all the Baylors did not seem to be false. The generals who had previously suspected that Huang Taiji ordered the killing of Zu Dashou were relieved, but then they became confused again. Why did the Ming army in Jinzhou City want to kill Zu Dashou?
Birthday? Do they know something?
"Strange, how did Jinzhou know that General Zu would escape late at night?" Daishan curled his lips strangely and glanced at everyone in the tent, "Did someone leak the news?"
After hearing Daishan's words, Huang Taiji froze, turned around and shouted: "Ajige!"
"My brother is here!" Azig hurriedly walked out of his seat.
Huang Taiji asked him: "After General Zu surrendered, could any of the soldiers and civilians in the city escape?"
Azig said with certainty: "Back to King Khan, after General Zu surrendered, my brother led the red flag into the city and moved all the soldiers and civilians in the city outside the city. He carefully searched the city and made sure that people were hiding in it before leaving the city. My brother
I can guarantee that unless he can fly, no one will escape!"
"If there was no Ming army escaping, how did the news leak out?"
Huang Taiji frowned. Even if Ming troops or people really fled back to Jinzhou, then Jinzhou only knew that Zu Dashou surrendered. How could he know that he would return to Jinzhou late at night and lay an ambush halfway to wait for Zu Dashou?
This matter is too strange. Unless the Jinzhou Ming army could predict the situation beforehand, they would not have known in advance that Zu Dashou was going to return to Jinzhou to cheat the city!
Who leaked the news?[
Huang Taiji's doubts became more and more serious. He believed that someone must have leaked the news to the Ming army. Besides himself, the people who knew that Zu Dashou was returning to Jinzhou were Daishan, Jierhalang, Azige, and Tong Yangxing.
As well as Fan Wencheng, Ning Wan and I, even Dorgon and the other little Beile don't know about this. Except for Zu Dashou's brother and son among the generals, no one else knows where Zu Dashou has gone. It is definitely impossible for Zu's family to leak it.
News, but besides them, who could it be? It can’t be the second brother or others, or Fan Wencheng and the others, right?…
Huang Taiji didn't dare to think about it anymore, but he heard someone shouting in grief and anger: "King Khan, I know who killed my father!"
"who?!"
Huang Taiji suddenly turned around and found that the person shouting was Zu Zerun, the eldest son of Zu Dashou.
"Qiu Hejia, the governor of Liaodong, must have killed my father!" Zu Zerun gritted his teeth, clenched his fists tightly, and looked like he really wanted to eat Qiu Hejia alive.
Liaofu Qiu Hejia?!
Huang Taiji was startled and asked Zu Zerun: "Why is the young general so sure?"
Zu Zerun believed that it was Qiu Hejia who killed his father, and said bitterly: "Qiu Hejia has been at odds with my father since he became governor of Liao Dynasty. He has repeatedly tried to seize my father's military power. If Sun Chengzong, the military commander, had not supported my father, my father would have been dead."
The military power had long been taken away by him, Qiu Hejia. Qiu Hejia could not seize my father's military power, so he made another plan to build a new army. After being blocked by my father and the general, he regarded my father as a thorn in his side and a stab in his flesh! My father was killed
When we were trapped in the city, Qiu Hejia did not try his best to rescue him, but instead obstructed him at every turn. He wished my father had died in this city! I ask, if he hadn't sent people to kill my father, who else in Jinzhou City would have dared to kill my father with such a leopard?!"
After hearing Zu Zerun's words, everyone in the tent nodded in unison. Zu Dashou's subordinate generals also said that it must be Qiu Hejia's murderous hand. Even Zhang Chun felt that the person who killed Zu Dashou was really the Jinzhou Ming Army.
It's hard to say that Qiu Hejia sent someone to do it. But he felt so happy that he just shouted, "Kill!"
Huang Taiji also somewhat believed that Qiu Hejia killed Zu Dashou in order to fight for power, so that he would not contact his old troops to shake his position after returning to the city, but he still didn't understand something.
"What the young general said makes sense, but even if Qiu Hejia had the intention to kill your father, how did he know that General Dashou would return to Jinzhou tonight?"
"this…"
Zu Zerun was stunned for a moment, but he had never thought about this problem.
Azige was impatient, thinking that since his ancestor Dashou was dead, Jinzhou City could not be deceived, so he simply suggested: "King Khan, Zu Dashou is dead, so Jinzhou City cannot be deceived, but Jinzhou City has no troops and can fight."
We don’t have many soldiers, so why not let my younger brother lead his troops to attack tomorrow and seize Jinzhou City in one fell swoop! King Khan can then lead his army to Ningyuan and break into Shanhaiguan!"
Dorgon was also moved and said: "There is a large amount of grain and grass for the Ming army stored in Jinzhou City. There are also many merchants and gentry, and there is also a lot of gold and silver wealth and a large population. It can be said that it is rich. We have been besieging the city for such a long time, and now we are short of food."
.Why not attack Jinzhou tomorrow and give him a big hug!"
Duoyi was even more impatient: "King Khan, we will set off tomorrow, my brother is willing to be the pioneer!"
Ji'erhalang was opposed: "King Khan, I think it is better to be more cautious. Jinzhou is a strong city, and Qiu Hejia dares to defend the city alone. They must be prepared to die together, and they must be defending the city."
We have put in a lot of effort. The Art of War says: A soldier will die before he survives. Jinzhou City is now a dead ground, and an attack will cause heavy casualties. Furthermore, our army has suffered heavy casualties, and every flag has been damaged. What is the situation inside Jinzhou City now?
I still don’t understand. If you know yourself and the enemy, you will be safe in a hundred battles. If you don’t know the enemy, how can you fight? Therefore, I think it is better to send spies into Jinzhou first to find out the situation in the city and cooperate with the inside and outside. This way, the attack will be more confident and casualties can be reduced.
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Azig looked down on Jierharang's maturity and prudentness, and shouted dissatisfied: "Third brother, you are too cautious. In a mere Jinzhou city, our Eight Banners have tens of thousands of cavalry, and each person demolished it brick by brick, and leveled it."
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"No matter how strong Jinzhou City is, if there is no one to defend it, it will be like picking something out of a bag. According to me, this Jinzhou City can be beaten."
Dai Shan was always a cautious person, but he also believed that Jinzhou could be attacked. The reason was that he knew that there would definitely not be many defenders in Jinzhou City. Taking advantage of his illness to kill him, if he did not attack now, he would wait for Ming army reinforcements to arrive before trying to attack again.
Jinzhou is difficult.
Huang Taiji was noncommittal and remained silent.
Zu Zerun was eager to avenge his father. When he saw this, he hurriedly stepped forward and knelt on the ground, crying and crying: "King Khan, my father died unjustly. Please ask King Khan to avenge my father!" [
All the surrendered generals also knelt down and said in unison: "I am willing to be the vanguard of King Khan's attack on the brocade!"
"Fight Jinzhou, fight Jinzhou, fight Jinzhou!"
Azig, Dorgon, Duoyi, Yuetuo, Shuotuo, Baylor and the Manchu and Mongolian generals also asked for battle. The wealth in Jinzhou City has made them completely jealous.
Seeing that everyone agreed to attack Jinzhou, Huang Taiji did not hesitate. Although Jierhalang's words were reasonable, the city of Jinzhou was empty now. If he didn't take it, he would be punished by God. It would be better to comply with everyone's wishes and attack Jinzhou tomorrow and destroy the city.
After that, money, silk, population and food were obtained and distributed to various banners to make up for the loss. Even after returning to the army, the people of the country were happy and would not be resentful because of too many casualties.
Unexpectedly, Ning Wanwo braved the great disobedience of the world and suddenly rushed forward, knelt down on the ground with a plop, kowtowed several times, and admonished: "King Khan, gentlemen Beile, have you forgotten the battle of Ningjin?
A lesson!"
After hearing this, everyone fell silent, and Huang Taiji's expression changed even more.
………
The Battle of Ningjin mentioned by Ningwan refers to the May of the first year of Tiancong. Huang Taiji led the Eight Banners army that had just returned from North Korea to attack Hexi and quickly captured the small and large Linghe rivers and Youtunwei. Yuan Chonghuan built in the Hexi area
The castle was trampled by the Jin army, and only Jinzhou remained.
On May 11th, after the Jin army plundered the surrounding areas of Jinzhou, they joined forces at the foot of Jinzhou City and surrounded Jinzhou. The Ming Dynasty Pingliao General Zhao Lijiao and the eunuch Ji Yong were stationed in Jinzhou together. Since the construction of Jinzhou City had just been completed, the emperor
Taiji suddenly sent out troops, and the preparations for the city defense work were very inadequate. There were only 30,000 soldiers and migrant workers combined. However, the guard general Zhao Lijiao and the deputy commander-in-chief Zuo Fu, Zhu Mei and others had experienced many battles and had been in the fortress for a long time.
, the veteran general with great experience in generals, and the eunuch Ji Yong who was in charge of the army also gave full play to their supervisory functions. Everyone worked together, responded calmly, and dealt with Hou Jin.
After hearing the news, Shanhaiguan also entered a state of war preparation. General Mangui moved forward from Shanhaiguan to Qiantun, Sun Zushou moved from a stone to Shanhaiguan, and Heiyunlong moved to a stone. They pressed forward layer by layer, ready to respond to the front at any time. Yuan Chonghuan and the eunuchs in charge of the army
Liu Yingkun led Zu Dashou and others to guard Ningyuan.
To be continued...