Ansu is an important county town beside Xushui. This city is said to be built on Wusui City, which was stationed by the Song general Yang Yanzhao.

In the early Ming Dynasty, because of the sparse population in the north, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, ordered people moving to Xingzhou, Shanxi and other places to move to Baoding, among which Ansu Nai was more than 20,000 immigrants. Therefore, although more than 200 years have passed, the accent of the people in Ansu County is not much different from that in Shanxi, and the people are jealous.

Unfortunately, Li Lutai, who is also involved in politics in the Ministry of Justice, is not jealous. Even if he likes to be jealous, there is no jealousy that he can eat at the moment.

He couldn't even eat a bite of hot rice.

Li Rutai's father was the son-in-law of the Taizu and grandson, Li Yongfang, the son-in-law of Prince Abatai of Raoyu County, called "the prince in the west room" by the Manchus, and most Han people called the prince to comfort the prince in the west. Li Rutai was not born to Li Yongfang and Abatai's daughter, but his elder brother Li Yangeng was born to Li Yongfang's ex-wife.

Unlike his father and brothers who were willing to help the evildoer, Li Yongfang's eldest son Li Yangeng hated the Later Jin Dynasty to the core, and even more despised his father's behavior of being greedy for life and fearing death and making accomplices for tigers. Therefore, he secretly made up his determination to resist Jin Zhongming, put his personal life and death aside, and actively participated in Liu Xingzuo, whom Nurhaci was affectionately called "Aita", to resist the Later Jin Dynasty, and assisted Liu Xingzuo's brothers to escape from the Later Jin Dynasty one after another.

Later, Huang Taiji led his army to attack Dalinghe. During the Ningyuan period, Li Yangeng secretly sent his confidant servants to act as spies to inform the Ming Dynasty. As a result, the incident was leaked and he was killed and killed.

In order to vent his anger, Huang Taiji ordered people to delete all the records about Li Yangeng, and even asked Li Yongfang to remove the eldest son from the family tree. So many people now think that Li Shutai is the eldest son of the prince in the west room.

However, Huang Taiji was also a wise ruler and did not implicate Li Yongfang and other scholars.

Of course, this is also related to the tens of thousands of Han soldiers under Li Yongfang at that time. In addition, Li Yongfang's other seven sons were born to his daughter who was only 12 years old when Abatai got married, and the names he married were all Manchuria, such as Gang Atai, Hashku, and Bayan.

With Abatai as his grandfather, how could Huang Taiji, the eighth grandfather, be able to attack?

After this incident, Li Yongfang gradually lost power in the Later Jin regime, and caused Amin, one of the four major beneficiaries, to scold him as a "barbarian slave" and threatened to kill Li Yongfang. From then on, Li Yongfang said nothing about various meetings of the Later Jin Dynasty and died of illness 16 years ago.

Later, after Huang Taiji circled Amin and Manguertai, he was quite guilty of Li Yongfang's death, so he used Li Rutai first and asked him to follow the army to fight against Chahar, Korea, and the Ming Dynasty. Later, he and his nominal grandfather Abatai entered the pass to attack Shandong, and promoted him to the Han army's Meile Ezhen for his military achievements.

After the Qing army entered the pass, Li Rutai also made many military achievements and once forced the surrender of tens of thousands of Shun Army. Because the Eight Banners of the Han army did not have a banner leader, Li Rutai, the Meile, was actually the unnamed banner leader of the Han army's Zhenglan Banner. The reason is that the Han army's Zhenglan Banner was based on the former Fushun Ming Army who surrendered to the Later Jin Dynasty with his father Li Yongfang. Among them, 6 Niulu can be said to be the direct Niulu of the Li family.

His father Li Yongfang married the granddaughter of Taizu as his wife, and Li Rutai himself was blessed to give his royal daughter a wife at the age of 23. Therefore, both the father and son of the Li family were sons-in-law of Aisin Gioro, and were closer and more respected than other generals of the Eight Banners of the Han army. However, what Li Rutai did not expect was that the Regent Dorgon actually abandoned him.

Dorgon gave Li Rutai the military order to defend Ansu County, restrain and hold the Shun army, and buy time for the army.

Another term for this military order is called mat, and another term is to abandon the son.

The scene of hundreds of Han soldiers under Baoding City being persuaded to surrender by Zu Kefa left an indelible impression on Dorgon. This scene also made the Eight Banners of Manchus and Mongolian soldiers begin to be wary of the Han army. The atmosphere between the two sides is becoming more and more tense, like a pot of water, pouring a scoop of water into it will make the pot boil.

Under Ye Chen and Suksah's persuasion, Dorgon decided to let the Han army leave a quota. This would allow the Han army to hold back the Shun army attacking from Baoding for the eight banners of Manchu and Mongolia, and would also be able to pinch the signs of "unstability" so as not to cause chaos when the army retreated north.

Dorgon chose Li Lutai after careful consideration. Because of the relationship between the Li family and the Aisin Gioro family, Li Lutai is more trustworthy than other Han army generals.

In order not to let the remaining Eight Banners of the Han army be abandoned, Dorgon specially transferred two Niulu Mongolian soldiers to Li Rutai for command.

Li Ruitai did not have the intention to betray Manchuria after Dorgon asked for his pre-order. He also wanted to hold back Shunjun's footsteps for the regent's army, but from the moment the army retreated north from Baoding City, many things could not be changed by one or two generals in the army by their will.

For example, Li Lutai wanted to hold on to Ansu, but the other Han generals such as Zhang Chaolin, Cai Shiying, Wang Shixuan, Cao Zhenyan and others all said that there was no food in Ansu City. If they entered the city and were surrounded by the Shun Army, they would not be able to escape even if they had wings.

These Han generals were not something that Li Rutai could suppress, because each of them had a background.

Zhang Chaolin's father Zhang Shiyan was the central garrison of the former Ming Dynasty Wang Huazhen. After surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, he became the third-class Lazhangjing. After Zhang Chaolin attacked his father's title, he was first appointed as Niu Luezhen, and now he is the second-class Jia Lazhangjing. His official position is no lower than that of Li Lutai.

Cai Shiying followed Zu Dashou to the Qing Dynasty in Jinzhou four years ago and was appointed as the governor. After entering the pass, he followed Ye Chen to pacify Shanxi and attacked Taiyuan Prefecture with red-clothed cannons. He defeated the defending general Chen Yongfu, and now he is the chief Huangqi Jialazhangjing of the Han army, and he also does not buy Li Lutai's account.

Wang Shixuan has a better qualification. He surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in the third year of Chongzhen. After surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, he was appointed as the general officer. He was Gushan Ezhen, the Zhenghong Banner of the Han army.

Cao Zhenyan's father Cao Shixuan was the commander of the Shenyang Central Guard of the former Ming Dynasty. Cao Zhenyan himself was Baoyi Zuling, a Han man under the regent Dorgon Zhengbai. He was a slave of Dorgon. His son Cao Xi was very much loved by Dorgon.

The generals of the Han army did not want to guard Ansu, and the regent's military order was to defend Ansu again. If Ansu was abandoned, Li Shutai would be the first to be engaged in military law by the regent.

Therefore, Li Rutai had a fierce argument with Wang Shixuan, Cai Shiying and others. Cao Zhenyan was the regent's princess. The purpose of his stay was actually to secretly monitor the Han generals. Seeing that Wang Shixuan, Cai Shiying and Zhang Chaolin were unwilling to obey Li Rutai's military orders, Cao Zhenyan secretly told Li Rutai that he would transfer the Mongolian general Wang, Cai and others to take it down, and then recruit the Han army they belonged to.

Li Lutai was hesitant, worried that this move would completely collapse the Han army, which had no fighting spirit, and did not adopt it.

Unexpectedly, I don’t know who was the subordinate who leaked the news. When I heard that Li Rutai wanted to ask the Mongolian soldiers to capture them, Cai Shiying took more than a thousand Han troops from his troops out of the city and threw them into the Shun Army overnight without saying a word.

Wang Shixuan and Zhang Chaolin and other Han generals did not go to surrender to the Shun Army, but refused to surrender. They took their troops out of the city to chase the regent army.

As a result, the nearly 5,000 troops left by Dorgon for Li Rutai, and only Li Rutai's headquarters were left overnight. This force must not be able to defend An Su. Li Rutai was afraid that Wang Shixuan and others would slander him if they caught up with the Regent, so he quickly took Cao Zhenyan and others out of the city to chase north.

But as soon as they left the city for more than ten miles, they were blocked by the Xushui River.

Also blocked by Xushui were Wang Shixuan and Zhang Chaolin's troops who had left the city earlier.
Chapter completed!