Just when the Pei family's army in Sichuan was in full swing and its strength was increasing little by little, the Ming Dynasty in the north faced a major crisis.

As early as the 5th year of Chongzhen, the situation in Mongolia changed. Horqin completely surrendered to Huang Taiji. The five Inner Khalkha troops were completely annihilated. Among the eight Otoks of the Chahar tribe, Naiman and Aohan were forced to attack the emperor.

Taiji surrendered, and Lin Dan Khan, a direct descendant of the Mongolian leader Jin family, was left alone and helpless on the grasslands.

At the same time, because he still coveted the power of the right-wing Mongolia, he dreamed of taking the opportunity to annihilate the right-wing Mongolia and use their population and wealth to restore his status as the co-lord of Mongolia. In the seventh year of the Ming Dynasty, Lin Dan Khan used the Chahar tribe to

8 Dorote, one of the Otoks, stayed in his hometown and led tens of thousands of people to move westward.

Although the westward migration was fruitful and gained the population and finance of right-wing Mongolia, Lin Dan Khan's reputation on the grasslands plummeted. Mongolia is a wolf pack, and a wolf pack does not need a wolf who can only flee.

The alpha wolf is their leader.

Therefore, when Huang Taiji led his army to invade the old territory of Chahar, a large number of tribes who stayed in Chahar offered their loyalty to Huang Taiji without resisting at all.

In the 4th year of Chongzhen, Lin Dan Khan became angry after recalling his memories. He personally led his army to march eastward to the Xilamulun River, invaded the Alukor Qindalai Chuhuer pasture where gold had been paid, and took away the tribesmen of Seleng Abahai.

Huang Taiji naturally refused to show weakness and personally led two thousand elite cavalry to come.

However, the menacing Lin Dan Khan gave up at the critical moment and withdrew before Huang Taiji's attack. In addition, he also killed the envoys sent to the right wing from the Mobei Outer Khalkha tribes, causing

The panic among tribes in Mobei.

After this battle, Huang Taiji completely saw through Lin Dan Khan's cowardice, incompetence and greed, so he set out to completely annihilate Lin Dan Khan and occupy the grassland.

In the 6th year of Chongzhen, the wind and frost on the grassland came a full month earlier than in previous years. The original simple agriculture outside Guihua City failed to harvest anything. Not only that, a great epidemic emerged from nowhere and began to spread on the grassland. Mongolian tribes

The situation was almost desperate, and the number of soldiers was severely reduced. In Chahar, there were only 40,000 horses left and less than 50,000 soldiers.

Huang Taiji was keenly aware that this was an opportunity. So in the second year, that is, the fifth year of Chongzhen, Horqin, Zhalut, Bahrain, Naiman, Aohan, Karaqin, and Tu were gathered in the Xilamulun River.

Taiji from the Meute, Alukorqin, Wengniut, Asut and other tribes were on the banks of the Xilamulun River, with a total force of about 100,000, and marched westward to attack Lindan Khan.

Lin Dan Khan once again lived up to expectations. When he heard the news that Huang Taiji was coming to kill him, he ran away. This time, he felt that there was no place for him in Mongolia, so he fled westward, crossed the Ming Dynasty, fled into Qinghai, and met his predecessors.

Quetu Khan, who entered Qinghai in a few days, commanded his troops. On the way, they were as panicked as a lost dog. Most of his troops were homeless, and even his own Fujin was lost in the flight.

The Huang Taiji 1st Route was unstoppable, pursuing Lin Dan Khan for 411 days. In May, they entered Guihua City and pursued the edge of the Yellow River. After learning that Lin Dan Khan had fled to Qinghai, they withdrew with a large amount of seizures, population, finance, etc.

Going back, it was already July of the 7th year of Chongzhen.

However, on the way back, Huang Taiji suddenly changed direction. On the 8th of July, in the name of the border generals harassing his territory, killing his people, and hiding people, he entered Fangfang Fort and besieged Xuanfu. On the 11th, Chongzhen was in an emergency

The edict was issued that Chen Hongfan, the chief military officer, would guard Juyong Pass, and the governor of Baoding, Censor Ding Kuichu, and others would guard Zijing and Yanmen.

On the 17th, martial law was imposed in the capital. On the 16th, Huang Taiji soldiers conquered Baoan, and most of the castles along the border were unguarded. In August, Chongzhen sent Chief Military Officer You Shiwei and others to support the border. On the 15th, Chongzhen ordered another declaration.

Zhang Zongheng, the viceroy's assistant, controlled reinforcements from various towns.

However, after Zhang Zongheng received the imperial edict, he did not make any changes. Instead, he concentrated all his troops behind closed doors in Huairen City. As for the outside of Huairen City, they were all left to Huang Taiji, allowing him to gallop around. How pitiful were the people.

Innocent people were just abandoned in the dust, wailing in pain, but no one paid attention to them.

Someone in Huairen City couldn't bear it, so he secretly opened a gap, hoping to give the people a way out. Unexpectedly, when Zhang Zongheng found out, he became furious and angrily accused this person of ignoring the overall situation and going to the righteousness for small profits and not conquering the city.

After feeding the outside wolves, these wolves can leave contentedly? How can the situation in Huairen be solved? Kill this person on the spot to frighten everyone.

Huang Taiji besieged Huairen City for more than ten days without finding any loopholes, so he changed his direction and went south to attack Lingqiu, hoping to invade the capital from Zijin Pass.

Jiang Bingcai, the magistrate of Lingqiu County, recruited troops to defend the city. He was defeated in 20 days and was captured by Huang Taiji. The city was guarded by Liu Shiqi, including general Chen Yanwu, Ma Ruzhi, Dianshi Zhang Biao, and Jiao Lu Dengfu. They were all killed in the battle. The city was destroyed.

Later, Jiang Bingcai, the county magistrate, hanged himself and his entire family was buried for the country, which shocked people far and wide.

However, Jiang Bingcai's death also made Huang Taiji realize that the Ming Dynasty was not exhausted. There were still countless loyal and loyal people within the Ming Dynasty who were willing to risk their lives and fortunes for the Ming Dynasty and for the loyalty in their hearts.

Huang Taiji sighed in his heart, he still underestimated the glorious power of the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years. In the hearts of the people in the world, the Ming Dynasty was still orthodox.

Standing on the high Taihang Mountains, feeling the roaring wind, Huang Taiji's strong body suddenly trembled. The young and energetic Dorgon who was accompanying him, who was only about 20 years old, stepped forward to help him.

Huang Taiji asked, "Great Khan, what's wrong?"

Huang Taiji felt that the dizzying movement just now suddenly disappeared. He pushed Dorgon away and stood up, "It doesn't matter, it's just a strong wind."

Dorgon was confused, but he didn't dare to ask any more questions and stepped aside.

"Have you received all the food sent by the Fan family?" Huang Taiji asked, "Although we have defeated Lin Dan Khan and those Guihua cities and captured tens of thousands of herdsmen, without the food from the Ming Dynasty, this year will not be easy to survive.

Pass."

"Don't worry, Great Khan. The food sent by the Fan family has been inspected and is accurate. It is enough to support me, Manchurian, through this difficult time."

"That's good." A trace of relief appeared on Huang Taiji's face, "When my father Khan was still alive, he once said that the Ming Dynasty has deep roots and luxuriant leaves, just like a towering tree, but compared with it, Manchuria is like a mayfly.

The trees and the mantis arms serve as chariots. If it weren't for the discord among the Han people, among them people like Fan Yongdou and Fan Wencheng who gave us advice on Manchuria, I'm afraid I really don't know how to deal with this behemoth."

However, after hearing this, Dorgon said disdainfully: "Why should the Great Khan increase other people's ambitions and destroy his own prestige? Although there are many Han people, they are like a piece of loose sand. My father Khan once said that we in Manchuria only need to cut down a large number of people.

For a tree, first remove its branches, cut off its root system, and slowly dry up the tree. Finally, when the big tree slowly dies, that will be my success in Manchuria."

Looking at his 14th brother Dorgon, who was full of confidence and had no idea what fear was, Huang Taiji had a complicated expression in his eyes, which seemed to be funny, appreciative, and fearful.

Huang Taiji suddenly felt tired and said, "Okay, let's go back."

"Yes." Dorgon did not dare to refute, and followed Huang Taiji towards the military camp. When he arrived at the gate of the military camp, Huang Taiji suddenly ordered Dorgon: "Send my military order, and the army will begin to retreat."

"Profusely sweating?" Dorgon was stunned for a moment, and then he was about to ask.

"No need to ask more, I have my own plans, just give me the order."

"Yes, my brother obeys the order."

On August 28, the 7th year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji suddenly gave up on the nearby Zijin Pass and turned back. Before leaving, he also looted all the military fortresses near Lingqiu, and then evacuated Lingqiu in a grand manner, heading towards

The first line of the Xuanfu Great Wall retreated. The army retreated all the way to Tianzhen City. At this time, Cao Wenzhao, the general of Datong, was stationed in Tianzhen City.

Cao Wenzhao was not ashamed of Zhang Zongheng's cowardice and despicability, so he went out alone and attacked Huang Taiji's army. However, the disparity in power between the enemy and ourselves was too great, Cao Wenzhao was outnumbered, and finally lost and retreated.

At this time, Huang Taiji had completed all the goals of attacking the Ming Dynasty. At this time, he was so focused on returning to Liaodong that he had no time to pay attention to the defeated general. Seeing that Cao Wenzhao was still fleeing, he symbolically sent elite troops to pursue him for 20 miles before returning.
Chapter completed!