Azig is indeed a bit stupid in handling the politics of family relations.
However, given his growth experience and circle of friends, it is not easy to survive now.
He was seven years older than Dorgon, and could not play with his brothers at all. When he was a teenager, he went to war with Lao Khan, chasing after Amin and Mang Gurtai all day long, so he only wore a pair of trousers.
These two good eldest brothers would be regarded as deviant and outrageous people in the future.
Amin, a brave warrior with great achievements in battle.
He once participated in the Saar Hu, defeated Ye He, conquered Shenyang and Liaoyang, conquered Korea twice, wiped out the two tribes of Khalkha and Balinjalut, conquered Ningjin, and defeated Yongping.
After Nurhaci died, he was like a philosopher, annoyed that he was born as a human being, and envied the rocks on the mountain that were not controlled by Huang Taiji.
I tell people everywhere that I dreamed of Nurhachi whipping me with a whip, but I was protected by a yellow python and was not afraid of my uncle's whip.
When he leads the army to go on an expedition, he has fun, and the leader of a general is not satisfied with his orders.
When he conquered North Korea and signed an alliance, North Korea sent envoys over. After finishing the work, everyone was ready to return to the army. He said that if you want to go back, you can go back. Anyway, I planned to live here. In fact, no one supported me later, and I failed to stand up for myself. Feeling aggrieved, I returned to Shenyang.
After the Jisi Incident, Huang Taiji ordered him to appease the prisoners in the four cities of Zunhua and Yongping and save the image of Hou Jin, in order to reduce the resistance to breaking the border in the future.
He expressed his understanding, and then issued an order to shave his head in Yongping, and then he was defeated and abandoned the city. Before abandoning the city, he massacred the city and made Huang Taiji cry on the spot after hearing the news.
Big Brother’s responsibility cannot be tolerated at all. When I heard in Yongping that Huang Taiji was accused of his crime, his first reaction was not to defend himself, but to argue: Azige, Mang Gurtai and I are so good that we can wear a pair of trousers. We do everything together, why don't you punish them for their crimes, and just focus on me!
Mang Gurtai was also a brave warrior with great achievements in battle.
Zheng Wula, Sarhu, Ping Yehe, Zhu Lindan to save Horqin, beg for Bahrain... He is only one year younger than Amin, and he was basically there for all the battles Amin fought.
He is known as a beast who kills his mother to invite favors. This is because after Nurhachi's death, no one nominated him to succeed him. He pinched his nose and voted for Huang Taiji, feeling dissatisfied.
During the siege of Dalinghe, he reported to Huang Taiji that his troops suffered heavy losses from the Ming army and requested that the men assigned to other troops be replenished.
Huang Taiji criticized him, saying that he did not listen to orders and wasted the opportunity to fight.
This matter is not a problem for the Jianzhou nobles. From the time when Nurhachi was born to Huang Taiji's accession to the throne, basically everyone in the Lao Ai family, including relatives and nephews, sometimes disobeyed orders.
In fact, to put it bluntly, Huang Taiji wanted to act arbitrarily, but Mang Gurtai blocked the way, and was caught again, taking the opportunity to beat him.
It's a struggle. If you can't win, then fight. If you can't, then give up.
There are many ways to fight.
Mang Gurtai, even Mang can't do it.
His choice was to explode right then and there. In front of a group of nobles, he raised his knife and glared at him. He scolded Huang Taiji. He just pulled out the knife while cursing, but he didn't dare to stab it out.
If the knife draws blood and draws blood, one of them will definitely die.
Sometimes more die.
Last winter, Mang Gurtai and his brother Dege died suddenly of a strange disease that made them unable to speak. Their sister Mang Guji was immediately revealed to be involved in Mang Gurtai's plot to rebel, saying that they planned to hold a Hongmen banquet and drug Huang Taiji to death.
He was immediately executed.
Let’s just say, if two good brothers Amin and Mang Gurtai were put on the scale, and a three-hundred-pound bone and half a brain were added to the scale, what kind of smart younger brother would they be able to teach in terms of behavior?
Until now, Azig has not tortured himself to death, nor has he thought about becoming a king on his own. This is all because his mother, Abahai, has good genes.
The three brothers Azig, Dorgon, and Duduo are the most powerful in this regard. They imitate each other.
Amin's arrogance and Mang Gurtai's madness are all present in Azig.
The most important thing is that these two people are not full of shortcomings. They have rich combat experience and their military capabilities are not bad.
Azig also learned the same thing.
After hearing the reply from Guihua City, the enemy across Manhan Mountain asked him to wait and not run away.
Azig's heart skipped a beat.
There is no doubt that the situation is different from what he thought.
But this is definitely not his problem. Dorgon will not lie to him about Yang Qi's character. It must be that the situation on Yang Qi's side has changed before the dispatch of troops.
Azig was just a little reckless, not really a fool.
Yang Qi from Guihua City dared to send this letter, so he obviously must have something to rely on. There is no signature on the letter, so it may not be Yang Qi's reply. Instead, it may be Liu Chengzong or Ming Dynasty who sent reinforcements to Monan.
Among them, there has been no change in Mingbian recently, so it is most likely that Liu Chengzong sent additional reinforcements to Monan.
In short, as far as Azige is concerned, no matter what Guihua City relies on, he must treat it with caution.
The most prudent way is for the main force to leave quickly and not to be surrounded by others in the wilderness.
Although the Later Jin Army was good at field combat, their strength was in mobile combat rather than in imposing formations for tough battles.
Because a tough battle sounds good, and it seems very brave and powerful.
In fact, it is a helpless move by a party that is strategically at a disadvantage.
The border troops of the Ming Dynasty always fight tough battles. The few people they have are distributed along the long border, which always allows people to concentrate rather than disperse.
The Jin Army was different. Their battlefield environment was on the outside. This determined that the Eight Banners generals who easily fought with the Ming Army in the field without a strength advantage were all notorious fools.
"This letter is not as chatty as the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. Most of them are barbarians under Liu Chengzong."
Azig easily made a guess and decided not to fight him but to go inside to avoid the barbarians.
They have a certain intelligence base on the Marshal's Mansion. Liu Chengzong's name is well-known in the north, and his origin is very clear. He was a barbarian who was a rogue bandit from the northwest and became a bandit in the northwest.
Those rogue bandits were also enemies of the Ming Dynasty, so they went to the border to hide, so that the people in the Marshal's Mansion could not find them, and at the same time, the Ming border army was overwhelmed, killing two birds with one stone.
Immediately, Azig made troop deployment and gathered the army in the east of Yunzhou.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! With seven flags of two yellow, two white, two red and blue, troops and horses were divided into three groups from the east of Yunzhou to the border.
Azige and the Eight Banners nobles he led are very familiar with the road here. Two years ago, they followed Huang Taiji to break through here and fought a battle with Kong Dengke's Zhongquan camp at Longmen Station and killed More than a thousand people died, and more than a thousand people died.
The Xianglan Banner was led by Brother Zhenfei Yanggu of Gushan'e, who bluffed outside the border and retreated eastward. At the same time, he sent people to inform Shenyang of the changes in Guihua City.
This battle is particularly important for the newly born Bad Qing Gu Lun, so the deployment is systematic. In the west, Azige leads the army from Xuanda, and in the north there is a group of troops harassing Liaoxi, and Huang Taiji's army is also pressing westward. , to contain Guan Ning’s soldiers and horses.
It's just that Azig is the main attacker.
On the other side, the person who replied to Azig was Liu Chengzong.
As soon as he got the accurate news from Subadil about Hou Jin's dispatch of troops, he was dispatching troops and generals while controlling the Second Brigade's offensive against Yansui Town, when he received Azig's letter of challenge.
Looking at Azig's arrogant and domineering tone in the letter, how could Liu Shishi have endured this injustice for Yang Qi after seven years of military service?
Soldiers and horses were ordered on the spot, and more than ten thousand cavalry were sent eastward from Yanmen Town to search for traces of the enemy in the Monan grassland.
Of course, this regiment of 230,000 households led by Erlinchen, Sa Nangtai Ji, and Gao Xian was not ordered to fight with the Jin army, but to occupy territory as Tangbao cavalry.
Because Liu Chengzong did not understand the topography and geography of Monan, even the 230,000 households under his command in Monan lacked understanding of the east.
Even if he knew that the Jin army was attacking, he would not be able to throw out all his main troops in a swarm.
We can only send Erlinchen and others to explore the road first, find out the general direction of the enemy, and then make a plan to attack in sequence.
Immediately, an encounter broke out between Yanmen Town's Tutaiji and Houjin's forward battalion.
This was actually an accident.
Liu Chengzong didn't even expect that Guitu Taiji would take action directly.
As soon as he received the news of fighting on the front line in Guihua City, he led his army to Manhan Mountain to support the front line at any time. At the same time, he received a report on the results of the battle from Qututaiji.
Killed one hundred and twenty enemies, captured thirty-three, obtained more than one hundred sets of armor, and one hundred and ninety-three war horses.
Seventy-two of our own men were killed and forty-four horses were lost.
In the words of Zhang Xianzhong, the Minister of Li Yamen: He beat the shit out of him.
Three thousand against five hundred. This result basically means that both sides will suffer equal casualties during the battle.
It's just that there are few people, and some casualties were suffered when breaking out and being pursued.
Liu Chengzong immediately ordered the Chahar camp to be transferred back to Ulanqab, and asked Qututaiji to come back and explain how the battle was fought.
Looking at the results alone, he thought that the Hou Jin army discovered the Chahar camp first and launched a surprise attack on them.
In Jining Yamen, Ulanqab, Yanmen Town, Liu Chengzong saw Guitu Taiji who had fought a battle.
Knowing that the battle had been disgraceful, Gututaiji went to the Chinese army to pay homage to Liu Chengzong with a frown on his face, and even asked someone to present him with a set of armored soldiers and two horses.
It was only then that Liu Shishi realized that the Chahar Battalion was, well, how should I put it... versatile in dealing with the 500-year-old Jin Army.
They carried more equipment on two horses than three Chahar cavalrymen, even taking into account various situations.
The armor is nothing special, just cotton armor and cloth-covered iron armor, and the bowl is a Mongolian-style ribbed helmet.
One or two horizontal edges are forged on the armor leaves of the bowl, which is different from the oval-shaped bowl of the Ming army.
It is when forging the head armor piece that horizontal ribs are forged.
Sometimes it is divided into two parts, and sometimes it is forged in one piece. There is no difference between the two in terms of defense.
The one-piece forged armor looks better, but it is more laborious to forge and more difficult to maintain. It usually appears on the heads of nobles.
Because it destroys the helmet with one strike of the axe. If the person is fine with the split-flap helmet, he can go back and remove the damaged armor plate and replace it with another leaf that can still be used. Most of them are used by grassroots soldiers.
Most of the Ming Dynasty helmets were round helmets, with a slightly higher top and a slightly larger internal space.
They had buns, hair scarves, and pointed bowls that were uncomfortable to wear, but the Mongolian soldiers and Hou Jin soldiers with braided hair had no such worries.
The tops of these captured angular helmets and helmet guns were decorated with gourd pancake-shaped iron sheets.
However, weapons such as armor, spears, long knives and sabers were the most common items captured.
Other than that, the equipment he carries is a bit weird.
One bow, one bow bag, and one multi-layer quiver, which can hold seven or eight regular arrows and three special arrows.
But there are a total of seventy arrows of two or three weights in a set of equipment, sixty of which are tied to the back of the second horse with hemp ropes.
There were also forty hemp ropes, several sacks, and a thick pile strung together, all hung on the back of the second horse.
In addition to the tools, there are a thick-backed dagger, an axe, a sickle, an iron hook, a whip, a short spear, and four steel drills.
There are also other messy tents, fire sickles, arrow ends and other small odds and ends.
Seeing these things, Liu Shizi and the generals secretly sighed.
Zhang Xianzhong looked at it again and again, with a confused look on his face, and said to Liu Shishi: "Commander, what are they doing with these things?"
After saying that, he touched Koututaiji with his arm and said: "The stuff of this Centurion is enough for your armed commander-in-chief."
Liu Shizi was also confused. It was hard to say that what Cantu was fighting was an elite force, but more like wiping out a professional robbery gang.
Let’s just say that it’s understandable for an elite cavalryman to carry fifteen pounds of arrows.
But who is a good person who brings several sacks and twenty pounds of rope?
"They are not here to attack Guihua City. Azig's challenge letter is just to hold back the Monan Governor's Mansion so as not to disturb his troops. Look at this equipment."
Liu Chengzong said to himself that it was good that he was here, otherwise if Yang Qi were here, he would probably be fooled.
It was not because he was smarter than Yang Qi, but without him leading the troops, Qututaiji would not have the confidence to fight, and naturally there would be no such capture.
If he hadn't seen these special attack equipment for looting, Liu Shishi would have thought that Azig really wanted to fight Monan.
He pointed to the ground, where various objects were placed on the tent.
"The thick-backed hand knife used to open the way in the wilderness, the iron hook used to climb the city wall, the rope used to tie people and animals, the short spear used to throw, the steel drill used to pry the city wall, break the door, and the sickle used to harvest grain."
Originally, Zhututaiji and some generals were confused about the purpose of the Hou Jin vanguard army carrying these things.
But after Liu Shizi mentioned it in detail, and the functions and scenes matched up, I understood everything.
What the hell is he called the top robber? All the situations that Kou Bian will face in the future have been taken into consideration.
The generals at all levels of the Marshal's Army did not have such rich experience in chiseling the Great Wall, and the old Northern captive like Gututaiji was also far behind.
Wai Liangzi, the officer in the main barracks of the First Brigade behind Gao Yingdeng, couldn't help but sigh: "The Tatars from the East are really good at plundering."
Liu Shizi also lamented in his heart that the Houjin gang, which has been engaged in robbery for eighteen years, has a deep foundation.
Hearing Wai Liangzi's emotion about his colleague's business ability, he couldn't help but look at him sideways and said with a smile: "When we are three people, we must have my teacher. Don't underestimate the heroes of the world."
After making a joke, Liu Chengzong said seriously: "Quickly report the news that the Donglu are about to enter the border to Fu Zongbing of Xuanfu. We will also move to the east. I want to see why he can get in but can't get out.
manage!"
"Block the outside of the border wall and trap them to death in the capital!"