Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 1018
What should I do next?
Dai Shan is now regarded as the oldest person in the entire Qing Dynasty. He followed Nurhaci to conquer the White Mountains and Black Waters, and assisted Huang Taiji in attacking North Korea and Mongolia, and broke into the capital to sack the capital. It can be said that he has been in battle for a long time and is used to strong winds and waves. , and in the thrilling power struggle, nerves tougher than iron wire were honed.Huang Taiji asked him to lead Zhenghongqi and stay in Shenyang. On the one hand, he did not want this old brother to compete for credit anymore. Secondly, he also took a fancy to his stability and resourcefulness. The army moved south and Shenyang was empty. Only Daishan could control the situation. , and Daishan is loyal enough to himself, so he can be said to be the best person to look after the house.Before leaving, Huang Taiji ordered that during his campaign south, all domestic affairs would be decided by Daishan. It can be imagined that he trusted Daishan.

But now Daishan doesn't know what to do.

He is used to strong winds and waves, but since Nurhachi raised his troops, the Qing Dynasty has never tried the situation where the main force was wiped out, leaving only a group of old, weak and disabled soldiers trapped in the city of sorrow!The current situation is more than a hundred times worse than the previous Battle of Salhu!The Battle of Sarhu was very dangerous. 10,000+ troops attacked from multiple directions at the same time, and they had the potential to strangle the new Jianzhou regime to death. Hou Jin Jianer, who is also very hardworking, let you come and go, I will only go all the way, and a swift and violent counterattack wiped out the entire Ming army!What now?What else is there in Qing Dynasty now? The civil and military talents accumulated in more than 30 years have almost been wiped out. 10,000+ elite soldiers are left with only an incomplete Zhenghongqi. The entire country is so empty that it cannot be empty anymore. What should they do?
"The Ming army will never let us go!" Mang Gurtai said with fear. "We killed so many of them and even captured their capital. They will never let us go! They have The powerful navy can attack Liaodong at any time. Once their fleet approaches Liaodong, we will be completely finished!"

Daishan was restless and asked, "What do you think?"

Mang Gurtai gritted his teeth and said, "Second brother, let's run away!"

Daishan's expression suddenly became extremely stern, and he shouted: "Do you know what you are talking about!?"

Mang Gurtai also went all out, and said loudly: "Second brother, I'm afraid they won't be able to return. The Ming army may come over at any time. We can't keep this piece of foundation. Hurry up and take your tribe and flee. How far can you escape?" Flee to a place where the Ming army can't find us, this is the only way out!"

Dai Shan slapped the table with his palm, and roared: "Enough! Fourth, I think you are completely crazy! Father, uncles, and us brothers, how many people died and how much blood was shed before we beat you down!" This is the dirt road that our Bannermen live on. I promised Lao Ba that I would protect this piece of land for him! Not only did you not help me, but you are also shaking the morale of the army here. Believe it or not, I will punish you for disturbing the morale of the army. I'm going to throw you into prison!"

Mang Gurtai sneered: "Disturb the morale of the army? Do you still need me to disturb it? The morale of the army has long been disturbed!"

He hissed wildly: "Second brother, I'm not alarmist. Liaodong really has no place for us. If we can't move to other places as soon as possible before the Ming army has launched a full-scale attack on us, we will really die." will be wiped out!"

The mournful hiss resounded through the mansion, making every guard shudder.

In the end, neither of the brothers could convince the other, and they broke up unhappy.

Although Daishan ordered to keep it strictly confidential, the news that Mang Gurtai escaped alone was soon leaked out. Rumors suddenly spread in Shenyang City, and people were in chaos!From the princes and nobles to the servants, everyone was in panic, and the ominous premonition of impending disaster was getting stronger and stronger.Even Concubine Zhuang came to see Daishan in person with a big belly and asked him about the situation in the court. Concubine Zhuang was already six months pregnant and her mobility was quite inconvenient. She usually stayed in the deep palace and did not see people easily. Now that she came here in person, I can only say that she was really panicked.Daishan spent a lot of effort to calm Concubine Zhuang down. At the same time, he asked someone to write an announcement and post it. In the announcement, he said that Mang Gurtai did not escape, but was disguised for important reasons. I left urgently and returned to Shenyang, so please don’t misunderstand me.After a flurry of fussing, he finally calmed down people's hearts and exhausted Daishan.

But soon, his hard work was in vain.

Three days later, the captain of the soldiers broke into Daishan's bedroom and woke him up. He reported to him in a trembling voice: "The people from Zhenglan Banner... are running away!"

Dai Shan jumped up violently: "Going to run? Okay, why do you want to run?"

The deputy head of the army said: "I heard that after the fourth prince returned to the mansion, he ordered all the flagmen of the Zhenglan Banner to pack their luggage and said that they would take them to leave Shenyang and settle in a safe place. Prepared quietly, now that the preparations are complete, they follow the Fourth Prince out of the city, not knowing where they want to go!"

The veins on Daishan's forehead were throbbing: "He...he must be crazy, he must be crazy!" Hastily put on his battle clothes, rushed out of the palace, and rode straight to the city gate.When he arrived at the city gate panting, almost all the people in Zhenglan Banner had left the city.Dai Shan chased him out and took a look, and the scene in front of him made him sad: Zhenglan Banner, regardless of gender, age, and age, all carried weapons. Not many strong!Really not many.In the past few years, there have been several battles with the Ming Dynasty's new army. Every time Zhenglan Banner suffered the heaviest loss, the young and strong suffered very heavy losses. When going south, Mang Gurtai made a general mobilization to squeeze the potential of the entire Zhenglan Banner. Reaching the limit...Unfortunately, all the seven thousand young and strong were buried in the Neiguan battlefield. Zhenglan Qi, who was once strong and strong, now only has the old, weak, women and children left!

Seeing Daishan and his men chasing after him, Zhenglan Banner stopped. Mang Gurtai led his few remaining white-armored soldiers to ride up to meet him, and bowed his hand to Daishan, which was quite polite.But Dai Shan was about to explode now, he didn't care about etiquette at all, he just stared at Mang Gurtai, and asked sharply, "Fourth, what on earth does Dai want to do?"

Manggurtai said, "Run for your life."

Daishan shouted angrily: "It doesn't matter if you run away, the whole of Shenyang has made you panic! Don't you even have the courage to stay and fight side by side with me!?"

Mang Gurtai looked bitter and smiled miserably: "Fight side by side? Second brother, we have no chance to fight side by side! Those villains will not give us a chance to rush in front of them. Our spears have not yet stabbed theirs. In front of us, the lead bullets fired from their muskets smashed us into pieces!" He pointed at the cowardly old women in Lan Banner and said loudly: "They handed over their nephews and brothers to me and asked me to take them. I entered the pass to hunt for military exploits. I was incompetent and failed to bring their relatives back. I deserve to die! Now I no longer have the courage and belief to continue fighting. I just want to take them to escape to Ninggu Pagoda, deep in the mountains and old forests. Live together in Zhongjie Village and escape the coming disaster! I can’t let the soldiers of Zhenglan Banner die in silence, let alone let their parents, wives, children, and brothers bleed after they have shed their tears! Second brother, if If you think I did something wrong, just kill me, I will never fight back, but I beg you, let them go, they have the right to live!"

I don't know who took the lead, 4 to [-] thousand people in Zhenglan Banner knelt down in unison, they didn't speak, just knelt like this, looking at Daishan with pleading.Dai Shan was really angry just now and wanted to kill Mang Gurtai, and use his head to calm the army's heart, but looking at those faces, which may be old or immature, but full of despair, the knife in the scabbard does not matter. I can't pull it out no matter what.He asked painfully: "Is it true that we can't stay here? We still have a group of elite soldiers, tens of thousands of Guanning troops, and even more Shanhaixiong troops to defend us. We..."

Mang Gurtai shook his head: "It's meaningless, second brother, what you said is meaningless! Shanhaiguan can't last a few days in front of the overwhelming artillery fire of the new army. Appearing outside Shanhaiguan City, they will immediately open the door to welcome them in, change the flag, and then act as the vanguard to lead the new army and come straight to Shenyang! Run away, second brother, if you don’t escape, there will be no chance!”

Daishan sighed sadly: "I can't leave. I want to keep this inheritance for Lao Ba. I promised him..."

In the end, Daishan still failed to stop Mang Gurtai, and could only watch as he led the old, weak, women and children of Zhenglan Banner, riding horses and driving a cart, disappearing at the end of the horizon.A general asked for instructions whether to pursue, but Daishan refused.He knew Mang Gurtai's character. To put it mildly, it was called perseverance, but to put it poorly, he was stubborn. Once he made up his mind, he would not make any changes. He had already made up his mind to leave, and there was no point in pursuing him. If you use it, it will bring back a bunch of corpses at most.Forget it, the bannermen have shed enough blood, so stop killing each other and let them go!Moreover, Daishan is also preparing for the worst: If what Mang Gurtai said is true and the Ming army comes to Shenyang, then their bannermen will be completely finished!Letting Mang Gurtai go can be regarded as preserving a trace of blood for the banner people. Otherwise, if the clan is really exterminated, how can he have the face to meet Nurhaci?

Zhenglan Banner started its own great migration in this way.Under the leadership of Manggurtai, they went north all the way, eating and sleeping in the wind, trying their best to borrow and raise food in places where there are people, and trying to fish and hunt in places where there are no people. .Along the way, people kept falling behind or died of illness and starvation, but there were also people who joined the fleeing army --- they were not the only ones who saw that the situation was not good, and there were not a few clever bannermen.In this way, stumbled, they arrived in Heilongjiang and entered the settlement of the Sauron tribe.This was originally a good place for the Qing Dynasty to recruit soldiers, and the famous Sauron dead soldiers came from here.But now it is no longer peaceful here, and various parts of Sauron are divided into the Qing Dynasty faction and the Ming Dynasty faction, and they are fighting.At the beginning, the Protestant faction had the absolute upper hand, who made Daming not live up to it?The boss didn't live up to it, and the younger brother couldn't do anything about it, but after the tiger soldiers who secretly returned from the pass spread the news of the defeat, the forces of the Pro-Ming faction began to expand rapidly, and more and more Saurons believed that they should join Daming. But he fought for Ming Dynasty in exchange for a better life.Now it's the Tingqing faction's turn to be unlucky. The Tingming faction has bloodbathed many of their villages and robbed them of their livestock. Gifts such as animal skins came to ask for an audience, and asked Mangurtai to be the master for them.

Of course, it was impossible for Mangurtai to stop and make decisions for them. He used his wrists to annex these tribes in twos and threes, which greatly supplemented the population of Zhenglan Banner, and also solved many Ming faction villages by the way. , Robbed a lot of young and strong as slaves, then crossed Heilongjiang, and continued to flee north.

Finally, the fleeing army settled down in the Siberian plains.They ran too far, and the conditions in the area where they lived were so bad that the Ming army was unable to chase them down here, but they took root here.But the Siberian Plain is not a land without owner. The mighty Cossacks have expanded their sphere of influence here. The Zhenglan Banner entered rashly, and soon a fierce conflict broke out with the Cossacks. The war was inevitable.However, the mighty Manchurian warriors were not afraid of these red-haired warriors. The skills honed in the fight against the new Ming army were displayed here to the fullest, hoisting the Cossacks up and beating them time and time again.Seeing their strength, some weak ethnic groups living in this area also took the initiative to join them, making this bannerman stronger and stronger.

The bannermen who stayed in Shenyang did not have such a good life.

(End of this chapter)