Dashun Yongchang

At about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, Li Zicheng saw Zhu Cihong and Chen Mingxia off in front of the camp gate. He took Zhu Cihong and said to Li Xi: "Since I am a brother, Cihong is my nephew. You are my son. He is your younger brother. Along the way, you must take good care of your younger brother, if anything goes wrong, don't blame your father for being rude to you. "

Li Xi hurriedly cupped his hands to Li Zicheng and said, "The child will definitely live up to his father's entrustment, take good care of...um, brother."

Li Zicheng turned his head to Zhu Cihong who was wearing sackcloth and filial piety and said: "Li Xi is my son, if you regard me as your uncle, then you should respect him as your brother."

Under Li Zicheng's gaze, Zhu Cihong subconsciously raised his hand to Li Xi and said, "I've seen you, brother."

Seeing this, Li Xi hurriedly returned the salute, but the generals and officials nearby were speechless watching this scene, not knowing how to evaluate this scene.Li Shichun couldn't bear to see the prince being wronged again, so he couldn't help shouting to Li Zicheng: "Your Majesty, it's getting late, if you want to get to Funing tonight, you have to start as soon as possible."

Li Zicheng looked at him, then at the quiet civil and military officials around him, and motioned to the people around him to bring a docile mare over, and then helped Zhu Cihong to get on the horse, then stepped back and said, "Go Well, when I return to Beijing in a few days, I will personally mourn for your parents."

Zhu Cihong left the Shanhaiguan camp on a horse in a daze. To be able to serve his father and make sacrifices is his only goal at present.Although Li Zicheng also claimed to offer sacrifices to his father after conquering Beijing, he did not let himself, the prince and his younger brothers, not even the clan attend. In the end, no one came to the three-day sacrifice. After the sacrifice, the coffins of the father and mother were randomly placed by the Jinshui River, and then Li Zicheng was busy with enthronement and the Eastern Expedition, and no one cared about the funeral. .

Zhu Cihong's hatred for Li Zicheng was not because the other party took away the Great Ming Dynasty, but because he hated the other party for treating his parents' remains so harshly.You took away my family and buried my parents properly, can't you?That's probably the resentment.

But now, Li Zicheng personally overturned the case for his father, thinking that his father was not the king who subjugated the country, but that the Ming Dynasty was destroyed by the invasion of the slaves and the oppression of the people by corrupt officials. This sounded to eliminate most of the doubts in his stomach. Resentful.

Although in private, teachers and other people around him kept instilling in him that the demise of Daming was all due to the rebellion of the peasants, and his father governed the country with all his clothes and food, but in the end these gangs of rebels brought chaos to the world.It's just that he has never understood why there are so many rebels in the world because his father is so diligent and caring for the people.

It's just that it's not easy for him to ask his teacher and those civil servants this question, but Li Zicheng's words yesterday made him wake up.It is true that the father is diligent and loving the people, but the corrupt officials below are too bad, oppressing the common people into rebels, this is the truth of the demise of Ming Dynasty.

When the Dashun army besieged the capital, the father rang the Jingyang bell and no one came to escort him, the Dashun army entered the capital, and the officials in the capital went out to greet him, and when the father offered sacrifices, no one offered incense, Zhu Cihong thought. I am even more convinced that what Li Zicheng said yesterday is that corrupt officials have harmed my family.Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look back, seeing Li Zicheng standing far away in front of the camp gate, he couldn't help but bowed his hands to him sincerely.

No.16 Chapter Reply Letter

After taking away these clans and civil officials who could not fight, and sending away a group of restless surrendered troops, Li Zicheng finally felt a little more relaxed.Unlike the real deity who was lucky, the current Li Zicheng knew very well that Wu Sangui could no longer surrender himself, or that he really wanted to be a loyal minister of Ming Dynasty.

Under the oppression of the superior forces of the Manchu Qing, Wu Sangui still had to kneel in the end. Therefore, putting such a group of Ming clan and surrender ministers on the front line, in addition to sending the Manchu Qing the title of righteousness, is hindering the speed of his own escape. .

First get these cumbersome things back to Beijing, and then he has a lot more room for choice. Even if he is really defeated by the Man Qing and Wu Sangui, the opponent will not be able to quickly obtain the banner of calling on the northern gentry.

Conversely, if he can successfully return to Beijing and take the prince south, he will have a protective card.The southern gentry called on the officials and the people to attack themselves, which was nothing more than the two slogans of defending their hometown and avenging the emperor of tomorrow. As long as the prince can be by his side, the latter slogan will generally not be used.

After thinking about this, Li Zicheng no longer considered the opinions of the southern gentry, and the most important thing now is to delay the joint cooperation between Man Qing and Wu Sangui.As long as the Manchus did not join forces with the Guanning Army to launch an attack on the Dashun Army when they arrived, it would be impossible for them to reach an attack sequence in a short time. After all, Wu Sangui has no intention of handing over all his strength, otherwise he would And he wouldn't regret betraying Dashun halfway.

While Li Zicheng was standing there thinking about what to do next, Song Xiance walked up to him and reported in a low voice, "Your Majesty, Sun Youbai has already confessed everything honestly. It seems that the interior of Jiannu is not a solid piece of iron. .”

Li Zicheng quickly turned to him and said, "Oh, where is this guy? Take him to the big tent, and I will ask him carefully."

Song Xiance followed behind Li Zicheng and said: "I have already recorded the record, Your Majesty can read it first, and I will go and bring him before Your Majesty..."

A quarter of an hour later, in Li Zicheng's big tent, Li Zicheng, who was sitting behind the big case, had already read the transcript in his hand. After all, Sun Youbai was just a Ming deputy guard who had just surrendered to the Manchus. There is also no intelligence inside Manchuria.

There are too many Liaodong Ming troops who surrendered to Manchuria, and now they have formed a small circle of their own in the Qing Dynasty. These generals of the Ming army who surrendered still want to form cliques, and they have to find out how many Aixinjueluo princes Otherwise, if you follow the wrong person, you will lose your head.

For example, Sun Youbai dared to point out Guerjia Tulai because Tulai belonged to Baoxiao Emperor Fulin's faction, while he himself followed the Regent Dorgon's faction.Therefore, even if the two were sent back, Tulai could not do anything to him, because Dorgon and his colleagues in the Guan Ning Army would protect him.

It was precisely because he was sent to Guarja Tulai's subordinates that he could know more about the inside story of the battle between the two yellow flags and the two white flags for the throne.Because, the person who asked him to stare at Tulai once told him briefly why the Ninth Prince asked him to stare at Tulai.In fact, Sun Youbai thinks that he may not be the only one watching Tulai, the Ninth Prince must have sent other people to watch Tulai to prevent him from plotting wrongdoing.

Li Zicheng put down the note in his hand, looked at Sun Youbai who was honestly kneeling on the ground and dared not look up, and asked, "You said, when discussing who should be the emperor, the general of the Zhenghuang Banner once drew his sword at Brother Dorgon, and Dorgon did it." Decided to take a step back and let Fulin take the throne? Is this true?"

Sun Youbai lowered his head and replied honestly: "Indeed, the two yellow flags have been circulated in private, and it is said that Sony, Tan Tai, Tulai, Gong Adai, Xihan, and Obai are worthy of the late emperor's loyal ministers, and that the two yellow flags are of the same mind. , we must try our best to ensure that Fulin becomes the emperor, in order to repay the kindness of the late emperor..."

Li Zicheng stroked his beard and thought for a moment, and said with a smile: "I am afraid that the two yellow flags were spread on purpose by himself, so as to deter the Dorgon brothers from trying to seize the throne by violence. From this point of view, the two white flags and the The two yellow flags are really like fire and water."

Sun Youbai lowered his head and didn't dare to answer, Li Zicheng looked around and said, "Go get Sun Shoubei a chair, let him sit and talk to me, you really have no eyesight."

Following the soldiers in the tent hurriedly brought a Mazha, let Sun Youbai sit down, and Li Zicheng, who sat on the chair and looked down at him, continued: "Since you can answer honestly, I will not make things difficult for you. I I heard that Dorgon is about to arrive at Shanhaiguan, so please send him a message for me."

Sun Youbai hurriedly agreed respectfully: "The villain will definitely bring His Majesty's words to the Nine Kings verbatim."

Li Zicheng asked other soldiers to go out to guard, leaving only Song Xiance, and then said sincerely to Sun Youbai: "On the 27th of the first lunar month, your country once wrote a letter to me in the name of Fulin. It seems that this letter It should be the meaning of Dorgon.

The letter said: I am writing a letter, and I want to work together with you, and take the Central Plains.I don't know what respect means.

I have been busy with military affairs before, so I have no time to reply to Dorgon.Then you can bring me a message to him: I actually wanted to discuss with the Nine Kings a long time ago.China is so big that I, a commoner, can occupy it.I am not the great ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, and I don't have such famous generals as Xu Da and Chang Yuchun under my command, so it's so difficult to be in the world.

I am thirty-nine years old this year, and I have no children under my knees. Even if I conquer the world, who can I let inherit it?According to my wish, in fact, being able to occupy Shaanxi is already enough.However, all of my subordinates want to build a country, so I have no choice but to swear to my teacher to march eastward, relying on God's love, I ignore my teacher and go straight to the capital, and receive the destiny of heaven to caress Fang Xia.

However, Wu Sangui, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty, and Gaodi, the commander-in-chief of Shanhaiguan, did not know the destiny and the people's hearts. They wanted to bring China and your country into disputes again for their own selfishness. Er Liao, in order to eliminate the military disasters of the two countries, it is always good.

It's just that I raised my troops before Shanhaiguan, but I suddenly heard that the Nine Kings had already led their troops south.I have doubts and asked the Nine Kings, did the Nine Kings help me Dashun to destroy Wu Sangui and Gao Er's second rebellious minister?Or did you listen to the nonsense of the two traitors and want to start a war with me, Dashun? "

Li Zicheng used the excuse that Wu Sangui was between the Dashun Army and the Qing Army, so as not to intercept the letter for him, so Sun Youbai kept it in his mind.Sun Youbai's brain is still good, and in order to survive, his memory has improved a lot compared to usual.After asking Sun Youbai to repeat it, Li Zicheng nodded in satisfaction and said to Song Xiance: "Take a horse with him and send it to Jiumenkou, and let him go home."

Just as Song Xiance agreed, Li Zicheng casually said to the ecstatic Sun Youbai: "After meeting the Nine Kings, by the way, ask him if he wants to go back dead or alive. It is a small gift from me to the Nine Kings."

Sun Youbai mumbled and didn't dare to respond, Li Zicheng took a deep look at him, then stopped talking, and waved Song Xiance to take Sun Youbai out.After a while, Song Xiance returned to the big tent alone, and hurriedly said to Li Zicheng who was sitting behind the big case: "Your Majesty, Tulai must not be killed, otherwise it would be cheaper for Dorgon. The minister thinks that he should be let go. , so as to contain Dorgon."

Li Zicheng nodded, then shook his head and said: "Put it back like this, I'm afraid it won't have any effect. These slaves started from a weak state, and they understand better than other peoples. Only when they form a solid group can they rely on the group's strength." Occupy this rich land in the Northeast under shelter, so that individuals can live.

Although Tulai was squeezed out by Dorgon and deliberately sent him to perform this dangerous task, Tulai still did his best to complete it.This shows that he regards the interests of the Manchus higher than his own life.To deal with such people, it is ineffective to use any divisive tactics, because they have a so-called overall situation view.

They will not give up their beliefs unless we can prove that their so-called overall situation is actually leading the entire nation into a greater disaster. "

After Song Xiance heard these words, he couldn't help but also said with deep emotion: "Indeed, our Ming Dynasty has a population of billions of trillions, with ten times the military strength and a hundred times the money and food of the Jiannu, but we have repeatedly retreated against the Jiannu. It’s still because each army has its own thoughts and cannot work together. Jiannu’s rise in the Northeast was not a fluke.”

Li Zicheng glanced at him, then changed his words: "The Manchus are just a barbarian people after all. Although they learn the culture of the Central Plains, they can't change their nature after all. That is, the interests of the tribe are greater than the interests of the nation.

The two generations of heroes, Laonu and Huang Taiji, used the Eight Banners to destroy the Jurchen's tribal concept, but the Jurchens regarded the banner as a tribe and pledged their allegiance.Therefore, although Tulai is willing to sacrifice his life for the great cause of Manchuria, he may not be willing to sacrifice the interests of the two yellow flags for the great cause of Manchuria.

If you want Tulai to contain Dorgon, you may have to start with the struggle for imperial power between the two yellow flags and the two white flags.You go and bring Tulai here, and let me try to test him. "

When Song Xiance arrived at the big tent with Guarja Tulai, it was almost dusk, and Li Zicheng was ordering his soldiers to kill two-chambered sheep, and while roasting meat, he asked people to make haggis soup.

Tulai, who was released from the shackles, was not polite, took a bowl of haggis soup and a roasted leg of lamb and started to eat.Li Laiheng on the side wanted to get angry when he saw that Tulai was left alone, but Li Zicheng didn't take it seriously, and continued to turn over the mutton skewers in front of him.

Although roasted whole lamb looks more fragrant, it is impossible to roast it in such a wild place without one or two hours of roasting.Therefore, the roast leg of lamb that Tulai ate was actually half-cooked, golden on the outside and bloodshot on the inside.Li Zicheng used to be able to eat this kind of barbecue, but now someone in his body can't eat it.

Therefore, Li Zicheng would rather roast a small piece of lamb tenderloin slowly by himself. Even if there is no cumin, sprinkle some salt, the taste is quite good.In no time, Tulai ate a leg of lamb and drank two bowls of haggis soup.

Seeing this, Li Zicheng handed over the two skewers of mutton he had roasted and asked, "Can I still eat it?"

Tulai glanced at the mutton skewers that Li Zicheng handed over, and then at the whole lamb being roasted by the soldiers, and said with a little disgust: "One more front leg, this one is not enough for the teeth..."

No.17 Chapter Mingyan

Turailian ate two lamb legs and three bowls of haggis soup, and finally hiccupped. Facing the roast lamb leg sent by Li Zicheng again, he finally clasped his fists and saluted: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for letting me be a dead ghost." , I’m already full and can’t eat anymore. I can only thank His Majesty for his kindness.”

Li Zicheng handed the mutton leg to Li Laiheng who was behind him, and then said to Tulai: "A person's appetite is different, so how big is the appetite of the Qing Dynasty? Now the entire Liaodong and Mongolia have been brought under the rule of the Qing Dynasty. Your country still sends troops to Shanhaiguan, so does it mean that your country still has the ambition to annex China?"

Tulai thought for a while, and then said bluntly: "I am satisfied with Liaodong and Mongolia in the Qing Dynasty, and I have no greed for the land of China. But before your Majesty has collected all the land of the Ming Dynasty, he will conquer Shanhaiguan in the east. I have to worry about your majesty's ambitions. In order to prevent your majesty from invading our territory in the name of the Eastern Expedition, our country raised troops outside Shanhaiguan, and it was definitely to invade China."

Li Zicheng did not speak out to expose Tulai's lies, accusing the other party of sending troops southward at the invitation of Sangui in an attempt to seize the land of Hebei.He asked thoughtfully: "So, your country sent troops to Shanhaiguan not to help Wu Sangui, a rebellious minister, but to prevent my Dashun army from leaving the pass?"

Tulai said without hesitation: "Yes, our country has no enmity with Dashun, but we have seven hatreds with Daming. How can our country send troops to help Ming?"

Seeing this, Li Zicheng breathed a sigh of relief and said, "In this way, I understand the difficulties of the nine kings of your country to send troops."

Tulai looked at Li Zicheng in surprise, he really didn't think what he said just now could convince the other party, because it was just arguing.When the Qing army went south, they naturally wanted to take advantage of the Mingshun war.

According to Taizu's theory of cutting down big trees, if Manchuria wants to defeat China, it must constantly weaken the branches of this big tree in China, and finally cut down this big tree.The Dashun army is actually a branch of the big tree of China, and it is still the strongest branch at present. The Qing Dynasty naturally cannot let Dashun easily seize the world of Ming Dynasty.

Just when he was thinking about what Li Zicheng was planning, he heard the other party go on to say: "I have heard that last year, the Khan of your country died, and the Eight Banners almost fought among themselves for the position of Khan. Before succeeding to the throne, the nine kings won the regent and ended the dispute, but it seems that there are still many contradictions within the Eight Banners, so the nine kings are going to send a large army to the south to eliminate internal opposition by means of war.

Looking at it this way, the soldiers of the Nine Kings stationed outside Shanhaiguan will not wait and see, and they will definitely have a fight with me, Dashun.After all, only when Beijing is captured, can the Nine Kings have a reason to move all the Manchus outside the pass to Hebei, and the Eight Banners will no longer be able to resist the Nine Kings' orders.This is an imitation of Dong Zhuo's story of moving the Han Dynasty to Chang'an. "

Tulai originally wanted to refute Li Zicheng, but when he thought about the story of Dong Zhuo moving the capital, he couldn't think of defending the Nine Kings.The Romance of the Three Kingdoms has been read by almost all Manchurians, because this book is used as a teaching material for military use by Manchurians. It contains storylines and strategies, which is very suitable for Manchurians who don't read much.

Tulai didn't connect the Nine Kings' dispatch of troops with Dong Zhuo's story before, that's because it has become a habit for the Qing Dynasty to invade Daming in the south, just like farmers harvesting crops in autumn, forming a fixed thinking.After all, in the past, when the Qing army went south to plunder, there were many benefits and little loss. Therefore, even the children in Shengjing knew that when the family ran out of money, they would clamor to rob Daming.

But now that Li Zicheng has found out about this point, he has to admit that the Nine Kings' Southern Expedition, with all the males in the country, may not just want to compete with Dashun for Beijing, but indeed they will move in after winning the Dashun army. The idea of ​​Hebei.

Because there is really no need to mobilize such a huge force if you really want to fight the Dashun Army. Since the Nine Kings claim to take advantage of the Shunming to fight each other to win the fisherman's profit, they should naturally concentrate the main force of the cavalry to go south quickly instead of bringing so many old and weak The infantry went into battle.In fact, when marching, the Nine Kings also put the old and the weak behind and concentrated the cavalry in front, so that they were able to reach the vicinity of Shanhaiguan so quickly.

It can be seen from this that the Nine Kings really did not intend to let those old and weak clansmen go into battle.In this way, it contrasts the disadvantages of Li Zicheng's words.Tulai glanced at Li Zicheng unconsciously. He heard that when the Dashun army tortured the bureaucrats of the old Ming Dynasty in Beijing, he thought contemptuously that Li Zicheng would not be able to get rid of his habit of banditry after all. As for how wary the Nine Kings are, he still thinks that the Nine Kings sent all their troops to the south out of selfishness.

But the other party guessed the real intention of the Nine Kings to send troops with only a few words of information, which made him look at Li Zicheng again. It really is not a simple person who can conquer Beijing with a commoner.Tulai also began to doubt the various news from Beijing that slandered Shunjun.

Thinking of this, he finally sighed and said honestly to Li Zicheng: "Your Majesty does not need to say this to a dying person. Your Majesty wants to use such words to shake the foreign minister, but the foreign minister is not Ma Chao, and the Nine Kings are not Han Sui." , foreign ministers will not fall for His Majesty's tricks."

Hearing that Tulai began to talk to himself with the story of the Three Kingdoms, Li Zicheng felt that the other party's words were a little insincere. If he really didn't believe his words, he would not have time to recall the story of the Three Kingdoms, but would refute himself bluntly.What's more, what he said was all the truth.

Seeing that Tulai lost the fearlessness he had when he was just brought up, and began to look a little dazed, Li Zicheng continued, "I'm not telling you this to drive a wedge between your country, but because I don't want to be hurt by you." The disaster of pond fish."

Feeling that Tulai didn't seem to understand the idiom he said, Li Zicheng explained: "The fire at the city gate has brought disaster to the fish in the pond. Why should I suffer from Dashun due to internal fighting in your country? I originally wanted to make friends with your country, such as Song Dynasty. Liao also signed a covenant. From then on, the people of the two countries lived and worked in peace and contentment, and there were no more swordsmen in the north.

But the Nine Kings are now taking the opportunity of fighting me to try to clean up the political enemies in the country. I don't care if he wants to go further, this is despising me.I have raised troops for 15 years, but it is not the Taiping Emperor who is good at the hands of women in the deep palace. If the two countries go to war, they will have to die.It's either to destroy my Dashun, or my Dashun destroys your Manqing, there is absolutely no other way in the middle.

So I want to let you go back and let you take a message to the Nine Kings.Don't let the people of the two countries suffer for your own selfishness.If the Nine Kings really intend to reconcile with me, Dashun, then everyone will use the Great Wall as the boundary.

If the Nine Kings are willing to help me exterminate Wu Sangui, a rebellious minister, the population and property in Shanhaiguan will be returned to the Qing Dynasty, and I only want to pass the city.If the Nine Kings refuse to help me, please step back, and I will take Shanhaiguan by myself.If the Nine Kings wholeheartedly want to be an enemy of Dashun, I will retreat to Beijing at most, but in the future I will go to Liaodong to visit the Nine Kings. "

Tulai pondered for a while before realizing that the Shanhaiguan Pass that Li Zicheng said was Yuguan. He pondered for a long time before replying: "Your Majesty's sincerity in looking forward to peace between the two countries is already known by the ministers. However, I am afraid that the foreign ministers cannot say anything about this matter." If His Majesty really wants to release the foreign ministers, the foreign ministers will never dare to conceal His Majesty's sincerity."

Li Zicheng nodded and said: "Today is already late, Li Laiheng, find him a more comfortable tent, and send them to Jiumenkou tomorrow morning."

After Li Laiheng took Tu Lai away, Song Xiance came over and whispered in Li Zicheng's ear: "Ma Shiyao's 5 infantry in the Zuoying camp have been prepared, and the minister has informed them that they will be stationed in Jizhou to guard the food road. No doubt. If His Majesty has no other orders, they will leave the camp in half an hour."

Li Zicheng nodded, and greeted Song Xiance: "The military division has worked hard all day, please sit down and eat something. I don't have any orders."

Song Xiance took the mutton skewers that Li Zicheng handed to him, but he was taken aback for a moment, then sat aside and ate quietly, while the guards beside him scooped up a bowl of haggis soup for him.Not long after, Li Laiheng came back and reported to Li Zicheng: "Tulai has been settled, and a sentry has been set up outside his tent. However, when I left, Tulai also made a request, saying that he would give it to his guards." Bring some food."

Li Zicheng said nonchalantly: "Then lock up all the guards in Tulai and give them a bowl of gruel to drink, a bowl of gruel, understand?"

Li Laiheng thought for a while, nodded and agreed to go on.At this time, Song Xiance, who was sitting beside Li Zicheng, finally couldn't help but said to him: "Since Your Majesty has decided to release him, why not treat him a little better, and let Tulai know His Majesty's kindness."

Li Zicheng glanced at him and said: "You don't understand Manchurians. If I treat Tulai's guards generously, Tulai will not think that this is my kindness, but will think that I am weak and can be bullied. In this way, he may I can't help but support the Nine Kings to fight with Zhen first, and then go back and deal with Wu Sangui."

Looking up at the stars all over the sky, Li Zicheng said quietly again: "Manqing and Guan Ningjun are masters who bully the weak and fear the hard. If you don't show toughness, they will really dare to come up and bite you. However, Manqing is the real wolves, and Guan Ningjun is just an unfamiliar dog. If you want to avoid being attacked and bitten by wolves and dogs together, you must make them feel that the opposite is at least a bear..."

While Li Zicheng was talking with Song Xiance, the main force led by Dorgon camped at Guangning Qiantunwei, a hundred miles away from Shanhaiguan.A total of [-] to [-] cavalry turned a few miles around into a small city.Yesterday, Dorgon received another request letter from Wu Sangui, saying that the Shun army had arrived in front of Shanhaiguan, so Dorgon led the main force to set off early this morning, originally planning to arrive near Shanhaiguan at night.

But when he was marching during the day, he received a letter from Tulai, saying that the Shun army had withdrawn from Pianshi and Nine Gates, and it seemed that he had made peace with Wu Sangui.This made him worry. He stopped the army to set up camp at the front of Guangning, and then sent people to Shanhaiguan to find out if there was a fight.

Chapter 18 Restlessness

In the early morning of April 4, Tulai, who had put his mind to sleep, was woken up by soldiers of the Shun Army and brought to Li Zicheng. The two ate millet porridge, noodles, and mixed vegetables, and had a conversation. Li Zicheng asked someone to send Tulai He went back to the Nine Gates, but he was only given a horse, and his guards followed him on foot.

The dozen or so guards who had been worrying about Angbangzhang Jingtulai last night saw that Shunjun treated them so harshly. The dozen or so guards only got a bowl of porridge, no other food, but unlimited water.These guards all thought that it was Tulai's refusal to surrender to the Shun thief, which made them receive such harsh treatment.

As the most elite soldiers of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, they will resign themselves to their fate at this time. They are all veterans who can kill people without counting on the battlefield. Fate is not good, but he will not make any moves to beg for mercy.

Firstly, the words of the Shunjun around him may not be the same, and secondly, there are companions watching.Since he didn't beg for mercy when he was in solitary confinement, he won't beg for mercy at this time, lest if the begging fails and the rumor spreads, he will harm his family.

It's just that they had already prepared themselves to wait for death, but they didn't expect that they would be fine after dawn, and Shun Jun let them go back.According to Shun Jun, there was no enmity between the Qing Dynasty and Dashun. After all, Dashun was only established for less than a year, and the two sides had never fought in the past. Therefore, Emperor Dashun considered the peaceful coexistence of the two countries, and this time he spared They once, but if the Qing army continued to provoke Dashun, they would not have such preferential treatment next time.

Shun Jun's words could be heard in the ears of this group of Manchurians. After all, there is no concept of nation now, only the concept of country.Taizu sued the heaven and earth with the Seven Great Hatreds that it was the Ming country and not the Dashun that he wanted to attack. From this point of view, it was actually unreasonable for the Qing army to enter the customs and attack Dashun.As for the soldiers of the Dashun Army, they didn't think that the Qing army's entry into the pass and looting Daming had anything to do with them. Didn't we originally want to rebel against Daming?

Ever since, the soldiers of the Shun Army thought that it was not emotionally unbearable to put these Manchus back. Instead, they thought that His Majesty was right. We Dashun and your Qing Dynasty had no enmity, and you wanted to interfere with our attack on the rebels this time Wu Sangui, of course it's your fault.Let me let you go this time, and I will be rude to you when I come back next time.

And the Manchus suddenly felt that the grievances last night were for nothing, and the most unlucky ones were those two colleagues who were stabbed to death by the Shun army during the arrest.Yes, they didn't have to hide in the first place, they came to see Emperor Yongchang generously, and then the other party had to politely let them go, why did they make it so ugly now.Mr. Tulai is just doing a lot of harm.

Especially after they saw Tulai again, they found that the other party had not received any abuse at all, and his face was full of red, and he was full of energy. It was obvious that he had received special preferential treatment last night.But why Shunjun only treated Tulai preferentially, but let them spend the night on the grass cold and hungry.Although the weather in Shanhaiguan has warmed up in late April, the cold wind at night is still quite hard to bear, especially when you are hungry.

The guards who got together last night had a bold idea, "We didn't surrender to the Shun Army, so we didn't get preferential treatment from the Shun Army. So what did Tulai say to the Shun Army last night? "

After walking for 6 or 7 miles, the Shun Army camp was out of sight, and the Shun Army who escorted them pointed to the direction of the Nine Gates, and said goodbye to Tulai and left.At this time, the guard Selt couldn't help but said to Alima beside him: "These southern barbarians are really polite to the adults. We really worried all night for nothing."

Alima's temper became even more irritable, and he didn't even deliberately lower his voice to reply: "My lord is very capable, and he can play anywhere. Those of us who are not capable will have to suffer from hunger. Damn don't go Let’s rest our feet and talk about it. I drank a bowl of porridge this morning for more than a day, and the iron man can’t bear it. There are still more than ten miles ahead, so don’t go until the afternoon..."

As Alima sat on the ground in a fit of anger, a group of people stopped immediately, and now Tulai, who wanted to pretend not to hear, could only dismount and walk over.He glanced at Alima who was sitting on the ground ignoring him, and then at the surrounding guards with wandering eyes, feeling unspeakably depressed.

But at this time, he knew that he really couldn't get angry at Alima, a reckless man, even though he had 4 cattle records in Zhenghuangqi, Alima was the cattle record he owned.However, the relationship between Zhang Jing and Niu Lu is now quite weak, far less than that of Taizu's time.

When Nurhaci established the Eight Banners system, each Niulu was transformed from the tribe, so each Niulu subordinate Ding maintained the allegiance of the tribe to the Niulu Ezhen and various Zhangjing transformed by the patriarch.

However, with the continuous expansion of the sources of the Eight Banners, especially the capture of Jurchens, the transformation of Mongols into Manchuria and the dilution of the tribes in the Eight Banners, the blood and clan connections within the Eight Banners have gradually weakened. It's getting higher and higher.

Especially during the Taizong period, through constant exchange and reorganization, the tribal relationship within the Eight Banners was further destroyed, and the loyalty relationship between the bannermen and the banner owners was established. Not as good as Niu Luerzhen, the direct manager who directly manages the banner people.

Like Arima, the three brothers all show their teeth in the first record, and they really have more respect for this record than he, Ang Bang Zhangjing, who owns the record.Because Tulai can only command them in wartime, and can't control them at all in normal times. Even if the banner owner speaks, he can transfer the Alima brothers to others to fight.

Because there are only 10 places for Yala in one Niulu, all of them are the most skilled martial arts in this Niulu.During the Taizu period, a Niulu was based on 300 households, and 100 to 150 Jiading could be drawn during wartime.After Taizong's adaptation, although the total number of Niu Lu increased, the number of armored soldiers in Niu Lu actually decreased. Now a Niulu can draw 60-70 armored soldiers, which is considered a very powerful Niu Lu.

According to the standard, Yi Niu Lu can produce 10 Yaya La and 40 armored soldiers, which is considered qualified.However, after the Battle of Songjin, many Niulu's fang ya la have lowered their standards, and armored soldiers who have been on the battlefield several times can also be used to fill ba ya la.It is really the two duties of forward and guard that Bai Yala bears, which consumes a lot of these elite soldiers.

Although the Pine Brocade War allowed the Manchus to obtain a lot of soldiers from the Ming Dynasty, the most elite soldiers of the Eight Banners also consumed a lot.For Prince Baylor, the swaying soldiers not only ensured their safety on the battlefield, but also showed their strength.If it weren't for the fact that the two yellow flags had more waving soldiers than the two white flags, the Dorgon brothers would not have given in when they confronted each other in Shenyang Palace that day.

Therefore, in the eyes of the banner owner, certain martial arts fighters are even more valued than those Ezhen and Zhang Jing.Because the former can really save your life at a critical moment.

Of course, the biggest problem now is that Fulin, the owner of the Two Yellow Banners, is too young. Naturally, these two Yellow Banners who have received the kindness of Emperor Taizong don’t have to worry about Fulin not remembering themselves in the future, but for a smug soldier like Alima In other words, their current efforts may be in vain, because it is not Fulin who is talking about merit, but the regent Dorgon.

Tulai can feel the bewilderment and dissatisfaction of the soldiers at the bottom of the Two Yellow Banners. These people are worried that their hard work on the battlefield will be covered up by the Regent, and they are also worried that the Two White Flags will take advantage of the opportunity of war to beat the Two Yellow Flags. They beat the two white flags a lot, and even snatched the opponent's two yellow flags.

Tulai withdrew his gaze, and could only coax the guards around him and said, "It's good to take a break, I don't know if Shunjun's release of us is a trick. But we can't just sit here and waste time. Celt , you go to Jiumen Gate on horseback to look for E Shuo, and ask him to bring a group of horses to pick us up. Others don’t sit still, go and see if there is running water nearby, and bring some branches over, if there are any wild beasts, We can't deal with it with bare hands."