Ashes

The next day, the army marched, divided into three groups, lightly captured Dalinghe and Youtunwei along the way, and joined forces outside Jinzhou City, forming a situation of encirclement on all sides.

After camping, Huang Taiji first ordered to release the [-] Liao soldiers captured on the road, and sent a letter to the eunuch Ji Yong of the Jinzhou Supervising Army and Zhao Ledjiao, the general guard. Mercy, all the captives I captured have been returned to you. After you surrender, I will definitely treat you well.

If they can voluntarily surrender, then everything will be fine. If they refuse to surrender, there will be a lot of golden soldiers among the two thousand Liao soldiers. As long as they enter the city, they should cooperate with the outside and take Jinzhou in one fell swoop.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Ratejiao was a man with a brain and a hard heart. The gates of the city were closed and he refused to accept surrendered troops. Huang Taiji's move failed.

But on the second day, Ji Yong and Zhao Shujiao sent envoys to discuss peace.

"Their play is too fake." As soon as the Jinzhou envoy left, Huang Taiji said, "If you really want to make peace, why would you refuse to accept surrender?"

He was talking to Dorgon beside him, and the rest of the Baylors were arranged to camp around Jinzhou, and only Dorgon followed him.

Dorgon glanced at him, knowing that he was looking for something to say, so he hummed without answering.

Seeing that his expression was indifferent, Huang Taiji sighed slightly: "You don't still hate what happened the night before departure, do you? I did speak a bit harshly that day, but you don't have to read it for so long, it's been so many days, and you You don't care about what you say, and you really put on airs for me?"

In fact, Dorgon didn't mean to be indifferent at all, but he always felt weird and didn't know what to say, so he didn't say anything at all.I always thought that it would be fine in a few days, but I didn't expect that the longer the time, the more awkward the relationship would be.

"I'm just worried about this expedition." Dorgon nonsense said.

"worry about what?"

Although Dorgon is indeed worried a lot, it seems that there are no problems in all aspects at present, so he held back for a long time and spit out: "Their acting is too fake, they are obviously delaying time."

Does he need to say that? Didn't he just say this?Huang Taiji stared at him for a while, then suddenly stood up and walked straight in front of him.

Dorgon's heart beat faster, he picked up the chair without thinking, and took a few steps back, saying incessantly: "Well, let's attack the city in a while, the leader Zhao must have gone to Ningyuan to rescue the soldiers, we can come to rescue them Before we come, attack first to put a little pressure on them, or we can consider simply besieging and not attacking. After all, they still have cannons in the city, and our strong attack will definitely cause damage, but this will not show the military might of my Eight Banners. How about..." Dorgon said, feeling that the chair was too heavy, he simply threw the chair away, keeping a certain distance from Huang Taiji.

Huang Taiji saw that he was avoiding him like a snake and a scorpion, so he had no choice but to stand where he was and not come any closer.So Dorgon also stopped, closed his mouth, and looked at him.

"Finished?" Huang Taiji tilted his head and asked.

Dorgon was stunned for a moment, and opened his mouth, as if he was about to start talking again.

"Okay, don't talk anymore! You're making my head hurt." Huang Taiji quickly stopped him, "Let's talk about something serious."

"Is there anything more important than you blocking someone's door and starting to sharpen your knife?" Dorgon spread his hands.

"For example, I was thinking that even if Doduo goes to the battlefield in the future, he must go with Azig, and you still have to stay by my side."

Dorgon's face was dark: "Are you serious?" He could imagine, if Huang Taiji really did this, what kind of trouble would Duoduo make, and it would not be an exaggeration to go to Fang Jiewa.

Huang Taiji smiled lightly: "Isn't it good to follow me?"

Dorgon also felt that his questioning sentences were very weird, and there was no way to answer them properly.

Huang Taiji's expression suddenly changed, he took a step forward, solemn and solemn.Dorgon was alert and took a step back.

"Dorgon, I know you are an ambitious person." Huang Taiji said seriously, "Although I can't guess why you have this heart since you were young, I think it's a good thing. As a man, you should You have to be ambitious to achieve great things. To be honest, sometimes I am very glad that you are only 16 years old. If you are the same age as me, and if you were the one who was awarded the title of Baylor ten years ago, it is still hard to say who will get the sweat But this is the time, fate, and luck, you have to obey."

Why didn't Dorgon hate that he couldn't be born earlier, even at Azig's age.

Huang Taiji continued: "I think you must not be reconciled to being unknown. If you follow me wholeheartedly, I can lift you up to a very high position and let you flex your muscles to your heart's content and achieve great achievements."

"Wholeheartedly, what is wholeheartedly, how do you want me to be wholeheartedly?" Dorgon had a gloomy look on his face.

"You see what I mean."

"You want me to forget the past for you?"

"It's not for me..." Huang Taiji said coldly, "It's for Da Jin!"

Silence is like a net, covering the two heads, time is stagnant, they stare at each other, as if they have been looking at each other since the beginning of time, even if the years pass, they can't change it.

Dorgon suddenly realized that he could look at Huang Taiji just by raising his eyes slightly. He was no longer looking up when he was young, but he was already so tall. In a few years, he would be as tall as him, right?

A voice broke the silence.

"Big Khan, Big Baylor, Second Baylor, and Three Baylor are asking to see you." Dundari said outside the tent.

They should have come to discuss the timing of the siege.

Huang Taiji raised his voice and said, "Please come in."

He sat back on his seat again, and suddenly said to Dorgon who was still standing there: "But I still hate you being with Duo Duo very much."

Dorgon was startled, before he had time to say anything, several big Baylors had already entered the big tent, so they had to retreat temporarily.

The Eight Banners Army launched an attack, and a fierce battle broke out. The battle was unprecedentedly fierce. Jinzhou City was bombarded with arrows and stones.

From the next day, Huang Taiji ordered the siege without attacking, and the siege lasted for dozens of days.

However, while besieging the city, various troops were sent to investigate the situation of the nearby castles. Most of the Ming army shrank in the second city of Ningjin, so that the remaining smaller castles were almost empty cities, and a large amount of food was left unattended.

Of course, Huang Taiji would not miss this kind of good deed, and immediately sent a grain transportation team to move the grain back, and sent Mangurtai, Jierhalang and others to guard it.On the way, he met reinforcements from Ningyuan and beat them back to Ningyuan.

"There were only 80 to [-] of us walking in front, and their Ming army had tens of thousands of people. We rushed up without saying a word. They didn't dare to fight us at all. When the army arrived, they fled. Hauge also participated in it, and said excitedly as soon as he came back.

Azig who went with him also said: "I thought they had trained some kind of powerful soldiers. I think it was all bragging. They would just hide in the turtle shell and refuse to come out."

What Azig said was that since the siege of the city these days, the Jinzhou defenders have persuaded them to surrender and refused to surrender, and they refused to fight when they were provoked.

On the surface, Huang Taiji praised them happily, but after they dispersed, his face became sad.

This has been deadlocked, and it is not a solution. Seeing the days go by, Jinzhou City is still standing still.

Huang Taiji leaned back on the chair, closed his eyes and meditated, thinking of ways to break this situation.

Suddenly there was something extra on his body, Huang Taiji opened his eyes and saw that it was a thin blanket, and Dorgon was standing beside him.

"If you're tired, you might as well go to rest, how uncomfortable is it to sit and sleep here?" Dorgon said.

Huang Taiji lifted the blanket: "If you cover me with a quilt on such a hot day, you won't be afraid that I will die from the heat."

"I'm afraid you'll catch a cold!"

Huang Taiji smiled slightly, but then sighed again.

"You robbed them of so much food, and you still have a sad face? I think they should be the ones who should sigh. This crop of land has been planted in vain again," Dorgon said.

Huang Taiji was amused by what he said: "How can we not worry, they are so clinging to the city wall, we have nothing to do."

"Actually, Yuan Chonghuan's approach is clear at a glance, that is, the cannons on the city alone are enough for us to suffer."

"Cannon..." Huang Taiji frowned, and said in a low voice, "It would be great if we also had cannons, especially the cannon in Ningyuan City, I'm really jealous. In fact, it's a pity that the cannon is used to defend the city. If I can have these cannons, no matter how strong the city wall is, wouldn’t it be demolished casually?”

Dorgon was wiping the sweat from his brow while listening to him talking.The weather is indeed very hot. In the past, the Jin army sent troops to attack the Ming Dynasty in autumn and winter. One reason was that the rivers were frozen at that time, making it easier for the cavalry to march, and the other reason was that the grain had already been harvested. That's fine.

But this time the expedition was decided in a hurry, and the soldiers were extremely uncomfortable due to the hot weather.

"What did you think of the question I asked you last time?" Huang Taiji asked.

He still hopes that he can let go of Er Niang's death, but to put it lightly, how can he do it?Dorgon didn't want to say it clearly, but pretended to be confused: "What's the problem? Do you want Duoduo to follow Brother Azige? I don't think it's appropriate. Brother Azige will definitely be annoyed to death by Dodo. Why don't I follow Brother Azige?" , let Dodo follow you."

Huang Taiji looked at him for a while, knowing that he was lying on purpose, but he didn't expose him, he just smiled casually: "It's okay, I believe that one day you will change your mind."

How can you forget the pain of losing your mother?Dorgon sneered in his heart, but said nothing.

Huang Taiji looked at the subtle changes in his expression, if he reprimanded a few words, maybe he would feel better, but he gritted his teeth and remained silent, Huang Taiji suddenly felt unbearable.

Suddenly, I feel that it is a normal reaction of a person to be like Azig and Duoduo, right?Being so calm like him makes one feel a little scary.

Recalling the short-lived fury he showed that day, compared to his calmness afterwards, how much self-control was suppressing the emotions that were almost out of control, thinking of this, Huang Taiji felt heartbroken.

Suddenly, Huang Taiji's head became hot, and he held his hand.