: The trapped beast still fights

Jiannu Camp.

The heads of the Eight Banners battalions were quickly summoned to Dorgon's tent by Goshha. Several heads of the heads seemed to have a premonition that something was wrong, and they knelt on the ground without even breathing.

Dorgon's eyes were cold and he asked in a deep voice: "I ask you, are there any abnormalities in the war horses of each battalion recently?"

Prince Tu Xietu next to him immediately became nervous. At this time, he really hoped that the war horses of the Eight Banners were not affected by the horse plague. In this way, his guilt would be lighter. If the war horses of the Eight Banners were infected with horse plague, then Dorgon would not let him go easily, and maybe even the Tu Xietu tribe would disappear from the grassland.

Dorgon's eyes first fell on the head of the groom in Zhengbai Banner.

The head of the horseman of Zhengbai Banner is Dorgon's cousin who has newly won the 19th concubine. He has some connection with Dorgon and has plucked up his courage to respond: "If you go back to your master, the horses have indeed become a little abnormal recently."

Dorgon said coldly: "Tell me, what kind of abnormality is it?"

The head of the groom responded: "About last night, dozens of war horses stopped eating grass, and then sweated all over. The slave didn't care much, but this morning, more than a hundred more war horses with different situations were added. The slave realized that something was wrong and hurried to find a veterinarian. But after the veterinarian saw it, he said that these war horses were nothing serious..."

Dorgon suddenly roared without any image: "Why don't you report it to me first for such a big thing?"

The groom's head was startled and said tremblingly: "Slave... Isn't the slave afraid that the master will be too hard? The master is doing big things. Just have a slave do these small things for you..."

"When is it your turn to make the decision for me?" Dorgon pulled out his sword, and the sharp tip of the knife was aimed at the groom's chest, and said grimly, "Do you do it for me? Well!"

"Sher."

With the crisp sound of the sharp blade cutting through the flesh and blood, the cold blade had already ruthlessly pierced into the groom's chest. The sharp tip of the knife penetrated straight through the back. A drop of red blood dripped along the blade and splashed on the ground. The white carpet was instantly moistened, like a delicate red flower embroidered on the pure white carpet.

Prince Tushetu and the rest of the grooms were shocked to death when they saw this, and they were all frightened as if they were as sifted.

After all, whether it is the Jiannu or the Mongolian Tartars, they are afraid of death. There is no one in this world who is not afraid of death. The difference is that their respective endurance of death is slightly different.

Dorgon pulled out his sword, turned his eyes full of murderous intent to another groom's head, and said grimly: "Where are you red flags? Is there anything abnormal?"

The head of the horseman of Zhenghongqi was so scared that his teeth trembled: "Master...Master...Master..."

Dorgon waved his sword and shouted loudly: "Say!"

The groom of the Zhenghongqi was so scared that he knelt down on the ground and said in a trembling voice: "Yes, there are hundreds...hundreds of war horses...anomaly..."

"puff!"

Before the horseman's head of Zhenghongqi finished speaking, Dorgon's sword had pierced his throat.

Dorgon then asked all the grooms of the other six banners, but the result was no different. All the war horses of the Eight Banners battalions had been affected, and none of them were spared!

At this moment, Dorgon felt like he fell into an ice cave.

The Ming army's surprise attack on Beijing only forced the Qing army to danger, but the sudden horse plague in front of us also wiped out the last hope of the Qing army. The Eight Banners Army, Mongolian Army, Qing Dynasty, all the Manchus, and the efforts of the father and brothers, as well as Dorgon's ideals, all fell into the bottomless abyss!

The Eight Banners Iron Cavalry lost its war horse, so is it still the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry?

If the Mongolian cavalry loses their war horses, is it still the Mongolian cavalry?

The Eight Banners Iron Cavalry and Mongolian Cavalry who lost their war horses lost their mobility of their cavalry. They lost their only advantage. When they faced the Ming army, they had no advantage at all. Facing the powerful artillery and muskets of the Ming army, what should the Qing army resist? What should they resist?

What's even more terrible is that Beijing is already in danger, and the Qing army's foundation in the pass is already in danger.

Once Beijing is lost, the Eight Banners Army and Mongolian Army outside Jining City will become foreign captives again overnight, traveling from Shandong to Liaodong or the desert for thousands of miles. How far can the Jurchens and Mongols who have lost their war horses escape? How many can escape back to the pass alive? How many can escape back to the desert alive?

Suddenly, the sound of rapid footsteps sounded outside the tent, and a figure flashed, Dodo and Ajige had already turned over the tent.

Seeing the heads of eight grooms lying in a pool of blood and Prince Tu Xietu limping in the corner of the tent, Dodo and Ajige's faces changed drastically. They thought Dorgon had been assassinated. The two brothers quickly stepped forward to hug Dorgon and asked repeatedly: "Fourth Brother/Old Fourteen, what happened? Are you okay?"

Dorgon waved his hand with difficulty, as if he had grown older in his twenties overnight, and was only in his early thirties, but his face showed a Cangsang, who was only a middle-aged man in his fifty years old, and said calmly: "Fifteenth brother, twelfth brother, nothing, I'm fine..."

"How could it be okay?" Azig said anxiously, "What's going on with these grooms?"

Dorgon took a deep breath and whispered: "They have concealed the great military information from me. I have just executed them according to military law. It's nothing."

Duoduo had already seen Dorgon's expression strange and said anxiously: "Fourth Brother, what happened?"

Dorgon waved his hand and said, "Fifteenth brother, twelfth brother, don't ask anything. You will gather all the princes of the Eight Banners, Beile, Beizi, and Korqin, Kharkha, and Chahar tribes, and let them come to my tent. I have a major decision to announce it."

Duoduo and Ajige looked at each other. Although they were suspicious, they did not dare to disobey Dorgon's will, so they had to take the order.

In Jining City, the temporary governor's headquarters.

After reading the sheepskin letter, Wang Pu laughed and said, "The ancients said that misfortunes never come in singularly, and blessings are unparalleled. It seems that this is wrong!"

"No..." Wang Pu shook the pampered letter in his hand and continued, "Tang Sheng had just recovered Zhigu, and Jiannu's horse plague had just broken out. This third good thing came again, hahaha..."

Scarface, Li Chengdong, Zheng Chenggong and Liu Qingyan, Liu Rushi and other girls all looked happy. Looking at Wang Pu's expression, you know that the letter must be a good thing. The anxious Scarface said even more anxiously: "Mr. Marquis, please tell me quickly. Who wrote this letter? What did it say on it?"

Wang Pu threw the sheepskin letter to Ma Scarface and shouted: "This letter is written by Ezhe, Prince of Chahar, Mongolia!"

"Prince Chahar Ezhe?" Scarface took the parchment letter and asked casually, "What kind of fucking bird man is this?"

"He is not a birdman." Wang Pu smiled, "He is the eldest son of Lin Dankhan, the last great khan of Mongolia, and is a direct descendant of the Mongolian Golden Family. In his letter, he said that he was willing to secretly turn against us to help us defeat Jiannu, on the condition that Jiannu would admit that he was the great khan of Mongolia after his defeat."

"Damn it." Scarface threw the sheepskin letter on the table and cursed, "This Mongolian Tartar is so shameless. Seeing that Jiannu is no longer able, he wants to turn against him. He really wants to agree to this Tartar named Erzhe. Who knows if this grandson will attack our Central Army behind his back in the future? If you didn't say anything, you will clean up these Mongolian Tartars and Jiannu!"

"Yes, we've cleaned up together."

"The Tartars are not at ease, so don't be fooled by Marquis."

Ma Gan, He Mazi, Wang Huzi, Li Chengdong, Zheng Chenggong and other officers all attached their opinions on Scarface.

"No!" Wang Pu suddenly raised his hand to stop everyone from making noise. A sinister smile suddenly flashed across his face and said, "Why don't you agree to Ezhe's conditions? Although the horse plague of Jiannu and the Tartars was over, their 100,000 coalition forces were still there, and the central army in Jining City had only more than 30,000 troops. If Jiannu and the Tartars really fought to the death, it would not be a joke. Now that there is a chance to win at a smaller price, why not do it?"

Scarface and others had nothing to say. They didn't know that Wang Pu was still ambushing a cavalry in secret. With more than 30,000 Central Army in Jining City alone, he defeated Jiannu outside the city. Although the Tartar coalition was no problem, he really wanted to force them into a hurry. If he jumped over the wall and bitten it back, he would probably bring considerable casualties to the Central Army.

But then again, Wang Pu did not dare to let Hongniang's Henan cavalry join the Jining battlefield directly. Wang Pu really wanted to do this and Hongniang's 40,000 Henan cavalry. Horse plague will not distinguish between relatives and alienate enemies. It can harm the war horses of Jiannu and the Tartars, and it will also harm the war horses of the Henan army.

Wang Puke didn't want Hong Niangzi's cavalry to be reimbursed like this, and these 40,000 cavalry will be of great use in the future!

Therefore, Hongniang's Henan cavalry could only be in Baoding, Zhending and Hejian prefectures, responsible for intercepting the defeated soldiers of Jiannu and the Tartars. However, when Jiannu and the Tartars were defeated from Shandong to Northern Zhili, they were not sure how many small groups would be scattered. With Hongniang's 40,000 cavalry alone, they could obviously be killed.

In view of this, with the help from Ezhe, why didn’t Wang Pu borrow it?

Wang Pu's purpose was to destroy more than 100,000 Jiannu outside Jining City. The Tartar coalition forces fought for the failure to let a Jiannu and a Tartar soldier return to the outside of the pass and return to the desert alive. As for the process in the middle, Wang Pu didn't care who the Jiannu and the Tartars died in the end.

"Go." Wang Pu shouted, "Immediately, according to Ezhe's intention, three-color flags are hung on the East Gate Arrow Tower."

"yes."

Lu Liu agreed and took the order.

Jiannu Camp.

Princes of Jiannu, the Eight Banners, Beile, Beizi and the princes of Mongolian tribes have gathered in Dorgon to go to the tent, but the Prince Tu Xietu has not known where Dorgon has been brought to him.

Dorgon pretended to be anxious and looked outside the tent and shouted: "Prince Tu Xietu hasn't come yet. It seems that he can't get back. No matter how much he is, let's start first."

Prince Abatai of Raoyu asked loudly: "Old Fourteen, you summoned everyone overnight. What happened?"

Dorgon took a breath and said in a voice: "I just learned that Wang Pu sent another army to attack from the sea. Now he has passed the sea outside Dengzhou and can appear outside Zhigu City in five days at most. Once Zhigu falls, the canal portal will open, and this elite Ming army can go straight to the outside of Beijing City along the canal!"

"ah?"

"What?"

"Wang Pu also sent an army to attack from the sea?"

The Jiannu nobles and Mongolian princes in the tent were all terrified.

Although Dorgon deliberately concealed the truth and did not say that the Ming army had actually captured Zhigu and was advancing towards Beijing, even so, these Jiannu nobles and Mongolian princes were still quite surprised, and all of them changed their faces.

"Do not panic for everyone." Dorgon raised his hand suddenly and said in a voice, "This Ming army has just passed the sea outside Dengzhou, and there is at least five days left before Zhigu! As long as my main force of the Qing Dynasty can conquer Jining within five days and destroy Wang Pu's main force of the Central Army, this Ming army's partial division will be no longer worth worrying."

"Ah? Capture Jining?"

"Do you want to attack Jining?"

"The master wants to fight the Ming army?"

This time, even Dodo and Ajig changed their faces, and Dodo was even more shocked and suspicious.

Just two hours ago, Dorgon and Duofeng had a long talk and told Duoduo very surely that the only way to win the Battle of Jining is to be siege for a long time. Why did Dorgon change his mind after two hours? Did something irreversible really happen that forced the Fourteenth Brother to change his mind?

When Duoduo's heart started to jump up when he contacted what Dorgon said just now, he had already guessed a rough idea: the partial army sent by Wang Pu to attack Beijing was probably not just as simple as just passing the sea outside Dengzhou. It was likely that he had already won Zhigu, and even Beijing might have fallen.

Thinking of this, Duoduo's face became solemn.

Duoduo is indeed the best among Jiannu. He guessed it out of just a few words, but he was only half right. The reason why Dorgon gave up the strategy of long-term siege and ordered the strong attack on Jining was out of helplessness, or because of a crazy mentality of trapping beasts and fighting!

The situation is now very clear. The fall of Beijing is inevitable, and the full outbreak of horse plague is no longer possible. Once Dorgon ordered the withdrawal of troops at this time, these two things will not be concealed in any case. Once the soldiers know about the soldiers, the doomsday of the Qing army and the Mongolian cavalry will come.

The only thing Dorgon can do now is to strictly block these two amazing news, and then drive the army to attack Jining at any cost, and bet on this last move with Wang Pu!

If the bet wins, things may have a turnaround.

Even if you lose the bet, the situation will not be worse than it is now.

Since that's the case, why not bet on all the chips to bet on this game?

What's more, Dorgon decided to attack Jining with another sinister intention, which was to destroy more than 100,000 Mongolian cavalry, especially tens of thousands of cavalry from the four Korqin troops, under the city of Jining.
Chapter completed!