Nurhachi roared like an angry lion at the people around him, although the lion was gray-haired, but still no one dared to challenge his majesty, and dozens of Houjin Baylor and generals all lowered their heads and did not dare to speak.

In the end, Nurhachi looked sharply at the two people who were the main attackers today, "Dudu, Mang Gurtai, do you two have anything to say?" ”

Mang Gurtai gritted his teeth and knelt down: "Father Khan...... Erchen ...... Erchen did underestimate the Ming people's determination to resist, but Erchen still thought that the Ming people's resistance could not be so tenacious every day, as long as we continued to maintain this attack intensity, it would not take ten days for Jinzhou City to be taken! ”

"Ten days?"

Nurhachi was so angry that he kicked Mang Gurtai on the shoulder, kicking the unprepared Mang Gurtai to the ground, and Mang Gurtai didn't dare to get up after being kicked over, so he knelt on the ground and didn't dare to say anything. As Du Du, who was also the main attacker today, did not dare to watch from the sidelines when he saw this, and quickly took two steps and knelt beside Mang Gurtai.

Looking at the two kneeling in front of him, Nurhachi shouted: "Today alone, we have killed and injured more than 2,000 warriors, if we follow today's fighting style, do you know how many people we will be killed and injured in ten days?" Let me tell you, that's more than 20,000 people, how many of our Jurchen warriors can withstand such attrition? ”

Listening to Nurhachi's roaring voice, Mang Gurtai and Dudu knelt on the ground and even broke out in a cold sweat.

It is no wonder that Nurhachi is angry, as a minority ethnic minority, the population of the Jurchen clan is only hundreds of thousands, even if you add the annexed Koreans, Mongolians and the captive Han Chinese, the total population of the entire Dajin is only about a million, plus the Jurchens do not produce, and live by hunting and plundering.

Their boys have been cultivating martial arts and strength since they were young, and it takes at least ten years to train a qualified warrior, and they can't withstand such cruel attrition, which is why Nurhachi was so angry after the defeat of Daishan and Amin last time, even if most of the men and horses they lost were Mongols and Baoyi and auxiliary soldiers, it was also very distressing for Houjin.

Looking at the angry Nurhachi, everyone was silent and did not dare to speak, and for a while the tent became extremely silent.

Finally, when Nurhachi's anger subsided a little, he was heard asking the crowd: "Tell me, how should we fight this battle tomorrow?" ”

Everyone, look at me, I look at you, no one dares to speak first.

Nurhachi frowned and said, "What...... Don't you speak? Didn't you all shout very happily today, patting your chests one by one, you almost shouted that you would take Jinzhou in one day, why don't you say anything now? ”

At this time, a voice sounded, "Father Khan, the sons think that the high walls of Jinzhou City are deep, and it is very difficult to take it urgently, it is better to rush to Dalinghe Fort first, as long as Jinzhou is cut off from Dalinghe Fort, Daxing Fort, Songshan and other places, and then Jinzhou is surrounded, the Ming people will inevitably fall into chaos, and this is the time for us to show our skills." ”

Looking at the Huang Taiji who spoke up, Nurhachi's face showed a look of interest, and he bowed slightly: "Go on." ”

"Yes!" Huang Taiji bowed and said: "Father Khan, the warriors of our Dajin Kingdom are not good at attacking cities, and our greatest ability is to gallop on the earth and kill the enemy with bows and crossbows, instead of carrying a ladder to storm the enemy's strong castle." On the ladder, our warriors can't even use the ability of Yicheng, those Ming soldiers only need to pour a spoonful of gold juice down to easily kill our bravest warriors, even if we also kill a large number of Ming troops today, it is not worth it, you must know that the most important thing in the Ming country is people, so we must change a way of playing in our favor. ”

"Hmm...... You say it very well! Nurhachi nodded with satisfaction, and the anger on his face finally dissipated, and only then did he snort lightly at Mang Gurtai and Dudu who were kneeling on the ground: "Okay, you two should also get up, your knees must be tired after kneeling for so long, right?" ”

Mang Gurtai and Du Du stood up at this time, lowered their heads and said, "Erchen (minion) doesn't dare. ”

Only then did Nurhachi say to everyone: "You must remember that it is not easy for us Jurchen sons to cultivate, and everyone is precious and cannot be consumed at will. It can be seen from today that Jinzhou City has now become a strong city under the management of that Sun Chengzong, but our Jurchen warriors are not good at siege warfare, which can be seen from today's casualties, so we must avoid such tough battles in the future, understand? ”

Everyone bowed down and said in unison: "Father Khan (Great Khan) is wise, we understand!" ”

"Well, that's good!" Nurhachi nodded, and said, "Since this is the case, do you think this Jinzhou will continue to attack?" ”

"This ......"

Everyone was silent for a while, and finally Dai Shan stood up and said: "Father Khan, Erchen thinks what you said is very reasonable, it is not easy for me to wait for the Jurchen sons to cultivate, and we can't let them be lost under the Jiancheng in vain, we can cut off the connection between Jinzhou and the outside world first as the eighth brother said, and then slowly figure it out." ”

Nurhachi nodded, but then frowned and asked, "Mang Gurtai, what else do you have to say?" ”

Mang Gurtai, who was looking displeased on the sidelines, heard Nurhachi calling himself, and he hurriedly said: "Father Khan, my son thinks it's inappropriate. ”

"Hmm!" Nurhachi's face froze, he didn't expect that he had said it so clearly, his son would dare to oppose his opinion, his face sank: "Then what do you think?" ”

When everyone heard it, they couldn't help but secretly say "It's bad", this reckless Gurtai is estimated to be punished, just now the Great Khan expressed his opinion, this guy even dared to speak out against it, did he eat the bear's heart and leopard gall?

Seeing that his own Lao Tzu was angry, Mang Gurtai also let go, and he craned his neck and said loudly: "Father Khan, Erchen knows that you feel sorry for our Jurchen warriors. Now Erchen has a way, that is, he does not need to fight hard in person with my Jurchen warriors, and he can exert strong pressure on Jinzhou. ”

Nurha's red eyes froze: "Oh, you talk about it! ”

Mang Gurtai said: "Father Khan, our Eight Banners are indeed sparsely populated, but there are a lot of Mongolian auxiliaries and clothed minions under our command, we can let those auxiliaries and Baoyi take the lead tomorrow, and our daughters and sons are in the back." Even if those auxiliaries and coats are killed or wounded, they won't get in the way, anyway, they will be caught at that time, what do you think? After speaking, Mang Gurtai lowered his head, and looked at his own Lao Tzu with some apprehension in the corner of his eye.

"...... Uproar"

As soon as Mang Gurtai's words fell, it immediately caused an uproar, and many people looked at Mang Gurtai's gaze and became a little unkind.

At this time, a voice with a slight male duck voice sounded: "Although the auxiliary soldiers and domestic slaves are not our Jurchen warriors, they are also everyone's private property, fifth brother, you just send our private property to death, right?" ”

Everyone saw that the man who spoke was only thirteen or fourteen years old, standing at the end of the line in a white armor, and looked at Mang Gultai with some dissatisfaction. This man is none other than Nurhachi's fourteenth son, Dorgon, who is fourteen years old this year and is in the period of voice change, so his voice has a hoarse smell.

The reason why Dolgon was able to follow the army this time was because Nurhachi wanted to take him out to experience it, originally as a rookie in terms of seniority and age, he had no right to speak on such an occasion, but Mang Gurtai's suggestion made him very dissatisfied, so he put forward his opinion.

"The fourteenth elder brother is right, although those coats and auxiliaries are not valuable, they can't be squandered like this, no matter how worthless they are."

"That's it, it's not painful to sell Ye Tian, the idea of Sanbeile is really not good?"

Everyone talked about it, you must know that the Jurchens at this time were still in a semi-slave and semi-feudal society, and the Dajin Kingdom allowed nobles and even individuals to own slaves.

Nurhachi is the biggest slave owner in Dajin, every time he robs Daming and other places, he is responsible for distributing the spoils, dividing gold and silver, distributing grain and women and slaves, and almost all the clothed minions who go to the battlefield are the slaves of nobles and officers.

Originally, the Dajin Kingdom had a tradition of sending slaves as cannon fodder, and there was nothing wrong with Mang Gurtai's suggestion, but his biggest problem was to propose that all the clothed minions and auxiliaries be sent to consume, and let all the Jurchens supervise the war in the back, so the problem came.

The combat effectiveness of these auxiliaries and clothed minions is originally low, and it is nothing to let them cooperate with the Jurchens to push a shield cart or raise a shield, but if they are in charge of the main attack, the problem will come, in the eyes of those female generals, the idea of Mang Gurtai is simply too bad, this is simply to let those clothed and auxiliary soldiers go to death.

You must know that these clothes are the private property of the Jurchen generals, if they all die, who will farm for them? Who brushed their horses? Who pours them tea and water? Who does the work for them? Do they let the Jurchen masters, who are accustomed to being served, brush their horses and arrange the saddles by themselves? This is also the reason why Mang Gurtai's words were opposed by everyone as soon as they came out.

Nurhachi looked coldly at the opposition of the people, but there was a sadness in his heart, since the forty-sixth year of Wanli in Shengjing and announced the seven hatreds have only been eight years, the Jurchen people who could have galloped in the white mountains and black waters, wearing animal skins and eating coarse grains, have been accustomed to wearing silk and satin, accustomed to the exquisite food cooked by Han slaves, used fine porcelain and drunk the fine wine brewed by the Han people, everyone regarded the robbed Han slaves as their own private property, and others could not even touch them. Is this still the Jurchen warriors who were not afraid of death in the past?

"Bang ......"

A loud bang rang out in the tent, startling all those who were accusing Mang Gultai.

"Enough!"

Nurhachi stood up and pointed to the people in the big tent and shouted: "Look at yourselves, are you still like the warriors of our Jurchen clan? Don't forget, where did you get your coating? There is no Dajin Kingdom, you still live in caves one by one, wearing animal skins, hunting in the forest barefoot, and now you are just letting your respective clothed minions go out to attack the city, and you are reluctant one by one? Ben Khan can tell you, when you take Jinzhou City, how many minions and how many women do you want, do you need to buckle the rope like this? ”

Although the lion is old, the remnant is still there, and when he is angry, all the opposition is silenced, and everyone kneels down in unison: "Father Khan (Great Khan) is angry, and his sons (slaves) obey his will." ”

Nurhachi snorted lightly: "No matter what you think, tomorrow everyone will send their respective clothed minions to the front of the battle, and no one will be missing!" ”

Speaking of this, Nurhachi's sharp eyes swept over everyone, and finally stopped on Dolgon, originally he wanted to say a few words, but seeing Dolguan's still somewhat immature face, Nurhachi swallowed the words back, and finally he just spit out a sentence from his throat: "Everyone disperse." ”

"Whoa......

There was a hint of disappointment in Huang Taiji's eyes, but he could only leave after everyone said goodbye.

When everyone dispersed, Nurhachi sat alone in a chair with his eyes closed, and no one knew what he was thinking. After a while, he said: "Come on, call Huang Taiji." ”

Soon, Huang Taiji came to the big tent and knelt down in front of Nurhachi: "Erchen has seen Father Khan. ”

Nurhachi opened his eyes and waved his hand to signal him to stand up, and then said, "Huang Taiji, do you know why Ben Khan didn't listen to your opinion just now? ”

Huang Taiji said respectfully: "The sons don't know, but the father Khan does things freely, and the sons don't dare to speculate." ”

"Don't dare to speculate?" Nurhachi sneered: "I love the descendants of the Xinjueluo family who dare to say it, and dare to do it, since you have said it, what dare you not speculate." Well, since you don't dare to speculate that Ben Khan will tell you that your method is naturally excellent, but the effect is too slow, our Dajin 80,000 troops go out to fight, and the daily grain and grass alone is a huge number, if the war is stalemate for a few months, we don't need Ming people to fight, we ourselves will have to drag ourselves to death, so Ben Khan will adopt Mang Gurtai's strategy. ”

"And ......"

Speaking of this, Nurhachi said again: "Ben Khan knows that since you were defeated by that Yang Feng and even the two Fujin were snatched away, your heart has changed a little, and even your brother looks down on you, this expedition Ben Khan is to give you a chance to cut off Yang Feng's head with your own hands and snatch back your two Fujin." You must remember that a man's shame can only be washed away with blood, and if you do not understand this, how can Ben Khan rest assured that the kingdom of Dajin will be handed over to you. ”

"Father Khan!"

Hearing this, Huang Taiji's whole body was shocked, and his eyes immediately turned red, how could he not know the meaning of Nurhachi's words at this time. My own son has chosen himself as his heir!