Chapter 283: Azig in Purgatory
"Big brother, I can't fight anymore!" Teng Jiate looked anxious and shook the parchment scroll in his hand vigorously, it was the news that Tanma had just obtained from the vicinity of Rolling Gatai, "The tens of thousands of people near Rolling Gatai have all been taken into slavery by Duoduo and distributed to the Horqin tribes. Hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep were lost.
"In just one battle, three of us were killed in battle, and the men of the Chechen Khan had not yet reached Hulun Lake. If at this time Dordor goes south, what can we resist? ”
Mang Gu Dai snatched the sheepskin and said in a rough voice: "The Manchurians have killed so many of our clansmen, and we have to take revenge!" ”
He turned to Teng Jisi and said, "Big brother, even if we surrender now, according to the tax and tribute stipulated by Dolgon, where can we eat the rest of the food every year?" More people will starve to death! ”
"Bear with this breath for the time being, and then we will slowly accumulate strength for revenge." Teng Jite immediately said, "Big brother, there are only 3,000 soldiers in this battle, and our more than 2,300 people have nothing to do with them.
"I personally led the army into the Manchurian army formation, and I knew the situation best.
"It's not that our warriors are not brave, they don't even blink an eye in the face of the enemy's spears. But our heavy cavalry had lost more than thirty percent before it was full!
"Back then, Lin Dan Khan's powerful army was lost in the hands of the Manchurians, and we are afraid that this time we are really too light on the enemy. In my opinion, it's best to stop the rebellion before Dodor arrives......"
The name of Lindan Khan, whom he refers to, is Lindan Batur, who once almost unified the Mongol tribes. But his growth made the Later Jin feel threatened, so Huang Taiji led his army to fight several major battles against Lin Dan Khan, and finally drove him from Mongolia all the way to Qinghai. Since then, the whole of Mongolia has been completely torn apart, and no one has been able to unite it.
Teng Jisi frowned deeply, and his heart was also struggling, the battle of Rolling Gatai really shocked him, his younger brother was almost trapped in the enemy formation, tens of thousands of people were captured, and countless cattle and sheep were lost.
But he was extremely unwilling to surrender, and he could not surrender, in fact, if they were not forced by Dolgon, they would not have made up their minds to rebel.
"What Lin Dan Khan didn't do, we may not be able to!"
Mang Gudai wanted to persuade him again, so he saw the guards kneeling down and handing over a letter, "Great Khan, someone claims to be an envoy of the Qing court, let me hand over this letter to you." ”
"The envoy of Jianzhou?" Teng Jisi took the letter and opened it, and first looked at the payment, which was "The Great Qing Dynasty made Mo Nanqin send Ning to finish me".
He looked at it carefully again, his brows gradually relaxed, and even the corners of his eyes showed joy.
He hurriedly asked the guard, "Where is the messenger?" ”
"Back to the Great Khan, the man said that the Manchurian Prince Yu may attack at any time, and the time is pressing, and he will rush to reply to his master."
"Gone?" Teng Jisi was a little surprised, but then it occurred to him that the letter said that the messenger of the Manchurians would arrive in a few days, and as long as he was careful to avoid Duoduo, the whole tribe would be able to turn the corner.
Several of his younger brothers also came over.
"Big brother, what did the Manchurians say?"
"It's definitely down to war!"
Teng Jisi stuffed the letter to Mang Gudai, and said with a sigh: "The Qing envoy said that as long as we return to the Qing Dynasty, we can exempt our department from seventy percent of the tax tribute, and the previous things should be treated as if nothing had happened." ”
"And such a thing?" Mang Gudai took the letter and read it, and said suspiciously, "There won't be fraud, right?" ”
Teng Jisi shook his head slightly, "I heard that not long ago, the Manchus were defeated by the Han people in the south, and they lost sixty or seventy thousand troops. Combined with this letter, they should want to withdraw their forces and concentrate on attacking Ming. ”
He suddenly remembered the second half of the letter, and hurriedly instructed Teng Jite: "Go and bring Azig, oh no, Impele, and we will treat him well."
"Since the Manchus have the intention of armistice, we will return Azig to them at this time, so that we can reconcile with the Manchus."
"Yes, I'll go!"
As soon as Teng Jite opened the curtain, two Mongolian officers rushed in in a panic and knocked him to the ground.
He took a few steps back, easily stabilized his center of gravity, and pointed at the person who came and scolded angrily: "Bastard, are you blind?!" ”
The two officers fell to their knees in fright, and said hurriedly: "Your Excellency, forgive me, it's just ...... That Azig is not quite right, and the villain has just arrived......"
"What's wrong with Azig?"
"He said that he had abdominal pain the day before yesterday, and at first the villain thought he was pretending to be sick, so he didn't care."
Another person continued: "Who knew that his face was pale since this morning, covered in cold sweat, and he couldn't stop rolling in bed......"
"Did you ask the witch doctor to see it?" Teng Jisi walked over in a few steps and asked with a frown.
"Look," said the officer, "I did it at noon, but now ...... It seems to be more serious. ”
Teng Jisi was in a hurry, dragged the two away, and trotted to the tent where Azig was held, and Teng Jite and the others also hurriedly followed.
In the narrow felt tent, Azig's eyes were protruding, his teeth were creaking, and he didn't see Teng Jisi and the others at all, just curled up and kept rolling, and at this time he had tumbled from the bed to the ground.
"Imbele," Teng Jite hurriedly called him, "what's wrong with you?" ”
Azig seemed to be completely inaudible, and a low hissing sound came from his throat, and the dirt covered in his body made him look like a demon that had just crawled out of a mound.
Seeing this, Teng Jisi hurriedly instructed the guards, "Quick, go and find that Han Langzhong." ”
"Yes."
A moment later, a middle-aged man with a long beard came to the tent. He saluted Teng Jisi first, and then asked Azig to be held down, opened his eyelids and looked at it, and then wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth with his hand and sniffed it, and after a while, he turned around and frowned: "Great Khan, this person seems to have been poisoned." ”
"Poisoning?!" Teng Jisi only felt a chill in his back, and pointed at the doctor and said, "You give me a way!" No matter what method you use, you must cure him! ”
The doctor fell to his knees and said helplessly: "The Great Khan forgives his sins, don't say that the villain doesn't know what poison he has been in, but he knows, where to find the antidote in this vast desert......"
Beside him, Azig's screams grew worse and worse, as if someone was cutting his flesh with a knife.
Teng Jisi was also sweating profusely, and he didn't care about why he was poisoned, so he first asked people to move him to his own account, and then called someone to take care of him carefully.
But Azig seemed to have lost his mind, and at first he just rolled back and forth on the ground, and by the evening he was so painful that he kept scratching his face and neck with his hands until the flesh was blurred, but he still didn't know it.
Teng Jisi had to have someone tie him up, and he couldn't help but feel anxious, seeing that this war was about to end and his clan could return to peace, Azig had become like this!
He led his men to guard until Shen, and finally heard that the movement in the tent was getting smaller, and he was full of thought that Azig had finally survived.
When someone called for Azig but there was no response, he reached out to touch his snort, and suddenly exclaimed: "Great Khan, he, he's out of breath......"