Under the questioning of Huang Taiji in front of everyone, Du Du, Bao Chengxian, Engdel, and Mangguoer all told in detail how they came into contact with the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom.

However, Du Du was a little rough when he told the process of meeting the Emperor of Ming, and the other three people all had strange expressions on their faces after listening to Du Du's experience.

For Huang Taiji and other Jurchen generals, what these four people told was enough to prove that the current little emperor of the Ming Kingdom had indeed arrived at the front line.

Yue Tuo immediately stepped forward and congratulated Huang Taiji: "King Khan, this is really God bless my Houjin Kingdom. If you can capture the Ming Emperor here, it will be better than taking down a hundred Zunhua cities. ”

"Yes, yes, as long as you take the Emperor of Ming, are you afraid that you can't let the defenders of Zunhua City open the city and surrender?"

"It's not just Zunhua City, as long as you take him and let the emperor of the Ming Kingdom write a few holy decrees, maybe the gates of Beijing can be opened. The Great Khan can also go to the Jinluan Hall and sit on the dragon chair..."

There was originally a silent atmosphere in the big tent, but with the information brought back by Du Du and the other four people, these Jurchen relatives and nobles suddenly turned their target and stationed the Ming Emperor in Shimen Village.

Although the soldiers and horses led by the emperor of the Ming Dynasty defeated the Mongol Left Battalion, according to the descriptions of Du Du, Engdel and others, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was much weaker than that of the defenders in Zunhua City, and the Mongol Left Battalion had already defeated the forward troops of the Ming State at the beginning of the war.

If it weren't for the fact that the left battalion miscalculated the number of the Ming army and attacked the Ming army in columns, and the number of reinforcements from the Ming State was too much, and the emperor stimulated the morale of the Ming army in the army, the outcome of this battle was not yet known.

Both Du Du and Engdel, in order to reduce their guilt, tried their best to exaggerate the number of the Ming army and belittle the combat power of the Ming army. If it weren't for the fact that a small group of routed troops had fled back to their own army, Engdel did not intend to tell the story of his command mistake and attacking the Ming army in columns.

Except for these four people, none of the other generals of the Mongolian Left Battalion were released, and whatever the four of them said, the Jurchen relatives and nobles present naturally believed something. Not long after the establishment of the country, the decadent atmosphere of officialdom in which the country was deceived and deceived by superiors and subordinates, and the corrupt atmosphere of turning defeat into victory had not yet begun to prevail.

In addition, among the four, except for the untrustworthy Han people like Bao Chengxian, the other three are either Jurchen or Mongol allies, and Du Du is a descendant of Nurhachi. Therefore, even Huang Taiji, no one suspected that the four of them were hiding something.

However, these Jurchen relatives and nobles forgot that although Du Du was a descendant of Nurhachi, he had been suppressed by the Jurchen relatives for so many years, and he naturally knew what these Jurchen relatives liked to listen to and what they didn't like to hear.

If he defeated the siege of the Ming army and fled back with his troops, he would naturally tell them the truth, which showed that the morale of this army led by the Ming Emperor was extremely high, and its combat ability was not weaker than that of the Jurchen Eight Banners.

But as the general of the defeated army captured by the Ming army, if he came back and trumpeted how powerful the Ming army that captured him was, it is estimated that many young people would be embarrassed and angry, and they would impeach him in front of the Great Khan for his ineffective fighting and fearful of the enemy.

As a long-suppressed loser Baylor, Du Du knew very well how cruel the struggle between the Jurchen relatives and nobles was. After Huang Taiji ascended the throne, although his life was a little better, and he was also given the name of Little Baylor, if he couldn't lead the troops into battle to win military merits, he would still be an insignificant idler in the Later Jin country.

As a descendant of Nurhachi, Du Du is also very arrogant, and he is not willing to live this life as an idler. It was nothing to lose once in battle, but once he was labeled as fearful of the enemy, it would be difficult for him to lead his troops again.

Therefore, when Engdel deliberately belittled the combat effectiveness of the Ming army and exaggerated the number of the Ming army, Du Du adopted a tacit attitude.

The Engdel brothers, who wanted to get rid of their crimes, Bao Chengxian, a Han man who was wise enough to protect his life, and Du Du, who wanted to turn over, quickly brought Huang Taiji and other Jurchen relatives to the ditch.

Through the descriptions of the four people, coupled with the self-brain supplementation of a group of Jurchen relatives and nobles, they quickly came to a conclusion that there were as many as 50,000 or 60,000 reinforcements in the west of the Ming Kingdom.

Since the Ming Emperor had confirmed that he was in this reinforcement, everyone was convinced of this conclusion. It is already a rare thing for the emperor of the Ming Kingdom to personally conscript, since he dares to lead the army to conquest in person, either the emperor of the Ming State is brave enough to overdo others, or he has something to rely on.

The Emperor of the Ming Kingdom, who had just ascended the throne and sent an envoy to ask for peace with Houjin, was obviously not a daring person in the eyes of the Jurchens. Therefore, relying on the large number of people to come to the rescue of Zunhua, this is the little emperor of the Ming Kingdom that is most in line with the imagination of these Jurchens.

However, since the Ming army was so numerous, the idea of sending an elite army to attack the rear of Shimenzhai by a detour from the mountain road south of Shimenxia was quickly erased from the hearts of many Jurchen generals.

No matter how arrogant the Jurchens were, there was no general who dared to take a small army with insufficient morale to attack the intersection of the key road where tens of thousands of people were stationed after being defeated under the city of Zunhua. If it had been changed to more than ten days ago, when the morale of the Houjin army was booming, I can't say that anyone would really dare to try it, but now, everyone is only silent.

After the Mongol tribes in the steppe continued to send troops, the Houjin now had more than 40,000 troops, but the core army was less than 20,000. Gathering the main force to fight with the fifty or sixty thousand Ming army, these Jurchen generals had nothing to fear.

However, with this army to attack Shimenxia, which is in dangerous terrain and guarded by the Ming army, it is obviously a little uncapable. Moreover, with the terrain of Shimen Gorge, even if the main force of the Ming army is broken, the Houjin army will have to pay a heavy price. What's more, if the emperor of the Ming Kingdom saw that the situation was not good and fled back to Jizhou, their battle would be in vain.

Therefore, soon the people in the big tent came to a conclusion that if they wanted to capture a living Ming emperor, they must lure this Ming army eastward, let them enter the open land near Baozizhai, and then cut off its back road, separate and encircle and annihilate it.

But how to tempt the Ming Emperor to advance eastward, how to monitor the defenders of Zunhua City, how to block the Liaodong Army in the east from advancing westward to receive assistance, these Jurchen relatives and nobles discussed for a long time but did not come up with a direction.

Seeing that these Jurchen relatives and nobles were all gearing up, wanting to get the credit of the Ming Emperor, Dai Shan and Mang Gurtai and others, who were sitting on the other side of the big tent, were suddenly dissatisfied with Du Du and the other four.

Originally, yesterday they had almost won the support of many young people's true relatives and nobles, and after repelling the pursuit of the Ming army from the east and west, they went out of the customs and returned to China to end the battle of the Ming Dynasty. Although the Ming easily broke through the Great Wall, most of the benefits gained from this war were taken away by the Mongol allies.

The spoils obtained by the Jurchen Eight Banners were more than those of the Mongol tribes on the grassland, but the loss of men and horses in each banner of this expedition made these spoils look a little pale.

Both Dai Shan and Mang Gurtai believed that if the war ended with Huang Taiji, the war led by Huang Taiji would not bring much benefit to Houjin, and after returning to Shenyang, they could use this war to deal a blow to Huang Taiji's recent high prestige, so as to restore the balance of power between the four major Baylors.

But it's good to die, the little emperor of the Ming Kingdom is too young and vigorous, and he doesn't stay in the safe and secure capital, and he actually takes the army to play some royal conquest. If Huang Taiji's plan really succeeded, the battle he led this time would really be brilliant.

The last captured emperor of the Ming State was still Emperor Yingzong of the Ming State, but now the Ming State does not have Emperor Jingtai who can succeed Yu Qianhe. Once Chongzhen is captured, either Chongzhen will be used to completely submit the Ming Kingdom, or the Ming Kingdom will be divided within the Ming Kingdom, no matter how you look at it, it will be an extremely beneficial ending for the Later Jin.

And Huang Taiji, who captured the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom, his prestige in the Houjin Kingdom will become incomparably stronger, even if the three of them join forces, I am afraid that they will no longer be able to cause any elbows to Huang Taiji.

At the signal of Mang Gurtai, the generals of the Zhenglan Banner, Tunbulu and Aibali, suddenly stood up and questioned Du Du: "Since the Ming army only won by numbers, and Baylor was accompanied by my Jurchen elite soldiers, why didn't they even succeed in breaking through?"

In addition, Bao Chengxian, Engdeer, Mangguoer and other three people were either Han or Mongolian, and the emperor of the Ming Kingdom let them come back to deliver letters, but it was also said in the past. But Belle, you are the eldest grandson of Nurhachi, how could the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom easily put you back? ”

Regarding the questioning of Tun Bulu and Ai Ba Li, Du Du Leng paused for a moment, and then replied angrily: "Do you think that you have to let the Emperor of Ming cut off my head to fulfill your wishes?" ”

Without waiting for the two to reply, Du Du turned around and knelt down to Huang Taiji and cried: "King Khan Mingjian, as a descendant of the Mandate of Heaven Khan, how can the minister betray Houjin and join the Ming Kingdom, if the Khan King also thinks that the minister betrayed the Houjin Kingdom, the minister asks the Khan King to give the minister a death to prove his innocence." ”

Mang Gurtai, who was sitting next to Huang Taiji, immediately said mockingly: "Since you are so innocent, why do you refuse to die on the battlefield, but instead run back and let the Khan King give you death?" You're really giving Destiny Khan a long face. ”

Dai Shan also said casually: "Although what Sanbeile said is a bit excessive, but the eldest grandson of the Heavenly Mandate Khan beside you, the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom, caught you and knew your identity, so he let you back, while the other Jurchen sons who followed you did not let go of any of them, how can it not make people suspicious?"

Although the words of Tunbulu and Aibali are a little rude, they ask you this question in the hope of proving your innocence, so why are you so angry? ”

The successive statements of Dai Shan and Mang Gurtai made some Jurchen relatives and nobles suddenly turn their minds about how to deal with the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom to the question of whether the four people who brought back the news of the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom were reliable.

Some of the generals of the Two Red Banners immediately stepped forward to impeach Du Du and the other four for the crime of losing their troops and defending the flood land, as if they regarded these four people as the main culprits of the defeat and loss of land.

Huang Taiji only spoke when he saw this, he confirmed that the four people had the sin of losing the army and losing the land, but he gently let go of the suspicion of whether the four people were bought by the Ming army, and finally decided to temporarily put aside the crime of the four people's defeated army, let them wear the crime and make meritorious service on the front line, and deal with it after the war.

At this point, it was obvious that the battle plan of how to induce the Ming Emperor to lead his troops to attack and then encircle and annihilate the captured would not be carried out, so Huang Taiji announced that the meeting would be temporarily adjourned and the discussion would continue in the afternoon.