The Jurchen relatives and nobles around Huang Taiji also looked at the ruins in the distance with different thoughts, since they easily broke through the Great Wall, they felt that the good luck that had been following them seemed to have been exhausted, whether it was the difficult city in front of them, or the news of the loss of Shimen Village, plus the increasingly cunning Ming defenders.

Yesterday afternoon, the Houjin generals under the city of Zunhua received the news that Shimenzhai was lost, and the Mongolian left battalion was basically wiped out.

Seeing that it was no longer possible to block the news of the loss of Shimenzhai, Huang Taiji had to convene the Jurchen relatives everywhere to discuss the response. At this meeting, the voices in favor of the withdrawal gradually gained the upper hand, and even Yue Tuo changed his tone a little.

However, there are also some Jurchen relatives and nobles who feel that the attack on Zunhua City has just entered the right track, and they are about to hit the city, and if they withdraw their troops now, the previous casualties will be considered to be wasted. Therefore, they wanted to hold out for a few days, fight Zunhua City, and then consider the withdrawal of troops.

Soon these two propositions were left at the meeting, one was to withdraw the troops immediately; The second is to fight Zunhua City, and then retreat. As for the previous breakthrough of the Great Wall, the idea that everyone wanted to defeat the city of Beijing has quietly disappeared.

Even the members of the Wenguan who supported Huangtai Ji Huaming the most, this time they also euphemistically told Huang Taiji in private that Shimenzhai was recaptured by the Ming army, and the road to the east had been blocked.

In this situation, even Huang Taiji could not ignore the feelings of other Jurchen relatives and nobles, and chose to take a step back for the time being, in favor of trying to attack Zunhua City, and then discuss the issue of whether to withdraw the army.

After some discussion, the meeting finally decided to let Yue Tuo take a part of the men and horses of the Right Route Army, plus 2,000 men and horses under the hands of Shu Bu to move to Baozizhai to block the passage of the Ming army to the east into Zunhua, and be sure to suppress the Ming army in Shimen Gorge, and not let it go east to meet the Zunhua defenders.

Subsequently, at the meeting, all the Jurchen relatives and nobles unanimously agreed to speed up the attack on the northwest corner of Zunhua and clear the passage to the city of Zunhua within three days. Then it will take three days to attack Zunhua City, and six days later, another meeting will be held to decide whether to withdraw the troops.

As a result, the attack on the first day suffered a major setback, and the Ming army, which had been beaten back by them for several days, actually brought them such a big surprise today. Looking at the scattered and fleeing Han troops and the Franco cannons that turned into scrap metal, these Jurchen relatives and nobles who watched the battle knew that if they wanted to attack Zunhua City within three days, there was obviously some little hope.

Although the sound of fighting and crying was still heard from time to time on the battlefield in the distance at this time, the Jurchen relatives and nobles around Huang Taiji maintained a deathly silence, and at this moment, even Dai Shan was reluctant to raise any opinions on withdrawing troops. Everyone present knew that the withdrawal of troops was already imperative, but mentioning this now is undoubtedly a complete turn against Huang Taiji, even Dai Shan is unwilling to stimulate Huang Taiji at this time, let alone others.

After being silent for a long time, Huang Taiji turned around and walked towards the audience without saying a word, Haoge and the generals of the two yellow flags immediately followed closely, and Jilharang hesitated, and also turned around with the generals with blue flags to follow. Soon there were the generals of the two red flags, Daishan father and son, and some little Baylors left on the stage.

Dai Shan stood there with half-squinted eyes, like a lifeless old tree, Yue Tuo looked at Huang Taiji's back, and then at his father, and finally turned around and followed Huang Taiji's team. The red-flag generals who followed him in the past, but none of them followed him at this moment, only some of the little Baylors who were good friends with Yue Tuo followed him one after another.

Sakhalian stayed, but when he walked up to Daishan, he gently persuaded his father: "Amma, at this moment our army is alone and surrounded by enemies on all sides. If there is any internal division, I am afraid that a major defeat is inevitable.

It is not easy for the Houjin State to open the circle surrounded by the Mongolian tribes, Korea, and the Ming State on three sides, and the Chahar Department is far away from the Hetao, the DPRK is willing to form an alliance with our country, and the Ming State is asking for peace with our country, which is the best period of the situation since the establishment of the Later Jin State.

The current situation can arise, first, the Jin State has the favor of the Mandate of Heaven; The second is that Tianfang Khan and Tiancong Khan are both my Jurchen heroes, and the management of the army and government is far beyond the reach of others; The third is that the Ming Dynasty has hundreds of millions of people, but its heart is also hundreds of millions of trillions, and no one can unite the hearts of countless people. But my Houjin is different, although the people are less than a million, but millions of people are thinking in one place and working hard in one place, even if there is an occasional fight, it will quickly disappear.

If Ama and Sambel continue to persecute the Great Khan today, then the civil strife in the Kingdom of Houjin is imminent. At that time, Mongolia, Daming, and North Korea will take advantage of China's domestic turmoil to make a comeback, and we will still be able to live at home and enjoy wealth? ”

Sakhalian's painstaking persuasion finally made Dai Shan hesitate, "What you said is good, but if Khan continues to hold on and all the Ming armies gather under Zunhua City, I'm afraid we won't be able to withdraw if we want to." You can't take more than 20,000 Eight Banners Jian'er to take an adventure for the sake of his face. ”

Sakhalian couldn't help but continue: "Even if Amma joins forces with Sambel to be able to suppress Khan's opinion? Although the two yellow flags in Khan's hands were not strong, the blue flags were naturally closely followed by Khan under the leadership of Zilharang.

The three Dolgon brothers with two white flags were honest after their mother's funeral, and they always followed Khan to do things. We are in conflict with Khan, and God knows which side these three brothers will be on? There is no guarantee that they will not take advantage of the division of the banners to seek the throne.

Khan has always been wise, since the current situation is like this, it means that the opportunity for our army to attack Ming is not yet ripe, let him go back and think about it, and he will naturally quickly figure it out and order the withdrawal of the army. Why do we have to fight with Khan for a day or two? Is Amma really ready to join forces with Sambel and turn his face with Khan? ”

Dai Shan was silent for a long time, and finally said: "What you said is not bad, I will wait for two more days, and after two days, even if Khan is jealous of me, I will join forces with Mang Gurtai and ask him to withdraw his troops."

It is very clear in the military book of the Han people that if the teacher is useless, the spirit of the army will fall. Since we can't defeat Zunhua City, the main force of the Ming army has come to help, we naturally have to run away, and we must not throw these Eight Banners soldiers under Zunhua City in vain..."

Huang Taiji returned to his big tent without saying a word, and ordered the guards to see no one except the heralds everywhere, which locked up the many Jurchen relatives and nobles who had followed him to ask for advice.

Huang Taiji locked himself in the big tent and did not come out until the sun rose the next morning. The Jurchen ministers, who had been waiting for most of the day, finally stopped caring about etiquette, knelt outside the big tent, and asked Huang Taiji to be promoted to the tent.

After a long time, a pro-soldier finally came out and asked the Jurchen relatives outside the tent to tidy up their appearances and wait for Huang Taiji to be promoted to the tent.

When the Jurchen relatives and nobles rushed into the tent, they found that Huang Taiji, who was sitting at the top, had bloodshot eyes full of bloodshots, obviously not having a good rest all night.

Huang Taiji, who had looked at the map and intelligence all night, obviously had some ideas, and he didn't wait for others to complain and ask for the withdrawal of troops, so he said in a preemptive voice: "Ben Khan thought about it all night, and I think what you said is right, this Zunhua City can no longer be attacked. As for the idea of withdrawing troops, Ben Khan also felt that there was no problem.

However, there are also conditions and order for the withdrawal of troops, and we can't rush out of the gate in a swarm, and let those Ming people follow us to pick up the cheap.

Ben Khan thought that even if we were going to withdraw the army, we would have to completely hurt the Ming people first, especially the Liaodong armies on the eastern road, and the number of cavalry far exceeded that of other border towns. If we can't hurt the Liaoxi cavalry, it will not be a simple matter for us to retreat.

And what kind of road is the Ming army on the West Road, which actually defeated the Mongolian left battalion, and even Du Du, who went to supervise the battle, was fierce and unlucky. Even if we want to leave, we must make this army pay the price, otherwise it will not let those Mongols spy on our Houjin army.

Therefore, Ben Khan thought that the next step was to change the battle plan, surround Zunhua City with a small number of soldiers and horses and the Han army, and then eliminate the Ming reinforcements who came to Zunhua in the field. Whether it's west or east, the Ming army is the first to come out, and we will destroy him first.

Only by defeating these reinforcements of the Ming army that may be pursuing us can we safely and easily withdraw to Shenyang..."

When the Jurchen relatives heard that there was no need to continue attacking Zunhua and withdrawing their troops, they immediately smiled and echoed Huang Taiji's intentions.

As for Huang Taiji's plan to encircle and send reinforcements, these Jurchen relatives were so noble that they didn't take it to heart, and they were still very sure of fighting in the field. I don't think that the Ming army, which has lost the protection of the city wall, can cause them any damage.

The Ming army on the west and east roads, which one to fight first, Huang Taiji said that he would continue to explore specific information, so that everyone could return to the army and wait for news. With Huang Taiji's promise, the Jurchen relatives and nobles had little desire to follow Dai Shan and Mang Gurtai to investigate Huang Taiji's goal of tampering with the army's attack, which led to the responsibility of being defeated by the Ming army.

On this day, the Ming army at the head of Zunhua City found that the Houjin army, which had been constantly attacking the northwest corner of Zunhua, shrank back after the artillery was blown up. They soon appeared on the outskirts of Zunhua City, dug a trench to surround Zunhua, and tried to prepare for a long-term siege.

On the afternoon of November 13, two brothers, Du Du, Bao Chengxian, Engdel, and Manggol, were released by the Ming Emperor, and they also brought with them a handwritten letter from Chongzhen to Huang Taiji.

In addition to responding to Huang Taiji's last open letter, the letter also demanded that Huang Taiji hand over the captured Ming people, compensate for the losses caused by the invasion of the Ming by the Later Jin army, apologize to the Ming Dynasty, and then lead the army to leave the Guannei, then the two countries can still maintain the peace treaty signed last year, otherwise the war between the Ming and the Later Jin will restart.

Huang Taiji was very angry that Du Du and others brought back such a letter, and after he read the content of the letter in front of everyone, he said angrily: "This southern child is really ignorant of things, but he defeated a Mongolian partial teacher, and he dared to give orders to us and write a letter to humiliate me, and he didn't take my Houjin in his eyes at all."

Du Du, Bao Chengxian, Engdel, Mangguoer, can the four of you be sure that there is an emperor of the Ming Kingdom in the Ming army that came to the rescue from the west? ”