There are about 10,000 sergeants in the Yellow Banner of the Eight Banners, including 8,000 cavalry, and its combat effectiveness is the weakest in the Eight Banners, which is also the year when the Eight Banners suffered a ruthless blow from the Zheng Army, and the main force was almost exhausted.

There are many places where the soldiers of the Zhenghong Banner need to be stationed, including Salhu, Tieling, Fushun, Kaiyuan, Zhenbeiguan, Anlezhou and other places, and it is impossible for 10,000 soldiers to be stationed in all places, not to mention that the troops are too scattered to play a substantive role.

Dai Shan is the first prince of the Qing Dynasty, and he is also the oldest and oldest prince, although he has a unique understanding of many issues, and he has a natural sensitivity to the battle of power and strategy, but over the years, because he has not cared too much about the matters of fighting and killing, and he has not paid attention to many movements of the Ming army, so he is still a little rusty about military matters.

In fact, Dolgon handed over a very important task to Dai Shan, precisely because Dai Shan is old, has experienced many years of brutal fighting, has the ability to collapse in front of Mount Tai without changing color, and has incomparably rich experience, he must be able to complete the task of guarding many places north of Shenyang.

Such an important task, Dolgon would never dare to hand it over to Haug, including Azig and others.

It's a pity that this time, Dolgon looked up to Daizen.

In fact, there are many things that Dolgon has not been able to really implement, the power struggle between him and Zilharan has just ended, most of the things have not yet had time to start deploying, and many of his own strategic deployments and strategic intentions have not had time to be publicized among the Manchurian nobles, and he can win in the power struggle. The real control of the power of the Great Qing Kingdom relied on Dolgon's years of conquest and fighting, as well as his prestige among the Manchu nobles.

Dolgon's most important deployment for the future of the Qing Dynasty was to retreat to the north in order to preserve the strength of the Eight Banners Army when it was unable to resist the attack of the Ming army. Kuancheng Mansion and Shangjing in the north are all places that can be chosen, the momentum of the Ming army is flourishing, and it is necessary to avoid the limelight of the Ming army at the critical moment.

However, Dorgon's idea is not something that can be made public in a short period of time, nor is it acceptable to the Manchu nobles in a short period of time, if Huang Taiji did not create the Great Qing Kingdom, it is still the original Houjin, then the Manchu nobles may be able to understand all this. However, the Qing Dynasty has been the capital of Shenyang for more than ten years, and the Manchu nobles have long been accustomed to everything in Shenyang, and even regard Shenyang as everything in the Great Qing Dynasty.

After all, Dolgon didn't have enough time, if he was given a year or so. A lot of things can be put into practice, and his influence on Dorgon is unlike anything else. Not even lower than Huang Taiji.

It is a pity that Zheng Xunrui, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, did not give Dolgon time at all, and even under such a cold and harsh climate, he personally led the army to launch a full-scale attack.

This made Dolgon really feel that he was not facing an ordinary opponent, an opponent that Huang Taiji felt feared for, and it was also an unshakable mountain for him.

A combination of reasons stood up. prompted Dai Shan to make an absolutely wrong decision.

Dai Shan deployed the main force of Zhenghongqi in Fushun and Sarhu, and he also sat in Fushun, Tieling, Kaiyuan and Zhenbeiguan, and almost no troops were deployed, followed by about 1,000 people deployed in Anle Prefecture.

It also makes sense for Dai Shan to deploy in this way. Like the idea of most of the Manchu nobles, Dai Shan also wanted to protect Shenyang, the capital of the Qing Dynasty, Fushun and Salhu were not too far away from Shenyang, Dai Shan deployed all the cavalry of the Red Banner here, once Shenyang encountered the attack of the Ming army, the cavalry could rush to help, if the cavalry was deployed to Kaiyuan, Zhenbei Pass or even Anle Prefecture, once Shenyang encountered danger, it was out of reach.

From this point of view, Daishan's deployment is good, and it is impossible for him to know Dorgon's true intentions, or even if he does, he will not follow Dolgon's deployment without Dolgon's detailed explanation.

While Dai Shan was still watching the situation in Shenyang, he received letters from Dolgon one after another, and he also knew that the first and second lines of defense deployed by Dolgon had been completely destroyed.

Dai Shan, who was in Fushun, was furious with Dolgon's letter in his hand, which was very rare for a person of his age, which was enough to explain the anger in Dai Shan's heart.

Daizen accurately caught several of Dorgon's major mistakes.

The second is to let the Han Eight Banners garrison the first line of defense, knowing that the Han Eight Banners have no fighting spirit, and there is a danger of defection, so that the Han Eight Banners will guard the east of the Liao River, resulting in a comprehensive defection of the Han Eight Banners, and the second is that the second line of defense is an extremely important place, at the junction of the Hunhe River and the Taizi River, which needs to be heavily garrisoned, but only sent less than 30,000 people to guard the Mengba Banner, The third is the setting of the third and fourth lines of defense, which is too repetitive, and now it seems that it is purely to preserve the strength of the Manchurian Eight Banners, but I don't know what is the meaning of existence once the Ming army captures Shenyang, the Eight Banners Army loses the capital, and even loses the Great Qing Dynasty.

The matter of setting up the five lines of defense was completely a decision made by Dolgon, and Daishan and Zilharang and others were not clear, and now that there was a major problem, the responsibility was naturally borne directly by Dolgon.

In Dolgon's letter, he asked Zhenghongqi to concentrate the main forces in the area of Anle Prefecture.

Daishan scoffed at Dolgon's deployment and had no intention of carrying it out.

Dai Shan of course understood what Dolgon meant, the sergeant of the Red Banner stationed in Anle Prefecture was nothing more than to hold the retreat, but what Dolgon thought was too simple, if the Ming army captured Fushun, Salhu, Kaiyuan and even Zhenbei Pass, the Eight Banners Army around Shenyang still had no way out, and to hold this vast area, with the power of the Red Banner, it would never be possible.

So the best way is to concentrate forces and fight to the death with the Ming army.

Dai Shan believes that the issue of retreat should not be considered at present, and the current focus needs to be considered is how to fight with the Ming army.

After thinking about these issues, Dai Shan made a bold decision to go to Shenyang in person.

The same idea as Dai Shan is also Haoge stationed in Liaoyang.

The blue flag and the white flag sergeant commanded by Hauge, the total number of more than 20,000, the blue flag and the inlaid white flag, in the Eight Banners Army, the combat effectiveness belongs to the strong, although Hauge is a little mentally retarded in terms of strategy, but the combat is still very good, no less than Dolgon, although in front of Dolgon, Hauge is a junior, but Hauge is older than Dolgon, and the combat he participated in will not be less than Dolgon.

The news that the first line of defense and the second line of defense were broken through, Hauge also knew, his performance was more exaggerated than Dai Shan, and he spent several days scolding his mother, so that the soldiers around him were trembling, for fear that he would be beaten and scolded by Hauge if he did not do well, and even walked cautiously and did not make a sound.

Of course, Haoge's understanding is very direct, that is, he requires himself to lead the army to fight against the Ming army, and he must completely defeat the Ming army.

The five princes of the Great Qing Kingdom, Dai Shan, Dolgon and Duoduo, have all fought with the Ming army, and Duoduo of them also died, Zilharang and Hauge did not directly confront the Ming army, but Zierharang was wise and steady, admitting the courage of the Ming army, and looking at the problem from the actual situation, only Haoge was different, thinking that he was completely able to defeat the Ming army.

Hauge's arrogance has offended too many people, including Dolgon, these people have fought with the Ming army and suffered defeats of various sizes.

After receiving Dolgon's letter, Hauge didn't care at all, he was not ready to carry it out, let alone ask the sergeants with the blue flag and the white flag to evacuate in the direction of Shenyang, the Ming army was stationed at the place where the Hunhe River and the Taizi River met, and if the Eight Banners Army stationed in Gaizhou, Yaozhou, Haizhou, Anshan and Liaoyang were all evacuated at this time, wouldn't it be asking for hardship, if the Ming army in southern Liaoning also took advantage of this time to attack, then the more than 20,000 Eight Banner Army under his command would be attacked on their backs.

However, if you don't carry out the order issued by Hauge on behalf of the imperial court, you always need to have an explanation, and besides, the white flag is under the direct control of Dolgon, if the white flag insists on evacuating, he Hauge has no more and better way, so after thinking about it, Hauge decided to take the risk of going to Shenyang to discuss with Dolgon in person.

Hauge's opinion was that important cities must be defended, and at the same time, troops must be dispatched to defeat the Ming army and relieve the crisis of the Qing Dynasty.

Hauge's idea is rather naïve, perhaps because he thinks that the Ming army is vulnerable.

On the second day of February, Dai Shan and Hao Ge arrived in Shenyang at the same time.

The arrival of Daishan and Hauge caught Dolgon off guard, and the two did not report in advance, and did not talk about returning to Shenyang at all, which made Dolgon extremely annoyed and felt that something was wrong.

Daishan, Jierharang, Haoge and Azig and other banner owners of the Eight Banners have all gathered in Shenyang, as well as the new Shunzhi Land Exchange Fulin, the nominal Zhenghuang Banner and the flag owner with the red flag, a discussion about the fate of the Qing Dynasty is about to begin.

Dolgon thought about it for a long time, he decided to have a showdown, and he must tell all the serious problems faced by the Qing Kingdom, in Dolgon's opinion, Daishan and Zilharang can accept his point of view, and what makes him a headache is Hauge and Azig, who may not necessarily do what he asks.

Under the situation of the army pressing the border, the banner master of the Eight Banners of the Great Qing Kingdom actually gathered in Shenyang to argue, instead of arranging troops to prepare for battle, which can be regarded as strange. (To be continued.) )