Be the emperor from the postman

Chapter 647 Deceit and Complicated Relationships (Third Change)

The two toasted each other.

Huang Taiji bestowed his imperial black fox hat, mink fur, boots, carved saddles, and white horses to Zu Dashou.

Zu Dashou was deeply moved, and couldn't help saying: "The Great Khan has treated me so favorably, what else can I say? Although I am dull, I am not a stone!"

Huang Taiji was very satisfied, and made a plan to secretly capture Jinzhou overnight.

On the second night, Zu Dashou led his son Zu Zeyuan and 350 family members to quietly retreat from Dalinghe City, pretending to break out of the siege, and fled to Jinzhou.

Huang Taiji ordered Abatai, Delege, Dorgon, Yuetuo and others to lead 4000 people, all dressed in Han costumes and mixed together in a rout, trying to sneak into Jinzhou together.

As soon as this team set off, Dalinghe City began to fire its cannons, and there was a loud rumbling sound, forming a continuous piece.

Far away in the silent night, the sound of cannons was heard from the direction of Jinzhou, thinking that the defenders of Daling River had broken through, so Wu Xiang sent people to divert reinforcements, but they were all defeated by Abatai.

Wu Xiang retreated back to Jinzhou. Coincidentally, the heavy fog came up again, and the Jin army was separated. No one opened the city gate, and the night attack on Jinzhou was unsuccessful.

The next day Zu Dashou returned to Dalinghe City with Dorgon who was monitoring him, and Huang Taiji went five miles away to greet him in person.

After the night attack failed, Zu Dashou came up with another strategy, which was to pretend that he was defeated last night and hid in the mountains. If he reached Jinzhou on foot tonight, he would be able to hide it from the Jinzhou officers and soldiers, and he would definitely be accepted into the city.

After he entered the city, he designed to get rid of Qiu Hejia, governor of Liaodong, and dedicate Jinzhou to Daikin!

Huang Taiji thought for a long time about whether Zu Dashou could come back, and decided to let him go.

Hou Jinying gave a banquet to practice for the ancestor's birthday.

After sunset, Zu Dashou, his son Zu Zeyuan, and thirty famous servants were escorted by the Houjin Army to the Xiaoling River, then dropped their mounts, crossed the river, and rushed to Jinzhou on foot.

Qiu Hejia and Wu Xiang led the troops out of the city and welcomed Zu Dashou back in person.

But when Zu Dashou entered Jinzhou City, he immediately strengthened Jinzhou's defense.

Huang Taiji waited left and right, and sent secret envoys several times to remind Zu Dashou not to forget the previous agreement and oath, but he prevaricated several times and repeatedly resisted Huang Taiji's attack on Jinzhou.

Anyway, it was not my ancestor's birthday that made the oath at the beginning, if the promise was not fulfilled, even the thunder could not strike Lao Tzu!

As for the nephews and nephews who stayed in Houjin camp, Zu Dashou didn't care, and he didn't even read their letters.

Qiu Hejia, the governor of Liaodong, surrendered to the imperial court and led the army to sacrifice the city. After hearing the news, Chongzhen not only did not blame him, but promoted Zu Dashou as the left governor to lead Jinzhou.

Not only did Huang Taiji want Zu Dashou to fulfill his promise, but Chongzhen also wanted Zu Dashou to return to Beijing to report on his duties. He issued an edict three times, and Zu Dashou found reasons to refuse three times, and he always stayed in Jinzhou City.

Anyway, he thought that going to the capital would be Dudu Yuan's end, and staying in Jinzhou would be useful to both emperors.

Only then can he preserve the wealth of his ancestral family and the life of his nephew.

However, due to the fall of the Daling River in the capital, serious conflicts began within the Ming court. Is it the responsibility of Qiu Hejia or Sun Chengzong?
In short, the Daling River was damaged as soon as it was repaired, and the soldiers were lost. It was Sun Chengzong who advocated this strategy before, so that the loss of teachers and humiliation of the country should be the responsibility of Sun Chengzong.

Sun Chengzong wrote a letter to defend himself, saying that it was the result of Qiu Hejia's repeated changes of teachers and disobedience to restraint, but the court became more and more noisy, Sun Chengzong resigned due to illness, and Chongzhen approved him to return to his hometown in order to quell the court discussion.

Sun Chengzong's second supervisor was pushed out and Qiu Hejia stayed in office.

Chongzhen really had nothing to do with Zu Dashou's refusal to go to Beijing for an audience. The elite soldiers outside the pass were all lost, and they could only rely on Zu Dashou, a local snake, to continue to maintain it.

Regarding Zu Dashou, Chongzhen was extremely suspicious, but also had to rely heavily on him, hoping that he would be loyal to him.

Under this kind of complicated psychology, it can only evolve into distrust in the end.

The situation outside the pass was rotten, and Chongzhen could only hope that Hong Chengchou and others would wipe out the bandits in Shanxi after the spring blossoms.

In this way, he will have a large number of elite soldiers under his command, who can be transferred to Liaodong to fight against Huang Taiji.

Daming was pursuing the responsibility, while Huang Taiji ordered all the soldiers of Ming Dynasty to shave their heads and join the Eight Banners, and then held a grand banquet.

Huang Taiji obtained more than 500 large and small artillery pieces from Dalinghe, as well as countless shotgun gunpowder and lead, all of which were assigned to Tong Yangxing for management.

However, too many materials were seized, and some weapons that were not very good had to be thrown away to ease the transportation difficulties.

The Ming army collected these abandoned artillery and firearms, dealt with them, and continued to use them in defense and defense of the city.

Huang Taiji was extremely satisfied with this battle. The siege of Daling River was a complete success, consuming the elite soldiers of Ming Dynasty outside the pass, causing heavy losses to its military strength, and went straight to the Battle of Sarhu.

There are also a large number of civil servants and military generals who surrendered to Dajin, and they will definitely play an inestimable role in the future. Don't they have fellow villagers and old relationships?
This is more satisfying than conquering a city.

As for some flaws, Zu Dashou's words don't count, but he doesn't have elite Guan Ning soldiers under his command, so that's useless.

What pleased Huang Taiji the most was Mang Gurtai's sudden death, which was a surprise for him who wanted to centralize power.

On his way back to Shenyang, Huang Taiji said to the people beside him:

"I asked you to collect all the information about Hammer Bandit He Jinzhao, have you sorted it out?"

The guard on the side said: "Hui Dahan, everything is ready."

Hearing this, Huang Taiji dismounted from his horse and directly sat in the carriage, carefully reading all the information about He Jinzhao.

A postman, after Daming abolished the post station, he suddenly rose up.

Moreover, the speed of his rise is extremely fast, and he can win people's hearts. The most important thing is that this person does not have many brothers.

The more Huang Taiji looked at it, the more he felt that he was a bit similar to his father, who was forced by Daming to be unable to survive.

On the other hand, my own grandma, after all, was the grandfather and great-grandfather who led Li Chengliang's party, so he got the opportunity to burn Li Chengliang's kang for several years, and only after he became a servant did he understand the way in the army.

How could He Jinzhao understand?
Huang Taiji couldn't figure it out. This person has never read a book, but he can still write. Could it be that the postmen of the Ming Dynasty can also read?

When he was weak, he pretended that his side was strong, forcing the governors of the three sides to appease him personally.

But when he became stronger, he began to pretend that his side was not strong, and kept developing steadily, not attracting the attention of the officers and soldiers, and then killed a few general soldiers suddenly, so that the officers and soldiers around him respected him at a respectful distance.

Even the Mongols outside the Great Wall obeyed his orders and ran for him.

The most important thing is that after this man captured Taiyuan, he didn't even live in the palace, and he didn't even take a few wives and concubines!

Instead, he distributed the houses to the soldiers under his command.

He knows how to discipline himself!
Seeing this, Huang Taiji was sure that this son must have great ambitions in his chest, and he would definitely be his strong enemy in the future.

"The Mongols can only be my help, not his He Jinzhao's help!"

Huang Taiji looked at all kinds of papers scattered in the carriage filled with news about He Jinzhao, he frowned tightly, and had to think of a way to let the Ming officials and soldiers consume him.

(End of this chapter)