Chapter 2128: Chen Baxian rebelled against Qing and surrendered to Qin
Chapter 2128 Chen Baxian rebelled against Qing and surrendered to Qin
Chapter 2126: Chen Baxian rebelled against the Qing Dynasty and surrendered to the Qin Dynasty
The reason why Huang Taiji gave up the attack on Lulongsai was firstly because Nurhaci urged him to withdraw his troops and return to participate in the decisive battle, and secondly because there was no hope of capturing Lulong. Of course, the main reason was because Nurhaci urged him very urgently.
What Huang Taiji didn't expect was that only halfway through his withdrawal, he received another imperial edict from his father. However, the content of the imperial edict this time was completely opposite to the previous one, and there was no need for Huang Taiji to withdraw his troops immediately.
Nurhaci often changed his orders from day to day, but it is hard for people to believe that these two completely different orders could come from the hands of the Qing emperor.
What a child’s play!
“Father, what are you thinking about?”
Huang Taiji frowned. After thinking hard for a long time, an idea appeared in his mind, and tears flowed from the corners of his eyes unconsciously.
Nowadays, there is a huge disparity in military strength between the Qin and Qing Dynasties. Due to the lack of food and grass, the Qing army cannot hold on to the city and can only fight the Qin army head-on with inferior troops. The possibility of winning is extremely slim.
Huang Taiji only had 15,000 troops. With Nurhachi's wisdom, it was impossible not to know that even if Huang Taiji really led his army back, it would not have much effect on the overall war situation.
In this case, it is better to simply let Huang Taiji do whatever he wants and continue to attack Lulong with all his strength.
In case of capture, even if the Qing army ultimately loses, they can still allow some of the remaining troops to return to western Liaoning to reduce losses.
Nurhaci didn't know the news that Fu Jian was killed by Jia Fu, and thought that there was still hope of capturing Lulong, so he issued this order. If he had known, he would definitely not have done this.
Huang Taiji guessed what his father was thinking and how much he cared for him. For a moment, he was touched and blamed himself.
"Amma, I have betrayed your trust. If it were Duduo and Dorgon, perhaps they would have done better than I."
Hong Taiji did not know that Duduo had died in the battle, and now two of his brothers had been killed by the Qin army.
"Your Highness, what should we do now? Should we continue to withdraw our troops and participate in the decisive battle? Or should we turn back and attack Luronce?"
Hearing this, Huang Taiji thought for a moment and said in a deep voice: "Although our troops are small, if we use them well, they can still be of great use.
So, continue to withdraw your troops and go back to help your father. "
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Just in the past two or three days, the situation in the eastern part of Youbeiping has undergone earth-shaking changes.
Under the command of King Qin Hao of Qin, 240,000 Qin troops crossed Yanshan one after another, while the Qing troops in Wujunjunmi and two counties withdrew from the city one after another.
Looking at the city that was reinforced little by little after spending a huge amount of money and material resources, Nurhachi couldn't help but feel a trace of reluctance in his eyes, but now he had to give up even if he didn't want to.
If you still want to defend the city at this time, the Qin army will only have to wait for the Qing army to run out of food after besieging the city, and they will be able to annihilate all the Qing troops in the city without even paying a lot of money. This is something Nurhachi is not willing to see even to death.
What Nurhachi wants now is not to defeat the Qin army, because he knows that is not realistic, but even if he knows that he will lose, he will not admit defeat. Even if he is dead, he will fight Qin Hao to hurt both sides, so that the Qin army can win. He was unable to continue the Eastern March.
“Qin Hao, don’t think of winning so easily, I won’t make it easy for you.”
Nurhachi muttered to himself with a gloomy face, his eyes full of gloom and madness.
Seeing this, Chu Ying hesitated for a moment, then approached Nurhaci and said with a sinister face: "Amma, there are more than ten thousand Han people in the two counties of Wuzhong Junmi who can help our army."
The implication is that these Han people are naturally used to threaten or consume the strength of the Qin army. Anyway, the Qing army did this kind of thing in the Northeast.
Hearing this, Nurhachi calmed down, and the madness on his face disappeared. He looked at the eldest son with an indifferent expression and asked, "Do you think you can threaten the Qin army with these common people?"
"Even if it doesn't work, there is no loss for me as a Qing Dynasty. Anyway, the people who died are Han people." Chu Ying said nonchalantly.
Being cruel and narrow-minded by nature, he would not care about the life or death of these Han people. Instead, because of the bad situation faced by the Manchus, he hated and hated the Han people even more, and wished to kill all the Han people.
"Chu Ying, Chu Ying, do you know the consequences of doing this?" Nurhachi looked at Chu Ying with a disappointed look on his face, which also shocked Chu Ying. He already regretted it in his heart, but he still yelled while holding his neck. : "What consequences can there be? Anyway, our Qing Dynasty and Qin Dynasty have been fighting to the death for a long time. How can it be worse than it is now?"
Nurhaci originally had a glimmer of hope in his eldest son, thinking that although he was a bit cruel, he at least had a brain, but now it seems that he really has no brains.
Nurhachi was completely disappointed with Chu Ying. He didn't even bother to explain, so he just mounted his horse and left without even wanting to look at Chu Ying again.
Chu Ying scratched his head in confusion, wondering why his father was unhappy.
Seeing this, Wanyan Honglie sighed and stepped forward: "Brother, in war, defeat is always calculated before victory is calculated.
Our Qing Dynasty's chances of winning this battle are not high. If we still use the people to threaten the Qin army, it will not bring any substantial benefits except completely angering the Qin army and making the other side hate our Qing Dynasty even more. We will definitely fight for this. Pay a heavy price. "
“What price can you pay?” Chu Ying said with disdain.
"We, the Qing Dynasty, can kill Han people, but the Qin army can't kill our Qing people? I don't know, brother, do you know about the second Hetao War between Qin and Yuan Dynasty?"
“Naturally know.”
“Does Your Highness know how many herdsmen Yuan Meng killed and injured?”
“This…I don’t know.”
“In the Second Battle of Hetao, in order to retaliate against Yuanmeng’s massacre of the city, the Qin cavalry went deep into the grassland and fought from Monan to Longcheng, and then from Longcheng to Mobei... slaughtering hundreds of thousands of Yuanmeng herdsmen.”
Under Wanyan Honglie's description in such a gloomy tone, Chu Ying seemed to be there and witnessed the tragic situation with her own eyes, and she suddenly shivered in fright.
"This is also the main reason why Your Majesty did not dare to massacre the city to frighten the Han people after he went south. He was afraid that the Qin army would come back with revenge."
After saying that, Wanyan Honglie patted Chu Ying on the shoulder: "If our Qing Dynasty is stronger than Qin Dynasty, we can naturally massacre the people of other countries like we did with Goguryeo and other countries. But the current situation is that Qin is strong and I am weak. , If you dare to do this again, you are really asking for death. "
Chu Ying couldn't help but look surprised. Now he understood why Amma was angry. It turned out that he had made a stupid statement that couldn't be more stupid.
“Amma, the child is not thinking well...”
Chu Ying hurriedly ran over to explain to Nurhachi, but instead he bumped into the messenger.
“Your Majesty, something bad happened, the port...”
Before he finished speaking, the messenger soldier who ran over bumped into Chu Ying, and Chu Ying grimaced in pain.
“Dog slave, no eyes...”
Chu Ying started to curse loudly, but before she could finish her words, she was kicked away by Nurhachi.
“What’s going on at the port?”
Nurhachi asked anxiously, with a bad premonition in his heart.
“Chen Baxian rebelled and not only burned the grain and grass in the port, but also spared the hundreds of grain-carrying ships, and then led the rebels to surrender to the Qin army.”
"What?"
Nurhachi's eyes widened, but a strange flush flashed across his face. Then he looked up to the sky and spit out a piece of blood mist, and then fell directly from the horse to the ground.
“Your Majesty…”
The whole group of people were all shocked.
(End of this chapter)