"Great Khan, Nan Di has agreed to a battle of wits! Are there any subjects such as geometry, physics, Western philosophy, Christian theology, Latin, French, etc... Which one will you choose to challenge him?"
After a while, Dorgon returned to the outside of the Houjin Army camp, holding a notebook to record his achievements, in which he copied a bunch of knowledge that he had never heard of and asked Huang Taiji.
Huang Taiji also sounded a little confused. What kind of knowledge is all this? How come this Great Khan has never heard of it?
In fact, this Huang Taiji loved to study since he was a child, and he was the first to be literate among the group of beile and beizi in Houjin Kingdom. I can read the entire "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" by myself, and I can also understand Mongolian, Manchurian, and Chinese. I can also do calculations, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division... without breaking my fingers! Is this knowledge enough? But he has never heard of the knowledge Dorgon talked about, let alone knowing it. How can he fight like this!
"What's the point of fighting!" Huang Taiji glared at Dorgon angrily, "Now we're fighting! What's the point of fighting between wits and courage? In a war, you have to fight with soldiers!"
Dorgon nodded in admiration: "Does the Great Khan want to fight?"
"A battle... is a good idea!" Huang Taiji frowned, "We can choose a more favorable terrain to have a grand battle with the Southern Army!"
"Great Khan," Dorgon reminded in a low voice, "can Nan Di agree to the terrain that is favorable to us?"
Huang Taiji chuckled: "The terrain that is good for us may not be bad for him..."
Beneficial to both parties? What kind of terrain is this?
Dorgon, the "smart Baylor", didn't have enough brains. He just looked at Huang Taiji blankly, "Khan, where do you want to make an appointment? Is it on the west bank of Ji Canal?"
He thought Huang Taiji wanted to lure Southern Emperor Zhu Youjian's army across the river, and then attack halfway across the river.
"Why are you on the edge of Ji Canal?" Huang Taiji shook his head and said, "I want to fight the Nanbing at Tangzhi Mountain! Tangzhi Mountain is between Miyun and Shunyi, close to the Modaoyu Great Wall."
"Tangzhi Mountain?" Dorgon had been there. The scenery there was beautiful. There were several villages owned by nobles from Beijing, and there were many wheat fields around. When the Hou Jin Army marched westward, they rested there for a few days (actually They were cutting wheat in the wheat fields near Tangzhi Mountain), "Great Khan, the terrain there is not very favorable? Tangzhi Mountain is just a few hills, surrounded by flat plains, and there is a large dense forest near the Great Wall... Ah, Great Khan, do you want to...just retreat out of the Modaoyu Great Wall if things go wrong?"
Huang Taiji was wise after all. After the battle had reached this point, of course he already wanted to quit - he lost money in the entrance battle, but the loss was not much, and it was still too late to stop the loss immediately.
But Huang Taiji also knew that those Beile and Beizi who followed him to the entrance might not be willing to go back empty-handed. When everyone gathered for military discussions in the past few days, many Baylor and Beizi proposed to go to Tongzhou to try their luck south of the Beijing line.
Even if you beat them to death, you won’t believe that all the castles within the Great Wall are the same as Zunhua, Yutian, Jizhou, Pinggu, Shunyi, Changping... If they are all so strong and the defenders are so capable, how can the southerners still What kind of Great Wall are you building?
However, Huang Taiji did not dare to risk going south. He was not worried that Tongzhou-Beijing was still a dragon's den south of the line, but he was worried that the Karaqin Mongolian tribes outside the border wall of Jizhen would be attacked by the pair of dogs Zhu Youjian and Wuliangha. Men and women tidied up.
The terrain outside the Jizhen border wall is very complicated, full of mountains and valleys. If it were not for the help of the Karaqin Mongols, it would be difficult for Huang Taiji to bypass Shanhaiguan and directly attack the Jizhen border wall.
And once the Haraqin Mongolian tribe outside the border wall of Ji Town is controlled or expelled by Zhu Youjian and Wuliangha, it will not be easy for Huang Taiji's army to return safely... Between Beijing and Tongzhou Nan grabbed a lot of wealth, but he couldn't bring it back to Shenyang, which was meaningless to Huang Taiji.
Of course, in order to stabilize the morale of the army these days, Huang Taiji has been working hard to block the news that Harqin Mongolia has been attacked by Zhu Youjian and Princess Wuliangha.
All the Karaqin Mongolian warriors who climbed over the border wall and joined Huang Taiji's army evaporated... Therefore, except for a very small number of Houjin senior officials and Huang Taiji's confidants, there were not many in the Houjin army. People know the news.
And Dorgon is one of the few well-informed people!
Huang Taiji nodded towards his fourteenth brother and whispered: "When the army sets off, you and Azig with the two white flags will go first to seize the Modaoyu Pass... No. mistaken!"
...
Unlike the people on both sides who were yelling across the Ji River before, this time Huang Taiji formally sent a military envoy and sent a very formal letter of war to Zhu Youjian.
The military envoy who sent the letter of war was a boy of fifteen or sixteen years old named Zhang Xiaoqi. It was the little flag slave who was just short of becoming a flag officer. He was defeated outside Zunhua County last time and was beaten when he returned. However, Fan Wencheng expressed his love and wrote it down first. If you fail to make atonement for your sins while marching westward, you will be beaten severely when you return.
So when Fan Wencheng came to him and asked him to send a letter of challenge to the young emperor of the Ming Dynasty across the Jihe River, he agreed without much thought... He didn't even think about what "killing the envoy" meant.
"What's your child's name?" Zhu Youjian met Zhang Xiaoqi in a ruined temple on the east bank of Jiyuan River. Of course, he didn't say that he was the emperor.
And he also kept an eye on it - he had to ask clearly who the envoy was? If it is a famous traitor like Fan Wencheng or a slave who will become a big boss in the future, then behead him!
"My name is Zhang Xiaoqi, and I am a coated slave under the banner of Xianghong..." Zhang Xiaoqi knelt on the ground, trembling while answering Zhu Youjian's questions. He was ignorant when he took over the mission, but he was kidnapped by Zhu Youjian, the "evil man" Zu Kuan (Zu Kuan had already joined the Zhangqian Army, this guy looked like a demon king, and wanted to eat people when he looked at it) When we were driving, we were already extremely scared.
"Zhang Xiaoqi... I've never heard of it!" Zhu Youjian muttered and gave up the idea of beheading the envoy. Then he waved to Wu Sangui, who was carrying a lantern beside him, and asked him to bring the lantern over.
By the light of the lantern, Zhu Youjian read Huang Taiji's letter of challenge carelessly and snorted: "Tang Zhishan... is not far from the Great Wall. Do you want to run away if you can't win?"
How could you not win? Zhang Xiaoqi was still very superstitious about the Heavenly Soldiers of the Eight Banners. After hearing Zhu Youjian's words, he felt a little unconvinced.
At this moment, Zhu Youjian had already taken a brush dipped in ink and dried in the sun from Hei Wentao, dipped a little water in a tea bowl, and then wrote "confrontation tomorrow" on the letter of challenge. With just four words, he threw the letter of challenge to Zhang Xiaoqi, and finally said to Zu Kuan: "Send him back."
"Yes." Zu Kuan responded and dragged Zhang Xiaoqi away.
When Zhu Youjian saw them walking away, he coughed, his eyes swept across the main hall of the ruined temple, and then fell on a young man in his twenties, with elegant and handsome appearance, slender and well-proportioned figure, "Wei Xiaolian, In your opinion, can Tongzhou Tuanlian and Shunyi Tuanlian fight?"
This Wei Xiaolian is an extraordinary figure. His name is Wei Zaode... He is the first prime minister of the Ming Dynasty who was dubbed "Zhuge Liang" by the traitor!
He was from Tongzhou and was a candidate for the Dingmao Judicial Examination in the seventh year of Tianqi. Because his father died not long after he passed the examination, he could not participate in the competition in the first year of Chongzhen, otherwise he would have been an official by now.
However, Zhu Youjian still "took care" of him. When he appointed Gao Hongtu to go to Tongzhou to organize team training, he specifically recommended this Tongzhou talent. Therefore, Gao Hongtu asked Wei Zaode to serve as his staff to help him organize team training. Wei Zaode's family is also considered a well-known scholar in Tongzhou, and he himself is quite capable, and he actually helped Gao Hongtu a lot.
The reason why he ran into Zhu Youjian's army was because after Zhu Youjian left Wenyuhe Camp, Zhang Fengyi, the Minister of War, immediately sent Tang Ma to inform the station that the young emperor was leading the vanguard to Shunyi. Bing Shunyi's Gao Hongtu (Gao Hongtu is the governor of Shuntian, and of course he can lead troops to wander around Shuntian Mansion) and Lu Zhenfei.
After receiving this shocking news, Gao Hongtu did not dare to neglect, and immediately sent his capable generals Wei Zaode and Shunyi County Magistrate Lu Zhenfei each to lead a team to search out of the city, hoping to help the little emperor when he was in danger. The Tongzhou regiment led by Wei Zaode happened to meet Zhu Youjian.
"Long live my lord," Wei Zaode thought for a while and replied, "I thought the team training in Tongzhou and Shunyi were capable of fighting, but..."
Zhu Youjian waved his hand and said: "Nothing is wrong! You go back to the city immediately to convey my decree... Let Gao Hongtu immediately mobilize 8,000 regiments to follow me on the expedition to Tangzhishan to fight with the slave chief Huang Taiji decisive battle!"
