This is definitely necessary. How could Emperor Chongzhen believe that Azig would really kill Huang Taiji!
Believe it or not, after Azig fled back to Liaodong, he immediately changed his story and said how he escaped from the Ming Dynasty through all the hardships. As for the death of Jierhalang, it was definitely not him. If there are any rumors here in the Ming Dynasty, they must be slandering him!
Emperor Chongzhen could think of these things with his toes. He still let Azig go, but he just rewarded him with a Class-A eavesdropping seed and asked him to return to Liaodong to be the "gold medal undercover" of the Ming Dynasty.
Relatively speaking, the last time Dorgon was released as an undercover agent, not much very useful information was returned, because Dorgon was imprisoned in the Zongren Mansion by Huang Taiji and spent all day thinking about his mistakes.
And this Azig is also a senior member of Jianlu. Although he lost this battle, he is not the coach. Therefore, after escaping back, he has a greater chance of making meritorious deeds. This way he can gain access to the high-level secrets of Jianlu.
Another reason for letting Azig go back is to let him watch the captives of various ethnic groups in Liaodong kill the Jurchen captives in Jianzhou. Even if he knew that it was because of pressure, seeing such a thing happen, Azig His temperament and character will definitely mind him. Put him back in Liaodong, and maybe he can be used as a troublemaker.
As for Jierhalang, firstly, this man is a famous general among the Jianlu, and secondly, his origin determines that he cannot compete for power and profit among the Jianlu. It can be said that he is Huang Taiji's loyal subordinate. This point is different from Dorgon.
There was another reason why Emperor Chongzhen decided not to let him go back but to kill him. Even Jierhalang led the army to burn, kill and loot in the northwest of the Ming Dynasty, causing harm to so many people of the Ming Dynasty. If he were caught in Guihua City but let go, it would be difficult to give an explanation to the people.
For all these reasons, Jilhalang is destined to die.
Of course, the main culprit of the disaster in the northwest of the Ming Dynasty was Zhengfa, but many of his men who participated in the evil were still breathing.
Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen looked at the Tatars who were not Jianzhou Jurchens outside the city with a cold face, and then suddenly ordered Wu Zhong, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, to say: "Wu Qing will immediately take people to the North Gate Camp to build a camp for me. I will erect a stone tablet on the tomb of the soldiers who died in battle, and I will personally inscribe it. In addition, I will take the Tatars outside the city to dig a big pit and bury the bones of the Ming people. I will also erect a stone tablet and I will also inscribe it. .”
Wu Zhong was a little stunned after hearing this, but he immediately came to his senses and left immediately following the order.
Emperor Chongzhen faced the fierce cold wind, took a deep breath, and said loudly: "When Hetao truly belongs to the Ming Dynasty, I will build a memorial hall here, and the list of all the Ming Dynasty soldiers who died in the battle will be kept here. They The heroic fighting deeds will also be recorded in the museum.”
At this time, although Guihua City has been captured, Emperor Chongzhen has no intention of occupying it. He will come back sooner or later when his military strength becomes stronger in the future. Today's military forces must be concentrated on dealing with the Liaodong Jianlu.
The surrounding Ming army generals, especially Hu Dawei and He Renlong, couldn't help but be very excited when they heard that Emperor Chongzhen valued their fallen men so much. The two of them stepped forward in unison, knelt down on one knee before Emperor Chongzhen, and loudly chanted: "The last general will bow down to thank Heaven!"
"The emperor's grace is so great that I will swear allegiance to him to the death!" Other generals followed closely and knelt on one knee to express their excitement.
Leaving a name in the world is probably something that is engraved in the bones of the Chinese people. If possible, of course I would be very happy. Wu Sangui wrote the inscription "Blood debt must be paid with blood", and after thinking for a while, he added his own name, which is probably not the embodiment of this complex.
But most people are definitely unknown. However, now the emperor has personally written an inscription and paid tribute in person, promising to build a memorial hall. You can tell from the name that the names of the Ming soldiers who died in this battle will be passed down to future generations.
Seeing how excited they were, Emperor Chongzhen felt a little regretful, and immediately said to them seriously: "I have long had the idea to build another Martyrs' Shrine next to the Imperial Ancestral Temple in the capital to honor all the Ming Dynasty heroes who defended their country and died for the Ming Dynasty. Everyone is qualified to enter the Martyrs' Shrine, enjoy the incense of my Ming Dynasty, and coexist with the country! After returning to Beijing this time, I will explain this time."
Hearing this, these generals, and even the surrounding Ming army officers, the imperial guards and the accompanying chamberlains, couldn't help but be filled with surprises.
Although they felt that the emperor already paid enough attention to the big-headed soldiers, they did not expect that he would pay so much attention to them!
There is no doubt that those who died for the Ming Dynasty while defending their homeland and the country definitely include all the Ming Dynasty soldiers who died in battle. This means that if these people here die in battle, they will be able to join the list of loyal martyrs. Temple, enjoy the incense of the Ming Dynasty forever, and coexist with the country!
People in this era still have a very strong complex: after death, the reason for entering the ancestral hall is to enjoy the incense, not to be forgotten, and not to become a lonely ghost!
Nowadays, this Martyrs' Shrine is definitely much more glorious than any other ancestral hall! It is of course the best thing if you can enter the Martyrs' Shrine after death!
On the top of the city, there was excitement, but below the city, the Tatars were a little panicked. They were driven away by the Ming army soldiers. I don’t know what they were going to do.
Especially when they were ordered to dig a big hole, they became even more panicked.
But fortunately, some Tatars were asked to carry the bones of Ming people, and they knew what digging pits meant.
Thinking that your life is still in the hands of the Ming army, thinking that if you perform better, you will have more chances to survive, and maybe you can go one step further and become a member of the Ming army, no longer a prisoner!
Thinking like this, these Tatars immediately started working hard regardless of their hunger or exhaustion.
It is definitely not easy to dig a big hole in this winter. However, Emperor Chongzhen waited for about an hour, and Wu Zhong came back to reply.
When Emperor Chongzhen heard that everything he had ordered was done, he ordered the entire army to assemble.
Immediately, outside the north gate of Guihua City, a sea of red seemed to appear. It was as if the entire grassland was filled with soldiers of the Ming Army wearing red mandarin duck uniforms.
They stood in a circle, looking solemnly at a huge tomb in the center of the circle, and opposite him, there was a relatively smaller tomb. In front of these two tombs, there was a huge tombstone, but it was still blank. .
The sky was gloomy, and it looked like it was about to snow. The raging north wind was whistling, blowing the Ming army flags and making a "whisking" sound. Apart from that, there was no other sound.
Emperor Chongzhen stood in front of these two tombs. After looking at them for a while, he took a red pen from the hands of his chamberlain Lan Tianbao, strode forward, and first stood at the tombstone in front of the tomb where the bones of the Ming Dynasty people were buried, and inscribed There was a line of blood-colored fonts: "Blood debts will be repaid with blood. This is my promise!"
Then, he turned around and walked to another tombstone, and inscribed another line of words: "The loyal martyrs of the Ming Dynasty died with the country!"
After finishing writing, he casually threw the ink pen to Lan Tianbao, then turned to look at the Ming soldiers in front of him, and shouted loudly: "Come on, blood sacrifice to the loyal martyrs of the Ming Dynasty and the people of the Ming Dynasty who died in vain!"
"General, the order will be obeyed!" Upon hearing this, He Renlong and Hu Dawei, who had already received the instructions in advance, both came out of the queue, responded loudly, and turned around and walked away.
After a while, the Ming army officers and soldiers from the Hussars Battalion escorted the Tatars to the tomb. They lined up in rows and yelled one after another: "Kneel down, kneel down..."
At this time, although these Tatars felt that something was wrong, they had exhausted their physical strength before and had no strength to resist at all, so they could only be at the mercy of the Ming army soldiers.
Thousands of Tatars are indeed not many in the sea of red. However, in front of the tomb, it occupies a very large area.
Hu Dawei and He Renlong were on one side, watching that their men had already escorted all the Tatars forward. Then they turned around together and looked at Emperor Chongzhen.
Emperor Chongzhen's face was solemn and he just waved his hand. Hu Dawei and He Renlong turned around together and shouted orders.
"Blood sacrifice to Ming Zhonglie, kill him!"
"Blood sacrifice to the people of Ming Dynasty, kill them!"
As the two of them said the word "kill", the soldiers who had been waiting for a long time slashed with their swords without hesitation.
These Tatars thought that they had surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, and if they listened to the Ming Dynasty and killed their original masters, they would have a chance to survive.
If it was just a normal war between the two sides, then this might really be possible.
However, this time, they ravaged the northwest of the Ming Dynasty and brought serious disasters to the people of the Ming Dynasty. Many innocent people died in vain. Emperor Chongzhen went on a personal expedition to avenge the people of the northwest of the Ming Dynasty. How could he spare these executioners lightly!
Besides, the Ming Dynasty didn’t have much food, so why waste it! Kill him directly and avenge the people of Ming Dynasty. Use facts to prove that blood debt must be paid with blood! As long as the enemies of Ming Dynasty dare to attack the people of Ming Dynasty, Ming Dynasty will also take bloody revenge!
The king was so angry that he bled for thousands of miles.
When Emperor Chongzhen became angry, thousands of Tatar heads were separated from the body, and the blood spurted out dyed the grassland in front of the tomb red.
After paying homage to the Ming soldiers who died in battle and the people who died in vain, Emperor Chongzhen no longer stayed in Guihua City and immediately issued an order to return to the pass.
The scene of the blood sacrifice has not been touched again. In front of the two tombs, there were Tatar corpses with their heads missing, and they were lined up in many rows, lying on the ground like that.
When the Ming army set off, sparse snowflakes began to fall.
As the New Year approaches, it finally begins to snow on the grassland.
It was also for this reason that Emperor Chongzhen did not wait any longer and immediately returned to the pass. Otherwise, once the snow falls heavily and the snow is too deep, I may not be able to return to the pass.
In the battle of Guihua City, in addition to Azig who was let go, there were also a few Tatars who escaped, such as Ying Erdai. When he saw that the situation was not going well, he ran away directly. He was really beaten by him. ran away. At this point, when Emperor Chongzhen saw that the eavesdropping seeds in his body were still working, he knew that this man was destined to die, and he wanted to continue to be the "gold medal undercover" of the Ming Dynasty.
In addition, those who were not defeated by the Ming army were the elite cavalry of the Urad and Chahar tribes. At this time, they were rushing back to their tribal camps without stopping, one to the east and one to the west, like two torrents, slowly beginning to branch off, either one hundred or two hundred, or one thousand or two thousand, from the large army. They separated from each other and rushed towards the camps of their respective tribes.
In this section, where a large tribal camp of the Chahar Tribe is located to the east, a group of about two thousand Chahar Tribe cavalry finally came back. Then, they couldn't believe their eyes.
The originally large camp was almost reduced to ashes. The yurt, pieced together from nowhere, stood alone among the ashes.
There were still many people in the camp, but almost no one could be seen.
When the leader of the Chahar tribe saw it, of course he rushed towards those yurts.
However, just outside the yurt, he suddenly saw piles of bones, and then smelled the aroma of meat coming from the yurt. Suddenly, the whole person felt as if he had been struck by lightning and became motionless.
The people in the yurt also heard the noise, and many people rushed out to see the movement. After seeing the situation clearly, they were all so frightened that they fell to the ground and did not dare to move.
In fact, if there is a livestock plague on the grassland and the tribes are hungry, they will still exchange their sons to eat. Such tragedies have been recorded in the late Ming Dynasty.
However, it doesn't matter if this kind of thing happens to other tribes. The key is that it happens to him, and the leader of the Chahar tribe can't stand it. The fact that he can bring two thousand elites out is enough to show that his tribe is a big one.
After he came to his senses, he frantically tried to kill people. However, those people lying on the ground were not willing to be chopped down, so they all started shouting.
"You took all the food from the clan and gave it to the Qing Dynasty. What else can we eat?"
"You removed all the warriors from your clan to help the Qing Dynasty. When the Ming army came, they only had two to three thousand troops. Where were you at that time?"
"It was you who offended the Ming Kingdom, but we all suffered. Look at the tribes, they are all gone. It is you, it is your fault..."
"..."
How can we refute these accusations?
If he had not helped the Qing State over and over again, in the end he would not have received the Qing State's promise, but would have brought the disaster of genocide to the clan!
Thinking of all this, the leader of the Chahar tribe looked at the wooden sign "Blood debt must be paid with blood" placed there by Wu Sangui, and couldn't help but roar to the sky, as if he wanted to pour out the endless regrets in his heart to the immortal God.
No matter how crazy he goes, he has to face the reality in the end: basically all the people in his clan are gone. And the little food and supplies the army brought with them were about to be used up. It's about to snow heavily, what should we do next?
This situation occurs in almost every camp in the Urad and Chahar tribes, and almost all tribal leaders face such a problem.
