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Erke Daiqing, from the Borzigit clan, can also be translated as the Borjijin clan.

At first glance, he knew that he came from Mongolia. His father's name was Ngodel, and he was Baylor from a small tribe in Khalkha Mongolia.Failed in the Mongolian civil war,

He could only lead his tribe and come to seek refuge with the Manchus. They were arranged to farm and live in Liaoyang as a whole, and belonged to Zhenghuang Banner.The land given to them was of course snatched from the Han people.

During Dorgon's reign, he asked Erke Daiqing to change to Zhengbaiqi, but this person was not co-opted by Dorgon and devoted himself to working for Dayuer.

Today, he has made a fortune, entered the first-class public, added the Shaobao, and is also the prince and the Taibao.

These are nothing. Erke Daiqing's actual position is similar to that of the nine admirals in the Qing Dynasty. He is in charge of the entire Hetuala city's soldiers and horses.So it was funny, several servants of Admiral Jiumen's family escaped from the city, this is why Erke Daiqing was angry.

Riding on a horse, Erke Daiqing led his men and went out to inspect the city defense in person.

The streets in the city were very deserted. Due to the promulgation of the "Order of Treating Returned People Kindly" in Liaoning, a large number of Han people fled from the areas under the jurisdiction of the Qing Dynasty.Even landlords of the Han nationality who had been the lackeys of the Manchu Qing, as long as they fled to the Liao Great Wall to register, they could settle in the sub-fields in Liaoning—under the crazy exploitation of the Manchu Qing,

Some landlords left their fields and ran away.

Not to mention the residents in the city, the head tax is too high, and they will run away whenever they have the opportunity.

Now, even if the Han people go out of the city to make trouble, several households have to provide security together.One family fled, and several families questioned the crime.The phenomenon of fleeing people was not curbed, but it gave the city guards an excuse to demand cards from the people entering and leaving the city gate.

It was precisely because the population of the "capital" was getting smaller and smaller that the Manchu and Qing courts encouraged the trade of people, acquiescing to the Eight Banners Army stationed in the rear, leaving their posts without permission to arrest the aborigines, and the tribes in Heilongjiang were greatly harmed.

He got off his horse and boarded the city wall, and Erke Daiqing looked out.

He knew that Manqing would be over sooner or later, but he had no choice but to sink with this broken ship.

"Da da da da!"

A fast horse came rushing from the mountain road, and when he came to the city gate, he was stopped and searched. The man said anxiously: "Don't waste time, Saarhu is besieged!"

Erke Daiqing received the news very quickly, and asked in person: "How many people have come to besiege the city?"

The messenger said, "Tens of thousands!"

Erke Daiqing said anxiously: "This is a decisive battle, come with me to meet the Queen Mother and Your Majesty!"

"Boom boom boom boom!"

Lu Xiangsheng sat in the camp, listening to the continuous sound of cannons from the west.

At this time, Saarhu City was far taller and stronger than it was in Daming's hands.Because Nurhachi had been rebuilt and moved the capital here for more than a year, it was built according to the specifications of the Houjin Capital City.

"The bloody battle of Salhu."

Lu Xiangsheng recalled the battle many years ago. Although he had not experienced it personally, he had heard it said countless times, because it was the beginning of the collapse of the situation in Liaodong.

"Da da da da!"

The sound of horseshoes approached from far away, and a scout rushed over: "Master, we met some Tartar scouts, we killed two of them, but no one was caught alive.

No enemy reinforcements were encountered either. "

"Continue to explore." Lu Xiangsheng ordered.

This is a city defense fortress group, the main city is Saerhu City on Saerhu Mountain, and there are two acropolises on the east and west sides of Saerhu.

Not far to the northeast, at the confluence of the Hun River and the Suzi River, there is another Jiefan City.Before Nurhachi moved his capital to Sarhu, he once set his capital at Jiefan City. The city area was not as large as Sarhu, but the mountains were steeper, and it was easy to defend and difficult to attack because it was sandwiched between two rivers.Moreover, on the east and west sides of Jiefan City, there is also an acropolis.

In addition, there is Gule City, which was once the royal city of Jurchen in Jianzhou.

These three cities are in the form of tripartite confrontation, and they are all built on the basis of the danger of mountains and rivers.

If you want to destroy the Qing Dynasty, you must pull out all these cities before you can go to attack Hetuala.Even if the Eight Banners Army has degraded its combat effectiveness, as long as it is dedicated to defending, it will take more than half a year to slowly attack the city.

At this moment, Lu Xiangsheng led his army to capture the East Guard City of Sarhu.His mission was not to attack the city, but to keep an eye on the Tartar reinforcements. The Tartars in Jiefan City and Gule City might come at any time.

As for Hu Dinggui, he led his army to get stuck between the main city of Sarhu and the Western Acropolis, cutting off the connection between the two Tartars.

Xiao Zongxian was leading his troops to storm the West Acropolis, and all the artillery of several divisions was assigned to him.

A hundred cannons bombarded the small acropolis, and the defenders of the Tartars were stunned.Even the Tartar artillery had to be forced by officers with knives,

Only dare to use the city defense artillery to fight back.

"Boom boom boom!"

"boom!"

Although the artillery of the Datong Army was well protected by the rammed earth bunker, one of them was destroyed by the city defense artillery.

The two acropolises of Sarhu must be gone soon.

This kind of small castle was built by Nurhachi at the beginning of his army, how could it withstand the continuous bombardment of hundreds of cannons.The city wall can be destroyed in a few days, and the next step is to besiege the main city of Sarhu, and besiege the city to fight for aid, waiting for the Tartars from Jiefan City and Gule City to come and die.

Enemy reinforcements require military orders from the Qing court.

When Da Yuer learned that Saerhu was besieged, her first reaction was to run away, and wanted to take the little emperor of Shunzhi to Heilongjiang.

Chapter 681 [Three Blossoms]

The general of the Sarhu garrison is called Murima, with a yellow flag inlaid, and he comes from the Guerjia family.

This guy is Oboi's younger brother, and his combat skills are quite satisfactory.

In history, there are only two major military exploits he made for the Manchus.One is to follow the traitor Jin Shenghuan and seize the entire territory of Jiangxi. There was no tough battle at all, and the officers, soldiers and gentry in Jiangxi surrendered.The second is to lead the army to conquer the remnants of Li Zicheng, forcing the Shun general Li Laiheng to death, and then surrendering his tribe.

Due to the repeated defeats of the Eight Banners Army, too many generals were killed or captured.Then there was infighting, killing or imprisoning a group of nobles, and the Eight Banners Army has withered talents in terms of generals.

People like Murima turned out to be the mainstay of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Of course, Man Dahai is still alive now, but the leader of the army has left and he doesn't obey Da Yuer's orders very much.

"Your Highness, the enemy army is divided into three and besieged the two acropolises. Our army should take the opportunity to attack their camp at night," Deputy General Tu Hai said. In one place, our army didn’t even have a chance to go out of the city to fight.”

Murima: "Don't act rashly, stick to Saarhu and wait for reinforcements."

"Your Highness, don't miss this opportunity, time will never come again!" Tu Hai tried hard to persuade.

Although Tuhai belonged to Zhenghuangqi, his origin was from the Huerha tribe of the savage Jurchen.

Many of his clan members have already moved out, while those who stayed in the Heilongjiang River Basin are now rebelling and fighting for independence.These independent tribes were the main targets of the Eight Banners Army's capture of slaves.

Tuhai doesn't care about the life and death of his compatriots in Heilongjiang. Although he comes from the barbarian Jurchen, he is deeply influenced by Confucian culture.

This guy is a standard cultural person. He started his career as a pen post (middle and high-level civil servants) and served as an attendant of the Academy of National History (a close minister of the Manchu and Qing emperors).Appreciated by Da Yuer, in just two or three years, he was promoted to an academician of the internal secretary, and then promoted to a senior scholar of the Hongwen Academy.

The civil and military divisions of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties were not divided, and this cabinet minister actually came to Saarhu as the deputy commander again.

Historically, this guy was also ignorant of literature and ignorance of martial arts. During his tenure as minister of the Ministry of punishment, he was transferred to conquer Li Zicheng's remnants.When he was the minister of the Ministry of Rites, he was transferred to quell the Chahar rebellion, then led troops to quell the Gansu rebellion, and finally participated in the quelling of the San Francisco rebellion.After the death of illness, the first-class prince was posthumously given to enjoy the Manchu Qing Taimiao.

It's a pity that no matter how powerful she is, she's just a savage Jurchen, not comparable to a Jianzhou Jurchen like Murima.

Murima was unwilling to take the initiative to attack. He knew that the Eight Banners Army at this time did not have the combat effectiveness of a few years ago.Putting aside the political infighting of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the consecutive defeats of the Eight Banners Army, the lack of military rations alone can explain the decline in the Eight Banners Army's combat power.

The smuggling checks here are too strict, and even a grain of rice cannot be transported out of the Great Wall of Liao Dynasty, which caused famines in the Manchu land every year.

The nobles of the Eight Banners are still enjoying the wealth and honor, but the soldiers of the Eight Banners are full and hungry.

Soldiers can't get enough to eat for a long time, so how can they fight?

Murima could only choose to defend to the death. He was afraid that he would take the initiative to go out of the city to fight, and he would collapse as soon as he fought.

Tu Hai, a man of culture, clapped his sleeves and knelt on one knee: "Your Highness, please select 500 warriors, and I will personally lead them to attack at night!"

"That's not necessary." Murima shook her head.

Unlike her elder brother Obai's bravery, Murima's personality is calmer.Moreover, even if the night attack is successful with 500 people, how much can they achieve?It's nothing more than a little boost to the morale of the army.

No matter how the morale of the army is boosted, it will be like that, unless the soldiers can be fed every day.

"My lord, it's not good!"

While the two were talking, there was a sudden loud noise from the west, and then a soldier came to report: "My lord, the West Acropolis has fallen!"

The Western Acropolis of Salhu was forcibly blasted away by artillery, and the city wall collapsed after only three days of carrying it.

Murima and Tuhai were very helpless about this, and silently went to the outer city wall to observe the movement of the Datong army with binoculars.

The Datong army in the west of the city raised the hot air balloon again, but did not come directly to attack the main city.

Some of them stayed in the west, and some of them bypassed Salhu Mountain and went to the east to join Lu Xiangsheng's troops.

As for the artillery, they were all transferred to Lu Xiangsheng, and the old trick was repeated to forcibly blow down the Eastern Acropolis.

The next day, the sound of rumbling artillery rang out in the Eastern Acropolis of Salhu.This time, the defenders surrendered before the city wall collapsed, and opened the city gate to welcome the Datong army in.

The reinforcements from the Qing Dynasty were still nowhere to be seen.

……

Meihei Estuary (Meihekou City).

This was originally the territory of the Huifa Department of Haixi Jurchen, but it was annexed by Nurhachi by force.In the past two years, the remnants of the Huifa tribe, after the successful independence of the Yehe tribe, also announced their independence from the Manchu Qing rule.

It's a pity that this place is too far away from the Datong Army and too close to the Manchu territory, so it was brutally suppressed after the uprising.

Daishan and Dorgon died of illness one after another, Dayuer took full control of the power, Man Dahai chose to lead his troops away, and took the land of Huifa Department as his private domain.

When the Datong army besieged Saerhu, several fast horses galloped to the mouth of Meihei River.

"The wicked woman sent someone?" Man Dahai sneered.

The second son Leng Saiyi: "Father, I have come to send an imperial edict to award the reward. It is estimated that the southern barbarians have sent troops."

The conflict between Daishan, Man Dahai and Da Yuer is very simple.It is the two blue flags that they control, and their strength has not been greatly damaged, seriously threatening the status of the royal family.

Zhao Han used the strategy of alienation again, and only accepted the surrender of Daishan and Man Dahai, and the rest of the Tartars would be beheaded even if they surrendered.

This clumsy strategy actually worked wonders.It gave Dayuer and the Manchurian nobles a full excuse to let the two blue banners divide their military power, so as to prevent the Eight Banners from being dominated by one family.

Of course Daishan and Mandahai were unwilling. They believed that they had done nothing but meritorious deeds, and they were rewarded for their meritorious deeds.

Daishan is alive, but Da Yuer dare not do anything.

As soon as Daishan died, Dayuer found a reason to let Jieshu inherit Daishan's title of Prince of Li.Jie Shu, the grandson of Daishan and the nephew of Man Dahai, were directly separated from the two blue flags.

Man Dahai was furious because of this, and he didn't bother to talk nonsense with Dayuer, so he directly pulled his troops away and ran to the mouth of Meihei River to rule the roost.

"Fengtian Chengyun Emperor, the order says: Aixinjueluo Mandahai, the king of Shuncheng County, has been fighting for many years, and has repeatedly made military exploits... He is specially appointed as Prince Li. I respect you!" The eunuch laughed and said, "Prince Li accepts the order. "

Man Dahai was originally in a happy mood, but after receiving the imperial decree, he suddenly flew into a rage.

The hereditary king of iron hats, the Prince of Li is ranked first, and he should have inherited it in the first place.

Unexpectedly, the imperial decree actually said "Prince Li".

Li and Li, in Manchu, are called Doro, which actually means the same thing, but Dayuer plays tricks on Chinese.

Da Yuer also had no other choice. In order to divide the two blue flags, Man Dahai's nephew had already been made the successor of Prince Li.You can only choose the difference in Chinese to make a prince of Li, but the Manchu is exactly the same.

Man Dahai threw the imperial decree back to the eunuch, and said with a sneer, "I don't read much, and I have never heard of Prince Li, only Prince Li. It is a ceremony of etiquette, not a ceremony of reason!"

The eunuch said again: "My lord, don't worry, there is a second imperial decree."

The second imperial decree is to restore Mandahai's status as a minister of state affairs, and at the same time add an official and grand teacher, who is also the prince and grand teacher.And the old land of Haixi Jurchen's Huifa Department was officially given to Mandahai as a fiefdom.

Man Dahai fell into deep thought and did not express his opinion immediately.

After a long time, he asked, "Have the Southern Barbarians sent troops?"

The eunuch suddenly cried and said: "The barbarians surrounded Saarhu, and the capital is in a panic. Now only the prince can calm down the army. Please hurry up and lead the troops to preside over the overall situation!"

"You go to rest first, let me think about it." Man Dahai said.

The eunuch was taken away immediately, and Leng Saiyi said, "Ama, there is an idiom in the Han people, which is called "the lips are dead and the teeth are cold." Nanmanzi, please surrender, otherwise we must send troops to rescue this time!"

Man Dahai sighed: "I understand this truth, but I'm afraid that after this battle, that wicked woman will come to kill the donkey again."

Leng Saiyi said: "If this battle is lost, there will be no future. If this battle is won, Ahma will carry the prestige of a great victory. Are you afraid that the wicked woman will fail? Even if Ahma ascends the throne and proclaims himself emperor, the little emperor can only obediently meditate." bit."

As soon as these words came out, Man Dahai's thoughts became clear.

Da Yuer's attack on Man Dahai and his son was mainly to balance the forces of all parties.Of the remaining main forces of the Eight Banners Army, the two Blue Banners accounted for more than [-]%, and a dominant family could kill the emperor at any time.

Man Dahai and his son did not usurp power. One was the resistance from the nobles of the Eight Banners, and the other was that the old Daishan did not want to rebel.

There is no need to think too much now, as long as he can lead his troops to repel the Datong army, no one dares to oppose Man Dahai's usurping the throne and proclaiming himself emperor, everything is a matter of course.

Man Dahai immediately said: "Soldiers should not be late, I will immediately lead the cavalry to rescue Sarhu, and you take the rest of the troops to catch up as soon as possible!"

Man Dahai's eldest son, Chang Adai, had already been killed by the Datong army, and now only his second son, Len Saiyi, is still useful.

After the father and son discussed it, Man Dahai led the cavalry and rushed towards the front line at full speed.Leng Saiyi summoned the infantry, and ordered the requisition of grain and grass, and hurried towards Saerhu.

Leng Saiyi only marched for more than ten li with his troops, when he received a message from the rear: "Beizi, the Nanmanzi came from the northwest!"