Late Ming Dynasty: Oops, I am surrounded by the Donglin Party

Huang Taiji's health has been getting worse in recent years. He not only often suffers from chest tightness and dizziness, but also coughs and feels sleepy from time to time.

Since Dorgon suffered a defeat in the Ming Dynasty's border after conquering the Mongols the year before last, Huang Taiji has stayed in Shengjing without leaving.

Last year, he learned that a huge rebellion had occurred within the Ming Dynasty, and wanted to take this opportunity to invade the south. He sent Ajige to patrol outside the Great Wall. As a result, he was ambushed by Lu Xiangsheng again and lost a full 2,000 elite troops.

Due to health reasons, Huang Taiji had originally planned to stay in Shengjing forever, but after receiving Zu Dashou's letter of surrender, he could not hold back.

Dragging their exhausted bodies, they marched for several days before arriving at Yizhou City.

For the past twenty years, he and his father Khan have wanted to obtain Guan Ningjin every day. His father Khan also suffered a great loss in Ningyuan City.

Ever since he took over the throne of the Later Jin Dynasty, he has visited Guanningjin almost every year to see if there is any chance to take over the place.

With this hope, dozens of spies brought various news from Shanhaiguan, Ningyuan, Songshan Fort and Jinzhou City all the way to Yizhou City.

All signs indicate that Zu Dashou really wants to submit to him in the face of life and death crisis.

This made him so happy that the pain and fatigue in his body were covered up by this excitement, and he seemed to be rejuvenated.

It was not until a few hours ago that a dozen naked bannermen ran over from the direction of Jinzhou and told him the bad news in Jinzhou city.

Huang Taiji's dream was shattered.

He acted cautiously throughout his life. Even when there were so many signs that Zu Dashou really wanted to surrender, he did not go to Jinzhou in person.

They also sent the more stable Prince Zheng Jirgalang to make contact, but unexpectedly Jirgalang also fell into the enemy's trap.

If he could barely endure the humiliation when Zu Dashou cheated him for the first time, but now he was blatantly deceived again by the same trick.

When Huang Taiji learned the news, he was so angry that he smashed the teacup in his hand to pieces and fainted on the spot in Yizhou City.

Ten thousand people! The Blue Banner had only eight thousand warriors in total, and more than four thousand were killed in just one battle!

The life or death of Prince Zheng Jirgalang is unknown, and Guan Ningjin’s dream is shattered again.

Huang Taiji woke up less than half an hour after fainting. He personally interrogated the dozen or so bannermen who escaped and learned the details.

The dozen or so bannermen were already terrified, especially when they talked about the killing of their people by the Eight Banners of Mongolia. Their eyes were wide open and their thighs were trembling. Huang Taiji was so angry that his whole body was shaking.

Letting his Eight Banners of Mongolia kill the Eight Banners of Manchuria with their own hands is despicable and shameless!

At that moment, all his anger was no longer directed at Zu Dashou, but at the newly emerged military marshal of the Ming Dynasty - Zhang Shikang.

He knew Zu Dashou and knew that this man did not have the brains to set such a vicious plan for him.

After calming down, Huang Taiji finally accepted this disastrous defeat.

A true warrior is not one who has never suffered failure, but one who can learn from failure and then get up again with difficulty.

Huang Taiji decided that he must meet this man, a powerful opponent that the Qing Dynasty had never encountered since its founding.

So, here he comes.

Behind Huang Taiji followed Daishan, Prince Li of the Qing Dynasty, Dorgon, Prince Rui, and Ajige, Prince Wuying.

Daishan is the oldest, and his face shows no emotion, just a hint of helplessness. Dorgon's expression is very interesting.

He was a little glad that his royal brother rejected his original request. If he had gone this time, he might not have escaped the disaster.

He was familiar with Jirgalang. In terms of military achievements, Jirgalang, who was a dozen years older than him, had more and was also more stable.

Even Jirgalang did not realize that this was the enemy's evil plot. Dorgon thought he was not much smarter than Jirgalang.

On the contrary, his elder brother, Prince Wuying Ajige, had a face full of anger. His elder brother was always like this, easily overwhelmed by failure. He felt that Ajige would pay the price for this sooner or later.

When Huang Taiji led an army of more than 20,000 to the outside of Jinzhou City, Dorgon also saw the enemy on the city wall, that hateful guy with a frivolous face.

"I am Huang Taiji, the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and you are Zhang Shikang, right?

You are indeed a young and promising man! " Huang Taiji was not angry at Zhang Shikang's rude words, but praised him instead.

This made Zhang Shikang very unhappy. He had been planning for half a month and had intended to lure Huang Taiji into the city directly, but in the end he only managed to lure Jirgalang.

Even though he also betrayed Huang Taiji's 10,000 soldiers, why did this fat old man still praise him?

Shouldn't he be angry?

No, he must be pretending!

This won’t do. We must find a way to tear off this fat old man’s hateful disguise.

With this in mind, Zhang Shikang continued:

"Yes, yes, the one standing in front of you is the Grand Marshal of the Ming Dynasty Army, who captured Yuetuo in the Battle of Jiazhuang, beat Dorgon to a pulp in the Battle of Jingshui, and killed ten thousand of your elite troops today!

How is it, is it fun?"

His expression was extremely cocky, and Sun Weifan, who was standing by, couldn't bear to watch it, thinking that his nephew was going to go crazy again.

"Victory and defeat are common in the military. If I were to give in to a temporary defeat, there would be no Qing Empire!

I admit that you have some abilities, but Guan Ningjin will be conquered by the Qing Dynasty sooner or later.

And you, Zhang Shikang, I will kill you!" Huang Taiji stared at Zhang Shikang coldly and replied.

"Come on! Who doesn't know how to fire blanks and say harsh words?

Sooner or later, I will invade your Shengjing and take away all your concubines.

But rest assured, I am only interested in Yu'er and Xiao Yu'er. Your other concubines must be ugly and I don't like them. But they can be used to reward the warriors of my Ming Dynasty, hehe.

I heard that your brother, oh, yes, get out of here and don't look around, I'm talking about you.

Aren’t you very interested in your brother’s queen dowager?

If you want to surrender to the Ming Dynasty, I promise that after I conquer the puppet Manchukuo and kiss Dayu'er, I will give her to you. How about that? "

Huang Taiji's breathing became heavy when he heard this. He had met too many Ming Dynasty officials, and every one of them was polite, elegant and humble.

Even if they were to go to war, they would never use such vulgar language.

The guy in front of me actually started talking obscenely. He has no trace of Confucian demeanor at all. He is so absurd and shameless to the extreme.

"Royal brother, this is the traitor's plan to sow discord. How dare I covet it... I have never had such thoughts!" Dorgon immediately defended himself with cold sweat on his forehead.

"I know your heart. You don't need to explain. How could I fall into the trap of that traitor?" Huang Taiji calmed down his anger and said to Dorgon.

Then, Huang Taiji said to Zhang Shikang again:

"You are only good at talking? If you are really capable, speak on the battlefield. I am waiting for you."

"What's wrong with the desire for words? You said you can't win the argument, but can you win the fight? How many times have you been defeated by me?

You bunch of birds were just dogs raised by my Ming Dynasty outside the Great Wall.

You were given food and drink, but instead of thinking of repaying the favor, you dared to commit such a rebellious act as rebellion.

And your wild boar-skinned father, he also came up with those bullshit seven great hatreds.

Don’t you think that if it weren’t for the teachings of our Great Ming Dynasty, you would still be living in the mountains, eating raw meat and drinking blood!

He even named his country Hou Jin. How could one add the word "Hou" to one's own name?

It’s really terrible to be uneducated!

Shabby, so damn shabby!"