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The Eight Banners Army of Manchuria gathered many hedgehogs on the front lines of Sarhu, Jiefanzhai, Gulezhai, and Hetuala to prevent the Datong Army from breaking out from Fushun Pass.

From here to send troops to Yehe City, the straight-line distance is 270 miles, and the whole journey needs to cross mountains and mountains.

On the contrary, the Datong Army is closer. The Datong Cavalry Division stationed in Tieling, 120 miles northeast is Zhenyuan Fort. Further ahead is Zhenbei Pass, which is dozens of miles away to Yehe City, and the terrain along the way is relatively flat.

The Eight Banners Army in the direction of Sarhu did not dare to transfer away at all, so Daishan could only transfer 8,000 "elites" from other places to counter the rebellion.

It was enough for an army of 8,000 to go out. After all, the Manchu Qing ruled the Yehe tribe for many years and firmly controlled the war horses there. The young and strong Yehe tribe who could fight were also organized into the Eight Banners, and the rest were all banner family members, and they didn't even have weapons and armor.

However, fighting is not just about equipment.

Man Dahai found Daishan worriedly: "Father, a Haixi soldier in the Eight Banners Army, heard that Nan Chu rebelled, and fled back to his hometown one after another. They couldn't stop them, so they could only intercept and kill those who had already fled. Those who wanted to escape But those who haven’t escaped, we can’t kill them all, because if we act recklessly, it will lead to mutiny.”

"How much did you escape?" Daishan asked.

Man Dahai said: "I don't know the specific details, but there are more than 2,000 Haixi deserters known in half a month."

Daishan was silent.

The four tribes of Haixi have been at war with Jianzhou Jurchen for many years, and every family has a deep hatred. Hearing that his tribe has been reestablished, why would he still want to stay in Jianzhou?

Of course, the more important reason is that they knew that the Qing dynasty would perish, and they didn't want to stay and be buried with them.

There is also the treatment of the Eight Banners soldiers, which has plummeted compared to before.

At that time in Nurhachi, the Eight Banners soldiers had no military pay, and the leaders of various ministries brought Niulu to rob. During the Huangtaiji period, the Eight Banners soldiers began to be regularized, and the central government gathered the military power of the tribal leaders at the cost of paying the soldiers their military salaries. During Dorgon's period, the salary of the elite Eight Banners soldiers was as high as four taels of silver per month at their peak.

Now, the silver salary has been reduced to one tael, and the food and salary are often not enough. Even the Jianzhou soldiers are generally dissatisfied.

"Da da da da!"

A fast horse entered the city and went straight to Daishan's palace.

Holding the signboard of the urgent military report, the knight went all the way unimpeded. When he saw Dai Shan, he knelt and said, "His Royal Highness, there are more than 400 soldiers in Gule Village. They were led by their generals and abandoned the village over the mountain to vote. The Southern Barbarians of Fushun Pass!"

"Understood." Daishan was physically and mentally exhausted, and waved the person away.

These more than 400 Eight Banners soldiers are all from the Wula tribe.

The Ula tribe also belonged to the Haixi Jurchen, and mainly lived in Heilongjiang, where the pity horses used in the wars of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties came from. After the Wula Tribe was destroyed, all the clan members were incorporated into the Zhengbai Banner, and most of them served as soldiers in the fourth and fifth positions of the Zhengbai Banner.

Dorgon was not dead, but was under house arrest. Many people thought he was dead.

Dorgon is the owner of the Zhengbai Banner, and all the troops were incorporated by Dayuer. Da Yuer is good at playing politics, but Daishan, Man Dahai and his son are in charge of the army, and Zhengbaiqi soldiers have always been unpopular. The Jianzhou soldiers are fine, but the Haixi soldiers who are in the white flag are simply born by stepmothers.

The Manchus who were forcibly blended were already full of internal conflicts, and now they are tantamount to a complete outbreak.

Gule village is between Sarhu and Hetuala, and the soldiers of the Ula tribe stationed here can't go back to their hometown. They were simply led by the officers, and ran collectively to join the Datong Army.

"Father, we can't let this go on like this!" Man Dahai said urgently.

Dai Shan said: "We must win a battle. If we don't win a battle, the morale of the army will be unstable."

Man Dahai said: "But where are we going to win the battle now? The Nanmanzi is guarding the Liao Great Wall, only a hundred miles away from the capital (Hetuala). If our army moves, the Nanmanzi will definitely take the opportunity to fight out, and then even the capital It's all gone!"

Daishan stopped talking again, because he couldn't help it.

The Datong Army stationed in Liaoning has not done anything for a year, and the Manchu Qing side itself began to collapse. In addition to internal conflicts, the main reason is the lack of food and money. They simply cannot afford to support so many troops. Forcibly maintaining a large army will inevitably reduce their salaries.

Man Dahai thought for a while, then lowered his voice and said, "Why don't you get rid of the title of emperor and bow down to the one in Nanjing."

Dai Shan suddenly opened his dazed and old eyes, and wanted to reprimand him angrily, but he said, "It's also a way, but Emperor Zhao may not agree."

"How do you know if you don't try?" Man Dahai said.

The father and son really couldn't take it anymore, not to mention forcing the army to support them, and they still maintained a state of wartime confrontation. The Eight Banners soldiers who were supposed to go home to farm the land were forced to become professional soldiers. Tens of thousands of people were stationed on the front line to garrison the city.

Sometimes, Daishan really wants to lead troops to fight a battle, and let God decide whether to win or not, which is better than consuming food and grass every day.

Daishan sighed, "Wait a little longer, wait a little longer."

After waiting for half a month, Daishan waited for the news of the defeat on the front line.

The 8,000 troops who were ordered to put down the rebellion of Ye He's tribe ran more than 1,000 on the way.

Some of the more than a thousand deserters belonged to Inner Mongolia, that is, the Mongols who could not get along in the grassland and moved to the Manchu Qing. Some of them are from the Wusu clan, whose hometown is not far to the east of Yehe City, and they just took the opportunity to escape and go back to farming, so fools would go to Yehe City to fight.

The constant phenomenon of deserters caused the morale of the soldiers who hadn't fled to drop day by day.

What's more interesting is that the coach who went to the Yehe tribe to suppress the rebellion was a member of the Yehe tribe who had never led an army in battle-Da Yuer's confidant Lengsengji.

This appointment involved a power struggle between Dayuer's mother and son and Daishan's father and son.

Leng Sengji is indeed very loyal. Although he comes from Ye He's tribe, he vowed to put an end to the chaos in Ye He's tribe. It's a pity that the soldiers are disobedient. Not only are there more and more deserters, but those who don't escape are also slow-moving, and they can't walk a few miles in a day.

"Isn't the Tartars marching too slowly? We've been waiting for more than ten days." Wang Fuchen, a living Lu Bu, led the cavalry in the ravine and kept complaining.

"Da da da da!"

"Explore the horse and report, the enemy is already more than ten miles away!"

Nan Chu followed Wang Fuchen with only a few dozen Yehe cavalrymen and said, "General Wang, do we have enough troops?"

"Three thousand knights are more than enough to kill the Tartars." Wang Fuchen sneered.

Soon Wang Fuchen couldn't laugh anymore, and the enemy marched two miles northward. It was still early in the evening, and they actually camped on the spot. You have to wait until tomorrow at least before you can enter his ambush circle.

Wang Fuchen complained: "These Tartar soldiers, the more they live, the more they go back, similar to the officers and soldiers of the previous Ming Dynasty. If they don't come, let's go over and attack the camp at night!"

Ten miles away, Leng Sengji urged the soldiers to set up camp, and sent sentries to disperse the guard.

Although he has never led a soldier, he has served as a bodyguard beside Huang Taiji for many years. Moreover, he was superb in martial arts and skilled in bow and horse. When Zu Dashou surrendered to Huang Taiji, Huang Taiji held a special shooting event to celebrate. Leng Sengji ranked first and was awarded a camel.

The valley ahead is dangerous, Leng Sengji didn't dare to enter without authorization, and marched after investigating tomorrow.

Leng Sengji was too familiar with this mountainous area. He is not only a member of the Yehe clan, but also a relative of the leader of Yehe, and he is within the five uniforms with the rebellious Nan Chu.

At night, Leng Sengji sleeps with his clothes on, with his saber, bow and arrow at hand.

Suddenly there was a loud noise, and Leng Sengji woke up with a start, picked up his weapon and walked out. It was the sentinel he sent out, blowing the horn on the top of the mountain, obviously seeing an enemy army coming to attack at night.

"Stand up and defend the camp!" Leng Sengji shouted.

The sound of rumbling horseshoes came, but after revealing his whereabouts, Wang Fuchen no longer concealed it, and led the cavalry to the Qing army camp at full speed.

The distance between the two armies is quite far, there are still three or four miles. As long as the Eight Banners soldiers guard the camp calmly, they will not be easily defeated.

But the Eight Banners soldiers were really dying, more than half of the elite died, and they mainly stayed on the front line of Saerhu to guard against the Datong Army. Many of the thousands of soldiers in Leng Sengji's hands belonged to the second-line troops, and because there were too many deserters, morale dropped very seriously.

The horn of gathering soldiers sounded, but the soldiers of the Eight Banners seemed not to hear it. At least half of them ran towards the mountains, and the people who transported grain all ran away.

The sound of horseshoes was getting closer and closer, and Leng Sengji's heart was cold. He said to the soldiers who gathered one after another: "Manchurian man, follow me to kill the enemy and serve the country. Kill!"

The cavalrymen of Datong avoided the place with the most torches, divided into two and walked around the camp, and bumped into the deserters who had abandoned the camp.

After a slash, Wang Fuchen shouted: "Tartars are prepared, don't forcefully attack the enemy camp. Blow the horn, blow the trumpet, and go after the rout outside the camp first!"

Leng Sengji gathered more than 3,000 troops around him, and wanted to rely on the camp to defend, but he was lonely, and Wang Fuchen didn't come to attack at all.

In the early morning, the sky gradually brightened.

Wang Fuchen came back with Xiao cavalry, blocked the main entrance of the camp, and confronted Leng Sengji across the simple wall of the camp.

Wang Fuchen threw the binoculars over and said to Nan Chu, "Come and see, who is the general in the village, let him lead his troops to surrender."

Nan Chu picked up the binoculars, looked at it for a while, and said, "It's Leng Sengji. In terms of seniority, he should be my cousin."

"Go and see to persuade them to surrender." Wang Fuchen said.

Nan Chu approached the camp slightly, and shouted loudly: "Leng Sengji, you are a member of the Yehe tribe, and you actually help the Jianzhou Tartars and lead troops to attack your tribe. Hurry... ah!"

But Leng Sengji bent his bow and set an arrow, and from such a long distance, an arrow hit Nan Chu's shoulder.

Leng Sengji scolded angrily: "Your and my relatives are all in Hetuala, do you want to kill the whole family? Quickly surrender and come back with me to plead guilty!"

Wang Fuchen sneered and said: "You stubborn people, surround yourself and beat them slowly!"

Wang Fuchen was not in a hurry, but the Eight Banners soldiers were in a panic. At this time, there were only more than 3,000 of them left.

That night, Wang Fuchen did not attack the camp, but the Eight Banners soldiers fled on their own initiative. Moreover, there were more and more deserters, causing other soldiers to make misjudgments, thinking that the Datong Army had come to kill again.

"Run!"

The Eight Banners Army even bombed the camp by themselves, all of them were frightened.

Looking at the chaotic enemy camp, Wang Fuchen was a little dazed: "I haven't fought for more than a year, and the Tartar soldiers are so rotten? Damn it, follow me to kill the enemy!"

The result of this battle made Daishan completely disheartened.

On the other side of Nanjing, Zhao Han received a secret report: Daishan requested to abolish the puppet Qing Emperor, and Manchuria proclaimed his minister to the Datong court. As long as Emperor Zhao agrees, Daishan is responsible for persuading Dayuer and Shunzhi.

(Thanks to the leader of disizhang for the reward.)