Chapter 552
"Then, twenty of the twenty-four tribes in the south of the Moon have betrayed us, and now even the three Khalkha tribes in the north of the Moon have betrayed us. Now, in addition to the four Korqin tribes, they are still standing by our side, are we already betrayal from everyone?"
In the fresh and fresh city of Harwen, Prince Dai Shan of the Auxiliary Government, was lying on the bed, coughing, and asking Dorgon who was sitting beside the bed.
"That's right, Liu Jiye is convening the Mongolian tribes in the south and north of the desert to meet in the Ulanhada alliance." Dorgon sat there, looking at his second brother who was already thin, and even his eyes were gone. He could not survive this winter. Dorgon thought, if it were the past, he would be very sad on the surface, but he would definitely be very happy in his heart.
But now, he really couldn't be happy.
The four major auxiliary kings, Haoge surrendered to Han, Jierharang stayed in Liaoyang, Dai Shan was stationed in Chenyang, and he personally took charge of Harwen, Xinjing. However, Dai Shan suddenly became ill and could not afford to get sick. In a blink of an eye, he was about to die.
The current situation is, if Daishan leaves, it will be more and more difficult.
"Liu Jiye came for us, under the name of conquering the four tribes of Korqin, but you and I know that he is going to cut off our last arm. If we save us, we will tear up the peace agreement that we finally obtained, and we will take the initiative to tear it down. At that time, Liu Jiye will have reason to conquer us. If we sit and watch, then our lips will be cold and the teeth will be cold. Once the Korqin is finished, we will be finished."
A passage was said intermittently, and he stopped from time to time to cough and wheeze.
"Nine Kings, have you figured out how to deal with it?"
"We gave in step by step, but Liu Jiye was pressing forward step by step. At this point, we had no way to retreat. In fact, it was better to retreat. The military strategy was full of chaos, and we could only live in death. Now we can only burn our boats and fight with our backs." Dorgon seemed to be talking about a very small thing, not a major event related to the life and death of the Jurchen clan.
"Why!"
Dai Shan sighed long and said, "There is indeed no way out to retreat." We gave up western Liaoning and even moved the capital from Shenyang to Harwen, but the Han people still had to press forward step by step. Even if they wanted to retreat, they had nowhere to retreat.
"You shouldn't have been too hasty against the Khalkha tribes. The Khalkhas are not weaker than the Mongolian tribes in the south of the desert. Over the past few decades, even the Khalkhas's subordinates, the Torhut tribes, can even suppress the Moxi Weitra. We are too anxious, and the Khalkhas simply surrender directly to the Han people. Now we have to face the Han army and the Mongolian tribes in the south of the desert, but we have to be careful of the three Khalkha tribes in the north of the desert. They are surrounded by enemies."
Dorgon actually regretted it a long time ago.
But at the beginning, he was so anxious that he wanted to quickly change the embarrassing situation of the Qing Dynasty. He did not expect that the three Khalkha tribes would join the Han Dynasty without hesitation. These guys who had no sense of shame were not at all.
But regret is not Dorgon's style. Since things have become like this, regret is useless now, and we can only find a way to make up for it. However, facing this situation of being surrounded by enemies, Dorgon, who has always been wise and resourceful, has no countermeasures at all.
"We are not completely without a chance to compete." Dorgon said calmly. "I am going to withdraw all my troops and horses to Harwen. If necessary, I can go to Yuanhui for a while. If Liu Jiye still refuses to give up, then we will wait until winter to fight with him."
Yuanhui, also known as Heilongjiang City.
This place is nearly 1,200 miles away from Harwen, and Yuanhui City is built on the east bank of Heilongjiang. From Yuanhui to the Han capital Beijing, it is more than 3,600 miles long.
Especially in winter, Yuanhui was extremely cold. Dorgon had made up his mind to use the long distance and extremely frozen climate to stop the Han army.
If the Han army stubbornly advances, then in winter, he will fight against the Han army. At that time, the distant supply line and the severe cold weather will be the helper of the Qing Dynasty.
"Yuanhui is too cold. If we move to Yuanhui now, how many cattle, sheep and horses will be frozen to death this winter, and how many Jurchens will die of starvation?" Dai Shan asked Dorgon a cruel realistic question.
Yuanhui is just a small town on the border, with some soldiers stationed. The Qing Dynasty still has millions of people, and it is impossible for all such a large population to withdraw Yuanhui. There is no place where so many people are.
"We have no choice!" Dorgon said coldly.
Dai Shan sighed again.
"The destiny of heaven is in Han or Qing. If Liu Jiye had been born twenty years later, then ten years later, my Qing Dynasty would have destroyed the Ming Kingdom first. At that time, Liu Jiye would not have changed his destiny against the will of heaven. Destiny, this is all destiny!"
However, Dorgon disagreed with Daishan's negative thoughts, "My destiny is up to me, not to God!"
"Why."
Dorgon felt a little bored when he saw Dai Shan becoming more and more pessimistic.
“I hope you can support my plan.”
"I don't know how many days I can live like this. No matter whether the Qing Dynasty was destroyed or the genocide was destroyed, I couldn't wait for that day. Whatever you want, just do it, don't ask me."
"Okay, you can do me a favor at the end, write a letter from your hand and hand over the two red flags to me." Dorgon said, "Don't worry, if I can lead the Qing Dynasty through the difficulties in the north, I will hand over the two red flags to your descendants afterwards."
Dai Shan waved his hand, "I can't write a letter anymore. You can write it and I'll stamp it. If you don't think it's enough, just call everyone and I'll tell them in person."
After getting what he wanted, Dorgon didn't stay for a long time. There was a sense of death in the room, which made him feel uncomfortable and didn't want to stay for a moment.
After leaving the house, Dorgon sighed to the sky, was it because of the naive nature to destroy the Qing Dynasty? It would be great if his two brothers, Dodo and Ajige, were there. There were too few people around him who could use and be trustworthy.
"Fortunately, Korqin has been standing on the side of the Qing Dynasty. This time, Korqin has to persuade him to withdraw to Yuanhui with the Qing army. The green mountains are there, so he is not afraid of no firewood."
Korqin was one of the tribes of the nine Mongolian tribes that defeated the Later Jin Dynasty. However, after the defeat, it was also the first Mongolian tribe to change its attitude and marry the Qing Dynasty.
To this day, the Qing Dynasty has the closest marriage with Korqin. Korqin Beile Manggusi married his daughter Zhezhe to Huang Taiji, and later became Huang Taiji's central palace empress. Later, Manggusi's son Zaisang inherited the power of the Korqin tribe, and Zaisang married his daughter Mubumutai and Hailanzhu to Huang Taiji, becoming two of his noble concubines in the five palaces.
Zaisang's sister and two daughters married Huang Taiji together, and Zaisang's four sons, the third son of the eldest son Ukshan, reigned Princess Gulun Yongmu. The third son Sonam died early, but his son Chitat also reigned Princess Gulun Duanjing. Zaisang's fourth son Manzhu Xili married Princess Heshuo, the first daughter of Princess Yuetou, Keqin County. His wife died in the second year of Chongde. Huang Taiji married Ping'an Beledudu's sister to him.
Not only that, Mangus was also named Prince Heshuofu by the Qing Dynasty, and Zaisangbuhe was named Prince Heshuozhong.
Ukshan, the elder brother of the current Empress Dowager Mubumutai, was named Prince Doraktu, and his second brother Chahan was posthumously named Dorobel. The son of the third brother Sonam, who died early, was also named Doro County Prince.
The fourth brother Manzhu was accustomed to rituals and was even named Prince Heshuodarham Batulu.
Until now, the Qing Dynasty only granted four foreign princes to the leaders of the Mongolian tribes, and they were hereditary, among which the Empress Dowager's eldest and fourth brothers were both granted princes.
Ukeshan and Manzhu are now holding the left and right wings of Korqin, and are also the uncle of the current Qing emperor Fulin.
At this time, you must not let Korqin have any accidents, and you must maintain their relationship.
If it weren't for this level, Dorgon would have thought that Fulin could be abolished, so he would replace it. However, with the relationship between Korchin, especially at this time, Dorgon could only suppress his thoughts.
Korqin has a pasture of thousands of miles and is strong. It has three flags on both sides of the left and right wings. They can mobilize at least 50,000 or 60,000 elite cavalry, and they will be the key to this war.
Privy Council, Beijing.
"Can we win over the four Korqin troops, without bloodshed?"
"It is basically unlikely that the relationship between the Korqin tribe and the Qing Dynasty was too close. Now the two princes on the left and right wings of Korqin are divided into two parts, one is Ukshan and the other is Manzhu Xili, and both are the uncles of the Qing Dynasty's current Qing Dynasty king Fulin."
Feng Shengdao, the commander of the Jinyiwei who participated in the meeting, said, "Their relationship is more than that."
"Let's talk about Ukshan. His aunt Zhezhe married Huang Taiji, who was once the Empress of Huang Taiji's Central Palace. Now he is also respected as the Empress Dowager of the Eastern Palace. Later, Ukshan's father married Ukshan's sister Mubumutai to Huang Taiji, and married again to strengthen the relationship. Mubumutai later became Zhuang Concubine and gave birth to Fulin. Now he is respected as the Empress Dowager of the Western Palace."
"Then ten years after Mubu Mutai married Huang Taiji, Ukshan's father Zaisanbu and Mubu Mutai's sister Hai Lanzhu also married Huang Taiji, but Ukshan personally sent Hai Lanzhu to get married."
The aunt and two nieces married the same husband.
Of course not only that, Huang Taiji later betrothed his fourth daughter, Princess Gulun Yongmu, to Wu Keshan's third son Biertahar.
This is just Ukshan's side. If we count the marriage between the brothers Manzhu Xili family and the Huang Taiji family, it will be even more complicated.
The seniority is unclear. Fortunately, the Jurchen wild boar skin and the Korqin Sao Tartars are both barbarians, so they don’t care much about these things.
Since the marriage between the Korqin tribe and the Qing Dynasty, the relationship has been very close, and the two families have been married for more than a dozen times. The strength of the Korqin tribe has also increased a lot after the marriage. Now the two uncles of Fulin are the two of them, and the Qing Dynasty has also granted the title of Prince Heshuo. I don’t think they are willing to recite the Jurchens and surrender to us.”
Heaven and earth are closest to the uncle and the uncle are closest to the master.
A staff officer smiled and said, "Although Korqin was in power by two uncles, Korqin had two wings and six flags. As far as I know, the Ukshan family was not the chief of Korqin before. They only gradually gained tribal power after marrying the Jurchens."
"Secretly contact the descendants of the former chief and instigate them?"
"It's worth a try, right? Even if it doesn't work, you can try the counter-espionage plan. What's more, there are more places to do. Not to mention the ten flags of the Zhelim League within the Korqin League. In addition to the six flags of the Korqin, there are also three and four flags. The relationship between the three and four flags and the Jurchens is not as close as these two uncles and the Jurchens. Now that the Jurchens are poor, I believe that there will always be people who know the current affairs of the three and four flags."
Everyone couldn't help but laugh together. They said that the money fell and the money was scattered. Those who knew the times were heroes. Even if the Mongolians did not read the books of saints, they would definitely understand these principles.
As long as you can successfully instigate one or two tribes, or as long as you instigate one or two nobles, you can also achieve extremely useful value. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!