Chapter 88 (10) Enter the village quietly, do not shoot

When Wu Sangui temporarily showed his talents, Huang Taiji was in the palace, spinning around like ants on a hot pot. Zu Dashou, Zu Dashou, I want to have Zu Dashou.Huang Taiji said: Dear dear friends, is there any way you can help me get Zu Dashou here? Beauty trap?Bitter tricks?Cross the sea?Borrowing a knife to kill someone?Thirty-six strategies and one plan have been pondered over, but none of them seem to be very effective. Everyone was worrying. At this time, a foreigner came back to report: Report, the investigation has been clear. Zu Dashou's hometown is in Sansanli Village, Yongping, where all his relatives and friends live.

All right, all right, Huang Taiji hastily ordered: send out a ranger, arrest Zu Dashou's relatives and friends, quietly enter the village, don't shoot anyone. Not long after, the armed forces team behind the enemy came back: report to the chief, Zu Dashou's two sons were arrested by us. Okay, the emperor is very happy: please, please, please, come, wait for me with pen and ink. Zu Dashou's two younger sons were brought into the palace, and Huang Taiji talked with the children kindly: "My child, how old are you?"The child replied: six years old.Huang Taiji was very happy: Oh, I am six years old, can I speak?

Ask Zu Dashou's son to write a letter to his father, and Huang Taiji himself writes. This Huang Taiji is very fond of writing letters. He not only writes to Zu Dashou, but also writes a few letters to Li Zicheng, a bandit of the Ming Dynasty from time to time. Echo, but he knows that these letters will affect the thinking of the other party and make things turn in a direction that is beneficial to him. At this time, Zu Dashou and his deputy He Kegang were busy building the military defense line of Daling River.With the three points of Ningyuan, Jinzhou, and Dalinghe as the line, build an indestructible steel barrier so that the Qing soldiers cannot pose a threat to the great tomorrow.

Huang Taiji had a clear opposition to this matter. In order to show his resolute unwillingness to compromise, Huang Taiji personally led the Eight Banners and the Mongolian Allied Forces, with a total of 80,000 horses, marched to the Daling River in a mighty manner, and set up 45 camps. The surrounding area stretched for 50 miles, and four trenches were dug around the city. One of them is more than ten feet wide and one foot deep, and the other is five feet wide and seven feet five inches deep.In addition, more than ten feet high walls were built beside the trenches to besiege the Daling River.

This war exhausted the engineers. Huang Taiji said: We will not force it, it is too barbaric and uncivilized, and it is easy to hurt our soldiers. Life is precious. Everyone should cherish life and strengthen investment in infrastructure construction. In short, we must shift the focus of work to the economy. build up. Then he sat down and wrote a letter to Zu Dashou: Zu Dashou, come back, give up the reactionary position of being an enemy of the people, and come back to the embrace of the people, the people of the motherland are looking forward to you... Constantly receiving strange letters from Huang Taiji made Zu Dashou feel depressed and had a strong urge to cry.

At this time, in Dalinghe, there were 30,000 soldiers and civilians in the city, half of the people and half of the army, 15,000 merchants, and 15,000 Ming soldiers.Huang Taiji built a tall building on the hill in the south of the city. Every day he sat on it and looked into the city, muttering as he watched: Ming Shan shoots elite soldiers, all in this city. Almost all of the elite fighters of the Ming Dynasty are here. If Zu Dashou is won, then the Ming Dynasty should be over, right? Huang Taiji was full of fantasies about this. At this time, a scout came to report: Report to the chief, reinforcements from the Ming army have arrived.

Who is it?Huang Taiji picked his teeth and asked. Those who came were long-distance runner Wu Xiang, Zhang Chun and others, bringing more than 40,000 horses.The scout reported. Then I was surprised, Huang Taiji frowned and said: I have 80,000 horses here, Zu Dashou in the city only has 15,000 horses, and Wu Xiang's company has just 40,000 troops. Dare to come? Maybe it's to try your luck? In the matter of war, it depends on strength, and it is about head-to-head. How can there be any luck in this matter? Huang Taiji got angry and stood up: "I drive these Ming soldiers back, don't let them add to the chaos."