Chapter 20: Raging Nosebleed
Originally, "godfather" and "godfather" were synonyms. As more people call him "godfather", the term "godfather" became more elegant.

In Li Hao's impression, godfather and adoptive father are not good words, and are usually accompanied by "wandering for half a lifetime", "never met a wise master", and "only stabbing the adoptive father".

He had no favorable impression at all on Wu Sangui, the most outstanding ape-like figure in the late Ming Dynasty.

Four hundred years later, the level of abstraction of all those Internet celebrities who play abstraction on the Internet is probably not as high as that of this loyal minister of Chongzhen. After being named the King of Pingxi by the Tartar Qing Dynasty, Wu Sangui's favorite operas were Yue Fei operas such as "The Legend of the Loyal" and "The Loyal Soul".

Poor Yue Fei, Yue Wumu fought against the Jin Dynasty all his life, but five hundred years after he was killed, there were Han people who killed the Han emperor, and then were crowned queen by the Later Jin Dynasty. They even had the nerve to listen to operas adapted from Yue Wumu's deeds.

After Yue Wumu knew about this, he would probably curse and say it was bad luck.

Li Hao had always planned to eradicate Zu's generals, but he didn't know how to start. When he saw Wu Sangui kneeling in front of him, he suddenly came up with a plan.

"My dear son, please stand up. I, your father, acknowledge you as my son."

Li Haoxu asked Xiao Sangui to get up, and then ordered: "I have something else to do today, let's do something intimate in two days."

In order to fight against Zu's generals, he must first have his own team. After the battle of Ningyuan, he planned to go to Guanmen to recruit enough servants from Liaodong, and then go to Wulianghai to find some Mongolian tribes close to the Ming Dynasty to recruit some Mongolian soldiers who are good at archery and horse riding.

Although Li Hao knew that Zu Dashou had a nephew who was doing well in Mongolia and could use his connections to recruit people, he had no idea what to do.

Now that Wu Sangui had come to his doorstep, Li Hao was able to sort out his thoughts.

Zu Dashou's nephew in Mongolia and Wu Sangui are cousins. Taking Wu Sangui along will also make it easier to recruit soldiers in Mongolia. Later, they can use Wu Sangui as an excuse to hold a banquet and kill Zu's generals at the banquet.

Before the Battle of Dalinghe in the fourth year of Chongzhen, the Zu Family Army was already the largest force in the Guanning Army, and now it has a rough framework. During the more than one year that Yuan Chonghuan was the governor of Liaodong, Man Gui was squeezed out by Yuan Dudu, and the Zu Family Army expanded even faster.

However, the Guanning system was not composed only of Zu's generals. Zuo Liangyu, Cao Daxiao, Cao Xiao, Zhou Yuji and others were all mid-level generals from the Guanning system. Perhaps because they did not want to join Zu's family in smuggling in Liaohai, these people were transferred to Shanhaiguan to fight the peasant army in rebellion, either actively or passively, during the Chongzhen period, and left the Guanning system.

Now there are still veteran generals such as Zhao Lushi, Man Gui, Zuo Fu, and Zhu Mei stationed in western Liaoning. Li Hao's idea is to take advantage of this opportunity to integrate the part of the Guanning Army that is not close to the Zu family generals, and then during Yuan Dudu's term as governor of Liaodong, he will first use the smuggling in Liaohai as an excuse to fight with the Zu family, and then kill Yuan Dudu on the grounds that Yuan Dudu condoned the Zu family's smuggling in Liaohai and selling grain to Mongolia.

In the Ming Dynasty, a military general killing a civil official was a devastating event. After killing Yuan Dudu, Li Hao would most likely no longer be able to survive in the Ming Dynasty, and the army's food and wages would soon be cut off, so he would probably raise the flag of rebellion.

This will happen in a year or two, and Li Hao is just planning it this way for now. He will have to adapt to the situation as the time comes, but his determination to kill these insects remains unchanged.

Wu Sangui was overjoyed, "Godfather, my father is not in Ningyuan City at the moment, but my uncle is here, so we can pay our respects to him tonight."

"There's no rush for this. I'll go find Man Gui first and see what this Daishan head has to say."

Speaking of Daishan, Li Hao thought of a Liaodong general named Liu Xingzuo. Liu Xingzuo should be in the Later Jin Dynasty now and has not yet come to the Ming Dynasty. His activities are also restricted in the Later Jin Dynasty. It seems that Daishan is Liu Xingzuo's master.

However, this master did not have Huang Taiji's means of winning people's hearts. One of the reasons why Liu Xingzuo intended to rebel was that Daishan seized the manor and property that the old slave had rewarded to Liu Xingzuo Liu Aita.

Li Hao was thinking whether he could use the name of killing Daishan to bring Liu Xingzuo over, after all, Liu Aita was quite capable in fighting.

After all the servants had come up, Li Qian led his men toward the north gate. …

At night, at Xingshan Posthouse in the Liaoxi Corridor, Nurhaci’s military camp’s main tent.

After learning about the sudden change in the vanguard, the old slave immediately summoned the eight banner leaders, small banner leaders and other military leaders to discuss the matter.

Nurhaci is sixty-seven years old this year, and it has been forty-three years since he started his rebellion. Years of battles did not bring him down, and the secret flirtations between his younger brother Shurhaci, his eldest son Chu Ying, and the Ming Dynasty could not dampen his ambition to rebel against the Ming Dynasty and establish his own regime. But tonight, after hearing that his second son, who had always been good at fighting, was beheaded by an enemy general, he was filled with sorrow that the world was gradually drifting away from him as he grew old and frail.

Therefore, it appears sluggish.

"What did you say? My Daishan Ahun was hacked to death by the Ming soldiers, and their head was taken away?"

When Huang Taiji, the eighth son of the old slave, heard the shocking news, blood rushed to his face in a few breaths. Regardless of the presence of many beile, brothers, nephews, and Jiala Ezhen, he walked up to the messenger and shook the messenger's shoulder to confirm again.

"Dabeile Daishan arrived at Ningyuan City in the afternoon. In order to dampen the morale of the Ming soldiers, he led ten Niulu down the city to challenge, and another eight Niulu of the Bordered Blue Banner raided the enemy. The Ming army sent 500 elite servants to fight. It was originally agreed that they would fight in front of the enemy, but the Ming army did not follow the morale of the army and rushed directly to the flag of Dabeile. Dabeile fought to the death and was killed by the enemy general."

Daishan's eldest son Yuetuo and second son Shuotuo both had a bad relationship with their father and his third son was young, so there were no offspring following the Zhenghong Banner on this expedition. In order to mitigate their own crimes, many Jiala Ezhen and Niulu Ezhen of the Zhenghong Banner deliberately fabricated their testimonies, insisting that the Ming army sent 500 servants before their main general was killed in the battle.

"Why are there only so few people? Where are the other 22 Niulu and Baoyi people? What are they doing?"

Huang Taiji felt something was wrong when he heard this, because there were more than forty Niulu in the vanguard, plus a large number of bondservants.

"To answer the Fourth Prince, it was already late at night, and the Ming army had cut down all the trees near Ningyuan City. The doors and windows of the nearby village forts were all demolished. The Prince, the leader of the banner, ordered the remaining bannermen and bondservants to set up camp in a village eight miles away from the city."

As Huang Taiji listened, he became more annoyed. Suddenly, he felt a little warmth in his nostrils. He reached out to touch it and then took a look in front of his eyes. Sure enough, he was bleeding from the nose.

Huang Taiji had a general relationship with Daishan, but his two sons were very close to him. After the nosebleed, Huang Taiji calmed down and began to analyze the situation.

In order to prevent the old Khan from giving the Zhenghong Banner to Dorgon, who has not yet led a banner of his own, Daishan's second son Shuotuo must inherit the position of leader of the Zhenghong Banner tonight or in the next few days, otherwise all will be at a loss.

"Father Khan, we will be able to reach Ningyuan City tomorrow. The Zhenghong Banner has suddenly lost its leader, and we cannot be short of generals before the war. You can order the two nobles of the Red Banner to set off tomorrow morning and take charge of the Zhenghong Banner."

The Two Red Banners were separated from Daishan's former subordinates, and the Bordered Red Banner followed the main army. Although Huang Taiji said they were the nobles of the Two Red Banners, he was actually referring to the people of the Bordered Red Banner.

Unless the old Khan has any selfish motives, under the current situation, he can only appoint Shuotuo, who is already 26 years old, to take charge of the Zhenghong Banner.

"There's no rush for this. Baidu, tell me which Ming general killed my brother."

The old slave asked something else instead.

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