Chapter 69 Mingzhu's Father-in-Law

Near Sanchabao.

Since the afternoon of the 22nd, this Ming army began to move as fast as the wind. After a whole day and two and a half days, it ran 160 miles and successfully bypassed the large group of Eight Banners cavalry coming from the direction of Shenyang.

"Godfather, there are two people coming over from the hill over there. They look like Tartar hunters and they are aiming their bows at us."

Li Yongxi pointed to the woods on the northeast hillside.

"Hey, are you trying to test the accuracy of my bow and arrow?"

He picked up the Qing bow and two beryllium arrows and shot two arrows with all his strength.

The two hunters fell.

During the march of the past two days, more than a dozen such small-scale encounters have occurred. Most of the enemies encountered by this Ming army were Eight Banners scouts, and a small number were hunters.

The army was still moving forward. Wu Sangui, who was in charge of scouting the terrain ahead, rode over with his men and reported:
"Godfather, there is a mountain pass ahead. The narrowest part can only accommodate three or five people walking side by side. Behind the mountain pass is a flat land. To the north are continuous hills. We are not far from Tielingwei."

Although they advanced quickly, the Tartar pursuers behind them were also very close, and the two sides were roughly forty or fifty miles apart.

As long as we get out of the mountains, we won't have to worry about being blocked from both ends by the Eight Banners cavalry in this forest.

"Isn't that just a trumpet-shaped mouth? I've been waiting for this kind of terrain for a long time."

After being chased for two days, General Li had long wanted to fight a fierce battle, but his soldiers could not withstand the charge of thousands of Eight Banners cavalry, so they could only fight in a terrain where one man could block the passage of ten thousand.

After leading his troops into the mountain pass, Li Hao was amazed.

The exit of the mountain pass is shaped like a trumpet, so it is no problem to deploy hundreds of cavalrymen. The narrow path between the two mountains is about thirty steps long. The narrowest part can only allow three to five people to pass side by side, while the wider part can allow more than ten people to pass side by side.

"It seems that Ajige and Manggurtai have to tell many of the flag soldiers here."

During the nearly two-day chase, they captured several overly prominent Eight Banners scouts and learned about the two main generals of the Tatar army behind them.

Manggurtai was the leader of the Zhenglan Banner and the third among the four great beiles. His most famous deed was that in the first year of Taichang (1620), the fifth year of Tianming of the Later Jin Dynasty, he killed his mother Fuca Gundai to please his father Khan Nurhaci.

Even within the Later Jin Dynasty, which was not influenced by the king, such behavior was considered top-notch beastly behavior, let alone the Ming Dynasty, which had higher moral standards.

The bad reputation of this leader of the Zhenglan Banner in the Ming Dynasty could only be slightly suppressed by his father Nurhaci.

"Tell me, for both of them to please their fathers, is Daishan more filial by killing his wife, or is Manggurtai more filial by killing his own mother?"

After ordering the army to stop, Commander Li Hao asked this question.

"This is what barbarians do, it cannot be called filial piety."

"Daishan only killed his wives and concubines, but Manggurtai, the Tartar, killed his own mother. So Manggurtai was more filial to his father."

"His father and his biological mother were one. He killed his mother in order to show filial piety to his father. He should be called a rebellious son."

Everyone was talking about it, even the Jurchen soldiers were discussing in their own circle with the help of their companions' translation.

Regardless of one's background, everyone looked down upon Manggurtai's act of killing his mother, and Daishan's behavior was also despised.

"I heard everything you said. I said this to tell you that none of Nurhaci's descendants are innocent. They are different from any of us. They have no morals, no sense of good and evil, and they do things only to please me.

Some of you have worked under the old slave, so you should understand that the Aisin-Gioro family treats everyone equally as their slaves. "According to Li Hao's own historical knowledge, the old Ai family's genes are definitely abnormal, and the descendants born are cruel and murderous by nature, not to mention compared with the Han people in Liao, even compared with the surrounding Jurchens.

Their ancestors might really be savages from Tungus.

For example, Ajige, who was about to be caught up, had a daughter who married Nalan Mingzhu. Ajige's daughter dug out the eyes of Nalan Mingzhu's concubine just because Nalan Mingzhu slept with her.

The surrendered Han and Jurchen soldiers deeply agreed with the commander's remarks. Ordinary bannermen were slaves and servants of Niulu Ezhen and Jiala Ezhen, and Niulu Ezhen and Jiala Ezhen were slaves of the Aisin-Gioro family.

"So, I will never let go of an enemy like Manggurtai. He was so cruel to his own mother, how could he show even a little kindness to other people? Of course not."

After saying this, General Li began to arrange the next military operation.

"Cao Wenzhao will lead the army and march all the way to Tieling in the northwest. I will stay here with a few people and wait for Manggurtai and Ajige to catch up with us. The terrain here is excellent, and I will not be satisfied without a fight."

He pointed out Wu Sangui and Li Yongxi as those who accompanied him.

"General, why don't you let me stay too?" Huang Long asked for a fight.

Li Hao rejected him, "You should take your people and follow Cao Cao. Leaving one more person will increase the danger."

Cao Wenzhao, who was in charge of leading the army, held his whip and bowed, "General, please be careful. I will send someone to report the marching route and military situation in an hour."

These veterans who had fought with the commander-in-chief since Ningyuan were well aware of General Li's strength. With the help of this terrain, they did not need to worry about the commander-in-chief's safety.

The most likely possibility is that the enemy's corpses filled the gorges and mountain passes, and then the Tatars were blocked in the mountains.

After the two sides bowed to each other and said goodbye, Li Hao led his men to place the weapons they needed, such as axes, heavy swords, hatchets, three-barreled guns, shields, etc. in the gorge. After ordering Wu Sangui and others who were accompanying him to lead their horses and wait outside the mountain pass, he quietly waited for the enemy to come.

……

"Masters, good news. There are Ming soldiers guarding the mountain pass ahead. It looks like the group of Ming soldiers are just outside the mountain pass."

The scouts reported the military situation ahead to the leading officers, including Beile Manggurtai and Ajige.

Manggurtai, who had broad cheekbones and a full beard, was in high spirits. "Finally, I caught up with him. I have never seen this man outside Ningyuan City. I must take a good look at him today. I want to see whether he has three heads or six arms."

To be honest, although a large number of Eight Banners warriors were killed by this Ming general, he still didn't quite believe that it was the work of one person.

Manggurtai was more willing to believe that those elite soldiers of the Eight Banners were killed by the Ming general and his servants.

"It's better to fight more conservatively. The Third Prince and I will supervise the battle from the rear. Order the servants and the Tainikans to go forward and besiege. The First Prince died in the hands of this man."

Ajige lacked confidence, as he knew the soldiers of the two yellow flags well, and they were the most elite among the Eight Banners.

Li Hao had a record of killing many Yellow Flag Niulu troops, so he didn't dare to get too close, lest this brave general rush over and kill him with an axe.

"You are ignorant, my child! As the masters, we rely on the Queen Mother, so the servants in the front will be lazy and not work hard, so this group of Ming troops will escape. Later, you will follow my orders and the army will move forward at full speed."

Manggurtai was ambitious. If he could really use his bannermen to surround and kill this group of Ming troops, his status in his father Khan's heart would be greatly improved, at least better than the dead great beile.

In this way, two thousand Eight Banners soldiers approached the mountain pass out of the mountains. Because they could not form a formation in front of the gorge, Manggurtai sent out the dead soldiers and black camp soldiers armed with broadswords and spears, and began to attack in rows.

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