"Great Khan, the Southern Emperor has agreed to a battle of wits! Are there any subjects like geometry, physics, Western philosophy, Christian theology, Latin, French, etc... Which one will you choose to fight with him?"

After a while, Dorgon returned to the outside of the Hou Jin Army's camp, holding a notebook to record his achievements, in which he copied a bunch of knowledge that he had never heard of before and asked Huang Taiji.

Huang Taiji also sounded a little confused. What kind of knowledge is this? Why has this Great Khan never heard of it?

In fact, this Huang Taiji has loved learning since he was a child. He is the first literate among a group of belles in the Hou Jin Kingdom. He can read the entire "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" by himself, and he can also understand Mongolian, Manchurian, and Chinese, and he can also calculate accounts.

, he can do addition, subtraction, multiplication and division... without breaking his fingers! Is this knowledge big enough? But the knowledge Dorgon talked about, let alone knowing it, has never heard of it. How can he fight?

ah!

"What's the point of fighting!" Huang Taiji glared at Dorgon angrily, "We're fighting now! What's the point of fighting between wits and courage? In a war, you have to fight against soldiers!"

Dorgon nodded in admiration: "Does the Great Khan want to fight?"

"A battle... is a good idea!" Huang Taiji frowned, "We can choose a more favorable terrain to have a grand battle with the Southern Army!"

"Great Khan," Dorgon reminded in a low voice, "can Nan Di agree to the terrain that is favorable to us?"

Huang Taiji laughed: "The terrain that is good for us may not be bad for him..."

Is it beneficial to both parties? What kind of terrain is this?

Dorgon, the "smart Baylor", didn't have enough brains anymore, so he just looked at Huang Taiji blankly, "Khan, where do you want to make an appointment? Is it on the west bank of Ji Canal?"

He thought that Huang Taiji wanted to lure Southern Emperor Zhu Youjian's army across the river, and then attack them halfway across the river.

"Why are you on the edge of Ji Canal?" Huang Taiji shook his head and said, "I want to fight with the Nan soldiers at Tangzhi Mountain! Tangzhi Mountain is between Miyun and Shunyi, close to the Modaoyu Great Wall."

"Tangzhi Mountain?" Dorgon had been there. It had a nice scenery. There were several villages owned by nobles from Beijing, and there were many wheat fields around. When the Hou Jin Army marched westward, they rested there for a few days (actually

They were cutting wheat in the wheat fields near Tangzhi Mountain), "Dahan, the terrain there is not very favorable? Tangzhi Mountain is just a few hills, surrounded by flat plains, and there is a large dense forest near the Great Wall...

Ah, Great Khan, do you want to...just retreat out of the Modaoyu Great Wall if things go wrong?"

After all, Huang Taiji is wise. After the battle has reached this point, of course he already has the intention to quit - he lost money in the entrance battle, but the loss was not much, and it was still too late to stop the loss immediately.

But Huang Taiji also knew that those Beile and Beizi who followed him to the entrance were not necessarily willing to go back empty-handed. When everyone gathered for military discussions in the past few days, there were still many Beile and Beizi who proposed to go to the Tongzhou-Beijing line.

Try your luck in the south.

Even if I beat them to death, I wouldn’t believe that all the castles within the walls of the Great Wall are the same as Zunhua, Yutian, Jizhou, Pinggu, Shunyi, Changping... If they are all so strong and the defenders are so capable, how can the southerners still fight?

What kind of Great Wall are you building?

However, Huang Taiji did not dare to risk going south. He was not worried that south of the Tongzhou-Beijing line was still a dragon's pool and a tiger's den, but that the Karaqin Mongolian tribes outside the border wall of Ji Town would be attacked by the pair of dogs Zhu Youjian and Wuliangha.

The men and women tidied up.

The terrain outside the Jizhen border wall is very complex, with mountains and valleys all over it. If it were not for the help of the Karaqin Mongols, it would be difficult for Huang Taiji to bypass Shanhaiguan and directly attack the Jizhen border wall.

And once the Haraqin Mongolian tribe outside the border wall of Ji Town is controlled or expelled by Zhu Youjian and Wuliangha, it will not be easy for Huang Taiji's army to return safely... Between Beijing and Tongzhou

Nan grabbed a lot of wealth, but he couldn't bring it back to Shenyang, which was meaningless to Huang Taiji.

Of course, in order to stabilize the morale of the army these days, Huang Taiji has been working hard to block the news that Karaqin Mongolia has been attacked by Zhu Youjian and Princess Wuliangha.

All the Karaqin Mongolian warriors who climbed over the border wall and joined Huang Taiji's army evaporated... So except for a very small number of Houjin senior officials and Huang Taiji's confidants, there were not many in the Houjin army.

People know the news.

And Dorgon is one of the few well-informed people!

Huang Taiji nodded towards his fourteenth brother and whispered: "When the army sets off, you and Azig with the two white flags will go first to seize the Modaoyu Pass... No.

Wrong!"

...

Unlike the people on both sides who were shouting across the Ji River before, this time Huang Taiji formally sent a military envoy and sent a very formal letter of war to Zhu Youjian.

The military envoy who sent the letter of war was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy named Zhang Xiaoqi. He was the little flag slave who was never ready to become a flag officer. He suffered a defeat outside Zunhua County last time and received the gift after returning.

He was beaten immediately. However, Fan Wencheng interceded and wrote it down first. If he could not make atonement during the journey to the west, he would be beaten severely when he returned.

So when Fan Wencheng came to him and asked him to send a letter of challenge to the young emperor of the Ming Dynasty across the Jihe River, he agreed without much thought... He didn't even think about what "killing the envoy" meant.

"What's your child's name?" Zhu Youjian met Zhang Xiaoqi in a ruined temple on the east bank of Jiyuan River. Of course, he didn't say that he was the emperor.

And he also kept an eye on it - he had to ask who the envoy was? If it was a famous traitor like Fan Wencheng or a slave who would become a big boss in the future, then he would be beheaded!

"My name is Zhang Xiaoqi, and I am a coated slave under the banner of Xianghong..." Zhang Xiaoqi knelt on the ground, trembling while answering Zhu Youjian's questions. When he took over the task, he was ignorant, but was ignored by Zu Kuan.

When this "evil man" (Zu Kuan had already joined the Zhangqian Army, he looked like a demon king and wanted to eat people at the sight of him) was brought to Zhu Youjian's car, he was already extremely frightened.

"Zhang Xiaoqi... I've never heard of it!" Zhu Youjian muttered and gave up the idea of ​​beheading the envoy. Then he waved to Wu Sangui, who was carrying a lantern beside him, and asked him to bring the lantern over.

By the light of the lantern, Zhu Youjian read Huang Taiji's letter of challenge carelessly and snorted: "Tang Zhishan... is not far from the Great Wall. Do you want to run away if you can't win?"

How could he not win? Zhang Xiaoqi was still very superstitious about the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers. After listening to Zhu Youjian's words, he felt a little unconvinced.

At this moment, Zhu Youjian had already taken a brush dipped in ink and dried in the sun from Hei Wentao, dipped a little water in a tea bowl, and then wrote "confrontation tomorrow" on the letter of challenge.

With just four words, he threw the letter of challenge to Zhang Xiaoqi, and finally said to Zu Kuan: "Send him back."

"Yes." Zu Kuan responded and dragged Zhang Xiaoqi away.

When Zhu Youjian saw them walking away, he coughed, his eyes swept across the main hall of the ruined temple, and then fell on a young man in his twenties, with elegant and handsome appearance, slender and well-proportioned figure, "Wei Xiaolian,

In your opinion, can Tongzhou Tuanlian and Shunyi Tuanlian fight?"

This Wei Xiaolian is an extraordinary figure. His name is Wei Zaode... He is the first prime minister of the Ming Dynasty who was dubbed "Zhuge Liang" by the traitor!

He was from Tongzhou and was a candidate for the Dingmao Judicial Examination in the seventh year of Tianqi. Because his father died not long after he passed the examination, he could not participate in the competition in the first year of Chongzhen, otherwise he would have been an official by now.

However, Zhu Youjian still "took care" of him. When he appointed Gao Hongtu to go to Tongzhou to run the team training, he specifically recommended this talented man from Tongzhou. So Gao Hongtu asked Wei Zaode to be his staff to help him run the team training. Wei Zaode's family was in Tongzhou

He was from a well-known scholarly family, and he himself was quite capable, and he actually helped Gao Hongtu a lot.

The reason why he ran into Zhu Youjian's army was because after Zhu Youjian left Wenyuhe Camp, Zhang Fengyi, the Minister of War, immediately sent Tang Ma to inform the station that the young emperor was leading the vanguard to Shunyi.

Gao Hongtu of Shunyi (Gao Hongtu was the governor of Shuntian, so of course he could lead troops to wander around Shuntian Prefecture) and Lu Zhenfei.

After receiving this shocking news, Gao Hongtu did not dare to neglect, and immediately sent his capable generals Wei Zaode and Shunyi County Magistrate Lu Zhenfei to lead a team each out of the city to search, hoping to help the little emperor when he was in danger. And Wei Zaode led Tongzhou

During group training, I happened to meet Zhu Youjian.

"Long live my lord," Wei Zaode thought for a while and replied, "I thought the team training in Tongzhou and Shunyi were capable of fighting, but..."

Zhu Youjian waved his hand and said: "Nothing is wrong! You go back to the city immediately to convey my decree... Let Gao Hongtu immediately mobilize 8,000 regiments to follow me on the expedition to Tangzhishan to fight with the slave chief Huang Taiji
Chapter completed!