Ashes

Without paying attention, she walked up to him and simply sat down beside him.

His sleeping face was serene and peaceful, with the clean and vigorous vigor unique to teenagers, but his straight and sculpted eyebrows were slightly frowned, as if shrouded in a touch of anxiety.

For some reason, Huang Taiji felt that Dorgon always had a lot of things on his mind. This feeling was like air, invisible and intangible, impossible to prove, but definitely existed.Obviously only a ten-year-old child, how can he have any worries?Huang Taiji felt amused.

Suddenly, he reached out his hand to touch Dorgon's cheek.

Just when he was about to touch his face, Dorgon suddenly woke up, and stared at Huang Taiji with wide eyes: "Brother? What are you doing?"

Huang Taiji's hand hung in the air awkwardly, and he said after a long time: "It's okay."

Dorgon blinked: "Oh, why don't you go to sleep?"

"Let's go now." Huang Taiji got up to leave, and when he stepped out of the tent, he turned his head and said, "Dorgon, no matter what happens, the starling will help you." After finishing speaking, he left.

Dorgon was puzzled, and fell asleep again after a while.

The next day, Nurhachi's army arrived outside Shenyang.Huang Taiji had informed Nurhachi about the fact that there were traps outside the city. Considering that Shenyang City was strong and difficult to break through easily, Nurhachi did not attack immediately, but stationed outside the city to harass and plunder, hoping to lure the enemy out of the city, but to no avail.

The next day, Nurhachi repeated his old trick and asked Li Yongfang to write a letter of persuasion and send it into the city.He Shixian, the commander-in-chief of Shenyang, was furious, thinking that the Jin army was timid to fight, so he went out of the city to fight.Nurhachi couldn't get what he wanted, and he fought and retreated, gradually surrounded him, and at the same time sent people to attack Shenyang City.He Shixian was brave and fearless, and killed countless enemies, but in the end he was defeated, barely broke through, and died of several arrows in his body.

The general soldier died in battle, and the army's morale in Shenyang City was slackened. After a while, the city gate was breached.

At this time, reinforcements from the Ming army had arrived and were crossing the Hun River.Nurhachi swung his troops towards the reinforcements.This batch of reinforcements were soldiers from Sichuan. They were brave and capable of fighting, and they fought on par with the soldiers of the Eight Banners. Both sides suffered heavy casualties.

In the end, Nurhachi won the victory by relying on the cannons on Shenyang City.

At the same time, reinforcements from Wujing Fort, Tiger Piyi, and Fengji Fort of the Ming Army had gathered at Baitapu.

Huang Taiji had just retreated from the front line and returned to his camp.

As soon as he opened the curtain, he saw Dorgon waiting for him in his tent.

"How's the battle going?" Dorgon saw that Huang Taiji had returned, and immediately went up to meet him.It's really uncomfortable to have to wait for news at the back.

Huang Taiji looked tired, seeing Dorgon still smiled and said: "It's okay."

Dundari rushed in in a panic: "Sibaile, I heard people who came back say that many people in our banner died. Is it true?"

"What are you panicking about?" Huang Taiji scolded, "Playing as a striker must be a bigger loss, go get me a basin of water."

He said it easily, but Dorgon knew that it was bigger, but definitely not bigger.Since it was a battle of flesh and blood, someone had to fight forward to win the chance.

Dorgon looked him up and down: "Are you not injured?"

"How can I get hurt every time?"

Dundari fetched water, Huang Taiji took advantage of this gap to wash his face, and Dorgon was on the sidelines to help.

The battlefield is changing rapidly, and Huang Taiji can only rest for a moment, and he needs to meet the enemy again at any time.

Suddenly there was a commotion outside the tent, as if something had changed, Dorgon rushed out to take a look, and saw Nurhachi leading his men rushing past their tent.

"What happened?" Dorgon grabbed a person and asked.

"Yasun took people out and encountered the outpost of the Ming army. Before the attack started, he fled back. The Ming army chased him. Da Khan was very angry and led the people to kill him himself."

Before Dorgon answered, Huang Taiji ran out from behind, mounted his horse without hesitation, and caught up with Nurhachi: "Father Khan, why do you need to go out on your own to deal with these people? I'll just take someone there." gone."

"You have injured too many people under your banner, so I'll go by myself."

"You don't need a lot of people, I just bring my guards."

"Okay, then I'll leave it to you."

Huang Taiji immediately assembled his guards, and charged at the chasing Ming army.

This is indeed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to perform, but his guards only have more than 300 people, so he just left?

Dorgon looked at Huang Taiji who had already run away, and was astonished, and his father was really relieved to let him go.

The lightning flashed in his mind, and Dorgon also ran to get a horse.

"What are you doing, little brother!" Dundari grabbed his reins anxiously, "Sibeile has ordered you not to go anywhere when the war starts."

"Is he going to die with such a small number of people?" Dorgon grabbed the reins with him, but he was not as strong as him, so he couldn't grab him, so he kicked him anxiously.

"No! You must stay here! You won't be able to help if you go!" The loyal Dundari risked being kicked by him and refused to let go.

"I'm going to inform Big Baylor! His camp is right next door!"

When Dundari heard that this is fine, he finally let go of his hand.

The strength on the other end of the rein was suddenly withdrawn, and Dorgon almost lost his center of gravity and fell off the horse. Fortunately, he reacted quickly and swayed a few times to stabilize his seat.Immediately without delay, drive the horse forward.

"Brother, wait for me! I'll go too!" Dundari hurriedly led a horse and followed Dorgon.

Huang Taiji and the guards ran into the Ming army head-on, and there were thousands of people on the opposite side.

But his guards are all the elite under his banner, brave and good at fighting, and Huang Taiji takes the lead in fighting, whoever dares not try his best will be red-eyed.

But after all, the other side has a lot of people and power, and Huang Taiji's side is gradually losing the wind.

Amidst the clanging of swords and swords, he vaguely heard someone calling him.

"Brother!" A cry was indistinguishable.

Huang Taiji looked back, only to see a horse galloping from afar, it turned out to be Dorgon.

The battle here is fierce, why is he here?Angry and anxious, Huang Taiji withdrew from the battle, ran towards Dorgon, turned his horse sideways in front of him, and blocked his way, before he could stand still, he shouted: "What are you doing here! Don't die!"

Dundari caught up with him humming: "Four Baylor."

Huang Taiji scolded Dundari: "How do you do things? Why don't you look after the fourteenth brother?"

Just as Dorgon was about to defend himself, Daishan and Yuetuo's people from behind had already caught up, but because he was running too fast alone, he jumped ahead.

Thousands of troops and horses raised thousands of feet of dust, crushing it mightily, with a magnificent momentum.

When the Ming army saw the Jin army rushing, they did not dare to fight any more, they abandoned their guns and fled, and the defense line collapsed instantly.

The Jin army took advantage of the victory and pursued, and went straight to Baitapu where they were stationed.

When Huang Taiji saw all this clearly, Dorgon said leisurely: "Brother, I called the second brother's people."

Huang Taiji couldn't help laughing: "Okay, I will ask Father Khan for your credit later, and I will go to their camp first." He said as he turned the horse's head.

Unexpectedly, Dorgon also followed.

"What are you doing here?"

"It's all here, and I want to take some credit." Dorgon said confidently.

The opponent's Ming army has lost the will to fight, coupled with the superiority of its own number, the battle situation has become one-sided, and it is unlikely to pose a threat to Dorgon.

Huang Taiji had no choice but to indulge him: "Okay then, follow me closely, be careful if you are alone and lose your life."

"Got it." Dorgon said perfunctorily.

Seeing his stubborn expression, eager to try, Huang Taiji couldn't take his eyes off, and couldn't help but smile.

"What are you laughing at?" Dorgon wondered, "If you don't take the credit, you will be robbed by the second brother."

"Okay, let's go."

At this point, Huang Taiji and others chased for more than forty miles and swept the Baitapu camp.

Jin Guo completely occupied Shenyang.

When Nurhachi learned the details of the battle at Baitapu, he was ecstatic.

He highly praised Huang Taiji for his excellent performance, and his affection was beyond words, and he was not stingy with compliments.

Nurhachi was also very happy about Dorgon's repatriation: "My sons are all good, even if they are young, they are real men!"

"It's all taught by Father Khan. If you are afraid first, how can you make the enemy afraid? So I am not afraid." Dorgon said.

"Well said." Nurhachi waved to Dorgon, "Come here, sit beside me."

Being able to sit next to the Great Khan, which cannot be exchanged for any gold, silver and jewels, is a supreme honor.

Dorgon ran to Nurhachi's side, his mouth seemed to be smeared with honey: "Congratulations to Father Khan for taking Shenyang City." Then he sat down beside him.

Nurhachi laughed even more from ear to ear.

Dorgon also laughed, he looked down and met Huang Taiji's gaze.

Huang Taiji also looked at him with a slight smile.

Dorgon could see that he was genuinely happy for himself, it seemed that he really regarded himself as a younger brother who led by his side and taught him carefully.

At this time, Adun walked in: "Khan, the ceremony is ready."

Nurhachi put away his smile and his expression became solemn.In the entire camp, all the laughter stopped and was replaced by a dignified atmosphere.

The ceremony that Arden mentioned was a ceremony to pay homage to the war dead.

The two sides experienced a fierce battle in this battle, and there were countless casualties.This is the worst victory since Nurhachi raised his troops.

When the living body is transformed into a simple number, only by holding a ceremony can we barely comfort the soul of the dead and express the grief of the living.

"Let's go, let's go see them off." Nurhachi led his nephews out of the camp.

In a wide open space, some wooden shelves were stacked, on which were some generals of the Jin Army who died in battle, and the ones beside them were simpler and more numerous, were soldiers who died in battle.

They wiped the faces of the dead as clean as possible, making it look like they were just asleep.

The soldiers of the Eight Banners assembled one after another, according to the organization of each banner, and some injured but still able to move were also supported here.

They all came to see them off.Everyone's faces were filled with deep mourning, and the air was full of sadness, which was too thick to dissolve.

Standing beside Huang Taiji, Dorgon secretly raised his head and glanced at him. Huang Taiji looked ahead with a heavy expression.

There are many soldiers with white flags.

When the names of the dead generals were read out one by one, a fire lit the wooden shelf.

No one spoke, only the whirring of the flames and the crisp sound of cracking dry wood. The flames engulfed their bodies, and thick smoke rolled up, carrying the mourning of all the Eight Banners disciples, straight to the nine heavens.

The dead die for the living, and the living will live for the dead.

After the ceremony, Nurhachi returned to his tent and announced to everyone: Liaoyang is the next target.