Ashes

Good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles, Mangurtai's story spread quickly, no matter how upset Dorgon was, he would divert part of his attention.

It was already evening, and Dorgon stood behind a tree and saw Mang Gurtai kneeling in front of Huang Taiji's tent.

"The general situation is like this. Then we took Sanbeile away. Da Khan was very angry. No one dared to talk to him for the whole day, including Dabeile." Aobai stood beside him and told him about the day. thing.

Dorgon glanced at Mang Gurtai again, and leaned sideways behind the tree: "Then he is here to beg for mercy now? The Great Khan won't let him in?"

"Khan was in a bad mood early in the morning."

Dorgon missed a beat when he heard Aobai's unintentional words, but quickly covered it up and focused on Mang Gurtai again.

"'Exposing the blade in front of the imperial court', this crime is enough for him." Dorgon murmured.

"Master Baylor, won't you go in and try to persuade Da Khan?"

Dorgon wanted to talk to him about some things, but after what happened yesterday, he suddenly felt that these things were not important, and it didn't matter whether they talked or not: "No, I won't go in."

I don't want to see him yet, I don't know what to say to him, and I feel uncomfortable all over.

And in the imperial tent of Huang Taiji, Yang Guli and Darhan's forehead were talking to him.

"Sanbeile asked us to come in and spread the message for him, saying that he drank too much during the day and slipped his words after drinking, so he said a lot of stupid things, and he came here to apologize. I hope Dahan can give him a chance to change his ways."

Huang Taiji didn't even bother to put down the things in his hand: "He wanted to kill me during the day, what is he trying to do now? He drank too much? Hmph, he can come up with such a bad excuse, what kind of apology is this?"

"But Sanbeile is still kneeling outside."

"Let him go, tell him, don't get in my way."

After the two of them left, Huang Taiji threw the documents on the table with a sullen face.

I only regret it now, and I want to apologize, it's not that simple.Now it's wartime, don't worry about it for the time being, and settle accounts after returning home.

At this time, a soldier from the artillery battalion came in and reported.

"Great Khan, we have breached a guard tower in the southwest corner, and the Ming army guarding the tower has surrendered."

"That's great." Huang Taiji showed a hint of joy, and said to the people around him, "Sony, is there any reaction from Zu Dashou?"

Sony couldn't help but say: "Nothing happened."

Two days ago, Huang Taiji ordered people to shoot a letter of persuasion into the city, because there were many Mongols in the Daling River defenders, so he wanted to use this to shake their morale.Of course, he didn't expect Zu Dashou to surrender so easily, so he wasn't surprised that there was no response.

"Write another letter, this time I will say..." Huang Taiji thought for a while, "We are making peace with sincerity, and we will never kill those who surrendered. In the past, Xian Khan killed many Liaodong people, and I also deeply regret it. Erbaile disturbed the military discipline and killed him. He has been imprisoned and punished, and now he is dead. I hope they can understand the righteousness and don't cause unnecessary casualties."

These words, with a very low posture, Sony was surprised when he heard it: "Khan, is there really no problem with this photoshoot?"

"Do as I say. In addition, pass on the order to strengthen the vigilance of all banners and not to relax. They should not be willing to surrender so soon. We still have a hard time with them."

From this day on, Dorgon began to try every means to avoid Huang Taiji, except for Zhu Beile's discussion, he would not appear if he could not appear, and he would not speak if he could not speak.

Huang Taiji also seemed to calm down, he didn't know what was in his mind, and he didn't take the initiative to find Dorgon, as if he didn't say anything he shouldn't have said that day.

It was cold for a month, and it took more than a month to besiege the Daling River, but Zu Dashou still showed no signs of surrendering.

The reinforcements of the Ming army had come twice, but they were all repelled by the Jin army.When the third wave of reinforcements arrived, Huang Taiji personally led the guards to support him. After careful consideration, he asked Duoduo to accompany him.

The reinforcements were successfully defeated, but Dodo had an accident. During the attack, his horse was frightened by something, and suddenly went berserk, throwing Dodo off the horse's back and breaking an arm.

The news of Duo Duo's injury was sent back to the camp first, and Duo ErGun waited restlessly for them to return to the camp.

When Huang Taiji returned to the camp, all the Baylors headed by Daishan went to greet him, and Dorgon was among them, but all his thoughts were on the injured Doduo, looking for Doduo among the returning crowd.

Huang Taiji saw his reaction in his eyes, he ordered everyone to get up, and when he passed by him, he said in a low voice: "Duo Duo is behind the team, he is not seriously injured, but I still let him go first. Go back to the tent and rest. Since you are so worried about him, you should not attend the banquet later, go and accompany him."

It was the first private conversation they had had in a month.

Dorgon rejoiced: "Can you?" After all, the Great Khan went to fight the enemy himself, and it would be extremely rude to leave like this when he was greeted.

Seeing Dorgon's eagerness to leave, Huang Taiji, who thought he was generous, suddenly became unhappy again, feeling uncomfortable.

But Huang Taiji still suppressed his unhappiness, pretending not to care: "Go quickly."

Dorgon, who was allowed, of course no longer hesitated, and immediately rushed to Duoduo's camp.

"Won't you be careful? Useless things!"

As soon as he walked outside the tent, he heard Duoduo losing his temper in the tent. Hearing his voice was full of anger, it seemed that there was nothing serious about it.Dorgon opened the curtain: "Duo Duo, is the injury serious?"

Seeing that it was Dorgon, Duo Duo immediately turned his anger into joy: "It hurts me to death! And these people are still angry with me, clumsy, and poured water on me, what a bunch of useless people!" His hands were still hanging on the His chest couldn't move at all, and his face was slightly pale, but he was still in good spirits.

"You all go down," Dorgon said.

The servants were relieved and left quickly.

Dodo was still resenting his injury: "If it wasn't for that crazy horse, I would definitely be able to kill a few more enemies!"

"Let me see your hands."

"Ouch, it hurts so much, take it easy."

"Have you met brother Azig there?"

"I've seen it. He blamed me in private for why I came to help him. His people can deal with those Ming troops. Hey, isn't there still a banquet? You came back so early?"

"I didn't go, I was worried about your body."

"This little injury..." Doduo didn't care, waved his hand habitually, and sweated from the pain again: "Oh, it hurts!"

Seeing that he was still in the mood to show off, Dorgon was completely relieved that he was fine.

Accompanying Duo Duo to have a conversation, it was soon evening.After Duo Duo tried his best to persuade him, Duo ErGun agreed to stay with him overnight.

The two of them just lay side by side on the bed, and Duo Duo happily stood next to Dorgon: "Brother, we haven't slept together for a long time."

"We're all adults."

"When Ama and Erniang were both together, we often slept together. Now you are busy all day and ignore me. Do you have so many things to do?"

Dorgon turned to look at him, his eyes shone brightly in the darkness, more dazzling than the stars, Dorgon smiled and said, "Why are you so wronged like a child?"

Duo Duo was not happy when he said he looked like a child. He propped up half of his body and almost lay on Dorgon's body: "Brother, did you forget Er Niang?"

Dorgon put away his smile: "Why do you say that?"

"You've already forgotten about Er Niang's death, right? Always follow him, do things for him, and obey him."

Of course Dorgon knew who the "he" he was referring to was silent.

"Brother Azig is the same. He only thinks about fighting in his mind, and doesn't care about anything else." Duoduo continued, his voice became low, "You all let me down so much."

Dorgon felt a chill in his heart: "Duo Duo..."

"Even if Amin is dead, so what, the others are still alive and well. It's only been a few years, you two have already forgotten all about it."

Dorgon didn't justify anything, and he didn't want to tell Duo Duo what he was going to do. Duo Duo had been loved since he was a child, but the sudden accident made him have a psychological gap and bought the seeds of resentment.Mang Gurtai has angered Huang Taiji, and he will be able to overthrow him in a logical manner, Dorgon said like a mirror in his heart, "Duo Duo, in fact, you still have me, and brother Azige, you are not alone. "Dorgon can see the change in Dodo's personality clearly. He doesn't want Dodo to become violent and eccentric. If he can, he is willing to bear it on his shoulders. "Although Brother Azige is careless, he still cares about us. Yes. I may not have been doing well enough, but what I do is to hope that my brother and you can be happy, have less troubles, and have the opportunity to make contributions to my Daikin. So can you give it a try and forget about the past , so that you can live a little easier, don't suppress yourself..."

Dorgon was talking to himself, and suddenly found that Duduo beside him had not made a sound for a long time, and when he looked again, he had fallen asleep on his shoulder.

Looking at Duo Duo's sleeping face, Dorgon lost all sleepiness.He sincerely hoped that Doduo would be carefree forever and suffer all the troubles by himself.

Dorgon didn't come back until dawn the next morning. After all, it was uncomfortable for two people to share a bed, so he didn't sleep deeply, and his head was still swollen when he woke up in the morning.

Just as he was about to go back and catch up on some sleep, he was startled when he entered the tent, and he became sober.

Because he suddenly saw Huang Taiji sitting on his bed, his eyes were bloodshot, and he looked like he hadn't slept all night.

Huang Taiji got up slowly, with complex eyes, and a hoarse voice: "Have you been with Duoduo all night?"