However, all this made Huang Taiji, who personally supervised the battle outside Songshan City, extremely annoyed.

He summoned Dorobelenikan and asked him about the results of his expedition and whether he had found the whereabouts of the so-called Ningyuan advance camp.

At this time, Dorobelenikan happened to get the letter written by Zu Dashou to Jin Guofeng and others from Nomqi sent by Arsalan.

Therefore, when Huang Taiji asked, Nikan hurriedly submitted this letter and replied that he had sent a Garbush Xianchaoha under the Manchurian Yellow Banner yesterday to the coast to detect the whereabouts of the Ming army.

Now, the Garbush Xianchaoha team has been sent to pursue the main force of the Ming army that sent the message.

Huang Taiji was very relieved about the selected Garbush Xianchaoha from the Eight Banners of Manchuria. After hearing the answer from Dorobelenikan, he was somewhat relieved.

However, Huang Taiji took the letter submitted by Nikan and read the content of the letter Zu Dashou wrote to Jin Guofeng and other Songshan garrison generals. He became doubtful and uneasy in his heart. He was both doubtful and full of worries.

What made him "uncertain" was that Zu Dashou told Jin Guofeng and others that he would soon mobilize all Ningyuan troops to go to Songshan for rescue.

However, Huang Taiji knew very well that so far, no reinforcements had been sent from the direction of Ningyuan.

What made him full of worry at the same time was that Zu Dashou also said that Ningyuan had sent a strong reinforcement force to go north by sea to relieve Songshan City.

Of course, the reason why Huang Taiji was worried was because Zu Dashou seriously exaggerated the so-called Ningyuan Advance Battalion, Xu Changyong Mongolian Battalion, Juehua Island Naval Battalion and his own Chinese troops in his letter to Songshan Guardsman.

The strength of going north to rescue.

Zu Dashou's letter was a bit half-true. After all, he was not a fool. He also knew that this letter might be delivered to Songshan City, but there was also a high possibility that it would be intercepted halfway.

Therefore, he considered both the situation of being sent into the city and the situation of being intercepted halfway. However, no matter what the situation was, he felt that he needed to exaggerate the strength of the rescue team heading north.

If they were sent into the city and fell into the hands of Jin Guofeng and others, exaggerating the strength of the rescue team would naturally help strengthen Jin Guofeng and others' confidence in holding on to the city and waiting for reinforcements.

However, if it is intercepted halfway by the Tatars and falls into the hands of a Tatar general, who deliberately exaggerates the strength of the rescue team heading north, it can also play a role in intimidating or mobilizing the Tatar siege troops.

The four teams Zu Dashou mentioned in his letter are true. He mentioned the Ningyuan Advance Battalion, the Mongolian Battalion, the Navy Battalion, and also mentioned his Chinese troops and horses.

And these four teams do indeed exist. As for the composition of the rescue team going north, he did not lie.

However, he did not specify how many troops each of the four teams had, and he could not tell them. If he did, going north for rescue would become a joke.

Zu Dashou is not worried that this matter will be exposed in the future, because even if it is exposed, he will have enough reasons to defend his actions.

The reason was that he couldn't say it clearly in the letter because the letter might be intercepted by the Tatars.

However, what Zu Dashou didn't expect was that his half-truth and half-false letter, which seriously exaggerated the strength of the rescue team going north, coupled with the huge commotion Yang Zhen and others made behind the Tatars, actually made the always calculating

Huang Taiji, who has no clues, is not sure.

After reading Zu Dashou's letter to General Songshan, Huang Taiji was a little confused and a little uneasy. Hearing that Nikan had also brought Nomqi, the general of the Mongolian battalion of the Ningyuan reinforcements who had just surrendered, he immediately went to his temporary location.

In his camp, he summoned Nomqi.

In addition to speaking Manchu, Huang Taiji also speaks Chinese and Mongolian, so he can communicate directly with Nomqi.

"Nomuqi! Since you are Sanggarsai's subordinate, how many troops did Sanggarsai's Mongolian camp leave Ningyuan and go north by sea this time?"

"Reply to the Holy Master! There are three hundred people and three hundred horses in total!"

Huang Taiji was stunned for a moment after hearing this, then opened the letter written by Zu Dashou to General Songshan, read it, and then asked: "Zu Dashou's Chinese army, how many people and how many horses have come?! The naval camp from Juehua Island has come.

How many people and ships are there? And how many people and horses are there in the advance battalion?!"

The more Huang Taiji asked, the more anxious he became. He mumbled something in Mongolian, which made everyone else in his tent confused and shocked.

Not all Manchu Tatars can speak Mongolian, and there are also very few Jurchens who can speak Mongolian. In order to get the truth from Nomqi, Huang Taiji used Mongolian.

"Commander Zu - no, Zu Dashou's Chinese army came with a total of one hundred men and one hundred horses! Juehua Island Navy Camp has sixty or seventy ships, large and small, with about five or six hundred people! The advance battalion - we are all

Advance battalion! In addition to us, there are more than 200 gunners!"

After finishing speaking in Mongolian, Nomqi secretly looked at the legendary Manchurian Tatar slave chief Huang Taiji. Sometimes he was a little confused, and sometimes he looked surprised. He felt that he should say more and take the opportunity to make more contributions, so he looked

Huang Taiji, who was lost in thought, said again:

"All of them were stationed on a sandbank island south of the river mouth! Just behind the reed swamp! They were also responsible for burning the grain and grass on the north side of the river that night!

"Today they originally sent me to Songshan to deliver a message, but for some reason, all the people on the island got on the boat and landed! If you, the Holy Lord, didn't know what was going on and sent people to chase Xu Changyong, I'm afraid there would be

What a loss! That Yang Zhen from the advance camp is a man who is fearless and dares to do anything!"

When Huang Taiji heard this, he was shocked. He quickly switched to Manchu and turned back to ask Dorobele Nikan: "Nikan, how many Garbush Xianchaoha did you send to pursue? Who is the person in charge of leading the army?!

"

Nikan didn't understand Mongolian and didn't know what Nomuqi had just reported to Huang Taiji. However, since Huang Taiji asked him something, he had to answer immediately, so he said truthfully:

"I sent the Bajala Camp Jia Lazhangjing Arsalan to lead the army, and the slave sent all the Garbush Xianchaoha in the Bagala Camp!"

After hearing this, Huang Taiji was temporarily relieved.

In his opinion, since there were four to five hundred Bush Xianchaoha with yellow flags going to pursue them, even if they were really ambushed by the Ming army, there was nothing to worry about.

Not to mention that the so-called Ningyuan advance battalion only had less than one or two thousand troops in total. Even if the number of this Ming army doubled, it would not be a match for these talented people.

However, to be on the safe side, Huang Taiji thought for a while and said to Nikan: "Nikan! Since this Nomqi knows where the Ming army's camp is, let him lead the way and lead you to eliminate that army.

Ming Army! Take all the men and horses in your Bagala camp and go immediately!"

Huang Taiji arranged these affairs, and felt that the threat from his rear had been eliminated, so he no longer cared about things along the coast, and instead continued to urge King Sanshun's Tianyou soldiers, Tianzhu soldiers, and Shi Tingzhu's Wuzhen Chaoha to continue the artillery bombardment.

Songshan Castle.

Dorobelenikan took the order and led the Ming army's Mongolian camp to surrender General Nomqi. He hurried back to his camp and ordered more than 1,200 other troops in the Bagala camp full of Tatars with yellow flags.

Under the leadership of Nomqi, we quickly ran towards the south bank of the Xiaoling River mouth.

The further east he went, the more Nikan felt something was wrong, because he galloped for several miles, but there was no news of Arsalan's Garbush Xianchaoha.

Along the way, we also encountered several places where corpses in Ming army uniforms were scattered here and there. However, considering that Arsalan's 400 to 500 people had been setting out for more than an hour, there was no news sent back, which was a bit unusual.

This extremely unusual situation made Nikan start to feel inexplicably anxious.

Originally, he felt that Huang Taiji's arrangement was a bit redundant, but the further east he went, the ominous premonition that suddenly arose in his heart became stronger and clearer.

Although he had thought of some bad possibilities and made various speculations when he was on the road, when he actually arrived at the battlefield laid out by Yang Zhen under the guidance of Nomqi, he was still watched by his eyes.

The sight I arrived was completely shocking!

"What's going on?! How could this be possible?! Who did it?! Who dares to do this?! Which Ming army can do this?!"

He looked at the broken limbs scattered everywhere inside and outside the woods, as well as on the salt flats between the reed swamps, the corpses of war horses and the headless remains of the Bush Xianchaoha knight with a yellow flag.
Chapter completed!