Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1406 There is always something going on in Liaodong (Part [-])
Due to the distance, Li Chengliang from Liaodong didn't know that Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue, in order to protect him, joined hands to learn from the old camp Jiangnan when Gao Qiuzhen became Gao Rixin and began to build the Rixin Building. They gave up a lot of interests, and a bunch of officials from Nanjing Xinxue were pulled down by Hai Rui.

This incident made Li Chengliang both guilty and nervous.The guilt is that these losses could have been avoided if he hadn't acted indiscreetly. Although he, Li Chengliang, is not the leader of the Mind School, he is responsible for the current situation, and he will inevitably feel sorry for it.

However, Li Chengliang was not only guilty of this matter, but also very angry. He felt that he should have been sold by Tumen—or, more likely, by Brihatu.

If the leak was really due to Tumen's sloppy handling, then that's okay, but after thinking about it, Li Chengliang felt that no matter how sloppy Tumen was, they couldn't be so hasty.After all, he is the "Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty", so there is no one around to guard the documents?
Therefore, the most likely situation is that Buri Hatu leaked it deliberately, and the reason is not complicated. If such a tail is left, Daming is likely to give up pursuing the Mongols after the Battle of Liaobei because of the need to strictly investigate the interior—even if Daming originally There is no such plan, but Brihatu, as Tumen's military adviser, must always be prepared for this.

Obviously, Li Chengliang was unfortunately thrown out by Brihatu as this tail.

Apart from guilt and anger, Li Chengliang is still very nervous now.Although Shen Yuanfu persisted and helped him eliminate the responsibility, but the matter itself was a temporary solution, not the root cause: it was impossible for Shen Shihang to eliminate the evidence, he only achieved a temporary settlement through the exchange of interests and high pragmatism. Consistently, once Gao Pragmatic repents afterwards, he can bring this matter up for "discussion" at any time.

This is of course too dangerous, so Li Chengliang had to find a way to eliminate hidden dangers.The evidence in Gao Wushi's hands is nothing more than the letters found in the Beilebuzhai mansion in Yehexi City. It is impossible for him to invite Tumen and Brihatu to the capital for questioning, so this evidence itself is an isolated evidence.

If Gao Wushi really wants to continue to entangle this matter, he will most likely have to follow these letters to find the person who wrote the letter—the person is still with Li Chengliang, so Li Chengliang has to hide him.

This matter is not difficult to deal with. Although Li Chengliang doesn't listen to Li Chengliang's greetings in the east of Liaohe now, he is still like an emperor in the west of Liaohe. What's the point of hiding someone?
However, Li Chengliang felt that he could not always be so passive. He had to find something to prove that his sword was not old. Liaodong still had him, Uncle Ning Yuan, so that he could be considered truly safe.

Looking for trouble, Li Chengliang is very familiar with this job, and Liaodong has been really troubled recently, but it is a bit troublesome how to relate this matter to Li Chengliang.

What is the matter?It turned out that Nurhachi was restless again.

Not long after Nurhachi raised his army two years ago, he was playing a game of chasing each other with Nikan Wailan. Allied operations.

At that time, the Zhechen tribe was subordinate to Nikan Wailan. After Nikan Wailan abandoned the city and fled, Nurhaci occupied the city, and in April of that year he personally led five hundred horsemen to conquer the Zhechen tribe.

But things were not coincidental. Just in time for the flood and the difficulty of marching, Nurhachi ordered all the soldiers back to the village, and only brought 50 elite Mianjia and 30 iron armor from his headquarters and his younger brother Shuerhaqi's headquarters to continue northward.And the five villages of Tomuhe, Zhangjia, Barda, Saarhu, and Jiefan, which also belonged to Nikanwailan, joined forces with 800 people to jointly stop the Nurhachi brothers.

Probably because of the flood, the sentry sent by Nurhachi failed to report the enemy's situation in time. As a result, when Nurhachi and Shuerhaqi led their troops to the vicinity of the Hunhe River, the coalition forces were already in full formation in the area from Hunhe River, Jiefan to Nanshan.

The enemy is at present, and Nurhachi holds the banner and takes the lead in the battle.Seeing that the enemy was not moving, he decided to dismount and lead his brother and other 4 people into the siege, and shot more than 20 people to death immediately.

Although there were many coalition troops, they did not belong to each other. Seeing that Nurhachi was coming fiercely and the camp was in chaos, they crossed the river to escape for their lives.Nurhachi took a short rest, waited for the follow-up soldiers to arrive, reorganized his armor, and continued to chase the enemy until he won.

It stands to reason that the scale of the "Battle of Hunhe" is not large, and the two sides have only invested less than 1000 people. However, because the Nurhachi and Shuerhaqi brothers are actually eighty against eight hundred, so although they won But there were also many casualties under his command. The warriors who could only be named, such as Yabahai, Buha, Bayan, Sun Zaqin, Yamu Bangyuli, Lange, Shiertai, Dumubu, etc., all died in battle. .

Considering that Nurhachi's strength was limited at that time, this battle is of course very important.At that time, in order to stabilize the morale of the army, Nurhachi also carried out the act of paying homage to the souls of the dead.

Judging from this battle, there are two points worth noting: one is the obvious role of elite soldiers.Nurhachi had originally brought 500 men into the battle, but once the situation was difficult, he simply chose to bring only elite soldiers. It can be seen that he was very confident in the [-] elite soldiers in armor at that time.Judging from the results of the battle, his self-confidence is really emboldened.

The second is that the "Alliance Army" thing is very unreliable, eight hundred and eighty can be defeated, so what else is there to say?If you let the high-level pragmatic evaluation, since you are not elite soldiers, you should honestly rely on your strength to defend the city. Although you lack initiative in this kind of dull battle, Nurhachi's losses will be even greater.

Considering that Nurhachi's capital at that time was actually only those [-] elite soldiers, maybe he would have withdrawn his troops if he lost a lot of money?It can be seen that this Nikan Wailan is really a raging nest, and even the level of his subordinates are all bronze.

But it is also true that in the so-called "Jurchen unification war" in later generations, the most famous battle between Nurhachi and Yehe was also the one where he defeated the invading Yehe's "Nine Allied Forces" with his own power-it seems that the Jurchens could not To engage in coalition forces, at the very least, you cannot engage in coalition forces without a clear core, otherwise it will be a mess and have no combat effectiveness.

However, after this victory, Nurhachi had no time to "cut the weeds and eradicate the roots", and went back to chase after Nikanwailan.Therefore, Nurhachi led his troops to attack Tuomohe City again in July of the following year when he freed up his hands. Unfortunately, it happened to be a thunderstorm, and Nurhachi felt that God's will would not allow him to win at this moment, so he stopped the army.

It didn't take long for Nikan Wailan to finish playing, so Nurhachi personally led his troops to recruit and take the city without attacking.

At this time, the Zhechen Department was dying, and only the last cottage remained.Nurhachi originally planned to attack, but it happened that Tumen sent troops to Yehe and invited Nurhachi to carve up, so it was delayed.

After the Liaobei War ended, Nurhachi had no choice but to withdraw his troops from Hada in desperation because of the high pragmatic constraints and the oppression of Ming Dynasty.Originally, he planned to go back to Jianzhou directly, but halfway there, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, when he suddenly found that the cottage of the remnants of the Zhechen tribe was not far away.So Nurhachi, who was full of anger and had nowhere to go, led his troops to attack the Zhechen Yu tribe again, conquered the Shanzhai, and beheaded his master Altai.

The Department of Zhe and Chen is finished.However, it wasn't the end of the Zhe Chen Department that moved Li Chengliang's mind. The Zhe Chen Department was actually just an appetizer. The main course was Nurhachi's idea when he returned to Hetuala after finishing the Zhe Chen Department.

This time, Nurhachi stared at Dong Ebu, which made Li Chengliang's heart move, even tightened.

The Dong E tribe is a tribe with noble blood. Who were their ancestors?It will surprise many people to say that the origin of the Dong'e tribe is actually a descendant of the Zhao clan of the Northern Song Dynasty.

They were taken captive to the northern border during the Jin Dynasty, and they "became natives for a long time and became Jurchens".In the fifth year of Zhengtong, he moved westward with Jianzhou Zuowei and arrived within the scope specified by the Ming court. He settled on the Donggu River, so he took the land as his surname and called it Dong'e.With the reproduction of the population, it formed its own tribe, called the Dong'e tribe.

Specifically, the Dong’e tribe was located in the southeast of the Sukesu Huhe River, that is, the lower reaches of the Hunjiang River Basin in later generations, and lived along the west tributaries of the Pozhu River. To the south were Aiyang and Kuandian Six Forts, and the main city was Huanren in Dandong, Liaoning Province.

The Dong E Department also belonged to the Jianzhou Jurchen, a department of the Jianzhou Zuowei, and later became the strongest department among the five Jianzhou departments.Since Nurhachi regards himself as the leader of Jianzhou, he will naturally not let Dong E's tribe go. In fact, in the second year after he inherited his father's business, he had already conquered Dong'e tribe once. At that time, he first pointed his finger at Qi Ji He answered the city, but because he didn't win it, he turned to another city called Wengguo Luocheng.

The problem is that although Nurhachi bears the title of commander of the left guard of Jianzhou, you can't beat your "subordinates" for no reason, right?So there is also a fuse of war.

The trigger for this conquest was a woman.

Ahana, the second son of Baoshi, the lord of Zhangjia, the sixth patriarch of Nurhaci, wanted to marry the younger sister of Bashan, Minister of Sakhda, as his wife.Unexpectedly, Bashan resolutely disagreed with the marriage because he thought Ahana's family was poor.Not long after, Bashan married his younger sister to Erji, the son of Dong'e Minister Kechebayan.

One day, when Elji went out, he was killed by a group of thieves when he passed through Abdaligang (the junction of Xinbin and Huanren counties in Liaoning Province in later generations).During the fight, the murderers called each other, and one of them called Anaha's name, which was remembered by one of Elji's followers.

After the entourage fled back to the Dong'e tribe, he told Erji's father, Dong'e Minister Keche Bayan, that the person who killed Erji was Ahana, and he must have married Bashan's sister because he did not marry him. Elji became grudges.

In fact, it was a misunderstanding. It was not Ahana who killed Elji. It was just a coincidence that one of the murderers was also named Ahana.But it was this misunderstanding that formed a deep hatred between Minister Dong'e and Nurhaci's six grandfathers (known as Ninggu Tabeile in history), and continued to lead troops to plunder Ninggu Tabeile's territory.

Nurhaci's six grandfathers suffered heavy losses under Kecheba'e's aggression, so everyone got together to find a way.Someone said: "We are all born from the same ancestor, but due to the multiplication of population, we now live in twelve places. This scattered state makes the strength of each place very weak, unable to deal with the enemy's aggression. We should gather the whole clan into a large city, so that we can have the strength to defend against the enemy's attack."

This proposal was immediately opposed by Wu Tai, the son of the third ancestor Suo Chang'a.He said: "Everyone lives in one place, and the safety is somewhat guaranteed, but how can our livestock survive! The grassland is limited, the livestock cannot eat enough, and it is difficult to reproduce. We might as well borrow troops from Hadawan Khan and attack Dong'e Ministry. Only when we defeat our opponents can we get real security.”

But obviously, Wan Khan in his later years was a mud bodhisattva crossing the river and couldn't protect himself. The matter was brought up again and used as an excuse for war.

In the autumn of the 12th year of Wanli, Nurhachi led an expedition of 500 troops to Donghu.At this time, Kechebayan's younger brother, Ahaibayan, served as the head of the Dong'e Department.Ahai Bayan lived in Qijida City in Dong'e (at the junction of the Hunjiang River and the Laha River in the eastern part of Huanren Manchu Autonomous County, Liaoning Province). The city is surrounded by water and mountains, and the situation is very dangerous.

Ahai Bayan believed that Nurhachi led his troops from afar to benefit from a quick battle, and it was impossible to last.Therefore, he evacuated the residents outside the city to the city in advance, transported all the newly harvested grain to the city for storage, selected 400 elite soldiers to serve as city defense tasks, and closed the city gates tightly. attack.

When Nurhachi led his troops to Qijida City, he saw that the city gate was closed tightly and the soldiers on the city were waiting with their bows open. He knew that Ahaibayan wanted to defend the city with a strong city.But just as Ahai Bayan expected, Nurhachi came from a long distance, and there was indeed not much food and grass. After he arrived at the city, he really did not dare to delay, and personally led the soldiers to launch a strong attack.

Unexpectedly, the soldiers defending the city were very tenacious, and all of them resisted desperately, and the ladder could not be erected at all.The soldiers rushing to the front suffered heavy casualties, and there was no progress in the assault on the first day.

On the next day, Nurhachi asked the soldiers to prepare a large number of rockets. This so-called rocket is an arrow with combustible materials tied to the arrowhead. It is different from the gunpowder thrust rocket of the Ming army. The Ming army actually looks a bit like the rocket launcher of later generations. (historical facts).

On the third day, Nurhaci said to the soldiers under his command: "Ahaibayan evacuated all the residents outside the city into the city. Although it is good for the defense of the city, but the grain and grass in the city are piled up and there are many people. As long as a few places catch fire, it is inevitable Chaos."

So he asked E Yidu to lead 200 archers to concentrate on firing rockets at the tower and the city, and asked Anfei Yanggu to lead the rest of the soldiers to prepare for the attack.

This plan worked as expected. After a large number of rockets were shot into the city, first the city tower caught fire, and then the city's fire burst into the sky.The soldiers on the city wall were in chaos, and the cries in the city kept coming out.

Nurhachi was overjoyed, he was about to order the siege, who would have thought that God made a big joke with Nurhachi.Because it was late autumn in September, the climate in the Liaodong Mountains was not only cold early, but also volatile.A heavy snowfall suddenly fell from the sky, and it became heavier and heavier. After a while, the fire in the city gradually disappeared, and only bursts of thick smoke were very conspicuous in the white snow flakes.

With such heavy snow, it was difficult for soldiers to climb the ladder to attack the city.Riding on his horse, Nurhachi stared at the snowflakes flying all over the sky. He was stunned for a long time, and then he shook his head helplessly: "Since God is not blessing us, we have to withdraw our troops temporarily."

Nurhaci ordered: not to leave a house outside the city for Ahaibayan, and burn all the houses outside the city.In order to avoid being extinguished by the heavy snow, they lit a fire from inside the house, and when it burned to the outside house, even if it was extinguished by the snow, the house would almost collapse.So it was not until all the cottages outside the city were set on fire that Nurhaci's soldiers began to evacuate Qijida City.

Originally, this matter should have come to an end, but Ahai Bayan refused.On the Qijida city, he saw the heavy snow put out the fire in the city, and Nurhachi's soldiers retreated again, he couldn't help laughing, and said: "The heavens have eyes, little thief Nurhachi, since you have already come, why bother?" Let's go!" So he ordered: "Soldiers, let me go out of the city to chase!" He personally led the soldiers to rush out of the city shouting.

It's a pity that Nurhachi had already been prepared for this. Ahai Bayan was not far from the city when he saw a group of people killing out from the place outside the city surrounded by thick smoke, and the leader was Nurhachi.

Ahai Bayan was taken aback, and hurriedly fought in panic.Nurhachi didn't say a word, he slashed at the soldiers of Dong'e with his sword. In the instant of fighting, four soldiers had died by Nurhachi's sword.

The rest of the soldiers were ambushed as soon as they came out of the city, and it was impossible to see how many ambushes were in the smoke, so they fled back to the city in fright.In order to ensure the safety of his soldiers retreating in this battle, Nurhaci only brought twelve of the bravest soldiers to set up an ambush, but he killed Albayan's pursuers and returned in a complete defeat.

Although this battle failed to determine the real winner, the rift between the two families has become bigger and bigger.Withdrew from Hada to Jianzhou, Nurhachi, who was reprimanded by Daming, was still angry, and made a decision: Since Daming forbids me to touch Yehe and Hada, then I will beat Jianzhou's own disobedient subordinates. You always have nothing to say, right? ——
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