Daming Yinghua

Chapter 156 The Battle of Fushun ([-])
"Erji, Erji, drive the flock away quickly, it's going to be beaten again."

Outside the Xin'an Pass in Kaiyuan, an important town in northern Liaoning in the Ming Dynasty, Degele, a little Mongolian boy, ran towards his mother like a panicked hare avoiding the claws of a goshawk, carrying a dirty cloth robe.

The mother heard her son's call, stood up abruptly, and turned to look at the vast grassland.

A large group of Ming troops on horseback rushed out from Xin'an Pass and galloped straight towards a large felt tent.

The mother changed her face, picked up the ignorant little daughter who was sitting on the ground playing with wild flowers, and put her on the simple wheelbarrow.

"Degler, you push my sister, and I will drive the sheep. Let's go to the fortress in the southwest. The Han people there are very friendly."

Degler complied.

After his father died in an inter-tribal war, his mother took them alone two years ago and drove the family sheep to the grassland at the border of Khalkha Mongolia and Daming to graze.The Ming people in the nearby fortress looked at them with pity, and occasionally sent some old clothes and food, and the price for the lamb was very fair, enough for the mother to exchange salt and other necessities for a family of three at the market.

Therefore, Degler is full of hostility towards his own people.It was those rough and savage leaders who conquered each other, and he and his sister lost their father. The mother was unwilling to marry the man who brought back the father's body according to the rules of the tribe, so she was whipped by the leader and driven out of the tribe.

When they arrived at the grassland on the border of the Ming Dynasty, if their own people did not come to knock on the customs and plunder, the Ming army would never leave the customs to rob the herdsmen of their cattle and sheep.

While comforting his younger sister, Degler pushed the wheelbarrow and, together with his mother, drove the flock of sheep to evacuate to the Han Chinese fortress that brought him safety.

They walked for a while, and suddenly felt strange, and the mother and son stopped at the same time.

The shout of killing did not sound.

……

Li Rubai, the second son of the late Li Chengliang, the general of Liaodong, sat on his horse and stared at the camp of the Mongolian Nuantu tribe in Khalkha.

Not long after, several Mongolian generals galloped out and arrived at Li Rubai's family member of the former army, and asked the interpreter to speak a few words.

Behind them, Zaisai, the leader of Nuantu tribe, one of the five Khalkha Mongolian tribes, also rode out of the camp.

After the servant came back to report, Li Rubai made a gesture, and set up five or six command flags one after the other. Li Rubai's more than a thousand armored elites immediately retreated to the two sides, revealing the two hundred firecrackers who had dismounted behind the tent of the Chinese army.

After the formation was formed, Li Rubai rushed out with more than ten entourages and galloped to the front of the Mongolian camp.

Zai Sai and Li Rubai got off their horses almost at the same time, one stroked his chest and the other clasped his fists. After saluting, they entered the barracks side by side.

After Li Rubai sat down, he didn't even take a sip of the milk tea, and said straight to the point: "Brother Zai Sai, tell me, how much did the Jianzhou people benefit you?"

"General Li, what do you mean?"

Zai Sai touched the wrench and said coldly.

Li Rubai didn't have the frosty look on his face like Zai Sai.The Mongol in front of me, his grandparents and fathers were all defeated by Li Jiaming's army. Although it was mainly Li Chengliang's military exploits during his lifetime, the Li family has dominated Liaodong for decades, and his prestige is still there. It is necessary to hang the word "ruthless" on the corners of the eyes and brows.

"Brother Zaisai, let's put it this way, you were able to beg for rewards in Kaiyuan Town, Daming, why did you enter the customs and go to Fushun?"

Begging for rewards was a rule during the Jiajing and Longqing periods. Khalkha Mongols came to Daming every year in the name of the mutual market to get property once a year, similar to the old coins in the Song and Liao Dynasties, but there were not so many.

Zai Sai curled his lips: "General Li, it's very simple. We got a lot of money in Fushun last year, so naturally we have to go this year."

Li Rubai said indifferently: "Are we asking the guards in Fushun to beg for a reward, or simply helping Nurhachi take Fushun?"

Zai Sai stared, and the color of participating in the research flashed in his eyes.

Among the five tribes of Khalkha, he is a proud and arrogant young man, and he actually disdains the other leaders for kneeling and licking Jianzhou Jurchen Nurhachi.

But disdain is disdain, and he is not going to have trouble with money. The old man in Jianzhou wrote a letter this year, asking Nuantu to bring 3000 people to Fushun to rob people and things together. Zai Sai cursed the old chief, but his body was still honest land is coming.

He just didn't expect that when he first arrived in Kaiyuan Town in the northwest of Fushun, the Ming army he met were not the old and weak guards, but the elite brought by the famous Li family.

Now, Li Rubai opened his mouth until the Mongols were going to assist Nurhachi, Zaisai was even more surprised.

On the side of the Ming Dynasty, could it be that they were already prepared?
"General Li, I don't know what you are talking about. We are going to Fushun to beg for a reward."

Zai Sai still refused to admit it with a sullen face. Anyway, the matter of begging for a reward has been recognized by the Ming Dynasty for many years, and both parties have no doubts.

Li Rubai said: "Okay, Brother Zai Sai said, we Da Ming still treat you as a friend. Your begging silver, the court has already folded it into cloth, salt, and tea, and ordered me to bring it. In addition, there are three hundred gold And some jewels. Brother Zays won't have to go through customs."

Zai Sai raised his eyebrows, and his eyes swept around the faces of several capable generals under his tent.Evidently, they were also trying to hide their surprise.

Zai Sai thought for a while, and asked Li Rubai pretending to be calm: "General Li, you just mentioned Nurhachi, that Jianzhou wolf, is there any movement?"

Li Rubai finally picked up the milk tea, took a big sip, and suddenly smiled: "There is a lot of movement, I don't know if I beat Fushun or not, but marrying a concubine is a certainty. That old man wants to marry Ye He's old daughter."

Zai Sai's complexion changed.

The old daughter of Yehe is the princess of the Jurchen of the Yehe tribe. She is nicknamed Dongge and is as beautiful as a fairy. Sai, but because of all kinds of hatred at the door, he still stays in Yehe's tribe.

"Impossible," Zaisai said, staring at Li Rubo, "Nurhachi has already split Dongge's father in half, how could Dongge agree to marry Nurhachi again!"

Li Rubai said indifferently: "If you want to agree, just kill Ye He's tribe and grab it. Brother Zaisai, in fact, you can also go and grab Dong Ge. Don't you also have a marriage contract with Dong Ge? However, Ben will persuade you You say, if you destroy the Yehe tribe, you will get rid of an opponent for Nurhachi. Similarly, if Nurhachi destroys the Yehe tribe and attacks my Ming Dynasty, you Khalkha Mongols will also lose the defense line in the east, and eventually become The Jianzhou Jurchens are fat sheep in the mouths of these hungry wolves."

Zai Sai's breath became heavy.What Li Chengliang's son said was correct.

Li Rubai drank his cup of milk tea in one gulp, put his hands on his knees, leaned forward slightly and said, "Brother Zaisai, I am here to give gifts, not to ignite your anger. The things are on the grassland outside the tent, and my warrior We will also spend a few days outside Xin'an Pass until May comes."

Of course Zai Sai understood what Li Rubai meant. This Ming army would not allow himself to appear around Fushun no matter what.

Zai Sai untied the dagger from his waist, leaned over and placed it on the felt blanket between the two of them, and said in a low voice, "General Li, as I said, our Warm Rabbit Department is here to beg for rewards. We got something. Why do we have to run for hundreds of miles. The grass is not fat here, and our good horses are all starved. Tomorrow, we will break out and go back to the west."

Li Rubai took Zai Sai's dagger with both hands, and said with a smile: "Brother Zai Sai is a smart person, and even more straightforward."

That night, Li Rubai was cleaning his long spear in the tent, and his personal soldiers poured him a bucket of hot water, and asked attentively: "Commander, after the Mongolian Tartars retreat westward, can we go back south?"

"Go back," Li Rubai said, "not to mention whether Zai Sai will go and come back again, the meaning of Zhang Shilang of the Ministry of War is very simple, let me lead people to block in Kaiyuan, in case Nurhachi also contacted several other Mongolians , go to Fushun."

The soldiers nodded again and again: "This subordinate is stupid."

Li Rubai sighed: "The imperial court still doesn't trust me, otherwise why would I be such a good soldier and couldn't go to guard Fushun? Could it be that if I slept with Nurhachi's niece, I became half a Tartar? Damn it."

The soldiers hurriedly stroked Mao: "Commander, blocking the Mongolian reinforcements in the north just shows that the court values ​​the commander. Our Li family has long been a general in Liaodong, and we don't care about fighting for the first place."

Li Rubai took off his boots, dipped his feet in the wooden barrel, and said with some self-mockery: "It's not enough to cut people's heads, but I think of me when I donate the salary. Zhang Quan, a civil servant who seems to be polite, asked me to give [-] gold to the Mongols." .”

The soldiers continued to appease: "The commander-in-chief must think so. If other civil servants come to Liaodong, the commander-in-chief will have to give them five or six hundred gold, so that they will not speak ill of our Li family in the capital Zhang Luo Yushi. And that Zhang Shilang, return the instrument gold that the commander gave, now it is like letting the commander use half of the instrument gold to pass the test safely, and you can exchange some military merits."

Hearing this, Li Rubai glanced at his soldier: "You're not stupid, kid."

He said again: "I think Zhang Shilang ordered me to use the matter of Ye He's old daughter to stimulate Zai Sai. It is a trick by someone around him. Otherwise, Zhang Quan, a military official in the capital, would know that Ye He's old daughter Dong Brother, those messy things? I asked my Jurchen woman, and she was like a silly roe deer, with ignorance written all over her face."

The soldier scratched his head: "That's right, it can't be General Mao, right? We have been in Liaodong for many years, and we don't know how the Jianzhou Tartars and Mongolian Tartars can fight like that for a woman?"

Li Rubo chirped: "That's all an excuse. Since ancient times, no man would go to war for a woman. What happened to Brother Dong just hit the Mongols and made them realize that Nurhachi is not a good stubble. However, Don’t underestimate the women. Before leaving Liaoyang, I saw that Miss Zheng who accompanied my Jurchen daughter-in-law to Hetuala came again, and Zhang Shilang watched the things and people she brought with her all day.”

(End of this chapter)