Daming Yinghua

Chapter 397: There are times when Jiannu will triumph

After leaving Yizhou, North Korea, and walking north to Hetuala for four or five days, Yue Tuo and Mu Zaohua's team arrived at Kuandian, which was actually controlled by the Jurchens in Jianzhou. One of the defenders, Jia La Ezhen, excitedly Come report.

"Master, we are about to take down Goose Feather City!"

Yue Tuo's eyes were filled with joy.

Emao City is located southeast of Qinghe and northeast of Aiyang, less than a hundred miles away from Niu Mao Village, which was occupied by Hou Jin. It was originally one of the first guard posts set up by the Ming Army in Liaodong Dusi.

The scale of Efeu City is not as large as Crow Falcon Pass, but it can also be regarded as the key point of Qinghe and Aiyang, and it can be regarded as a military strategic point.

If it is really successful, this will be the first time in four years since the Jin army defeated Fushun in the last year of Wanli that they have captured an important fortress of the Ming Dynasty. It will definitely boost the morale of the people of Jianzhou than conquering the Ye He tribe.

Mu Zaohua showed the same surprise before Yue Tuo glanced at her: "Let me just say, Dege is good!"

But my heart was really filled with worry.

This time she went to Yiju to look for North Korean merchants. Not long after traveling south, she saw the army of Mang Gurtai's younger brother, Xiao Beile Dege of Zhenglan Banner.

Nurhachi showed obvious signs of physical aging, but his mind still maintained the level of a seasoned military strategist. He summed up the lessons of Fushun's collapse, and was not so quick to trust the surrendered Ye He tribe, so he would not rush directly to Kaiyuan and Tieling in the north at the beginning of spring, but would first pull out the Ming army fortress in the south. Drop a few to prevent Mao Wenlong's troops from Dongjiang from Zhenjiang, passing through Fenghuang City and Aiyang, quickly advancing northward when he led his troops to attack Kai and Tie in early autumn, thereby attacking Houjin's home base of Hetuala.

When Mu Zaohua was in Yizhou, she told Xu San through A Xue that after Zou Chuxian, the original Qinghe guard general, was promoted to Fushun general because of his military merit, the guerrilla Zhang Pei who guarded Qinghe Fort was also a ruthless character in the eyes of the Tatars. . But in the first month of this year, news of Zhang Pei's death reached Hetuala.

Even Mu Zaohua and Xu San estimated that the military defense around Qinghe would become weaker before the new guard took office, but they did not expect that before the spring was completely over, the Tatars would be able to take a bite out of them. A city with a garrison base and a lot of troops.

Moreover, on the Tatar side, the troops were led by the young and young Belle, Degerei, who had been captured alive by the Sichuan army in Luanhe River.

As a member of the Zhenglan Banner, Mu Zaohua felt proud when she heard this news.

Jia La Ezhen, who was opposite, was an old Jianzhou man. He understood that Yue Tuo, the leader of the banner with red flags, was close to Zheng Bai Qi and Yuan Zheng Lan Qi. He hurriedly said to Yue Tuo: "Master, Zheng Lan Qi arrived in Efeu City not long ago. , the people with the white flag are also here.”

Yue Tuo said "Oh", which was not too surprising.

How could the Great Khan not know the importance of morality? He must send more manpower.

Attacking a stronghold is different from grabbing things in ordinary times. Nurhaci likes to let Niu Lu under different banners attack the same military fortress to stimulate their bravery in competing for military glory.

"Who did Uncle Huang Taiji send to lead the troops?"

Najia La'ezhen said: "It's Maodu...oh, it's a kid as cruel as a calf, his name is Obai."

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Outside Goose Feather City.

Yue Tuo stood on the grassy slope stained with new and old bloodstains, looking at the young general in front of him.

The young general was also a brave general, and he repelled several reinforcements from the Ming army.

"Obai, why haven't I seen you next to Uncle Huang Taiji?" Yue Tuan asked.

"Back to the master, my slave's Ama has been supervising the coats at Huerha. He just returned to Hetuala with his slave in the twelfth month of last year. The Great Khan allowed us to enter the Zhengbai Banner."

"Hu'er?" Mu Zaohua interrupted, "Where is that?"

Oboi, who was only eighteen years old, looked at the woman in front of him who was not much older than him. He saw that she had only one piercing in her ear, and her Jurchen accent was strange. He must have told him that her father was talking to the Tong family. Women also submit to the Han people.

Isn't that from Zhenglanqi? How could he come to the battlefield side by side with Yue Tuo and still dare to interrupt so carelessly.

Yue Tuo explained in a plain tone: "Hu'erha is a tribe of wild Jurchens over the Blackwater. Ten years ago, the Great Khan personally conquered and pacified several places."

Then he turned to Obai and said, "I heard that reinforcements came from Crow Falcon Pass and Aiyang?"

Ao Bai was young and energetic, eager to show his merits, and raised his voice: "Master, there were three troops here, but I don't know whether they were stupid or not united. They didn't send troops together. There was a difference of more than ten days, and they were all defeated by slaves." We were beaten back. The defenders in Goose Fei City didn’t dare to come out.”

"Good!" Yue Tuan praised, "Uncle is indeed right. Guard cities like the Ming Army should be surrounded and reinforced."

Yue Tuo gestured like a hunter commenting on hunting skills.

Mu Zaohua could already understand the very complicated Jurchen dialect. She memorized the Obai in front of her, and even the siege tactics advocated by Huang Taiji.

Mrs. Zheng said that she should report back as much as possible the military deployment and personnel changes of the Tatars, especially keeping an eye on Huang Taiji of the Zhengbai Banner, to find out the way the flag owner likes to send troops, and to find out which little people he has gathered under his account. How is Baelor and his new generals going, as well as the open and covert struggles with several other banner owners?

During the conversation, noises came from the direction of the city gate ahead, mixed with the cheering howls of the Jurchens and the pitiful wails of the Han people.

Oboi said excitedly: "Master Derge has broken the city!" Yue Tuo got on his horse and led everyone to rush down the grass slope.

Degelei, who was covered in silver armor, received the news from the messenger and also rushed his horse to meet him.

Yue Tuo's status as flag master was higher than that of Dege Lei, but in terms of blood lineage, Dege Lei was the same generation as Huang Taiji and was his uncle.

Yue Tuo took the lead on horseback and clasped his fists, saying loudly: "Congratulations to Uncle Dege for your great achievements!"

Dege pointed his horsewhip at Obai and said, "His contribution is not small. It's the Eighth Brother who knows how to recruit people and how to use soldiers."

"Bago" refers to "Huang Taiji".

Ao Bai dismounted his horse knowingly and saluted De Ge Lei.

After returning to Hetuala with his father last year, Ao Bai listened to the gossips of Jianzhou nobles. The two brothers Mang Gurtai and Dege Lei were at odds due to the mysterious death of their mother. De Ge Lei was hostile to Huang Taiji and Yue Tuo. They are far less hostile to them than Mang Gurtai.

This time when the coalition forces attacked Goose City, Obai really didn't feel that Derge was stumbling upon his Zhengbai Banner troops.

Dege's eyes became suspicious when he saw Mu Zaohua running towards her.

"I met Yue Beile in Yizhou," Mu Zaohua said simply, then changed her tone of advice to Degelei and Yue Tuo, "Two masters, it would be a pity to kill the people in the city. It’s better to take them back to the north and distribute them to various banners for wrapping.”

Obai sneered and pointed forward: "If we don't kill those Nikans, those Nikans will already start to eat their own people."

Everyone looked around and saw many Han people, staggering and looking like skeletons, pouring out of the wide-open city gate.

Some went to examine the corpses of Ming soldiers, hoping to find dry food from the corpses.

Some were exhausted even after running a few steps, and fell to the ground. They stretched out their hands to grab the weeds, mixed them with soil and stuffed them into their mouths, as if it was their last hope to survive.

Some even pounced on the Ming soldiers who had thrown down their weapons and surrendered to the Jurchens, intending to bite them.

Jin Bing cursed and pulled forward, but he couldn't pull it away.

Obai laughed loudly and said: "I didn't expect that a person who is about to starve to death can be so strong. Well, these wrappers are good, they will definitely be able to work."

Yue Tuo frowned almost invisible and asked Degerei: "How long has the siege lasted?"

Dege said: "One and a half months. As Ama expected, the guard of Qinghe died of illness. There was a commotion down there, and the spring grain was not shipped. We interrogated a prisoner before and said that there was no grain in the city. The garrison of Goose Feather City, It was very hard and refused to surrender. It was able to hold on for so long. It even came out to beat us on horseback several times. It must have killed people in the city. "

Oboi echoed: "My slave also caught a deserter. He said he was a good friend of his. He was cut into several pieces and roasted. Masters, look, the men of the Ming Dynasty are really cowards. They can't be beaten again and again, and they still hold their necks." It’s really exciting to surrender to us and eat your own woman.”

When Mu Zaohua heard this, she cursed in her heart: Little beasts, if you Tatars hadn't attacked the city, how could they have died!

She clenched the reins in her hands tightly and tried very hard to hold back her anger. She only maintained a faint look of pity on her face and said in a quiet voice: "Women always suffer."

Yue Tuo glanced at her and said in a deep voice to Degeren: "If you still have extra dry food, give some to those naughty people to save their lives. Miss Zaohua is right, they are all men. Kill them or starve to death." What a pity. The prisoners who surrendered to the Ming army were also taken to Hetuala."

Dege ordered his men to do it.

Several people rode into the city, only to feel the smell of rotting corpses and feces hitting their faces, which was far more disgusting than the bloody smell of the battlefield.

Efeu City is not big, but many military towns in Liaodong are also transit stations for merchants. Therefore, the shops, inns and private houses in the city are mixed. At this time, they are all crowded with golden soldiers, who are rummaging through boxes and cabinets, looting valuable things, and digging out The clothes are put on directly one by one.

Of course Degerei would not stop his subordinates from doing this, but he suddenly remembered the way Yue Tuan had observed Mu Zaohua just now, and his heart moved. He turned around and ordered the white-armored soldiers following him: "Send the order, you can take things, but they are not allowed here. Ruining women.”

When everyone walked to the military office, they saw that the stone street in front of the door was also noisy.

But it was not the Jin soldiers who were looting property, but the Han people in Ming Dynasty clothes who formed a circle and threw stones into the circle.

Dege's soldiers quickly stepped forward, shouted and drove everyone away.

I saw three bloody corpses lying on the ground, one of them with a bandage on his arm.

"Master, it's the commander of Goose Feather City and his two servants. Those Nikans said that it was the commander who persuaded the guards not to surrender, which was why so many people starved to death in the city. Now that the defenders died in the battle, they took the commander. Take it out."

As soon as the soldier finished speaking, a man in his early twenties ran over not far away, angrily yelling: "Are you still human? General Xu killed his own horse and gave it to you to eat, otherwise he would be considered injured. You can also run out."

The man ran over and knelt down. He was sure that Mr. Xu had lost his breath, and his eyes were about to burst. He stood up and glanced around, then rushed towards the compatriot who was still holding the blood-stained stone in his hand, and raised his fist.

After smashing him to death, all the people in the city immediately gathered around him and said, "I'll beat you to death, you stinking nerd. You've always been loyal and righteous. Why don't you kill a few Tatars?"

Dege waved his hand, and the soldiers hurriedly came up and pulled him away.

"Bring this person here." Yue Tuo called on his horse.