I, the Ming Dynasty, can still save me

Chapter 465 Undercover among the prisoners

Jiefan City.

The sound of the night watch echoed in the city from time to time, seeming to tell people that it was now night.

But inside Li Yongfang's mansion, there was no sign that the night was getting dark. Instead, the lights were brightly lit and people were bustling, making it very lively.

In the main hall, Huang Taiji, Yue Tuo, Li Yongfang and others were toasting and drinking and having fun.

More than ten of his subordinates were also sitting on both sides, watching the performance of the gorgeous dancer in the center attentively, while drinking and eating meat and enjoying it.

This kind of scene is the best opportunity to close the relationship between superiors and subordinates, because drinking makes everyone let down their guard and can also make people speak the truth.Therefore, when Huang Taiji and others were drinking and having fun, the people below were naturally not easy to hold on to, and they also started to echo the words.

However, there was one person present who was incompatible with this. He only drank a little of the wine in the glass in front of him, but the dishes did not move at all, and his face showed a look of slight impatience and pain.

"Yue entrusted Baylor, my servant is feeling unwell and wants to leave first. Please forgive me Baylor."

Zhang Anning's face was sallow, cold sweat broke out on his head, and he looked weak.

Yue Tuo was already used to this, and he sighed slightly when he saw this. He was about to reply, but at this moment Li Yongfang who was standing beside him spoke first.

"It's been cold recently. Could it be that you've contracted the cold? Why don't you go to my house to rest first, and I'll send someone to give you a good look at it."

Zhang Anning shook his head when he heard this, weakly bowed to Li Yongfang and thanked:

"Thank you for your concern. This is the root cause of my illness when I fled to Daikin. As soon as winter comes, I feel a dull pain and my body feels very uncomfortable. So Mr. Beile asked someone to check it out for me and left me a pair of medicine. I usually Just eat it.

It's a pity that I didn't bring it with me this time. I kept it in the camp. I thought it would be better to go back and eat and rest first. Otherwise, it would be bad for Baylor's men to be spoiled by such a bitter look. "

"That's okay. I'll send someone to get it now. You can go to the side room to rest first."

Unexpectedly, when Li Yongfang heard this, he immediately waved his hands, thinking of telling Zhang Anning not to leave yet and wait until then, but Zhang Anning shook his head, obviously not agreeing very much.

"Forget it. It's troublesome to send people back and forth. It's better for me to go back directly. This way, I can eat and rest directly without waiting."

Li Yongfang was about to say something to stop him, but Yue Tuanbeile valued Zhang Anning very much and didn't want him to suffer more, so he nodded immediately and said:

"Zhang Anning is right, let him go back and take the medicine and rest directly."

Seeing what Yue Tuo said, Li Yongfang had no way to stop him, but he was a landlord after all, and he had to fulfill his duty as a landlord no matter what at this time.

"Chen Liangce!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Liangce walked out of the corner. Unlike others, he didn't smell of alcohol.

"Zhang Anning is not feeling well, so you will escort her back to the camp to rest. I won't be going back today. You will be stationed at the camp tonight so you don't have to come back."

Li Yongfang had long been dissatisfied with Chen Liangce. He had messed up today's test shoot for himself, and it was only thanks to the large number of Sir Si Baylor that he was able to escape the disaster.

And when everyone was drinking and having fun just now, he was hiding in a corner drinking alone. He was so unsocial, so he might as well take this opportunity to send him back early, out of sight and out of mind.

Chen Liangce didn't seem to want to stay here anymore. He didn't object at all. He immediately bowed his head silently and said:

"I understand my humble position, please rest assured, my consort."

Yue Tuo was not at ease when he saw this, so he gave Zhang Anning a few instructions before letting him leave.

The two of them led their guards out of the mansion, immediately mounted their horses and left the city. A bright moon hung in the sky, covering the earth with silver and making the originally dark night a little brighter.

Chen Liangce and the others walked slowly on the avenue. The guard behind him naturally knew that his master had something to say, so he wisely kept a distance between them to give them space to talk.

"It seems that Lord Baylor is very satisfied with the Han army this time."

Zhang Anning no longer looked as weak as before, but asked Chen Liangce with interest, as if the two were old acquaintances.

Chen Liangce is not as withdrawn as before, and seems to be in a much better mood when he is with Zhang Anning.

"Haha, it should be no problem. This artillery battalion was raised by Huang Taiji after a lot of hard work, and my test firing today was quite successful. It's just that in order to please Si Baylor, Li Yongfang forced many test fires, which resulted in a The Menfranc cannon exploded, which almost ruined my good deeds."

After finally passing Huang Taiji's inspection today, Chen Liangce felt much better and nodded slowly after hearing this.

Li Yongfang's intention to please Huang Taiji was Sima Zhao's, and everyone on the street knew it. Zhang Anning was not surprised by this.

"Alas, everyone is protecting themselves now. You must know that Li Yongfang has always been indifferent to the wooing of the major Baylors. But now he deliberately makes friends with Huang Taiji, which shows that life is difficult for us Han people. Li Yongfang will not embrace the thighs of the four Baylors. , there will definitely be a lot of trouble in the future.”

Listening to Zhang Anning's words about the Han people's troubles, Chen Liangce sighed slightly.

Then I glanced at the roadside and saw a snow-covered corpse beside the road. Under the moonlight, it looked strange and desolate.

He knew about this corpse. The last time he passed by here to go to Jiefan City for business, he saw an old woman begging here in thin clothes. Now it seems that she cannot bear it through this winter.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel depressed. This phenomenon is becoming more and more common now, and the reason is not all natural disasters, but man-made disasters.

Seeing Chen Liangce's expression, Zhang Anning was expressionless. He had seen so much of this kind of suffering that he was numb.He then glanced briefly at the personal guards far behind him and asked softly:

"How is the communication with the generals in the Han army going?"

"The entire Han army dare not say, but there should be no problem with more than a thousand people in the artillery battalion. Many of these people are my former troops, and some of them were secretly selected by me. Most of them are dissatisfied with Jianlu and have control over them. It’s easy to get up too.”

When Chen Liangce heard this, he recovered from his emotion and reported it truthfully.He was originally an insider of the Liaodong Jurchens, but because of his important status, few people in the Liaodong Dusi knew about him. It was not until Zhang Anning came to Jianlu that they secretly contacted him. Now Zhang Anning's status has skyrocketed, and they have nothing to lose. Wu cooperated with each other within Jianlu, and the effect was very good.

"That's good. Originally, we didn't have the opportunity to control the troops and horses. It was thanks to the imperial court that the previous Han army was wiped out, so that you had the opportunity to control the artillery battalion.

Besides, the Han soldiers have been bullied by the Eight Banners, and they have long been dissatisfied with them. If you can secretly contact them in the army, you can definitely catch Jianlu by surprise if you launch a counter-attack. "

Although what Zhang Anning said was reasonable, Chen Liangce was still a little embarrassed.

"Having said that, it is still a bit difficult to win over other generals of the Han army. This time it is Li Yongfang who is in charge of the army. After he defected to Jianlu, he married Abatai's daughter. He has a distinguished status and was previously shelved by Nurhaci. , is not reused.

This time, if Nurhaci had not won over the Han people in order to form a firearms unit, he would never have come out to take charge of the army.Therefore, Li Yongfang took a fancy to this opportunity. Most of the generals in the army were his cronies. It would still be very troublesome to instigate rebellion. "

Zhang Anning shook his head indifferently after hearing this. He would have thought so last year.

But this year, Jianlu's internal and external situation is very different from before.It is also much easier to instigate Han generals to rebel than before.

"So what if they are Li Yongfang's cronies? Do the Jurchens treat them differently just because they are Li Yongfang's cronies? Have you forgotten what happened at the beginning of this year?"

In March and April of this year, Nurhachi ordered the raiding of food from Han soldiers and civilian households in order to accumulate food, which caused dissatisfaction among many people.But even in this situation, Li Yongfang did not dare to show any slightness. Instead, he persuaded his subordinates to hand over the food.

Zhang Anning felt a little angry as he spoke, then took a deep breath and continued:
"In the past, the old slave would still show off and treat us very favorably, giving us money, food and exemption from taxes. But now it seems that everything is fake. The life of us Han people in Jianlu is really worse than pigs and dogs." .

Not to mention the hatred and insults that the Jurchens, Mongols and others treated us because of their defeat, we cannot resist at all.It is said that in order to plunder food and grass, the old slave first cut the Han army's food and salary, and finally forcibly robbed the Han people's rations, causing many families to be destroyed and displaced, and starved to death on the streets. Li Yongfang could bear such hatred, but the people below may not necessarily Can bear it. "

The more Zhang Anning spoke, the more he gritted his teeth, as if he had seen how his family had been massacred by the Jianruids before, and he felt more and more resentful.

Isn't this the case with Chen Liangce? He is one of the hundreds of people who follow the Tieling Guards.

After Li Yongfang surrendered, he originally thought of settling down as soon as he came and focused on doing things.However, after the Jianlu captured Puhe and Fushun, they massacred the Han people and treated the people like cattle and sheep. They killed and plundered wealth at will, which deeply stimulated Chen Liangce, and he also wanted to seek refuge with the imperial court.

"What you said makes sense. There are many people in the Han army who are dissatisfied with the Jurchen practices. They can join the army just to find a way to survive. I will try more and win over as many people as possible. But having said that, when will the imperial court attack? It’s better to prepare early.”

Hearing that Chen Liangce couldn't hold it any longer, Zhang Anning shook his head and comforted:

"The imperial court has its own plans for major events, and we just have to wait for the news. But I don't want to wait for the imperial court to take action, and Jianlu can't wait any longer. Now the old slave has given orders for Yue Tuo to step up training of soldiers. And he also asked People secretly asked for information from Liaodong to understand the movements of the imperial troops, and it is estimated that troops will be used soon."

Chen Liangce also received relevant orders recently. Hearing this, he even counted the days in his mind. After a while, he slowly said:

"Look, if we use troops, it must be before March."

It is freezing cold in Liaodong. In addition, the weather is now colder than before, and the winter is longer than before.

So after March, the black soil that has been frozen for a winter will melt, and the roads will be muddy by then.It was difficult for people to walk, let alone transporting baggage and food. It was also very difficult to fight, so the attack had to be done before March.

"You are right, but with the lessons learned from last year's New Year's Eve, Nurhaci will definitely not dare to make any plans to surprise Shenyang this time. If he sends troops, he should think twice about it. Governor Xiong knows Jianlu very well, and he will probably think of it. It’s time for Jianlu to attack.”

Chen Liangce nodded slowly when he heard this. What Zhang Anning said made sense. The frozen soil thawed in March and the roads would be muddy after that.Xiong Tingbi would naturally think of this kind of thing, so he would prepare in advance. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel refreshed.

"As far as I know, the current food and grass can last until March and April at most. If Nurhachi cannot open up the situation in March and April, there will definitely be problems within Jianlu."

As soon as these words came out, Zhang Anning was both happy and sad.

"Well, Jianlu is a powder keg inside. If we can't win externally, Nurhachi will definitely attack internally, and then we Han people will be in trouble."

The energy that Chen Liangce had just raised was instantly knocked back by Zhang Anning's words.

How could he not know about this kind of thing, but he was just a little guerrilla and couldn't do anything now.Thinking of this, he immediately felt powerless, looked at the bright moon above his head, and sighed.

"Well, let's do our best first. The rest will be decided one step at a time."

The more they talked, the more frustrated they became. The initiative in the war did not lie with them, but with the court and Xiong Tingbi.

All they can do is pass on information, secretly accumulate strength, and wait for the imperial army to attack, and then it will be effective. At other times, it will have no effect.

Thinking of this, they stopped talking, waved their whips, quickened their pace, and quickly headed towards the Jiefan camp——
No one knows about the conversation between Zhang Anning and Chen Liangce.

But the next day, Huang Taiji and Yue Tuan, who were sober, were woken up early in the morning. They didn't know what news they received, and they rushed to Sarhu City immediately.

Li Yongfang was also puzzled when he saw this, not knowing what happened.

But it wasn't until the news came in the afternoon that Kankan knew the reason. It turned out that someone from Neikarkha was coming, and he also brought bad news.

It is said that Lin Dan Khan has ordered Hongling Taiji, a member of the left-wing family of ten thousand households, to go to the Ongjit Tribe and ennoble Arzhai as the leader of the Ongjit Tribe, replacing the dead Zasai.

Li Yongfang was shocked when he heard this. He never expected that Arzhai, who did not have the blood of the Golden Family, could actually lead the Wengjishit tribe. He really didn't know what benefits Arzhai had promised Lin Dan Khan.

Not only Aerzhai, but also Huang Taiji, Daishan, Mang Gurtai and others were also very puzzled.

"Father Khan, I have long heard that Lin Dan Khan is greedy. This time he actually appointed Arzhai to take charge of the Ongjishit tribe. In this way, Arzhai may completely fall to Chahar."

Daishan was most puzzled about the reason. He understood the impact of this matter on Daikin.

Lin Danhan received the Ming Dynasty's silver reward every year, so he had nothing to do with them.Now that A'erzhai has been enshrined, he can be encouraged to attack Inner Khalkha, and then invade Kaiyuan Tieling and other places, leaving them exhausted.

"It's not that it's going to Chahar, it's going to be the Ming Dynasty."

(End of this chapter)