The Ming Dynasty began from Sarhu

Chapter 26 Let's go, I'll take you home

The dead have gone to sleep forever, and the living must continue to live.

Dongcheng Beile Jin Taiji and Xicheng Beile Buyanggu both came from Haixi.

Two brothers picked a big peach today.

This was the battle plan that Yang Hao came up with after arguing with the Yehe people in Shenyang for half a month.

The two beile should have appeared in Kuandian ten days ago, joined forces with Liu Jing, and marched towards Hetuala.

The Yehe people were slow to arrive and only showed up when the Eastern Army had exhausted its last drop of blood.

Liu Zhaosun had no hope for Yehe.

When Yan Song, Xu Jie and Zhang Juzheng were in power, they adopted a policy of control over the Mongolian Tatar and Jurchen tribes. The Ming Dynasty had the strength to do so at that time.

At the end of the Wanli period, the bigwigs in the court still wanted to use barbarians to control barbarians, but unfortunately times had changed and they ended up failing.

In a sense, the Yehe tribe is no longer qualified to be a pawn.

Because their restraining effect on Jianzhou is becoming smaller and smaller.

Yehe and Jianzhou fought for three years and lost for three years.

Buyanggu's father, Yehenara Buzhai, the most ferocious warrior of the Yehe tribe, was captured alive by the Later Jin and taken back to Hetuala.

Out of consideration for their relationship, Nurhaci personally chopped his body into two halves, kept one half as a souvenir, and sent the other half back to Yehe.

By the way, Nurhaci’s best skill was to defeat the enemy with fewer troops. It seemed that he couldn’t fight any other way.

After Sarhu, Nurhaci led a large army to besiege Ningyuan. His troops were larger than those of the Ming army, but he was defeated by Yuan Chonghuan.

The Yehe tribe hated the Later Jin Dynasty to the core and also feared it like a tiger.

The Ming Dynasty summoned the Yehe tribe to attack the Later Jin Dynasty. The Haixi Yehe tribe, like the Koreans, asked the Ming Dynasty for money, food, and equipment.

The two great beiles finally arrived in Liaoxi. When they heard that Du Song had been defeated, they immediately withdrew their troops and fled all the way back to Haixi.

Liu Zhaosun sent his servants to persuade Haixi Yehe repeatedly, and solemnly assured the two great beiles that the blue flag had been defeated by Master Liu.

The servants were so tired of talking that Buyanggu finally sent white-armored soldiers to Hunjiang to check the situation.

As a result, the white-armored soldiers witnessed the grand spectacle of the Ming army's night attack on the Bordered Blue Banner formation.

Seeing that the Ming army was so brave and the Bordered Blue Banner was vulnerable, the Yehe Beiles thought they could still take advantage of the situation.

So he summoned all the soldiers, gathered five or six thousand people, and marched secretly. It took only four days for them to suddenly appear in Hunjiang River.

After a day of fierce fighting, the Bordered Blue Banner, whose combat power was close to the limit, was suddenly attacked by this new force.

Amin was immediately panicked. He knew what would happen if he fell into Buyanggu's hands. He didn't even think of fighting back and ran away immediately.

Buyanggu led his troops in pursuit of the Bordered Blue Banner, killing hundreds of infantrymen behind them. When they reached the Dong'e Road camp, they saw a Plain Blue Banner with a golden dragon flag rising from the Hunjiang River in the distance.

Seeing that it was his old rival, the Zhenglan Banner, Buyanggu immediately retreated. The Zhenglan Banner and the Xianglan Banner joined forces and slowly retreated towards Hetuala.

After the Ming army cleared the battlefield, they captured 1,300 Zhenyi soldiers of the Bordered Blue Banner and more than 3,000 baoyi soldiers. More than 100 injured Zhenyi armored soldiers who could not escape were captured, and about half of them were chopped into meat paste on the spot by the angry Ming army.

The results of the negotiations between Kang Yingqian and the two Yehe beile were not ideal. The Yehe tribe demanded that the Ming army hand over half of the heads to them.

Buyanggu vowed to build a mausoleum for his father, filled with the heads of people from the Bordered Blue Banner, and place it in Haixi City to let the people of Yehe see what happened to Nurhaci's slaves.

Liu Zhaosun looked up at his belated allies with a gloomy expression. He spoke to them in Yehe language:

"Only ten thousand soldiers remain in the Eastern Route Army. With mountains of corpses and seas of blood, the only way to repay them is with the lives of the Jiannu people."

"The mountains and plains are full of ghosts. The dead are looking at me, asking me to avenge them. If you want to take my head, just chop me off and take my head!"

The dark mass of Ming troops surged in like a tide.

A halberd player with a broken leg struggled and limped to Liu Zhaosun, leaning on the halberd.

He staggered and raised the bloody halberd, protecting Liu Zhaosun in front of him, and looked at the Yehe Jurchens opposite like a wolf.

"Whoever dares to touch General Liu Qian, I will kill him! I am a Zhejiang soldier, I can kill people even if I only have one leg left!"

Jin Taiji, standing opposite, saw clearly that a bloody human ear was still hanging from the tines of the halberd. He gasped and took a few steps back.

Buyanggu was furious and refused to let go.

Jin Taiji said:

"According to Jurchen customs, we swear an oath before the Eternal Heaven: the head is yours, and the clothes are ours!"

Buyanggu's father Khan was chopped in half by Nurhaci. This was done by the Bordered Yellow Banner and had nothing to do with the Bordered Blue Banner. However, the only person Buyanggu could defeat was Amin, a killer, and he would not be able to defeat him the next time they met.

The Eastern Army fought for several days and had no chance of advancing to Hetuala.

Just as Liu Zhaosun said, those who are still alive are all counting on the head of the Jiannu.

People need to have dreams to survive.

The alliance between the Ming Dynasty and the Yehe tribe is not very reliable, or it has never been reliable.

Liu Zhaosun took a step forward, his tall and burly figure looking aggressive:

"Let's follow Jin Taiji Beile's idea and make an alliance! Swear an oath!"

Jin Taiji laughed loudly and bumped Liu Zhaosun's shoulder.

Buyanggu was speechless with resentment.

The Ming army was all around, their hands covered in blood, their weapons stained with blood. Some of them were holding the heads of Jiannu people, and at this moment they were looking coldly at Xicheng Beile.

Buyanggu had never seen such a look before. Under Jin Taiji's persuasion, he finally and reluctantly bumped into Liu Zhaosun's shoulder as a compromise.

As the sky grew darker, bonfires were lit in both camps.

The remaining Ming troops continued to garrison in the dilapidated Shajianzi Camp in accordance with the Qi Family Army's drill manual.

The Yehe tribe camped three miles to the northeast. Their camp was much simpler, with ox carts and horse carriages piled outside and the cavalrymen sleeping next to their war horses.

Liu Zhaosun led his servants on night patrols, and Jin Yinghe arranged secret sentries around the camp. The Korean archers had excellent eyesight and were very effective in guarding against night attacks.

Both sides were on guard against each other until dawn.

The next morning, the Ming army and the Yehe tribe formed a battle array against each other.

A golden umbrella was erected in the middle of the two armies.

Under the gaze of tens of thousands of people, Liu Zhaosun, along with Kang Yingqian, Jin Taiji, Buyanggu and four others, set out from their respective military formations and walked towards the umbrella cover at the same time.

After another fierce battle, which lasted for more than half an hour, the two sides finally decided on a plan to divide the heads:
Of the 1,300 Zhenyi heads, the Ming army took 1,000, and the remaining 300 were given to Yehe.

The Zhenyi captives were handed over to the Ming army, and the Baoyi captives were given to Yehe.

A wounded white horse was killed, and Yehe Beile broke four arrow shafts and stuck them into the ground.

The four men filled porcelain bowls with horse blood, knelt in front of the broken arrow, drank the horse blood, and swore an oath of blood.

After the alliance was concluded, Liu Zhaosun walked back to the main formation. Kang Yingqian was so excited that he couldn't help but say:
"General Liu Qian, after this battle, you will be promoted to garrison commander, or even lieutenant general! Your future is limitless!"

Liu Zhaosun looked at Kang Yingqian and said calmly:

"Thank you for your support, Lord Military Supervisor. All the people are dead. Even if you really said that I could become a guerrilla, I would have no soldiers under my command."

Kang Yingqian shook his head:

"What are you talking about? The Ming Dynasty has no shortage of soldiers. If you don't want to stay in Liaodong, I'll ask Prime Minister Fang to help you return to Nanchang. With the quota, there's no need to worry about a shortage of soldiers!"

Liu Zhaosun was a little surprised. From what Kang Yingqian said, he seemed to be willing to condescend to hang out with him.

Kang Yingqian saw Liu Zhaosun's expression and said with a smile:
"Liu Qian, the Japanese officers have observed that you are an extraordinary person in commanding troops and doing things these days. Of the four armies, three were defeated, and only we escaped unscathed. This officer has observed that this is all your credit. This officer believes that you have the talent of a great general! At the very least, you should be made a general!"

"To be honest, I originally wanted to stay in Liaozhen, but now it seems that Liaodong is not a place to stay for long. It would be better to return to Jiangxi. You and I can support each other."

"Thank you, General Kang, for your appreciation. Let's take the soldiers back to Shenyang first!"

Liu Zhaosun had no interest in listening to Kang Yinggan's rambling on about these confusing things.

The Jurchens changed their attitude faster than turning the pages of a book. He had no illusions about the Yehe tribe and wanted to leave here as soon as possible.

At noon that day, the Ming army borrowed 500 shi of grain and fodder from the Yehe tribe. Kang Yingqian vowed that he would return it to Haixi upon returning to Shenyang.

The Yehe tribe said that there was not enough food and grass.

Liu Zhaosun discussed with the two military supervisors and decided to buy it with silver.

After much difficulty in collecting 1,000 taels of silver, the Yehe people took the silver, left behind dozens of bags of food and fodder, and returned with the captives.

Liu Zhaosun clenched his fists and looked at the back of the Yehe man as he walked away.

"The Zhenglan Banner may attack back at any time. Manggurtai is not as easy to deal with as Amin. We can't stay here for long. Take the heads and prisoners and leave quickly!"

He looked at the tragic battlefield in front of him, looked at the soldiers' eyes full of expectation, and was overwhelmed with emotions. He shouted:
"Come on, I'll take you home!"

(End of this chapter)