When Cao Yu finally sent troops from Kaiyuan, bad news came: Ye Hedong, the West Twin City had recently lost its west city, and now only the east city is still struggling to support itself.
However, Bu Zhai, the son of Baylor of Qingjia Ni in the West City, acted extremely decisive this time. Before breaking out, he burned all the supplies in the East City that could not be taken away. This even included a lot of bean cakes.
, hay and the like, and shouted the slogan: "Ye He will not leave a straw for the Tumen even if he dies!"
Since Yehe itself was the tribe with the largest number of cavalry among the Jurchens, although the Buzhai could not defeat the Tumen, they still managed to break out of the encirclement. They also joined forces with Belena Linbululi in the east city to temporarily break the siege in the west city and successfully entered the east city to defend it.
However, although the personnel losses were not large, Ye He counted the number of troops in the east city and found that the loss was only more than 400 people. However, when the west city was lost, many of Ye He's tribesmen in the west city were blocked and could not break out. Now almost all of them have been plotted.
They took control.
The Jurchens have always been underpopulated. Even though the Yehe tribe gathered many Jurchens who defected from Hada in the last years of Wan Khan, there are only more than 20,000 people in Xicheng, certainly less than 30,000. Although many of them are not
They live in the walled city, but even so, I am afraid that at least 10,000 people were lost this time.
If the Tumen at this time were still like the Mongols more than 200 years ago, who attacked a city that dared to resist and massacred it directly after victory, then Ye He would probably be close to collapse this time.
Fortunately, the Mongolia of today is not the Mongolia of the past. The momentum of conquering everything has long since disappeared. Whether the Mongols send troops or retreat, they all consider whether it is cost-effective or not.
Killing the Jurchens in Xicheng will not bring much benefit to the Tumen, and keeping them will not cause any more losses to the Tumen - don't expect the Tumen to feed and drink them like ordinary prisoners.
, the Great Khan of Tumen did not have that kind of kindness, and even if he did, it would not be towards them.
Even if Buzhaibeile burns all the reserves in Xicheng, he can only burn what belongs to him, or in other words, what belongs to him as the leader. He does not dare to burn civilian supplies.
In this way, by retaining this population, the Tumen can not only get a certain amount of supplements, but also allow each household to send one person out to find food or do other work. In short, it is a business without capital. As for whether there will be any problems in the process.
Tumen Khan would obviously not consider losing part of it.
In any case, Tumen at least gained a walled city and achieved a victory, which put an end to their bad luck in the past few years. It was enough to boost morale and lay the foundation for the subsequent attack on Dongcheng.
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The Ming army's 20,000-strong army set out from Zhenbeiguan in an arrogant manner. Instead of following the former Nurgandusi Post Road, they chose to go straight up the Kou River to Guangtuzi Mountain. The two eastern and western cities of Yehe were near this mountain.
In terms of water system, the Kou River cannot be directly connected to the Liao River or the Hun River, so Jinghua's gunboats will definitely not be able to help. In fact, winter has already entered early in Liaodong, and even if it is connected, it will be inconvenient to dispatch. Who knows what day it will be
Is it frozen? It has become colder and colder in recent years, and even the ice age is not so accurate. So this time, the Ming army could only go up the river, but they could not count on help from the water.
Originally, Gao Yuan's pragmatic order was to tell them not to rush into the march, but to fight slowly and steadily. However, because Ye He was already in danger, messengers calling for help came to the army one after another. Cao Yan was also a little worried about what would happen if Ye He collapsed completely.
The trade between the North and South Passes was completely over. After much deliberation, I had to summon the generals to hold an impromptu meeting.
In fact, summoning the generals was not Cao Yu's main purpose. His original intention was to prop up the situation and then ask Gao Yimin to make this judgment-whether the army could move faster.
Of course, Cao Yu is already a direct general of Gao Pragmatic. Not to mention Ma Chengxun, Zhang Wanbang, etc. who are going to fight this time, they have been with the Gao family for a long time. But Cao Yu is not as good as Meng Gebulu and Gao Yimin.
In his opinion, he was like a supervisor sent by the emperor to the army, except this time the person who sent him was not the emperor.
The temporary meeting was held, and what Cao Yu didn't expect was that before he could ask Gao Yimin, who rushed over in a hurry, Gao Yimin took out a letter first and said to Cao Yu: "Cao Zongrong, a letter from Nurhaci."
Cao Yu was refreshed. As he took the letter, he asked, "What did he say?"
Gao Yimin raised his chest slightly: "As expected, Nurhaci fully accepted the mediation, and also expressed his willingness to send a small chieftain, his younger brother Shuerhaqi, to lead an army to help. The reinforcements are currently about fifty miles away and are galloping."
Cao Yu may have suffered from ambush phobia after the defeat at Chang'an Fort. Hearing this, he was shocked at first: "I haven't agreed yet, but he even sent troops and horses? How many troops are there?"
Gao Yimin shook his head and said: "There are not many people, just five hundred people."
When he heard that there were only five hundred, Cao Yu felt relieved and said with relief: "The chieftain is vulgar after all. How can such a big thing be carried out without an order? Fortunately, there are only five hundred, otherwise... hum."
Surprisingly, except for Cao Yu, the other generals had a good impression of Nurhaci. They all said that Jianzhou was quite respectful, and it was even more rare to send their only biological brother.
After Cao Yu stopped worrying about being ambushed, his thinking became clearer. After thinking about it, he actually acknowledged Nurhachi's submission.
The key to being respectful is to look at who is right. Wan Khan of the Hada tribe was very respectful to the Ming Dynasty, but this does not mean that other Jurchen tribes think that Wan Khan is a good person.
The same goes for Nurhachi. Although he was not merciless at all when he attacked Nikan Wailan, and he dared to take advantage of the situation this time, it was nothing in the eyes of the generals of the Ming Dynasty: What does this have to do with my Ming Dynasty?
In their opinion, Nurhaci's subservience was due to the fact that Gao Situ sent a letter and he hurriedly withdrew from Fushun Pass without looking back. He even ignored Nikan Wailan, the enemy who killed his father and ancestors.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! This is called submission! As for whether you are naturally respectful or submissive out of fear, what does it matter? It doesn’t matter.
In the eyes of the generals of the Ming Dynasty, fear is also a good mentality. What's more, our Ming Dynasty is a hundred times more powerful than him. He can only maintain this kind of fear and this kind of obedience forever. In this case, it doesn't matter where his obedience comes from.
What to do.
Last time I mentioned that in the original history, Nurhaci was the first to express his loyalty in the 16th year of Wanli. In fact, he showed his loyalty for a long time. For example, in the 17th year of Wanli, Nurhaci killed the invaders from the border and sent them into captivity.
Cheng Xun, Li Zaiting and others then asked Nurhaci to be appointed governor.
"Cheng Xun participated in the political affairs of Kaiyuan, and Li Zai, who participated in the political affairs of Liaohai, controlled the government in Tinghe, saying that the commander of Jianzhou was so-and-so, and he led twenty edicts. His ancestor and father led the suppression of Wang Gao and died. Now so-and-so has repeatedly
Returning the Han population and conquering 50 people were meritorious. It was appropriate to be promoted to the governor and control the east. In September, Zhang Guoyan, the governor's assistant, heard about it and reported it." - The whole story was recorded in Gu Yangqian's memorial at that time.
In addition, there are also: "Menggu Boluo (ie Meng Gebulu) did not learn well last year and wanted to punish you as General Longhu. He has repented recently and allowed you to pay tribute. Now the traitor has fled to various places. He has not failed.
Guo is in Jianzhou. If you can capture and kidnap him, you will be more loyal and obedient. He is still General Longhu and will treat you more generously. If Nuerhachi is captured and released, you will see that the slave chief has something to do. He will ask the slave chief to be promoted to governor.
, still add General Longhu."
At this time, Ke Fifty had fled to Jianzhou, and the Liaodong side had already known it. Menggebulu could only capture Dong Ge, Gaodu, and Kua'erda, and sent his troops to attack Nuer at that time.
Hachi asked for it.
Faced with such an opportunity to make meritorious deeds, Nurhachi certainly would not give it up to Meng Gebulu. He claimed that Ke Shifu had been killed, and the coroner sent by Liaodong happened to be General Secretary Dong Guoyun. Borrowing from the words of General Secretary Tong Weidong, Nurhaci recounted
Nurha Chizu, the work of his father.
"According to the general officer Tong Weidong and others, Nu'er Hachi is the grandson of Jingchang and the son of Ta She. All of them were loyal and obedient to Jing Chang and Ta Shi in previous years. They contributed to China and led Wangtai to capture and send Wang Gao away."
Ma Sanfei came to beg for rewards with a paper with Chinese characters. Dong Guoyun, Tong Weidong and Ma Sanfei, these generals were connected with each other. Naturally, we can understand the later behavior of Dong Guoyun and Tong Weidong to join Hou Jin.
In fact, these generals and the Liaodong border generals Cheng Xun and Li Zaiting were just front-end players, while Li Chengliang, Gu Yangqian and others were the behind-the-scenes planners. This also illustrates the Ming Dynasty's attitude.
"In the past, your ancestors and your father were both loyal and obedient to the barbarians. In recent years, you have also learned well and Fu Zhen Ertang, so you are allowed to receive the reward from Rugong City." The Fu Zhen Ertang here is the governor Gu Yangqian, and the town is the commander-in-chief Li Chengliang. Finally,
Gu and Li obtained the title of Commander-in-Chief for Nurhachi and supported him to become the Jurchen co-leader. "Fuqi ordered the Ministry of War to examine the case and decide to upgrade Nurhachi to the title of Commander-in-Chief, and then gave it an imperial order to control Dongyi and do it for us.
The fence is the key point of the Eastern Frontier."
In the 23rd year of Wanli, the Ming Dynasty had already started a war with Japan in Korea, and had little thought to deal with Nurhaci. So Nurhaci, who had grown in strength, further "had to add General Longhu to command the king's throne. He also paid tribute to Yizi next year, which was beneficial.
Sheng, called the total fifty-three chiefs."
In other words, everything Nurhaci did during this period was imitating Wan Khan, and he was indeed successful. He was eventually named General Dragon and Tiger, replacing Wan Khan in controlling the Jurchen tribes.
Qu Jiusi, a person at that time, commented on Nurhachi and believed that he had the legacy of Wanhan. "Nurhachi rebelled against Tai, and I didn't care about it. I only talked about his sacrifice of rebels and the captured people and animals. He had the style of Tai (Wangtai, that is, Wanhan). He died.
He has an intermarriage with a rogue businessman, and his wings are now fully formed, and he has gained as much success as his hair in Haixi. Isn't this a natural holiday to repay Taiwan? It is better to worship the governor and call him loyal and obedient."
At this point, the Ming Dynasty's policy towards the Jianzhou Jurchens changed drastically, from prevention to support. Nurhachi took the opportunity to become powerful and annexed other Jurchen tribes.
"At the beginning of the Haixi Pass, the two passes had been feuding with each other for forty years. They were all fighting for their own sake and were destroyed. Nurha Chi sided with his hands to reap the benefits of the fishermen, while the Nüzhi tribes were wiped out and established as a state."
It can be seen that timid people are not necessarily born timid. When it is time to pretend to be a grandson, you have to pretend to be a grandson. Nurhachi pretended to be a grandson very well in the past few decades. Even counting, he still waited until Li Chengliang died before he pretended to be a grandson.
He dared to jump out and talk nonsense about the "seven hates", which shows that this guy's courage was not really the best when there were people in the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty must be "someone" now. Nurhachi is obviously afraid of heights and as pragmatic as a tiger. The world's number one literary commander who conquered all the battles in the north and south must be a mountain-like existence in Nurhaci's eyes, so as Gao's pragmatic direct descendant
The generals were of course very satisfied with Nurhachi's "submission" and would not have any other thoughts.
As for Nurhachi, he even sent his own brother to help... Everyone felt that although it was of no use, these five hundred people were not short of food, so they came as they came, it didn't matter.
Cao Yu was too lazy to care about this little accident. He immediately talked about the theme of this temporary military meeting and asked Gao Yimin what he thought of Ye He's current situation.
Gao Yimin is only 26 years old this year, slightly older than Gao Pragmatic, but he looks a bit tanned. It is said that he got his tan during special training at the beach.
He is very tall and was originally a refugee from Shandong. That year, the Yellow River flood caused a catastrophic disaster. He and some refugees lived in Weihui. When he was about to starve to death, he was rescued by Gao Pragmatic's "three hundred thousand taels" of relief.
From then on, he became a servant of the Gao family. After four years of hard work, he was transferred from the coal mine to the escort team. Then because of his outstanding performance, he was selected to enter the guard training class and then entered the special training class.
During these processes, he participated in seventeen times of suppressing bandits, including nine with bandits, five with horse thieves, and three with small groups of pirate lairs. He made meritorious deeds every time, and four of them were personally directed by him.
Facing Cao Yun's question, Gao Yimin knew that he was asking in a subtle way whether he could speed up the army. The situation was clear at the moment, and it seemed that Ye He might be finished at any time. Once Ye He completely collapsed, the North and South Pass system would become a big problem.
This chapter is not finished yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! However, what the imperial court thinks and whether there are reserve teams for the North and South Pass trade are not something they, the generals, understand. For them, what can they do?
What we do is to ensure that such a situation does not occur.
Therefore, Ye He must be saved.
Gao Yimin smiled slightly and said: "My master originally warned the commander-in-chief not to move too fast. In fact, it was not because he was worried that our army would lose, but because Ye He was not in the greatest crisis yet. I went to rescue him. Although he
I’m grateful, but I don’t miss him deeply after all. But if that person’s life is hanging by a thread, if I save him, it will be a gift of rebirth.”
Cao Yan understood what he meant, but in order to ensure that Gao Pragmatic would not be dissatisfied, he asked directly: "Brother Gao is right. In that case..."
Seeing how cautious he was, Gao Yimin felt a little pity for "these officials" and said with a smile: "In this case, it is natural for the army to advance quickly."
Cao Yu raised his eyebrows and was about to speak, but Gao Yimin added at the right time: "But it's not too far from Kaiyuan to Yehedong City. It's better to wait for the little chief Shuerhaqi to arrive before going together. General Rong thought
how?"
Cao Yu was startled for a moment and thought to himself: There are only five hundred people in Shuerhaqi, what difference does it make if we wait?
However, this was not a big deal, so Cao Yu still agreed and turned to the messenger and shouted: "Send a team to stay overnight and tell the little chief Jianzhou to go faster."
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