Due to the lag in news transmission, when Liang Menglong and Gao Pragmatic were discussing the aftermath, Li Chengliang had already met with Nurhaci.
Just as Nurhachi himself had previously claimed, he personally led a group of Niulu Bagala soldiers to rush to Li Chengliang's army, and performed a drama of asking for forgiveness under the ice and snow, and shed tears outside the camp gate.
Li Chengliang held up his position and delayed the time of "showering and changing clothes" before being called in to see Nurhaci. By that time, Nurhachi was already "sneeze and mucus flying, and his face was the color of ice and snow". He didn't look like a human being at all.
The appearance of a powerful chieftain who conquered Manchuria.
Nurhaci's Bagala soldiers were selected and recruited from among various groups, and his pitiful appearance was noticed by the soldiers. Theoretically, such a shameful appearance should not be tolerated by his subordinates.
Seeing it, let alone Bajala's personal soldiers seeing it, was like seeing it all at once, which was doubly embarrassing.
However, this time it was different. Nurhaci wanted to let them see it. Because before that, when he was still in Hetuala, Nurhachi had already made people preach a truth: Dabeile endured the humiliation to prevent the Ming army from finding a reason to massacre and annihilate the clan.
, put down your face and ask for surrender.
Under this principle, all Nurhachi's embarrassing actions turned into taking the overall situation into consideration and protecting the people. And any doubts and disrespect towards Dabeile turned into anger and anger towards the Ming army at this moment.
Hatred.
Humans are social animals whose butt determines their head. At this moment, the Jurchens in Jianzhou will not think of the oppression they inflicted on others when they invaded other tribes, but will only feel the oppression imposed on them by the Ming Dynasty.
As long as "people are divided into groups" still exists in this world, bullying will never be absent.
Li Chengliang may not have felt anything about this, or he may have just been used to it. He did not consider the hatred of the Jurchens in Jianzhou towards him. In his opinion, it does not matter whether he hates him or not, as long as he remains in awe of him, that is enough.
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The army under my command is not maintained just to reason with barbarians like you.
So Nurhachi was called into the tent, and was lectured by Uncle Li in public. He was then told: "In two days, I will formally surrender in Hetuala. You should prepare now - remember to repair the surrender platform."
Nurhaci showed no temper, was respectful and obedient, kowtowed and left. After he led the suffocating Bagala troops away, Li Chengliang's troops celebrated by killing pigs and sheep amidst laughter and laughter.
A great victory. Early the next morning, we lazily headed towards Hetuala.
At this time, Cao Yu had just passed through Jiefan Village. According to the military order he had received from Li Chengliang two days ago to "advance troops cautiously and do not make the same mistake as Ma Chengxun", he was sending out several detective horses to the south to expand the reconnaissance. Not long after, one of the troops along the way
Tan Ma reported in embarrassment, saying that he was attacked by Jianzhou soldiers and more than a dozen of his brothers were killed.
Cao Yu inquired carefully and determined that the person who came should be from Shuerhaqi, the second bele of Jianzhou. The number of people in Bagala of Shuerhaqi's headquarters was not much less than that of his elder brother Nurhaci. There are now about 800 people, which is in line with the report from the exploration horse.
Situation. However, the 800 Bagala soldiers only caused more than a dozen casualties against Cao Yuan's expedition horse of more than 30 people, which is a bit unusual.
There is no doubt that Shuerhaqi saved a trick. Cao Yun and Qi Jin both judged that Shuerhaqi may have just deliberately alerted the enemy, and the purpose was just to tell them the existence of this Jurchen army. As for Shuerhaqi's purpose,
Or "leave a secret line when meeting so that we can meet again in the future", or his mission is just to harass.
Shuerhaqi was the one whom Gao pragmatically told him to win over. Since he was measured in his actions, Cao Yu accepted his favor, gathered his troops, and headed southeast in a leisurely manner.
However, after only ten miles away, he received an urgent message from Jinghua. Fushun Pass, a trading company in Jinghua, forwarded a secret message sent by Gao Pragmatic Flying Pigeon, requesting Cao Yu to maintain a slower advance speed.
, it was probably three days after Li Chengliang arrived at Hetuala that Cao Yuan's troops arrived at the outskirts of Hetuala.
The style of this secret letter was very different from Gao Jingshi's previous secret letters. He did not explain the reason at all, nor did he tell Cao Yan much about what he should pay attention to. He only set strict requirements on his marching speed and arrival time.
This secret letter came so mysteriously that both Cao Yun and Qi Jin were a little confused. After analyzing it for a long time, they still felt that it was elusive: If Gao Pragmatic only asked them to march with caution because Ma Chengxun was injured in an ambush, then it would be even more
Such clear instructions should not be given, because marching is not only a matter of one's own decision, but also changes at any time based on the enemy's actions.
It is impossible for Gao Situ, who is known as "the best literary commander in the world", not to know this, so he did not even "control remotely" in the last battle in Northern Liaoning. There is no reason for him to suddenly engage in remote micro-control this time.
But neither Cao Yu nor Qi Jin dared to disobey Gao Jingshi's order - even if every sentence in Gao Jingshi's secret letter was just a "suggestion," obviously neither of them really thought it was just a suggestion.
In fact, it is not difficult to implement the highly pragmatic order, because after calculating the distance, they seem to be able to walk a little slower along the way, but there is a problem: the key to this order is that their speed along the way is different from that of Li Chengliang's troops.
The march speed of is bound.
If Li Chengliang walks fast, they must go fast. Otherwise, if they haven't arrived three days after Li Chengliang arrived at Hetuala, it will be a delay in the fighter plane - no matter what the fighter plane is, it is Gao Situ's explanation anyway; if Li Chengliang walks slowly,
, then they will have to reduce their speed accordingly. If Li Chengliang arrived in Hetuala only two days ago and they arrived, this would also be a violation of the order.
Although Gao Situ is no longer the Minister of the Ministry of War, but has been promoted to the Minister of the Ministry of Hubu, the Ministry of War... is one of the basics of the Shi School, and Liang Da Sima and Gao Situ are close allies.
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He returned to the capital and whipped him with a whip himself. So Cao Yun and Qi Jin hurriedly sent people to contact Li Chengliang's department, and really planned to "hear the news".
This was a questionable question. Cao and Qi discovered that Li Chengliang's troops had already changed from marching slowly and leisurely before, and began to accelerate and advance rapidly, just like Ma Chengxun's troops before.
The two were stunned and could no longer care about Shuerhaqi. The whole army immediately began to speed up, and soon arrived at Gule Village - or the former site of Gule Village - and continued to move quickly towards Mardun Village.
No one knows what Shuerhaqi was thinking. Anyway, he once again ambushed a scouting horse sent by Cao Yun, and then nothing happened.
At this time, Cao Yan received another battle report from Ma Chengxun: Ma Chengxun's injury was initially determined and he had led his army southward again. But this time, his marching speed was a little slower than before.
Cao Yan and Qi Jin estimated that Ma Chengxun's injury was not very good, but this brother may have a father-like style, so there was a high probability that he went into battle with an injury.
What made Cao Yun and Qi Jin even more aware of each other was that Ma Chengxun vaguely pointed out in the battle report that his actions seemed to be following Gao Situ's instructions.
When Cao Yu's troops arrived at Maldun Village, they found that, as expected, there were no Jianzhou soldiers defending it.
Cao Yu and Qi Jin started to camp and repair in Maldun Village in accordance with the "guiding spirit" proposed by Gao Pragmatic. The answer to the court was that they had been constantly harassed by Jianzhou Shuerhaqi's troops along the way, and they had to make some repairs and deployment in order to make a complete plan.
Defend and wait for the remaining three armies to arrive - Mardunzhai is the last stop on his way to Hetuala. This reason is completely tenable.
At this moment, Li Chengliang's eight thousand elite cavalry had marched into Hetuala in a swaggering manner.
The city of Hetuala is not that big. It is probably equivalent to a rural town in later generations. But to be honest, it is already a lot bigger than the original Hetuala in history, and is even close to one of the two eastern and western cities of Yehe.
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The difference from the two cities in the east and west of Yehe is that Hetuala seems to pay more attention to city defense. Not only is the city wall built higher and thicker than that in Yehe City, but the arrow stacks on the city wall are also more densely packed than in Yehe City.
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However, Li Chengliang just glanced at it casually and didn't take it to heart. This is not to say that he is arrogant, but that even if the city wall of Hetuala is built thicker, in Li Chengliang's view, it is nothing more than wooden piles.
Made of rammed earth.
Although due to the severe cold in Liaodong, the wooden piles and rammed earth city walls are not necessarily unsturdy, but this level is too inferior compared with the Han cities in Liaodong. What's more, Li Chengliang has seen Jinghua's "steel bars" in recent years.
The "cement concrete" method, the so-called "bastion" built by that thing is truly impregnable.
In Li Chengliang's view, a city defense of Hetuala's level was indeed indestructible within the Jurchens, but in front of Uncle Li, it was just a question of an hourly volley from the artillery battalion.
After all, in order to set up the artillery battalion of the Li family army, he, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, gave Beijing a huge deal. Not only did the court spend 178,000 taels on this, but Ning Yuanbo himself also spent this amount.
It also hurts the liver.
Nurhaci still behaved very respectfully and even invited Li Chengliang to visit the surrender platform he was building for him, but Li Chengliang refused on the grounds that he was tired from the march.
To be honest, the fatigue of the march is not entirely an excuse. Li Chengliang is already sixty-two this year. In this era, he can even be said to have lived a long life. He has long reached the age when he should be happy with his grandchildren - Ma Fang, Liu
He was about this age when he became an official.
Of course, Li Chengliang started at a relatively high level, his servants were elite enough, and he always dominated his opponents in Liaodong, so he suffered fewer injuries. This is quite different from Ma Fang and Liu Xian, who fought from small soldiers all the way to the generals.
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There are no hidden injuries on his body, and his foundation is obviously much better. But no matter how good his foundation is, it is impossible for an old man in his sixties to march through river valleys and mountains at high intensity without getting tired. It is normal for him to require rest.
Nurhachi was still very obedient to Uncle Li, and even selected several women prisoners of war from other tribes to sleep with Uncle Li. Uncle Li was always strong and strong, so he did not refuse.
Even so, Li Chengliang did not let down his vigilance, and personally arranged the defense of the city, and drove most of Nurhachi's Jianzhou soldiers out of the city to station themselves outside the city. Only one of Nurhaci's most powerful Bajala soldiers was left in the city.
There was no conversation that night, and the night passed peacefully. The next morning, Li Chengliang got up three hours after sunrise. He looked good, but had some dark circles under his eyes.
After he got up, he asked about Nurhachi's movements, and his generals told him that Nurhachi was extremely obedient and even led his Bajala soldiers to continue building the surrender platform overnight, and was very diligent.
What the generals didn't tell him was that each of them got a beautiful prisoner of war arranged by Nurhachi. They fought all night and half, and now they are all thinking about Nurhachi's good deeds. The generals all agreed that this Jianzhou landowner was still a good man.
I'm afraid the so-called rampantness before was really a misunderstanding.
Li Chengliang was very satisfied after hearing this, and ordered Nurhachi to come over and pay homage. Nurhaci rushed over panting soon, paid homage to the commander respectfully, asked the commander what his orders were, and repeatedly emphasized that he "savages in the mountains do not treat well."
"Guest", I don't know if there is any slightness in this.
Li Chengliang became more and more satisfied and said that he had done a good job. After finishing this matter, he would plead for him in front of the emperor. He also told him to be more obedient in the future and not to act on his own initiative.
Nurhachi responded one by one and seemed very educated.
Li Chengliang saw that he was so busy that he was soaked and sneezed from time to time. It was obvious that he had suffered from wind and cold when he stood in front of the army to plead guilty two days ago. Last night, he worked all night to build the landing platform, so his illness naturally worsened. Thinking back to the time when he thought about Chang'an and his son
After his death, Li Chengliang actually felt a little embarrassed, and softened his heart, saying: "You only have one Niulu soldier in the city. The construction of this surrender platform is too slow. It is unreasonable for you to be so tired... Let's do it.
, you call in all your Bajala soldiers, and recruit five hundred strong men to help with the attack, and try to get it done tomorrow."
Nurhaci couldn't help being happy, thanked him profusely, and went to mobilize troops outside the city without mentioning it.
That night, Li Chengliang sent someone to check on Nurhaci's movements. The person who reported back said that Nurhaci was still at the landing platform construction site, but he might have fallen asleep at the construction site because he was too tired.
Li Chengliang was completely relieved and sent out his soldiers. He stayed in Nurhachi's mansion and grew stronger again, enjoying the service of foreign women.
These women had received permission from Nurhachi, saying that once Uncle Li was satisfied, he would release them from their status as prisoners of war, so they had to be treated with great care and diligence.
Li Chengliang fell into a deep sleep at the second quarter of Chou hour (about two o'clock in the morning). At the second quarter of Yin hour, he was sleeping soundly when he suddenly felt some noise around him.
Uncle Li struggled to open his old eyes, only to see his youngest son Li Rumei, dressed in military uniform, shaking his arms vigorously.
Li Rumei wore the armor on her body, but her hair was not tied up. The hair under the helmet popped out everywhere. It was obvious that she put on the helmet temporarily and ran over.
After all, Li Chengliang is a seasoned man. Naturally, he would not scold Li Rumei for breaking into his dormitory in the middle of the night. Instead, he suddenly sat up and asked, "Is the camp roaring?"
Li Rumei stamped her foot: "Dad, it's not Yingxiao, it's Nurhachi who rebelled!" In such a hurry, Li Rumei didn't even bother to shout to the commander: "Dad, get up quickly, my son will protect you and rush out!"