Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1424 Xuanwei
Due to the lag in news transmission, Li Chengliang had already met Nurhachi when Liang Menglong and Gao Wushi were discussing the aftermath.

As Nurhachi himself declared before, he personally led a group of Niulu Ba Yala's personal soldiers to Li Chengliang's army, and staged a scene of pleading guilty under the ice and snow, freezing to tears outside the gate.

Li Chengliang was on airs, and he had to wait for a "bath and change" before someone called Nurhachi in for an interview.At that time, Nurhachi had already "sneezed and snotted together, and his face was as cold as ice and snow", and he did not look like a generation of powerful chieftains who roamed Manchuria.

Nurhaci's Ba Yala soldiers were recruited from various records, and his pitiful appearance was seen by the soldiers.Theoretically speaking, this kind of embarrassing appearance really shouldn't be seen by the subordinates, not to mention that when Bala's personal soldiers saw it, it was as embarrassing as everyone saw it together.

However, this time was different, Nurhachi just wanted to let them see.Because when he was still in Hetuala before, Nurhachi had already made people preach a truth: Big Baylor was in order to prevent the Ming army from finding a reason to massacre and exterminate the genocide, so he endured the humiliation and surrendered with shame.

Under this principle, all Nurhachi's embarrassment turned into taking care of the overall situation and protecting the people.At this moment, any doubts and disrespect towards Big Baylor turned into anger and hatred towards the Ming army.

Humans are social animals whose ass decides the head. At this moment, the Jianzhou Jurchens will not think of the oppression they imposed on others when they invaded other tribes, but will only feel the oppression imposed on them by Ming Dynasty.

As long as "dividing people into groups" still exists in this world, bullying will never be absent.

Li Chengliang may not feel anything about this, or he may just be used to it. He didn't think about Jianzhou Jurchen's hatred for him at all.In his opinion, it doesn't matter whether you hate him or not, as long as you keep in awe of him, that's enough.

The army under my command was not raised to reason with you barbarians.

So Nurhachi was called into the tent, was taught a lesson by Uncle Li in public, and then was told: "Two days later, the commander-in-chief will officially accept the surrender in Hetuala. You should go prepare now—remember to repair the surrender platform."

Nurhachi showed no temper, respectfully and obediently, kowtowed in thanks and left.After he led the suffocated Ba Yala's army away, Li Chengliang's troops slaughtered pigs and sheep amidst laughter and laughter to celebrate the victory.Early the next morning, I lazily headed towards Hetuala.

At this time, Cao Yu had just passed Jiefanzhai, and according to the military order he had received from Li Chengliang two days ago, "Advance troops cautiously, don't follow Ma Chengxun's mistakes", he was dispatching several scouts to the south to expand investigations.Not long after, one of the scouts reported back in embarrassment, saying that he was attacked by Jianzhou soldiers and killed more than a dozen brothers.

Cao Yu asked seriously and determined that the person who came should be from Jianzhou Erbeile Shuerhaqi's department.The number of Bayala in Shuerhaqi's headquarters is not much smaller than that of his elder brother Nurhachi. Now there are about 800 people, which is in line with the situation reported by Tanma.However, the [-] Ba Yala soldiers only caused more than a dozen casualties to Cao Yu's [-]-strong Tanma, which is a bit unusual.

There is no doubt that Shuerhaqi kept a hand.Both Cao Yu and Qi Jin judged that Shuerhaqi might just be deliberately trying to scare the snake, and the purpose was just to tell them the existence of this Jurchen army.As for Shuerhaqi's purpose, it was either to "keep a line when we meet, so we can meet again in the future", or his mission was just to harass.

Shuerhaqi was the one that Gao Pragmatically confessed to win over. Since he acted appropriately, Cao Yu accepted his favor, gathered his troops, and marched towards the southeast without haste.

However, after only ten miles away, he received an urgent report from Jinghua.Fushunguan Station of Jinghua Trading Company forwarded a secret letter sent by Gao Pragmatism Feige to send a letter urgently, asking Cao Yu to maintain a certain slow marching speed. It was probably three days after Li Chengliang arrived in Hetuala that Cao Yu's troops arrived at Hetuala. It will go to the periphery of Hetuala.

The style of this secret letter was very different from Gao Yushi's previous ones. It did not explain the reason at all, nor did it tell Cao Yu what he should pay attention to. It only made strict requirements on his marching speed and arrival time.

The secret letter came so mysteriously that both Cao Yu and Qi Jin were a little puzzled.The two of them analyzed for a while, but still felt elusive: If Gao Yushi asked them to march carefully because Ma Chengxun was injured in an ambush, then he should not have given such clear instructions, because marching is not just a matter of his own decision , but also according to the actions of the enemy to change at any time.

It is impossible for Gao Situ, the "No. [-] literary commander in the world", to not know this, so he even "didn't control it remotely" in the last Liaobei battle, so there is no reason to suddenly engage in remote micro-management this time.

But neither Cao Yu nor Qi Jin dared to disobey Gao Yushi's order—even if every sentence in Gao Yushi'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 execute the high-level and pragmatic order, because counting 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 their speed along the way. The march speed is bound.

If Li Chengliang walked fast, they had to be fast, otherwise they would have missed the opportunity to fight if they hadn't arrived three days after Li Chengliang arrived in Hetuala. , then they have to reduce their speed accordingly. If Li Chengliang arrived in Hetuala only two days before they also arrived, this is also a violation of the order.

Regardless of the fact that Gao Situ is no longer the Minister of the Ministry of War, but has been promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Households, but the Ministry of War... is one of the basic principles of the Real School, and Sima Liang and Gao Situ are even close allies.

What's more, Cao Yu's only backer now is Gao Yushi, and Qi Jin...if he dares not to listen to Gao Yushi's words, Qi Jiguang, Commander Qi is afraid that he will let him go back to the capital and whip him himself.So Cao Yu and Qi Jin rushed to send people to contact Li Chengliang's department, and really planned to "hear each other's voices".

This question was inescapable. Cao and Qi found that Li Chengliang's troops had already changed from the slow and leisurely march before, and began to accelerate and advance suddenly. The movements were as fast as Ma Chengxun's troops before.

The two were stunned and couldn't care about Shuerhaqi anymore. The whole army immediately began to speed up, and soon arrived at Gule Village—or the former site of Gule Village—and continued to quickly march towards Mardun Village.

No one knew what Shuerhaqi was thinking, anyway, he ambushed a scout horse sent by Cao Yu again, and then he didn't have anything to say.

At this time, Cao Yu received another report from Ma Chengxun on the battle situation: Ma Chengxun's injury was initially determined, and he had once again led his army south.But this time, his marching speed was a little slower than before.

Cao Yu and Qi Jin reckoned that Ma Chengxun's injury was not very good, but this brother may have the style of being a father, so there is a high probability that he went into battle with an injury.

What made Cao Yan and Qi Jin look at each other even more was that Ma Chengxun vaguely pointed out in the battle report that his actions seemed to be in accordance with Gao Situ's instructions.

When Cao Yu's troops arrived at Mardun Village, they found that there were no Jianzhou soldiers defending here as expected.

According to the "guiding spirit" proposed by Gao Yushi, Cao Yu and Qi Jin began to camp and repair in Mardunzhai.The answer to the imperial court was that they were constantly harassed by Jianzhou Shuerhaqi's troops along the way. To be safe, they had to make adjustments, deploy defenses, and wait for the other three armies to arrive in place—Maldunzhai was his way to Hetuala The last stop of the , this reason is completely tenable.

At this moment, Li Chengliang's [-] fine cavalry had already swaggered into Hetuala.

The city of Hetuala is not that big, and it would probably be equivalent to a rural town in later generations.But to be honest, it is already a circle larger than Hetuala in the original history, even close to the size of one of the two eastern and western cities of Yehe.

The difference from the East and West City of Yehe is that Hetuala seems to pay more attention to city defense. Not only is the city wall built higher and thicker than the Second City of Yehe, but the arrow stacks on the city wall are also denser than the Second City of Yehe. .

But Li Chengliang just glanced at it casually and didn't take it seriously.This can't be said that he was too big, but that even if the city wall of Hetuala was built thicker, in Li Chengliang's opinion, it was nothing more than that, it was still made of wooden piles and rammed earth.

Although the rammed-earth city walls with wooden piles are not necessarily weak due to the severe cold in Liaodong, this level is a bit too low compared to the Han Chinese cities in Liaodong.What's more, Li Chengliang has also seen Jinghua's "reinforced concrete and concrete" method in the past few years. The so-called "bastion" built by that thing is really solid.

In Li Chengliang's view, Hetuala's level of city defense was indeed indestructible inside the Jurchens, but in front of him, Uncle Li, it was just a matter of a salvo from the artillery battalion for an hour.

After all, in order to form the artillery battalion of Li Jiajun, he, the Liaodong Marshal, gave Jinghua a lot of business.Not only did the imperial court spend 8 to [-] taels for this, but Ning Yuanbo himself also spent this amount, which really hurts his heart and liver.

Nurhachi still behaved very submissively, and even invited Li Chengliang to visit the surrender platform he was building for him, but Li Chengliang refused on the grounds that the march was exhausted.

To be honest, marching tiredness is not entirely an excuse.Li Chengliang is already sixty-two this year. In this era, he can even be said to have a long life. He has already reached the age when he should have grandchildren - Ma Fang and Liu Xian were about the same age when they became officials.

Of course, because Li Chengliang started relatively high, his servants were elite enough, and he always suppressed his opponents in Liaodong, so he suffered fewer injuries. .

There is no hidden injury on the body, and the foundation is obviously much better.But no matter how good the foundation is, it is impossible for a man in his 60s to march intensively between river valleys and forests without getting tired. It is normal to ask for rest.

Nurhachi was still obedient to Uncle Li, and even chose a few women prisoners of war from other tribes to serve Uncle Li as bedside.Uncle Li was growing old and strong, so he didn't refuse.

Even so, Li Chengliang did not let go of his vigilance, personally arranged the defense of the city, and drove most of Nurhachi's Jianzhou soldiers out of the city to station, leaving only one Niulu Ba Yala soldier for Nurhachi in the city.

There was nothing to say that night, and I passed it peacefully.The next morning, Li Chengliang woke up after three poles in the sun. He looked good, but there were dark circles under his eyes.

After he got up, he asked about Nurhachi's movements, and the generals under his command told him that Nurhachi was extremely obedient, and even brought his own Ba Yala soldiers to continue building the surrender platform overnight, very diligently.

What the generals didn't tell him was that each of them got a beautiful prisoner of war arranged by Nurhachi, and they fought all night and half the night, and now they are all thinking about Nurhachi's good.All the generals agreed that this landlord in Jianzhou was still very good at being a man, and the so-called rampant before was probably a misunderstanding.

Li Chengliang was very satisfied after hearing this, and ordered Nurhachi to come and see him.Not long after, Nurhachi rushed over out of breath, paid homage to the commander-in-chief, and asked the commander-in-chief what his orders were, and repeatedly emphasized that "the savages in the mountains are not good at treating guests", so I don't know if he was negligent or not.

Li Chengliang became more and more satisfied, saying that he had done a good job, and that he would intercede for him in front of the emperor after this matter was over.He also told him to be more well-behaved in the future, and not to mess around on his own.

Nurhachi responded one by one, looking very educated.

Seeing that he was drenched from work, Li Chengliang sneezed from time to time. Apparently, he had suffered from the cold two days ago when he pleaded guilty in front of the army. He rushed to work overnight to build the landing platform last night, so his illness became worse.Recalling the death of Jue Changan's father and son, Li Chengliang actually felt a little embarrassed, and his heart softened, and said: "You only have one Niulu soldier in the city, and the progress of building this surrender platform is too slow. You are so tired It doesn't make sense either... How about this, you call in all your Ba Yala soldiers, and draw another five hundred strong men to help with it, and try to get it done tomorrow."

Nurhachi couldn't help being overjoyed, thanked him a thousand times, and didn't mention it since he went to transfer troops outside the city.

On this day and night, Li Chengliang sent someone to check on Nurhachi's actions.The person who reported back said that Nurhachi was still at the construction site of the landing platform, but he might have fallen asleep at the construction site because he was too tired.

Li Chengliang was completely relieved, sent out his own soldiers, and stayed in Nurhachi's mansion by himself, growing old and strong again, enjoying the service of foreign women.

These women had been granted by Nurhachi, saying that once Uncle Li was satisfied, they would be released from their status as prisoners of war, so they were treated very meticulously and diligently.

Li Chengliang did not fall asleep until [-]:[-] a.m. (about [-]:[-] a.m.). At [-]:[-] Yinshi, he was sound asleep when he suddenly felt some noise around him.

Uncle Li struggled to open his old eyes, but saw his youngest son, Li Rumei, in military uniform, shaking his arm vigorously.

Li Rumei was wearing armor, but her hair was not tied up. The hair under the helmet was protruding everywhere. It was obvious that she had temporarily put on the helmet and ran over.

After all, Li Chengliang is a veteran, so naturally he would not scold Li Rumei for breaking into his dormitory in the middle of the night, but sat up suddenly and asked, "Ying Xiao?"

Li Rumei stomped her feet: "Father, it's not Yingxiao, it's Nurhachi who has rebelled!" In a hurry, Li Rumei didn't even bother to shout to the commander: "Get up, daddy, my son will protect you and rush out!"

(End of this chapter)