Brocade clothing as the country

Chapter 1009

When the army first entered the territory of Jianzhou, they didn't get any news. The villages along the way were either hostile or avoided, which was actually a policy of strengthening the walls and clearing the wild.

In such a situation, the book says to buy people's hearts, put benevolence and righteousness first, and maybe you have to capture Meng Huo seven times, so that the other party will open up to you and be willing to worship you.

Who would conquer the conqueror? Wang Tong didn't bother to make these false texts. It is enough for people to know the fear and the consequences. Wang Tong did the same.

After the burning of Hetuala, everyone was scared. The Jurchens are not Mongols. They are farming peoples and not nomads. It is impossible for them to escape on horseback. The Ming army massacred villages, completely destroyed the foundation of their existence, and burned the city with fire. Such scenes made everyone terrified.

That is, after the burning of the city, the news began to flow. After the army of the Eastern Expedition released the Jurchen captives and more than a hundred people passed the news, soon some people came to the door to confess their sincerity and offered to provide supplies for the army.

Someone also revealed the location of Nurhachi and his group. Ten days ago, they stopped at a place about 120 miles away from Hetuala, but now they left and headed towards Haixi Jurchen.

The Huwei army left the city of Hetuala on March [-]th and continued to pursue northward. Nurhachi also led more than [-] soldiers and horses. It is impossible for such a team to disappear silently in the mountains and forests. Among them, there must be traces to follow, and the Jurchen villages in Jianzhou are already terrified, and no one dares to hide it.

Wang Tong's side kept releasing news. For example, if he knew about it, he would be severely punished. If he could report the news, even if he allowed the bandits and chieftains to stay, it was a forced act.

As soon as this decree was mentioned, there was no way to hide Nurhachi's traces. Everyone knew that Nurhachi led the army all the way to the northeast. First, they passed Hu'er Wenwei and entered the border of Haixi Jurchen.

Although Liao Town is the territory actually controlled by Daming, after leaving the side wall, the place names and divisions along the way are all names like Weisuo. used.

The soldiers led by Wang Tong are only more than 9000 infantry and more than [-] cavalry, but there are also nearly [-] civilians. In this season, carts full of goods are easy to get stuck in the mud when walking on the road, and many roads need to be repaired to survive. After that, the folk husbands are used to do this.

In fact, Wang Tong's plan is very big. With this march, at least a road should be built, leading to the hinterland of the Jurchen as much as possible. In the future, the army can use this as a basis to advance, and the merchant group and the reclamation group can use this Expand to both sides.

It's not like overcoming thorns and thorns, cutting mountains and breaking rocks, and creating a road out of thin air. The terrain here is flat, and there are already existing roads. What the peasants did was simply widen and repair.

Under such circumstances, although the marching speed of the army was not fast, they moved forward firmly every day. After passing Hu'er Wenwei, Mao Lianwei was in front of him.

Mao Lianwei was originally the sphere of influence of Jurchen or a certain Mongolian tribe, but this place is now an unowned area, and the original owner does not know where he went.

Hu'er Wenwei and Mao Lianwei are the great plains near the river, suitable for farming, and they are also places where several forces intertwine and adjoin each other. But because of this, all parties have taken this place before they have the ability to swallow it alone. As a buffer, it is also one of the trade distribution centers.

Before the rise of Jianzhou Jurchen, this area was where Han merchants from Liaozhen traded, because not only could trade with Jurchen and Mongolian tribes here, but also the nearby Koreans.

However, the rise of the Jurchen in Jianzhou blocked the roads here, tantamount to monopolizing the trade between the Jurchen and Goryeo people and Daming, and this area gradually fell into disrepair.

Marching without encountering any enemies is very boring. Wang Tong simply let the cavalry go out to hunt. After a day, the harvest is quite rich. As long as the arrow is passable, almost all of them can bring back very good prey, the worst is the hare.

Although this season is when the wild animals are not fat, it is possible to stew game at night and eat meat, which is always a matter of boosting morale. Whether it is cavalry or infantry, or even the people who are assigned to make soup with bones, they are in a very good mood. is high.

There was also news of Nurhachi's soldiers and horses. After entering the territory of Haixi Jurchen, the strength of Jianzhou Jurchen was almost besieged by various ministries of Haixi Jurchen.

Although the army led by Nurhachi is quite strong, they can't stand the harassment from Haixi Jurchen everywhere, or they will simply fortify the wall and clear the field, so that they can't get any supplies. Although everyone is Jurchen, this situation Now, they are completely incompatible with each other.

It is true that there was a sea of ​​blood and deep hatred. Among the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses that were wiped out under the city of Shenyang, Haixi Jurchen young and strong accounted for nearly two-thirds. The Western Jurchen also suffered a lot of losses. Such a loss inevitably made the Haixi Jurchen gnash their teeth with hatred.

The actions of the Ming army in the Jianzhou Department spread quickly and widely. Many people saw the fire in Hetuala with their own eyes. Haixi Jurchen also received Wang Tong's warning. Who would dare Taking Nurhachi in, he didn't even dare to fight.

In such a situation of mass attack, Nurhachi's progress is difficult every step of the way, but the Haixi Jurchen lost too many young and strong in Liaozhen, and there is nothing to do against the strength of the Jianzhou Jurchen. It is harassment and fortification.

Nurhachi was unable to move after two days of marching within this range. Although such harassment around him did not cause any major losses, it was also troublesome to kill and kill piecemeal. Moreover, he could not get supplies, and there were chasing soldiers behind him, and his morale was low. more and more powerful.

What's more troublesome is that the Haixi Jurchen has sent messages from various ministries to gather strength and compete with the remnants of the Jianzhou Jurchen army, or let the Jianzhou Jurchen cross the border, and wait for the vicious Ming army to chase them, there will still be big troubles .

When Wang Tong was about to leave Hu'er Wenwei, the latest news came again. Nurhachi had already returned from Haixi Jurchen.

Similar to Wang Tong's judgment, the situation is like this, if you disperse all the people and flee into the deep mountains and forests with Xiruan, no one will be able to catch him, or even go directly to Liao Town to be a Han businessman, and you will be rich for a lifetime , I am afraid that no one will be able to catch him, but people like Nurhachi will definitely not be willing to do so.

The Huwei army has been running for a long time and is already exhausted. In a sense, Nurhachi fought desperately. It is not that there is no chance. It is better to fight desperately than to be desperate. At the end of the crossbow, you can't wear Lulu. This is indeed the truth. However, reason is just reason.

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The white mountains and black waters are vast, and a team of thousands of people seems to be able to come and go at will. In fact, there are not many places to go. The Haixi Jurchen territory is already full of hostility. If you continue to the north, the Mongolian and Jurchen ministries are also intertwined. And it's becoming less and less suitable for people to communicate with.

Outside this wall, the inhabited land will be reclaimed and refurbished. After a few years, it will become fertile fields, but the places without people are either forests or swamp meadows, which are not suitable for going deep at all, especially for large groups of people.

Besides, the intention of withdrawing from Hetuala was to prepare for a comeback, thinking that relying on strong walls to clear the field and guerrilla harassment would make the Ming army utterly devastated and unable to stand firm, but the style of this Ming army was completely different from that of the officers and soldiers in Liaozhen. The most important method is uprooting, and the three-light strategy is even more vicious. Not to mention leaving no chickens and dogs behind, even destroying the fields completely. It is really a desperate method.
Knowing what their hometown looks like, especially after knowing that Hetuala was burned by a fire, the morale of the soldiers and horses led by Nurhachi was extremely low. They all knew that their foundation had been destroyed.

Traveling northward like this, the faces of the other Jurchen ministries who had been respectful to them all changed their expressions. They didn't provide any support, and even started shouting and killing.

In Haixi Jurchen's side for a few days, in addition to being killed in battle, there were also deserters appearing constantly, which made the army's morale even more shaken. Under such a situation, they had no choice but to fight back.

It’s just that under the brutal pressure of the Ming army, even the attitudes of the Jurchen villages in Jianzhou changed. Providing food supplies and recruiting men were all prevarications, and some even avoided them in advance when the Jianzhou army arrived. Well, this is the Jianzhou Jurchen's own team, and they want to lead everyone to live a good life.

When they invaded Daming Liao Town last year, all the males from the various villages rushed to follow. Daming's wealth and people were divided a lot, so why did they turn their faces at this time?

The people who followed Nurhachi were all teams brought out by him. Many family members of this team died in the Three Lights Strategy. Not to mention deep hatred, they were also loyal.

In Haixi Jurchen, fed up with cold words and hostility, I thought that after returning to Jianzhou, I would be like a duck to water, but I didn't expect that the treatment was even more exorbitant than that of Haixi. Naturally, I became angry in my heart. This is normal, Jianzhou The Jurchen commoners knew the brutality and terror of the Ming army at close range, and they dared not violate any rules.

After catching the person who secretly went out to report the letter, this anger was finally aroused. Nurhachi also knew that if he did not use harsh methods, not only would the situation be unmanageable, but his own military spirit might not be maintained.

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Because of collaborating with the enemy, the entire village was killed by the Jianzhou army. The news spread everywhere, and no one believed it for a while. It was the Jurchens who killed the Jurchens, but the following actions proved these things True, the Jianzhou Army began to forcibly conscript men from various villages, looting livestock and food
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