stubborn thief

Chapter 375 Hetuala Ten Years Ago
In the new town of Cow Bay, it's hard to find hordes of men.

Children in ill-fitting clothes are jumping and jumping. All they need is a shabby military uniform to cover up their thin bodies. All they need is a wooden stick as a mount to make a poor doll seem to be rich all over the world.

Under the shade of the tree, the strong woman drove away the flies and insects for the cattle, wiped the sweat while supporting the sowing cart, and occasionally looked to the east with worry and expectation.

There was a faint sound of drumming in the distance. At first, it didn't sound real to people's ears, until the cavalry waving yellow flags drove across the field with dust, and shouted the good news in the field with a hoarse voice: "Victory, victorious! The commander-in-chief! Plunder Lanzhou!"

The whole new city was boiling with excitement, the old and the weak, women and children rushed to put down their affairs and rushed to the east of the city along the stream of people, where some people had already held up the firecrackers that had been prepared long ago, and they were crackling.

Aixinjueluo Haoge, the eldest son of Hou Jin Tiancong Khan, was sitting in another courtyard holding tsampa in his hand. The sound of crackling firecrackers and cheers in the distance made him lose his mind for a moment, as if he had returned to Jianzhouwei. state guard.

It's so similar to Grandpa's Hetuala here....

Hetuala is a distant term for Hauge and even the entire Hou Jin. It was the capital of the Jin Kingdom during the Nurhachi period. At that time, the biggest enemy of Jianzhou was the Ula tribe of Haixi Jurchen, the Wanli Emperor who lived in the Forbidden City He is still the most powerful person in heaven and earth, and he is at the height of his power.

Hauge is 24 years old this year. Since he was 15 years old, he joined the army for the first time with his grandfather. He has been in the army for nine years. After experiencing the difficult situation at the beginning of his father's succession, the Kingdom of Jin has become a powerful power in the Northeast that is evenly matched with the Great Emperor. Daming is still the same Daming, but it doesn't look so scary to Jin Guo.

"Baylor, they said that the Grand Marshal returned after victory. Shall I go out to meet him or wait for his summons?"

Turge, the former governor of Xiangbai Banner and Chengzheng of the Ministry of Officials of the Kingdom of Jin, closed the courtyard door and reported in a low voice. Yes, Mo Pei Dasao."

Hauge sat on the low stool without saying a word, but quickly finished the tsampa in his hand, took a sip of cold water, looked over the courtyard wall, and looked at the female wall at the head of the new city in the distance, then got up, put on his waist knife, and said "Of course I'm going to meet him. My uncle is a senior general in the army, so I just happened to see how strong or weak his army is compared to us."

In Hauge's mind, if Liu Chengzong's army can fight against the Ming army and survive, it will have its advantages in winning.

Now his doubts are just where Liu Chengzong is and how long he is.

This determines his attitude when meeting with Liu Chengzong. Haoge made double preparations. He heard that Kong Youde led a complete firearms army with a scale of tens of thousands in the east and asked to join him. If Liu Chengzong was not very strong, he also hoped to try it. Incorporated.

But if its power is stronger than Kong Youde, try to reach an alliance and military assistance with it.

Turge's father was E Yidu, the fifth minister of the Kingdom of Jin. E Yidu married Nurhaci's daughter Mukush in his later years. After E Yidu's death, Mukush became Turge's wife according to the tradition of accepting marriages. Therefore, Hauge said his uncle.

However, this kind of appellation and relationship, whether called or listened to, are only just right. When such relatives are needed, they happen to be relatives;

Twelve guards pulled out fourteen horses, and surrounded Hauge and Turg with their helmets and armor, and followed the crowd towards the east.

The eyes of Hauge, who was riding ahead, were full of expectation: he could finally meet the legendary thief!
As the eldest son of Huang Taiji, Tiancong Khan of the Jin Kingdom, Hauge only led a guard army of more than ten riders to the Marshal's Mansion, which was an extremely important step for him.

To put it simply, just a few months ago, Tian Cong Khan Huang Taiji was stunned by the continuous good news in the past few years, and the development of the Khanate fell into an unprecedented short-term confusion.

At the beginning of Huang Taiji's succession to the throne, Hou Jin was a country that had the sudden death of the former king, the disobedience of nobles, natural disasters inside, blockades outside, and threats from Ming, Mongolia, and North Korea. There were a large number of Han Chinese and Jurchen spies in the territory, and the whole was on the verge of collapse. Local separatist tribes.

In today's Houjin, Huang Taiji separated some Han people from the slaves of the Eight Banners by announcing the unity of Manchu and Han, weakening the power of noble princes and gradually centralizing power; attacking North Korea forced them to form an alliance of brothers and open trade; Looting people and goods broke the blockade, swept across Monan and opened up the old road of Duoyan.

Houjin, who has long faced repression, blockade, famine, threats, and is on the verge of collapse, suddenly looks back and finds that everything that Nurhachi dreamed of during the period is already available.

With such a scene, it would be confusing to hit anyone on the head.

Taking a step back, the Kingdom of Jin has already completed all the needs for survival, and the princes and soldiers will lose their aggressiveness if they relax a little bit; and further, the Ningjin Fortress Group is difficult to break through with Daming, how to keep people vigilant?
Therefore, after chasing Chahar Khan Lindan Huduntu and stationed in Guihua City, Huang Taiji summoned Prince Baylor and his soldiers to ask: "From now on, we will wait, which one should we fight first?"

Hauge, who was on the expedition, answered eloquently: "It is useless to attack Jinzhou and Ningyuan, because our country's siege method is well known to others; moreover, our soldiers have not been able to attack it before. If they are ordered to attack it again, they must be afraid of difficulty."

"Even if Jinzhou is captured, the other seven cities will still need to be attacked. If only one city is taken, the rest will be fortified. It will take a long time. I am afraid that the morale of our army will be low for a long time."

Haug's suggestion for this deadlock is a three-step process.

First of all, to appease and win over North Korea, he is already a younger brother, and further conscripts are just from younger brother to son, which is of little significance.

The second is the remnants of the Chahar Mongols. We must play it by ear, destroy them if they can be wiped out, and expel them if they cannot be wiped out.

Finally, it is the main strategy direction in his suggestion, Daming.

Adopt three roads, and the Liaodong region avoids head-to-head battles with Jinzhou and Ningyuan; mainly from Duoyan's hometown and the old and new roads in Monan.

Regardless of whether you get it or not, you must send troops to station in these places for a long time, and try your best to plunder the people, property, and things in Xuanda and Tongzhou during the attack, so as to make up for the loss of the war and motivate the soldiers participating in the war.

The most important thing is to occupy the moral high ground. Before the attack, they advertised in the villages and cities that the Jin State was willing to make peace, but the Ming State was unwilling to make peace.

Hauge's appearance here means that on top of the strategy of stationing troops in Tongzhou and Xuanda, he mentioned sending capable people to recruit thieves deeply and wisely, and make them belong to Houjin.

Even if they can't be recruited, they still have to garrison Tongzhou, send people to investigate the movement of the bandits, wait for the Daming division to defend, and take advantage of the night to rush forward from Ningjin and Tongzhou to attack Shanhaiguan, so as to make the attack and defense easier.

Hauge was the first person in Hou Jin to propose a joint attack on Ming.

Huang Taiji affirmed his suggestion and rejected him decisively.

The plan is a good plan, but there is no one who can carry out the plan in Houjin... In North Korea, Dabeile Amin almost became self-reliant; the army was stationed in Luanzhou, and the army almost lost control.

Based on the previous experience, Huang Taiji will definitely lead the army in any fate-determining battle, not to mention that he is trying his best to weaken the power of the Jin kings and princes, so as to further centralize power and divide the troops in Tongzhou and Xuanda in the Ming Dynasty , is impractical for him.

Without the garrison, it is impossible to detect the movements of thieves, but this suggestion is not useless. In fact, apart from the fact that there is no independent candidate, the thinking of the eldest son Hauge in his suggestion has won Huang Taiji's heart.

When the army slowed down, they robbed Daming, and plundered its people, property, and things as much as possible; instead of smashing the fortress of Huaning Jinwang, they went around and robbed other places, which was very meaningful to the Jin Kingdom.

It's just that the cost of recruiting thieves is extremely high and the operability is extremely low.

There are so many thieves in Daming, this king and that general, even if they want to win them over, the country of Jin who is separated by mountains and rivers can't accurately identify who is who, let alone who to win and buy... Not to mention that the country of Jin doesn't know, Daming doesn't know who is. Who.

Even when Zuo Liangyu was beaten up in Wu'an, he didn't know that the person who beat him was Li Zicheng.

The reason why the operability is extremely low, rather than impossible, is that there is a well-known and easily identifiable thief in the world who has become a bandit. This person is in the northwest. Liu Chengzong.

Huang Taiji said: "Since you want to find it, then try it."

In the gunpowder smoke that exploded and dissipated in the official road, the mighty Mongolian brigade laid out a long snake. The Mongolian soldiers under Xie Erhu almost changed their guns. Cover up and search for family members among the women and children who greet each other.

Once found, he joyfully untied the bag containing the military rations, and took out the unfinished dried meat and dry rations to distribute to his wife and children.

After a long time, until the Mongolian brigade of tens of thousands of people passed through completely, Mei Duo, who was surrounded by Western women and children by the roadside, finally relaxed her frown. She just couldn't like Mongolians, even if they were also under the command of the Generalissimo.

Those messy and noisy Mongols had snatched the necklace that the old lady had given her, and for a long time she thought it was the only thing in her life that belonged to her.

But soon, when the welcoming team erupted into cheers, and after the prisoners pushed the Lele carts full of money, food and treasures, at the end of the large number of livestock, Mei Duo finally saw the Tianxia Taiping flag flying high.

The troops under the Taiping banner were unusually quiet, far less noisy than the Mongolian soldiers. The former nobles sat astride their horses with spiral spears, and teams of experienced infantrymen took off their heavy armored shields and walked forward with their spears ; The thin infantrymen were silent and silent, pushing light carts full of armor and shields forward with their heads bowed.

Mei Duo's eyes searched and searched, her face turned from anticipation to doubt, and her heart became more and more anxious. She saw the old and vigorous General Ah Liu, the young and noble General Gas, and even the tongueless Monk Awang.

Finally, at the end of the hunting camp, she saw Basang riding a horse with a high helmeted gun and a red cloth mask. Recognize it with a straight neck, that is her General Basang!
In the Jin Guo Mission, which was separated from the crowd by the guards of the Marshal’s Mansion, Hauge stared fixedly at the sergeants passing by. A chariot full of money and food.

This is not surprising to him. Hetuala often saw such a scene in the early years. Whenever the Jianzhou army attacked the city and plundered the land, the Eight Banners soldiers who returned victorious would be like this. Lee, but also just a little more.

What surprised him was that Liu Chengzong's new city was full of poverty, but the huge amount of wealth was not allocated to the nobles and soldiers... The soldiers seemed to think it was nothing strange, and they were all happy.

Hauge really couldn't figure out what they were thinking. Could it be that the Mongolians in the northwest were just fighting for some dry food and dried meat?

At this moment, Turge, who was standing beside him, touched him with his arm: "Baile, look at that, Liu Chengzong's Han army."

Turg saw a well-formed Han army, which was divided into three battalions, with more horses than men, more mules than horses, and thirteen cannons.

He asked the guard of the Marshal's Mansion beside him in Han language: "Is that the Marshal's servant?"

The guard of the Marshal's Mansion froze for a moment, hesitating whether he should nod his head or not. In theory, what Turg said was right, everyone is the servant of the Marshal.

But in terms of organization, this is not the case, so the guard replied: "That is the training camp of the Marshal's Mansion."

"Training camp?"

Turg's eyes blazed.

Hauge looked at the Marshal's Mansion from the perspective of economy and development, and felt that they were like the Kingdom of Jin ten years ago; while Turge, from the perspective of a veteran general in the military, initially thought that the Marshal's Mansion would be like the Kingdom of Jin ten years ago The same, but did not expect the military gap between the two is not big.

In the state of Jin, there is a kind of weaving called Ba Yala, which is Jingqi.

In the early days of the Kingdom of Jin, Nurhachi faced a predicament similar to that of Daming.

The problem facing the Ming Dynasty was how to organize an army capable of sweeping Jianzhou Liting and feed them when the national strength was declining.

The problem for the Kingdom of Jin was how to organize an elite force capable of quickly maneuvering in Jianzhou to stop the Ming army and feed them under the background of lack of money and food and internal and external difficulties.

Bayala is Nurhachi's solution to this problem. It imitates the family system to strengthen the noble army under his command, prepares armored soldiers for the nobles, and lets them equip the armored soldiers themselves. In return, some of them serve as their guards and let them run.

This move enabled the various state lords, small kings and nobles in Nurgan to equip fine cavalry. These fine cavalry once accounted for half of the armored soldiers in each banner, and became the backbone of Nurhachi's battle.

In the era of Huang Taiji, a strong centralization of power began to take place within the Kingdom of Jin. The guards scattered in the hands of the generals were no longer the reserve team assembled temporarily by Nurhachi on the battlefield in the past, but were organized by Huang Taiji to establish the Ba Yala camp. , from a private army to a standing army under the control of the Great Khan.

And here, it is obvious that the centralization of power can be easily completed without the complicated means of transforming servants into a standing army.

The bureaucratic system with only a simple framework, the impoverished and backward economy, and the militarism to maintain a standing army that far exceeds the number they can bear, constitute the entire impression of Liu Chengzong by Hauge and Turg.

Aixinjueluo Haoge took off his bowl, scratched his stubble-grown scalp, and complained to Turge in Jianzhou dialect: "These barbarians!"

Turger laughed and asked, "What is Baylor going to do?"

Hauge took a deep breath, looked at the guards of the Marshal's Mansion, and said to Turg: "Thanks to my father Khan for giving me two letters, my uncle told him to tell Liu Chengzong that he loves Hauge of Xinguo, and he is waiting...to be summoned by Brother Wang. "

　I’ve been waiting for a long time. Let me report. The mother and daughter are safe. They were discharged from the hospital the day before yesterday. I’m not used to writing in my notebook after confinement with my wife. I’ll spend a few days later this month to apply for birth certificates and household registration for the children. Maybe it’s written It will be a little slower, I am very happy, thank you for your blessings and tolerance, thank you!

　　
　
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