Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 413
"Sorry-"

"Baylor, the sentry cavalry reported back, the Ming army in the south and west mobilized hundreds of cavalry to go south..."

The sound of horseshoes sounded, and outside the boundless city of Shangjing, the nimble Fan Wencheng reported back with his sentry cavalry spying on him. As soon as he said this, many nobles of the Kingdom of Jin on both sides of the road looked at the two of them.

Under the yellow tent, Nurhachi, who was sitting in a wooden wheelchair, was very thin, without the vigor of the past, and only gave people a kind of sadness of a hero's twilight.

Sitting next to Nurhachi was Huang Taiji, who seemed to be in good health. Compared with a few years ago, he was a whole circle bigger. Obviously, for Jin Guo, food was no longer a problem.

"Did you see who went south?"

Nurhachi asked in a hoarse voice, and Huang Taiji nodded slightly, motioning for Fan Wencheng to explain.

"The sentry cavalry didn't dare to approach. The Ming army has too many people. If they approached, they might not be able to come back."

Fan Wencheng got off his horse and knelt on the ground to answer Nurhachi's question. As soon as he finished speaking, Daishan and Mang Gurtai, who were standing on both sides of the yellow tent, looked at Nurhachi and Huang Taiji.

Since the infighting among the upper echelons of the Kingdom of Jin ended in Huang Taiji's victory four years ago, Huang Taiji moved Nurhachi and others to Shangjing after establishing the Taining Mansion in Daming.

Afterwards, Beishan Jurchen Guo Sangdai expressed his surrender, and Huang Taiji took the opportunity to send Amin to stay in Xingjing City to defend the Ming army in Yidonghe City, and sent his brothers Abai, Tabai, and Babutai to Xi Shencheng went to defend Guo Sangdai.

Thanks to the promotion of sweet potatoes and potatoes, the Kingdom of Jin actually solved the food problem two years ago. At the same time, they also cultivated a lot of fields and built many armors to equip the Mongols, Han people and Jurchens.

The flow of history is not hindered in the Kingdom of Jin. Nurhachi canonized Huang Taiji as the prince two years ago and ordered him to supervise the country.

The first step after Huang Taiji supervised the country was to establish the Four Banners of Han and Four Banners of Mongolia, each with 5000 people, and the total strength of Mongolian and Han troops was [-].

Of course, the premise that Meng Han was supported was that the Jurchen troops were insufficient.

Although the Battle of Restoring Liao has ended for seven years, the number of Eight Banners is only [-].

In general, although Jin Guo still has 10 people, the quality is not as good as it was ten years ago.

Ten years ago, the Kingdom of Jin could pull out 15 soldiers with the strength of the whole family, but now they count all males over the age of 6, and there are only [-].

It took them seven years to recover from the trauma of the Battle of Restoring Liao Dynasty.

It wasn't until the number of arable land in the Kingdom of Jin reached 300 million mu two years ago that all the nobles of the Kingdom of Jin saw a little life.

The Jurchen nobles ate rice, wheat, wine and meat, the Mongolian and Han Eight Banners ate rice and wheat, and rationed a small amount of wine and meat, and the Jurchens further down ate rice and wheat, while the Mongols and Han people ate sweet potatoes and potatoes. food rationing system.

This rationing system is indeed effective, successfully allowing two 10,000+ Jurchens and three 10,000+ Mongols and Hans to survive in this cold place.

During this period, all the nobles of the Kingdom of Jin were suffering in fear, fearing that one day the Ming army would launch the Northern Expedition.

However, they did not wait for the Ming army's Northern Expedition, but instead waited for the ecstatic good news such as the "severe drought in the north" and the "civil uprising in northern Shaanxi".

Especially in the year when the severe drought in Ming Dynasty was the worst, Nurhachi and Huang Taiji made an unprecedented order that all the men of that year could be given a catty of wine.

Since the beginning of the year, Huang Taiji has been paying attention to the internal strife and disasters within the Ming Dynasty. When the midsummer is coming to an end, he knows that the Ming army will make big moves this year.

The reason is simple, the drought has weakened, and now only Shanxi and Shanxi still have large-scale droughts.

In the same situation, when Zhu Youjian faced this situation, he wanted to organize the Northern Expedition. The troops of the Eastern Army Governor's Mansion were ready to be transferred, and as a result, the "Northern Shaanxi civil uprising" happened.

Right now, Huang Taiji is sure that the Ming army will take action, because things like the "Northern Shaanxi civil uprising" will not happen twice.

He asked Fan Wencheng if he had seen the banner clearly, but he actually wanted to know if the people who went south were the many generals of the Ming army who were in charge of encircling the Kingdom of Jin.

Although Fan Wencheng didn't know, Huang Taiji already had the answer in his heart.

"It should be Zhu Youjian who summoned them to go south..."

Nurhachi opened his mouth, and the moment he opened his mouth, everyone became nervous.

"How much food do we have?" Nurhachi looked at Huang Taiji, his skinny appearance made people think that he would not live for too long.

"Mimai 32 shi, and some dried potatoes and sweet potatoes, about 30 shi."

Huang Taiji knew everything about Jin Guo's situation, but Nurhachi pondered for a moment after hearing this.

Due to the weakness of his body, his breathing was like a bellows, so loud that anyone five or six steps away from him could hear it.

Dai Shan, Mang Gurtai and others waited silently, as did Huang Taiji.

In terms of fighting, Nurhachi basically didn't make any mistakes. In the battle of restoring Liao Dynasty that year, the Ming army fought more and less, and attacked from all directions.

Especially Hong Chengchou, Qin Bangping, Qi Yuanfu and others ignored the Liaoshen battlefield at all, and led their people to attack Hetuala, where they created a massacre of tens of thousands of people.

If it weren't for Mangurtai's timely withdrawal, the 10,000+ Jurchens of Hetuala might have been slaughtered by Hong Chengchou.

But the situation is that Mang Gurtai retreated.

What Mangurtai thought at the time was that even without himself, the Ming army could not defeat Nurhachi, and Hetuala needed him more than Nurhachi.

As a result, it turned out that his tactical vision was poor. More than 4 cavalry from the third battalion of Jiadogan and the third battalion of Liaodong, the four cavalry guards of Shangzhi, assembled, and the maneuver advantage of the golden army's horse infantry disappeared instantly.

In the end, he managed to keep most of the 10,000+ Jurchens, but the Jin army on the Liaoshen battlefield was not picked up because of his retreat, so he was dumped by the Ming army.

In the end, most of the most elite [-] Jurchens were wiped out, and they have not recovered until today. Nurhachi himself broke a leg and survived for seven years.

If it weren't for the fact that Mang Gurtai's two blue flags were the most well-organized soldiers at that time, and Mang Gurtai had indeed kept most of the Jurchens, he might have been executed by Nurhachi long ago.

The Battle of Restoring Liao Dynasty was regarded as Nurhachi's pinnacle battle. The Ming army relied on several times the strength of Nurhachi to fight him, but even so, he still relied on the mobility of horse infantry in the early stage to mobilize the Ming army instead.

If it weren't for the elite cavalry of Mangui, Cao Wenzhao, and He Shixian, and equipped with flintlock riding blunderbuss, then Nurhachi would probably retreat calmly.

Therefore, even if he was defeated, no one looked down on him, even Zhu Youjian, who was his enemy.

Therefore, Nurhachi's contemplation actually determines the future of the Jin Kingdom.

Everyone was waiting for him to speak, and he didn't disappoint everyone.

"The artillery of the Ming army was sharp, but all the cities we built were built with thousands of catties of stones. Even if the Ming army dispatched thousands of catties of artillery, it would be difficult to take them down in a short period of time."

"Shangjing City has five months of cold winter every year, and it is impossible for the Ming army to invade us in the cold winter."

"Our army has [-] people. If they want to invade, they must at least mobilize more than [-] troops."

"More than 30 people, even if we send troops from Taining and Yidonghe City, we need at least [-] civilians."

"More than 30 people and 50 civilian husbands, nearly [-] people, eat horse chews every month, and consume at least [-] shi of rice and wheat, and tens of thousands of shi of beans."

"The Ming army in the north is only 30 soldiers and horses. If half of them are sent to invade us, the rest of the place will be empty."

"Tiger crouching rabbit and they won't sit idly by. You must know that your lips are dead and your teeth are cold, so as long as the tiger crouching rabbit sends troops, the Ming army will still have to stalemate with our army."

"Shangjingcheng and Xingjingcheng are only suitable for sending troops from March to September. As long as we defend until the beginning of September, even if Zhu Youjian doesn't want to, he has to withdraw his troops."

"Just defending the city is difficult, so it is necessary to send troops to attack the civilians of the Ming army, disturb their defense, mobilize the front-line troops to the rear, let the Ming army increase the number of troops, and consume them as much as possible."

Nurhachi's thinking is still the same, and the ever-changing encirclement point is used to fight for aid, but this point has changed from the original city to a heavily guarded army that may be weak in defense.

"I lead a heavy army to attack the Ming army outside!"

Huang Taiji frowned and took over the most difficult task in the future battle. After he took over, Daishan and Mangurtai breathed a sigh of relief.

"I took the four Mongolian flags, two white flags, and two yellow flags to fight against the Ming army in the field, and the Han four flags, two red flags, and two blue flags to defend the city."

Huang Taiji gave an order to the nobles of Jin Kingdom, but just after he finished speaking, Daishan frowned and said:

"This time is different from before. We have a lot of farms in Nuergan. If the Ming army does not withdraw in winter and leaves the farms to surround Xingjing City and Shangjing City, then we..."

Dai Shan's words made many high-ranking officials of the Jin Kingdom frown, because they all knew that the Jin army in the wild might not necessarily be able to defeat the Ming army.

The combat power of the Ming army has been greatly improved, and the Jin army may not necessarily be its opponent in small-scale operations.

In the past, the Jin army could not rely on the large-scale cooperation of the Ming army, so the Jin army was able to win repeated battles in large-scale battles.

But in the upcoming battle between Ming and Jin, the Marshal of the Ming army must be Zhu Youjian, and no one doubts whether Zhu Youjian can command a large-scale battle.

Maybe seven years ago, he still needed Xiong Tingbi to complete his tactics and command the army for him, but now he will definitely make the nobles of the Jin Kingdom feel shivering when they think of his name.

Among them, especially Huang Taiji, can feel Zhu Youjian's terror the most.

For Huang Taiji, there are not many people like Zhu Youjian who pushed a downhill dynasty into an uphill dynasty in ancient and modern times.

He is the first one who can help the dynasty to reform successfully, and can also personally lead troops to the north and mount a horse to kill the enemy.

How much is Daming's annual income?Huang Taiji didn't know, but he knew one thing in his heart, that is, Zhu Youjian would never stop his idea of ​​destroying gold because of Blizzard.

So after Daishan asked the question, he simply said:
"Once nothing can be done, abandon Xingjing City and retreat to Tuo Lun City!"

"Retreat to Toron?"

"Is that too far away?"

"There's no need to retreat to the city of Tulun, right? Just retreating to the city of Edra is enough, right?"

"Too far……"

"That's right, it's enough to retreat to Eida City, if it's not enough, Pu'erhe City is also fine..."

As soon as Huang Taiji's words came out, even though many people complained, Huang Taiji frowned and scolded:

"More than 30 mu of arable land has been reclaimed in Tuo Lun, and we can rely on mountains and forests for defense."

"At that time, we only need to intercept the Heishui River, and the Ming army's artillery will not be able to be transported in by water!"

"Whoever the Ming army beats me with gold will have firearms."

"As long as the artillery of the Ming army is no longer usable, then we can wait for a few more years."

"This year, Shanxi and Shaanxi in the north of the Ming court are still suffering from severe drought. If there is another drought or plague in the future, Zhu Youjian will have to retreat if he does not retreat!"

"Do you think that the Ming army didn't want to invade? They were restrained by the affairs of the Central Plains and could not invade."

"If there is another turmoil in the Central Plains, they will pay more attention to the life and death of the people in the customs than to invade our Dajin."

Huang Taiji started planning a long time ago. Three years ago, he even sent Jierhalang to Udolun City to start planning a retreat.

Jurchen is a fishing and hunting nation, and there are still 10,000+ old and weak, who are destined to be unable to run to the grassland like the Mongols.

Moreover, the only place where the north can run is the Harawen Mountains, and the entire mountain range and the Horqin Grassland are currently occupied by the Ming army.

Unless Jin Guo runs to Beishan (Eastern Siberia), they have no place to run.

But where is Beishan?There are eight months of cold season every year. Except for some big mountain depressions, crops cannot be grown in other places, and the crops that can be grown are extremely rare.

Not to mention Huang Taiji, even if Nurhachi ordered to go to Beishan, no one would choose to obey.

Therefore, the Udolun area is the last place where the Jin Kingdom can retreat. Apart from here, there is only Nuergancheng in the northeast, but there is no way that Guo Sangdai there will take in the impoverished Jin Kingdom.

Besides, Huang Taiji never trusted Guo Sangdai.

Therefore, what he wants more is to hold on to the victory, and then wait for the Ming Dynasty's own civil strife to take the opportunity to send troops to regain the lost ground.

The Ming Dynasty will definitely be chaotic, which Huang Taiji can be sure of, and the reason lies in Zhu Youjian.

As a prince, it doesn't matter if he is in charge of the world's soldiers and horses, and his disciples and old officials accounted for more than [-]% of the officials of the Ming Dynasty.

In this case, Zhu Youxiao is completely a puppet.

Of course, there is also a possibility that Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youjian repeated the "Republic of the Two Kings" of the Zhou Dynasty, but this probability is not as good as the arrogant soldiers of the Five Armies Governor's Mansion who cut Zhu Youxiao. The probability of adding a body by the inspection of the yellow robe is greater.

Although Zhu Youjian has achieved many things that Huang Taiji thought was impossible, in this matter, Huang Taiji thinks it is absolutely impossible.

As long as there is internal strife in Ming Dynasty and an internal war breaks out, Dajin will have a chance at that time.

They don't need too many chances, they just need to occupy Taining Mansion in Daming, and then relying on Taining Mansion and joining forces with Lin Danhan is enough.

As for why Huang Taiji is sure that Lin Danhan will make a move, it is because...

"If you lose Xingjing City, don't you have to start all over again?"

"Besides, after winning Xingjing City, the Ming army approached Tuo Lun City for hundreds of miles."

Daishan was a little dissatisfied with Huang Taiji's method of surviving with broken arms, although he understood that this tactic was one of the few tactic that Dajin could survive.

"Only by abandoning Xingjing City can the Ming army continue to move northward and lengthen their supply line!"

Huang Taiji frowned tightly, he didn't understand why Daishan and the others were still struggling with the land.

The question now is not one city or one place, but whether the Kingdom of Jin can survive the wave of Da Ming's offensive.

"All right……"

Nurhachi opened his mouth suddenly, but although everyone was dissatisfied, they could only shut their mouths, waiting for Nurhachi to speak.

Facing his group of sons, Nurhachi has always regarded them as his tools, but he is very clear that he can no longer control them now, so he can only say:

"Leave Xingjing City to Daishan and you to guard it, and Huifa City to Mangurtai." After finishing speaking, he looked at the four people standing at the end of the line.

"Fan Wencai, Li Yongfang and you two are stationed in Xingjing with Daishan, and Fan Wencheng and Liu Aita are guarding Huifa City with Manggurtai."

"As ordered!"

The four of Fan Wencheng nodded in response, and Nurhachi looked at Huang Taiji again and said:
"Let Jierharang, Amin, and Abatai go to guard the three cities of Udolun, Tolunmu, and Xishen."

"Let Yuetuo go to guard the city of Eda..."

"Yes..." Huang Taiji had no choice but to agree, and guessed what Nurhachi would say next.

In front of him, Nurhachi turned his head to look at Mangurtai and Daishan, and said hoarsely:

"If you can't keep it, you should retreat to the city of Erdala first."

"Yes!" Daishan and the others became a little more energetic. Although they also knew that Nurhachi meant "if the city of Eadala cannot be defended, retreat to Pu'erhe city", but saying this gave them great autonomy. right.

Ever since Huang Taiji succeeded in ascending the throne, they seldom have this kind of autonomy, and they are naturally at ease.

It's a pity that they are comfortable, but Huang Taiji feels uncomfortable in his heart.

He has always been very clear that after four years from the apocalypse, Dajin cannot face the Ming army head-on on the frontal battlefield.

If Huang Taiji knew the word "politics", he would point to this group of sticky guys and shout, "Ming Jin is not a military issue, but a political issue."

It's just that it's useless for him to feel uncomfortable, because Nurhachi has already decided the direction of this matter.

"Let's go..."

Nurhachi coughed, and the benefited Daishan and others started to push the cart and sent Nurhachi back to Shangjing.

When they left, Huang Taiji did not move, and Fan Wencheng and Fan Wencai also stayed beside him, obviously they knew that their master had a better way.

"This autumn harvest, how much food is expected to be harvested..."

After everyone left, Huang Taiji asked Fan Wencheng, and Fan Wencheng said like a treasure:
"Based on last year's per-mu yield, there could be about 80 stone beans, 200 stone rice wheat, 100 million stone sweet potatoes, potatoes, and [-] million stone sweet potato vines."

"Baylor, according to my servant, some sweet potatoes and potatoes can be prepared into dry slices. This winter, rice and wheat will be suspended."

Fan Wencheng figured out Huang Taiji's thoughts. To put it bluntly, he wanted to store grain, but sweet potatoes and potatoes were not easy to store. The only things that could be stored were beans and rice.

However, if the Jurchens who had only had enough to eat for two years suddenly changed to potatoes and sweet potatoes, this would inevitably cause dissatisfaction, and Huang Taiji could not say it.

Therefore, Fan Wencheng was going to make this black glove for Huang Taiji.

"Do as you wish..." Huang Taiji glanced at Fan Wencheng.

"Your servant obeys..." Fan Wencheng nodded in response, and then walked around the field with Huang Taiji.

On the contrary, when they were wandering around, in the team that followed Nurhachi back to the city, Liu Aita approached Mangurtai, and said cautiously:

"Master Baylor, this servant will go back to the mansion to pack his luggage. When Lord Baylor gives the order, this servant will immediately lead the soldiers and horses to go south with Lord Baylor."

"Well... you go." Mang Gurtai looked down on Liu Aita, but he still restrained himself and did not humiliate her.

"Your servant will leave..." Liu Aita stopped in her tracks, but Mang Gurtai didn't care, and just returned to the palace with the army.

Looking at the retreating figures of the large army, Liu Aita breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and returned to her mansion.

After a quarter of an hour, when he returned to his mansion, the first thing he did was not to pack up, but walked to a simple courtyard, opened the door and walked in and said:

"Some things, you have to go..."

"Ok?"

Hearing the sound, a Jurchen who was sitting and reading in the courtyard stood up.

Although they are all Jurchens, his appearance is obviously very different from the Jurchens in Jianzhou.

"What's the matter?" He put the book away, and Liu Aita also closed the door, frowning, and told this person all the conversations of Jin Guo's high-level officials.

After hearing this, the man also showed a serious expression on his face: "This matter needs to be reported to Nuer Gancheng immediately, can you help me get out of the city?"

"Tonight or tomorrow morning, Mang Gurtai should let me go with him, and then you can pretend to be a soldier and follow me out of the city." Liu Aita told the other party her own thoughts.

"Okay!" Hearing this, the man also nodded, and after Liu Aita explained, he turned and left the courtyard.

After a while, he asked the people in the mansion to pack up their luggage, and as he expected, after sending Nurhachi back to the palace, Mangurtai sent someone to tell him to go to the barracks of the Fourth Han Battalion to transfer troops, and then headed to Huifa City in the afternoon .

When Liu Aita got the news, even though Dang took his family soldiers out of the city, the Eight Banners soldiers at the gate of the city saw them and did not investigate them carefully.

After arriving at the Fourth Han Battalion, Liu Aita asked someone to prepare a horse, and after issuing the military order to transfer troops, he took the Jurchen disguised as a family soldier out of the barracks, and reminded cryptically:

"Take Daqingshan Road, there are people from the Fourth Han Battalion. You carry a five-hundred-mile urgent command flag on your back, and there are Jurchens. The Han Ying soldiers dare not stop you."

"Okay!" Hearing this, the Jurchens carried the order flag on their backs, and then got on their horses.

With a sound of "drive", he rode his horse and left in front of the gate of the Fourth Han Battalion.

As for Liu Aita, she watched his back gradually disappear at the end of the road before turning around and walking back to the barracks.

After half an hour, Fan Wencheng also rushed over anxiously, commanding the mobilization of troops.

After being so busy for an hour, six thousand soldiers of the Han battalion walked out of the barracks and embarked on the road to the south.

At the same time, the Jurchen also went to Nu'ergan City unimpededly under the guise of the identity of Tangqi who was in five hundred miles to expedite...

(End of this chapter)