Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 467

Nurhachi is dead...

His body was buried in the sea of ​​fire together with Hu Erhan. The fire burned for a whole day and night. By the time the Ming army finally extinguished the fire, Nurhachi and Hu Erhan had already turned into flying ashes.

Although it is a bit regrettable, after the Jin Dynasty finally perished, Zhu Youjian no longer has to worry about it. When he was governing the country, Huang Taiji made trouble for Daming outside the pass.

Of course, although Hou Jin died, Lin Danhan, the iron head baby, is still there.

It's just that after the percussion gun was put into production, he wanted to clean up Mobei Mongolia, which is a matter of 2 people. Zhu Youjian no longer took Lin Danhan to heart.

"Pass a letter to the capital to divide the land outside the pass into three provinces. Taining, Duoyan, and Kaiping are the provinces of Modong, and Modong is appointed to announce the political department. One province, three prefectures and twelve counties govern Taining County."

"The south of the Heishui River is Donghai Province, with five prefectures and [-] counties, the upper capital is changed to Songhua County, and Songhua County is established as the provincial capital of Donghai Province."

"Set up Songhua Mansion, change Xingjing City to Jilin Mansion, change Huifa City to Baishan Mansion, change Mowen River to Donghai Mansion, and change Woduolun to Sanjiang Mansion."

"Then set up Beishan Province, govern Nuergancheng, change its name to Beishan County, and set up Beishan Prefecture."

After taking off the armor, Wei Zhongxian saw that Zhu Youxiao was going to take a bath, so he quickly resigned and walked out of the big tent.

On the plain, tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry dressed in simple leather armor, chain mail, and iron armor rushed into this peaceful place for several years.

Well now, he has to use 500 people to defend the eight-mile city wall. On average, each person has to guard four crenels. How can this be successful?

"There are quite a lot of people stationed, and it seems that it is not easy to fight."

There are not many people in Duolun County, and there are not many soldiers, horses and yamen servants, only about [-] people.

"Where did Tang Qi not understand the rules? How did your generals teach you!"

Thinking of this, the Sentinels of the Shangzhigong Guard Battalion stationed here relaxed, watching the Mongolian army getting farther and farther away from them.

Thinking of this, Zhang Xianzhong gritted his teeth, and a quarter of an hour later, the soldiers and yamen servants of Duolun County Bingma Division also went to the top of the city one after another.

When the Ming army stationed here used the top of the fort and lit the beacon fire, they saw a "black line" appearing on the horizon.

Originally, the Ming army wanted to cut them down after they were about the same size, but now it seems that it is too late.

"I'm busy..."

"Go back to the stone castle!"

With that said, Subudi explained the situation in Daxingzhou to Lin Danhan, and finally added:
"Then the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was not a fool. He must have gathered a lot of soldiers and horses to defend him when he went hunting."

"That's where you used to be, you should know how to get there, right?"

"They're going to loot villages and Duolun County."

"Thousands of people?" Hearing this, the yellow-faced guard paused, but he still puffed out his chest and said with his eyes wide open:
"What are you afraid of? I, Zhang Xianzhong, come and kill as many northern captives as possible. The head of each northern prisoner is 20 taels of silver. You don't want to earn this money?"

After returning to the large tent that was unfolded enough to accommodate a hundred people, Zhu Youxiao sat on the chair with a golden knife, and did not let anyone take off his armor, but waited for the whole person to cool down before asking someone to help him take off his armor The armor is off.

With a wave of Zhu Youjian's hand, the three eastern provinces became the four eastern provinces. The province with the largest territory is probably Beishan Province, because it needs to manage the East Siberia region east of the Lena River, with an area of ​​nearly 450 million square kilometers.

When more than 500 soldiers climbed up the city wall, as the armor sounded, a young man with a thin body, a yellowish face, a beard measuring one foot and six inches, and wearing a Daming cloth mask also walked up the city wall.

With this number of people and the strength of the Gongwei Battalion, there are less than 900 people, and the defensive pressure is still very high.

Their movement disturbed Zhu Youxiao, and Zhu Youxiao, who hadn't taken off his clothes, walked out of the big tent in his middle clothes.

Beishan County is close to [-] kilometers away from the northernmost point of Beishan Province. The deer and dog tribes who live there are afraid that if they know that they can move, they will abandon the place and go south collectively.

When the bell of Duolun County sounded to its surroundings, the herdsmen who were nomadic around Duolun County immediately fled to Duolun County with their cattle and sheep.

Not only that, but he also questioned the deputy guard: "Has the messenger Tang Qi been released?!"

"Not to mention ten days, even in fifteen days he would not be able to reach Yanshan with his troops."

Two quarters of an hour after they finished speaking, as the smoke continued to drift in, Duolun County, which stands on the plain between Yanshan Mountain and Harawin Mountain, also rang the bell urgently.

Finally, when the soldiers and horses stationed in Duolun County saw all the Mongolian cavalry, all of them took a breath.

After finishing all this, a thirty-year-old man in the armor of the commander of the guard rode his horse and came to Zhu Youxiao to bow:
"Long live, it's getting late, I'm afraid we have to camp in Daxingzhou today."

It's a pity that Lin Danhan didn't respond to him, but turned around and ordered his Wanhu, and then the most elite eight thousand cavalry in Lin Danhan's headquarters were called out, Lin Danhan rode his horse to come to them, turned his horse's head to face the station Dozens of generals in the first row said loudly:
"Today, I'm going to take you to Mount Yan to catch someone who can give you glory and wealth. Do you dare to follow me?!"

It is enough to have reinforcements. With reinforcements, it is not difficult to defend Duolun City for four days, because the Mongols have no siege equipment, and they have to travel thirty miles north to make siege equipment. Only by cutting down trees at the southern foot of the Harawin Mountains can siege equipment be made.

"Okay!" Looking at his eight thousand fine riders, Lin Danhan turned his horse's head complacently, and led the eight thousand fine riders towards the Yanshan Mountains according to the map given by Subudi.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian stroked his head with a slight headache, but at the same time as his headache, a fierce battle broke out in the south...

"Go! Call all the males over the age of 13 in the city to the city wall!"

"Yes!"

All in all, the Kingdom of Jin has perished, and there are only some finishing touches left.

"I naturally know that there are many people around Zhu Youxiao, and Kaiping Mansion alone has been transferred 2 people to defend him."

"Beep--"

Thinking of this, Zhang Xianzhong looked at the people around him, and then waved his hand:
"Let the imperial shop in the city take out all the iron materials, order all the blacksmiths in the city to make armor and weapons, and order the women in the city to take out the stone materials in their homes and grind them into stone bullets."

There were hundreds of Ming army's frontier stone forts in the Monan Grassland, each covering an area of ​​about [-] square meters and three feet high, like a stone tower.

The dense Mongols seemed to have filled the entire Duolun grassland. They were so numerous that Zhang Xianzhong and the others could not see the grassland in the distance, but only densely packed human heads.

On the Duolun Grassland in April, when the official words of Ming Dynasty sounded, it was accompanied by the sound of arrows and the sound of rumbling horseshoes.

Looking at the whimpering leopard on the ground, he drew his bow and took another arrow skillfully.

Each stone fort corresponds to a team of soldiers and horses, a team of 12 people. There is enough rice and wheat for them to eat for a year in the fort, and a hundred flat vegetable fields have been reclaimed in the stone fort.

The sound of horseshoes sounded from a distance. Zhu Youxiao, who was dressed in armor and slightly fatter than a few months ago, came riding a white sweat horse.

But before he could sit down, there was the sound of horseshoes in the distance, and a Tang rider rushed up the low hill, and almost broke into Zhu Youxiao's big tent.

"Zhang Shoubei..." Hearing this, Dui Zheng also showed worry on his face.

Although Su Budi was amazed that the southerners Lin Danhan knew well could figure out the whereabouts of the Ming emperor, he didn't think that the [-] cavalry after the division of troops could go to the narrow Yanshan River Valley to attack Zhu Youxiao .

"It's been released, and it's estimated that they have run out for thirty miles at this moment!" The deputy guard was energized by the roar, and quickly replied.

How to make them stay, this is the problem that Zhu Youjian needs to solve.

Although no pig iron was used, the structure of stones plus wood and cement gave the stone fort its resistance.

"Clang... clang... clang..."

The people are fleeing, but some are preparing for battle.

"Taking advantage of Zhu Youjian's bloody fight with Nurhachi this time, let's fight for it."

In short, under his military orders, Duolun County quickly became a war machine.

It took almost one day to go back and forth, so in general, Zhang Xianzhong only needed to guard for three days.

"This time you set out with light clothes. The army only brought ten days' worth of dried meat rations. If we can't go back in ten days, we don't even think about going back."

Dui Zheng murmured, then looked at the burning beacon tower, and then heaved a sigh of relief.

The reason why it was built so large was ordered by the officials who were stationed here at that time.

The sound of armor resounded from the head of Duolun County. There were not many soldiers stationed here, only one garrison force.

Wei Liangqing hadn't reacted yet, but fortunately, the two Yiluan guards at the gate of the big tent had quick eyes and quick hands, and stretched out their hands to grab the reins of the horse before it rushed into the big tent. The horse neighed, and the Tang Qi on his back was also thrown Come down and be controlled by the rest.

Zhu Youjian plans to spend three months to take a good look at the situation in the vast Northeast, and then select the 44 counties in the three provinces that have been settled.

When this person opened his mouth, the deputy guard who went up to the city wall in advance hurriedly bowed and said: "Guarantee, there may be a lot of northern captives coming this time. Looking at the scale of the wolf smoke, it is estimated to be at least [-] or more."

After he showed his intention to return, the commander of the guard also followed him back to the camp with dozens of cavalry.

If you want to attack there, you can only attack with a small number of soldiers and horses.

It was densely packed Mongolian cavalry, and this scene made everyone swallow their saliva.

The arrow hit the leopard's chest, followed by a few convulsions, it stopped moving at last, and dozens of Yiluan guard cavalry who followed Zhu Youxiao from afar also rushed forward, packed up the leopard and sent it back Camp.

However, the climate in Beishan meant that the population here would not be too large. No matter how much Ming entered into industrialization, it would be difficult for the local population to develop like the other provinces outside the customs.

"Once the Duoyan Mansion in the east and the Taining Mansion in the north know of our attack, they will definitely send troops to support them. They will arrive in Duolun County within seven days at most."

"Dare! Dare! Dare—"

"[-] soldiers are going straight to the guard camp, which is enough to cover Zhu Youxiao's retreat to the capital."

"It's just that I didn't plan to attack him with an army, but you lead an army to attack Duolun County, and at the same time attack the surrounding market towns and villages."

It was only after the Mongolian army marched eastward and disappeared that the team reacted and said with a frown:
"Isn't that right? We are still sixty miles away from the Taipusi Racecourse to the west. Why didn't the Taipusi Racecourse set off smoke?"

The Ming army in the fort was reminded by the sound of the arrow, and they had already opened the door for them in advance, and they rushed straight into the stone fort, dismounted in a panic, closed the gate of the stone fort, and directly put down the thousand-jin gate .

Zhu Youxiao explained to Wei Zhongxian while making people take off his armor, and Wei Zhongxian nodded with a smile.

"Uncle, don't worry, there are more than 2 soldiers and horses from the Shangzhigong Guard Camp outside the hunting ground. Even if the northern captives come all the way, they will not be able to do anything to the safety of Uncle, Long Live, and Your Highness." Wei Liangqing responded quickly, not daring to neglect.

After he walked out of the big tent, the commander of Yiluan Guard also bowed to him the moment he walked out: "Uncle..."

On horseback, Lin Danhan looked at Duolun County with the captured binoculars, while Subudi next to him also frowned and said:
"I said earlier that it is impossible for Zhu Youjian to leave a flaw for us. Instead of opening up Pingfu, it is better to go to Shuofang Mansion in Hetao to fight the grass valley. Millions of people have been relocated there, and millions of acres of arable land have been reclaimed. It is richer than Kaiping Mansion. too much."

This camp was set up on a low hill by the river, commanding a high position, and around the camp were two thousand cavalry guards from Yiluan Guards. The defense was not strict, but it was not bad either.

"You...where did you get the news?" Subudi was a little surprised for a moment. He didn't expect Lin Danhan to get the news of the Ming army so clearly. Even Zhu Youxiao sent 2 people to guard him while hunting Everything can be known by Lin Danhan.

The stone castle is in the shape of "Hui", divided into three floors, and each floor has twelve windows for people to shoot.

He turned his head to look at Duolun County, only to see a city with a circumference of eight miles appeared in front of his eyes.

"Well, as long as you know." Wei Zhongxian nodded, and then left absent-mindedly.

Fortunately, with the influx of tens of thousands of cattle and sheep from the four city gates, some Mongolian herdsmen who surrendered to Ming Dynasty also took bows, arrows and scimitars to the city wall, and the number of defenders reached more than 3000 at that time.

The fifty Yanshan five-jin cannons left behind in the city were also pushed up the city wall, and the Mongols outside the city also surrounded Duolun County with three layers in and three layers in, but they did not attack, but only moved three miles away from the city wall. Visit Duolun County from other places.

They looked around, and there were only a few small trees as thick as arms in a radius of more than ten miles, and they were basically trees that grew up after Ming Dynasty ruled Modong.

"After you go there, if you find that it has been reopened, then come back and don't keep going."

"Don't die?!"

"Taining Mansion and Duoyan Mansion's soldiers cannot be dispatched, so as long as you can attract the [-] soldiers and horses from Daxing Prefecture, I will have a way to lead my headquarters to the emperor of the Ming Dynasty."

"Clap clap-"

"Hmm..." Hearing his nephew calling him, Wei Zhongxian responded, then looked around before saying:
"Liangqing, arrange the soldiers and horses well, our family always feels a little uneasy today."

The man scratched his chin, and the deputy team next to him comforted him and said:
"Anyway, we lit the Beacon Tower, and we won't be punished. Instead of worrying about this, it's better to worry about Zhang from Duolun County guarding them."

"There is nothing good to hunt in Daxingzhou. I guess we have to go hunting in the mountains in the northeast to hunt tigers and bears."

"You should know about Shangzhi's combat power. Even if the guards are not the Shangzhi Guards but the Shangzhi Gongwei Battalion, it is not something we can provoke."

Hearing this, Zhang Xianzhong calmed down a little.

Zhang Xianzhong ordered in an orderly manner, and the chief banner officer under his command followed his instructions.

When Subudi was holding his forehead, at the foot of a mountain in the northern mountainous area of ​​Yanshan County, accompanied by the howling of a leopard, a leopard was shot by an arrow and fell to the ground wailing.

"Don't babble, go! Call all the soldiers, horses and yamen servants in the city to the city wall, and call some Mongolian men who have migrated here."

The fort is small and easy to defend, and there is nothing to capture if it is captured, so the Mongolian rangers did not stop, but rushed directly to the east.

Su Budi talked badly, but he didn't want Lin Danhan to provoke Zhu Youxiao, but Lin Danhan couldn't listen to him at all, and said to himself:

"Beilu is here! Go back to the city!"

"You don't have to worry about it, anyway, I have my way." Lin Danhan said with a half-smile, and stroked the beard on his chin:

"..." Hearing Lin Danhan's words, although Subudi felt that it was not reliable, he still took the map, cut his horse with a knife, and drew a route on the map with his fingers.

The ground is flat and the soil is fertile. Every spring and summer, the green grass is fragrant and the fields are criss-crossed. It is known as "eight mountains, one water and one field".

Nearly [-] soldiers and horses from the Gongwei Battalion in Kaiping Prefecture gathered in the Yanshan hunting ground three hundred miles away. According to the accelerated speed of the Tangqi, they could reach the hunting ground in at most four hours.

After all, as long as these tens of thousands of rangers shoot arrows close to the stone castle, the dense arrow rain can shoot them out of the hedgehog.

Under the preparation of the army, they went out overnight and arrived in Duolun County in at most four days.

It's just that with the withdrawal of the Shangzhi Guards and the transfer of officials and civilians from the three prefectures outside the customs, there is only one battalion of soldiers and horses newly arrived in Duolun County.

But before he could take a sip of water, a "black line" appeared on the horizon in the distance, and the sound of the "rumbling" horseshoes became louder and louder.

The generals had known Lin Danhan's plan for a long time, so they followed suit, and the Jingqi behind them also raised their knives when they saw this.

"This road was opened up by us when we had a conflict with Su Nang 13 years ago. It can go straight to the rear of Daxingzhou and cut off the road for Zhu Youxiao to go south."

As long as the beacon tower is lit, with the beacon smoke reminding, each stone castle will remind the nearby villages and market towns, and the people can hide in the village castles and town castles.

"Mother! How many people can come? Scared you into such a virtue!"

Seeing this scene, Wei Liangqing was stunned for a moment, then trotted over, cursing at the same time.

"You..." Subu frowned, he did know where Lin Danhan was talking about.

"In addition, Fushan Prefecture and Lushan Prefecture will be added, making a total of three prefectures and twelve counties."

"Hmm..." Wei Zhongxian explained with a smile on his face, Zhu Youxiao also nodded slightly, and returned to his big tent with a bow and arrow.

"Meow--"

"Well, you can figure it out." Zhu Youxiao looked at the surrounding landscape with great interest, and turned his horse's head to prepare to return to the camp.

"Quick! Fire the arrows!"

Their tasks are completed, and they no longer worry about being punished.

At that time, the Ming army stationed a guard horse in Duolun County, so there was no need to worry about not being able to defend such a large city.

"The middle palace said it was getting late, so I went back to the Dading Palace in the south first, but His Royal Highness, who was still here just now, probably discovered something new and ran out to play."

"Okay..." Lin Danhan calmed down without panic, and kept looking at Duolun County with the binoculars in his hand. After putting down the binoculars for a while, he said with a smile:
"The southerners gave me the news that Zhu Youxiao is now hunting in Yanshan Mountain, 320 miles southeast."

Seeing the Mongolian army of no less than [-], Zhang Xianzhong's first reaction was to shout for all the men in the city to come.

In fact, Zhang Xianzhong can understand their uneasy mood, because Duolun County is really too big...

"Grandma... these northern captives, taking advantage of His Highness's Northern Expedition to build the captives, came south to fight grass valley!"

The team of the Gongwei Battalion was blowing the whistle, and fled eastward with six cavalrymen under its command. After running for several miles, they saw their own cement and stone fortress standing on the plain.

This can be seen from Zhu Youjian's renaming of Nuergan to Beishan County.

That place is called Daxingzhou by the Mongols in Harqin. It is located in the northern mountainous area of ​​Yanshan Mountain. The mountains are ancient, similar to hills, and the valleys are flat.

Looking at the more than 3000 Han and Mongols guarding the city, Zhang Xianzhong breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhu Youxiao rode his horse back to the camp, and Wei Zhongxian, who was shy with an old face, immediately greeted him. While leading Zhu Youxiao's horse, he helped him get off the horse.

After dismounting, Zhu Youxiao looked around, and then asked, "Where are Ran'er and Baozhu?"

"But..." The deputy guard wanted to cry, but there were tens of thousands of people, and there were only more than 500 of them here...

After all, Lin Danhan took out a sheepskin map from his arms: "Let's draw the route, preferably the kind of road that the wise people don't even know."

"Long live……"

"Hissing—"

"Go back to the city!"

"Think carefully, that place..."

"Sorry-"

The team was cursing, but they didn't dare to show their heads.

A team of cavalry patrolling outside Duolun County spotted them, but with their strength, they couldn't stop the huge cavalry team at all.

"You don't have to worry about the Taining Mansion and Duoyan Mansion. The 2 people in Subadhi have already taken the mountain road and headed towards Duoyan Mansion to hit the grass valley."

Although it has a circumference of eight miles and can accommodate 10,000+ people, in fact the city of Duolun County has only more than 3 people. Except for the houses in the center that are less than [-] mu, other places are either cultivated land or cattle pens.

"However, after the Ming court adjusted our relationship with Su Nang, this road was abandoned, and it is estimated that it has been covered with bushes."

Three days ago, the emperor was going to hunt in the hunting grounds in the northern part of Yanshan County. The soldiers and horses near Duolun County were transferred to four sentries, leaving only Zhang Xianzhong as a sentry horse.

Subudi still didn't want Lin Danhan to lead his troops south. He was not reluctant to bear Lin Danhan, but once Lin Danhan died, he and the third party of Suba were destined to be unable to go on together.

Guanfumin knew very well that Duolun County was easily attacked by northern captives, so in order to take care of the local herdsmen, he deliberately enlarged Duolun County.

"It should be almost..."

Zhang Xianzhong supported the parapet and glanced at the herdsmen who kept driving their cattle and sheep into Duolun County. Although he was a little flustered, he still had to show an unruffled appearance on the surface, otherwise his subordinates might already be in panic by now.

As expected by Zhang Xianzhong, under his calm comfort, the soldiers of the Gongwei camp gradually settled down.

"Regardless of whether the emperor of the Ming Dynasty can be captured or not, we will withdraw after the robbing is over, and then we can move westward in the spring of next year."

"Yes……"

Looking at their backs going away, Subudi could only hold his forehead: "I hope I can catch it..."

"Where's Zhu Youjian?" Subudi was still afraid of Zhu Youjian, but Lin Danhan touched his beard and smiled:
"Zhu Youjian? He is still in Shangjing, more than 800 miles away."

Fortunately, these trees cannot be used to build cloud carts and ladders, so the Ming army is not afraid.

However, when he left, Wei Liangqing also breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that serving the emperor and his uncle was a little tired, so he planned to find a place to sit and rest for a while.

Looking at the flustered Tang Qi, and Wei Liangqing and others who surrounded him, Zhu Youxiao waved his hand: "Tang Qi is here, I guess there is something important, let's talk..."

The emperor opened his mouth, and everyone let go of the hand that was holding Tang Qi down, and Tang Qi also knelt on the ground and kowtowed after hearing the words:

"Long live! Daxing camp [-] li hasten!"

"Hudun soil ordered tens of thousands of cavalry to knock off Duolun, which is only three hundred miles away from here! Long live, please move!"

　Got some work stuff going on, a little late, sorry sorry
　　
　
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