When Cao Yan finally sent troops from Kaiyuan, it happened that bad news came: Ye Hedong and West Twin Cities lost Xicheng a few days ago, and now only Dongcheng is still struggling to support.

However, Xicheng Baylor and Buzhai, the son of Qingjiatong, behaved extremely decisively this time. Before breaking through, he first burned all the reserves in Dongcheng that could not be taken away. This even includes a lot of bean cakes, hay and the like, and shouts the slogan: "Ye He will not leave a single horse grass for Tumen even if he dies!" ”

Since Yehe itself was the tribe with the largest number of cavalry among the Jurchens, although Buzhai could not defeat the Tumen, it also forcibly broke out of the encirclement, and joined forces with the eastern city of Belen-Buluri, temporarily breaking the siege of the western city and smoothly entering the eastern city to hold on.

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It's just that although the loss of personnel is not large, Ye He counted in the east city, and the loss of troops was only more than 400 people, but when the west city was lost, many of Ye He's troops in the west city were blocked and could not break through with it, and now they are almost all controlled by the Tumen.

The Jurchens have always had a low population, even if Yehebu gathered many Jurchens who defected from Hada in the last years of Wan Khan, but specifically in Xicheng, there were only more than 20,000 people, and it was definitely less than 30,000. Among them, although many of them do not live in the walled city, but even so, I am afraid that the cloth village has lost at least more than 10,000 people this time.

If the Tumen at this time were still like the Mongols more than two hundred years ago, as long as the cities they attacked dared to resist, they would slaughter the cities directly after their victory, then Ye He was afraid that this time he would not be far from collapse.

Fortunately, the current Mongolia is not the Mongolia of the past, the momentum of conquering everything has long disappeared, and the current Mongols are considering whether it is cost-effective or not.

Killing the Jurchens in Xicheng didn't do the Tumen much good, and keeping them, the Tumen had no more to lose - don't expect the Tumen to eat and drink them like ordinary captives, the Tumen Khan didn't have that kind of mercy, and even if he had, it wouldn't be for them.

Even if Buzhai Belle burned the reserves of Xicheng, he could only burn the part that belonged to him, or the part that belonged to him, the chief, and he didn't dare to burn the people's materials.

In this way, by retaining these populations, the Tumen can not only obtain a certain amount of supplementation, but also allow them to send one person from each household to go out to find food or do some other work, in short, they have no business. As for whether you will lose some of it in the process? Tumen Khan is obviously not going to think about it.

Anyway? Tumen got at least one walled city and won a victory, putting an end to the bad luck that had been unwinnable for years before? Enough to boost morale? It also laid a good foundation for continuing to attack Dongcheng in the future.

The 20,000 troops of the Ming army set off from Zhenbei Pass with high spirits, not along the former Nuer Gandu Siyi Road? Instead, he chose to go straight up the Bald Mountain along the Kou River, near which the eastern and western cities of Yehe were located.

The Kou River cannot be directly connected to the Liao River or the Hunhe River in terms of water system, so Jinghua's gunboats must not be able to help. In fact, the current Liaodong has already entered winter ahead of schedule, and it is inconvenient to dispatch even if it is connected? Who knows when it will freeze? Has it been getting colder in recent years? Even the ice age is not so accurate. So this time, the Ming army could only go up the river, but they could not count on help from the water.

Originally, Gao pragmatic orders were to let them not rush to march, just fight steadily, but because Ye He was already in danger? The messengers who called the police for help came to the army one after another, and Cao Yan was also a little worried that Ye He's real complete collapse would lead to the complete end of the trade between the north and the south, so he had to call the generals for a temporary meeting.

Summoning generals is actually not Cao Yan's main purpose, his original intention was to hold up the scene, and then ask Gao Yimin to make this judgment - whether the army can go faster or not.

Of course, Cao Yan is already a pragmatic general, not to mention Ma Chengxun and Zhang Wanbang who fought this time, they have long followed the Gao family. But Cao Yan is no better than Meng Gebulu, and Gao Yimin is like a supervisor sent by the emperor to the army in his opinion, but the person who sent him this time is not the emperor.

The temporary meeting was held, and to Cao Yan's surprise, he didn't have time to ask Gao Yimin, who arrived in a hurry, but Gao Yimin took out a letter first and said to Cao Yan: "Cao Zongrong, Nurhachi's letter." ”

Cao Yan perked up, took the letter, and asked, "What did he say?" ”

Gao Yimin straightened his chest slightly: "As the master expected, Nurhachi fully accepted mediation, and also expressed his willingness to send the little chief, his brother Shuerhaqi, to lead the army to help, and the reinforcements have arrived about fifty miles away and are galloping." ”

Cao Yan may have suffered from ambush phobia after the defeat of Chang'an Fort, and was first shocked when he heard this: "The marshal hasn't agreed yet, he even sent soldiers and horses?" How many centaurs are there? ”

Gao Yimin shook his head and said, "There are not many people, just five hundred." ”

Hearing that there were only five hundred, Cao Yan relieved himself and said with a sigh of relief: "After all, the chief is vulgar, how can such a major event be carried out lightly without an order, fortunately there are only five hundred, otherwise...... Hum. ”

Unexpectedly, except for Cao Yan, the rest of the generals had a good impression of Nurhachi, and they all said that Jianzhou was quite deferential, and it was even more rare to be able to send his only brother to come.

Cao Yan was not worried about being ambushed, his thinking became clearer, and after thinking about it, he also recognized Nurhachi's deference.

The key to being obedient to this kind of thing is to look at who it is. Wan Khan of the Hada Department is very deferential in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, but it does not mean that the other Jurchen tribes think that Wan Khan is a good person.

Nurhachi is the same, although he is not soft at all when he fights Nikan Wailan, and he dares to take advantage of the fire to rob this time, but in the eyes of the Ming generals, it is nothing: What does this have to do with my Daming?

In their opinion, Nurhachi's obedience lies in the fact that as soon as Gao Situ sent a letter, he hurriedly withdrew from Fushun Pass without looking back, even ignoring Nikan Wailan, the enemy who killed his father and ancestors.

It's called deference! What does it matter if you are naturally submissive or submissive because of fear? It does not matter.

In the eyes of the Ming generals, fear is also a good mentality, not to mention that the strength of my Ming Dynasty is a hundred times that of him, and he can only maintain this fear and this kind of obedience. In that case, it does not matter whence his obedience comes from.

The previous time said that in the sixteenth year of Wanli in the original history, Nurhachi preemptively expressed his loyalty, but in fact, he showed loyalty for a long time, for example, in the seventeenth year of Wanli, Nurhachi cut down the border of the fifty Ke, and sent it into exile, Cheng Xun, Li Zaiting and others then asked Nurhachi to take the post of governor.

"Kaiyuan participated in politics Chengxun, Liaohai Shenzheng Li in the court on the government, said that Jianzhou commanded a certain envoy, led twenty ways, his ancestors, father led Wang Gao, and died. Today, so-and-so has repeatedly returned to the Han population, and he has made fifty meritorious contributions. It is advisable to be promoted to the governor and control the East. In September, the governor's chamberlain Zhang Guoyan heard about it and reported it. At that time, Gu Yangqian's recital had the beginning and end of this matter.

In addition, there are: "Fierce Bone Polo (i.e., Menggebulu) didn't study well in the old years, and he wanted to get rid of you Dragon and Tiger General." Recently, he repented and paid tribute. Today, the rebels have fled everywhere, but they have not been able to build a state. If you can arrest and kidnap you, you will be faithful. As usual, the dragon and tiger generals are still treated more generously. If Nuer Hachi is captured, he will see that the slave chief is promising. That is, the title is to ask the slave chief to be promoted to the governor, and the general of the dragon and tiger is still added. ”

At this time, Ke Fifty had fled to Jianzhou, and Liaodong had already known about it. Meng Gebulu could only capture Brother Dong, Gangdu, and Kuan'er Answer, and sent his subordinates to ask Nuer Hachi for it.

In the face of such an opportunity to make meritorious contributions, Nurhachi certainly would not give up to Mengebulu. He claimed that Ke Wu had been killed, and the coroner sent by Liaodong was the general Dong Guoyun. Inside, he borrowed the mouth of Tong Weidong, a general, to describe the merits of Nurhachi's ancestor and father.

"According to the general officer Tong Weidong and others, it was found that Nuer Hachi is the grandson of the call field and the son of Ta Lost. In the early years, he called the tower to lose all his loyalty, contributed to China, and led Wang Tai to capture Wang Gao. "Outside, there is a piece of paper with Ma Sanfei Chinese characters, and he came to beg for rewards. Dong Guoyun, Tong Weidong and Ma Sanfei, these generals are connected with each other. Naturally, you can understand the behavior of Dong Guoyun and Tong Weidong who later invested in Houjin.

In fact, these generals and Liaodong generals Cheng Xun and Li Zaiting are just front-desk blowers, and Li Chengliang, Gu Yangqian and others are the behind-the-scenes planners, which also shows the attitude of the Ming Dynasty.

"In the early years, your ancestors and fathers were loyal and obedient, and in recent years, you have also learned well and Fuzhen Ertang, so Xu Rugong City received the reward." The second hall of Fuzhen here, Fu is the governor Gu Yangqian, and the town is Li Chengliang, the chief soldier. In the end, Gu and Li sought the title of governor for Nurhachi and supported him as the Jurchen co-master. "Fu begged the military department, investigated the case and discussed the promotion of Nuer Hachijia to the rank of governor of the capital, and changed it to the imperial order, so that the control of Dongyi is my fence, and the key to this eastern region is also."

In the twenty-third year of Wanli, the Ming Dynasty had already started a war with Japan in Korea, and there was not much thought to deal with Nurhachi, so Nurhachi, who had grown in strength, further "had to add a dragon and tiger general, and looked at the time of the king's time." And next year with tribute, Yisheng, called a total of fifty-three chiefs. ”

In other words, what Nurhachi did during this period was to imitate Wan Khan, and he did succeed, and was finally named the Dragon and Tiger General, replacing Wan Khan to control the Jurchen tribes.

At that time, Qu Jiusi commented on Nurhachi, believing that he had the legacy of ten thousand khans. "Nuer Hachi rebelled against Taiwan, regardless of the rest, only talking about its sacrifice of rebellion and captive people and animals, there is a Taiwan (Wangtai, that is, ten thousand Khan) wind. The pawn married the gangsters, and the wings have been completed, and the Haixi is endless. It is not a day to report to the Taiwan, and it is advisable to worship the governor and call him loyal and obedient. ”

At this point, the Ming Dynasty's policy towards the Jianzhou Jurchens underwent a major change, from prevention to support, and Nurhachi took the opportunity to sit on the throne and annex other Jurchen tribes.

"The two passes of the beginning and the west of the sea have been hating each other for 40 years. Self-swordsmanship to the end. Nurhachi reaped the benefits of the fishermen, and the tribes of the female direct were all established as states. ”

It can be seen from this that people who are fat may not be born with fat bile, they have to pretend to be grandchildren when they should pretend to be grandchildren, and Nurhachi has been in place for decades before. Even counted, he still waited until Li Chengliang died before he dared to jump out and talk nonsense about the "Seven Hatreds", which shows that this guy's courage is not really in the sea when there are people in the Ming Dynasty.

Daming must be "someone" now, Nurhachi is obviously afraid of high and pragmatic like a tiger, the world's first marshal who conquers the southern and northern wars must be a high mountain in Nurhachi's eyes, so as a highly pragmatic descendant generals, of course, they are very satisfied with Nurhachi's "deference", and they will not have any other ideas.

As for Nurhachi, he even sent his own brother to help...... Everyone felt that although there was no use for birds, it was not bad for these 500 people to eat a mouthful, so it didn't matter if they came.

Cao Yan didn't bother to care about this little accident, so he immediately talked about the theme of this temporary military conference and asked Gao Yimin what he thought of Ye He's current situation.

Gao Yimin is only twenty-six years old this year, slightly older than Gao Shishi, but he looks a little dark, and it is said that he was exposed during special training at the beach.

He was a tall man, originally a refugee from Shandong, but when the Yellow River flooded and caused a catastrophe, he and some displaced people were displaced to Weihui. Seeing that he was about to starve to death, he was saved by Gao Shishi's "300,000 taels" relief, and since then he has become a member of the Gao family, and after four years of hard work, he was transferred from the coal mine to the escort team, and then because of his excellent performance, he was selected into the nursing training class, and then entered the special training class.

In the process, he participated in 17 suppression of bandits, including nine mountain bandits, five horse thieves, and three small pirate lairs, and made meritorious contributions every time, four of which were personally commanded by him.

Faced with Cao Yan's question, Gao Yimin knew that this was a turn and asked himself if he could speed up the army. At the moment, the situation is clear, Ye He looks like he may be finished at any time, and once Ye He completely collapses, the north-south customs system will become a big problem.

However, what the imperial court thinks of it, and whether there are reserves in the trade between the north and the south, these are not what these generals know. For them, all they can do is make sure that doesn't happen.