The Drum Tower Colonel in Kaiyuan City was killed by the Jianzhou Left Guard commanded by Nurhachi, but fortunately, the number of people on both sides was limited, and the scale of the killing was not large, but the situation outside the city at this time was even more cruel than in the city.

The battle outside the city broke out at almost the same time as the war inside the city, and Cao Yan, the deputy general of the town guarding Liaoyang, was the main general of this operation, of course, there is no doubt about this, but the deputy general was more unexpected, and it turned out to be Hadabel Menggebulu.

Mengebulu attached great importance to this battle, because he had been confirmed by Gao Shipra that as long as he won this battle, he would officially inherit the position and canonization of his old father Wang Tai (Wan Khan) in the Ming Dynasty, and rightfully become the only leader of the Hada tribe.

This is really not to be happy, because Wang Tai used to be the number one little brother of the Ming Dynasty in the Jurchen tribes, in the original history, when he died of illness, "Ming Shilu" was described as "death", not like the general Jurchen "chieftain", a "death" word is expressed.

And Wang Tai's position and "title" are also very good, it is Zhu Yijun's title of "Right Pillar State, Dragon and Tiger General, and King of the Khan of Manchukuo", and even his cousin Dexi, who welcomed Wang Tai into the Hada Department in the early years, was canonized as the governor of the Hada Department at that time.

To be honest, Meng Gebulu himself didn't expect that he would be able to "pacify the Khan of Manchukuo", according to his ideas, it would be good to be able to inherit his own post - the main position of the Hada Department is the post of the left guard of the Daming Ta Mountain, and the highest is the left governor of the left guard of the tower mountain.

[Note: "Manchuria" is not a geographical term, but a tribal term.] According to the record of Emperor Gao of the Qing Dynasty: "The word Manchuria, the source is not long, indicating the name of the tribe, if Su Shen, Beji, Jurchen, not a place name." ”

According to the record of "Manchurian Yuanliu Examination": "Taking the national book as the test, Manchuria is full of pearls, and both characters are read flat." I go to the east and the earth, and every year I offer Danshu to Tibet, and I am called the Great Emperor Manzhu Shili. The translation name is Manzhu, and the Chinese language is wonderful and auspicious...... Today's Chinese characters are Manchuria, and the meaning of the word is close to the place name, and it is borrowed in a false way, so it is along the ear, but it is actually a tribe, not a place name, and the solid chapter can be examined. ”]

There are also some origins that must be said about the history of the Hada Department and the king's name as Khan, otherwise many questions will not be understood.

Hada belongs to the Nala clan (i.e., the Nala clan), and its ancestors lived in the area around the Hulun River (Hulan River). In the fourth year of Yongle, the Ming Dynasty placed Tashanwei in this area, and the tower thorn was the commander of the same knowledge.

In the eleventh year of orthodoxy, Tashan Weidu commanded Jin Shifu to stab out, with a lot of people under his control, "the voice is not convenient, please set up a guard to seal", under the protection of the governor of the Wei Du of the Han River, the Ming court agreed to analyze the Tashan Wei and set the Tashan left guard. The left guard of Tashan is in the east of the present-day Hulan River to the west of Yilan County.

The members of the Hada Department came from the Tashan Left Guard, so the history records that the Hada Department and the Ula Department from the Tashan Wei are the same ancestor - Naqi Bulu (suspected to be the sound of the Tashan Thorn). From the time of Nazibulu's sixth pass to Suheite (i.e., Kesina) as the leader of the left guard of Tashan, he was also called "the governor of the left guard of Tashan".

[Note: Later, the "Seal of Tashan Zuowei" was unearthed in Taonan County, Jilin Province, indicating that by the time of Suheita at the latest, Tashan Zuowei had moved from Tashan Wei to the south of Tashan Wei, which was distributed in the area of Fuyu and Nong'an counties in present-day Jilin Province and the former Guoerlus Mongolian Autonomous County. ]

In the early years of Jiajing, he was the chief of the Haixi Jurchens, and "all the tribes were afraid of him". However, around the twelfth year of Jiajing, Suheite was killed by his clansman Badai Dar Khan, and his descendants fled. The second son, Wangji Wailan (i.e., Wang Zhong), led part of his troops to flee to the Hada River (later Xiaoqing River, Xifeng County, Liaoning Province) area outside Guangshun Pass, and became the founder of the Hada Ministry.

Guangshun Pass is also known as the "South Pass" [Note: It corresponds to the "North Pass" that Ye He walked when he entered Kaiyuan mentioned in the previous book]. The eldest son of Wangji Wailan, named Wan, that is, Wangtai, fled to the "Xibe Suiha City", which was in the west of Jilin City in later generations.

Around the twenty-second year of Jiajing, Wang Zhong, who moved to Guangshun Guandong, built another Hada City sixty miles east of Kaiyuan City, and then attached himself to the Ming Dynasty. At this time, Hada became the northern barrier of the Ming Dynasty, and gradually showed signs of strength, whether it was the Jurchen tribes, or the surrounding Mongolian tribes, they all respected him as their leader, and they came to pay tribute every year. Even the distant "savages" Jurchen tribes often send people to pay tribute to various products, claiming to be "an endless stream of foreign people".

In the thirtieth year of Jiajing, Wang Zhong killed Yehebel Zhu Kongge at that time, and Yehe's land was occupied by Wang Zhong and other thirteen cities such as Jijiang Taizhai, and a large number of edicts that originally belonged to Yehe's department were robbed - this is why Haixi has a total of 999 edicts, and Yehe, as a large tribe, only has more than 100 edicts.

After that, Zhu Kongge's son Tai Pestle took over his father's position, and in order to avenge his father, he frantically attacked Hada and plundered the Kaiyuan and Chaihe Fort area of the Ming Border - so Tai Pestle was later captured by Wang Tai and sent to Daming to be executed. Since then, the resentment between the two sides has accumulated deeply.

But in the same year, Hada was in civil strife again, Wang Zhong was killed by the rebellious tribesmen, and his son Borkun avenged his father, and his brother Dexi, and went to Suiha City to welcome his cousin Wang Tai back to Hada to be in charge. From then on, Hada began to become strong and established a powerful alliance of the four kingdoms of Hulun - in fact, it is said to be a four-nation alliance, but not only the four countries, but also the Jurchen tribes such as Hada, Huifa, Yehe, Wula, and the Hunhe tribe of Jianzhou, as well as some wandering tribes of Mongolia are members of the alliance - thus ordering the Jurchen and Mongolian border tribes (including Xibe at this time). Since then, Liaodong has enjoyed more than 30 years of farming and hunting.

In the third year of Wanli, Li Chengliang conquered Wang Gao, Wang Gao was defeated and defected to Wangtai, but was directly taken by Wangtai and sent to Daming to be executed. It is precisely because of this incident that Zhu Yijun (formerly in history at this time by Zhang Juzheng in charge, in this book by Gao Gong) named Wangtai as "the right pillar country, the general of the dragon and tiger", "the king of the Khan of Manchukuo" (Tatar Qing historical materials called "Wan Khan"), awarded Dexi as the governor of the Hada Department Beile, and the four departments of Haixi Hulun were all controlled by it, and the Hada country was at its peak.

As for the subsequent situation, it has already been stated above, and I will not repeat it here, but I will add one thing, which is about the question of surnames.

The Yehnara clan is called "Nala with a different surname", so there must be a native surname or the same surname Nala , and as I have just said, the lords of Ula and Hada were originally the same ancestor, and they were all descendants of "Nakibulu".

The difference between Ula and Hada is that the Ula faction in the headquarters of Juhulun still uses "Nala (Nala)" as the surname to the outside world, and the descendants of the Taqing and its descendants in history mostly use surnames such as "Na" and "Zhao". The Hada faction outside the Kaiyuan Wei Guangshun Pass that moved south to northern Liaobei continued to use the old surname "Wanyan", and the descendants of the Taqing and later mostly took "Wang" and "Wang" as their surnames, and some also used surnames such as "Na" and "Bu".

Therefore, Wang Zhong and Wang Tai are actually Wanyanzhong and Wanyantai, and there may be some meaning of "Ming-style transliteration" here.

Speaking of which, the reason why Meng Gebulu did not dare to hope to inherit the so-called "lord of Manchukuo" was mainly because of his limited strength now: Originally, the Hada tribe had already shown a trend of decline in the later period of Wangtai's rule, and there was a faint tendency to be overshadowed by Yehe.

And there was a big problem inside Hada, first of all, Huerhan's guy inexplicably ran to fight with Nurhachi of the Jianzhou Left Guard, but Nurhachi didn't even show his face, he was beaten by a small elite of Anfeiyangu, and after going back, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and in the end he actually died.

Immediately followed by Hada three points, Kang Gulu and Dai Shan (also known as the bad merchants) each have their own mountains, Meng Gebulu only barely occupies an orthodox name with the support of his mother Sister Wen, and the actual soldiers and horses are relatively limited - his soldiers and horses come from Sister Wen after the death of Wang Tai, according to the Mongolian and Jurchen traditions and regent for a short period of time, and control part of the elite of Wang Tai's direct line.

So in this case, Meng Gebulu originally thought that it would be good to be able to mix with the commander of the left guard of Tashan, and it would be better if it was the commander of the capital, as for the governor...... He felt that it was basically an extravagant hope, and the "Lord of Manchukuo" could not even think of it.

However, Gao Shishi and Gao Futai were particularly generous, saying that as long as he could perform well in today's battle, not to mention that the highest position of the Hada Ministry, the "Tashan Left Guard Left Governor", would still be awarded to Menggebulu, and even the lord of Manchukuo could continue to let the Hada Ministry inherit - that is, he Menggebulu inherited.

In the face of such a big pie falling from the sky, how could Mengeblu not be excited!

Meng Gebulu knows very well that normally speaking, whether the Jurchen tribes can get the canonization of the Ming Dynasty depends on the bloodline and the strength. There is no problem with his bloodline, but there is a big problem with his strength, if there is no accident, the lord of Manchukuo will definitely have no drama, and now there is not only a drama, but the task does not seem to be very difficult.

Although Ye He had 1,700 cavalry outside the city, the dragons were leaderless, and the two Baylors entered the city with their own sons and the general Bai Huchi, and the 1,700 people outside the city had no unified command at all.

Although he Menggebulu only brought a thousand cavalry to Kaiyuan, these thousand cavalry were the personal guards of the Great Khan of Wangtai in the past, and their combat effectiveness was the mainstay of the Hada Department, and it was his mother Sister Wen who specially asked him to bring them to Gao Pragmatic for review - in other words, this is the most capable of 1,000 cavalry.

Of course, because the Hada Department was scared by Ye He not long ago, just relying on this thousand cavalry, Meng Gebulu was actually a little weak in his heart, but at this time, there were still 3,000 elites of the Ming army outside the city, and it was Cao Yan's family, the deputy chief soldier of Liaoyang, who was second only to Li Chengliang and Uncle Li in Liaodong back then, and Meng Gebulu was bolder.

Not to mention that there are still 3,000 people in Liaodong Fubiao in Kaiyuan City at this moment, and the 2,000 cavalry of them are the absolute elite of the Broken Map Fried Flower Alliance Army half a year ago, and now they are only waiting for Ye He Erbeile in the city to give the head, and they can go out of the city to help the battle at any time.

Hmph, with Daming's father's heavenly soldiers pressing the formation, who am I afraid of Meng Gebulu?

The battle outside the city was fought simultaneously after the cannon fire inside the city.

Cao Yan's 3,000 family members had already replenished their horses with the support of Gao Shishi (after he was imprisoned before, Cao Jian could not support these many horses and sold some of them), and now he is counting on this battle to make a big success, so that he can use the court's reward to repay the interest-free loan given by Gao Futai, so the battle is extremely hard.

The temporary location of the Yehe cavalry is in the north of Kaiyuan City, and at this time, Cao Yan and Meng Gebulu have already quietly surrounded it, of which Cao Yan's 3,000 soldiers and horses are responsible for the west and north, Meng Gebulu is responsible for the east, and the south is the north gate of Kaiyuan City, so it doesn't matter, anyway, Ye He's cavalry can't enter - not to mention that the north gate of Kaiyuan may kill the Liaodong Fubiao cavalry at any time.

Four thousand encircled and suppressed one thousand seventeen, the strength of the Ming army has an obvious advantage, and in terms of desire to fight, the Ming army is now crushing Yehe's cavalry: Cao Yan is anxious to win this battle, not only to prove his ability to the imperial court, but also to earn rewards and money, when to work hard at this time?

The family members also know that this war is very important, whether to eat and drink spicy food in the future, or to drink wind and smoke, it all depends on today's battle, so they are no longer a matter of hard work, at this moment, it doesn't matter if they work hard - the family is different from the guards, it is really better to run away than to die in battle, at least the reward for the death in battle is very rich, and the escape is to run away The monk can't run the temple, the family is in the master's house, the wife and children, parents and even the younger brothers and sisters, which one should not raise by yourself?

The situation of Yehebu is the opposite, when the cannon in the city was fired before, the cavalry outside the city of Yehebu was first taken aback, and they didn't know what the situation was in the city, and then they thought about it, maybe it was the usual skill of the Ming people, showing military threat to scare the two Baylors, so they put their minds at ease and continued to bury the pot to cook - they originally thought that they could follow into the city to have a mixed meal, but now the Liaodong governor's reward is not available, of course they have to do it themselves.

However, before they could prepare the meal, the slaughter of Cao Yan and Meng Gebulu came unexpectedly.

Cao Yan's Western Route Army was led by his younger brother Cao Jian from the west, Meng Gebulu's 1,000 cavalry came from the east, and Cao Yan himself personally led an army to kill directly from the north.

Looking at the situation of the three-way encirclement, there is no way to survive at all, and we know that the purpose of the Ming army's battle is not to defeat, but to completely exterminate.

The reaction of Yehe's cavalry was not too fast, after all, they didn't expect this to happen at all, but they weren't too slow, after all, the appearance of the Ming army might make them hesitate, but there was no controversy about the appearance of Mengebulu - Yehe and Hada were already old enemies!

When the enemies saw each other, their eyes were red, and the Yehe cavalry shouted and each found their mounts, turned over their horses, and began to meet them.

However, due to the leaderlessness of the dragons, the performance of the elite of this Yehe tribe at this time was not too good - most of them subconsciously went directly to Menggebulu to fight, and only a small number of Yehe cavalry who were too close to the west and north were forced to resist the offensive of Cao Yan and Cao Jian.

The situation soon became uncontrollable, although Mengebulu's side fell into a bitter battle, but the Hada cavalry under the pressure of Daming's father, the combat effectiveness was obviously more than twice as high as when they faced Ye He alone, and they were not afraid of the Yehe cavalry that killed them and had no less troops than them, and the two sides were evenly matched, and even under the personal leadership of Meng Gebulu, they gradually occupied a slight advantage.

On the part of Cao Yan and Cao Jian, because of the hatred of Meng Gebulu, they almost formed a huge advantage of four to one, and quickly broke through the obstruction of the scattered cavalry of the Yehe tribe and completely surrounded the main force of the Yehe cavalry.

At this time, the Yehe cavalry had lost more than 300 people, and more than 1,000 cavalry were compressed in a very cramped farmland - at this time, the land in northern Liaobei had not yet thawed, and it was said to be farmland, which was actually not much different from flat land.

Daming's father began to show his advantages, and after Gao Pragmatic took office, he redressed Cao Yan's Wanli musket (short-barreled riding gun model) once again showed his domineering, although it was difficult for the cavalry to shoot any salvo, but at this time Cao Yan began to practice a new set of tactics learned from Ma Dong's exchange: wall advancement.

The wall cavalry charge is a classic move of the French later, although Gao pragmatic only knows its shape, but he has real cavalry experts under his hands, so after discussing with Ma Fang many times, Ma Fang asked Ma Dong to experiment with a new tactic, that is, to slowly advance with the "wall style" proposed by Gao Futai, that is, the dense formation, and in the process of advancing, it is divided into several rows, showing the trend of overlapping forward, and when each row turns to the first row, it shoots at the same time according to the order.

This tactic has great limitations, for example, overlapping advances will reduce the density of the formation, and the cavalry advancing slowly is not conducive to accelerating the charge in the later stage.

However, at this time, the Wanli musket had four comprehensive advantages in terms of range, accuracy, reload speed and lethality, which could make up for these limitations greatly, making this tactic difficult to use often, but as long as there was an opportunity to use it, the effect was still barely visible.

Yehe's cavalry soon tasted the power of the "musketeer wall advance", they originally planned to counter-charge the whole team, but they were still in the whole stage when they were beaten by three waves of volleys, and at least more than 100 people (horsemen) directly lost their combat effectiveness, or were killed on the spot, or fell off their horses and their lives were uncertain.

Without the Jurchens who did not have the method of training and battle formations that Nurhachi learned from Li Chengliang and the addition of the Eight Banners system, they had no advantage in the war of the Ming army's strict military formation.

Some of the bold ones directly called out to launch a charge against the Ming army - well, now it can only be called a personal charge; Some of the cowardly ones were even more unbearable, either subconsciously retreating, or simply turning their horses and rushing towards the side of the Hada cavalry, hoping to break the encirclement of the Hada tribe and escape.

In their consciousness, the Hada Department is the general of the defeated army, and it is much easier to storm the Hada cavalry than to impact this group of Ming soldiers advancing like a wall - this is also one of the advantages of the wall cavalry, just looking at it makes people feel "impressable", which can refer to the Tiefu map in the heyday of the Jin Kingdom.

However, Meng Gebulu was already red-eyed at this time, seeing that victory was in sight, and the "Lord of Manchukuo" was already beckoning to him, where could he tolerate a failure?

He shouted angrily: "Hada warriors! Revenge is today! Kill me—"

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

"Kill! ——”

Even Cao Yan was taken aback by the sudden outbreak of hatred from the Hada cavalry, but after all, he was a seasoned general, and he was very experienced in the battle formation.

"Da Ming - Wan Sheng!"

Cao Yan shouted: "Change the formation - rush the formation!" Kill! ”

"Da Ming - Wan Sheng! Kill! ”

The surging cavalry of the Ming army, at this moment launched a general attack.

This piece of fertile land will soon be completely covered with blood......