In the battle of southern Liaoning, Gao Pragmatic was promoted to governor of Liaodong because of his merits, and delayed for a short time to show his humility, so he went to Liaoyang to take up his new post, and then because of the recommendation of the new deputy commander-in-chief of Liaoyang, he exchanged views with the Shandong Governor according to the letters of Anjiuyu, and when the matter was negotiated, it was almost the end of the year.

During this time, many important things also happened around Liaodong.

First of all, after Zai Sai and Stewed Rabbit returned to the old camp with the remnants of the soldiers, the Fried Flower Department was never able to settle down until news came from Yanjing: Emperor Zhu Yijun of the Ming Dynasty ordered the head of the Fried Flower Owl to be displayed to the public, passed on the head of the nine sides, and told the Taimiao.

Originally, after the fried flowers were captured, Zai Sai and the simmered rabbit disagreed on how to "rescue" the fried flower Taiji, and the simmered rabbit thought that he should give in to the Ming Dynasty, and said that the headquarters would not invade the Ming realm again, in exchange for the fried flower Taiji; And Zai Sai thought that the Ming army had won consecutive big victories this year, and he didn't care whether the fried flower department was soft or not, so he could only return the tribute with a more decisive Kou Bian and force the Ming court to release the fried flower Taiji.

In fact, neither of them really wanted the return of Fried Flower Taiji, especially Jae Sai, and his idea of continuing Koubian was obviously to put Fried Flower to death. As for the reason, it's very simple, Zai Sai's current strength in the Fried Flower Department is the strongest, as long as the Fried Flower himself can't come back, he is sure that he can persuade Hatun to remarry him, and then inherit the Fried Flower Department.

And the stewed rabbit is not necessarily how selfless it is, because according to the habits of the Ming people, once the fried flower department is attached, the Ming people will neither consider letting him stew the rabbit to the throne, nor will they consider letting the slaughtered race take the position, but will let the son of the fried flower inherit the position of Taiji of the fried flower.

At this moment, the strength of the braised rabbit in the fried flower department is slightly inferior to the slaughter, if it is an internal competition, the possibility of losing to the slaughter is very high, but if there is a Ming to join in, it is different, the Ming attaches importance to seniority, ethics, after the son of the fried flower succeeded to the throne of Taiji, because he is still young, he must need an auxiliary person, at this time his simmered rabbit's generation has played a role, and at the same time, he is the first person to be persuaded to belong, and the possibility of being appointed as the auxiliary minister of the fried flower department by the Ming court is extremely high.

However, their dispute has not yet come to a conclusion, and Zhu Yijun's side directly and decisively took the head of the fried flower, and now, all the contradictions can no longer be concealed.

Hatun decided that Da Ming was the mortal enemy who killed her husband, so she decided to marry the "decisive anti-Ming" Zai Sai, who planned to take advantage of the opportunity of the wedding when all the leaders came to the old camp to force the simmering rabbit to swear allegiance to him, otherwise he would be killed.

Who knew that the wall had ears, and this plan was soon known to the rabbit, although the rabbit was furious, but after the news of Hatun's remarriage came out, he was no longer the opponent of Zai Sai, and now there is only one word.

Just do it, that night, the rabbit took his men and horses to pull out the camp overnight and ran to the northeast, where is this northeast direction?

The west of the Tielingwei of the Ming Dynasty and the southwest of the Jurchen Yehe.

The stewed rabbit chose this place to settle down, not because he was in a panic, he had his intentions: if Zai Sai had to chase and kill him, he would directly detain Daming in the pass; If Zai Sai ignores him for the time being, he will think of joining forces with Ye Hebu and going to Hada to grab a ticket for the winter - the big war between Ye He and Hada is imminent, which everyone can see, and of course he can make rabbits.

In terms of Zai Sai, after learning the news that the braised rabbit suddenly ran away, he was indeed furious at first, but soon he calmed down again, because he found that the braised rabbit also had the benefit of running away.

After there is no braised rabbit department, his relative strength in the fried flower department is stronger, and if you want to take the braised rabbit department by force, there will be a lot of losses.

Therefore, Zai Sai didn't care about the escape of the braised rabbit, and began to marry Hatun with peace of mind, ready to digest the legacy left by the fried flower Taiji.

As for the Stewed Rabbit, after discovering that Zai Sai had no intention of killing him, he also immediately contacted Yehebu and offered to crusade against Hada with Yehebu.

Of course, Ye Hebu couldn't ask for it, so the two sides made an alliance first, intending to discuss the matter of sending troops later.

Who knew that something happened to the Hada tribe first, and the leader of the Hada tribe, Wan Khan (Han name Wangtai), died of illness.

Wan Khan's illness made the struggling Hadabu even worse. Because Wan Khan failed to train and establish a good monarch for the Hada tribe, the Hada tribe never had a strong leader from then on.

Wan Khan had a "queen" and a "concubine" and six sons. The eldest son, Huer Khan, the second son, the third son, the third son, the third son, the fourth son, the fourth son, the fifth son, the fifth son, and the sixth son, Kanggulu. The "queen" gave birth to four princes, and the "princess" Wen sister, who was born in Yehebu, gave birth to Menggebulu, and her sixth son, Kang Gulu, was an illegitimate child. [Note: Yehe, Hada and other Jurchen tribes call themselves all "countries.] ]

When Wan Khan died, his second, third, and fourth sons had already died young. According to the rules of establishing a successor, the eldest son Huerhan succeeded him as the king of Hadabu. But Kang Gulu was not convinced, and bumped into the new Khan Huerhan all day long.

Hu Erhan didn't know how to sympathize with the people, he was fond of drinking and killing, and these were all manifested when Wan Khan was still there, even Wan Khan couldn't change him. Now that he has become the "king of a country", no one can restrain him.

Soon, there was a disaster within Hada. The concubines Kanggulu and Huerhan fought for their father's business and started a civil war.

One day a few years ago, Wan Khan took his attendants to Dongshan to hunt, and met a girl who was hunting, and when he saw that the girl was handsome, he pampered her. Then he brought the woman back to the palace and gave birth to Kanggulu. Soon the woman fell ill, and although Kang Gulu was several years older than Sister Wen's son, Meng Gebulu, he was ranked behind.

This Kanggulu is tall and has a fierce personality, and has a certain influence in the Hada Department. Long before Wan Khan's death, Sister Wen foresaw a battle for the throne between the princes. In order to quell the dispute between the princes, she intended to establish the prestige of her eldest son Huerhan and encircle the powerful Kanggulu.

After Wan Khan's death, the twenty-six-year-old princess Wen was pursued by Kanggulu. For the sake of the stability and strength of the Hada Ministry, Sister Wen is determined to marry Kang Gulu, who is five years younger than her. Sister Wen's purpose in doing this was to entrap Kang Gulu and not to cause internal commotion, so the two of them lived together soon after, and they got together every night.

However, although Yehebu is famous for its abundance of beautiful women, beauties may not all have political talents, Sister Wen thinks that she is doing this to stabilize the Hada Ministry, but Hu Erhan believes that it is Kanggulu who has won over Sister Wen, and then wants to challenge him.

And so the civil war broke out.

At this time, Kanggulu did not have enough strength to compete with the justifiable leader of the Hada tribe, Huerhan, and was soon defeated and fled to Yehe. But Hu Erhan didn't know where he got the news, knowing that Nurhachi, the left guard of Jianzhou in the south, had recognized the identity of Yehe's son-in-law, and inexplicably ordered to attack the left guard of Jianzhou.

At that time, the Hada army attacked the Huji village of Jianzhou Left Guard, this village is actually a small village, and there are few people in the village, and there are more than a dozen people who can really fight, but the person in charge of the village is not simple, and he actually led more than a dozen people to defeat the Hada front army, and he was so shocked that Hu Erhan fled back overnight.

This person's name is An Feiyangu, and he is one of the "Five Ministers of the Later Jin Founding Dynasty" in the original history.

What's even more amazing is that after Huerhan fled back to Hada, he was so frightened that he died of illness within a few days.

When Ye He heard the news, he did not hesitate and immediately invited the Rabbit to send troops to attack Hada.

It was at this time that Gao Shishi received the news of Hu Erhan's illness and death in Liaoyang, as well as Sister Wen's request to ask Daming to canonize her son Menggebulu as the head of the Hada tribe in the name of regent.

But Gao Shishi's focus at this time may be a little off, he was in the flower hall, facing Cao Yan with a respectful face and asked: "The Ministry has not been in Liaodong for a long time, and I don't know the situation of the Jurchen Ministries very well, but this matter of An Feiyangu defeating the Hada Front Army with twelve people, the Ministry is really difficult to understand, can Cao Deputy Rong analyze one or two for the Ministry?" ”

Cao Yan is a man in his forties, with a burly skeleton, but a little thin, at this time, when he heard Gao pragmatic's words, he hurriedly bowed down and said: "Futai first came to Liaodong, and I don't know much about this generation of barbarians. ”

Gao pragmatic just nodded and didn't say anything.

Cao Yan said: "In fact, the strength of the Jurchen tribes often changes, whoever has more edicts in their hands will be stronger, and if they lose the edicts or the edicts are taken by others, their strength will become weaker. This is not only because you can exchange markets with me with the Ming Dynasty if you hold an edict, but also because in the process of mutual trading, the Jurchens often quietly buy armor. ”

Cao Yan said: "Judging from the experience of the last general in guarding Liaodong over the years, most of the Jurchens are physically strong, but if they gather as an army, they are not afraid of ......"

"Oh?" This statement obviously surprised Gao Shipra.

Cao Yan was surprised when he saw Gao Shishi's face, and he had the intention to show his face in front of this young and outrageous Futai, and hurriedly said: "It's not that the last general is ashamed, but this is indeed the case, because although these Jurchens are strong and strong because of their perennial fishing and hunting, they will not pass the army, and they will only ...... Well, a group fight. In battles of more than two or three hundred people, they often have inconvenient commands, and they go their own way while fighting, so the Jurchens who gather into an army are not as difficult to deal with as small gangs of a dozen or dozens of people. ”

Gao Pragmatic frowned, and his intuition was wrong. If what Cao Yan said is true, then what happened to Nurhachi's rise later? I didn't hear that Nurhachi could only command a mere two or three hundred people.

But Cao Yan continued: "In addition, whether the Jurchens can fight or not has a lot to do with whether they are wearing armor or not...... Futai, the last general said that the Jurchens have great strength, but the strength above the battle array alone has no effect, the arrows and blades do not have long eyes, they will die if they are cut, and they will die if they are shot...... But if the Jurchens wear all kinds of armor, it will be very different, especially if they wear cotton armor (this thing is not just made of cotton, there are iron pieces inside), etc., with the courage of the Jurchens, even if they wear two layers of armor, it will not affect their actions, and their strength is infinite, and the armor makes them not afraid of ordinary arrows and blades, so they will be born into armor beasts, which is extremely difficult to stop......"

Cao Yan said this, hesitated slightly, and said: "Nurhachi's department was not rich, but I heard that he married Ye He, maybe Ye He gave him a batch of armor, so that the twelve people led by Anfeiyangu that day were all armored, plus the three hundred forwards of the Hada department, may not have expected that Anfeiyangu dared to resist, so he was caught off guard." ”

Gao pragmatically nodded noncommittally, but he was pondering in his heart: The battle of Anfeiyangu may only be explained in this way, the combat effectiveness of the Jurchens after wearing armor has increased greatly, I have heard of this before, but your so-called Jurchens do not know how to rank, I really can't believe you.

Gao Pragmatic pondered for a moment, and suddenly thought of one thing: the Jurchens may not have understood the ranks before, but after Nurhachi, they did! Because the Nurhachi brothers, as Li Chengliang's grooms, have been fighting with Li Chengliang for several years, and this guy has long had "big ambitions", how can he not observe and study well?

As for whether Nurhachi enshrined "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" as a guideline as in the legend, it doesn't matter, because Gao Pragmatic suddenly figured out one thing: Nurhachi's later Eight Banners were actually made with reference to Li Chengliang's Li family.

If you want to make an analogy, the Eight Banners are equivalent to Li Chengliang Jiading, the Han Army Banner is equivalent to the guards, and the resources in Nurhachi's hands are all given priority to the Manchurian Eight Banners, with the Manchurian Eight Banners as the core main force, with the Han Army Banner and even the follow-up Mongolian Eight Banners to form a large army.

And the reward of the Eight Banners also has the style of Li Chengliang with his family, often fighting to raise the war, and taking the capture as a reward, so that the Eight Banners always yearn for the "next battle", which is exactly the same as Li Chengliang's family - Li Chengliang likes to fight Mongolia and does not like to fight the Jurchens, and there are similar reasons, because the rewards for fighting the Mongols are more, and the heads of the Jurchens are not as valuable as the heads of the Mongols.

No wonder some people later said that Li Chengliang was the ancestor of the Qing Dynasty, if from this point of view, he is really ah!

Li Chengliang's family is a force that fights for money, and as long as the money is in place, the combat effectiveness is guaranteed; Nurhachi's Eight Banners is also a force that fights for "money", as long as it can guarantee that they can grab enough wealth after the battle, their combat effectiveness is also guaranteed!

Maybe it's for this reason that the Eight Banners will fall so quickly after entering the Central Plains - there is nothing to rob.

Probably thinking about this, Gao Pragmatic asked: "The dispute between Yehe and Hada, what do you think is the best attitude for my Ming Dynasty?" ”

Cao Yan said: "The Hada Department was the head of the Jurchen tribes in the past few years, and now the tiger is not defeated, and it still has some prestige...... If Ye He's momentum rises again after that, it will be the same if my Ming Dynasty suppresses Ye He again. ”

Gao Shishi bowed slightly, and after a while, he suddenly asked again: "The Ministry heard about the marriage between Yehe and Nurhachi, but now it is only an agreement, and it has not been able to complete the marriage?" ”

Cao Yan said: "Yes, the last general has already found out, and the previous news was wrong." ”

"What's wrong?" Gao asked pragmatically.

Cao Yan said: "First, it was not Qingjia Dang who agreed to marry Nurhachi, but Yang Jidang; Second, although Yang Jitong has an eldest daughter, he promised the young daughter to Nurhachi, nominally saying that the young daughter is dignified and more compatible with Nurhachi, but the last general thinks that this is just a delay, he is to see if Nurhachi can gain a firm foothold in the left guard of Jianzhou, if he can, this daughter will marry if she can, if not...... When the time comes, it's good to find a reason to regret the marriage, and maybe even Nurhachi himself will die. ”

Gao Pragmatic frowned and said: "But the previous news said that when Nurhachi returned to Jianzhou from Yehebu, he did bring his female dependents. ”

"This is a painting tiger that is not an anti-dog, and I have learned from our Han people...... In fact, it was Meng Gu Zhezhe's maidservant. ”

"Menggu Zhezhe?" Gao pragmatic muttered, "This is the name of the youngest daughter of the Ye He family?" ”

Cao Yan nodded and said: "Yes, Futai, this girl is young, it seems that she is only eight years old this year, and Nurhachi wants to marry her, but she will have to wait for several years." ”

Gao Pragmatic was a little distracted at this time, and it took a long time before he suddenly came back to his senses: Meng Gu Zhezhe? , isn't this Huang Taiji his wife?

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