Fan Wencheng was quite unwilling, and even since last year, he has reached the point of being hungry, and at the beginning of the massacre of the Wugu people, many members of the Fan family were killed, and even Fan Wencheng was almost killed and thrown into a mass grave, but the result was that Huang Taiji found that this person was good when he passed by, and saved him from the brink of death. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info This person also began to give advice to Huang Taiji under the banner of knowing the grace of the newspaper, through a few small things Huang Taiji felt that this person had some ability, not the kind of pedantic scholar who could only brag, and recently he often took Fan Wencheng with him, because he was afraid of Nuer Hachi's feelings, Fan Wencheng did not have any official position, sometimes called the study official, some Jurchen generals called him Wenchen, or scholars, Fan Xiucai, Fan Wencheng all agreed, his ideal and desire is to become a character like Wang Zuo, and now he feels that the opportunity has come.

"Fan Wencheng." Huang Taiji easily controlled the reins and walked forward, and said to Fan Wencheng, who was half a horse behind him: "If you really meet the soldiers and horses of Dongjiang Town on the road, what do you mean?" ”

Fan Wencheng said without thinking: "The more the nuisance of the Dongjiang soldiers is, the more Mao Wenlong's side lacks materials and food, and he urgently needs to use his military exploits to prove to the Ming Emperor that Dongjiang Town is not false, so that he ignores the danger of the soldiers and does not count the casualties, and those who are forced to cross the river often must be dissatisfied. ”

Fan Wencheng paused, pursed his lips unwillingly, and refused to continue.

In fact, a better way is to give the Han Zhuangzi and give them the status of a free man, and the worst thing is to make up the same eight banners as the Jurchen Mongols, which they cultivate in peacetime and draw soldiers to fight in wartime.

In normal times, Fuzhi is the same as the banner Mongols, so the Han people will not flee on a large scale, and Dongjiang Town will not be troubled, after all, the Dongjiang side is also precarious, not only a large number of people will die on the way to escape, but a large number of people will still die of cold and starvation when they arrive on the Dongjiang side. These things don't need to be rumored by the Houjin side, they are a matter of life and death, and there are many Han people who know about them.

But even so, there are quite a few Han people who would rather die than flee to the Dongjiang River, and the reason for this is of course clear to Fan Wencheng, who is not given a way to live on the Houjin side, and there is no life for ten deaths, even if the Dongjiang side is nine deaths and one life, there will still be people who fight for the slim vitality. Even Fan Wencheng, after knowing the news of the large-scale massacre, couldn't help but think about fleeing when he faced the butcher's knife, this kind of hardcore traitor is like this, not to mention those simple Han people who still have some national righteousness in their hearts.

Fan Wencheng's suggestion can only be to use deterrence and co-optation, so that the Dongjiang Han people are suspicious, and it is just a helpless way, but he has a good way and can't announce it, once it reaches the ears of Lao Khan, not only is it difficult to protect his life, but even Huang Taiji is difficult to excuse the crime of not knowing people, so he hesitated again and again, and finally did not declare it.

What kind of person Huang Taiji is, he knows that Fan Wencheng has unfinished words, and what he values is that this Han person not only knows history in literature and ink, but can also tell some history of the Han people, so that he can learn from it. It's not like ordinary banner people, they like to listen to Han people's commentary, it's nothing more than the Water Margin Three Kingdoms, Huang Taiji knows that it is a novelist's words, the words of the market, and it is not beneficial to real military affairs, to really establish a political power, you have to gather a group of elites among the Han people, and the famous scholars come out to give advice and sort out from top to bottom, rather than the current sloppy tribal council system and slavery system.

With the current situation, the old Khan is afraid that he will not be able to last for a few years, and most of the founding soldiers and generals will die within a few years.

"If you don't change, you die, and if you change, you will die." Huang Taiji looked at the green and yellow scenery in front of him, and looked at the decaying villages and houses, and couldn't help but sigh lightly.

Fan Wencheng had good hearing, but he pretended not to hear.

They marched all the way to the southeast for several days, stopping at noon every day to recuperate, and sending out a large number of sentry horses to scout around.

Horses galloped through the barren fields and abandoned villages, startling flocks of frightened birds and beasts, far from the mouth of the pine tree, in front of which was the toppled border wall of the Ming Kingdom, which was damaged everywhere and had no garrison function at all.

Most of the side walls are built on top of lofty mountains. There is very little flat land here, there are heavy mountains everywhere, there are quite a lot of traces of abandoned villages on the mountains, but most of them are covered by vines and shrubs, the wind rises at noon, the mountains are full of trees swaying, everywhere are big trees hugged by several people, some places the trees are too dense, it is not clear to see the situation on the mountain, but vaguely feel that there are beasts lurking in it.

I could faintly hear the roar of the tiger, which was very exciting, there were a lot of people, and if I could meet a tiger in the forest, it would be an action worth boasting about.

Dolgon galloped into the wasteland surrounded by a herd of coats, who did not bring hounds, and the coats kept making eating noises, driving out the prey that lurked in the dense barren grass.

Huang Taiji ate dry food, smiled and looked at this little brother tossing, his eldest son Haoge is only two years younger than the fourteenth elder brother, in fact, Dolgon is his son, but there is no way, the youngest little brother is more than twenty years younger than him, Dolgon is twelve years old this year, Duoduo is only ten years old, and Haoge is also ten years old, but Huang Taiji will not treat Dolgon as a nephew, this little brother is a threat to him more than those nephews.

At this time, Dolgon shot a hare, and the crowd rushed the rabbit away, and a Yehe from the Coatroto desperately pushed the rabbit to Dolgon, Cao Zhenyan loudly reminded Dolgon to correct the speed, and the arrow should be expected to advance the speed of a rabbit's running, and finally the arrow was fired, and the hare arrived, and Dolgon immediately cheered.

Dolgon has been learning to shoot for six years, but his archery skills are very mediocre, compared to his brothers are too far behind, his eldest brother Dai Shan's arrows are not missing, the fifth brother and the seventh brother and the eighth brother are all extremely heroic Jurchen men, archery skills are stronger than the average Jurchens, even if it is a few years older than Dolgon's Azig, in terms of martial arts is far above him, Dolgon is very smart, smart people generally have arrogance, and his lack of precision in archery is his secret injury, so that he is often sad. This time, he shot a galloping hare in front of the starling, which indirectly proved that his archery skills had reached a considerable level...... There is a difference between shooting a target and shooting a living creature, it is more difficult to shoot a hare that is running faster than to shoot a man, Dolgon was very proud, and he said to Luo Tuo, who ran over with a rabbit: "Good slave, and Cao Zhenyan will be rewarded with five taels of silver." ”

Cao Zhenyan and Luo Tuo both knelt down on one leg and said, "The slave thanks the master for his favor." ”

"Hmm." Dolgon didn't care, he rode his horse and galloped towards Huang Taiji, and said as far as he went: "Starling, I shot a rabbit by luck, let's serve starling as a drink." ”

Huang Taiji praised: "The fourteenth brother is really good at archery, I must report it to my father Khan when I go back, and praise the fourteenth brother well." ”

At this time, Tan Tai rode his horse from the front, and said with a serious expression: "Master, there is trouble, the outpost rode to report and found signs of the activities of a large number of Ming troops." ”

"Oh?" Huang Taiji didn't mind, and said very calmly: "How many people are there, and how widely is it?" Where are we now? ”

Tan Tai said: "We are now near Gushan Fort, just now I seem to see Gushan Fort in the northwest direction when I look at it, now we are over the old border wall of the Ming Kingdom, go south for about three days to reach the vicinity of Chengyang Fort, now we are in the southernmost tributary of the Taizi River, I estimate that the Ming people are from the west of the Yahu Pass area down the river, first we are a few days here, this west is the side wall, go straight forward is the Kuandian Six Fort and the abandoned side wall, we go straight east is the Ya'er Zhai place of Dong Ebu, now it is abandoned, This piece of my big gold soldiers is rarely here, and the Dongjiang town soldiers are very active, please pay attention to the master. ”

"I'll go take a look."

Huang Taiji didn't care too much about the enemy's situation, he walked for many days in a row and did not encounter the enemy, only encountered sporadic fugitive Han people, who should have survived from Jiu Kuandian to Dong Ebu, they picked wild fruits and wild vegetables here and hunted for life, like a group of frightened beasts, Huang Taiji has no interest in exterminating these people, it is better to catch these fugitive Han people than to capture the people in the forest, in his words, it is to make the dog make the country of deer, the land rich in black foxes and sables, do not farm, fishing and hunting for a living, in the surrender, this is what he attaches the most importance to, these people can enrich the Jurchen Eight Banners, sporadic Han people are useless, Han people are suitable for large-scale slavery and farming, and small-scale ones are not worth the trouble and effort.

A group of guards stepped forward and walked south along the river with Huang Taiji.

Judging from the map, the Taizi River flows all the way west from the Liaozhong Plain, all the way through Liaoyang Zhongwei and Xianning Ying, from the Songshukou to the border wall into the Jurchen territory, until the mountains in the lower reaches of the Suzi River in the east are scattered into small streams, and to the south it flows all the way to the vicinity of Gushan Fort, there are two forks, one to the east and one to the west, Huang Taiji They are walking along the river to the southeast, and there are three to five days in front of them is Changdian Fort, which is the control area of the Dongjiang District, Except for a few fine sentry cavalry, no Houjin soldiers entered the area of the six forts of Kuandian.

Dense forests and mountains are the natural allies and barriers of the Dongjiang soldiers, although they can send large troops, but the other party has no way to retreat to the Jiangkou Island, and the labor expedition is quite limited, so Dongjiang Town is already a maggot attached to the bones of the Houjin, extremely uncomfortable, but there is no solution.

Yesterday at dusk, Huang Taiji and the others saw a small group of horsemen on the distant mountains, obviously driving horses to transport supplies, large and small packages tied to the horses, and then trekking along the trails between the mountains and dense forests.