Chapter 883: Ding Kou

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The third and fourth elder brothers and several other elder brothers are not there, and the old Khan doesn't particularly dislike them, but these elder brothers also understand that they are not favored, so they don't hang around with their father Khan if they have nothing to do, so as not to give birth to something that shouldn't happen.

Those brothers with titles and titles are not good men and women, and they are angry, so what are the few glances that come out in front of the old Khan? Although the Jurchens are barbarians in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, they actually attach great importance to the distinction between the concubines and the concubines, why are the Daishan Emperor Taiji Mang Gurtai brothers the banner masters, and the three Dolgon brothers are so favored? The reason is also very simple, their mothers are concubines!

"Khan Ama," said Dai Shan, after everyone returned to the tent, "Baduli has been in the Thirteen Mountains for a long time, and there is no shortage of food on the mountains now, and I recently heard that the Han army captured from last year to the present has been brought down, and it is said that there is no shortage of people above, and tens of thousands of men are on top." I have money, food, and people, but I am afraid that I will be besieged for a long time. ”

When it comes to the Thirteen Mountains, everyone's faces are unnatural, and Huang Taiji is the same.

This mountain has become a thorn in Houjin's neck, but it can't be pulled out, and if you pull it out, you may have to make yourself bleed!

"Inform the smooth forehead." Nurhaci closed his eyes and said, "Tell him to check carefully, there must be a lot of spies in it." ”

Nurhachi himself has spent his whole life as a spy, and although he is not as professional as Yusheng in this matter, he instinctively has a very accurate feeling.

"Yes." Huang Taiji owed himself and agreed to come down.

"In the past six months," Dai Shan said, "the garrison is 1,500 armor soldiers, more than 400 white armor, 2,200 bannermen, more than 4,000 coats, and more than 8,000 people stationed around the thirteen mountains. Ba Duli said that unless 20,000 people were sent to build armor and 10,000 armor outside the important pass and then rebuild the long wall, it would be difficult to prevent the people on the mountain from going down the mountain to contact the Ming army of Ningyuan in Jinzhou. ”

"Also," Huang Taiji added, "Jinzhou already has the general army of the Ming State stationed, and it is always threatening the flank of our army. ”

Listening to the words of his sons, Nurhachi also looked helpless...... The situation is indeed not optimistic, but he also does not have much to do.

Or...... Nurha glanced at Dai Shan, is it the method of this old son who has been abandoned?

The Thirteen Mountains have become a stinger, deeply stuck in the throat of the Houjin Kingdom, and it can't be pulled out, although it is not fatal, but it is uncomfortable for the person who is pierced, and it is really difficult to swallow.

The sound of horses' hooves was heard in the distance, and everyone turned their heads to look, just to cover the embarrassment up and down.

Huang Taiji didn't do this, he was still frowning, two years later, the Jin Kingdom won many battles, in addition to the occasional small setbacks in the Thirteen Mountains, and in Haizhou and Fuzhou and other places by Dongjiang Town to take advantage of loopholes and achieve some results, in addition, it is really a hundred battles of the people, since the old Khan raised the army, more than a thousand people after the battle of the Jin Eight Banners have not lost once, those so-called military reports that scared to death of one or two hundred thousand Jurchens in Dongjiang Town, in the eyes of Huang Taiji and others, are not even jokes, they can only be regarded as fools' dreams.

However, Huang Taiji's feeling is that the overall strategic situation of Jin has not changed much after these two years, and the DPRK is still not convinced, and often makes stumbling blocks for the Later Jin, and the Korean garrison in Hamgyong Province often crosses the border to kill and injure the Jurchens who pick ginseng and dried fruits, and battles often break out between the two sides.

The garrisons of the eight provinces of Korea are all waste, only the soldiers of Hamgyong Province can still fight, this was the case when the Imjin Rebellion was in place, the main reason is because the Hamgyong Province has to face those Jurchens in the deep mountains and old forests, the two sides often clash on the border line, and they have been a hundred years of blood feud with each other, Huang Taiji once said to Nurhachi that if you want to make North Korea stable, it is useless to let go of a few generals of the Korean army, unless it is to go straight in, surround its royal capital, and force it to sign an alliance under the city, and from then on from the submission of the Ming Dynasty to the submission of Dajin, apart from this, There is no other way.

In addition to North Korea is Dongjiang Town, Dongjiang Town repeatedly attacked under the dispatch of Yuan Keli last year, although Mao Wenlong's Tang reported a lot of water, most of the small-scale battles were real, most of those battles were hundreds of Jurchens and servant troops facing thousands of Dongjiang soldiers, the scope was small and small, but it was very cruel and fierce, the casualties on both sides were very heavy, most of the Han army generals and garrisons around the country were ineffective in the war, and there was a guerrilla surnamed Zhang a while ago because he stood on the other side alone with his family during the war, did not cooperate with the Jurchen soldiers to be the war defendant, and as a result, the old Khan could not be punished severely, because a large number of Han troops were in the hands of these surrendered Han generals, and they could not be expected to fight.

Huang Taiji felt that the old Khan's use of the Han army was becoming more and more cautious and even implied hostility, and the Han army was actually a strong force when it was used, but the upper echelons of the Eight Banners had the same attitude towards the Han army, hostile, beware, and regarded as a clothed slave, and the old Khan's original policy of benevolence was almost impossible to implement, because too many Jurchen nobles were eager to turn the Han army into their own coats, and just farm the land for the nobles in the official village.

Huang Taiji was worried about this, this was taking the initiative to weaken the military strength in his hands, but his brothers and nephews could not see this.

North Korea, the Ming Liaoxi garrison, the Thirteen Mountains, Dongjiang Town, Denglai Town, the Ming State Water Division, these enemies are like a noose, slowly twisted around the neck of the Jurchens, if there is a battle, Huang Taiji is also confident to smash any side, but now the enemy does not give the opportunity to fight at all, the only thing that must accept the battle is the western Liaoxi direction of the Ming State, but there are many fortresses, and the Ming army is directly commanded by Sun Chengzong, according to the detailed situation, Sun Chengzong has high prestige, and he is careful and careful, The generals of the Ming army in western Liaoning gradually regained their strength and confidence, and judging from the fact that the cavalry of the Ming army opened the road to the Thirteen Mountains this time, the Ming army in western Liaoning has regained its combat effectiveness.

More than 100,000 main forces were stationed in forts and repaired cities for hundreds of miles, and there were a large number of Hongyi cannons, and Huang Taiji himself did not have much confidence that he could defeat the Ming army in Liaoxi without losing too much of himself.

At this time, the memory of the Jurchens was still under the influence of the two battles of Liaoyang and Shenyang, the battle of Shenyang, He Shixian, the total strength of the battle, and then the battle of Liaoyang, Yuan Yingtai, the Liaodong economic strategy, led his subordinates out of the city to fight with the Jurchen soldiers, and then there was the bloody battle of the Hunhe River, the Jurchens and the Che Battalion of the Zhejiang soldiers and the spear array of the Sichuan soldiers fought many bloody battles, and if the main force of the Liaozhen cavalry came to help when the battle was raging, the outcome of the war was difficult to predict.

During the Battle of Shaling, it was also the Ming army that took the initiative to attack.

So far, although the performance of the Ming army is to fight and lose, in fact, the loss of the Jurchen Eight Banners is not small, compared to the Koreans and Mongols, the performance of the Ming army is still not the style of the strong army of the country, many times took the initiative to attack, to the Jurchens quite a lot of casualties, especially the Shenyang Battle and the bloody battle of the Hunhe River, the losses of the Eight Banners are very large, by no means as the Jurchens themselves said almost no losses.

Jurchen Dingkou, before entering the customs has been more than 60,000 Ding, to the Shunzhi period had dropped to 57,000 Ding, decades of development, and is the ruler of Liaodong, but the number of Dingkou has hardly increased, but is continuing and slowly declining, this reason is of course needless to say.

If it weren't for the fact that Nuer Hachi and Huang Taiji's father and son had been searching for the wild Jurchens in the mountains and forests to replenish them into the Eight Banners, I am afraid that the Jurchen Dingkou would have dropped to less than 50,000 before entering the customs.

"It's Tangma."

Every day, Tang Ma came to report the incident, and everyone got used to it, and everyone continued to talk and move, and Nuerhachi pointed to the wheat in the field and said to the Eight Banners: "You must remember that you must not learn the methods of the Han people in farming. The Han people hoe the land twice, the first time they hoe the weeds, and the second time they turn over the plots, they think that this saves trouble, but in fact it is troublesome, and it is easy to produce grass to reduce the yield. My daughter Zhizhushen has always pulled the weeds first, plucked the grass of the plot and then ploughed the ground, so that there are fewer weeds and the yield is high. In the past, my Marfa and Ama taught me how to farm the land, how to use ploughing cattle, at that time we were trapped outside the border wall by the Ming Kingdom, and the struggle between the tribes was endless, and the reason why my Jianzhou Department was able to rise among the tribes was mainly to trade with the Han people to buy a large number of ploughing cattle and seeds, and after fishing and hunting, they resumed farming, and the tribe had surplus grain for the soldiers to fight. If I hadn't inherited the legacy of my ancestors, how could I see it today? ”

"That's exactly what Old Khan said." Beile Zhaisang said: "We will try our best to manage the Tunzhuang and not teach the old Khan to be disappointed." ”

The banner owner Beledudu frowned and said: "It's just that the time is still not good, this year is good, but it is still a bad harvest." ”

"It doesn't work either." Nurha Equator: "But I hope it will be better in the coming year." ”

This time, both the beyles and the capitalists said, "There will be a bumper harvest in the coming year!" ”

In the surrounding fields, there are some Han Baoyi and Jurchen people working in the fields, and the harvest will soon be harvested, and these people should be preparing before opening the sickle.

Each village has Jurchen officials in charge of the village, from Bashiku to Niulu Ezhen, Jialakha Zhen, Gushan Ezhen, forming a strict and orderly management chain, the Jurchens have done their best in the grain harvest, but as everyone has seen, the effect is not optimistic.

Dai Shan delayed a little, and took the initiative to say to Huang Taiji: "Old eight, from this spring to the end of summer, is the grain harvest enough?" ”

"Not enough." Huang Taiji said: "Although the harvest is more than last year and the year before last, but the output is still reduced a lot, compared with more than ten years ago, the harvest per mu is at most 30 to 40 percent, now we have more than 60,000 people in Dingkou, together with more than 100,000 small families, more than 60,000 Han army, and 200,000 small families, plus Baoyi and the Han people in various tunguanzhuang and various cities, adding up to more than 3 million, and the food gap for these millions of people a year is at least 260,000 stone or more, a slight increase in production, useless. ”

"The wealth of my great gold is used to buy grain, and a large amount of silver and gold flows out like water."

Dai Shan's face showed a contemplative look, and after half a sound, he said: "I think that like Fuzhou, Haizhou, and Yaozhou, the pressure is much less. ”

Huang Taiji looked shocked and said: "No, Dingkou seems to be a burden, but it is actually the national strength of a country, without Dingkou, where does the national strength come from." ”

"Our national strength is the Jurchen Dingkou, everything else is fake and false!" Dai Shan said coldly: "You and I really have different ideas here, and it seems that no one can convince anyone." But I want to remind you that you have great talents, but you must also be down-to-earth, judge the situation, and don't look too far and forget how the road under your feet goes. ”