And Dan, the Eight Banners arrived, first attacked the general Gong Niansui and the guerrilla Li Xi's car battalion, Gong Niansui saw the main force after the destruction of his own camp, shield car camp, ring camp trenches, row guns and cannons, the defense is very tight, but his subordinates are mainly baggage battalions, originally not elite, after the main force is destroyed, the baggage battalion soldiers are listed alone, a number of surprises, the morale of the army is completely lost, after the Eight Banners arrive, Nuerhachi did not wait for the army to encircle...... He couldn't afford to delay this time, but personally led a thousand fine cavalry, ordered Huang Taiji to lead in front, and attacked in the weakest corner of the car camp, after opening the gap, the army poured in, clashed, ran, ravaged, slashed, Gong Niansui died in battle, and he himself and the guerrilla general Li Xiyu were also killed together.

After the victory, the Eight Banners went to Shangjian Cliff, because Malin occupied a favorable position, Nuerhachi ordered all the armored soldiers to dismount and fight, the big Belle Daishan, the second Belle Amin, the three Belle Mang Gurtai each led the armor soldiers to drum and rush forward, the Ming army in the camp sent bird guns, magnified cannons, but the fire was not used, the blade has been added to the neck, the two armies were short-handed, the sharp blades were flying, the firearms of the Ming army kept playing, and the Houjin soldiers were seriously injured, but under the fierce fighting of the white blades, the morale of the Ming army that was not good at this was completely gone, and there was no power to resist at all, and the whole battalion was bleeding like a river, Except for the general soldier Ma Lin, who escaped under the escort of several horsemen, along with his two sons and more than 10,000 soldiers, they all died in the camp.

After eliminating the headquarters of Marin, the Eight Banners moved to Feifen Mountain non-stop and attacked Pan Zongyan's army, which was based on a shield cart and surrounded by firearms.

The Ming army still used shotguns and artillery to fight back, but these firearms were really crudely made, and the training of soldiers was far from enough, still the same as the previous war, the firearms of the Ming army were pressed by bows and arrows and could not raise their heads, Nurha ordered half of the soldiers to dismount, the heavy armor soldiers with swords and guns in front, the light armor soldiers and the unarmored soldiers held bows and arrows in the back, ten thousand arrows fired together, covering the heavy armor soldiers to rush forward, the other half of the soldiers and horses rode horses to attack, tens of thousands of people surrounded the camp to attack, risking death to advance, iron cavalry rushed to attack the artillery team, infantry slashed and killed firecrackers, the whole battlefield was winding and turbulent, flesh and blood flying, The Ming army was killed miserably, Pan Zongyan was finally killed in battle, and thousands of soldiers and horses under his command were also wiped out.

Yehebu was originally in this battle is a mouse's eye, did not do their best, hoping to rely on the Ming army's military strength to eliminate the old enemy of Jianzhou, they sent only about 2,000 troops, and the whole clan mobilization is far away, after hearing that the Ming army was wiped out, Belle Jintaishi led his subordinates to flee quickly, frightened.

So far, in two days, the whole army of the Eight Banners was dispatched to fight continuously, first destroying 20,000 Ming troops in the Salhu Valley, and then killing Juniper and his more than 10,000 subordinates under the Jilin Cliff, and then rushing overnight, killing 20,000 Ming troops in Shangjian Cliff and Feifen Valley respectively, driving away the Yehe army, and the 50,000 troops of the Ming Army on the North Road and the West Road were all wiped out, and together with several general soldiers and a large number of military attachés above the capital division, all died in the battle.

On the afternoon of the second day of the first lunar month, Nurhachi heard that Li Rubai had just arrived at Hulan Road, and the distance was still far away, and he judged that the Ming army on the southern road had no will and determination to fight as expected, so he sent the guard Hu Erhan to lead a thousand cavalry to block the Ming army on the southern road, and then sent Dabeile Daishan to lead two thousand elites to the east road, and set up an ambush in the valley of Dong'e Road, waiting for the arrival of Liu Ling's east route army.

On the third day of the first month, Nuerhachi went to the Jiefan Mountain to rest, the Eight Banners Army fought continuously, the casualties have exceeded 2,000, and more soldiers were slightly injured or exhausted, but there is still a big battle waiting for them, in order to improve morale, Nuerhachi called the army to rest temporarily, and at the same time he rushed to the Jiefan City, killing eight oxen and sacrificing heaven and earth.

The ceremony was very grand, Zhang Han did not participate in it and heard about it, and he was also very clear about the destruction of the Northern Route Army, when Nurhachi sacrificed to the sky, he no longer had the prudence and caution before the war, and his words were very arrogant, and he had faintly not seen the Jurchens who had always hated but were also very awe-inspiring Daming.

If the previous Nurhachi and his Dajin Kingdom were just small countries that wanted to stand on their own, after Salhu, their ambitions were already very inflated, and entering Fushun Pass and seizing the Liaodong Plain was no longer a dream, but a strategy that could be implemented in the next step.

After the fourth day of the first month, Liu Ling's troops who marched all the way finally arrived at Alibuda, but at this time, the Eight Banners had eased their strength, the army was encircled, Zhubeile or forward attack, or flank, several ways surrounded and advanced, although Liu Ling's resistance was resolute, Liu Ling himself was also brave, but under the siege of several times stronger enemies, the sporadic resistance of the Ming army was useless, more than 10,000 people were killed, and five or six thousand Chao and Xian soldiers surrendered to Nurhachi and others under the leadership of their two marshals.

In the Great Yamen, Nuerhachi and Zhubeile sat upright, the marshal of Chao and Xiandu knelt on the ground, begging for surrender, so far, the Ming army has been wiped out by the three soldiers and horses, Li Rubai has retracted back to the Qing River, the four-way joint attack and the three-way failed, all the general soldiers except Ma Lin were all killed, several civilian officials and supervisors were either captured or killed, more than 300 high-level military attachés with good quality were killed, more than 50,000 Ming soldiers were killed, and more than 20,000 military horses were all lost, either died on the battlefield or were captured by Houjin.

Originally, the Jurchens still had a considerable shortage of war horses, the so-called "no horses to follow" was because of the lack of war horses in the flag, after the battle of Salhu, the strategic situation of the two sides of the Ming and Jin Dynasty directly changed, one side turned to attack and defend, and the other side got a large number of weapons and armor and war horses, and the war strength was further increased.

After the fifth day of the first month, the soldiers of the Eight Banners were scattered in various places to clean up the battlefield, and the Ming army captured in this battle had countless horses, mules, donkeys, and carts, and there were nearly 30,000 mules and horses alone, and the harvest was too rich, and of course the men and horses had to continue to work, but the faces of the people in and around Hetuara that Zhang Han saw were full of joy, and only a few Jurchen families whose families had died in the war faintly heard the cry, but they were quickly suppressed by the joyful atmosphere of victory.

After this battle, the noose between the necks of the Jurchens was exhausted, and the eight banners composed of tribes were more combative, the materials were more complete, and there was sufficient space and time for maneuver, although the Jurchens did not understand what "strategic initiative" was, but the overall situation was favorable, but everyone knew it.

On the sixth day of the first lunar month, Zhang Quan, a captured Ming official, was executed in Hetuala.

As the supervisor of the main force of the Western Route Army, Zhang Quan wrote a letter before the war against the rash invasion of the war, but when Yang Hao and the imperial court rejected his suggestion, Zhang Quan went west with the army, and did not pick a son because his advance was not adopted, he followed the Western Route Army and marched together, but his own soldiers were killed on the battlefield, and he was wounded and captured.

Zhang Quan's level of civil officials, even if the former Nuer Hachi is the head of a department, and he is named the general of the Dragon and Tiger, he is nothing in front of Zhang Quan, he is called the master, and he has to bow respectfully, after capturing Zhang Quan, Nuer Hachi attaches great importance to it, and surrenders many times, of course, he has been severely rejected many times.

In desperation, Nurhaci ordered Zhang Quan to be beheaded in order to save his life.

Zhang Han was really infected with some wind chill after returning to Hetuala, maybe he was in a bad mood, or it was really because he had consumed his mental and physical strength by switching to war many times, and he fell ill.

In the past few days, the Eight Banners soldiers have been fighting outside, and the people in the city are panicking, but no one has come to disturb him, Zhang Han recuperates with peace of mind, lies on the fire pit every day, and reads some idle books when he is in good spirits.

When the gong was struck in the morning to kill, Liang Xing and the others walked out, and they were going to see off the loyal ministers.

When they came back in the afternoon, everyone's faces were not very good.

Zhang Hansha's hat is upright, and his body is dressed in a red robe, although there are injuries on his body, after all, his back is still straight. Before the execution, he calmly bowed to the north, and then calmly accepted the punishment, although there was no poetry chronicle, but under the big test of life and death, Zhang Quan maintained the integrity and character of a great Ming civil official, and after observing the execution, there were even many Jurchens who praised Zhang Quan's performance...... Even barbarians know to respect their enemies.

"Everyone's feelings must not be very good." Zhang Han looked at everyone, there was still a tiredness in his eyes, he had been using his body and mind in business since he crossed over, this time he was thousands of miles away, and the people he dealt with were all related to the military and politics, not only the fatigue of the trip, but also the pressure on the soul and soul...... By this time, he had undoubtedly been thrown into this era, closely related to the top military affairs, and it was difficult to say that he could stay out of it.

These days, he is lying in bed, seemingly reading a book, but in fact, he has been thinking about his next step.

Of course, he doesn't want to be a pure businessman anymore, and Zhang Han has undergone earth-shaking changes from the depths of his soul in the past few months. His hands were also stained with blood, and the blood on his body was even thicker...... Mongol, Han, Jurchen. This era is worthy of being the two most prominent contradictions summed up by later generations, one is the class contradiction, and the other is the so-called contradiction between the people and the ethnic group.

In less than ten years, the exiles will become a new force to subvert the Ming Dynasty, and the Jurchens between the white mountains and black waters are the best helpers, and finally the two classes work together to overthrow the Ming Dynasty, and the Jurchens reach out to pick the fruits of victory, and finally push China into three hundred years of darkness.

The so-called national integration is an endless massacre, Zhang Han not only has the Jurchens slaughtered the Ming soldiers, they also massacre a large number of Han civilians, during the period of living in Hetuala, there are more than a thousand Ming people killed on the border alone, every day there will be many border people's heads sent to Hetuara to repay the merits, in Erdeni's archives there are only more or less numbers, in the Jurchens are only more or less military merits, but in the Ming border people is the father or brother was killed, children or old people died under the knife, The captivity of a wife or mother into slavery is the destruction of a family.

In the future, thousands of families will be drowned in blood.

If you hadn't come to Liaodong and hadn't seen it with your own eyes, all this could have nothing to do with you. But Zhang Han has already been here, seen it with his own eyes, and then doing business with the Jurchens and enjoying his wealth with peace of mind, how is this different from a traitor?

He can't get around this hurdle anymore......