Chapter 5 Chapter V Intimidation War

When the army set off, the situation changed again. Due to Chu Ying's previous publicity, Ye He's tribe had already heard the news, and the date of Jianzhou's dispatch of troops was delayed, so Ye He's tribe was able to prepare calmly—— In the plan, the definite targets of Jianzhou’s attack were Yehe’s Zhangcheng, Jidang’a, and Wusu’s three outlying towns; and because of time permitting, Yehebeile Jintaishi and Buyangu recalled Zhangcheng and Jidang The residents of Acheng, their livestock and belongings were all removed; only Wusu City was left, which was not withdrawn because of the pox epidemic in the city.

Only one of the three goals remains—— The losses of the Yehe tribe will be reduced a lot, but Nurhachi did not change his plan to send troops because the target was two-thirds less. This time, he did not aim at gaining more human and animal property in the first place. Demonstrating, intimidating, weakening Yehe, and even creating some reasons to send troops, so he had the original intention. Even, he secretly evaluated in his heart: "Ye He hurriedly withdrew the residents of the two cities, which substantially reduced the losses, but it backfired in terms of prestige and morale - the world will think that Ye He dare not confront Jianzhou Yes, this is a big loss!"

But in this battle, only Wusu City was left to deal with, and the action was too easy—he simply took the map, and after careful consideration, he selected more than a dozen small towns to which Ye He belonged. Zhai: "Since the troops have already been dispatched, we should take advantage of the situation to deal with them. It is always the effect of 'one fades and the other grows'!" These small walled cities are usually inconspicuous, and some of them are as small as a few hundred people, and it is not difficult to take them down. He sent a total of 40,000 troops, and personally led the Chinese army to attack Wusu City. The guards of Wusu City, Shan Tan and Hu Shimu, knew that they were invincible, and surrendered before fighting; he sent his nephews and subordinates to the remaining 19 small villages , each led 3,000 troops, and it took half a day to settle the situation one by one.

This time it was basically "victory without fighting", and the harvest was quite a lot - there were 300 households in Wusu City, and the remaining 19 small villages, with a total of more than 1,000 households, all became the people of Jianzhou. But after all, he was "cautious", and the army did not stay in Yeheduo. After setting fire to the houses in these villages, he returned to Jianzhou with the army and the people and animals he took in that day. He went out to the army and did not fight at all—in fact, like all the sergeants, he felt a kind of uncomfortable feeling of "not exerting his strength". There was a jubilant atmosphere—his emotions were involuntarily low-key.

Moreover, after returning to Jianzhou, the consequences that he had been dreading all along really happened—— Of course, Jintaishi and Buyangu were not willing to be invaded by him for no reason, robbing people and robbing wealth, and the two of them were not ordinary people, so they immediately came up with the best strategy to deal with Jianzhou. The two spoke to the officials of the Ming Dynasty through various channels, and the content of the speech was easy to say: "I originally had four tribes of Hulun in Liaodong, but now I only have one of Yehe - Hada, Hui Fa and Ula have been wiped out by Nurhachi; now, he has come to invade Yehe, he wants to unify Liaodong, and then invade the Ming Dynasty!"

The two even came up with an alarmist saying: "He wants to emulate Genghis Khan of Mongolia!" Genghis Khan of Mongolia first unified the various tribes of Mongolia, then conquered everywhere, expanded the territory, and finally invaded the Central Plains. Of course, everyone is familiar with it—the officials of the Ming Dynasty became vigilant. As a result, Liaodong Governor's Yamen also began to develop countermeasures—— A few days later, the officials of the Ming Dynasty agreed to send people to find Nurhachi and ask him not to invade Yehe again, and at the same time select a thousand soldiers to practice firearms, led by the guerrillas Ma Shinan and Zhou Daqi Go to Yehe and help defend the second city of Yehe.

The attitude of the Ming Dynasty is still considerate, not only favoring the Jianzhou side, but also protecting Yehe; and reconciling the two sides like a peacemaker. This approach is gentle; it is also far better than Li Chengliang's approach decades ago - the word "good" is of course aimed at Jurchen. Nurhachi sighed secretly in his heart: "If Li Chengliang were replaced, he would provoke the two wars as much as possible, and then send troops when the two sides are exhausted and the battle is about to end, and it will be a 'fisherman's profit'!" Of course, he also understands that the Ming Dynasty has not been as good as it used to be in dealing with Liaodong since Li Chengliang got old.

But this time, the Ming Dynasty's intervention was only such a slight movement, and it would not be difficult to deal with it well. After careful consideration for a while, he decided: "I'll go to Fushun myself and explain to Li Yongfang—give him a big gift, and he'll probably be fine!" Li Yongfang's official position is a guerrilla, he is not big or small, he is doing things conveniently, and he has always been on good terms with him-through Li Yongfang's channel, he is sure that most of the Liaodong officials will continue to favor Jianzhou. After all, the Ming Dynasty was still a big country that he had some scruples about, so this visit was unavoidable.