Chapter 37 Chapter Thirty-Third

Because she married Nichuhe, she lost a housewife; Zhaqing was pregnant again, and her movements became more and more inconvenient. Not only could she not take care of Nurhachi's daily life, but she felt overwhelmed and unable to cope with the family's affairs. Feeling exhausted, Nurhachi simply took in another concubine, Zhao Jiashi, to help with some trivial matters, and temporarily took care of his daily life in place of Zaqing. He himself devoted himself to his work. Because of the two robberies, he included Kang Jia and Li Dai as the targets of conquest. In addition to the news, plans to attack Zhaojia City have also begun to be developed.

On the other hand, since he destroyed several cities such as Tulun, Jiaban, and Sarhu, and captured a lot of people, he had to formulate a management method; People are organized into a unit, and the name of this unit is "Niulu"; then, according to each person's expertise, they are assigned to do half-day work, whether it is farming, hunting, digging ginseng, making weapons, raising horses— - and so on, all of them perform their own duties; the other half of the day will receive strict military training, riding and shooting battles, and giving orders to advance and retreat. In this way, it took him two or three months to keep busy, and finally reorganized the population, and the army began to train a little bit; in a blink of an eye, winter came. Already planning to send troops to attack Zhaojia City in the first spring of next year.

However, in December, an unexpected news reached his ears, that is, Li Song, the newly appointed governor of Liaodong, conspired with Li Chengliang, and set up a "city circle scheme" to kill Ye He's tribe. Baylor Qing Jia Niu and Yang Ji Niu... The so-called "city circle" is the Ming system, and the tribes trade with each other and build walls to form a trading market, which is called the city circle.Li Chengliang conspired with Li Song and Beiyu Huo Jiugao, first promised Yehe a tribute city, and then asked Qing Jia Niu and Yang Ji Pei to go to the city circle of Zhenbeiguan to receive the reward from the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, Li Chengliang set up an ambush 40 miles away, quietly waiting for the brothers Qing Jiani and Yang Jipi to come and throw themselves into the net. When Qing Jiani and Yang Jibei came to Zhenbei Pass, they led thousands of cavalry; Huo Jiugao sent someone to tell them: "Uncle Ning Yuan invited you to come to receive the reward, why did you bring thousands of armored horses?" Brother Qing Jianiu thought about it and found it reasonable, so he agreed to come and take only 300 riders into the ring. Huo Jiugao agreed, but secretly set up an ambush in the wall; Li Song's reminder was:

"After these two barbarians enter the circle, if they caress well and accept our orders and restraints, then the flag will be raised, and the ambushing Jiatu will not appear; if they refuse to accept the order, then they will use the cannon as a signal , as soon as the cannon fires, all ambushes must be unleashed, and they will all be wiped out!" Huo Jiugao was then ordered to invite Qing Jianiu and Yang Jipi to enter the circle; they did not suspect him at all, and they entered the circle proudly with three hundred horses. Li Songgao sat on the south tower to meet them. As soon as they met, Li Song was very unhappy. It turned out that when Li Song first arrived in Liaodong, he was not familiar with the life etiquette of the Jurchens. Weighing the brothers Qing Jianiu, he thought that they were disrespectful and disrespectful to still occupy the saddle after seeing the officer, so he asked Huo Jiugao to reprimand them and order them to dismount and salute.

As a result, Qing Jipi and Yang Jipi were also very unhappy; the Jurchen lived on horseback all year round, and it was very common not to get off the horse when they saw the chief, and it was not considered rude at all. Li Song's order was simply to find Ballast, therefore, the eyes of the two unknowingly showed anger. Then, Li Song self-righteously taught them a lesson, and asked them to immediately accept the appeasement and restraint of the Ming Dynasty, stop aggression against the Hada tribe, stop the expansion of force, and annex other small tribes. All the men, horses, property, and land were returned to the Hada tribe.

When these words were translated from Huo Jiugao's mouth to Qing Jiani's brothers, the anger of the two of them became even greater, and they began to speak rudely, and the atmosphere became very heated; thus, Yang Jipi looked back at Hada who came with him The rebel general Bai Huchi, Bai Huchi immediately drew his sword and attacked Huo Jiugao, slashing Huo Jiugao's right arm, Huo Jiugao also fought back vigorously; when the two sides fought, the three hundred cavalry brought by Qing Jia Niu and Yang Chaonii clamored together and attacked the people present. Ming army; at this moment, Li Song winked, and immediately fired cannons; the cannons sounded like thunder in an instant, and the 10,000 soldiers who were ambushing rushed out from the partition wall, submerging Qing Jiani like a tide. and Yang Jipi.

Three hundred riders, plus Congren, Qing Jiapi's son Wusun Boluo, and Yang Jipi's son Haerhama, a total of 311 people were killed, leaving no one alive. And Li Chengliang's army, who was ambushing forty miles away, rushed out as soon as he heard the thunderous cannon, and surrounded Ye He's army outside the circle, killing 1,521 people. 1,703 horses taken... Hearing this news, Nurhachi was so sad that he couldn't speak for a long time; first, of course, it was because he married Ye Hebu not long ago and hired Yang Jipi's daughter; It wasn't long, but in his heart, he had a deep affection for this bright and generous elder; he clearly remembered that when Yang Jipi had a conversation with him when he went to Yehebu to propose marriage, his sincere attitude was full of encouragement and enthusiasm. The expected demeanor of the elders, and even the tentative harsh questioning and marrying the daughter are all vivid in front of my eyes. Who knew that such a big change would happen all of a sudden!

Secondly, after such an accident, he once again realized Li Chengliang's intentions - Li Chengliang would not allow any Jurchen tribe to grow up, no matter if it was Jianzhou or Haixi, as long as they were a little fledgling , he began to remove it—his purpose was to keep the Jurchen trapped in this kind of purgatory where small divisions separated each other and killed each other forever. Thinking of this, he also reminded himself once again that he must deal with Li Chengliang carefully, and must carefully construct a strategy to deal with him. Moreover, when his strength is not strong enough to compete with him, he must To keep a low profile and avoid attracting his attention...

He thought about it again and again, and his mood fell into a low-key; but at this moment, Li Chengliang was just the opposite of him. Li Chengliang's whole body exuded the intimidating domineering aura of the past again. He was sitting high on the grand teacher's chair covered with tiger skin, and was examining the heads one by one that were brought to him. Qing Jia Ni, Yang Jipi, Baihuchi——he looked at them carefully, the expressions on each head were gritted teeth, retaining the pain suffered before death, the muscles twisted, the eyes protruding, adding a sense of grimness to the face. It was a terrifying scene; however, Li Chengliang looked at it, and suddenly let out a triumphant laugh. After laughing for a while, the muscles on his own face also twitched and twisted into a horrible scene, but he didn't Unconsciously, he grinned again and again and said:

"You two thieves and slaves, can you show off your power again in the future? Have you tried my method, how does it feel?" As he said that, he laughed wildly again, and a sense of victory fermented in his heart, which catalyzed his emotions to become high: "You are the best example - let's see who else wants to be the boss in the future. With Ben Shuai here, don't even think about one!" His heart was immersed in the excitement, and he couldn't help himself for a long time, and his mind was constantly turning. Scenes of scenes also came and went alternately, from the sound of gunfire, to thrilling hand-to-hand combat, and even Yu Dao raised his head and fell, his blood burst out, and his eyes were filled with a red mist... He even remembered that after annihilating all the men and horses of Qing Jianiu and Yang Jipi, he ordered the army to go deep into Ye He's tribe, and 20,000 cavalry regiments surrounded the city where Qing Jianiu brothers lived; Only self-restraint and surrender, when he came to him, prostrate on the ground begging for mercy, vowed to be restrained by his orders forever, never betrayal... Thinking of this, he couldn't help laughing out loud again triumphantly; he made all the men in the Yehe tribe kneel down and beg for him, and filled half of the village with black knees, and everyone begged him for his life in fear—and What kind of feeling is better than this kind of prestige that "the power of life and death is in my hands"? In fact, how could he really kill all the people in Ye He's tribe? After killing all the people of the Yehe tribe, isn't there another tribe that can conquer and make military exploits at any time?Didn't it take trouble to secretly build another department to contain the Hada department, so as to achieve the effect of checks and balances? I am not a fool! What's more, the combat achievements of more than 1,500 heads this time are enough to see, and there is no need to "take the fish out of the river" to kill them all, and there is no way out. "The rest of the heads will be entrusted to you, and I will take them slowly!" His heart was sneering, but his mouth spoke with the utmost benevolence: "I think you are begging for mercy, which proves that the goodness of heaven is still alive; I am the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Shengming, and I think that there is a good life in heaven. As long as you don't rebel again, I will grant you forgiveness..." And these high-sounding words, he also ordered the master to write in the memorial to the emperor - he is ordering the master to sort out the memorial to the court in a hurry, and report the detailed results of this battle. He believed that what he did was smart and correct, and he made reports of his military exploits at any time, first to remind the emperor of his existence, and second, to make the emperor think that the occasional wars in Liaodong were indeed "eventful". And he must win every battle, with brilliant results, so that the emperor can pay attention to his talent and importance—and all of these will be helpful to his future. Notes: