The Houjin troops at the foot of the mountain are led by none other than the Houjin warriors, the four great Baylors, and the leader of the inlaid blue flag, Amin.

Amin is the son of Nurhaci's younger brother. Because he is good at fighting and resourceful, he is a rare junior in the Houjin Group. Therefore, in the first year of Tianming when Nurhaci ascended the throne, he was married to Nurhaci's son Daishan and Manggu.

Ertai and Huang Taiji were also named Heshuo Baylor, known as the "Four Great Baylors", and Amin was named the Second Baylor. It can be seen how highly this person was treated by Nurhachi.

This time, Wang Huazhen and Xiong Tingbi conducted a military expedition to Liaodong, which put great pressure on Nurhaci, which required him to face and deal with it with all his strength.

But at this time, Zhenjiang Mao Wenlong, who was behind Liaodong, became a dagger stuck in Hou Jin's waist, and his position began to show its role.

It turned out that Mao Wenlong had not yet become a big man, and he was not very respected by the civil servants. He was a dispensable little person in the Ming Dynasty.

However, after Mao Wenlong made a surprise attack in the First World War and occupied Zhenjiang, he captured more than 20 prisoners, including his younger brother Tongzhengxing, and presented them to the governor Wang Huazhen. At that time, he was greatly rewarded by Wang Huazhen and gained his favor. So Wang Huazhen

To reciprocate the favor, in the Pingliao blueprint I drew up, Mao Wenlong's Zhenjiang was also assigned a place. Mao Wenlong, a lonely ghost, was placed under the jurisdiction of the Denglai Governor's Mansion in Shandong, where he received some military pay, money and food, and hoped to be able to return to Denglai in Shandong.

With the help of Master Laishui, a nail was placed in Hou Jin's back, which could pull Hou Jin's hind legs at any time.

At this time, although Mao Wenlong was not strong enough and had little power, no matter what kind of strength he was, it was a pain to press tightly on Hou Jin's lower back.

Now that the army to the west of Nurhachi, which had been calmed and reorganized by Xiong Tingbi and Wang Huazhen, was pressing down with a mountainous situation, Mao Wenlong's position became particularly important.

After Mao Wenlong regained Zhenjiang, he connected with North Korea in the east, the Four Guards in the west, and Denglai and Tianjin in the south. When cutting off North Korea in the east, he also had to guard against the North Korean troops who were still under the Ming Dynasty joining forces to attack the nest, and in the south to defend him from joining forces with Denjin, the Four Guards.

Restore Liaoyang; if Nurhachi invades Guangning, and he is afraid that Mao Wenlong and others will join forces to cut off the river, intercept his return route, or attack his grain road with light troops and suppress his rear team, this is indeed a feeling like a light on the back.

Especially in the Houjin Dynasty at that time, the entire nation was mainly nomadic and only engaged in looting. They had no production capacity at all. They relied on the Han people to provide everything from food and cloth to iron weapons, weapons, artillery, chariots and horses, and needles and threads.

supply.

It is a pity that at this stage, Liaodong was a bitter cold land with extreme shortage of materials. The local Han people had not yet completely surrendered to Huang Taiji. In the hearts of the Han people, they still recognized that the Central Plains Ming Dynasty was a mother gang. The newly established Houjin was not enough to be a leader.

Gangs of robbers are so proud of themselves that they can't get on the stage at all.

Especially now that Huang Taiji implemented the policy of massacring or plundering the Han people in Liaodong into slavery, it continued to arouse the resistance of the Han people in Liaodong, and riots and uprisings occurred one after another, which further aggravated the material shortage of the Later Jin regime.

Since it can be produced locally, it must be introduced from outside.

Nurhachi had three ways to introduce supplies. One was to go through the Mongolian grasslands, collude with Shanxi merchants in Shanxi, and obtain them through smuggling. However, the disadvantages of this method are very obvious, that is, the Shanxi merchants were greedy and increased the price too much, so they got it from

It can be seen that those guys have become extremely rich in just a few years.

At the same time, it is not safe to transit through Mongolia. The Mongolian tribes are still vassals of the Ming Dynasty. From time to time, they follow the requirements of the Ming Dynasty and attack Houjin. The two sides are considered hostile camps.

Another way is to attack the castles in the Liaodong area occupied by the daimyo. This leads to a very spectacular scene of Hou Jin's expedition.

Nurhaci's army moved forward, but behind it was a longer and more spectacular army of slaves. Each of them pushed an empty cart and followed closely behind the army. As soon as the army in front occupied a place, these slaves immediately began to clean it.

On the battlefield, everything that can be moved should be moved away, ranging from needles and threads to stone mills and grinding discs, and the beams and windows cannot be spared. Therefore, every battle is an opportunity for Hou Jin to obtain supplies.

During the Battle of Ningjin and Guangning fell, Nurhachi mobilized nearly 100,000 handcarts and transported them back and forth day and night, which actually lasted for 4 days and 4 nights. As you can imagine, Guangning, which was no bigger than Guangning at that time, had 100,000 handcarts and four

They had to move everything back and forth all day and night, so they had to move everything back. Maybe if the city wall could be moved, they would have to move it all, because the Jurchens now don't even know how to build a city.

There is another addition to Hou Jin's supplies, and that is North Korea.

Today's North Korea is the Li Dynasty, and the current king is Li Hui. Regarding the war between Hou Jin and the suzerain country Ming, this North Korean king adopted a "neutral diplomacy" of dealing with the Ming Dynasty and not betraying the Ming Dynasty and not being angry with the Jin Dynasty.

Although they did not directly pay tribute to Hou Jin like they did after Ding Mao's chaos, they turned a blind eye to businessmen importing strategic materials to Hou Jin. They also directly assigned internal officials to participate in the sale of goods, and the materials they obtained were the most

The important source is that they were trafficked from the prosperous land south of the Ming Dynasty in the name of North Korea. In fact, almost all the people in North Korea are second-hand speculators. This has become the largest material replenishment route for the Later Jin Dynasty.

Mao Wenlong seized Zhenjiang and had a clear-cut goal of resisting the Jin Dynasty. As a result, Zhenjiang, an important town stuck on the border between China and North Korea, became a thorn in the side of both sides. Mao Wenlong could not only hold back his own legs, but also strangle him.

This is the reason why Nurhaci did not hesitate to send a general and lead 5,000 Eight Banners main cavalry to strike at Mao Wenlong before he was determined to deal with Xiong Tingbi and Wang Huazhen.

The reason why Amin succeeded in the sneak attack on Zhenjiang this time was that there were actually Koreans involved. Among them, Li Guangmin, the right-wing political advisor of North Korea, is now in Zhenjiang City, helping Amin to rectify the Koreans in Zhenjiang City.

Now Amin has begun to feel anxious. The reason is that Mao Wenlong is too difficult to deal with. According to the normal combat effectiveness and morale of the Ming Dynasty army, if he raids Zhenjiang and takes away his lair, then he should be completely defeated, or directly

Surrendered, but this Mao Wenlong didn't play his cards normally at all. He was just a stone in a latrine. It smelled hard when cut hard. Even when he was chased across the Yalu River, he still shouted for a fight and stayed nearby. He fought with him several times.

, although every battle must be defeated, but still defeated and fought again and again.

But every time they fought, they couldn't catch themselves at all, and they could escape inexplicably. Therefore, everyone could only spend their time like this, but fortunately, they finally forced Mao Wenlong step by step into the deep mountains and forests of North Korea. Outside.
Chapter completed!