In the fourth year of Taichang in the Ming Dynasty and the ninth year of Tianming in the Later Jin Dynasty, Hetuala was the capital of the Later Jin Dynasty.
Outside the south city, on the high platform in front of the "Tangzi", Nurhaci, who had completed the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the emperor, looked down at the five flags arrayed in the wilderness like an eagle patrolling the frontier.
These five flags are: the Zhenghuang and Xianghuang flags led by Nurhachi himself, the Zhengbai flag led by Huang Taiji, the Xianghong flag led by Yue Tuo, and the flag led by Du Du, the son of the old chief Chu Ying who had long been executed.
Trimmed with white flag.
At the same time, Wu Zhenchaoha, a small team composed of Han gunmen, gunners, coppersmiths and Korean musketeers, was also under Yue Tuo's account.
The two flags left to guard in Hetuala are the blue flag led by Amin and the true blue flag led by Derge.
After Daishan handed over the grain shipped from North Korea to Yue Tuan, he selected fifty white-armored Bagaras and two hundred red-armored Bagaras from his more than twenty cattle records and gave them to him.
His father, Huang Taiji, took him with him and left Hetuala.
He wanted to order the soldiers under the red flag to deploy Mao Lianwei from the Tumen River to the area between Huining and guard the backyard for Amin and Degerei.
This is Nurhachi's final arrangement for the Eight Banners before the war.
Because Jiannu did not conquer several important towns in Liaodong during the Ming Dynasty in the past few years, as in history, he did not seize an astonishing number of Han slaves and food wealth. The national power did not increase, and the natural climate worsened. Jiannu
I also starved to death and froze to death a lot. Even after conquering the Yehe tribe and unifying the entire Jurchens, the number of Eight Banners soldiers this year will only be about 40,000.
In this expedition, there were five banners and one hundred Niulu soldiers, including white armor, red armor, and cotton armor, a total of 25,000 people, and nearly 10,000 soldiers in uniforms.
But Nurhachi is already quite confident in the fortune he has worked so hard to accumulate.
Six years ago, when they attacked Fushun in high spirits, they only pulled out 20,000 people. It was only because of the ambush and deception by the other side, as well as the tacit cooperation between the host and guest armies of the Ming Dynasty, that Dai Jin was defeated and his vitality was damaged for a while.
Today is different from the past. The new emperor of the Ming Dynasty was even more stupid in Nurhachi's opinion.
Using military pay to build the palace, the soldiers were forced to pay, and the civil servants sent did not respond. It is thought that the emperor was incited by political enemies in Beijing to wear small shoes for him, which also affected local Liaodong generals like Mao Wenlong.
Of course, the main reason why the old chief believed that the shame of Fushun would not be repeated in Kaiyuan Tieling was not only that Ye He Jurchen, who was originally a hawk of the Ming Dynasty, had been subdued by Jianzhou and surrendered to Dajin, but also that Dajin now had
Cannon blasting the city wall.
Nurhaci, who claimed that he would become a great leader, stepped down from the platform where he sworn in.
Concubine Abahai came up to greet her.
Even though the Jianzhou Jurchens now have a national title, they are still essentially a tribe with a slave society. They even retain the custom of accepting step-marriages, and they have no taboo against concubines appearing in the presence of civil servants and generals in foreign dynasties.
Nurhaci took the wine glass from Abahai and handed it to the big and small beiles. After they drank the strong wine, he handed them leaves coated with honey for them to lick as an auspicious ceremony for a great victory.
When he came to Huang Taiji, the leader of the Zhengbai Banner, Abahai mustered up the courage to say to Nurha Chidao: "Great Khan, let Dorgon and Duduo also go out with the army. Follow Sibeile. Their cavalry and shooting are still four.
Baylor taught it."
Nurha's eyes narrowed under her red eyebrows, and she looked back at the two young sons holding plates beside Abahai.
Abahai gave birth to three sons, Azig, Dorgon and Duduo, to Nurhaci.
Azig is nineteen years old this year, and he is also one of the little Belles who went on the expedition this time, and he is under the yellow flag of Nurhaci.
Dorgon and Duduo, who were only twelve and ten years old respectively, were left in Hetuala.
Before Nurhaci could speak, Huang Taiji pretended to be caring for his elder brother and said with a caring look: "The fourteenth brother and the fifteenth brother are still young. If you want to beat Nikan, let's do it next time."
Abahai saw that Huang Taiji didn't seem to be disdainful of his meaningful request. In full view of everyone, he did not dare to be verbose.
Unexpectedly, Nurhachi hesitated for a moment and then said loudly: "Okay, a calf can kill a tiger. Forget about the fifteenth brother, I will stay with your mother. But the fourteenth brother will go under the Zhengbai Banner and follow the four brothers."
Baylor.”
When Dorgon heard this, he was so happy that he immediately knelt down and said to his father: "Thank you Ama, my son wants to compete with the twelfth brother to see whether he shot more Ming soldiers to death or my son shot to death more Ming soldiers."
The surrounding white armors cheered at the right time.
Huang Taiji naturally wanted to join in the fun and hurriedly ordered his soldiers to get a set of armor.
In a short moment, he had completely suppressed his disgust for Abahai's please-seeking attitude.
Huang Taiji thought that he would use this battle to further deepen his relationship with Dorgon. After all, Lao Khan was almost sixty-five years old. If anything unexpected happened during this personal expedition and he would not have time to leave his last words to whom the two yellow flags should be given, he could take the initiative to propose
, give the straight yellow flag to Azig, and the inlaid yellow flag to Dorgon, and then slowly gather the latter's troops.
While Si Beile, the most respected figure in Dajin's eyes, was making calculations, Dege, who was not far away, bit his back teeth hard.
"A little kid who hasn't even grown hair on his lips can go to Kaiyuan Tieling to get a share of the pie. I, Dege, must also go and conquer Aiyang City to let Ama know that Zhenglan Banner is no longer reckless.
Gurtai is still the strongest hunter in the Eight Banners."
The sound of conch shells, which was worse than the howling of wolves, sounded. More than 30,000 soldiers and soldiers marched north along the Suzi River. After crossing the Hun River near Jiefan Village, Nurhachi followed the prepared strategy and ordered Du Du to lead the white flag.
Four thousand people headed west, looting and making some noise along the way, and made a gesture of approaching Shenyang City.
The old chief himself led the real main force of 20,000 Jin troops and continued northward, marching on the territory of the Jurchen tribes. Along the way, he kept a distance of about fifty miles from Fu'an, Chaihe, Songshan and other military fortresses in the Ming Kingdom to the west.
During this period, sentries were sent out continuously throughout the area to prevent the advance route from being detected by the Ming army's Ye Bushou who wandered outside the pass.
Mu Zaohua followed the Wuzhen Chaoha Firearms Brigade, walking in front of the army's food, grass and baggage, but still one or two kilometers away from the front.
After she went to Nurhaci to openly explain the killing of Zhang Da, Huang Taiji showed no negative reaction to her. They even firmly expressed opposition when Nurhachi proposed that Tong Yangxing go out with the firearms team.
The reason is that after all, the Tong family had just been severely punished not long ago, and they should not be used again in the past year of external attacks.
However, on the day the army set out, Wuzhen Chaoha suddenly had a commander in his team.
Yue Tuo said to Mu Zaohua: "Obai is now the general of Sibeile. I want to command the cavalry and infantry with the red flag. I feel relieved that General Aobai is in charge of the firearms with you."
Mu Zaohua stared at Obai, whose bravery he had seen in Efeu City, and asked expressionlessly: "When we formed the formation, did the slaves listen to me, or did they listen to General Obai?"
Before Yue Tuo could speak again, Oboi replied: "During the march, I taught Lord Ezhen a lesson for the slaves. When we arrived at Kaiyuan City, Lord gave us orders again."
Mu Zaohua caught a glimpse of Yue Tuo's reassuring gaze towards her, and pursed her lips: "Don't worry, Yue Tuo, Beile, it's not like I'm not familiar with Obai. Wuzhen is so good, let's leave it to the two of us.
The copper and iron guys directly destroyed the city wall of Kaiyuan."
At noon that day, Mu Zaohua and Obai were each on horseback, one taking the lead and the other holding down the formation, leading the firearms team to cross the Xiaoqing River from the ford, when suddenly a sentinel came galloping in front of them.
"The Great Khan ordered you to hurry up and ride up! Kaiyuan guard Ma Lin has gone to Shenyang. The Great Khan said that early tomorrow morning, we, Dajin, will take Guangshun Pass and kill towards Kaiyuan City!"