The founder of Jianzhou Youwei, named Fancha, had seven sons and two daughters.
Fancha was imprisoned in Liaodong for repeatedly violating the border. His eldest grandson Nalangha succeeded to the throne, but was beheaded by the Ming army for repeatedly violating the border. Fancha's second son Buhuatu succeeded to the throne, but continued to violate the border. He died of illness in the second year of Zhengde.
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After that, the Jurchens in Jianzhou fell into complete chaos, and the heads of various tribes fought among themselves for power.
A few years ago, Fancha's grandson Dole became the chief of Jianzhou Youwei by force. However, his influence was limited to the Gule Mountain area, and the surrounding tribes did not obey him very much.
Cui Xian, deputy commander-in-chief of Liaoyang, commanded 500 Liaodong cavalry as the vanguard; Yuan Da, commander of the Beijing Guards, commanded 500 cavalry from the Beijing camp as deputy general.
The two set off three days in advance and headed straight for Jianzhou Youwei's home base - Gule Village!
Gule Village is located at the foot of Gule Mountain. It is still just a village and has not built a city, let alone become the royal city of Jianzhou Jurchen.
However, this battle is really difficult to fight because the village is in the mountains.
A thousand pioneer cavalry set out from Liaoyang and turned to the southeast when they reached Bailong Mountain. After passing Sarhu, they were all mountains. The mountains are not steep and cannot be compared with Guizhou, but the degree of development is very low, and there are virgin forests everywhere.
Outsiders without a guide can easily get lost.
Several sentries rushed back and reported: "General Cui, General Zhao (Yuan Da), there is a Jurchen village ahead."
"Get it!" Cui Xian was overjoyed.
Yuan Da led the Beijing cavalry under his command and followed Cui Xian to rush forward, and soon he saw a village.
A very shabby village, with dozens of households in it.
"kill!"
Cui Xian gave an order and rushed over with his cavalry.
As soon as they arrived at the outskirts of the village, they were discovered by the Jurchens who were farming. They immediately ran away and called out frantically. Some people even shouted in Chinese in a hurry: "The officers and soldiers are coming, run!"
Yuan Da followed Wang Yuan on many expeditions. He was not interested in this kind of bad battle. He approached slowly with his troops and casually asked the local guide: "Why are there still Han people?"
The guide explained: "Maybe they were kidnapped by the Jurchens. If Han people are kidnapped, they will become slaves of the Jurchens. The Jurchens are called 'Aha' here."
Yuan Da wondered: "Since the Han people were kidnapped, when they saw the officers and soldiers coming to kill them, they should welcome the king. How can they run faster than the Jurchens?"
The guide was a little embarrassed: "Perhaps he was afraid that the officers and soldiers would accidentally kill him."
The real situation is somewhat difficult to describe.
The Han people who were living a pretty good life wanted to escape after being kidnapped by the Jurchens. But if they were living at the bottom and those Han people were slaves to the Jurchens, many of them would really rather not miss Shu.
The Jurchens are still very weak, and every one of them is poor.
Even the Jurchen nobles can only have a few slaves in a family. As for ordinary Jurchens, it is good to have one or two slaves. Their attitude towards slaves is like treating domestic animals - try to think about it, your family is very poor.
But if there is a farm cow, what would you do to it?
Of course, I cherish it very much, for fear that the animals will die of illness and exhaustion. They are the most precious property of the family!
Ordinary Jurchens worked together with Han slaves every day, ate at the same table, and even slept on the same kang. Because there was only one kang at home, and it was very cold in winter, they did not let Han slaves sleep together. If they froze to death, it would be difficult to catch another one.
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Some impoverished military households in Liaodong would rather work as slaves for the Jurchens than go back to work as serfs for officers.
Just because the Jurchens cherished the "cattle", but the officers did not care about the life or death of the "serfs".
Very bastard reality!
Cui Xian, the deputy commander-in-chief of Liaoyang, took the lead, as if he had transformed into a peerless general. He led his team into the village, killing countless people along the way, and laughed: "Kill them all, leaving no one behind!"
"Spare my life! I am a Han, I am a Han!" Seeing that it was difficult to escape, one person quickly knelt on the ground and shouted.
Cui Xian ignored him, killed him with a knife, and asked his followers to cut off the head.
Yuan Da was very disgusted by this. He chased after him and shouted: "General Cui, please don't kill the Jurchen slaves!"
Cui Xian smiled and said: "General Zhao (Yuan Da) doesn't know that although these slaves are Han people, they have forgotten their origins and have long forgotten their ancestors."
Yuan Da said angrily: "No matter what, Han people cannot be killed!"
After all, Yuan Da was Wang Yuan's friend from the same hometown, and he was highly regarded by the emperor. Cui Xian did not want to cause a stalemate, so he only said perfunctorily: "I will follow General Zhao. Listen, you guys, don't kill any more Han people."
In less than half a day, the Jurchen village was completely slaughtered. A few of them tried to escape into the mountains, but were overtaken by the army and shot to death with random arrows.
Including old and weak women and children, a total of 269 people were killed. Three horses, more than ten livestock, and some grain were seized. Two Han slaves were also rescued, but it looked like the Han slaves did not want to be "
rescue".
This is war. Villages must be massacred to prevent them from reporting to Mount Gule. This is one of the responsibilities of the vanguard.
Not to mention the treatment of foreigners, even when China was engaged in civil war, during important military operations, the vanguard troops often massacred villages.
What's more, the Jurchens did not have a standing army.
These Jurchen people in front of them can be transformed from farmers into soldiers at any time as long as the Jurchen leader issues a summons order. Otherwise, where would their slaves come from?
And when fighting against the Ming Dynasty, various Jurchen tribes could borrow troops from each other.
Afterwards, everyone will share the spoils together, just like a partnership doing business. If the business suffers a loss, the tribe that initiated the war must compensate. If it cannot afford the compensation, the village to which it belongs will be plundered to make up for the losses of the friendly tribes - Jurchen
Tribes also robbed each other.
"General Zhao, how about half of your head?" Cui Xian asked with a smile.
"Ten heads are enough." Yuan Da actually didn't want any of the heads. He didn't need to make any meritorious service. Accepting ten heads was purely to give the other party face.
"General Zhao is so heroic." Cui Xian was even more happy and had a good impression of Yuan Da.
The captured supplies were handed over to the auxiliary troops for safekeeping.
A thousand cavalry were in the vanguard, equipped with two thousand auxiliaries, and all of them were accompanied by donkeys, mules or horses.
For several days in a row, the vanguard troops massacred four villages. It was inevitable that some Jurchens would be released. The Jianzhou Right Guards had received news of the war.
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Gule Village.
Dole summoned his troops to discuss: "The imperial court has sent troops, and there are two to three thousand in the vanguard. Whether they fight or run, you all can count them together."
"I have told you not to provoke the imperial court. It will definitely be the trouble caused by the robbery of Kaiyuan." Dole's cousin Buha said in a strange way. This old guy is over sixty years old and he is a dissatisfied person who failed in the fight for the throne.
Dole's supporters immediately said: "My family has a feud with the imperial court, how can we not avenge it? Didn't the wealth and population robbed from Kaiyuan be distributed to you?"
Another leader with a calm personality suggested: "Hide in the mountains and come out after the officers and soldiers have left."
Buha sneered: "Winter is coming soon. If we hide in the mountains at this time, I don't know how many people will freeze to death."
"Then offer your wealth and ask for forgiveness from the court. By the way, bribe the eunuch so that he can talk to you more easily!" someone else suggested.
Bu Ha sneered again: "The imperial army is here to kill them. By the time you bribe the eunuchs, Gule Village will have been captured long ago!"
"This won't work, that won't work either, what do you think we should do?" The leader was furious.
Buha said with a cold face: "Take Dole to redeem his sins, and change someone to be the leader, and the imperial army will naturally retreat."
"asshole!"
"You are a traitor!"
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The meeting hall instantly became noisy, and Buha was scolded in turn.
"alright!"
Dole slapped the table: "Gather all the troops and set up an ambush in the mountains. If we can defeat the Ming army's forward, we can find a way to negotiate a peace with the court. If the court is unwilling to negotiate a peace, it will not be too late to escape into the mountains."