Salhu Mountain, Salhu Village.

Nilan, the head of the Jianzhou Jurchen Su Kesu Protection Department, led his clansmen to greet Wang Shi: "Chen Nilan, meet His Majesty the Emperor!" ”

"Flat." Zhu Houzhao smiled.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Nilan stood up cautiously, shrinking back in the face of no offense.

The Sukesu Protectorate can also be called the "Suzi River Department", that is, the Jurchen tribes who settled along the Suzi River.

The Jurchen tribe of Salhu Village has nothing to do with the Guerjia clan at present, and belongs to the right guard of Jianzhou that is about to attack. But they were weak and relatively obedient, but they stuck in the westward route of the right guard of Jianzhou.

The emperor was going to fight their leading brother, and these guys directly became the leading party, and Yuan Da's forward guide came from Salhu Village.

Don't blame Su Kesu for being a traitor, who let the right guard of Jianzhou continue to encroach on their territory?

Nilan ordered the people to receive them warmly, and whatever they could eat and drink, or what they could take, they all took out to honor the emperor. Although they were very poor, they also understood the number of roads, and knew that the emperor would definitely not treat the party who led the way badly.

Zhu Houzhao was really satisfied, and said with a smile: "The Jurchens are also the people of the Ming Dynasty, as long as they are sincere and loyal, they will naturally treat them leniently." Reward! ”

Several truckloads of cotton cloth were transported into the village, all of which were produced by the Tianjin weaving factory, and the people grinned and smirked.

Wang Yuan suddenly said: "Your Majesty, please set up a sarhu guard!" ”

Zhu Houzhao said with a smile: "Then set up a guard to lead the Su Kesu Guard." ”

Nilan was ecstatic, knelt on the ground and shouted: "Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live!" ”

In Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty, there were hundreds of guards, and the Han and Jurchen accounted for about half. Especially the Jurchen guard, a village can set up a guard, to put it bluntly, the court is uneasy and kind, and wants to divide and rule the Jurchen tribes.

Cai Tianyou, the Liaodong sub-inspector, suddenly said: "Your Majesty, the Nu'er Gandu Division has already been guarded. To avoid confusion, the Sarhu guard can be changed to the Sukesu guard. ”

"Exactly." Zhu Houzhao said.

After staying in Salhu Village for a day, Zhu Houzhao went to the opposite boundary village.

The boundary feudal village is located at the confluence of the Hunhe River and the Suzi River, facing the river on both sides, backed by the Tiebei Mountain, the terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it guards the traffic arteries. If the right guard of Jianzhou wants to go north, he must capture the lower realm and get stuck in the throat of the right guard of Jianzhou.

Historically, Nurhachi was the first to occupy Hetuala, and then to occupy the city of Gule, which was the right guard of Jianzhou. Then he captured the boundary domain, expanded it into a mountain city and "moved the capital", and finally jumped out of the mountain.

The realm of the clan is currently the nest of the Jianzhou Jurchen Hunhe tribe, and this tribe is wavering, and whoever gives benefits will follow whomever he wants.

Fortunately, Dole, the chief of the right guard of Jianzhou, has only been on the throne for a few years, and his influence is not very great, otherwise Wang Yuan must fight a battle here first.

The old trick is repeated, and the show is staged.

"Your Majesty, please set up a boundary guard!" Wang Yuan persuaded on the spot.

Zhu Houzhao smiled and said, "Yes." ”

The Jurchen chieftains of the Hunhe tribe were also overjoyed, kneeling on the ground and thanking them.

It doesn't really matter if you are not the head of the guard. The real benefit lies in the fact that you can go to Beijing to pay tribute, or you can go to Liaoyang and Kaiyuan to pay tribute.

Wang Yuan's intentions were very vicious, and he separated the Su Kesu Protectorate and the Hunhe Department from the Jianzhou Right Guard. After these two separate guards, the Jurchens of Xijianzhou were completely divided, and Nurhachi's ancestors would be completely blocked in the mountains.

Of course, I am afraid that a self-respecting Liaodong general soldier will sit back and watch the unification of the Jurchen departments in Jianzhou, which will ruin Wang Yuan's hard work.

Continuing to march, halfway through, Wang Yuan said to Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty, the ministers look at the Su Kesu Protectorate and the Hunhe Department, and the degree of sinicization of these two Jurchens is not bad. Now that the guard has been set up, why not take the opportunity to set up a guard school and allow the people of the two tribes to study for the imperial examination? ”

Zhu Houzhao said: "I'm afraid that no scholar is willing to come to teach the barbarians." ”

Wang Yuan said with a smile: "An edict can be issued to let the students of each province sign up by themselves." As long as he has been teaching in the Jurchen tribe for five years, he can be selected as the supervisor of the country, and he will be given the seven grades during his tenure as a teacher. ”

Cai Tianyou praised: "This method is very good, and there must be poor scholars to sign up." These two Jurchens are closer to the Han people, and they have the knowledge of the sages to spread the sage, and after a hundred years, they will definitely devote themselves to the Han, and even directly become Han people. ”

Wang Yuan added: "If the Jurchens want to participate in the imperial examination, they must change their Han name. ”

This kind of trivial matter, as long as Zhu Houzhao said a word, he immediately agreed with Wang Yuan's suggestion.

……

The forward cavalry marched along the river valley, only twenty miles from Gule Village.

The sentinels observed the situation all the way, and the closer they got to the enemy city, the more cautious they became.

"Third brother, something is wrong!" A sentry squatted on the ground to check.

The flag officer immediately turned over and dismounted, lay on the ground and observed: "It is a human footprint, mixed with horseshoe prints." It rained last night, but the footprints are still fresh, and they must have been stepped on this morning. ”

"Whistle!" The flag officer ordered.

A sentry immediately held his hands in front of his mouth and blew a whistle similar to a bird's call. They had two companions who climbed up the hill to observe, and when they heard the whistle, they could reply immediately.

There was no reply, there was silence on the mountain, and the two people who climbed the mountain to explore the path were probably dead.

The flag officer was shocked and said: "Go back and report the news, the enemy army has gone around the mountain, and it is estimated that they are lying in ambush behind us!" ”

The sentinel turned around and galloped wildly, and after only two miles, the Jurchen cavalry rushed down from the mountain, trying to kill them all. The Jurchen foot soldiers ran down the mountain, because they couldn't wait for the Ming army to enter the ambush circle, so they could only take the initiative to kill and attack from the side of the hill.

There were twelve men in this group of Ming army sentry horses, with a river on one side and a mountain on the other, and because the back road was blocked by a surprise attack, only three of them rushed over on horseback. Two others were killed on the mountain, and the remaining seven all jumped into the river to escape, otherwise they would all have to be confessed here.

"There is an ambush! There is an ambush! ”

The three sentinels who fled to the large army blew their trumpets and shouted.

Cui Xian, deputy chief soldier of Liaoyang, hurriedly said: "Go back quickly!" ”

It was a river valley, and the beach was a little narrow, so the cavalry could not form a formation at all. Even if you want to engage the enemy in battle, you must first retreat and choose a relatively open river beach.

The pace of retreat was a bit slow, as the troops still had baggage.

Although the war materials were carried by donkeys, mules and horses, they belonged to the all-livestock troops. But they slaughtered several villages and looted a lot of supplies, so they added a lot of burden.

Yuan Da ordered: "Throw away all the baggage!" ”

Cui Xian said: "No need to throw, it is more than enough to retreat." ”

"Fart! Will you fight? Yuan Da was so angry, "And the heads you cut off, all of them were thrown away by Lao Tzu and taken to see the king of Hades?" ”

There are nearly 1,000 heads, which are specially carried by mules and horses.

"Don't throw, speed up the retreat!" Cui Xian was reluctant to fight and wealth.

This dignified deputy commander-in-chief of Liaoyang, who was also born in the Cui family of the three major families in Liaoyang, has no shortage of power or money, and even holds on to nearly a thousand heads and a little wealth.

"Idiot!" Yuan Da really wanted to slash Cui Xian.

It's a pity that Yuan Da is not a civil official, let alone Wang Erlang, he didn't dare to kill the deputy chief soldier of Liaoyang.

Before the forward troops had withdrawn to the open area, the Jurchen infantry pursued them from the mountains, and the Jurchen cavalry also pursued them from the river valley.

There were probably more than 1,000 enemy cavalry, and there was no way to count the infantry. I only heard the sound of shouting and killing from the mountains and forests, and from time to time arrows were shot, and it seemed that the mountains and fields were full of enemies.

Cui Xian finally panicked: "Throw away the baggage and retreat!" ”

Two thousand auxiliaries hurriedly unloaded their baggage and fled on donkeys, mules, and horses. The 500 cavalry led by Cui Xian are also running, this terrain is not suitable for cavalry to fight, and staying desperately is purely self-defeating.

As the pursuers got closer and closer, they ran and ran, and they turned into a rout.

Cui Xian didn't restrain the troops, he retreated, anyway, the terrain of the river valley couldn't escape, and if he was far away, he would reorganize his troops and kill them back, and some auxiliaries would die in the process of rout.

In the land of Liaodong, there are a lot of auxiliary soldiers, and no matter how many deaths you have, you don't feel distressed.

"After the three thousand camps are broken!" Yuan Da shouted.

The order sounded, and the cavalry of the 500 Beijing battalion stopped retreating and formed an irregular diagonal column in three columns on the river beach.

"Raise your gun, put it!"

Five hundred light horsemen raised the musket with a brush, and it was a rear-loading flint firecracker, and the ammunition was all paper-shell quantitative particle gunpowder.

The True Daoist developed a method of refining gunpowder from urine, and other physics students continued to improve the flintlock device. Wang Yuan also invented the method of casting steel, and determined the paper-shell particle ammunition, which naturally had to be equipped with the new army of the leopard house and the Shenji battalion first.

Zhu Houzhao likes to fight so much, he is most enthusiastic about this kind of thing, and he took a lot of silver from the inner library to change the clothes of the new army.

Three thousand cavalry of the Beijing battalion, now all musketeers!

At this moment, the five hundred cavalry were smiling, and there was no trace of panic.

They followed Wang Yuan to conquer the Western Regions, and followed Wang Yuan to kill the little Mongolian prince, fought the old nose and won the battle, and saw too many big scenes, and were they afraid of these poorly equipped Jurchens?

The hateful Jiang Bin and Xu Tai actually threw such a strong army to Nanchang to torture the people to get silver, which is like scooping up dung with a golden spoon!

"Boom!"

The first column fired a salvo, and the rushing Jurchen cavalry fell off their horses.

"Boom!"

The second column fired a salvo, and the rushing Jurchen cavalry fell more than 20 people.

"Boom!"

The third column fired a salvo, and the rushing Jurchen cavalry fell more than 50 people.

The Jurchens of Jianzhou's right guard have not fought a major battle for more than 30 years, and each time it is a small group of troops sporadically plundering the Han people. Just a few years ago, there was a decent battle, and he took the initiative to set up an ambush, defeating more than 1,000 Ming troops at the touch of a button.

They had never experienced a volley of firearms, even men and horses.

Let's not talk about soldiers, let's talk about war horses.

The war horse was not specially trained, and the first time it heard the loud sound of a musket salvo, it was instantly frightened and lost control. For a time, people turned on their backs and made a mess on the river beach, and the troops were completely in chaos.

"Kill!"

Yuan Da put away his musket, brandished his knife and led the charge, ignoring the arrows fired from the forest on the side hillside.

Those Jurchen infantry were mostly hunters and peasants in the mountains. Some of the good ones ran fast, and some of the poor ones had not yet arrived at the battlefield, and the arrow salvo was not formed, so they only hid in the forest to draw cold and release arrows. I'm afraid of a fart, the five hundred cavalry led by Yuan Da, although they are light horses, are all wearing cotton armor.

"Kill!"

Five hundred cavalry formed a column and rushed towards the Jurchen cavalry, which was already in disarray. The equipment was crushed, the morale was crushed, the formation was crushed, and when the charge was like chopping melons and vegetables, countless Jurchen cavalry jumped into the river to escape, and some escaped up the hillside and hid in the forest.

In just a few minutes, the Jurchen cavalry was killed by Yuan Da.

And those Jurchen foot soldiers who came from the mountains barely completed the assembly at this time. They rushed to the river beach as a group, right in the middle of Yuan Da's cavalry and Cui Xian's rout.

"Blow the trumpet, blow the trumpet!" Yuan Da urged.

The horn sounded here, and Cui Xian, who was on the run, immediately stopped his horse. He looked back and immediately shouted: "General Zhao has won, quickly kill me back!" ”

Yuan Da and Cui Xian turned around and charged at the same time, and the Jurchen infantry were instantly flanked back and forth.

It's a fart, you don't need the leader to order a retreat, the Jurchen foot soldiers ran away by themselves. Where did you come from, where did you go back, escaped into the mountains and forests and disappeared, and it was not convenient for the Ming cavalry to go up the mountains and into the forests to chase after them.

Cui Xian said with a smile: "General Zhao is really brave, these heads, brothers only need fifty." How is it? ”

"It's all yours," Yuan Da didn't bother to give face anymore, and said to the cavalry under his command, "Sons, follow me straight to Gule Village, and take the old nest of the right guard girl in Jianzhou!" ”

Cui Xian hurriedly stopped: "General Zhao, we are the pioneers, it is better to wait for His Majesty's army." ”

Yuan Da sneered: "I'm still waiting for a fart." Wait for the Jurchen infantry to flee back, wait for the Jurchen cavalry to swim back, and then organize the army to fight with us? The soldiers are fast, such a good opportunity, they should directly take the enemy's vital point! ”

After speaking, Yuan Da didn't even bring any baggage, only three days' rations, and a few bags of ammunition per person, and then rode towards the enemy's old nest, Gule Village.

Cui Xian was stunned, looked at the corpses on the river beach, and suddenly gritted his teeth and said, "Lao Tzu will also fight." Leave a thousand auxiliaries to clean up the battlefield and escort the baggage, and the rest of the sergeants will follow me to kill the enemy! Sons, seal your wife and son, just today! ”