Chapter 339: Striking the West

After the Battle of Salhu, until Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne as emperor, the Ming Dynasty did not have the strength to launch a large-scale attack on the Jurchens.

Zhu Youxiao also knew in his heart that he could only rely on Xiong Tingbi in Liao affairs.

Therefore, at the beginning of the succession, even if the throne was not very stable, and the imperial party led by Wei Zhongxian had not yet been formed, Zhu Youxiao was gritting his teeth and insisting on a phalanx.

That is, Wei Zhongxian was launched in the imperial court to stir up the situation, and Xiong Tingbi was unconditionally trusted in Liao affairs.

Zhu Youxiao deeply understands that no one in Liaodong can contain Jianzhou except Xiong Tingbi, no matter how the courtiers attack, Xiong Tingbi must stay in the position of Liaodong Jinglu.

After the Battle of Sarhu, Nurhachi finally defeated the powerful Yehe tribe, killed the Jurchen League leader Jintaiji, annexed the Haixi Jurchens, and unified the Jurchen tribes.

The Kulun tribe also moved westward from that time, attached to the Mongolian Chahar tribe, grazed on the land of Fuyuwei, and became a subordinate tribe of Zaisai.

In the whole process, the Wanli Emperor, who had suffered the fruits of defeat, could only watch, but had no means to contain it, in fact, even he himself was exhausted in the battle for the national capital in his later years, and he could not fully control the Liao affairs.

There were internal infighting among the courtiers, and Nurhachi continued to annex various ministries, attacking cities and plundering land, and the Wanli Emperor was helpless and finally passed away.

Later, Emperor Taichang succeeded to the throne as Mingguangzong.

This cheap dad, what has he done in a month's time, naturally it doesn't take much.

He not only almost ruined the internal money that Emperor Wanli had worked hard for more than 30 years, but also left Zhu Youxiao with a so-called endangered situation of "Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty and financial bankruptcy".

However, Zhu Changluo's words before his death told the courtiers to do their best to assist him, which still made Zhu Youxiao feel a little fatherly love.

After the palace transfer case, Zhu Youxiao ascended to the throne with the help of the power of the Donglin Party, smashed the harem coup, and changed the Yuan Tianqi, which opened his path of governing the country completely different from history.

In the past three years, Zhu Youxiao has been in the midst of internal and external troubles, watching Nurhachi grow bigger little by little under his nose, and watching Xiong Tingbi struggle to support in Liaodong.

He felt the helplessness of Emperor Wanli during his lifetime, but he didn't intend to just keep watching.

One day, Salhu's defeat will make him fight back!

When Zhu Youxiao was consolidating internal affairs and striving for reform, Nurhachi was naturally not idle, and he continued to implement Fan Wencheng's strategy to the end.

Although Nurhachi himself was very reluctant, he still adopted Fan Wencheng's strategy of attacking his heart.

He successively sent back Buzhantai, the leader of the Ula tribe, and Zaisai, the leader of the Fuyuwei, expressing his support for Buzhantai to continue to be the leader of the Ula tribe, and married his sister.

With this hand, Nurhachi subdued the Urabe.

But Fu Yuwei's Zaisai is a variable, before he put it back, his words sounded better than that of Urabu, and after he went back, he immediately changed his face and killed Nurhachi's pro-envoy.

If it hadn't been for Fan Wencheng to stop him, Nurhachi would have fought this battle three years ago.

Subsequently, Nurhachi sent troops to the Hada tribe on the pretext of secretly contacting the Ming Dynasty, captured and killed its leader Meng Ge Polo, and completely annexed his subordinates.

The Hada tribe ceased to exist, and the Hada clan was either killed or exiled in the Guannai.

In the same year, Nurhachi began to continue to encroach on the Mongol tribes, and married Korqin, a large part of Mongolia in the Nenjiang River Valley.

He reused Fan Wencheng, Ning Wan and other Han ministers, adopted Mongolian scripts, and asked them to match the Jurchen language with letters, so that the Mongols would be willing to work for them.

Regarding Nurhachi's actions, Zhu Youxiao has only been watching, and he has not really taken care of anything, and in fact, he really can't control it.

It wasn't until Nurhachi sent troops to Fuyuwei that it attracted Zhu Youxiao's attention.

Obviously, Nurhachi made full preparations before sending troops to Fuyuwei, the fall of the Hada Department, and the complete convergence of the Horqin and other departments in the Nenjiang River Valley to Jianzhou, these are his hole cards.

As for Zhu Youxiao, it was also in the past three years that he personally conquered the southwest, pacified the civil strife, connived at the eunuch party's bloody cleansing of Donglin, and stabilized the government, so he dared to protect the remaining guards.

Fuyuwei is not a large part of Chahar, but the geographical location they occupy is a battle, if the land of Fuyuwei is lost, the situation in Liaodong will be even more difficult.

Even, Jiannu can enter and loot a wave of robbery without anything to do during the Chongzhen period, and Zhu Youxiao can't afford this kind of consequence.

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At this time, the Kulun Department had been defeated under the attack of the Horqin Five Coalition Army, and the troops were scattered, and there was not even a single land left.

Oba, the leader of the Horqin Five Alliance, once participated in the battle of Yehe's nine tribes to attack Jianzhou with his father, but now, he is a hardcore ally of Nurhachi.

This is also the result of Nurhachi's so-called "long-distance and close attack" in the past three years.

Oba knew in his heart that the current Ming Dynasty was no longer the opponent of the Later Jin Dynasty at all, and it was only a matter of time before Nurhachi unified Southern Mongolia.

The Ming Dynasty may only have Han land in the future, and other lands will be classified as Houjin.

Attaching Daikin was the most correct decision for him.

The leader of the Kulun tribe was killed in the battle of Jiubu to attack Jianzhou, and later was forcibly annexed by Nurhachi, and it has long been in a collapse.

Although the Kulun tribe is still stronger than the small part of the general Fuyuwei, it is only a small child compared to most of the Horqin in the Nenjiang Valley.

After defeating the negligible resistance of the Kulen tribe, Oba annexed the Kulen tribe's pastoral lands and connived at the rape and murder of his subordinates.

The five allied forces took the former location of the Kulen tribe as a battalion, placed heavy troops, captured the Mongols who had been blessed and left as slaves, distributed the women of the Kulen tribe to the people, and accumulated money and food, intending to defeat the only powerful Zai Sai in the front in one fell swoop.

So far, the battle of the Horqin Five Coalition Forces in Fuyuwei has been smooth, and there has rarely been much resistance.

Even the Haixi Jurchen Kulun tribe was easily defeated by them.

In Harawen Mountain, by an unknown river, a group of Mongolians wearing leather armor, about 100 people, are drinking horses here.

Gerba, the proud son of Noyan Han, the leader of the Kulen Tribe, one of the nine major tribes of the Haixi Jurchens, is now the leader of the Kulen Tribe, "Enkhbayar".

At this moment, he had the name of Enkhbayar, but he sat on the rocks by the river with an embarrassed look, cutting the branches with a knife, and was silent.

The rest of the Kulun Jurchens who escaped were also demoralized, and they all knew that the glory of the Kulen tribe as one of the nine major tribes of the western part of the sea may never come back.

Gerba and Hauge have a grudge against their father and do not share the same heaven, and he also knows that the glory of the Kulun Department is entirely due to the Ming court's policy of supporting Haixi.

In his heart, he never had the intention of going against Ming Ting.

But he didn't understand, how could the Ming Dynasty, which had been so strong that he needed to look up, be defeated in Jianzhou in the Battle of Salhu?

If it is said that the union of the nine major parts of Haixi is still defeated in Jianzhou, Gerbashang feels that it is excusable, then he does not understand the defeat of the Ming court in the battle of Salhu.

No matter how you think about it, it is impossible for the Ming Court to lose that battle, if it hadn't lost, the current Kulun Department would not have fallen to this, and he was still the proud Enkhbayar.

But he lost, and even his master Daming could only protect himself, and the current Kulen Department couldn't even win the Horqin Five Coalition Army, let alone find trouble with Nurhachi.

Once upon a time, the Kulen Ministry didn't even pay attention to Korqin...

Gerba led his men to resist the battle and was chased all the way to this place, where his three daughters, a son, and his wife were all gone.

I am afraid that now, I have been taken captive by the Horqin people and become their slaves.

Like him, the nearly 100 tribes here, their wives and children, have disappeared, and everyone is very worried.

But they know that Mount Haravin may be their last refuge, and when they go out here, they can't protect themselves, so how can they go to take revenge and find their families.

Suddenly, a probe horse galloped over, and everyone was so frightened that their faces changed greatly, and they got up one after another, looking ahead vigilantly.

"Newspaper—"

"The four Mongol tribes of Inner Khalkha, led by the Korqin tribe, sent troops to loot the Yechen tribe in the eastern part of Harawen Mountain, and took away a lot of cattle, sheep and strong laborers, and a group of captive women of the Yechen tribe were passing by at the foot of the mountain."

When Gerba heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief, he didn't have the slightest intention of leading his troops to intercept and kill, he just sat there and muttered to himself:

"I just want this battle, Daming can win in Shenyang..."

Other than that, he really didn't see much hope.

Don't say that Ye Chen's small department, even most of Fuyuwei's department can only be wiped out one by one in front of the huge military strength of the five departments of Horqin, if it is hard to fight, the 100,000 people of the department can't fight.

Gerba pinned his hopes on the battle in Shenyang to end in the victory of the Ming army, but he didn't know that the Ming Dynasty had even deceived him!

This time, the Ming army issued a document and rushed out of the customs to aid Shenyang with great fanfare, but in fact it was just a clumsy trick, even Zhu Youxiao did not expect that from Houjin to Mongolia, no one doubted it!

After Zhu Xieyuan led the elite soldiers of the Nine Towns out of the customs, he didn't go to Shenyang to find Nurhachi's main force, he was going straight to Fuyuwei!