Chapter 25: Revenge
If Dar Dai is stubborn, Grandpa Wei doesn't mind reuniting his father and son.
This kind of thing has always been talked about.
In the Jurchen village not far away, the officers and soldiers of Jinzhouwei were searching from house to house, and about 100 Jurchens were escorted out of the stockade by the officers and soldiers. Later, more than a dozen officers and soldiers found out the fire folds and lit the thatch piled on the roof, and soon thick smoke was everywhere.
There was a small fish pond on the north side of the stockade, and the edge of the pond was full of bloodstains, and more than a dozen Jurchens who attacked and killed officers and soldiers with weapons were killed and thrown inside.
Gonggong Wei glanced at the horse, and found that the military discipline of the people in Jinzhouwei was quite strict, and the implementation of the military order was still in place, so he stopped looking, raised his hand and whipped his whip, and galloped forward.
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Yongdian Fort guard Dar Dai is one of the five ministers of Jianzhou An Feiyanggu's eldest son, his Ama and Eight Elder Brother died tragically at the hands of the Ming envoys, but the Khan King did not avenge them, but the Ming envoy who killed the Eighth Elder Brother and Ama was received as a noble envoy, which naturally made Dar Dai and his younger brothers Ardai and Shuo Erhui very angry.
They plotted the assassination of the Ming envoy, but before the operation could begin, they were stopped by his father, who was also the fifth minister, and was immediately imprisoned, until the Ming envoy left Heituara and the three brothers were released.
The Khan did not summon them, but sent Dardai to the Yongdian Fort in Kwandian to garrison them. Ardai and Shuoerhui are still serving in the banner.
Before leaving, Fei Yingdong, a friend of Anferyangu's former life, came to see off the nephew, and he told King Dardai Khan that it was not that he did not want to avenge his Amma, but that the time had not yet come. If an army was raised against the Ming at this time, it would be unthinkable for Jianzhou and the Jurchen people.
"The Ming State is strong, the territory is vast, the armor is a million, the number of people is hundreds of millions, and I only have tens of thousands of armor in Jianzhou, hundreds of thousands of people, located in a corner of Liaodong, if you raise troops because of a moment of righteous indignation, you will inevitably be hit hard by the Ming Kingdom. Only by working hard, gathering our clan, and waiting for the right time to meet me, can we rise up... Since ancient times, those who follow the will of heaven have won and survived, and those who have gone against the will of heaven have been defeated and died..."
"I know the distress of King Khan, but Amu Qi knows, when is the time to avenge my Amma?"
"The court of the Ming Dynasty is turbulent, the emperor does not ask about political affairs, and hundreds of officials only know about political battles, and their political affairs are becoming more and more corrupt...... Don't worry, in a few years, King Khan and I will definitely avenge your Amma! ”
"If there is a day, please also ask Amu to play the king of the Khan, and hand over the messenger of the Ming people to my brother with a thousand knives!"
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Under Fei Yingdong's painstaking persuasion, Dardai finally eliminated his resentment towards the Khan King and came to Yongdian Fort with a grudge against the Ming people. In the past two years, he has never heard from the Khan King who raised an army against Ming, so he can only vent the blood hatred of Ama in his heart on those Han people, not only wantonly abused, but also killed at will. In just over two years, no less than 100 Han Chinese died at his hands.
As a result, whenever the Han people in the rest of the castles heard that they were going to work in Yongdian, they had to say goodbye to their wives and children in advance, because they were not sure whether they would be able to return alive.
Dardai received the news of the attack of the Ming army at the time of Shen, and he did not believe it at the time, because he had not received the notification of the Xiaodian defenders. But soon, the scouts sent out discovered the Ming army a few miles away.
"How many people are there in the Ming army?"
"There are about 1,000 people, and there are only more than 100 cavalry."
As soon as he heard that there were only such a few people in the Ming army, Daldai immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly determined that the attacking Ming army was from Yizhou.
"My lord, there are not many cavalry in the Ming army, please give an order, let me take my sons to knock them!" Zuo Ling De Ambu took the initiative to ask for battle, wanting to lead his troops to give the Ming army a dismount.
Dardai did not agree, although there were not many Ming troops attacking, and he hated the Ming people to the core, but in his bones he was afraid of the Ming army.
This fear comes from the constant attacks of the Ming army on the Jurchen tribes over the past hundred years, and from the fact that the Jurchen clan was almost wiped out by the Ming army; From the hearts of the people in Jianzhou, they are just subordinates of the Ming people.
Dardai chose to hold on to the fort and at the same time sent fast horses to Kuandian.
The decision was wise, as the tall walls of the Eternal Fortress were not so easy to overcome. As long as it can be held, Kuandian's reinforcements will arrive, and the exhausted Ming army will only be beaten.
Gonggong Wei also believed that the defenders of Yongdian Fort would choose to hold out, and this self-confidence also stemmed from the strength of the Ming army to Jianzhou.
Even if Nurhachi openly founded the country and called the Khan rebellion, his fear of the Ming Dynasty and the Ming army was also in his bones. It wasn't until after Sarhu that Nurhachi and his generals really built up confidence in the Ming army.
In other words, they found that the current Ming Dynasty was nothing more than a paper tiger.
Gonggong Wei felt a little sorry for Dar Dai, if he could be brave and lead the Jurchen cavalry in the fort to take the initiative to attack, it was very likely that he would kill and wound the Ming Imperial Army, which had not gained a stable foothold, and frustrated the morale of the Imperial Army.
However, the other side did not do so.
The tall fort walls are indeed the biggest barrier to guard the psychology, but in the eyes of Wei Gonggong, these fort walls are just child's play.
The blasting technology of the Imperial Army is already very mature, and the amount of gunpowder brought this time is also very large.
Gonggong Wei, who couldn't bear the senseless casualties, gave Dar Dai a chance.
Fagulun, who was ordered to persuade him to surrender, really came to the outside of the wall, and stood in a place where the bows and arrows of the bannermen in the fort could not shoot, and then shouted to the fort.
"Fei Gulun, you villain who is greedy for life and afraid of death, you dignified Jurchen man, how can you be a dog for the Han people!" Dardai looked at Fei Gulun and the Ming soldiers behind him hatefully, he knew very well that since the Ming army could kill here, Chang Dian and Xiao Dian must have been lost.
When the first persuasion failed, Gonggong Wei frowned, and asked Fei Gulun to send someone to the fort with his handwritten letter to persuade him to surrender again. As a result, the head of the Jurchen soldier who delivered the letter was thrown off the wall, and then the father-in-law's autograph letter was shot out by a large arrow, with two more words on it - "Han dog".
Father-in-law Wei didn't mind people scolding him for being a dog, but it wouldn't work if he scolded him for being a Han dog, so he ordered the old man to escort the more than 100 Jurchens he had caught earlier under the wall.
This is the last chance, and my father-in-law's patience is very limited.
"Dardai, don't be stubborn, the general of the Ming Dynasty said that if you don't surrender, these people will die! Fei Gulun shouted loudly, his heart was also trembling, looking at the actions of the old man of the Ming Kingdom, he was afraid that if Dardai really did not surrender, these Jurchens would have to be killed.
More than a hundred Jurchens knew that things were not going well, and they knelt on the ground and pleaded with the fort, hoping that the defenders inside the fort would save their lives.
However, there was silence on the walls.
Gonggong Wei shook his head and threw the white handkerchief in his hand to the ground.
More than a hundred human heads rolled down the city in an instant.
In the city, there is still silence.
But soon, hearing the shouts of women and children coming from the city, Father-in-law Wei was stunned for a moment and looked at the city.
Immediately afterward, his pupils shrank.
In sight, one after another Han women and children were thrown from the city.
Gonggong Wei smiled, Dar Dai is an interesting person, he is doing a reciprocal counterattack.
There is nothing to blame for this act of revenge, because it was his father-in-law Wei who first ordered the killing.
"Siege the city, slaughter men and keep women."
After the father-in-law gave the order, he turned over and dismounted, and found a clean place to sit cross-legged.