Chapter XXXVIII
Jueluo is the surname, and the meaning is far away. Aixin is the name of the tribe, meaning gold.
Aixin Jueluo, coined for life, began in the pseudo-post-Jin Hongtai period, and this surname is probably borrowed from the golden family of the Mongols to elevate the identity.
Therefore, Nurhachi should be called Kyora Nurha.
"Cutting down Jiannu is like cutting down a tree, and Jiannu is like a big tree with deep roots and thick trunks! The Jurchens of the Nurhachi clan are the roots of this tree, the rest of the Jurchen tribes are the trunk of this tree, the Mongols and Koreans who are in cahoots with the Jurchens are the branches of this tree, and the Han Chinese who were forcibly taken by the Jurchens are the leaves of this tree. How do you cut down such a big tree? ”
Grandpa Wei's answer was very simple, cut it one by one. Otherwise, how could a big tree be cut down at once?
Jueluo Baoshi, the lord of Jueluo City, and his people are obviously the roots of Jianzhou, and in later words, they are all real Manchu, red belts.
Therefore, Grandpa Wei couldn't wait to dig up the roots.
One more chop is an axe, and one more pry is a stick.
If you count the military strength of Manchuria's entry into the customs, this axe will be a heavy blow to ten Niu Lu, to say the least.
The attack unfolded silently in a tranquillity, and erupted without warning, as in the previous attack on the Jurchen fortresses on the border walls.
The Ming army drove straight into Jueluo City, ignoring the Jurchens who were screaming on the way. It was so fast that it didn't give the defenders of the city any time to react.
When the Ming army rushed into the city, the Jurchen defenders who had come to their senses sounded the alarm in a panic.
The sound of gongs resounded throughout the city.
Hearing the sound of gongs at the head of the city, the Jurchens who were eating were stunned, and the armor-clad people of the various Niu Lu hurriedly put on their armor, picked up their weapons and ran out of the house, and hurriedly gathered together and hurried towards the city gate.
They thought the enemy was still outside the city, but soon found that the city was full of enemies.
Father-in-law Wei can't fight, but he still has a lot of brains.
Under his orders, the soldiers of the imperial army who rushed into the city did not dismount and seize the gates, but continued to rush through the city on horseback, creating chaos. At the same time, dozens of officers and soldiers set fire to the buildings in the city with torches.
Whether it is a thatched house, a wooden house, or a stone house, the buildings that enable arson were all set on fire by the Ming army.
The summer was dry and the temperature was high, and when the fire came together, the smoke rose from Jueluo City, and the temperature rose sharply.
The Ming army was divided into several teams, each team or a dozen horsemen, or twenty or thirty horsemen, and after passing through the city, they rode out of the city. Except for a group of Ming troops and the Jurchen soldiers and horses that collided in front of them, the rest of the teams basically left the city safely without the Jurchens fighting.
Behind him, there is the city of Jueluo, which is shrouded in flames.
The Jurchen castle did not look like a Han city, but it was built high and large, with four or six gates, and it looked more like a larger settlement.
The so-called city walls are nothing more than earthen walls about a foot high that are piled up of earth. Behind the wall, except for a few necessary roads, there are scattered houses. The city was not only inhabited by people, but also livestock, and the streets were covered with dung.
There are only two gates in Kyaw Luo City, one east gate and one west gate. The east gate is close to the ferry, and the west gate is close to the villages outside the city.
After the Ming army came out of the city, it was divided into two teams, one team led by Ding Xiaogong to hold the ferry, and the other team led by Hu Quan to hold the west gate.
They had only one task, and that was to let not a single Jurchen person come out of the city.
Surrounded by more than a dozen guards, Gonggong Wei lived on a slope that was not easy for the Jurchens to find, and pulled two righteous sons to explain to them how to create chaos and destroy the enemy's "art of war" in chaos.
Hu all guarding the west gate were attacked by the Jurchen soldiers in the villages outside the city, and about 100 Jurchen young men rushed out of their respective villages after hearing the sirens in the city, and then gathered together to rush towards the Ming army.
Unlike the tens of thousands of Jurchen cavalry that Gonggong Wei saw in Heituala, the Jurchen soldiers in Jueluo City did not have many war horses, because there were many rivers here, whether they were mature Jurchens or born Jurchens, they were more like hunters hunting than nomads galloping on horses.
Hu Quan divided the more than 70 officers and soldiers of his headquarters into two teams, one team dismounted and shot the Jurchens who rushed over, and the other team slashed and killed the Jurchens when they were defeated by the fire guns in front of them.
It turned out that the Jurchens, who had not been "regularized", were vulnerable in combat effectiveness, and their performance was even inferior to the three battalions in Nanjing.
It's just that more than a dozen people died, and hundreds of Jurchen soldiers turned their heads and retreated.
Hu Quan's mission was to defend the West Gate, so he ignored the retreating Jurchens, and only sent nine cavalry to drive them away.
However, what made people's jaws drop was that the nine Ming cavalry turned the drive into a one-sided massacre.
Hundreds of Jurchens were urged by these nine Ming cavalry to run around, and no one dared to turn back and stretch out their weapons to the Ming army.
They only care about running for their own lives, and they don't care about the lives of their comrades.
In this way, the nine Ming cavalry cut down the Jurchens to the ground one after another without much effort, and then followed them to the Jurchen village in front.
In the end, these nine cavalry drove out as many as 400 Jurchens and more than 100 Han Aha and gathered together.
Looking at the black and oppressive human heads in front of them, the nine Ming cavalry were also beating drums in their hearts, afraid that someone on the other side would raise their arms and shout and desperately resist them. In that case, it would be impossible for the nine of them alone to be suppressed.
However, the fact is that these hundreds of people are obedient like sheep, and they are driven by these nine Ming troops. It's just that the nine Ming soldiers don't know where to take these people, and it is impossible for them to kill all these people.
Soon, a herald brought an order from Gonggong Wei, ordering the Han Aha in the team to be selected, and then the matter of taking prisoners was handed over to these Han Ahab.
At first, the nine Ming cavalry were still worried, after all, most of these Han Aha were captured by the Jurchens, but some of them took the initiative to defect. Moreover, many of them have lived in Jianzhou for more than ten or twenty years, or even thirty years, and it is difficult to say that they still have feelings for Daming, and the consequences will be unimaginable in case of trouble.
However, this fear did not materialize.
After more than 100 Han people were selected individually, they consciously divided into ten teams, took the weapons captured from the Jurchens thrown to them by the Ming army, and took these former masters into custody.
At the same time, he also volunteered to send people back to the village and moved out all the things that the Ming army might be interested in. Some Jurchens saw this scene in their eyes, and they didn't know what their intentions were, and they also sent an old man to beg for the Ming army's small banner to allow them to serve the Ming army.
Xiaoqi, who led the team, did not dare to decide on his own, and sent someone to report the situation to Father-in-law Wei.
Gonggong Wei felt that it was a bit troublesome at first, and it was better to kill it cleanly, but with a roll of his eyes, he waved his hand and ordered fifty Jurchen young men to be selected and given weapons to assist the Ming Imperial Army in dealing with the evil Jurchen reactionary aristocratic group.
The power of unity is great.
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