On both sides of the Hunhe River, both sides of the Ming and Jin sides probed in all directions, and both sides were eager to get the true situation of their opponents.

In order to get more accurate information, Nurhachi even asked some Han people to be selected from Fushun and other places, and used their wives and children to threaten them to spy on intelligence for the Jin State.

These Han people had no choice but to disguise themselves as merchants, merchants, woodcutters, and fur traders to cross the Hunhe River and spy on the details of the Ming army for the Jin State.

There are two people who have contributed greatly to the intelligence work of the Jin State, one is Li Yongfang, the general of Fushun, and the other is Tong Yangxing.

As the former Ming Fushun general, although Li Yongfang was demoted to Jianzhou, his past connections remained. Li Yongfang, who knew that the life of his entire family was now tied to the Jin State, could not sit idly by and watch the defeat of the Jin State, so he bribed his past colleagues in the Ming army with a lot of money, and continuously provided the Jin State with army intelligence.

One of the most important pieces of information is that Liaodong Jingluo strictly ordered the Juniper Department and Liu Ling's Department to meet in the area of Salhu, so the Jiefan Mountain in front of the Juniper Department became a battleground for the Ming army.

This information also prompted Nurhachi to decide to place the decisive battle in the area of Sarhu, for which he not only increased the defenders of the Eight Banners of Jiefan Mountain from 4,000 to 15,000, but also transferred more than 45,000 people from the main force of the six banners of Zhenghuang, Zhenghong, Zhenghong, Zhenglan, and Blue to secretly camp in the area east of Salhu, waiting for the nearest juniper to cross the river.

Tong Yangxing completely cleared the Ming Dynasty spy network in the territory for the Jin State, because this person was the biggest "spy" leader of the Ming Dynasty in Jianzhou.

Originally a Fushun businessman, his family was originally a Jurchen family, and he moved to Fushun from Kaiyuan in the early years of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty treated him very well, but his family did not want to repay Ming'en, but had been very close to Jianzhou, and one of the clan's daughters married Nuerhachi as his wife.

As early as when Nurhachi had not yet established a country, Tong Yangxing tried to take refuge in him, but was found out by the officials of the Ming Dynasty and imprisoned.

However, at that time, it was the governor Zhang Tao who was in charge of Liaodong, this person was the son of Zhang Tianjue, the richest man in Huguang, who had been Qingliu after Zhongjinshi, and after ruling Liaodong, he strongly advocated pacification, and played the court to ask for special treatment for the Jurchens, the so-called "supply rewards, respond to requests", in order to seek long-term peace and stability in Liaodong.

Therefore, after learning that Tong Yangxing was imprisoned, Zhang Tao ordered someone to release Tong Yangxing out of the intention of appeasing Jianzhou, and also asked Tong Yangxing to go to Jianzhou to be in charge of the Ming Dynasty's intelligence network in Jianzhou.

Zhang Tao thought that this would make Tong Yangxing grateful to Dade, and also let Nurhachi know the painstaking efforts of the imperial court, but unexpectedly, after Nurhachi rebelled, Tong Yangxing immediately confessed the Ming Dynasty intelligence network in Jianzhou, so that the Ming Dynasty lost all its eyes and ears in Jianzhou at once.

Not only that, Tong Yangxing also guided his cousin Tong Yangzhen and the whole family to return to Houjin. In order to reward Tong Yangxing for his contribution to Dajin, Nurhachi recently ordered the daughter of the third son Abai, who died in battle, and the 12-year-old granddaughter to marry Tong Yangxing, calling it "Shi Wuli's forehead".

At the suggestion of "Fushun Forehead" and "Shi Wuli Forehead", Nurhachi ordered the Eight Banners to prohibit anyone from going out without permission, and not to allow outsiders to enter the Jinguo area.

This made the Ming army's intelligence and reconnaissance work on Jianzhou in a difficult situation, and the reason why the Juniper Division, which had reached the bank of the Hunhe River, did not cross the river for a long time was because they did not know the details of Jianzhou on the other side of the river.

At the end of February, Nurhachi had already arrived at Sarhu, knowing that the Juniper Department had not yet crossed the river, the East Road Liu Wei Department had penetrated more than 200 miles, the Ming Army North Road had marched from Kaiyuan to Sanchaerbao under the leadership of Ma Lin, and Li Rubai's Department also set off from the Qinghe River to enter the Yahu Pass.

After carefully inspecting the terrain, Nurhachi ordered to cut down big trees and set up roadblocks in the steep area on the way of the Ming army's march to delay the Ming army's advance, and also arranged the troops of each banner according to the dangerous terrain.

Nurhachi believed that Juniper had the most soldiers and horses on this road, and he came directly from Shenyang through Fushun, so the first battle must be solved by the Juniper Department, and then the Liu Ling Department must be solved, and then Ma Lin or Li Rubai, depending on the random actions of the Ming army.

After the military discussion, the banner owners and generals went their separate ways. Zhu Ying led the red flag forward for thirty miles, closely monitored the juniper part on the south bank of the Hunhe River, and lured it to the area of Jiefan Mountain when the juniper department crossed the river.

According to the results of the military discussion, Zhu Ying's Zheng Red Flag and Abatai's inlaid red flag were mainly responsible for the defense of Jiefan Mountain, so after the meeting, Zhu Ying went to the Jiefan area to actually inspect it.

"Liu Aita, the realm is very important to my gold, and after the realm, it is a horse and a flat river, and there is no danger to defend, so the realm must be guarded. However, guarding the boundary is the first priority of Jilin Cliff, and if Jilin Cliff is lost, this realm will not be guarded..."Yu Ying, who climbed Jilin Cliff, talked about the importance of Jilin Cliff to Liu Xingzuo, the Han general next to him.

This Liu Xingzuo is a native of Kaiyuan in the Ming Dynasty, and when he was young, he was beaten with Kaiyuan guards because he used his clothes to enter the school, and he voted for Jianzhou in a fit of anger. However, this person is very talented and understanding, so he is deeply respected and appreciated by Nurhachi, and is assigned to the positive red flag of goodness.

When the Jin army captured Qinghe, Nurhachi wanted to slaughter the Han people in Qinghe, and it was Liu Xingzuo who saved Qinghe from slaughtering the city in many ways.

This time, Liu Xingzuo went to battle with Zhenying, and there were more than 2,000 Han soldiers under his command, and several of his brothers were also in the army. Liu Bu is also the only Han army on the Jin army side that can form an army alone except for Li Yongfang's troops, and he himself is also very valued by Yu Ying.

According to Yu Ying's deployment, Liu Xingzuo's troops will guard Jilin Cliff, and the other seven Jurchen Niu Lu of Zhenghong Banner will guard Jilin Cliff together.

"This place is steep and condescending, Lord Belle can rest assured, it is more difficult for the Ming army to attack it than to ascend to the sky." Liu Xingzuo said with confidence.

"The terrain is good for our army, but we should not take it lightly, if the whole army of Juniper comes to attack, you will also be under great pressure."

According to the report of the spies, there are about 30,000 or 40,000 people in the Juniper Division, and if the whole army of the Juniper Department attacks Jilin Cliff, whether these thousands of soldiers and horses on Jilin Cliff can withstand it, Dai Shan is actually playing a drum in his heart.

Liu Xingzuo couldn't let the flag owner feel at ease, and patted his chest at the moment and said that he would defend Jilin Cliff to the death, even if he fought to the last person, he Liu Xingzuo would also ensure that the red flag on Jilin Cliff would not fall.

"Amma, sure enough, you're not right!"

Dai Shan patted Liu Xingzuo on the shoulder, placing high hopes on the latter. If nothing else, it will be a fierce battle here at Jilin Cliff, but this is not the key to victory.

In Amma's deployment, Jilin Cliff is just a bone that attracts juniper, and it is the main force of the Six Banners that really determines the victory.

As long as Liu Xingzuo can contain Juniper's troops in Jilin Cliff and hold out until the main force arrives, Juniper will definitely be defeated.

In other words, Liu Xingzuo's department is just cannon fodder, and even the seven Jurchen Niu Lu with positive red flags are also used for sacrifice.

Just this point, Dai Shan doesn't have to make it clear with Liu Xingzuo.

After sending off Dai Cleanup, Liu Xingzuo looked at the Hunhe River in the distance from the cliff, and couldn't see anything, and his mood was a little heavy for some reason.

Liu Xingyi, the second brother who saw the strangeness of the eldest brother, stepped forward and whispered: "Big brother, do we really want to fight with the imperial court?" ”

Liu Xingzuo didn't say anything.

"What did the fifth brother say?" Liu Xingzuo's third brother Liu Xingjie wanted to speak and stopped.

Liu Xingyi hesitated and said, "Big brother, what Gonggong Wei said is right, we are Han after all, he Jurchen people use us now, and they can still use us in the future?" ”

"Big brother, when you keep interrupting, you will suffer from it. If this really helped the Jurchens defeat the imperial army, our brothers would have no way back. Liu Xingjie said boldly.

Liu Xingzuo glanced at his two younger brothers and said, "Do you want to be a hero of the Ming Dynasty and take the 10,000 taels of silver?" ”

"Why not?" Liu Xingjie said.

Liu Xingyi said: "The fifth brother said that Father-in-law Wei counts when he speaks, and now he tells the world, he will not break his promise, and Father-in-law Wei attaches great importance to the eldest brother, otherwise how can he call the fifth brother to secretly letter the eldest brother three times and twice." ”

"Big brother, you can't hesitate any longer, if you delay, you and my brother will really become sinners of the country! Could it be that we really watched Liaodong become his Jurchen world! Liu Xingjie clenched his fists and said.

"This braid on the head, how will we see our ancestors and ancestors in the future, big brother!" Liu Xingyi also said bitterly.

Liu Xingzuo still didn't say anything, for a long time, he sighed, took out a letter from his arms and handed it to the third Liu Xingjie, and said in a deep voice: "Give this letter to Gonggong Wei." ”

After a pause, he gritted his teeth and said, "If the letter is lost, you don't want to come back." Next year, Qingming, burn some paper money for my brothers. ”

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Author's note: On July 26, the third year of the Apocalypse, Jiayin, the governor of Denglai, said that in February this year, the chief soldier Shen Yourong was appointed to the living member Jin Yingkui, and the slave chief pretended to grant the hereditary general army to be stationed in Fuzhou Liu Xingzuo, that is, Liu Aita, with a secret piece of paper, saying that he wanted to respond to China anyway.

After Xingzuo died, he tried every possible way to get rid of it, and there was the style of Song Li Xianzhong.