As soon as Liu Xingzuo heard that his wife, children and mother were all caught by the Jurchens, he knew that this time he couldn't be good, he could push the matter on others in the last Fuzhou incident, and this time he couldn't find the right person for a while, and he couldn't find someone to explain to Huang Taiji on the side of the road. He looked at the captain of his own soldiers and asked, "How did you get out of the city gates?" Who is guarding this gate? ”

The captain of the army said: "The city gate is their own people, they asked the small one to bring people to find the general, it is said that there are Mongols have come to the south gate, it is estimated that the Great Khan sent to arrest the general, whether to fight or flee the general to make a quick decision!" ”

Liu Xingzuo saw that the city gate in front of him was wide open, but the people in the city looked at him a little bewildered, he took a breath and shouted: "Someone said bad things about Ben Jiang in front of the Great Khan, Ben Jiang decided to go to Guangning in person to let the Great Khan comment, and if there are those who are willing to follow Ben Jiang to go out, go out and go together." ”

Liu Xingzuo only brought more than 100 people when he went out to inspect, and then heard him shout and suddenly ran out of 200 people, he looked at these people who were his confidants for many years, and shouted to the city head with emotion: "There are more than 400 people enough, and the others guard the city gate and wait for the general to come back, and no one is allowed to open the door without the general's order!" ”

Some people in the city have also followed Liu Xingzuo for many years to be born and died, but considering their own safety or their own family members, some hesitate whether they should follow Liu Xingzuo to find Huang Taiji for comment, and at the same time think that their hesitation is a little unbearable to Liu Xingzuo's care for many years↓ When I was embarrassed, I listened to Liu Xingzuo say that there were enough people to go, and my heart was greatly relaxed, and they all shouted: "My subordinates obey the general's orders, and I hope the general will go early and return early!" ”

Liu Xingzuo looked at the four hundred or so people around him, sighed, turned around and beat his horse and went north, and when he arrived at the edge of the Daling River, he did not cross the river directly but turned to the west‖.

There are more than 5,000 people from the Ulut Department who came to Yizhou this time, and the leader is called Ming'an, who is not very valued in the original Han Department, and Taiji ♀ Ming'an, who is not very valued in the Han Department, has the same name as another Taiji Ming'an of the Horqin Department, but there are too many people with the same name and different lives in the world, and these two Ming'an are an example. Ming'an of the Horqin Department has a keen sense of smell and surrendered to the Jurchens early, Nurhachi was overjoyed and sent his wife and gold and silver, which was very beautiful, and Ming'an of the Urut Department was frustrated because he was not treated by Lin Dan Khan and pulled more than a dozen frustrated Taiji who was about the same treatment to take refuge in the Jurchens, because he realized that there were too many grasses on the wall after realizing it, and the treatment was like that.

The difference in treatment only made the Ming'an and the people of the Ulut tribe complain, but the events of last year caused Ming'an to be angry, but these anger was directed at the Ming army, because the Ming army caused the Ulut to suffer great losses. In April last year, after harassing the Jurchens, Mao Wenlong asked Chen Jisheng, the deputy general of Phi Dao, to change shifts with him and take people to attack along the coast, but the Mongols were not very effective because they were prepared. However, Chen Jisheng is not a vegetarian, he knows that he is not capable of outwitting the enemy, so he let people come to Jinzhou in disguise, which made the Mongols suffer a big loss.

After Mao Wenlong, Zhao Shujiao and Zu Dashou and others led the men and horses to demolish Lushun City, Nurhachi did not care about the rebuilding of Lushun City and stationed heavy troops, and the Dongjiang Army came to harass people as soon as the spring flowers bloomed, Nurhachi slowly felt helpless after being angry, angry and angry, and Huang Taiji came to power to pull together the blow of both soft and hard had no effect, and in desperation, he decided to let Ming'an of the Ulut Department take the people to the Jinzhou area to recuperate. In Huang Taiji's eyes, the low combat effectiveness of the Wulut Department is not of much use, and it will make people happy if they fight with Mao Wenlong and whoever dies.

After several battles, Chen Jisheng found that the Mongols had changed near Jinzhou, and it was difficult to grab their things, first, these Mongols themselves were very poor and had nothing to rob, and second, the Mongols had a good habit of carrying their property with them, so that people could not easily get their hands on them. Fortunately, the order of the Military Affairs Yuan at that time was not to kill people, but to kill horses, and they used their brains around how to kill horses. As the saying goes, there are many people and many ideas, and everyone thinks about it and thinks of a good way, which is to kill mares and ponies, especially pregnant mares, which are the most effective.

Later, the people of the Ulut Department discovered these methods of the Ming army, and in addition to cursing loudly, they also strengthened the protection of mares and ponies, but Chen Jisheng thought of some good ways, that is, to send people to deal with stallions in disguise. They found some people who were proficient in castration techniques to lurk around the horse pen, and when the large army made a sound to let the Mongols out of the horse pen, these well-trained people immediately rushed into the horse pen and castrated all the stallions, they did not castrate a few stallions, but most of the stallions on the ground near Jinzhou were castrated, and when the Mongols found out, they immediately ran out of tricks.

The herd of horses without stallions is angry, and it is said that many Mongolians have been kicked and bitten by mares in heat, and by the time they have worked hard to borrow stallions from distant places, the mares have passed the estrus period and no longer bite and kick people, but will only join forces to kick and bite the stallions that harass them. Because of this reason, the birth rate of ponies in the Ulut Department is very low, which makes the Ulut Ministry, who is already not loved by his grandmother and uncle, feel what is worse, and the leader of the Ulut Ministry, Ming An, also has an uncommon hatred for the Ming army.

After receiving the order of Huang Taiji to let them march to Yizhou, Ming An led more than 5,000 people to set off immediately, he wanted to vent his anger on the people who might defect to the Ming army in the Ming army, he knew that Huang Taiji wanted to seize Liu Xingzuo's intention and occupied Youtun and Dalinghe Fort in a short time, cutting off Liu Xingzuo's only way to escape to Ningyuan. Although Ming An wanted to vent his anger, he was not stupid, he knew that Huang Taiji wanted to let the Wulut Department and Liu Xingzuo's department fight and then reap the benefits of the fisherman, he decided to unite with the Jurchens in Yizhou City after comparing the forces of the two sides, and everyone together forced Liu Xingzuo to leave the strong city and then besiege and annihilate.

Knowing that Peng Ling and other Jurchens captured Liu Xingzuo's family and successfully forced Liu Xingzuo away, Ming An was so excited that he immediately led his troops to chase after him, and when he met the triumphant Peng Ling outside the north gate, Ming An complained that if it wasn't for the delay in removing the obstacles blocking the north gate, he would definitely have caught Liu Xingzuo now. However, when he heard Peng Ling say that there were only more than 400 people left around Liu Xingzuo, Ming'an's eyes shone brightly, and he said with red eyes that he would quickly catch up so that Liu Xingzuo would not escape.

When Ming An led people to chase in the direction pointed by Peng Ling, Peng Ling stood outside the north gate of Yizhou and did not move, and a leader next to him asked: "The credit for capturing Liu Xingzuo is very great, why did Peng Ling give this credit to these Mongols?" ”

Peng Ling chuckled and said: "Seize Liu Xingzuo's family and force him to show his original form, what we have done is the first merit, Liu Xingzuo must now want to escape to the Ming army along the Daling River." The ancient road of the Daling River is rugged and has many dangerous places, in case there is a Ming army guarding the ambush, it will not be fun, it is better to let these Mongols fight the Ming army, wouldn't it be good? Besides, we are now in a state of truce with the Ming army on the surface, and it is beneficial for the Great Khan to provoke the Mongols to provoke the Ming army. ”

Ming'an is worthy of being born on the grassland, as soon as he got on the horse, he immediately ran fast, and it didn't take long to see Liu Xingzuo and others, but they were separated by a mountain beam. Ming An looked around and found that there seemed to be no way to climb the mountain beam from where he was now, and looked and followed the horse's hooves and found a small valley, Liu Xingzuo's people seemed to have ridden into this small valley, and faintly heard the barking of horses coming from the valley. Ming An was overjoyed and ordered 500 people to go into the valley to search, and the others surrounded this small valley, and Liu Xingzuo must not be allowed to break out.

The people of the Ming'an faction just came to the mouth of the small valley, and were about to cut grass and go in to arrest Liu Xingzuo, when they suddenly heard movement overhead, and looked up to see a few bowl-sized stones falling from the sky, smashing on the ground and making a few muffled sounds, there seemed to be people on the top, judging from the clothes, it was not Liu Xingzuo and others' clothes, it was more like the Ming army, they only smashed a few stones, and it should not be an ambush but a warning.

Ming An shouted, "Who are you? Why stop us from going in and arresting the traitors? ”

The above ** voice replied: "We are the Ming soldiers who defend Da Ling He, there are only our horses and no traitors in it, you leave quickly and don't hurt the harmony." ”

Ming An saw that although the people above said politely, the meaning of preventing himself from entering the valley was very clear, and any stone condescending had a deterrent effect, so after thinking about it, he didn't make a stupid scolding and just said loudly: "You said that there is no one in it, only your horse, do you dare to let us go in and have a look?" ”

Ming An just wanted to ask something more, and he didn't expect the Ming army to agree to his request, because he thought that this small valley was the place where the Ming army entered and exited, and he must have made a great contribution to discovering such a secret, and maybe Huang Taiji would look at him differently from now on.

Who knows that the Ming army above said: "No problem, you can go in and see, but don't touch our horses, otherwise don't blame us for being polite." ”

Ming An thought about it and asked a hundred people to go first, and if there was danger, there would be a response, Liu Xingzuo only had more than 400 people and most of them had already escaped from the mountain beam, if he caught a few slow hands and feet, it would be a great achievement. More than a hundred people went into the valley under the leadership of a small leader, and each of them took a large shield to protect himself, for they found that the mountain above was not very large, and there were not many stones hanging in the air on three sides.

Seeing that these Mongols were very careful to cover their heads with shields, the Ming army above jokingly shouted: "Something else, we have already thrown the stones of the pot at the beginning, and there is nothing more to throw, just go over with peace of mind." ”