In fact, the sweaty Jinyi guard disguised as a lama did not use charcoal wood to bake his shoes after going out, but when he saw that no one was following him, he immediately ran to the cattle and horse pens in a few arrows. He took out a few strings of firecrackers from his bosom and tied a string to the tail of each of the mares, and he knew that the stallions would kick people, so he did not dare to provoke them, and immediately after tying three or four horses, he lit all the fuses with charcoal wood that was still red, and at the same time took out two large explosives and threw them into the livestock pen.

This big explosive cannon is a defective product that Ni Yuanlu made a grenade and made a bad one, and later prepared to take it to the front line as a letter cannon, which is much more convenient than the original letter cannon that was placed on the ground. When the general is about to come out during the war, he will generally make two sounds, increase his prestige, remind everyone to pay attention, and at the same time, he can also scare the other party, just like tigers, leopards, jackals, and wolves have to roar a few times when they want to eat people. Because he hadn't fought for a long time, Yuan Chonghuan asked Jinyiwei to act with an opportunity, who knew that it would come in handy here.

The cow and horse were resting in the pen and ruminating aftertaste, and suddenly heard a few loud noises and immediately began to run wildly, and what was even more terrifying was that several mares were still sparkling on their tails, and the firecrackers were tied to their tails, and no matter how fast they ran, it was useless unless they were blown up. The mare itself is timid, and usually when a wolf comes, she will come to the stallion for protection, just like a woman usually approaches the man when she is in danger. Everyone gathered around the stallion, and the mare with firecrackers tied to him came over to scare the gathered horses away, and so on and so on, and the gathering was divided until the firecrackers were burned.

The two brocade guards who had finished their work ran to the outside of the mountain pass and rode their horses to the beach to join the others, and everyone was very happy to hear that there were really cows and horses hidden in the recess of the mountain, and they were even happier to hear what these two men had done, and they all said that they could do the same. Only the leader thought about it and said: "We just need to know that there are horses hidden in the mountains, there is no need to be so troublesome, and besides, it is estimated that we can't deceive people by using the identity of a lama now, so it is better to go directly to make trouble." We hope that the Mongols and the Jurchens will not be able to see us when we see them, and when they see no one, they will kill them when they see them. "After speaking, I will divide the work with people one by one.

A few days later, a legend appeared on the peninsulas in the southeastern part of Liaoning, such as Jinzhou, Fuzhou, and Lushun, saying that there were monsters in the mountains that were haunted like thunder, killing cattle, horses, and sheep as sacrifices for themselves, and even the powerful lamas and mages could not subdue them. Some people also say that it is a group of unreasonable lamas who do not kill people, but only kill livestock, causing huge losses to the Mongols who are herding in this area, and they are thundering one by one.

A few days later, Huang Taiji in Jinzhou also received complaints from the Mongolians, saying that the water and grass near Jinzhou itself are not as good as the Liaohe Plain, the only advantage is that you can go to the mountains to avoid the wind and snow in winter, but now there are people at any time to harass them and make them suffer huge losses, saying that it is not as good as the original ♀ place of living and grazing, some complaints make Huang Taiji listen to the fire, originally thought that it would attract some assistance, who knows that it will cause some trouble, and if something happens, it is really annoying to take the initiative to find a way to solve the problem. He didn't want to think about how a person who really liked to be self-reliant would come and mess with him. Isn't it because you're lazy to save trouble?

Huang Taiji now has a lot of things, at first I thought that the Ming army knew that Jinzhou was building artillery and would come to sabotage, who knew that after being fully prepared, the left and right did not come, and then I thought that the Ming army knew that it was not sure to give up, who knew that the Ming army was moving ♀ in all directions for a while, in addition to the traces of the activities of the small units of the Ming army often seen in the Songshan and Tashan areas, there were also people on the side of the Xiaoling River who saw the ashes buried by the Ming army scouts after baking the fire to warm up, and later there were people on the beach who saw the Ming army ships parked there and holding something in the direction of Jinzhou. The report from Yizhou also explained that the army was engaged in activities at the original outpost fort again, and everything was aimed at Jinzhou.

As soon as Huang Taiji analyzed what the Mongols complained, he knew that this was the Ming army, but he just didn't understand what the purpose of the Ming army was and what the next move would be. Mobilizing a lot of people to reconnoiter can be seen as a suspicious tactic, and the additional harassment in Jinzhou may be an attempt to make the Mongols move places, does the Ming army really have the idea of reoccupying Jinzhou and Lushun and other places?

Huang Taiji himself is very shrewd and cunning, and this is not enough, and there is a strategist named Fan Wencheng who comes up with bad ideas for him. Fan Wencheng told him that the area around Jinzhou was the most vulnerable land surrounded by the sea on three sides, and that the Mongols who had returned to him had grazed their cattle there in order to use them to resist Mao Wenlong, so that Dajin could deal with Lin Dan Khan wholeheartedly. Now Lin Dan Khan has led his troops westward, and it is said that he has gone to the Zhaocheng area under the Yin Mountain, and the Mongols should be moved from the Jinzhou area and moved to the Liaohe Plain for grazing, and by the way, some capable people will be recruited to join the Eight Banners, so that there will be more and more soldiers in Dajin, and they will become more and more brave.

Although Fan Wencheng didn't say it very clearly, Huang Taiji knew what he meant, the earliest real Jurchen men, women, and children added up to tens of thousands of people, and later increased to more than 100,000 because they pulled others in, after all, the Jurchens are ♀ not like water grasshoppers and other things, and some of the new people who joined in include Mongolians, Koreans, Han people, etc., although they all contribute the same as the Jurchens, but there is no orthodox name, which is equivalent to the difference between long-term and temporary, fixed and mobile. There is also a big difference in the distribution of benefits, after all, even if the landlord's family is working, there is a saying that there are different remuneration for long-term and short-term workers.

Fan Wencheng had already mentioned that the standardization of other non-Jurchen people was to add the Mongolian Eight Banners and the Han Army Eight Banners in addition to the orthodox Jurchen Eight Banners, so that the non-genuine Jurchen soldiers would feel equal and feel the desperate effectiveness in their hearts. Now Fan Wencheng brought up this matter, which means that all the Mongols on the border of Jinzhou will be pulled to the vicinity of Shenyang, those who have the potential to fight will be incorporated into the Mongolian Eight Banners to serve as soldiers, and those who have no talent for war will raise horses and sheep on the grassland, and the number of troops has also increased, and the key places have also consolidated the beauty of both worlds.

Although Huang Taiji felt that Fan Wencheng was reasonable, he was still a little reluctant to those places in Jinzhou, Fan Wencheng meant that the land that was attacked on all sides was not easy to defend and gave up, and the Ming army really wanted to take root and repair the city, and then they would be leveled, after all, they were not good at defending in that place, and they spent a lot of money to repair the city in a place that was easy to be easily destroyed, except for fools, only madmen would do such things. Huang Taiji was a little surprising, he thought that as soon as he gave up the Ming army, he would definitely come, and let them build the city there would be equivalent to taking root, and the characteristic of the Ming army was that they would not leave after taking root, which would bring endless trouble to themselves.

After thinking about it for a while, Huang Taiji decided to transfer some troops from Shenyang to strengthen patrols in the Jinzhou area, and told the Mongols to hold out for a while longer, and let them move to the Liao River to graze cattle when it was hot. Now that it has been confirmed that it is not a monster but someone who is there to play a ghost, he immediately sent troops to station near Jinzhou to protect the sanctity of the Mongols' private property, and it is clear that the person who led the troops in vain has been determined to be Amin with the blue flag.

The people near Jinzhou could not be withdrawn, in order to prevent the Ming army from sabotaging so that Huang Taiji could not build a cannon, and also to leave some mobile troops to pay attention to the movements of the Mongolian Han Department, as soon as the Yang army withdrew, it looked very empty, in order not to be found by the Ming army, especially the Dongjiang army on Phidao, Huang Taiji ordered the surrounding troops to concentrate on Shenyang City, which inadvertently gave Mao Wenlong a chance.

In mid-March, there were two people dressed as Taoist priests in the Fushun area, one of them was because of Shi Quan, who had made meritorious contributions to the Heavenly Master in western Sichuan, and Liu Qiao, the governor of Jinyiwei who was in charge of foreign affairs, specially transferred him to No, and the other person was also a person dressed as a Taoist, and a person who knew Liaodong dialect in Jinyiwei was named Zhang Liang, 'Quan had been lurking in Sichuan for many years, and he opened his mouth to speak Sichuanese, Zhang Liang was afraid that he would let him pretend to be dumb, which also belonged to one of Shi Quan's specialties.

Zhang Liang has been in charge of Liaodong affairs in Jinyiwei, so Liu Qiao recommended him and Shi Quan to Liu Xingzuo, the main task of the two is to find Liu Xingzuo's two brothers in Shenyang, and if there are conditions, they can find an opportunity to make some moves in Shenyang, and they are older and more experienced, he saw that Shi Quan seemed to be a little stunned, so he reminded while walking: "Brother Shi, you are not a local and do not understand the local dialect, it is best to pretend to be dumb so as not to let people see the flaws." ”

Seeing that Shi Quan didn't speak, Zhang Liang asked strangely: "You don't want to pretend to be dumb or didn't hear me?" ”

Shi Quan turned his head to look at him while gesturing with his hand while making a "babbling" sound, Zhang Liang was stunned for a moment, and then laughed dumbly: "I asked you to pretend to be dumb when there are people, what are you pretending to be when there are only two of us now?" ”

Shi Quan looked left and right and then whispered, "Yes, Brother Zhang." ”

Zhang Liang thought for a while and asked strangely: "Don't say that you pretend to be dumb and really look like that, have you ever learned?" ”

Shi Quan said leisurely: "I used to pretend to be dumb for ten years, and sometimes it seems that I can close my ears and eyes and not hear others, and completely enter the silent realm. ”

Zhang Liang said happily: "I can't see that you still have this ability, so it's very good, let's go find an old relationship today, and ask him to take us to Shenyang to find someone to act by the way." ”

Shi Quan said: "That's great, the two of us are on the road, and it must be much smoother with the locals." ”

Zhang Liang frowned and said: "This person has not been in touch for many years, I don't know if he has taken refuge in the Jurchens, if we find something wrong, we will run separately, and meet in the mountain loop where we just rested three days later." If I don't come three days later, you can go back the way you came, find General Liu by the Taizi River, and say that the enemy is well guarded, and you should be careful not to fall into the enemy's trap. ”

It turned out that Yuan Chonghuan of Liaodong sent people to drive boats from Hezhou to Jinzhou, Fuzhou, and Gushan to carry out activities, the purpose of which was to annoy the Mongols and Jurchens there, and to make them think that it was Mao Wenlong's people who were sabotaging. In fact, Mao Wenlong had quietly gathered nearly 10,000 people at this time and arrived near Fushun in batches, a total of several batches of people went to the mountains near Fushun along the Cao River, led by Liu Xingzuo to prepare to join forces with Liu Xingzuo's two younger brothers, Shenyang V Liang and Shi Quan's purpose was to reconnoitre, contact by the way, and immediately report to Liu Xingzuo after having news, so that he could act at the opportunity.

After Zhang Liang finished his order, he found that Shi Quan was a little absent-minded, so he said: "It's easy to get lost in the mountains, if you want to escape, you can throw everything, but don't lose dry food, don't be caught and killed by the enemy, but starve to death, it's not cost-effective." ”

Shi Quan smiled lightly: "Brother Zhang, don't worry, I know." ”