Chapter 255. whetstone
In fact, Song Dwarf's plan is very good.,First recruit the most sinicized Bai Zuo Department to surrender.,With this signboard,The Shumu Department, which has a slightly deeper contact with the Li Koreans.,The Hunyuan Department can also be taken down.,Turn back.,It's a Jurchen.,Almost completely relying on the safari to live the Jiashan Department is naturally difficult to support alone.,Just kill the chickens and make an example of the monkeys and clean it up.。
What's even more perfect is that he Song Dwarf can become one of the important personnel in the Mao Jue shogunate by virtue of his merits in pacifying the Hamgyong Jurchen.
But now, Bai Zuobu is making such a fuss, it can be said that all his plans are bankrupt, who wants to have a father on his head, draw the strong men of their tribe, collect their taxes, and have to be the ancestors to provide for them, originally Song Dwarf also said in the Shumu Department and the Hunyuan Department that many people came to take refuge in the Dongjiang River, but look at the fate of the Bai Zuobu, it is estimated that no one wants to come.
However, this is only the bankruptcy of Song Xiaozi's plan, it does not mean that Dongjiang's plan is bankrupt, as Mao Jue said, he came to conquer with an army, not to make friends, and even when he planned with Wenchen Fan Wenju before, it was a crusade against the Jurchens of Hamgyong Province.
It's not just that it's not as simple as letting others sleep under the couch, Dongjiang's location is awkward, and there is a lack of an enemy!
Indeed, now the Dongjiang Army is well-trained and brave and good at fighting, but Mao Jue is still not enough here, he also needs a stronger army to resist the hundreds of thousands of cavalry of Houjin in the future, and the real elite soldiers can only be tempered on the battlefield.
But the Dongjiang River, to the west is Houjin, Mao Jue he can't afford to provoke now, to the east is Li's North Korea, although it is a soft persimmon in Mao Jue's eyes, but unfortunately, there is a big brother behind this soft persimmon, Daming! If you beat Li Chao's own son, it will be tantamount to betraying the Ming Dynasty, and all the benefits from the Guannai will be cut off, this price Mao Jue really can't afford to pay, don't look at the Ming Dynasty like a stepmother to Dongjiang, but Mao Jue still has to carry the banner of the old Zhu family to get mixed up.
The Wa Kingdom is indeed a good enemy, but the distance is too far, just like a difficult copy, it can only be brushed once a year, and as Mao Jue wants to make a clear position to support the Toyotomi family, the copy of the Wa Kingdom has to become more and more difficult, Mao Jue does not want to throw recruits with no war experience on the battlefield of the Wa Kingdom, and the population is too precious for him.
At this time, the Jurchens of Hamgyong Road jumped out, they still meet all the requirements of the Dongjiang River, no background, even if Mao Jue slaughtered the Hamgyong Jurchens, the Emperor Taiji of Shengjing did not shed a single tear, let alone cut him, the strength is still weak, there are only more than 30,000 people in several tribes, unlike Houjin, once it is fought, the Han Eight Banners, the Mongolian Eight Banners, and the Eight Banners of the Manchurian Hundred Thousand people come to find a field, and they can't afford to provoke them, and they have one or two thousand people to burn a village, and Mao Jue can fully bear this loss.
And these guys are also difficult, Hamgyong Province is located in the remnants of Changbai Mountain, deep in the mountains and wild forests, it is really difficult to completely exterminate it, this is exactly what Dongjiang needs, it will not bring too many casualties, but it will put enough pressure on every Dongjiang soldier to force them to improve.
Just kidding, being the enemy of the Hamgyong Jurchens, Mao Jue was simply overjoyed, how could they surrender easily?
Within a few days, the white sakubu knew how lucky he was.
Originally, the situation became very tense after Mao Jue's troops forcibly subdued the Sanshui Tribes, but on May 15, Mao Jue issued an order from Xianxing Mountain City, which directly started the war.
Jiashan Department, Jiashan Mountain City, more than a dozen owners with flintlock pistols were majestic, but standing at the front, a military order was directly opened, and Song Xiaozi's old face was as ugly as taking cockroach medicine, and he read sadly.
"It is rumored that the Dongjiang Tieyi Deputy General's Mansion ordered that the Jiashan tribes should hand over all the bandits who had plundered Xianxing City within three days, and make friends with the Tieyi Deputy General's Mansion, and hand over all the people's household registration, and pay taxes to the Dongjiang Tieyi Deputy General's Mansion and pay 30% of all the income!"
It was even more humble than the chieftain hall of the White Shobu, and listening to the sonorous voice of the Song dwarf, the dozen or so savage Jurchen chieftains of Jiashan who were fat, strong, bearded, and had messy pigtails couldn't believe their ears.
When did they Jurchen need to pay taxes? In particular, they are the most powerful of the Jiashan Jurchens, the Hamgyong Jurchens, the men who beat the wild boar elk, and they are not the mud legs and soft goods of Sanshui Baizuo who farm, this time not only robbed the city of Xianxing, no matter what the Li family of Korea or the Dongjiang River, there is no compensation and reward, they don't plan to stop, how can they not expect that what Dongjiang bullshit adjutant deputy will give them such a hand.
Listening to the translation, one of the fat little Jurchen chieftains like a wild bear actually roared and smashed a steel axe on the wooden table, into the wood for three points, and then dragged the steel axe out, about to cut people, but the reckless fire of the big leader of the Jiashan tribe here stretched out his hand to block his chest. Don't look at this old man is already an old man, his body covered in thick animal skin is still as strong as a wild boar, his face is full of horizontal meat, his eyes are gloomy and cruel looking at Song Xiaozi, he can't help but shudder when he sees it.
"What if we don't agree?"
"Old man of Jiashan Reckless Firepower, you should have heard of the prestige of Li Chengliang and Lord Li, right?"
Although Mao Jue has changed all his plans, and his heart is also hairy here, this Song dwarf is really a character, and his funny head has not changed at all, and he asked coldly.
This name, even if it was not translated into Jurchen Tungusic language, but the dozen or so leaders of the large and small tribes of Jiashan present were all trembling.
In this era, the northern Jurchens, there are those who don't know Yue Fei, but there are no people who don't know Li Chengliang, this old guy is the same as the famous general Gao Xianzhi of the Tang Dynasty, he was born in the peninsula Goryeo, his ancestors three generations are the Li family North Korea crossed the river and settled in the Ming Dynasty, this old guy since Wanli year, supported Liaodong forty-eight years, this period of time is really the peak of the Ming Dynasty, Mongolia to the west does not dare to show its head, to the east to fight these Jurchen departments wow wow cry, the old guy is a very simple tactic, whoever pretends to fight whom! When he was young, he was the main soldier in Liaodong, and no Jurchen tribe developed, and all those who dared to take the lead were destroyed by him, and he slaughtered the city at every turn.
Nurhachi's grandfather, Jue Chang'an, and his father, Takshi, were both killed when Li Chengliang attacked Atai and slaughtered Gulezhai.
However, this old guy has a mixed reputation in this life, maybe the edges and corners have been smoothed out by the ups and downs of officialdom, and when he went out of Liaodong for the second time in his later years, he changed his previous sharpness, and Li Chengliang became timid, and personally gave up the four forts of Kuandian Liaozuo that he worked hard to develop back then, and no longer went out to fight the Jurchens, and the biggest mistake in his life was that he regarded Nurhachi as the spokesperson of the Ming Dynasty in the Jurchens, and connived and cultivated it.
But even so, it couldn't affect the deep fear left by this killing god in the memory of the Jurchens, and he was still angry, but when Song Dwarf spit out such a name, all the leaders of the Jiashan tribes couldn't help but tremble.
The scene was silent for a few seconds, and then the chieftain of the Jiashan tribes who was carrying an axe gasped and snorted coldly.
"Taishi Li is dead, and even if Taishi Li is not dead, he has not collected taxes from our Jurchens, what kind of bullshit and iron-righteous deputy general of your family dares to come, Lao Tzu will chop off his head!"
"So, did you choose to go to war?"
Looking at Jiashan's reckless old face was gloomy, silent, and suddenly put the military order into his arms, this Song Datou was quite arrogant like a Ming civil official, and he flicked his sleeves, turned around and left.
Behind them, a dozen barbarian chiefs let out a beastly roar.
"What does this little Mao General think? Just let these barbarians bow their heads, why do you have to use knives and guns? ”
More than a dozen horses galloped on the mountain trail, while running, Song Shorty still muttered and complained, no wonder he had a sour stomach, in fact, this guy is not easy, as Mao Jue expected, the layout of Hamgyong Road is really what he has studied hard for a long time, and he wants to use it as a qualification.
This old boy is not without talent, but in the unspoken rules of the Ming officialdom, judging people by their appearance, those who look ugly can't be officials, let alone his second-class cripple.
Several times the imperial examination fell to Sun Mountain, and even the guy who was stepped on by himself was admitted, Song Dwarf's heart can be imagined, he is unwilling to be a behind-the-scenes master for a lifetime, and the right way can't go through, so he has to join the army, this dwarf is also accurate, the next few years must be a big chaos in the world, in the military, maybe you can also be a marquis and a uncle?
In the name of looking, he walked around the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty, and the most optimistic thing for him was that the easternmost side of the nine sides, the Dongjiang Town of Mao Wenlong and Mao Jue's father and son, not that he felt how strong Mao Jue's troops were, but compared to those bitter cold places, Dongjiang was too comfortable, drinking wine, smoking small cigarettes, peeping outside the Mao Jue White Horse Hot Spring Valley Officer Club for three days and three nights, looking at the waitresses wearing kimonos with half-exposed shoulders, the old boy patted his thigh, and here it is!
It's really hard to keep up with the changes, and I originally wanted to rely on the Hamgot incident to pretend to be forced and become a think tank celebrity like Zhuge Liang around Mao Jue, but now the plan is fragmented, let alone let Mao Jue obey his words, this battle is over, he doesn't know if Mao Jue can turn over the accounts and ask him for his head.
Another officialdom frustration, this thing is like a girl, and her mouth is full of trivial babbling.
However, listening to Song Xiaozi's broken thoughts there, the few Dongjiang Iron Rebels who were in charge of sending him off each other next to him were disdainful, especially the sentry commander at the front, who couldn't help but hum and said on the side.
"What do you charlatans know? Our general's name is once and for all, and there will be no future troubles, the general only has the prestige of killing, and the general is going to become Li Chengliang's second!"
"Even if Taishi Li of Liaodong is still ...... in the end"
Unconvinced, Song Xiaozi still wanted to defend himself, but he was unguarded, and the sentry commander who was talking to him just now grabbed him by the neck and pulled him off the horse.
"Hey! Alas! Say good, don't beat people! ”
Ignoring the bared teeth of the thing, he reined in his horse and threw him into the middle of the caravan, leaning low with a flintlock pistol, and the sentry shouted vigilantly into the woods.
"Come out!"
Full of amazement, more than a dozen Jiashan Jurchens carrying bows and arrows and wearing animal skins came out of the bushes on the side of the road............
(End of chapter)