It's not just the Northeast Hongtang army that is beginning to prepare for the next battle, in fact, there are many departments in Hongmen that are contributing their own strength to this battle.

In the vast snowy wilderness, a team of more than ten horsemen marched through the wilderness with difficulty, and from time to time stopped their pace because the horses were too deep in the snow to move.

"Captain......

A young man was about to say something, but was glared at fiercely by his companions: "How many times have I told you, now we are businessmen, you want to call me the owner!" ”

"Yes, yes, owner."

The young man who had been reprimanded for a few words was not discouraged, and after changing his name, he continued to ask the question that was interrupted before: "Can we meet the leaders of those families this time?" ”

"How dare I pack a ticket, as the so-called planning is in the sky, as long as we do our part, only God knows if we can succeed!"

The leader of the team, who had become the owner, looked up at the sky, and although he had no confidence, he replied without any disappointment.

"Oh!"

The young man was a little disappointed, turned his head and grabbed another peer behind him and asked, "Brother Xiaoma, you have the highest knowledge among us, do you think you can make it?" ”

"I can't say!"

Known as Brother Xiaoma, the Han man who also looked young seemed to have his own thoughts, and replied a little distractedly: "The more anxious we fight in the back, the greater our chance of success, the other party is only worried that their opponent is too strong, if they turn their faces, I am afraid that they will be hunted down by the other party, it is better to follow the other party all the time, so I can still have some thoughts." ”

"Judging from the information we have gathered, the other party and the Aixin Jueluo royal family have never been of the same mind, as long as there is an opportunity, they may not be willing to replace each other."

The young man who asked the question looked at his friends of the same age with admiration, and at the same time did not forget to be surprised: "You said that the hatred between this Yehenara clan and this Ai Xinjue Luo clan is the hatred of extermination, a few years ago, they all fought to the death, and now they are in the same room and unharmed, which really makes me admire their hearts!" ”

"Don't they all say that this nomad loves and hates clearly, why can these leaders smile at the once sorrowful people?"

Listening to the childish words of the young people around him, the captain Zhang Jin also smiled, once upon a time he was as simple as this young man, but with more experience, he naturally understood a lot of truths.

"Too lazy to tell you!!"

Brother Xiaoma, whose real name is Ma Yuwen, looked at his partner with disgust, and the conversation he was talking about must not be clear to him, but in the afterglow, he quietly looked at the silent middle-aged man who was surrounded by a group of people, even if he was in a hurry, but he was also protected intentionally or unintentionally.

Unexpectedly, the object of his quiet observation was looking at him with a kind smile, but Ma Yuwen hurriedly withdrew his eyes and pretended to stare ahead dizzily like a thief.

"It's a good seedling!"

Walking in the middle, the middle-aged man who was protected was the real leader of this team, and the rest of the people around him were his guards, protecting him to go to the vast northeast primeval forest to visit a target that could be wooed.

The middle-aged man's surname is Cao Mingyi, and he is a famous mouth in Hongmen, claiming to be able to tell the dead alive and argue the unreasonable into reasonable. As has been revealed in the previous conversation, the target of their trip this time is the Jurchen Yehenara clan who were driven to the wilderness of Siberia after the Qing Ai Xinjue Luo clan ascended the throne.

At that time, Nurhachi started from Jianzhou, and originally formed an alliance with the Yehe clan by marriage, but later due to power and territory issues, the two sides turned their faces and caused a war between the two clans, and the final result was naturally Nurhachi's final victory.

However, after winning the victory and killing Bu Zhai, one of the Beylers of the Yehe clan at that time, Nurhachi cut the body of Bu Zhai in half, half of which was returned to the Yeh tribe, and half of which remained in Jianzhou to be humiliated forever.

Such a deep hatred made the Yehe clan except for the Nala clan's return to Aixin Jueluo, and the rest of the tribes were full of hostility towards the Aixin Jueluo clan until now, making it difficult for them to take it for their own use.

In addition to planting spies in the Qing Dynasty in the Northeast over the years, the Hongmen Foreign Guards have also spared no effort to dig up those unstable groups within the Qing Dynasty. Now that the Qing Dynasty can almost be said to have gone south to attack Hongtang's stronghold in the northeast, the foreign guards were also not idle, although their strength was not above the military, but they did not say that there was no other way to help support Hongtang's army.

For example, Cao Yi and his party, who are now covered by traveling merchants, are the Zongheng family sent out by the foreign guards to lobby Ye He's tribes in the northeast.

Of course, it is impossible to estimate what the final result will be, but it is also possible to see the efforts made by the foreign defenders.

When the foreign guards took action, the Hongtang Foreign Affairs Bureau in Shandong, Anhui and other places also made frequent moves, and even Qi Hu, who was the director of the Foreign Affairs Bureau, also appeared and shuttled among the major coastal towns.

Although the displaced people in Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui and other places are no longer a big threat to the Ming Dynasty, they are also distributed in various cities and towns, and their scale is not small, but they can no longer form the huge scale that they used to respond to.

These scattered teams of displaced people are exactly the target of Qi Hu of the Foreign Affairs Bureau, Dayuan Island has already sent 60,000 or 70,000 adult males to the north, and now if soldiers and laborers are recruited from Dayuan Island, it will inevitably cause problems in the entire manpower allocation of Hongmen.

Li Tianyang and they are not reckless people, where can they do everything they can, they have long not allowed Hongtang's recruitment hand to reach out to Dayuan Island, and even the Luzon Islands are not allowed, so Hongtang's recruitment source can only rely on the Foreign Affairs Bureau Qi Hu and them.

In order to safely recruit laborers and new soldiers in the Ming Dynasty, Qi Hu spent a lot of money to open the way, and at the same time did not forget to restrain their actions, which made the local local officials turn a blind eye to their actions and did not interfere too much.

"Today, we will strive to recruit another 500 people, and we can send them to Phoenix City if we have 2,000 of them, everyone will work harder and use all the lips and tongues that provoke the girls on weekdays!!"

As soon as the day dawned, Qi Hu and his group of people who lived in the local "Youjian" inn in Jimo County had already packed their bags and were ready to set off to the surrounding towns of Gai County to recruit middle-aged men.

"Don't worry, Boss!!"

"Boss, just get me ready!!"

Beside Qi Hu, twenty or thirty men dressed as guys responded with giggles.

"Let's go!!"

After a few words, the group, which originally seemed quite small, turned into birds and beasts and dispersed, and no one lingered in the inn again.

(End of chapter)