After listening to Li Rubai's words, Yan Mingtai and others present secretly bowed their heads, thinking that his words were reasonable.

With the defeat of the Battle of Sarhu, the strength of the Houjin army in Liaodong is not inferior, and the morale is high, if Li Hongyu acts too aggressively, it will inevitably attract Nurhachi's revenge, and now the reinforcements of the Ming army have not arrived, and the strength of Yaqueguan alone cannot stop the iron hooves of the Houjin army.

In the final analysis, there are only 4,000 cavalry in Liaodong, and the strength of Yaque Pass is only about 20,000 now, which cannot constitute much deterrent to the Houjin army.

"It's not a secret, General Guan will come to reinforce in a few days with grain and grass and Hongyi cannons, and this governor wants to see if Jiannu dares to attack Crow Que Pass."

Li Hongyu knew everyone's worries, smiled slightly and said to Li Rubai disappreciatively, "Old General Li, Yaque Pass is located in the mountains and forests, which is suitable for close combat, so that the damage of Jiannu's bow and arrow can be minimized, and the official is still afraid that they will not come, and if they come, it will just weaken their elite." ”

"General Guan is coming?" Li Rubai was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and a look of surprise appeared on his face, he didn't expect Li Hongyu to transfer the official general from Liaoyang.

The "official general" in Li Hongyu's mouth refers to the Liaoyang general military officer Bingzhong, a native of Yulin, Shaanxi, a former military governor's office, and a former Yansui commander-in-chief, who was impeached a few years ago and returned home, and was summoned to Liaodong by the imperial court in the 46th year of Wanli, and was appointed by Yang Hao as the general soldier of Liaoyang to guard Liaoyang.

Through the understanding of the generals of Liaodong, Li Hongyu discovered one thing, a considerable number of the generals of Liaodong came from Yulin, Shaanxi, and Yulin is one of the important towns on the nine sides, and most of its generals are good at fighting after the baptism of war.

Liaoyang, as the seat of the Liaodong Metropolitan Division, has more than 15,000 troops, Li Hongyu asked Guan Bingzhong to lead 12,000 soldiers and horses with grain and grass and Hongyi cannons to Yaque Pass, Liaoyang City was guarded by Zhang Chengji, the deputy chief soldier from the Liaodong Metropolitan Division.

"Not only the general, but also the governor of Quang Ninh transferred General Li to come." Li Hongyu bowed his head slightly, and said quietly, "Guangning is located in the rear of our army, as long as our army sticks to the front line, then Jiannu will not want to take a step beyond Lei Chi." ”

The defender of Guangning City was Li Guangrong, the general soldier of Guangning, who led an army of 10,000 to be responsible for the stability of the rear of the Ming army, and was ordered by Li Hongyu to lead 8,000 men and horses to Yaque Pass.

Li Hongyuan successively transferred the Ming troops from Liaoyang and Quang Ninh to Yaque Pass, and put on a posture of a decisive battle with the Later Jin to the outside world, hoping to attract Nurhachi's attention.

After listening to Li Hongyu's words, Li Rubai, Yan Mingtai and others were secretly taken aback, Li Hongyu had already transferred the only troops in Liaodong to Yaque Pass, and it seemed that he really wanted to do a big job.

I have to say that the distance between Yaque Pass and Hetuala, the capital of the Houjin Kingdom, is the shortest, although they are all mountain roads that are difficult to walk and have dense forests, but they also have a great inhibition on the Jurchen cavalry and archers, so if the two sides really fight, the Ming army will not suffer.

Three days later, Guan Bingzhong took the lead in leading the guards to visit Li Hongyu at Yaque Pass, and he was also very surprised by Li Hongyu's vigorous deployment of troops, but he didn't expect Li Hongyu to have such a strong fighting spirit after the defeat of the Ming army, and he didn't know whether this was a good thing or a bad thing for a while.

But no matter what, the young Li Hongyu was not a cowardly commander, he actively dealt with the battle situation in Liaodong, and wiped out the 2,000 Houjin army outside Yaque Pass as soon as he came, which really surprised Guan Bingzhong.

Of course, Li Hongyu had already sent 800 li to the capital after the Jin army had been wiped out at Yaque Pass for 2,000 miles, and in his official letter to the Ministry of War, he called the battle at Yaque Pass "the great victory of Yaque Pass", and annihilated 10,000 enemies.

However, Li Hongyu also gave Emperor Wanli a secret recital, explaining the course of the battle of Yaque Pass, and reducing the number of enemies annihilated to 2,000, he did not want to and disdained to falsely report the merits, and the reason why he exaggerated the results was naturally to boost the morale of the Ming army and the people.

As the Hanlin Scholar of the Hanlin Academy, Li Hongyu could present a secret recital to the Wanli Emperor, a power that only speech officials and high-ranking officials had, and other officials could not match.

However, to Li Hongyu's surprise, after receiving his report, the military department directly quadrupled the number of enemies annihilated, becoming "40,000 enemies", and changed a surprise battle into a counterattack war.

It turned out that although Emperor Wanli blocked the news, there were no secrets at all in the capital, so not long after Li Hongyu left, the rumors of the defeat of the Ming army in Liaodong in the Battle of Sarhu had already spread in the capital, causing discussions among the government and the opposition, and rumors were flying all over the sky.

In addition, the Ministry of War successively issued documents to transfer troops from the two capitals and thirteen provinces to Liaodong, so the defeat of Liaodong has become more and more difficult to hide, and this great victory document sent by Li Hongyu is like a timely spring rain, so that the officials of the Ministry of War are like treasures, and they are revised and handed over to Emperor Wanli for decision.

Emperor Wanli knew that the news of Sarhu's defeat could not be suppressed at all, in order to eliminate all kinds of rumors in the capital and appease the panic in the market, he decided to officially announce the defeat of Sarhu and the victory of Yaque Pass to the outside world.

For the sake of the dignity of the Liaodong army, but also for the face of the Ming Dynasty, the ministers of the imperial court, after deliberation, blamed the defeat of Sarhu on Yang Hao's miscommand and misestimation of the strength of the Later Jin army, saying that the strength of the Later Jin army was nearly 200,000.

Li Hongyu smiled helplessly after learning about this incident, he had nothing to say about this kind of behavior of the imperial court, because any dynasty would do this, and its purpose was naturally to excuse the defeat, appease the people, and maintain the dignity of the imperial court.

However, in any case, under the publicity of the imperial court, Li Hongyu became famous in the Ming Dynasty through the "Great Victory of Yaque Pass", which shocked the people, and no one could have imagined that the dignified new champion could also rush to Liaodong to kill the Kou.

As for whether Li Hongyu annihilated 40,000 enemies at Yaque Pass, no one in the market doubted that the defeat of the Ming army in the Battle of Sarhu virtually made people believe that the Houjin army had 200,000, so it was logical for Li Hongyu to kill 40,000 at Yaque Pass.

At this moment, Li Hongyu didn't know that he had become a celebrity of the Ming Dynasty overnight, and the new champion plus the commander of Liaodong, who had annihilated 40,000 enemies, could be described as a civil and military all-rounder, and it was exactly what the people hoped to see a hero, and the imperial court would certainly use this to weaken the impact of the defeat in the Battle of Salhu.

At the same time as Guan Bingzhong arrived, Hetuala.

In the thirty-first year of Wanli, Nurhachi Hetuara built a castle, and two years later added to the outer city.

Among them, the inner city has a circumference of four miles, which is inhabited by Nurhachi and his relatives, and the outer city is nine miles in circumference, and is inhabited by the elite of the Eight Banners.

It is worth mentioning that there is a special area outside the north gate of the outer city, inhabited by artisans who have been plundered by Nurhachi, the most important of which are blacksmiths and bowsmiths.

Compared with the low status of the Ming craftsmen, Nurhachi gave preferential treatment to the craftsmen, which also enabled the weapons of the Later Jin soldiers to be improved, catching up and gradually superior to the Ming army.

The inner city, a mansion, in the lobby.

"What, you're all gone?" A Jurchen aristocratic man in his twenties looked at a strong man with a bald head kneeling in front of him with a surprised expression, he was Du Du, the banner owner of the White Flag in the Eight Banners of the Later Jin.

Du Du is the first son of Nurhachi's eldest son Chu Ying, although the imprisoned Chu Ying was executed by Nurhachi in the name of unrepentance, but Du Du was deeply liked by Nurhachi, so he was able to take charge of the white flag and became the same eight-flag banner master as the four major beylers.

It is worth mentioning that in 1616, the 44th year of Wanli, when Nurhachi ascended the throne as Khan in Hetuala, he set up four beyles, namely the Great Beyler Daishan, the second Beyler Amin, the third Beyler Mang Gurtai and the fourth Beyler Huang Taiji.

Among them, the Great Bel Daishan is the second son of Nurhachi, the second Bel Amin is the son of Nurhachi's younger brother Shulhaqi, the third Bel Mang Gurtai is the fifth son of Nurhachi, and the fourth Bel Huang Taiji is the eighth son of Nurhachi.

When the Later Jin Dynasty was founded, there was no royal title, and "Baylor" was already the highest title, and the four major Baylors had military power, so their status was more valuable than that of later princes at that time.

According to historical records, after Du Du's death, Huang Taiji deliberately dismissed the court to show his mourning, and ordered the minister to welcome his coffin.

The bald strong man was naturally the commander of the Houjin Army's military camp outside Yaque Pass, named Aqige, and was one of the three major leaders with white flags.

According to the structure of the Houjin Eight Banners, the most basic combat unit is Niu Lu, with 300 people in 1 Niu Lu, and its officers are called "Zuo Ling", who are the grassroots officers of the Eight Banners.

5 Niu Lu is 1 Jiala, and its officers are called "staff leaders", and they are middle-level officers of the Eight Banners.

Further up is the flag owner, also known as "solid mountain", 5 Jiala for 1 solid mountain.

It is worth mentioning that at the beginning, the strength of the Eight Banners was not the same, among which the strength of the Zhenghuang Banner led by Nurhachi had a maximum of 45 Niulu, while the inlaid white flag had at least 15 Niulu.

It was not until later after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs that the strength of each banner in the Eight Banners was changed to the same, all of which were 25 Niu Lu.

Du Du could not have imagined that the Ming army, which had fled after being beaten by the Houjin army, would dare to take the initiative to raid at this time, and also wiped out Akige's troops in one go, which really shocked him.

"Back to the banner master, the Ming army that attacked the lowly position was the iron cavalry of the Li family, and there were many of them, and the lowly position was surrounded by them in the camp and could not rush out." Akig's face was full of shame, and he touched his head to the ground and said, "Banner master, Akig lost the person with the white flag, and is ready to apologize for his death after bringing the news." ”

"What news do you bring?" Du Du's brows furrowed, and he asked quietly.

"Back to the banner master, the new governor of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty cut off the braids of those brothers who died in battle, saying that it was to be given to the Great Khan, and he also led the army to level Hetuala."

Akig raised his head and replied expressionlessly, with a little anger in his words, it was Li Hongyu who made him cut his braids, so that he now had to cut his hair and become bald, which is a great shame.

"The new governor of Liaodong?" Du Du was quite surprised when he heard this, he didn't expect the Ming court to send the new governor of Liaodong so quickly this time, and he had the impression that the various institutions of the Ming Dynasty were very procrastinating.

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