Chapter 513: The Slave Chief Returns
However, in the heart of Emperor Chongzhen now, he still hopes that after the Ming army abandons Guangning, especially after abandoning the Daling River, Huang Taiji can realize that the Ming army has seen through his plan to encircle the point and send reinforcements, and then where did he come from, hurry back to where he went, and don't stir up trouble in Liaoxi.
Emperor Chongzhen's idea is of course good, but unfortunately, Huang Taiji is not a fool and will not do what Emperor Chongzhen envisioned.
Although Dongjiangzhen's behavior in Korea made Huang Taiji and the other nobles of the Eight Banners feel like a man, Huang Taiji still believed that the Ming army on the western front was the biggest threat to the Houjin State.
Especially under the repeated suggestions and suggestions of Fan Wencheng, a Han strategist under his command, as well as Han generals Li Yongfang, Sun Degong, Bao Chengxian and others, Huang Taiji still wanted to directly enter the Gyeonggi land of the Ming Dynasty from the west.
On the one hand, you can grab more people and food and other wealth, and on the other hand, if you can get close to the Ming Jingshi, then you may be able to sign an alliance with the Ming Emperor to force the Ming Dynasty to give up Korea, and then divide the north and south with his Dajin Kingdom with the Great Wall as the boundary.
Historically, before Huang Taiji led his army to invade the Gyeonggi land of the Ming Dynasty in the winter of the second year of Chongzhen, he had not really made up his mind to eliminate the Ming Dynasty and enter the Central Plains.
Because he himself knows very well that the greatness of the Ming Dynasty is not comparable to his small Houjin Kingdom.
Although the combat power of the Eight Banners of the Later Jin Dynasty was stronger than that of the Ming Army, the population of the Ming Dynasty and the strength of the cities in western Liaoning were not something that hundreds of thousands of children of the Eight Banners of the Later Jin Kingdom could eat.
It wasn't until he led the army to break through the border wall of Jizhen for the first time and entered the hinterland of Gyeonggi that Hwang Taeji's ambitions swelled all of a sudden.
A large number of civilian and military generals of the Ming army who surrendered in Gyeonggi became the active instigators of Huang Taiji's ambition.
As of June of the second year of Chongzhen, although Huang Taiji, the lord of Jianyu, had not yet had the ambition to destroy the Ming Dynasty and enter the Central Plains, he had the desire to force the Ming Dynasty to give up Korea and divide the north and south with the Great Wall with the Ming Dynasty.
Because of this, after Huang Taiji led his army north to plunder the Savage Jurchen and Beishan Jurchen tribes, in late April, he led his troops back from the Daming Tumu Hewei hometown north of the middle reaches of the Heilongjiang River, that is, the Beishan Jurchen tribes.
This time, the Huangtai Ji soldiers were divided into two routes, one was led by himself to the Zhenghuang Banner and the Zhenglan Banner of Mang Gurtai, all the way north to the old land of Xiwei in Shanghai, north to Yilan Hara, and all the way to the Beishan Jurchen tribes north of Heilongjiang.
One route was inlaid with red flag lord Yue Tuo led the army to the mouth of the Beidouman River (Tumen River) and hit the lower reaches of the Asu River (Ussuri River).
The two Jianyu armies were invincible, and quickly swept away the nomadic Jurchen tribes that were nomadic and fishermen hunting on both sides of the lower reaches of the Naowen River (Songhua River) and the Asu River (Ussuri River), as well as the Beishan Jurchen tribes that were nomadic on both sides of the Heilongjiang River.
This time, they went north to plunder and crusade, not only further subdued the Haixi Jurchen, Savage Jurchen and Beishan Jurchen tribes, but also robbed a large number of horses, cattle and sheep and semi-civilized young and strong people of various ethnic groups, so that the losses suffered in Dongjiang Town last year were fully supplemented.
In late May, Huang Taiji led the Jianyu Zhenghuang Banner and the Mang Gurtai Zhenglan Banner to gather the leaders of the Korqin tribes, the Khalkha tribes, and the Uliangha tribes (Jurchenized Mongols, headed by Amin's uncle's uncle, Buzhantai's Ula tribe) at Yilan Hara on the banks of the Songhua River, to join the tribes, and then re-establish the dominance of the Later Jin State over these tribes.
The topographical sand table in the Wuying Hall of the Forbidden City about the northern part of the Jianyu was made by Niu Juming and the men and horses of the Ministry of Staff, and it took a lot of time to make it based on the old file map of the territory under the jurisdiction of the Nurkan Dusi during the Yongle period collected by the Ministry of War.
There should be mountains and rivers, rivers and lakes, but there is not much accuracy, so no one on the side of the Ming Dynasty can say clearly how much territory the Jin Kingdom has laid after the North Crusade is not satisfied.
Even now, Emperor Chongzhen, although he knows how vast the land of the north of the Ming Dynasty is, he has no accurate information about where he has hit after the Jianyu went north since the beginning of the year, so he doesn't really understand how vast the territory of the Jianyu is now.
It is precisely because of the huge territory of Beishan Jurchen north of the Outer Khing'an Mountains in the north, the sea east of the Azov River in the east, and the edge of Mobei Mongolia inhabited by the Khalkha tribes in the west, that the current Tiancong Khan of the Later Jin State began to change his name to the emperor of the Great Jin Kingdom in this alliance of the tribes of Yilanhara.
Let's say that Huang Taiji, the master and slave chief of Jianyu, after half a year of raiding in the north, not only re-established his high prestige, but also got a lot of benefits.
Following the Zhenghuang Banner in the north, it has once again been strengthened.
Not only were the savage Jurchens who carefully selected their status to replenish the ten cattle records for themselves, but also the warriors under the Yellow Banner also brought back a large number of cattle, sheep, horses and slaves.
For the Jurchens of this era, slaves were property on a par with cattle, sheep and horses.
Although these slaves from the northern wilderness were not as good at farming, weaving, and serving as the Han Chinese, they were strong and fierce, and could serve their masters as bannermen when they were fighting.
Correspondingly, the Zhenglan Banner that followed the north also got further replenishment and growth from this raid, although the slaves captured and brought back were not as many as the Zhenghuang Banner, but the supplementary Niu Lu was the same as the Zhenghuang Banner, and it was also supplemented by ten Niu Lu.
Yue Tuo, the owner of the Red Flag Inlaid Banner who went north on the expedition to the Douman River and the Asu River Basin, with the support of Huang Taiji, replenished as many as 20 Niu Lu for the Red Banner under his command from the wild Jurchen tribes that were annexed and captured.
This also made Azig's losses in front of Dongjiang Town effectively supplemented, and the previously disabled red flag grew stronger again.
Of course, the Zhenghuang Banner led by Huang Taiji himself could also be supplemented with ten more Niu Lu like Yue Tuo, because the Dingkou wealth of the Haixi women, savage Jurchens, and Beishan Jurchen tribes captured by him was the most.
However, Zhenghuangqi had as many as eighty cattle records before, and now it has added ten, and it has reached as many as ninety.
Correspondingly, among the eight flags, there are only twenty white flags in each of the eight flags, and if your yellow flag expands again, it will really be impossible to say.
Therefore, after carefully selecting and supplementing ten cattle records, Huang Taiji brought back tens of thousands of savage tribes of various ethnic groups captured this time.
Some of them were distributed as property to the Eastern Mongolian tribes who came to the Ilanhara Alliance, and the other part was to be brought back to the bannermen who were rewarded with the Yellow Banner.
There is also a part of the preparation of the reward for his son to the yellow flag owner Hauge, and then add ten oxen to the yellow flag.
In this way, just the two yellow flags directly controlled by Huang Taiji himself, the number of cattle records can reach as many as one hundred and seventy, and the instability of the Great Khan's position caused by the failure of the decision to conquer Dongjiang Town will immediately disappear invisibly.
Therefore, the northward raids since the beginning of the second year of Chongzhen, for Huang Taiji, the chief of Jiannu, are really many wins and full of harvest.
Now that the slave chieftain has returned, he is not only resurrected with full blood, but also more powerful than before, and the Jianyu bannermen who have obtained a large amount of supplies from the looting in the north are also full of morale and strong combat power.
At noon on 21 June, on a hillside north of Quang Ninh City, in the middle of a company camp that stretched for several miles, a large tent with a golden roof stood in the middle.
Fan Wencheng, the former talent of the Liaoyang Mansion of the Ming Dynasty, and the current Dajin State Jixian Academy, endured the fishy smell that filled the big tent, knelt on the right side of Huang Taiji, the lord of the Jianyu, and looked at the British lord Huang Taiji in his mind with admiration and talked.
I only heard Huang Taiji say: "Take Beijing as if cutting down a big tree, cut it from both sides first, and then the big tree will be its own servant." When the elite soldiers of the Southern Dynasties are exhausted, I will plunder all around, and Beijing will definitely be able to get it.
"At that time, I will coerce his son of heaven and order the Quartet, even if the population of the Southern Dynasty is hundreds of millions, it is just pigs, sheep and livestock, why bother?!"