Zheng Zhi heard Shi Jin's words, nodded and said, "Clean up the city gate hole first." ”

When Shi Jin heard this, he turned around and went down to the city, and organized people to start cleaning up the soil and stones in the city gate hole.

Zheng Zhi kept staring at the seemingly chaotic Jurchen camp at the head of the city, with cavalry, supplies, livestock, and prisoners, all of whom began to head north.

Wu Yong opened his mouth and asked, "Does Your Highness really want to go out of the city to chase?" ”

Zheng Zhi looked down at Wu Yong beside him when he heard this, raised his head and did not answer.

Wu Yong saw that Zheng Zhi was silent, so he didn't dare to ask any more questions. He had to stand still on the sidelines, and continued to look at the Jurchen camp a few miles away.

It didn't take long for the camp outside the city to see not many people, but the road behind the camp was overcrowded and crowded. The Jurchens withdrew their troops so urgently, even because the tents in the camp had not been cleaned up, and many forages for livestock could be seen everywhere.

After a long time, Shi Jin ran up with a sweat and said: "Lord, the city gate can be opened in a moment, hurry up and gather the army, and as soon as the city gate is opened, you can chase it!" ”

I heard Zheng Zhi frown and replied, "Don't be busy assembling first." Let the sons and daughters bury the pot to cook, eat to their heart's content, and prepare all the dry food they bring with them. ”

Shi Jin was particularly anxious when he heard this: "Lord Wang, although the Jurchen has fast horses, there are many burdens at this time, and they must not be able to run fast, if they don't chase after them in a hurry, it will be really difficult to catch up when it is too late." If the Jurchens are allowed to retreat so easily, it will be difficult to find the opportunity for the Jurchen to be defeated! ”

Wu Yong did not interject at this time, but looked up at Zheng Zhi.

Zheng Zhi had already stood up, turned around and walked towards the city, and only said, "Da Lang, send a few more teams of rangers to follow." I can't wait to catch up with the Jurchens, since they have withdrawn their troops, then let them withdraw. After they have withdrawn a hundred and ten miles, we will go out of the customs again. ”

Shi Jin didn't know why, the Jurchens outside the city were in a mess at this time, there were slaves in the team, there were countless livestock, and they were evacuated in such a hurry. At this time, chasing out and covering up will inevitably lead to chaos. Even those Goryeo slaves will be in chaos, and even the Goryeo people can take this opportunity to escape from the control of the Jurchens.

And those livestock, which were the rations of the Jurchens. Not to mention snatching the livestock, even if it disperses those livestock, it will be a great blow to the Jurchens.

It's that Shi Jin didn't understand why Zheng Zhi didn't chase him out immediately.

But at this time, Zheng Zhi had already walked to the stairs and was going down the city. Shi Jin caught up a few steps and asked, "Lord Wang, it's rare to get another opportunity." ”

Zheng Zhi slowed down, looked at Shi Jin, and said slowly: "Da Lang, you usually go into battle with me, and it is not a long time for you to be alone, and you will have to be alone in the future." Especially in the future, if you really want to go to the grassland to take charge of the grassland capital, you need means and strategy. At this time, the Jurchens suddenly withdrew their troops, don't you want to think about why? ”

Shi Jin was stunned when he heard this, and subconsciously replied: "The Jurchen withdrew his troops, knowing that this pass would not be broken, and he didn't want to increase casualties in vain. ”

Zheng Zhi nodded and said, "You're right, we are still invincible. The Jurchen is weak, the Jurchen wants to win, and the only one is desperate. But they also know that this pass is not a desperate place. Only cavalry field warfare is the last desperate means of the Jurchens. At this time, the Jurchens withdrew their troops, regardless of it, and even the camp tent was gone. I just want this fair chance to fight. How can so-and-so be what they want? ”

Shi Jin understood, but asked again: "The prince is right, it's just... It's just that if you don't chase it out at this time, the Jurchens will reorganize their armaments and train their soldiers in the coming days, and they will inevitably make a comeback. Rather than this, why bother to fight and fight a battle. ”

Zheng Zhi still nodded when he heard this: "Yes, at this time, if you don't take advantage of the enemy's weakness to fight, it will be a big trouble to wait for the Jurchen to reorganize their armaments in the future." So we still have to chase, and when the Jurchens withdraw for a hundred and ten miles, we will chase them out. If the Jurchens want to fight to the death, we will withdraw far away to avoid their edge, and also keep our own elite soldiers. If the Jurchens don't fight, we will fight, dozens of counties outside the Guan, attacking cities and pulling out villages, and promising the people of all over the country, it is really a pot of pulp to welcome it. ”

Shi Jin was still thinking about it when he heard this.

Wu Yong had already stepped aside and said, "Your Highness is clever!" There are few Jurchen soldiers, and now they are not even full of 30,000. No matter how good you are, you won't be able to defend these dozens of states and counties. If you want the people of all over the world to guard the city for the Jurchens, it is also a fool's dream, and now His Royal Highness has the support of the Khitans, and it is too simple to want the city. As long as there is a city, His Royal Highness has many soldiers, looking for a big city and defending it. will inevitably force the Jurchens to retreat again and again. If the Jurchens wanted to reorganize their armaments and train their soldiers, it would have become a joke. ”

Zheng Zhiyan looked at Shi Jin, who was thinking, and said, "Da Lang, ask more pedants. The method of war, although it is the battle to use one's life, is also the weight of this strategy. For the generals, seek war. In the future, he will be alone and be a commander, and he will be more strategic. War and strategy, after all, are indispensable. In the future, it will be even more so in the face of countless steppe tribes. Not everything has to be fought with his subordinates, and it is to kill two birds with one stone. ”

Speaking of this, Zheng Zhi looked up left and right, and saw that there was no one else nearby, so he opened his mouth and said, "Just like the Ganhan tribe of Nami Zhenwu and the Suhan tribe of Xianglide. The two should be balanced, using favoritism to provoke contradictions, and pushing them to fight with their eyes that can't see clearly. That's how they can't escape in the palm of your hand. We must not let them be the only family, let alone let them trust and help each other. ”

When Shi Jin heard this, his face became deeper and deeper, but he nodded while listening.

Zheng Zhi's way of dealing with Jurchen. It is to lead the troops to follow the Jurchens, neither to start a war with their main forces, nor to let them run away so easily.

If the Jurchens turn their heads to fight, Zheng Zhi will leave, and it will be a big deal to retreat to Gubeikou. If the Jurchens do not fight, then they will occupy one city after another. Compared with the Song people and the Jurchens, the Khitan people must be more willing to make friends with the Song people, not to mention that the Khitan nobles, including the Khitan emperor, are in the hands of Zheng Zhi. The city is not a problem.

In this way, the Jurchens were forced to develop with peace of mind, and it was impossible to reorganize their armaments. If the Jurchens divide the troops, it is exactly what Zheng Zhi wants, just like dealing with Yan Lou's room, each of them is just broken.

If the Jurchens do not divide their troops, but also defend the city. Where the Jurchens are, Zheng Zhi doesn't go anywhere, he goes somewhere else. The land outside the Guanxi is very large, including the three northeastern provinces and many places in Mongolia, as well as the land of white mountains and black waters of the Jurchen tribe, all the way to the vast Siberia.

If the Jurchens really switch from offense to defense, they will only fall into an increasingly difficult situation. The Jurchens wanted to gather all their forces to fight a decisive battle with cavalry in the field, and Zheng Zhi would definitely not give the Jurchens such a chance.

The Zheng Zhi that the Jurchens see will always be on the high wall. Zheng Zhi would rather not have land, not land, but also go to a high wall. Whether it is a city or a pass, as long as the Jurchens come to find Zheng Zhi, Zheng Zhi will inevitably go up to the high wall.

Even outside the Guan, the Khitans and the Han people succumbed to the violence of the barbarian Jurchens at this time. But it is inevitably easier to accept Zheng Zhi as a Han in his heart, and this is the mass base in contrast.

If this Dajin country can be safe and stable, and reuse the Han and Khitan people to manage the territory for decades, then everything will be different. At that time, this Jurchen was the real Dajin Empire. At this time, the Jurchen had too shallow roots. Even far from the Manchu people of later generations.

However, the Manchurians enjoyed the blessings of the Jurchens. Without the Dajin Kingdom, there would be no prerequisites for the later Manchu people to unify the Jurchens of Jianzhou, Haixi Jurchen, and East China Sea. It was the rule of the century-old Dajin Kingdom that created the mutual basic identity of the various tribal peoples outside the Guan. Only then did the Manchus have the basic premise that they can truly unify the ethnic minorities in eastern Liaodong.

It was also because of the Golden Jurchen that these jungle tribes came out of the jungle for the first time and changed their social model. From the original pure fishing and hunting people, it has become a social form that focuses on agriculture and is supplemented by fishing and hunting.

In this respect, the Manchurians must be grateful to the Golden Jurchen. Without the Dajin Jurchen of the Song Dynasty, there would be no Manchu Qing in later generations.

Zheng Zhi also seems to have indirectly changed a lot of history. There is no Jurchen Dajin Empire. In the jungle of the white mountains and black waters, there are still fishing and hunting tribes, and they still have hatred and resentment against each other. There is no basic premise for true unity. There will be no change in the form of society, and there will be no more advanced productive forces.

Perhaps, there will never be the Manchu Qing that established the Eight Banners system.

Without the foundation of unification laid by Genghis Khan, there would be no Mongolian nation in later generations, and there would be no Mongolian country or Mongolian steppe. There are still various tribal names on the grassland, such as Dadan, Kereh, Murowei, Mi'erqi, Qiyan, Huyira, etc., with different languages and similar customs. Only the steppe after Temujin is Mongolia.

Only the white mountains and black waters after the hundred years of Dajin's rule all call themselves Jurchens. This is the basis of the Eight Banners system. Otherwise, why did the Manchurians and the Ming Dynasty attack each other outside the pass for so many years?

Even if there is a Wanyan tribe in the Manchurian tribe, he has conquered many other tribes, and in the decades of stalemate with the Ming Dynasty, there is no Wanyan like the Jurchen momentum that swept the world in such an instant, and there is no endless trophy to support. Without the social production model transformed under the century-old rule of the Wanyan Jurchens, there would not be so many logistical productive forces to support it, and it would have fallen apart long ago. What else to talk about entering the Central Plains.

A power that begins with conquest must rule the parties with great force, suppress them with wars of constant victory, and strengthen itself with ever-increasing spoils. Only then will there be the possibility of long-term peace and stability.

There are many successful generations, such as Wanyan Aguta, such as Genghis Khan. There are also countless failures, such as Attila, the whip of God, such as Alexander, and even Napoleon. The latter, either after the death of the empire, became empty. Either fail once and everything comes to naught.

On the border of Qinzhou, more than a thousand knights were running on the field, each with bows and arrows in hand, chasing the golden pheasant and hare on the low hill.

Liu Zhengyan was also among them, stretching his bow and arrows, and galloping fast. This young general is really skilled in arching horses, and the harvest is naturally not bad.

In the evening, bonfires were continuous, and simple tents were built on the flat ground at will, and everyone was in high spirits, drinking and meat.

Sitting next to Liu Zhengyan, he touched Liu Zhengyan with a wine bowl, drank it all, and said with a smile: "Liu Xianggong, tomorrow I will accompany you into the forest and bring some good hands." This chicken and rabbit and the like are already boring. Tomorrow I will hunt a big worm. When he found a big insect, he went back to Qinzhou. You and I are both chief officials, and it is always inappropriate to leave for a long time. ”

It's finally time to do it, put aside these entourage, and go into the forest with Liu Zhengyan, everything is already in the plan.

Liu Zhengyan did not doubt him, nodded and said: "Okay, I will go into the forest tomorrow, whether I can hunt the big insect or not, I should go back the day after tomorrow." ”

Zhe Keqiu smiled when he heard this: "Don't worry, Liu Xianggong, go forward, that forest, how big insects." The big worms there, each end has its own territory, never crosses the line, as long as you enter the forest, you will definitely find a big worm. Whether we can hunt it or not depends on our ability. ”

Hearing this, Liu Zhengyan casually continued: "Well, the big insects are all like this, each has its own hunting place, it is not the estrus season, and it is very rare to cross the line." One mountain does not tolerate two tigers, that's the truth. ”

Zhe Keqiu laughed even more when he heard this, and even laughed a little bit of other meaning, and said: "It is extremely extreme, and it is this truth that one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers." ”

After speaking, Zhe Keqiu took out a few pieces of cooked meat from the bonfire, shared them with Liu Zhengyan, and drank them with a wine bowl.

The night after the hunt was a real joy.

On the second day, dozens of ironclad men appeared in the forest, with strong bows and crossbows, and everyone scattered in formation, pulling nets in this vast forest and searching. Everyone has a whistle, but whenever a tiger is found, and a sharp whistle sounds, people from all directions will rush to support as quickly as possible.

Zhe Keqiu still accompanied Liu Zhengyan, and there were five or six men by their side.

Everyone walked slowly, mobilizing all their senses to feel any wind and grass in the forest.

Liu Zhengyan squinted his eyes slightly, trying his best to feel any wind and grass in the forest.

In this forest, it must be true that there are big insects in the forest. Even in private, he had already determined where there was a big insect, and he brought Liu Zhengyan here to find this big insect.

A sharp whistle came from the forest, Liu Zhengyan ran with a step, and shouted when he turned around: "In the northwest, there must be a brother who has found a big worm, come with me." ”

Liu Zhengyan's left and right soldiers naturally rushed away with Liu Zhengyan, frowning and running wildly, running towards the place where the whistle sounded from. But he ran slower and slower, lagging behind Liu Zhengyan.

Beyond the pass of a small hill, the forest shimmered, and there was the tiger skin pattern. There was also a pair of copper bell eyes, staring at the six people running in the distance.

Liu Zhengyan obviously also discovered the big tiger, and shouted urgently: "Scatter, disperse, disperse." Shoot a little closer! ”

The five people on the left and right all scattered, and all of them bent their waists, stretched their bows and arrows, and walked forward slowly. Everyone was highly nervous, and in the face of the tiger, how could they not be cautious.

But there were dozens of people who entered the forest together, and only these six people appeared in front of the tiger at this time. Even if thirty or forty of those dozens of people were Liu Zhengyan's henchmen, they were these people, and they still did not appear here in time with the whistle at this time.

Even the whistle-blower did not see it.

How could the tiger be afraid of people, and when he saw these six people coming towards him, he roared angrily, warning these humans not to try to challenge the majesty of the king of the jungle.

Liu Zhengyan is still determined, as a man who dances with guns and sticks, there is nothing more glorious than hunting a tiger. This is also the biggest motivation for Liu Zhengyan to be willing to go into the forest to hunt tigers, that is, to hunt a tiger, which will also increase the prestige of Liu Zhengyan, a young man, among the soldiers and soldiers.

Seeing that these humans were still moving forward, the tiger roared a few times, and had already galloped up and rushed straight towards these humans, and there was already a full meal in front of him.

It was only at this time that the tiger that rushed out revealed its entire body, which was extremely large, more than four or five hundred catties. The roar went straight through the jungle, startling the rabbits and birds in the forest.

"Shoot, shoot!" Liu Zhengyan finally gave the order to release the arrows. It is to know that in the face of this tiger, there is no room for the second arrow, and the six arrows will be fired at the same time, and they will inevitably hit the vital point and be fatal with one blow.

Liu Zhengyan himself aimed at the eyes of the tiger, and on the hard crossbow, a feathered arrow galloped out.

But it was Liu Zhengyan who came out with an arrow, and he heard a few screams on the left and right, so startled that Liu Zhengyan turned his head to look, there were five people on the left and right, and the bow and crossbow in their hands had not yet been issued, but everyone fell to the ground with arrows, and five or six feather arrows were inserted in everyone's back and neck.

Liu Zhengyan's face was shocked, and when he looked back, there were many people in the forest. But the figures were all gone. Looking back, the big insect was already twenty or thirty steps away, as fast as lightning, and Liu Zhengyan's arrow shot at the tiger's forehead, not penetrating the bone, but stuck in the skull, but the pain had already made the tiger crazy.

At the last moment, Liu Zhengyan already understood in his mind, pulled his legs and turned around and ran wildly, but shouted in his mouth: "You can ask for it, you can't die well!!!!! ”

Liu Zhengyan's voice echoed in the forest and spread far away. But it only expressed the unparalleled anger in Liu Zhengyan's heart at this time.

In this forest, there are only dozens of iron armor that came in at the beginning, and the number of iron armor is more than hundreds. At this time, two or three hundred steps behind Liu Zhengyan, there were one hundred and ten people.

"Xianggong, why did you only shoot the people around him, but spare his life? Why don't you shoot him directly" Meng Lang asked, the "he" in his mouth naturally refers to Liu Zhengyan.

"Everyone else can be shot, but he deserves to die under the fangs of the tiger. Let's withdraw first, and then come back to kill the tiger and save people after a while. "I can turn around and leave, I still have to distance myself from Liu Zhengyan, but I can't let Liu Zhengyan, who is running, find everyone.

Tigers also have spirituality, and they will be scared away when they see a large number of people. Liu Zhengyan's death in the tiger's mouth is the best way to easily take charge of the northwest power.