Chapter 687: Fatal conceit
Mao Zhongyu on the left side of Dongjiang Town led his troops from Hongzui Fort to the west and launched a raid and harassment operation in Jianyu, which was like an order, and soon brought a chain reaction on the east coast of the Liaodong Peninsula.
On the morning of 20 October, the Ming army on the left side of Dongjiang Town in Wanghai Fort, with the form of firearms sent to them by Mao Zhongyu, also began to try to leave the precipitous Wanghai Fort City, ran 20 miles to the northwest, and suddenly attacked an outpost of Jianyu with a white flag in Xiaoshan from the side.
Hearing the news, hundreds of cavalry soldiers with white flags and armor were ambushed on the way to pursue this Ming army, and were repelled by the Ming army with bows and arrows, grenades and incendiary bombs, and more than 40 cavalry with white flags were killed in the ambush.
Immediately afterwards, the Ming army in Jinzhou City began to go north out of the city, cutting wood and building a city on the Great Black Mountain, and the Ming army on the coastal islands such as Changshan Island, Shicheng Island, and Dalu Island, which belonged to the General Military Office on the left road of Dongjiang Town, also landed by boat and launched an attack on the newly built Jurchen Zhuangtun not far from the coast.
All of a sudden, smoke suddenly erupted on the Liaodong Peninsula, which had been quiet for a long time.
Duoduo, the owner of the white flag in Fuzhou City, soon received the news of the Ming army's attack on Zhuangtun and the garrison city under the white flag.
Some of these attacks came from the Ming army of Jinzhou City in the south, but more of them came from the Ming army of Dongjiang Town, which was entrenched in various islands in the sea to the east.
On the morning of 22 October, Duoduo, the owner of the white-flag-inlaid banner in Jianyu, who was not yet 16 years old, urgently summoned the white-flag-inlaid minister Yilden, the assistant minister Samushka, as well as Gushan Ezhen Turge, Meler Ezhen Tanbu, and Ba Duli in the white-flag-inlaid yamen of Fuzhou City to discuss countermeasures.
After Yilden and the others arrived, Duoduo came up and said with a gloomy face: "If we don't completely eradicate the left road of Dongjiang Town, there will be no peace in the land of my Fuzhou for a day!" You all know the news from the south and the east in the past few days, so let's talk about it, how to deal with it!? ”
If it is purely about appearance, Duoduo is also a little handsome guy, although he is thin but tall and straight, and he has red lips and white teeth and a beautiful face, at this time he wears the kind of black fox fur with the brim rolled up on his head and often wears a winter hat, covering the disgusting money rat tail, but he also has a boy and girl, a gentle and elegant white-faced scholar.
It's just that the pair of slender eyes that came out of the cold light when he spoke destroyed his rich and noble atmosphere.
Ilden, the old minister who stayed behind to assist Duoduo during the Nuer Hachi era, heard Duoduo's words at this time, and immediately bowed down and said:
"Master! In the opinion of the slaves, this time the Ming army in Denglai and Dongjiang sent troops to attack my Dajin back road, which is all expected!
"Before the Great Khan swore to go on the expedition, he summoned the ministers in charge of the banners, and issued an order to stay behind the members of the four banners yamen, and the direction of the Dongjiang River and Denglai must be firmly guarded!
"In the opinion of the slaves, although the actions of Denglai and the Dongjiang Ming Army this time seem to be aimed at Fuzhou, in fact, they are jumping over the wall in a hurry, and their intention is to disrupt our rear and achieve the purpose of containing the Great Khan's westward expedition and southward!
"The more Denglai and the Dongjiang Ming army jumped over the wall, the more it means that the army led by the Great Khan has entered the Ming border, and that the Great Khan's victory in the Ming Kingdom is in sight!
"At this moment, the master and the army with white flags are sitting in Fuzhou to guard the gateway of the South Road, especially the town should be quiet, and don't act rashly, but be taken advantage of by the enemy!"
What Ilden said was not wrong, but the banner lord Duoduo, who was in the prime of his youth, did not think so.
At the age of six, Duoduo was made Baylor by the old slave Nuer Hachi, and became the banner owner of one of the Eight Banners of the Jurchens.
Since he can remember, everything he has heard, witnessed and experienced is the glorious deeds of the Jurchen Eight Banners that swept the Ming army in Liaodong and Outer Mongolia and Korea in the east, and was invincible and invincible.
This made him so arrogant and conceited at a young age that he did not take the Han Chinese, the Mongols, the Koreans, or any other enemy in sight of him.
Later, in the previous battles with the Ming army, Duoduo often charged into battle as a banner lord Baylor, or even a prince, and sometimes even dared to attack the Ming army's large array of tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of people with only a few hundred escorts, what kind of behavior is this?
Maybe he was brave enough to do it, but it wasn't.
It's a kind of arrogance in the bones!
This is a kind of contempt for the Ming army and even for the Han people!
A kind of Jurchen conceit that must be invincible!
Of course, in the original history, this conceit and arrogance of Duoduo has been performed again and again by the Ming army or other Han armies, and thus has achieved amazing success again and again.
But this time, the Ming Dynasty is quietly changing, and Duoduo's character is still arrogant and conceited to the extreme.
When Ilden had finished his words of advice, the assistant minister Samushka immediately expressed his support and said to Dord: "Master! Irdon was right! The Great Khan sent back the news before, saying that the army was going all the way west, and now he wants to come to this time and is attacking Mingbian! If the master is planning for the overall situation, it is really advisable to be quiet and not move in the rear of my Dajin at this time, so as not to take advantage of the Ming army of North Korea, Ningjin and Lushun! ”
Listening to the words of these two ministers, Duoduo's face immediately became gloomy, his thin lips were tightly pursed, and a contemptuous smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
Ilden was the old minister left by Nur Hachi to assist Duoduo in the management of the White Banner, while Samushka was the assistant minister who was installed in the White Banner after Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne.
These two people were able to sit firmly in the position of the head of the white flag and the assistant minister, of course, because of Huang Taiji's recognition and support.
Because of this, as Duoduo grew older, he was not so satisfied with these two men.
At this time, the two of them sang and said such words, although it was for the sake of the overall situation, and even for the good of Duoduo's inlaid white flag, but these words sounded in Duoduo's ears, but it made his heart quite unhappy.
"Elden! Samushka! Are you two old fools! Where is the courage to follow the first Khan to conquer the east and the west in every battle?!
"The first Khan raised his army with thirteen pairs of armor, and after hundreds of battles in decades, there is today's Dajin Kingdom! Now Ben Beile commands 20 Niu Lu 6,000 Jurchen warriors with white flags to sit in Fuzhou, facing the Ming army that has repeatedly invaded the left side of the Dongjiang River, but the two of you have repeatedly obstructed and are not allowed to send troops, what are your intentions?!
Speaking of this, Duoduo squinted at Ilden and Samushka with his face up, and said slowly, word by word: "Remember! You two are my minions with a white flag! Don't be in the wrong place! ”
After Dodor said this, his attitude was already obvious.
At this time, the cronies of the Dolgon brothers, who were inlaid with white flags, suddenly knelt down and said loudly: "Master! The Ming people have always been timid and afraid, cowardly and dare not fight, and this time they dare to attack and disturb our border, and they will be persecuted and driven by their superiors! However, if we are indifferent to this, I am afraid that there will be no peace in Fuzhou and even southern Liaoning in the future!
"Please sit in Fuzhou with the master, the slave is willing to lead an army of 3,000 to break the Golden State, and if you don't break the Golden State slave willing to lead the army!"
After Turg said this, the other two cronies who had been promoted after the Banner of the Duoduo Chief, Mel Ezhen Tanbu and Ba Duli, also stood up and knelt down and said:
"That's exactly how it should be! Even if the Ming people don't come to attack me, I will destroy them sooner or later! Besides, if they don't teach them a painful lesson, they may think that I am weak and bullied with a white flag! ”
The words of these men were very satisfying to the young and vigorous Duoduo.
In the past, the Jurchens were poor, and when they were idle in winter, they often went out in groups to rob other tribes.
And some of the looted things were handed over to the lords, and some were left for their own disposal.
This habit has been maintained to this day.
Because of this, the lords of the Jurchen Eight Banners at all levels are almost all war maniacs without exception.
This time, Duoduo wanted to send troops, and this matter was equivalent to another opportunity to accumulate military exploits and make a fortune for Turge, Tambu, and Baduli, who were directly in charge of the various Jiala and Niu Lu with white flags, so everyone supported it.
Although Ilden and Samushka are scheming and sober-minded, they are helpless in the face of the more and more assertive and powerful banner lord Duoduo, who is now becoming more and more assertive and powerful, as ministers or servants who manage flag affairs.
In the end, Ilden and Samushka asked Dorgon to send someone to report the decision to send troops to Dorgon in Gay before sending troops, and Dodor agreed.
In this way, starting from the afternoon of 22 October, the white-flag-inlaid guards stationed in Fuzhou City, as well as the Niulu Bannermen scattered in the white-flag-inlaid territories around Fuzhou City, soon entered a state of preparedness for war.
On the morning of 24 October, the guards with five ox records with white flags, and the three Jia la and fifteen Niu Lu recruits, under the leadership of their respective Niu Lu officials, prepared their own saddle horses, bows, swords, armor, and dry food, and gathered outside the city of Fuzhou.
After repeated requests from Yilden and others, Duoduo, who was eager to personally lead the army to the battle, finally made some compromises and concessions, and agreed to lead one Niu Lu's guard to swing his teeth and three Niu Lu's white flags to recruit Qi Ding to stay in Fuzhou City.
Duoduo sent two people, Ilden and Turge, to lead the elite white-flag-inlaid guards to swing two ox-lus and six flag-inlaid cattle, totaling 2,400 people, to the east to exterminate the Ming army that frequently went ashore to harass the left side of Dongjiang Town, and completely uprooted the Hongzui Fort and Wanghai Fort, the last strongholds left on the Liaodong Peninsula by the Dongjiang Road.
At the same time, Samushika and the fierce general Tan Bu were sent to lead the same forces south to capture the city of Jinzhou, which Duoduo had always wanted to capture.