The current tribute of the Li Dynasty is the annual tribute, and the time is on August 17 of each year (this article uses the old calendar), the birthday of the Wanli Emperor, so the tributary procession must set off in early June. The tribute paid by the state in the previous year was a special tribute attached to the request, so it was not paid on the emperor's birthday. This year (A.D. 1585), due to the bloody battle in the court of Chao Xian, it was not until the end of June that the official reminded the king Li Hao and all the lords that the tributary procession would not be able to catch up if it did not set off.

Due to rampant piracy, in the second year of Jiajing (1523), the Ming State stopped the sea tributary route of Chao Xian and switched to the land route. The overland tributary routes were: Beijing - Shanhaiguan - Shenyang - Liaoyang - Phoenix - Yalu River - Uiju - Pyongyang - Hanyang. After the middle of Jiajing, due to the intensification of the activities of the Jurchen, Mongol and other ethnic groups in Liaodong, the land tributary routes were also greatly disrupted. "The Tartar is a little bit more than ever...... There is no survivor of oxen, horses, carts, and chariots", and the court's * Xian envoys and ministers "are all born and nine dead, and they can only reach it". Along the way, the post houses became increasingly depressed, and the government-private trade went into decline. Due to the difficult road, the tribute of the Li dynasty has been changed to one tribute a year.

At the beginning of the year, the civil unrest in Yiju has not subsided, and has even expanded to the entire territory of Pyongan West Province; The Jurchens in the Yalu River have the backing of Jianzhou, and they are not in peace, and this tribute seems to be almost a life of nine deaths. Time is urgent, all the adults act in unison, and push out some political enemies who usually don't look right to pay tribute, and it's better to die on the road and not come back. Even the forbidden army guarding is a thorn in the eye that everyone usually doesn't see. For tribute, just copy the items copied out of the house and take some fine products out. After receiving the order, the agents of the Yiju Jin family in the imperial court also turned the clouds and rain behind their backs, and pushed some medical officials, craftsmen and other talents needed to build the state into the tributary ranks.

In just three days, the tributary procession was organized, and the tribute was ready. On June 30, the tributary procession, escorted by the guards, went on the road crying. Some of the family members who came to see them off even wore filial piety clothes, and when they saw this, they didn't know that they thought they were beheaded in the Dharma field.

The TV series "Yidao", in which South Korean sticks touted their medical skills, mentioned that only the chief and deputy envoys and the officers of the guards had horses to ride in the tributary procession, and everyone else had to walk. There were basically no vehicles, and the tribute was carried by each person. The road is long, there are many dangers, and it is necessary to transport tribute, which is not much more than "20,000".

Let's not talk about the tributary procession that is like cutting off the head in the Dharma field, let's go back and talk about the north of Jianzhou.

Jianzhou got the order the previous year to attack the other Jurchen tribes in the east and north, who were disobedient. As soon as the will returned, the Military Aircraft Hall immediately began to prepare for war. The arsenal in Fiara was also running at full capacity, working overtime to produce all kinds of weapons and equipment.

The Ming troops in Kuandian, Liaoyang, and Fushun wore the same pants as Jianzhou, and the officers in the three places organized a large number of children of military families who were willing to go to Jianzhou to earn some family business to join the Jianzhou side. Coupled with the elites selected from various tribes after the unification of Jianzhou, the total strength of the Jianzhou Cowardly Xue Army and the Standing Army has exceeded 6,000. After the whole winter of reorganization and training, the combat effectiveness of the army has been greatly enhanced, and all that remains is the tempering of actual combat.

The first unlucky ghost to be taken a fancy to is the Teruhatabu!

The Huifa tribe is one of the Jurchen clan tribes, named after the people who lived on the banks of the Huifa River (now Huinan County, Tonghua City, Jilin Province). In the late Ming Dynasty, Huifa belonged to one of the four divisions of Haixi, and his original surname was Yikedeli, and later changed his surname to Nala. In the original history of the Battle of Gule Mountain, Huifa was one of the main forces of the Nine Coalition Army, and after the heavy defeat, he collapsed. Eventually, in 1607, the Huifa tribe was annexed by the Jianzhou Jurchens, and the last Beyler Bayindari was defeated and killed.

"Huifa" originally means "no prohibition of contact" in the Khitan language, and it is written as "Huiba" in the "History of Liao" and "Huiba" in the works of the Ming and Qing dynasties. According to the "History of Liao", after the Liao destroyed the Bohai Kingdom, the Sumo Yan (Bohai people) were not allowed to leave their place of residence and were not allowed to interact with each other, in order to prevent them from rebelling. The tribes that lived in the Huifa River valley and were far away from the Bohai people were much more lenient and could travel freely between tribes without the above restrictions, so they were called "unforbidden" tribes. This is the origin of the name of the "Huifa" tribe.

The four departments of Haixi, the Hada tribe and the Yehe tribe have already sent their sincerity to Jianzhou, and they have also sent their subordinates to participate in the recovery of Yizhou, so there is no need to trouble them for the time being; The Ula Department and the Hada Department are of the same ancestor, and for the sake of the face of the Hada Department, they will also be put aside for the time being; The Huifa Mountain City, which was built by the first Baylor Wang Ji Chu in Huerqi Mountain, once dominated the Jurchen tribes in Haixi, and there were frequent frictions with the newly rising Jianzhou. Therefore, the military machine hall treats the Huifa Department as a chicken, and wants to kill and threaten the many little monkeys who disobey the discipline.

At the same time as Yarhaqi attacked Yizhou, the Chaoyong general of Zhengsanpin, the staff general Tong Shuerhaqi, led 200 cowardly Xue troops, 1500 standing troops, 700 volunteers (elites from the Hada and Yehe tribes), and 1000 auxiliary troops, also known as "50,000", launched an attack on the Huifa department.

Huifa Beile Baiyin Dari is the grandson of Huifa's first Beile Wang Ji Chu, whose father died young. After Wang Jichu died of illness, Baiyindari killed seven of his uncles and established himself as Baylor. Due to internal instability, Bayindari initially adopted a tactic of relying on natural danger and holding on, hoping to retreat from Jianzhou. They didn't know that Jianzhou had already purchased a large amount of grain and tea from the Central Plains, and there were also a lot of reserves of meat, and it was enough to pull some wild vegetables by themselves.

The main forces of the Huifa Department were all retracted into Huifa City, and the Jianzhou Army just solved the outer walled cities one by one. The tactics are also lackluster, basically "artillery bombardment, infantry pushing".

Since many of the cities of the Huifa Department were stone towns, and the arrows of the bed crossbow were difficult to insert, this time the stone throwing machine, which is also known as the "return cannon", was specially used to throw stones and fire * powder packs at the walled city wall, and bombarded it violently. After the collapse of the wall, under the cover of the crossbow arrow array, the dense battle formation slowly entered the walled city, the Jianrui battalion searched house by house, the snipers with crossbows occupied the commanding heights to suppress the enemy, and the cavalry battalion and the forward battalion were on guard on the perimeter. In the face of hot weapons and organized killing, individual bravery is scum. The participating troops of the Hada Department and the Yehe Department were stunned, and secretly rejoiced: their side made the right choice and did not become an enemy of Jianzhou.

At the beginning of June, Bayindari finally reacted. One by one, the outer walled cities had fallen, and Bayindari had only now thought of finding an ally. It's late, all the tribes are moving with the wind, after seeing the strong military power of Jianzhou, and only the Huifa Lonely City is left, they resolutely dare not come out, and the Ula Department even hurriedly sent troops to participate in the attack.

The south, north and west of Huifa City face the Huifa River, with mountains as natural barriers, and the city walls are rammed with earth and stone for the undangerous and defensible sections. It is divided into three cities, the middle and the outside, with a circumference of 596.5 meters, 892.3 meters and 1884 meters respectively, and each city is equipped with two gates. The middle wall is 3 meters high, the base width is 12 meters, and the top width is 2-3 meters. The inner city has a platform with a circumference of 336 meters and a height of 4.8 meters above the ground.

In view of the special terrain and structure of Huifa City, the Military Aircraft Hall designed a set of special attack methods, and conducted exercises in similar places in Jianzhou. Now it has finally been put into practice, attracting a large number of reserve officers of the cowardly Xue Army to visit and study.

The arrow array dared the soldiers of the Huifa Division, who were trying to come out to fight a decisive battle with the Jianzhou army, and the officers and soldiers of the Jianrui battalion climbed the high ground near Huifa City under the cover of the foot crossbow and the bed crossbow. Soldiers loaded up improvised cranes and hoisted small, specially made stone throwers up the hill. Then shoot powder packs and oil bombs into the city. The entire city of Huifa was gradually submerged in a sea of fire.

Bayindari and his people chose to surrender at the last moment, after all, there was a way to live, and no one wanted to die, Bayindari was sent to Hetuara and Nikon Wailan as his companion. The conquest of the Huifa Department ended in this way, and the remaining three Haixi Ministries were honest and handed over the hostages and strong men in accordance with the requirements of Jianzhou. But the matter is far from over, because according to the plan, Jianzhou and Haixi will have to "conflict" for a few more years!

"Sun Tzu's Art of War: Attacking Chapter": "All the art of using war, the whole country is the first, and the country is second; The whole army is the first, and the broken army is second; The whole brigade is the first, and the broken brigade is second; The whole pawn is the first, and the broken pawn is second; The whole army is the first, and the army is second. Therefore, a hundred battles are won, and the good ones who are not good are also; The soldiers who surrender without a fight, and the good ones are also good. ”