The bad influence of the climate of the Xiaoice River on the Jianzhou Jurchen is more serious than that of the Ming Dynasty, since the thirteenth year of Wanli, the process of Nurhachi unifying the Jurchen tribes, the main driving force is actually to rob the grain and livestock of other tribes and avoid their own tribal subjects from starving, what kind of eloquence and foresight are the whitewashed words after the Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, at that time Nurhachi and the bandit leaders Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng, were all with a group of hungry people around foraging and looting, Jianzhou Jurchen by robbing other tribes, Kill the populations of other tribes to relieve the pressure on food and survive the famine -

Since the spring of the second year of the Mandate of Heaven, there has been a great drought in Jianzhou, the grass and trees have withered, and countless cattle, sheep and livestock have died, Nurhachi is anxious, if there is not enough food reserves to cope with the coming winter, his subjects will starve to death or be displaced, he has no other way to govern the country and enrich the people, but will only rob by force, but now the Jurchen tribes have perished except for the Yehe tribe, and it is also a drop in the bucket to pretend to be a small group of horse thieves to jump into the Ming realm to plunder, and they cannot cope with large-scale natural disasters, so they must launch a large-scale war to transfer the existential crisis, It is imperative to attack Daming!

After Huang Taiji preached the invincibility of the Eight Banners Army and the cowardice and incompetence of the Ming Army in Liaodong, Nurhachi began to conduct actual combat analysis, he said that in the battle with the Ming army, do not force the siege of the city and seize the land, if you can attack it, you will attack, and if you can't attack it, you must try to lead the enemy army outside the city for field battles. Once the troops are dispatched, each Niulu has fifty armored troops, leaving only ten people to defend the city, and the remaining forty people to fight, and each sergeant is not allowed to leave their respective Niulu banners without permission......

Nurhachi has fought for many years, has rich experience, and has a lot of knowledge. Then let the ministers of the Beylers express their opinions. The Great Belle Daishan advocated an attack on Korea. Because Nalambaksh went to Korea in May to have a mission to borrow grain from North Korea for disaster relief, and now that Gwanghaejun has been deposed, North Korea has completely fallen to the Ming Dynasty and is an enemy of Jianzhou, since it is no longer possible to borrow grain, then go and rob and conquer Korea.

Huang Taiji did not approve of attacking Korea, because once the main force of the Eight Banners Army could not quickly get out of Korea, it would inevitably suffer from the enemy. North Korea is a small state, grain reserves are limited, it is not worth making a big move, attacking North Korea is tantamount to declaring war with the Ming Dynasty, why not simply attack Liaodong, as long as the Ming army in Liaodong is defeated, North Korea can be peaceful without a fight.

Nurhachi agreed to the suggestion of the Eighth Prince, Emperor Taiji, and then motioned to the seventh son, Abatai, to come out and said, "Abatai, you went to Fushun last month. Let's talk about the reality of Fushun City. ”

Abatai's face was full of resentment, and he said, "My people have suffered from natural disasters. Li Yongfang was greedy and treacherous, taking advantage of the natural disaster in Jianzhou to suppress the price of my ginseng mink, and the same amount of mink ginseng was exchanged for less than half of the grain in previous years, taking advantage of the danger of people, it is really hateful. ”

Nurha said in a deep voice: "First of all, agree to his conditions, how much he swallows, I will let him return ten times as much." ”

Abatai said: "Fushun Li Yongfang's department is only 1,500 people, and in July, 500 additional sergeants were dispatched, a total of 2,000 people, all of whom are keen on trade, and the military discipline is lax, so how can it be the opponent of our Eighth Banner Army." ”

Nurha Equator: "There are many rich merchants in Fushun City, and they have a lot of savings, if they capture Fushun, my people will not have to worry about the winter, what are your good strategies for attacking the city?" ”

Huang Taiji offered a plan: "We can ask Li Yongfang to open the horse market again, agree to sell ginseng, mink, Dongzhu, and horses cheaply, and attract merchants from Liaodong to come to Fushun. ”

The ministers of the Beylers all praised the clever plan, and Nurhachi immediately ordered Abatai to rush to Fushun City to discuss the matter of opening the horse market with Wang Mingyin and Li Yongfang, and said to the people in the palace: "If I want to start a war with the Southern Dynasty, I must be famous, so as to boost morale, and the Southern Dynasty will kill my father and ancestor; support my feud with the Hada tribe and the Yehe tribe as enemies of me; The Han people crossed the border to harvest ginseng and cut wood, but forced me to kill ten people under the city of Fushun; This time, he killed my righteous son, and took my Erdeni to Beijing, humiliated me too much, and he will raise troops for revenge -- black returns, you find a few subordinates who are proficient in Chinese to draft a 'letter to heaven', and write about the oppression of our country by the Southern Dynasty over the past hundred years, I really can't tolerate it, so I raise troops to resist, and I am a righteous army. He added: "I am very saddened by the capture of Erdeni, and if possible, I will try to bring him back." ”

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Just when Houjin was actively preparing to attack Fushun, Li Yongfang, a guerrilla general in Fushun City, was busy opening a horse market to make a fortune, Li Yongfang had guarded Fushun for many years, and still had a good understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners Army in Jianzhou, and knew that the two thousand men and horses in Fushun could not compete with the Eight Banners Army at all, but because the national strength of the Ming Dynasty was far from being comparable to Jianzhou, Nurhachi did not dare to face the enemy of the Ming Dynasty, and it was nothing more than pretending to be a thief to rob some merchants. Didn't Nurhachi finally arrest dozens of Jurchens under pressure and behead them under Fushun City and give an explanation to Daming, Nurhachi is true to be soft, as for whether those Jurchens are real Jianzhou Jurchens, there is no need to delve into it-

Last year, after Nurhachi founded the country and became Khan, the governor of Liaodong and the capital department had orders to strictly prohibit Fushun, Kaiyuan and other border cities from trading with Jianzhou Kaima City, but the benefits made these orders a dead letter, even the Liaodong town guard eunuch Lu Huai sent a caravan to Fushun to do business, how could Li Yongfang strictly implement the order to close the horse market, and Li Yongfang also knew that the drought in Jianzhou was serious, if there was no trade with Jianzhou at all, it would be difficult to predict what crazy actions those barbaric Jurchens would do under the drive of hunger, Therefore, opening a horse market can alleviate the food famine in Jianzhou, and the merchants of the Ming Dynasty have silver to earn, which can be described as mutually beneficial, as for lowering the price of ginseng horses, there is nothing to say, I am willing to buy and sell, it is you Jurchens who have asked me, and I naturally want to profit from it.

The day before yesterday, a report reported to Li Yongfang that the Jianzhou Jurchens had recently sent hundreds of people into the mountains to cut timber, Li Yongfang had some doubts in his heart, and when he sent people to investigate again, he reported that the Jurchens were building horse sheds to allow horses to spend the winter, and Li Yongfang was relieved.

One side is in full swing and actively preparing for war, and the other side is arrogant and arrogant and competing for money, and this victory and defeat have long been doomed.

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On September 28, the second year of the Later Jin Mandate of Heaven, Nurhachi led 20,000 cavalry to invade the Ming Dynasty, and held a grand ceremony of killing horses and sacrificing to the sky before the expedition, and wrote the "Seven Great Hatreds" of the Ming Dynasty in the book of confession, and the letter said:

"My father and the emperor have not broken a grass on the border, not an inch of land has been damaged, for the Ming Dynasty to see the border tribute, loyal for a long time, the Ming Dynasty suddenly in the Wanli period, my father and ancestor are not guilty, this is a hate;

Although I killed my father and ancestors, I am still willing to repair, set up a monument and swear, no crossing the territory, but the Ming Dynasty betrayed the oath, crossed the border, and helped Ye He, Ye He and Jianzhou are both Yi, my two families provoked, and the Ming Dynasty was straightforward to resolve disputes.

The inscription on the stele swears that 'Han people who go abroad privately will be killed; The people of Yi people who enter the territory privately are killed', but the Han people along the border, privately go out of the country, dig ginseng to take, read the benefits of the mountains and Ze, I live, repeatedly apply to the boss, if it is ignored, although there are complaints, there is no way to complain, I have to follow the tablet and kill it, the Ming Dynasty instead of betraying the alliance to accuse me of unauthorized killing, arrest the two ministers of Gangguli and Fangjina that I sent to Guangning, and tie it with iron ropes, forcing me to hold the border of ten people to kill, this three hatreds;

Hada helped Yehe, twice sent troops to invade me, I counterattacked, the heaven gave Hada to me, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty helped Hada, forced me to restore Hada to the original place, but the Hada people I returned were taken captive by Yehe, the people of all countries in the world fought each other, the heavenly wrongs were defeated and died, the heavens were victorious and born, and the captives who had been obtained, but forced me to return, is it reasonable? The four hatreds are also;

Brother Yehedong, it was my marriage of courtesy, and then he was in Chongqing, not to greet him, although this was the case at that time, he still did not dare to allow others, but he was protected by the Ming Dynasty, but he remarried to the West, like this shame, who can be willing, this five hatreds; After the Ming Dynasty believed in the north pass, sent troops to force our department to retreat for 30 miles, erected a monument to occupy an area, burned down the houses, and discarded the crops, so that our department had no place to live and no food, and everyone was to be killed.

In the past few years, the drought in Jianzhou, the people can not eat, I sent the envoy Nalan Bakshi to North Korea to borrow grain, the Ming Dynasty canonized Zhang Yuan actually took my envoy to Beijing, humiliated to the extreme, it is really difficult to tolerate, so the seven hatreds of the army. ”

Because Naranbaksh was captured, Nurhachi did not have a competent minister, this confession was written in vain, but the hatred that should be written was written, as for the death of Huerhan, although it was something that Nurhachi hated very much, but Huerhan was killed as a horse thief at the foot of Phoenix Mountain outside Lianshan City, which was not very glorious, and it also affected morale, so it was omitted.

After worshipping the sky and burning the watch, Nurhachi led the army to set off, the 20,000 foot cavalry of the expedition is the elite of the Eight Banners Army, only allowed to win but not defeated, if defeated, Jianzhou will perish, although Nurhachi has experienced a hundred battles, but also can't help but be a little apprehensive, that night in the Gule Mountain when the heavy rain is pouring, Nurhachi frowned and hesitated in the tent, and said to Zhubeile, the minister and the banner owner: "The rainy weather is inconvenient to enter the army, I want to strangle the army back, what do you think?" ”

Nurhachi is a test to see if everyone has the confidence to fight a decisive battle with the Ming army.

The first generation of the four Baylors said loudly: "Now that the troops have been sent here, but they have withdrawn again, how can the war between the soldiers and the Ming Dynasty be concealed!" Although the sky is cloudy and rainy, but our army's bows and arrows have the tools to prepare for the rain, not afraid of the rain and wet, and the heavy rain from the sky, but also make the Ming army's defense lax, this rain is beneficial to me, not good for him, father Khan must not worry too much, capture Fushun, foolproof. ”

Nurhachi praised Daishan for being reasonable, and the other Baylor ministers also said that it was imperative to attack Fushun.

At the end of the next day, the 20,000 troops of Houjin were divided into eight routes and set off, and 8,000 people from the four banners on the left flank captured Dongzhou and Magendan; Nurhachi personally led 12,000 troops and horses of the four banners of the right wing to attack Fushun, and two days ago, 50 warriors with the white flag of Huang Taiji pretended to be horse merchants and mixed into Fushun City, only waiting for Nurhachi's army to attack outside Fushun City, raising cannons as a number, and attacking inside and outside, at the same time, let a Han captive go to Fushun to see Li Yongfang with a surrender letter, threatening that if he surrendered, he would avoid death and get married, and if he did not surrender, he would slaughter the city and exterminate the clan, so that Li Yongfang would not lose the opportunity to survive, which was called a psychological war.

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