"Whew-"

"Baylor, the sentinel returns, the Ming army to the south and west has mobilized hundreds of cavalry to the south......"

The sound of horses' hooves sounded, and outside the boundless Shangjing City, the agile Fan Wencheng returned with the military intelligence of the sentry cavalry, and as soon as this sentence was spoken, many Jin nobles on both sides of the road looked at the two of them.

Under the yellow tent, Nurhachi, who was sitting in a wooden wheelchair, was very emaciated, without the vigor he once had, and only gave people a kind of heroic sadness.

Sitting next to Nurhachi was Huang Taiji, who seemed to be in good health, and compared to a few years ago, his whole body was bigger, obviously for Jin Guo, food was no longer a problem.

"Did you see who went south?"

Nurhachi asked in a hoarse voice, and Huang Taiji also bowed slightly, signaling Fan Wencheng to explain.

"The sentinels didn't dare to approach, the Ming army was too numerous, if they got closer, they probably wouldn't be able to come back."

Fan Wencheng turned over and dismounted, knelt on the ground to answer Nurhachi's inquiry, and as soon as he finished speaking, Dai Shan and Mang Gurtai, who were standing on both sides of the Yellow Tent, looked at Nurhachi and Huang Taiji one after another.

Since the infighting in the upper echelons of the Jin Kingdom ended with Huang Taiji's victory four years ago, Huang Taiji set up Taining Mansion in Daming and moved Nurhachi and others to Shangjing.

After that, Guo Sandai of the Beishan Jurchen expressed his surrender, and Huang Taiji took the opportunity to send Amin to Xingjing City to stay and defend the Ming army in Yidonghe City, and sent his brothers Abai, Tabai, and Babutai to Xishen City to defend Guo Sangdai.

Thanks to the spread of sweet potatoes and potatoes, the Jin had actually solved the food problem two years earlier, and they also cultivated a large number of fields and created many armors to equip the Mongols, Han Chinese, and Jurchens.

The tide of history was unhindered in the Jin Kingdom, and Nurhachi ordained Huang Taiji as the crown prince two years ago and ordered him to supervise the country.

Huang Taiji's first step after taking charge of the country was to establish the four banners of the Han Dynasty and the four banners of Mongolia, with 5,000 people per banner and a total of 40,000 Mongol and Han troops.

Of course, the Mongols and Hans were supported, but only if the Jurchen forces were insufficient.

Although it has been seven years since the Battle of Fuliao ended, the number of the Eight Banners was only 60,000.

In general, although there are still 100,000 people in Jinguo, the quality is not at all as good as ten years ago.

Ten years ago, the Jin State could pull out 100,000 soldiers with the strength of the whole clan, but now they only have 60,000 soldiers if they count all the men over the age of fifteen.

They did not recover from the wounds of the Battle of Fuliao for seven years.

It wasn't until two years ago that the amount of arable land in the Jin Kingdom reached 3 million mu, and all the nobles of the Jin Kingdom saw a little vitality.

The Jurchen nobles ate rice and wheat, drank wine and ate meat, the Mongol and Han Eight Banners ate rice and wheat and rationed a small amount of wine and meat, and the Jurchens ate rice and wheat below, while the Mongols and Han people ate sweet potatoes and potatoes, which is a food rationing system maintained by the Jin State today.

This rationing system was indeed effective, and it succeeded in allowing more than 200,000 Jurchens and more than 300,000 Mongols and Han Chinese to survive in this cold land.

During this period, all the nobles of the Jin Kingdom were frightened and suffered, and they were afraid that one day the Ming army would launch the Northern Expedition.

However, they did not wait for the Northern Expedition of the Ming Army, but waited for the "Great Drought in the North" and "Northern Shaanxi Civil Uprising" and other ecstatic good news.

Especially in the most serious year of the Daming drought, Nurhachi and Huang Taiji ordered for the first time that all the men of that year could get a pound of wine.

Since the beginning of the year, Huang Taiji has been paying attention to the internal strife and disasters within the Ming Dynasty, and when the midsummer was about to end, he knew that the Ming army would make a big move this year.

The reason is simple, the drought has weakened, and now only Shanxi and Shaanxi still have a relatively large number of droughts.

In the same situation, when Zhu Youzhen was faced with this situation, he wanted to organize the Northern Expedition, and the troops of the Eastern Army Governor's Office were already ready to accept the transfer, and as a result, the "Northern Shaanxi People's Rebellion" was a bad thing.

At present, Huang Taiji is sure that the Ming army will take action, because the "Northern Shaanxi People's Rebellion" will not happen twice.

He asked Fan Wencheng if he had seen the banner clearly, in fact, he wanted to know if the people who went south were responsible for the many Ming generals who surrounded the Jin State.

Although Fan Wencheng didn't know, Huang Taiji already had the answer in his heart.

"It should be Zhu Youzhen who summoned them to the south......"

Nurhachi opened his mouth, and as soon as he spoke, the crowd became nervous.

"How much food do we have?" Nurhachi looked at Huang Taiji, his skinny appearance made people think that he would not live long.

"Rice and wheat are 325,000 stones, and there are some sun-dried dried potatoes and sweet potatoes, about 300,000 stones."

Huang Taiji knew everything about the situation in the Jin Kingdom, and Nurhachi pondered for a moment after hearing this.

Due to his physical weakness, his breathing was like a bellows, so large that anyone five or six paces away could hear it.

Dai Shan, Mang Gurtai and others waited in silence, and so did Huang Taiji.

In the war, Nurhachi basically did not make a mistake, and the battle of Fuliao that year was also the Ming army to fight more and less, attacking from all directions.

In particular, Hong Chengchou, Qin Bangping, Qi Yuanfu and others didn't care about the Liaoshen battlefield at all, and led people to attack Hetuala, creating a massacre of tens of thousands of people there.

If it weren't for Mang Gurtai's timely retreat, maybe the 200,000 Jurchens in Hetuara would have been slaughtered by Hong Chengchou.

But the situation is that Mang Gurtai retreated.

At that time, Mang Gurtai thought that even without himself, the Ming army would not be able to defeat Nurhachi, and Hetuara needed him more than Nurhachi.

As a result, it turned out that his tactical vision was sparse, and more than 40,000 cavalrymen from the 3rd battalion of the 4th cavalry guard and the 3rd battalion of Liaodong were assembled, and the mobile advantage of the Jin army's horse infantry disappeared in an instant.

In the end, he kept the majority of the more than 200,000 Jurchens, but the Jin army on the Liaoshen battlefield was unled because of his retreat, so he was dumpled by the Ming army.

In the end, most of the most elite 40,000 Jurchens perished, and they have not recovered to this day, and Nurhachi himself broke a leg and survived for seven years.

If it weren't for the fact that Mang Gurtai's two blue flags were the most well-organized soldiers and horses at that time, and Mang Gurtai did keep most of the Jurchens, then he might have been executed by Nurhachi's order.

The Battle of Fuliao was the pinnacle of Nurhachi's battle, and the Ming army relied purely on several times Nurhachi's strength to engage him, but even so, he still relied on the mobility of the horse infantry in the early stage and mobilized the Ming army.

If it weren't for the elite cavalry of Man Gui, Cao Wenzhao, and He Shixian, and equipped with flint cavalry, then Nurhachi would probably have calmly withdrawn.

Therefore, even if he was defeated, no one looked down on him, even Zhu Youzhen, who was his enemy.

Therefore, Nurhachi's contemplation actually determines the future of the Jin Kingdom.

Everyone was waiting for him to speak, and he didn't disappoint everyone.

"The artillery of the Ming army is sharp, but the cities we have built are all built with thousands of catties of stones, even if the Ming army transfers 10,000 catties of cannons, it is difficult to take them in a short period of time."

"There are five months of cold winter in Shangjing every year, and it is impossible for the Ming army to invade us in the cold winter."

"Our army is 100,000 people, and if they want to invade, they must mobilize at least 100,000 troops."

"More than 100,000 people, even if troops are sent from Taining and Yidonghe City, at least 300,000 people are needed."

"More than 100,000 people and 300,000 people, these nearly 500,000 people, eat horses and chew every month, at least 100,000 stone of rice and wheat, and tens of thousands of stone bean feed."

"The Ming army is only 300,000 soldiers and horses in the north, and half of them are drawn to invade us, and then the rest of the country will be empty."

"The tiger squatting rabbit will not sit idly by, you must know that the lips are dead and the teeth are cold, so as long as the tiger squatting rabbit and they send troops, the Ming army will still have to stalemate with our army at that time."

"Shangjing City and Xingjing City are only suitable for sending troops from March to September, as long as we hold until the beginning of September, even if Zhu Youzhen is unwilling, he will have to withdraw his troops."

"It is difficult to defend the city alone, so it is also necessary to send troops to attack the people who harass the Ming army, disrupt their rear, mobilize the troops on the front line to the rear, and let the Ming army increase its baggage and consume them as much as possible."

Nurhachi's idea is still the same as before, and he has always changed his sect's siege point to send reinforcements, but this point has become a heavy army that may be weak in defense from the original city.

"I led heavy troops to guerrilla the Ming army outside!"

Huang Taiji frowned and took on the most difficult task in the future battle, and after he took it, Dai Shan and Mang Gurtai breathed a sigh of relief.

"I took the four Mongolian flags, two white flags, and two yellow flags to fight the Ming army in the field, and the four Han flags, two red flags, and two blue flags defended the city."

Huang Taiji gave an order to the nobles of the Jin Kingdom, but as soon as he finished speaking, Dai Shan frowned and said:

"This time is different from before, we have a lot of tuntian in Nuergan, if the Ming army does not withdraw in winter, leaving tuntian to surround Xingjing and Shangjing, then we ......"

Dai Shan's words made many high-ranking Jin country frown, because they all knew that the Jin army in the field would not necessarily be able to defeat the Ming army, which can be seen from the fact that Sun Yingyuan and Xiong Tingbi have continuously sent Tang cavalry to attack the border over the years.

The combat power of the Ming army has been greatly improved, and the Jin army is not necessarily its opponent in small-scale operations.

In the past, the Jin army relied on the large-scale cooperation of the Ming army, so the Jin army could win many battles in large-scale battles.

But in the upcoming Battle of Mingjin, the marshal of the Ming army must be Zhu Youzhen, and no one will doubt whether Zhu Youzhen can command a large-scale battle.

Maybe seven years ago, he still needed Xiong Tingbi to complete his tactics and command the army for him, but now he can definitely make the nobles of the Jin Kingdom chill the moment they think of his name.

Among them, especially Huang Taiji, can feel Zhu Youzhen's horror the most.

For Huang Taiji, Zhu Youzhen, a person who pushes a downhill dynasty into an uphill one, can't find a few people in ancient and modern times.

While being able to help the dynasty reform succeed, he was the first to personally lead the troops to the north and kill the enemy on horseback.

How much does Daming earn? Huang Taiji didn't know, but he knew one thing in his heart, that is, Zhu Youzhen would never interrupt the idea of destroying gold because of Blizzard.

Therefore, after Dai Shan asked the question, he simply said:

"Once you can't do anything, abandon Xingjing City and retreat to Tulun City!"

"Retreat to Toron?"

"That's too far, isn't it?"

"You don't need to retreat to the city of Toron, do you? It's enough to just retreat to the city of Sadara, right? ”

"It's too far away......"

"Yes, it's enough to retreat to Sadhara City, but it's really not okay to Puerhe City......"

As soon as Huang Taiji's words came out, even though many people complained, Huang Taiji frowned and scolded:

"More than 300,000 acres of cultivated land have been reclaimed over there, and you can rely on the mountains and forests to defend you when you retreat there."

"When the time comes, you only need to intercept the Heishui River, and the Ming artillery will not be able to transport it by water!"

"The Ming army is better than my big gold, and firearms are also."

"As long as the artillery of the Ming army can't be used, then we can wait for a few more years."

"This year, Shanxi and Shaanxi in the north of the Ming Dynasty are still in drought, if there is a drought or plague in the future, Zhu Youjian will have to retreat if he does not retreat!"

"Do you think that the Ming army doesn't want to invade? They were held back by the affairs of the Central Plains and could not invade. ”

"If there is another turmoil in the Central Plains, they are more concerned about the life and death of the people in the Guannan than about invading our Dajin."

Huang Taiji started the layout a long time ago, and three years ago, he even sent Zilharang to the city of Doudolon to start planning a way out.

The Jurchens are a fishing and hunting people, and there are more than 200,000 old and weak, and they are destined to be unable to run to the steppe like the Mongols.

Moreover, the only place that can run in the north is the Haravan Mountains, and now the entire mountain range and the Horqin grassland are occupied by the Ming army, to put it bluntly, the Jin Kingdom has been trapped by the Ming Dynasty in the Nuergan area.

Unless the Jin Kingdom runs to the North Mountain (Eastern Siberia), they have nowhere to run.

But what is Kitayama place? Eight months of the year are cold months, and with the exception of some large cols, crops cannot be grown at all, and crops that can be grown are scarce.

Not to mention Huang Taiji, even if Nurhachi ordered to go to Beishan, no one would choose to obey.

Therefore, the Duolun area is the last place where the Jin State can retreat, except for here, there is only Nuer Gancheng in the northeast, but Guo Sandai there will not be able to contain the down-and-out Jin State.

Besides, Huang Taiji has always distrusted Guo Sangdai.

Therefore, what he wanted more was actually to stick to the victory, and then wait for the Ming Dynasty to have its own civil strife and take the opportunity to send troops to regain the lost territory.

The Ming Dynasty will definitely be chaotic, this is what Huang Taiji can affirm, and the reason is Zhu Youzhen.

As a prince, even if he is in charge of the world's soldiers and horses, his protégés and former officials also occupy more than sixty percent of the Ming officials.

In this case, Zhu Youxiao is completely a puppet.

Of course, there is also a possibility that Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youzhen repeat the "two kings republic" of the Zhou Dynasty back then, but this probability is not as good as the arrogant soldiers of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies who cut Zhu Youxiao down, and the probability of adding Zhu Youzhen's yellow robe is greater.

Although Zhu Youzhen has achieved many things that Huang Taiji thinks is impossible, in this matter, Huang Taiji believes that it is absolutely impossible.

As long as there is infighting in Daming and a civil war breaks out, Daikin will have a chance at that time.

They don't need too many opportunities, they just need to occupy the Taining Mansion of the Ming Dynasty, and then rely on the Taining Mansion to join forces with Lin Dan Khan.

As for why Huang Taiji was sure that Lin Dan Khan would definitely make a move, this is because......

"If you lose Xingjing City, don't you have to start all over again?"

"Besides, after getting Xingjing City, the Ming army is hundreds of miles closer to the city of Tuolun."

Dai Shan was a little dissatisfied with Huang Taiji's method of surviving with his broken arm, although he understood that this tactic was one of the few tactics that Daikin could survive.

"Only by giving up the capital can the Ming army continue to the north and stretch their baggage line!"

Huang Taiji frowned, he didn't understand why Daishan and the others were still entangled in the land.

The question now is not one city or one place, but whether the Jin Kingdom can survive this wave of the Ming Dynasty's offensive.

"Okay......"

Nurhachi suddenly spoke, and although everyone was not convinced, they could only close their mouths and wait for Nurhachi to speak.

In the face of his own group of sons, Nurhachi has always only regarded them as his tools, but he knows very well that he can no longer control them at the moment, so he can only say:

"Xingjing City will be handed over to Daishan to guard it, and Huifa City will be handed over to Mang Gurtai." With that, he looked at the four men standing at the end of the line.

"Fan Wenyu, Li Yongfang, you two and Dai Shan are stationed in Xingjing, and Fan Wencheng and Liu Aita are guarding Huifa City with Mang Gurtai."

"Yes!"

Fan Wencheng and the four nodded in response, while Nurhachi looked at Huang Taiji again and said:

"Let Zilharang, Amin, and Abatai go and guard the three cities of Doudoron, Tolunmu, and Xishen."

"Let Yue Tuo go and guard the city of Retara......"

"Yes......" Huang Taiji had no choice but to respond, and guessed in his heart what Nurhachi would say next.

In front of him, Nurhachi turned his head to look at Mang Gurtai and Dai Shan, and said hoarsely:

"If you can't hold it, retreat to the city of Retara."

"Yes!" Dai Shan and the others were a little more energetic, although they also knew that Nurhachi meant "if the city could not be defended, retreat to Puerhe City", but saying this gave them a great deal of autonomy.

Since Huang Taiji's successful ascension, they have rarely had this kind of autonomy, and their hearts are naturally comfortable.

It's a pity that they are comfortable, but Huang Taiji feels uncomfortable.

He has always been very clear that since the four years of the Apocalypse, Dajin cannot fight the Ming army on the frontal battlefield, and should be fought by others, and the Jin army will be interspersed with more and less.

If Huang Taiji knew the word "politics", he would have pointed at this group of one-string guys and shouted, "Mingjin is not a military issue, but a political issue."

It's just that no matter how uncomfortable he is, it's useless, because Nurhachi has already decided the direction of this matter.

"Let's go......"

Nurhachi coughed, and Daishan and the others, who had received the benefits, began to step forward and push the cart and send Nurhachi back to Shangjing.

While they were leaving, Huang Taiji did not move, and the two brothers, Fan Wencheng and Fan Wenyu, also stayed next to him, obviously knowing that their master had a better way.

"How much grain is expected to be harvested in this autumn......

After everyone left, Huang Taiji asked Fan Wencheng, and Fan Wencheng said:

"According to last year's yield per mu, there are about 100,000 stone beans, 800,000 stone rice and wheat, as well as 2 million stone sweet potatoes and potatoes, and 1 million stone sweet potato vines."

"Baylor, according to the slaves, can prepare some sweet potatoes and potatoes into dry chips, and this winter, suspend rice and wheat."

Fan Wencheng figured out Huang Taiji's thoughts, to put it bluntly, he wanted to store grain, but sweet potatoes and potatoes were not easy to store, and only beans and rice and wheat could be stored.

However, if the Jurchens, who had only eaten a full meal for two years, suddenly switched to eating potatoes and sweet potatoes, this would inevitably cause dissatisfaction and could not be said by Huang Taiji.

Therefore, Fan Wencheng is ready to make this black glove for Huang Taiji.

"Do what you want......" Huang Taiji glanced at Fan Wencheng.

"The slave obeys the order...... Fan Wencheng nodded in response, and then walked around the field with Huang Taiji.

However, when they were wandering around, in the team that returned to the city with Nurhachi, Liu Aita approached Mang Gurtai and said carefully:

"Lord Belle, the slave will go back to the mansion to pack up first, and when Lord Belle gives the order, the slave will immediately take the soldiers and soldiers and horses to the south with Lord Belle."

"Hmm...... There you go. Mang Gurtai didn't look down on Liu Aita, but he still restrained himself and didn't humiliate the other party.

"The minions are retired...... Liu Aita stopped, and Mang Gurtai didn't care, just returned to the palace with the large army.

Looking at the back of the large army gradually moving away, Liu Aita breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and returned to his mansion.

After a quarter of an hour, when he returned to his mansion, the first thing he did was not to pack his bags, but to go to a simple courtyard, open the door and walk in, and said:

"There are some things you have to go......"

"Huh?"

Hearing the sound, a Jurchen who was sitting in the courtyard reading a book stood up.

Although they are all Jurchens, his appearance is obviously very different from the Jurchens in Jianzhou.

"What's the matter?" He put the book away, and Liu Aita also closed the door, frowning and telling this person all the conversations of the high-level of the Jin State.

After hearing this, this person also showed a solemn expression on his face: "This matter needs to be sent back to Nu'er Gancheng immediately, do you have a way to help me get out of the city?" ”

"Tonight or tomorrow morning, Mang Gurtai should let me go with him, and then you disguise yourself as a soldier and follow me out of the city." Liu Aita's own thoughts were told to the other party.

"Good!" Hearing this, the man also nodded, and after Liu Aita explained, he turned around and left the courtyard.

After a while, he began to ask the people in the palace to pack up, and as he expected, after sending Nurhachi back to the palace, Mang Gurtai sent someone to send him to the military camp of the fourth battalion of Han to transfer troops, and in the afternoon he went to Huifa City.

Liu Aita got the news, and even if he went out of the city with his family soldiers, the Eight Banners soldiers at the city gate did not investigate carefully when they saw them.

After arriving at the fourth camp of the Han Dynasty, Liu Aita asked someone to prepare a horse, and after issuing the military order to transfer troops, he took the Jurchen disguised as a family soldier out of the military camp, and vaguely reminded:

"Take Daqingshan Road, there are people from the fourth battalion of the Han Dynasty, you are carrying a five-hundred-mile urgent order flag behind your back, and you are a Jurchen, the soldiers of the Han battalion dare not stop you."

"Good!" Hearing this, the Jurchens carried the order flag on their backs, and then turned over and got on their horses.

With a "drive", he rode his horse out of front of the camp of the fourth battalion of the Han Dynasty.

As for Liu Aita, he watched his back gradually disappear at the end of the road, and then turned around and walked back to the barracks.

Half an hour later, Fan Wencheng also hurried over and commanded the mobilization of troops and horses.

After such a busy hour, the 6,000 Han battalion soldiers walked out of the barracks and embarked on the road to the south.

At the same time, the Jurchen also pretended to be an expedited pond rider for 500 miles, and went to Nu'er Gancheng unimpeded......

(End of chapter)