After leaving Yiju in North Korea and returning north to Hetuara for four or five days, Yue Yu and Mu Zaohua's team had just arrived at Kuandian, which was actually controlled by the Jurchens in Jianzhou, and one of the Jiala Ezhen guarding the city came excitedly to report it.

"Master, we're about to take down Goose Feather City!"

Yue Zhen's eyes were overjoyed.

Goose Feather City is in the southeast of the Qinghe River and the northeast of Aiyang, less than 100 miles away from the Niumao Village that has been occupied by the Later Jin, and was originally one of the first guards of the Ming army to set up a point in the capital of Liaodong.

The scale of Goose Feather City is not as large as that of Yahu Pass, but it can also be regarded as the key place of Qinghe and Aiyang, which can be regarded as a military stronghold.

If it is really successful, this is the first time in four years that the Jin army has captured an important fortress of the Ming Kingdom since the defeat of Fushun in the last year of Wanli, which will definitely boost the morale of the people of Jianzhou more than the conquest of Yehebu.

Before Yue Xuan's gaze swept over, Mu Zaohua had already shown the same surprise: "I'll just say, the Derge class is good!" ”

But my heart was really full of worries.

This time, she went to Uiju to look for Korean merchants, and not long after she traveled south, she had already seen Mang Gurtai's younger brother, the army of the Blue Banner Little Beledeg.

Nurhachi showed obvious signs of physical aging, but his mind still maintained the level of an old and spicy military strategist. He summed up the lesson of Fushun's deflatedness, and did not believe in the Yehe Department of Guishun so quickly, so he would not directly rush to Kaiyuan and Tieling in the north in Kaichun, but first pulled out a few of the Ming military forts in the south, so as not to lead the army in the early autumn to kill in the direction of Kai and Tie, Mao Wenlong's troops of the Dongjiang River quickly advanced north from Zhenjiang, through Phoenix City and Aiyang, so as to attack the old nest of Hetuala in Houjin.

When Mu Zaohua was in Yizhou, through the mouth of A Xue, he informed Xu San that after Zou Chuxian, the original Qinghe guard, was promoted to Fushun General because of his military merits, Zhang Pei, a guerrilla who guarded Qinghe Fort, was also a ruthless character in the eyes of the Tartars. But in the first month of this year, the news of Zhang Pei's death reached Hetuala.

Rao is Mu Zaohua and Xu San both estimated that the military defense around Qinghe would become weaker before the new defenders took office, but they didn't expect that before this spring was completely over, the Tartars would be able to gnaw a city with a guard foundation and a lot of troops.

Moreover, on the Tartar side, the soldiers are still led by the young little Belle and Dege who were captured by the Sichuan army in Luanhe.

Mu Zaohua, as a person with a positive blue flag, heard the news, and his face was proud.

On the other side, Jia La's Ezhen is an old Jianzhou, and he understands that the owner of the red flag is Yue Zhen, and he is pro-Bai Qi and Yuanzheng Blue Flag, and he hurriedly said to Yue Zhen flatteringly: "Master, not long after the Blue Flag arrived in Goose Feather City, the people of the White Flag also arrived. ”

Yue Yu said "oh", which was not too strange.

How could the Great Khan not know that the Derg class had to send more people.

Attacking the stockade is different from grabbing things in peacetime, and Nurhachi likes to let the cattle of different flags fight the same military fortress to stimulate their courage to compete for military merits.

"Who did Uncle Huang Taiji send to lead the troops?"

Najia La's true words: "It's a Mao Du...... Oh, it's a doll as ruthless as a calf, called Aobai. ”

……

Goose Feather Outside the City.

Yue Zhen stood on the grassy slope stained with old and new blood, looking at the young general in front of him.

The young general was also a strong general, and repelled several reinforcements from the Ming army.

"Aobai, why haven't I seen you next to Uncle Huang Taiji?" Yue Zhen asked.

"Back to the master, the slave's Amma, who has been restraining the Baoyi on Huerha's side, and Hetuala, who only brought the slave back last year. The Great Khan let us enter the white flag. ”

"Huerha?" Mu Zaohua interjected, "Where is that?" ”

Aobai, who was only eighteen years old, looked at the woman in front of him who was not a few years older than herself, and saw that she had only one ear pierced in her ear, and the Jurchen accent was strange.

Isn't that a blue flag? How could he come to the battlefield side by side with Yue Zhen, and dare to interject so aggressively.

Yue Yu explained in a calm tone: "Hu'erha, it is a tribe of savage Jurchen over there in Heishui, ten years ago, the Great Khan personally conquered and pacified several places. ”

He turned to Ao Bai again and said, "I heard that there have been reinforcements from the Yahu Pass and Aiyang?" ”

Ao Bai was young and vigorous, eager to show his merits, and raised his voice: "Back to the master, there have been three shares in total, but I don't know if they are stupid or uneven, and they don't send troops together, and there is a difference of more than ten days before and after, and they are all repelled by the minions." The defenders in the goose feather city did not dare to come out. ”

"Good!" Yue Zhen blurted out and praised, "Uncle is really right, for a guard city like the Ming army, it should be surrounded and sent for reinforcements." ”

Yue Zhi gestured like a hunter commenting on hunting skills.

Mu Zaohua could already understand the very complicated Jurchen words, she wrote down the worship in front of her, and even remembered the siege tactics that Huang Taiji admired.

Madame Zheng said that she should send back as much of the military deployment and personnel changes as possible to the Tartars, especially the Huang Taiji who was staring at the white flag, to find out the way that the banner owner liked to send troops, to find out which small Baylors and new generals he had brought together under his account, and how the open and secret battles with several other banner owners were progressing.

While they were talking, there was a commotion in the direction of the city gate ahead, mixed with the cheers and howls of the Jurchens and the miserable wails of the Han people.

Ao Bai said excitedly: "The master of the Derge class has broken the city!" ”

Yue Yu turned on his horse and led everyone to rush down the grassy slope.

The silver-armored Derge received the news from the herald and urged the horse to greet him.

Yue Zhen's identity as the banner owner is higher than that of Derge, but in terms of blood lineage, Derge is the same as Huang Taiji, and he is his uncle.

Yue Zhen took the lead in holding his fists on horseback, and said loudly: "Congratulations to Uncle Dege for his great achievements!" ”

Derge pointed to Ao Bai and said: "His credit is not small, or the starling can pick people, and even more so can use soldiers." ”

"Starling" refers to the "Huang Taiji".

Bow down and salute the Derge.

After returning to Hetuara with his father last year, Ao Bai listened to the Jianzhou nobles chewing their tongues, and the two brothers Mang Gurtai and Derge were discordant because of the mysterious death of their mother, and Derge was far less hostile to Huang Taiji and Yue Yu than Mang Gurtai was to them.

This time, the combined forces attacked Goose Feather City, and Ao Bai really didn't feel that the Derge class had stumbled on his white flag team.

Derge's gaze became suspicious when he saw Mu Zaohua running over from the horse.

"I met Yue Beile in Yizhou," Mu Zaohua said simply, and then changed the tone of suggestion to Dege and Yue, "Two masters, it's a pity that the people in the city were killed, so it's better to take them back to the north and distribute them to the flags to make coats." ”

Ao Bai sneered and pointed ahead: "We won't kill those Nikan, those Nikans have already started to eat their own people." ”

The crowd followed the prestige, and saw many staggering, skeleton-like Han people pouring out of the wide open city gates.

Some went to examine the corpses of the Ming army, trying to find dry food from the dead bodies.

Some of them were physically exhausted even after running a few steps, and fell to the ground, as if they were reaching out and grabbing the weeds, mixing the dirt and stuffing them into their mouths, as if they were the last hope for life.

There are even some who, regardless of it, pounce on the Ming army who have already thrown down their weapons and surrendered to the Jurchens, and want to open their mouths to bite them.

Jin Bing scolded while stepping forward to pull, but he couldn't pull it away.

Ao Bai laughed and said, "I didn't expect people who are about to starve to death to have such great strength." Well, these coatings are good, and they must work. ”

Yue Zhen frowned almost invisibly and asked Derge, "How long has the siege been?" ”

Derg said: "A month and a half." As Ama expected, the Qinghe guard died of illness, and there was a lot of chaos underneath, and the spring grain was not transported. Earlier, we interrogated a prisoner and said that there was no food in the city. The garrison of this goose feather city is very hard, refuses to surrender, can hold out for so long, and there are a few times when they ride out to beat us, they should have killed people and eaten us in the city. ”

Ao Bai echoed: "The slave also caught the deserter, saying that it was one of his own good friends, who was cut into several pieces and roasted. Look, the masters of the Ming Kingdom are really bad breeds, they can't beat them, and they still hold their necks and refuse to surrender to us, and it's really exciting to eat their own women. ”

When Mu Zaohua heard this, she scolded in her heart: Little beasts, if it weren't for you Tartars attacking the city, how could they die!

She clutched the reins in her hand, tried hard to hold back her anger, only maintained a faint pity on her face, and said quietly: "It is a woman who suffers all the time. ”

Yue Zhen glanced at her, and said in a deep voice to Derge: "If you still have extra dry food, give those Nikans a little bit to continue their lives, the jujube girl is right, they are all men, kill or starve to death, it's a pity." The captives who surrendered to the Ming army were also taken to Hetuala. ”

Derg instructed his men to do it.

A few people rode into the city, only to feel the smell of rotting corpses and feces and urine, far more disgusting than the bloody smell of the battlefield.

The goose feather city is not big, but many military towns in Liaodong also have the color of merchant transit stations, so the shops, inns and private houses in the city are mixed, and they are crowded with golden soldiers, ping pong and turning over boxes and cabinets, plundering valuable things, and turning out the clothes are directly worn on the body one by one.

Of course, Derge would not stop his subordinates from doing this, but he suddenly remembered Fang Cai Yue's eyes observing Mu Zaohua, his heart moved, and he turned his head and ordered the Baijia soldiers who were following him: "Pass the order, you can take things, and you are not allowed to spoil women here." ”

When everyone walked to the military office, they saw that the stone street in front of the door was also noisy.

But it was not the Jin soldiers who were looting the property, but the Han people dressed in Ming clothes, forming a circle and throwing stones into the circle.

The pro-soldiers of the Derge class quickly stepped forward and drove everyone away.

I saw three bloody corpses lying on the ground, one of which had a bandage on his arm.

"Master, it's the boss of Goose Feather City and his two family members. Those Nikans said that it was the general persuasion that the garrison should not surrender that caused so many people in the city to starve to death, and now that the garrison is dead, they will take the general out of anger. ”

As soon as the pro-soldier's words fell, a man in his early twenties ran not far away, and scolded angrily as he ran: "Are you still human!" General Xu killed his own horse and gave it to you to eat, otherwise he would have been able to run out even if he was wounded. ”

The man ran over and knelt down, convinced that the general surnamed Xu had lost his breath, and his eyes were even more split, so he got up and glanced around, then pounced on his compatriot who was still holding a blood-stained stone in his hand, and waved his fist.

Stoned to death and surrounded the people in the city: "Beat you stinky nerd, loyal and righteous all day long, why don't you kill a few Tartars!" ”

Derge waved his hand, and the soldiers hurriedly went up and tore it away.

"Bring this man here." Yue Zhen shouted on his horse.