The messenger said this in a loud voice, and when the surrounding Jurchen leaders heard this, they were in a big mess!

With some disbelief, Nurhachi grabbed the messenger and lifted him up from his horse. "What did you say?"

"It's Yu Ren, Yu Ren has already surrounded Liaoyang City. Efu sent villains to rush out of the encirclement at the risk of death to report to the Great Khan, asking the Great Khan to return to the army quickly. It's too late, I'm afraid Liaoyang City will be lost. ”

Nurhachi shouted, "Yu Ren! Then he waved his long whip and shouted loudly, "Go back to the teacher!" ”

The news that Yu Ren's 100,000-strong army surrounded Liaoyang quickly spread among the Jurchens. And most of the families of these Jurchens are in Liaoyang. Hearing the news, they couldn't wait to fly back to Liaoyang with wings on their backs. For a moment, the team was in chaos.

When Nurhachi's army rushed back to Liaoyang, he did not see a single soldier of the Ming army. When Li Yongfang saw the extremely angry Nurhachi, he was even more puzzled.

"I heard that the Great Khan took this trip, and almost without blood, he captured Guangning, and the Ming officers and soldiers abandoned the city and fled when they heard the prestige of our army. The Great Khan took this opportunity to lead his army south and broke through the Shanhai Pass in one go. But why did he return to the teacher in a hurry? ”

When Nurhachi heard this, he was dumbfounded. Mang Gurtai, who was following him, glared at Li Yongfang.

"Didn't you send someone to call the Great Khan back? It is also said that Yu Ren surrounded Liaoyang with 100,000 soldiers. Why didn't I even see the hair of the Ming army? ”

Li Yongfang was taken aback!

"How could it be. Liaoyang has been very calm since he was sweating out of the division. Although Yue Tuo returned from defeat, he clamored for me to hand over the 5,000 cavalry of Liaoyang to him to avenge Yu Ren. But I think that now that the Great Khan is out on the expedition, Liaoyang cannot be guarded without soldiers. And now the east is our strategic focus. As for Zhenjiang Fort, it is not too important to us at the moment, and we will not be able to enter it if we go there. Anyway, it's already lost, and if you want to take it, you don't rush to take it at this time.

As for Yu Ren, he sent troops to surround Liaoyang. This is simply nonsense. Mo said that Yu Ren did not have 100,000 soldiers and horses, and even if he did, he would never dare to come to Liaoyang. ”

Mang Gurtai looked at Li Yongfang coldly, "Then what's the matter with the messenger you sent earlier?" ”

That's exactly what Nurhachi wanted to ask. Hearing Mang Gurtai ask what he was thinking, Nurhachi didn't speak again, but just looked at Li Yongfang vigilantly.

Li Yongfang looked stunned, "I didn't send a messenger to say that Liaoyang is besieged!" During the Great Khan's expedition, I sent only one messenger. It was to report to the Great Khan about Yue Tuo's defeat. No more messengers have been sent since! ”

"There must be something strange about this matter, and the child guesses that it should be that Yu Ren deliberately sent someone to fake the news to deceive us back. First, we can be deceived to return to the teacher, and second, we can't separate the Great Khan and Yongfang. The Great Khan must not fall for his divisive scheme! Huang Taiji saw that Nurhachi's face was not good, and hurriedly excused Li Yongfang.

Nurhachi listened to Huang Taiji's words, bowed his head and fell into deep thought. He knew that what Huang Taiji said made sense, but Nurhachi never believed that with Yu Ren, a stinky kid, he could have such a deep scheming. And in Daming, he has not seen such a person with such a brilliant vision and strategy.

Nurhachi believes that the Ming should not have it. The reason is simple! If the Ming really had such a vision and strategy, they would not have been defeated again and again in the battles with themselves in recent years, and almost lost the entire Liaodong. So, Nurhachi became more and more skeptical.

In his opinion, in this world, there is only one Li Yongfang who can have this vision and insight, except for him and his Four Baylor Emperor Taiji.

Naturally, he will not have a problem with Si Baylor, and the only problem should be with this Li Yongfang. What's more, such a thing as impersonating a messenger, if there is no mole, they can't do it so seamlessly.

Li Yongfang's talent, Nurhachi knows, so he suspects that this matter is Li Yongfang's secret guidance.

On the surface, Nurhachi seems to trust Li Yongfang very much, and even married his daughter to him. But the truth is the opposite, it is precisely because he does not trust Li Jifang that Nurhachi will marry his daughter to him. On the one hand, this is a generalization, and on the other hand, it also implies the meaning of surveillance.

The occurrence of such a major event today made him miss a good opportunity, and even if Nurhachi trusted Li Yongfang again, he would inevitably feel some displeasure with him. You know, Nurhachi is already past the age of six, and he knows that the time given to him by God is running out.

Therefore, he felt particularly sorry for not being able to conquer Shanhaiguan this time. Therefore, in my heart, I don't like Li Yongfang very much. Although he didn't think that Li Yongfang did it directly, he still thought that it was related to him. He didn't doubt Li Yongfang's loyalty to him because of this, but he also began to stop trusting Li Yongfang as much as before.

Just when Nurhachi was lamenting the missed opportunity in Liaoyang, Yu Ren was sitting comfortably on the tower of Zhenjiang City basking in the sun. Now that winter is almost over, the temperature outside is gradually rising, and sitting on the city tower and basking in the sun has become Yu Ren's favorite enjoyment.

defeated Yue Tuo, got nearly a thousand of his war horses, and successfully deceived Nurhachi back to Liaoyang, Yu Ren still felt a little proud in his heart.

You know, the difficulty of these two things is not ordinarily high! Defeating Yue Tuo may not be difficult, but he only has a thousand soldiers and horses. But these thousand people are all cavalry, and they are very mobile. In addition, their tactics have always been to fight if they win, and run away if they can't win, and it is very difficult to annihilate them. This is also the fundamental reason why the Central Plains Dynasty has been fighting against the northern nomads for more than 2,000 years, but has never substantially eliminated them.

And although the Ming Dynasty has always had an overwhelming advantage over the northern peoples. However, in the past hundred years, only Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang have been able to kill more than 1,000 enemies at one time. From this point of view, Yu Ren's victory this time can be tied with Qi Li. And he also successfully deceived Nurhachi back to Liaoyang, strategically, bought time for the Ming Dynasty.

From these two points of analysis, his military exploits were unmatched at that time. However, when reporting to the imperial court, Yu Ren finally concealed his name, and reported this report to the Emperor of the Apocalypse in the name of Mao Wenlong. Yu Ren knows very well what the situation is like in the Ming Dynasty now.

Although at present, the Donglin Party is in control of the government, and the politics seem to be clear. But he also knew very well that the eunuch Wei Zhongxian, one of the four traitorous ministers of the Ming Dynasty, who was in Taoguang, was going to appear soon. And behind him, there is also a Hakka who is deeply trusted by the emperor.

In such a political environment, Yu Ren would not wade into this troubled water no matter what. He felt that he still had the freedom to be his own pirate, at least traitors like Wei Zhongxian couldn't do anything about him. I don't take the court's money, I am not canonized by the court, I can come when I want, and I can leave if I want. If there's something, I can help if I want to, and if I don't want to help you, I can't help me.

It was with this idea that Yu Ren wrote the chief general of the Zhenjiang Battle as Mao Wenlong in the final report.

And that makes sense. Mao Wenlong was originally sent by Wang Huazhen to prepare a sneak attack on Zhenjiang Fort and contain the Jurchens from the east. Of course, the real Mao Wenlong is dead. The current Mao Wenlong is the small businessman Mao Fugui that Yu Ren found. But what does it matter?

In Zhenjiang, it is still him Yu Ren who has the final say. But in the court, not many people knew that the real person in charge here was him, and they all thought it was Mao Wenlong. In this way, if Wei Zhongxian wants to harm him in the future, he will not be able to harm him. This is Yu Ren's consideration.

For the results of this time, the imperial court is still quite satisfied. Not long after the letter was sent away, the imperial court sent several warships and transported a large number of logistical supplies. And these are exactly what Yu Ren lacks the most at the moment. However, there are no soldiers. Wang Huazhen had just lost 100,000 elite soldiers in Guangning, and the soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty were nervous in a short period of time, not to mention that the Jurchens had to be prevented from continuing to move south. had to deploy heavy troops at Shanhaiguan.

Although there were no soldiers and horses, Yu Ren didn't mind. All he needs now is weapons and silver. People, he believes that he can still recruit locally. Moreover, the men and horses recruited from the local area are far more reliable than those transferred from other places. Because their home is here, in order to protect their homeland and their relatives, they will not easily bow to the Jurchens.

After defeating Yue Tuo, Yu Ren completed his first recruitment in just over a month. This time the number of recruits was five thousand. In fact, if he didn't limit the number of people, he could recruit at least 20,000 people, because the conditions he offered were very generous, and the Han people in this area had been bullied by the Jurchens in recent years.

But Yu Ren only left 5,000 people. Because he knows that his economic conditions are limited. Judging from the current salary given to him by the imperial court, he can only support 5,000 people at most. And his current number of people is nearly 10,000. So, he had to find a way.

The imperial court can't count on it, and the current Ming Dynasty's finances are not loose, after all, he must have an extra big expense here. It's good to be able to give him 5,000 hair. Therefore, Yu Ren can only think of his own way and find a way to make money.