Hetuala is a typical mountain city, located on the plateau, south of Yangbi Mountain, north of Suzi River, looking at Hulan Hada Mountain.

The city is located between the mountains and the guards, and consists of two cities, the inner and the outer. The radius is ten miles, the terrain in the south is high in the north and low in the north, and it is surrounded by the city wall built of earth and stone.

The central part of the inner city is low-lying and has a deep well, which provides water for the whole city, and also avoids the dilemma of running out of water due to a long siege by the enemy.

Among them, the outer city is about 1,300 meters long from east to west, north and south, with a circumference of about 5,200 meters and a city height of more than 4 meters.

The inner city of Hetuara is mainly a residential area, and the outer city is home to cavalry and important military installations, and the whole city lives more than 20,000 households and more than 100,000 people.

Houjin's horse farm workshops, granaries, weapons workshops and other important facilities are almost all in the outer city.

The 4-meter city wall is not worth mentioning at all compared to the city of Daming, and even the small Qinghe Fort capital is more than 6 meters high, not to mention some big cities.

However, because his site itself is on a high hill, it is surrounded by undulating peaks and rivers.

For a light raid, it was almost impossible for the Ming army, which did not have any siege equipment, to break through here.

Therefore, whether it is attacking Wuji Pass or walking around the north of the city, Li Xianzhong has only one purpose, that is, to draw out the blue flag in the city.

It's a pity that He Heli in the city is like an old monk in the city, no matter how the Ming army acts, he is unmoved.

Li Sanshun said with regret: "Finally, this time we have enough time to capture Hetuala, it's a pity that these Tartars don't dare to go out of the city." ”

The Jianzhou Jurchens live in the mountains, and most of their cottages are mountain cities that rely on geographical advantages, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack.

So even if it was the "ploughing court sweeping holes" during the Chenghua period, it only temporarily weakened the Jianzhou Jurchens, and it won't be long before they will make a comeback!

In fact, since the Chenghua period, the Jianzhou Jurchens began to rise, and every time the Ming Dynasty crusaded against Jianzhou, it was almost because the Jianzhou Jurchens committed border captives and plundered the border people in eastern Liaodong.

But for more than 100 years, no matter whether the Ming Dynasty took requisition or let its internal strife consume each other, it has never been able to completely eliminate this hidden danger, so that it has caused today's disaster.

Even if the Ming army severely damaged Nurhachi's Eight Banners this time, as long as the Ming national strength could not support a long-term continuous expedition, it would not be long before they would make a comeback.

However, Li Xianzhong's main purpose in going deep into Hetuara this time was to force Nurhachi to withdraw his troops, and presumably the old slave would receive the news soon. Since he couldn't take advantage of Hetuala, the Ming army simply went all the way north and swept away the other Jurchen walled cities, further weakening his war potential.

After all, the men in the Jurchen cottage have been recruited by Nurhachi, and a group of old and weak women and children can't resist the attack of the Ming army.

Along the Suzi River north, there are many Jianzhou Jurchen cottages along the way, the most famous of which are Maldun Village and Gule Village.

These are also the two largest settlements in the state after Hetuala.

Mardun means barrier and steep in Manchu. Maldun was originally the name of a cottage on the road to Fushun in Jianzhou, located on the top of Qinglong Mountain, and the terrain was extremely steep.

The owner of the Mardun village, Neshen, once relied on the danger of the cottage to prevent Nurhachi from growing, but it was eventually broken by the old slaves, and now it has become a large Jianzhou Jurchen gathering place.

In addition to the old village on the top of the mountain, the scope of the village has also expanded a lot to the surrounding area, and now it is a place where tens of thousands of people live in a radius of several miles.

Maldun is located halfway between Hetuara and Sarhu, 60 miles northwest of Hetuala.

The Ming army galloped northwest for less than two hours and finally arrived here.

Now the news that Houjin completely annihilated the two route armies in the northwest of the Ming Kingdom near Salhu is well known, so Mardun Village has no defense.

Li Sanshun led 300 people to put on the armor of the red flag, and came to the gate of the village very easily, and then directly entered the village while they were unprepared.

This Jianzhou can be described as a mobilization of the whole clan, not to mention the bannermen of their own clan, even the strong Baoyi was recruited to engage in logistics auxiliaries together.

So when Li Sanshun and the others raised the butcher's knife, they encountered too strong resistance.

Soon, under the guidance of Li Sanshun and others, Liaodong Iron Cavalry also rushed into the village.

Although these Jianjun did not know why the Ming army suddenly appeared in their village, they were skilled in arching and horses, and some elderly Jurchens still took up arms to fight the Ming army.

Of course, in the face of the most elite iron cavalry of the Ming army, their struggle was in vain.

The Ming army kept waving the swords in their hands, and it was the old and weak who fell to the ground one by one.

The old and weak of these Jianguo were certainly not the main force engaged in production in ordinary times, and the main ones engaged in the heavy manual work of cultivating the land were still captive slaves, mainly Han Chinese, and of course there were also Mongols and Jurchens of other tribes.

However, since Nurhachi established the Houjin, in order to enrich the population of the Jurchens, all Jurchens have basically been classified into various banners, including the Haixi Jurchens.

The Han captives remained the lowest slaves, often referred to as "Bao Yi Aha".

Of course, strictly speaking, there is a slight difference between "Baoyi" and "Ahha", "Baoyi" generally refers to domestic slaves, and "Aha" is the lowest slave.

In addition to the 3,000 old and weak people in Mardun Village, there are also nearly 7,000 "Baoyi Aha".

How to deal with these "coated ahabs" has become a troublesome matter.

If you kill them all, many of them are border people who were looted from the front line of Fushun and Qinghe by Jianjiao last year, and they are quite innocent.

If they don't kill, these people will continue to work for Houjin, supply resources, and some will even act as spies.

After all, there are still seventy or eighty miles away from the Liaodong border wall in Fushun, and it is unrealistic to take them away, so it is estimated that they will not be able to reach the side wall by themselves, and they have to let Jianyu catch them back and continue to be slaves.

At this time, Li Xianzhong had already started to kill, after all, this was in Jianzhou, even if he said that all these people were killed, he would not know it.

Just as he was about to give the order to slaughter all of them, a tall young man suddenly walked out of this group of "clothed Ahha".

I saw this man salute Li Xianzhong and said: "Presumably, the general army is worried about how to deal with us captive border people, if my expectations are correct, the general wants to kill us people forever." ”

Li Xianzhong did not hide his thoughts, and said with a smile: "You are just a slave of Tartar if you stay here, it is better to spend the rest of your life than pigs and dogs, it is better to help you liberate in advance." ”

Li Xianzhong did not deny that it was beyond his expectations, so the young man said: "Thanks to the general's frankness, our captive border people are also innocent people, although some of them have taken refuge in Jianjiao and worked for them with all their hearts, but most of them are ordinary people. ”

"There is a way to provoke Xiaosheng to let these people return to the territory of Daming safely, I wonder if the general will be able to open the net?"

Since this person can see through his mind at a glance, he must also have some ability.

Li Xianzhong said: "You talk about it first!" ”

The young man said: "There are still 75 miles from Fushun Pass, and if we walk, I am afraid that we will eventually be arrested; However, if you are riding a horse, it will not take half a day to arrive. ”

"Although there are not many horses here, there is a horse farm in Gule Village, 20 miles away, with thousands of good horses. The 20-mile road I waited for even if I walked for more than an hour, and I asked the general to wait for me to have a way out. ”

After saying that, the young man knelt on the ground, and the people behind him also knelt on the ground and shouted, "Please wait for me to survive!" ”

Although the main force of Jianyu should not have returned to the division so quickly, but now that it is in Jianzhou after all, Li Xianzhong originally did not want to carry these burdens.

But thinking about it, if I just returned to Fushun from Jianzhou and didn't bring anything, it seemed that I would suffer too much. Bringing these border people with them, at least someone will carry some supplies, and just those thousands of good horses are also a lot of income.

So he said: "Ben General will temporarily recruit you to become a miscellaneous soldier of our army, but Ben will say ugly things in front, you only have an hour and a half, if you can't arrive at Gule Village after an hour and a half, then Ben General will not be able to control your life or death." ”

After Li Xianzhong finished speaking, those people hurriedly kowtowed, thank you a thousand times!

He still admired this young man very much, and intended to recruit him under his command.

So he asked, "I don't know your Excellency's name?" ”

The young man said: "Xiaosheng Fan Wencheng Shenyang Zhongwei is a talent from Wanli for forty-five years!" ”

Fan Wencheng's words almost didn't make Li Xianzhong's jaw drop, Fan Wencheng, a notorious traitor in history, was actually making clothes for people in Mardun Village.

A hint of murderous intent flashed in his eyes.

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