Chapter Fifty-Eight: Xianzhong Incorporated the Imperial Army, and the Old Slave Was Wounded and Burned (Seeking to Chase a Monthly Pass)
After the affair between the contemporary good and his favorite concubine Abahai was confirmed, Nurha was furious.
Although the eldest concubine is not a good biological mother, she is also his queen mother in terms of generation and status.
Although Dai Shan is a few years older than the eldest concubine, he is still a son in name.
Although Nurhachi also once expressed his hope that Daishan would take care of his concubines and young sons after his death, the Jurchens did have sons who inherited the tradition of their father's women!
But these are all things that happened after Nurhachi's death.
Now that their old father is still alive and well, they have done such an unseemly deed, and this is still the case?
Although there is still a big difference between the Jurchens' ethics and the Ming people, this kind of thing is unbearable for any man!
Don't say it's a man, even if it's a eunuch!
Wei Zhongxian robbed his "brother" Wei Dynasty's other diner Yin Yue, and Wei Dynasty also had to fight with him!
Huang Taiji took his father Khan to death.
He had already mastered these "black materials" for the eldest bele's good abuse of his son and the eldest concubine, but he lacked a suitable time.
The Great Khan's injury was already very sensitive, and Daishan's return to Hetuara without permission would definitely arouse his suspicions.
At this time, if these black materials are exposed, Dai Shan will definitely be abolished.
It's just that Huang Taiji himself didn't expect Dai Shan to actually make a move to kill his son, which is really self-inflicted.
Nurhachi soon deposed him as the prince on the grounds that he had abused his son and was unworthy of the throne.
However, at this time, the Ming army was pressing, and Dai Shan held the elite of the two red flags, and controlled the Kuandian region and North Korea, and Nurhachi did not dare to persecute him too much.
Nurhachi swore to his brothers on behalf of the good that in the future, if he had a grudge against the Baylors and the ministers, he would be willing to be punished by heaven and earth.
After that, he still retained the identity of Daishan Dabeiler, and did not deprive his subordinates of Niu Lu, who was still the head of Dakin's "Four Great Baylors".
Originally, Amin died, and Nurhachi intended to promote Abahai's son, Azig, who is now the owner of the Blue Banner, to one of the four great beylers.
But after this incident, Azig's "Four Baylors" must be out of play.
The ugliness of the family should not be publicized, and Nurhachi could only abandon her on the grounds that the eldest concubine Abahai had stolen the gold silk.
Although she was expelled, she was given a place to live in the city of Hetuara, and she was allowed to continue to raise the young Dorgon and Dord.
At this time, Li Xianzhong had already led his troops to the fortress of Gule Village.
This expedition to the grassland can be said to be full of harvest, not only extorted 150,000 taels of silver from Lin Dan Khan, but also obtained thousands of cattle and horses.
However, those 20,000 sheep have really become a problem, and the pastures in Kaiyuan and Tieling can't raise so many sheep at all.
So Li Xianzhong directly circled two pastures outside the Zhenbei Pass and Xin'an Pass in Kaiyuan for grazing sheep.
This can be regarded as taking the opportunity to expand the power of the Ming Dynasty to the grassland.
Now that the "Taierhan" Zai Sai is attacking fried flowers on a large scale, preparing to unify the Inner Khalkha tribes, he naturally has no time to take care of the grasslands outside the Kaiyuan Pass.
With the help of cement, it was convenient for the Ming army to build several small forts and beacon towers along the grassland.
Li Xianzhong asked Zai Sai for hundreds of fried flowers, and the captured people were used to graze for himself.
However, this animal husbandry is really slow to come to the money.
Under today's conditions, lamb simply cannot be stored for a long time.
Although Kaiyuan, Shenyang, and Liaoyang have hot pot restaurants opened by Li Xianzhong that specialize in selling these freshly killed "hot mutton".
But after all, the number of people who can consume mutton in Liaodong is limited, and most of the sheep are still used to improve the food for meritorious soldiers and craftsmen who have made outstanding contributions.
Dairy products are even more difficult to preserve, and in addition to making traditional cheese and butter tea, more cow and goat's milk is made into milk powder.
The production process of milk powder was available in the Yuan Dynasty, and the Mongols also carried milk powder when they went on expeditions.
It's just that the production process is relatively rough, and the original heating is used to remove the water.
The shelf life is also relatively short, only two or three months, but it is a major breakthrough compared to the shelf life of fresh milk.
Many problems were also exposed in the battle of Gule Village, and the biggest contradiction was the rate of fire of the Lu Mi gun.
Li Sanshun, together with Man Gui and others, came to the conclusion that it was impossible to rely on pure firearms troops to defend the fortress at present.
It must be supplemented by a strong hoplite.
As long as the Tartars put in thousands of troops and attack desperately, it will be difficult for Lu Mi to wipe them out under the city.
In addition, the firing rate of flintlock pistols decreases after continuous firing, and this time if not every musketeer is equipped with 2 Rumi guns, I am afraid that the problem will be even more serious.
However, the thunder was very useful, and Li Sanshun suggested that in the future, special grenadiers should be incorporated into the firearms unit.
Of course, there is another problem that the cost of both flowering bombs and thunderbolts is relatively high, and the current production capacity is obviously insufficient.
Ping Yuwei held out in the fortress for three days, and almost used up the stocks of the thunderbolts, and there were not many flowering bombs left.
Although the fortress can kill and damage a large number of enemies in a short period of time, it is also a "behemoth" that devours ammunition in itself.
The biggest difference between hot weapons and cold weapons is that hot weapons have a cost to use, unlike cold weapons, which only have a manufacturing cost.
A lot of ammunition is burned behind the silver, and it is clear that in addition to the factories for guns and artillery, the production capacity of ammunition in Pingyubao will also be increased.
Otherwise, the march of the army will be affected.
At present, the Ming army is stockpiling ammunition and preparing for the next larger-scale attack.
In addition to the Gule village in front of them, they also have to face the Mardun village and the city of Hetuala.
Although more than 10,000 Tartar soldiers were eliminated with the fortress, the Tartars still had a large number of troops, and there was a huge demand for flowering shells.
Now it is impossible for the Tartars to take the initiative to attack the fortress.
Naturally, Gule Village has lost the meaning of its continued existence.
Soon the gunners of the Ming army once again pushed the Hongyi cannon to the city of Gule Village.
Beside the Hongyi cannon are Liaodong iron cavalry with distinct clothes and neatly arranged.
This scene made the Zhenglan Banner in the city shudder, and it seemed that the Ming army was about to launch a general attack.
They knew very well that as long as the artillery bombardment was over, the Ming army's musketeers would use the range advantage to suppress them, and then these Liaodong iron cavalry would rush into the city without hesitation and kill them.
There are still 3,000 people in the Zhenglan Banner in the city, Gushan Ezhen Mang Gurtai has long been killed, and the left and right Melle Ezhen was also ambushed by the Ming army when he cooperated with the main force to attack the fortress.
At this moment, Jiala'e Zhen Samtai was the supreme commander of the city, he raised his sword and shouted: "The fire guns of the Han army Niu Lu pay attention to concealment, after the shelling, those Liaodong iron cavalry will definitely rush into the city, and greet them with fire guns when the time comes." ”
"Jianzhou Niulu will follow me to fight with the Ming army in close combat, we must inflict heavy losses on the Ming army and avenge Sanbeile!"
It's a pity that Samtai ignored the actual situation in the city at present, although the eight banners of Jianzhou still occupy forty percent of the three thousand blue banners, it is a pity that almost all the people who dare to fight were wiped out by the Ming army in the last sortie.
Today, among the remaining 1,200 Jianzhou Eight Banners, there are more than 1,000 Korean Jurchens.
There were only 1,050 Korean Jurchens in the Zhenglan Banner, and when the overall casualties in the Zhenglan Banner were as high as 70 percent, and the death rate in the Jianju Niulu was as high as 86 percent, these Koreans only lost 50 percent of the total number of Koreans, less than 5 percent of the total.
Their will to fight can be imagined.
At this time, the Ming army began to attack the heart and mind again, and I saw a Ming army envoy say loudly: "Ning Yuanbo has an order, as long as it is not a Jurchen of the Jianzhou clan, other people who have been forcibly conscripted into the Eight Banners of Jianzhou, whether it is the Haixi Jurchen tribe and the "savage Jurchen", or the Koreans or the Han army, as long as they surrender, they can avoid death!" ”
The reason why there were no people who surrendered in the Eight Banners of Jianzhou before, on the one hand, because of their system, if they surrendered, their families would be implicated; More importantly, the Ming army did not leave any room alive at all.
Jianzhou also attaches great importance to propaganda, although it is impossible for these Eight Banner soldiers to hear the original text of Li Xianzhong's "Discussion of the Construction of the Captive", but Li Xianzhong's sentence "Destroy its head, destroy its city, and destroy its clan" is known to almost everyone.
Everyone knew that the Ming army was coming to destroy the city and exterminate the clan this time, so they had to fight to the death.
Since Nurhachi can desperately inject water into the Jianzhou Jurchens, Li Xianzhong can naturally restore it.
Pluck out those who have been counted from the other tribes.
His move quickly worked, as most of the core of the Blue Banner had already been killed.
According to Li Xianzhong's algorithm just now, only the real Jianzhou Jurchens will be killed, then there will not even be 50 of these 3,000 people.
Even Jiala Ezhen Samtai is not a Jianzhou Jurchen, he was originally from the Haixi Jurchen Hui Division, and after being incorporated into the Zhenglan Banner, he was promoted to his current position because of his repeated military exploits.
At this moment, Samtai also figured it out, he can marry again if his wife is gone, and he can regenerate if his children are gone, and he is not a Jianzhou Jurchen, why should he be buried for Nurhachi?
So Samutai had the dozens of real Jianzhou Jurchens tied up, and then went out of the city and surrendered to the Ming army.
At this point, the "Battle of Gulezhai", which lasted for 40 days, ended.
The Ming army led by Li Xianzhong won the first major victory of the "Fourth Expedition of Wanli".
After verifying the results on the spot, Yan Mingtai, the governor of Jiliao, jointly issued a report to the imperial court of the "Great Victory of Gule Village".
In this battle, the Ming army captured Gule Village and the surrounding more than 100 miles. Killed Jianzhou Sanbeile Mang Gurtai, completely annihilated and captured 10,000 Zhenglan Banner soldiers, including 5,000 Jianzhou Jurchens.
Then he used the fort built to annihilate 11,000 soldiers with yellow flags and white flags, including 3,500 Jurchens in Jianzhou.
In addition, the Hongyi artillery of the Ming army also wounded Nurhachi himself.
Along with this "Great Victory of Gulezhai", the corpse of Mang Gurtai and the head of the five thousand Jianzhou Jurchens were also sent to the capital.
The previous information said that the Eight Banners of Jianzhou had a total of 80,000 soldiers, and Shoufu Ye Xianggao Tong's military department Shangshu Xiong Tingbi did not expect that Li Xianzhong would achieve such a result with only 20,000 troops.
Not only did the enemy army annihilated exceed the total number of troops it sent, but the Ming army killed in the battle was less than a thousand.
Although Li Xianzhong was ordered by the former emperor to launch an expedition against Jianzhou in the name of the "Fourth Expedition of Wanli", this was the first great victory after the new emperor ascended the throne.
Naturally, it should be commended, after all, there is also the credit of the cabinet and the military department.
However, there were also many North Korean heads mixed in, and in the end, the military department only confirmed the 3,500 level.
Bounties are naturally the old rule, and they are owed first.
Soon the news that Nurhachi was injured by the Ming army was also confirmed, after all, Fan Wenyu had sought medical treatment and medicine in order to lure Dai Shan back.
The secret agents of Dongchang and Jinyiwei have double-confirmed the authenticity of the news.
Now that the war is not over, the cabinet finally decided to suspend the award.
In addition, Li Xianzhong, as the deputy envoy of Liaodong Economic Strategy, and Yan Mingtai, the governor of Jiliao, jointly wrote to the military department.
It was requested that the 3,000 captives this time be organized into a surrender army to cooperate with the Ming army.
This unit is called the Imperial Ming Association Army, referred to as the "Imperial Association Army".
and asked the imperial court to canonize Samutai as a general of the Blue Banner of the Imperial Army.
This is the first large-scale surrender of the Eight Banners.
Jia La'e is really equivalent to the general of the Ming Dynasty, and he can be regarded as a middle and senior general.
Samutai, as the first high-ranking general of Jianzhou, naturally had to be treated preferentially.
However, Li Xianzhong's combat power had already made the first emperor jealous.
At this time, letting him collect a surrender army is tantamount to strengthening his strength again.
Moreover, now that there are droughts everywhere in the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that the taxes in many places will be greatly discounted, and it is impossible to increase the expenditure of reducing the army.
In the end, Shoufu Ye Xianggao still decided to agree to the establishment of the Imperial Allied Army.
However, the Imperial Association Army did not enjoy the establishment of the imperial court, and the grain and grass needed by it were raised by the Yamen, the governor of Liaodong.
Li Xianzhong can appoint the generals of the Imperial Allied Army in the name of the deputy envoy of Liaodong Economic Strategy, and he needs to report to the Ministry of War, but these generals, like the Imperial Allied Army, are only nominally paid by the imperial court.
In the end, Li Xianzhong officially appointed Samtai as the general of the Zhenglan Banner of the Imperial Allied Army, and continued to lead his men and horses to fight for the Ming Dynasty.
Then he appointed some guerrillas, thousands of generals, generals, and hundreds.
Later, the Imperial Cooperative Army was used as a servant army of the Ming Army, and these people did not have a monthly salary, but they could receive bounties and additional meals according to their military exploits.
Those with outstanding performance can also be formally incorporated into the Ming army.
Changing outfits is not possible, they still use the existing equipment.
Of course, in the future siege battles, the Ming army will provide them with long-range fire support, and dangerous tasks such as filling trenches and breaking cities will be handed over to the imperial army.
Although there is only a positive blue flag at present, he believes that with this example, other flags will continue to join in.
In the future, he will also use these imperial armies to go on an expedition to the Wa Kingdom and expand the territory for the Ming Dynasty.
After the incorporation of the Imperial Cooperative Army, the Intelligence Department came with the news that the Daishan storage position was abolished.
Hearing about the infighting in the Tartars, Huang Taiji calculated and acted for good, so that his storage position was abolished, and everyone was excited.
God bless!
Mao Yuanyi said: "It's a pity that at this time, our army is pressing, and it is impossible for Huang Taiji and Dai Shan to meet each other. ”
Li Xianzhong naturally understands this truth.
After the "victory of Gulezhai", Li Xianzhong gave the imperial court a list of materials and asked the imperial court to allocate materials and ordnance to deal with the subsequent war.
Now that the imperial court is unwilling to allocate supplies, it is naturally difficult to urge Li Xianzhong to attack Hetuala.
However, in order to reduce the pressure on Nurhachi, he still ordered the "Imperial Allied Army" to launch several feints against Mardun Village.
On 25 August, under the cover of the Ming army's Hongyi artillery, the "Imperial Cooperative Army" launched a tentative attack on the Mardun village guarded by Dudu.
However, due to the stubborn defense of the white flag, the Imperial Allied Army failed to make a breakthrough, but lost hundreds of people.
Soon the news of the "victory of Mardun Village" was transmitted back to Hetuala.
Seeing that the Ming army's attack was frustrated, Nurhachi's hanging heart finally let go.
If the Ming army breaks through the Mardun Village, it will go straight to the city of Hetuala.
After Nurhachi was injured, medicinal herbs became a big problem.
Jianzhou, the key medicinal herbs that healed the Great Khan's injuries, was not produced at all, so he had to find a way from the Ming Kingdom.
After learning that Nurhachi was seriously injured, the Ming Kingdom completely blocked the pass and strictly forbade the flow of any medicinal materials to the border pass, and it was found that there was no forgiveness for those who brought medicinal materials privately.
In the end, they spent a hundred times the high price to buy the medicinal materials they needed from Fan Yongdou!
Although Liu Langzhong kept changing his dressing, Da Khan's injuries were getting worse and worse, and his wounds could not heal at all, and it was obvious that he was infected.
Not only did he leak a lot of foul-smelling pus, but the pain was so unbearable that he couldn't sleep at all.
Liu Langzhong was also puzzled by this.
At first, he suspected that the profiteers were shoddy and sold inferior medicinal materials to Jianzhou, but he personally checked and found that there was no problem with the medicinal materials used.
If you are an experienced imperial doctor, you will definitely find that although some of the medicinal materials seem to be of the highest quality, they are boiled in water and then dried, and their own medicinal power has already evaporated seven or eight percent.
The smell of these herbs is not emitted by itself, but it is contaminated with these smells when they are put together with other good herbs for a long time.
As long as it is blown by the wind, the smell of medicinal herbs will be much lighter.
Although Liu Langzhong's medical skills are good, he is not a famous doctor after all, and he can't see the doorway.
As for those Lang Zhong who built a state, they don't understand it even more.
In order to cure the Great Khan, they even found a shaman witch to exorcise evil spirits for the Great Khan, but no matter how much they tossed, the Great Khan's injuries did not improve.
Nurhachi's extremely strong body is now losing weight day by day.
In addition to strictly blocking the border gates, the Ming State prohibited the flow of medicinal materials into Jianzhou. He even sent soldiers to protect the famous doctors in Liaodong, so that several waves of spies who went to "ask for a miracle doctor" were not captured by the Ming army.
In desperation, Nurhachi had no choice but to have a notice posted in the city of Hetuala, no matter what status, as long as someone can heal the wound on the back of the Great Khan, the official will be promoted to the third level and the reward will be a thousand gold!
Whether it is Dai Shan or Huang Taiji, they all value this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
If Huang Taiji can heal the wounds of the Great Khan, he will definitely be favored, and it is also possible to succeed the prince.
And Dai Shan is currently ordered to think in the palace that if the people he recommended can heal the Great Khan's injuries, not to mention restore the position of the king, at least he can regain the trust of the Great Khan.
Huang Taiji knew very well that the Great Khan was afraid of Dai Shan's strength, so he didn't dare to hit him hard.
The eldest son Chu Ying was given death by the Great Khan, and the plot could not happen on Dai Shan's body.
If the Great Khan now has three longs and two shorts, it will be very bad for him.
After the Zhenglan Banner was wiped out by the Ming Army, only seven of the Eight Banners remained.
Dai Shan himself directly controls the two red flags, and Du Du, the owner of the white flag, has long been attached to Dai Shan, needless to say that the white flag must be on Dai Shan's side.
The second largest flag in Jianzhou, second only to the Zhenghuang Flag, is inlaid with blue flags in the hands of Azig, and Azig's mother concubine Abahai has a personal relationship with the same generation.
If the Great Khan died, Abahai would definitely be attached to Daishan, and the blue flag must also be on the side of the Great Belle Daishan.
After the death of the Great Khan, the two yellow flags will definitely abide by neutrality and obey the orders of the new Great Khan.
If the Great Khan died at this time, it would be obvious that the Khan would still fall into the hands of the Great Beledesian, and he would not have the slightest chance.
Therefore, for Huang Taiji, he also needs to sweat and be healthy.
At this time, Fan Wenyu appeared again, and he said: "Even if Si Baylor can heal the Great Khan's injury, it can't change the fact that Big Baylor is stronger than you. ”
Huang Taiji asked, "I don't know what Mr. Fan thinks?" ”
Fan Wenyu said with a smile: "Although we don't have the ability to heal the Great Khan's injuries, we can make the Great Khan believe that the Great Belle wants to harm him, and only when Dai Shan becomes the second Chu Ying, can the fourth Belle be able to sit back and relax!" ”
Huang Taiji understood that his strength was too weak at this time, and if he could really do what Fan Wenhuan said, it would be a shortcut.
Just when everyone was helpless about the Great Khan's injuries, the Great Bel Daishan recommended a Langzhong, who claimed to be able to cure the Great Khan's illness.
The person he recommended was Choi Si-hang, a Korean man in his forties, who claimed to have practiced medicine for generations, and his ancestors were once the imperial physicians of the Goryeo Dynasty.
After the Yi dynasty replaced Goryeo, his ancestors kept festivals in place of the previous dynasty, so he no longer served as the imperial physician.
He claimed to be proficient in surgery and was absolutely certain that he could heal the Great Khan's wounds.
This Cui Shixing said the truth, and he really frightened everyone.
Even Huang Taiji felt that he had miscalculated, just thinking of finding a famous doctor from the Ming Dynasty, why did he forget North Korea.
Could it be that Daishan really found a famous North Korean doctor?
It wasn't until he saw Fan Wenhuan's confident eyes that he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
After Cui Shixing examined Nurhachi's wound, he said: "The wound of the Great Khan has been completely infected, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to work with conventional methods. ”
Nurhachi was already tormented by this back injury, and said impatiently: "What is the method in Cui Lang, although it is said, Ben Khan is fearless!" ”
Cui Shixing said: "For today's plan, only I will use a knife to rip off the rotten flesh on the back of the Great Khan, and then use the calcined knife to forcibly burn the wound on the Great Khan!" ”
Huang Taiji said: "Isn't this equivalent to the punishment of the Great Khan with a soldering iron, how does the Great Khan's body bear it?" ”
At this time, Nurhachi asked, "Does Liu Langzhong think this method is feasible?" ”
Liu Langzhong said: "This method is called 'fire therapy', and I have indeed seen the medical records, but this method is extremely dangerous, please think twice!" ”
What this North Korean doctor said is the Tao, which really makes people believe that he has this ability.
So Nurhachi gritted his teeth and said, "Ben Khan is willing to give it a try!" ”
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