Conquering Hetuara is a great achievement, and even Wei Liangqing, who has not yet had a good ass, came here in a hurry.

Not surprisingly, Hetuara doesn't have much to offer.

Previously, Huang Taiji evacuated the families of the Zhenghuang and Zhengbai banners to North Korea, and took away a small amount of silver taels by the way.

Now the entire inner city of Hetuara is in ruins!

This result was also expected by Li Xianzhong, after all, it has been almost two years since he officially launched the fourth expedition of Wanli in July of Wanli 48 with "Seeking to Build a Captive".

During this period, the wealth plundered by the Tartars from the Ming Dynasty and Korea for many years had long been returned to Li Xianzhong in the form of trade.

At the beginning of 100,000 stone sweet potatoes, Li Xianzhong earned 500,000 taels of silver for Tartar at one time.

Now Hetuara is like an "ATM" that has been emptied, and it is naturally not of much value to keep it!

If it weren't for seeing it with his own eyes, Xu Xianchun would have unimagined that Hetuala, the capital of the Tartars, had only found a total of a few thousand taels of silver.

This is also the reason why Li Xianzhong recruited them to Liaodong, otherwise Wei Zhongxian would definitely think that he had made a lot of money by capturing Hetuala!

Li Xianzhong said: "In the two years since Benbo swore to send his troops, he has been short of food and ordnance, resulting in several times when the troops came to the city and failed to conquer Hetuala. ”

"This time, the Wei Jian army personally escorted the grain and grass to help, and the morale of our army was greatly boosted, so it was conquered in one fell swoop, which is really the first contribution to breaking the city!"

No matter how stupid Wei Liangqing is, he knows that Li Xianzhong is deliberately making him a meritorious knight.

Although he was beaten by the board, he once had some resentment towards Li Xianzhong.

But compared to the upcoming knighthood, this board is nothing.

He said: "This time to conquer Hetuala, Ning Yuanbo strategized, the soldiers of Liaodong were not afraid of death, and Liangqing did not dare to take credit for transporting some grain and grass!" ”

"Uncle Ning Yuan, rest assured, you have made this immortal contribution to the Ming Dynasty, and the court will definitely reward you greatly."

Li Xianzhong hurriedly bowed his hand and said: "The corpse of the Donglin Party is vegetarian, and they only know how to fight for power and profit all day long, if it weren't for Wei Xiangli's efforts to disagree with the public and help each other, I'm afraid Jianzhou doesn't know when it will be able to decide?" ”

"On the other day, Li will definitely go to Beijing in person to thank Wei Yuan!"

Wei Liangqing put it bluntly, he came to Liaodong to gild and mix a share of credit, and now that Hetuara has been conquered, the main force of the two banners of the Tartars has also been annihilated.

He was naturally in a hurry to go back to receive the merit, so Li Xianzhong asked him to take Burhachi's ashes and the head of Huang Taiji to Beijing to report the good news.

Save the second ancestor in Liaodong which family of girls he harmed.

Wei Liangqing only felt that he had received a great favor from Li Xianzhong at the moment, but Sun Chuanting on the side saw it clearly, Ning Yuanbo's kind of concession seemed to be currying up to Wei Zhongxian, but in fact he was avoiding trouble.

Now that the Ming Dynasty is heavy on literature and light on martial arts, although Jianzhou is still not pacified at this moment, if Ning Yuanbo takes over the great merit alone, even if he can obtain a higher knighthood, he will definitely end up with a bird's bow and hidden end.

He not only slammed Wei Zhongxian's hand, but also naturally let people take away his credit, so as to avoid becoming the target of the imperial court's attack.

The cleverness of this Ning Yuanbo's methods is really impressive.

No wonder the imperial court has no way to take Liaodong.

After that, Li Xianzhong summoned Sun Chuanting alone.

Li Xianzhong said: "I heard that Sun County Ling had a lot of complaints about Gonggong Wei before, so he resigned angrily, but is there such a thing? ”

Sun Chuanting said with some anger: "Wei Gelding brutalized Zhongliang, formed a party for personal gain, brought disaster to the country and the people, and made the court into a miasma, such an official, Sun Mou didn't do it." ”

Li Xianzhong said with a smile: "Sun Xianling is quite hostile to Wei Gonggong, in your opinion, Ben Bo is also Wei Gelding's comrade?" ”

In the minds of the people, Li Xianzhong is the hero who stabilized Liaodong and hit the Tartars hard, but due to the long-term smear of the Donglin Party, his reputation in Shilin is not good.

He was first branded as a "traitorous concubine", saying that he colluded with Zheng Guifei.

Then because Wei Zhongxian defended Li Xianzhong many times, he was said to be a "eunuch member".

Sun Chuanting said: "If you have to label Ning Yuanbo with a party hat, then Ning Yuanbo should also represent the nobles in Beijing and not the eunuch party." ”

Li Xianzhong said: "In Benbo's eyes, there is not much difference between the Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party. It's all the same party and the same party, using power for personal gain, and the Donglin Party is not much nobler than the eunuch party? ”

"It is true that Gong Wei has formed a party for personal gain, and promoted and reused his cronies."

"Isn't it the same with the Donglin Party?"

"If it weren't for the Donglin Party people who used their power for personal gain, how did Yuan Yingtai, Wang Huazhen, and Zhang Minghe become the governors of Liaodong Jinglu and North Korea?"

"If it weren't for these people who stirred up the situation and caused countless of my Ming soldiers to die in vain, why would Hetuara delay in conquering it today?"

"How did Li Sancai, who was praised as a Qing official by many Donglin bigwigs, save more than 4 million taels of silver?"

"If I have to say that there is any difference between the two, it is nothing more than that one is a real villain, and the other is a hypocrite. The Donglin Party is just one more pretense than Wei Zhongxian to worry about the country and the people! ”

Originally, Sun Chuanting felt that the Donglin Party members were all humble gentlemen, while the Eunuch Party was a group of villains who had no bottom line, how could the two be confused?

Now that Li Xianzhong said this, it is really like this.

Seeing Sun Chuanting with a confused face, Li Xianzhong continued: "Ben Bo is not a henchman of Wei Gonggong, but he is accused of being a eunuch by the Donglin Party; Similarly, Sun Xianling just couldn't get used to the eunuch party, framed Yang Lian and others, and was also considered by Jinyiwei to be the Donglin party. ”

"Once they get involved in the 'party struggle,' they see the interests of the party first, not the merits."

"Ye Ge's personal morality has not suffered a big loss, but he has ignored the Ming Dynasty's Liaodong for the benefit of the Donglin Party."

"Gonggong Wei is indeed a villain, but they can firmly support Benbo to eliminate Jianzhou."

"The Donglin Party, which is worried about the country and the people, has done everything possible to deduct Liaodong's salary, silver, and ordnance. The insatiable Gonggong Wei was able to ensure that the food and salary of the Liaodong front were sufficient, and the rewards of the soldiers could be distributed. ”

"The Donglin Party, which shouts all day long to ask for the people's lives, keeps increasing the taxes of the people, making the people of the world miserable."

"Gonggong Wei is true that he has made the court into a miasma, but he never increases the burden on ordinary people, but only collects commercial taxes on those rich merchants!"

"In Benbo's opinion, in some respects, the Donglin Party people are really inferior to Wei Zhongxian!"

However, just now Sun County's order said that this official should not be appropriate, but Ben Bo disagreed. You and I are officials neither for him Wei Zhongxian, nor for the Donglin Party, but for the people of the world. ”

"No matter who is in power, the people of Liaodong under Benbo must live and work in peace and contentment, and Liaodong of the Ming Dynasty will never allow foreign invasion."

Li Xianzhong's words had a great impact on Sun Chuanting, and he had never thought about these issues before.

However, there is one thing that he, like Li Xianzhong, is unwilling to become a vassal of these two parties.

He said: "Uncle Ning is righteous, Sun admires it, and is willing to serve Uncle Ning Yuan!" ”

Li Xianzhong brought Sun Chuanting to a map he had drawn, and then encouraged Sun to expand his territory for the Ming Dynasty.

In the end, Sun Chuanting succeeded in leading 2,000 reserve soldiers of the Pingyuwei and tens of thousands of Fujian civilians recruited by Zheng Zhilong in southern Fujian and 5,000 Korean laborers to Tamsui and Keelung ports in northern Taiwan to open up new strongholds.

As for Hetuala, it is naturally impossible to return it to the Tartars or Yehbe here.

In the past, it was difficult for the Ming Dynasty to occupy these remote areas, but they chose to destroy the city, or retreat after slaughtering.

If the fundamental problem is not solved, it will not be long before those alien races will rise again and occupy this place.

Then take this as a foundation and continue to advance to the border of the Ming Dynasty.

The only way to completely solve this problem is to turn this place into the direct territory of the Ming Dynasty.

The location is remote to build a road, originally in order to transport military supplies conveniently, Li Xianzhong has also built a road from Fushun Pass all the way to the southeast to connect Salhu, the boundary of the city, Gule village and Mardun village.

Just keep 30 miles ahead and you'll be in Hetuala. Once the roads are clear, these frontiers will be better controlled.

Li Xianzhong had already asked Yan Mingtai, the governor of Jiliao, to jointly write a letter with him to change the name of this place to Pingyu County and directly garrison the army.

There is still some arable land around Hetuala, and now the Ming Dynasty is full of victims, as long as the imperial court moves another 10,000 or 20,000 people from the mainland, this will be the territory of the Ming Dynasty in the future.

The first magistrate of Pingyu County was served by Lu Xiangsheng, who was still observing the government.

However, considering the special location of Pinglu County, Li Xianzhong still left 3,000 defenders here.

After solving Hetuala, the next thing to solve is the Six Castles of Kuandian.

Unlike Hetuala, Kuandian was originally the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and it was still occupied by Azig, so naturally it could not be regarded as completely pacifying the Jianzhou Jurchens.

However, everyone was opposed to continuing to use troops in the Kuandian area.

Yan Mingtai said: "Now that we have taken Hetuala, we can already explain to the imperial court, and the supervising army Wei Liangqing has returned to Beijing to report the victory, I don't think the Kuandian area needs to be in a hurry to recover." ”

"Although Ye Xianggao is no longer here, Shoufu Han Yi is still a member of the Donglin Party, I'm afraid that when the time comes, they will still have to do the trick of hiding the bird!"

"As for the excuse, it's easy, although the battle of Hetuara has suffered a small loss of our troops, but the loss of artillery shells is huge, so let's delay it for a few months."

Yan Mingtai's views were quickly supported by everyone.

Li Sanshun said: "This time to capture Hetuala, the uncle will inevitably be promoted to the title, I am afraid that after returning to Beijing, the court will come to the bright and dark fall, and the uncle will be trapped in Beijing!" ”

Li Xianzhong also understood that the generals' worries were not unreasonable.

He said: "In fact, the threat of Jianzhou is not big at present, and the Azig Nawan people can't set off any big storms at all, and the imperial court wants to hide all the birds, and there are no worries!" ”

"Therefore, the factor that determines whether the imperial court will take action against Ben Bo is not whether Kuandian's Azig has been eliminated, but the attitude of 'nine thousand years old' Wei Zhongxian!"

Yan Mingtai said with a smile: "Ning Yuanbo's move to let Wei Liangqing be the supervisor of Liaodong is really high, so Wei Zhongxian will definitely fight for us." The greater the merit of the Liaodong Army, the higher Wei Liangqing's title. ”

Li Xianzhong said: "So I think that Hetuala's credit alone is not enough, we have to completely pacify Liaodong!" ”

"If you are a marquis, or even a prince, the credit of Ben Bo is enough now! But Ben Bozhi is not here. ”

Li Xianzhong's words made everyone confused, didn't he even look down on Guogong?

Li Sanshun said softly: "But there is no precedent for the Ming Dynasty to be crowned a king with a different surname?" ”

Li Xianzhong gave Li Sanshun a blank look!

Please crown the king with a different surname?

Then Lao Tzu might as well directly pull the flag and rebel.

Even if the Emperor of the Apocalypse no longer cares about government affairs, it is impossible to get a king with a different surname to come out.

This is equivalent to directly enshrined Wei Zhongxian as "nine thousand years old" in the current dynasty!

He said: "There is definitely no precedent for sealing the king, but this dynasty has a precedent for the town of Yunnan in the Gongshi of Qianguo!" ”

As soon as Li Xianzhong's words came out, Yan Mingtai was also startled.

"Yongzhen Liaodong", this Ning Yuanbo's appetite is really not small, but now Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka clan control the government, and the Emperor of the Apocalypse basically doesn't care.

As long as the price is in place, this thing may really be possible, after all, Daming also has a precedent.

After resting for a few days, the Ming army began to conquer again.

Soon Li Xianzhong led 8,000 Pingyu guards and 6,000 "Imperial Cooperative Army" from Yahu Pass to the south, heading towards the nearest Changdian Fort!

In order to doubt Azig, Li Sanshun also led 3,000 Liaodong iron cavalry from Hetuala to the south and threatened the east side of Kuandian Fort.

In order to prevent Azig's men from escaping into Korea, the Liaodong Naval Division led by Deng Gang directly blocked the Yalu River.

Four 800-ton and six 680-ton capital ships under the Liaodong Naval Division sailed to the Yalu River.

In addition, the North Korean naval division also sent 20 ships to cooperate with the blockade of the river.

At present, Yingkou Shipyard and Lushun Shipyard each have 4 large docks, which can build 8 warships at the same time.

The keels of the two largest of these new 1,200-ton light galleons have already been laid, but it will take almost a year to complete.

The updated sail battleship was temporarily stranded because the drawings drawn by Li Xianzhong were not very professional, the tonnage of the dock was not enough, and the 18-pounder shipboard gun was still under development.

The shipyard in Incheon has built eight medium-sized docks that can continue to mass-produce merchant ships.

The two docks at the Ryukyu Shipyard have just been completed, and are currently mainly used for the repair and modification of ships, and the construction of new ships has not yet begun.

However, although the current size of the Liaodong Naval Division fleet is not as large as that of the opponent, the capital ships can already compete with the capital ships of Portugal and the Netherlands in East Asia.

It is believed that in another 1-2 years, it will be able to compete with the Netherlands for sea supremacy in East Asia, of course, provided that the Dutch East India Company does not use its main warships in Batavia to support East Asia!

In the face of the Ming army's pressing step by step, Azig was completely panicked.

His subordinate blue and yellow banners only had 11,000 men, which was the smallest number of troops.

Originally, his advantage was that he could advance and retreat freely, and if he couldn't fight, he could run to North Korea.

Unexpectedly, the sailors of the Ming army actually blocked the Yalu River directly, so that they could not retreat to North Korea, and Daishan's reinforcements could not cross the river to support.

In charge of guarding the fort was a thousand yellow flags.

These cattle were transferred from the Zhenghuang Banner to the Yellow Flag, so the will to fight is still very strong.

In the face of the persuasion of the "Imperial Army" to surrender, Kala Ezhen Talo responded directly with a bow and arrow.

Seeing that the persuasion failed, the Ming army was not polite, dozens of 12-pounder Hongyi cannons directly shelled Changdian Fort, coupled with the suppression of Lu Mi, soon the Tartars in the city were beaten and couldn't raise their heads!

However, the city wall of Changdian Fort is still very strong, and the artillery of the Ming army will not be able to collapse the city wall for a while and a half.

So Li Xianzhong decided to use mortar artillery to attack the city.

I saw the Ming army holding their shields high, and more than a dozen gunners behind them pushed large-caliber mortars to advance towards the city.

The yellow flag on the city was completely suppressed by the Ming army's Lu Mi Gong, and he didn't dare to show his head at all.

You can only use a bow and arrow to throw it at the city.

Although they knew that the Ming army must have made some attempts, they were powerless to stop it at this time.

Soon the 8 mortar cannons were pushed to a distance of 20 steps from the city, and the Eight Banners soldiers were directly dumbfounded when they looked at the huge caliber of the mortar cannons.

If there is a lot of luck in the bombardment of the Hongyi cannon, the parabola of the mortar cannon will almost certainly hit the city wall.

The Tartars in the city only felt the mountains shake for a while, and then the city was blown apart.

A single volley killed hundreds of people in the city.

After another round of shelling, the "Imperial Army" directly set up a ladder to attack the city.

Because they had previously refused to persuade them to surrender, Li Xianzhong ordered that no one should be left.

After occupying Changdian Fort, the Ming army drove straight into front of Kuandian Fort.

At this time, Azig still had 10,000 men in his hands, and he left 2,000 people in Sudian Fort, which was closest to the Yalu River, while the remaining 8,000 people were all shrunk to Kuandian Fort.

Although the walls of Kuandianbao were much taller, 8 meters high, and were equipped with moats, corner towers, and other complete fortifications.

However, the rapid loss of Changdian Fort still had a great impact on the morale of the defenders.

In order to boost morale, young Azig personally came to the city!

He shouted: "Kuandian Fort is difficult to overcome, and Ao Bai and others have blocked the attack of the Ming army with only 3,000 men and horses. Now we have 8,000 people, and there is enough food in the fort, so the Ming army can only come to die! ”

It's a pity that the news of the Ming army's blockade of the Yalu River has long been spreading, and the blue flags on the city know that the North Korean reinforcements can't come at all, so Azig's encouragement didn't work at all!

At this time, Azig could only turn to his "Zhiduoxing" for help, he looked at Fan Wenhuan with earnest eyes, and asked, "Mr. Fan, what should we do now?" ”

Fan Wenyu, as the ace spy of the Intelligence Division, has been lurking in Jianzhou for nearly 3 years, and has successfully fooled Nurhachi and Emperor Taiji and sent them to the western sky.

Now that the Ming army did not choose to drive Azig across the Yalu River, he knew that his mission was about to be completed.

Although there was an irrepressible excitement in his heart, he still needed to stand on the last shift at this time.

He said: "Qiyu Erbeile, although Kuandian can hold on, but now we are a lone army, the so-called long-term defense will be lost, I think we might as well surrender as soon as possible!" ”

Originally, Azig still had great expectations for Fan Wenhuan, but when he heard the word "surrender", he was extremely disappointed.

He also wanted to surrender, but the Ming army never left a living mouth for the Jianzhou clan.

Surrender, aren't you going to die?

Fan Wenyu said: "Erbeiler, rest assured, Fan is willing to go out of the city to negotiate with the Ming army in person, and he will ensure your personal safety!" ”

Azig is only 17 years old now, where can he cope with such a complicated situation? When he heard that Fan Wenhuan was willing to go out of the city to negotiate with the Ming army, it was like grabbing a life-saving straw!

He said excitedly: "There are still 200,000 taels of silver in the city, Mr. Fan will take it directly to the Ming army camp." ”

Fan Wenyu looked at Azig and thought: This Erbeile is really innocent and cute, when the Ming army breaks through the city, isn't this silver also someone else's, can Ning Yuanbo let you go because of this bit of silver?

Of course, his attitude is still good, and now that he can finally retire, I don't know if he can get a commission for the 200,000 taels?

The blue flag-inlaid Jiala'er Zhen Naji said: "Lord Belle, Fan Wenyu is a Han Chinese, even if he wants to negotiate, he can't let him go?" ”

"If he surrenders directly to the Ming army with the silver, the morale of our army will be even lower at that time?"

It seems that there are still people who understand among the Tartars!

Indeed, that's what Fan Wenhuan thinks in his heart, but he can't be regarded as a surrender, he can only be said to be a return to the organization.

At this time, he must find a way to get out of this place of right and wrong, the artillery of the Ming army does not have eyes, and he can't fall before dawn!

Fan Wenyu said: "The slave gave advice to Dajin and did so many things to betray the Han people, and it is a life of nine deaths to go to the Ming army camp!" ”

"If the situation is not critical, the slave is not willing to risk his life! If the second Belle can't believe it, of course the minions can send others! ”

Azig smiled helplessly and said: "The so-called 'use people are not suspicious, suspicious people are not used', Ben Baylor can trust Mr. Fan, and please cherish Mr. Fan all the way!" ”

Soon after, Fan Wenyu walked out of Kuandian Fort with Yinliang.

He excitedly thought that he had finally escaped the Ascension and could return to the organization!

But when he saw that the eldest concubine Abahai was snuggling in Li Xianzhong's arms at this time, he never expected that Ning Yuanbo would directly accept Abahai.

At this time, Abahai's face was ruddy, and he seemed to feel younger than before, and it seemed that his life should be very moist.

Li Xianzhong said: "Mr. Fan has worked hard, but I have to bother you to continue to return to Azig's side!" ”

Although Fan Wenyu felt a little disappointed, he still took Abahai and entered Kuandian Fort.

Azig was really excited, and Mr. Fan really did not disappoint himself, not only brought back the good news that the Ming army was willing to accept his surrender.

actually brought back his own mother.

Soon, the mother and son hugged each other and wept bitterly.

Azig quickly inquired about the whereabouts of his two younger brothers.

Abahai naturally couldn't say that they were sent to the Ming Palace by Li Xianzhong as eunuchs, so he had to cry: "That day, Daishan's subordinates tied Eniang and your two younger brothers out of Hetuala. ”

When he walked outside the city, the man coveted the beauty of Eniang and wanted to force Eniang. Your two younger brothers stepped forward to stop it, but they killed it, because the movement was too big, it alarmed the spies of the Ming army, and Eniang was lucky to pick up her life! ”

After saying that, Abahai cried even more sadly!

At this time, Azig hated Daishan even more, if it weren't for him, how could they be separated?

After that, the eldest concubine Abahai told the people with the blue flag the "truth" that Dai Shan kidnapped herself and betrayed the Great Khan!

Then it was announced that the Great Khan of Daishan would be abolished and succeeded by Azig!

In this way, Azig asked the Ming army to surrender in the name of the Great Golden Khan!

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