"Hurry, hurry! Hurry up and get through the gates! ”

"Pay attention to your own doll and don't fall behind!"

"Throw away the stone pot and everything, and enter the city and have an iron pot for you."

"All the leaders of the department have listened well, the grain is collected uniformly, and after entering the Jixi Pass, each person will be given two catties of food every day, don't worry about running out of food!"

"Beep-"

At dusk, the gate of Jixi Fort was congested by tens of thousands of Jurchen people, and the Bohai Navy commanded them to line up and enter Jilin Bay behind the city gate in turn.

Although there were only tens of thousands of people, they pulled camels, carried thousands of oxen and horses, and drove tens of thousands of sheep.

Although there are six stone forts in Jixi Fort, there is only one city gate, so everyone is crowded at the city gate.

The noise, the sound of wooden whistles, and the mooing of cattle and sheep are incessant, and the noise is a headache.

In such a noisy environment, there were twenty-four leaders who fled south with their subordinates in the gatehouse of Jixi Fort.

They were very nervous now, and looked at Zhu Gaoxu who was sitting on the main seat from time to time.

In the face of their nervousness, Zhu Gaoxu said unhurriedly: "Now that spring has just begun, there is no food in all departments, and there is no food in Jilin City. ”

"However, Lone is not saying this to drive you away, but to make the current difficulties clear to you."

"The Uliangha have come with a large number of troops, and no one knows how long they will besiege the city."

"You can't survive relying on your cattle and sheep, so Gu will give your subordinates two catties of grain per day, and you will have one catty of meat and three catties of grain per day."

"In exchange, I hope you can exchange food with Gu according to the value of cattle, sheep and horses."

"In addition, your twenty-four divisions will also send men to cooperate with the defense of the city, of course, Lone will not let your people stand on the front line, they only need to fight after the soldiers are enough, it is really time for them to fight hard, I am afraid that there is no need to say Lone, you should also understand."

Zhu Gaoxu put forward his own conditions for sheltering the 24 departments, and the 24 departments were relieved to this.

According to their experience, this kind of defection is generally swallowed up.

Now the King of Bohai only needs them to give cattle, sheep and horses to exchange grain at the same price, and does not let their men rush to the front line, which can be said to be very benevolent.

"We are willing to follow the rules of His Highness......"

The head of the twenty-four parts shouted in Jurchen language, and Yizha also translated for Zhu Gaoxu in time.

"Since the negotiation is settled, let them go to Jilin City, except for the twenty-four leaders and their families, the rest of the troops are camped outside the city, and let them transfer some firewood to them."

It was impossible for Zhu Gaoxu to let the people of the twenty-four divisions enter the city, after all, how the Jurchen Mongols attacked Shenyang City at the end of the Ming Dynasty, he knew better than anyone else.

Seeing Zhu Gaoxu's order, he also responded, got up and led the twenty-four leaders to Jilin City.

Not long after, the troops behind Jixi Fort who entered Jilin Bay were also taken away, but each of them left a male to help defend the city.

Time passed little by little, and when it was completely dark, there were still thousands of Jurchens outside the city, and Lin Su also came to Jixi Fort with 200 people under his command.

"Your Highness!"

Lin Su came wearing a cuirass, and when he saw Zhu Gaoxu, he immediately said: "The last general persuaded Fu Tijin and other six cities many times, but they were unwilling to come. ”

"Leave them alone, they're fine." Zhu Gaoxu helped Lin Su up, and he didn't care about the situation in the land of six cities.

The Six Cities were not so easy to attack, and if they were so easy to breach, it would not have been possible to hold out until the Tumu Fort was slaughtered after the Change.

Tuhuan and tens of thousands of people failed to completely take the six cities, not to mention the more than 10,000 people in Wuliangha.

The difference in strength between Uliangha and Tatar and Warat is not a star and a half, and it is a praise for Uliangha to say that it is a grass on the wall, but in fact, their combat power is only at the level of horse bandits.

As far as Wuliangha wants to take the six cities, it is inevitable that some fools are dreaming.

Because of this, the Great Khan of the six cities was reluctant to go south to take refuge in Jilin City.

However, Rao is like this, and Zhu Gaoxu also got the refuge of the twenty-four departments.

If these twenty-four people are trapped in Jilin City for ten days and half a month, then they will have to submit to themselves.

The fragility of the Jurchens outside the Guanwai is unimaginable to the Han people, and after delaying the spring ploughing for ten days and half a month, then they will have no food, even if they want to exchange fur for food, it is difficult to find enough fur for a while.

The longer the delay, the greater the chance that Zhu Gaochu will eat them, and in the end, it is very likely that before Zhu Gaoxu can speak, they will open their mouths and join themselves.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu, who was standing on the city wall, looked down at the countless Jurchens pouring in in the corridor.

These Jurchens will become their subjects after this war.

"Your Highness!"

Not long after Lin Su arrived, Zhang Chun also walked over with complete armor.

When he came to Zhu Gaoxu, he said with a solemn face: "As you expected, most of the more than 600 military households were incorporated into the military households, and only about 80 people were military households in Shandong before. ”

"More than 80 people ......" Zhu Gaoxu pondered, he calculated his own capital, it can be said that there are only more than 1,900 people who can fight, even if you add the more than 1,000 Jurchens who are studying in the academy, it is only 35,600.

It is indeed difficult for such a few people to defend Jixi Fort, but the odds are still very high.

"How many men are there in the Jurchen tribes, are they all counted?"

Zhu Gaoxu turned his head to look at Yi Shuha, and when he heard this, he also walked to the side of the female wall and asked the officials who counted the number of people.

After a short time, he turned around and walked back and said: "At present, there are 1,427 men left, counting those who have not yet entered the city outside the city, at least 2,000 Jurchens from all over the city can participate in the war, plus 1,000 men from Xiyang Habu, almost about 3,000 people." ”

"Three thousand, that's enough." After hearing that there were as many as 3,000 ordinary men at hand, Zhu Gaoxu's heart was a lot more settled.

If it weren't for the fear that these Jurchens would rebel against the water, and the lack of armor in the city, he would have intentionally let these Jurchens wear armor to follow the battle.

"The armor in the city, the 1,000 Jurchens who were issued to study in the academy, and the more than 600 military households who just arrived in the city."

"In this way, we can have 35,600 men in armor, plus another 3,000 servants, it is enough to defend the city."

Zhu Gaoxu told his own situation to cheer up the generals, and after hearing his words, everyone also breathed a sigh of relief.

"Alright, let's all go and rest, the Uliangha people still have to deal with the six cities, and we still have some time."

"Tomorrow will train all the men, although the time is short, but it is better to practice than not to practice."

Waving his hand, Zhu Gaoxu motioned for the generals to retreat and rest, and he himself walked towards an arrow tower.

Looking at his back, Lin Su and Zhang Chun looked at each other, and they dispersed after a while.

However, they did not rest according to Zhu Gaoxu's words, but continued to be busy with the materials needed to defend the city.

By the end of the day, thousands of people and their livestock from outside the city had finally entered Jilin Bay and arrived at Jilin City before the hour.

This was supposed to be the night of Zhu Gaoxu's wedding night, but in the end, he slept alone on the wooden bed in the arrow tower.

He also stayed up all night, just to count all the population, food, and livestock.

Not only him, but many people also failed to rest as Zhu Gaoxu said, and most of them tossed and turned.

Before dawn the next day, Zhu Gaoxu got up wearing a cuirass.

It's just that many people got up earlier than him, and he just walked out of the arrow tower when he saw the head of the city and the stone fort full of supplies.

Logs, rolling stones, iron pots and firewood, and buckets of river water waiting to boil were all simple means of defending the city.

Last night, some carpenters also made wolf's tooth slappers and knife carts, one to guard the city wall and the other to guard the city gate.

Although only a dozen or so were produced in one night, it was a drop in the bucket for Jixi Fort, which stretched for one mile and three hundred steps, but this also made Zhu Gaoxu see everyone's determination to defend the city.

"Your Highness, are you up?"

Zhang Chun's voice sounded from the Jixi Fort under the city wall, Zhu Gaoxu leaned on the women's wall and looked down, only to see Zhang Chun leading people to cook rice, and there were people stewing mutton bones next to him.

"Get a bowl and try it."

Zhu Gaoxu didn't say much, just asked Zhang Chun to make himself a bowl of breakfast, Zhang Chun grinned when he heard this, and nodded to indicate that he understood.

Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu also turned around and began to inspect the city wall.

The city wall of one mile and three hundred steps was full of supplies, and half of the two-foot wide road was filled with supplies, and many Jurchen men leaned against the female wall to sleep.

Perhaps it was too cold in the early morning, and they all tugged at the animal skin coat tightly in their sleep.

"Your Highness!"

Zhang Chun's voice sounded, and Zhu Gaoxu turned around to see him walking over with a wooden plate, on which were also placed a bowl of mutton soup and rice, and a fist-sized piece of boiled mutton.

Seeing such a breakfast, Zhu Gaoxu subconsciously asked: "Everyone has this mutton and this soup and rice?" ”

"It's not ......" Zhang Chun shook his head: "Mutton is only available to brothers, but everyone has soup and rice." ”

"How many days can the food in the city last if you eat like this?" Zhu Gaoxu was a little worried, but after hearing this, Zhang Chun put the wooden plate on the women's wall and took out a book from his arms.

"Your Highness, this is the grain book that was also registered last night, and all the grain and meat together can last twenty days."

Zhang Chun handed it over, and Zhu Gaoxu also glanced down, his brows furrowed.

The food in Jilin City is not enough, Zhu Gaoxu has long known this, even when he settled the accounts a few days ago, Yizha also said that the food in the city is only enough to eat for a month.

At that time, he didn't care, because the Liaodong Dusi would also send food later, but at the moment, with the influx of a large number of Jurchen people into Jilinwei, and the food they brought was not much, so the time dropped from one month to twenty days.

"Twenty days ......" Zhu Gaoxu took a deep breath, he was not sure if Zhou Ding, who ran back to Liaodong, would be able to bring back Liaodong reinforcements within twenty days.

According to the calculation that the army traveled fifty miles a day, even if the troops were transferred from Kaiyuan and 30,000 two guards, it would take at least ten days to reach Jilin City.

If you add the four or five days after Zhou Ding's return, it will be at least fourteen or fifteen days before it is possible to wait for reinforcements.

In the past, Zhu Gaoxu could believe in this time, but now Zhu Di has controlled the northern tour of the soldiers and horses of the Sandu Division, and it is very likely that he will be in Quanningwei or Checher Mountain at the moment.

These two places are nearly a thousand miles away from Jilinwei, and there is a huge Liaoze in the middle, counting the distance of the detour, it is almost nearly 1,500 miles.

With a speed of fifty miles a day, even if Zhu Di learns the news and comes to help, it will take at least a month.

Zhu Gaoxu, who knew everything, raised his head and met Zhang Chun's hopeful eyes.

He knew that Zhang Chun thought that as long as he kept for fifteen days, it was enough, not only him, but many people also thought so.

Zhu Gaoxu wanted to tell them the real situation, but he thought about it, maybe this expectation could make Jilin City defend for a longer time.

"It's just 10,000 people, we don't have food, and they don't have much, just hold on until they leave......"

Zhu Gaoxu comforted himself, and at the same time handed the document back to Zhang Chun, and took a big bite of the soup and rice that was already much colder.

The fist-sized mutton was also cut and eaten by him with the meat cleaver he carried.

The taste is not very tasty, but it is enough to fill the stomach.

"Maybe you choose a thousand Jurchens and two hundred brothers to follow me up to Hadaling Mountain, if Wuliangha suffers a loss in this Jixi Fort, he will definitely think about crossing Hadaling Mountain and attacking us from behind."

"Yes!"

Zhu Gaoxu ordered, and Zhang Chun also grinned.

Seeing that he responded, Zhu Gaoxu motioned to the group of Jurchens who were cowering behind the female wall next to him: "Let people take some coarse cloth from the treasury and give them clothes." ”

"Uh...... Be. Zhang Chun was a little unhappy, but he still responded.

Zhu Gaoxu, who was familiar with his personality, didn't say anything more when he saw this, and waved his hand to signal him to do all the things he had explained.

Zhang Chunzuo retreated, and in a short time, more than 1,000 24 Jurchen men and 200 Bohai Navy were selected.

With them, Zhu Gaoxu went up Hadaling along the path.

Although Hadaling is not very tall, it has a large slope and a lot of soil, so it is easy to slip even when it is dry, let alone in April when it rains at any time.

Although it didn't rain for a few days, the way up the mountain was still a little muddy.

It was Zhu Gaoxu himself, who had some difficulty walking, but he looked back at the team, whether it was the Bohai Navy or the thousand Jurchens, they were all walking like flying, even if they were carrying armor and tools on their backs, they were still talking and laughing and hurrying.

Such a mountain march made Zhu Gaoxu's anxious mood relax a lot.

With them, it took Zhu Gaoxu half an hour to finally reach the top, which shows that the difficulty of climbing Hadaling Mountain is not low.

Although the mountain range near Jixi Fort is not high, it is enough to drink a pot of Wuliangha on the Modong grassland all year round.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't believe that they could climb Hadaling in armor, and he didn't believe that they still had the strength to fight the Bohai Navy after climbing.

However, although the Mongols could not climb the mountain, they could climb one by one, climb one by one, and rest for a while to conserve their strength.

Therefore, Zhu Gaoxu had to be fully prepared.

After going up to Hadaling, he first observed the terrain before he began to direct Zhang Chun and them to cut down trees.

In Jilin at this time, most of the trees in all the mountains and forests were big trees that grew six or seven zhang high and were waist-wide.

The tree is cut down, the crown of the branch is removed, and then it is rolled behind two large trees and stuck, and then the soil is cut behind the trunk with a hoe.

After filling in, the bare trunk of the tree was rolled down again, and it was leveled with earth again.

With such a little bit of masonry, rows of tall platforms were soon built.

Until dusk, Zhu Gaoxu led his men to make dozens of such platforms on the slopes west of the Hada Mountains, and had people knock out a wooden wall with pruned branches, leaving only holes for archery.

In this way, these dozens of wooden and earthen platforms can be used as dozens of arrow towers, condescendingly to fire arrows at the Uliangha soldiers and horses who are trying to come up from the western slope.

Not only that, in order not to leave a shelter for the Uliangha people, Zhu Gaoxu led people to cut down and sawed all the trees thirty steps below the wooden platform, and placed a section of tree stumps weighing 100 catties on the platform for use as sassal wood.

When the sky was completely dark, Zhu Gaoxu finally led people to complete everything.

Sixty-two wooden platforms fan-shaped spread out on the halfway of the mountainside on the western slope, which is more than a mile long, and with the help of the terrain, only 1,000 people are needed to block the attack of tens of thousands of people.

"You and two hundred brothers with four hundred people stay here, I will ask people to carry grain up the mountain after I go back, you remember to let them build a shed for the wooden platform by themselves, in the next twenty days, you will have to be stationed here, you will not be allowed to go down the mountain without my military order."

"Don't worry!"

After doing everything, Zhu Gaoxu, who lit the torch, explained to Zhang Chun, at the moment their faces were full of mud, but no one laughed at anyone.

After a while, Zhu Gaoxu led people to light torches down the mountain in the dark, and when he went down the mountain and returned to Jixi Fort, the smell of meat in Jixi Fort also began to waft.

Everyone swallowed, but they also knew that lamb was not something they could eat every day.

Zhu Gaoxu called someone to find Lin Su and asked him to send 500 people to carry the iron pot and the cooked ten sheep, as well as 200 stone rice to Hadaling.

Since Zhu Gaoxu widened the mountain road when he returned, it was not difficult to carry these things up.

After dinner, many people were tired and slept, and the construction of the city defense day and night has made the city defense of Jixi Fort strong enough.

Now everyone just wants to lie down and rest quietly for a while.

Of course, there are also many people who think of the next big battle and can't help but hide in the corner and sob.

Most of these people are the more than 600 military families from the south.

Many of them, who had previously lived in the hinterland of Shandong Province in Chengping, had just migrated to a remote country like Jilinwei when they were caught in the war and did not know how many days they would live.

Under such pressure, it is normal for many people to want to cry.

In comparison, the other military families and soldiers who had already come to Jilinwei, as well as the Jurchens who lived a more difficult life, were very calm.

People who live outside the customs never pay attention to the future, after all, they can't even guarantee whether they will have food tomorrow, let alone ideals?

Standing on the arrow tower, Zhu Gaoxu looked at them with mixed feelings in his heart.

The army is easy to be defeated, but the national peace is easy to be conquered.

What the outcome of a dynasty depends on its political direction.

Today's Ming Dynasty still maintains Zhu Yuanzhang's political philosophy, neither taking the initiative to send troops, but actively quelling the rebellion, not spending money and food, but also not stingy with money and food.

Throughout the ages, only the rule of Zhenguan of Tang Taizong Li Shimin was the rule of Li Shimin, even if it was Zhu Di's Yongle rule, it was just a period of conquest and barely maintained the economic situation during the Hongwu period.

If there is no battle of Jingjing in history, but a direct transition to his own father, I am afraid that the Ming Dynasty will appear in a prosperous era of Hong Yong, instead of the so-called rule of Yongle.

Of course, whether it is the rule of Hongwu or the rule of Yongle, it is much better than the rule of Renxuan, which is mixed with water.

Zhu Gaoxu calculated in the winter according to the population growth of Jilin City, if the population of Yongle was 60 million, then by the first year of Xuande, the Ming Dynasty should have at least 8,000 people, and in the first year of orthodoxy, there should be more than 90 million.

Even if Cochin is discarded, it should remain at a population of about 80 million.

With such a large population, it should have been used to expand the territory, but Zhu Zhanji chose to shrink the side.

"Good Saint ......"

Zhu Gaoxu muttered these three words, with a sneer on his face.

This Ming Dynasty, only by him to take over, can overcome the difficulties of land annexation in the feudal dynasty 80 years, and make Hongwu and Yongle the foundation of the prosperous era.

The prosperous era had to be created in the hands of his Zhu Gaoxu.

Just a Uliangha, how can he endure him!

Looking to the north, Zhu Gaoxu seemed to have seen the camp of Uliangha, but he had the confidence to block Uliangha under the city of Jixi Fort.

"!!Uhh

Zhu Gaoxu is still looking out, but the north has become a purgatory on earth.

Many small and medium-sized tribes who did not want to go south were fallen by the Khalagu army, women were captured to vent their bestial desires, men taller than the carriage were killed, and all the dolls were used as slaves.

The fire spread from the south bank of the Nenjiang River to Jilin City, except for a small number of stone forts, the rest of the forts were burned by the fire, whether there were people or no people.

The light of the fire lit up the sky, and not far from the burned fort, the Uliangha set up tents.

The lowest Uliangha people are slaughtering stolen cattle and sheep for food, and are dancing happily around the campfire.

The middle-level officers and the high-level Taiji captured a lot of women, no matter whether they were beautiful or not, they pressed these Haixi Jurchen women under their bodies and wantonly vented their animal desires.

In the largest tent of the camp, like the other Uliangha nobles, a young Jurchen lay underneath him.

She was numb, but Haragu ignored it.

The sound of glamour came out of the tent, but outside the tent there was a thousand households kneeling: "Towen, Fusimu, Futijin, Kaolanggu, Beggar Mi, Mangjita......"

"These cities are defending the city, and our men are not attacking the city, but they are burning the grain in their fields."

"The sentinels of the front army have already inquired about the news, we are still fifty miles away from Jilin City, and we will be able to arrive at dusk tomorrow."

"However, Jilin City is surrounded by Hadaling and Songhua River, and if you want to enter Jilin Bay, you must first capture Jixi Fort, which is stuck in Songhua River and Hadaling."

The thousand households reported the information they had discovered, and after a while, the voice of Haragu was also heard in the beautiful voice in the tent:

"It's just a stone castle, don't worry about it, when I see it tomorrow, it will surrender at my feet."

"Go, send an order to everyone, set off tomorrow, and arrive at Jixi Fort before dusk."

"Yes!" Chinohe nodded in agreement, and then left the tent.

On this night, all the Uliangha people were reveling, but they all knew that taking Jilin City was the biggest carnival of their trip......

(End of chapter)