The army went out to fight, and the armor scales shone brightly in the sun, like red gold. Thirty thousand elite soldiers from the capital camp set off from the capital, pointing their swords at Nuergan, and heading north with their armor and iron horses.
It was already autumn when the troops were sent out, and the atmosphere of murder was strong. The autumn wind swept across the fallen leaves, turning them yellow and withered, and the weather became increasingly colder. By the time we entered the northeast from the capital, it was already winter, and the local water was dripping and turned into ice. The Confederate army was definitely not of use because it was not acclimatized. Therefore, more than half of Zhu Gaojie's 30,000 troops came from the Peiping Capital Division.
The first generation of the Five Military Camps was established after Zhu Dijing was unable to regain the Peiping Dusi. Although the subsequent Five Military Camps absorbed elites from guard posts across the country, the soldiers of the Peiping Dusi were still the most courageous.
The Peiping Dusi Yamen is located in Daning, and is a regional capital composed of Beiping, Nuerqian, Liaodong and Daning. The predecessor was the Northern Expedition led by King Xu Da of Zhongshan, which destroyed a hundred thousand Ming troops of the Yuan Dynasty. Later, soldiers from the Northern Yuan Dynasty continued to come and surrender.
Although this Northern army has lived in Jinling for a long time, as long as they put on armor and carry weapons, they can still crawl and roll in the ice and snow.
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Marching all the way to the vicinity of Liuhe County, the army set up camp, and the night was like splashing ink.
There was a bright light burning in the commander's camp. Zhu Gaojie, Zhang Fu, Zhu Yong, and Chi Rong were gathered around the desk, studying the information that was rushed from Nurgandusi.
"This is the more detailed information from Nuer Gandusi sent by Liaodong. Please take a look."
Zhu Gaojie took out a secret letter from a secret letter, put it on the desk, and said, "The Jurchen clan is divided into Jianzhou Jurchen, Haixi Jurchen, and Donghai Jurchen. There are one hundred and eighty-four guards under Nuergandusi, more than twenty Each guard station under the Dusi serves as a local administrative agency integrating military and political affairs, and important official positions are filled by officials appointed from the mainland by the imperial court."
Seeing this, Zhu Gaojie couldn't help but chuckle.
One hundred and eighty-four guards, more than twenty stations, sounds scary. You must know that the Fifth Army Camp, which has 160,000 elite troops, only has 72 guards.
But it is obvious that these health centers in Nurgandusi are filled with water. The larger one has hundreds of regular troops, while the smaller one only has 180 regular troops. With the entire Nurgandu Division's 200 guards combined, it is a question whether they can gather 50,000 regular troops. Moreover, not every one of these health centers should be suppressed. Some places were too remote, and some were managed obediently by Han officials. What needs to be suppressed are the guards that have been seriously usurped by the Jurchens and pose a threat to the Ming Dynasty.
"Jianzhou Jurchens are mainly divided into Jianzhou Guards and Jianzhou Left Guards. Farming is the main part and hunting is supplementary. This is our key target of suppression. The Haixi Jurchens are also called the Hulun Four Tribes and the Haixi Four Tribes. Mainly The Yehe Tribe, the Ula Tribe, the Huifa Tribe, and the Hada Tribe. The Haixi Jurchens’ lifestyle is a mixture of gathering, fishing, hunting, and farming, and they mainly rely on gathering, fishing, and hunting. It is similar to the Jianzhou Jurchens, and they are both the focus of our suppression object."
Zhu Gaojie continued, "As for the East China Sea Jurchens, that is, the wild Jurchens, they are sometimes divided into tribes such as the Beishan Jurchens and Heilongjiang Jurchens. Due to the harsh natural environment, backward productivity, and no agriculture, they mainly focus on gathering and hunting. It seems that they are still living like the original people. The area they live in is too close to the Far North and has little connection with our Ming Dynasty. There is no need to suppress them. The benefits are too small, the terrain is too bad, the costs are too high, and the threats are too small."
Zhu Yong picked up a piece of information, glanced at it, and said slowly: "Jianzhou Guard and Jianzhou Left Guard were initially subordinate to Nuer Gandu Division, but in fact they were mostly under the jurisdiction of Liaodong Capital Commander Division. This is also ours Is it within the scope of suppression?”
The area under the jurisdiction of Liaodong Capital was not within the scope of the conquest. Having said that, Zhu Gaojie knew what Zhu Yong was afraid of.
The commander of the Jianzhou Guards was Shi Jiannu, whose Han name was Li Xianzhong. The son of Aha Chu, the chief of the Jurchen Huli tribe. Have military exploits. In the eighth year of Yongle's reign, he led his subordinates to personally conquer the Mongolian Tatars under the emperor's command, and achieved great military exploits.
But this is not important. What is important is that Li Xianzhong has a sister named "The Third Queen", who was Zhu Di's concubine when he was in Prince Yan's Mansion. This concubine was said to have died before Zhu Di became emperor, but her status was still there. In other words, Li Xianzhong, the commander of the Jianzhou Guard, was Zhu Di's brother-in-law.
Moreover, although Li Xianzhong was a Jurchen, he had military exploits and was quite loyal to the Ming Dynasty.
"Both the Jianzhou Guards and the Jianzhou Left Guards have no value in existing." Zhu Gaojie answered Zhu Yong's question without any hesitation.
So what if Li Xianzhong is the emperor's brother-in-law? I am still the emperor's biological son. Now he is the prince and will be promoted to the crown prince soon!
How many military exploits can Li Xianzhong have? I conquered a province in the south and killed two Mongolian kings in the north!
What's more, Li Xianzhong himself can be said to have some conscience towards the Ming Dynasty, but his descendants such as Dong Shan, Li Gunaha, Li Manzhu and others are all rebels of the Ming Dynasty and Qing Yishui's rebels.
After the Tumubao Incident, the Ming Dynasty's national power declined. Li Manzhu, the leader of the Jianzhou Guards, Li Xianzhong's son, united with the three Jianzhou Guards to rebel against the Ming Dynasty and began to continuously harass and invade the Liaodong region.
In the future, Jianzhou Jurchen will be renamed "Manchuria", which actually comes from the name of this guy, which means "Li Manzhu's Jianzhou Jurchen Department".
The Jurchen rebellion is also related to the rigid tribute trade system of the Ming Dynasty. There are limits on the number of times that ethnic minority tribes can pay tribute each year, as well as the number of people and goods each time. The Ming Dynasty blocked their way to make money through trade, so these people started to rob. But among them, the Jurchens are the most untrustworthy. The Ming Dynasty has also given many preferential policies before, but when they really have the opportunity to grab money and food, they can't help but apologize to the Ming Dynasty after the robbery. After apologizing and continuing to rob, you are just like an immature wolf cub.
As for how to deal with this group of Jurchens, the court was divided into two factions at that time. The warring faction believed that the Jurchens were disobedient and should be taught a lesson; the supporting faction believed that the Jurchens had been provoked by the rebellion and should be given more concessions, so that they Stop making trouble, he is even more pissy than "Jurchen's biological father" Li Chengliang. At the very least, Li Chengliang has been leading the Jurchen tribes to fight among themselves. These guardian factions directly regard the Jurchens as their fathers.
Emperor Chenghua did not hesitate for long, and directly ordered the annihilation of the Jurchens in Jianzhou. The order given was: "Damage their nests and eliminate their species." During this siege, Li Manzhu and his son were killed by the North Korean army. As for the other leader Dong Shan, Nurhachi's fifth generation ancestor, he also died in this encirclement and suppression.
A worthy death!
"How to deal with Jianzhou Guard and Jianzhou Left Guard, maybe you didn't hear clearly just now, or maybe I didn't explain clearly, but now I'll make it clearer." Zhu Gaojie looked calm, "Just exterminate the clan."
Zhang Fu and Zhu Yong were a little surprised when they heard this. With this sentence, more than 10,000 lives of Jianzhou Guard and Jianzhou Left Guard were decided!
Meng Ge Timur, the commander of Jianzhou Zuoweidu, was the ancestor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
There is only one word difference between the commander-in-chief and the capital commander-in-chief, but the difference is vast.
The commander-in-chief is the supreme commander of the "guard", while the commander-in-chief is the supreme commander of the "du commander-general", and is the supreme military commander of the local province.
The difference is that Meng Ge Timur is the commander-in-chief in vain, but in fact he does not have that many people under his command. He only has an army of about a thousand people, and he also drags his family with more than 7,000 troops. Public.
"I understand, general." Zhang Fu nodded and did not ask why King Qi had such hatred for Jianzhou Zuowei. In the army, military orders are paramount, and general orders come first. Even if Zhu Gaojie asked him to lead people to storm the Liaodong Dusi Yamen, Zhang Fu would dare to obey military orders.
If he knew what the descendants of Meng Brother Timur would do more than two hundred years later, he would probably even think about exposing the ashes of Jianzhou Zuowei.
Zhu Yong asked with some confusion: "Your Majesty, if that's the case, do we need to negotiate with Liu Rong from the Liaodong headquarters in advance when we pass through Liaodong?"
Liu Rong, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, once accompanied Zhu Di to conquer Mongolia and made many military exploits. He guarded Liaodong for ten years and built fortifications along the coast to resist Japanese pirates. He was not good at fighting the Han people, but he was an expert at fighting the Mongols and Japanese pirates, and he could be called a famous general.
"We will discuss it later. For now, we should take care of the march and the strategy of establishing a state." Zhu Gaojie shook his head and suddenly asked, "Officials who supervise the follow-up food route, don't wait for us to run out of food halfway. , that would be great fun.”
Zhu Yong said disapprovingly: "The prince is responsible for the grain road. If there is a problem, the East Palace will be responsible for it."
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Zhu Gaojie said sternly, "If there is a problem with food and grass, the people in the East Palace will definitely lose their heads, but won't we be affected? The food and grass we brought with us on the expedition can at most be enough to get us to Shuntian Mansion. , if there is a problem with the subsequent food route and 30,000 soldiers will either starve to death or mutiny, then not only will the Eastern Palace lose their heads in pieces, but you and I will not be much better either!"
Thirty thousand elite soldiers are going on an expedition. If they don't want to delay their journey, they can only compress the baggage they carry. As the army moved, the court transported grain and grass. The subsequent grain route took the Grand Canal and was sent to Shuntianfu together with the materials for the construction of the Shuntianfu Palace. When the army arrived at Shuntian Mansion by land, the subsequent grain and grass also arrived at Shuntian Mansion by water.
Although this is more convenient, it is also risky. If the prince takes the wrong medicine and delays the transportation of food and grass, the 30,000 elites will mutiny before they reach Nurgan. Of course, Zhu Gaojie couldn't let this happen. He had been arranging manpower to operate in Jinling City, but the effect was not too obvious. It was the prince who was in charge of this matter, not King Qi.
However, the prince has been engaged in logistics for many years and has basically never made any mistakes in the food supply. This also makes Zhu Gaojie feel a little more at ease.
Although he and Dong Gong were having trouble, the prince could still give people a sense of security in the face of national events.
