Due to the lag in news transmission, when Liang Menglong and Gao Pragmatic were discussing the aftermath, Li Chengliang had already met with Nurhachi.
As Nurhachi himself had previously claimed, he personally led a group of Niulu Bajala's soldiers to rush to Li Chengliang's army, and performed a drama of asking for forgiveness under the ice and snow. He was so cold that he shed tears outside the camp gate.
Li Chengliang held up his position and delayed the time of "showering and changing clothes" before someone called Nurhachi in to see him. At that time, Nurhaci was already "sneeze and mucus flying, and his face was the color of ice and snow". He did not look like a powerful chieftain who had conquered Manchuria.
Nurhachi's Bagala soldiers were selected and recruited from various Niulu, and his pitiful appearance was seen by the soldiers. Theoretically speaking, this embarrassing appearance should not be seen by his subordinates, not to mention that if Bagala's personal soldiers saw it, it would be twice as embarrassing as if all the cows saw it at the same time.
However, this time was different from the past, Nurhachi wanted to let them see it. Because Nurhachi had already made people preach a truth before when he was still in Hetuala: Dabeile was willing to surrender in order to prevent the Ming army from finding a reason to massacre and exterminate the tribe.
Under this principle, all Nurhaci's embarrassing actions turned into taking care of the overall situation and protecting his people. And any doubts and disrespect towards Big Belle turned into anger and hatred towards the Ming Army at this moment.
People are social animals whose butt determines their head. At this moment, the Jurchens in Jianzhou will not think of the oppression they inflicted on others when they invaded other tribes, but will only feel the oppression imposed on them by the Ming Dynasty.
As long as "people are divided into groups" still exists in this world, bullying will never be absent.
Li Chengliang may not have felt anything about this, or he may have just been used to it. He did not consider the hatred of the Jurchens in Jianzhou against him at all. In his opinion, it doesn't matter whether he hates him or not, as long as he is in awe of him, that is enough.
The army under my command is not maintained just to reason with barbarians like you.
So Nurhachi was called into the tent and was lectured by Uncle Li in public. He was then told: "In two days, I will formally surrender in Hetuala. You should prepare now - remember to repair the surrender platform."
Nurhaci showed no temper, was respectful and obedient, kowtowed in thanks and left. After he led the suffocated Bagala troops away, Li Chengliang's troops slaughtered pigs and sheep amidst laughter and laughter to celebrate their great victory. Early the next morning, we lazily headed towards Hetuala.
At this time, Cao Yan had just passed through Jiefan Village. According to the military order he received from Li Chengliang two days ago to "advance troops with caution and do not make the same mistake as Ma Chengxun", he was sending out several detective horses to the south to expand the reconnaissance. Not long after, one of the scouts reported in embarrassment, saying that they were attacked by Jianzhou soldiers and more than a dozen brothers were killed.
Cao Yu inquired carefully and determined that the person coming should be from Jianzhou Erbeile Shuerhaqi's subordinates. The number of people in Bagala of Shuerhaqi's headquarters is not much less than that of his elder brother Nurhaci. There are now about 800 people, which is in line with the situation reported by Tanma. However, the 800 Bagala soldiers only caused more than a dozen casualties to Cao Yuan's 30-man expedition horse, which was a bit unusual.
There is no doubt that Shuerhaqi has a trick up his sleeve. Cao Yan and Qi Jin both judged that Shuerhaqi might have just deliberately alerted the enemy, and his purpose was just to tell them about the existence of this Jurchen army. As for Shulhaqi's purpose, it was either to "leave a thin line when meeting so that we can meet each other easily in the future", or his mission was simply to harass.
Shuerhaqi was the one whom Gao pragmatically told him to win over. Since he was measured in his actions, Cao Yu accepted his favor, gathered his troops, and headed southeast in a leisurely manner.
However, after only ten miles away, he received an urgent report from Beijing. Jinghua Trading Company's Fushun Pass Station forwarded a secret message sent by Gao Pragmatic Flying Pigeon, requesting Cao Yu to maintain a slower marching speed. It was probably three days after Li Chengliang arrived in Hetuala that Cao Yu's troops It will go to the outskirts of Hetuala.
The style of this confidential letter was very different from Gao Jingshi's previous confidential letters. He did not explain the reasons at all, nor did he tell Cao Yan much about what he should pay attention to. He only set strict requirements on his marching speed and arrival time.
This secret letter came so mysteriously that both Cao Yun and Qi Jin were a little confused. The two of them analyzed it for a long time, but still found it elusive: If Gao Pragmatic only asked them to march cautiously because Ma Chengxun was injured in an ambush, then he should not have given such a clear instruction, because marching is not just a matter of his own decision. , but also needs to change at any time according to the enemy's actions.
It is impossible for Gao Situ, who is "the best literary commander in the world", not to know this, so he did not even "control remotely" in the last battle in Northern Liaoning. There is no reason for him to suddenly engage in remote micro-control this time.
But neither Cao Yan nor Qi Jin dared to disobey Gao Jingshi's order - even if every sentence in Gao Jingshi's secret letter was just a "suggestion," obviously neither of them really thought it was just a suggestion.
In fact, it is not difficult to implement the highly pragmatic order, because after calculating the distance, they seem to be able to walk a little slower along the way, but there is a trouble: the key to this order is that their speed along the way is different from that of Li Chengliang's troops. The march speed is bound.
If Li Chengliang walks fast, they must go fast. Otherwise, if they haven't arrived three days after Li Chengliang arrived in Hetuala, it will be a delay in the fighter plane - no matter what the fighter plane is, it is Gao Situ's explanation anyway; if Li Chengliang walks slowly, , then they would have to reduce their speed accordingly. If Li Chengliang arrived in Hetuala only two days before they arrived, this would also be a violation of the order.
Although Gao Situ is no longer the Minister of the Ministry of War, but has been promoted to the Minister of the Ministry of Hubu, the Ministry of War... is one of the basics of the Shi School, and Liang Da Sima and Gao Situ are close allies.
What's more, Cao Yan's only support now is Gao Pragmatic, and Qi Jin... If he dares not to listen to Gao Pragmatic, Commander Qi Jiguang and Qi are afraid that he will tell him to go back to the capital and whip him himself. Therefore, Cao Yu and Qi Jin hurriedly sent people to contact Li Chengliang's department, and really planned to "hear each other."
This was a questionable question. Cao and Qi discovered that Li Chengliang's troops had already changed from marching slowly and leisurely before, and began to accelerate and advance rapidly, just like Ma Chengxun's troops before.
The two were stunned and could no longer care about Shuerhaqi. The entire army immediately began to speed up, and soon arrived at Gule Village - or the former site of Gule Village - and continued to move quickly towards Mardun Village.
No one knows what Shuerhaqi was thinking. Anyway, he once again ambushed a scouting horse sent by Cao Yun, and then nothing happened.
At this time, Cao Yan received a battle report from Ma Chengxun: Ma Chengxun's injury was initially determined and he had led his army southward again. But this time, his marching speed was a little slower than before.
Cao Yan and Qi Jin estimated that Ma Chengxun's injury was not very good, but this brother may have a father-like style, so there was a high probability that he went into battle with an injury.
What made Cao Yun and Qi Jin even more aware of each other was that Ma Chengxun vaguely pointed out in the battle report that his actions seemed to be following Gao Situ's instructions.
When Cao Yu's troops arrived at Maldun Village, they found that, as expected, there were no Jianzhou soldiers defending it.
Cao Yu and Qi Jin began to camp and repair in Maldun Village in accordance with the "guiding spirit" proposed by Gao pragmatically. The answer to the court was that they had been constantly harassed by Jianzhou Shuerhaqi's troops along the way. In order to make a complete plan, they had to make some repairs, deploy defenses, and wait for the other three armies to be in place - Mardunzhai was the one who reached Hetuala along the way. The last stop, this reason is completely valid.
At this moment, Li Chengliang's eight thousand elite cavalry had marched into Hetuala in a swaggering manner.
The city of Hetuala was not that big, and was probably equivalent to a rural town in later generations. But to be honest, it is already larger than the historical Hetuala, even close to the size of one of the two eastern and western cities of Yehe.
The difference from the two cities in the east and west of Yehe is that Hetuala seems to pay more attention to city defense. Not only are the city walls built higher and thicker than those in the second city of Yehe, but the arrow stacks on the city walls are also more densely packed than those in the second city of Yehe. .
However, Li Chengliang just glanced at it casually and didn't take it to heart. This is not to say that he is too big, but that even if the city wall of Hetuala is built thicker, in Li Chengliang's opinion, it is just that, it is still made of wooden piles and rammed earth.
Although due to the severe cold in Liaodong, the wooden piles and rammed earth city walls were not necessarily weak, but this level was a little too inferior compared to the Han cities in Liaodong. What's more, Li Chengliang has experienced Jinghua's "reinforced cement concrete" method in the past few years. The so-called "bastion" built by that thing is truly impregnable.
In Li Chengliang's view, the city defense of Hetuala's level was indeed indestructible within the Jurchens, but in front of Uncle Li, it was just a question of an hourly volley from the artillery battalion.
After all, in order to form this artillery battalion of the Li Jiajun, he, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, gave Jinghua a huge deal. Not only did the imperial court spend 1,780,000 taels on this, but Uncle Ning Yuan himself also spent this amount, which made his heart and liver hurt.
Nurhaci still behaved very respectfully and even invited Li Chengliang to visit the surrender platform he was building for him, but Li Chengliang refused on the grounds that he was tired from the march.
To be honest, being tired from the march is not entirely an excuse. Li Chengliang is already sixty-two years old this year. In this era, he can even be said to have a long life. He has already reached the age when he should have grandchildren - Ma Fang and Liu Xian were almost at this age when they became officials.
Of course, Li Chengliang started at a relatively high level, his servants were elite enough, and he always dominated his opponents in Liaodong, so he suffered relatively few injuries. This is quite different from Ma Fang and Liu Xian, who all fought from small soldiers to general soldiers. .
There are no hidden wounds on his body, and his foundation is obviously much better. But no matter how good his foundation is, it is impossible for an old man in his sixties to march through river valleys and mountains at high intensity without getting tired. It is normal for him to require rest.
Nurhachi was still very obedient to Uncle Li, and even selected several prisoner-of-war women from other tribes to sleep with Uncle Li. Uncle Li is always strong and strong, so he did not refuse.
Even so, Li Chengliang did not let down his vigilance. He personally arranged the defense of the city and drove most of Nurhaci's Jianzhou soldiers out of the city to station themselves outside the city. Only one of Nurhaci's most powerful Bajala soldiers was left in the city.
The night passed peacefully without any words. Early the next morning, Li Chengliang got up after three strokes. He looked good, but had some dark circles under his eyes.
After he got up, he asked about Nurhachi's movements, and his generals told him that Nurhaci was extremely obedient and even led his Bajala soldiers to continue building the surrender platform overnight, very diligently.
What the generals didn't tell him was that each of them got a beautiful prisoner of war arranged by Nurhaci. Each of them fought for half the night, and now they are all thinking about Nurhachi's kindness. All the generals agreed that the Jianzhou landowner was still very good at life, and the so-called arrogance before was probably a misunderstanding.
Li Chengliang was very satisfied after hearing this and ordered Nurhaci to come over and pay homage. Not long after, Nurhachi rushed over out of breath, paid homage to the commander respectfully, asked the commander what his orders were, and repeatedly emphasized that "savages in the mountains are not good at hospitality", and wondered whether he was being negligent.
Li Chengliang became more and more satisfied and said that he had done a good job. After finishing this matter, he would plead for him in front of the emperor. He also told him to be more well-behaved in the future and not to act on his own initiative.
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Nurhachi responded one by one and seemed very educated.
Li Chengliang saw that he was so busy that he was soaked and sneezed from time to time. It was obvious that he had suffered from wind and cold when he stood in front of the army to plead guilty two days ago. Last night, he worked all night to build the landing platform, so his illness naturally became worse. Thinking back to the death of Jue Chang'an and his son, Li Chengliang actually felt a little embarrassed, and softened his heart, saying: "You only have one Niu Lu soldier in the city, and the construction of this surrender platform will be too slow. You will tire yourself out like this." It doesn't make sense... Well, let's call in all your Bajala soldiers and recruit five hundred men to help with the attack, and try to get it done tomorrow."
Nurhaci couldn't help being happy, thanked him profusely, and went to mobilize troops outside the city without mentioning it.
That night, Li Chengliang sent someone to check Nurhachi's actions. The person who reported back said that Nurhachi was still at the landing platform construction site, but maybe he was too tired and had fallen asleep at the construction site.
Li Chengliang was completely relieved and sent out his soldiers. He stayed in Nurhaci's mansion and became strong again, enjoying the service of foreign women.
These women had received permission from Nurhachi, saying that once Uncle Li was satisfied, they would be released from prisoner-of-war status, so they had to be treated with great care and diligence.
Li Chengliang fell asleep at about two o'clock in the morning at Chou Shiji. At Yinshi 2, he was sleeping soundly when he suddenly felt some noise around him.
Uncle Li struggled to open his old eyes, only to see his youngest son Li Rumei, dressed in military uniform, shaking his arms vigorously.
Li Rumei was wearing armor, but her hair was not tied up. The hair under the helmet was sticking out everywhere. It was obvious that she put on the helmet temporarily and ran over.
After all, Li Chengliang is a seasoned man. Naturally, he would not scold Li Rumei for breaking into his dormitory in the middle of the night. Instead, he suddenly sat up and asked, "Is the camp roaring?"
Li Rumei stamped her foot: "Dad, it's not Ying Xiao, it's Nurhachi who rebelled!" In her hurry, Li Rumei didn't even bother to shout to the commander: "Dad, get up quickly, my son will protect you and rush out!"
