Chapter 22: The foundation of the Northeast (4)

In the vast earth, the sun sets, a few crows roaring across the sky, a few flags fluttering at the top of the city, and a few ownerless war horses wandering on the dead battlefield.

The reinforcements from the Central Guard of Dingliao and the Right Guard of Yulin appeared at the same time at the city of Lalu. Garbina escaped before the battle, and Zahaqi led the remnants to the last suicide charge. The doomsday of the Haixi Jurchens was already doomed.

The courage of a man was useless in front of the two armies. Zahaqi vomited blood and died while charging. His death took away the last trace of the Jurchens, and all that was left was a group of Jurchens rushing towards the Han camp in despair.

After the brave Jurchens were wiped out in Zahaqi's personal barracks, their morale completely collapsed, and there was an unprecedented blockbuster surrender at the last moment of the battle.

However, before setting off, the Yulin Right Guard secretly received Tie Xuan's instructions. Those who did not surrender, the Liaodong Army's sabers slashed at the heads of all the Haixi Jurchens on the battlefield.

Tie Xuan's strangle order was issued with Zhu Qi on his back. In his opinion, the Haixi Jurchens were unruly. If they did not use this opportunity to completely wipe out it, it would be difficult to guarantee that they would not be blown and reborn in the future. The other layer was also for the Jianzhou Jurchens to see. In this battle under the city of Lalu, the Guangning Central Guard formed by the Jianzhou Jurchens made the greatest contribution. This time, the Haixi Jurchen men were killed, and deep seeds were planted between Jianzhou and the remnants of Haixi. Within fifty years, Haixi and Jianzhou were irreconcilable.

In this way, the Jianzhou Jurchens could only completely break with the Jurchens and relate to the Liaodong chariots. Therefore, Tie Xuan secretly violated the military rules that the surrendered persons were not killed by Zhu Zhi.

This killing only killed the sky and the earth, and the ghosts and gods were moved. The 20,000 most brave warriors of the Jurchen tribe were wiped out in despair.

From Sarhu to the city of Lalu, nearly 40,000 most elite Haixi Jurchens died, which made this nation unable to recover its vitality in the Ming Dynasty.

During the census in the 414th year of the Ming Dynasty (1782 AD), there were less than 40,000 people in Haixi Jurchens, of which less than 40% of the men were left.

Tie Xuan, who arrived in Lalu in advance, ordered people to find the body of Zahaqi in the corpse mountain and be buried with the ceremony of the chief of the Haixi Jurchen tribe. Eight Jianzhou Jurchens carried a coffin for him. In Tie Xuan's heart.

This is a respectable opponent, but the Jianzhou Jurchens carried the coffin even more sowed the seeds of hatred between the two parts.

The Battle of La Lu was the only battle in the war to pacify the Haixi Jurchens. The Liaodong Army lost only a thousand people, but achieved a record of annihilation of the Haixi Jurchens.

After conquering Lalu, the Liaodong Dusi made a fortune, with 20,000 best war horses, tens of thousands of cattle and sheep, and 30,000 taels of gold in the treasury.

Tie Xuan ordered the personnel to settle the seizure. He ordered the Guangning Right Guard to sweep downstream along the Songhua River and take the Nuheli (now Zhili); Dingliao Zhongwei searched northwest and advanced to the southern foot of Tuluting Mountain.

Although there are some Jurchen tribes in these bitter and cold places in the extreme north, the largest number is only 2,000 people. The task of the two armies is to eliminate all tribes that are dissatisfied with the court.

"Master Tie, why do you always feel awkward when this Northern Expedition is unstoppable and you have never had the momentum to sweep away thousands of troops? After several battles.

Although we didn't suffer any losses, why did we always fail to win? But in the end, the Jurchens collapsed like this. The battle at the city of Lalu was completely defeated?" A staff officer from the General Staff of the Chief Secretary asked Tie Xuan in confusion.

Tie Xuan hadn't considered this issue all the time. From the beginning, both sides were evenly matched, and then they put the noose around Zahaqi's neck step by step, until he died. After pondering for a while, Tie Xuan said: "Before chasing Zahaqi.

Your Highness once chatted with me for nothing. Your Highness told me a story that made me suddenly realize. Your Highness said that if you throw a frog into boiling water, it can jump out of the water pot with one leap, and the boiling water you bring will hurt you.

But what if it is cold water? It will not feel uncomfortable, but will cruise inside, but the fire below is still burning and the water gradually heats up. When the frog feels it, it has no strength to jump out until the water boils and cooks it."

The little adviser said thoughtfully: "Is that Zahazi the slowly cooked frog?"

Tie Xuan nodded and said, "Although Your Highness did not say it clearly, I think this should be the case. The Jurchens are good at fighting, but they have few soldiers, few land, and few money. Their strength cannot compete with our Ming Dynasty at all, so we should play to our strengths and avoid our weaknesses.

Don’t compete with them for a day. Since the Battle of Sarhu, we have entered a stalemate with the Jurchens, protecting the food routes and protecting the flanks. Let the cavalry that the Tatars are best at cannot play their role.

Then he took steady steps, and used his superior forces to oppress the Jurchens bit by bit. Then he used surprise troops to capture their lairs in one fell swoop.

In this way, the rope was put on the Jurchens' neck, and there was no possibility of breaking free until they were hanged by the rope.

The countless strategies used by famous generals in ancient times are nothing more than a word of power. If the Jurchens had a 100,000 army and tens of millions of cattle and sheep, they could not be wiped out by the power of Liaodong. But now it is different. The power is in my hands. First, weaken the people and then force them to fight.

The Jurchens were defeated before the battle. “When Tie Xuan’s eyes rose, a cloud of mist had risen, and his thoughts had already flew to Zhu Qi, who was still moving slowly along the way.

He only felt that Zhu Shi was an incomprehensible person. Although he sometimes seemed weak and even a little reckless, he had a different mindset than ordinary people in commanding military affairs.

An opponent like Zahaqi was still boiled to death like a frog in time. Tie Xuan only felt that he admired the Supreme Commander of Liaodong.

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"Hurry, don't let it run away, right there, right, catch it!" Zhu Shi lay on the couch and directed his personal soldiers to capture the frogs scattered on the ground, "Look at you being clumsy, you ruined my good soup."

The personal soldiers worked hard for a long time and finally grabbed a dustpan of frogs, washed them all and put them in a big pot.

Zhu Shi said: "This frog soup is the most nourishing thing in the world, but when you cook it, you must pay attention to cold water and slow heat. If you throw all the frogs into boiling water, they all have to slap them out.

So put it in cold water and boil it slowly, remember to put it in cold water."

After boiling for half an hour, the soup of the frog boiling delicacies was already fragrant. Zhu Shi took a spoon and scooped it out, and tasted it, "Ah.

It's so fresh!" Zhu Zhi rushed to Lalu slowly under the escort of the personal guard camp and the Dingliao Right Guard. Along the way, Zhu Zhi's nature of loving Taotie was once again exposed.

I don’t know when His Highness fell in love with the mountain delicacies frog soup again, and the frogs along the way were considered to have suffered a disaster.

Under the careful care of Atractylodes and the feeding of these delicacies, Zhu Xidi's injuries quickly improved. Ten days later, he could already walk on the ground. Every day, he directed the chefs in the baggage camp to do this and that, and then shared it with Atractylodes.

It took five days for more than a hundred miles to walk. Zhu Zhi only hopes that this road will never end.

Thirty thousand taels of gold?! How could there be so much gold?! Looking at the battle report coming from the front, the 30 thousand taels of gold copied in Lalu is 300,000 taels of silver.

This not only solves the problem of compensation for the state of Liaodong merchants in all places, but also supports the reform of the military pay system in the Liaodong military system.

But Zhu Zhi was not blinded by victory. Why did the Haixi Jurchens have so much gold in their hands? Zhu Zhi is very familiar with this land in Liaodong. He has hidden a lot of treasures in the underground land. Take gold as an example. After liberation, the gold production in Northeast China even accounted for 50% of the country.

Zhu Zhi's eyes fell on the map in the tabernacle. Where did these golds come out?

Suddenly a spark flashed in my mind. No, Nadan Mansion? Upstream of Songhua Lake?! The Golden King of Kanto?! Countless signals flashed into Zhu Zhi's mind at this moment.

Could it be that this is the famous Jiapigou gold mine in history?! In that era, Zhu Zhi watched a TV series "King of Guandong" about a place called Jiapigou near Songhua Lake. This is the place where gold is produced the most in the northeast. It has not been dug up from the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty until modern times.

Could it be that gold had been mined in this place in the early years of the Ming Dynasty?!

Zhu Zhi quickly ordered people to recruit Jianzhou Jurchen scout guard officers who stayed in the camp and waited for his appointment. A hundred households were ordered to come to the tent and respond. What a brave warrior, who seemed to be at least 1.8 meters tall. Zhu Zhi ordered him to sit down, and the personal soldiers next to him brought tea.

The hundred households were not clear. I couldn't figure out what the prince was asking him for, so I looked embarrassed. Zhu Zhi looked at him and smiled and said, "What's your name?" Someone next to me translated it.

The hundred households quickly replied: "I am a subordinate of Hasselblad, and the scouts have 2,000 households and 300 households."

Zhu Shi said: "Dahassu, haha, okay, which tribe are you from?"

Dahassuel said, "Go back to Your Highness, your subordinates are the territory of Niuhulu."

Zhu Zhi said: "Niuhulu tribe? Then you are a member of Guni's tribe?"

Dahassel said, "Go back to your highness, yes. Guni is his cousin."

Zhu Shi said: "So that's it. I have something I want to ask you."

Dahassel said: "Your Highness, may I ask."

Zhu Zhi picked up a piece of stuff from the table and threw it to Dahassui. Dahassui caught it, and saw a piece of natural gold. He looked at Zhu Zhi with some confusion.

Zhu Shi said: "This is the gold that has been sifted from the river near your Nadan Mansion. Do you recognize it?"

When he heard Zhu Zhi mention Nadan Mansion, sweat actually oozed from Dahassuke's forehead. He looked a little embarrassed: "This, this subordinate doesn't recognize it."

Zhu Zhi was already quite sure in his eyes. He said, "You Jurchens are such a good place. They actually produce such good things. I don't know where the place of origin is. Can Dahassuke give me some advice?"

Dahassuke had more sweat beads on his forehead. His expression became even more panicked, and Zhu Shi said again: "Has Guni told you that this is the secret of you Jianzhou people? Can't you tell us the Han people?"

Dahassel still didn't say anything, but just kept reaching out to wipe the sweat from his forehead.

Zhu Shi slapped the table suddenly: "Okay, the Jianzhou Jurchen, are you going to rebel?! How long will it take to hide this matter from us? What kind of ancestral tomb land? Hehe, can your ancestors all lie on gold?!"
Chapter completed!