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Volume 1: Young People's Struggle for Loyalty Chapter 409: The Jurchens Retreat

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    The messenger spoke in a loud voice. When the surrounding Jurchen leaders heard this, they were in chaos!  Nurhachi grabbed the messenger with some disbelief and lifted him off his horse.  "What did you say?" "It's Yu Ren. Yu Ren has surrounded Liaoyang City. The prince-in-law sent a villain to rush out of the siege and risk his life to report to the Great Khan, asking the Great Khan to return his troops quickly. If it's too late, I'm afraid Liaoyang City  It's about to be lost." Nurhaci shouted, "Yu Ren!" Then he waved his whip and shouted, "Return!" The news that Yu Ren's 100,000 troops were surrounding Liaoyang quickly spread among the Jurchens.  Spread the word.  Most of the families of these Jurchens are in Liaoyang.  After hearing the news, they all wished they could fly back to Liaoyang with wings on their backs.  For a moment the team was in chaos.  When Nurhaci¡¯s army rushed back to Liaoyang, they did not see a single soldier of the Ming army.  When Li Yongfang saw the extremely angry Nurhachi, he looked even more puzzled.  "I heard that during this trip, the Great Khan captured Guangning almost without a fight. The officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty abandoned the city and fled after hearing the reputation of our army. The Great Khan took this opportunity to lead his army southward and attacked Shanhaiguan in one go. Why did he return in a hurry?  " Nurhaci was dumbfounded when he heard this.  Mang Gurtai, who was following him, glared at Li Yongfang.  "Didn't you send someone to call the Great Khan back? He also said that Yu Ren surrounded Liaoyang with a hundred thousand soldiers. Why didn't I even see a Mao from the Ming army?" Li Yongfang was shocked!  "How is that possible? Liaoyang has been very peaceful since the Great Khan went out. Although Yue Tuo came back from the defeat, he clamored for me to hand over the five thousand cavalry in Liaoyang to him to avenge Yu Ren. But I consider that the Great Khan is out on an expedition right now,  Liaoyang cannot be guarded without troops. As for Zhenjiang Fort, it is not very important to us at the moment. If we go there, we will lose it anyway.  , There is no rush at this time. As for Yu Ren sending troops to surround Liaoyang, this is nonsense. Not to mention that Yu Ren does not have a hundred thousand troops. Even if he did, he would never dare to come to Liaoyang. "  Looking at Li Yongfang coldly, "Then what happened to the messenger you sent earlier?" This sentence is exactly what Nurhaci wanted to ask.  Hearing Mang Gurtai ask what he was thinking, Nurhachi didn't speak again, but looked at Li Yongfang warily.  Li Yongfang looked stunned, "I didn't send a messenger to say that Liaoyang was besieged! During the Great Khan's campaign, I only sent one messenger. It was to report Yue Tuo's defeat to the Great Khan. I didn't send any messengers after that.  "There must be something fishy about this. From my guess, Yu Ren sent someone to trick us back with false information. Firstly, he could trick us into returning to the army, and secondly, he could not alienate Dahan and Yongfang."  The Great Khan must not fall for his alienation plan!" Seeing Nurhachi's unkind expression, Huang Taiji quickly excused Li Yongfang.  After hearing Huang Taiji¡¯s words, Nurhaci lowered his head and fell into deep thought.  He knew that what Huang Taiji said made sense, but Nurhachi still didn't believe that a young boy like Yu Ren could have such deep intentions.  In the Ming Dynasty, he had never seen anyone with such brilliant vision and strategy.  Nurhachi believes that the Ming Dynasty should not have it.  The reason is very simple!  If the Ming Dynasty really had people with such vision and strategy, they would not have been defeated again and again in the battles with themselves in recent years, and almost lost the entire Liaodong.  Therefore, Nurhachi became more and more suspicious.  In his opinion, in this world, apart from him and his Sibeile Huang Taiji, there is only one Li Yongfang who has such vision and insight.  There will naturally be no problems between himself and Sibeile, so the only problem should be with Li Yongfang.  What's more, if they didn't have a traitor to impersonate a messenger, they wouldn't be able to do it so seamlessly.  Nurhaci knew about Li Yongfang¡¯s talents, so he suspected that Li Yongfang was secretly instigating this matter.  On the surface, Nurhaci seems to trust Li Yongfang very much and even married his daughter to him.  But the fact is just the opposite. Nurhachi married his daughter to him precisely because he did not trust Li Jifang.  On the one hand, this is to win over, on the other hand, it also implies surveillance.  Such a big event happened today and caused him to miss a good opportunity. Even if Nurhaci trusts Li Yongfang again, he will inevitably feel unhappy with him.  You know, Nurhachi is already over sixty years old, and he knows that the time God has given him is running out.  Therefore, he felt particularly sorry for not being able to capture Shanhaiguan this time.  Therefore, in my heart, I dislike Li Yongfang very much.  Although he did not think that Li Yongfang did it directly, he still believed that it was related to him.  He did not doubt Li Yongfang's loyalty to him because of this incident, but he also began to no longer trust Li Yongfang as before.  Just in NurhachiWhen Liaoyang was lamenting the missed opportunity, Yu Ren was sitting comfortably on the tower of Zhenjiang City basking in the sun.  Now that winter is almost over, the temperature outside has begun to gradually rise. Sitting on the tower and basking in the sun has become Yu Ren's favorite enjoyment.  Yu Ren felt a little proud after defeating Yue Tuo, obtaining nearly a thousand of his horses, and successfully deceiving Nurhachi back to Liaoyang.  You know, the difficulty of these two things is not that high!  Defeating Yue Tuo may not be difficult, but he only has a thousand soldiers and horses.  But these thousand people are all cavalry and are very mobile.  In addition, their tactics have always been to fight if they win and run if they cannot win. It is very difficult to annihilate them.  This is also the fundamental reason why the Central Plains dynasty has been fighting against the northern nomads for more than two thousand years, but has never substantively eliminated them.  Although the Ming Dynasty has always had an overwhelming advantage over the northern peoples.  However, in the past hundred years, only Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang have been able to kill more than a thousand enemies at one time.  From this point of view, Yu Ren's victory this time can be tied with Qi Li.  Moreover, he also successfully deceived Nurhachi back to Liaoyang, strategically buying time for the Ming Dynasty.  Analyzing from these two points, his military exploits were unmatched by anyone at the time.  However, when reporting his merits to the court, Yu Ren finally concealed his name and reported the report of victory to Emperor Tianqi in the name of Mao Wenlong.  Yu Ren knew very well what the situation in the Ming Dynasty's court was like now.  Although at present, the Donglin Party members control the government and politics seems to be clear.  But he also knew very clearly that the eunuch Wei Zhongxian, one of the four traitors of the Ming Dynasty who was hiding his power, would appear soon.  And behind him, there is a Hakka who is deeply trusted by the emperor.  In such a political environment, Yu Ren would not wade into this muddy water anyway.  He felt that he was still free to be his own pirate, at least there was nothing that traitors like Wei Zhongxian could do to him.  I do not receive a salary from the imperial court, nor can I be canonized by the imperial court. I can come and leave whenever I want.  If something happens, I can help you if you want. If you don't want to help, I can't do anything about it.  It was precisely because of this idea that Yu Rencai wrote the main general of the Zhenjiang Battle as Mao Wenlong in the final victory report.  This is also very reasonable.  Mao Wenlong was originally sent by Wang Huazhen to prepare for a sneak attack on Zhenjiang Fort and contain the Jurchens from the east.  Of course, the real Mao Wenlong is dead.  The current Mao Wenlong is the small businessman Mao Fugui whom Yu Ren found.  But what does it matter?  In Zhenjiang, he, Yu Ren, has the final say.  But not many people in the court knew that he was the real person in charge here, and they all thought it was Mao Wenlong.  In this way, even if Wei Zhongxian wants to harm him in the future, he will not be able to harm him.  This is Yu Ren's consideration.  The court was quite satisfied with the results of this battle.  Not long after the victory letter was sent away, the imperial court sent several warships and brought in a large amount of logistical supplies.  And these are what Yu Ren lacks most right now.  However, there are no soldiers and horses.  Wang Huazhen had just lost 100,000 elite troops in Guangning. The Ming Dynasty's troops were nervous in a short period of time, not to mention preventing the Jurchens from continuing to move south.  We had to deploy heavy troops at Shanhaiguan.  Although there are no soldiers and horses, Yu Ren doesn't mind.  All he needs now is weapons and money.  He believed he could still recruit people locally.  Moreover, people recruited from the local area are far more reliable than those transferred from elsewhere.  Because their home is here, in order to protect their home and their relatives, they will not bow to the Jurchens easily.  After defeating Yue Tuo, Yu Ren completed his first recruitment in just over a month.  This time the number of soldiers recruited was five thousand.  In fact, if he didn't limit the number of people, he could recruit at least 20,000 people, because the conditions he offered were very generous, and the Han people in this area had been bullied by the Jurchens in recent years. They heard that they could beat the Jurchens  , the family can still receive money, and young people are naturally happy.  But Yu Ren only left five thousand people behind.  Because he knows that his financial conditions are limited.  Judging from the current food and salary given to him by the court, he can only support 5,000 people at most.  And he currently has nearly 10,000 troops.  So, he has to find a way.  There is no hope for the imperial court, and the Ming Dynasty's finances are not loose now. After all, this is a big extra expense.  Being able to pay him a salary of 5,000 people is already very good.  Therefore, Yu Ren could only think of ways to make money on his own.
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