My life skills in Daming Liver - Chapter 662

c652 The Jurchens raised an army

Su Ze nodded and said:

“The Jurchen issue is different from that of the southwestern barbarians. The Jurchens in Jianzhou have long had ambitions and established a top-down regime. Such ambitions are not to be reconciled with the Chinese, but are a more difficult enemy than the Mongols.”

Shen Yiguan was stunned for a moment. He originally wanted to persuade Su Ze not to accept the Jurchen Ministry’s surrender, but he hadn’t thought of a way to say it, but he didn’t expect Su Ze to take the initiative and say that he should treat the Jurchens with caution.

Su Ze continued: “It is bitterly cold outside the Pass, and the southerners are disadvantaged in fighting outside the Pass. How should we deal with the Jurchen problem?”

Shen Guanyi said without thinking:

“It is precisely because of the situation outside the customs that the Jurchens cannot be allowed to separate themselves from the customs!”

“My subordinates think that we should immediately send troops from North Korea to attack Liaodong!”

Su Ze pondered for a while and said:

“We must be cautious when dealing with the Jurchens. If we really let them defeat once, it will be too big to lose. It is too easy to separatist power outside the pass.”

Shen Yiguan wanted to persuade him again, but unexpectedly Su Ze said:

“There is no way to defeat the Jurchens with Yi Sun-shin. These North Korean soldiers can barely fight against the wind. Let the Army Ministry study a plan to move two brigades from China to North Korea.”

Shen Guanyuan did not expect Su Ze to be so determined. You must know that it only took Qi Jiguang’s brigade to attack Annan, and the Korean battle in the southeast did not end at all.

Now faced with a small Jurchen problem, Su Ze actually wanted to mobilize two brigades from the mainland to go north.

But then I thought about it, if we really occupy the northeastern region, we can attack the capital from outside the pass, and we can attack the Ming Dynasty from two directions. Is this the governor’s military strategy?

The beginning of the new year——

Li Ruzhen gathered his tribe before the New Year and prepared equipment. Just when Liaoyang City was celebrating the New Year, the Jianzhou Jurchens raised their troops brazenly.

Li Ruzhen changed his name to Nuhaci, the name of the Jianzhou Jurchen, and raised an army as the leader of Jianzhou.

When raising troops, Li Ruzhen swore an oath in the camp, citing the Five Great Hatreds as the reason for raising troops.

The first is that Li Rushe’s father and ancestors were all respectful to the Ming court, but they were executed by Li Chengliang without any guilt.

The second is that the Ming court imposed excessive taxes, forcing the Jurchen tribe to pay heavy taxes that were far higher than those of the Han people, and also demanded tribute of treasures from time to time.

The third is that the Ming court treated the Jurchens like cattle and horses, plundered and enslaved them wantonly, and also allowed the Jurchens to plunder the Jurchens, and used the defeated Jurchens as slaves.

Fourth, the Ming court recruited Jurchens to fight, but did not provide any pensions for casualties. Tens of thousands of Jurchen tribesmen died on the battlefield in Dagu.

Fifth, the Ming court supported the Haixi Jurchens, but favored the Haixi Jurchens to oppress the Jianzhou Jurchens, thus driving a wedge between the Jurchens.

After reading out the Five Great Hatreds, Li Ruzhen and the tribe’s banner leaders formed a bloody alliance and directly launched troops to attack Liaoyang!

Li Ruzhen acted very quickly. It was not until the third day of the rebellion that Li Rusong in Liaoyang City learned about Li Ruzhen’s rebellion.

Following Li Ruzhen’s rebellion, the entire Jurchens stationed outside Liaoyang City also began to rebel. Some Jurchen slaves raised in the city also began to rebel after receiving the news.

After all, Li Rusong once followed his father Li Chengliang, and he still had some general temperament. After receiving the news, he immediately led the Han cavalry out of the city and first called a meeting with the Jurchen soldiers outside the city.

Li Rusong adopted the policy of using barbarians to control barbarians. The Jurchens stationed outside Liaoyang City for defense were all Jurchens.

After hearing the news about Li Ruzhen’s rebellion, those Jurchens who had colluded with Li Ruzhen for a long time had already fled to Li Ruzhen’s headquarters. Most of the remaining Jurchens had nothing to do with the Jianzhou Jurchens, or they didn’t want to The Jurchens who want to participate in Li Ruzhen’s rebellion.

Li Rusong immediately called these Jurchens to the military camp. After everyone arrived, Li Rusong immediately took out the treasure and said to everyone:

“Li Rushe is worse than a pig or a dog. He betrayed the trust of my father and son and rebelled against me. The reward for killing this traitor is one hundred thousand!”

Seeing that the morale of these Jurchens had been mobilized, Li Rusong immediately ordered the Han generals to lead these Jurchens out of the city to intercept Li Rushe.

Immediately after Li Rusong returned to Liaoyang City, he ordered the soldiers to deploy cannons, and then ordered all Jurchen slaves to be driven out of the city.

Nowadays, the big families in the city keep many wild Jurchen slaves. Unlike the Jurchens outside the city who have been ordered to peace, the wild Jurchens are the most hated by the Han people.

Li Rusong had already plundered all the supplies outside the city and brought them into the city. With the temperature in Liaodong, driving these slaves with only single clothes out of the city was basically equivalent to killing these slaves.

The big families in the city were still hesitant, but a slave from a big family suddenly rebelled at night, and the story of massacring the whole family was quickly exposed, and spread quickly in Liaoyang City. The big families in the city finally no longer hesitated, and they all killed the wild girls in their homes. Slaves were kicked out of their homes.

Li Rusong drove these wild Jurchens to an empty military camp outside the city, and sent people to block the camp to deny these people firewood and food. These wild Jurchens froze to death and starved to death, and their bones were piled up in the entire camp.

Li Rusong immediately sent people to ask for help from the capital, and then ordered the cities in Liaodong to massacre all the Jurchens in the city, and then defend the city.

After Li Rusong’s orders were all issued, Li Ruzhen led the army and rushed outside Liaoyang City.

What Li Ruzhen didn’t expect was that he would face the Jurchens in his first battle.

These Jurchen cavalry outside Liaoyang City were not elite, and they were defeated soon after the battle with Li Rushe, but they greatly slowed down Li Rushe’s advance.

By the time Li Ruzhen arrived at Liaoyang City, the Jurchen slaves who were driven out of the military camp outside the city had frozen to death. All this made Li Ruzhen very angry.

In his plan, these Jurchen soldiers outside the city and Jurchen slaves inside the city are his important manpower and the core force that can be absorbed into his army.

Li Ruzhen also studied Su Ze’s fighting methods. In the early stages of Su Ze’s army, he was always able to occupy a piece of land, immediately absorb local manpower to develop more troops, and then occupy more land.

Li Ruzhen raised the army because the Jurchens were oppressed. The most important slogan was naturally to unite the Jurchens against the Han people.

Unexpectedly, when they reached Liaoyang City, the Jurchen slaves in the city had been killed by Li Rusong, while the Jurchen cavalry outside the city did not join him at all, but instead helped the Ming court attack him.

Therefore, when they reached Liaoyang City, Li Ruzhen’s troops not only failed to expand in size, but also suffered a lot of losses due to combat and weather.

Seeing the tall city walls of Liaoyang City, Li Ruzhen tried to attack the city, but was repelled by the Ming army’s artillery.

Li Ruzhen understood the power of artillery. The elite Liaoyang cavalry could not break through the artillery defense line in the southeast, let alone his own soldiers.

Li Rushe gritted his teeth and simply chose to bypass Liaoyang City and began to plunder nearby Han strongholds.