My life skills in Daming Liver - Chapter 667

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The outcome of the ensuing war was beyond Shen Guangyuan’s expectations.

He did not expect that the Jurchens had not deployed any defenses on the Yajiang River. Although the North Korean army was only barely qualified in Shen Guanyi’s opinion, after crossing the Yajiang River, it turned out to be overwhelming and quickly entered Liaodong.

Yi Sun-shin personally led the troops and raised the southeast flag. Several Han military strongholds on the edge of the Yajiang River immediately followed the trend after seeing the southeast flag.

The soldiers in these garrison camps were all descendants of Han military households rooted in the north. They were dissatisfied with Li Rusong’s policies in Liaodong.

During Li Chengliang’s era, the Han people in Liaodong still held a core position and enjoyed many privileges.

Although Li Chengliang appointed Jurchens, he only regarded them as consumables and slaves and did not give them any status.

At that time, the Jurchens could not farm or do business. At the same time, they also needed to attack the Jurchens deeper in the mountains and were responsible for protecting the security of Liaodong.

However, as Li Rusong began to take charge of Liaodong, the status of the Jurchens began to improve. Li Rusong allowed these Jurchens to farm and do business, which also squeezed the foundation of the Han people in Liaodong.

This is also the reason why Li Rusong was besieged in Liaoyang, but no one from the surrounding military guards sent troops to rescue him.

With the rise of maritime trade, Liaodong also knew the situation in the Central Plains very well, so after seeing the flag in the southeast, these powerful Han people betrayed the Li family and his son without hesitation and quickly switched sides.

Looking at the food sent by these powerful Han people, Yi Sunchen felt that he had never fought such a smooth battle before, so he led his soldiers to rush directly to Jianzhou.

Jianzhou, the name of the Jurchens is Hetuala. This is the earliest city established by the Jurchens in Jianzhou. Under the construction of Li Ruzhen, it became the most important town in the rear of the Jurchens.

During this expedition, Li Ruzhen led the Jurchen elites to divide into two groups and attack the Ming Dynasty’s two important towns in Liaodong – Liaoyang and Fushun.

Li Ruzhen personally led the elite troops to attack Liaoyang, which was the yamen residence of the governor of Ji Liao in the Ming Dynasty and a heavily guarded gateway outside the customs.

The second route was led by Li Rushe’s compatriots. Fushun was also an important stronghold of the Ming army. To the west of Fushun was Shenyang, a city outside the customs. It was the center of commodity trading outside the customs and a city where Han caravans gathered.

Li Rushe left all the old and weak members of the tribe in Jianzhou, leaving only some personal guards to guard them, and gave them to his Jurchen wife Tong Jia to lead.

The level of civilization among the Jurchens is relatively low. Some of the wild Jurchens still have a matriarchal society. Among the Jianzhou Jurchens, there are also many situations where women are the masters of the house.

In fact, Tong Jia was Li Rushe’s first wife, but he was later married to a Han woman by Li Chengliang. Li Rushe announced that he and Tong Jia were divorced, but he still had several sons with Tong Jia.

After revolting against the Ming Dynasty, Li Rusong detained Li Rushu’s Han wife, but Li Rushu was not moved at all, and even asked someone to send a message to Li Rusong, asking him to dispose of his Han wife as he pleased.

Li Ruzhen did not expect that Southeast would adopt such a strategy.

According to Li Ruzhen’s idea, Southeast and Ming Ting were competing for the world, and he took the initiative to surrender. Even if Southeast didn’t support him, he would definitely stand by and wait until he and Ming Ting fought for victory, consuming Ming Ting’s strength.

However, Southeast did not follow common sense at all and sent troops directly from North Korea to attack its home base.

When Li Rushe received the news, Li Shunchen had already crossed the Yajiang River and was heading towards Jianzhou. When Li Rushe was about to return to aid Jianzhou, Jianzhou had been captured by Li Shunchen. His wife Tong Jia was missing, and the tribal elders were missing. They were all captured.

After hearing the news, Li Rushe almost abandoned the besieged Liaoyang and returned to rescue Jianzhou, but he still suppressed this impulse. Instead, he sent his cronies to contact the commander who attacked Fushun, asking him to give up attacking Fushun and immediately go south to Liaoyang. Together, they captured Liaoyang City at any cost.

At this time, Li Ruzhen understood that it was impossible to win without bleeding. If he waited another half month, Li Chengliang would lead the army to rush outside the pass. Jianzhou’s old nest had been taken away, and he might never have a chance again. , should we continue to go north and become a savage in the mountains?

Li Ruzhen began to collect wood around Liaoyang City, arrested the surrounding Han craftsmen and laborers, and forced them to make siege equipment.

At this time, Li Ruzhen completely tore off the veil of warmth and began to force the surrendered Han people to make engineering tools.

Those Han people who had taken refuge in Li Ruzhen suffered immediately. Li Ruzhen tore up the agreement with them and drove them to the cold snowy fields. They worked from morning to night all day long. Many people froze to death on the snowy fields.

And Li Ruzhen is also red-eyed. At this time, he has no way out. The troops of his Jurchen headquarters will soon go to the city wall to fight for their lives. Why should he show mercy to you Han people?

After Li Ruzhen started doing this, he found that his pressure was reduced a lot.

In the past, Li Ruzhen had to take care of the Han people and give preferential treatment to some Han people who surrendered, which put a lot of pressure on the troops.

Now this allowed the Jurchen army to breathe a sigh of relief, and Li Rushu simply risked everything and began to attack Liaoyang.

In the historical timeline that Su Ze traveled through, a large part of the reason for the rise of the Jurchens came from their cruel policies.

In the late Ming Dynasty, there were constant natural disasters and it was in the Little Ice Age. The north was even more lacking in food and suffered a large number of military disasters.

At this time, the burden on the people was lighter in comparison. Li Zicheng’s peasant army, who promised not to pay for food when the king came, had more moral burden than the Jurchens who burned, killed and looted.

Through this method of massacre and robbery, the Jurchens also benefited greatly from the Manchus and Han who participated in the entire military group’s surrender, and finally conquered the world.

This is also known as low moral superiority.

When Li Ruzhen first started his army, he still wanted to take care of his reputation and the hearts of the people in Liaodong.

Now that he was on the verge of life and death, he naturally revealed his violent nature. He made a desperate move and began to attack Liaoyang, and Li Rusong in Liaoyang City was not surprisingly discouraged.

Standing on the city wall, watching the Jurchens driving the Han people to their deaths, with corpses piled all over the city wall, Li Rusong had never seen such a scene before. He woke up in the Yamen of the Governor’s Mansion with cold sweat all over his head.

Since Li Ruzhen’s rebellion, Li Rusong has become even more distrustful of the people around him.

First of all, all the Jurchens among the personal guards were executed by him, and the guards and servants in the mansion were all replaced by Han people. However, Li Rusong still felt insecure, fearing that someone would use his head to surrender to the city.

Now that Liaoyang was under siege, although there were still supplies and ammunition in the city and he could still hold on, Li Rusong felt a little broken inside.

“Come here! This general is going to hold a military meeting!”