LRAB Chapter 400 Hezhe’s strategy
Chapter 400 Hezhe’s strategy
But I didn't expect that the descendant of the tiger father would be so disappointing.
I am willing to be a dog for the Tatars..."
According to Ming officials, the title of the Hezhe tribe is the Jurchens of the East China Sea.
During the Wanli period, the leader of Hezhe, Hurhalu, led his people to attack Ninggu Pagoda. The old slave suffered a heavy loss.
Not only Liu Wenbing knew about this matter, but Chu Dazhuang, a local, naturally also knew about it.
He smiled:
"Master Hou, you can't say that, Hezhe is too backward after all.
Without the support of our Ming Dynasty, we wouldn’t even have iron weapons.
Since the road to Liaodong was cut off, the Hezhen tribe has naturally become weaker and weaker, but Nurhachi..."
Chu Dazhuang sighed.
Han people like them, who are slaves, naturally know very well about the affairs of the Tartars and the imperial court.
A nomadic nation cannot be self-sufficient in weapons. How can it fail when faced with a military and armed robbery group started by bandits?
Not to mention Hezhe, the Ming Dynasty also suffered a lot from the Tatars!
It is reasonable for Kulliha to choose to surrender to the Tatars.
Liu Wenbing sighed and brushed off the trouble.
He commanded the fleet to sail into the Songhua River and approached ten miles away from Hezhe's base camp before stopping.
"Artillery cover, infantrymen disembark alternately, build a defense line, and be ready to engage the enemy at any time!"
Liu Wenbing gave an order, and the ships lined up in a row, their artillery fire aimed at the river beach, and the infantry began to disembark alternately.
……
Liu Wenbing did not hide his whereabouts, and the arrival of the Ming army soon reached Kuliha's ears.
In the tribe surrounded by wooden fences, Kuliha, who had two braids on the back of his head, looked extremely ugly.
"What did you say?
Can you say that again! "
Kuliha looked at the tribesmen half-kneeling in front of him, his dark face full of panic.
Mingren is here?
How can it be?
Didn't news come from the Manchus that the regent Dorgon had led an army to seize the capital of the Ming Dynasty?
I heard that the Mingren Emperor had been driven out of the capital by the rebels, right?
Where did these wise men come from?
The Manchus can't be defeated so quickly, right?
I can't!
Why were the Manchus defeated but no deserters came?
You must know that when Ming people call, they must first pass through the Liaodong area!
It was the headquarters of the Manchu people.
Could it be that Atuhui lied?
Kulliha glanced at Atuhui suspiciously, and then rejected it.
Atuhui is a warrior in the clan and was ordered to supervise those red-haired ghosts. His words should be trustworthy.
"Great Khan, Mingren is really here. Atu Hui saw with his own eyes that Mingren attacked those yellow-haired people. They are rushing towards us along the river!"
(In this forest tribe in the Northeast, the name for the clan leader should be "Bieqi", which according to the transliteration is "Burke". I can't find the exact one, after all, it is too uncommon.)
Attacked the red-haired man first?
Kulliha was shocked:
Could it be that Mingren came from Temple Street?
By the way, it must be from Temple Street!
Those Mingren merchants all came from that way.
Atuhui knelt on the ground, trembling all over:
"Their cannons were so powerful. In just one round, they killed those man-eating yellow-haired monsters in the house...
Dahan, hurry up and summon your son, otherwise it will be too late! "
Before Kuliha could react, several more clan members hurriedly ran over, shouting as they ran:
"Great Khan, no good, no good, Akito's ship is coming!"
Kulliha's expression changed drastically, and he hurriedly returned to the house and took out the precious waist knife that represented the power of the patriarch.
This sword was a token given to the chiefs of each tribe when the Ming army was still here.
"Atu Hui, blow the trumpet quickly!"
At this moment, Atuhui suddenly understood. He hurriedly climbed up, rushed to the eaves, took off the horns hanging on the wall, and started blowing.
The shrill sound of the horn spread throughout the small gathering place.
After a while, the tribesmen rushed to Kuliha with wooden forks and horn bows in hand.
This is the last season before winter snow comes.
Many Hezhe people went hunting in the deep mountains and old forests.
As a nation of fishers and hunters, we must catch as many prey as possible to survive the cold winter.
It's no different now than it was then.
When people in the Ming Dynasty were still working as slaves, merchants would always come in the summer and exchange grain for those worthless things that could not be eaten or drunk.
The Hezhe tribe only needs to exchange fur, ginseng, and antlers for enough food for the tribe to survive the winter.
At that time, the Hezhe people were happy.
In the black land at that time, as long as you worked hard, you could ensure that your tribe would not starve to death.
People in the Ming Dynasty would exchange grain, ironware, and even fine silk and porcelain.
However, since Nurhachi started the rebellion, Ming people's caravans have become less and less.
With fewer merchants bringing food, these small tribes have no choice but to risk their lives and go to the more primitive deep forests to hunt more powerful beasts.
Only by risking their lives to round up ferocious beasts and obtain more food can more tribesmen be able to survive the long winter.
Before they surrendered to the Manchus, they could still see some merchants after a while.
Although the furs exchanged for food are becoming less and less worth "food".
In previous years, the goods that could keep the entire group through the winter, and the food exchanged for them, were not enough to last for a month.
However, those precious foods can always save the tribe in critical moments.
Since they surrendered to the Manchus, those merchants who ventured to come have never been seen again.
If they wanted to exchange for food, they always sent their tribesmen to risk their lives through the long forest to exchange for it at the gathering place of the Han people.
Often, more than half of the food exchanged would be eaten on the way.
A few years ago, the Zamao people who looked like evil ghosts from hell arrived. Those Ming businessmen who still stayed in Temple Street and other places heard that they were also treated as slaves by the Zamao people.
So far, no one has given them precious food in exchange for sundries.
As for the Manchus...
Not only did they have no food for them, they even asked them to make offerings from Hezhe!
As for the red-haired people, those red-haired people not only robbed them of their things, but even the mixed-haired people who could not distinguish between hair and beards also captured their tribesmen and roasted them as food...
(Historical books have recorded more than once that Maozi cannibalized people.)
Times are getting harder.
Kuliha had to make the tribesmen hunt harder.
In the coming days of winter, there are less than 1000 men left in the tribe!
That's it, most of them are tribesmen who came back from hunting!
Kuliha looked at the sparse tribesmen in front of him and the equipment that had no choice but to restore the "bone" weapons, and he had mixed feelings for a while.
Kulliha didn’t want to fight.
If possible, he really didn't want to be an enemy of Akito.
After all, only Mingren in this world are stupid enough to exchange food for "miscellaneous items".