On both sides of the Hun River, Ming and Jin sides made a lot of exploration, and both sides were eager to get the real situation of their opponents.

In order to obtain more accurate information, Nurhaci even asked some Han people captured from Fushun and other places to use their wives and children to threaten them for detectives in the Jin Dynasty.

These Han people had no choice but to disguise themselves as merchants, peddlers, woodcutters, and fur dealers risked their lives to cross the Hun River to explore the details of the Ming army for the Jin Dynasty.

Two people made great efforts for the intelligence work of the Jin Dynasty. One was Li Yongfang, the surrendered general of Fushun, and the other was Tong Yangxing.

As the former garrison of Fushun of the Ming Dynasty, although Li Yongfang surrendered to Jianzhou, his past connections remained. He knew that his family and life were all related to the Jin Dynasty, Li Yongfang could not sit idly by and watch the Jin Dynasty fall. Therefore, he bought his former Ming army colleagues through a large sum of money and continuously provided military intelligence to the Jin Dynasty.

The most important piece of information was that the Liaodong General Secretary strictly ordered Du Song's troops and Liu Jing's troops to join the Sarhu area, so Jiefan Mountain, which was blocking the Du Song's troops, became a must-fight for the Ming army.

This information also prompted Nurhaci to decide to place the decisive battle in the area of ​​Sarhu. For this reason, he not only increased the Eight Banners defenders in Jiefan Mountain from 4,000 to 15,000, but also allocated more than 45,000 main forces of the Six Banners to secretly stationed in the area east of Sarhu, just around the corner to cross the river.

Tong Yangxing completely eliminated the Ming Dynasty intelligence network for the Jin Dynasty, because this person was the biggest "spy agent" leader in Jianzhou in the Ming Dynasty.

Tong Yangxing, who was originally a merchant from Fushun, was originally a Jurchen clan. He moved from Kaiyuan to Fushun in the early years of the founding of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty treated him very well, but his family did not want to repay Ming's kindness. Instead, he was closely related to Jianzhou. One of the tribes even married Nuerhaci as his wife.

But before Nurhaci was established, Tong Yangxing planned to surrender to him, but was discovered by Ming officials to imprison him.

However, the governor Zhang Tao was in charge of Liaodong at that time. This person was the son of Zhang Tianjue, the richest man in Huguang. After becoming a Jinshi, he was always a Qingliu. After being in charge of Liaodong, he strongly advocated comfort and submitted a court request to give special treatment to the Jurchens, so-called "providing rewards will be met with all requests" to seek long-term peace and stability in Liaodong.

Therefore, after learning that Tong Yangxing was imprisoned, Zhang Tao ordered people to release Tong Yangxing out of the intention of appeasement of Jianzhou, and asked Tong Yangxing to go to Jianzhou to be responsible for the intelligence network in Jianzhou in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Tao thought that this would make Tong Yangxing grateful and Nurhaci know the hard work of the court, but unexpectedly, after Nurhaci rebelled, Tong Yangxing immediately provided the Ming Dynasty intelligence network in Jianzhou, causing the Ming Dynasty to lose all its eyes and ears in Jianzhou.

Not only that, Tong Yangxing also guided his cousin Tong Yangzhen and the entire clan to surrender to the Later Jin Dynasty. In order to repay Tong Yangxing for his contribution to the Dajin, Nurhaci recently ordered the daughter of Abai, the 12-year-old granddaughter, to marry Tong Yangxing, who was only 12 years old, to "Shi Wuli'er's son."

Under the suggestion of "Fushun Efufu" and "Shiwuli Efu", Nurhaci ordered the Eight Banners to prohibit anyone from going out privately, and not to allow outsiders to enter the Jin Dynasty.

This put the Ming army in trouble with the intelligence reconnaissance work of Jianzhou. The reason why Du Song tribe, which had reached the bank of Hun River, had not crossed the river for a long time was because he had no idea about the background of Jianzhou across the river.

At the end of February, Nurhaci had arrived at Sarhu. After knowing that Dusong tribe had not crossed the river, Liu Ju's troops had already penetrated more than 200 miles deep on the eastern road, and the Ming army's northern road was led by Malin, heading from Kaiyuan to Sanchaer Fort. Li Rubai's troops also set off from Qinghe to Yagu Pass. After Nurhaci led Juying, Mangurtai, and Tang, ancient Zhuzi to observe the terrain of various routes.

After carefully observing the terrain, Nurhaci ordered to cut down large trees and set up roadblocks in the steep areas on the Ming army's march to slow down the pace of the Ming army's advance, and to arrange troops from each flag according to the dangerous terrain.

Nurhaci believed that Du Song had the most troops and rushed directly from Chenyang Jingfushun. Therefore, the Du Song tribe must be resolved in the first battle, and then the Liu Jin tribe was resolved. Then, either Malin or Li Rubai, depending on the actions of the Ming army.

After the military discussion, the banner leaders and generals acted separately. The emperor led the Zhenghong Banner to the Red Banner thirty miles and closely monitored the Dusong tribe on the south bank of the Hun River. When the Dusong tribe crossed the river, he lured it to the Jiefan Mountain area.

According to the military agreement, the Zhenghong Banner of Chuying and the Inlaid Red Banner of Abatai were mainly responsible for the defense of Jiefan Mountain, so after the meeting, Chuying went to Jiefan area to inspect it.

"Liu Aita, the world is crucial to our Dajin. If you pass the world, you will be flat and have no danger to defend. Therefore, the world must be guarded. However, the world is the first to guard the world. If Jilin Cliff is lost, it will not be guarded." Ju Ying, who climbed the Jilin Cliff, talked about the importance of Jilin Cliff to Liu Xingzuo, the Han general around him.

Liu Xingzuo was from Kaiyuan in the Ming Dynasty. When he was young, he used a clothes towel to beat Kaiyuan's guards when he entered school, and he threw himself into Jianzhou in anger. However, this person was very talented, smart and understanding, so he was highly valued and appreciated by Nurhaci and was assigned to the Zhenghong Banner of Daishan.

When the Jin army captured Qinghe, Nurhaci tried to slaughter all the Han people in Qinghe. It was Liu Xingzuo who protected the Qinghe and saved the city from being massacred by Qinghe.

This time, Liu Xingzuo went to war with Quan Ying, with more than 2,000 Han soldiers under his command, and his several brothers were also in the army. Liu's army was also the only Han army that could form a separate army except for Li Yongfang's army surrendered. He himself was also highly valued by Quan Ying.

According to the deployment of Ju Ying, Liu Xingzuo's generals guarded Jilin Cliff. The other seven Jurchen Niulu guarded Jilin Cliffs were guarding Jilin Cliffs.

"This place is steep and condescending. Don't worry, Mr. Beile. It's harder for the Ming army to attack than climb to the sky." Liu Xingzuo said confidently.

"Our army is snobbish, but we should not take it lightly. If Du Song's entire army comes to attack, you will be under great pressure."

According to spies, there were about 30,000 to 40,000 people in Du Song's army. If Du Song's army attacked Jilin Cliff, whether the thousands of soldiers on Jilin Cliff could withstand it, Dai Shan was actually very upset in his heart.

Liu Xingzuo could not make the banner owner uneasy. He immediately patted his chest and said that he would definitely defend Jilin Cliff to the death. Even if he fought to the last person, Liu Xingzuo would ensure that the red flag on Jilin Cliff would not fall.

"Ama is indeed not right, you!"

Dai Shan patted Liu Xingzuo on the shoulder and placed high hopes for the latter. If nothing unexpected happens, Jilin Cliff will be a tragic battle, but this place is not the key to winning the battle.

In Ama's deployment, Jilin Cliff was just a bone that attracted the juniper's body, and the main force of the Six Flags was the real decision-making force.

As long as Liu Xingzuo can restrain Du Song's troops in Jilin Cliff and persist until the main force arrives, Du Song will undoubtedly lose.

In other words, Liu Xingzuo's troops were just cannon fodder, and even the seven Jurchen Niulu with the Zhenghong Banner were sacrificed.

But Dai Shan doesn't have to make it clear with Liu Xingzuo about this.

After seeing Dai Shanhou off, Liu Xingzuo looked at the Hunhe River in the distance on the cliff, and saw nothing. For some reason, he was in a heavy mood.

Seeing that the eldest brother was strange, the second brother Liu Xingyi stepped forward and whispered: "Brother, do we really want to fight the court?"

Liu Xingzuo said nothing.

"What did Lao Wu say?" Liu Xingzuo's third brother Liu Xingjie wanted to speak but stopped.

Liu Xingyi hesitated and said, "Brother, Eunuch Wei is right. We are Han people after all. He uses us now and can he use us in the future?"

"Brother, you should stop and suffer. If you really help the Jurchens defeat the imperial army, we brothers will never have a way to turn back." Liu Xingjie said boldly.

Liu Xingzuo glanced at his two younger brothers and said, "Are you going to be heroes of the Ming Dynasty? Do you get that ten thousand taels of silver?"

"What's wrong?" Liu Xingjie said.

Liu Xingyi said: "Lao Wu said that Eunuch Wei kept his word. Now that he has told the world, he will not go back on his word. Besides, Eunuch Wei attaches great importance to his elder brother, otherwise why would he ask Lao Wu to secretly send a secret message to his elder brother again and again?"

"Brother, you can't hesitate anymore. If you delay, you and my brother will become the country's sinners! Could it be that we really see if Liaodong becomes his Jurchen world?" Liu Xingjie clenched his fists and said.

"The braid on my head, tell me how can we meet our ancestors and ancestors in the future, brother!" Liu Xingyi also said in pain.

Liu Xingzuo still said nothing. After a long time, he sighed, took out a letter from his arms and handed it to the third brother Liu Xingjie, and said in a deep voice: "Take this letter to Eunuch Wei."

He paused for a moment, and then gritted his teeth and said, "If the letter is lost, don't come back. Next year, burn some paper money for the brothers."

Author's note: On July 26, 2018, the third year of Tianqi, the governor Denglai's right censor Yuan Keli said: Within two months, General Shen Yourong led the life of Jin Yingkui, and the slave chief was appointed as the hereditary general in Fuzhou, Liu Xingzuo, and Liu Aita, reported a secret report, saying that he wanted to respond to China anyway.
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