"Khan King Dog"!
In the land of kanto, between the white mountains and black waters, folk tales about hunting and hunting dogs have been circulated a lot. Especially in the Changbai Mountains, known as the "Land of Longxing" in the Royal Family of the Great Qing Dynasty, the story of Nurhaci and the Hound is even more legendary and wonderful.
In the Nurhaci paddock in Jilin, when old hunters gather to review their hunting careers, they always like to talk about their hunting dog "Khan King Dog". And when we talk about the "Khan King Dog", it must be traced back to the old Khan King Nurhaci and his hounds.
The old hunters said, why does Nurhaci love hounds? Because he was a Jurchen (the predecessor of the Manchus). Jurchen men make a living from fishing and hunting, and hunting dogs are their half-lives, who doesn't love dogs? In the words of the old hunter, a person who does not love dogs is not a real Jurchen hunter!
The Jurchen who drives the eagle to lead the dog out to hunt! (The copyright of this figure belongs to the Network)
Another important reason for Nurhaci's love of dogs is that his mother died early when he was a teenager, his father remarried, and his stepmother was very mean to him and his brother. Nurhaci and his brother could not enjoy the warmth and maternal love of the family, so they had to be accompanied by hunting dogs, digging ginseng in summer and hunting in winter, and sleeping in the firewood shed at night with hunting dogs. At that time, Nurhaci believed that in addition to his brother, the hound was his closest companion in the world. Therefore, when he was a teenager, he understood dog nature, trained dogs, and hounds were loyal to him. Even if he left home, left his stepmother, and ran to his grandfather's house, he still took his hounds with him.
Nurhaci was not only an excellent ginseng digger when he was young, but also an excellent Jurchen hunter. He likes to hunt on horseback and is good at using hounds to hunt. The hunting career in his youth may have laid a good foundation for him to raise troops to recruit the Jurchen departments of the Kwantung and the Ming army in the future, so that he could become a brave and good warrior and strategic Khan King.
Ferocious bears!
Legend has it that when Nurhaci was a teenager, he went hunting in the mountains and encountered a black blind man who was "beaten" (beat up hatred). I didn't think about it, but when I was hit by a few arrows in the black blind man's body, I was still fighting to the death. Nurhaci slashed an arrow through the belly of the mad bear. The bear was furious, and his intestines poured out of the wound.
The bear roared and stuffed its intestines into its belly as it rushed toward Nurhaci, who had shot it badly. The intestines that had just been stuffed into the belly were angry and forceful, and then they poured out of the wound again.
The bear, suspecting that its belly-flowing intestines were hanging among the trees, simply threw itself at Nurhaci while tearing off its own intestines. The scene was terrifying. This unexpected crazy move of the bear scared the hunting partners into fleeing. However, Nurhaci, who bore the brunt of it, had no choice but to draw out his waist knife and fight with the bear.
What was even more unexpected was that the mad bear pounced on Nurhaci to the ground, and then opened his blood basin and bit down on his head.
"Khan King Dog"! This figure is copyrighted by the Internet
At the moment of a thousand gunshots, Nurhaci's hunting dog swooped forward like an arrow and bit the bear's throat. The bear was fatally bitten by the hound, so he spared Nurhaci and killed his hound.
Since then, Nurhaci has loved hounds even more. He also constantly selected the best Changbai Mountain hound cubs to domesticate.
Legend has it that Nurhaci was captured by Li Chengliang, the commander-in-chief of the Liaodong Army, during a battle with his father against the Liaodong garrison of the Ming Dynasty.
Li Chengliang was the most famous Zhenbian general in the late Ming Dynasty. In the past thirty years, due to Li Chengliang's town guard in the Kanto Region, this land has become a peaceful place at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
At that time, Li Chengliang saw that Nurhaci was young and clever, so he left him by his side as an errand boy.
Khan King Dog!
A prisoner of war will naturally not be seen by a frontier general like the liaodong commander-in-chief, so his life is very hard. In addition to feeding Li Chengliang horses and acting as a miscellaneous servant, he also had to be on duty at night. It was really not like eating, and the house was still a firewood shed and stables.
But Nurhaci was not lonely, because he had his own domesticated hunting dogs day and night. Under normal circumstances, no matter what he does, his hounds are always at his side. At night, nurhaci was accompanied to sleep in a woodshed or horse shed. Therefore, even if he was a prisoner at this time and became a servant of Li Chengliang, the hound was still his most loyal and intimate companion of Nurhaci.
According to legend, after Li Chengliang served as the commander-in-chief of liaodong, he continued to lead his troops to quell the rebellion of various ethnic groups such as the Jurchens every year. Sometimes, when Li Chengliang fought, he also led Nurhaci, who did errands for him. And whenever Nurhaci followed the commander-in-chief Li Chengliang on a campaign, he always took his inseparable hunting dog.
Portrait of Li Chengliang! This figure is copyrighted by the Internet
Once, Li Chengliang's Ming Dynasty army and the Jurchen rebel tribe were in contact with short soldiers, and on the battlefield, swords and swords and shadows, guns and bullets, blood rain and bloody wind, shouted to kill Zhentian. Nurhaci, who was Li Chengliang's errand boy, actually fought with him. Suddenly, a brave warrior on the enemy side saw that Nurhaci was always guarding Li Chengliang, and he thought that he was young and could be deceived, and wanted to attack and kill him in order to weaken Li Chengliang's power.
Nurhaci was rushing to kill bravely, not guarding against the arrival of enemy attacks. Li Chengliang saw that he was in a hurry, but he was far away and could not rescue him, so he had to shout "Little Hanzi be careful!" When Nurhaci cut down the enemy in front of him, the opponent's spear had already stabbed rapidly, and he couldn't dodge it!
At the moment of the first shot, his hunting dog pounced on a tiger, jumped forward like an arrow, and snapped the wrist of the enemy soldier, causing the enemy's spear to fall to the ground. But the hound did not let go of the sneaking enemy, and then a swift thunder rushed forward, biting the enemy's throat, clicking, and sending him to the western sky.
Li Chengliang saw it clearly and sighed in his heart: Xiao Hanzi actually had such a good hunting dog. That's a lifesaver!
Since then, Nurhaci's feelings for the hounds have deepened. Because this was the second time the hound had saved his life.
Legend has it that after this battle, Li Chengliang, the commander-in-chief of liaodong, had more trust in nurhaci, the "little Hanzi". Many close-fitting tasks also like to be done by this brave and clever little hanzi.
One day, after returning from the battle, Li Chengliang ordered Nurhaci to burn his feet with hot water. During the foot washing, Nurhaci found that Li Chengliang had three blue pimples in the heart of his feet, so he said, "There are also piles on the feet of the big handsome!" Li Chengliang said proudly: Xiao Hanzi, don't underestimate these few boils in the center of my feet, this is a "mole that will be phased." Without these three boils, how can I Li Chengliang be able to do Liaodong General!
Nurhaci was young and had no city government, and he showed off: "Grand Marshal, I have seven purple scabs on the soles of my feet, I don't know if I will be blessed in the future?" Li Chengliang was horrified when he heard this, and hurriedly asked Nurhaci to take off his shoes for examination, and as he said. He immediately remembered that the imperial court had a decree: if he found that there was a seven-star purple mole on the sole of his foot, it was a true dragon of the mixed world, which would endanger the Daming River and Mountain, and he should be arrested and detained as soon as possible.
But unexpectedly, the news that Li Chengliang wanted to "capture Xiao Hanzi and enter Beijing" was leaked, and Nurhaci escaped into the deep mountains and dense forests of Changbai Mountain on horseback with hunting dogs overnight.
Li Chengliang dared to let the "Chaos True Dragon" escape, and hurriedly led his troops to pursue him. Nurhaci fled into a swag of reeds and was besieged by Li Chengliang's army like an iron barrel. But no matter how much the Ming army shouted threats, Nurhaci just didn't come out.
In desperation, Li Chengliang ordered people to raise fire in all directions, and for a moment the reeds swung into a sea of fire. Nurhaci was thrown to the ground by thick smoke. As soon as the hounds around them saw that the fire was approaching, they immediately trampled the reeds around Nurhaci to the ground, and then jumped into the water to wet Nurhaci and the surrounding reeds. When the fire comes, it meets water, and everything is extinguished. Nurhaci was unharmed.
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Li Chengliang's army remained surrounded by iron barrels until the fire was extinguished, and there was still no one and one dog escaping. The soldiers all talked about it, even if the gods and immortals were in such a big fire, they would definitely die in the sea of fire if they did not hide or dodge.
Li Chengliang wandered around the reeds that had become charcoal for a week, and after his subordinates reported that "no one person and one dog escaped", he immediately relaxed his mind and wrote a letter to the Wanli Emperor when he returned, describing that he had burned Nurhaci, who had "seven stars and a purple mole on his feet".
Soon after, Nurhaci rebelled. Li Chengliang was horrified: Wasn't this little Hanzi burned to death by the Ludang fire? How did you live again?
The subordinates recounted the situation of the reconnaissance. Li Chengliang sighed: It was the hounds of Changbai Mountain who saved him. It seems that this little Hanzi must be a rebel of Daming!
The Jurchens are out of the hunt. This figure is copyrighted by the Internet
After telling the story of the savior of this "Khan King Dog" hound, the old hunter asked: How is this "Khan King Dog" powerful? In fact, at that time, there were only hounds, and there was no name for the "Khan King Dog", because Nurhaci had not yet become the "Khan King"!
(About the author: Wang Tianxiang, a native of Qingdao, Shandong, is a senior journalist and writer, who has published 42 monographs on novels, tourism literature, reportage literature, history and culture, tourism culture, poetry appreciation, enterprise management, market analysis, success studies, and talent studies, written more than 200 episodes of TV series, created dozens of special TV films such as history, culture, scenery, and documentary, published hundreds of articles in various newspapers and periodicals, and published more than 1,000 online articles. ）