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Chapter 546 Daling River (first update)
The news that Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang made a big disturbance in the Forbidden City had a great impact on all parties.

Shenyang Zhongwei.

Shanxi merchant Fan Yongdou escorted a lot of grain and ironware for delivery. This time, he was traveling with the Mongols to prepare for the Daling River battle.

The Daling River was the transportation hub between the Northeast and the Central Plains in ancient times.

The Qi State conquered Shanrong in the north, Cao Wei conquered Wuhuan, Qian Yan conquered the Central Plains, Northern Qi attacked Khitan, and Sui and Tang pacified Koryo, all of which took the Daling River Valley as the main road.

Ning Yuan and Ning Jin fought twice, and Da Ming blocked Hou Jin's fierce attack and smashed its attack under the strong city.

In particular, the great victory of Ning Jin had a profound impact on both Daming and Hou Jin.

The Battle of Ningyuan proved the initial formation of the defense-oriented Ningjin Line, and the Battle of Ningjin proved the reliability of this line of defense.

As a result of the two battles, Da Ming established the long-term confidence to stick to the Ning Jin line of defense, established a new pattern of confrontation between the two sides, and Da Ming and Hou Jin entered a stage of strategic stalemate.

After Yuan Chonghuan was dismissed, there were people who objected to Ning Jin's line of defense. Yuan Chonghuan was at fault, so what he did before cannot be kept.

Yan Mingtai, governor of Jiliao, went to Jinzhou to be a remote, non-essential place. This small place caused half the country to shake, and he was left alone. It is better to give up as soon as possible.

At that time, Jinzhou defender You Shilu cooperated with the governor. He also used the excuse that the Jinzhou city collapsed due to rain and thought it was impossible to defend, so he asked to change his defense to Xingshan.

The newly transferred guard Hou Shilu was ordered to guard Tashan. He thought that Tashan was not a place to guard because it was low and approaching high mountains.

Facing the offensive of the Houjin Tartars, [-] lives in his hands are not enough to fill here!
Compared with the two cities of Jinzhou and Ningyuan, Tashan is not even considered an earth city.

Whoever guards will die!

Hou Shilu agreed with Governor Ji Liao's words both from a political and military point of view.

If it really doesn't work, he can accept another person guarding Tashan.

Everyone wanted to defend the fortified city, and then win the battle against the Houjin Tartars. There was really no chance in a field battle. The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty would only be cut to death by the Tartars.

Tashan is located between Jinzhou and Ningyuan, and it is an important military stronghold connecting the two cities. If you want Jinzhou, you have to defend Tashan.

Abandoning Jinzhou and Tashan, for Daming, the Ningjin defense line collapsed on its own, and all the investment made the night before was in vain.

Then Governor Ji Liao and others were sprayed by the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty.

At the critical moment, there are still sensible people in the imperial court, especially those from the Ministry of War. Jinzhou must be defended!
How could the imperial court voluntarily give up Jinzhou if it wanted to restore the land of the whole Liao Dynasty?
Faced with the courtiers' disputes, Emperor Tianqi agreed to defend the Ningjin defense line, and then fell into the water and died, and it was Chongzhen's turn to take the throne.

The two battles changed the thinking between Da Ming and Hou Jin, one side wanted to defend Ning Jin's line of defense.

But Huang Taiji was looking for lessons from failure, so he decided to bypass this line of defense.

Led by the Mongols who used to be the dogs of Daming, they broke through Ji Town and ravaged the capital.

The leaders of the two sides dealt with the war, one side changed, and the other side just wanted to follow the old path, completely not thinking about how Houjin would bypass the Ningjin defense line again, and how Daming should deal with it.

In his rare years, Sun Chengzong took office and supervised the people inside and outside the pass for the second time.

Even though Yuan Chonghuan was passed on to Nine Sides after his death, after Sun Chengzong took over, he still fully followed Yuan Chonghuan's strategy.

Based on the principle of active defense, continue to strengthen the Ningjin defense line, and intend to advance east of Jinzhou.

Sun Chengzong's important measures were to build and defend the Daling River and the two cities of Youtun.

When he supervised the division for the first time, he sent troops to guard the second city, but Gao Di withdrew them all, and the second city was destroyed.

Gao Di's hometown is in Luanzhou. Because of the pressure from Wei Zhongxian and the Liao affairs, he resigned to say that his father quit.

Chongzhen came to power to rehabilitate him. Because he was old and had no position for him, he was left at home.

After Houjin attacked Yongping, Gao Di, who was in his 70s, heard about the strength of Houjin's soldiers, so he fled with his family from Luanzhou.

When the war ended, he was arrested and sent to Shandong by Chongzhen on the grounds that he fled voluntarily and caused the county to fall.

Daling River is an important line of defense to shield Jinzhou.

If the Ming army wanted to consolidate Liao, it had to build this city; if the Houjin army wanted to attack Ming, it had to demolish this city.

Since Yuan Chonghuan's time, the competition between the two sides for the big and small Linghe cities has been very fierce, and it has been two constructions and two demolition.

When Yuan Chonghuan presided over the military affairs outside the customs, he proposed to build the Daling River several times, but because he had no money and no one, he focused on the construction of the two cities of Ningjin and Jin. During this period, two consecutive wars disrupted his deployment.

Governor of Ningyuan Qiu Hejia was recommended by Liang Tingdong, Minister of the Ministry of War. He had experienced the Ping-Guizhou War and liked to talk about military affairs. He suggested that Sun Chengzong take the three towns of Guangning, Yizhou, and Youtun and abandon Dalinghe.

But Sun Chengzong retorted that Guangning is 180 miles away from the sea and 160 miles away from the Liaohe River, so it is difficult to rely on land transportation.

Yizhou is located in a remote place, far away from Guangning, so it is necessary to guard the right village and gather troops to store food before gradually approaching Guangning.

But now Youtun has been destroyed, and it can only be defended after it is built. If this city is built, Houjin will definitely attack.

With the current situation, we must first restore the big and small Linghe cities, so as to connect Songshan, Xingshan, Jinzhou and other fortresses.

Jinzhou is located in front of the enemy in the coastal waters, and transportation on the road is difficult. Youtun is backed by the sea. Occupying this place can concentrate our troops and get food supplies, so that we can have a chance to advance.

Before resigning, Liang Tingdong strongly advocated this discussion and decided to build Dalinghe City first.

The Ministry of War ordered Zu Dashou and He Kegang to lead 4000 people to guard the Daling River, and another 4000 people were recruited to build the city, and at the same time, [-] stone pillar soldiers from Qin and Ming Dynasties were sent to guard.

Zu Dashou was arrested and fled back outside the pass because of Yuan Chonghuan, even though he went back to guard the capital, he still made meritorious service.

But from then on, Zu Dashou was very careful, and never left the barracks alone, for fear that the East Factory's spies would arrest him.

The task of rushing to repair the Daling River fell on Zu Dashou.

According to the official name, Dalinghe City is Daling River Zhongzuo Thousand Households, located in the east of the Hexi Corridor, on the west bank of the Daling River, [-] miles away from Jinzhou, and is under the jurisdiction of Jinzhou's defense.

It was first built in the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty, with a circumference of three miles, and it was added during the Jiajing period.

Later Jin repeatedly attacked Liaoxi. As an outpost of Jinzhou, it was destroyed several times. Sun Chengzong decided to rebuild it as a sign of progress.

However, Qiu Hejia, the governor, considered himself a "man who knows how to fight", and felt that the isolated city was difficult to defend, and they had to be each other's horns.

He violated Sun Chengzong's order and made his own claim. Daling and Youtun were built at the same time, which delayed the progress of the project.

Then Liang Tingdong, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, was dismissed, and then because Liang Tingdong was a "sinner", the things he advocated must be corrected correctly!

Dalinghehuang is far from being a city, and it's the opposite!
The imperial court ordered 4000 troops to return to Ji Town, leaving only more than [-] defensive troops and [-] shi of food.

Because of Liang Tingdong's recommendation, Qiu Hejia, who served as the governor, complied one by one, ignoring the current situation at all, for fear that he would be implicated too.

So whether it is Huang Taiji or the traitor He Jinzhao and others, there is no need to take the initiative to find internal support from the courtiers of the capital at any cost. They will always become your best teammates!
(End of this chapter)