Chapter 47 Zhaozhou gains and losses

Zhu Qizhen said: "I want to hear about it. ”

Meng Ying obviously had a draft, and said: "In terms of geographical location, Zhaozhou is westward, west of the grassland, protruding from the outside, which is conducive to the tile spur, which is not conducive to our dynasty, but this is also a key position, it is simply the eastern gateway of Mobei, if Zhaozhou can supply the army, 100,000 troops can start from here and go straight to Mobei." ”

"This kind of important place is a place that must be defended."

Zhu Qizhen pondered for a moment and said, "It's too early." Now everything is not ready, and it is not the time for the army to leave Mobei. ”

Meng Ying listened and said, "The old minister understands. ”

Meng Ying was a little unwilling in her heart.

Shi Heng's victory actually aroused the desire of the Ming army to win. Meng Ying has summarized the news from all parties through the Jinyi Weidong Factory and reached a conclusion.

That is, the tile spur has been the tile spur four years ago, and I don't know how much it is weaker.

Now the strength of the Tile Thorn Headquarters is about 1120,000 horsemen, and more importantly, the Tile Thorn has many contradictions with the other Mongolian departments, and the other departments have all been weakened by the Tile Thorn.

That is to say, the hundreds of thousands of subordinate troops that were originally mobilized by the tile spurs have been completely destroyed in the civil war of the tile spurs.

Therefore, if you attack on a large scale at this time, 100,000 iron cavalry will crisscross Mobei, and you may not be able to get a big victory over the wolf.

Or the Tile Thorn simply dodged without a fight.

Meng Ying is old, and naturally in her lifetime, she will restore the world to the Yongle period.

It's just that he also knows that His Majesty's temper today seems to be extremely arrogant, and his intentions are very big, so big that many people dare not think about it, but he is extremely cautious in doing things carefully, and he would rather be slow than slow, and he would not be in a hurry.

Anyway, Zhu Qizhen himself thinks that he is not yet thirty years old, and there are still good years to come, even if the victory drags on for a few years, there is nothing?

I'm afraid of a repeat situation.

Meng Ying continued: "Even so, Zhaozhou City has a need to be defended. ”

"The situation in Haixi planned by His Majesty is that when Changbai Mountain is used as the city, and ploughing and fighting, when the army crusades against the rear of the tile spurs, and when the west expeditions to the tile spurs, troops can be transported by water. Every step of the way. ”

"This sincerity is far-sighted, comparable to the Northern Expedition strategy set by Emperor Taizu, a plan for the ages."

"If according to Your Majesty's thoughts, this is the best time to take Changbai Mountain as the city, the middle section of Changbai Mountain, but the mountain is treacherous, there is a big man as a pass, and there is no way to open it."

"You only need to send hundreds of soldiers to block a million troops, but this is not the case at the northern foot of Changbai Mountain, there is a gap in the Songhua River, the nearby mountains are intermittent, and there are many mountain roads that can pass through the north and south."

"There are three passes and so on."

"If Your Majesty wants to keep Haixi from being harassed, at least four or five Guancheng should be built, one is like Datong, and one is Xuanfu

, forming a complete line of defense, 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers guarding it, can make Haixi sit back and relax. ”

"It's all going to take time."

Zhu Qizhen said knowingly: "What you mean is to let the defenders of Zhaozhou buy time for the army to build a city wall." ”

Meng Ying said: "Shengming is not Your Majesty, the minister estimates that it will take three years, only three years, at most three years, and Haixi will become a solid trend, the land of fish and rice in Liaodong." ”

Zhu Qizhen began to weigh the pros and cons in his heart.

After all, transporting grain and grass from Haixi can pass through the waterway and pass through the Heilongjiang River system, and can reach the grassland all the way.

This has been a national policy for many years.

Zhu Qizhen will never waver.

But there is also an obvious problem, that is, Zhu Qizhen's plan, almost a conspiracy, may not be understood at the beginning, but it will definitely be figured out.

At that time, it was a fool who would let you farm honestly, so he also counterattacked Haixi on a large scale first, which was also what Zhu Qizhen had been worried about.

Yes, the Tile Thorn cavalry may not be able to capture the big city, but the tuntian in various places, the tribes below can be swept away.

If the tile spur has been constantly harassed, Haixi will become the northeast granary in Zhu Qizhen's heart, and I don't know how much.

Now Meng Ying has proposed a solution, that is, to use Zhaozhou to attract the attention of the tile spurs, after all, the geographical location of Zhaozhou has been analyzed earlier. The Ming army occupied Zhaozhou, and almost one foot was on the grassland.

It's no wonder that you can rest assured first.

Taking advantage of this time, relying on the mountainous terrain of Changbai Mountain, a checkpoint was built to protect Haixi.

Haixi is a dangerous place, with the sea in the east, Korea in the southeast, mountains in the southwest, mountains in the southwest, lakes and rivers and large swamps in the north, and many gaps in the northwest defense line, which are also passages in and out.

It is precisely because of the unique geographical environment here that Zhu Qizhen operates an important place in the northeast in Haixi.

At this moment, there is an opportunity to speed up Zhu Qizhen's plan, but what is Zhu Qizhen's choice to bring the five thousand soldiers to a near-death situation?

He pondered for a while and asked, "How is Teng Guogong going to trim the city level?" ”

Zhu Qizhen acquiesced.

It doesn't matter if Zhu Qizhen is cold-blooded, or if Zhu Qizhen is ruthless. Zhu Qizhen knew very well that the sooner the war with the tile spurs ended, there would be fewer deaths.

The death toll is probably more than 5,000.

Therefore, Zhu Qizhen chose the least expensive option.

It's just that Zhu Qizhen forgot that he was the initiator of this war. And isn't the life of 5,000 soldiers a life?

It seems that everyone in a high position not only feels hypocritical.

Zhu Qizhen is no exception.

Meng Ying himself heard what Zhu Qizhen meant, and he immediately said, "Please go to the map."

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Zhu Qizhen nodded, and someone immediately opened a map.

Although Zhu Qizhen put forward a lot of ideas about maps, on the whole, the maps of the Ming Dynasty are still very different from the maps of later generations.

But I don't know if it was Zhu Qizhen's improvement plan that worked, or whether Zhu Qizhen was used to the map of this era, and it slowly became pleasing to the eye.

On this map, Meng Ying pointed out that several places can cross Changbai Mountain, and they must be set up like three passes. And the most important point fell on the side of the Songhua River. said: "Your Majesty, a city must be built here, enough to shelter a town in Haixi, and even the minister thinks that Haixi Town should also be transferred here?" ”

What is this place?

The map says Ku'er Haiwei. To the south of the Songhua River, the south is the remnant vein of Changbai Mountain, and the north is also the remnant vein of the Xiaoxing'an Mountains. There is a Songhua River rushing through in the middle.

To tell the truth, the mountains north of Hu'er Haiwei are not too high, but they are all deep mountains and old forests that have not been developed by people, and they must not be able to pass through the army, even if they can be passed, there are still Songhua River, as well as large swamps and wetlands, which can be relied on.

As long as it is stuck here, there is no danger to Haixi.

Unless the Tile Thorn army detoured to Liaodong and then interspersed with Haixi.

If you can really do this first, there will be dead people up and down Liaodong Town.

The only drawback is because of the Songhua River, both sides of the Songhua River are plains from the Songhua River, which cannot be blocked by a checkpoint.

So a big city is needed.

It is more than 600 miles away from Zhaozhou and more than 200 miles away from Mulan Hewei. Zhu Qizhen even felt that in the future, if there was a city here, it would be good to serve as the seat of the Nuergan Division.

And this place, in the Jin Dynasty, had an old name, called the Five Kingdoms City.

Zhu Qizhen thought about it and said: "This matter will be done according to Teng Guogong's wishes, all the manpower and material resources of North Korea are inclined to this project, and the matter of Tuntian will be slowed down first, and the city will be built here first." ”

Meng Ying said: "This city is very important, please give it a name to Your Majesty?" ”

Zhu Qizhen pondered for a while and said: "This is at the western foot of Changbai Mountain, south of the Songhua River, and it will be Songyin." ”

The south of the mountain is said to be yang, and the north of the mountain is said to be yin.

The name given by Zhu Qizhen is simply unremarkable. It can be seen that he has no literary talent. However, the ministers below naturally praised loudly.

Zhu Qizhen said: "There is one more matter, while everyone is here, let's deal with it together, that is, the war in Guangxi." ”

Speaking of the war in Guangxi, Zhu Qizhen's heart was full of firearms, and Liu Pu had been guarding in Guangxi, saying that the situation in the mountains was complicated, and he was afraid that going deep into the mountains would be fruitless, and the soldiers would be lost.

Zhu Qizhen didn't think about destroying the chaos in Guangxi, but he couldn't let them become the climate?