Chapter 61: Songyin City

When the spring flowers were blooming, Shi Ju, Li Bing and other civil and military officials came to the bank of the Songhua River.

In this position, the Songhua River flows eastward from the north, there are a large number of swampy wetlands to the northeast, and the remnants of the Changbai Mountain are in the southwest.

Not far from the southeast is Xingkai Lake, which is the place to rush.

Specifically, in this area, it is a highland on the south bank of the Songhua River, and the Huerhai River is the Mudanjiang River in later generations, which flows into the Songhua River from here.

And where the two rivers meet, there is a high ground, facing the water on both sides, and it is condescending.

Facing the water on both sides, it is naturally easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it can take the Mudanjiang River as a retreat and the Songhua River as an enterprising way. Although now the Ming fleet on the Songhua River has disappeared.

It is reported that during the Yongle period, Daming had a shipyard in the Songhua River. But the foundation is still there, although Pennsylvania, where the original shipbuilding was built, is no longer within the border wall of the Ming Dynasty.

However, it is not too far from Liaodong, and once the Ming army rebuilds the Nu'er dry ship yard, then Liaodong and Haixi can be connected by the rich water system in the northeast.

In this way, the developed water system in the Northeast has become the most powerful helper for the Ming Dynasty.

It's not that the Ming army underestimated the tile spurs, the bow and horse riding and shooting, and the Ming army did not dare to look down on the tile spurs, but in terms of water kung fu, the Ming Dynasty transferred thousands of sailors from the south, and added the ships built here. Even if there were 100,000 troops, they might not be able to help them.

The city was built here, which appeared to be defensive, but in strategic form, it was offensive.

It is condescending and can avoid flooding.

After all, the water system in the Northeast is not too stable.

Zhu Qizhen did not get a report, saying that the Heilongjiang water system is flooded, not because the Heilongjiang water system does not have big water, but because there are few people here, and second, it is not under the direct jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty.

There must always be floods, and Zhu Qizhen does not need to provide relief.

But that's no longer the case. When building a city near the water, the most worrying thing is that the other party will flood the Seventh Army.

However, there is no need to worry about it here, in terms of topography, the north and south of the Songhua River are gradually increasing, and from the east and west, it is also high in the west and low in the east.

Especially not far to the east, there are plenty of swampy wetlands. It is also a natural place of water. As long as the terrain is a little higher, it is impossible to form a flooding situation.

This piece of highland is enough to build a city.

Several people were very satisfied.

The construction of the city began.

Li Bing was ordered to build this city, and Shi Ju also set up camp here, and first hit the front station. Waiting for a steady stream of North Koreans to come here.

However, just because the terrain is great doesn't mean it's easy to build.

The biggest problem in this area is that it is almost a white land, and even some Jurchen tribes have disappeared in the long-term tug-of-war between the two sides.

Even if there were, these people were nothing more than that

It's just fishing and hunting for a living.

Building a city with tens of thousands of people, or even hundreds of thousands, is not something that can be afforded here.

Although grain can be transported from the rear.

Li Bing has already opened up a line of communication, that is, after going ashore from Haixi, he will go all the way to the west. In the upper reaches of the Huerhai River, you can then go down the river all the way to Songyin.

On this reason, Li Bing and Wang Ao jointly wrote a letter, asking for the construction of a 140-mile gallop road.

From Haixi to Mudanjiang Wharf, and the Korean people do not have to come here directly, but while building Chi Road, on the other hand, with Chi Road as the center, both sides of the Tuntian.

After all, if you start building Songyin City first, then the consumption will be too great.

However, it was built little by little from the back to reduce food consumption, and after the road was repaired, the food materials could pass through the Songhua River and go directly to here.

Even the tuntian on both sides of the gallop road is also productive and can support the front line.

As for Chidao itself, it is actually a very mature technology.

In the past few years, Zhu Qizhen has not advanced much, not because there is something wrong with Chidao, but because the court is short of money, lack of horses, money is needless to say, as for horses, after the interruption of trade in the north, the price of horses has soared.

However, this has little impact on Haixi, after all, Haixi itself is a horse-producing area, and it may not be as large as the output of Mobei and Lannan. But it's also a family that raises horses.

If it weren't for the battlefield in Haixi, Zhu Qizhen would have already sent horses from Haixi to supplement the Beijing camp.

With money, horses, manpower, and mature technology, it is not difficult to build a gallop road.

However, Songyin City is not a thing that does not do anything.

Li Bing first used the abundant timber support of the Northeast to build a wooden city.

All the walls were built of large solid timbers, and from a distance, they were no worse than rammed earth walls. Coupled with the excavation of the moat, with the help of rich water resources, Li Bing dug a moat more than a mile wide outside the wooden city.

He was bent on building Songyin City into an impregnable fortress of the Ming Dynasty in the northeast.

It's just that the Northeast also has the disadvantages of the Northeast, that is, the long winter, all the projects that have stalled, whether it is the harsh natural environment, or the lack of people's warmth, there is no need to think about construction in the winter in the Northeast.

Therefore, if you calculate it, Songyin City has really become a male city, and it is estimated that it will be in the autumn of the twenty-first year of orthodoxy.

That's why Meng Ying wanted Zhaozhou City to hold out for three years.

It's just that he wasn't stupid.

At the beginning of spring, I didn't know much about such a big movement, but when it came to summer, news from all sides reached Yexian's ears.

I couldn't sit still anymore.

To be honest, I was still a little worried about the Ming army's fortified city.

Therefore, he did not want to attack the fortified city of the Ming army first.

Although Zhaozhou is like a thorn in the heart, it may not want to do it this year.

After all, Daming's life is not easy, and the first life is not easy, he not only has to face internal and external political crises, but also swallows the bitter fruit of the defeat of Xingkai Lake.

There are also financial difficulties.

The Ming Dynasty cut off trade with the grassland, which could make Zhu Qizhen worry about the war horse. And the grasslands are even more lacking in everything, food, ironware, cloth, etc.

Cutting off trade with the Ming Dynasty was even more difficult for the Tile Spurs.

It can even be said that the continuous civil strife in Wattles is not necessarily due to the economic crisis, which has caused political turmoil.

Now, what is needed is a victory, a victory that will allow the Watts to gain economic benefits. He already has a goal.

No, Xuanda, not Liaodong, but the northwest.

Without him, Xuanda is the focus of the Ming Dynasty's defense. It can be said that it is an impregnable wall, and the northeast is the strategic offensive node of Zhu Qizhen, and a lot of resources have been invested.

Only the northwest, whether it is, Gansu, Ningxia, or Hetao, is much worse than Xuanda and the Northeast.

After all, the northwest is barren, and the difficulties of the various guards are also led by the northwest. Daming values the northeast, in a sense, it ignores the northwest.

Therefore, I am also ready to start from the northwest and reap some benefits from Daming.

After all, no matter how poor the northwest is, it is much richer than the thorn. It can only be won, and there are still benefits, and the attack on the northwest still distracts Beijing's attention and disrupts the pace of the Ming army.

With so many benefits, why not?

It's just news from the northeast, but it makes it difficult to sleep first.

Once the Ming army gained a firm foothold in the northeast and controlled the Songhua River basin, that is, the area of the Northeast Plain, the distance between Mobei and the Ming army was shortened by hundreds of miles.

Zhaozhou alone is just an isolated city, and it is not worth paying more attention to.

However, if Songyin City is built, the waterway between Zhaozhou and Songyin will be the same, and even a series of cities can be established with the help of waterways, firmly locking the northeast direction.

The strategic depth of the Tile Spur has weakened too much.

This is the method used by the Northern Song Dynasty to attack Western Xia, the shallow attack and construction method. It's an upright conspiracy. It is estimated that in the past few years, the Northeast region has formed a situation within the border walls of Liaodong, Xuanda, and so on.

There is the support of the city and the river from point to line, plus the elite cavalry of the Ming army is eyeing it. Under such an area, the wiggle room of the Tile Spur cavalry is too small.

I'm afraid that I will have to withdraw from almost the entire Tohoku first. Once the Northeast is clear. Then Daning, Kaiping, Huining and other places may not be able to restore the situation in the early Ming Dynasty.

This is also not allowed in the first place.

However, I also want to think about it first, whether I want it or not. He had to march eastward, pull out Zhaozhou, and capture Songyin.