Ulaanbaatar is the "Red Hero City" in Mongolian, and why the emperor chose such a name for this new city, in fact, Amin, Du Du and others do not understand very well. In fact, the Mongols preferred to call the city Kulen or Great Kulen, after all, the first building built in the city was a Yellow Temple.

Jebtsundamba Hutuktu, this living Buddha is said to have been born in India at the earliest, is one of the five hundred bhikshus of Shakyamuni Buddha, and later reincarnated in Tibet, passed down to Taranatha for the fifteenth generation, and is a high monk of the Uszang Jonang school. In the forty-second year of Wanli, Taranatha was invited by Abadai Khan of the Khalkha tribe of Mongolia to go to Mobei to preach the scriptures, and won the trust and support of the leaders of the Khalkha tribe, and gradually became a local religious leader.

In the seventh year of Chongzhen, Taranatha passed away, and in the following year, the Khalkha Khans identified Zanabazar, the son of Tushetu Khan Gomb Dorji, who was born in the eighth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, as the reincarnation of Taranatha, and the Dharma name Lobsang Danbe Gyaltsen, and wanted to make him the Dharma king.

However, at this time, the Ming Dynasty had already controlled the Mongol tribes in southern Mo, and began to exert influence on the Uszang and Mobei grasslands, and the leaders of the Khalkha tribe arbitrarily determined the reincarnation of Jebzundan Bahutuktu, which not only failed to be recognized by the Tibetan * Lama, but was also reprimanded by the Ming Dynasty.

It was not until the three Khalkha tribes paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty and expressed their intention to surrender to the Ming Dynasty that Chongzhen asked Liu Jingting and Zhang Jiahu Tuketu to go to Mobei to confirm that Zanabazar was the reincarnation of Taranatha and canonized it. With the help of this canonization action, the living Buddha system of Jebtsundamba Hutuktu was recognized by the central government, and the conditions for the reincarnation of the living Buddha to be confirmed by the central government were established.

After canonizing Lobsang Danbei Gyaltsen, Chongzhen decided to build a temple on the banks of the Tula River, where Lin Dan Khan was attacked and defeated, as the residence of Jebtsundamba Hutuktu in the Mobei steppe. Around this temple, a city was also erected, named Ulaanbaatar for Chongzhen.

Most Mongols believe that the hero refers to the defeated and missing Lindan Khan, a city founded by the emperor in honor of Lindan Khan. The Jurchens such as Amin and Du Du naturally didn't see it that way, they didn't think that the emperor had such respect for Lin Dan Khan. Not to mention, Lin Dan Khan is not a hero.

Of course, for Chongzhen himself. He just said it in passing, and after reading Ulaanbaatar for so many years, when others asked, he naturally said it casually. When he reacted afterwards, he didn't bother to revise it.

Ulaanbaatar, which began to be built in the ninth year of Chongzhen, was also the first to see the scale in the twelfth year of Chongzhen. Sandwiched between two mountain valleys in the north and south, Ulaanbaatar is surrounded by vast grasslands on the east and west sides. The Kent Mountains to the north protect the city from the cold currents of Siberia, and the mountains to the south provide a natural barrier to the city.

If Lin Dan Khan hadn't been too careless, Dolgon's raid would not have been so perfect. However, with the establishment of Ulaanbaatar, although it was only a low earthen city, the city was originally built on a plateau in front of the mountain, so it is impossible for the Manchus to repeat the glory of the day if they want to raid it again.

In the opinion of Amin, who was older than the army, unless Huang Taiji led the main force of Shenyang to come, it would be impossible to capture the city with a single partial army. The Han people's talent in architecture is much stronger than their combat ability on the battlefield.

Of course, even from Amin's point of view, the soldiers of the Ming army stationed in Ulaanbaatar with the Eight Banners of Loyalty and Righteousness, after receiving sufficient supplies, the combat effectiveness they can exert will not be weaker than that of the ordinary soldiers of the Eight Banners. And if it is based on the city wall defense, with the support of muskets and artillery, these Ming soldiers can fight harder than the ordinary elite of the Eight Banners.

Since Amin defected to the Ming Dynasty, his past impression of the Ming Kingdom has almost been overturned. In fact, to this day, Amin cannot understand that the Mandate of Heaven Khan had such self-confidence to challenge such a behemoth as the Ming Kingdom, and it is said that the Mandate of Heaven Khan entered the city of Beijing no less than ten times before and after, so he couldn't see the war potential of such a country?

What's even more ridiculous is that when the relatives and nobles of the Eight Banners in Shenyang boasted about the glorious deeds of the Mandate of Heaven Khan all day long, how badly they beat the Ming army in Liaodong. Amin found out in the pass that for the behemoth of Daming, Liaodong's defeat was only the loss of a few fingers, not even the loss of an arm.

Looking at the ten years since Chongzhen ascended the throne, although the Ming Kingdom did not achieve any decisive victory on the battlefield, it only maintained the undefeated situation in the north, and the Ming Dynasty was rapidly recovering. If it weren't for the continuous natural disasters in the north of the Ming Dynasty, Amin estimated that the Ming Dynasty would have been able to organize a counteroffensive against Shenyang long ago.

What made Amin even more fearful was the calm character of Chongzhen, the young Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. In his opinion, Chongzhen, who succeeded to the unification with the emperor's younger brother, is actually not so stable on the throne. If he was in Chongzhen's position, he would definitely launch several counterattacks in Liaodong early in the morning to establish the authority of the new emperor.

But Chongzhen was able to bear it, even if he brought the Chahar Department and other Mongol tribes in southern China into the rule of the Ming Dynasty and established an encirclement of Shenyang, he did not take advantage of the situation to launch an attack on Liaodong, but unhurriedly digested these Mongolian tribes and let them really become a part of the Ming Dynasty.

As an excellent military commander, when he became the commander of the Eight Banners of the Ming Dynasty from one of the four major Baylors of the Houjin, even the information he was exposed to was enough for him to understand what the strategy and tactics of the Ming Dynasty were over the years.

If it is said that Huang Taiji's strategy of cutting down trees is still inherited from the strategy of cutting down large trees of the Mandate of Heaven Khan, then the strategy of the Ming Dynasty to deal with Shenyang is to weave and fish. It can even be said that in the strategic layout of the Ming Dynasty, there is also a faint strategy of the Mandate of Heaven to cut down big trees.

Inevitably, the Ming Dynasty established a stronghold in Vladivostok, Temple Street and other places, and everyone in Shenyang thought that the Ming Kingdom was in vain, after all, in the battle of Salhu, the Ming army attacked in four ways and was broken by the gold division has told them that in this era want to play a division of troops is undoubtedly weakening their own strength.

The Ming army could not complete the tactics of dividing troops and attacking together from a distance of several hundred miles, and the Ming army that went around to the dense forest in the north wanted to attack Shenyang from the rear, isn't it a dream? They only need to send a small number of elite soldiers to defend against these Ming troops who have traveled long distances.

However, when the Ming army raised a force to rebel against Shenyang on the coast of the East China Sea and in the Heilongjiang region, Amin and a few others understood that the Ming State established a stronghold in these places not to attack Shenyang from the rear, but to cut off the channels for Shenyang to obtain new blood from these areas.

When Shenyang was unable to obtain population from these deep mountains and old forests, the rhythm of the war of the Eight Banners was inevitably disrupted. After all, the children of the old Eight Banners are the foundation of the owners of the flags, and these raw Jurchens can be arrested again when they die, but the children of the Old Eight Banners are one less and there is no one.

The root of the Manchurians lies in the Eight Banners, and the root of the Eight Banners is really in the Niu Lu of each banner, which is basically composed of the Jurchens of Jianzhou and various small tribes who have successively taken refuge in the Mandate of Heaven Khan. In other words, within a Niu Lu, they are basically relatives or fellow villagers. It is precisely because Niulu has blood and countryside as a link that the Eight Banners Army is naturally tougher and more durable than the Ming Army on the battlefield.

Whether it is to avenge their loved ones or to protect their loved ones, the Manchurians of the same Niu Lu will not be easily dispersed. On the other hand, the Ming army, after losing its strict drills and sufficient material supplies, the ordinary Ming army, which had been disrupted by the geographical arrangement, naturally did not have much confidence in the companions around them, and often broke up on the whole line with a little breakthrough.

However, although the Manchurian Eight Banners system has brought about the solidification of the army's morale, it also has one of the biggest problems, that is, the intertwined relationship within the Eight Banners makes it difficult for the army to be mobilized to fight some tough battles. After Huang Taiji ascended the throne, the first time he sent troops to Ningjin, he encountered the generals of various banners who refused to carry out orders, forcing him to take the lead in the charge.

So in the days that followed, Huang Taiji had been adjusting the internal structure of the Eight Banners, and constantly arresting the raw Jurchens to replenish the new blood of the Eight Banners, relying on these raw Jurchens to take the lead to stimulate the bloody nature of the old Eight Banners. In addition, it is to establish the servant army of the Eight Banners of Mongolia and Han, so that the Eight Banners of Man can appear on the battlefield as a supervising force.

But with the layout of the Ming people, Huang Taiji's strategy was almost bankrupt. Without a sufficient number of raw Jurchens to be mixed into the Eight Banners, Huang Taiji's control over the Eight Banners would not be able to make his fingers, even if he continued to promote the children of the Eight Banners at the bottom.

It's not that Huang Taiji's strategy can't work, it's that Shenyang can't deal with Ming's strategy. And this strategy of the Ming State is based on the almost unlimited supply of materials in the Ming State. Without enough supplies, the Ming people would not be able to win over these Saurons who lacked food and clothing in the deep mountains and old forests.

For Amin, when he was placed under house arrest by Huang Taiji in his own mansion, he wanted to understand how much Huang Taiji hated the system of the four major Baylors to discuss the government, and what was the ploy that Huang Taiji used to weaken his prestige in the Eight Banners.

And the young Chongzhen, almost from the day he ascended the throne, understood Huang Taiji's thoughts, and casually laid out a strategy to deal with it. From the first year of Chongzhen to the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji's power in Shenyang increased, but he became farther and farther away from Beijing, which was the result of the strategic victory of the Ming people.

No matter how Amin thinks, he can't break the advantage of Daming in strategic layout for Huang Taiji. For the Ming Dynasty, as long as the Manchus were unable to achieve a decisive victory on the battlefield, the balance of strength between the two sides would depend on the speed of their respective domestic construction.

Compared with the construction of the Han people, look at the city of Ulaanbaatar in front of you, and you will know that the Manchurians will not have any hope. Since the arrival of the Han Chinese, they have not only established the city, but also developed it into an active trading city. What's even more amazing is that the Han people actually grew potatoes and cabbage on this land, so that the Mongols in Mobei ate vegetables for the first time.

But in order to achieve a decisive victory on the battlefield, even the current Amin does not know where to attack. The only option is probably to break through the Shanhai Pass and directly reduce all the factories in the Gyeonggi area to ashes, otherwise even if the Manchurians can make a detour from the Monan grassland to Shanxi, they will not be able to touch the heart of the country.

However, outside of Shanhaiguan, the Manchus had to break through the Jinzhou-Yizhou-Chaoyang-Chahanhot defense line first, and even with Amin's most optimistic estimates, Huang Taiji had to mobilize all his forces in order to be able to exert full pressure on this defense line. But this kind of gambling that will destroy the country and destroy the species if you lose, are the Eight Banners soldiers really willing to bet with Huang Taiji?

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