Chapter 709: Uliangha
When Li Yuntian's fleet arrived at the port of Quang Ninh Youwei under the cover of night, the inhabitants of the town near the port were still asleep, and when they woke up the next day, they were surprised to find that the streets were already covered with soldiers and Mongols dressed in servant uniforms.
This surprised the inhabitants as they did not know why the Mongols and servants were sleeping on the streets, given that the weather in the Quang Ninh area was already cooler in September.
The soldiers in the street did not harass the inhabitants when they woke up, but stayed where they were, and after breakfast they hurried away, along the main road west of the town.
The inhabitants gathered curiously at the entrance to the west of the town, whispering and talking about the strange departing army, and they were surprised that the Mongol army had not plundered the town, and that they had purchased some goods in the town and paid for them.
Soon, word spread among the inhabitants that someone in the harbor had seen a large flotilla of ships docked last night, and that the soldiers had disembarked from the ship.
At this moment, the residents suddenly boiled, it was obvious that the Mongolian army did not have a fleet, and this team from the sea must be the Ming army, could it be that the Ming army was going to counterattack?
Because Adai Khan blocked the three defeats of the Mongol army at Qingfeng Valley, Yinzhou City, and Hupi Camp, the people in the area controlled by the Mongol army did not know about the three great victories, and thought that the Ming army in Liaodong would be wiped out by the Mongol army.
Now the Ming army unexpectedly appeared in Quang Ninh Right Guard, like a cool breeze blowing on their faces, making the townspeople rejoice.
In order to complete the sneak attack on Daning City smoothly, Li Yuntian asked the soldiers of the Xiaowu Army to change into the clothes of the servant army, so that when marching on the road, it would not arouse the suspicion of the Mongol army, and the generals of the Mongol army could not have imagined that the Ming army would land on the right guard of Quang Ninh by sea, and then bypass the Mongol army on land.
The reason why Li Yuntian chose to land from the right guard of Guangning was because the right guard of Guangning was the closest to Daning City, about 400 miles away.
On the afternoon of the fifth day, Li Yuntian and his entourage arrived at Daning City after a rapid march, and in order to confuse the Wuliang Ha Sanwei commander in the city, they deliberately made a detour from the grassland in the west.
The soldiers defending the city did not suspect the Mongol cavalry in front of the queue, and thought that it was a reinforcement sent by Adai Khan, so they directly put the team into the city, and at the same time reported to the commander of the three guards of Wuliang Ha in Daning City.
Daning Dusi was set up in the twentieth year of Hongwu, that is, in 1387, and was governed in Daning City, Daning Wei, with jurisdiction over the north of the Great Wall of Beizhili and south of the Xilamulun River on the Mongolian Plateau.
In the following year, the Daning Division was changed to the Northern Parallel Division, and in the first year of Yongle, the Daning Division was restored, because the Yongle Emperor adopted the strategy of shrinking the defense, so the governance of the Daning Division was moved to Baoding City in Baoding Prefecture, and the subordinate guards were also moved south according to Cheng DΓΉ, making Daning City the most important military town in the north.
The main threat faced by the Daning Dusi was the Mongol Tatar Ministry, for example, the Yongle where the Xinghe Shouyu Qianhu of the Daning Dusi was captured by the Tatar Alutai in the 20th year, and its guards immediately infiltrated the Xuanfu Acropolis, and the Xinghe Shouyu Qianhu was abandoned.
Unlike the Mongol Tatar and Warat tribes, the relationship between the Mongols of the Uliangha tribe and the Ming Dynasty was very close, and the battle of Jingnan broke out in the Ming Jianwen Yuan, and the Yongle Emperor defeated Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, who was guarding the Great Ning Guard, with the support of the Uliangha Mongols, and induced the king of Ning to join the Jingnan army on the grounds of dividing the world equally.
Later, Emperor Yongle borrowed 3,000 elite cavalry from Wuliang Habu as the elite of the Jingnan army.
After Emperor Yongle ascended the throne in the fourth year of Jianwen, in order to reward the Wuliangha Mongols who had made meritorious contributions in the war, he decided to reward them with the title of Daningwei, and at the same time also awarded the leaders of the three guards to the positions of governor, commander, thousand households and hundreds of households; It was decided to open mutual markets in Kaiyuan and Quang Ninh for the Uliangha Mongols and the Ming Dynasty to carry out trading activities.
However, the Yongle Emperor's promise was not fully fulfilled, and the Ming Dynasty later did not allow the Uliangha Mongols to move south to the Daning area for pastoral purposes from a security point of view.
In order to obtain the right to reside in the Daning region, the Mongol tribes of Uliangha united with the Tatar Asot chieftain leader Arutai to attack the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, in order to pacify the border troubles, Emperor Yongle personally marched for three consecutive years in 14221424, and led his army deep into the Qu Chuan Er River valley to attack the Mongols of the Uliang Ha tribe who supported Arutai, causing them to suffer extremely heavy casualties.
The Mongols of the Wuliang Habe did not give up the Daning region, so they continued to fight with the Ming Dynasty, and after the Yongle Emperor retreated, he waved his army south into the Luanhe River valley to garrison herdsmen, and eyed the Daning Wei.
Later, under the command of Adai Khan and Arutai Taishi, the Tatar Korqin tribe moved into the Nenjiang River valley and fully supported the Uliangha tribe to advance south and seize the Daning region.
Taking advantage of this attack on the Ming Dynasty by the Tatars and Warats, the Mongols of the Uliangha tribe finally entered the city of Daning, and they could be stationed outside the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty.
As of September of the eighth year of Xuande, the distribution of the pastoral land of Wuliang Ha Sanwei outside the Great Wall is: Duoyan Department arrived at Xifengkou from Daning, near Xuanfu; Taining Department from Jinzhou, Yizhou, Guangningwei to Liaohe; The rest of the Fubu is from the Yellow Muddy Valley, over Shenyang, Tieling to Kaiyuan.
Since then, south of the Xilamulun River and the Liao River, starting from Kaiyuan in the east and near the Great Wall of Xuanfu in the west, all belong to the territory of the Wuliangha people.
However, although Wuliang Ha Sanwei and the Ming Dynasty had constant friction in the Daning region, they had begun to gradually integrate into the Ming Dynasty since they accepted the reward of Ming Taizu.
Ming Taizu stipulates that Wuliang Ha Sanwei pays two tributes every year, each time 500 people, enters and exits from Xifengkou, the tributes have horses, camels and other things, Yongle Emperor Yongle also set up a horse market in Kaidongyuan and Guangning (now Liaoning North Town) and other places in Liaodong in the early years of Yongle, and the horses of Sanwei City are easy to marry, and the exchanges between the two sides gradually increase.
Therefore, although the Wuliang Ha Sanwei sometimes plundered the border towns in the Liaodong region of the Ming Dynasty, they were able to obey the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty from the perspective of the overall situation.
And it is precisely because of the defense of the three guards of Wuliang Ha that in the 1560 years from the establishment of the three guards to the Jiajing period, the Pingluan prefectures were not disturbed by the Mongols.
Due to the need to prevent the Ming army from Shanhaiguan from leaving the customs, the leaders of the Wuliang Ha Sanwei were all stationed in Daning City.
Among the three guards of Wuliangha, Tainingwei is the strongest, followed by Fuyuwei, and Duoyanwei is the weakest.
Knowing that Arutai had sent an army to Daning City, the commander of Tainingwei made Azashri feel a little surprised, and hurriedly summoned the commander of Fuyuwei, Haisanan Daxi, and the commander of Duoyanwei, the envoy of Tulu Huchar, to meet him.
In the Ming army, it was naturally Halbara who came forward to deal with the three of Azashri, and Halbara perfunctory the three of Azashri under the guise of supporting Adai Khan of Xining Fort on the order of the Arutai Taishi.
Azashri and Haisanan Daxi and Tulu Kuchar could not have imagined that the Ming army would bypass the Mongol army at Xininburg by sea, so although they were surprised, they did not suspect Halbara, and warmly hosted a banquet for Halbara and other Mongol generals.
Just as Halbara, Azashri and the others were chatting and laughing at the banquet, Li Yuntian led Chaganbala and several guards to knock on the door of a cloth shop in Daning City at night.
"What's the matter with the military masters?" The one who opened the door was a young man who looked like a man, glanced at Li Yuntian and the others, saw that they were wearing the military uniforms of Mongolian soldiers and servant soldiers, and asked quietly.
"Of course, I bought cloth, and let your boss come out to serve!" One of the guards dressed as a servant soldier said with a grin, his tone a little impatient.
"A few military masters, it's getting late now, and the shop has closed, so it's better for a few military masters to come back tomorrow." The guy may have seen that the people in front of him didn't look like good people, and thought that they were here to take the goods for nothing, so he said with a smiling face.
After the fall of Daning, although Adai Khan and the Vulture Polo had restrained their subordinates and strictly ordered them to plunder in the city, after all, Daning City was the territory of the Uliangha people, but the Tatar soldiers and Warat soldiers who entered the city still raped and plundered in private, so the soldiers of the Uliangha tribe had several conflicts with the Tatar soldiers and the Warat soldiers.
Since the Wuliang Ha Sanwei was attached to the Ming Dynasty, the exchanges with the Daning Dusi and the Liaodong Dusi have flourished, especially in the city of Daning, the Mongolian nobles of the Wuliang Ha Sanwei have their own shops and real estate, and have a close relationship with the local area, even if armed conflict broke out with the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty did not confiscate their shops and real estate, but adopted a strategy of entrapment, after a long period of integration, the Mongols of the Wuliang Ha Sanwei have regarded Daning City as their homeland, and naturally will not sit idly by and watch the Tatar soldiers and Vala soldiers do evil.
It was not until Adai Khan and the Vulture Polo led their troops out of Daning that tensions between the Uliangha soldiers and the Tatar and Warat soldiers eased.
Now, the people in the city who sent reinforcements from Arutai are already well known, so the guys in the cloth shop naturally have to beware of Li Yuntian and others.
"You dare to let my general go, are you tired of being crooked!" The guard who spoke suddenly widened his eyes when he heard this, pulled out his waist knife and put it on the fellow's neck, and asked viciously.
"Don't dare, don't dare!" The guy was startled when he saw this, and hurriedly said, "The little one is going to ask my shopkeeper." β
Only then did the guard remove his waist knife, and the guy hurriedly ran in, and Li Yuntian swaggered in surrounded by Chaganbala and others.
Several pedestrians on the street noticed the scene in the cloth shop and walked away shaking their heads, feeling even more disgusted with the Tatar and Warat soldiers.
The cloth shop that Li Yuntian went to was one of the best in Daning City, and many dignitaries in the city liked to patronize it, and soon a maid served tea.
"The general is coming, the villain is not welcomed, and he hopes to forgive his sins." Just as Li Yuntian was casually checking the fabrics on the counter under the nervous gaze of the two guys in the room, a middle-aged man with a big belly walked in, arched his hand to Li Yuntian with a smile and said, "I don't know what the villain can do for the adult?" β
This middle-aged man with a big belly is Zhao Xiangfu, the owner of this cloth shop, secretly looked at Li Yuntian, as soon as he entered the door, he felt that the situation at the scene was a little strange, not only did these Mongolian soldiers and servant soldiers not show off their strength to find trouble in the shop, but also including the Mongolian soldiers seemed to be very in awe of Li Yuntian, this was the first time he had seen it, you must know that Mongolian soldiers have always looked down on people from servant soldiers.
"I want twelve Shu brocades, including two rain silk brocades, two square brocades, two paving brocades, two scattered flower brocades, two raccoon brocades, one national brocade and one color halo brocade!" Li Yuntian smiled slightly when he heard this, and looked at Zhao Xiangfu quietly to answer.
The smile on Zhao Xiangfu's face couldn't help but froze, and he looked at Li Yuntian with a rather surprised expression, and he didn't react for a while.