From Nanguan to the north, there is Daheishan, known as the highest peak in southern Liaoning. It strangles the Yellow and Bohai Seas, is the throat of transportation, and is the barrier of defense.
Daheishan City, also known as Bisha City, is located fifteen miles east of Jinzhou City. There is an ancient city on the top of the mountain. It is about two miles to the left of Fenghuang Mountain. There are two wells inside, hanging on all sides. Only the south gate can be accessed. I don’t know when it was.
Build a fortress.
In history, there were two major wars in the mountain city of Daheishan, namely when Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty first conquered Goguryeo, and when Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty first conquered Goguryeo.
The last time he met Mao Wenlong in front of Jinzhou, Guo Dajing had surveyed along the way, but he was not very detailed. This time, he had put in a lot of effort.
Strolling through the mountain city of Daheishan, looking at the broken city walls full of historical vicissitudes, Guo Dajing imagined in his mind how to repair it as quickly as possible, or how to resist the Jianlu attack.
"This is Fenghuangkou in the southwest corner of the mountain city. It is a pass, so it is called Guanmenzhai." The guide is not only familiar with geography, but also needs to be proficient in writing to listen to his description. "Historically, Besha City was a battleground for military strategists, but there are some
Abandoned."
Guo Dajing smiled, raised his telescope and looked around.
Although the mountain city is somewhat dilapidated, the main frame is still there. It is not particularly difficult to repair it.
In the field of view of the telescope, the city wall was built along the ridge of Dahei Mountain, around the mountain ridge and the canyon. The city wall was made of stacked rocks of different sizes, with a width of more than three meters and a residual height ranging from three to five meters.
The stone wall stretches for about five kilometers. It is a majestic and magnificent stone wall. The canyon inside the city is winding, and the surrounding cliffs outside the city are encamped in the city. You can attack when you advance, and you can defend when you retreat.
Li Weiluan personally accompanied Guo Dajing, firstly to show his friendship as a landlord, and secondly to be able to discuss immediately to determine the next action.
Seeing that Guo Dajing was very interested in Daheishan Mountain City, he said from the side: "Although this place is dangerous, it is dilapidated. It will be time-consuming and laborious to repair it. Moreover, the built captives are fierce in field battles. If they stick here, they will be easily besieged. It will become a
Lonely city."
Guo Dajing pondered for a moment and said: "What General Li said is reasonable. But today, unlike in the past, we can quickly build fortifications with the help of various weapons, trenches, and horses."
Pointing at the mountain city, he continued: "There is no need to cut stones to repair it. Just reinforce it with earth bags and sandbags, and set up trenches, deer villages and other facilities outside the wall, which is enough to withstand the Jianlu attack."
Li Weiluan nodded slightly, but he didn't completely agree.
Guo Dajing smiled and continued: "If we talk about an isolated city, isn't Lushun Fort? It's a weakness to build a fortified city, and the population is an irreparable flaw. In order to attack a mountain city, more than one or two thousand casualties are not something they can bear.
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"As long as this city is in the hands of our army, will Jianlu dare to go deep into the city and attack the Nanguan defense line?" After Guo Dajing finished speaking, he shook his head and said, "Jianlu also knows this is a taboo for military strategists."
Siege battles in history were often a massacre of corpses and seas of blood, extremely brutal. Some cities could even hold off the attacker for several years, and even one city could turn the tide of a war.
The city is easy to defend but difficult to attack, so why do we have to attack it hard? Isn't it possible to take a detour? Or are the ancients just stupid?
For many people who read pictures and talk about military affairs on paper, they may feel very puzzled and strange that the ancients insisted on attacking the city instead of bypassing it.
In fact, in ancient times, it wasn't that the attacker didn't want to go around, but it was that he didn't dare to go around and couldn't go around.
The transportation conditions and means of transportation in ancient times were crude and inefficient, and the army consumed a large amount of food every day. If you wanted to bypass the city, first of all, the marching time would be greatly increased, and the logistics pressure would be great.
After the detour, the baggage troops faced the risk of being attacked by the enemy, and the logistics support was in danger of being cut off. Without logistics, the battle would have failed without having to fight.
Moreover, bypassing the enemy's city or stronghold is tantamount to actively falling into the unfavorable situation of the enemy attacking from both front and rear, or it can be said to be going deep alone. No rational general would dare to take such a risk, and would not take such a risk.
Of course, nothing is absolute, and there are many actual combat cases where enemy strongholds were passed without attacking and went straight to Huanglong. The nomads in the north were good at using cavalry to bypass the city and plunder the border people.
"Jianlu can't support war with war and eat locally, so he needs to carry a large amount of grain and grass supplies, or ensure that the grain roads are open." Guo Dajing sneered and said: "With this mountain city here, Jianlu dare to ignore it?
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Pointing to the surrounding mountains and woods, Guo Dajing said: "How many troops does Jianlu need to completely surround the mountain city?"
Mountain cities are built on mountains. On the one hand, the terrain is dangerous, and on the other hand, it is difficult to completely encircle them.
The city on the flat ground can be surrounded. But outside the mountain city, there are rolling mountains and woods. It is difficult to completely trap it just by occupying the key points.
Guangda Heishan covers an area of more than 20 square kilometers. It is bounded by Changbai and Qianshan to the north, and is bounded by the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea to the south. The terrain is not generally difficult for the attacker.
Guo Dajing glanced at the mountains and said confidently: "Fight the mountain city, not the mountain city. Expand the battlefield, and the mountain city is just the core stronghold."
Li Weiluan seemed to have realized something and said: "Fight Lushun, not Lushun. General Guo seems to have said this before."
Only focusing on Lushun, the all-out defense was inferior. There was a fierce battle under Lushun City, but the battlefield had expanded to the entire Jinzhou, and the strategic layout was much better.
Guo Dajing nodded lightly and said: "Daheishan is just a stronghold ahead. There are also Xiaoheishan, Shiheyi, and even Gaizhou Guard and Fuzhou Guard. The further forward you push the stronghold, the safer Jinzhou will be.
The Jianlu wanted to march across the ice in winter to attack them. They could run dozens or hundreds of miles on the coastal ice, so it was impossible."
Li Weiluan was thoughtful, and after a while he asked tentatively: "I understand somewhat why you insisted on carrying out a landing attack to cut off the enemy's retreat."
Seeing Guo Dajing's smiling expression, Li Weiluan continued: "As long as this operation is successful, if Jianlu wants to attack Jinzhou again, he will worry about being cut off. If he looks forward and backward, his attack will be affected."
"Once bitten, twice shy."
Guo Dajing laughed heartily and said: "The purpose is to scare them so that they don't dare to attack again. No matter how many troops are dispatched, half of them must be used to guard their retreat."
Li Weiluan smiled, finally understanding Guo Dajing's thinking and planning, he was a little shocked, but also a little admired.
Regarding Jianlu, although the Dongjiang Army was more daring to fight than Guan Ning's Army, they always put themselves in a weak position. Their usual actions were just harassment, and there were very few proactive large-scale attacks.
The gap in combat power inevitably affected the generals' thinking in combat. In the battle to recover Jinzhou, from the perspective of Li Weiluan and other generals, occupation was not a problem, but withstanding the Jianlu counterattack was the focus.
But from Guo Dajing's point of view, passive defense is not his choice. Whenever there is an opportunity, he must counterattack, so that Jianlu cannot come at will and retreat safely if he can't attack.
The bottom line is that Guo Dajing had no fear in his thinking. He paid attention to it, but he could see Jianlu's weaknesses and focus on them.
"It is most suitable to land at the bay of Shiheyi or Xiaoheishan for plagiarism." Li Weiluan understood Guo Dajing's thinking and made a positive judgment, "Landing from Nanguan is too close to Lushun. With Jianlu's speed, it is very difficult to
It’s hard to have enough time to set up defenses.”
Landing operations in ancient times were very difficult when there was no ready-made dock. There were no landing craft, no airdrops from aircraft, and no fast pontoon bridges, so small boats could only be used for transportation.
In other words, the delivery capability is greatly limited. If it is attacked by the enemy during landing, heavy losses are certain.
Therefore, after repeated weighing, Guo Dajing made the decision to land through Pulandian Bay, build a position at Xiaoheishan or Shiheyi, and intercept the retreating captives.
"If Lushun Fort can hold out for three days, the captives will probably retreat." Guo Dajing made an estimate. In Li Weiluan's view, the difference was not very big.
It took two days to attack Ningyuan, and one day to attack Ningyuan in the Battle of Ningjin. After the attack on Jinzhou was frustrated, the main thing was to besiege.
The Jianlu could not bear heavy casualties, and it was a period of relative weakness. The weakness was not due to combat power, but to the lack of food and supplies.
Without adequate logistical supplies, the Jianlu troops would not have the capital to engage in long-term siege operations. If they were unable to attack urgently, they would starve and retreat without a fight.
Li Weiluan nodded vigorously and said: "With the supplies Jianlu has, they can launch at most one or two major military operations a year. To attack Jinzhou, what is important is speed, and they will not carry too much food and supplies."
After a pause, he added with a smile: "Fort Lushun not only has a fortified city and a wide trench, but also has artillery, muskets, trebuchets and other weapons, as well as enough food and grass supplies to last for several months."
"Six thousand or seven thousand troops will defend the city, or more." Guo Dajing said with a smile: "For landing and plagiarism, Guo will lead his own troops, or add troops supported by Commander Mao, which should be enough."
Li Weiluan nodded and said: "As long as the combat strength is comparable to Lushun's troops, six thousand is enough."
After such planning and calculation, even if the Pidao headquarters did not send troops to support, the troops from the southern Liao Islands could still launch the Battle of Jinzhou.
Of course, this depends on how many troops Jianlu will dispatch. If there are a lot of troops, Guo Dajing will prepare to reduce the scale of the landing operation and reduce the intensity of interception of the retreating Jianlu.
The two of them looked at each other and smiled, their confidence rose spontaneously. As they talked and walked, they carefully surveyed the mountain town of Daheishan before leading the people to continue north, heading straight to Xiaoheishan and Shiheyi.
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Capital, imperial palace.
The troops in various places were cut off from food and pay, and the generals went to the hospital to express their condolences and pleas. For Chongzhen, he didn't take it to heart at all.
A few months after he ascended the throne, he knocked down the invisible Nine Thousand Years Old to the ground, beheaded and slaughtered his corpse; the key members of the eunuch party were liquidated and severely punished one by one, and a group of "gentlemen" filled the court.
Emperor Chongzhen was immersed in the joy of victory and the praise of "the emergence of a saint" touted by Donglin Party officials.
After working hard and renewing the weather, Emperor Chongzhen looked around and felt confident that he was very capable. The Ming Dynasty would definitely eliminate the long-standing shortcomings in his own hands and regain its strength.
But he didn't know that the period from the seventh year of Apocalypse to the second year of Chongzhen was the weakest period of Hou Jin Dynasty. Without any major actions, as long as he strictly guarded against it, it would be enough to cause Hou Jin Dynasty to perish in financial collapse.
It can be said that the more Chongzhen struggled, the more he felt he was good at it, and the more he gave Houjin a chance to tide over the difficulties.
The night was getting darker, and the diligent Emperor Chongzhen was still reviewing the memorials and essays, using his own diligence to push the Ming Dynasty towards the road of destruction.
In July of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the famine in Shaanxi became more and more serious. Coupled with the epidemic, many people died. "Every vegetation is gone, and people eat each other."
The officials raided and pressed for levies even more. Baishui farmers Wang Er, Zhong Guangdao and others gathered hundreds of victims and raised flags to revolt in Baishui County, which opened the prelude to the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty.
But to the officials of the Ming Dynasty, the disturbance caused by thousands of hungry people was nothing, and it would subside after a long time. According to their words: "This hungry hooligan, Xu Zidinger."
Chongzhen didn't take it seriously either. It was a big deal in the world. They were just two to three thousand hungry people in Weibei, holding sticks and hoes to get food.
After giving instructions on the memorial to Wu Ziwang, the governor of the three sides, Emperor Chongzhen put down his pen, drank tea, and took a short rest.
The hungry people rebelled, and the government troops destroyed them. In Chongzhen's view, it was that simple.
But he didn't want to think about the serious shortage of food and pay for the officers and soldiers in the towns in the northwest. Each soldier received 5 taels of silver per month, which was not enough to buy a bucket of rice. They had "no clothes to cover their bodies" and even sold their armor and equipment and their wives.
son.
Peasants have little military qualities, but many officers and soldiers are also forced by life and will join the uprising team, causing peasant uprisings in the late Ming Dynasty to rise one after another and continue to grow in momentum.
"Your Majesty, it's getting late -" Wang Chengen stepped forward and bowed to advise: "Pay more attention to the dragon body."
Chongzhen put down his tea cup, shook his head slightly, and said in a deep voice: "In these troubled times, I should work hard and work diligently on political affairs."
Wang Chengen responded in a low voice, and with a slight helplessness, he took a few memorials from the young eunuch's hands and presented them to them.
"Wang companion, please pick something important for me to talk about!" Chongzhen was indeed a little tired. He stroked his forehead and leaned back in the chair.
"I obey the decree." Wang Cheng'en took the memorial and said: "Han Xu, the chief assistant of the cabinet, stated in the memorial: When taking charge of the Wei party, the most important offenders should be strictly observed, and the alliance should not be questioned. It is not appropriate to punish too many and too many people. The number of the most important offenders is fifty.
The rest will play."
There were only over fifty people? Chongzhen's face darkened and he felt unhappy.
You must know that there are 262 people listed in the "Imperial Counter Cases". The crimes are divided into six levels, and they must all be punished before he is satisfied.
"Rejected, Han Xu, Li Biao and Qian Longxi were asked to re-list."
Wang Cheng'en responded, took another book, and wrote: "Sun Guozhen, the governor of Denglai, reported that in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the additional dispatch only received 50,000 dan. Due to the lack of food and pay in Dongjiang Town, and starving people everywhere, 30,000 dan were sent first to provide relief.
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Since Tianqi's seven-year increase in distribution has been collected, which was originally given to Dongjiang Town, Sun Guozhen felt that it was not a big deal to send food for emergency relief.
This was originally the responsibility of Governor Denglai, and there was no explicit order from the court to withhold it. Due to circumstances and reasons, this was not considered an unauthorized decision, but was done in accordance with common practice.