Chapter 800 0795 [The generals of the Ming Dynasty who were always in trouble]
There are two throats going south from Yanshan Mountain, one is Gubeikou and the other is Xifengkou (Xifengkou).
After the snow melted in the spring of this year, Yue Fei led his troops to approach the former, Wang Yan led his troops to approach the latter, and Li Bao stationed himself in Yanjing to take charge of all the armies.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty once built a city at Gubeikou. Later, the battle line moved northward, and the Han Dynasty built the Great Wall in the mountainous areas further north.
During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Great Wall was built at Gubeikou for the first time.
During the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Great Wall continued to be built. Since the north of the Great Wall is where the Xi people live, Gubeikou is also called "Xiguan".
The Khitan raided the Houliang Dynasty and often went south from Gubeikou.
Today, the Jin Kingdom controls the dilapidated Great Wall of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Those Great Walls are full of gaps, which small armies can easily pass through, but are not conducive to large-scale marches.
The Jin soldiers were mainly stationed at the Shouchu City ruins of the Tang Dynasty, which had been renovated and reinforced in the past two years. They were located high up, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.
Yue Fei led 5,000 troops and recruited 10,000 civilians to build a walled city twenty-five miles south of Gubeikou.
As long as this place is blocked, the Jin soldiers will not be able to move south on a large scale.
However, small groups of troops can still get around it. Jin soldiers can go into groups of several hundred people and climb over low mountains to plunder the Miyun area. A small amount can add up to a large number. Thousands of people can get through, but they cannot carry much food. Half a
If you can't get food within a month, you will starve to death.
The peasants all fled the mountains. They came out of the mountains fearfully and farmed freely for three years. The Ming government never collected taxes, nor did they force them to live in households. Instead, there were small merchants who brought cloth and salt.
The imperial court showed such sincerity that the few scholars among the fugitives gradually came to believe that the Ming Dynasty was worth relying on.
Therefore, this year the government came to compile households, and these scholars took the initiative to cooperate.
The imperial court continued to show goodwill and exempted the refugees who had just registered their households for three years. In the fourth and fifth years, they only collected half of the taxes. However, they had to help build the walled city. During the labor period, the imperial court took care of the food and gave them a small amount of food as wages.
The refugees were so frightened that Yue Fei directly distributed food in advance, finally convincing these people.
They have experienced too many wars and famines, and they will run away at the slightest sign of trouble. They must be sincere to gain trust. Even if the golden soldiers come to kill them, they will help defend the city!
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Gubeikou, a guard city in the Tang Dynasty.
Jin general Atuhan led hundreds of cavalry southward, and soon collided with the Ming sentry cavalry.
The two sides did not take action immediately, but distanced themselves to confront each other. After all, the two countries are now in a state of truce.
After a while, Atuhan stepped forward and shouted: "I am Atuhan, the guard at Gubeikou in Dajin. Call your general to speak quickly!"
The Ming sentry cavalry had already sent out manpower to report the news.
Yue Fei quickly came on horseback: "I am the general of the Ming Dynasty here. South of the Gubeikou Great Wall is the boundary of the Ming Dynasty. Why did you lead your troops to cross the border? Do you want to start a war with the Ming Dynasty?"
Atuhan asked back: "Why are you building a city so close to each other?"
Yue Fei said: "This is the border of the Ming Dynasty. Why can't we build a city? Instead, you led the troops across the border for no reason. If you don't return quickly, it will be like starting a war with the Ming Dynasty!"
Atuhan was speechless because what Yue Fei said made sense.
Moreover, in order to defend against the Ming Dynasty, the Jin Kingdom took the lead in repairing and consolidating Gubeikou. The Jin Kingdom could build cities, and the Ming Dynasty could naturally do the same.
But the Ming Dynasty built a city in the face of the Jin Kingdom, and the city wall had been built right under Atuhan's nose. Did it not care about anything?
Yue Fei shouted confidently: "Retreat quickly!"
After saying that, Yue Fei took off his bow and arrows, and his cavalry also drew their bows.
A Tuhan hesitated for a few breaths, then said angrily: "Go back!"
After galloping for more than ten steps, Atuhan stopped and looked back.
If there is a war in the future, he must capture the walled city in front, otherwise it will be extremely dangerous to go south directly. Youzhou does not have a large population, and the Ming Dynasty can easily fortify the walls and clear the country. The Jin soldiers fighting purely by grabbing food is nothing more than a dream.
Yue Fei also returned with his cavalry, and he and Wang Yan were under great pressure.
Once the war breaks out again, the main force of the Jin soldiers will definitely come from Gubeikou and Xifengkou. In order to open up the main road, the Jin people may be besieged by tens of thousands of people, and the temporary walled city will be difficult to withstand.
Don't talk about cement. In the absence of road transportation, that stuff can only be fired nearby.
The land here is vast and sparsely populated. How can there be spare manpower to dig for soil and burn cement?
"General Yue, there are a thousand Shenji battalions coming to help with food supplies, and I heard that there will be eighteen artillery pieces later!" A light horse galloped over.
Yue Fei was overjoyed when he heard this and galloped towards the construction site of the walled city.
The Shenji Battalion has replaced its flintlock guns and expanded to 12,000 men. This year it was officially renamed the Shenji Army, and part of it is trained in Yanjing.
Yue Fei also participated in the training last year, mainly to familiarize himself with the new car formation.
He corresponded and discussed with Wu Jie and other generals, and through continuous deduction and practice, they finally created a "Mother-Son Plum Blossom Formation".
In fact, it is a hollow car formation composed of large and small combinations.
With sufficient long-range firepower, the redundant parts of the old vehicle array can be discarded.
The Chinese army set up a large hollow formation, and four small hollow formations were placed at the four corners. Each side of the hollow formation was formed by chariots in series, and troops from far and near fought with the help of chariots.
Civilians and supplies can be moved to the hollow array for protection.
The cavalry troops are also in the hollow formation and can attack at any time.
No matter which direction the enemy attacks from, the five hollow formations can resist it. If the enemy wants to attack the central army, they will be hit by crossfire.
Each formation can also support each other.
The infantry and cavalry can coordinately change formations, and can also be transformed into other attack formations. However, it requires higher command ability of the general and higher training of the soldiers.
If you are a mediocre general and fight with ordinary soldiers, you can just put up a plum blossom formation honestly.
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South bank of Yalu River, Baozhou.
Zhe Yanzhi personally took a boat to observe along the river. The river ship he was riding was built in Baozhou last year and the year before last. The wood came from the mountainous area on the south bank of the Yalu River.
Baozhou Shipyard was established four years ago.
Currently, only inland river ships can be built to sail in the Yalu River. It will be expanded in the future, and the ultimate goal is to build sea-going ships.
Shipyard craftsmen are all from the Yangtze River coast and Zhejiang, and land is distributed according to the level of craftsmen.
The most advanced craftsmen can get 120 acres of fertile land in Baozhou. If they bring a family member, they can get an additional 20 acres of land, and even children can get an additional 20 acres of land.
The last time the Jin soldiers plundered Goryeo, they moved all the Bohai people away, resulting in a vast area of Baozhou with a sparse population. There was only a shortage of people and not a shortage of land. The real headache was the lack of tenants to cultivate the land after it was allocated.
Fortunately, people from the Bohai tribe kept coming.
These newly arrived Bohai people can also be allocated land. However, the number of acres is limited, and they also have the task of farming, and they must help the soldiers and craftsmen farm the land.
The fleet quickly approached Posulu City. Through the telescope, Zheyan could even see clearly the expression of the guard at the top of the city.
The enemy general was very angry, but he did not dare to order the arrows to be fired.
Firstly, it is useless to shoot arrows from too far away, and secondly, the enemy will not dare to provoke a war.
The angrier the Jin man is, the happier Zheyanzhi will be.
The Ming fleet continued to sail upstream, and the Jin soldiers stationed at Jiangxinzhou followed along the shore, watching the Ming fleet sail further east.
After passing the bifurcation of Jiangxinzhou and Kueihe, the mountains on the north bank of the Yalu River suddenly became steep.
"Fire artillery along the river!" Zheyan ordered.
"Bang bang bang bang!"
Every two or three miles the fleet sailed, a cannon was fired.
Of course it's not for Jin Bing.
Soon, I saw some people coming out one after another among the high mountains.
They are all the Bohai people who lived together with the Jurchens in the mountains. Their ancestors could not bear the exploitation by the Liao Dynasty, so they fled into the mountains to stay together with the Jurchens for warmth, and they also brought farming and textile technology to the Jurchens.
Now that the Jin Kingdom is short of food, these Bohai people have become targets of exploitation.
"Ashore!"
"Be careful and alert."
Several ships sailed to both sides of the strait to pick up the people who wanted to surrender.
Not the North Shore, but both sides.
Goryeo only occupied a small amount of land at the mouth of the Yalu River, and it was donated by the Jin Kingdom. The rest of the land on both sides of the Yalu River was entirely occupied by the Jin Kingdom.
Strictly speaking, the fleet led by Orihiko was considered an armed invasion.
Because the river belongs to the Kingdom of Jin, the mountains on both sides still belong to the Kingdom of Jin.
Zhe Yanzhi has received an order from the imperial court. Don't worry about so many things, just have a hard time in the Yalu River.
It took most of a day for the Ming Dynasty fleet to receive more than 400 people, and then returned to Baozhou in a grand manner.
After landing by boat, Zhe Yanzhi laughed at the city wall: "Send people out quickly so that the people can be resettled!"
A young official named Li Yu rode out of the city to greet him: "General Zhe, in the mountains to the east, more than 300 people surrendered yesterday. The Bohai operation we sent worked, and we pulled out an entire village."
Zhe Yanzhi smiled and said: "The land by the river is fertile, and the Ming Dynasty gave it to allotments. The land in the mountains is barren, and it is exploited by the Jin people. As long as their brains are not stupid, they will naturally know where to go."
The entire Baozhou is being rapidly digested by the Ming Dynasty.
This place used to be the land of the Liao Kingdom, and later it became the land of the Jin Kingdom and was assigned to Goryeo less than ten years ago.
Moreover, the population is dominated by Bohai people, and the common language is Northern Chinese. Even the Koreans here can speak a few words of Chinese. Now there is a large increase in Han soldiers and craftsmen, and they continue to recruit Bohai people who fled the Jin Kingdom.
To the people of Baozhou, what is Goryeo?
They only recognize the Ming Dynasty!
Yelu Yujian was also in Baozhou, but his son was sent to Kaifeng Military Academy.
"My Ming ships have repeatedly sailed into the Kingdom of Jin. I don't know how long these Jin people can endure it." Yelu Yujian came to the port.
Zheyanzhi smiled and said: "No matter how long they endure, beacon towers everywhere will keep an eye on them. The population here is increasing, and it is enough to recruit civilians in time of war."
Yelu Yujian said: "I heard that General Zhao Li was in Pyongyang, using military rations to buy Korean slaves, and then giving the Korean slaves names and land. The population there is increasing rapidly. Do you want us to buy some too? Just transport them here by sea ship.
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Zheyan said: "You can buy some Korean women. There are too many men in Baozhou and there are too few women. Over time, there will be trouble."
"Women are more expensive than men." Yeluyu said.
Zheyanzhi said: "There is no shortage of food now."
The King of Goryeo was still under house arrest, and the dignitaries gave him several concubines.
This king has become a fertility machine. By the time his sons reach adulthood, it won't matter whether he lives or lives.
The nobles who controlled the power of Goryeo were addicted to the silks and satins shipped from the Ming Dynasty, as well as fine wine and food, and did not hesitate to capture low-level civilians and sell them as slaves.
Of course, the dignitaries also did some things, such as begging the Ming Emperor to stop paying for military rations for the Ming garrison.
Ju Ming has officially agreed not to ask for food from Goryeo. In exchange for this, the Goryeo ministers will shut up and stop asking for land in Pyongyang and the north all day long. They must acquiesce to Ming's occupation of those territories.