Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1014
The name Gulezhai may not be well-known in later generations. When it comes to Jianzhou Jurchen, there are probably two most famous places, one is Saerhu, and the other is Hetuala.The former is because of the Battle of Sarhu, and the latter is because it is Nurhachi's lair.

However, in the Ming Dynasty, the "king city" of Jianzhou Jurchen was exactly Gule Village, which was located in the area from Gulou Village to Shengli Village, Shangjiahe Town, Xinbin Manchu Autonomous County, later generations.

During the Zhengtong period, the Jurchen Zuowei in Jianzhou, after experiencing several large-scale migrations in history, settled in the city of Hetuala at the foot of Hulan Hada Mountain on the banks of the Sukesu River.Soon thereafter, the Weiyin dispute broke out between Chief Fancha and Dong Shan's uncle and nephew, and the tribe faced the danger of splitting.

In order to effectively restrain the Jianzhou Jurchens, the Ming court adopted the method of separating the right guard from the left guard, dividing the original Jianzhou left guard into two, and became two guards from then on.After the establishment of the right guard, Fancha was in charge of the right guard, while the left guard was still in charge of Dong Shan.

Jianzhou Youwei, who was separated, still lived with Zuowei in the area of ​​Hetuala City in Harsa Mountain during the initial period, which is the Jianzhou Old Camp or Hucheng often mentioned in historical materials of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the rift between the two guards caused by the dispute over the Wei seal was difficult to heal for a while, and the power of the right guard was weak, so it was often repelled by the forces of the left guard. The tribe moved westward along the Sukesu River to Gule Mountain and Mardun area. The left guard and the right guard took five mountains, that is, Qinglongling (Maldun Ridge) as the boundary, thus forming the East-West Jianzhou.Dongjianzhou refers to the left guard, while Xijianzhou refers to the right guard.

So how did the right guard rise, and in turn overwhelm the left guard, making Gulezhai the Jurchen "king city" in Jianzhou?Because the Ming army launched the "Battle of Dinghai".

In the "Battle of Dinghai", Daming sent a large army to destroy the old camp of Jianzhou and Wumi Mansion, where Jianzhou Guard was located. The father and son of Jianzhou Guard chief Li Manzhu and Jianzhou Zuowei chief Dong Shan were killed by the Ming army successively. His old residence in Jianzhou was bloodbathed by the Ming army.But at this time, Fancha of Jianzhou Youwei heard the news and led his troops to flee to the mountains and escaped the catastrophe.

This is the first rise of Jianzhou Right Guard.

But in the first year of Jingtai, Fancha led his troops to plunder Mingbian repeatedly because of revenge for smashing the nest, was captured by the Ming army, and was finally detained and died in Liaodong.The post of the commander of the capital was established by the Ming Dynasty and was inherited by his eldest grandson Nalanha.

After Nayunha attacked his post, in order to avenge the murder of his father and ancestors, he also repeatedly violated the border, and was later punished and killed by the border officials of Ming Dynasty.After Nayunha's death, the post of commander of Jianzhou Youwei Capital was taken over by his uncle Bu Huatu.

When Bu Huatu was in command of the right guard capital, he still repeatedly committed riots on the frontier, "thieves migrated into Liaoyang to steal horses and kill official troops", and "invaded Yizhou to plunder people and things".

For this reason, the Ming court ordered the right guard, "The three guards of Buhatu protect his honesty, and the commanders command his colleagues, negotiate with the imperial edict, order to control the people of this guard, and never break the law again."In the second year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty, Bu Huatu died, and the circumstances of his successors' assaults are not found in historical records.

In the decades after the death of Buhuatu, the right guard chief of Jianzhou, various Jurchen ministries were in a chaotic social state.The second rise of Jianzhou Youwei was during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, and the key figure in the rise was the Wang Gao mentioned before.

When Wang Gao was 16 years old, he inherited his father's business and rebuilt Gule City, which coincided with the 24th year of Jiajing.After the rise of Wang Gao's power, he took over as the commander of Jianzhou Youwei Capital, and proclaimed himself the governor. "All the barbarians in Jianzhou listened to Gao's dispatch."Nurhaci's grandfather Jue Chang'an and father Ta Keshi, who were born in Jianzhou Zuowei, were both Wang Gao's subordinates at this time, and the other five ancestors also belonged to Wang Gao's command.

After the rise of Wang Gao's power, he carried out large-scale expansion of Gule City.After the expansion, Gule Village was renamed Gule City, facing water on three sides and mountains on one side. The Sukesu River flows through the south of the city, and the Shangjia River flows through the west of the city.The west, north and south sides of the city are surrounded by natural dangerous cliffs, and the east is connected with Qinglong Mountain, forming a natural barrier with three walls.

The defensive facilities are built with inner and outer walls, and a city gate is built in the north of the city.In the inner city of Gule City, Wang Gao built more than [-] houses in addition to his own meeting hall and dormitory. Military forces will then engage in military resistance.

The war between Wang Gao and Daming was mentioned earlier in this book, so I won’t repeat it here. In short, in the third year of Wanli, Wang Gao was sent to Yanjing.

After Wang Gao was arrested and killed, his son Atai insisted on opposing the Ming Dynasty, but at that time his strength had not yet recovered, and his actions were not large enough to cause enough impact. Pay attention to.

But this year, when Atai learned that the Battle of Monan had started, he felt that the opportunity was rare, and began to invite "friends of the same way" to do great things.But what Atai didn't expect was that although the scale of the Monan battle was huge, it didn't last too long. As a result, Li Chengliang's side had already finished the fight before he was ready.

At this moment, Atai fell into embarrassment: raise troops, the opportunity is lost; stop fighting, and all the preparations made will be wasted.

Perhaps it was "God's pity", but another accident happened at this time. Tumen Khan, who was defeated in the Monan War, refused to let it go. a handful.

This news made Atai very excited, thinking that the Ming army must have exaggerated the results of the Monan War. Although Tumen Dahan failed to win Tumed, the loss was not great, but Li Chengliang's loss may be even greater Some.

Under this erroneous thinking, Atai immediately gathered his younger brother Ahai and others, divided his troops into two groups, went deep into the interior, invaded Shenyang, and went to the Hunhe River in the south of the city, where the troops of Dazong's troops plundered the Hunhe River mouth area near Fushun City.

Li Chengliang was rewarded, hated Atai deeply, and said to his left and right: "This rebellious chick is here, and Liao's disaster has not slackened."At the same time, under the instigation of Nikan Wailan, he was determined to eradicate the grass.

Since the imperial court had no money to fight another big battle, and could not immediately retaliate against Tumen, he took all his anger on Atai's head, and immediately led a large army from Wanggangtai, Fushun, for more than a hundred miles, to attack Atai's old nest Gu Le Zhai, and Yi Bie will attack A Hai Zhai, and take Yonikan Wai Lan to cooperate with him.

Li Chengliang knew that Tu Keshi was Atai's son-in-law, and Jue Changan's granddaughter was Atai's wife [Note: Seems a bit confusing? ], two people were sent as guides for this campaign.

As I said just now, Gule Village is built on the hillside. The mountain is steep, with walls on three sides and surrounded by water.

Li Chengliang mobilized two armies to attack Atai village, but they failed to attack repeatedly.Moreover, Atai went out of the city to break through the siege many times. Although he failed, the Ming soldiers suffered heavy casualties.

This is also the reason why Zu Chengxun doesn't want to continue to fight against Gule Village—it is more cost-effective to fight against Jurchen than to fight against Mongols, because according to the calculation of Ming's military achievements, the heads of Mongols are the most valuable, and Jurchen... also It's just a little bit more valuable than the inland bandits and thieves.

Therefore, in the eyes of his ancestor Chengxun, this Gule village was nothing more than a stone in a latrine, smelly and hard, and it was useless to knock it down.

But Li Chengliang's vision is obviously not so short-sighted. If the battle in southern Liaoning has reached a stalemate or simply because southern Liaoning cannot resist, he will give up Gulezhai, a stinky and hard latrine, in order to withdraw his troops and go back to rescue southern Liaoning. , that's fine.

But it’s different now. Now it’s the Liaonan side that has not many elites at all, and has turned around to win the Tumen Chaohua coalition, and even captured Chaohua alive in one fell swoop. On the contrary, Qin Deyi, Li Chengliang’s direct subordinate, inexplicably "grabbed credit after the incident" "In the process of defeating and returning...

Comparing the two, doesn't it seem that Li Chengliang is extremely incompetent?Thinking about it further, since the three people Gao Yushi transferred from Xuanda are so powerful, they are still very young, and Li Chengliang is both incompetent and old... What will the emperor think?
So now, the situation has become irresistible. Not only must the Gule village be taken down, but a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood must be killed! ——
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By the way, Nurhachi...

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