Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 983 The Current Situation of Dongchang Fort
The post of Beiyu was first established in the Ming Dynasty, and the place where it was first established was in Liaodong.This position was originally a world position, but due to the increasing pressure of defense, in some important docks, occasionally competent personnel from other places will be called in to take up the position. It is for this reason.

The location of Dongchang Fort was still debated in the historian circles of later generations, but the truth was unclear. Later, with the discovery of the ruins, the actual location was finally determined. It was near Niuzhuang Town in the northwest of Haicheng City, Liaoning Province in later generations. Named "Horse Circle", it is located on the south bank of the Prince River.

The word "Prince" of this Taizihe has nothing to do with Ming Dynasty, but the "Prince" of "Yan Taizi Dan". It was renamed "Taizi River" for about 200 years inexplicably during the Qing Dynasty, and it was not until the fall of the Qing Dynasty. Changed it back again.

The reason why Dongchangbao is also called Maquan, according to the newly appointed Zhang Wanbang’s inquiries, may be due to the relationship between the post station—the important and only official post station that connects the west of the Liaohe River and the east of the Liaohe River under its jurisdiction— —Niujiazhuang Mayi, Niujiazhuang Mayi raised a considerable number of posthorses near Dongchangbao, at least hundreds of them, even nearly a thousand in its heyday.

Although there are nearly a thousand horses, it is not unusual for Zhang Wanbang who is used to seeing big scenes, but it is a large army, and a post station raises hundreds of horses. See the importance of Niujiazhuang Horse Station.

Correspondingly, it also represents the importance of the post of Beiyu in Dongchangbao.

The last time Dongchangbao became famous at the central level was when Tumen boasted that if there were no bad things about Li Chengliang, he could even win Yaozhou in the sixth year of Wanli. At that time, he entered the land of southern Liaoning from Dongchangbao.

However, when Tumen attacked southern Liaoning, after all, it was Li Chengliang who made the move, and he won another victory at the level of "victory at the Taimiao" after the victory of splitting the mountain. It was indeed an absolute victory.

Of course, if Tumen let this matter come to him, he might not take it seriously, because that time he snatched it so smoothly that he went deep into southern Liaoning too hard, and Li Chengliang caught his tail, and he really couldn't escape quickly, and even if he didn't kill someone close Thousands, but...a lot of grabs!
Therefore, Tumen himself didn't feel that he was losing money after the incident, and when Liaodong played the court, he was very "smart" and only mentioned the number of beheads. I took a sloppy eye, and as for the loss of the people, I didn't mention it at all.

With this precedent, Tumen is actually very interested in plundering southern Liaoning. His previous hesitation was just a helpless expression of his strength not being restored.

The only thing Tumen didn't expect was that Gao Wushi's distrust of Li Chengliang was so strong that he specially transferred Zhang Wanbang from Xuanda to nail him to the key node of Dongchang Fort. .

In addition, there are some changes in the vicinity of Dongchangbao from four years ago, which come from after Jinghua entered Liaodong.

Dongchang Fort, in addition to being a vital point on land and owning the Niujiazhuang Mayi, is also a key point of waterway because it is located on the south bank of the Sanchakou between the Liaohe River and the Taizi River.

Since Jinghua is vigorously operating water channels in Liaodong, how could this key node at the confluence of Liaohe River and Taizi River not be arranged?

In fact, Jinghua set up a water escort team here. Although the escort team did not have any large ships, there were more than 30 "gunboats" equipped with varying numbers of No. 120 and No. [-] guns. They had a total of [-] No. [-] guns and three Forty guns.

As mentioned before, there are roughly four types of Flang machine gun imitated by the Ming Dynasty. From small to large, they are No. [-], [-], [-] and [-] guns. The No. [-] gun itself is a slightly larger land combat light gun.

Due to the influence of the highly pragmatic "Giant Ship Cannon Doctrine", Jinghua seldom equips sea ships with such small cannons. However, only a small number of large ships can bear the No. [-] guns on inland river vessels, and the No. [-] guns are basically wishful thinking. Equipped with this light gun.

The No. [-] gun itself is already considered a heavy artillery level in this era, but that is from the perspective of land warfare. The No. [-] gun was the main force in the high-level pacification of Annan. Especially during the Battle of Lang Son, the No. [-] gun played its role under Huang Zhiting's command. important role.

However, the artillery of this era is still somewhat indistinguishable from land and sea, so sea ships are also equipped with a large number of such artillery, but these artillery are considered heavy artillery on land, and they are downgraded to light artillery on sea ships.

Gao Wushi actually equipped the inland river fleet of Liaohe with forty No. [-] guns, which is enough to show that he attaches great importance to the Liaodong waterway.

It can be said that any ship on the Liaohe River, except for the small number of large ships equipped with the No. [-] gun in his own Jinghua, no one can withstand the frontal bombardment of the No. [-] gun within the effective range-no matter who it is, It's all a shot into the soul.

Why did Jinghua's operation in the Liaohe waterway only last for two or three years, and it has become so prosperous that many businessmen have begun to abandon the land route and switch to the waterway?Cost advantage and time advantage are of course two important aspects, but security advantage is also another important aspect-people in Liaodong don't attach much importance to water transportation these days, and naturally there are fewer water bandits correspondingly. Even if there are occasional ones, they He doesn't have the guts to compete with a player like Jinghua with a "giant cannon" on a boat. Isn't this sending it to someone's face!

Since there is an armed fleet, there will naturally be water villages.The name of the water village is as low-key as ever, and it is actually called "Sanchahe Wharf", which is simply a gimmick.

But that's not the point, the point is that this water village really exists, and it is also equipped with a "wharf guard" composed of more than 300 Ding.In fact, this escort team is not really just guarding the water village called "Sanchahe Wharf". They also have another task, which is to travel by boat and sweep away water bandits near the Liaohe River, Taizi River and other river basins. , bandits, etc.

Therefore, to a certain extent, these 300-odd soldiers are an "amphibious force" that is extremely rare in the north.With the arrival of Zhang Wanbang, Gao Yushi also gave him the power to "temporarily command" this family army when necessary.

As for what is the "necessary moment", Gao said pragmatically and magnanimously to let Zhang Wanbang make up his own mind - he knows that Zhang Wanbang has always been a coward, and when Zhang Wanbang feels that the "necessary moment" has arrived, it must be a war And it's basically impossible for such a trivial matter as beating bandits and water bandits.

After all, although Zhang Wanbang's rank is not very high now, he is a Xuanda hero who dares to take thousands of infantry to fight Xinai's tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry. He was afraid that he would be so ashamed that he wiped his neck.

Tumen's attack on southern Liaoning this time took place under such a situation.
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