Flowers on the other side [Comprehensive Red House]

Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou took the imperial decree, unicorn uniforms, etc., and walked all the way into Shenyang, which had just ended a defense battle.

The emergence of such a crisis in Liaodong is related to the policies of the Ming court towards the various tribes that survived and multiplied in the land of Liaodong.In Liaodong, the Ming government adopted a strategy of dividing the forces of various tribes, suppressing the more powerful tribes, and supporting small tribes to fight against big tribes.

This policy worked well for 200 years.Until the Jurchen in Jianzhou appeared an incomparable hero—the two Hachi brothers, Daming kicked the iron board.

□□The father and grandfather of the Ha Chi brothers died because of the "intentional" action of Li Chengliang, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, who carried out Li Chengliang's orders during the battle.Afterwards, the Ming court returned the land and troops of his father and grandfather to Ha Chi under guilt.Due to the policy needs of the imperial court, the □□Hachi brothers got the opportunity to support and rebuild their tribe.

After that, Li Chengliang was impeached and stayed at home for ten years.Ten years later, at the age of 76, he once again put on armor and shocked Liaodong again.

Li Chengliang came out again, and the court's policy has not changed.So he continued to support small tribes, provided them with food, swords, and armor for free, and conquered the grown tribes. □□Ha Chi seized this opportunity to unify the Jianzhou Jurchen.However, the strength of the Jianzhou Jurchen could not be seen by Li Chengliang at all, so Li Chengliang did not take any action against the □ Hachi.

He started a horse and log business with the □□Hachi brothers.In exchange for food, cloth, salt, ironware and other daily necessities, the Jurchen tribes have lived in harmony with Li Chengliang for nearly ten years.Li Chengliang was also rewarded by the Taifu for the stability of Liaodong.

During the period when the □□Hachi brothers grew in strength, Li Chengliang's life became more and more extravagant. He and the governor Zhao Ji colluded with □□Hachi to smuggle food, weapons, etc. for profit, and at the same time reached an agreement with □Hachi brothers , gave up the territory of Kuandian and other six castles and eight hundred miles to Jianzhou Jurchen, and drove the [-] households living there to move to the interior with a large army, causing countless deaths and injuries.

Then the two of them also invited rewards from the court for their meritorious service in recalling a large number of fugitives.

Two years later, Bingke gave Song Yihan impeachment of Li Chengliang and Zhao Ji, thinking that it was not credit for abandoning Kuandian and other places, and asked the court to conduct an investigation.At that time, Xiong Tingbi, who had just been appointed as the censor of Zhejiang Province, was changed to inspect Liaodong after he arrived.

After Xiong Tingbi took office, he immediately traveled all over the mountains and rivers of Liaodong, surveyed the difference between the existing land boundary of Jianzhou Jurchen and the records of the imperial court, and visited a large number of Liao people who moved inward, confirming that Kuandian and other [-]-mile lands were abandoned and expelled. The internal relocation of people and other things are true.Therefore, Xiong Tingbi impeached Li Chengliang and the governor Zhao Ji in his capacity as the patrol censor, and pointed out that the crimes of Zhao Ji and Li Chengliang "can be defeated and punished".At the same time, the former patrol ministers He Erjian and Kang Piyang were impeached for colluding and covering up the two, and they should be charged with the same crime.

It's a pity that his memorial was retained.Because although Li Chengliang was old and frail, his sons still held heavy soldiers. The power and influence of the Li family in Liaodong made the imperial court cast a taboo and only dismissed Li Chengliang.

During this period, Xiong Tingbi, who was on patrol in Eastern Liaodong, was surveying various places in Eastern Liaodong. Wherever it goes, it traverses everything, and saves everything.”

With the understanding of the geographical situation of Liaodong and the situation of Jurchen in Jianzhou, he proposed a strategy to completely defend Liaodong and took a series of measures.

He believes: "Although the Mongolians in the west are strong and powerful, all they want is to plunder property and have no ambitions", while the Jianzhou Jurchens in the east "have the same food and temperament as Liao, and their aspirations are in our land."Therefore, we must focus on consolidating Liaodong to prevent the establishment of a state in Hachi.

In order to guard against Hachi, he formulated the strategy of "strengthening the inside and strengthening the outside" and "attacking the barbarians with barbarians".Link "gardening and accumulating land" with "repairing borders and consolidating fortresses".If you want to garrison the fields, you must first trim the borders.Use high cities and deep ponds to defend the farmland reserves, and use the farmland reserves to support the army and strengthen defense. "If captives come, they will be rejected, and if they go, they will not be chased, and the first thing is to gather lessons from life and death", that is, to defend as a war.

"Using barbarians to attack barbarians" means mobilizing other tribes of the Jurchen and Mongols to oppose the first Hachi.

During Xiong Tingbi's tenure as inspector, he worked hard to realize this strategy.He built more than 30 miles of side walls starting from Haizhouwei, Gaizhouwei, and Sanchahe, passing Liaoyang, Shenyang to Kaiyuan, Tieling, and Beiguan; Seven cities including Dian, Changdian, Caohe and Xiongyue were built, and more than [-] piers were built.Seventeen granaries were also built, each with [-] to [-] granaries, and [-] shi of grain were accumulated within three years.The army was rectified, corruption, occupation and other abuses were eliminated, the atmosphere was changed, and the army was enriched.He established a good relationship with the Yehe tribe and the Mongolian tribes in Beiguan, which made Nurhachi feel that the situation was not good for him, so he had to adopt a retreat policy and return the old place, etc., in order to reconcile with Daming.

It should be said that what Xiong Tingbi did was the best measure to save Liaodong.But talented people are usually more rebellious.His dog temper annoyed those who looked down on him.In addition, many people did not realize the harm of Hachi, and instead believed that the crisis in Liaodong was exaggerated by generals, and some even advocated the policy of "sparse Beiguan and pro-slave chieftains".

Therefore, after the three-year period of Xiong Tingbi's tour of Liaodong expired, the imperial court changed him to the censor of Southern Zhili.With his departure, these Wei Liao strategies with unique insights will be abandoned.

And Xiong Tingbi's stinky temper also caused him to get into a catastrophe when he was an inspector and censor. He was impeached and returned home to wait for investigation and conviction because of the death of Rui Yongjin.

This wait is seven years.

In the past seven years, the □Hachi brothers have gradually grown and began to encroach on Liaodong.When the Ming court could not sit back and watch the Jianzhou Jurchen become the largest tribe in Liaodong, it hastily started the crusade against the Jiannu.

As a result, in the battle of Saerhu, the soldiers were lost and the generals were defeated.

The Ming Dynasty changed from an absolute military advantage to a changing defensive situation.Only then did Xiong Tingbi have the opportunity to gain the trust of the court again, allowing him to manage Liaodong as the right servant of the Ministry of War and the censor of the right capital.But the crisis he faced in Liaodong this time was very different from when he first arrived in Liaodong 12 years ago when he was awarded the title of censor.

Xiong Tingbi is talented, capable and has a temper, but he has an unspeakable fatal flaw: anger.It can also be said that he is narrow-minded, not measured enough, and does not have the tolerance of a prime minister to hold a boat.He can also use it to anger military affairs.The performance is that he was appointed in June, but he waited until July when the battle situation in Liaodong was beyond control, and then he left the capital to go to Liaodong.

It's really annoying.

When he walked slowly to Shisanzhan (now northwest of Jinxian County, Liaoning), he learned that Tieling had fallen.When he entered Liaoyang, Liaoyang was already a city in the sky.In panic, everyone who could leave ran away, even the officials and generals of the imperial court prepared to flee quickly.

At this time, Xiong Tingbi showed outstanding political ability and iron-blooded skills.He decisively took a series of tough measures: arrested Li Shanghao, the prefect.The charge was that he sent his family members back to the mainland in advance, which shook the morale of the army and the people; beheaded the generals Liu Yujie, Wang Jie, and Wang Wending who had fled in battle, effectively deterring those who wanted to flee; stabilized the army.

But the situation in Liaodong is not optimistic. Although the army has tens of thousands of people, it has no ordnance, no healthy soldiers, and no good horses (the good ones were all taken out to participate in the Battle of Saerhu). After Beiguan, we will take advantage of the victory to capture Liaoyang.

Facing this critical situation, Xiong Tingbi beheaded the corrupt general Chen Lun with Shangfang's sword and confiscated his stolen money; removed Li Chengliang's third son, Li Ruzhen, the incompetent general soldier, and replaced him with Li Huaixin.Appropriately shrink the troops, and send most of the troops guarding Shenyang to Liaoyang, prepare dry food and equipment with great fanfare, pretend to attack Hachi, and regain the lost city to shame the defeat of Xuesarhu.

□□Ha Chi found out about Xiong Tingbi's move, but he did not immediately attack Liaoyang.

Xiong Tingbi won the first battle against □Hachi through bluffing.

Xiong Tingbi seized the opportunity to strengthen the city wall of Liaoyang.Then he took a thousand soldiers and appeared in the snow at Fushun Pass, which had been occupied by Mr. Hachi, and made a formation to survey the terrain and attack Fushun.

□□Ha Chi thought that Xiong Tingbi was going to attack him, so he immediately took countermeasures: cut down trees to block the mountain pass, and transported stones to renovate the pass and mountain city.

Xiong Tingbi won another time to overhaul Liaoyang City.A few months later, the tall and strong Liaoyang City Wei Ran stood on the land of Liaodong, and its defense capabilities were unprecedentedly strengthened.Xiong Tingbi analyzed the terrain of Liaodong and believed that Hachi must pass through Fushun Pass when attacking Liaoyang.Shenyang and Fengji are sixty or seventy miles away from Fushun, and they are the horns of each other, so Fushun can be completely controlled.

Therefore, Xiong Tingbi personally supervised the repair of Shenyang and Fengji city defenses in April and May of the 48th year of Wanli, and deployed troops. He Shixian, the commander-in-chief, led 3 troops to guard Shenyang, and Chai Guozhu led 6 troops to guard Fengji.Just after the deployment was completed, on June [-], the □Hachi soldiers attacked Shenyang and Fengji respectively in two groups, and were repelled by He and Chai.In August, another [-] or [-] people invaded Shenyang. Xiong Tingbi personally went to Shenyang to supervise the formation and repelled Jiannu's attack.

This second battle was a hard fight with real swords and guns, and Xiong Tingbi defeated the first-class Hachi again.

In such a situation in Liaodong, Yao Zongwen went to Liaodong to investigate the situation of the war with Hu Ke, but when he returned to the capital, he instigated the impeachment of Xiong Tingbi, wanting to get rid of him quickly.Liu Guojin, Yushi Guzhen, Feng Sanyuan, Zhang Xiude, and Wei Yingjia also participated in the impeachment of Xiong Tingbi, which led to the impeachment of the chief assistant Fang Congzhe.

Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou looked at the post-war scars on the walls of Shenyang City, and at the people queuing up to enter the city after being searched. From time to time, strong men were dragged aside and questioned carefully by the soldiers.

Due to the tense situation, the convoy consisting of more than a hundred people and dozens of large vehicles, which they claimed to be imperial envoys, failed to directly enter Shenyang City.The hundreds of households guarding the city gate sent soldiers to deliver letters to the army, asking the superiors to send someone to verify.

"My lords, it's not that you are unaccommodating, but you dare not disobey military orders during wartime."

Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou wanted to continue talking with those hundred households, and asked Xiong Tingbi about running the army.Unexpectedly, the look in the eyes of the hundred households looked at the two of them changed. Needless to say, they knew that they were imperial envoys who had begun to suspect them as fakes.

The hundred households smiled dryly: "Since your lord has arrived at the city gate, the Jinglue Mansion will send someone over to greet you soon. Why don't you sit here and thank you."

Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou were not slow to react, seeing the large group of soldiers with knives and guns surrounding them, they had no choice but to order the guards who followed them not to act rashly, and to stand obediently in the encirclement of those swords and guns.

Fortunately, Xiong Tingbi came quickly enough to recognize Yang and Zuo who were surrounded by swords and guns from a distance.He laughed loudly, "Wen Confucianism, Gong Zhi, did you ask about the military situation that you shouldn't ask?"

The author has something to say: This chapter explains more about the background of Liaodong

To be honest, Ming Dynasty's policy towards Jurchen and various ethnic groups is a bit petty.