The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 440 Beigou City

After the original Kong Youde surrendered gold, he immediately proposed to fight Lushun, and led his troops to lead the way. He broke Lushun in one fell swoop and made great contributions.

But this time in history, Lushun is definitely not easy to fight, so after Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming came, they have not made any contributions, but Huang Taiji appreciated them very much and let them form their own army. Kong Youde was named the Marshal of the capital, Geng Zhongming was the commander-in-chief, and his subordinates focused on firearms and firearms. Lu Shi heard the words: "Exactly, if our army had artillery that day, it would definitely be able to smash the Ming army's gun chariot formation."

"Ding Yi also has artillery, and there are many of them." Azig said at this time.

"How many people and territory does Ding Yi have? We don't need to be afraid of him when our Dajin artillery is in the wild." Geng Zhongming refused.

Houjin now casts nearly a hundred cannons every year, and now there are more than two hundred Hongyi cannons. In Shengjing and Gaizhou, there are cannons like clouds. If Ding Yi dares to attack again, he will definitely scream.

"More cannons need to be cast." Huang Taiji said heavily.

Many of the younger Jin Beiler were dissatisfied. They always looked down on firearms. Ding Yi was good at fighting because he was shameless enough to dig holes.

Everyone doesn't use firearms, does Ding Yi dare to fight us?
So Huang Taiji and the ministers agreed that in future field battles with Ding Yi, they should bring as many artillery as possible.

If you are attacking the city, try not to attack the city for the time being, because Ding Yi likes digging holes very much.

And they are also confident that as long as the line of Gaizhou is guarded, Ding Yi's forces will not be able to get through.

Then Huang Taiji decided on the next strategic goal.

Because the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was also suspicious of Ding Yi, Ding Yi could only stay in Phi Island in his life and could not be transferred to other places.

So their next goal is to suppress Ding Yi on the front line of Pidao and Fuzhou, so that he cannot grow stronger.

At the same time, conquer the Mongolian tribes as soon as possible, especially the Chahar tribe.

The second is to plunder more people and wealth from the Ming country, because against Ding Yi, only the ant-attachment and more soldiers and horses can win, so the more Ming people surrendered, the better.

Huang Taiji's final strategy was to defend against Ding Yi in the south and attack Daming and Mongolia in the west.

He continued to strengthen himself, and finally wiped out Ding Yi with a thunderous blow.

He believed that as long as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty did not support Ding Yi, Ding Yi's population and food would have problems sooner or later, and he would not be able to support so many soldiers.

Historically, in December, Hou Jin prepared to attack the various Mongolian ethnic groups in the Heilongjiang area to plunder the population, and it was very successful.

This meeting of Huang Taiji also decided the decision to send troops to Heilongjiang in December.

But just when he made up his mind, someone reported: "Khan, Ding Yi seems to be planning to build a new city in the east of Fuzhou, what should we do?"

It was Li Soltai.

As soon as this statement came out, the audience was in an uproar.

Almost everyone's first thought was that Ding Shuo wanted to hoard land again.

But Huang Taiji seemed to have discovered something keenly, and said sharply: "Where did he choose to build the city?"

"I don't know yet, but their sentinels and craftsmen, who walk around this area every day, have encountered us many times." Li Sutai clicked on the map.

In the past, Ding Yi's sentinels were basically in a team of ten. When encountering them, Dajin's sentry cavalry would avoid them and would not fight them.

But this time Ding Yi sentry a team of 50 people, along with craftsmen and civil servants, and they were everywhere. Hou Jin immediately guessed that Ding Yi wanted to build a new city and was looking for a suitable location.

In the past few months, they have sent people to track down Ding Yi's people every day, and recently they finally locked the range of Ding Yi's sentry, which is [-] miles east of Fuzhou.

In fact, as early as July, Ding Yi decided to build a new fort and build it according to the scale of the city.

After that, Zhang Jing and the cavalry guarded the craftsmen and circled around Fuzhou to find a place.

In order to confuse Houjin, Zhang Jing sent many teams of sentry cavalry to travel around, so Li Sutai could not confirm until recently that the place where the Ming army built the fort was east of Fuzhou.

Recently, after careful observation, Zhang Jing and the craftsmen finally decided on the location of the new castle.

This used to be a village in Houjin, surrounded by fertile fields.

Ding Yi's soldiers and horses later burned down the village of Houjin all the way, destroyed the fertile land, and this side became barren.

After choosing this place, they enclose 3000 mu of land and plan to build a new castle, named Beigou City according to Ding Yi.

The length of Beigou City is a rectangle, 2000 meters long and 1000 meters wide, with an area of ​​about 3000 mu.

After completion, the fort will store 1000 mu of land, 5000 troops and 7000 civilians, with a total population of [-] to [-].

There will be no other messy pits and alleys in the fort, and it will be defended entirely by 12000 people, artillery, and hundreds of enemies.

The fertile land inside will be used as much as possible, and there are wells and ponds connected to the North Ditch to ensure that even if it is besieged by heavy troops, it can stick to it for a period of time.

The craftsmen prepared to use [-] labors, which lasted for more than a year.

This is a huge project. After it is completed, it will be the largest city in southern Liaoning, bigger than Fuzhou and Jinzhou.

This city has two huge functions. One is to enclose all the fields south of the city into Ding Yi.

The second is to resist the enemy outside of southern Liaoning.

Because from Gaizhou to Fuzhou in Houjin, there are two easy roads, and there are three or four mountain roads that are not easy to walk.

But there are only three roads that can be taken with cannons.

And Beigou is the meeting point of the three main roads.

After passing Beigou, there are three roads to Fuzhou.

However, there are also several roads in Beigou, but it is difficult to walk. You have to go over mountains and ridges, or you have to take a long detour to the east, and you can't bring cannons at all.

There is Fuzhou River in the west, if you can't go around, you can only go east.

And on the Beigou side, there are more mountains to the north and more plains to the south.

Ding Yi wants to build a city here. If Houjin attacks with artillery in the future, he must attack Beigou City.

Because only this road can carry guns.

If Hou Jin didn't bring cannons to attack, how could you fight Ding Yi's soldiers and horses.

Therefore, if Beigou City is built, it will not only enclose a large amount of farmland in the south, but also separate the mountains in the north to Houjin.

It can also block the route of the Houjin Cannon.

In the future, if Houjin came to attack, they would first attack Beigou City. If Beigou City could not be defeated, their artillery battalion would not be able to enter, so they could only ride across the mountains to the hinterland of Ding Yi on foot. This is tantamount to courting death.

Zhang Jing and the craftsmen searched for more than two months before they found Beigou, a good place, and immediately notified Ding Yi to come and see it.

On the morning of September 9, Ding Yi led several generals to the vicinity of Beigou on horseback.

All the way out from the South Gate, the road is full of rice fields. This year, Lushun is sowing in summer between Jinzhou and Fuzhou for the first time.

Because there are more than 20 mu of fertile land between the two states, I was afraid of harassment from the Jin soldiers in the past, but now Ding Yi has a strong army, so I started summer sowing this year.

The ears of rice in September are already tall and big, and the rice fields are all golden.

The generals came all the way, seeing the figures of the busy people around them, they were very moved.

If there is no harassment this year, it will be a good harvest year.

(End of this chapter)