Chapter 61             Songyin City

When spring was in full bloom, Shi Ju, Li Bing and other civil and military officials came to the bank of Songhua River.

At this location, the Songhua River rolls eastward from the north, and there are a large number of swamp wetlands to the northeast, and the southwest is the remnants of Changbai Mountain.

Not far southeast is Xingkai Lake, just in the forefront.

Specifically, in this area, there is another highland on the south bank of the Songhua River. Huerhai River is the Mudan River in later generations, flowing into the Songhua River from here.

Where the two rivers meet is a high ground, facing water on both sides, and facing high ground.

When facing water, it is naturally easy to defend but difficult to attack. It can also use Mudanjiang as the way to retreat and Songhua River as the way to advance. Although the Ming Dynasty fleet on Songhua River has disappeared.

It is reported that during the Yongle period, the Ming Dynasty had a shipyard in Songhua River. However, its foundation was still there. Although Pennsylvania, where the ship was originally built, is no longer within the Ming Dynasty’s border wall.

However, it is not too far from Liaodong. Once the Ming army rebuilt the Nuer drying boat yard, Liaodong and Haixi can be linked to each other through the rich water system in the Northeast.

In this way, the developed water system in the Northeast became the most powerful helper for the Ming Dynasty's march.

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Building a city here seems to be defensive, but it is offensive in strategic form.

Being condescending can avoid floods.

After all, the water system in the Northeast is not too stable.

Zhu Qizhen did not receive a report saying that the Heilongjiang water system caused heavy water, not that the Heilongjiang water system did not cause heavy water, but that there were few people here, and the second was that it was not directly under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty.

There will always be floods, and Zhu Qizhen does not need to provide disaster relief.

But now it’s different. When building a city in the water, the most worrying thing is that the other party floods the seven armies.

However, there is no need to worry about it here. In terms of terrain, the Songhua River gradually increases from north to south, and from east to west, it is also high in the west and low in the east.

Especially not far from the east, there are a large number of swamp wetlands, which are natural places for water gathering. When a city is built, as long as the terrain is slightly higher, it is impossible to form a flooding situation.

This highland is enough to build a city.

Several people felt very satisfied.

Then we started building the city.

Li Bing was ordered to build this city, and Shi Ju also set up camp here, and first set up a station. Waiting for the continuous stream of North Koreans to come here.

However, the excellent terrain does not mean that it is easy to build.

The biggest problem in this area is that it is almost white, and even some Jurchen tribes have disappeared in the long-term tug-of-war between the two sides.

Even if there are, these people just make a living by fishing and hunting.

The construction of tens of thousands of people in the city, and even the hundreds of thousands that are about to arrive, is not something that can be afforded here.

Although food can be transported from the rear.

Li Bing has opened a transportation line, which is to go west after getting ashore from the west of the sea. The upstream of the Huerhai River can then go down the river and all the way to Songyin.

Li Bing wrote a letter with Wang Ao in conjunction with this principle, demanding the construction of a 140-mile road.

The Mudanjiang Wharf is directly connected from Haixi, and the Korean people do not need to come here directly. Instead, they build the road and use the road as the center and cultivate farms on both sides.

After all, if we start building Songyin City first, it will be too much consumption.

However, it was built little by little from the back to reduce grain consumption. After the road was repaired, can the food resources be directly here?

Even the farmland on both sides of the road has produced some output and can support the front line.

As for Chidao itself, it has actually been a very mature technology.

Zhu Qizhen has not made much progress in recent years. It is not that Chi revealed any problems, but that the court lacked money and horses, and there was no need to mention the money. As for horses, after the interruption of trade in the north, the price of horses rose by averaging no matter what kind of horses it was.

However, this has little impact on Haixi. After all, Haixi itself is a horse-producing land, and its number may not be as high as the output in the north and south of the desert. However, every household raises horses.

If it weren't for the battlefield in Haixi, Zhu Qizhen would have drawn horses from Haixi to supplement the Beijing Camp.

It is not difficult to build a road with money, horses, manpower, and mature technology.

However, Songyin City is not a matter of anything and is not done.

Li Bing first used the rich wood support from Northeast China to build a wooden city.

All the city walls are built with hard wood. From a distance, they are no worse than the rammed earth wall. In addition, they are excavated and the rich water conservancy resources have made Li Bing dig out a moat more than one mile wide outside the wooden city.

He was determined to build Songyin City into an unbreakable fortress of the Ming Dynasty in the Northeast.

However, the Northeast also has its disadvantages, that is, the long winter has stagnated all projects. Whether it is the harsh natural environment or the lack of warmth for people, there is no need to think about construction in the Northeast in winter.

So, counting it, Songyin City has really become a heroic city, and it is probably in the fall of the 21st year of Zhengtong.

This is why Meng Ying wanted Zhaozhou City to last for three years.

But Yesen is not a fool.

When spring was just beginning, I didn’t know much about such a big deal, but by summer, news from all sides reached Yesen’s ears.

I can no longer sit still.

To be honest, Yesen was still a little worried about the Ming army's strong city.

Therefore, Yexian did not want to attack the Ming army's strong city. Although Zhaozhou seemed like a thorn, it was stuck in Yexian's heart, Yexian might not want to take action this year.

After all, life in the Ming Dynasty was not easy, and life in Yexian was not easy. Not only did he have to face the political crisis inside and outside, but he would also swallow the bitter fruit of the defeat of Xingkai Lake.

There are also economic difficulties.

The severance of trade between the Ming Dynasty and the grasslands could make Zhu Qizhen feel troubled about war horses. The grasslands were even short of everything, including food, iron, cloth, etc.

Cutting off trade with the Ming Dynasty was even more difficult for the thorns.

It can even be said that the continuous civil strife of Wats may not have caused political turmoil due to economic crises.

Now Yexian needs a victory, a victory that can allow Wassai to gain economic benefits. He already has a goal.

No, Xuanda, nor Liaodong, but Northwest.

Nothing else, Xuanda was the focus of the defense of the Ming Dynasty. It can be said that it was a solid wall, and the Northeast was the strategic offensive node of Zhuqi Town, and it also invested a lot of resources.

Only in the northwest, whether it is Gansu, Ningxia, or Hetao, compared with Xuanda and Northeast China, is much worse.

After all, the northwest was barren, and the difficulties of each garrison were also led by the northwest. The Ming Dynasty valued the northeast, and in a sense, it was to ignore the northwest direction.

Therefore, we are also ready to start from the northwest and gain some benefits from the Ming Dynasty.

After all, no matter how poor the northwest is, it is much richer than the Watshu. It can only be won, but there are still benefits. Fighting the northwest will still distract Beijing from its attention and disrupt the pace of the Ming army.

With so many benefits, why not do it first?

It was just news from the Northeast that made Yexian unable to fall asleep.

Once the Ming army gained a firm foothold in the Northeast and controlled the Songhua River Basin, that is, the Northeast Plain, the distance between the northern Mobei and the Ming army was shortened by hundreds of miles.

The Zhaozhou alone is just an isolated city and is not worth paying attention to it first.

However, if Songyin City is built, the waterways between Zhaozhou and Songyin are the same, and a series of cities can even be built with the help of waterways, firmly locking the northeast direction.

The strategic depth of Watsai has been weakened too much.

This is the method used by the Northern Song Dynasty to attack the Western Xia, and the method of building a shallow attack. It is a dignified and open plot. It is estimated that after a few years, the Northeast region has formed a situation within the border walls such as Liaodong, Xuanda, and others.

With the support of the city river from point to line, and the elite cavalry of the Ming army were eyeing it. Under such an area, the wissus cavalry had too little room for maneuver.

I'm afraid we must withdraw from almost the entire Northeast. Once the Northeast is owned by Ming, then Daning, Kaiping, Huining and other places may not be unable to restore the situation in the early Ming Dynasty.

This is also a decision that will not be allowed.

However, I would like to think about it first or not. He had to advance eastward, remove Zhaozhou, and conquer Songyin.
Chapter completed!