Amin sent out all the scouts to monitor Yang Fan's movements day and night.
At this time, he already knew who the opponent was. It was the legendary Marquis Dingyuan. Huang Taiji planned to enter the border and rob, but he was not a good person. He came to steal the house.
Amin now has an army of 150,000 in his hands, and he has basically defeated everything in Liaodong.
With so many people eating horse food every day, it takes a lot of chewing. Every day that is delayed is emptying the family resources of Liaodong, which is already short of food. Amin is very worried about getting angry.
Mainly because when he was young, he often followed the old Khan King to attack the two groups of Donghai and Beishan. They were not easy to mess with. They were real tough guys.
Even though he had three times the advantage over the Donghai people, he still didn't dare to be too big.
Fortunately, the result of the scout reconnaissance was that there were not many people in Beishan, estimated to be more than 10,000 people. This made him let out a long breath. There were more than 50,000 people in total, and he had three times the advantage. He was still fighting at home, familiar with the local climate and
Mountain terrain.
They are all locals, and the further south they go, the more familiar they become. The right time, place, people, and the more of these three things they have.
Therefore, he planned to get out of the way of the main road and occupy both sides, luring Yang Fan to drive south. He would encircle him on all sides and cut off his food routes, thereby defeating him.
It must be said that Amin knows military affairs. If Yang Fan goes south like this, he will definitely be defeated.
But during this period, Yang Fan had been studying military school textbooks with rabbit in his arms. Modern military theories and combat tactics were definitely ahead of them. Yang Fan just wasn't fooled.
Amin was looking at the sand table in a daze, thinking about ways to break the situation. At this time, the scout captain Handa suddenly opened the curtain of the big tent and came in.
"Master, the Donghai people have retreated. They have given up Jilin City and Chaah Chong City."
"When did it happen?" Amin asked hurriedly.
This result was a big surprise to him. The two sides had been facing each other for so long, and they actually retreated before fighting. It was so inappropriate. Now that Huang Taiji had already reached the capital of Ming Dynasty, Yang Fan should be more anxious to surround Wei and rescue Zhao.
"Why did they retreat? They just captured Jilin City. They obviously had an advantage." Ah Mi was very puzzled by Yang Fan's operation. She didn't know what kind of trouble he was going to make.
"According to the day and night reconnaissance by the front scouts, the number of their grain trucks is decreasing. Ten days ago, many Donghai people began to go hunting in the surrounding mountains, and some people made a lot of temporary birch bark boats.
Go fishing in the Songli Ula River. I guess their food supply is running out." Suddenly Handa said thoughtfully.
Songhuajiang comes from the transliteration of the Manchu "Songaliwula", which means "Heavenly River".
The Songhua River has two sources, the north and the south. The north source originates from the Nen River in the Yiyilhuli Mountains, a branch of the Greater Khingan Range, which is the river next to Qiqihar.
The southern source originates from Tianchi in Changbai Mountain, and there are two other sources in its upper reaches. The southern source is Daojiang, and the northern source is Erdaojiang, both of which originate from Changbai Mountain. Among them, Erdaobai River originates from Tianchi in Changbai Mountain and is the main source of Songhua River.
To put it simply, the northern source is the Nen River, and the southern source is also called the Second Songhua River. Before liberation, the Northeast was called Manchuria. The Second Songhua River divided Manchuria into two. The north was called Beiman, and the south was called South Manchuria.
The central city of Northern Manchuria is Harbin. In the Yuan Dynasty, it was called Harbin. In the Ming Dynasty, the Manchus called it Aljin, which means honor. In the Qing Dynasty, it was called Qiqi Harbin. Harbin means "the place where the net is broken". It can be seen that fishermen live here.
The local Jurchens also call it Harwen, which means swan. So Harbin is also called the Pearl on the Swan's Neck.
The central city in southern Manchuria is Shenyang, which is called Moukedun in Manchu.
The Nen River and the Second Songhua River meet in Zhaoyuan County, Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province. This forms the main channel of the Songhua River. It flows through Harbin along the way, turns northeast through Yilan, Jiamusi, then continues northeast, and flows into the Heilongjiang River at the mouth of the Huntong River. Finally, it flows into the Heilongjiang River at the temple. The street forms the Duanwei River and flows into the Sea of Japan.
Jilin is the abbreviation of "Jilin Wula" in Manchu. "Jilin" means "along" or "leaning on", and "Wula" means "river". Together they mean "city along the river or close to the river". In Chinese, it can Translated as "River City".
It was also called the Shipyard in the Qing Dynasty. The Ula tribe of the Haixi Jurchens established the ancient city of Ula here.
In 1661, Emperor Kangxi built a shipyard here to provide water transportation for the Battle of Yaksa. Therefore, it is said that there was Ula City first and Jilin City later. This name is very old and does not seem to have been given by Jurchens. Because it was called "" in the Tang Dynasty Jilin" was also called "Jiling" and "shipyard" during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty.
It was not until 1936 that it was changed to Jilin City. Before liberation, it was also called "Yongji" for a period of time.
Whether it is Chaachong (Changchun) or Jilin City, they are all very important. Mastering Jilin City will open the channel for Southern Manchuria to conquer Northern Manchuria via waterways.
At this time, the hinterland of the Northeast was a barbaric wilderness, filled with swamps and muddy ponds, filled with mosquitoes and flies, and filled with poisonous gases similar to southern miasma, commonly known as stinking fog. Until the 1980s, it often appeared in rural areas.
Land transportation here is very difficult. Waterway is the best way. Ships are built from the shipyard in Jilin City, and the entire Heilongjiang water system can be navigable in summer and autumn. The important cities in the Northeast are all on the waterfront.
The reason Amin was confused was because of the importance of Jilin to the Qing Dynasty.
Once Jilin City is mastered, it is possible to go north by water in summer and autumn. This is the gateway city to northern Manchuria. It is impossible for Yang Fan not to know. He actually gave up after taking it. What on earth was he thinking.
Yang Fan controlled this place and cut off Jianzhou's attempts to contact the Jurchens in the East China Sea and the Jurchens in the North Mountains. This is the gateway.
Amin's fingers moved along the Songhua River along the map, including Harbin, Five Kingdoms City (Yilan City, where Song Huizong and his son were imprisoned), Jiamuke Temple Gashan City (Jiamusi City), Lahasusu (Tongjiang City), Khabarovsk City, Temple Street City.
Yang Fan posed a problem for him. Since Jilin City was given away, he had to go north and occupy Chaachong and Jilin City. Because this place is too important. If it is not closed, people from Donghai and Beishan can come and leave whenever they want. If we leave, there will never be peace in Liaodong.
This time, these paupers have experienced less robbery along the way and have tasted the benefits. Why don't they always come to visit us? Will they be able to sleep peacefully in the future?
In particular, Jiamuke Monastery and Gashan City are the passage to the Beishan Jurchens. This place must also be in the hands of Manchuria. It was not taken seriously before because the Ming Dynasty did not extend its hand here.
Now that something like this has happened, if you don't take measures to remedy the situation, you would be extremely stupid.
Jiamusi originated from the Manchu language and was called "Jiamusi Gashan" at that time. It was changed to "Jiamusi Tun" during the Qianlong reign of 1778. It is transliterated as "Jiamusi", which means "Yi Pi", which is the local official in charge of the post station.
"Gashan" means "village" or "tun", which together means "Yi Pi Village (tunen)" or "Zhan Guan Tun".
Jiamusi is the gateway to the Beishan area. This city guards the river, and its status is second only to Jilin City.
Amin's fingers were tapping the map. Is it really because of the lack of military rations that such an important gateway has been abandoned? Is it a trap?
His expression became gloomy and uncertain.
This chapter has been completed!