Taizu used the "Seven Great Hatreds" and the Thirteen Armors to attack the Ming Dynasty. In order to make up for the lack of troops in the Eight Banners after successive battles, he forcibly recruited strong men from all ethnic groups outside the pass to join the banner as soldiers and led them to attack the Ming Dynasty. [] Starting from the first year of Tianming.
In the decades since the Eight Banners entered the Pass in the first year of Shunzhi, the Ming and Qing Dynasties have been fighting fiercely in Liaodong. Even the Daling River in front of them has buried the bones of many soldiers from both sides. So when I heard Zhao Qiang say
Grandpa died in the battle at the Daling River. Gao Shiqi couldn't help but feel solemn and even more respectful. He had no doubt about his sudden move. He only thought that this Sauron man was sincere and filial, so he stopped at this place where his ancestors died in the battle.
The two walked side by side, wandering around the locust trees. Behind them, Eunuch Chen and Ge Feihu followed closely with their horses. No one knew why these two people were interested in the ruins and couldn't stop.
They came forward, but the person in charge was not in a hurry. How could they be in a hurry? They could only follow behind obediently. Because they had been with each other for the past few days, the guards were familiar with the people in the infantry camp, but the people they talked to were not.
Most of them were Ge Feihu, Deqiu and others, and the rest were mostly just observers. When asked why, they could only speak no Chinese. With this explanation, the people in Wansi and Bujun camp would not be suspicious. If these
Everyone in Solon can speak fluent Chinese, which is really suspicious.
"The ancients once said that the Daling River is the White Wolf River. Now that I have seen it with my own eyes, the ancients do not deceive me." Seeing the Daling River in the distance, which is as turbulent as the current of the river, Gao Shiqi couldn't help but praise.
Sound. Although he also passed through Jinzhou when he left the customs, he never walked along the Daling River. Instead, he took the northwest left guard of Jinzhou through Shengjing to Ninggu Pagoda. Along the way, he never saw Songhua, Nenjiang, and Heilongjiang.
The river has a strong current, so I was naturally surprised when I saw the Daling River.
"Since it is the Wolf River, the water is naturally very dangerous." Zhao Qiang nodded and agreed, then pointed to a pontoon bridge in the southeast and said, "Fortunately, there is this bridge, otherwise we would have just looked at the river and sighed."
Gao Shiqi followed Zhao Qiang's finger and saw a wooden bridge one hundred feet long across the river. Looking carefully, he saw that the bridge deck was only a few feet away from the river. If there was a heavy rain or flash flood at this height, the bridge would easily collapse.
But there are no traces of repairs around the bridge. It seems that it has never been washed away by flash floods since it was built. There are many famous bridges in the pass, and I know some of the reasons why the thousand-year-old bridge has continued to prosper.
But it was the first time I saw a wooden bridge of this extremely common style outside the pass, like a pontoon bridge. I admired the craftsmen so much at the moment, and I didn’t know what method they used to prevent the bridge from crossing.
After doing a complete show, he told Gao that his family's ancestors died in the Daling River in the battle, and his descendants naturally wanted to pay homage to him, but there was nowhere to find the incense candle paper money, so Zhao Qiang immediately looked for one.
Gao Po kowtowed to the ruins three times and muttered something. Then he stood up and said to Gao Shiqi, who was standing not far away:
"It's getting late, and I've finished the memorial service. Shopkeeper Gao, let's leave now."
"good."
Gao Shiqi saw that Zhao Qiang was so pious, but he didn't know that what he was talking about was not the ancestor of Lao Shizi Sauron, let alone the wild boar, but a memorial ceremony for the Ming army and tens of thousands of civilians who died in Daqian River. Seeing that Zhao Qiang was about to leave
Gao Shiqi also felt that he had been delayed for a long time. If he didn't hurry up, he might not be able to get to Jinzhou to stay. He immediately responded and waved to the people in the infantry camp to lead the horse. He turned over, whipped his hand and shouted:
"Drive!" He drove towards the wooden bridge first. Seeing this, the others rushed to catch up. After a while, they crossed the wooden bridge and disappeared into the vast distance. Zhao Qiang was the last one to cross the bridge. When the horse's hooves stepped on the river,
Behind the land on that side, he suddenly glanced back, and after a few seconds turned his head with a determined look on his face. He shouted loudly, picked up the horse's reins, and ran towards the south.
The history of the Battle of Daling River records that the city's food reserves were less than a hundred stones, and all the seven thousand horses were killed. There were still two hundred horses left, and only seventy of them were worthy of riding. More than half of the husbands died in the service, and the survivors could only feed on the horses.
Er. The firewood was exhausted, so the horse saddles were chopped for fuel. Since the tenth day of August, the city has been without food. On the tenth day of October, Wang Shilong and others crossed the city from the Daling River to surrender. According to Wang Shilong's words: "The city's food supply is exhausted, and the husbands are slaves to the merchants."
They all ridiculed each other and killed each other. All the horses and servants were killed, leaving only thirty riders." In the tenth month of October, the Dalinghe garrison, who had run out of food and salary, killed the civilians who were building the city and the merchants, and killed the common people for food.
The corpses were used for cooking, and the soldiers defeated the weak and ate them. However, the soldiers and civilians in the city would rather eat each other than surrender. They all said, "We are born as people of the Ming Dynasty, and we die as the ghosts of the Ming Dynasty." They would rather die than surrender to foreigners.
There are soldiers and civilians taking off their clothes. Please feed your companions.
On October 28th, Zu Dashou, who was able to defend again, led his troops to surrender. There were more than 30,000 "cavalry, infantry, workers, and merchants" in the Daling River. They died one after another, starved to death, and ate each other until they surrendered.
There were only 1,628 people, less than 10% of the dead.
After Zu Dashou surrendered, he returned to the Ming Dynasty and defended Jinzhou, but he had regained his strength. In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Jinzhou, which had been besieged for one year, had been "digging for rats to eat" and was in panic all day long. After learning that Hong Chengchou was defeated in Songshan,
Jinzhou has become an abandoned and dead place, and the imperial court will no longer have a soldier. After the rescue, the war-minded Zu Dashou once again led his people to surrender. At this point, the dust has settled.
The battle of the Daling River was tragic and tragic! The Daling River was the last song of the Ming Dynasty! Ye Ye looked back on the Ming Dynasty, and mourned the Ming Dynasty with emotion.
Zhao Qiang, who was riding a fast horse and was cut by the wind like a knife, when he took his last look at the Daling River, he secretly recited a few lines from later generations of "Ming Xing Fu" in his heart: Mountains and rivers are difficult to move, and aspirations are noble. Although the motherland is broken, the heart is pure.
Tangtang. Mingming is below, illustrious is here. The sun and moon are shining brightly, but I am the Ming Dynasty!
After starting from Daling River, they passed through Jinzhou, Songshan, Guangning, Yizhou and other places without stopping much. On the twenty-seventh day of the first lunar month, Zhao Qiang and Gao Shiqi finally arrived at Shanhaiguan, which was still thirty years away.
The back home of Duoli Di. After passing Shanhaiguan, you will find Yongping Mansion, the place inside the pass. Imagining the appearance of the most majestic pass in the world, Zhao Qiang was so excited that he wished he could rush to the pass and see it with his own eyes, which made many people's hearts move.
It was Shanhaiguan where several people had shed their blood. However, it was already getting late, so they had to stay here overnight. As soon as it got light the next day, everyone set off to Shanhaiguan together with many caravans. Although the latter was only more than thirty years away from Shanhaiguan,
However, there are many mountains on both sides of the official road. In addition, there are many caravans and the horse speed cannot be too fast. Therefore, the journey for half a day is not as good as the journey of one hour in the past. After lunch, everyone went on their way again, about to leave Shanhaiguan.
When they were more than ten miles away, Zhao Qiang was stunned by a strange scenery.