Daning New City is still under construction, and even the city walls are not perfect. The number of people and households in the city who have accumulated food and grass is very sparse.
What's more, Daning is located in the north of the Great Wall. In the past, during the Ming Dynasty, it was because of difficulties in transporting grain and grass that the Ming army voluntarily abandoned the Daning Guard and moved Daning inland.
A few years ago, the Anbei Metropolitan Governor's Office was stationed in Daning. Relying on Liu Fangliang's reputation for sweeping Bei Soutao several times, he began the work of rebuilding Daning City.
On the vast thousands-mile prairie, with windblown grass and low cattle and sheep, it was an open, flat and undefeable wilderness. The Shun army had to try to build a brand new city almost from scratch.
In the process, they were inevitably attacked by surrounding nomadic tribes.
Although the tribes of Eastern Mongolia have been disintegrated, the Chahar tribe, which once dominated Mongolia, has been reduced to a dozen small tribes with less than a thousand tents, constantly attacking each other.
But it is precisely because of this that the imperial court's prestige and decrees can only deter the famous chieftains, but they cannot deter the horse bandits who come to attack the people of Dashun in small groups, whether it is dozens of riders, or more than a hundred riders.
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After Liu Tichun resigned from the post of Governor of Anbei, the position of Great Northern Governor, whose rank and status was equivalent to that of the Mainland Economic Envoy, was reduced to a false title.
It happened that Li Huirou, the eldest princess at that time, and her husband, Xingping Bo Gao Yuanzhao, were in trouble over taking concubines. Therefore, the eldest princess of Qi lived in the palace, and also brought her son Li Chunhe, king of Huining, to the palace.
The emperor saw that Li Chunhe had a majestic appearance, similar to that of Taizu, and the eldest princess kept making suggestions, hoping to obtain a prominent official position for King Huining.
Li Laiheng was troubled by the fact that the title of Governor of Anbei was reduced to a false title, and no honorable general was willing to take up this position.
After all, the only errand of the Governor of Anbei now is to go out to the fortress to repair Daning City, which is actually the job of a supervisor.
However, because the previous Great Northern Governor was Liu Tichun, the qualifications of the successor cannot be much lower than Liu Tichun. It is still necessary to choose one of the most important generals of the founding Yuan to serve.
How can most of the military commanders be willing to do this supervisory job?
It would be a good idea to let the young King Huining serve as the Northern Governor. Anyway, King Huining Li Chunhe is the clan king. If he succeeds Liu Tichun, Liu Tichun will surely not have any grudges in his heart.
Although Li Chunhe doesn't have much practical experience in military and political affairs, the title of Governor of Anbei is just empty anyway. Even if he doesn't know anything, he can always supervise work and run errands, right?
What could happen?
As a result, who would have thought that the Junggar army detoured thousands of miles, marched along the northern foot of the Altai Mountains, annexed Khalkha in the first battle, and then fought south to Chahar. In one fell swoop, the main battlefield of the Junggar War was changed from the Western Region and the Snowfield to
The Daning area is very close to Beijing.
Huining King Li Chunhe only had a thousand soldiers around him, most of whom were not elite soldiers but just workers.
The scattered Eastern Mongolian tribes that were originally active in the Monan grassland also gathered under the banner of Senggehun Taiji. The strength of the Mongolian army increased sharply, and the snowball grew bigger and bigger, and soon approached Daning City.
At that time, the people in the city were in panic. The people on the left and right of Huining King Li Chunhe actually fled that night. Other soldiers and migrant workers also fled in the same way.
His staff also persuaded him to abandon Daning City quickly and flee back to the Guan area. However, as a member of the Dashun clan, Li Chunhe followed his mother's harem route and obtained the false title of Governor of Anbei. He built the building at the order of the emperor.
Daning City, if you abandon Daning City and flee back to the pass at this time, wouldn't it shame the princess and make the emperor feel cold?
Li Chunhe saw that the soldiers were sick due to lack of food, so he loaded all the food, grass and property on the cart, pretended to retreat, and announced that he would lead his army to withdraw from Daning to stabilize the morale of the army.
In fact, Li Chunhe believed that all the tribes in Eastern Mongolia were rebellious and the Monan grassland was surrounded by enemies. Once they left the walls of Daning City, it would be impossible for this compliant army to see the side wall of the Great Wall alive, and they would definitely be killed halfway.
They were harassed and intercepted by the Mongolian tribes, and eventually the entire army was annihilated.
He first used a delaying strategy to stabilize the morale of the army, and then began to actively deploy city defenses.
Li Chunhe used the excuse of demolishing Daning City to mobilize the people in the city and migrant workers to dismantle the building materials of the houses, and was able to collect a large number of door panels, wood, bricks and stones as necessary materials for the subsequent defense of the city.
Then he ordered his staff in the account to count the number of people in the city, claiming that in order to organize the team when fleeing south, all women, children, old and weak, men and women were grouped into several categories according to their place of origin, age, and gender.
This move also had a great effect later on.
When the quasi-troops besieged the city, although people's hearts were in chaos for a while, because the residents of Daning City had accepted the militarized reorganization, and everyone was incorporated into a certain brigade, the situation quickly calmed down.
Defeated by a sudden human attack.
In addition, there was a lack of food in the city, so Li Chunhe made an excuse to evacuate Daning City and burned the city during the retreat. He collected all the food hidden by the people in the city and distributed it uniformly.
This ensures extremely high efficiency in food distribution and avoids unnecessary waste.
Although in the later stages of the Daning Defense War, the food shortage in the city became more and more serious, and the defenders even slaughtered all donkeys, mules, war horses, pack horses, and camels.
But in Daning City, there has never been any case of eating human flesh to satisfy hunger or starving people to death.
More than three months later, when General Li Weiqun and General Li Yuanyin led their troops to relieve the siege, although everyone in the army and civilians in Daning City looked sallow and thin and looked like they were about to starve to death, there was no real widespread famine.
This is undoubtedly due to the fact that King Li Chunhe of Huining implemented strict control over all supplies in the city at the beginning of the siege.
He realized that the battle to defend Daning was likely to be an arduous and arduous battle, so he personally led his troops out of the city to hunt cattle, sheep and animals, and set fire to water and grass before the quasi-military army completely surrounded the city, so as to eliminate the enemy's protracted battle.
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Therefore, although the siege of Daning lasted for more than three months in total, in only the first month, the Quasi Army concentrated an absolute advantage of more than 30,000 troops to attack the city.
In the second month, the Junggar people dispersed a large number of soldiers and horses to various places to nomadically feed their cattle and sheep.
The pressure on Daning's defenders to defend the city was therefore greatly reduced.
Although the imperial court assigned all its main forces to Liu Fangliang, it tried its best to organize the Western Army's expedition to destroy the nest, trying to take advantage of the excellent opportunity of the Junggar main force's activities in Eastern Mongolia to completely control the Tianshan Mountains and the Ili Valley.
However, the world was in an uproar. In order to deal with public opinion and the pressure from the eldest princess, Li Laiheng re-activated General Guo Junzhen to take charge of Beijing, and also sent the Kaifeng Palace Guards northward, and also sent troops from various honorary ministers' mansions to the north.
Thousands of guard slaves with rich military experience were recruited and organized into an army.