From the beginning of the Khitan Rebellion in the era of Wu Zetian, the northeast region has become a region that the Han regime has to face and is also a headache, and the last Han dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, will also leave its own solution to the problem of the northeast. Countless Ming Dynasty generals will throw their heads and spill their blood here, and the emperors of the Ming Dynasty will also guard here, performing an epic drama of the Son of Heaven guarding the gate of the country.
Barren Northeast
The northeast gives people the impression of the rich black land, the eldest son of the republic, these names with prominent names. In history, the northeast region has also bred many, with a very high level of civilization, a Red Mountain culture in the Chinese civilization originated from the northeast region.
But when the time entered the late Han Dynasty, the climate began to be irreversible to reach cooler. The northeast, which once gave birth to civilization, lost the foundation of wealth creation in the past under the blow of the climate, and the land that was once difficult to grow crops, people began to enter the forest and resume a fishing and hunting life. Even so, people in the northeast region are still hungry and difficult to survive. Therefore, the people of the Northeast have always organized themselves to attack the nomadic and agrarian countries in the West and the South, and they are brave and extraordinary under the stimulation of the desire for a better life. From Xianbei to Goguryeo to Khitan to Jurchen to Mongolia to the Eight Banners of Manchuria, a strong army continued to march forward. If you want to ask which part of China has the strongest and fiercest army? Only the northeast can deserve this honor, and it can be said that the northeast region is the birthplace of the most powerful army in China's history.
Again and again, ethnic groups from the northeast have entered the land of agrarian countries and also into the land of nomadic countries. Since the two Han Dynasties, the entire northeast has created a large number of familiar military empires. From the beginning of the Xianbei states to the southern migration of the Northern Wei, Xianbei from the northeast participated in the entire Wei and Jin Dynasties. Then came Goguryeo, a small and weak country that directly brought down the Sui Empire and wrestled with the nascent Tang Empire for decades. Then came the rising Khitan Jurchens, who continued to invade the south and eventually occupied all of northern China. Most feared were the Mongols from the Three Rivers region of the northeast, who set out to conquer the steppes, then the West, and finally China.
Faced with the Yuan Dynasty that fled to the north, the Ming Dynasty must make some moves. In particular, the Yuan Dynasty still controlled the strategic northeast region. The Yuan Dynasty could rely on the northeast and constantly put pressure on the Ming Dynasty's weak Yanshan defense line, constantly depleting the Ming Dynasty's strength and creating opportunities to return to the warm south. The Ming Dynasty also hoped to take the northeast, threaten Mongol rule on the steppe from the flanks, and hold the northeast as a strategic place in its own hands.
In order to achieve this goal, the Ming Dynasty Taizu generation and famous generals of the Ming Dynasty fought here. From Mu Ying to Blue Jade, And Ming Chengzu Zhu Di was also involved, and stationed in Beijing, a heavy place facing the northeast, until the ambitious Zhu Di began the Battle of Jingnan, he left Beijing.
The struggle of the generals
In the northeast, the Ming Dynasty began to fight with a heavyweight player, Xu Da, the god of war in the early Ming Dynasty. This crusade led by Xu Da can be described as cutting melons and cutting vegetables, and also laid the foundation for the Ming Dynasty's foothold in the northeast region. After Xu Da ended his sweep of Liaodong, the Ming Dynasty began to prepare for the next war in Tuntian, Liaodong.
Six years later, the Ming Dynasty gathered 200,000 troops to prepare for a crusade against the remnants of the Yuan forces in the northeast. The Ming army, with Feng Sheng as its commander and Blue Jade as the vanguard, pointed directly at the northeast divided forces naha.
This battle was full of pioneer qualities, and he first raided Gyeongju and captured Naha's son. After that, Feng Shengliu 50,000 soldiers and horses were stationed in the Western Liaoning Corridor, and the large army took the blue jade as the vanguard and went straight to Jinshan. Jinshan is extremely close to Naha's base camp, and for the warlord's Naha-out, Ming Taizu concluded that he had no intention of fighting, and after the Ming army captured the Key Land of Jinshan, he would inevitably choose to surrender.
After taking the Golden Mountain, Naha did have the intention to surrender, but the Naha at both ends of the first rat still had a fluke mentality, and when negotiating with the Ming army, he was slightly dissatisfied. This was captured by Sapphire sensitively, and at his behest, a general gave Naha a little bit of mavi. In the face of the huge strength of the Ming army, Naha had no room for resistance, and his tribe had no intention of hitting the stone with a pebble, and more than 100,000 people surrendered.
By this time, the flanks of the Yuan Dynasty had been exposed to the Ming Dynasty's sword soldiers, and Zhu Yuanzhang decided not to tolerate the Yuan people who bore the name of the emperor in the north of the desert. A year later, he ordered Lan Yu to lead an elite army of 100,000 Ming to attack the headquarters of the Yuan Dynasty located in yu'erhai. 100,000 iron horses attacked the north in a mighty way, and in order to achieve the unexpected effect of the surprise attack, Lan Yu led his troops to dig trenches eighty miles away from the Yu'er Sea and hide on the spot. After the troops were rested, he led the troops to raid the Yuan Lord located in Haibei. The Yuan Lord thought that the Ming army had come from the same way, and the people who were sleepy and tired would inevitably be unable to fight, so they relaxed their vigilance. However, Lan Yu's short rest made the Ming army no longer tired, and under the brave impact of the generals, the small court of the Yuan Dynasty was destroyed. There is only one dynasty left in the land of China, and that is the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Di's Northern Expedition
In order to reassure himself about northern Xinjiang, Zhu Yuanzhang sent his sons to the front line against the Mongols in the north, with the important northeast guarded by the warlike Zhu Dilai.
Zhu Di also used raid tactics in the war. He led his troops forward in the snow, and the Mongols did not expect these southerners to brave the snow. Unable to organize a defense in a hurry, he had to surrender under the advice of the Ming army. Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed to hear the news, affirmed Zhu Di's achievements, and extended encouragement to him.
After that, the Ming army, under the leadership of Zhu Di, took root in Beijing, a key transportation point. Under the leadership of Zhu Di, the Ming army repeatedly raided the Mongols, and the Mongols were beaten to death, a nation that once feared Eurasia, and was powerless under the ravages of the Ming army. In the ming dynasty, the Mongols could not enter the Central Plains, even if they occupied a piece of land south of the Great Wall, a nation that once dominated the world, became a glorious past abandoned by history.