Shanxi Yigu Village, nicknamed Little Beijing, attacked day and night by 100,000 troops unscathed, and was built by the tomb keepers
There was an emperor in the Ming Dynasty, and when he took over the country, his predecessor left him with a treasury of negative assets and a country full of wolf smoke. This emperor was Chongzhen, and for this difficult country, he was anxious about the affairs of the government every day. He was not yet thirty years old and already had gray hair.
The white hair did not deal with the country's internal and external troubles, and every day was still a table of twists and turns, and what made him most worried was the continuous bad war reports at home and on the frontier.
In the third year of his succession, Wang Jiayin, the head of the Shaanxi peasants, pulled up a peasant team, pulled up the banner, and killed all the way from Shaanxi to Jiangxi, attacking invincible and invincible along the way. Although Wang Jiayin's rebel army was not as large as the late rebel army of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong. However, he was the first to start the rebel army in the late Ming Dynasty.
When Wang Jiayin led 36 battalions to the south and into the north, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and others were still his younger brothers who had not yet entered the stream. At that time, the Ming army vigorously surrounded Wang Jiayin in Shaanxi and tried to send them to Huangquan Road in one fell swoop. Wang Jiayin broke through the siege and fled back to his old nest in Shanxi.
According to historical records, Wang Jiayin gathered 160,000 soldiers and horses, divided into thirty-six battalions, and marched all the way to the top, attacking everything. Such as Qinshui City, Yangcheng City, Zezhou City, etc., Wang Jiayin's rebel army was easy to get a hand if it probed for things. Just as the army was on its way to capture Kezhou County, a small village blocked the way forward.
Usually, for them, it is almost effortless for a small village like this to destroy it. So what is the fate of this small village?
In fact, this village is called Douzhuang, because this village has strong fortifications, easy to defend and difficult to attack. People call this village "Little Beijing". Although Wang Jiayin's rebel army was very strong, there was still a big gap in conquering the imperial city. But for the average town, it is more than enough, not to mention this small village. But many things in the world will be unexpected, Wang Jiayin led the army to struggle for three consecutive days, but there was no progress in this small village.
How could such a solid village appear in Shanxi?
In fact, this village has been built in the Song Dynasty. During the Song Dynasty, there was a minister named Dou Xuan, who moved from Fufeng, Shaanxi to QinshuiCheng, Shanxi. After that, he also sent his daughter to the palace to serve Song Zhezong. After Dou Xuan's death, the emperor thanked the duke. Qudi Village was given to the Dou family as a cemetery for generations, and at the same time, the peasant Family was allowed to guard the tomb for the Dou family for generations.
The cemetery was determined to be a treasure of feng shui, and after the end of the Dou family, the luck turned to the Zhang family who guarded the tomb. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Quan, a descendant of the Zhang family, went to Liaodong to inspect. Before the Qing army entered the pass, Zhang Quan led his troops to fight against the Jurchens. When defeated, he martyred himself and became a loyal martyr.
Zhang Quan's father, Zhang Wudian, adhering to the legacy of his ancestors, resigned and returned home, expending all his family wealth to build a solid castle for Dou Village. At that time, everyone else was very stunned, Zhang Wudian explained, his son was defeated and died in the Battle of Liaoyang. Soon after, the world must not be chaotic, and the castle is built on the one hand to protect the Dou tomb, and the other side is also to protect itself.
Douzhuang Castle took nine years to build, the Zhang family built Douzhuang into a city castle with a width of 500 meters, with internal and external walls, in order to cope with the urgent and changeable military situation, the city set up a variety of secret passages, the city defense people can quickly deal with various dangerous situations. There are nine gates and nine passes in the city, which is built to simulate the imperial city of Beijing. "Little Beijing" hence the name.
Since Wang Jiayin's siege of the city, Little Beijing has been renamed another peculiar name, Lady City.
After losing the first battle, Wang Jiayin did not give up this little Beijing. In June of the following year, he gathered a large army again to pounce. Because the Zhang family suffered serious damage during the first attack. At present, there are only a group of old and weak women and children left in the city. Zhang Quan, a member of the Zhang family, took his widow Huo Shi and other women to resist. The battle lasted for four days and four nights, and the city was finally defended.
Since that war, Dou Zhuang has become famous throughout the country, and Dou Zhuang has also been known as the "Lady City". Wang Jiayin was trapped by Dou Zhuang twice, and finally fell into defeat and died.
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