Since Nurhachi captured Shenyang, the Ming army has not set foot on this land for decades.Since the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the Han nationality has expanded outward to shrink inward.For more than 200 years, the Central Plains Dynasty lost the Hexi Corridor, the Western Regions, and the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, which made the people of insight among the Han people feel heartbroken.Human society must be different from the animal world, the essence of the animal world is barbarism, and the pursuit of human society can only be civilization.The mission of civilization is to survive and expand, to coerce and assimilate more people, to become a whole, to distinguish it from barbarism, to establish a set of order, and to put an end to the chaotic state of the world.The Book of Changes talks about "civilization to stop", and to stop is to achieve and maintain the meaning.Civilization stops, that is, civilization stops.Chinese civilization has developed for thousands of years, from the Yanhuang tribe and the Yellow River valley to the development and expansion in all directions, educating the barbarians, making the Yi into the Xia, expanding for thousands of years, from the legendary Three Yellow and Five Emperors to the middle of the Tang Dynasty, on the whole, it has been in a state of expansion.Since then, the Central Plains Dynasty has been in a state of military contraction, and although the Northern Song Dynasty ended the situation of separating feudal towns, it has never been able to achieve unification in the true sense.Although Song Taizu and Song Taizong tried to reverse this shrinking trend, recreate the glory of the Han and Tang dynasties, and reverse the contraction situation since the late Tang Dynasty, they all ended in failure.There is a Song generation, there are not many military achievements, lackluster, the Song people can not be directly expanded by force like the Han and Tang dynasties, and in the end they can only turn to cultural export, economic aggression, and soft power expansion, and facts have proved that the light culture is prosperous, the economy is prosperous, and there is no strong force as the backing, after all, it is a castle in the air, and it will fall down as soon as it is pushed.The Central Plains Dynasty, from contraction to expansion, is the Ming Dynasty.The greatest achievement of the Ming Dynasty was to develop the southwest and the northeast, expanding thousands of miles of land for the Han people, and turning the southwest and northeast into the land of the Han people.These areas were also occupied by previous dynasties, so why should the credit be given to the Ming Dynasty.This is because, although the previous generations controlled these areas, they did not change the cultural and demographic structure of these regions, while the Ming Dynasty changed the cultural and demographic structure of these regions, making these regions, Han culture become the mainstream.In the past, when people mentioned the southwest, they thought of the civil power of the young people such as Nanzhao and Dali, and after the Ming Dynasty, when they mentioned the southwest, the first thing that people thought of was the Han land.In this way, even if the Ming Dynasty falls, these areas will not be separated from the Chinese characters written and spoken in Chinese, and the surname will still be Han.For more than 200 years in the Ming Dynasty, the colonization of the northeast, the Han people of Liaodi, once as many as two or three million, developed the originally barren Liaodi, but the rise of Jiannu almost destroyed this achievement.Now, the Ming army is in the Liaohe Plain, and there are not many of the millions of Liao people who once colonized here, and the remaining people have also changed their clothes and become banner slaves in Manchuria.However, it is not easy for the Manchus to erase the achievements of the Ming Dynasty in colonizing Liaodi for more than 200 years, and now although the Han people in Liaodi have been forced to shave their hair and change clothes, the influence of Han culture on Liaodi is still reflected in all aspects.Cities, buildings, and these Han things have been preserved, and even Chinese characters and Chinese dialects have become the main means of communication in Liaodi.The Manchu rulers, in order to fight against the Han culture, tried their best to eliminate the influence of the Han culture on them, so they created the Manchurian script, changed the customs and habits of the Liao people, and wanted to make it Hu.Decades have passed, the policies of the Manchu Qing Dynasty have begun to bear fruit, and now the Ming army is approaching the city, and it is no longer possible to see the clothes of the homeland.Zhao Ming traveled all the way, saw the deserted villages, saw the Liao people who were full of clothes, and saw the children and young people who spoke Yi, and sighed in his heart.At this time, when Hong Chengchou and others were talking and arranging on the city wall, the Ming army had already pushed closer to the sight of the defenders in the city.Looking at the Ming army from afar, the Qing army could only use words such as crowds of people, like a tide, gongs and drums to describe the prosperity of the Ming army.The Qing soldiers stood on the top of the city, and everywhere they looked, they were all the figures of the coalition troops and the heads of the people.In addition to the large number of people in the coalition army, the war horses dragged the artillery, which also made the Qing army tremble.Hong Chengchou just took a cursory look, I'm afraid there are at least 100 heavy artillery, and in addition to artillery, there are also a lot of other equipment of the Ming army, one of which is a "city breaking hammer", three zhang long, with an iron sheet on his head, I'm afraid that no one can hold it, and it looks quite bluffing.At this time, the Ming army arrived at the southern suburbs of Shenyang, and more than 100,000 allied troops began to camp five miles away from the city wall.Zhao Ming was wearing iron armor, hanging a treasure knife on his waist, and wearing an iron helmet on his head, leading dozens of horsemen to leave the army, and ran to stop about three miles in front of Shenyang City, overlooking this big city outside the Guan.Zhao Ming exhaled a breath of turbidity, and the miscellaneous horse under his crotch was a little restless, not very obedient, Zhao Ming could only pull the reins while turning his neck to carefully inspect the city.Shenyang was originally an important town outside the Guan, and after the Manchu Qing Dynasty occupied this place, they took Shenyang as the capital, so the defense was very perfect.Shenyang city is more than three zhang high, the moat surrounds it, the city body has the urn city, the enemy platform, the horse face, the enemy building, the arrow tower, the defense facilities are complete.On the upper floor of the southern city, a military flag danced provocatively, and Zhao Ming looked at it with a clairvoyant mirror, which was the great thief of Hong Lao."
Dashuai, it's very challenging to fight such a city!"
Xie Qian smashed.The soldiers said that ten will surround it, five will attack it, and twice it will fight.Although the coalition army has more than 100,000, which is five times that of the Qing army in the city, if you count the dependents of the eight banners in the city, as well as the clothed minions, the strength of the coalition army is at most twice that of the Qing army, and it is indeed difficult to attack.Li Ben said with a deep face: "Back then, the flood thief Songshan was defeated and collapsed into the small city of Songshan, with more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and held on for more than half a year before the city was captured because of the traitor's betrayal.It can be seen that the flood thieves are extremely good at guarding, and it may not be easy for us to break the city, especially when winter is coming!
”Tang Tong also said to Zhao Ming: "Dashuai, the winter outside the customs is unusually cold!"
”Tang Tong is a border general of the Ming Dynasty, who has fought in Liao many times, and knows the climate outside the Guan, if it really drags on until winter, the terrifying Ming army will be in danger.Zhao Ming frowned, but ignored the difficulties raised by everyone, he scanned the city wall with a clairvoyant mirror, and found that the city was indeed not easy to attack, so the camera moved around, and suddenly found that in the east of Shenyang City, there was a hill not far away, and the Qing army flag was planted on the mountain, so he asked: "Where is that?"
”Everyone looked at it, and finally demoted the general Tang Dao: "It should be the Donglin of Shizuishan Jiannu!"
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