The name Gule Village may not be very famous in later generations. Speaking of Jianzhou Jurchens, there are probably two most famous places, one is Saarhu and the other is Hetuala. The former is because of the Battle of Sarhu, and the latter is because it is Nurhachi's hometown.
However, in the Ming Dynasty, the "royal city" of the Jianzhou Jurchens was Gule Village, which was located in the area from Gulou Village to Shengli Village, Shangjiahe Town, Xinbin Manchu Autonomous County.
During the Zhengtong period, the Jurchen left guard in Jianzhou settled in Hetuala City on the banks of the Sukesu River and at the foot of the Hulanhada Mountains after experiencing several large-scale migrations in history. Shortly thereafter, a dispute broke out between Chief Fancha and Dong Shan's uncle and nephew, and the tribe was in danger of splitting.
In order to effectively control the Jurchens in Jianzhou, the Ming court adopted the method of dividing the right guards from the left guards, dividing the original left guards of Jianzhou into two, and they became two guards from then on. After the right guard was established, Fancha was in charge of the right guard, while Dong Shan was still in charge of the left guard.
In the initial period of time, the Jianzhou Youwei who were separated still lived with the Zuowei in the Hetuala City area of Harsa Mountain, which was the Jianzhou Old Camp or Tucheng often mentioned in historical materials of the Ming Dynasty.
However, the rift between the two guards caused by the dispute over the seal was difficult to heal for a while. The right guard was weaker and therefore was often rejected by the left guard. For this reason, Chief Fancha decided to lead the war. The tribesmen moved westward along the Sukesu River to Gule Mountain and the Maldun area. The left and right guards took the five ridges, Qinglong Ridge (Maldun Ridge) as the boundary, thus forming the east-west Jianzhou. Dong Jianzhou refers to the left guard, and Xi Jianzhou refers to the right guard.
So how did the right guard rise and in turn overwhelm the left guard, making Gule Village the "King City" of the Jurchens in Jianzhou? Because the Ming army launched the "Battle of Dinghai".
In the "Battle of Dinghai", the Ming Dynasty sent a large army to attack the old camp of Jianzhou and the Wumi Mansion where the Jianzhou Guards were located. The chief of the Jianzhou Guards, Li Manzhu and his son, and the chief of the Jianzhou Zuowei, Dong Shan, were killed by the Ming army. The old camp in Jianzhou where he lived was wiped out by the Ming army. At this time, Fancha, the right guard of Jianzhou, heard the news and led his troops to escape into the mountains and escaped the disaster.
This is the first rise of the Jianzhou right guard.
However, in the first year of Jingtai, Fancha repeatedly led his troops to plunder Mingbian in revenge for the destruction of his nest. He was captured by the Ming army and was finally detained and died in Liaodong. The position of the capital commander was customized according to the Ming Dynasty and was inherited by his eldest grandson Nahaha.
After Nahaha took over the post, in order to avenge the murder of his father and ancestors, he repeatedly violated the border and was later executed by the border officials of the Ming Dynasty. After Nahaha's death, his uncle Bu Huatu took over the post of commander of Jianzhou Right Guards.
When Bu Huatu was the commander of Youweidu, he still repeatedly caused rebellions on the border. "Small thieves moved into Liaoyang to steal horses and kill officers and soldiers" and "entered Yizhou to plunder people and things."
For this reason, the Ming Dynasty ordered the right guards, "Buha Tu has three guards to protect his integrity, and he will appoint the commander of the capital and the same knowledge, negotiate with the imperial edict, and order the people of this guard to be controlled. If he breaks the law again, he will not be punished." In the second year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty, Bu Huatu died, and there is no historical record of his successors' appointment to the post.
In the decades after the death of Jianzhou Youwei Chief Buhuatu, the various Jurchen tribes were in a state of social chaos. The second rise of Jianzhou Youwei was during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. The key figure in the rise was the Wang Gao mentioned before.
When Wang Gao was sixteen years old, he inherited his father's business and rebuilt Gule City. This was the 24th year of Jiajing. After Wang Gao's power rose, he took over as the commander of the right guard capital of Jianzhou and proclaimed himself the governor. "All the barbarians in Jianzhou listened to Gao's orders." The grandfather of Nurhachi, the Tatar ancestor of the Qing Dynasty, who was born in Jianzhou Zuowei, and his father Takshi were both subordinates of Wang Gao at this time, and the other descendants of the fifth ancestor also belonged to Wang Gao.
After the rise of Wang Gao's power, he carried out large-scale expansion and construction of Gule City. After the expansion, the Gule Village was renamed Gule City. It is surrounded by water on three sides and a mountain on one side. The Sukesu River flows through the south of the city, and the Shangjia River flows through the west of the city. There are natural cliffs on the west, north and south sides of the city, and Qinglong Mountain is connected to the east, forming a natural barrier on three sides.
The defensive facilities are built with inner and outer walls, and a city gate is built in the north of the city. In the inner city of Gule City, Wang Gao built more than 500 houses in addition to his own meeting hall and residence. He was determined to rely on this city to establish his dominant position in the Jurchen society and cooperate with the Ming Dynasty and Liaodong. Military force will then carry out military resistance.
The war between Wang Gao and the Ming Dynasty has been described in the previous article of this book and will not be repeated here. In short, in the third year of Wanli, Wang Gao was defeated in Yanjing.
After Wang Gao was captured and killed, his son Atai insisted on rebelling against the Ming Dynasty. However, his strength had not yet recovered, his actions were not big, and he did not have enough impact. The governor of Jiliao, the governor of Liaodong, and even Li Chengliang, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, were not very fond of him. Pay attention to.
But this year, when Atai learned that the Battle of Monan was about to begin, he felt that the opportunity was rare and began to invite "comrades and friends" to do great things. However, what Atai did not expect was that although the scale of the battle in Monan was huge, it did not last long. As a result, before his side was fully prepared, Li Chengliang's side had already finished the battle.
At this moment, Atai was in an embarrassment: If he raised his troops, the opportunity would have been lost; if he did not raise his troops, all his preparations would have been wasted.
Perhaps because of "God's mercy", another accident happened at this time. Tumen Khan, who was defeated in the Monan War, refused to give up. He actually rushed thousands of miles to Tieling, Li Chengliang's home base, defeated the Tieling guards, and urinated wantonly in front of the Li family's ancestral grave. Got a handful.
This news made Atai very excited. He believed that the Ming army must have exaggerated the results of the Monan War. Although Tumen Khan failed to capture Tumote, the loss was not great. On the contrary, Li Chengliang's loss may be even greater. Some.
Under this wrong idea, Atai immediately gathered his brother Ahai and others, divided his troops into two groups, went deep into the inland, invaded Shenyang, and went to the Hun River in the south of the city. Dazong's thousands of cavalry raided the area around the mouth of the Hun River near Fushun City.
When Li Chengliang got his reward, he hated Atai deeply and said to his left and right: "This rebellion is here, and the disaster of Liao Dynasty has not been neglected." At the same time, under the instigation of Nikan Wailan, he was determined to eradicate the root cause.
Since the imperial court had no money to fight another big war and couldn't retaliate against Tumen immediately, he took all his anger on Atai's head and immediately led his army more than a hundred miles from Wanggangtai in Fushun to attack Atai's old nest in ancient times. Le Zhai, and other generals attacked Ahai Zhai, and led Yonikan Wailan to cooperate with it.
Li Chengliang knew that Takshi was Atai's son-in-law, and Jue Changan's granddaughter was Atai's wife [Note: It seems a bit confusing? ], two people were sent as guides for this campaign.
As mentioned earlier, Gule Village is built on a mountain. The mountain is steep, with walls on three sides and surrounded by water. There are trenches underneath. Therefore, Atai is extremely well-defended, but Ahai Village was quickly captured.
Li Chengliang mobilized two groups of soldiers to attack Atai Village, but failed repeatedly. Moreover, Atai went out of the city many times to break out of the siege. Although he was unsuccessful, he still caused heavy casualties to the Ming soldiers.
This is also the reason why Zu Chengxun does not want to continue to attack the Gule Village - fighting the Jurchens is not as cost-effective as fighting the Mongols, because according to the military merits of the Ming Dynasty, the heads of the Mongols are the most valuable, and the Jurchens... It's just a little more valuable than the inland grass bandits and thieves.
Therefore, in the eyes of his ancestor Chengxun, this Gule Village was just like a stone in a pit. It was smelly and hard, and it was useless to knock it down.
But Li Chengliang's vision is obviously not so short-sighted. If the battle in Liaonan reached a stalemate or simply that Liaonan could not resist, he would abandon the smelly and hard stone of Gule Village in order to withdraw his troops and go back to rescue Liaonan. , then forget it.
But it is different now. Now it is the Liaonan side who has defeated the Tumen Chaohua coalition without many elites at all, and even captured Chaohua alive in one fell swoop. Instead, Li Chengliang's direct subordinate Qin Deyi inexplicably "snatched the credit afterwards" "In the process, he came back defeated...
Comparing the two, doesn't it seem that Li Chengliang is extremely incompetent? Thinking further, since the three people Gao Pangshi transferred from Xuanda University are so powerful, they are still young, and Li Chengliang is both incompetent and old... What will the emperor think?
So now, the situation has become irresistible. Not only must this Gule Village be captured, but it must also be killed in a sea of blood and corpses!
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