This temple is located on the northeast slope of Jiaojiang District, Taizhou City. It was the Haimen Town God Temple in the early Ming Dynasty. Qi Jiguang lived here when he fought against the Japanese invaders in Taiwan Province province. Later, in order to commemorate this national hero, I had to worship Qi Jiguang, and now it is the Qi Jiguang Memorial Hall.
Qi Jiguang, a native of Henan, was born in Shandong Luqiao in seven years. Qi Jiguang's father was proficient in the art of war and martial arts, and managed the army well. Qi Jiguang was brought up by a good family since childhood, and he had the ambition to be loyal to the monarch and serve the country. At that time, the enemy invaded the southeast coast of China more and more. Japanese samurai, ronin, pirates, etc. With the support and encouragement of the Japanese government, they colluded with local bureaucrats, local tyrants and profiteers in the coastal areas of China, burning, killing, looting and injuring the people. I have lived along the coast of Qi Jiguang for a long time, and I feel very sad about it.
In the 23rd year of Jiajing, 17-year-old Qi Jiguang's stepfather became the secretariat of Dengzhou, in charge of Shandong coastal defense, and began his military career. When Qi Jiguang took office, the first problem he faced was "South Harmony". He set a grand goal: "It is not my wish to be a prince, but I hope Hai Boping."
In the thirty-first year of Jiajing, Qi Jiguang took the Shandong Martial Arts Examination and stood out among hundreds of candidates. In the summer of the following year, Qi Jiguang was promoted to the position of Shandong viceroy, and began to fully participate in Haiphong Day. In the following ten years, from Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian to Guangdong thousands of miles away, where there are enemies, there is the mighty image of Qi Jiguang, and there is the flag hunting of "Qi Jiajun".
When Qi Jiguang joined the army, his colleagues and enemies ignored him. On one occasion, an enemy army of more than 800 people fled to the coast of Cixi, Zhejiang, and defeated the Ming army several times its own strength. Qi Jiguang led the army to the rescue. He jumped to a very high place, bent his bow, picked up an arrow and shot down three roads with three arrows. The thief was silent and the enemy dispersed, which was praised by the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. Yuanyang Formation is a unique formation created by Qi Jiguang in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. This team consists of 1 1 people. The first is the captain, the second is holding a long shield, the second is holding a wolf, the fourth is holding a spear and a spear, and the second is holding a spear. The array can adapt to random strain. Turning a column into a horizontal line is called a double instrument array, which can be turned into an array of three days.
Although Qi Jiguang repelled the enemy with three arrows, he deeply felt that there were serious problems in the Ming army. Rectifying military discipline, strengthening equipment and improving combat effectiveness are the keys to victory. Originally, the fighting capacity of the hereditary flag army was very poor, so Qi Jiguang wrote many letters asking for recruiting. He said: "At present, the official army usually does not train, there is no food for marching, and there is no unified order for fighting. If you are stationed, you won't camp. Such a shackle that the army can never resist, whoever fights a hundred battles will die! " After repeated insistence, Qi Jiguang was finally allowed to recruit new soldiers. After several months of rigorous screening and hard training, he established a new army in Yiwu, mainly farmers and miners. Qi Jiguang also created the "mandarin duck array" tactics, unified formation, unified slogan, strict military discipline, greatly improving the combat effectiveness.
Qi Jiguang soldiers are extremely strict. On one occasion, some officials went to the front to inspect the army. Suddenly it rained heavily and other officers and men began to make trouble. Some people even left the team to take shelter from the rain. Only Qi Jiguang's army remained motionless and uniform. Qi Jiguang was strict with the army, and he set an example. On one occasion, Qi Jiguang led an army to Yueqing, Zhejiang Province, which coincided with heavy rain. The local aristocrat invited him into the house to take shelter from the rain. Qi Jiguang said, "The soldiers are all wet. How can the commander-in-chief enter the house alone to shelter from the rain? " Qi Jiguang runs the army well and has strict discipline. The army led by him is brave and good at fighting, and has repeatedly made meritorious military service. Deeply loved and loved by the people, it is known as "Qi Jiajun".
In the forty years of Jiajing, Qi Jiguang led the army to meet the invading army in Taizhou, Zhejiang, and rescued tens of thousands of prisoners, which played the role of Qi Jiajun. After the enemy in Zhejiang was destroyed, Qi Jiguang moved to Fujian and successfully destroyed the enemy's lair. The fierce enemy Appalachia is as terrible as a tiger. They call Qi Jiguang "Hu Qi".
In the next few years, Qi Jiajun galloped on the battlefield and was invincible. In the forty-five years of Jiajing, the Japanese pirates who had been rampant along the coast of China for two hundred years were finally wiped out. In the first year of Qin Long, Qi Jiguang, who had just pacified "Nanwo", was ordered to go north to resist "Beilu". He first served as a lieutenant in Beijing military camp and then as a company commander in the market town, responsible for military and political affairs from Shanhaiguan to the capital. During this period, Qi Jiguang did two important things: training troops and repairing the Great Wall.
In the process of fighting against Japanese invaders, Qi Jiguang groped for a set of successful military training experience. However, it is not easy to implement this experience in Gyeonggi Province, because the relationship between Gyeonggi Province is very complicated and the accumulated unfavorable factors are particularly serious. Qi Jiguang believes that to build a brave and effective army, we must start from three aspects. First, train ordinary people into soldiers with discipline, command, skills and tactics; The second is to train soldiers to be good at defending the country, protecting the people, loving the enemies of death and evil, and learning martial arts; The third is to improve weapons and equipment and give full play to their power and role.
Less than three years as a company commander in Qi Jiguang, Mongolian aristocrat An gave up his hostile attitude, accepted the tribute of the Ming Dynasty, and said that he would never go south again. Qi Jiguang knew that one of the reasons why Annan gave up confrontation and was willing to cooperate was the strong military pressure from Ji Cheng. Therefore, he did not relax the training of the army for a moment.
Jian' an six years, the Ministry of War history tour Ji. Qi Jiguang organized a military exercise with tens of thousands of people, including infantry, chariots, artillery and other arms, including performance training of basic skills and coordinated operations among arms. Qi Jiguang watched the exercise, and he was deeply moved by its scale and momentum. He thinks "something to do".
The second important thing that Qi Jiguang will do in the market town is to build and strengthen the Great Wall. The Ming Great Wall is the longest, largest, most complete and best preserved Great Wall in the history of China, and the Zhen Ji Great Wall built by Qi Jiguang is the essence of the whole Great Wall. Teacher Luo, a famous scholar and Great Wall scholar, said: "The Badaling Great Wall, Mutianyu Great Wall, Simatai Great Wall, Gubeikou Great Wall, Tianjin Huangyaguan Great Wall, the old dragon head near Shanhaiguan in Hebei Province and Jiao Shan Great Wall are all left behind by Qi Jiguang's improvement." They represent the highest architectural level of the ancient Great Wall.
In the process of building the Shanhaiguan Great Wall, Qi Jiguang found that the defense at the junction of the eastern end of the Great Wall and the sea was weak, and it was easy for the enemy to take the opportunity to enter. He must find a way to plug the leak. He discussed with Wu Weizhong who joined the army all night and decided to build a "stone city into the sea" to extend the Great Wall to the depths of the sea. This is the old faucet that people see today.
It is extremely difficult to build a city into an ocean, and the investment is also very large. As soon as the news came out, some powerful businessmen wanted to get the construction right and profit from it. A businessman tried.
They looked at each other and laughed. "This silver is obviously toxic! If our general is greedy for money, it will inevitably lead to poor engineering quality and short life, which will bring disaster to the country and the people. Terrible! " Qi Jiguang and Wu Weizhong handed over the bribes to the financial management department and educated their subordinates on this matter, asking officials at all levels not to "eat enough and get what they want" and carry out high-quality rectification in Haicheng. After the completion of the Old Great Wall, Qi Jiguang personally wrote four characters of "Apocalypse, Sea and Moon" and carved stone tablets to commemorate it.
The Great Wall of Zhen Ji extends from Changping to Shanhaiguan, with a total length of 1200 miles. Qi Jiguang has a 10 17 hollow zone. Double-track Great Wall will be built in dangerous places, and beacon towers will be added. Today, people see the Great Wall hanging upside down like a ladder. -The Great Wall of Mishimaguan was built by Qi Jiguang in 1920. At the same time, people can only marvel at the wisdom of designers and builders. Sandaoguan is a miracle in the architectural history of the Great Wall.
The construction of the Great Wall has greatly enhanced the defense capabilities of Beijing and important places in the capital. After the Qin Long peace talks, only the Mongolian Turks posed a great threat to the northern Ming Dynasty. In the second year of Wanli, Duoyan Chief Dong Hu and his nephew Chang Ang tried to harass Beijing and were repelled by Qi Jiguang. The following year, Dong led the troops south again, and Qi Jiguang captured his younger brother Chang Bald alive. Dong Hu and others saw that Qi Jiguang was stronger than Mazhuang and the Great Wall was impregnable, so they led 300 subordinate relatives to tackle key problems and finally solved the problem of "Northern Shandong". A rare scene of peace appeared in the northern border of the Ming Dynasty.
Qi Jiguang patrolled the north 16 years, repaired the frontier defense, built closed doors and practiced chariots and horses, which effectively safeguarded the peace between the capital and North China.