What is the general geographical location of Gujuehua Island?

Juehua Island, commonly known as Dahaishan, is located in Juhuadao Township, Xingcheng City, under the jurisdiction of Huludao City, Liaoning Province. In Tang and Song Dynasties, it was called Peach Blossom Island, and in Liao and Jin Dynasties, it was called Juehua Island. Due to the blooming of wild chrysanthemums on the island, it was renamed Chrysanthemum Island in the 11th year of the Republic of China (1922). It is also called "Three Treasures of Xingcheng" with the ancient city and hot springs.

Juehua Island is located in the sea area more than 0/0 kilometers southeast of Xingcheng, 9 kilometers away from the bathing beach, and it can be reached after 50 minutes from the seaside. Juehua Island grows into a gourd shape, with an area of 13.5 square kilometers, high in the south and low in the north, with the highest elevation of 198.2 meters and a coastline of 27 kilometers. It is the largest island in Bohai Bay. Its area can be called "Little Macau in the North".

Juehua Island in Ningyuan War

As early as the Tang Dynasty, Juehua Island was developed and its port was famous. Its northern harbor, named Luokou, has become an important port on the island, entering and leaving the throat of the island. In the Ming Dynasty, the island stored military food, and Juehua Island became the base for the Ming army to hoard food.

Sun Chengzong not only manages the fortification and garrison of Ningyuan City, but also manages the grain depot and shipping administration department of Juehua Island. After the fall of Guangning in the Ming Dynasty, the garrison was concentrated in Ningyuan City and the grain depot was concentrated in Juehua Island. Juehua Island has a main island and three small islands-now called Mopan Island, Zhangshan Island and Yanshan Island, *** 13? 5 square kilometers, of which the main island 12? 5 square kilometers. The main island is "wide at both ends, narrow in the middle, irregular gourd-shaped, hanging alone in the sea." According to the reconnaissance, the brief description of this grain storage city is as follows: "Juehua Island Ming Grain Storage City, the remains are clearly visible so far. The city is rectangular, about 500 meters long from north to south, 250 meters wide from east to west, with a wall height of about 10 meter and a bottom width of about 6 meters. There is a door on the north wall, which leads to the port outside the city and is a channel for transporting food and equipment; There are two gates on the south wall, which are connected with the' Dragon Neck' to facilitate the exchanges on the island; There are no doors on the east and west walls, which is conducive to defense. There are grain depots, material piles, barracks relics of officers and men guarding the city, and a drainage ditch running through the north and south. "

The navy of Mingjuehua Island is still under the command of the guerrilla Golden Crown. Its functions: first, to guard the food and equipment on the island; The second is to cooperate with the marine division to restore lost land in Liaodong; The third is to coordinate the defense of Ningyuan City-the literature records: "Those who build eight miles are the key to building Ningyuan, and even 40,000 miles are used as the rush of Ningyuan, which contradicts Juehua Island. When you look at the city, the soldiers on the island make a three-pronged pontoon bridge and then beat it around. "

From the above, it can be seen that Juehua Island has become the only place for the Ming army and the late Jin army. In the sixth year of the Apocalypse (1626), after Nurhachi captured Ningyuan City, he immediately captured Juehua Island. It's the middle of winter, and the sea is frozen. You can walk directly from the shore to the island. Yao Fumin and other defenders, in order to strengthen their defense, dug 15 Li Ice City along the island to stop the invasion of the late Jin cavalry. However, it was very cold and the ice was cut through. Yao Fumin and others led the officers and men. "Wearing ice day and night, the soldiers lost their fingers."

On January 26th, the latter sent a small number of troops to continue attacking Ningyuan City. On the one hand, most cavalry were ordered to attack Juehua Island. Mongolian cavalry and Manchu cavalry, led by Unnag, about tens of thousands of people, rushed to Juehua Island from the ice. Ming army/kloc-carved ice in 0/5, and the array was defended by chariots. At dawn, the Houjin cavalry commanded by Unnag was divided into 12 teams, with Unnag as the middle road, and pounced on the "leading" grain depot city on the island. The Ming army on the island, "chiseling ice and suffering, neither armor nor weapons, but also sailors, can not stand the war and are outnumbered"; Unexpectedly, it snowed heavily and the ice city froze again. The late Jin cavalry galloped on the ice, landed from the estuary, broke through the north gate of the grain storage city, fought fiercely and rushed into the city. After the Golden Cavalry rushed into the chaos (zhuó), the sailors on the island were in chaos. In the late Jin dynasty, the soldiers burned the city to store grain, and the smoke covered the island, and the fire was soaring. Immediately turn to Dongshan and gallop on horseback; At that time, I attacked Xishan and killed all the way. After Jin Jun was attacked and killed, he was desperately resisted by the officers and men guarding the island: "Besides, all the generals on the island, Jin Guan died first, and Yao and Xian both died."

The Ming army suffered heavy losses in this battle. More than 7,000 Ming troops and 7,000 businessmen on Juehua Island were killed by the late Jin army. The latter Jin army burned more than 80,000 grains and more than 2,000 ships. As the external logistics base of the Ming Dynasty, the main island was also destroyed by the late Jin army. At the same time, the late Jin army also paid a price. According to statistics, 269 people died. Since then, regardless of the danger of Dongjiang Town, Mao resolutely attacked the rear of the late Jin Dynasty, forcing the latter to return to Shenyang.