Ming Military Operations on the Mongol Frontier

Timeline

1. 1392Cheche'er Mountain, Wuzhe River · Inner MongoliaAfter Tögüs Temür was murdered by Yesüder, the Ming court dispatched the general Zhou Xing to attack. Zhou led his forces to the Onon and Wugu'erzha rivers, pursuing to the Wuzhe River where he captured over a hundred empty carts; he sent Xie Li, commander of the Yanshan Left Guard, with light cavalry to pursue to Cheche'er Mountain, where he crushed them, taking over five hundred prisoners and capturing horses, camels, cattle, sheep, silver seals, books, and other goods; Mongol forces dared not approach the frontier for over a decade.
2. 1392Dongsheng Garrison · Inner MongoliaIn Hongwu 25, the Ming court built Dongsheng Garrison city on the north bank of the Yellow River in present-day Tokto County, Inner Mongolia, with a perimeter of over 8,600 meters. It was an earthen military fortress commanding the Yellow River waterway, together with Zhenlu Garrison and Yunchuan Garrison forming a defensive system north of the river to shield Datong and repel Mongol cavalry from the south.
3. 1392Datong · ShanxiIn the third month of Hongwu 25, Zhu Yuanzhang re-enfeoffed his thirteenth son Zhu Gui as Prince of Dai; in the eighth month he took up his fief at Datong, establishing left, central, and right guards. That same month he ordered Feng Sheng, Fu Youde, and others to go to central and southern Shanxi, where among households with four or more adult males one was registered as a soldier, assigned to various garrisons to farm at Datong and elsewhere, compensating for the abandoned farmland and troop shortages after frontier residents had been moved inland.