历史军事地理视野下的明代贵州“古苗疆走廊”

“The Ancient Miao Territory Corridor”of the Ming Dynasty Guizhou from Perspective of Historical Military Geography

"古苗疆走廊"是明代西南边陲的一条重要通道,其贵州段因特殊的地形、水文、交通、人口与经济等军事地理环境,成为整个走廊的核心地段,具有军事格局"小集中、大分散",地形与交通制约性强,防线绵长,经济支持力弱等军事地理特点。域内以驿站与卫所为核心,构筑了一套相对完整的军事体系,其分布与配置体现了明军在走廊内的防御重心集中在贵阳、普安、兴隆至平越一带。区域内战事冲突在时间分布上贯穿明代始终,空间分布上遍及走廊东西,造就了贵阳、普安、镇远等数处主要军事要地。

“The Ancient Miao Territory Corridor” is an important channel of the southwest border in the Ming Dynasty. The corridor of Guizhou section became the core area of the corridor because of the special terrain, hydrology, transportation, population, economic and other military geographical envi-ronment. And the section have some military geographic characteristics such as a military pattern of w concentration in a small range and dispersion in a wide range？,, strong restriction about terrain and traffic, long line of defense, weak economic support, and so on. As the cores of the area, courier sta-tion and guarding post build a relatively complete military system, and their distribution and configu-ration reflect that the Ming army, s defense focus in the corridor concentrated in Guiyang, Pu^n , and Xinglong to Pingyue area. The occurrence of conflicts were distributed throughout the Ming Dynasty in the time and the corridor in the spatial, creating Guiyang, Puin, Zhenyuan and several major military places.