Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 287 The Invincible Ming Army

After agreeing to serve as the official envoy, Mo Huali stopped in the capital for a while to take care of the family affairs. After recruiting some sailors who were good at swimming and sailing, he brought with him a dozen members of the envoy, as well as a whole hundred households. A guard of more than a hundred people boarded a ship from Jinmen and went along the coastline to Seoul, the capital of North Korea.

Although the navigation technology of the Ming Dynasty was advanced, the technology of sailing across the sea was available hundreds of years ago, and it was possible to manufacture large ships that could carry hundreds of people and displace hundreds of tons.

It's a pity that it's all in the past tense. For hundreds of years, the Ming Dynasty has not paid much attention to the navy and navy, and even the construction of various ships has decreased a lot.

Therefore, Mo Huali and other members of the mission can only take ordinary sea boats and drive along the coastline for safety reasons. Although there is a certain risk of running aground, they will not lose their way. It can be said to be the safest way.

Immediately after Mo Huali's mission set off, Zhu Cihong started another big move.

He first ordered Huang Degong and others to use the newly allocated artillery to launch a fierce offensive in Tongguan. At the same time, he ordered Gao Jie and Zhang Yong to lead [-] troops to recover Shanxi, and then ordered them to cross the Yellow River to northern Shaanxi.

At this time, more than [-] Qing troops from Jilharang had already withdrawn from the Ming Dynasty, crossed the Great Wall and the rolling mountains and arrived at the Mongolian grassland. They were preparing to graze on the grassland while rushing back to Liaodong.

Therefore, Gao Jie and Zhang Yong traveled unimpeded along the way. Wherever they went, regardless of the state capital, the local governors all opened the city to welcome them. , Gao Jie, and asked them to punish him.

Seeing this scene, Gao Jie and Zhang Yong couldn't help but smile bitterly. They were military generals and they were leading an army to fight against Li Chuang. How dare they interfere in local affairs, let alone punish the local governor.

Even with all the muscles in their brains, they wouldn't dare to do such a stupid move.

It would be fine if they had the titles of governor and governor, but those titles are basically only given to civilian officials, and military generals don't even think about it.

Therefore, Gao Jie and Zhang Yong can only persuade those local governors who are pleading guilty not to make trouble, but to manage the place well, or submit a memorial to the court.

But all in all, they left the capital and passed through dozens of prefectures and counties in Zhili, Shanxi, and Shaanxi along the way, all of which were warmly welcomed by the local people.

First, after Li Chuang and Ming Qing ravaged the country, the people were eager for the Ming Dynasty King to come over and give them peace.

The second reason is that the officers and soldiers of Gao Jie and Zhang Yong had sufficient logistical supplies from Zhu Cixiang, as well as a large number of loot rewards, as well as the wine, meat, silver, and cloth presented by the local governor.

Naturally, these big soldiers are not in the mood to disturb the people, or even rob them.

After regaining Shanxi and Zhili, the people and supplies under Zhu Cihong's rule increased a lot.

Daming at this moment is a bit stronger than Daming who was in the bloody battle in Tongguan before, and his advantage when facing Li Chuang is even more obvious.

Moreover, after the bloody battle between Man Qing and Li Chuang, Li Chuang's forces completely withdrew from Zhili, Shanxi, northern Shaanxi and other places. Also completely withdraw from these places.

As a result, a vacuum of power was formed here. Gao Jie and Zhang Yong led troops through and arrived in northern Shaanxi without any hindrance, and then they planned to attack south.

It's just that before they went south and entered Guanzhong, Li Zicheng got used to bandits and took tens of thousands of remnants to go to Huguang via Sichuan.

The soldiers of the southern guards and the governors of various places were so weak that they could hardly beat the rioting people. Li Zicheng had his eyes on where he was, so he wanted to use Huguang as his base for future rebellion.

After Li Zicheng's forces withdrew from Guanzhong, Gao Jie and Zhang Yong divided into two groups. Among them, Gao Jie went all the way south into Guanzhong, and then went south to attack Zhang Xianzhong, who was entrenched in Sichuan and established himself as Daxi Kingdom.

On the other hand, Zhang Yong marched all the way to the northwest, entered Gansu first, handed over the Li Chuang forces who participated, and incorporated the surrendered troops into the army.

Because a large number of officers and soldiers under Li Chuang's command were former Weisuo Ming army, as well as bandit-suppressing Ming army and frontier army, Zhang Yong and other Ming armies were happy to accept them.

As long as they are willing to hand over their votes, kill a Li Chuang peasant army, or poke a hole in their corpses, they can officially return to the ranks of the Ming army.

For this, most people are very willing. After all, Daming defeated Li Zicheng and Mi Qing, the situation in the world has become clear, and all fools know that Daming's strength is not exhausted.

After staying in Gansu for a few days, I found that a Li Chuang peasant army led by Li Zicheng's nephew Li Jin, Dang Shousu and others fled to Qinghai and other northwest regions, trying to bypass the plateau and cross the Hengduan Mountains from Sichuan to Huguang. Meet up with Li Zicheng and others.

So Zhang Yong didn't have time to ask Zhu Cihuang for instructions, and immediately decided to send his troops westward, chase up this group of intruders, and drive them all to death.

After all, the army of the Han people has not been to the northwest region for a long time. If the people here are not allowed to see the majesty of the Ming soldiers, they may rebel on their own at any time.

However, Gao Jie, who was acting at the same time as Zhang Yong, was not optimistic. After he went south to Guanzhong, he found that after more than ten years of peasant wars, it was also the birthplace of an important uprising by Li Zicheng and other peasant troops.

It was also an important base for the official army to destroy the peasant army during the Peasant War. In addition, Li Zicheng mobilized manpower and material resources here for him to go north to the capital, resist the Qing army at Tongguan, and so on.

It can be said that the situation in Guanzhong at this time is only a little better than that in the Central Plains, and Gao Jie cannot be provided with sufficient supplies.

Coupled with the fact that Guanzhong is far away from Jiangnan and the capital, the supplies of the Ming court could not be effectively transported there.

The most important thing is that Zhang Xianzhong has a lot of elite soldiers and generals, including Li Dingguo and other four sons who are good at fighting, and there are also checkpoints such as the dangerous Jiange.

So Gao Jie was stuck here, no matter what kind of tactics he used, even if he bombarded the city, organized a death squad to blow up the city wall with a lot of gunpowder, he couldn't effectively march into Sichuan and Shu.

However, the situation of Huang Degong who came to the Huguang area in the south is much better. Originally, he had a large number of people along the way, and the Huguang area was not seriously damaged, so the supplies were effective.

After realizing that Ming Dynasty is not finished, and that Ming Dynasty may still have hundreds of years of national destiny, it can break the laws of history.

Zuo Liangyu realized that he could not be the local emperor of Huguang, and it became a joke to have hundreds of thousands of soldiers to bargain with Zhu Cihong. In addition, Zuo Liangyu was old and frail, and felt that he might not have a good life for a few years up.

So Zuo Liangyu decided to actively cooperate with Huang Degong to suppress Li Chuang who fled to the Huguang area, as well as the continuous peasant uprisings throughout the south.

(End of this chapter)