Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 309 Expedition to Jiaozhi, Establishing a Province

After all, for thousands of years, most of the time, the Central Plains dynasty dominated the entire East Asia and made countless small countries look up to it.

The small countries naturally take Ming and the Central Plains as a matter of course. Isn’t it the same in many modern times? The lighthouse country is full of drugs, shootings, and chaos, but many people in the world still think that this It is the future of human civilization.

However, when Cai Ruolan sent a fast horse to send a letter to Zhu Cihong in the direction of the capital, Zhu Cihong also sent an angel to the south.

In the barracks of Huang Degong, Zuo Liangyu, Zuo Menggeng and other troops, angels came from the same way, and these generals were all waiting respectfully in the camp.

After Li Chuang's defeat and the entire army was wiped out by the Ming army, Huang Degong and others did not leave the Huguang area, but took advantage of the defeat of Li Chuang, the largest peasant uprising army.

Came to all parts of Huguang to kill the peasant army in all states and counties, and at the same time searched everywhere for the remnants of the trespassers.

After going through this process, Daming's military power has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and its rule over various places has also deepened to a higher level.

"You don't need to kneel, your majesty said, if there is no accident, you can stand and listen to the order." Seeing Huang Degong and others kneeling on the muddy ground of the barracks, the angel pulled them up.

Considering that Huang Degong and others have made a lot of contributions to their own wars in the South and the North, and that they crazily suppressed the power of warriors as in the late Ming Dynasty, and the trend of suppressing the status of warriors is not conducive to the martial arts genes of the Chinese nation, so Zhu Cihong is determined to improve the status of some warriors.

In this process, it is best to start with heroes such as Huang Degong, and then the reform of the military system and the improvement of the treatment of soldiers.

Not to mention how good their lives are, at least they can't turn the guards into beggars like before, so that the frontier soldiers can't get paid for several years, and they have to sell their children and daughters to pawn weapons and armor for their livelihood.

"Li Chuang and Kou Jiping, the country is already stable, but the homeland of the Ming Dynasty has not yet been regained, and Jiaozhi hangs alone overseas. If it is not recovered, it will be ashamed to see the spirit of Taizu and Chengzu in a hundred years."

"Specially ordered Huang Degong to be the general of Pingyuan, leading [-] troops to recover Jiaozhi, and Zuo Menggeng was to be General Longxiang to conquer Jiaozhi."

"In addition, Du Yinxi, the governor of Huguang, was changed to the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and the governor of Jiaozhi, and the governor of the land and water military in Jiaozhi."

From east to west, north to south, Zhu Cihong felt that Jiaozhi, which was only a land border with Ming Dynasty, had not been resolved, so he decided to let Huang Degong and other troops go south to conquer Jiaozhi.

Don't think that 5 people are small. These are soldiers who have fought against both the Qing army and the Chuang army. They have rich combat experience and are brave and good at fighting.

Moreover, the officers and soldiers of Huang Degong's Ministry had fought in the pacification of the peasant uprising for many years before. They belonged to professional professional soldiers, and they were not at the same latitude as the military-agricultural army of ordinary small countries.

In terms of personnel appointments, Zhu Cihong still inevitably continued the practice of the Ming Dynasty. When a large army goes out, it must have a high-ranking civil servant.

Let the civil servants restrain the chief general, so as to prevent the big soldiers from making any radical actions, and the civil servants can better represent the army and communicate with the court.

But in fact, when the two armies are at war, sending civilian officials will do more harm than good, unless they are people who know military affairs and have the talent to command troops in battle.

Coincidentally, Du Yinxi, governor of Huguang selected by Zhu Cihong, is such a character.

If Zhu Cihong hadn't turned out, around this time, he would have taken in the rest of the Shun Army and the Daxi Army, formed the Loyalty Camp, and become the mainstay against the southward movement of Chi Qing's iron hooves.

Although Zhu Cihong's order had already reached Huguang and into the hands of Huang Degong and others, sending troops to intercourse was not something that could be done if one wanted to.

First of all, Du Yinxi wants to communicate with Huang Degong, discuss the division of labor between the two, and then train soldiers, because the latitude of Jiaozhi is too low, and the climate is very different from Huguang.

At this time, some places in the Huguang area even reached below zero, while most places in Jiaozhi were warm as spring, and you could even go shirtless outdoors.

Moreover, the army has to repair ordnance, resupply, and collect enough food and grass. As the saying goes, the food and grass go first before the soldiers and horses are moved.

In addition, from Huguang all the way to the south, the Guangdong and Guangxi regions, and even the Yunnan and Guizhou regions, must be prepared to support the army at any time.

Huang Degong's 5-man expedition to Jiaozhi must be more than sufficient to defeat the Jiaozhi army, but the problem is how to maintain the occupation after defeating the enemy, which requires the mobilization of troops from the rear to assist Huang Degong.

Otherwise, with the long and narrow terrain of Cochin thousands of miles from north to south, it is impossible for Huang Degong to completely occupy it with 5 horses, unless his 5 horses have the level of a modern army.

But having said that, with that level, even with bolt-action rifles, heavy machine guns, heavy artillery, mountain artillery, field artillery, and armored vehicles, Zhu Cihong couldn't afford to support him.

After the angel arrived in the Huguang area, it took a full half a month for Huang Degong's troops to assemble, and then set off for Jiaozhi.

Because they were in the interior of the country, and there were help from various local governments along the way, it only took Huang Degong and his party more than ten days to arrive at Zhennan Pass, the border between Daming and Jiaozhi.

For a long period of time, even in the hundreds of years of Qing Dynasty rule, this was the border between China and Jiaozhi.

Zhonghua and Jiaozhi, no matter who wants to attack the other side, they cannot avoid this pass.

At this time, Jiaozhi, after Li Li betrayed Ming Dynasty and established the Li Dynasty hundreds of years ago, because it did not have a scientific ruling system, it soon fell into civil strife.

After a long period of chaos, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were two most powerful forces in Jiaozhi, one was the Zheng family who occupied the north and controlled the Hou Li Dynasty, and the other was the Ruan family who occupied the south and served as the emperor as a prince.

They couldn't see each other, and the war between the two sides almost never stopped, and in a long time, they came into contact with Westerners and learned Western firearms technology.

However, due to the humid climate on the Indochina Peninsula, coupled with the backward economy of Jiaozhi and the lack of national strength, their army is not equipped with iron armor, cloth face armor, firearms, and war horses on a large scale like the Ming army.

Instead, they are mainly conscripts recruited from peasants. Apart from a livery and spears in their hands, they don't look like soldiers in any way.

However, because of this, the armies of both sides are huge, resembling the appearance of the Warring States Period of China more than 1000 years ago.

But other than that, the armies of the Nguyen and Zheng clans have something remarkable.

Thanks to the help of the Westerners, the Ruan family's army was good at firearms and had many copper cannons, but their power and caliber were relatively poor, far from being comparable to the Ming army.

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