Lord of Ming Dynasty

At a distance of 30 meters, the enemy squatted down, and the arquebus soldiers ran to the front line and opened fire. The Ming army had already prepared, but they did not rush to fire, and waited for the enemy to fire. These Ming troops were in the Ming Dynasty They all fought against the Huaxia Army. They knew that the opponent's matchlock guns were useless, and they couldn't hurt many people at a distance of 30 meters. Moreover, depending on the situation, the opponent's gun must be filled with iron sand, and it is impossible to load lead bullets. Let the opponent fire first. After the opponent finishes firing, the gun will be useless, and the rest will be hand-to-hand combat.

Sure enough, after a loud noise, the Ming army staggered down seven or eight people and injured a dozen people, but none of them were fatal. After firing a round, the opponent ran to the back in a panic.

At this time, the muskets of the Ming army opened fire.

What they were holding were all Jinkai 1 matchlock guns that had been modified by the Huaxia Army, which were much more powerful than their opponents.

With a crackling shot, seventy or eighty pikemen in the front row of the opponent's team fell down in a row. The team panicked. At this time, the archers in the Ming army threw bows and arrows together behind them. Thirty or forty people fell, and the sword and shield soldiers fell five or six people.

The opponent roared and rushed over together. At this time, the Ming army dispersed, and a group of javelin throwers rushed out. The dense javelin throwers passing by like leeches caused the opponent to fall again. Seventy or eighty people fell, but the opponent was determined and still charged , Seeing that many people have rushed to a distance of more than ten meters.

The Ming army launched a dozen tiger squat guns and three-pound guns. After a dozen loud noises, the guns loaded with shotguns caused the opponents' soldiers who rushed to a distance of more than ten meters to fall to the ground.

A large area was poured, and the front of the team was empty.

The enemy was stunned. At this time, the musketeers fired another wave of muskets, and the enemy's strength dropped by half. Even those warriors who were lucky enough not to be bombed by the artillery fell to the ground one after another. One or two lucky ones rushed forward. He was rushed forward with a sword and shield and hacked to death with several knives.

As the sun set, the forest became quiet and gloomy. The wounded soldiers stopped screaming because they were all dead. The slightly injured gritted their teeth, endured the cold and damp, silently packed up their things, buried their bodies, and Throwing the weapons and equipment on the cart, slaughtered the dead war horses and pack horses, roasted a meal of barbecue, ate it with some salt grains, and filled their stomachs. Go to your own destination.

Tens of thousands of Burmese retreated, leaving behind nearly [-] corpses. The seriously wounded were thrown along the road, and the slightly injured died in the forest without running far.

The battle ended like this, and the Ming army escaped a catastrophe, but what about the next time?

Chapter 576 No Next Time

Li Chengdong frowned and looked at the letters one after another. These were reports of being attacked, most of them were in the forest, and they were all small troops. If the army wins the battle, otherwise the supplies on their side will be cut off, and they will repeat the mistakes of Li Dingguo.

Li Dingguo was defeated by such and such small-scale attacks. Of course, there are mountains and forests in Myanmar, where it is not easy to find the enemy, as well as the climate, climate and soil.

He knew that there was such a thing when he was chatting with Li Dingguo before, but now when such things happen frequently, he knows that he is in trouble.

What should I do?

In fact, he has already figured out a way, that is, there are traitors in that country, and he has found many such people, and there are some **** in that country, and he has found many such conflicts between the two sides. According to the generalization of his staff over time, he has identified many tribes that need cooperation. It is this kind of tribal cooperation that enables the 10,000+ captive troops that entered Burma successively and his own troops to exist in various places and establish a One supply station after another.

He found some rules. Among such tribes, the tribes formed by the Han people who came here in the past dynasties happened to be the most fierce and fierce against him. Among them, the families who inherited the tradition of reading books of the Han people all became Burmese tribes. The leaders made suggestions and contributed one after another, and they were more vicious and threatening than the Burmese.

This made him feel puzzled and at the same time the most angry. These people may be a worm in Daming, but they are a dragon when they come here. They have the force of the Burmese and their intelligence, which makes the Ming army extremely headache.

There is an opponent with similar intelligence as you, can you not be cautious and not afraid?

The high-level Burmese people showed their philosophy of survival, and tried their best to appoint these scholars. When they were useless, they pushed these scholars to the army fighting in Burma, as scapegoats, and then sued for peace. Many people fell for them in this way. Tricks, when they escaped and regained their strength, they continued to fight against the Burmese army, slaughtered those soldiers who surrendered, or attacked the grain roads, and led the Ming army into the virgin forest. Few of the Ming soldiers who entered the primeval forest came out alive.

Therefore, Li Chengdong seldom lets his troops enter the virgin forest. They always attack along the road, along the enemy's cities and camps, break through each camp, and then send people to garrison. For the surrounding virgin forests, Li Chengdong always sends people Ignite the fire, burn it if it can be burned, and cut it down as much as possible if it can't be burned, even if the small forest around it that is easy to clear, or the edge of the forest should be cleared.

He has no shortage of manpower. Those captives here can only rely on the army. They cannot understand the language of the Burmese, have no way to escape, and have no way to go to heaven. They and the Ming army can only work wholeheartedly.

In fact, according to the information Li Chengdong has, the area west of Mandalay used to be the territory of the Ming Dynasty, but after decades of wars, the Burmese army continued to wage wars and took it away from the Ming army who was unable to defend this land. this area.

Why are you powerless to defend?

One is the internal and external troubles of the Ming Dynasty, and the main energy is to deal with the ethnic groups on the grassland. The other is that there are more ethnic groups in this area than the hair of a cow. The owners of this land, or those who manage this land are chieftains in the border areas. He had no loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, but secretly got closer to the indigenous tribes in neighboring Myanmar. Helping neighbors must be more enthusiastic than helping outsiders thousands of miles away.

The other is that the education of all Han people is not to cause military disasters, not to fight wars, and those who can give others something good to make others submit or benefit themselves must never turn against others, even if this person has fucked his wife, occupied his own land, fought lost his father.

Anyway, if I have less things, I can snatch some from my brothers, father, and relatives. If I can’t bully some weaklings, I can snatch them from some unruly people, and I will have them again. What kind of war with other barbarians will kill people of.

The fighting inside was a mess, and the barbarians might spend two dollars to become their own thugs, helping them beat their own people.

For these Han people, Li Chengdong has only one idea, to kill them, even if there are innocent people, they must be killed. Maybe these Han people will be bullied by the natives in a few hundred years. A family who has a baby and becomes a family member may be able to retain some Han traditions, but this just becomes a convenient condition for coercion or flattery to deceive the Central Plains dynasty. Between land and country, you have to deceive other countries with these conditions. Dreaming, to deceive the Central Plains Dynasty, the Han people who have been immersed in Confucian culture for thousands of years, that is the best.

So Li Chengdong doesn't want to leave that regret for his motherland, and suffer again, even if he himself killed many Han people, Jiading three massacres, he had at least two massacres, and Jiangyin killed at least tens of thousands of Han people, but what, he is always The Han people in the land of the Han people, even if they bear the name of traitors, are the result of the internal struggle of the Han people, but he can't let other Han people learn from him and do what they do outside, because the traditional culture of Confucianism tells him that he He is a Han, a scholar, and he wants to sell the Han, but he will never admit that he is not a Han. Benefits can be obtained, but the identity of the Han cannot be lost.

To put it bluntly, it is a double standard.

The explanation in literary terms is due to this person's contradictory personality. Many later generations analyzed his personality and explained it for him, which made people very confused.

He threw these letters aside, and said to the staff on the side with tea: "How is our farming, immigration, and clearing plan going?"

With the killing of tens of thousands of people, he naturally exudes a strong murderous aura, even if he is calm, sitting there, without wearing a battle robe, armor, or holding a weapon, the words he speaks and the way he acts are not It made the staff shudder and work with trepidation.

He replied in a low voice: "According to the report of the spies, the group of Burmese who attacked the Major General came from a village. They were soldiers and tribes of the previous dynasty in Upper Burma. After returning, the Major General immediately led five thousand troops and two thousand peasants to fight. , Now that we have traveled three hundred miles, it seems that the remnants of that small dynasty will be wiped out, and the general sent by Mangbai will be wiped out, and Upper Burma will soon fall into the hands of our Han people."

Li Chengdong squinted at him, and his staff explained in a low voice: "This is what the major general asked his subordinates to report to your lord. In addition, our garrison has covered all occupied camps and villages, including everything on the land from Wanli and Chongzhen because the imperial court was unable to take care of it." The villages were captured, and at least a hundred people, twenty households, as many as two hundred households, thousands of civilians and soldiers converted from captives were stationed."

He paused, "In addition, between each village, not to mention the closest ones, a hundred captive soldiers were stationed at the pass point of fifteen miles away, and a battalion of 500 soldiers of our army was stationed one hundred miles away. Thirty miles away. A general and 2000 soldiers were stationed at sixty kilometers away, while our direct army attacked cities and plundered land and stationed them in various cities. Each city had 15 soldiers and 2000 captives. Recently, some people have performed well Nearly [-] captive soldiers were conscripted by various generals, organized into [-] battalions of [-] people, and dispatched generals, led by guerrilla generals, as a mobile force to sweep the mountains and ravines, deep in the mountains, like the tens of thousands who attacked the major general Clans of that size are extinct."

"Okay, don't let such an enemy with a scale of [-] people appear in the future, what is the imperial court's arrangement for this?" He asked.

The staff said cautiously: "I heard that the imperial court has sent Liu Liangzuo to lead [-] troops to attack the Laotian Xuanfu Division and our army to respond. We cannot let the enemy flee to Laos and other mountainous areas to attack our army's flank."

Li Chengdong put down his teacup and sighed: "The governor is really strategizing and winning thousands of miles. He is wise and mighty. Just as I was about to suggest to him, he has already done what I want to do."

Chapter 577 Evaluation

Liu Liangzuo was very reluctant. As soon as he returned to the center to report on his duties, he was sent to Yunnan Prefecture. Then Li Dingguo handed him a [-] army and ordered him to conquer Laos. The specific reason was that Laos provided asylum to the Annan natives in northern Annan , At the same time, Lao war elephants joined the supply channel developed by Ruan Jin in northern Annan to support Li Dingguo.

At the beginning, it was just expropriation and passed, but the Annan people were very xenophobic, so Ruan Jin directly attacked them. Although it was a passage, it passed through most of the land of the Northern Annan Dynasty, just like Li Chengdong in Myanmar. This is tantamount to war, so They were caught in the battle of the Annan Kingdom. Because the Marine Corps fought hard at sea, and the Marine Corps guarded the port, the garrison sent to fight all the way up, and Li Dingguo sent troops to respond, so before the Annan people reacted, they were connected. up the channel.

When the dynasties in Annan and North moved their troops and mobilized the people at the same time, a large number of subordinate soldiers who surrendered to Zheng Chenggong who expedition to Baodao were arranged here. Just like Tietong.

The Annan people only dared to attack the transport team halfway. With the Second Field Brigade occupying Hanoi, the Annan people’s northern dynasty was desperate. They begged for peace and mercy. A part of the troops were dispatched, and the troops moved to the border area, redeployed the supply depots along the border passages, and re-cleared the roads. This action lasted for two years.

However, the Annan Dynasty in the north, which had recuperated, gradually became tougher, and demanded that the Huaxia Army withdraw from the Annan Haiphong Port, exchange some captured soldiers and civilians, and demand compensation at the same time.

Who is Ruan Jin? How could they make them threaten him so hard? While preparing to fight, he transferred his troops back. At the same time, he secretly contacted the Annan Dynasty in the south, gave them guns and money, and asked them to send troops to fight against the Annan Dynasty in the north.

The battle between the two sides lasted for several months. The northern dynasty retreated steadily under the attack of the southern dynasty. Many people fled to Laos, and then attacked the Annan southern dynasty from Laos as a starting base. At the same time, they launched an attack on military stations along the border. , attacked the supply team, killed the soldiers, and massacred the Han people.

With the disintegration and surrender of the Nanming Kingdom, the Nanming Kingdom and the Huaxia Army merged, but the Huaxia Army did not reorganize the Nanming Army for a while. The huge Nanming Army was a burden, so Zhang Qiang discussed with the cabinet and ordered Su Zhengqing led the Southern Ming Army to capture the Northern Annan Dynasty. The war was fought with great vigor. Although he encountered the same problem as Li Chengdong, it was easy to supply and the place was small, only two hundred kilometers away.

The 10,000+ Nanming regular army and the 10,000+ miscellaneous soldiers handed over by the warlords of the Nanming Kingdom defeated the northern Annan dynasty in just two months, occupied the entire territory of the northern Annan dynasty, and pushed the border of Laos.

At this time, Zhang Qiang ordered the troops in Annan not to cross the border with Laos, because after all, there was no border between Laos and the Huaxia Army, and the Nanming Army stationed in the northern part of Annan, and then ordered to emigrate to the northern part of Annan, first removing the 2 prisoners in the camp, Then there were 30 captives from hard labor camps, and then [-] people from the coastal areas of Daming who were removed by Zheng Chenggong of Baodao, and [-] were removed from Haomen, Guangzhou, Guangxi, and Jiangxi. The Han people, as well as countless Tujia and Hakka people, were scattered and resettled just like they occupied Huzhou and Guangzhou.

Along with the removal, the last militia brigade in Fujian Prefecture and half of the militia brigade in Jiangxi Prefecture were removed. After this, a total of 300 million people were immigrated.

Militia, garrison battalion, regular army, people from all over the country, prisoners of previous wars, this time the Huaxia Army moved most of the captives to the north of Annan to settle down, and then organized a powerful militia force, just like when the Huaxia Army was still the Jinhua Rebel Army Actions.

The Annan Northern Dynasty, which was in exile in Laos, resigned and recruited the Lao people, the chieftains of Laos, and the tribal army also sent troops to help the Annan Northern Dynasty.

The blood flowed like a river. The war was not bad at all. Su Zheng cleared the 30 Nanming Army, and also had 30 powerful Nanming Army who were originally soldiers, Qing Green Battalion soldiers, Qing Han Army Banner Soldiers, and Qing Mongolian Army. Soldiers, a militia team composed of Manchu soldiers in the Qing Dynasty, as well as the militia captains who were retired Han Chinese soldiers from the regular army of the Huaxia Army organized the civilian troops that were originally militias, plus nearly [-] militia troops mobilized from two to three states The strength of the troops, as well as the Annan puppet army who followed, had a total strength of nearly one million troops.

Unexpectedly, the Southern Annan Dynasty quit. What they want is the territory of the Northern Annan Dynasty. Now the Huaxia Army has occupied it by itself, so they opened up with the Huaxia Army.

To deal with the two fronts at the same time, even Su Zhengqing had led troops for nearly ten years, but he was at a loss and had to ask the central government for help.

Therefore, the Huaxia Army sent Liu Liangzuo here when he returned to the Central Committee to report on his duties. His task was to share the pressure of Su Zhengqing and lead [-] troops into Laos.