Daming: Brother, there is no future for monks, let's rebel

Chapter 158 Daming Rocket Army!The world is invincible! 【Seek further reading】

The Koryo Dadu Protectorate implements the Dadu Protectorate System, and commanders and envoys are basically idle jobs.

Li Siqi also knew that as a general who surrendered, he could no longer lead troops.

That's why he became a rich man peacefully.

Li Siqi completely gave up his military power, and An'an became a rich man. The more than 3 soldiers under him were leaderless, so naturally there would be no possibility of causing trouble.

Zhu Han immediately sent people to disperse these soldiers and distribute land and houses, turning them from soldiers back into ordinary farmers.

In order to appease these soldiers and generals, they were given some preferential treatment. Everyone was exempted from taxes ranging from five to ten years, and a lot of necessities such as food, money, and cloth were also rewarded.

Zhu Han's sugar-coated cannonball has a very good effect. Not only did he take down Yingchang and the surrounding grasslands in a short period of time, but he also destroyed the last fighting spirit of the remnants of the Yuan army everywhere.

In just one month, more than [-] remnants of the defeated army came out of the deep mountains and old forests where they were hiding, and surrendered to the Ming army.

The news that Li Siqi led his subordinates to surrender to the Ming army in Yingchang soon spread to the Mobei Grassland.

"Trash! It's a bunch of trash, Li Siqi just let him run away!" Dayuan Prince Wang Baobao was furious.

The people he scolded were naturally the Mongolian officials sent to monitor Li Siqi in Yingchang.

It's just that these Mongolian officials could no longer bear his anger, and the heads already beheaded by Li Siqi were dedicated to the Ming army.

"Now that Yingchang has fallen, all the tribes in the Monan Grassland are also in panic, what should we do?" Empress Dowager Qi asked worriedly.

Ever since Li Siqi surrendered to the Ming army in Yingchang, various tribes in the Monan Grassland kept sending urgent calls, but the Mobei court couldn't send reinforcements no matter how worried they were.

Now it is the coldest November in winter, the grassland is basically covered with heavy snow, and the roads are impassable. Even if the Ming army stepped on the heavy snow to annex the territory on the grassland of Monan wantonly, the army of Mobei would not be able to support it.

"Don't worry, Queen Mother. It's freezing cold now. Although it is difficult for our army to march in Mobei, the Ming army is definitely not used to the climate on the grassland. Even if they have any plans to act rashly, they will definitely not act until the beginning of spring next year. "Wang Baobao calmed down and persuaded Empress Dowager Qi.

In fact, what Wang Baobao was really angry about was the betrayal of Li Siqi, a comrade in arms. He was an old man who had fought with his uncle Chahan for many years. Now seeing the critical situation, he surrendered to the Ming army without hesitation. cold.

Now more than half of Wang Baobao's army in Mobei are Han refugees recruited from Henan and Shanxi areas, and their nature is exactly the same as that of Li Siqi's generals.

Who knows that when the situation is critical in the future, will these generals under him surrender to the Ming army like Li Siqi?

This is what Wang Baobao is most worried about.

You must know that after the Yuan court came to Mobei, the main force that really supported the court was actually the training regiments under Wang Baobao, and the main force of these training regiments were all Han Chinese. Once these Han subordinates would follow Li Siqi’s example and surrender The Ming army, the Great Yuan court would not be able to sustain it.

No matter how flustered Wang Baobao is now, he must maintain his superficial composure so as not to shake the morale of the army.

"We use this time to gather the leaders of various ministries to discuss actions after the spring of next year. We can gather at least [-] cavalry from all ministries. At that time, we will first attack Yingchang and then capture Liaodong. With Liaodong and Yingchang, Then we can enter the Central Plains along the Great Wall, looting all the food and grass in the Hebei and Shanxi areas, so that the Ming army can no longer pose a threat to the grassland." Wang Baobao said to the Empress Dowager Qi.

At this time, Wang Baobao has completely transformed his identity from the original general of the Yuan Dynasty to a traditional nomadic commander.

When he was a general of the Great Yuan Dynasty, what Wang Baobao wanted was to defeat the Red Scarf Army and regain the lost ground, but now as the nomadic commander on the grassland, all Wang Baobao thought about was how to plunder more food and grass population.

"Yingchang is the core area of ​​the Monan Grassland. If the Ming army controls Yingchang, the Monan Grassland will be gradually captured by the Ming army, so there must be a big battle in Yingchang."

Wang Baobao had already made a plan, ready to lead the Mongolian army on the grassland with Yingchang as the center, and consume the strength of the Ming army.

Now that the Ming army occupies Yingchang, they will definitely not give up this important strategic location easily. Then Wang Baobao took the opportunity of attacking Yingchang to lure the reinforcements of the Ming army to come to the rescue.

After discussing this strategy, Wang Baobao immediately issued an order in the name of the Yuan court to the host kings of the grassland, as well as the Moxi Mongolian and other tribes, asking their leaders to come to the court residence by the Onan River for discussion as soon as possible. military action.

After receiving Wang Baobao's order, the reactions of various Mongolian ministries were different, and they did not respond as Wang Baobao expected.

Especially the various ministries of Western Mongolia.

After learning that Li Siqi of Yingchang led the army to surrender to the Ming army, everyone despised the Great Yuan court in Mobei.

There are even quite a few tribal leaders who hope that the Yuan Dynasty army will suffer greater failures when attacking Yingchang. In this way, Moxi Mongolia can overwhelm the Eastern Mongolia ruled by the Yuan Dynasty and control the power of the entire grassland.

Therefore, under such circumstances, the Mongolian tribes in Moxi completely ignored Wang Baobao's request to send troops.

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The capital of the Ming Dynasty, Ying Tianfu.

On an open flat ground at the foot of Nanshan Mountain, a fortress with a strange appearance stands on the ground.

The height of this fortress is not high, only about ten feet, but the appearance of the fortress is very strange, like a hedgehog covered with sharp horns.

There are sharp corners protruding from the city wall, and there is a round fort on the top of the corners.On the fort, there are many cannon muzzles, and many soldiers stand on the top of the fort with muskets and can shoot down from all angles from the city wall.

"His Royal Highness is ready for the drill." An officer came to Zhu Han with a command arrow in his hand, and offered the command arrow with both hands.

Zhu Han reached out to take the command arrow, then waved his hand and said loudly: "Start attacking the city."

Following an order, thousands of Ming soldiers armed with knives, shields, muskets and other weapons began to attack the fortress ahead.

As the commander of the garrison on the fort, Luo Guanzhong didn't panic at all when he saw the dense crowd of enemies outside the city.

Although there are less than 1000 defenders on the fort, and the siege army outside the city has more than 4000 people, four times as many as yourself, but when these attacking enemies approached the fort, the artillery on the top of the city suddenly exploded. roar.

With the sound of a cannon, Zhu Han, who was acting as the referee of the military exercise, immediately waved his hand and made a movement.

This action indicates that a group of attacking soldiers in front has been counted as killed in the exercise.

After all, the artillery on the fort fired powerful shotguns.

Under the shotgun, no matter whether you are a warrior in heavy armor or a fairy with a copper head and iron arms, your life is in danger.

The soldiers of the Ming army who were in charge of the attack were also students of the Royal Military Academy of the Ming Dynasty. Their combat literacy far surpassed that of ordinary soldiers, but no matter how hard they tried when facing the defense of the fortress, no matter how hard they tried Break through the fortress in front of you.

After this round of artillery fire, most of the attacking soldiers have been sentenced to death by Zhu Han.

With an order, all the attacking soldiers retreated immediately, and after some counting when they came back, under the defense of the defenders, the attackers paid a heavy price, and only approached the fortress.

This attack can be described as a complete failure.

"Okay! Very good, the power of this bastion really lives up to its reputation!"

Zhu Han was very satisfied with the result.

This strange-looking fortress is a new type of bastion newly invented by Zhu Han.

This is the most powerful defense system in the gun era. Using the guns and cannons on the bastion, as well as the triangular independent turrets placed outside the fort, can form a three-dimensional defense, and make all enemies who dare to approach pay a heavy price. The fortress is not as tall as the original city wall, and it is extremely simple to build.

It is simply the most suitable existence to use this kind of fortress on the grassland to restrain the tactics of the nomads.

"Your Highness, the defenders of the last general have been counted and lost 30 people, all of whom were slightly injured."

As the garrison commander of this exercise, Luo Guanzhong came to Zhu Han and said respectfully.

With an absolutely inferior force, the attacking party was killed almost several times, but the cost of minor injuries was only 30 people. Such a high battle loss ratio can almost be said to be a complete victory.

Zhu Han smiled and said to Luo Guanzhong, "Well, after this battle, does Luo Qianhu have enough confidence in this bastion?"

Luo Guanzhong had made great contributions in the war with the chieftain in Guizhou before, so Zhu Han specially sent someone to keep Luo Guanzhong in Yingtianfu, Nanjing as the implementer of the new bastion tactics.

Now it seems that Luo Guanzhong's command is effective, coupled with the strong defense capability of the bastion itself, a new type of defense system has been mastered by the Ming army.

Luo Guanzhong was also very clear about this point. After hearing Zhu Han's words, Luo Guanzhong immediately replied.

"Your Highness, the general feels that this bastion, let alone the Mongols, is invincible even if our new Ming army is so powerful. It should be invincible with this fortress. "

"Haha, that's good. Since this king has sent you to Yingchang to build a fort and then control the surrounding nomadic tribes, are you confident in completing this task?" Zhu Han said to Luo Guanzhong.

The place where bastion tactics are most useful is on the grasslands.

Now that the Ming army has taken control of Yingchang, the Mongolian tribes within hundreds of miles are all subject to the Ming army's might.

However, those nomadic tribes farther away from Yingchang City were not so honest. The army was far away from the cities where supplies and equipment were hoarded, and there was definitely nothing they could do about these nomadic tribes. Therefore, these nomadic tribes ignored the Ming army at all, and they repeatedly approached the Ming army's logistics supply line tentatively to try to rob.

Zhu Han has adopted a strategy of using fortress tactics to encroach on the living space of the grassland nomads.

"Don't worry, Your Highness, the general will have the confidence to teach those Mongols a lesson!" Luo Guanzhong agreed without hesitation.

"Very good, then I will pass on some key points of the bastion tactics to you. When we get to the grassland, I must set a precedent for Da Ming to successfully restrain nomadic tribes." Zhu Han was full of confidence in Luo Guanzhong.

Luo Guanzhong, a generation of writers who can leave Ming Dynasty in history, is naturally very powerful in other aspects of understanding, especially since he took the initiative to write and serve in the army. The ambition in this is also unmatched by ordinary people.

Luo Guanzhong learned and mastered these tactics and tactics taught by Professor Zhu Han very quickly. In less than three days, Luo Guanzhong completely mastered a whole set of bastion tactics to restrain the nomads.

In fact, the core content of Zhu Han's bastion tactics against nomads is to restrain the erratic guerrilla tactics of those nomads with absolutely superior logistics and training.

According to Zhu Han's plan, the Ming army would build a bastion every [-] miles or so on the Monan grassland.

The scale of this new type of bastion does not need to be very large, and each bastion only needs to accommodate 500 people.

Moreover, the outer walls of these cold castles are all made of rammed earth instead of expensive blue bricks. For the grasslands where various materials are poor, this also greatly reduces the cost and time of building the fortress.

This whole set of bastions was basically copied by Zhu Han from the mature bastions in modern Europe.

However, the core part of the bastion was carefully adjusted by Zhu Han to adapt to the environment on the grassland.

For example, in order to adapt to the harsh climate on the grassland, a very deep basement was specially built inside the bastion, using the constant temperature performance of the earth to ensure that the defenders can get enough warmth during the cold winter.

Using this whole set of Nengbao in the Ming version, Zhu Han has sufficient confidence in restraining the grassland nomadic tribes.

Soon after, the Ming court appointed Luo Guanzhong as the governor of Yingchang, the capital of the Northern Paradise, and Tong commanded 5000 troops to build fortresses on the grasslands around Yingchang.

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Yunnan, Puzhou.

Since Chen Youliang's Han army captured the cities of Dali and Kunming, forces from all over Yunnan have voluntarily surrendered. Only Puzhou is still resisting, because Duan Power, the general manager of Dali, fled to Puzhou.

"Chen Youliang, that bastard, I heard that he has assembled an army of [-], and he wants to attack Puzhou! Chief, what should we do?" A general asked Duan Gong, the general in charge of Dali.

"Soldiers will block the water and cover them with soil, and they must not surrender!" Duan Gong said firmly.

"Director, what should we do now?" Another general continued to ask.

"Order all the soldiers to prepare for battle and face the bandits at any time," Duan Gong said.

"Yes, sir." The general immediately agreed.

Duan Gong didn't stay in Puzhou for a long time, only more than half a year, but he has already established a good prestige, and he plans to restore the title of King of Dali with the support of everyone.

This is not so much that Duan Gong used his prestige in exchange for it, but rather because he has the blood of the Duan family in Dali, which makes the people of Puzhou buy it.

In this way, the Dali army stood firm in Puzhou City, and Duan Gong personally patrolled the city for several days to prevent the enemy from attacking.

Suddenly, there was a rush of hoofbeats. Duan Gong looked up and found that the dust and smoke billowed in the distance, and a horse quickly ran towards him.

(End of this chapter)