Wanli Xinming

Chapter 170 Iron Wall
Tong Chizhong has been promoted to commander in the Yingyang Army because he often received the honor of accompanying him when he was in the Yingyang Army.Although there is still five levels to climb from the general soldier, he is already a rare young general in the Yingyang Army.

In the establishment of the Yingyang Army, all the officers are the children of the upper class of Jurchen, and the children of the ministers are the generals at the beginning.If it is the children of the chiefs of the big tribes, there are also those who started as a thousand generals. For example, Tong Chizhong started as a thousand generals.The soldiers at the bottom are all the descendants or servants of the minister's family, with a total of nearly 9000 people.

The original intention of the imperial court to raise eagles and raise the army was by no means to develop them into an army capable of fighting and daring to fight.

Therefore, in the one and a half years since the formation of the army, the officers of the Yingyang Army, from top to bottom, like their Lao Tzu, are flying eagles and fighting dogs every day.

Tong Chizhong was favored by Zhu Yijun because his father was the chief of Jianzhou, and he was very famous in later generations.When Zhu Yijun practiced riding and archery, he often asked him to accompany him, and often offered him some rewards to win over him - both bad taste and some appreciation for him.

Having been with the emperor for a long time, this Tong Chizhong is really like his name, and he is loyal to the emperor. He often talks to Zhu Yijun about the degeneration of the Jurchen upper class, and he is deeply worried.

Tong Chizhong meant that the head of the Jurchen tribe, which was favored by the imperial court, could indeed play a role in disintegrating the Jurchen's combat effectiveness - but it is easy to change from frugality to luxury, and it is difficult to change from luxury to frugality.Could it be that the imperial court is still raising these people for generations?It is better to vigorously promote Sinology within the Yingyang Army and gradually sinicize it, so that after several generations, there will be no difference between the Jurchen Han people, and the descendants of these people will be able to engage in production or dare to fight for meritorious service, so that they will not become a burden on the court in the future. .

Zhu Yijun had this intention in his plan to govern the Northeast.As far as the boat goes along with the boat, he will send Sinology teachers to Yingyang Army in the spring of the fourth year of Wanli to teach them Chinese and Chinese.These teachers also need to trace the source from a historical perspective, promote the idea that the Jurchen originates from China, and completely disintegrate their national consciousness.

Although the Jurchen originates from the Golden Kingdom, Professor Guozijian's understanding of the Huayi debate is still in place.In terms of ethnicity, we Chinese people are yellow skin, black hair and black eyes. As long as they have these three types of characteristics, they are the blood of Chinese ancestors.

How to distinguish Huayi?One word "li"!As long as they use Chinese customs, speak Chinese, dress right, and practice Han etiquette, they belong to one family.Previously, the Jurchen left and shaved their hair, so they were not a family. Today, they have changed their right, and they have grown their hair. There is no problem. They are all Han Chinese.

At this time in this time and space, the cultural assimilation of the Chinese civilization to the obedient barbarians is simply overwhelming.Therefore, beyond Zhu Yijun's expectations, by the fifth year of Wanli, most of the Jurchens had already celebrated the Han Festival with the Han people.

Not to mention how many people follow the political climate here, the most successful Sinicization is the low-end witchcraft theory of various shamans, which has been completely replaced by the subtle and righteousness of Chinese Buddhism. Traders from all over the world who came to collect grain and mountain goods, the big bald heads in cassocks belonged to the most floating population.

Because Zhu Yijun attached great importance to the missionary work of the northern minorities, the Senglu Division of this time and space received a lot of policy inclinations from the court.All the monks sent to Mongolia, Tatar and Northeast China have the minimum medical skills, both inside and outside. After Zhu Yijun initially took power in the first year of Wanli, the Senglu Division began to hold scripture debates and translation competitions, which cost a lot of money. energy to train missionary monks.

Unified training, unified examination, unified dispatch, and standardized monk education have trained a large number of missionary masters who are proficient in medicine and proficient in Buddhism for the imperial court.These people walk among grasslands, Gobi deserts and deep mountains and forests, and have won great respect from ethnic minorities everywhere.

The shaman's superficial surgical bone-setting techniques and witch doctor methods are not comparable to the regular army trained by the imperial court.Especially in surgery, because ethnic minority herders and hunters are often injured, infection and limb deformities after injury are their greatest pains.After these monks came out, the healing rate was several times higher than that of the shaman, and the primitive religion was defeated.

With such a multi-pronged approach, Zhu Yijun judged that within three generations, the Sinicization of the Jurchen will compete for full power.And Tong Chizhong was also allowed to lead a thousand Ying Yang army to participate in the battle of Burma because of his contribution to the strategy. This is the first time that a general of Ying Yang army has been assigned military affairs. Although the court recruited many soldiers in Jurchen, they were all scattered. Arranged all over the nine sides, the establishment is very small, and the officers are all Han.

Tong Chizhong is nineteen years old this year. At the end of the third year of Wanli, he married a Chinese girl, and his daughter-in-law gave him a son in the first child.In this war for the country, he and Zhu Yijun had to fight several times before they were allowed to fight, and he was determined to let the Burmese people see their own martial arts.

But rowing for days in a row made him die.After a long journey, he left an indelible impression on the vast territory and vast waters of the Ming Dynasty.After he got off the boat and followed the large army from Guizhou to Guangdong, the beautiful mountains and rivers along the way, the customs and culture, also made him stunned.

In the middle of May of the fifth year of Wanli, after a long journey mixed with various marching methods, Liu Xian led the new army to Zhaoqing and met with Ling Yunyi, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.

Lingyun Yizi Rucheng, a native of Nanzhili, Zhang Juzheng was a scholar of the same division, and like Yin Zhengmao, he was a die-hard Zhang Dang.He was the governor of Jiangxi before he took over the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and he had a better understanding of the ethnic minorities in the southwestern part of the empire.

During Yin Zhengmao's stay in Beijing, he and Zhang Juzheng often studied the relationship between Yao in Guangdong and Guangxi, and the two of them and Ling Yunyi had always exchanged letters to study how to pacify Luo Pangyao.Therefore, Ling Yunyi was full of anger and joy at Luo Pangyao's capture of Gaoyao—he had been waiting for an opportunity, and the imperial court could approve the military plan of encirclement with iron walls jointly made by him and Yin Zhengmao.

Therefore, from the bottom of Ling Yunyi's heart, he didn't want Liu Xian to come and intervene.He has issued the governor's order, and the army from Guangdong and Guangxi is continuously reaching the designated position to encircle the Takishui Luopan Mountain.There are nearly [-] Yao villages in Luopan Mountain. Ling Yunyi is going to set up a net of heaven and earth, advancing layer by layer, to capture or kill all the Yao people inside, and solve the problem of chaos among the Yao people in Guangdong and Guangxi at one time.

And Liu Xian's intervention will take at least one third of the credit for this splash.Moreover, Ling Yunyi believes that Liu Xian's military discipline and domineering personality cannot be reversed in martial arts in just two years. Therefore, how to arrange Liu Xian will become more difficult than attacking Luo Pangyao. question.

However, all these doubts were dissipated at the moment when the new army disintegrated.The new army set out from the capital at the end of February and arrived in Zhaoqing, Guangdong on May [-], during which they had to detour more than a thousand miles.However, seeing the posture of this troop standing there after the formation, Ling Yunyi knew that using this troop would at least reduce the casualties of the soldiers from Guangdong and Guangxi by more than half.

Liu Xian has also changed a lot, and he does not have the arrogance to lead the new army.When he met Ling Yunyi, he paid homage as a military attache under his command, and was called "the great commander".In fact, speaking of Ling Yunyi, he was nothing more than an imperial envoy of the military affairs of Guangdong and Guangxi, while Liu Xian was the head coach of the expedition to Burma, and he also had the flag of Wang Ming.The reason why Liu Xian was so humble was of course because Zhu Yijun had secretly instructed him.

When Ling Yunyi saw that Liu Xian was on the road, he didn't do anything for himself, and the two entered the Governor's Mansion together.After eating and drinking, Ling Yunyi asked Liu Xian if he had any requirements for the combat method and mission of this battle.

Liu Xian shook his head and said: "My subordinates have fought against Yaozhai in Guangdong in the 40th year of Jiajing, so there is no requirement this time - the emperor asked me to wait, so that the new army can learn the skills of mountain warfare from the Zu soldiers. Soldiers fight."

When Ling Yunyi heard about it, he took Liu Xian to the sand table after thinking for a while and said, "Shuai Liu, please take a look. The land beside Luo is divided into three parts, namely Dongshan, Xishan, and Longshuihoushan, stretching for seven hundred miles. It connects Xinxing in the east, Yangchun in the south, Yulin and Cenxi in the west, the Yangtze River in the north, and Wanshan. There are about 20 to 40 Yaos and children among them."

"In the past hundred years, although it has been suppressed many times, it has been rushed again, and it has been rampant as before. It has also gathered many desperate people and helped them to be brutal. There are thousands of mountains, soldiers come and I will come, and soldiers will come and I will come.', to be honest, it is really not easy to calm down."

"In order to collect their merits in one battle, and to reform the land and return them to the people, we must kill them this time. Therefore, the commander has conscripted 15 troops from Guangdong and Guangxi, with the soldiers as the main force, and divided them into ten posts to encircle the iron wall. All the intersections were strangled, and then we sent elite soldiers to attack from the outside to the inside, and then ten sentries attacked inwardly, strangling all the villages, and thunderbolts swept the holes."

Liu Xian saw the flags on the sand table vertically and horizontally, and all the armies were basically deployed in place. He was secretly convinced by Ling Yunyi, and said with a smile, "Zhang Yuanyao and Li Xi are the commander of Guangdong and the commander of Guangxi. Who is in charge?"

Ling Yunyi said: "After the battle begins, the two of them will control five posts each, strangling them from the outside to the inside, no matter where they meet and join forces, they will listen to Li Xi's restraint after joining forces."

Liu Xian listened with a hesitant look on his face and said: "Let me listen to the commander, no problem. But after entering, let me listen to Li Xi, this."

Ling Yunyi heard it, and laughed: "This commander is in Zhaoqing just to wait for you. Now that you have arrived, we two brothers will act together. General Chen Lin will bring all the soldiers, and let them follow the new army. Enter from Xinyi!"

(End of this chapter)