I want to be emperor

Chapter 498

The people in the navy said they went to Jeju to raise horses, and the people in the army knew why they said that as soon as they heard it.

Isn't it because if they attack Jeju, they have to use their navy, and then use it to get more military expenses.

As for your saying that the water and grass are abundant and suitable for raising horses, there are actually many places to go, and you don't have to go to remote islands to raise horses.

It's just that although the army knew the navy's plan, it didn't say too much and refused directly.

In the future, if Liaodong and the Koryo Peninsula are captured, it is not impossible to go to Jeju to raise horses. It is always good to have one more horse farm.

But that's all for later.

Now, we still have to focus on the horse farms in the Central Plains and the Shaanxi-Gansu region, and first increase the number of military horses, especially the number of horses that can be ridden.

In November of the fifth year of Chengshun, the Great Chu Empire adopted a series of policies to support the horse administration, encouraging and supporting private horse breeding, and at the same time expanding the official horse farms. There are many official horse farms planned, except for places such as Shaanxi, Gansu and Shandong. , Even Guangdong, Guangxi and even Yunnan are planning to open horse farms to breed horses.

It's just that many of the Yunnan-Guizhou area are still under the control of the remnants of the Western Ming Army. The Chu Army wanted to speed up the progress of the war in Yunnan-Guizhou, and it was also because the war in the north subsided again after winter.

Taking advantage of the initial calming of the war in the north, the Great Chu Empire mobilized a lot of resources to invest in the Yunnan-Guizhou battlefield. Just to the Yunnan battlefield, five divisions were reinforced, four of which were newly created second-class divisions, and one was originally deployed in Guangdong. The first-class division, that is, the No.13 division.

The No.13 division previously stationed in Guangdong began to fully reorganize and reequip in October, because the weapons and equipment were transported by sea at one time. Tens of thousands of flintlock guns and corresponding thousands of sets of special musketeers Light half body armor, and thousands of recruits trained in advance have also been prepared.

Therefore, it took only half a month to complete personnel adjustments, equipment distribution and other matters, followed by intensive training, and after a month and a half of initial adaptive training, they were finally transferred to Guangxi in December, and then they continued to move westward. Yunnan, participating in the war in Yunnan.

By this time, the Chu army had invested two first-class divisions and five second-class divisions in the direction of Yunnan, with a total strength of more than 7 troops.

Just looking at the number of troops, it is no less than the troops attacking Shaanxi, Gansu and Shanxi.

The reason why so many troops were invested was due to the influence of the local terrain and the complexity of the chieftains, and the Great Chu Empire was unwilling to open up and close directly. The army directly rushed in and attacked Huanglong, letting many messy chieftains go.

The military action taken by the Great Chu Empire in the direction of Yunnan and Guizhou was not simply to destroy Ximing, but to take advantage of this opportunity to completely reverse the situation where there are many local chieftains, and fully implement the "Waste soil to build counties".

This is a more radical and unfriendly policy than that of the local chieftains in the Ming Dynasty. This is also the reason why many local chieftains desperately resisted, which led to the slow advance of the Chu army.

But Luo Zhixue made up his mind, taking advantage of this opportunity to enter Yunnan and Guizhou, completely bring Yunnan and Guizhou, places with many chieftains, into the actual rule, and kill all the chieftains at once, instead of letting many chieftain families go, and slowly playing with it later. Soil returns.

Any reform is most likely to succeed in the early days of the dynasty. After the world is peaceful, it will be more difficult to carry out such a large-scale reform.

Therefore, Luo Zhixue would rather send more troops, let the frontline troops fight steadily, and use the method of dragging the net to advance, rather than see these chieftains survive in the world, and then a rebellion will occur in a few years.

As the Chu army continues to increase its troops, although the combat method is still advancing steadily, there are more directions to advance at the same time, and the overall progress is also faster.

Tens of thousands of troops dispersed and pushed across the way. Countless chieftains who had ruled the area for hundreds of years or even longer fell to the ground one after another. Civil affairs officials in the rear followed the army and set up administrative departments at all levels, counties, towns, and even villages. Rule, and completely bring these places into the actual rule of the Great Chu Empire.

On December 26, at the end of the fifth year of Chengshun, the No.13 Division of the Chu Army, which had just entered the battlefield, captured Kunming City and wiped out most of the main force of the Ximing Xingwu regime, more than [-] people.

However, the dignitaries of the Xingwu Dynasty, such as Emperor Xingwu Zhu Youzhu and Duke Qian Mu Tianbo, had already evacuated Kunming, the Yunnan prefecture, and fled to Dali Mansion.

But on the other side, it didn't take long for the Fifth Division of the Great Chu Empire to kill Dali Mansion.

This time, the Chu army directly cut off their breakout route and surrounded Dali tightly. When the Chu army launched the final general offensive, the remaining [-] troops of the Xingwu Dynasty were wiped out.

On February [-]th of the sixth year of Chengshun, the Chu army broke through Dali City.

Mu Tianbo, Lord of the State of Qian, took more than a hundred personal guards and tried his best to cover Emperor Xingwu's breakout, but failed to break through, and was finally forced to the Erhai Lake by soldiers of the Chu Army.

In desperation, Mu Tianbo led the only remaining personal guards to resist desperately, and died in a fierce battle. Emperor Xingwu Zhu Youchen threw himself into the water and died!

The rest of the civil and military officials of the Xingwu Dynasty who followed them all the way from Kunming to Dali, including many clans, all died.

After the First World War in Dali, the Xingwu Dynasty was officially destroyed!

And this is already the fourth Ximing regime that was wiped out by the Great Chu Empire since the death of Emperor Chongzhen, and it is also the last Ximing regime.

The first one is the Longxing regime. After Chongzhen committed suicide, Sun Chuanting supported Zhu Changhao to proclaim himself emperor in Chang'an, Shaanxi, and awarded the year name "Longxing".

Because this Longxing Emperor Zhu Changhao was the son of Zhu Yijun, the only remaining Ming Shenzong, and his lineage was the closest to Chongzhen, after the death of Chongzhen, he was regarded as orthodox by most of the remnants of the Ming Dynasty, even if he was ambitious. Liangyu once supported Zhu Changhao, king of Lu, to supervise the country, but was later forced to abolish the country and recognize Zhu Changhao's legitimacy.

After the death of Emperor Longxing Zhu Changhao, other remnants of the Ming Dynasty successively supported two emperors and one supervisor.

That is to say, Lu Wang Zhu Changhao, who was supported by Zuo Liangyu in Yan'an, Shaanxi, proclaimed himself emperor and awarded the reign name Shao'an, but this Shao'an dynasty perished within a few months.

The civil and military officials in Sichuan, headed by the governor Shao Jiechun, forced Shu Wang Zhu Zhishu to supervise the country. He also failed to persist for a few months and was wiped out. The head of the man saved his own life.

The officials of Yunnan and Guizhou, headed by Mu Tianbo, the Duke of Guizhou, supported the King of Gui, Zhu Youzhen, as the emperor, and awarded the title of Xingwu. After the Shu King Zhu Zhishu and Shao'an Emperor Zhu Changhao died one after another, Emperor Xingwu became the last one to win The emperor who was widely recognized by the remnants of the Ming Dynasty, the Xingwu Dynasty took advantage of the trend and became the last regime of the Ming Dynasty to control the actual territory.

It is a pity that the Xingwu Dynasty was destroyed before it could last long.

With the fall of the Xingwu regime, the Great Chu Empire finally completed the unification of the land of Yunnan and Guizhou.

The battle of unification in the Yunnan-Guizhou area was also the battle that the Chu army fought the longest and invested the most troops.

In terms of time, in fact, after the Chu army captured Chunan, they had already entered the Guizhou area and fought against the local Ming army. They fought for several years until the sixth year of Chengshun.

It has been four years since Chengshun officially entered Yunnan, and he has been fighting for more than a year.

Even though they fought for so long, it was more because the Great Chu Empire did not pay too much attention to this place, and did not invest a lot of manpower and material resources before, but it has been fought for several years, which cannot be faked.

In terms of military strength, the Chu army successively invested three first-class divisions, five second-class divisions, and several independent artillery, cavalry, and supply units in Yunnan. There were as many as eight division-level troops. At the peak, Chu The army has more than 10 troops fighting in Yunnan.

In Guizhou, although the Chu army hadn’t fought much, but because of the strategic needs of pulling the net and flat pushing, they also invested a lot of troops. There were two first-class divisions and two second-class divisions attacking Guizhou from the south of Chu. There are also two first-class divisions and one second-class division attacking Guizhou from Sichuan.

Calculated, the Chu army fighting in Guizhou also reached 9 to [-] at its peak.

In the entire Yunnan-Guizhou direction, the Chu army successively invested more than 20 troops. This is a very large number, even surpassing the previous Northern Expedition and the number of troops during the Western Front Campaign.

Therefore, strictly speaking, the Battle of Yunnan-Guizhou was the battle that took the longest time and invested the most troops in the Great Chu Empire.

It's just that it is far inferior to the Northern Expedition or the Western Front Campaign in terms of intensity.

The Chu army invested a large amount of troops in the Yunnan-Guizhou area, and they carried out more low-intensity battles, fighting with all kinds of messy chieftains and gentry.

In a sense, the Yunnan-Guizhou Campaign is a bit similar to the suppression campaign launched by the Chu Army in Jiangbei, Central Plains, Hebei, Shandong and other areas. Its targets were not only the Western Ming Army, but also various illegal armed forces.

And after such a harsh dragnet-style battle, all the known chieftain forces in Yunnan and Guizhou were wiped out, and all the recalcitrant gentry and Ximing remnant forces were also wiped out, as for those bandits and bandits. Needless to say, they were basically killed.

After the Yunnan-Guizhou campaign, the local law and order quickly soared to a good level, and there was no need to carry out special operations to eliminate illegal armed forces in the future.

As the Chu army captured Dali and continued to sweep the local remnants and chieftain forces, the entire Yunnan-Guizhou campaign came to a successful conclusion in March, and the Great Chu Empire fully unified the Han area in Guannei.

As the good news from the front came back to Jinling City, Luo Zhixue took advantage of the situation and ordered that the Yunnan-Guizhou Campaign Command be split up on the spot and the Guizhou Garrison Command and the Yunnan Garrison Command be established.

In addition, the Guangdong-Guangdong Garrison Command was re-split into the Guangdong Garrison Command and the Guangxi Garrison Command.

After all, there is no great external threat in the south today, and there is no need to set up a special frontier defense command to deal with the enemies all over the country and to govern the heavy troops. The provincial garrison commands can be directly responsible for the border defense.

(End of this chapter)