The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 857 Destroying the "Battle Nation"

Xin Wang Zhu Youjian still has important tasks to do, which is actually nothing more than hugging grass and beating rabbits.

The two armies joined forces with more than 580 troops. Zhu Youjian and Ma Xiangling respectively led tens of thousands to surround Zhangjiakou and Datong Town, which governs Bawei, Qisuo, and [-] Sanbao without warning.

Rampant smuggling is inseparable from the collusion between officials and businessmen. The Datong frontier army has been corrupted by Shanxi merchants from the root, and too many generals in the army have degenerated into merchants or simply the nephews of those traitorous merchants.

"Zhu Ming" fattened Shanxi merchants, "Huang Ming" prepared to kill pigs for the New Year, and 10,000+ troops came to Zhangjiakou, Datong and other places to search their homes. Just look at whether these profit-seeking merchants have supernatural powers?

The participants in this military operation were all the soldiers of the "God of War" and the Sichuan army. There was no possibility of leaking secrets. Even so, Zhu Youjian did not disclose the specific attack target before encircling Zhangjiakou.

Zhu Youjian knew for a long time that Shanxi merchants were traitorous, but they could detect any trouble in the imperial court with their hands and eyes, and they were deeply intertwined with the frontier army. The Emperor Chongzhen at that time was wary.

This time, Zhu Youjian felt very happy to be able to personally lead tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to settle accounts with Jin Shang Qiuhou.

The besieged Zhangjiakou was in order, and the frontier soldiers honestly disarmed and went to the concentration camps outside the city to defend themselves.

Due to the sudden action, the later generations of the "Eight Imperial Merchants of the Qing Dynasty", Shanxi merchants Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, Wang Dayu, Liang Jiabin, Tian Shenglan, Zhai Tang, and Huang Yunfa were all blocked in Zhangjiakou, Datong or their hometowns.

How can a mere businessman fight against the state apparatus?In the face of one after another case of smuggling and collaborating with the enemy, there was no hard bone, and everyone cried bitterly and begged for mercy.

In the end, the Ming Dynasty had an extra 3000 million taels of silver, and Siberia had an extra [-] immigrants.

Zhu Youjian didn't expect these merchants to be as rich as a country. He thought that during his 17 years as emperor, he was always worrying about food and salary, and these black-hearted merchants were so rich!
He was full of murderous intent and wanted to wipe out all these profiteers.

But God has the virtue of good life. Emperor Zhongxing is kind enough to ask for money but not to die. He just exiled the three tribes of Shanxi merchants to Siberia to cultivate and graze. Of course, they are willing to start from scratch to do business such as deerskin and timber. They can get "Huaxia Bank" low-interest loan support.

Although he was not able to wield the butcher's knife to kill those profiteers, Zhu Youjian also felt hearty. He finally knew how important it is to have an army as powerful as his arms, and thought about taking the "God of War" soldiers to the south of the Yangtze River again.

Get rid of the traitorous Jin merchants, not only more silver in the national treasury, but also a lot of real estate and land property. The money for purging the frontier army and resettling the refugees is naturally very rich.

Seven days after the army was repaired, Ma Xiangling selected a part of the frontier army and the Sichuan army to form twelve battalions and divided them into three groups to clean the prairie in the clear autumn, and cooperated with Zu Kuan and Li Dingguo's troops who had already started attacking.

The tactical task was to weaken the Tartar tribes, and the strategic purpose was to drive the Mongols all the way west.There are too many Mongols, and it is impossible and impossible to kill them all at once, and drive them into Europe as much as possible to compete with the old Maozi.

In history, the Han people once drove the powerful Huns to Europe to embrace the declining Roman Empire. Later, the rising Mongols completely conquered Russia under the leadership of Batu. It was the only time in history that Moscow was broken and completely occupied by an enemy country.

Is there really no one in Russia who dares to mess with the so-called "battle nation"?
The answer is no, the Mongols once completely conquered them.Batu established the "Golden Horde" centered on the Volga River, and enslaved the "fighting nation" for 250 years.

Huang Sheng was very curious about whether Haug and Azig, who had gained a large number of cavalry, would defeat the "fighting nation" and form them into the Yellow-haired Army of the Eight Banners?Isn't it cool that Lao Maozi has a scoop-shaved head and a thin yellow braid at the back of his head?

In order to achieve this effect, the Han people must drive the Mongols, Uyghurs, Turks, and Cossacks westward as much as possible, and let these wandering peoples who lost their homes kiss the "fighting peoples".

After Jiannu ran far away, he was not chased by the "God of War" soldiers. At this time, Hauge had already led the Eight Banners to put them to death and conquered the Torghut tribe in one fell swoop, and the force expanded three times.

The [-] Turghut Tartars turned the Volga Valley into a hunting ground with the cooperation of the Jiannu cavalry, and too many old men were shaved and turned into Aha.

Occupying the vast Siberia, the task of Zu Kuan, Li Dingguo and other generals is to digest the territories they have won, and annihilate or drive the steppe people who do not accept the kingship all the way west.

The grassland peoples who choose to submit to them divide and rule them. The method is simple and effective, similar to the Tweet Order, which overthrows the customary system of the grassland peoples having the strong as the tribal leader.

Divide the large tribe into small and medium-sized tribes with no more than [-] men, and the leader supported by the "God of War" soldiers will serve as the tribal chief.

The tribal chiefs were able to exercise their power only when they were canonized by Emperor Zhongxing, and they were able to avoid being attacked by the Ming army.

The foreign chieftains recognized by the Ming court are of course Sinicization activists, and they are the benchmark figures of the king's transformation. Chiefs who can't speak Chinese and write Chinese characters will be included in the list of being wiped out or expelled.

Of course, the "God of War" soldiers led the Mongolian tribes loyal to Ming to send troops to attack the tribes that refused to Sinicize. A group of friendly foreign tribes is not conducive to the ruler of Ming Dynasty. From time to time, it is quite necessary to cause wars and hatred among foreign tribes.

The war in the mainland of Ming Dynasty has come to an end, and the Japanese battlefield will usher in an inhumane offensive and defensive battle.

Chief General Shi Huanjin, Deputy General Yan Yingyuan and Zan Hua worked out a tactic to lure the shogunate army to concentrate their forces and defend Edo to encircle and wipe them out.

Naturally, Tokugawa Iemitsu was not reconciled to failure, and recruited civilians to strengthen the city wall day and night. He thought that Edo Castle had already been impregnable.

At the same time, Tokugawa Iemitsu has been dispatching troops and generals. He is reluctant to use these troops to attack the Ming army. He is familiar with the art of war and knows that such a style of play is a refueling tactic, which will consume troops in vain.

Seeing many foreign troops loyal to him come to Edo Castle, he believed that there should be no enemy in this world who could defeat tens of thousands of samurai and take Edo Castle.

Tokugawa Iemitsu's plan was to concentrate all his troops to defend Edo Castle, tempting the Ming army to fight tough battles to consume their vital strength, and when the veterans of the Ming army were exhausted, they would go all out to launch a counterattack and strive for victory in the First World War.

The generals of both sides have their own ghosts, and only by concentrating their forces under the city of Edo will they reach the same goal by different routes.

The Ming army that Tokugawa Iemitsu was waiting for arrived as scheduled in early August of the 17th year of Chongzhen, but the expected large-scale siege of the Ming army did not proceed. Compared with combat, the Ming army seems to prefer engineering construction.

Less than 20 days had passed since the Ming army approached the city, and Iemitsu Tokugawa felt his head was as big as a bucket, because the Ming army seemed to coincide with him, and they built weird fortifications around Jiangwai, as if they were waiting for work. The shogunate army went to attack.

The scouts of the shogunate continued to report the layout of the Ming army's camp, and Tokugawa Iemitsu and many major generals also used binoculars to look at the Ming army's camp.

How can these Japanese people understand the modern three-dimensional fortifications of trenches with three floors inside and three floors outside and barbed wire, but they feel the solemnity of the fortifications, and they are three points timid before fighting.

Tokugawa Iemitsu thought that he had no good strategy for attacking the Ming army's camp. When the generals gathered for discussion, he publicly announced that the shogunate's tactics were to replace offense with defense, and the purpose was to preserve strength and exchange time for space.

He ordered the generals not to attack the camp of the Ming army without authorization. Obviously, it was a trap of the Ming army. The general of the Ming army tried to consume Edo's defense force with fortifications.

The general ordered that no attack be allowed, and the shogunate army, of course, retreated to garrison in Edo with peace of mind. In this way, the two armies fell into a confrontation, and the war situation seemed to have entered a stage of strategic stalemate.

The civilian and military generals of the shogunate army all believed that this time should be compared with the endurance and material reserves of the generals of the two sides. The shogunate army should not panic.

Moreover, the Wa Kingdom did not encounter a surprise attack. They had already made up their minds to live and die with Edo City, and for this reason, they also made reserves early. It is not a problem to support materials and food for a year.

In autumn, the air is crisp and dry, and the wooden buildings of Edo Castle account for more than [-]% of the buildings.

The Ming army knew that the established tactic was to attack by fire, so of course they would prevent the company from being burned by fire. The trenches besieging Edo City had already been dug, and not only that, they had also poured water to form a isolation zone.

At the beginning of September, the Ming army, which had completed the construction of the encirclement circle, was looking forward to it every day.The generals of the Ming army used high-powered binoculars to look at the Edo city defense from the steel watch posts at different positions. They were all counting the days and looking forward to the general attack.

(End of this chapter)