Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1463 Changes in Southern Border ([-])
Huang Zhiting did put forward her own suggestion, but it was another letter, sealed with wax.From the coat of arms, it can only be opened by Gao Yushi, so the people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs left the letter in Baiyulou, and they will not know until he goes there in person.

The motorcade speeded back to the Baiyu Building. As soon as they arrived at the square garden outside the building, Gao Wushi saw Liu Xin standing on the stone steps, as if waiting for him.He took a few steps forward, and sure enough, Liu Xin gave a little blessing and said, "Master."

These actions and words are obviously a face-saving project, and they are only for the highly pragmatic followers to see.Gao Wushi knew in his heart that she must also be here for Nan Zhang's matter, so he nodded and said, "Go in and talk."

After entering Baiyulou, Gao Wushi brought Liu Xin and Gao Mo to his study.Sure enough, there was a letter on the table in the study room, and the wax lacquer on the letter was stamped with an exquisite print of a heron with a bird in its mouth and a fish in its mouth.

The egret is one of the totems of the children, and it is a symbol of the rice harvest.In Tongren folk's "Mo Jing", egret is an animal created by Tongren's ancestor Bu Luotuo, and it is also an auspicious bird worshiped by Tongren's ancestors. It is said that it has the ability to reach the sky.

On Tongren's bronze drums, there are often many patterns of Xianglu flying around the sun, and there is another pattern of Xianglu holding fish poked on the wax paint. [Note: If you are interested, you can Baidu "Xianglu Bronze Drum with Fish Pattern". ]
This Xianglu pattern was originally commonly used by virgins and female chieftains, but in Jinghua—or today's southern Xinjiang, only Huang Zhiting can use it, which is equivalent to a status symbol.Generally, when Huang Zhiting wrote a letter to Gao Yushi, if he used the pattern of Xianglu around the sun, it was mostly a family matter, and if he used the pattern of Xianglu holding a fish, it was probably an official business in southern Xinjiang.

Gao Wushi looked at the emblem of Xianglu holding a fish on the wax paint, and he already understood most of Huang Zhiting's attitude in this letter: she thought that Huang Yinglei's matter this time was not a family matter but an official business.

After pondering for a while, Gao Wushi opened the letter with a paper knife, took out the letter paper and read it.This letter is not too long, in terms of content, it is divided into two parts.

The first half is an apology.In the letter, Huang Zhiting defined Huang Yinglei's actions as disobedience and rebellion, and said that such a situation was due to her sister's ineffective teaching and ineffective command, and she asked for punishment.

The second half is disposal.In her letter, she stated that the Vientiane garrison had been ordered to prepare for combat, but the current main duty is to keep an eye on Vientiane City.

In addition, she ordered the Jingang Garrison to dispatch more than 8000 troops from the Two Alliances, the Phnom Penh Garrison to the Two Alliances, and the Phnom Penh Garrison to about 8000 troops. Together with her own, she personally led the Dingnan Garrison Three Associations with more than 12000 soldiers and more than 4000 wolf soldiers directly under Dingnan City. , a total of more than 32000 people, encircling Vientiane on three sides-if you add the Vientiane Guard Army, there are a total of more than 50000 people, encircling Vientiane City on four sides.

What's more, she asked Gao Wushi to order the abolition of the "Mengzhan Town" and "Mengzhan Prince" of Nanzhang Kingdom.

The Nanzhang Kingdom is composed of various "Meng", large and small, and the meaning of Meng is roughly equivalent to a city-state.The administrative structure of Nanzhang Kingdom is the same as that of most Theravada Buddhist countries in Southeast Asia. The country can be divided into three categories:

The first category is the "Gyeonggi" area directly ruled by the king.Although the word Gyeonggi in Chinese generally only refers to the capital and its vicinity, and is usually not very large, a small country like Nanzhang is different. This area is not only not small in its territory, but also mostly a relatively developed core area. ;
The second category is the "Zhifan" area where the king dispatched his cronies to rule the royal family.The chiefs of the Zhifan area could be local officials or local officials, but they were all directly appointed and dismissed by the king.Rubijue's father, King Setattila, moved his capital to Nanghan (Vientiane), and appointed his younger brother Ubalu as King Mengshan (King of Luang Prabang).Setatira's grandfather, Vesunara, was also appointed as Marquis of Nanghan (Marquis of Vientiane) before becoming king;

The third category is the "foreign vassal" areas of the hereditary chiefs in the frontier areas.For example, the Huapan area (near Annan, which is called "Penman" in Annan historical records) was inherited by the local headman (named "Qin") from generation to generation.

Mengzhan is an area in the southeast of Nanzhang Kingdom. It is located on the Bolaven Plateau. It is named after its main city, Champasak. This is also the fief of Huang Yinglei after he moved from Annan to Nanzhang.After Nanzhang became independent from Burma, because of the relocation of the town, Mengzhan Town was established under Champasak - a "town" like the military towns of the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, because Huang Yinglei is the husband of the eldest princess (Nanzhang was not called a son-in-law at first, but now because of Jinghua's relationship, he has brought Daming's habits into a lot, and sometimes some people call him that), according to the custom, he should be a prince.So Nuojiao Gumeng ordered Huang Yinglei to be canonized as Prince Mengzhan of Nanzhang Kingdom.

One more sentence should be added here: when Princess Bia Kyaw revolted against her uncle U Ba Lud's Burmese puppet regime, the city of Attape where the headquarters is located was not far to the east of Champasak.The later Mengzhan Town included Atzopo City and its surrounding areas.

In other words, Huang Yinglei is very powerful in the Boluofen Plateau in the southeast of Nanzhang Kingdom, and because of Princess Bijue's relationship, the couple's popularity in the area is not low.

Huang Yinglei's own armament is his wolf soldiers, there are three thousand people.According to Huang Zhiting, these three thousand wolf soldiers have two characteristics: one is elite, because Huang Yinglei is the eldest son of the main branch of the Huang family. The selected ones are no worse than Huang Zhiting's direct subordinate wolf soldiers.

The second is that these wolf soldiers were under the command of Huang Zhiting for a long time. It was not until Jinghua arrived in the entire southern Xinjiang and Huang Yinglei moved to occupy the town that Huang Zhiting returned these elite wolf soldiers to Huang Yinglei.

Although she didn't say it clearly, Gao Yushi guessed that she personally led the troops to Vientiane this time, probably because of this.The reason is very simple, this group of people and the elite have been under her command for a long time, she may be thinking of taking over peacefully.

Generally speaking, two conditions are required for such a thing as peaceful subjugation: one is that the person who goes to subdue must be famous, just like Guo Ziyi riding alone and retreating Uighur soldiers.This is Huang Zhiting's. Although most of her power in southern Xinjiang comes from her status as "Mrs. Gao", her reputation is really not good. Her reputation is earned by herself.

From the Battle of Lang Son, to the expedition to Burma, to the pacification of Siam, and even the destruction of Cambodia, it was all the deployments she arranged in Dingnan City.The Han people in southern Xinjiang often call her and Liu Xin the peerless twins, but compared to the record of the two of them, Huang Zhiting is more prominent.Coupled with the relationship of identity, everyone defaulted to Huang Zhiting being in front.

Since the wolf army has been led by her for a long time, she naturally respects this reputation even more. Therefore, it is normal for Huang Zhiting to have such thoughts in this regard.

The second condition is prestige. The most straightforward meaning of prestige is how many soldiers you bring.After all, Guo Ziyi's situation is relatively rare, and it is still difficult for ordinary people to do it.

Huang Zhiting mobilized more than 5 troops this time, including the Vientiane Garrison, a total of more than [-].Compared with Huang Yinglei and Bia Jue, this strength is naturally crushing.

Princess Biyajue handed over power very thoroughly at that time, and after marrying Huang Yinglei, she didn't need to personally command the army. The former Nanzhang Yulin Army, who had only less than 500 people around her for a long time, served as a security force.Huang Yinglei's situation has just been mentioned. Because he was ineffective in his early years, his sister Huang Zhiting has always been in charge of the military power. It was not until Yizhen Mengzhan that he got the three thousand wolf soldiers.

In other words, the couple theoretically have a total of 500 direct military forces, of which [-] wolf soldiers may abandon their secrets and turn to the open after learning of Huang Zhiting's personal conquest.

However, there is another situation here, that is, the imperial forest army in Nanzhang used to reach 5 to 5 at the most. Later, because Gao Yushi thought that Nanzhang was poor and deep inland, he did not need to raise so many soldiers, so he swiped a pen. , When the Vientiane Garrison was reorganized based on the Nanzhang Yulin Army, the nearly 2 people were directly cut off by almost [-], leaving only about [-] people.

Next, Gao Yushi adjusted the formation of the southern Xinjiang garrison according to the similar formation of the Imperial Guard of the Ming Dynasty, that is, from top to bottom, there are eight levels in total: army, town, association, standard, battalion, company, platoon, and shed. Among them, towns are the basic organizational system and incorporated into various garrison forces.

This basic organization means the basic unit of combat, and large-scale troop deployments are usually mobilized from town to town, or at least one association and one association. For example, Huang Zhiting's conquest this time is based on the association.

When "incorporating into various garrison armies", the number of towns under the jurisdiction of each garrison army varies.For example, the largest garrison in southern Xinjiang is now the Dingnan garrison, with a total of five towns of about 6 people planned, ten Concordes and several independent artillery battalions, horse battalions, and engineer battalions; the smallest garrison It is the Vientiane Garrison, not to mention two towns with more than [-] people, and apart from the four associations, there are few independent battalions under its jurisdiction.

The rest of the garrison forces such as Thang Long, Jingang, Bago, and Phnom Penh are usually organized in three to four towns.

More than 3 people from the Imperial Forest Army in Nanzhang were cut off. These people were also the meritorious troops when Princess Bijue raised the army. Of course, it is impossible to dismiss them directly with a single order.So a compromise was made at that time. The original "king property" of the puppet king Ubalu near Vientiane, including fields, forests, etc., was distributed to the 3 people according to their merits and status.

To some extent, these more than 3 soldiers are actually like "army soldiers" near Vientiane, and they all stayed near Vientiane.Now that Princess Bijue has declared her regency and returned to Vientiane, Gao Yushi reckons that she will not forget these people, and it is very likely that they will be reorganized into an army for use.

In this way, the strength of Huang Yinglei and Biajue's couple immediately soared to more than 3 people, which can be regarded as a strong force.Huang Zhiting wanted to subdue the wolf soldiers. Apart from the Missy's historical prestige, the wolf soldiers must also consider their own strength. It is not impossible for these [-] soldiers to give them the illusion that they can fight.

Of course, although these 3 people were in the army earlier, their disadvantages are also obvious.First of all, the so-called Nanzhang Yulin Army before the reorganization was not strong in combat power-in the original history, under the command of Princess Bijue, this army did enter Vientiane City from the southeast all the way and overthrew the rule of Ubalu.But the problem is that the Burmese army suppressed them as soon as they came, which shows that their strength is just that.

Another disadvantage is weaponry and training. There is nothing to say about weaponry. Although the Vientiane Garrison after reorganization received the lowest attention in southern Xinjiang, after all, as a garrison, the infantry equipment of each unit has been effectively provided. Upgrades, muskets and cold weapons are all fully equipped.Except for the establishment of one town, the proportion of troops directly under the towns such as independent artillery battalion and independent horse battalion is lower than that of other towns.

The lack of artillery battalions and horse battalions means that not only are their ability to defend the city weaker than other garrison troops, but the diversity of field tactics will also be compromised.

In this situation, coupled with the fact that the overall military strength is not dominant, and it will take time to recruit the more than 3 people for establishment, Gao Pragmatically estimates that Huang Yinglei and Biajue can only choose to defend the city.

If she defended the city, she might be in Huang Zhiting's arms - except for the [-] wolf soldiers directly under her and staying with her in Dingnan City, the troops she mobilized this time are all regular garrison troops, and the artillery has an obvious advantage.

Although Vientiane City is the capital of Nanzhang Kingdom, Gao Yushi has never regarded it as the main development area, nor did he think that there will be any war there.Therefore, there is no "bastion" of the city defense system, and the city defense of Vientiane City does not pose a great threat to this conquest.

Gao Yushi thought about it, and felt that the difficulty of Huang Zhiting's expedition this time was at least much lower than that of the previous expedition to Burma, and there should be no danger, so he secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

Perhaps seeing him recovering from his thoughts, Liu Xin asked, "How? Is she pleading for Huang Yinglei, or is she planning to conquer him?"

Gao Wushi said: "She has already led troops to attack."

"Sure enough." Liu Xin raised her eyebrows slightly: "I knew she would do this."

"Oh?" Gao Wushi said helplessly, "What's your opinion?"

"I don't have any good ideas, I'm just thinking..." Liu Xin pursed her lips: "The so-called married daughter's water is really very popular in Daming."

Gao Wushi was silent for a while, and did not answer.

Liu Xin sighed, and asked, "Don't you think Huang Zhi...Huang Dutong is very pitiful? He has tried every means and carefully planned, but in the end it is inevitable to make a choice between the husband and the family."

Gao Wushi sighed, not knowing how to answer, Gao Mo came out to help him and said: "Miss Liu, Huang Yinglei is solely responsible for this matter. Master and Madam have already done their best to him, but he himself does not know what is right and what is wrong. , Ambition is hard to tame, so it makes madam difficult."

Liu Xin spread her hands and said, "Of course I understand the truth, so I just say that Huang Dutong is pitiful... Poor family has such a useless younger brother, don't you think so?"

Gao Mo smiled and nodded slightly.As far as he is concerned, as long as Gao Yushi is not involved, he can say whatever he wants.

Unexpectedly, Gao Wushi sighed, as if he didn't really want to talk about this matter, he changed the subject and said, "This time it really happened at an inopportune time."

Both Liu Xin and Gao Mo looked at him in surprise, but they heard Gao Wushi continue, "Just now something unexpected happened in the Xishan Bieyuan... In short, the Beiyang side is going to use force against the Philippines... against Luzon."

Liu Xin and Gao Mo were startled when they heard this.
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