Daming: My brother-in-law is Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 279 Daming has plenty of martial virtues and uses industrial advantages to defeat Jiannu!

Since the implementation of reforms in the Ming Dynasty, the treasury has already been filled, and the imperial court has increased its own troops a lot. Many officers and soldiers have already been tempered into the backbone of the empire with good combat quality and command ability in the actual combat in southern Liaoning and southwest. .

Here, Liaonan refers to the battle against Jiannu.

And the Southwest is the rebellion of the Southwest Chieftain.

Turn the words back.

Because of this, for the rulers of Ming Dynasty, it is indeed time to put the resolution of the Liao issue on the agenda.

And solving Liao affairs is not just about solving Jiannu.

Today's rulers of the Ming Dynasty have a consensus that to solve the Liao affairs, in addition to solving the establishment of slaves, it is also necessary to solve the Liao generals who have disobeyed the imperial court.

Therefore, Yuan Keli said that to deal with the Liao generals, he had to deal with Jiannu first.

Apocalypse and others have no objection.

So, next, Daming began to prepare in an orderly manner for the battle to recover the two fortresses of Shenyang and Guangning.

The guards directly under the emperor began to transfer more to southern Liaoning, and other guest troops, such as the white-armed soldiers in Sichuan, were also transferred to southern Liaoning one after another.

Money is all about fighting.

As the saying goes, if you are poor, you will be interspersed with tactics, and if you are rich, you will be covered by firepower.

Daming is very rich now, so he didn't use any tricks in this battle, he just increased his troops and guns a lot.

In the rear, the Ministry of War kept drawing money from the treasury to allow the Industrial Division to produce more firearms and artillery.

The Industry Department used the money to frantically expand the scale of production, set up training schools, set up literacy and arithmetic classes, and used food and lodging as a bait to attract a large number of refugees to receive training and become new workers.

Right now, there is a severe drought in Guanzhong, so many refugees from Guanzhong are moving to the capital, giving the Industrial Division sufficient human resources.

Moreover, when the piecework system is implemented, a large number of skilled workers, except for sleeping, eating and going to the toilet, almost continuously forge the barrels of the guns.

As a result, many firearms and artillery were produced. Basically, as soon as a guard recruit joined the army, he could receive a flintlock. The key was that he could exchange for a new one when he went to the battlefield.

This is still under the condition of controlling the misfire rate.

Once a centralized regime with a population of hundreds of millions has sufficient financial resources, if the internal government has just been rectified and the top rulers are not rotten or cowardly, the war capability that will erupt is naturally amazing.

At least the advantages in terms of population and technological level can be directly reflected in the war.

What's more, in this era, the population of Ming Dynasty is incomparable to other regimes in terms of literacy rate, proportion of technical talents and the number of young and strong.

In the front, this advantage is even more obvious.

Sun Chuanting, who was directly in charge of commanding the battle, didn't need to think too hard about how to fight.

This advantage reduces the requirement for the commander's command ability in war.

Therefore, the current Sun Chuanting has chosen to continue to organize this battle in the way of fighting dumb battles and building a strong stronghold, allowing the various officers and troops under his command to advance step by step into Jiannu territory, and build new forts every time they travel a certain distance, and wait for the rear Gather up your forces and move on.

Moreover, all the new forts built were bastions promoted by Zhang Gui, so that the Ming government army, which mainly used firearms, could better guard against sneak attacks by Jiannu rangers.

On the other hand, the advancing Ming government army was more than [-] in size, marching in line with flintlock guns. When encountering a small group of Jiannu, they rushed forward regardless of division, and when encountering a large group of Jiannu, they directly stationed in place and built a city for a decisive battle.

In this way, Jiannu, whose total strength is less than [-], can neither use tactics to eat up part of the Ming Dynasty's army, nor can it lure the enemy to go deep and then eat up a part of the Daming army. He can only watch his own survival The space is compressed step by step.

As for the generals of the Ming government army who commanded a Ming government army in the front, they also fought against Jiannu many times, and gradually learned how to skillfully use their own firearms to suppress Jiannu, and even use new firearms to improve tactics.

Zhou Yuji has already learned how to cooperate with infantry and artillery, instead of the traditional musket array, directly assign a few artillery pieces and a team of artillery to the grassroots combat units at the banner level. When a large number of Jiannu appeared, the artillery battalion relied on its own abundant firepower to send the shells out desperately.

For Jiannu, they could only rely on their Jurchens talent in archery as a fishing and hunting nation and their bravery to fight against a Ming Empire with enhanced organization and stronger industrial capabilities.

The key point is that the current Jiannu has lost the two prestigious figures Nurhachi and Huang Taiji, and there are already many contradictions within the ruling group. The four-year-old Huang Taiji's fourth son Ye Bushu became a new profuse sweat.

All of this is naturally because Dorgon and other powerful banner owners are unwilling to allow Huang Taiji's son to boss around people like himself, and it is nothing more than a compromise of various banner owners to let Ye Bushu, an unweaned baby, become the new Khan. result.

In addition, within Jiannu, the conflict between the ruling class and the ruled was also intensifying, because the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty prevented the Manchu military aristocrats from plundering the Ming Dynasty to maintain internal rule stability, and a large number of bannermen could not get enough food and Salt and other necessities were starved to death or unable to produce, which made many bannermen in Jiannu have become Ming's secret workers because of their livelihood.

In particular, the Han people who fled to Jiannu to make coats because they could not bear the oppression of the Han military aristocrats in the Liao region were mostly bought by Ming Dynasty.

To sum up these factors, the Ming army under the command of Sun Chuanting successfully recovered Liaoyang in March of the ninth year of Tianqi.

In May of the ninth year of the Apocalypse, the Ming government army surrounded Shenyang, and concentrated hundreds of cannons to break through the city of Shenyang.

And the banner owners who built slaves were still quite intelligent people in this era, so they didn't choose to fight against the Ming government army in Shenyang City, but resolutely moved their capital back to Hetuala, and even Guangning voluntarily gave up. .

This is undoubtedly a better choice for the banner owners who built slaves. After all, their Jianzhou is mountainous, which can largely offset the firearms advantage of the Ming army, and it is easier to defeat the Ming army.

After regaining Liaoyang, Shenyang, and Guangning, the Ming government army did not rashly march towards Hetuala.

Because the real purpose of the Ming court was not to completely eliminate Jiannu, but to cut off the connection between Jiannu and Liao generals, and take the opportunity to deal with Zu Dashou and other Liao generals first.

As far as Zu Dashou was concerned, he had actually been in contact with Jiannu during this period of time, but he neither chose to join Jiannu, nor did he choose to rebel directly, and he didn't even choose to become king on his own.

Because Zu Dashou really didn't know what choice to make, even until the eve of the Ming Dynasty's official army regaining Liaoyang and Shenyang, he was still counting on Jiannu to defeat the official army, thereby stopping the Ming court's offensive in Liao, and making the He, a military landlord who is only willing to guard the west of Liaoning, can continue to be supported by the court with a high salary and Liao salary, and at the same time, he can take advantage of the power of becoming a slave without worrying about what the court will do to him.

But after the Ming Dynasty's army had recovered Shenyang, Liaoyang and even Guangning, he had no way out of any choice he made.

In order to paralyze Zu Dashou, and at the same time to test whether Zu Dashou is willing to lose his own interests, the Ming court first ordered Zu Dashou to be appointed as the commander-in-chief of Shenyang. As for Ningyuan, where Zu Dashou was located, Ma Xianglin, who led a white soldier to southern Liaoning and made great contributions, took over.

Zu Dashou naturally guessed the true intention of the imperial court, so he made the arrangements overnight and made up his mind to offer soil to Jiannu and join Jiannu.

That's right, after weighing the pros and cons, Zu Dashou still chose to accept Jiannu as the master, rather than becoming a king himself, because he was not sure that becoming a queen by himself would defeat the Ming Dynasty's army.

Unless, he, a Han Chinese military landlord in Liao, is willing to give up his interests to ordinary Liao Han people and mobilize more Liao people to guard the land for him.

Obviously, this is what Zu Dashou is unwilling to do.

Even if he was willing to do it, most of the other Liao generals would not allow him to do so.

Therefore, Zu Dashou could only choose to betray the country.

In front of rentiers, there is nothing not to sell.

Therefore, when Ma Xianglin led his white-armed soldiers to Ningyuan City to prepare to handover with Zu Dashou, Zu Dashou suddenly ordered the inner and outer city gates to be sealed, and surrounded Ma Xianglin's white-armed soldiers in the urn city.

Seeing this, Ma Xianglin shouted loudly: "Zu Dashou, what are you Liao people doing?!"

Zu Dashou said with a smile: "Naturally, I follow my Great Khan's order to take the head of you and other Ming dogs!"

After speaking, Zu Dashou ordered to the servants on the city wall: "Do it!"

"Who dares to do it!"

He Kegang yelled at this moment, and ordered his servants to raise the firecrackers, aiming at Zu Dashou's servants.

(End of this chapter)