Early Ming Dynasty: Turning Clouds and Rains into New Learning Saints

Chapter 237 Must learn a lesson

Just listen to Zhang Yifan say to Zhu Di: "Korean Bangzi still regards the Mongolian Tatars as his master, and he even killed me, the envoy of the Ming Dynasty. I will always remember this account!"

When Zhu Di heard this, he became more interested and immediately asked: "So? What do you think?"

Ma Yun, who was standing next to him, felt something was wrong while listening to the conversation between the two of them.Listening to this, is it possible that His Highness King Yan and the Prince Consort are going to make trouble in Dali?

Sure enough, Zhang Yifan replied to Zhu Di: "If Goryeo Bangzi really dares to send troops, even if they don't really want to help the Mongolian Tatars, but want to benefit from it, they can't bear it, and they must be taught a lesson. Otherwise , If you don’t learn a lesson, you will still disgust us in the future!”

"Yes, we must teach you a lesson!" When Zhu Di heard this, he immediately became happy. He immediately agreed and then asked, "The problem is that these Tatars in Naha have not been wiped out. How can we teach them a lesson?"

After hearing this, Zhang Yifan laughed and said: "That's not easy! If Goryeo really sends troops, they probably won't be weak soldiers. They must have the ability to make a profit, right? In this way, the troops in their hinterland are definitely not strong. . If you ask me, just land the navy and attack their capital directly to see if we can catch the King of Goryeo!"

Upon hearing that he was planning to attack the capital of Goryeo and capture the King of Goryeo, Zhu Di immediately became visibly excited and immediately asked: "Are you sure this method is feasible?"

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Zhang Yifan to answer, he asked and answered his own question: "It seems really possible. I have a navy in my hands. I can bypass the troops on the border of Goryeo and only take the capital of Goryeo!"

"That's right, there happens to be the Imjin River in the capital of Goryeo. It is easy for the navy to attack the capital of Goryeo from the sea." After hearing this, Zhang Yifan immediately affirmed.

Today, the capital of Goryeo is in Kaesong, which is also the [-]th parallel in later generations.Zhang Yifan knew this.

After hearing this, Zhu Di clapped his hands excitedly and said, "Okay, let's settle it like this. We'll discuss the details again."

Ma Yun on the side was a little dumbfounded. His Highness King Yan and the Prince Consort were too bold, right?Actually going to attack the capital of Goryeo?

Thinking of the seriousness of the problem, he quickly persuaded him: "Your Highness, Prince Consort, this matter is related to the relationship between Korea and our country of Ming Dynasty. Should I ask Your Majesty for instructions? Besides, Korea is a big country after all. We are going to attack the capital of Goryeo, what if something unexpected happens when King Qin’s army arrives?”

When Zhu Di heard this, his expression immediately changed and he said seriously: "My father asked Gu to guard the north. If Goryeo dares to respond to the request of the Mongolian Tatars and send troops, this is the scope of Gu's responsibilities. The so-called opportunity cannot be lost and will never come back. If you want to report it to my father before making a decision, you will miss a good opportunity. I have to use my discretion in this matter!"

After hearing this, Zhang Yifan also agreed: "With the fighting power of Goryeo Bangzi, didn't you say that only Li Chenggui is powerful? As long as he sends Liaodong, there will be no powerful people in their capital. Besides, we There are also new muskets and artillery, which can give Goryeo Bangzi a taste of its power. Even if we can't defeat Goryeo Bangzi, we can still evacuate from the waterway because Goryeo Bangzi has too many troops. Is it possible that we can still stop Goryeo Bangzi's navy? Can it survive the Ming warships equipped with cannons to blast barbarians?"

When he thought about Li Chenggui just now, he had already thought about it.In the past year, the Japanese pirates landed in Koryo, burned, killed, looted, and caused a great disturbance. In the end, Li Chenggui was transferred there, and the Japanese pirate rebellion was finally settled.

You must know that these Japanese pirates are not regular troops of the Japanese country. From this, it can be seen that Goryeo, a country that will be subjugated in a few years, does not have much foundation.As Zhang Yifan, who knows all this, naturally he will not take Gaoli Bangzi seriously.

However, for people who don’t know history, such as Jack Ma, they are still very worried.

After all, Goryeo has existed for so many years and is considered a big country. It does not exist as a tribe like the Jurchens.It is really unimaginable to just send out the navy and try to take down the capital of Goryeo.

Therefore, although he listened to Zhu Di and Zhang Yifan's words, he still admonished: "Your Highness, Prince Consort, please think twice. Killing one thousand enemies will cost you eight hundred. It's too risky to go deep with a single army!"

Zhang Yifan couldn't help but shake his head after hearing this.

Logically speaking, in the ancient era of cold weapon warfare, Ma Yun's idea was indeed correct.

Similar to defeating a large number with a small number, it is basically impossible to destroy a country with a mere force.

However, if it is the era of hot weapons, it will be completely different.

Why were the Western colonists able to force one place after another to become their colonies with only a few people?It is hot weapon warfare that can break the perception that killing one thousand enemies will cause eight hundred losses to oneself.

If the hot weapon army uses it well, it is not impossible to defeat the cold weapon army without any damage.

Of course, the final deciding factor is people.Gunpowder is not good, firearms can easily explode, and the soldiers are not trained. If they face a group of well-trained troops with cold weapons, they will still be beaten.The best example is when the army of the late Ming Dynasty faced the Liaodong Jianlu, at least in the early days. Later, the Jianlu also learned to use firearms, which is evolution.

In this dimension, flintlocks, fast artillery, or barbarian cannons were hundreds of years ahead of the entire world. And at this time, the Ming army, whether it was generals or soldiers, It can fight.

Zhang Yifan couldn't think of any reason not to teach Gao Libangzi a lesson under such conditions!
However, at this time, when he saw that Ma Yun, who was most familiar with Liao affairs, repeatedly opposed the attack on the Goryeo capital by strange troops, he knew that other generals of this era would not agree.Only Zhu Di, the sixth child, was so excited that he wanted to make a great contribution to prove himself.

With this in mind, he said to Zhu Di: "Well, how about you show General Ma the new muskets and rapid artillery?"

Is Zhu Di stupid?

Of course he is not stupid!
Hearing Zhang Yifan's words, he immediately understood what Zhang Yifan meant, and immediately nodded and said: "Okay, most of the army still doesn't know about the new muskets and fast artillery. Now in the battle of Liaodong, they will definitely be used, just in time for them to be used." Let’s all get acquainted.”

Ma Yun was a little surprised when he heard that the Prince Consort and His Highness King Yan each had a new type of musket and a fast cannon. What on earth are these? Is it powerful?

As for barbarian cannons, because the production capacity of the Ming Dynasty was weak, the limited barbarian cannons were deployed in the most important places, such as the front line of the Great Wall, mainly within the pass.

That is to say, a war of annihilation was fought last year, which immediately improved the situation in the pass, and began to counterattack Liaodong.

It is estimated that the Yi bombardment artillery will be deployed to the Liaodong front line soon.But at least for now, there is still no.

Therefore, Ma Yunbing has never seen the barbarian cannon, but he must have heard about it.

Therefore, he asked curiously: "Your Highness, is the Prince Consort a new type of artillery as powerful as the Yibo Cannon?"

After hearing this, Zhu Di laughed and said: "It's different, but it's definitely awesome. You'll know it when you look back."

One of the things that gave him the confidence to shout and kill his enemies was the firearms invented by his brother-in-law!
Otherwise, he would have yelled like that after being kicked in the head by a donkey, and he would not have become the Yongle Emperor.Military talent is definitely there.

As soon as he said it, Zhu Di immediately issued a military order and the entire army gathered to practice the power of the new muskets and fast cannons.Due to terrain restrictions, the [-]-strong army could not line up in full formation. The last remaining troops had to have officers of all levels present.This is it, still on the flat ground, but the mountains are full of people.

Everyone is curious. His Highness King Yan said that he would demonstrate the new muskets and artillery. Looking at this posture, it seems to be very powerful. I wonder how powerful it is?
It is basically impossible for you to imagine how powerful something is if you have never seen it before.Generally speaking, they only make limited associations based on existing things.Especially now that the dissemination of this kind of knowledge is limited, it would be even more unimaginable without something like the Internet to share ideas.

Generally speaking, they mostly imagine what new firearms will look like based on the existing rifles in the army!

Soon, the new firearms battalion came out.

Just as in history, Zhu Di organized the new muskets and artillery into a battalion, just as he had organized one of the Beijing camps into the Shenji Battalion in the original history.

This is different from the West.It seems that in the West, it was not until the Napoleonic era that the centralized use of artillery was more powerful and more advantageous.

Some of the [-] Ming army generals in Peiping already knew the power of new firearms, but there were many more generals, such as Ma Yun, who had never seen it.

Regardless of whether they had seen it before or not, all the Ming army generals were following Zhu Di, waiting with interest for the demonstration of the new firearms.

The shooting range is at the foot of the mountain, facing the mountains and forests for shooting and cannon shooting.

Accompanied by the sea breeze, the sound of "bah bah bah..." sounded continuously.

One advantage of the sea breeze is that the smoke emitted by the flintlock gun cannot cover the soldiers who fired it, and is blown away immediately.

The soldiers in the three-stage shooting are already well-trained soldiers.After the first platoon fired, they retreated to the end and began to reload. The second platoon followed up and fired, while the third platoon was in preparation.This cycle is almost continuous shooting.

Every soldier's shooting was much faster than Xu Da's shooting.

This scene left Ma Yun and others stunned and stunned.

Looking at the movement of the leaves in the forest in the distance being beaten by lead bullets, I imagined in my mind that if this scene were on the battlefield, the infantry on the opposite side would not be able to rush over at all!
The most important thing is that in the face of this continuous musket fire, the morale of the opponent will definitely collapse!

Before they could recover from the shock, it was the turn of the rapid artillery to appear.

Zhu Di was determined to let his men understand the power of these artillery pieces and make them more shocking. Therefore, he sent five speed cannons and asked them to shoot down the six muskets equipped with each speed cannon in one go.

High-speed reloading and continuous bombardment directly shattered the worldview of generals such as Ma Yun who had never seen new artillery.

Can a cannon be that fast?Is this still a cannon?

At this moment, they really understood why these cannons were called speed cannons!

There is a generation difference of at least 200 years between the muskets and artillery in the middle and late Ming Dynasty and the muskets and artillery in the early days of the Ming Dynasty!They were so shocked, at least in the eyes of Zhang Yifan who was watching, it was not surprising at all!
When the rapid artillery exercise was over, Zhu Di ordered the army to disband, and he took many generals back to the Chinese military tent.

Good guy, almost all the Ming army soldiers rushed to the shooting range at the foot of the mountain, rushing to see the ravaged shrubs, leaves, etc.

Everyone is talking about it, and the excitement can be said to have boosted morale.

On the general's side, it's actually pretty much the same.They can better reflect how many victories they will win and how many military exploits they will make if the Ming army, or their troops are equipped with these new muskets and cannons!

Therefore, as soon as Zhu Di's butt fell on the chair, these generals came out one by one, clasped their fists and spoke to Zhu Di.

"Your Highness, once the war breaks out, the general is willing to be the vanguard, as long as your highness equips the general with some new muskets and artillery!"

"Your Highness, as long as the last general has those new guns and cannons, he will definitely kill the Tartars!"

"Your Highness, the last general..."

"..."

Among these people, what Ma Yun said was the most surprising: "Your Highness, I will finally ask you to fight and teach Goryeo a lesson...bangzi!"

He had been admonishing Zhu Di and Zhang Yifan to be cautious when attacking Goryeo.As a result, after seeing the new muskets and artillery, I wanted the credit.

Thinking about it, since we are sure of victory, how can the success of defeating the Liaodong Tatars be as great as capturing the capital of a country?If one were not careful and caught the king of Goryeo, he would be able to surpass many of his colleagues at once, and he would definitely get a title!
Being a soldier and fighting for so long, the desire to be knighted is the most basic impulse!
For this reason, he even changed the name of Goryeo to Goryeo Bangzi.Because he heard that the name His Highness King Yan and the Prince Consort had for Goryeo had a derogatory connotation.If you go with what he likes, you might be able to gain a little more confidence in asking for a fight.

Not to mention, Zhu Di couldn't help but turn his head and look at Zhang Yifan who was standing on his side when he heard that Ma Yun also called Gaoli Bangzi.

But in the end, Zhu Di agreed to no one.I just want to tell these generals that they will definitely be equipped with new firearms in the future.

In any case, after a public demonstration of a new firearm, the morale of the army has obviously improved a lot.

Afterwards, Juehua Island was still waiting for news.

On Xu Da's side, Zhu Di still sent a message back, preparing to implement the second set of combat plans that turned fiction into reality. However, he did not disclose the sneak attack on the capital of Goryeo.

Xu Da also responded quickly and agreed to the second plan.And they also sent new firearms that had been built.

As a result, the Ming army on Juehua Island began to fight.

(End of this chapter)