Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 683 The Road to Empire Expansion
In March of the 47th year of Chongzhen.

Yan Yingyuan personally led the First Army of the Guards to go south by train, preparing to attack the Northern and Southern Dynasties of Vietnam and set about recovering Jiaozhi.

The current First Army of the Guards is still the Imperial Ace Army, even a fully mechanized army.

The entire group army is equipped with fifty heavy artillery pieces, and each corps has a tank battalion in addition to a machine gun battalion.

Chariot Battalion A mechanical battalion made by the Empire.

Since Fang Yizhi's team at Daming Industrial School successfully developed steam locomotives, the manufacture of steam chariots has become possible.

And tracked chariots have also been successfully manufactured.

This tracked chariot is still a steam chariot, weighing about 120 tons, equipped with artillery and machine guns, and can carry two hundred soldiers.

Although such a chariot is still clumsy, it can also guarantee its own defense to the greatest extent.

Because of the construction of the railway, the transportation of 15 troops was not very laborious. A series of steam locomotives transported batches of Ming army officers and soldiers and chariots to the front line of Guangxi.

On the seventh day of May this year.

The Ming army began to launch a full-scale attack on the Yuebei Dynasty.

In the dense rainforest, it was no longer Da Ming's cavalry that rushed to the front, but chariots.

A series of steam chariots raised their heads proudly and crushed them. Daming's infantry, cavalry, and artillerymen followed closely behind. They arrived near Old Street in less than a month.

The Yuebei Dynasty also immediately sent elephant soldiers to attack.

But no matter how tall the elephant is, it is no match for the steam chariot. Under the bombardment of a cannonball, the elephant was directly killed.

And the army behind Daming also poured artillery into the old street desperately.

Soon, all the Vietnamese troops fighting in Laojie of the Northern Vietnam Dynasty retreated.

The First Army of the Ming Dynasty Guards successfully occupied Laojie, and then went down the Red River, marching all the way in, occupying Yen Bai, Yue Chi, and Yong'an.

In mid-June, Hanoi was successfully surrounded.

The Vietnamese authorities were completely unable to react in time, and immediately withdrew from Hanoi and fled to Thanh Hoa.

At the end of June, Ming successfully occupied Hanoi.

At the beginning of July, the Ming Dynasty entered Qinghua again and occupied Qinghua within an hour, captured hundreds of princes and ministers of the Northern Vietnam Dynasty, and slaughtered the city of Qinghua to punish the authorities of the Northern Dynasty for plundering the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty.

then.

The First Army of the Ming Dynasty Guards continued to pursue the victory.

Before December, they successively occupied Chao Rong City, Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Dong Ha, Hue and other cities in Vietnam.

at the same time.

The Ming Nanyang Fleet also began to land northward, successively occupying Jin'ou, Jianjiang, Qianjiang, Pingyang and other cities.

In June of the 48th year of Chongzhen.

The First Army of the Ming Dynasty Guards and the Marine Corps of the Ming Nanyang Fleet joined forces in Da Nang and recovered the entire territory of Jiaozhi.

Just one year and three months.

Jiaozhi returned to Daming's hands again.

The First Army of the Ming Dynasty Guards took a rest in Da Nang and then attacked Siam in February of the following year.

In September 49, Chongzhen occupied the whole territory of Siam, and then occupied the whole territory of Burma in April 50, and then landed in Calcutta by sea, and advanced to India along the Ganges River.

In March of the 52nd year of Chongzhen, the First Army of the Ming Dynasty Guards occupied the entire territory of India and returned to the court.

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In this period of time.

In May of Chongzhen 47, the Second Army of the Ming Dynasty Guards, led by Jiao Lian, departed from Xi'an on a steam locomotive, arrived in Lanzhou, and formally prepared to recover the Hexi Corridor.

The second army is also the ace army.

Ten steam chariots were moving forward on the vast grassland, and when they saw a large number of Mongolian cavalry appearing, they ran over them without hesitation.

Tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry had no way to handle these ten steam chariots.

Bows and arrows can't hurt it, and it can't be cut with a knife.

But the artillery of the steam chariot can directly blow up a dozen of your riders, and a machine gun can kill dozens of your riders instantly.

What's more, there are powerful infantry and machine artillery behind.

The Mongolian iron cavalry suffered a crushing defeat.

In October of the 47th year of Chongzhen, Ming Dynasty destroyed the Tumote Department and recovered Hamiwei.

The territory of Ming Dynasty was restored to the fifteenth century again.

Next, Ming continued to attack westward, and entered Yilibali in June 48 of Chongzhen.

Then, in May of the second year, Jiao Lian led the Second Army of the Guards to go north into Azhilihaizi, and then went up to Siberia along the Angqian River.

In January of the same year, under the leadership of Chen Zilong, the Third Army of the Ming Dynasty Guards and the Mobei Local Army also entered Central Siberia on a large scale. Both armies fought a decisive battle with the Cossack cavalry in Siberia.

The modernized mechanical troops of the Ming Dynasty wiped out the invincible Cossack cavalry of the Raksha Kingdom.

In April of the 51st year of Chongzhen, when the snow had not completely stopped, the Second Army of the Guards and the Third Army of the Guards crossed the Ural River respectively, joined forces in Moscow in June of the following year, and occupied the Raksha State in the 53rd year of Chongzhen The whole territory.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty successively established Governors of Siberia, Hami, and Mobei, and strictly ordered all armies to eradicate local heretics, and all heretics were killed.

55 years to Chongzhen.

The territory of the central court of the Ming Dynasty has expanded to Batavia in the south, the southern bank of the Arctic Ocean in the north, Kiev along the Dnieper River in the west, and Hawaii in the east.

And this year, Zhu Youjian was 71 years old.

His second queen, Concubine Yuan Gui, has been with him for fifteen years.

This year.

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian decided to abdicate in ten years, if he could hold another ten years.

After all, he is so old that his legs and feet are somewhat inconvenient, and age spots are crawling all over his temples uncontrollably.

Moreover, his most beloved and youngest concubine has just turned [-], so before he leaves, he will spend time with her, this tender grass.

And before he abdicates, he has a few big things to do.

The first sight was to summon all the civil servants and military generals who were still alive in the 17th year of Chongzhen to revive the Ming Dynasty with him to Beijing.

The oldest among them is ninety years old, and the youngest has just passed the year of knowing his destiny.

Liu Bian decided to comprehensively reform the military rank system and continue to distribute a large number of meritorious officials.

The former is to adapt to the modernization process of the Ming army.

Generals and lieutenants in the past still seemed a bit cumbersome. This time, Zhu Youjian decided to directly set the military ranks of generals, school officers, lieutenants, non-commissioned officers, and privates, which is simple and easy to distinguish.

The latter is to allow the Han civilization to completely rule the world.

The central empire of Ming Dynasty is too big now, and it can no longer continue to expand, because the administrative management of the central cabinet of the empire has no way to manage the land thousands of miles away.

Although now Daming has begun to popularize the telegraph.

And the only way is to let more Han countries appear in distant places.

Even if one day, the Ming Empire still perishes, it will only be a Han country instead of the Ming Empire, which will make no difference to the Chinese civilization.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian decided to make more heroes in his final years and create more Han countries.

After all, the vassal king has almost been sealed.

But the world is still very big, and it can only start from the heroes.

And this time, Zhu Youjian did not allow them to stay in the central empire to enjoy the blessings, and they had to build a country on the basis of a vassal, even if the fief was in a virgin forest, they had to take guns to build a country.

But for the first generation of old people who followed him to fight the world, he would let them stay in the central empire to enjoy their old age, and let their descendants go overseas to build a country.

(End of this chapter)