Chapter 138 Pre-war Preparation in the South

In addition, there is the problem of military preparation. With the pacification of the north, Jiannu temporarily lost the strength to go south. In a short time, the north will be in a relatively stable period, so that the Great China and the Dynasties can free up their hands to complete the internal unification.

Moreover, before Xiao Tianjian led his troops to return to Nanjing, he told Lu Xiangsheng and Luo Li and others about the matter. Lu Xiangsheng was also working hard to deal with it in the north. It turned out that the officials of the Ming Dynasty had carried out a big purge after Xiao Tianjian entered Beijing, killing some of the wine bags and rice bags and corpses that should be killed. The raiding of the house was almost all the former Ming Xunqi, and the remaining part of the more capable officials in the previous dynasty were retained.

These people Xiao Tianjian did not stay in the north. When he returned to Nanjing this time, he also brought a large number of former ministers of the former dynasty back to Nanjing. The official department added some officials selected by the Great and Middle Dynasty from the north from the south, which split the old forces of the previous dynasty in the north into a mess, and also made the old situation of the former Ming Dynasty in the north. The force can no longer make waves in the north.

After Lu Xiangsheng returned from Xiao Tianjian, according to Lu Xiangsheng's idea, he had begun to take action, especially about the differentiation of the Jiannu side, which was carried out quite smoothly. With a group of captured Mongolians being secretly deported back to Mobei through the Xuanda area.

Soon the Mongols in Mobei began to react. After all, this time, the Eight Banners of Mongolia followed the Jiannu army to fight against the south, and the losses were very heavy. Jiannu always used the Mongols as cannon fodder, which caused great losses to the Mongolian soldiers who went out with the army, but at the same time did not get any advantage. This time, he Our business can be said to be a big loss.

The most important thing is that through the two battles of Tongzhou and Shanhaiguan, the Mongols have also thoroughly seen the strength of the Dazhong army, so that they can also see the situation clearly and know that they will continue to follow Jiannu to fight against Dazhong Dynasty. They have no advantage. In this case, they must reconsider today. The problem of the way out.

Mobei Mongolians are very dependent on the mainland, especially for the tea, iron and salt in the Central Plains, which are necessary for their survival. If they can't grab them, they can only trade with the Central Plains through mutual markets to obtain these necessities for survival, hoping that Jiannu will give them. They don't have to think about it. In order to control them, Jiannu will not give them these materials at all.

Now Jiannu has been defeated by the Dazhong army. The Dazhong army has also overthrown the Ming Dynasty, fully controlled the situation in the north of the customs, closed all channels for the supply of goods outside the customs, arrested and slaughtered a large number of merchants who had privately cleared foreign Jiannu and Mongolians, and completely cut off the way for Mongolians and Jiannu to obtain these goods. It also makes it impossible for them to sell what they produce and squeeze it into their hands. All kinds of materials outside the customs become extremely scarce, and the war dividend is gone, so they have to find a new supply way.

Now that the Great China and North Korea take the initiative to contact them and express their willingness to treat their Mongols and Jiannu differently. As long as they give up continuing to fight for the tigers and help Jiannu and the Great China and North Korea enemies, then the Greater China and North Korea will agree to market them and give them a "just" mutual market price, which is undoubtedly right. The Mongolian ministries have a very great ** force.

And now the Mongols have long disintegrated and lost their unity. Immediately after the Dazhong Dynasty threw this bait, some Mongolian tribes began to take the initiative to surrender to the Dazhong Dynasty, expressing their willingness to accept the conditions of the Dazhong Dynasty and accept the management of the Dazhong Dynasty in the future. In the future, he will no longer work for Jiannu, and will be willing to accept the requirements of the Great China and the DPRK to exchange market and communicate with the Greater China and the DPRK.

In this way, the Mongolian departments, who were already dissatisfied with Jiannu, collapsed internally. In order to continue to follow Jiannu's master in the future, they switched to the embrace of the Dazhong Dynasty, and began to have a lot of internal fighting.

Lu Xiangsheng followed Xiao Tianjian's intention to adopt the Huairou policy for some Mongolian tribes that expressed their willingness to turn to the Greater China Dynasty, and open up the mutual market outside the Wanquan Right Guard in Xuanfu. Only for the Mongolian tribes who are willing to invest in the Greater China Dynasty, and all Mongolian tribes that send people to submit to the table can be given to public documents, mules and horses can be used. Cattle, sheep, leather sheets, felt and other things in the Xinghe area are exchanged for the tea salt cloth they urgently need from the Dazhong Dynasty. Although this situation is not much at present, in time, under the deterrence of the Dazhong army, the Mongols will certainly gradually alienate themselves from the slaves and return to the Dazhong Dynasty in large numbers.

And the envoys sent to North Korea also landed in North Korea under the cover of some North Korean officials loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and secretly met with King Li Yu of North Korea.

The current king of North Korea, Li Yu, was not actually sealed by the Ming Dynasty. As a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, the previous king of North Korea had to pass the approval of the Ming Dynasty to be regarded as a serious king of North Korea. However, Li Yu came to power through mutiny, so for the Ming Dynasty, the suzerain country, it was a crime of disobey and must not be accepted. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty refused to formally agree to make Li Yu the king of North Korea, which made Li Yu very dissatisfied.

Later, after Huang Taiji established the founding of the Qing Dynasty, he sent 100,000 troops to conquer North Korea. The Korean army was unable to resist, so they had to cut off supporting the Ming Dynasty, and instead acted as a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty, accept the dispatch of the Qing Dynasty, and pay tribute to the Qing Dynasty. In this way, for North Korea, many officials loyal to the Ming Dynasty were deeply Shameful, including most North Koreans, are also deeply ashamed, so a considerable number of North Koreans are still willing to support the Ming Dynasty at this time.

But when Xiao Tianjian sent an envoy to North Korea, the North Koreans knew that the Ming Dynasty had fallen. Now the Central Plains are the master of the Dazhong Dynasty. Although some people don't accept this reality, there is nothing they can do, so they can only transfer their kindness to the Ming Dynasty to the Dazhong Dynasty. In the eyes, who presides over the Central Plains and who is orthodox, this concept is deeply rooted in the hearts of North Koreans.

What moved Li Yu more was not how good he was to the Dazhong Dynasty, but that when Xiao Tianjian sent the envoy, he told Li Yu that if Li Yu would no longer be ordered by Jiannu from now on, then as the emperor of the Dazhong Dynasty, he could officially represent the emperor of the Central Plains and make Li Yu the king of North Korea. In this way, It is equivalent to the Great Zhong Dynasty giving Li Yu the status of a legal king of North Korea as a suzerain country, which is of great benefit to Li Yu's rule of North Korea.

In addition, the North Koreans were already very unpopular with Jiannu. This time, Jiannu went south, forcing North Korea to send 10,000 soldiers and horses, and more than 20,000 troops. This time, almost all of them were left outside Shanhaiguan. The North Koreans also learned about the details of the two battles of Tongzhou and Shanhaiguan through the envoys of Dazhong. From this, we can see the weakness of Jiannu.

Since Jiannu is no longer the opponent of Dazhong North Korea, Dazhong North Korea is willing to canonize him Li Yu as the king of North Korea. In the future, North Korea will still listen to the Central Plains regime. In addition, the Qing Dynasty's heavy conquest of North Korea makes the North Koreans quite dissatisfied with this. Therefore, after seeing the envoys of Dazhong North Korea, the two sides can be said to be immediately Combined.

Even if King Li Yu of North Korea said that he was willing to accept the canonization of Dazhong Dynasty and no longer serve Jiannu from then on, but now Li Yu has to get the support of North Korean ministers, he will gradually stop supporting Jiannu and stop providing all kinds of materials to Jiannu in the future.

In this way, Xiao Tianjian's established purpose of dividing slaves from the east and west has basically been achieved, laying a good foundation for the next step of the Great China and the DPRK to solve the affairs of the south and Shaanxi, and then another northern expedition.

As for Li Zicheng's pseudo-Shun regime in Shaanxi, there is no need to say. Since the formation of the Western Expeditionary Army, the battle between the Dazhong Army against the Dashun Army has shown a one-sided situation. Yan Chongxi and Liu Bao led the army. The Dashun army that fought against Li Zicheng was full of teeth, and the Dashun Army was defeated. Before the Spring Festival, if it was not Shaanxi. If the sudden heavy snowfall in the west affected the attack of the western army, it is estimated that Yan Chongxi and others have hit the city of Xi'an.

But I didn't expect that Li Zicheng couldn't hold on. Just two days ago, Yan Chongxi sent 800 miles to report to Nanjing. Li Zicheng suddenly gave up Xi'an Prefecture and led the remnants to escape to the Hanzhong area. Their Western Army was sending Wang Chengping to pursue him, while the whole army rushed to Xi'an Prefecture. It is estimated that Xi'an Prefecture has now been The middle army is in control, so the destruction of Li Zicheng will not last long.

Therefore, the war situation in Shaanxi is very optimistic. All the people in China and North Korea are happy about this, waiting for the next step to gather and annihilate Li Zicheng's main force in the Hanzhongfu area.

Of course, although the Great China Dynasty has been busy with the war in Shaanxi in the past few months, it has not relaxed the two small courts in the south. All kinds of early military preparations are in full swing. After the training, the soldiers and horses in the fourth town have gone to the surrounding areas of Fujian, waiting for the formation of Fujian. In a semi-encirclement situation, a batch of supplies were transferred to the area of Ganzhou and Wenzhou Prefecture, and the hoarding of materials was carried out.

Luo Rucai led a large number of soldiers and horses from the third town to Guizhou and the south of Huguang, and began to threaten Guangxi and Yunnan. Li Shuanzhu sat in Sichuan. On the one hand, he developed to the south of Sichuan, and on the other hand, Chen stationed heavily in the Lizhou area to prevent Li Zicheng from invading Sichuan.

The most important thing is that Liu Yao's headquarters is the main force to go south this time. After returning to Nanjing City with Xiao Tianjian, the original Guards Second Division was divided into two by order. On the basis of the Second Division, the Fourth Guards Division was once again set up, and in these two or three months, the new recruits were completed outside Nanjing City. And training, and at the same time, it has also been replenished with brand-new equipment.

Now, after a large number of bayonets have been equipped with thorns for the Dazhong Army, the status of the Lancers has plummeted in the Dazhong Army, and the development of equipment has also led to changes in the tactics and formation of the army. Therefore, Xiao Tianjian completely The spearmen were removed from the two new commanders, and only 20% of the knife players were retained as a melee cover, and also used as a projectile thrower. A large number of knives and card players were equipped with Thunderbolt cannons, making the combat effectiveness of the two new commanders more powerful, especially the short-range firepower output, which is much more than the current The establishment of all divisions at the first level also exceeds the proportion of musketeers in the current Western army, making the army of Dazhong and North Korea become the most powerful army in the world in this era.

In addition, with the steady expansion of the territory of China and North Korea, more and more resources can be used. Iron is no longer a scarce resource of China and North Korea. In addition, Xiao Tianjian has been working hard to develop the smelting industry over the years. A large-scale iron factory has been established in Huguang Ye County, and a large-scale iron smelting furnace has sprung up like bamboo shoots. Standing up, the iron production of the Great China and the Dynasties is getting larger and larger, and it is already close to the iron production in the heyday of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, the new type of furnace is constantly being established, and the iron water of the iron furnace flows directly into the iron furnace to stir-fry mature iron. In this way, while the iron production increases, the quality of iron has also been steadily improved. Although Xiao Tianjian does not have time to host the research of the steelmaking flat furnace, the wisdom of Chinese craftsmen Once mobilized, the energy is also quite huge, so through the refining of small steelmaking furnaces, the Great China and the Dynasties have been able to initially obtain better quality steel, which has become a solid backing for the Dazhong army.

Coupled with the promotion and use of the iron model casting gun technology, the iron model casting gun technology has also been continuously improved over the years. Now, under the recommendation of Xiao Tianjian, the iron model casting gun process has developed to the process of water cooling the core, so that when the iron cannon is cast, the condensulation speed is accelerated, forming a self-tightening of the gun body. The iron cannon cast in this way is of better quality, the barrel body is less trachoma, and the ability to withstand the pressure is stronger.

The iron cannon cast in this way can fill more gunpowder, with a longer range and higher accuracy, so that the cannon casting technology of the large, medium and North Korea has now basically caught up with the best cannon casting technology in the West in this era, especially the process of iron casting cannon, so that the speed and yield of the large, medium and medium-style cannon casting guns are already possible. Proud of the world with laughter.

Coupled with the increase in steel production, the casting of steel cannons in China and North Korea has also become a reality. The characteristics of steel are destined to be made of steel cannons. The wall can be thinner, and the weight of the gun body is also greatly reduced compared with iron guns of the same caliber. This alone makes the level of army guns in China and North Koreas now be unique.

Therefore, the number of cannons equipped by the Dazhong Army is also increasing. The earliest iron cannons cast have now begun to be eliminated and replaced with newer artillery.

Because the original three-pound gun is an emergency product, the gun body is relatively light, which is convenient for large and medium-sized troops to maneuver, but the three-pound gun has the disadvantage of being too powerful. Now that the three-pound gun has been established, the number of mules and horses used to haul the cannon is beginning to be sufficient. It is no longer necessary to need this kind of small-caliber artillery as before. In order to strengthen the role of artillery, the three-pound gun has recently been stopped casting. The original artillery of the battalion has been upgraded to the division artillery battalion. One artillery battalion and five artillery companies can be used centrally or supplemented by each battalion as a unit. In this way, the two new guard divisions have become experimental units.

The two divisions began to take the six-pound gun as the main force of the light artillery, supplemented by a company of eight-pound medium-sized guns and a company of twelve-pound heavy guns, which made the logistics supply simpler, and the firepower was better than before.

The two guard divisions also completed the training and armament before the New Year. Before the year, they carried out an exercise outside Nanjing, showing their strong combat effectiveness. They can go south to fight at any time and become the backbone of the southward battle in the future. It is expected that when they enter the battlefield, the southern Ming Dynasty in the south The army and Zheng Jiajun will experience the power of the Dazhong Army.