Chapter 109: Lu Chuan II

Just something like that. Zhu Qizhen's own fantasy is useless.

If he was in the Qianqing Palace, he could naturally take all the information about Luchuan, but now, Zhu Qizhen could only recall the things about Luchuan by himself.

In later generations, there was no such country as Luchuan. It's not that Luchuan's strength is not strong.

On the contrary, Luchuan is quite powerful.

First of all, the prosperity of Luchuan did not originate from today, but in the Yuan Dynasty, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, in the land of Yunnan, the king of Liang in Yunnan and the Duan clan competed for power. I don't have time to take care of Luchuan.

Luchuan Sijia made a fortune. It was recruited by the Yuan Dynasty and became one of the six governors of Yunnan Province.

This is also the characteristic of the Yuan Dynasty, in fact, the frontier of the Yuan Dynasty seems to be vast, but in fact, the rule of the Yuan Dynasty is quite crude, and many governors are this kind of independent and semi-independent regime.

At this time, it was Si Renfa's grandfather, the reign of Si Kefa.

In the fifteenth year of Hongwu, Si Kefa's grandson, who is now the father of Si Renfa, the head of the Si family, reigned during the reign of Si Lunfa.

During this period, Si Lunfa carried forward the family business of the Si family and became the overlord of the southwest, how strong is his strength. The area ruled by Luchuan is bordered by Tibet in the north, Jingdong in the east, and Burma in the south.

So to speak.

Judging from the modern map, it occupies most of the northern part of Myanmar, which is already part of Laos, part of Yunnan, and naturally part of Thailand.

It is said that there were as many as 300,000 troops at their peak.

Many people regard Luchuan as Nanzhao, Western Xia.

There was even a conflict between Luchuan and Burma, and many decisions should have been a Burmese victory, no, the result was Luchuan pressing Myanmar to the ground and rubbing it.

However, the core area of Luchuan is now Ruili County, Yunnan. The imperial court did not allow such a strong separatist regime.

So, in the seventeenth year of Hongwu, the first contest between the Ming Dynasty and Luchuan began.

On the one hand, Si Lunfa paid tribute to the imperial court, expressing obedience, and on the other hand, secretly continued his strength, preparing to advance eastward. It's just that Si Lunfa is certainly not a weak person, but Emperor Taizu is an old fox.

has long been ready for battle, especially Mu Ying, in this battle, with 30,000 people, he broke through more than 100,000 horses in Luchuan. Deal with the elephant soldiers with fire guns and break them.

Si Lunfa was defeated and asked the court for peace.

Emperor Taizu agreed to come down, and at the same time, he did not hesitate to canonize the places east of Luchuan one by one. As a result, the strong Luchuan River was also torn apart.

This is also Emperor Taizu's fatal weakness that he saw in Luchuan.

That is, the ruling departments of Luchuan are actually subordinate to the heads of various places, and the people of Luchuan headquarters are quite limited. Mu Ying's weakening of Luchuan is also uninterrupted.

Even Si Renfa grew up as a proton in the Mu family.

In the eleventh year of Yongle, Si Renfa took the position.

Si Renfa knew the strength of the imperial court, so he showed extreme courtesy and paid tribute. But on the other hand, Si Renfa was not reconciled to this, so during the Yongle period, he was not only obedient to the imperial court, but also different in other aspects.

After Renzong succeeded to the throne, the strategy of the Ming Dynasty turned from external expansion to contraction.

In this way, Si Renfa carefully tested the imperial court several times, and found that even if he annexed the Tusi loyal to the imperial court, the imperial court would only be responsible at most.

And so he became bold.

With the death of Emperor Renzong Xuanzong and the abandonment of Annan, this series of behaviors encouraged Si Renfa's courage, so from the early years of orthodoxy, his series of actions exceeded the bottom line of the imperial court's tolerance. But he didn't care at all, and now, he has restored the territory of Luchuan in its heyday.

It can be said that there are 300,000 soldiers.

Of course, the imperial court has always despised the combat effectiveness of the Southwest Tusi.

At the beginning, Mu Ying used 30,000 soldiers to break the Luchuan.

It's just that there were a few Mu Ying in the Ming Dynasty, but even Mu Ying was behind him with a steady stream of reinforcements, and Taizu was ready to send more than 100,000 soldiers and horses into Yunnan at that time.

It's just that the reinforcements haven't arrived yet, and Mu Ying has already reported a great victory.

Now the strength of the imperial court is far less than at the beginning, and the orthodox three-year military department officially reported a shortage, as much as 1.2 million. The combat strength of the local armies is also far less than it was at the beginning.

Zhu Qizhen reviewed the history of Luchuan and then looked at the situation in front of him.

It is necessary to fight, but in this way, if you want to conquer Luchuan, you need at least three or four hundred thousand troops. These armies must not be empty.

Then with the current strength of the imperial court, it is not enough. Where the heavy troops of the Ming Dynasty are, it is not anywhere else, only nine sides. However, the tile thorn is strong, and under the leadership of Tuhuan, the tile thorn has been expanding and integrating the interior in the past few years, especially the death of Adai Khan.

Although Adai Khan died at the hands of the Ming people. But in any case, Adai Khan died, and Tokhtarbuhua became the only Great Khan on the steppe.

All the departments of the grassland have embraced it.

In this way, the strength of Dehuan has increased greatly.

Immediately, his pressure on Jiubian also increased. At this time, Zhu Qizhen did not feel that it was a rational act to transfer troops from the nine sides.

The center of gravity of the Ming Dynasty's national defense has never changed, it is the nine sides.

Even if Yunnan is lost, it will be painful for the Ming Dynasty, but if the nine sides are broken through by the tile thorn, it will be life and death.

But if you don't transfer troops from the Jiubianjing battalion, where will they come from?

As mentioned above, in this era, you can only go from Guizhou to Yunnan, and Guizhou's Qianli Post Road is not easy to walk, and the Ming Dynasty's rule over Guizhou is also quite weak, and most of them are ruled by Tusi.

So the best way is to send tens of thousands of elite soldiers to break through Luchuan in one fell swoop.

That's a contradiction.

Without the transfer of the elite soldiers of the nine-sided Beijing battalion, the imperial court could not guarantee a quick victory in Yunnan. But send elite troops, the north is empty, and if the tile thorn goes south, it will be very bad.

This is the first difficult thing to decide.

The second thing that worries Zhu Qizhen is that he is worried about the battle of Yunnan, which will be protracted. Someone probably said that they had already said earlier that they would send elite troops in order to win a quick victory.

This is just Zhu Qizhen's expectation.

But in fact, most of today's Luchuan is on the border between China and Myanmar in later generations, and even in northern Myanmar.

What is the topography of these places, thanks to the Chinese Expeditionary Force, Zhu Qizhen still knows a little, in such a deep mountain and old forest, it is easy to plow the court and sweep the caves if you want to fight a war?

Compared with the big break in Luchuan, Zhu Qizhen is more worried about this.

Zhuge Liang leveled the southern barbarians, and also captured seven verticals. After Mu Ying's defeat of Luchuan, he still guarded Yunnan for life. However, the elite of the Ming Dynasty must not hang in Yunnan for a long time.

In this way, it is very likely that as soon as the army leaves, the war situation in Yunnan will be repeated.

Countless thoughts turned in Zhu Qizhen's heart. A soldier shooting willows in front of him, although Zhu Qizhen looked at it, he was absent-minded. Even the nobles at all levels didn't have the heart to shoot willows here, and they all talked about it in private. There are even a considerable number of people who have a close relationship with the Mu family. There is confusion and sympathy for Mu Sheng's experience.

Only the soldiers below who are struggling to shoot arrows do not know the changes.

Although Zhu Qizhen was still in Nanhaizi and did not return to Beijing, Wang Zhen and Jin Ying were not idle, and almost an hour a person came to Nanhaizi from the capital to report the situation in Beijing to Zhu Qizhen.

Sure enough, on the second day, all the civil and military officials in the capital knew the news.

For the Luchuan War and affairs, it suddenly became the biggest hot spot in the imperial court.

In fact, this is not the first time that this kind of discussion has been discussed, at least in Zhu Qizhen's memory, the imperial court has discussed the matter of Luchuan at least more than 40 times from the first year of orthodoxy to the present.

It's just that the specifications have risen layer by layer, and at first it was just an internal discussion of the Ministry of War, and then the Ministry of War and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies made peace, and then later, the cabinet meeting. But this time, the Empress Dowager sent a message that Zhu Qizhen was ready, and as soon as she went back, she would open the court meeting, and the people who participated this time. There is the Cabinet, the Six Ministries, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, and the Lords.

almost wiped out all the court officials.

Even in the Northwest War, no such meeting was held. After all, no one died in the Northwest War.

Although the Empress Dowager did not say it explicitly, she also hinted at it. This is another opportunity for Zhu Qizhen to show his face among the ministers.

In the past two years, I don't know if the Empress Dowager feels that her body can't support it, or if she thinks that Zhu Qizhen's ability is enough to deal with political affairs. Let Zhu Qizhen come forward to meet with hundreds of officials to deal with political affairs more and more frequently.