Volume 1 The Battle of Luchuan Chapter 141 The Noon Offensive (31)
Bai Qianfan stood on the wall of Bilu Village, squinting his eyes slightly and looking into the distance, which was the direction of the north, and he could see the clear sparkling waves behind the dense jungle, which was the water of the Indoji Lake reflecting the bright and clean sunlight of the June morning in Luchuan.
Indoki Lake, in fact, was later the largest inland freshwater lake in Myanmar, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is one of the symbols of the later Kachin State of Myanmar.
It resembles a beautiful pomegranate leaf, blown by the mountain winds that flow through the foothills and falls into the emerald forests of Kachin State, which later became famous for its jadeite.
Of course, there are other things that Kachin State is famous for, but these things are not as poetic as jadeite, or some people are inevitably sad about new life, and they mourn in silence for the beauty that can be had.
Jiang Yuyan naturally understands this kind of poetry, and he also wants to find this poetry, which is also one of his wishes for the Battle of Luchuan, so that everyone can get a good ending.
Let Luchuan return to the Ming Dynasty, let the Ming Dynasty maintain control over the Luchuan Ava area, and then maintain the deterrence of the entire Indochina Peninsula, so as not to pay too much price because Ming Xuanzong gave up Jiaozhi.
For the Ming Dynasty, this is a guarantee to keep the southwest far frontier and the Indochina Peninsula, obtain local stability, and further obtain stable resources and stable rear support.
For Luchuan, this is also a way for it to maintain local stability and avoid the continuous baptism of war and separation and scattering, so as not to fall into continuous wars with surrounding forces and the conquest of powerful forces, so as to ensure a stable development and prosperity, and be able to have a good life.
The victory of the Battle of Luchuan can be said to be of great significance to the development of the Ming Dynasty and the later generations of Luchuan for hundreds of years, and this prosperity and development are mutual, and they can get a good future.
And if the Battle of Luchuan ends with a delaying strategy, it is actually an overdraft of Luchuan's future, in exchange for the decline of the Ming Dynasty's power in the Indochina Peninsula, which is a lose-lose outcome for both sides.
However, these things have to be viewed from the perspective of hundreds of years later, and even a little less cannot be done, and they must be completely in the modern era before Jiang Yu's time travel to truly appreciate the taste and analyze the deep meaning inside.
The current generation of Luchuan heroes would never have thought that after his strategic operation, although Luchuan's power was preserved, but what kind of development Luchuan had become.
People like Jiang Yugang who were able to enter the later Mengyang places at will, which was already called Kachin, were no longer ordinary people, but people who had seen a wide range of the world.
And for ordinary people, Luchuan is no longer a place to enter casually, let alone the most prosperous place in the entire Ava area during the orthodox period of the Ming Dynasty.
In the past, Luchuan was the most prosperous and powerful area in the southwest of the Indochina Peninsula, and it is unreasonable to judge Luchuan even by the statement that the Ava Dynasty was in the sphere of power, because Luchuan was the most powerful force in the southwest of the Indochina Peninsula before the battle with the Ming army.
Even after fighting with the Ming army for many years, Luchuan maintained a relatively equal relationship with the Ava Dynasty, although the Ava Dynasty had its own Mengyang Tusi, but the vast majority of the land in Luchuan Mengyang was still under the control of Luchuan.
Luchuan, which is so prosperous in this era, can even be regarded as a great civilization, but the final outcome of this civilization is embarrassing, from a certain point of view, it cannot but be said that it has a lot to do with the battle of Luchuan.
Among them, thinking about the machine has played a big role, and it may even be a decisive role.
Jiang Yugang often thinks about what kind of mood would Si Jifa feel if he knew that the independent Luchuan he had worked so hard to keep had finally fallen into such a fate?
Even if you don't know the outcome of the war between yourself and the Ava Dynasty, but you know the subtle impact on the Luchuan area in the end, and leave the Luchuan after the protection of the Ming Dynasty, and finally have no choice but to be annexed by Donghu, and then go to endless chaos after the decline of Donghu, what will Sijifa think?
It should be lamenting the unfairness of fate, or a joke made by the heavens, this is an unsolvable puzzle, and for those who are in the game, there is no way out.
He would not have imagined that a war that he had won to some extent would actually lead to the real fall of Luchuan in the end.
Luchuan Sijia, since the beginning of the beginning, has been the overlord of the western part of the Indochina Peninsula, but all this glory, in the end, whether directly or indirectly, ended in the hands of Sijifa.
In a direct sense, Sijifa's defeat in the war against the Ava Dynasty hit Luchuan's position; In an indirect sense, Luchuan and the Ming Dynasty were completely separated, and there was no longer the protection of the Ming Dynasty, a powerful Central Plains power, and its own strength was not too strong, and its fate went to a road without end.
However, these things will not be known by the current Sijifa, and the commander-in-chief of the Ming army, Jingyuan Bo Wang Ji will not know, they are all people in the mountains, who do not see their true form, and are at the mercy of the grand time and historical trajectory.
Only Jiang Yugang can rely on the condescending advantage of time and space, jump out to see these ups and downs, ups and downs, this is the road without end, some people say that walking on the trajectory of history a thousand times, will repeat the same ending, this is indeed true in a sense, because people theoretically have no answers, can only be on the lane created by history and fate, ignorant and half-understood.
But Jiang Yu is different, he copied the path of fate and history from the back of another road, and walked back to this place, at this moment, he is the person with the most powerful judgment and analysis ability in this time and space, and he is the one who knows the other way.
And the other way of Luchuan is to win this war by the Ming Dynasty, win the victory completely, rebuild the Luchuan Xuanwei Division of the Ming Dynasty, and regain control of this land, only in this way can everyone really win this war, perhaps except for the Sijia forces.
Otherwise, it will be a real defeat for everyone, except for the homesick forces. In addition, the final victory or defeat of this war actually had nothing to do with Sijifa, although he played a very important role, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it directly ended the Battle of Luchuan.
But the result of all this he enjoyed, and it can even be said to be the price to pay, was to launch a war against the Ava dynasty together with Meng Yang Zhaofa of the Ava Dynasty, that is, the son of Meng Yang Tusi Di Hablow who belonged to the Ava Dynasty and controlled Meng Gong in the northeast of Meng Yang.
Judging from Jiang Yu's understanding and analysis, Sijifa's participation in this war is likely not to be active, because Luchuan has just recovered from the war with the Ming Dynasty, and he has not had a long time to recuperate, so he will immediately start a war with the Ava Dynasty, which may be the most powerful force in the southwest of the Indochina Peninsula in this era, which is difficult to explain in terms of reason.
The only possible answer is that this is the price paid by Dihab in the Battle of Luchuan to help Sijifa force the Ming army to retreat, that is, to use his name as the lord of Luchuan, the king of Mengmao, as a bet and call to assist the Mengyang Tusi forces of the Ava Dynasty to launch a rebellion against the Ava Dynasty.
Si Jifa's fate is naturally tragic, he was captured by the Ava Dynasty after the defeat, and then escorted to the Ming Jingshi to be executed, in this way, Si Jifa can not be regarded as the winner of this war, after all, it can be regarded as a victory in exchange for his remaining life, in the end it is just a wedding dress for the Meng Yang Sijia forces.
Objectively speaking, although the Ming Dynasty withdrew its troops, it still controlled the ancestral land of Luchuan, Mengmao, as well as Manmo, Nandian and other places, which limited the development of Luchuan's power to a certain extent.
In addition, on the side of the Ava Dynasty, because of the defeat in the war against the Ava Dynasty, Luchuan did not regain its original power in this area, and it can be said that in addition to the control in the area from Mengyang to Jiangtoucheng, the authority in other places was lost, and it was no longer the Mengyang of the past.
After the battle of Luchuan, Mengyang completely bid farewell to the era of Mengmao, which could be called the great Mengmao Kingdom, and then Luchuan, entered the Mengyang era of Luchuan, although it is not said that it is obeyed to the Ava Dynasty like other surrounding small forces, but compared to the previous Mengmaoguo era, it is just a remnant.
The Ming side, although it is said that it also successfully prevented the expansion of Luchuan and dealt a heavy blow to Luchuan's power, but it also used this as a node and began to gradually lose its control in the southwest of the Indochina Peninsula.
And because in the previous era of Ming Xuanzong, the Ming Dynasty gave up the power of Jiaozhi, and the battle of Luchuan failed to completely conquer Luchuan, the Ming Dynasty's power in the Indochina Peninsula, or Southeast Asia, was only left in the Mubang area, which was not prosperous and powerful, and the more southern, such as Dacheng and Taigula, was completely out of control.
At this point, the expansion of the Ming Dynasty's power in the south direction was completely interrupted, and unfortunately, the Tumubao Incident that occurred immediately afterwards also announced to a certain extent the stagnation or even suspension of the Ming Dynasty's power expansion in the north.
Later, due to poor management in the southeast coastal direction, the Ming Dynasty, which was attacked by Japanese pirates, also basically cut off the maritime expansion in the southeast direction.
These things are like a giant axe in the sky, and one axe after another is slashed at the fortunes of the Ming Dynasty, completely interrupting the road of the country to expand in all directions with the development momentum of human civilization, to the distance, to the sea. Relying on the old capital accumulated over the previous millennium, it is just to ensure that Daming does not lag behind the world, and the former leading position no longer exists.
The Qing Dynasty after that can be called a giant social experiment in the history of human civilization, belonging to the Chinese Middle Ages, from 1644 Dolgon into the Central Plains, to the 1840 war, the level of productivity and science and technology on the land of China did not advance more than half a step, completely lagging behind the world's forward wheel.
Jiang Yu disregarded the root cause and pursued the reason, he was still most willing to put the blame on Ming Xuanzong, the emperor who once followed Ming Chengzu Zhu Di on an expedition to the desert, on the one hand, he had his own heir too late, and he failed to cultivate his descendants like his own fathers.
On the other hand, as an emperor who was also capable of fighting horses, he gave up the foreign interests of the Ming Dynasty and comprehensively tightened the conservative strategy, which can be said to have buried the future of the Ming Dynasty and dug the grave of this empire early.
It is true that he can recuperate and recuperate, and he can no longer fight foreign wars, but peace and development cannot be at the expense of giving up his own interests, and if he can give up his own interests for the sake of peace and development, then there are too many things that can be given up.
This land has not had a moment of weakness, but Zhu Zhanji raised the imperial sword in his hand to cut off the dragon's spine with his own hands, which in the final analysis is to quench his thirst, for the sake of the small profits in front of him, to give up all the future, for the light of fireflies, so that the earth will fall into boundless darkness forever.
Even if you are defeated and captured, and then survive and flee back in embarrassment, it is far better than retreating without a fight.
I don't know if the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty will remember Ming Xuanzong two hundred years ago when they were fighting abroad and were isolated.