Volume 1 The Battle of Luchuan Chapter 146 The Noon Offensive (36)
For Bai Qianfan, Jiang Yugang's appearance was completely an accident, which was the biggest surprise and the most unexpected surprise for him.
The original Manggu Mountain defense line was the weakest link in Mengyangcheng's defensive front, and the location here was very important for Mengyangcheng, but because of the intricacies of the nearby ten miles, Bai Qianfan did not find a good way to arrange the defense at the beginning.
In the area of Manggu Mountain, there are at least four forces living in it, and this situation is fundamentally caused by the historical past of the Luchuan area, and to a certain extent, it can be regarded as a microcosm of the entire Luchuan area.
The original Manggu Mountain was naturally under the rule of the Luchuan force, that is, the Mengmao State, which was the traditional sphere of influence of the Mengmao State, but with the initial expansion of the Mengmao State was blocked, and after the defeat of the war with the Ming army, Luchuan was the first to be incorporated into the Ming Dynasty's sphere of influence, and the existence of the Mengmao State was given a new name, the Luchuan Ping Burma Military and Civilian Propaganda Division.
This name represents the Hongwu period, the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang's desire and purpose for the expansion of the Ming Dynasty's power in Luchuan, and it can even be said to be a plan, and the power of Luchuan began to usher in the greatest decline, and it is also the rise of Ava's power again.
Although the Ava Dynasty did not have absolute control over this area because of its own weakness, many areas were no longer controlled by Luchuan, that is, although its own power did not directly expand on a large scale, it took advantage of the opportunity that other forces were directly weakened because of the border with the Ming Dynasty, which greatly further destroyed the control of other forces.
For many areas, although the Ava Dynasty did not fall and fully controlled, these areas also no longer belonged to the Luchuan power, that is, the Mengmao Kingdom, which no longer had the ability to control them in the past, and the Ava Dynasty sent its own people to serve as regional administrators for these regions.
Most of these administrators were city lords and governors, and those who were close to the power and interests of the Ava royal family controlled areas that could be said to be the core of the Ava dynasty's expansion, while some of the less closely connected people had a certain degree of independence in their lands.
But the independence here is also a little unreliable, that is, these city lords who are on the top of the Ava Dynasty, although they may not be loyal enough to the Ava Dynasty, but if they want to gain a foothold in this kind of place, and want to survive surrounded by the surrounding Daming, Luchuan, Mubang and Ava forces, they still have to choose to rely on the power of one side and survive under the protection of powerful forces.
And the final result of this choice is actually to follow the Ava Dynasty is the best result, because the Ava Dynasty is a new de jure controller after all, and because of its own strength and historical development, it is an unstable and not strong enough controller.
Under the name of the Ava Dynasty, they can share the interests and power of the Ava Dynasty, and as a relatively independent city lord holding independent power, they can obtain better things than following other large forces.
It is not so much that a force like Mubang is a big force, but rather the final development state of a small force that survives in a power vacuum between the big forces, and this level of power is not capable of sheltering small forces.
In addition, the Ming Dynasty is actually difficult to be included in the preferred, first of all, in fact, they are theoretically, or nominally already the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty, after all, this is not the feudal period of Europe, in general, it is still not to follow the strange rules of "my vassals are not my vassals", they are all the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty in theory, and they want to serve the emperor of the Ming Dynasty as the highest emperor.
was already a nominal courtier of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty had actually given these areas basic protection, in the specific form of accepting the worship of these regions, and then guaranteeing their basic existence, in fact, it was actually the right to independence.
As the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty guaranteed that they would not be annexed or invaded by other forces, and once something like this happened, the Ming Dynasty would send troops to attack the forces that dared to do so, punish and warn, and of course, in the same way, they could not annex and invade other Ming courtiers.
That is to say, the protection of the Ming Dynasty is also a kind of constraint, after all, the Ming Dynasty, which has a huge territory and military power, is beyond the imaginable specifications of these forces in the Luchuan Ava area, and all the Luchuan Ava region, put into the territory of the Ming Dynasty, is just a large area.
Therefore, in addition to protection, there is also an unknown control ability that the Ming can bring to these forces, and the maximum amount of this control ability is not clear to the rulers of these forces for generations, after all, the imperial system is such an unpredictable thing, so these forces will not take the initiative to seek further protection from the Ming Dynasty, because for the further protection of the Ming Dynasty, the power they want to hand over is unknown.
However, it is still difficult for people to make judgments on a large time scale, many small forces close to the territory of the Ming Dynasty, unwilling to completely enter the scope of the Ming Dynasty's rule, and in the end they were destroyed by other large forces, and when the Ming Dynasty returned to recapture the land, their lives were no longer over, it was better to return to the Ming Dynasty earlier, at least the end could be better.
Then, they also have a choice, that is, to choose to follow the Luchuan forces, but this is actually a choice that the most forces will not make, relying on Luchuan, in fact, is equivalent to their own destruction, because Luchuan, that is, the Mengmao State, is the only monarchy in this area before the rise of the Donghu Dynasty, all the power is concentrated in the hands of the Luchuan Mengmao forces, following the Mengmao State, they really become a courtier of the Mengmao monarch, but temporarily they are not even qualified to temporarily manage the land of the Mengmao State.
Meng Maoguo didn't have any other ideas about this, and the Luchuan forces didn't even have the intention of covering it up, they simply and brutally took the most violent aggressive control over these areas, and every military action was a complete reshuffle, even if it had fallen into a war with the Ming Dynasty, and lost a lot of manpower and material resources one after another, and did not try to gain the support of the aristocratic rulers of these other small forces.
This is the dignity and arrogance of the supreme de jure ruler of a region, as well as his innate status, the Luchuan forces, the Mengmao Kingdom, are the absolute masters of this area, they do not need, and do not allow the existence of disobedient independent lords in their sphere of influence, and all of this is their ancestors through strong ability and victory in the war, at the same time, there is undeniable, the later lords of Luchuan, the monarchs of Mengmao, are also outstanding war geniuses, Using the resources of Luchuan, which is not very broad, while resisting the attack of the large forces of the Central Plains Yuan and the Ming Dynasty, while maintaining the military suppression of the surrounding forces, the efforts of the past generations have ensured the continuation of the Luchuan jurisprudence, and this continuation has continued until the thought of the machine.
Sijifa did end the ten years of the orthodox period of the Ming Dynasty, ensured the independence of the Luchuan, and caused a great burden on the military defense of the Ming Dynasty, to a certain extent, it dragged down the Ming frontier defense during the orthodox years, which was one of the factors that led to the change of Tumubao.
But at the same time, he is also the terminator of Luchuan's jurisprudence, and it can be said that he has achieved brilliant achievements in the war with the Ming Dynasty to a certain extent, why did he destroy all the prestige of Luchuan? There are three reasons for this, the first reason, the most fundamental reason, that is, the real winner of the Battle of Luchuan in the strict sense is still the Ming Dynasty, because Luchuan lost the ancestral land of Luchuan that is very important to him, Meng Mao.
Even Meng Mao is gone, where can Meng Maoguo start, although Si Jifa finally achieved the feat of negotiating peace with the powerful Ming Dynasty with a small place in Luchuan, but he still lost.
The second reason is that he won the battle of Luchuan, relying on his own power incompletely, first of all, when he initially lost Meng Mao and Meng Yang, the legitimacy of Sijifa in the Sijia forces has been lost, and the Luchuan Sijia forces have launched a new group of people to replace him, and he has become a loner.
He was able to recapture Mengyang, the most important force is the support of Mengyang Tusi Di Hublow, and Di Hublow is the Mengyang Zhaofa of the Ava Dynasty in the final analysis, it is in the Central Plains saying, Di Hubble is the Ava Dynasty's Jiedu envoy, even if he is not a loyal courtier of the Ava Dynasty and has a relatively independent status, but he is by no means a subordinate of Si Jifa, and he also has his own plans to seize Mengyang City, and his strength is not Si Ji Fa, that is, the power that Si Ji Fa actually holds is not enough, This Meng Mao monarch is no longer as powerful as the Meng Mao monarch in the past.
The last reason, and the most direct reason, Si Jifa was completely defeated in the war against the Ava Dynasty that he initiated, and he was captured by the Ava Dynasty, and finally he was escorted to the Ming Jingshi to be executed, which can be said to be a belated end to the ten-year Battle of Luchuan, and made perhaps the most significant tribute to the countless soldiers and civilians who died in the Battle of Luchuan.
And this last reason is actually linked to the second reason, which is that Sijifa recaptured Mengyang City from the hands of the Ming Dynasty with the help of the power of Mengyang Tusi Di Hublow of the Ava Dynasty to ensure the independence of Luchuan, or the price of Sijia's continued rule over Luchuan, to launch an attack on the Ava Dynasty together with Meng Yangzhao Fadi Hublow as the monarch of Mengmao and the lord of Luchuan.
Their possible war goals may be quite ambitious, Sijifa will regain Luchuan's sphere of influence from the Ava dynasty and reinvigorate Luchuan's authority in the western Indochina Peninsula, and Mengyang Tusidi Hublow will completely break away from the control of the Ava dynasty and become the true master of the Mengyang area.
On the surface, the two take what they need, but in fact, for Luchuan, which has just ended the battle of Luchuan and the entire region has reached the limit of the war mobilization capacity, it is a road to death. Ming Wudi, Ming Wusu embarked on a road of no return.
The result of this road can be said to be that the Ming Dynasty's courtier, the Burmese Xuanwei Division, helped the Ming Dynasty completely destroy Luchuan, the source of chaos that stirred up one side and created the war, but in fact, with the Ming Dynasty's distance from here after the Battle of Luchuan, it was no longer powerless to prevent the demise of the Burmese Xuanwei Division, and everything that happened later.