Chapter 729: Stop and Stop Complaint
At the same time as the Chinese army conquered Malacca, the Chu army, reinforced by the local Han Chinese, began to launch a battle to recover the entire island of Sumatra.
It turns out that the Majapahit army is even weaker than the navy, as an army in the era of cold weapons, except for a few professional samurai wearing leather armor, everyone else has no armor, those auxiliaries don't even have thin clothes, many people are directly barebacked, and the wooden spear, machete and other things go to the battlefield to die.
Not to mention muskets, even direct throwing of light arrows can also bring fatal blows to these people.
At the end of October, Xu Shisong completely destroyed the main force of the Majapahit army in the Battle of Sri Buddha, annihilated more than 50,000 enemy troops, and paid less than 200 casualties himself, and recovered the old capital of Srivijaya in the first battle.
With such minor casualties, the Chu army naturally had no need to suspend and recuperate.
In early November, the Chu army landed in the area of Xunda, the core territory of Majapahit, on the western side of the island of Java.
In order to counter the Chu army, the Manchu army built a 40-kilometer-long wooden wall along the coastline and filled the beach with wooden sticks on the easily landed beach, hoping to block the Chu army's landing operation.
However, in addition to its own ships, the Chu army was assisted by several professional warships of the Chinese Navy.
A 60-gun sail battleship smashed the Javanese wall apart in 20 minutes, and then several dinghys crashed through the long wooden stakes and spikes and forced the landing.
Naval sappers joined the boats together and quickly built a trestle. The soldiers of the Chu army landed directly through this trestle bridge.
At the last moment, the Majapahit army launched a counterattack in the direction of the trestle, this time they dispatched the most elite elephant army in the country to ignore, but the counterattack was directly driven back by the naval guns, and the Manchu army lost about 2,000 men, and did not even touch the beach.
After the Chu army landed, the remaining Majapahit army quickly collapsed, and on November 15, the same day that the Chinese navy was destroyed in Malacca, the king of Majapahit, Vikramafahana, led his ministers out of the city of Majapahit and surrendered to Xu Shisong.
Theoretically, by this time, Majapahit should have been considered extinct.
However, the country is essentially a tribal confederation of Javanese natives, and the king is nothing more than the co-head of several large communities.
The surrender of Vikramafahana did not mean that the feudal lords of other communities also surrendered.
At the very least, his Suhida fled the city of Majapahit and moved into the primeval forests of the east, leading a handful of followers to prepare for a guerrilla fight.
In addition, the Majapahit lords on the island of Kalimantan (Borneo) also refused to surrender.
Thus, the war continued.
Xu Shisong canonized his uncle Xu Muhai as an earl, and led the army to Borneo alone, and he assigned this large island to Xu Muhai as a fief.
At the end of November, Xu Muhai landed on Borneo with 700 Han soldiers, and spent 20 days destroying all the local armed resistance and occupying a narrow strip of coastal land on the western side of the island, which was sparsely populated by primeval forests.
In early 1798, Xu Muhai accepted the surrender of Wenlai, a small state in northern Borneo, and Sulu, a small island state.
The Chu army continued to attack, island by island, advancing eastward until it reached several isolated areas west of Dongyi Island (the island of New Guinea), which was blocked by the snow-capped mountain range.
The Chu army encountered some headhunter savage tribes on Dongyi Island, and the cannibalistic characteristics of the other party caused great disgust among the Chu soldiers, and several rounds of conflict broke out between the two sides, and the natives in the Stone Age were naturally powerless to resist, almost all the headhunter tribes were razed, and the remnants were forced to flee east to the mountains.
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In less than three months, the Chu army basically destroyed the Manjapahit Boyi, and at the same time that the Chinese army had already solved its opponents in the southwestern Dali Kingdom.
Five days after the capture of Qujing, the Chinese army occupied Banqiao, and fifteen days later destroyed the last main force of the Dali army in the Battle of Kunming.
In the north, the Chinese army moving south from Sichuan Province has been resisted by the Dali Army and the local chieftains who have taken advantage of the terrain to resist near the Chishui River for a long time.
After the occupation of Qujing, a battle group of 7,000 people separated by Li Jinghuai went north to meet the local chieftains, and occupied Wumeng, Qixingguan, Bijie and other places after the war, which defeated the Tusi army that resisted desperately and brought the Sichuan army from the north.
After that, the Sichuan army carried out a bloody purge of the local chieftains, and the local Tusi chiefs such as Anjia and Haojia, who had been inherited for thousands of years, were completely exterminated, nearly 100,000 natives were killed, and 300,000 people were reduced to slavery and moved to the north.
All the local Tusi territories were set up in prefectures and counties, and the land was changed and returned to the stream.
While cleaning up the local Tusi, the Northern Route Army also divided a battle group to occupy Dongchuan, Wumeng, Bijie, Mangbu and other places.
On November 20, the Chinese East Route Army occupied Yao'an and arrived at the city of Dali a day later.
In the end, the Duan clan of Dali, who could not wait for the results of the Jinling negotiations, had to give up resistance and surrender out of the city.
On November 25, 1797, the empire declared the end of Dali.
It was only at this time that the negotiators of the Dali Kingdom, who were far away in Jinling, met the emperor for the first time, but this no longer made any sense.
After the deputy envoy handed over the peace talks of Dali, he did not wait for a reply (at this time the reply is meaningless) and immediately killed himself after leaving the gate of Changle Palace.
Grateful for the loyalty of these two envoys, the emperor ordered them to be buried thickly.
However, the demise of Dali is a foregone conclusion, and this is a fact that cannot be changed.
At the beginning of December 1797, the cabinet announced that Dali would be changed to the imperial Yunnan Province, and 60,000 people would be selected from the expeditionary force to be stationed in Tunken, and the rest of the troops would prepare to take the entire Duan clan north to Jinling after the year.
After the expeditionary force easily destroyed Dali, they were somewhat careless, they did not carefully count how many people there were in the Duan royal family, so they did not know at this time that there were still a few princes in the Duan royal family who were in Dali and were not arrested, so naturally they did not go north with the team.
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Xu Shiyang learned of the end of the Dali War in Sichuan Province.
According to the scheduled itinerary, he should go to Dali via Sichuan Province at this time to inspect and arrange the construction of this new territory.
But on the way, he was stopped by an old woman on his way to Yunnan Province.
The old woman held an origami paper and knelt down in front of Xu Shiyang's team, wanting to complain to him .......
Xu Shiyang had only heard of such a thing as suing the royal court on TV in his previous life, but he really didn't expect that he would really encounter it in his life.
Curious, Xu Shiyang ordered his subordinates to take over the old woman's paper.
The words are very beautiful, it is estimated that it was not written by the old man himself, and after asking, I learned that this thing was written by the county order of Dengfeng County in the previous Zhou Dynasty for the old woman, and the old woman dared to run from Henan Province to Sichuan Province to intercept Xu Shiyang's car, which was also the idea of the former county order, and provided considerable support.