Chapter 709: Destroying the withering and decaying
The simple people have food and clothing, and they think they are happy without beating and scolding, and such a low standard makes Huang Sheng feel ashamed.
Along the way, the common people listened to the words and deeds of the "God of War", and their eyes were no longer confused, and they were full of yearning for the future days when they had private property of five acres of rice fields.
After several months of collective action, the migrants in the southwest have also become accustomed to the joint defense of the armor, and they know that there are any difficulties or abnormalities that need to be reported to the chief of security and the chief of the first month.
The Chinese army marched for half a year and finally came to Yunnan, along the way took in too many people who were willing to emigrate overseas, the mighty southward team is afraid to be hundreds of miles, the Chinese army arrived in Kunming, and the rear team was still in Anshun.
Chongzhen 12 years of the New Year's Huang Sheng spent in the spring city of Kunming, the army has reached more than half of the assembly in the Daming Xindi Bamo, a grain city has been in full swing construction.
Xiao Ma Chao and his wife took the initiative to bring 8,000 elite white pole soldiers to participate in the battle, Guangxi wolf soldiers came to 5,000 fierce people, and there were Tusi from all over the country who responded, and many leaders sent the strongest young men in the clan, bringing together no less than 20,000 people.
The generals of the Ming Army in the southwest were not far behind, and some of the generals had followed Huang Sheng to make meritorious contributions in the fierce battles of the Great Yue Kingdom, knowing that fighting with the "God of War" had little risk and great gain, and the enthusiasm was unprecedented.
Since the southwest frontier was controlled by the "Southern Ming", the Ming army did not need to defend the territory, and the generals brought their headquarters to follow the southern king's military exploits, and the total number of soldiers and horses has exceeded 30,000.
The southwest is poor, and the soldiers are not living well, and they have never received enough food and salary.
Taking the initiative to follow Nanwang to the battlefield is not only full pay but also double, with military merits and cash on the spot, it is not difficult for an ordinary Ming army to follow Nanwang to save twenty or thirty silver coins a year.
Therefore, after learning the news that the Nanwang ordered more troops this time, the Ming army flocked to many places, but the Ming generals were self-aware and did not dare to bring the old and weak to laugh and be generous, they were all carefully selected strong soldiers.
Mu Qiyuan, the Duke of Qianguo, also sent Mu Tianbo, the prince of the world, to lead 10,000 horses to help in the battle, and these horses belonged to the family of the Duke of Qianguo.
The Mu family has been on the border for a long time, and they have been fighting for two hundred years, and they often have to fight to defend the land, and they think that the Mu family and horses should be able to fight and endure war.
The heroic and high-spirited "God of War" army swallowed thousands of miles, and the father and son of Qianguo saw it, and they finally felt that the Mu family's model of leading troops might be outdated, and the weapons should also be updated.
Starting from the head of the Mu family, the generals under his command all took the initiative to come to the "God of War" team to participate in joint training, and they refused to fall behind in exercises and culture.
Of course, Huang Sheng will not be idle, and while waiting for the assembly of the division's troops and horses, the three-month actual combat exercise was launched in the "Nanming" and Daming coalition forces that were already in place.
The assembled southwest Ming army was as high as 80,000, and the "God of War" generals could not tolerate the situation that the generals did not know the soldiers.
When the two armies have a certain understanding and are familiar with each other, they have to show off each other's combat effectiveness.
The exercise was the best way to improve discipline and show combat effectiveness, and soon the assembled army began to compete with the red and blue camps, with Huang Shenghe, the general praise painting department, and Mu Qiyuan, the prince of Qianguo, as the referees.
The "God of War" servicemen all know how to regard the exercise as a real battle and cannot turn the exercise into an act.
It's a pity that too many Ming troops didn't understand, they didn't know enough, and they quickly learned a bloody lesson, and finally knew that the exercise was a war.
The "God of War" all uses live-fire exercises, and the "Flying Thunder" also really explodes, and casualties will occur if they do not obey orders and listen to commands, and if they do not abide by discipline.
After a few exercises, all the Ming and Tusi troops learned to obey, their discipline soared by a level, and their combat effectiveness certainly improved a lot.
When Nanwang was conducting the exercise, the other two armies had already entered the actual battle.
In the spring of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Huang Dongshan divided the attack army into three routes and two echelons according to the plan of the Zanhua Department.
He personally led three battalions of men and horses, with the support of Guo Huaiyi's navy, across the Strait of Malacca and forcibly landed, and went straight to Malacca City.
Huang Dongshan's army was only 20 nautical miles from the city of Malacca, and in less than an hour, the army broke into the city under the roar of naval guns.
The devastating battle was not worth mentioning, the Dutch entrenched here were crushed by the suddenly turned "Nanming" army, and more than 3,000 Dutch and indigenous allied troops raised their hands and surrendered almost without making a decent and effective resistance.
Guo Huaiyi was not polite at all, and whether he would release the sailors and return the ships at sea would depend on the results of the diplomatic mediation between the "Nanming" and the Netherlands.
At the same time, Li Dagang led three battalions of men and horses, with the cooperation of Liu Liangcai's navy, to attack the port of Shwe Timham, which is located in the middle of the Strait of Malacca, an ideal port of call on the trade route from the Far East to Europe, at the entrance to the Klang River.
The Xiyi here are mostly Gauls, who led one or two thousand natives to try to resist stubbornly, but the soldiers and horses that came to attack far exceeded their imagination, and they were not on the same level as them in terms of numbers, equipment, and artillery fire.
After resisting for less than an hour, the Gauls found that their opponents' attacks were endless and fierce, and the men and horses were gathering more and more, and they resolutely chose to surrender unconditionally.
The third main force will be Han Guang, and the naval force is the main force led by Huang Mingdao himself. They led 1,000 families to occupy the later Penang in the northeastern part of Penang, and then completely seized the 20 or 30 square kilometers of the island.
There will be no fierce fighting, as the island is not known as the "Garden of the Orient" as it was in later generations, but it is one of Malaysia's tourist destinations, with the capital Penang being the second largest city in Malaysia.
Now that it is a barren place, with a population of no more than 3,000 people, poor port facilities, and extremely poor people, the Ministry of Zanhua chose this place to build a logistics base and then attack the territory of the Sultanate of Kedah.
At this time, there was no unified government in the Malay Peninsula, the Portuguese destroyed the rising Malacca dynasty a hundred years ago, and the Dutch colonized the Malay Peninsula, and the Sultan of Kedah was just a puppet.
But there are unique conditions in this land, because there are quite a lot of Han people here, and there are probably more than 100,000 people.
Taking the territory without a population base to enrich is the shortcoming of the Xiyi countries, the Han people will not face such a problem when they come to colonize, there are Han people living here, and then 100,000 immigrants come here, and from now on this is the homeland of the Han people.
Three days later, Han Guang led three battalions and the first batch of 3,000 immigrants who had come to expand the territory to land and attacked Alor Setar, the capital of the small kingdom of the Sultan of Kedah, about twenty or thirty miles from the port.