Chapter 383: The Problem of Exterminating the Zheng Clan's Pirates

After all, if you want to move all the coastal people on such a long coastline to the interior, there is no huge project that cannot be completed in one or two years, and if you do so, there will be even greater public resentment, and since these guards who have already broken military discipline cannot even assist the Janissaries in driving away pirates and plundering the coast, let alone be able to communicate well with the people and make them leave their homes willingly. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

What's more, it should be just that some genes exist in Huang Taiji's body Kang Mazi has also done this in the original history, which has caused public resentment to boil, Zhu Youxiao naturally can't do this, and only on the one hand he ordered the Praetorian Guards to exterminate the pirates who were plundering villages and towns along the coast, and on the other hand, he ordered Lu Xiangsheng, Gu San Mazi and Qin Botong to find the whereabouts of the main force of Zheng Zhilong's fleet and conduct a decisive battle as soon as possible, so as to avoid the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty from being attacked by pirates for a long time.

But sometimes the situation of the war changes so weirdly, when Zhu Youxiao thought that his imperial court did not have strong enough naval strength to suppress the Zheng pirate group, but he was able to rely on his advanced steam-powered warship and Gu Sanmazi, a general who was forgotten by history, to defeat the Zheng group twice in a row through flexible tactics, so that Zheng Zhilong had to lie dormant for half a year, and did not dare to turn against the imperial court until the Ming Dynasty completely controlled Macau.

But now, when Zhu Youxiao thinks that his imperial court has formed three navies, and the number of naval officers and soldiers who have participated in actual combat has a relatively large number, and there is also an outlet to the sea, plus he has a large rear area of 9 million square kilometers to do logistical support, it is completely possible to have a decisive battle with Zheng Zhilong, not to mention that now Zhu Youxiao himself also has a very good naval talent, in order to completely solve the problem of Zheng's pirates before the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, he specially issued a direct order to let Lu Xiangsheng, Qin Botong, Gu San Mazi and the three of them were fully responsible for directing this war to exterminate the pirate Zheng group.

Qin Botong is Gu Sanmazi's old partner, his brain is as flexible as Gu Sanmazi, and he has experience in cooperating with each other, and Lu Xiangsheng, as a commander who was directly responsible for the Janissary Army's East Route Army to eradicate Wu Xiang and Wu's father and son and occupy the Horqin Department, plus he was also responsible for commanding the war against the Tartars entering the customs before, so he already has rich experience in overall planning and command.

What's more, Lu Xiangsheng himself is very capable, this is proven by history, and he is still the kind of rare civilian official who can tolerate and get along well with military generals, so it is very appropriate for him to be fully responsible for the war against the extermination of the Zheng pirate group.

It can be seen that Lu Xiangsheng is a very open-minded and measured person, and he also knows how to use quantity, and knows that the person who is best at dealing with pirates now is Gu San Mazi, so he simply gave up this war to Gu San Mazi without hesitation.

Zhu Youxiao was also very pleased with this after learning from Jinyiwei, at least the three heroes of the naval battle he is now forming can cooperate tacitly, as long as he and He Chou can't exterminate Zheng Zhilong's pirate group! ~

However, having said that, neither Zhu Youxiao nor Lu Xiangsheng and others expected that Zheng Zhilong would come up with such a move, that is, he would use the guerrilla tactics of sending multiple small groups of pirates to constantly attack and harass the Ming coast, so as to make it difficult for the rear of the Ming Dynasty to be peaceful, and at the same time, the logistical advantage could not be fully reflected, so that the current Ming court did not take advantage of the first confrontation with the Zheng group.

Instead, the Zheng clan sacrificed some pirates, including hired Japanese pirates and Western fans, as well as other natives of the South Seas, to plunder a large amount of war resources, including population.

This made Zhu Youxiao feel very depressed, although he was in the Forbidden City, he couldn't sleep peacefully, pacing back and forth in the Xinuan Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace all day long, not only that Zheng Zhilong's guerrilla tactics of multi-point attacks along the coast made people feel a headache, but what made Zhu Youxiao feel a headache was that the influence of the Zheng pirate group in the western Pacific was too great, and he almost had his own strongholds in this area, making it difficult for the Ming Navy to find the location of Zheng Zhilong's main force, and where his real strategic points were.

Moreover, in this way, a state of the enemy in the dark and in the light has almost been formed, Lu Xiangsheng said in his reply to Zhu Youxiao that now they want to find the main force of the Zheng group for a decisive battle as soon as possible, but they are also worried that their side will be too rash and fall into the encirclement of the Zheng pirate group when a certain fleet is alone, so that there will be another Salhu on the sea.

Therefore, in general, now the war of the Ming Dynasty against the extermination of the Zheng pirate group has reached a stalemate, and it has also fallen into passivity.

This made Zhu Youxiao have to admit a fact, that is, in the actual war, the victory or defeat is really not determined in advance from the comparison of the military strength of the enemy and us at the beginning, for example, the current battle between the Ming court and the Zheng group profoundly illustrates this point.

However, in order to be able to completely solve the Zheng pirate group, so that the advanced productive forces of the Ming Dynasty can create more wealth for the Ming Dynasty, it is necessary to completely occupy the rights and interests of maritime trade, and this war must be fought, not to mention, Zhu Youxiao has now made the entire Ming state apparatus run for this purpose in order to completely solve this matter, and a large number of material and financial resources are concentrated in the south.

"Your Majesty, this is the note that Lu Ge Lao has just urgently submitted back, in order to find the main force of the Zheng pirate group as soon as possible, in order to solve the problem of the coastal people being plundered by pirates countless times, Gu San Mazi has personally commanded the South China Sea Fleet, along the chicken coop to the Ryukyu area, and is even going to Japan to find it, it is said that Zheng Zhilong has a close relationship with the Japanese shogunate and many daimyos, it is likely that this Zheng Zhilong's nest is no longer in the chicken coop area, but on the island of Honshu in Japan."

After listening to Li Mingrui's report, Zhu Youxiao nodded and said: "You don't have to go so far to find it, and you don't have to care where Zheng Zhilong's lair is, tell Lu Xiangsheng that since there are so many pirates who have attacked the people along the coast of Daming countless times, it means that there must be a concentration of these pirates gathering on the nearby islands, and now we have to find this place and find an opportunity to serve them in a pot, for Zheng Zhilong's lair, as long as my Daming coast is calm, there is time to clean up one by one." ”

After Zhu Youxiao finished speaking, before he had time to rest, Mao Wenlong's recital also arrived at Zhu Youxiao from Waixinganling.

Zhu Youxiao was naturally shocked after reading Mao Wenlong's recital, he didn't expect that he hadn't eliminated the cunning shark in the south, but the big bear in the north had arrived in Eastern Siberia first, according to the rules of the Rakshasa country's march, it was generally for the Cossack cavalry to occupy it first with the vanguard, and then directly establish an administrative system here in the follow-up, and move serfs to cultivate here, so that these no-man's lands were completely included in the territory of the Rakshasa country.

And now, since the Cossack cavalry has come to Eastern Siberia, it means that the entire area of Outer Xing'an Mountains and Miaotun controlled by the Ming Dynasty will also be attacked by the Cossack cavalry, and Mao Wenlong is undoubtedly a very vigilant minister, before the Cossack cavalry really began to attack the Outer Khingan Mountains controlled by the Ming Dynasty, he realized what enemy he was facing, and asked the court for help in time.

But now in fact, the Ming court now has no time to take care of the situation in the distant Siberia in the north, and the elite who stay in the north still have to guard against Jiannu and the point guard Jingshi, plus Zhu Youxiao does not want to provoke a big enemy in the north without completely solving the Zheng pirate group, so Zhu Youxiao knows that he can't and can't directly declare war with the Rakshasa country now, so he had to order Li Mingrui to inform Mao Wenlong of the draft, and Mao Wenlong can choose all important military and political matters by himself, or he can choose to negotiate with the Rakshasa country. There can be compromises, but it must be ensured that the existing control areas of the Ming Dynasty cannot be lost.

Mao Wenlong was quite helpless after receiving Zhu Youxiao's will, he naturally knew that the imperial court was in a difficult situation now, but he had to admit that it was really difficult to deal with the main force of the Cossack cavalry with only 30,000 Dongjiang soldiers in his hands and the third brigade of the Praetorian Guard cavalry, which was no more than 5,000 cavalry.

However, no matter how difficult it was, Mao Wenlong did not dare to disobey Zhu Youxiao's will, so he had to find a way to give the Cossack cavalry a certain degree of heavy damage when the Cossack cavalry entered the area of the Outer Khing'an Mountains, so as to force the Cossack cavalry representing the Rakshasa country to accept the peace.

For the translation, there is no need to worry, when the Ming Emperor His Majesty Zhu Youxiao set up a translation hall in the Hanlin Academy, specializing in training such professionals who are proficient in foreign languages, and now after the establishment of institutions of higher learning, it is even more set up a foreign language department, and when Mao Wenlong and others entered North Asia, they knew that they would inevitably have to contact with the Rakshasa country in the future, so they brought such a translation all the way, and many of these translations are still Jinyiwei, because Jinyiwei is mainly responsible for the collection of foreign military intelligence, so Jinyiwei's foreign language homework has never dared to fall behind.

In fact, the current Cossack cavalry came from the Ural Mountains, and they did not know that not far from them was the actual control area of an ancient empire in the east, that is, the Ming Empire, and in the south of the control area, there was a slightly warmer rich plain, and in the Guannai was a highly civilized and extremely rich area, so they were still not as vigilant as they were in the past to go into Siberia.

The Daming sentry cavalry, who was discovered and brutally killed by these Cossack cavalry, attracted their attention, and they did not expect to meet a capable cavalry in the far east, because in such a small contact battle, his Cossack cavalry had a rare three-to-one casualty, that is, six sentry cavalry were killed under their hands, but the Cossack cavalry also lost two.

This made the Cossack cavalry very curious and excited, because as long as this cavalry had such combat effectiveness, it meant that this was not a bitter cold place that was still untouched like Eastern Siberia, but a rich land with a certain amount of wealth.

Therefore, the Cossack cavalry now can't wait to gallop towards the outer Xing'an Mountains, and they are eager to rob in this area, because according to the rules of their Rakshasa country, the wealth obtained from looting will be their own, which makes the combat effectiveness of these Cossack cavalry very strong and at the same time shows their greed to the extreme.

However, Mao Wenlong had already arranged three lines of defense in the area of the Outer Xing'an Mountains, and there was also a depth of artillery fire, and he had already mobilized the local and moved people to carry out a fortified clearing, so it was not easy for these Cossack cavalry to easily set foot in the control area of the Ming Dynasty in this area.

The Cossack cavalry led by Barutlowskiv first attacked Longshanwei, the area actually controlled by the Ming Dynasty in the area around the Outer Khing'an Mountains, but as soon as they rushed in, Mao Wenlong took the lead in ordering the Ming army to send gas to achieve the marching order of anesthetizing the enemy, especially now the Cossack cavalry, which needs to be in battle formation.

As a result, many Cossack cavalrymen were dizzy and their eyes were watery before they could slash their knives at the ordinary people with their knives in their hands.

At this time, the 3rd Cavalry Brigade of the 1st Cavalry of the Praetorian Guards also rushed first, and took advantage of the fact that most of these Cossack cavalry were unconscious due to the gas, and slashed their broadswords at these arrogant Cossack cavalry.

It didn't take long for dozens of these Cossack cavalry to rush to the front, and the Cossack cavalry was so confused that they were the corpses of the Third Brigade of the Praetorian Guards Cavalry.

However, when a gust of wind blew and the concentration of gas gas decreased, the Cossack cavalry began to regain consciousness and prepare to rush directly to the 3rd Cavalry Brigade of the Praetorian Guard, the 3rd Cavalry Brigade of the Janissaries suddenly withdrew from the scene, which made these Cossack cavalrymen feel very puzzled, but they still killed this side, but what they did not expect was that when they entered the first line of defense, countless shells suddenly rained down on the Cossack cavalry.

Suddenly, the entire cold Siberian steppe began to resound with a loud rumbling sound, and countless Cossack cavalry became the target of the Ming artillery bombardment before they had time to draw their swords and pretend to be forced.

After the artillery attack, the Cossack cavalry was even more annoyed, and rushed directly towards the perimeter of Longshanwei, but by this time, Mao Wenlong had already let the Ming army led by himself start using firearms, and successfully used firearms to cause a large number of casualties among these Cossack cavalry who lost their minds due to anger.

And these Cossack cavalry did not expect to encounter such a strong opponent in this far east, so they had to suspend the attack and began to consolidate the existing control area, and also began to build and confront the several guards that the Ming Dynasty had now rebuilt.

However, these Cossack cavalry did not know that the main focus of the empire was now in the south, so he chose to negotiate peace with Mao Wenlong first after suffering certain casualties.