"Bang bang bang-"

"Ming dog! I'm fighting with you! ”

"For the homeland!"

On the way to escape from Moluo City to Miao Dang, the Ming army Tang rode on a war horse and galloped on the mountain road, chasing and killing all the Burmese soldiers encountered along the way.

There are almost no war horses in the Burmese army, except for those who fled into the mountains and could not enter the mountains for a while to be exterminated, and those who were caught up by the Ming army had almost no end of being separated from the heads of the people.

The Burmese army said that the Ming army invaded its homeland, but it did not want this place to be under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, nor did it think about the hundreds of thousands of border people in the western part of Yunnan who were ravaged to death.

In Yunnan for several years, most of the soldiers of the Western and Southern armies have seen the ruins of villages ravaged by the Burmese army, and there are cyan phosphorus fires every night, and almost every site is a mass grave.

Having seen this scene with my own eyes, for the Yanshan officers of the Western Army and the Southern Army, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

If you want to cry miserably, the Burmese army is not worthy.

"Whew...... Call...... Whew......"

In the fifth hour after the start of the war, when night fell, they successfully ran out of the Longchuan River valley as Burma ran more than 40 miles westward.

What appeared in front of him was no longer a narrow antiquity, but flat hills and plains.

A large number of Burmese troops who had fled from the city of Moro rested here, numbering nearly 1,000 people.

These horses were the largest of all the Donghu troops who had escaped from Moro City.

After running for 40 miles in a row, the Burmese soldiers were so tired that they had to find a place to rest.

However, they had just collapsed on the ground, and their buttocks were not yet hot, when suddenly there was a rumbling sound in the direction they had fled and traveled.

"Ah, it's not good, it's the Ming army chasing after you!" The Burmese army was shocked one by one, and their faces turned pale.

"Run!"

The will to fight of nearly a thousand Burmese troops has long since collapsed, although the Ming soldiers have not yet appeared, but they have long been frightened birds, without any courage to resist the Ming army, all they think of is still to escape.

With a bang, the Burmese soldiers who were originally tired and paralyzed on the ground seemed to regain their strength under the persecution of death.

As soon as these defeated troops stood up, they began to flee in all directions, one after another, to the dense forest, and the scene was chaotic.

In just a moment, the leading Ming cavalry appeared, but there were only more than a hundred horsemen.

"Haha, there are so many Burmese troops here, and we have encountered them! Don't let any of them go, take as many prisoners as you can! ”

The garrison leading this cavalry laughed as they looked at the defeated army of Donghu fleeing like rabbits, and then galloped over.

"Bang bang bang-"

After a round of shooting, the Ming troops on the horse changed their swords and slashed at the Donghu soldiers who tried to escape.

Blood was sprayed on the battlefield, the morale of the army was broken, and the Burmese soldiers, who had no will to fight, could not organize any resistance just to escape.

They faced only two fates, either crouching down and surrendering and being captured, or being slaughtered on the way to escape.

Wherever the war horse rushed with the Ming army's pond cavalry, the Ming soldiers pursued and killed wherever they went.

For a time, the Burmese army was killed and cried for his father and mother, and he wished that his father and mother would give birth to four legs.

The cavalry of the Ming army had a clear strategy, and the war horses rushed directly to the edge of the dense forest in all directions, directly cutting off the road for the Donghu soldiers to escape into the dense forest.

In addition to the Taungoo soldiers, who reacted the fastest and were closest to the dense forest and were the first to flee into the dense forest, more than 500 Burmese soldiers were surrounded by the Ming cavalry.

Seeing that the escape route was blocked, the 500 Burmese soldiers simply threw away the weapons in their hands and knelt on the ground to surrender.

"Chief Flag Officer, are you surrendered?"

"Let's take it first......"

The bearded flag officer was also unsure whether he would be punished for killing prisoners, so he could only surrender first.

The surrendered Burmese troops were tied up with ropes by the Ming army, leaving a small number of people to guard them, and they continued to pursue the fleeing Burmese troops in front.

Some Burmese soldiers immediately rebelled after seeing that only a dozen people were left in the Ming army, but soon, the sound of horses' hooves sounded more fiercely in the valley of the Longchuan River.

A large group of cavalry rushed out of the river valley, instantly making the group of Burmese soldiers honest.

They watched in a daze as the Ming cavalry rushed past them, chasing after the rout they had fled, and they didn't dare to think about anything else.

As for the cavalry of the Ming army, they pursued all the way, and there were not many Donghu soldiers resting on the escape road, after all, they were running and running, and they were tired and paralyzed, and they did not have the strength to climb into the dense forest.

Although these Donghu defeated troops tried their best to choose small roads to escape, it is a pity that among the 90,000 Ming troops, there were more than 16,000 cavalry alone, so no matter how they fled, they would see the Ming army soon after they fled!

More than 3,000 Burmese troops were killed and captured along the way, counting the five or six thousand people who were killed in Moluo City, and only a few hundred of the 10,000 Burmese troops in Moluo City fled into the dense forests deep in the mountains and escaped the pursuit of the Ming army.

The clear Longchuan River was stained red with blood, and the corpses of the Burmese soldiers who died in battle were thrown into the Longchuan River by the Ming army and rushed to Miaodang under the Longchuan River......

"What! Doesn't it mean that the army has just begun to attack our Donghu? Why do you say that you are already in Mengmi! ”

When the Ming army was chasing and killing the fleeing Burmese army, Maung Ji, who received a letter for help, also set off from Miaodang with 60,000 troops, but he only walked less than fifty miles before he learned that the Ming army had captured Moluo City and was approaching Mengmi.

When he heard the news, he roared and questioned the sentry horseman, but the other party did not know why the front line was defeated so quickly.

Although Maung Ki had some talent, he could not understand the rapidity of the large-scale cavalry attack.

There are very few war horses in Donghu, and even if they do, they are only available to a very small number of nobles.

Moreover, Donghu still rode elephants, and the nobles also rode elephants more, which led to fewer Donghu horses.

They could not understand the power of the Ming army's cavalry in "blitzkrieg", just as more than 500 years ago, the Western countries could not understand why the Mongol Empire could appear under the city in a few days.

Naturally, it was the messenger sent by Moluo City to report the Ming army's attack on Donghu, and as a sentinel horseman, he rarely had a horse.

It was precisely because of this horse that he escaped the pursuit of the Ming army.

"My king, do we have to withdraw to Miaodang first and wait for the assembly of follow-up soldiers and horses?"

Knowing that the city ahead had been breached, some generals also began to dissuade Maung Ki, who wanted to lead troops to Meng Mi.

"Let's camp here temporarily, and send someone to the city in front to ask those routs why the Ming army captured Moluo City so quickly."

"Yes!"

Maung Gi ordered the army to camp at the foot of the mountain, and the generals below also sent sentinels to inquire about the battle ahead.

It wasn't until the next morning, as the Sentinels continued to return, that Maung Ki understood what was happening ahead.

Relying on 2,000 artillery pieces, the Ming army not only captured Moluo City, but also easily walked out of the Longchuan River Valley and captured Mengmi City in the valley plain.

Now, more than 90,000 Ming troops are stationed in Mengmi City, and the material resources of Longchuan are constantly being transported to Mengmi City, and Hong Chengchou seems to wait for all the materials to arrive before launching a general attack.

After learning all the information, Maung Ki was preparing to recruit troops and horses from all over the country and send news to Arakan and other countries, when even worse news came.

Menggong, Mubang, and Jingding were attacked by the Ming army and were in danger.

When he got here, Maung Ji probably figured out that Hong Chengchou's strength was about 120,000.

After learning that the Ming army raised 120,000 troops to invade, Maung Ji's face was extremely ugly, but fortunately, the main force of the Ming army was still resting in Mengmi, otherwise he would have collided with the main force of the Ming army at this moment.

60,000 people collided with the main force of the Ming army of 90,000, Maung Ji didn't dare to imagine what kind of scene it was.

You know, during the Wanli period, Donghu mobilized 300,000 soldiers and horses to barely fight back and forth with the 40,000 Ming army on the Yunnan border, and now the Ming army has mobilized 120,000 soldiers and horses, so how many soldiers and horses do they need to repel the Ming army?

Thinking of this, Maung Ki was not ready to fight directly with the Ming army, but was ready to call on Arakan, Qinshan, Qindun, Xiao Boluo, Ahum and other countries to form a coalition to jointly resist the invasion of the Ming Dynasty.

If the Ming Dynasty wants to reset the three Xuan and six comforts, then these places will be the objects to be recovered by the Ming army, not only that, but the Lancang Dynasty and Siam in the south are also in this system.

However, the Lancang Dynasty and Siam had already submitted to the Ming Dynasty and were canonized as vassal states, so they would inevitably not send troops to support, and even after learning the news that the Ming Dynasty had sent troops to Donghu, they would send troops to attack the southern part of Donghu.

Therefore, Maung Gi had to fight quickly.

Thinking of this, Maung Ji waved his hand and said: "Send an order to Arakan, Qinshan, Qindun, Xiao Boluo, Ahum and other countries, as well as various Tusi, that all countries must send troops, and they must arrive in Miaodang at the end of the month." ”

"If the war drags on until the summer, the Ming army itself will be defeated."

Maung Ji in the camp clenched the armrest of the chair, and at the same time, the soldiers and horses of the Ming army were also marching forward, and the good news was transmitted back to the Ming Dynasty one by one......

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"The supervision of the small Western Supervision Envoy Department made Lu Xiangsheng sparse, Ren Xuyue Jiwei, Nanyu Khan killed Jiahu and commanded his son Ao Zebu to lead more than 100,000 troops to invade the south, Qin, Chu, Shu, and Thursday were only 40,000 officers and soldiers, and there were many people in the south, so the officers and soldiers could not rush."

"On Jiazi Day, Jin, Zhao, Lu, De, Fu, Han and other feudal domains led troops to help, and galloped under the command of Dingdongbo, and the fierce battle in the south was defeated in the wilderness, with tens of thousands of dead and wounded."

"On the Gengchen day of the month of Guihai, the minister led 40,000 troops from Ceylon to the north to help, defeated 20,000 pioneers in Henan, killed 3,000, retreated in the south, surrounded and suppressed by the vassals, beheaded 6,000, and Ao Zebu led the army to retreat."

"In this battle, the two armies fought together in the wilderness, Qin, Chu, Shu, and the four kingdoms were plundered by tens of thousands of people, and the ten kingdoms of the Northern Domain lost more than 14,000 soldiers, and the official army lost 2,000 soldiers, the ministers were really frightened, and I respectfully ask Your Highness to ......"

On the ninth day of the winter month of the eleventh year of the Apocalypse, when Lu Xiangsheng's recital was sent to Zhu Youzhen, it meant that the war in Xiaoxiyang had ended.

In general, Shah Jahan sent his own thirteen-year-old child, Aurangzeb, to lead his troops to the south, and launched a war only for plunder.

Zhu Youzhen didn't believe that Aurangzeb could command more than 100,000 soldiers and horses at the age of thirteen, and he believed that it was Shah Jahan who asked him to help Aurangzeb command the army and gave Aurangzeb a nominal commander.

Playing grass valley, Zhu Youzhen didn't expect that the Mughal capital was Yi*lanization, and he still maintained this Mongolian tradition.

I thought that Huanglong had hurt them, but now it seems that the size of the Mughal is a bit big after all, and it only took two years to recover.

"Your Highness, Lu Xiangsheng asked to raise the strength of the Ten Northern Domains to four battalions, do you agree?"

Cao Huachun finished reading Lu Xiangsheng's recital, and Zhu Youzhen shook his head when he heard this: "Yes, but not only the ten northern domains, but the four battalions of the small Western domains to expand their troops." ”

Zhu Youzhen would not let the ten northern feudal domains expand their troops to four battalions alone, after all, in this way, the strength of the ten feudal domains would reach 120,000, while the southern feudal kingdoms would only have 90,000 troops.

Therefore, either no expansion of the army or an entire expansion of the army.

However, the expansion of the armed forces is not simply an expansion, but a transfer of command.

"Drafting a document, ordering Lu Xiangsheng to let the feudal domains expand their troops into four battalions, and each feudal domain will send one battalion to garrison the northern defense line, and each country has no right to transfer troops, and all the soldiers and horses will be under the command of Qi Yuanfu, the commander of the Eastern Bo, and the small Western Supervision Envoy will also send ten battalions to garrison, and the ten countries in the north will provide food, and the imperial court will pay the army."

"Slave and maid receive ......"

Zhu Youzhen was ready to unite the vassal domains with the Mughal as the goal, thus forming a small Western military alliance.

Although in this way, the uncontrollable factors of Xiaoxiyang have increased, but for Zhu Youzhen, as long as the Ming Dynasty manages Luchuan well and then waits for the railway to open, then it is almost a matter of course to take down the Mughals.

As long as there are no Mughals, then this military alliance can also be transformed into an economic alliance.

"Have you calculated the income of the imperial store in Xiaoxiyang?"

Zhu Youzhen asked Cao Huachun, and Cao Huachun also closed Lu Xiangsheng's recital:

"It's calculated, from September last year to September this year, the emperor made a profit of 6.27 million taels in Xiaoxiyang, and paid more than 2.31 million taels of taxes to the feudal domains."

"Last year and this year are still a little uneven, and it is estimated that it will be higher next year, maybe the profit can reach seven million taels."

Huangdian is stationed in India, which is a sure business for Daming.

The Ming Dynasty only needed to garrison thirty battalions of soldiers and horses, and he could control India steadily, and avoid the problem of governance.

It was a helpless move to canonize India to the vassal king, and the same was true of Levia and Melica in North and South Asia, to put it bluntly, the Ming Dynasty had reached the maximum territory that its population could control.

Further, it is only to bring Wusizang, the Western Regions, Mobei, Luchuan, and Hezhong (Central Asia) under rule.

Zhu Youzhen wanted a local territory with the Han nationality as the main body, so that local rebellions would not break away from the rule of the Han dynasty.

But when it comes to territory, Zhu Youzhen thought of Luchuan.

"Did Hong Chengchou send troops to recover Luchuan?"

Zhu Youzhen asked Cao Huachun, and Cao Huachun also nodded when he heard this: "The war has been going on for half a month, and this is the good news sent by Hong Chengchou." ”

"By the first day of the winter month, the officers and soldiers of the national dynasty had recovered Menggong, Mengmi, Mubang, and Menggen, and beheaded more than 34,000 people in Dongwu."

"However, Hong Jingluo seems to be waiting for all the supplies from Longchuan to arrive in Mengmi before he is ready to start, but it is King Talong who has summoned troops from all countries in the Burma region, and now there are nearly 250,000 soldiers and horses arriving at the front line."

"Your Highness, do you want to support Hong Jinglue? Anyway, there is no war in the north at the moment......"

After Cao Huachun finished speaking, he couldn't help but say a few words for Hong Chengchou, after all, Hong Chengchou's fighter was only three months old.

"He's not in a hurry, why are you in a hurry......

Zhu Youzhen leaned back in his chair and asked Cao Huachun, this action made Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen stunned, looked at each other, and didn't know how to answer.

However, Zhu Youzhen said to himself: "Hong Chengchou himself will deal with the affairs of Donghu, he did not tell Huang Fei about the dispatch of troops this time, that is to say, he wants to transfer all the soldiers and horses in the Liuwei area to the front line." ”

"Once the soldiers and horses in the Liuwei area are transferred to the front line, then Huang Fei's four guards navy will have something to do, don't forget, Huang Fei has 12,000 rifles in his hands......"

Zhu Youzhen reminded the two, and the two remembered that the battle of attacking Donghu was not only Hong Chengchou's lone army, Hong Chengchou could also command Huang Fei's soldiers and horses.

There were more than 20,000 guards under Huang Fei's command, of which 12,000 were armed with rifles, and each person had more than 60 rounds of ammunition.

As long as Hong Chengchou attracted the soldiers and horses of the major princely states in Burma to the front line, once Huang Fei launched an attack, all countries would be killed by the Ming army in the north and south.

It's no wonder that Hong Chengchou is as stable as Mount Tai, and His Royal Highness doesn't care about it.

Co-author, Hong Chengchou's side, the lack of materials is false, and it is true to attract Donghu soldiers and horses.

Hong Chengchou's hand was too insidious, Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen couldn't help but swallow their saliva, and when they looked at Zhu Youzhen, who could easily see through the battle, they were a little more afraid in their hearts.

"With the strength of Donghu and other countries, it is completely possible to pull out more than 400,000 men to go to the battlefield, and now it is not all their strength."

"Three months is enough to sweep Donghu, but what Hong Chengchou thinks about is how to finish the battle in one battle, so that the Donghu countries can't even fight guerrillas."

Zhu Youzhen put down the notes he had just handled, and then put down the Zhu pen:

"The affairs of the southwest, just look at them, don't worry about them, let's talk about the production and equipment of the Ordnance Bureau."

Donghu was only one of Zhu Youzhen's goals, not his only goal in the twelfth year of the Apocalypse.

From the eleventh year of the Apocalypse to the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youzhen still has many goals waiting for him to clean up, among which the most conspicuous is Wu Sizang.

"Yes......" Cao Huachun responded, and then found the documents of the Ordnance Bureau from his desk, and continued:

"The Ordnance Bureau's monthly output is 4,000 rifles, 420,000 bullets, and ...... artillery."

The output of the Shuntian Ordnance Bureau is very large, and in the case of rifles, in the past month, it has exceeded the output of the Tianjin Manufacturing Bureau in the Westernization Movement of the Qing Dynasty.

This is not that the Ming Dynasty is too strong, but that the Qing Dynasty is too wasteful.

In the military industry, the Tianjin Manufacturing Bureau's investment was only 483,000 taels, and the additional investment in the arsenal in the next 20 years was only more than 1 million taels.

In comparison, the Shuntian Ordnance Bureau, which was originally known as the Yanshan Ordnance Bureau, has invested about one million taels every year in the past ten years, with a total investment of more than 12 million taels of silver and more than 60,000 employees.

If inflation is taken into account, the 12 million taels of the Ming Dynasty are comparable to the 20 or 30 million taels of silver at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

However, this does not mean that the Shuncheon Ordnance Bureau can beat the Tianjin Manufacturing Bureau, because the Shuncheon Ordnance Bureau is currently only responsible for the production of rifles, bullets, artillery, gunpowder, and mercury rayate.

As for the Tianjin Ordnance Bureau, it also needs to be distracted from the production of steel, artillery shells and other materials.

In addition, as far as the machinery is concerned, the most advanced in the Ming Dynasty is only the improved ten-ton hydraulic press and hydraulic press after the fourth version of the steam engine, and the converted weight is only six tons of Western-style one, which is far inferior to the Tianjin Manufacturing Bureau.

What's more important is that if the Qing Dynasty also invested 12 million taels of silver to build an arsenal, then the output of this arsenal may be able to easily crush the Shuntian Ordnance Bureau.

However, history has no ifs, and Zhu Youzhen does not have more machinery to set up another new ordnance bureau.

The Shuntian Ordnance Bureau is already the result of all the firearm craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty gathering together and using the steam engine.

But even so, it will take a full nineteen years to redress more than 800,000 Ming troops and produce the output of the Shuntian Ordnance Bureau.

It's just that Daming doesn't need more than 800,000 soldiers and horses armed with rifles, because Zhu Youzhen has stopped recruiting soldiers.

"At present, there are a total of 42,732 rifles in the country, of which 12,000 are equipped with the navy, and they are currently under the command of the Governor of Huang Fei."

"There are more than 30,000 left, and they are currently equipped with the Zhisi Cavalry Guard and the Shence Guard, as well as the Xining Battalion of the Twelve Battalions of Duogan."

"According to the Ordnance Bureau's estimates, it will take about four years to replace the 16th Guards and 40th Guards Battalion."

"It will take about nineteen years for the whole army to change its uniforms."

Cao Huachun said the output and equipment of the Shuntian Ordnance Bureau, but Zhu Youzhen was still concerned about the ammunition situation.

He didn't want the Ming army to have the kind of thing in the First Sino-Japanese War that "ten years of savings is not enough for a few months".

The current Da Ming is somewhat of this situation.

Although it has been equipped with more than 42,000 rifles, reaching the rifle standards of the nineteen-fifties of the fifties, the Ming Dynasty still uses paper-shell fixed ammunition, and the annual output is only 5.04 million.

More than five million bullets looks like a lot, but referring to the bloody battle of Beishan, you can know that compared to the number of rifles with an annual output of 48,000, the annual output of 5.04 million bullets is simply not enough to fight for long.

Now the Ming Dynasty has more than 200 years of weapon crushing advantage over the West, but if someone crosses the river in front of him to explore the way, it is much easier for the West to cross the river on the shoulders of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youzhen couldn't wait for the Westerners to catch up, so after learning about the output of ordnance, he was the first to say: "The production line that will be put into the follow-up should be mainly bullets, and a monthly output of 5,000 rifles is enough." ”

"The slave and maid receive the order......" Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen responded, and Zhu Youzhen did not say anything about disarmament.

At present, he has stopped recruiting new soldiers, and after the bloody battle in Beishan, the Ming Dynasty still has 890,000 troops, Zhu You checked the military registration book, and among the 890,000 troops, about 170,000 people are already forty-five years old and above.

After a while, Zhu Youzhen was ready to announce that non-commissioned officers over the age of 45 would be transferred to other jobs to reduce the military expenditure of the Ming Dynasty, so that the Ming army would remain at about 750,000 in the next ten years.

The Ming Dynasty is very embarrassed now, there are many troops, and the weapons are very advanced, but the projection force is particularly poor.

It's okay to say at sea that the Ming Dynasty can organize an expeditionary force of 20,000 people to go to Europe by sea after the Southern Kunlun Supervision Mission is on the right track, but this is useless, because it can't take root and doesn't have such a large delivery capacity.

As for the land route, it is even more embarrassing, not to mention the Western Regions, even if only 20,000 people are sent to fight Mobei, it is estimated that they will have to prepare half a year in advance, and organize more than 200,000 people and more than 200,000 mules and horses to supply, because Modong Province cannot afford the grain and grass of the Northern Expedition, so it can only send troops from Beizhili and Shanxi.

Now Shanxi is still in a severe drought, then there is only a north Zhili, and from the north Zhili to send troops to Mobei, the straight-line distance is at least 1,200 kilometers, if you fight and walk, the supply line will have to be extended by at least more than 2,000 kilometers.

In a battle, it is impossible for the people of Beizhili to cultivate well without three or four years.

The current Ming Dynasty is very embarrassed, and if he wants to fight Wusizang, he must first let Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Yunnan have surplus grain.

If you want to fight Mobei, you have to let Modong Province have surplus grain, and if you want to fight the Western Regions, you have to let Hexi have surplus grain.

If you want to expel the Russians from Central Siberia, you have to let Beishan have surplus food.

For the sea, the Ming showed off his might, but on the land, the Ming was a little sluggish.

If you want to open up inland, you must first settle down these six provinces, especially places like Modong, Hexi, and Beishan.

Otherwise, you can only honestly wait for the railway to be repaired to Jiayuguan.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen could only sigh in his heart:

"The road is long, and the road is long......"

The rifle technology of the Ming army was similar to that of the Dreiser, and the technical level was still around 1841.

(End of chapter)