Chapter 465: Uszang is pacified

The news that Su Yan wanted to establish a number of transit stations in Nanyang and take back Macau was only circulated on a small scale in the Governor's Mansion and the Naval Governor's Palace.

The governors of the two prefectures were summoned to the palace, and the emperor demanded that the navy be prepared for ocean warfare, and planned to form a new yamen and a new army in the navy governor's palace.

That's the Marine Corps.

The South China Sea is vast, and it is impossible to maintain its dominance in the South China Sea by relying on the army, and the navy alone can only maintain the coastal areas and cannot penetrate deep into the interior.

The Emperor's plan was unheard of, but they were willing to try and cooperate with His Majesty in the formation of a new army.

Therefore, under the emperor's order, the new army began to be formed in the southeastern coastal provinces, this army initially consisted of two brigades, the number of which was the first naval brigade and the second naval brigade, the establishment is no different from the army brigade, but the source of soldiers requires a good water character.

At the same time as the formation of the Marine Corps, a new yamen was set up in the Operations Department under the Governor's Office of the Navy to command the operations of the Marine Corps, and the personnel in the yamen were all veterans transferred from the army, so as to ensure that the navy had experienced army commanders.

Although this may seem strange, it is also to prevent the Marine Corps from being cheated by superiors who are not familiar with land warfare.

After the formation of the Marine Corps, their first combat target was the places in Nanyang that were circled by Su Yan and would be used as transit stations, during which they had two or three months to prepare.

At this time, the construction of the Yellow Sea Division and the East China Sea Division in the expansion plan proposed by Huang Enben had come to an end, and the shipyards along the coast had already entered a state of idleness.

Su Yan decided to set up another Luzon naval division in addition to the Nanyang Naval Division, whose duty was to defend the Luzon Islands and its surrounding waters, and to combat pirates and hostile forces that invaded the seas.

The establishment of the Luzon Naval Division is the same as that of the East China Sea Division, which is composed of 46 warships, including a third-class flagship, five third-class battleships, ten fourth-class battleships, ten short-and-heavy artillery frigates, ten two-masted shore defense ships, and ten two-masted cruisers.

At this time, the Luzon naval division, with a total of 61 warships, will become the most powerful fleet in the country, and it will also be able to turn the entire South Seas into the back garden of the imperial court, which can come and go freely.

Of course, this is only temporary, and the Nanyang Naval Division, which suffered heavy losses, will also accept the reconstruction after returning from the island, and transform from the original Chinese-style warships to Western-style warships - this is also a helpless move, after all, the Chinese warships in the Ming and Qing dynasties have not been developed, and if you want to sail in the ocean, you still have to look at the sail warships with leading technology in his hands. ….

Although the Luzon Naval Division was included in the plan for formation, it would take at least half a year for it to be completely formed, and far water could not quench the thirst, so Su Yan was ready to transfer the Yellow Sea Division to the South China Sea to replace it, so as to prepare for the war with the Netherlands and Portugal in advance.

In the north, the Cabinet also approved the dispatch from Japan, and the Governor's Office then ordered the formation of the Seventh Town of the New Army in Shandong and the northern provinces.

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As time passed, the time quickly came to the end of the eleventh year of Wu'an, and the two battlefields that the Xia army was carrying out were expanded.

First of all, in the western battlefield, the third and sixth towns jointly attacked the Hoshute Khanate entrenched in Uszang from the north to the south, and they climbed the rugged mountain road into Tibet under the leadership of local guides.

After the soldiers and horses of the two towns entered Tibet to fight, and Shuote

The army quickly assembled an army with the intention of driving the enemy out of Uszang, but even in the towering Uszang, the firearms of the Xia army were still able to play a huge role, and in the continuous sound of gunfire, the Heshute army was defeated, and the Khan himself was almost captured.

Because the Xia army is under the banner of revenge for the fifth world, the local forces in Wusizang do not have much resistance to the Xia army, but they have welcomed the arrival of the Xia army and prepared a large number of materials for the Xia army.

In addition, they also sent their own forces to assist the Xia army in attacking the Hoshote Khanate, and with the assistance of the Tibetan forces, the Hoshote Khanate was gradually defeated, and its power soon retreated to the city of Rakhe and the northeastern part of Uszang.

As of the end of November of the 11th year of Wu'an, the Xia army in the wind and snow had surrounded the city, and the remnants of the army led by the Khan of Heshute retreated to the Potala Palace - perhaps because this was the *** station, and there was no wall built around the city, so the Xia army could directly enter the city and attack the stronghold of the Heshute army.

Under the fierce shelling of the 12-pounder infantry cannon and the 12-pounder infantry howitzer, the Potala Palace was damaged in many places, and the Xia army braved the wind and snow and the rain of arrows shot by the Heshute army to launch a strong attack on the palace complex, but the Potala Palace is located on a high mountain, easy to defend and difficult to attack, the Xia army attacked several times, and was repelled by the Heshute army by taking advantage of the terrain, but paid a lot of losses.

In desperation, the Xia army had to temporarily abandon the idea of attacking the palace complex, and instead resorted to the means of long-term siege, intending to trap the stubborn enemy army in the palace complex.

While besieging the city of Luoqi, they also sent envoys to other parts of Uszang, and in the name of the fifth emperor, they demanded that all places submit to the Xia Dynasty and accept the rule of the Xia Dynasty.

Perhaps because the Xia army was very brave after entering Tibet, it was rumored that all parts of Usizang would submit to the rule of the Xia Dynasty, and some settlements controlled by the Heshute Khanate even had Tibetans who resisted, and they overthrew the rule of the Heshute Khanate, and took the initiative to contact the Xia army and expressed their willingness to submit. ….

Despite the defeat in the attack on the Potala Palace, the Heshute Khanate was indeed gone, and its remnants could only survive, and most of the Uszang was pacified and incorporated into the territory of the Xia Dynasty, and the imperial court could begin to prepare for the establishment and direct rule in Uszang.

After more than 200 years, whether nominally or in fact, Usizang has finally returned to the territory of *** again, and this time, it will no longer have the opportunity to break away from the territory and become independent.

The western battlefield is nearing its end, while the eastern battlefield is still in full swing.

Even though the Japanese army had raised heavy troops in the Chinese area, after the fierce offensive of the Xia army and many fierce battles, the Japanese army suffered heavy losses, and its defense line continued to push eastward.

The successive defeats and losses made the shogunate a little unable to sit still, and the shogun Tokugawa Ietsuna began to gather the elders of the family to discuss the possibility of making peace with the Xia army, who in his opinion was completely different from the Mongols more than 400 years ago, although the Mongols were equally ambitious to conquer Japan, but the sea was their weakness.

But the Xia army is different, the Xia army is not only invincible on land, even in the sea is also unshakable, since the start of the Sino-Japanese war, the shogunate has invested nearly a thousand warships before and after, but it is like a stone thrown into the sea, except for a small splash, there is no other repercussions.

Hundreds of warships and tens of thousands of sailors were killed, and the Japanese soldiers were bleeding in the mountains and mountains of Kyushu Island, and if they continued to fight, they would only pay a greater price for casualties, and even the Xia army gradually expanded eastward, and the land they defeated had no possibility of returning.

Therefore, Tokugawa Ietsuna wanted to negotiate peace with the Xia army, and asked the Xia army to stop fighting before the Xia army took Iwami Ginzan, so as to minimize the losses as much as possible.

However, after some deliberation, although the shogunate sent an envoy to secretly contact the Xia army and ask for peace, the commander of the Xia army did not hesitate to reject the shogunate's request for peace, and the Zhenhai general Su Fuyi said solemnly: "Japan has been a vassal of the Celestial Empire since ancient times, but it has rebelled several times in the past thousand years and refused to obey the king.

Su Fuke's refusal made the hearts of everyone in the shogunate suddenly cold, and they could only continue to mobilize heavy troops from the Kanto region to support them

In order to boost the morale of the whole army, Tokugawa Ietssuna personally put on armor and led his troops to the Chinese region.

Tokugawa Ietsuna's movements were suddenly passed to Su Fu by the brocade guards lurking in the country, and he knew that although the Japanese infantry soldiers were generally not high in combat effectiveness, they were numerous, and if they were not prepared in advance, the Xia army was likely to be pushed back to Tsukushi.

Therefore, Su Fu immediately went to the front line, organized a large army to suspend the eastward crusade, and formed a defensive line with the complex terrain of the Chinese region to prevent the Japanese counterattack.

The Great War is on the verge of breaking out.

In the whistling sound of the wind and snow, the eleventh year of Wu'an finally ended, and the time came to the twelfth year of Wu'an, which was also 1665 AD, in the original history of this year, in addition to the Zheng clan in Taiwan, the anti-Qing forces throughout the country were basically pacified, and the Dashun army led by Li Laiheng was also destroyed a year ago, and the name of the nineteenth year of Yongli was only used in Taiwan. ….

And now, although the Yongli era has been abolished for about thirteen years, the Qing Dynasty established by the Manchus has long been destroyed, and the Han people no longer have to endure the dark rule of the Manchu Dynasty, although the newly established Xia Dynasty is also a feudal dynasty, but it is dominated by the Han people, and the Han people adopt lenient rule, and the status of the Han people is much higher than that of the local natives in other areas except the Han land.

On the first day of the first lunar month of this year, the king of Joseon and his ministers knelt down to the east as usual, thanking the Xia Dynasty suzerains for saving them from the oppression of the Manchus.

Thanks to the efforts of the mission sent by Su Yan to Europe, not only Tsarist Russia and Poland, but also the countries of Eastern Europe knew that there was a powerful empire in the far east, which easily defeated Tsarist Russia, seized Tsarist Russia's territory in Asia, and forced the other side to cede the territory east of the Ural Mountains.

Therefore, the monarchs of various countries were full of curiosity about the mighty empire in the distant distance, and they once again turned to the travelogue written by an Italian four hundred years ago, and looked at the beautiful words describing the Orient, and their hearts were filled with fantasies about the power and richness of the Eastern Empire.

In order to be able to see the strength of the Eastern Empire, Eastern European countries have sent missions to the East, and King John II of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth has sent a lot of money, hoping to contact the Xia Dynasty to jointly flank Tsarist Russia.

Of course, the journey from Eastern Europe to East Asia was extremely long, and even if the mission did not have anything to do on the road, it would probably be several years before they arrived at Jiangning City.

Time flies, the long cold winter has finally passed, spring is coming, everything is recovering, and the Xia army finally shows their fangs again after a winter of silence.

On March 20, the twelfth year of Wu'an, the Xia army launched a fierce attack on the Potala Palace again, and the Heshute army in the palace complex has been in turmoil after a long winter, as the roof of the world, the temperature in Wusizang is naturally lower than that inland, so there are many Heshute soldiers in the palace complex who were frozen to death and frostbitten, and in the face of the Xia army's attack again, their counterattack became soft.

After a fierce battle, the Xia army finally attacked the palace complex, and the Heshute army saw that the general trend had gone, and they knelt on the ground and surrendered, and the Heshute Khan did not want to be captured alive like his predecessor, so he wielded a knife and killed himself after the Xia army attacked in, and his body was not found until the Xia army completely eliminated all the resistance forces.

With the death of the Khan of Heshut, the Khanate of Heshut was finally destroyed, and Uszang was completely under the control of the imperial court.

And it was also with the fall of the Hoshut Khanate that the last Mongol regime was destroyed, so that the task released by the system was also completed.

At this point, the five branch tasks of Ultimate Task 2 have been completed by Su Yan, and although the system did not distribute direct physical rewards to him, it also gave him a buff similar to the game of P Society.

The first is the conquest of the Mongol tribes in the first task, and the bonus of the system reward is to significantly increase the loyalty of all Mongols to the Xia Dynasty, which will last for a hundred years, and even after Su Yan's death, the Mongol loyalty will not decrease.

The reward of the second task is to increase the loyalty of all Tibetans to the Xia Dynasty, and to make all the existing Xia soldiers gain the benefit of fighting in the mountains, even if the soldiers who grew up in the plains, their performance in fighting in the mountains will not be inferior to their comrades who grew up in the mountains.

The third task of recovering Cochin, has been issued before, the reward is to increase the yield of rice planted in Cochin by 10%, the effect lasts for 60 years, don't look at this 10% does not seem to be much, the real effect added up is very terrifying, so far, the southern provinces are no longer affected by the lack of grain because of the output of Cochin, and the treasury is also full.

Needless to say, the reward for mission 5 to pacify the Western Regions is also considerable, and the spices in the Western Regions have always been hard currency, and the reward of the system is a 10% increase in the income from the spice trade, which also lasts for sixty years, and these revenues allow the Ansibu Envoy to have enough funds for development.

With the completion of the five tasks, the system also issued the next round of ultimate task 3.

Tears.