Chapter 138: Returning to the original land and reunifying the Ming Empire in stages(1/4)
Apart from this, no one is qualified to hold the rank of general with three gold stars.
"Luo Guanzhong, have you been coming to this military academy for three months?" Zhu Han asked.
"Your Majesty, I will come to the military academy for three months," Luo Guanzhong said.
Zhu Han nodded and said, "Tell me, which subject are you studying?"
Luo Guanzhong said quickly, "Reporting to Your Highness, I am studying artillery."
"Artillery Section?"
When Zhu Han heard about this subject in Luo Guan Middle School, he immediately admired it, "The artillery class is not difficult to learn. The content is novel and diverse. Are you confident that you can learn it well?"
"Don't worry, Your Highness, the general is reciting the infantry training manual in his hand all the time, whether he is eating or sleeping!" Luo Guanzhong raised the infantry subject training manual in his hand.
This thick manual contains all the artillery regulations of the modern army that Zhu Han signed and obtained.
The content is complex, but the words and sentences are very concise!
As long as you can memorize all the regulations in it and then train them, the artillery level of the Ming Dynasty can directly leapfrog to the artillery training level of the 18th century artillery in later generations.
For the entire world today, it can be said to be invincible.
Later, Zhu Han had a detailed conversation with Luo Guanzhong.
After talking with each other, I learned that Luo Guanzhong's learning level is indeed very high. He has mastered almost seventy-eight points of a thick "Artillery Drill Code", and it is not just a simple paper talk. He is often able to come up with many of his own ideas.
Thoughts and questions.
As the founder of this artillery discipline, Zhu Han was naturally able to give Luo Guanzhong some help and confusion from a higher dimension.
As a result, Luo Guanzhong's admiration for Zhu Han continued like a surging river.
The guards and others accompanying him couldn't help but express their envy towards Luo Guanzhong when they saw Zhu Han's expression.
Because they have already seen that the British King Zhu Han really thinks highly of this military academy cadet named Luo Guanzhong.
For Luo Guanzhong's sake, Zhu Han even canceled all other plans to inspect the military academy today, and spent all of his time discussing his experiences with Luo Guanzhong in detail.
Zhou Dexing, the first principal of the Ming Dynasty Royal Military Academy, was also very surprised.
Zhu Han actually had a bad taste in his heart.
As one of the four famous writers in history, Luo Guanzhong's military and political skills have always been doubted or distrusted by many people.
Because although many of the military and political methods in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" have prototypes in history books, they have been processed by Luo Guanzhong and appear to be too dramatic.
In particular, many of the military strategies in it have polarized the attitudes of readers for hundreds of years. Some people think that it is filled with the novelist's words that are not worth mentioning.
On the other hand, they feel that they can learn truly useful military skills from it. For example, during the Hou Jin rebellion in the late Ming Dynasty, the Jurchens often read the novel "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" as a wonderful book on the art of war.
Zhu Han was very curious about what kind of talents Luo Guanzhong would develop after entering the Ming Royal Military Academy he established.
After a detailed conversation, Zhu Han felt that Luo Guanzhong studied hard, but it was still impossible to say what his true military level was.
However, fortunately, Zhou Dexing saw Zhu Han's thoughts at this time and spoke, saying: "Now that the Ming Dynasty is employing people, it is impossible for you to study peacefully. Your Majesty has long said that you will use combat instead of training.
Starting next month, you will go to the battlefield to practice."
When Zhu Han heard this, he immediately became curious.
He looked at Luo Guanzhong, then at Zhou Dexing, and then said:
"It's a good idea to use fighting as a substitute for training, but where will Luo Guanzhong and the others go to fight as a substitute for training?"
Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty is going to war everywhere. The area around Ishimi Yinshan on Wo Island, although the scale of the war is not large, is frequent, and it can be used to train troops. The area from Goryeo to Liaoyang Province is facing the remnant forces of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty and the local Jurchen rebellion.
, and also continued to use troops.
The most recent one is the attack on the remnants of the Mongolian Yuan forces in the Central Plains.
"Have you forgotten, your Highness, that Huguang Province sent a military report that the chieftains from Guizhou and Guizhou were encouraged by the Liang King of Yunnan to march to Hunan. Your Majesty has decided to send a large army from Hunan to Guizhou to start a counterattack."
"Oh, yes, yes! It turns out this is Guizhou!" When Zhu Han heard this, he immediately remembered it.
Two days ago, he discussed this matter with his elder brother Zhu Yuanzhang.
The Yunnan Province established by the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty was quite large, including not only the entire Yunnan, but also most of Guizhou, part of Sichuan, and Myanmar and other places to the south, which also belonged to the Yunnan Province of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty.
The Mongols established a Liang king there, and then joined forces with the local Yunnan governor Duan, who was also a descendant of the Duan family of the Dali royal family in history to rule the Yunnan province.
The Han people here are very lacking in power, and the rule established by the Mongols and the Dali royal family in the area is quite stable, and now it has become a major hidden danger threatening the southwestern hinterland of the Ming Dynasty.
Elder brothers Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Han have already decided to march into Guizhou and destroy the local chieftains who are attached to the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasty.
"I remembered that the war in Guizhou is very important. You artillerymen can do a lot in Guizhou," Zhu Han said.
Zhu Yuanzhang did not send too many troops for the military operation to attack Guizhou.
Because the mountain roads in Guizhou are rugged and there are too many soldiers and horses, later supply will be a big problem.
The Ming Dynasty only sent 30,000 elite troops. These 30,000 troops were the elite among the elite. They were all new troops trained by Zhu Han himself. The new Ming army mainly consisted of muskets, artillery, spears and elite cavalry. They would definitely be able to conquer Guizhou.
He performed extraordinary feats on this battlefield.
When Luo Guanzhong heard Zhu Han's encouragement, he immediately became excited, "His Royal Highness King Xie Ying, I will definitely live up to His Highness's expectations, kill the enemy, serve the country, and win military glory!"
The Ming Dynasty's conquest of the Guizhou area this time was not a militancy, but a last resort.
Guizhou is located at the junction of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangxi and Hunan.
Although it is a very poor place with rugged roads and mountains, its location is extremely important.
Because the Mongols have been operating in Yunnan for a long time, Liang Wang Bazalawarmi has strong control over these toasts in Guizhou.
Under his instigation, these chieftains in Guizhou launched a sneak attack on the Ming army in Hunan.
From time to time, they would destroy local military and farm areas and plunder the surrounding livestock, grain, etc.
The Ming army's local rule fell into chaos.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Han issued military orders a few days ago, and 30,000 elite troops from Hunan attacked Guizhou.
Guizhou's chieftains can be said to have a long history. There is a saying among the local people of all ethnic groups, which is called the emperor of a century, the chieftain of a thousand years.
The longest-standing Shuixi Tusi can even be traced back to the Shu Han period in the Three Kingdoms era.
When Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of the Shu Han Dynasty in the Three Kingdoms, went south to conquer Menghuo and passed through the Shuixi area, the Shuixi chieftains already existed at that time.
They actively joined the army of the Shu Han court, helped Zhuge Liang to open mountains, provided food and guides, etc., and were recognized and canonized by the Shu Han.
From that time on, Shuixi Tusi existed as the local toba king for more than a thousand years.
Therefore, to the local people, the chieftain's words were simply the will of the gods.
Shuixi Toast.
Shi Longzan, the commander of the Xuanwei Department in Guizhou, was pacing back and forth anxiously in his camp.
As a local chieftain family with a history of thousands of years, the Shuixi family where Longzan belongs can be said to have a strong ability to judge the situation.
Nowadays, major events in the world have become extremely clear.
The Ming Dynasty swept across the world like a tiger, fighting endlessly everywhere.
Hunan next door was pacified after being decimated by the Ming army. The bandits and chieftains entrenched in western Hunan were all killed one after another. The remaining people became obedient citizens, otherwise they would become the sword of the Ming army.
Go to hell.
Such a powerful Ming Dynasty made Long Zan, the chieftain of Shuixi, frightened.
It happened that at this time, Bazara Varmi, the Liang King of the Yuan Dynasty in Yunnan, sent people to ask the chieftains of Guizhou to frequently attack the Ming army in Hunan.
Shuixi Chieftain Longzan had no choice but to send 300 elite soldiers to invade Hunan.
But he was already panicking in his heart.
Nowadays, the Mongols are acting rebelliously and will soon be completely driven out of the Central Plains.
Now the Liang King of Yunnan, Bazara Varmi, is just clinging to life. Once the Ming army frees up its hands to send a large army to march to the southwest, then the Shuixi chieftain family, which has been passed down for thousands of years, will probably bear the brunt of the disaster.
Long Zan is only 17 years old this year, which is very young.
Although he is young, he has already been trained for a long time, and his ability to control the overall situation is still very good.
Although he was afraid of the Ming army, Long Zan did not dare to disobey the Liang King of Yunnan to take Zalawarmi.
King Liang had nearly 100,000 Mongolian troops stationed in Yunnan. Once they fought with the Mongols, the Shuixi chieftain family would also be in a very dangerous situation.
Just when Longzan was frightened because he followed the Mongols to invade Hunan, the voice of a personal servant suddenly came from outside the door.
"To report to the master, the Yang family in Bozhou sent someone to ask for an audience with the master."
The Bozhou Yang family is another powerful chieftain family in eastern Guizhou. Although it is also a local chieftain family in Guizhou, the ancestors of the Bozhou Yang family are not local barbarians, but Han families who migrated from Taiyuan in the late Tang Dynasty.
After hundreds of years, the Yang family in Bozhou has become indistinguishable from the local chieftains of all ethnic groups. In addition to sharing the Chinese character of the Yang family, they have close marriage relationships with the local chieftains. It can be said that the entire Guizhou family
Among the chieftain families, the Yang family of Bozhou is the strongest in the east, and the Shuixi chieftain is the most respected in the west.
The Shuixi Tusi family was from local barbarians and had no surname, so they could only be called Shuixi Tusi.
When he heard that the Yang family of Bozhou had sent someone, Long Zan immediately sent someone to invite the messenger in.
When he saw the envoy of the Yang family in Longzan Bobo Prefecture, he immediately said anxiously, "The chieftain is not in good condition. The Ming army has issued a military order and mobilized tens of thousands of troops from Hunan to prepare to attack Guizhou."
To be continued...