At the mouth of the Yangtze River, more than ten large ships were slowly coming from the north, heading towards the Songhu Huangpu River Port.
Liu Jin stood at the bow of the boat, thinking a lot.
This time, his good minister of household affairs was captured by Emperor Hongzhi. He actually went into battle again and accompanied the army to conquer Southeast Asia.
Annan Yelang was arrogant and wantonly provoked the Ming Dynasty. He invaded Longzhou, burned, killed, looted and committed all kinds of evil. The Ming Dynasty was furious, and the emperor sent 100,000 troops to conquer Annan.
This time, the British Duke Zhang Mao was still the commander-in-chief, Liu Jin and Wang Shouren were the dog-headed military advisors, and Polu Hou Yang Yun was the vanguard general. They defeated 90,000 new troops and 10,000 naval forces to attack Annan from both land and sea directions.
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Zhang Mao and Yang Yun led the army to assemble from land to Guangxi very early. As for Liu Jin and Wang Shouren, they commanded 10,000 naval forces to set off from Tianjin to assemble in Qiongzhou, and then join them to attack Annan.
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This time was different from any other attack on Annan in history, because after Liu Jin and Zhang Mao discussed it, they no longer used the traditional method of attack.
In the past, when attacking Annan, we basically gathered a large army from Yunnan and Guangxi, crossed the 100,000 mountains, and then attacked Annan. However, this plan had a big drawback.
That is the existence of the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
One Hundred Thousand Mountains, just from the name alone, there are one hundred thousand mountains.
In an era when transportation conditions were extremely backward, it was extremely difficult for a large army to pass through miasma-ridden, dense and primitive mountains. Even if there were thousands of troops, it would be difficult to deploy in such a place, and it would take a long time.
able to pass.
Moreover, Annan built a city gate at the pass of Shiwanda Mountain. Once you guard the city gate, one man can guard the gate and ten thousand people cannot open it. No matter how many and powerful your army is, it will be very difficult to defeat it. It is very difficult.
This is also the reason why the territory of the past dynasties expanded to Yunnan. After Guangxi, it was difficult to continue to expand southward, because from Yunnan and Sichuan to Myanmar, you encountered the Hengduan Mountains. Compared with the Hundred Thousand Mountains, the Hengduan Mountains
It's even more dangerous.
Even in the era when technology and transportation are so developed in later generations, the Hengduan Mountains are still sparsely populated and traffic is blocked. You can imagine that in ancient times, no matter how powerful you were, it would be difficult for you to continue to expand.
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To the south, Yunnan and the south of Guangxi are blocked by hundreds of thousands of mountains. These areas are basically virgin forests, sparsely populated and full of miasma, so that the ancestors who have the land are not enough to provide food and the people are not enough to make orders.
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Naturally, China's influence has reached its limit here. The territory of the past dynasties has not been able to continue to expand. The main reason is because of this geography.
After carefully studying this situation, Zhang Mao and Liu Jin decided to adopt a brand new offensive method, which was the colonial era style of play.
Attack Annan from the sea.
The terrain of Annan is high in the north and west, plains in the east and south, and is bordered by the Gulf of Tonkin in the east. If you attack from the sea, you can directly bypass the Shiwan Mountain and attack Tokyo, the core of Annan (later Hanoi, in
For this reason, it changed its name quite frequently. It has successively had names such as Longyuan, Longbian, Zhongjing, Kyoto, Dongjun, Tokyo, Zhongdu, Shangjing, Beicheng, etc. (Don’t think it is the Tokyo of the Japanese Kingdom in later generations).
Annan built many passes on Shiwanda Mountain to the north to guard against the Ming Dynasty's attack. With the favorable terrain of Shiwandashan, he was always confident.
He often provoked the Ming Dynasty, mainly because he felt that the Ming Dynasty could not do anything to it. With the existence of a hundred thousand mountains, the Ming Dynasty's tens of thousands of troops simply could not get through.
As for sending hundreds of thousands of troops at once, it seems that except for Emperor Yongle, no emperor in the past has had such courage, because Annan is simply not worth sending hundreds of thousands of troops to attack.
It will be of no use if it is defeated, and little tax money will be collected. If it cannot be defeated, not only will the army be lost, but the majesty of the Ming Dynasty will also be lost.
This is an important reason why Annan was confident and repeatedly provoked the Ming Dynasty.
Once Annan's heavily defended Hundred Thousand Mountains are bypassed from the sea, and a direct attack on the Red River Delta, the core of the plain, is equivalent to stabbing Annan's heart.
There is no need for an army of hundreds of thousands; an army of tens of thousands is enough.
Of course, this time it was not only to sweep Ping'an South, but also to annex Champa, sweep away those small countries in Nanyang, annex more lands and islands, and to draw the new army out again and again, so it also sent out ten troops.
Ten thousand.
These 100,000 are all real numbers, not like before. There are obviously only 100,000 people, but they insist on claiming to be a million-strong army. One hundred thousand means 100,000, 90,000 new troops and 10,000 navy.
“Finally arrived in Songhu!”
Liu Jin shook his head slightly, that's how it is for people who have no way to be ministers. If the emperor says a word, the people below will have their legs broken.
But it’s also a good thing to be able to go out and take a look.
Looking at Song Hu in front of him, Liu Jin suddenly laughed.
This is my first time to the south of Ming Dynasty and my first time to Songhu.
Liu Jin visited Songhu in later generations many times. On both sides of the Huangpu River, there were many high-rise buildings and every inch of land was valuable. Shanghai was already a top metropolis in the world.
Looking at Songhu in front of us, it seems more like Shanghai during the Republic of China. Although there are already a large number of factories, workshops, and high-rise buildings on both sides of the Huangpu River, you can still see vast stretches of farmland.
It's just getting started.
The ship slowly docked at the wharf on the Huangpu River. At this time, both sides of the Huangpu River were already prosperous. High-rise buildings stood on the riverside, and spacious concrete roads extended to the end of the field of vision.
In the planned areas, huge factories and workshops are busy and busy. The blast furnaces of Songhu Iron and Steel Plant reach into the sky, with billowing black smoke rising from them.
The cement road is busy with traffic and four-wheeled carriages coming and going. Although it is not as prosperous as Tianjin, it is still quite busy.
"In less than a year, Songhu has already developed to this scale. It is indeed worthy of being the magic city of future generations. This geographical location is really advantageous. As the shipping area develops, it will develop rapidly.
It is only a matter of time before it surpasses Tianjin."
Looking at Songhu in front of him, Liu Jin couldn't help but sigh.
Its location is really great.
It is located at the mouth of the Yangtze River and the Huangpu River. The terrain is open and flat. It is backed by the most prosperous Jiangnan area in the Ming Dynasty. Relying on the Yangtze River, it can radiate to Huguang, Jiangxi, and South Zhili.
At the same time, it is located in the middle area between the north and south of the Ming Dynasty. Going north can go to Shandong, north Zhili, and Liaodong, and going south can go to Fujian, Ryukyu, Guangdong, and Guangxi.
If it is to the outside world, we can go to Korea and Japan in the north, and we can also go to Nanyang, Western Ocean and Australia in the south. In the future, we can go to the Golden Continent after we have close contact with the Golden Continent.
This kind of geographical location is unique in the entire Ming Dynasty, and there is no other place like it.
Along with the lifting of the maritime ban, the development of ocean-going trade, shipbuilding technology, and navigation technology, even if Songhu is not an open port in the south, it will develop rapidly sooner or later.
To put it in more mysterious terms, it means that the world's luck gathers here.
Since last year, Liu Jin has been laying out his plans here in Songhu. First, he concentrated all the land in Songhu into his own hands, and then began to transfer some industries to Songhu on a large scale.
Tianjin Shipyard has opened Songhu Shipyard here, mainly to undertake orders from the south. Miyun Iron Works has also opened Songhu Iron Works here in Songhu. The iron ore mainly comes from Ma'anshan Iron Mine and Hubei Daye Iron Mine.
In addition, Songhu Glass Factory, Songhu Machinery Factory, Songhu Cement Factory, etc. have also opened in Songhu. A series of factories and industries have opened new branches in Songhu.
The south of the Ming Dynasty is a huge market. Once it exerts force here, its speed will quickly exceed that of the Beijing-Tianjin region in the north. How could Liu Jin let it go?
After nearly a year of construction, these factories have gradually begun to be put into use and produce output, and it is as if Songhu has been given a strong impetus.
A large amount of population and capital began to flow into Songhu.
Not only did a large number of northern capitalists come to Songhu to invest and build factories and workshops, but also the big landowners, big businessmen, big families, etc. from the Jiangnan area also gathered in Songhu to build trading houses, factories, etc.
Because they themselves are one step behind the northerners, they are even more active in this regard, for fear of missing out on the new round of wealth feast.
In a very short period of time, thousands of factories, large and small, were built here in Songhu. Hundreds of thousands of people from all over the south gathered here in Songhu, and they are still growing rapidly, leaving the original backward people.
Songhu County also immediately became a super metropolis comparable to Nanjing.
And because there are no restrictions in Songhu itself, and there are fewer restrictions than in Tianjin, there is no need to worry about attacks from northern nomads.
So from the beginning, the planning of Songhu was completely based on Tianjin. There were no city walls, only cement roads extending in all directions, dividing the entire Songhu into regions. Along both sides of the Huangpu River, a completely different
In the past, every city's metropolis developed rapidly.
"Now that Songhu has developed, these big businessmen and big families in the south can almost be tied to the chariot of capitalism and colonialism. Even if someone mentions the sea ban in the future, I guess they don't have to take action themselves. These people are enough
Cleaned them up."
Looking at Songhu in front of him, Liu Jin smiled unconsciously.
Liu Jin smiled when he thought that this time the government and the public agreed that troops should be sent to Annan. Those who opposed the use of force in the past have disappeared. Are they all dead?
Of course not, it's just that their interest class has changed.
