Chapter 731 Conquest of Annan - Preparation and Planning
"In addition, what Chen Qing said is very good. I will send envoys to Annan to tell Li Jiyou and Annan's ministers that the Ming Dynasty is about to send troops to conquer them. At the same time, I will inform the scholars and people in their country so that they will not fight against the Ming Dynasty's soldiers. Enemy." Yunxi said.
"What your Majesty said is very appropriate." Everyone said, regardless of the military force. Originally, the conquest of Annan, which would definitely involve a large number of troops, could not be concealed. It is better to tell Li Jiyou openly and honestly: I will punish you later. Wash your neck and wait.
"Chen Qing from the Ministry of Rites will select a person from the Department of Pingren and set off for Annan the day after tomorrow. Xiaoyu's rebel minister Li Jiya." Yunxi ordered.
"Yes, Your Majesty." Chen Di agreed.
"Qi Qing from the Ministry of Revenue will immediately start mobilizing grain and grass. Yunnan needs to raise a lot of grain and grass, and Guangxi also needs to raise a lot of grain and grass. In addition, grain and grass need to be transported by sea to Leizhou Prefecture, Qinzhou Prefecture, Qiongzhou Prefecture and other places." Yunxi ordered again. .
"Yes, Your Majesty." Qitai also replied.
"My dear friends, since this matter has been decided, there is no need to keep it secret from today on. You can tell your relatives and friends about this matter."
"Bao Qing, Li Qing and other dear friends, I will discuss the matter of sending troops next. Except for the several governors of the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion and the three dear ministers from the Ministry of War, the rest of the dear dears should withdraw." Yunxi said.
"Yes, Your Majesty." Bao Zhao, Li Ren and others bowed in agreement, bowed and left. Among them, Guo Zhen, the auxiliary officer of Qiu, really wanted to participate in the discussion of sending troops, but Yunxi did not ask him to stay, nor did he. Dare to stay privately, reluctantly left the palace together with Bao Zhao, Xie Jin and others.
Seeing the last figure of Xie Jin who left here disappear, Yun He immediately asked: "Xue Qing, Yin Qing, Li Qing, Zhang Qing, Sun Qing, according to your opinion, can we get from Sichuan, Yunnan, Huguang, Guangxi, Did the five provinces of Guangdong and the Dusi of Guizhou (Guizhou not have a province) recruit 300,000 barbarian troops to participate in the war against Annan?"
"Recruiting 300,000 barbarian troops?" Li Jian, the left governor of the former military governor's office, was stunned, and then asked cautiously: "I wonder how many troops your Majesty plans to recruit to conquer Annan?"
"300,000 Han troops and 300,000 barbarian troops were sent to seize the city. The Zhenla kingdoms sent troops from the south to attack Annan," Yunxi said.
"Your Majesty, why do you need so many soldiers to attack the small Annan? I heard that there are about 7 million people in Annan at this time, and the country's soldiers and horses are only a hundred thousand, and there are 200,000 Han troops. Another hundred thousand barbarian troops will be recruited. We can break through Annan and capture Li Ji Yao and his son alive and return to the capital." said Chen Huan from the Right Army Governor's Mansion.
Yunxi shook his head and said: "That's 300,000 Han troops and 300,000 barbarian soldiers." Maybe those troops were enough to break through Annan, but it was far from enough to deal with the follow-up matters.
"Your Majesty, even if the court is willing to reward you heavily, the barbarian people are not willing to send too many people at one time to fight with the Ming Dynasty. According to my experience as a local official, Huguang can mobilize 40,000 to 50,000 Tujia people, and Guizhou Dusi can mobilize Dong people , there are 20,000 to 30,000 Miao people, and Guangdong can mobilize up to 10,000 Yao people and more than 10,000 Li people." said Xue Ning from the Zuo Army Governor's Office.
"Your Majesty, I have fought in Guangxi and other places. Guangxi has a large number of Yi people who are good at and willing to fight. It is not a problem to recruit 100,000 Wolf soldiers and Yao people. Sichuan can recruit about 20,000 to 30,000 Qiang people and 20,000 to 30,000 Yi people. Yunnan Province, Yunnan The Miao, Dai and Yi people in the southeastern region can recruit about 50,000 to 60,000 people," said Yin Qing from the Rear Army Governor's Office.
"After calculating this, a total of about 250,000 people can be recruited. It is 50,000 less than I expected." Yunxi said to himself.
"Your Majesty, there are still soldiers from the Mongolian Semu people in Huguang who can be recruited." Sun Ke from the Chinese Army Governor's Office said: "Since your Majesty's Northern Expedition, there have been Mongolian Semu people who have taken refuge in the Ming Dynasty; in the 20th year of Hongwu's expedition to Naha,
During the battle, Naha surrendered. At that time, in addition to the Mongols, there were many Semu people under his command who surrendered to the Ming Dynasty along with Naha. In order to accommodate them, the late emperor ordered the construction of 80,000 houses in Wuchang Prefecture, Huguang and other places."
"You mean, the Semu people can pull out an army of 50,000?" Yunxi's face suddenly turned gloomy and he asked.
"Your Majesty, if we only recruit soldiers with colored eyes, I'm afraid we won't be able to have an army of 50,000, but we can still have 30,000 or 40,000," Sun Ke said.
"Then how many people are there in total? I'm talking about population, not soldiers." Yunxi asked again.
Sun Ke felt something was wrong at this time, but he didn't understand why it was wrong. He could only say to Yunxi more carefully: "Your Majesty, because in the first year of Hongwu, His Majesty issued an order: 'Marriage of Mongolian Semu people: All Mongolian Semu people must marry Chinese people.
Marriage must be consensual, and people of this kind are not allowed to marry each other. Violators will be punished with eighty-tenths of rods, and men and women will become officials and become slaves.' Therefore, many Han women marry into the families of Semu people. Now there are about three to four hundred thousand Semu people in Huguang.
people."
"What! Grandpa Huang has such an order!" Yunxi shouted.
Everyone present was a little confused: weren't they discussing the dispatch of troops to Annan? Why did they mention the Semu people? But since His Majesty mentioned it, Chen Xingshan replied: "Your Majesty, it is indeed true. The late emperor once issued such an order."
It is recorded in Volume 141 of the Ming Dynasty Huidian."
When Yunxi heard this, his face became even more ugly. But when everyone thought he would say something about this, he said: "We will talk about this later. Let's talk about the Semu soldiers going to Annan first. I have decided to recruit soldiers.
All the semu soldiers that can be recruited will go to Annan."
"So there will be about 200,000 barbarian soldiers. For the rest, the four kings of Song, Luo, Pu, and Su who were entrusted to Nanyang will each send thousands of troops to participate in the conquest of Annan. In this way, we can gather together
A total of three hundred thousand."
"An additional 300,000 guardsmen were recruited from the eight provinces of Sichuan, Huguang, Ganxi, Caojiang, Yongjian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, as well as Zhili and Guizhou Dusi to participate in the war."
During the Luxie Rebellion, in order to send troops to quell the rebellion as soon as possible, Yunxi only recruited the garrison posts in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas and near the rebellion to participate in the war. He did not recruit troops on a large scale across the country like Zhu Yunwen did in history.
But this time the expedition to Annan was different. There was no rush to conquer Annan, so Yunxi decided to mobilize all the provinces in the south to let them all feel that the Ming Dynasty was going to fight.
"Among them, Zhili recruited six guards including the Jinwu avant-garde, the Yulin left guard, the Huben left guard, the Fujun right guard, and the Tiance guard from the Jingwei. The other provinces also recruited each, which guard was specifically assigned
, the Commander-in-Chief of the Fifth Army will report it to me after it is decided."
"Yes, Your Majesty." said everyone present.
Yunxi discussed some matters with them and asked them to retreat.
But after that, Yunxi did not go to criticize the memorial, nor did he continue to summon the ministers to discuss the conquest of Annan. Instead, he returned to the study, found the "Da Ming Huidian" and started reading.
It wasn't until after lunch and a nap that Yunxi summoned several ministers to discuss the conquest of Annan. Then he finished answering all the remaining memorials and returned to the harem to rest at Youshi.
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In the next few days, news spread throughout the court that Ming Dynasty was about to send troops to conquer Annan, which aroused everyone's discussion. However, although several ministers wrote letters to advise against sending troops, this was not the mainstream in the court. Everyone agreed that troops should be sent to punish Annan.
, uphold justice.
The Ming Dynasty's war machine also officially started. The three armies went ahead without using food and grass. The first one to start was the Ministry of Revenue, which was in charge of the country's food and grass. Qitai, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, racked his brains to arrange the food supply along the way for the army to set off. Among them, the Yangtze River, the sea
The border guard posts are easy to manage. Even if the local food and grass are not enough, ships can be used to transport food and grass to ensure the supply. It is very difficult for the guard posts that are not close to the river or the sea to set off to the front line to supply food. Qitai was disabled.
It took a lot of effort to formulate a reasonable plan.
The Commander-in-Chief of the Fifth Army also formulated a plan to recruit provincial garrison posts in accordance with Yunxi's order. After several revisions, it was approved by Yunxi. After that, they immediately sent orders to various places to prepare the generals of the garrison posts to be recruited. At the same time, they
According to Yunxi's instructions, various battle plans were formulated. The governors handed over the work of formulating the plans to Tongzhi, who in turn handed over the work to Qian Shi. Qian Shi also wanted to push down, but found that their following experiences and
The governors were all civilian military attachés, so it was okay to leave the matter to them, but if they submitted their plans to the governor, they would probably get scolded, so in the end the governors had no choice but to make their own plans.
The weapons-producing yamen run by Xu Dian, Bai Shan and others were also very busy. Not only the firearms and helmets needed to be handed over to the Shangzhiwei as soon as possible, but also the weapons of other guards had to be replaced if they were broken, as well as the bows and crossbows.
The arrows also need to be replenished. All the craftsmen who make these things are recruited to make these weapons with all their strength.
Yunxi was also very busy. He had to discuss with ministers every day various matters related to the conquest of Annan. Since he was almost always discussing various matters during the day, the time for criticizing and answering memorials could only be moved to the evening, when he could sleep at night.
Time also moved backward, from the original beginning of Haishi to the beginning of Haishi.
Xiyao was of course very distressed about this. "Husband, why do you have to keep yourself so busy! Husband usually has less things to do and has to do everything by himself. Now because he has to conquer Annan, why should he be so busy? Just leave many things to the people below.
." In the Palace of Qianqing, Xiyao said to Yunxi while having dinner. Yunxi didn't go to the harem at night because he was busy criticizing memorials these days, so Xiyao came over every night to accompany him.
After dinner, rest with him in Qianqing Palace in the evening.
"Back then, Grandpa Huang was as busy as me every day." Yunxi said with a smile.
"The emperor's grandfather is the emperor's grandfather, and the husband is the husband. It's different. Besides, my concubine feels very distressed when my husband looks like this." Xiyao said.
"It's just a few days, it's not long, it's okay." Yunhe said with a smile.
"Okay then. But I must promise my concubine that lunch must be eaten on time and not be delayed by discussing matters with the ministers." Xiyao said.