Qiming 1158

Chapter 1287 Nature is the real enemy
Although there are still many defects and deficiencies in use and manufacturing, the combat effectiveness of the Shenji Battalion is still very intuitively reflected on the battlefield.

Xu Tong bombarded the Song army's navy ships with the firepower of artillery, bombarded the city guarded by the Song army, and bombarded the dense army formation of the Song army in the field, which brought huge losses to the Song army.

Facing the Xinqihuo army led by Zhou Qixiang and the mighty army led by Zhu Liang, Xu Tong did not stop at all, but instead increased his firepower and slammed them all, defeating them all.

For the fierce firearms that have never been seen before, it is not surprising that these two armies, which are not quite an army, collapsed, or it would be unbelievable that they did not collapse.

The 1-strong revolutionary army broke through the two hostile armies without difficulty and won an overall victory. It also completely defeated the many military forces that had sprung up in the land of Sichuan and Shu, wiped them all out, and won the victory of Sichuan and Shu. control of the land.

To be honest, the process is not difficult.

Basically four years after Hongwu, the power comparison between the Ming army and other military forces can no longer be compared on the same platform. Such a comparison will only make the comparison between the two sides very ugly.

One side looks like a strong world-class weightlifting champion, and the other side looks like a big smoker, the contrast is too strong.

Four years ago before Hongwu, there were many new recruits in the Ming military system who entered the various ministries. From the overall construction of each unit to the reorganization of individual units, a large number of recruits needed to be included, which had a certain impact on combat effectiveness.

However, with the overall stability of the political situation in the Ming Dynasty, the experience of many wars, and the improvement of the training system of the Ming army, this situation has changed to a considerable extent.

Five years after Hongwu, Su Yonglin officially stipulated the new rules of the recruit training camp, which stipulated that recruits must go through at least one year of recruit training, and then pass the graduation assessment of the recruit training camp before they can officially serve in the army and become a Ming soldier.

The Ming army has completely become a professional army, and the military has become a formal profession. The Ming Dynasty also has a series of supporting facilities for this profession.

Therefore, four years after Hongwu, or five years after Hongwu, the Ming army has basically completed the formal professionalization process. Starting from the basic project of the quality of soldiers, it has already carried out a dimensionality reduction attack on all the troops of the same era.

With the continuous development of firearms equipment and military education, the Ming army has made great strides towards modernization.

With such an army, the Ming army often did not put the combat effectiveness of the enemy army in the first place when performing military tasks.

Rather, the geographic location occupied by the enemy's army is more of a priority.

For example, in the battle of Sichuan and Shu, the top leaders of the Ming army were most worried about the road of Shu.

The fundamental reason behind this is that the leaders of the Ming army believed that the enemy's manpower could no longer hinder the Ming army, and nature was the biggest enemy of the Ming army.

The towering mountain peaks, meandering rivers, and unpredictable weather are the biggest enemies of the Ming army, while human enemies have taken a back seat.

Therefore, after Wu Gong decided to surrender, defeating all the enemies and occupying the land of Sichuan and Shu was not considered a great success in the eyes of many Ming army generals. The biggest threat predicted before the war did not become a threat at all.

In the first month of the eighth year of Hongwu, the Ming army successfully annihilated all the hostile military forces in the land of Chuan and Shu, and gradually occupied various state capitals in the land of Chuan and Shu.

At the same time, many southwestern minority residents in the area south of the Shuzhong Plain also became some of the problems that the Ming army had to face.

While destroying the warlord forces, some military forces of the minority residents in southern Sichuan who were greedy for money and followed the warlord forces to be hostile to the Ming army were attacked by the Ming army, and the whole army was wiped out together with the warlords.

Therefore, when the Ming army entered Jiadingfu, Lizhou, and Xuzhou, they encountered certain hostility and resistance to confrontation.

In response to this situation, Su Haisheng and Xu Tong invariably ordered the Ming army to carry out a resolute and swift counterattack to eliminate all opponents.

The Ming army razed the hostile tribes to the ground, used gunpowder to blow up, burned the jungle with kerosene, and destroyed all their living places. , A tough image that cannot be provoked.

The beginning must be strong.

For these uncivilized ethnic groups who follow the law of the jungle, they do not understand benevolence, and strength and invincibility are the prerequisites for communicating with them.

In order to coexist peacefully with them and carry out peaceful transformation in the future, the first thing to do is to demonstrate the strength of their own force in front of them, and only after feeling the strength of the Ming Kingdom's force will they conceive of a relationship with the Ming Kingdom other than the military confrontation. way of dealing.

According to the research and summary of the pre-war Central Capital on the areas where the minority residents inhabited in southern Sichuan and Shu, it was basically determined that the Tubo, Liaoren, Qiang, Wuman, Baiman, Moshayi, Tulaoman, and southwestern caves lived in the area. Barbarians and other minorities.

They lived in various states and regions in the south of the Shuzhong Plain, and they had a wider sphere of influence in these regions.

The Northern and Southern Song Dynasties, including the previous dynasties, mainly practiced the rule of shackles, with their original head as the head, and basically no Han officials.

They and the rulers of all dynasties maintained a state of sometimes peace and war with each other.

When it comes to threats, it must be the northern nomads who are more threatening, but when it comes to the difficulty of ruling, the barbarians of the southwest are definitely not too much.

Compared with the northern nomads who have many contacts with the Han people except for the military due to the terrain, the barbarians in the southwest are in a state of primitive society because of the difficult transportation, and their understanding of the Han culture in the Central Plains is better than that of the northern ethnic groups. less.

Because they fell in love and killed each other too frequently, people often became one in history and communicated very frequently, so the degree of integration of their national cultures, customs and languages ​​was also higher.

So after laying a strong foundation, Su Yonglin can govern the large ethnic groups such as the Khitans and Dangxiang people more smoothly, and gain their support and understanding.

But when it was the turn of the barbarian tribes in the southwest, the difficulty was really unusual.

Due to factors such as traffic and terrain, the Central Dynasty didn't even want to contact them. If it weren't for the fact that their domination tentacles had reached over there, they really didn't want to spend time interacting with this group of "savages".

Congenital insufficiency makes the number of people who know each other's customs and language not an order of magnitude.

Therefore, Su Yonglin proposed at the state affairs conference at that time that the policy for the barbarian tribes in the southwest was to temporarily continue the rule system of the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties, and temporarily maintain a state they were familiar with and easy to understand, so as to appease them and avoid large-scale turmoil.

When the Ming army has gained a firm foothold in Sichuan and Shu, its rule over the population elite area of ​​Sichuan and Shu has been stabilized, production has been restored, and social transformation has been completed, then it will free up its hands for the governance of the ruled area.

He envisages communicating with them in a more harmonious way through business exchanges, first establishing mutual trust in business and establishing economic exchanges, and then building roads and improving the local transportation environment.

With the premise of economy and transportation, further political action can be carried out.

In terms of culture, Su Yonglin suggested to make cultural contacts through [Zhuge Liang], a bond that both parties can accept, and to seek common ground between the two sides by honoring and offering sacrifices to Zhuge Liang, so as to gain the recognition of these barbarian tribes. .

(End of this chapter)