Qiming 1158

Chapter 1361 Visiting relatives and stationing

At present, the main force of the Ming army's southern expedition is concentrated in the Dananguan area, which is inappropriate.

Su Yonglin ordered to leave an army of 5000 people to stay in the Great South Pass area, and all the rest of the army retreated. They took the initiative to shorten the logistics distance and reduce the logistical pressure. Supply 5000 guards.

The list of this guarding force is the No. 19 Army of the Seventh Corps under Zhao Yucheng's direct command, and the 5000 people of the Second Shenji Battalion under Su Yonglin's direct command.

If the Nanyue Li family really intends to fight against Daming, or wants to test Daming's bottom line, Su Yonglin will not hesitate to let them know what it means to be a great country.

After the order was issued, on the third day of February in the ninth year of Hongwu, Su Yonglin personally led the second battalion of Shenji to go to Dananguan. On the eighth day of February, Su Yonglin led his army to Dananguan.

Dananguan has appeared as early as the Western Han Dynasty. It was originally called Yongjiguan, and later it was called Jieshouguan.

The era has passed down to the present, with the name of Dananguan inherited from the Tang Dynasty, and Su Yonglin is more familiar with the name it has after Zhu Di sent troops to the south - Zhennanguan.

The left side of the Guanlou is the city wall of Zuobi Mountain, and the right side is the city wall of Youfu Mountain. It is like a giant python branching off the foot of the two mountains. It was valued by the soldiers of the past dynasties.

After Su Yonglin arrived at Dananguan, he met Zhao Yucheng and Zhang Yuejing, who was arranging for troops to go to various places for defense and security warfare.

Zhang Yuejing hadn't met Su Yonglin for some years. The old brother naturally had a lot to say when they met. He was quite excited and talked a lot with Su Yonglin.

After that, Su Yonglin called Zhao Yucheng and Zhang Yuejing together to hold a small meeting and told them his plans.

In fact, it is very simple, that is, Guangnan East Road and Guangnan West Road will be turned into Guangdong Province and Guangxi Province of Daming, and then the First Corps needs to be stationed in Guangxi Province, and the Seventh Corps will be stationed in Guangdong Province.

The two main corps are placed here, and the pressure on the locality is still relatively high, so at that time, several other provinces will be arranged to help and jointly provide the logistics needs of the 20 troops.

But it makes sense for them to be stationed here.

The land of Lingnan has just become the territory of the Ming Dynasty, not to mention that there are still some landlords and tyrants that have not been solved through revolution, and there are some local Tusi tribes that are more difficult to solve. These require the army to deter, and then use administrative means to solve them one by one .

Really not, then the army is the last resort to solve the problem.

There is also the use of the response to the Dali Kingdom and the Lee Clan of South Vietnam.

It is not enough to rely on the Eighth Corps, which has just been established in Sichuan and Shu, but has not yet fully formed combat effectiveness. It requires the First Corps, the most senior elite corps of the Ming Army, to be stationed in Guangxi Province and give Dali Kingdom from the east. A certain amount of pressure to share the pressure of the Eighth Corps of Sichuan and Shu.

The [-]th Corps, as the general reserve, is stationed in the relatively stable Guangdong Province. Once war breaks out on the frontier, the [-]th Corps can be mobilized nearby.

In addition, arranging a part of the army to be stationed here can also help the local construction to a certain extent. Su Yonglin planned to let the army set up a rotation mechanism to help the local government do some construction work when there is a shortage of manpower.

However, this also requires the two main battle corps to stay in Lingnan for a long time. If war occurs in the future, they may have to go further south.

"I'm not worried about our soldiers in terms of fighting and fighting will, and they are absolutely reliable in terms of ideological awareness. It's just that homesickness is still human, and it's difficult not to get together with family members for a long time, so I have some thoughts.

First, we have a system for family members to visit relatives with the army, so that the wives and children of soldiers stationed far away from their hometowns can go to the garrison point to accompany the soldiers to live for one or two months at the expense of the army.

Second, we can also improve the family leave system a little bit. The farther we are from our hometown, the longer the family leave will be, and the rotation system between them needs to be calculated to make it smoother.

Third, and more importantly, I want to implement the rotation system of the army. If an army has been stationed in one place for a long time, it will be stationed in another place, to the mainland, or to a place closer to their hometown. , convenient for visiting relatives, what do you think? "

Su Yonglin, Zhang Yuejing, and Zhao Yucheng briefly explained their views on these issues, and they both agreed.

They also believe that keeping soldiers stationed in places far from their hometowns for a long time will cause some psychological problems for soldiers, so it is worthy of attention.

"The Seventh Corps is not bad, the main personnel's hometowns are in Jiangxi Province, and not long after they left their hometowns, their thoughts and emotions should not be very strong, but the hometowns of the main combatants of the First Corps are in the Central Plains, in Shandong and Henan, and they did leave their homes. It is a long time ago, if there is a specific implementation of family leave, please also ask the chairman to start with the First Corps."

Zhang Yuejing hoped to obtain some benefits for his subordinates, and Su Yonglin also agreed with this suggestion. The First Corps did a lot of hard work, and most of them were composed of veterans of the Restoration Army. Their hometown was indeed far away from Lingnan.

However, the most important thing in this system is not the family leave of soldiers, but the rotation of the army. No matter what kind of army it is, if it is stationed in one place or has been fighting for a long time, it will inevitably have contact with some people or groups in the place. .

Whether it is an emotional connection or an economic connection, it is very unfavorable for the military.

The longer they are stationed, the closer the connection is. If the court wants to move them, it means that more people's interests must be moved, and the greater the obstacle, if something goes wrong, it will directly become a warlord.

At that time, anything like a thousand-dollar coffee cup, hundreds of thousands of dollars a goat can be tossed out, and it will be a big problem.

So at this moment when the world has not yet settled down, Su Yonglin has to set the rules in advance.

After these things were said, Su Yonglin began to talk about the current affairs.

"There has been no change at the Lee's side in Nanyue, but I think we are well prepared and it is necessary to prepare for the war in advance."

Zhang Yuejing has no opinion. Anyway, this battle has nothing to do with him, and he has other things to do.

On the contrary, Zhao Yucheng felt that this matter was debatable.

"Does the Nanyue Li family dare to offend the majesty of Daming?"

"Compared with the Song Kingdom back then, Nanyue was still a weaker party, but they still invaded Guangdong and Guangxi many times. It can be seen that this Li Dynasty has a lot of ideas about the land of Guangdong and Guangxi. "

With that said, Su Yonglin looked at the Dananguan Pass under the setting sun, and said slowly: "The Dananguan Pass has not been repaired for a long time, I think it is necessary to repair it, and we can also place our artillery on the Dananguan Pass. , to increase defensive firepower in case of emergency."

Although Zhao Yucheng didn't think from the bottom of his heart that the Li Dynasty of South Vietnam had the courage to invade the Daming frontier, but since Su Yonglin said it, he did it.

He's used to it.

He began to arrange for the army to repair the Great South Pass, and according to Su Yonglin's suggestion, placed artillery on the pass and some dangerous places to enhance the defense of Great South Pass.

Zhang Yuejing soon followed the army to go to other places to run errands, while Su Yonglin went to take a look at the group of bureaucrats and big landlords of the Southern Song Dynasty who were captured.

Especially the South Kong Zongmen.

(End of this chapter)