Brother Zhu Youxiao

"Bang bang bang-"

"Ming Gou! I will fight with you!"

"For the home!"

On the way from Moluo City to Miaodang, Ming Juntang, who was riding a war horse, galloped on the mountain road, chasing and killing all the defeated Burmese soldiers encountered along the way.

There were almost no war horses in the Burmese army. Except for those who fled into the deep mountains and were unable to enter the mountains for a while, almost none of them who were caught up by the Ming army could escape the fate of being separated.

The Burmese army said that the Ming army invaded their homeland, but they didn't think that this place was originally under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, nor did they think about the hundreds of thousands of border people who were ravaged and died in the west of Yunnan.

For several years in Yunnan, most of the soldiers of the Western Army and the Southern Army have seen the ruins of the villages ravaged by the Burmese Army. Every night, blue phosphorescent fires appear, and almost every site is a mass grave.

Having seen this scene with my own eyes, for the Yanshan officers and Ming soldiers of the Western Army and the Southern Army.

If you want to cry miserably, the Burmese army is not worthy.

"Huh...huh...huh..."

On the fifth hour after the start of the battle, when night fell, they successfully ran out of the valley of the Longchuan River as Mian ran westward for a distance of more than forty miles.

What appeared in front of him was no longer the long and narrow ancient times, but flat hills and plains.

A large number of Burmese troops who escaped from Molo City rest here, the number of which is nearly a thousand.

These men and horses were the largest of all the Toungoo troops who had escaped from Moluo City.

After running for forty miles in a row, these Burmese soldiers were completely exhausted and had to find a place to rest.

However, they had just collapsed on the ground, and their buttocks hadn't warmed up yet, when suddenly there was a rumbling sound from the direction they were running away from.

"Ah, that's bad, it's the Ming army chasing us!" All the Burmese soldiers turned pale with shock.

"Run!"

The fighting will of nearly a thousand Burmese troops has long since collapsed. Although none of the Ming soldiers have yet appeared, they are already frightened. They do not have any courage to resist the Ming army, and they still only think of running away.

With a bang, the soldiers of the Burmese army who were tired and paralyzed on the ground seemed to have regained their strength under the pressure of death.

After these Toungoo's defeated troops stood up, they began to flee in all directions, fleeing to dense forests one after another, and the scene was in chaos.

In just a moment, the leading cavalry of the Ming army appeared, but there were only more than a hundred cavalry.

"Haha, there are so many Burmese army routs here, and we have encountered them! Don't let any one go, and capture as much as you can!"

The garrison leading the cavalry laughed loudly at the Dongyu defeated army fleeing like rabbits, and then galloped over.

"Bang bang bang-"

After a round of shooting, the immediate Ming army changed into Yanling swords and swung at the Toungoo soldiers who were trying to escape.

Blood was sprayed on the battlefield, the morale of the army collapsed, and the Burmese soldiers who had no will to fight and only wanted to escape could not organize any resistance.

They faced only two fates, either squatting down and surrendering and being captured, or being slaughtered on the way to escape.

Wherever the war horses led the Tangqi of the Ming army, the soldiers of the Ming army chased them down.

For a while, the Burmese army was killed and cried for their father and mother, wishing that their parents would give birth to four legs.

The cavalry of the Ming army had a clear strategy, and the horses rushed directly to the edge of the dense forest in all directions, directly cutting off the way for the Toungoo soldiers to escape into the dense forest.

Except for some Toungoo soldiers who had the quickest response and were the closest to the dense forest, more than [-] Burmese soldiers were surrounded by Ming cavalry.

Seeing that the way to escape was blocked, the five hundred Burmese soldiers simply threw away their weapons and knelt on the ground to surrender.

"Chief Banner Officer, are you surrendered?"

"Let's take it first..."

The bearded chief banner officer was not sure whether he would be punished for killing the prisoners, so he had to surrender first.

The surrendered Burmese army was tied up by the Ming army with ropes, and after leaving a small number of people guarding them, they continued to chase the fleeing Burmese army ahead.

Seeing that the Ming army had only a dozen people left behind, some Burmese soldiers began to resist, but soon, there was a more intense sound of horseshoes in the Longchuan River Valley.

A group of cavalry rushed out of the valley, instantly calming down the Burmese army.

They just watched the Ming army cavalry rushing past them in a daze, chasing after the rout they had fled far away, and they didn't dare to have other thoughts.

As for the cavalry of the Ming army, they chased them all the way, and there were quite a few Toungyu soldiers resting on the way to escape. After all, they were tired and paralyzed from running, and they had no strength to climb into the dense forest.

Although these Dongyu defeated troops tried their best to choose small paths to escape, it is a pity that among the [-] Ming troops, there are more than [-] cavalrymen alone, so no matter how they escape, they will see the Ming army soon after they escape!

More than 6000 Burmese troops were beheaded and captured along the way. Counting the [-] or [-] Burmese soldiers who were beheaded in Molo City, and the [-] Burmese troops in Molo City, only a few hundred people fled into the dense forests in the mountains and escaped. The pursuit of the Ming army.

The clear Longchuan River was stained red with blood, and the corpses of Burmese soldiers who died in battle were thrown into the Longchuan River by the Ming army, rushing towards Miaodang below the Longchuan River...

"What! Doesn't it mean that the army has just started attacking me in Toungoo? Why do you say that the army is already approaching Mengmi!"

When the Ming army was chasing and killing the fleeing Burmese army, Maung Ki, who received a request for help, also set off from Miaodang with an army of [-]. It was only after he had walked less than [-] miles that he learned that the Ming army had captured Morocco. Luocheng, the news of Meng Mi's arrival.

When he heard the news, he roared and questioned the Sentinel Cavalry, but the other party didn't know why the front line retreated so quickly.

Although Maung Ki had some talents, he couldn't understand the speed of the large-scale cavalry attack at all.

Taungoo rarely had war horses, and even if they did, they were only owned by a very small number of nobles.

Moreover, Dongyu still rode elephants, and the nobles also rode elephants more, which led to the pitiful shortage of Dongyu's horses.

They couldn't understand how powerful the Ming army's "blitzkrieg" with cavalry was, just like Western countries couldn't understand why the Mongol Empire could appear in the city in a few days more than 500 years ago.

The messenger who reported the Ming army's attack on Toungoo was naturally a messenger sent by Moluo City. As a sentinel, he rarely owned a horse.

It was precisely because of this horse that he escaped the pursuit of the Ming army.

"My lord, should we withdraw to Miaodang now and wait for the follow-up troops to gather?"

Knowing that the city ahead was breached, some generals also began to dissuade Maung Ki who wanted to lead troops to Mengmi.

"Temporarily set up camp here first, and send someone to the front city to ask those defeated soldiers why the Ming army captured Moluo City so quickly."

"Yes!"

Maung Ki ordered the army to camp at the foot of the mountain, and the generals below also sent sentinels to ask about the battle ahead.

It wasn't until the next morning that Maung Ki understood what was happening ahead as the sentry cavalry continued to return.

Relying on two thousand cannons, the Ming army not only captured Moluo City, but also easily walked out of the Longchuan River Valley and captured Mengmi City on the valley plain.

Now, more than 9 Ming troops are stationed in Mengmi City, and Longchuan's material resources are continuously transported to Mengmi City, and Hong Chengchou seems to be waiting for all the materials to arrive before launching a general offensive.

Knowing all the information, Maung Ki was preparing to recruit soldiers from all over the country, and when he sent news to Arakan and other countries, even worse news came.

Menggong, Mubang, and Jingding were attacked by the Ming army and were in danger.

After arriving here, Maung Ki roughly figured out that Hong Chengchou's army strength was about 12.

After learning that the Ming army had invaded with 12 troops, Maung Ki's face was extremely ugly. Fortunately, the main force of the Ming army was still resting in Mengmi, otherwise he would have collided with the main force of the Ming army at this moment.

When 6 people collided with the [-] main force of the Ming army, Maung Ki couldn't even imagine what kind of scene it would be.

You know, during the Wanli period, Dongyu used 30 soldiers and horses to barely fight back and forth with the 12 Ming troops on the border of Yunnan. Now that the Ming army has mobilized [-] soldiers and horses, how many soldiers and horses will they need to repel the Ming army? ?

Thinking of this, Maung Ki was not going to fight directly with the Ming army, but was going to call on Arakan, Chinshan, Chindun, Little Borneo, Ahaom and other countries to form a coalition to jointly resist the Ming Dynasty's invasion.

The Ming Dynasty wanted to reset the Three Propaganda and Six Reliefs, so these places would be the targets of the Ming Army to recover. Not only that, the Lancang Dynasty and Siam in Nanzhang were also in this system.

However, the Lancang Dynasty and Siam had surrendered to Ming Dynasty and were canonized as vassal states, so they would definitely not send troops to support them. Even after they learned that Ming had sent troops to Toungoo, they would send troops to attack the southern part of Toungoo.

So Maung Ki had to make a quick decision.

Thinking of this, Maung Ki waved his hand and said, "Send an order to Arakan, Qinshan, Qindun, Little Borneo, Ahhaom and other countries, as well as the chieftains, that all countries must send troops, and they must arrive in Miaodang at the end of the twelfth lunar month."

"Delay the war until summer, and the Ming army will be defeated by itself."

Maung Kee in the tent held the armrest of the chair tightly, and at the same time, the soldiers and horses of the various divisions of the Ming Army were advancing triumphantly, and news of success was sent back to Daming one by one...

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"Xiaoxiyang Inspectorate Division Inspectorate Lu Xiangsheng Shangshu, the month of Renxu has not passed, Nanlu Khan Shajiahu commanded his son Aozebu to lead more than [-] troops to invade the south, Qin, Chu, Shu, and Zhou had no more than [-] officers and soldiers. However, there are many captives in the south, so the officers and soldiers are rushing to chase them."

"On the day of Jiazi, Jin, Zhao, Lu, De, Fu, Han and other vassals led their troops to the rescue. Under the command of Ding Dongbo, they galloped and fought fiercely against the southern captives in the field, and they were defeated. Tens of thousands were killed and injured."

"On the day of Gengchen in the month of Guihai, the minister led [-] soldiers from Ceylon Mansion to the north to help, and defeated the [-] pioneers of the southern captives in Henan, and killed [-] of them. The southern captives retreated. Bu led the army to retreat."

"In this battle, the two armies fought together in the field. The Qin, Chu, Shu, and Zhou kingdoms were looted by tens of thousands of people. The ten northern states lost more than [-] soldiers, and the officers and soldiers lost two thousand soldiers. The ministers were really terrified. , Your Highness..."

On the ninth day of the winter month in the 11th year of Tianqi, when Lu Xiangsheng's memorial was sent to Zhu Youjian, it meant that the war in Xiaoxiyang had ended.

In general, Shah Jahan sent his 13-year-old son, Aurangzeb, to lead troops to invade the south and launch a war just for plunder.

Zhu Youjian did not believe that Aurangzeb could command more than 13 soldiers at the age of [-]. He believed that it was Shah Jahan who asked Aurangzeb to lead the army and gave Aurangzeb a nominal commander.

Dacaogu, Zhu Youjian did not expect that the Mughals were all Islamized, and they still maintained this Mongolian tradition.

I thought that Huanglong had hurt them, but now it seems that Mughal's body is a bit big after all, and it only took two years to recover.

"Your Highness, Lu Xiangsheng, please increase the strength of the Northern Ten Domains to the fourth battalion, do you agree?"

After Cao Huachun finished reading Lu Xiangsheng's memoir, Zhu Youjian nodded when he heard the words: "Yes, but not only the ten northern vassals, but the four vassal battalions of the small Western vassals."

Zhu Youjian would not let the northern ten vassals expand their troops to the fourth battalion alone. After all, in this way, the strength of the ten vassals reached 12, while the strength of the southern vassals was only [-].

Therefore, either no military expansion, or all military expansion.

However, the expansion of the army is not simply expansion, but the transfer of command.

"Drafting the document, ordered Lu Xiangsheng to expand the troops of the feudal clans into four battalions. In addition, each feudal clan sent a battalion to guard the northern border defense line. The countries have no right to deploy troops, and all the soldiers and horses are under the command of Dong Bo Qi Yuanfu. The battalion is stationed, and the ten countries in the north will provide food, and the imperial court will provide military salaries."

"The servants take orders..."

Zhu Youjian planned to use the Mughals as the goal to unite the feudal vassals, so as to form a small Western military alliance.

Although in this way, the uncontrollable factors of Xiaoxiyang have increased, but for Zhu Youjian, as long as Daming manages Luchuan well, and then waits for the railway to open to traffic, then taking the Mughals is almost a matter of course.

As long as there is no Mughal, then this military alliance can be transformed into an economic alliance.

"Have you calculated the income of Huangdian in Xiaoxiyang?"

Zhu Youjian asked Cao Huachun, and Cao Huachun also followed Lu Xiangsheng's memorial:
"I figured it out. From September last year to September of this year, Huangdian made a profit of 6207 million taels in Xiaoxiyang, and paid more than 230 million taels of taxes to the feudal clans."

"Last year and this year were still a bit uneven, and next year is expected to be even higher, and maybe the profit can reach 700 million taels."

For Daming, the Huangdian stationed in India was a sure-fire business.

Daming only needs to station [-] battalions of soldiers and horses to firmly control the Indian servants and avoid the problems of governance.

It is a helpless move to entrust Indian servants to vassal kings, and the same is true for Levia, South and North America. To put it bluntly, Ming has reached the largest territory that its population size can actually control.

Going a step further, it is nothing more than bringing Uzang, Western Regions, Mobei, Luchuan, and Hezhong (Central Asia) under the rule.

What Zhu Youjian wanted was the local territory where the Han nationality was the main body, so that local rebellions would not break away from the rule of the Han dynasty.

But speaking of territory, Zhu Youjian thought of Luchuan.

"Has Hong Chengchou sent troops to recover Luchuan?"

Zhu Youjian asked Cao Huachun, Cao Huachun also nodded and said: "The war has been going on for half a month, this is the good news from Hong Chengchou."

"By the first day of the first winter month, the officers and soldiers of the imperial court had recovered Menggong, Mengmi, Mubang, and Menggen, and beheaded more than [-] people in Dongwu."

"However, Hong Jinglue seems to be waiting for all the supplies from Longchuan to arrive in Mengmi before he prepares to act. Instead, King Long has summoned troops from various countries in the Burmese region, and nearly 25 troops have arrived at the front line."

"Your Highness, do you want to support Hong Jinglue? Anyway, there is no war in the north right now..."

After Cao Huachun finished speaking, he couldn't help saying a few words for Hong Chengchou. After all, Hong Chengchou's fighter plane was only for three months.

"He's not in a hurry, why are you in a hurry..."

Zhu Youjian leaned on the chair and asked Cao Huachun back. This action made Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen stunned, and they looked at each other, not knowing how to answer.

On the contrary, Zhu Youjian said to himself: "Hong Chengchou will handle Dongyu's affairs by himself. He didn't tell Huang Fei about sending troops this time, which means that he wants to send all the soldiers and horses in Liuwei area to the front line."

"Once the soldiers and horses in the Liuwei area are transferred to the front line, Huang Fei's four-guard navy will have something to do. Don't forget, Huang Fei has 1 rifles in his hand..."

Zhu Youjian reminded the two of them, and then they remembered that Hong Chengchou was not alone in the battle against Dongyu, Hong Chengchou could also command Huang Fei's troops.

There are more than 1 guards under Huang Fei's command, of which [-] are armed with rifles, each with more than [-] rounds of ammunition.

As long as Hong Chengchou attracts all the soldiers and horses from the major states in Myanmar to the front line, once Huang Fei launches an attack, all countries will be attacked by the Ming army from north to south.

It's no wonder that Hong Chengchou is as stable as Mount Tai, but His Royal Highness doesn't care.

Co-authored, on Hong Chengchou's side, it is false that there is not enough supplies, but it is true that it has attracted Toungoo soldiers.

Hong Chengchou's move was too insidious, Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen couldn't help swallowing, and when they looked at Zhu Youjian who could easily see through the battle, they felt a little more afraid.

"With the strength of Toungoo and other countries, it is absolutely possible to pull four 10,000+ men to the battlefield, and it is not yet their full strength."

"To sweep Toungoo, three months is enough, but what Hong Chengchou thinks is how to finish the battle so that the Toungoo countries can't even fight guerrillas."

Zhu Youjian put away the memorabilia he had just processed, and then put down the ink pen:
"For the Southwest matter, just look at it, don't worry about them, let's talk about the production and equipment of the Ordnance Bureau."

Toungoo is just one of Joo's goals, not his only goal in Apocalypse 12 years.

From the 11th year of the Apocalypse to the 12th year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youjian still has many goals waiting for him to clean up, and the most prominent one is Uzang.

"Yes..." Cao Huachun responded, and then found the documents of the Ordnance Bureau from his desk, and continued:

"The monthly output of the Ordnance Bureau is 42 rifles, [-] bullets, artillery..."

The output of the Shuntian Ordnance Bureau is very large. In the case of rifles, in the past month, it has exceeded the annual output of the Tianjin Manufacturing Bureau during the Westernization Movement of the Qing Dynasty.

This is not because the Ming Dynasty is too strong, but because the Qing Dynasty is too weak.

In terms of military industry, Tianjin Manufacturing Bureau invested only 48 taels, and the additional investment in the arsenal in the next 3000 years was only more than one million taels.

In comparison, the Shuntian Ordnance Bureau, formerly known as the Yanshan Ordnance Bureau, invested about one million taels a year in the past ten years, with a total investment of more than 200 million taels and more than [-] employees. people.

If inflation is taken into account, the 200 million taels of Ming Dynasty is comparable to the 3000 to [-] million taels of silver in the late Qing Dynasty.

However, this does not mean that the Shuncheon Ordnance Bureau can beat the Tianjin Manufacturing Bureau, because the Shuncheon Ordnance Bureau is currently only responsible for the production of five materials: rifles, bullets, artillery, gunpowder, and mercury fulminate.

As for the Tianjin Ordnance Bureau, it also needs to be distracted from the production of steel, artillery shells and other materials.

In addition, in terms of machinery, the most advanced of Ming Dynasty is the ten-ton hydraulic press and hydraulic press after the improvement of the fourth version of the steam engine. The converted weight is only six tons of western style, which is far inferior to Tianjin Manufacturing Bureau.

More importantly, if the Qing Dynasty also invested 200 million taels of silver specifically for the construction of an arsenal, then the output of this arsenal may easily crush the Suncheon Ordnance Bureau.

But history has no ifs, and Zhu Youjian has no more machines to set up another ordnance bureau.

The Shuntian Ordnance Bureau is already the result of the gathering of all firecracker craftsmen in Daming to use steam engines.

But even so, it will take a full 80 years to replace more than 19 Ming troops with the output of the Shuncheon Ordnance Bureau.

It's just that Daming doesn't need more than 80 soldiers with rifles, because Zhu Youjian has stopped recruiting soldiers.

"Currently, the country has a total of 4 rifles, of which 730 are equipped with the navy, and are currently under the command of Governor Huang Fei."

"There are more than [-] remaining, and they are currently equipped with the Shangzhi Four Cavalry Guards and Shence Guards, as well as the Xining Battalion of the Dogan Twelve Battalion."

"According to the estimates of the Ordnance Bureau, it will take about four years to successfully replace the Shangzhi Sixteen Guards and Forty Gong Guards."

"It will take about 19 years to change the whole army."

Cao Huachun told the output of the Shuntian Ordnance Bureau and the situation of the army equipment, but Zhu Youjian still cared about the ammunition situation.

He didn't want the Ming army to have the kind of "ten years of savings, not enough for several months" in the Sino-Japanese War.

Right now, Daming is more or less in this situation.

Although it has been equipped with more than 4 rifles, reaching the standard of rifles in the 50s, Daming still uses paper-cased bullets, and its annual output is only [-] million.

More than 500 million bullets seems a lot, but referring to the bloody battle in Beishan, we know that compared with the annual production of [-] rifles, the annual production of [-] million bullets is not enough to last long.

Now Daming has more than 200 years of weapon crushing advantage over the West, but there are people crossing the river ahead to explore the way, and it will be much easier for the West to cross the river with Daming's shoulders on their shoulders.

Zhu Youjian couldn't wait for the Westerners to catch up, so after learning about the output of ordnance, he was the first to say: "The production line that will be put into production in the future should preferably be based on bullets. A monthly production of [-] rifles is enough."

"Slave servants take orders..." Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen agreed, but Zhu Youjian didn't say anything about disarming the army.

At present, he has stopped recruiting new recruits. After the bloody battle in Beishan, Daming still has 89 troops. Zhu You checked the military register, and among the 89 troops, about 17 are 45 years old and above.

After a while, Zhu Youjian was going to announce that soldiers over the age of 45 would change jobs to reduce Ming's military expenditure, so that the Ming army would maintain a number of around 75 in the next ten years.

Daming is in an embarrassment now. There are many troops and advanced weapons, but the projection power is particularly poor.

On the sea, it is good to say that the Ming Dynasty can organize an expeditionary force of 2 people to conquer Europe by sea after the South Kunlun Supervisory Commission is on the right track, but this is useless because it cannot take root and does not have such a large delivery capability.

As for the land route, it is even more embarrassing. Let alone the Western Regions, even if only 2 people are sent to attack Mobei, it is estimated that they will have to prepare half a year in advance to organize 10,000+ civilian husbands and 10,000+ mules and horses to supply, because Modong Province cannot afford the northern expedition. Among the grain and grass, troops can only be sent from North Zhili and Shanxi.

Now that Shanxi is still in a severe drought, the only way to rely on North Zhili is to send troops from North Zhili to Mobei. The straight-line distance is at least 2000 kilometers. If you fight while walking, the supply line will have to be extended by at least [-] kilometers. .

After a battle, the people in Beizhili could not cultivate well in three or four years.

Daming is very embarrassed now. If he wants to fight Wusi Tibet, he must first let Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Yunnan have surplus food.

If you want to fight Mobei, you must let Modong Province have surplus food, and if you want to fight the Western Regions, you must let Hexi have surplus food.

If you want to expel the Tsarist Russians in Central Siberia, you have to let Beishan have surplus food.

Da Ming showed his power to the sea, but to the land, Da Ming was a little sluggish.

If you want to develop inland, you must first settle down these six provinces, especially places like Modong, Hexi, and Beishan.

Otherwise, we can only honestly wait for the railway to be repaired to Jiayuguan.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian could only sigh from the bottom of his heart:

"There is a long way to go……"

The rifle technology of the Ming army is similar to that of the Dreiser rifle, and the technical level is still around 1841.