The Ming Dynasty did not revolutionize

Chapter 366: Continue to resist and you can continue to be the emperor

At the court meetings of Shun State in recent days, Emperor Li Celing of Shun State listened to the discussions of his ministers and watched them panic because of their speculations.

On the surface, he did not agree with their views, and even told them not to have any wild thoughts.

But in Li Celing's heart, he was actually as shocked as his ministers, and wanted to ask the same question: What should we do now?

Facing the current offensive method of the Ming Dynasty, what should Shun State do? In fact, many ministers now want to say that it is useless to do anything!

The Ming Dynasty already had a large number of terrifying flying machines, capable of dropping bombs within thousands of kilometers across India.

If the Ming Dynasty really still had the means to directly control the outbreak of the plague, then the Shun Kingdom would now have no chance of winning.

Under normal circumstances, an accidental outbreak of a plague can often cause heavy casualties in an entire city or region.

In traditional countries, the means of dealing with plague is usually blockade, which controls the plague outside the outbreak area and prevents the plague from spreading to other areas.

The final result is usually that most of the local people are killed or injured when the plague breaks out, and the plague naturally subsides after losing its source of infection.

In other words, there is no real solution to the plague, it can only be controlled.

It is equivalent to cutting off the part that is sick.

If the Ming Dynasty can now really choose the location where the plague breaks out at will, then the only means by which the traditional state court can deal with the plague will become ineffective.

Li Celing murmured in his heart that if he were the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he would not even let the ground troops launch a frontal attack.

They would ask the Ming army to block India's coastline and the northern entry and exit points, release the plague, and then wait for the Indians to die.

For other countries, such means are certainly inappropriate because population is the most important resource and the most direct source of tax wealth.

If all Indians were killed, even if India was occupied, India itself would no longer have any value.

Only the Ming Dynasty was different. The Ming Dynasty never lacked population, so it did not need India's population and even had to find ways to clear out India's population.

However, Li Celing could not express his thoughts, and even felt that he could not participate in the relevant discussions.

Once I participate in the discussion, this matter will be brought to the table, and the morale and military spirit, which are already low, will be shaken even more.

Li Celing felt that he had no choice but to continue to hold on. Even if he wanted to make peace, he had to do it in private.

Even Li Celing was not prepared to ask for peace.

If Shun State was really just an overseas foreign country, it could consider surrendering under similar circumstances as the current one.

Just like the Ottoman Empire and Russia, if they surrender now, their monarchs can still be given the title of Duke.

But Shun State cannot do this, as Shun State was originally a member of the Shenzhou Tianchao system.

Shun State was never completely independent from the beginning to the end. It either became a vassal and vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, or it could only become a rebel and a rebel. There was no option of being unrelated.

The key point is that before the war started, he refused to follow the emperor's orders, which completely angered the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

In the past few years, the Ming Dynasty has carried out sufficient propaganda and mobilization against the Shun Kingdom.

Now, even if I am willing to surrender and the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty is willing to forgive me, the civil officials, military generals and people of the Ming Dynasty will not be able to accept it, as that will damage the dignity of the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

So for the Ming Dynasty, Shun Kingdom must be destroyed and he himself must die.

Therefore, even though the gap between Shun Kingdom and Ming Dynasty became increasingly clear, Li Celing still had to do everything he could to maintain the belief of Shun Kingdom in resisting Ming Dynasty.

As long as the officials, generals and people of Shun State can continue to resist, he can continue to be the emperor here.

Therefore, Li Celing continued to be extremely tough and arrogant, and most of the Shun officials could only obey and cope with it, and continue to find ways to resist the Ming Dynasty's attack.

However, most of the methods they thought of were futile.

In this strange atmosphere, more and more places were attacked, and the efficiency of the local government offices of the Shun Kingdom became lower and lower.

By the end of the 22nd year of Tiangong, some local government offices began to lose contact.

Twenty-third year into the Tiangong era, the number of local government offices that lost contact began to grow, and the scope of jurisdiction and control of the Shun Kingdom's central court continued to shrink.

Some of them were due to the interruption of the post roads, and an epidemic broke out in the post stations that delivered and forwarded official letters to the court. Some people died, and some fled.

Some of them were because the local plague continued to spread, and most of the officials in the county and prefectural governments were infected, and the corresponding government agencies themselves were paralyzed.

In some cases, the local cities were completely destroyed, a large number of people died directly, and the rest fled in all directions.

In the cognition of ordinary people of this era, if a plague broke out where they lived, the best option was to run away.

Because no one would go to the place where the plague broke out to rescue, and there was no real means of rescue and treatment in this era, staying in the place where the plague broke out would only mean waiting to die.

Only by escaping from the area where the plague has broken out can they have a chance to survive the disease.

However, if the disease is not highly contagious, more medical resources can be obtained after dispersing and fleeing.

However, for highly contagious diseases, the result of escape is to expand the scope of transmission.

In the current situation in Shun Country, with epidemics breaking out simultaneously in a large number of different regions, running around like this will only lead to cross infection.

Originally, these people who escaped had already adapted to the epidemic in their hometowns and had basically stabilized overall, so their chances of survival were very high.

But they have not adapted to diseases that occur elsewhere.

When refugees from different places come together and come into contact with each other, under the influence of epidemics in other areas, two groups of people who seem to be relatively healthy may all die.

Not to mention that ordinary people in Shun State don't understand this, even officials in the Shun State court may not have such knowledge and experience.

Even if some officials in the Shun Kingdom’s central court were aware of the situation, they were unable to continue to maintain local control and regulation under such circumstances.

So after four months of brewing, the situation in Shun State began to deteriorate rapidly at the end of the 22nd year of Tiangong.
The Ming Army opposite them, in accordance with the combat plan initially selected by Liu Biao, the Governor of the Indian Theater, did not rush to continue attacking inland areas after occupying the coastline.

Instead, after the controlled area had a certain depth, they began to build more camps and defense lines.

Instead of attacking, they prepare for defense.

They used barbed wire and trenches to form a quarantine network, used watchtowers and machine guns to control the defense line, and used motor vehicles and aircraft for reconnaissance and early warning.

Be prepared to detect and disperse any Indians approaching the trenches.

They are establishing a quarantine zone to enclose most of the Indian peninsula and trap Indians in India.

At the same time, Russian Tsar Alexander and his ministers have come to a very critical moment, and they must make an important decision as soon as possible.

According to the results of the last negotiation with the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty demanded that Russia formally surrender to the Ming Dynasty before the end of the year, or continue to resist on its own.

There is no answer to this question. Alexander and his ministers discussed and argued about it for a long time in the meeting, but Alexander himself could not make up his mind.

The main reason is that some people still have illusions and think that Russia is not yet at the end of its rope.

In particular, the Ming army on the western front was advancing too slowly, and the Ming army on the southern front also stopped attacking after the influx of refugees. This made some people feel that the power of the Ming Dynasty had reached its limit, and Russia had a chance to win if it continued to hold on.

They feel that at least it is difficult to approach those who will not lose.

Alexander is different from Li Celing. He does not have a particularly clear understanding of his own country and is often distracted by various information in front of him.

The more he discussed with his ministers, the more hesitant and undecided Alexander became.

Long-term hesitation is basically equivalent to rejection, and the same is true for Russia's surrender.

Until the end of the twenty-second year of Tiangong, Alexander had not made a decision.

In the eyes of the Ming generals, this was another rejection of the ultimatum, and it also meant that the Ming had to kill them.

Starting from August of the 22nd year of Tiangong, the war between Ming Dynasty and Shun Kingdom, Russia and Ottoman Empire officially broke out, and the three countries entered three completely different states.

If a country is a beast, then Osman was suddenly and directly cut in the throat and quickly entered a state of death.

Only the limbs are still capable of slight conditioned reflexes, and the entire body no longer has the ability to struggle.

Russia seemed to have fallen into a trap, with its hands and feet tied by noose and unable to move freely. The hunter took out a knife to bleed it.

It was still able to continue struggling, but it was only able to move within the confines of the noose, and its physical strength was rapidly weakening.

Shun Guo was poisoned. He might struggle violently and aimlessly at the beginning, but he would slowly calm down after the drug took effect.

By the 23rd year of Tiangong, the commanders of various war zones in the Ming Dynasty had begun their own new operations based on the situation on the battlefield and climate changes.

After the situation in the Balkan and Arabian war zones warmed up slightly, the rested troops continued to advance inland to take over the remaining former Ottoman local institutions.

Before the summer of the 23rd year of Tiangong, the entire Balkan Peninsula and the Mesopotamian Basin had completely fallen under the control of the Ming Dynasty.

On the Russian southern front, Cui Guodong commanded the Southern Corps and when spring came, he used the regular army to take the Russian Corps formed in the winter "home".

The Russian southern defenders and petty nobles who had escaped the bombing last year had lost most of their winter supplies and were exhausted after surviving the winter.

Now the person who was most familiar with them and hated them the most came to them in high spirits, bringing with him the enemy they feared the most.

The Russian regular army was in extremely poor condition and almost collapsed at the first blow under the suppression of Ming Dynasty's aircraft and armored vehicles. There was basically no suspense in the frontal battle.

Then, the servant corps composed of Russian serfs were divided into small teams, and under the supervision and command of a small number of Ming army squads, they rushed to the aristocratic manors in their own hometowns.

The Russian servant troops rushed forward with guns, knocked the servants and guards of the noble family to the ground, and then rushed into the room of the manor owner.

They dragged the panicked nobles out of their beds, gathered all the remaining serfs in the yard of the manor, and hanged them in front of all the serfs.

The Ming Dynasty officers stood in front of the nobles' bodies and announced that this place would belong to the Ming Emperor from now on.

At the same time, the Ming Emperor will grant all serfs the status of freemen, and distribute the land of the executed nobles to local serfs.

Next, the Ming Dynasty’s logistics troops will arrive one after another, delivering food seeds and fertilizers by steamships and cars.

By the time they completed their first year's harvest, local grassroots organizations had been established.

At the same time, there is no need for the Ming court to provide direct support.

Cui Guodong, the commander of the Ming Dynasty's Russian Southern War Zone, was just as anxious as Tian Yiming and Nelson to gain credit in this final battle and strive to obtain the highest possible title.

So after a winter of preparation, the Southern Army's offensive mode began to be more aggressive.

The main force advanced rapidly inland by car or bicycle, responsible only for defeating the local Russian troops, which already had little combat effectiveness.

The subsequent handling of prisoners and occupation of local areas were all left to the logistics and vassal troops who would arrive later.

The sudden attack and continuous air strikes by the Ming Russian Southern Corps last year prevented the Russians from having the opportunity to destroy the waterways of the Volga, Dnieper and lower Don rivers.

The Southern Army took control of the Crimean Peninsula last year and used it as a base for this year's offensive.

When spring arrived this year, Cui Guodong directly arranged a task force to set out from the Sea of ​​Azov on the east side of the Crimean Peninsula and go upstream along the Don River.

The Don River flows into the Black Sea, and the Volga River flows into the Caspian Sea. The two rivers run side by side in southeastern Russia, with the main river channels only 50 kilometers apart at the closest point.

Near the point where the two rivers are closest, on the banks of the Volga River, is Tsaritsyn, an important town in southeastern Russia.

In the original history, Tsaritsyn would be renamed Stalingrad in 1925, and then Volgograd in the s.

The Ming Dynasty's Southern Corps Task Force in the Russian Theater of War took a boat to the nearest point on the two rivers, and then went ashore by car to Tsaritsyn.

Under the cover of aircraft, armored vehicles and army artillery, an attack was launched and Tsaritsyn was captured.

Then they attacked in both the upstream and downstream directions along the Volga River.

A defense line was established relying on the river courses of the Don River and the lower reaches of the Volga River, thus isolating the Caucasus region from the core areas of Russia.

Then began to occupy the entire Caucasus region and eat it.

At the same time, cooperate with the troops on the Western Front to occupy the land west of the Crimean Peninsula.

At this time, Russia was already semi-colonized, and Alexander's Russian court had lost contact with most places.

The Ming Dynasty's military operations would encounter almost no strong obstacles.

As the weather continued to warm up, the Ming army in the eastern European theater commanded by Napoleon resumed its activities.

Napoleon did not need to continue to take credit, but he did not dare to deliberately delay the war plan. After holding back for a winter, he launched a large-scale operation.

The entire front line itself accelerated its advance speed, and the spearhead troops were no longer required to stay within the railway range.

At the same time, Napoleon specially arranged two assault teams to attack Moscow simultaneously from the north and south directions along an arc road.

Moscow was bombed continuously by the Ming Dynasty for several months last year and has now completely become an empty city. The occupation process is no surprise.

Napoleon had anticipated this, so the way these two Polish troops advanced was not to march all the way to Moscow to join the battle.

Instead, the troops were divided into many groups and required to disperse and deploy their troops during the march, forming two arc-shaped lines of troops along the way.

The two lines of troops started from Moscow and formed a roughly elliptical circle, directly encircling a large area of ​​land west of Moscow.

The Russian defenders along the way had no time to react before they were wrapped like a huge dumpling.

Napoleon then ordered the troops that had been replenished from behind the front line to advance quickly and completely wipe out the Russian troops, institutions, and personnel between the two arcs.

Russia had been devastated this winter, and there was no suspense in the course of Napoleon's military operations.

Engineering troops followed the attacking forces and began to build the railway from Minsk to Moscow.

(End of this chapter)