Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 379 Northern Threat and Coastal Pirate Looting

Zhu Youxiao didn't plan to make much achievements in the Westward March. He knew that this could only be regarded as a military operation with political purposes more than military purposes.

And the most in line with his own political purpose is to march westward. This westward march was directly defeated, or even wiped out.

It is the first time for Zhu Youxiao to let forces that do not belong to his own interest group be eliminated in this way.

Doing this may be regarded as a cruel conspiracy, but Zhu Youxiao had to choose to do this, just like Zhu Youjian would choose to end his career as an emperor early.

However, for the current Ming Dynasty, the focus of military strategy is in the south. Zhu Youxiao is not very concerned about the westward march. Even the Ministry of War still follows Zhu Youxiao's instructions to send a large amount of war resources to the south. transfer.

Warships gathered in the south, and movements began to take place in the west, while outside the pass in the north, it was very calm.

However, it is not peaceful in Monan and the outer Xing'an Mountains and Miaotun in the north of Liaodong.

Not long after Mao Wenlong and the Third Brigade of the First Army of the Imperial Guard arrived at Houmiaotun and Waixing'an Mountains, they began to re-establish the guard system that the Ming Dynasty had here, re-search for some Han people who were still here and cut off the doves. The Raksha people occupying the magpie's nest, in order to achieve the purpose of restoring the ruling order of Ming Dynasty in this area.

And not long after, Zhu Youxiao simply made Mao Wenlong the commander-in-chief of Miaotun, responsible for military rule from Siberia to Miaotun Island.

But in fact, so far, what he, the chief military officer, can control is only a few guards close to the Outer Xing'an Mountains and Miaotun.

Of course, Mao Wenlong was not satisfied with this. His goal was to complete Zhu Youxiao's grand goal of erecting the Ming Dynasty's boundary marker west of the Ural Mountains, so he stepped up to consolidate the existing stronghold and asked the imperial court to immigrate immediately. He also sent a small group of elite troops to go further afield to investigate the situation when the weather was good, hoping to occupy these places before the Cossack cavalry of the Raksha Kingdom occupied more territories.

But what Mao Wenlong didn't expect was that the Cossack cavalry of the Raksha Kingdom were advancing very fast. They had already reached the area of ​​Eastern Siberia, and even fought with the sentry cavalry of Ming Dynasty.

And no one thought that these Cossack cavalry of the Raksha Kingdom were too powerful to fight. Except for a few of these sentry cavalry who escaped back by chance, most of them became the ghosts of the Cossack cavalry.

According to the original historical trajectory, the Raksha Kingdom had a territorial conflict with China after it completely occupied the Siberia area and its power had grown to the Outer Xing'an Mountains.

But now, Ming has intervened in this territorial dispute in advance, and this time the dispute has extended to East Siberia. Not only that, the Ming army led by Mao Wenlong has already taken part of the Raksha All the civilians were beheaded, so now that they have encountered the main force of the Cossack cavalry, a war is inevitable.

However, the fact is that the current Ming Dynasty does not have much control over this area. A large number of people are immigrants who migrated here one after another, but the army is still the Ming army mainly composed of Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang soldiers. Guerrilla and raid, but not good at dealing with the most powerful cavalry unit in the world.

Before the Cossack cavalry arrived in the outer Xing'an Mountains and Miaotun area, Mao Wenlong immediately withdrew the troops in the part of East Siberia that he had occupied, and immediately rushed into Beijing overnight to present a large group of cavalry in the area of ​​East Siberia. The news informed Zhu Youxiao, and asked Zhu Youxiao to mobilize heavy troops to strengthen Ming's control in this area, at least in the Outer Xing'an Mountains, otherwise the goal of establishing a ruling order in the Outer Xing'an Mountains and forming an encirclement circle for slaves would not be achieved .

However, the distance from Wai Xing'an Mountains to Beijing is very far, so the current Zhu Youxiao is not aware of the changes in the situation in the Wai Xing'an Mountains. He is now busy planning the next decisive battle at sea with the Zheng Group.

Daming has now officially confirmed the strategy of first going south and then going north, that is, to solve the problem of Zheng's pirate group in the fastest time, and then enable the entire maritime trade of Daming to be launched in an all-round way. The advanced productivity represented by the company can completely create amazing wealth.

Only when the maritime trade issue is completely resolved, can Daming obtain the early stage capital for expansion, and can change hands and come back to completely eradicate Jiannu. The reason why Jiannu is not eradicated now is because Daming’s finances are still very tight before Haimao is still in charge of the court. , so if you want to have enough military power to solve Jiannu, you must have enough financial resources.

The main fleet of the North Sea Fleet has also moved south, and the East China Sea Fleet has also begun to conduct frequent exercises around Zhoushan. Gu Sanmazi of the South China Sea Fleet was also ordered to lead some ships eastward along the coastline.

The imperial guards stationed in Huguang, Guangdong, Guangdong, Fujian and Zhejiang also began to gather in Fujian and Zhejiang to prevent Zheng's group from landing on beaches and plundering coastal villages and towns to obtain strategic resources.

In fact, such things are already happening. The frequency of pirate looting incidents in the Fujian and Zhejiang areas is rapidly increasing. Although Zhu Youxiao has already ordered the local officials in the Fujian and Zhejiang areas to be on alert in advance, there is still no way to avoid some places being vacillated. Pirates ransacked.

After the imperial guards entered the coastal areas of Fujian and Zhejiang one after another, they immediately organized patrols, arranged to disperse in counties at all levels in Fujian and Zhejiang, and established mobile troops to fight against pirates at any time.

Not only the imperial guards, but other guards were also mobilized. They were mainly responsible for guarding and guarding some villages and towns.

But the discipline of these guard soldiers is really bad. I expected them to help deal with the frequent incidents of pirates, but I didn't expect these guard soldiers to be better than pirates in cleaning villages and looting houses.

In order not to lead to civil uprisings, Lu Xiangsheng, who had been transferred to be the governor of the five provinces, had to call out a guard to deal with violations of discipline by soldiers and bandits. Whenever there were soldiers from the guards that harmed the village, they would directly fight against the pirates.

The corrupt military discipline of the guards was suppressed, but it also affected the Imperial Guards' inability to concentrate their power to deal with the pirates' looting.

Because of this, the incidents of pirate looting became more and more rampant, and even the Japanese pirates who had disappeared in the Jiajing Dynasty began to haunt the coast, and there was an additional force, the Western Fan.

Zhu Youxiao didn't expect that the real power of Zheng's Group is not just how powerful he is at sea, but that he can provoke all sea forces to participate in the looting of the coast of Daming.

"Your Majesty, I just got the news that [-] villages and towns have been looted and tens of thousands of fishermen have died. This is the specific statistics of the loss of money and food. Please take a look at it." Commander Xu Xianchun of Jin Yiwei handed a booklet to Zhu Youxiao, After Zhu Youxiao read it, he couldn't help sighing: "Is this going to force me to implement the policy of moving to the sea?"

(End of this chapter)