open sea

Chapter 533
On the seventh day after the battle between Sanhou and Mang Yinglong in Mount Bagu, Chen Mu received the news in Baigu City that the King of Siam requested to send troops into Burma to attack Mangyinglong together with Ming Dynasty.

Deng Zilong and Lin Manjue led more than [-] troops to the north, firstly to supervise the battle, and secondly to provide support to Meng Shao and others when they fought against Mang Yinglong at the right time.

Chen Mu and Bai Yuanjie didn't go. They were busy planning three announcements and six comforts. They were a group of madmen who firmly believed that war was inevitable and that there would never be peace. They were fighting this battle and thinking about the next one. A direction is missing.

Once he has a direction, even Liu Xian will not have the idea of ​​"hiding merit and fame".

As for Chen Mu himself, he only needs to play the role of a warmonger, a warmonger.

"Siam has joined, and a large number of troops have advanced to Bago Mountain, and the momentum has been established." Bai Yuanjie held a bamboo whip, pointed at the map and said: "As long as Mang Yinglong takes another step back to the east and regains Ava, our troops will be fine." Contacting Yu Shuai and Liu Shuai's army in the north, Bai believed that Mang Yinglong's retreat was inevitable, and that his retreat should be in the northwest of the Military and Civilian Propaganda Department of Burma. In the mountains."

Bai Yuanjie's ambitions are not small, Qinshan, it's almost out of Myanmar, next to Bangladesh.

Obviously, after this battle, the Burmese Army and Civilian Propaganda and Consolation Department will have a much smaller territory.

"By using Arakan, it's time to attack his back and back." Bai Yuanjie said firmly, "The general trend is on me. I had the idea of ​​sending envoys to Arakan before, but I was blocked by Bai in Yangon. Right now It's time for battle, but now Shuai Chen can see you."

Hearing the name Arakan, Chen Mu laughed.

Arakan is a small country in the past, and it was also the first place where the Portuguese settled in the Indochina Peninsula. Their country has a Portuguese-Arab army and navy, and has cultivated a pirate culture for decades. In the east, they attacked merchant ships and plundered the Malacca area; in the west, they robbed the upper reaches of the Bay of Bengal with the Mughal Empire.

Generally speaking, this is a country related to the interests of the Portuguese in Southeast Asia. From Chen Mu's narrow eyes, it is a large-scale pirate stronghold, and his subordinates are colleagues and enemies.

"I don't want to borrow from them, send them a letter, let them send troops to Qinshan, cut off Mang Yinglong's retreat, and everyone pushes the wall down, what do you think, brother?" After Chen Mu said, he felt that his words were not very pleasant, and said :"The more the merrier."

Bai Yuanjie was noncommittal, he knew that Chen Mu didn't want to continue to participate in this war, and there was only one reason for him to feel this way - he had already got what he wanted, Bai Gucheng.

"I'll do this, send troops first and then pay tribute."

Bai Yuanjie nodded. With the general situation of the imperial court in mind, Arakan could hardly refuse to send troops, not to mention that Mang Yinglong was also an enemy of Arakan. Now is the time for Ming to set the rules. In such a small country, it was hard not to look at Da Ming's eyes and act.

Even if he didn't follow, the great Bai Yuanjie led the troops to Qinshan by himself, and then let Lin Daoqian of Midao and Lin Afeng of Java go out of Malacca for a stroll, and it was easy to clean up Arakan.

"It's An Nan and San Xuan Liu Wei, who have waited for so long to see your movements, what are they planning?" Bai Yuanjie smiled, there was no outsider in the palace, he raised his arm to lightly touch Chen Mu, and said, "I'm waiting to see what you can do." .”

Chen Mu said with a smile: "Why, help me ventilate the court?"

This time, the attack on Mang Yinglong and Mang Yinglong deterred several native officials who founded the country on their own. The action was called the Three-Eyed Gun at Sea, but in fact, in the battle report sent to the imperial court, the third part did not follow Liu Xian , Yu Dayou, and Chen Mu are divided in this way, but Yunnan, Guangdong, and Nanyang.

Liu Xian and Yu Dayou had to hand in a copy together, Chen Mu handed in a copy by himself, and Bai Yuanjie from the Guangdong Metropolitan Division was the official in charge of the other.

"Actually, Nanyang is very chaotic now, and I can't figure it out. A common law for all countries seems to govern all countries in the same way, but in fact, I am looking for a direction. I don't know which way is the best."

A batch of decorative objects from the Baigu Palace has been divided into three parts, and all of them are shipped to Haojing. The precious and symbolic objects will be sent to the Forbidden City; the other batch of valuable objects will be sold in Guangzhou, Beijing, and Beijing; Others are given as rewards to those who have made meritorious deeds.

At this time, the palace has become another military government office. Except for ordinary utensils such as tables and cases, all decorations have military significance, such as sand tables and maps.

Chen Mu pulled the hanging scroll of the map, put down the whole map of Nanyang, and said: "We have overseas fortresses like Junfuwei and Linlai, we have vassal states like Luzon that are fully controlled, and we have military services and trades like Sulu, Ryukyu, and Borneo. There are also the tributary states of Java and the Three Islands, which are like the pirate autonomous lands of Spain's overseas strategy, and there are also the commercial stations taken over from Portugal, Malacca, Aceh, and Annan, which are divided into three places for the four wars. "

"I have an idea about Annan, but I have not made up my mind about it, but I have not made up my mind. The only thing is that Burmese Baigu has a radius of [-] miles, and Annan Shenglong has a radius of [-] miles. Daming must absolutely control it. Like Luzon, Huafu County And govern." Chen Mu began to circle two pieces of land on the Indochina Peninsula that can be touched by the Nanyang Military Mansion right now, and said: "At least the two guards and flag troops will be stationed by rotation in the country, and the six Ding Liujia fleets will be stationed in each port. "

Bai Yuanjie looked at the circle that Chen Mu had scribbled on the map, and it was obvious that he was eyeing the food here, but even knowing this, he was still puzzled by Chen Mu's words, and said, "It's as easy as Luzon, and Annan has Wu Gongji and Burma have fierce spoons, but why should the flag troops be stationed in rotation? Wouldn't it increase the risk of rebellion?"

The guard army has been in the army for generations since the time of Emperor Taizu. Yongzhen is a place, and there are very few troops. If they are sent in rotation from the middle school, there will be more troubles. No matter what goes wrong in the middle, it will lead to chaos.

"It is a good way to garrison the army. They are transferred mainly for military training. The training officers of each guard must be graduates from the North and South Lecture Halls. They will lead the banner army for two terms. After four or six years, they will directly serve as a thousand households and command Tongzhiyi. First of all, the troops stationed here must be comfortable. The Nanyang Army's rations and armaments are much better than those of the national guards. What's more, an army of [-] acres of military land has been set aside here, and the output is also higher than that of the national guards. Juntian is high; don’t want them to cultivate it, how to cultivate it will be discussed later.”

"Firstly, to frighten the region, and secondly, let them train their troops. When they go back in two or three years, their combat power will be doubled. When the country encounters a war, they will not be afraid of others; thirdly, the rotation of troops can also reduce some officials in the country. Let’s get rid of our suspicions and do things better.”

"Now there are only these two places, and two elite soldiers can be trained in two years; but now the Nanyang military government has just begun to go to sea. We are just following the old path of our predecessors, and have not blazed our own new path. There will be more in the future. If there are seventeen or eight places in the land, it will be possible to command and envoy all the guards in a province to practice in rotation in two years. This is the follow-up to the reform of the guards in my mind."

"The banner troops they send must be full, otherwise the commanders and colleagues will be guilty. Anyway, each guard in our Ming Dynasty has three or four commanders. For example, this year we will deploy the Wanquandu Division and the Jizhen Banner Army, and each guard will draw a thousand households. , When they go back, the combat power of the entire capital will be different from the past, and the Nanyang Army will encounter more powerful enemies in the future, and more soldiers who are accustomed to fighting will be needed."

"Look at the small country of Portugal, far away from the country, but able to overwhelm other countries... This is a good time. As long as you seize the opportunity and don't let go, the small country will be strong; if you don't seize the opportunity, the big country will also be weak; everyone on the sea, It is our peers who strengthen themselves and break others."

"Duke Zhuang's 11th year, his prosperity was booming, and his death was sudden. That's what he said!"

(End of this chapter)