open sea

Chapter 809 Yuan Army
Hei Yunlong returned by boat with his horse team, full of dust.

Now that the war is temporarily suspended, it can be regarded as normal times. Except for the short holidays of the Dongyang Army Mansion, the infantry still has to conduct regular training, and the cavalry does not have such treatment.

There are maps and documents obtained from Spain in the central part of the New World, but many places north of Jie County have not been visited by the Spaniards. Fortunately, many tribal chiefs have been invited, and the rest is to bring their Draw a real map of the territory.

After all, no one knows where the Ming army will fight which enemy on this land in the future.

Without knowing the terrain, the army is blind.

Hei Yunlong stared at Zhuzhu with big eyes and whispered to Chen Mu in a strange tone as if telling some secret: "Marshal, there are remnants of Beiyuan on the northern island!"

The remnants of the Northern Yuan Dynasty?

This word is so strange!
Chen Mu picked his chin and said, "Don't you have Mongolian athletes in your cavalry team? Why is it so ugly?"

"It's not Mongolia, it's the remnants of the Northern Yuan Dynasty!" Hei Yunlong's expression was extremely serious, and he stretched out his hand and said, "Jincheng is three thousand miles north, and two hundred miles overseas is a group of big islands with thousands of people. The people in Asia are no different, most of them have iron blades and bows, men farm and women weave, I can't understand the language, but I say that their ancestors came from the western sea, and they are named Dayuan Navy."

What the hell?
Chen Mu blinked, isn't this a little fantasy?

But this also made him interested, so he changed his sitting position and asked, "What's going on, please tell me in detail."

"I don't know where their ancestors came from, and I don't know that the emperor Taizu went north to chase the Yuan bandits. The only thing is that the ancestors were ordered by the emperor to go on an expedition to a foreign country. There was a typhoon at sea, and a partial division drifted here."

"All expeditions were made by men, and the natives who landed on the islands were invincible, so they intermarried with women, and they lived here. These things have been passed down from generation to generation, and now they are no different from the natives."

Chen Mu's expression was very sluggish, which was even more surprising than the first time he heard that Ma Gui really led people across the sea to stand on American soil.

Out of nowhere, he asked an irrelevant question: "Do you know how difficult it is for Ma Shuai to come?"

After more than a year of preparations on Kuwu Island, a supply outpost of hundreds of households was set up almost a hundred miles east, mobilizing various ethnic groups in the northeast of the empire, and almost every tribe had someone as an interpreter, spreading it all the way to Wangxia Prefecture.

It's just that Second Master Ma went the wrong way, and he lost his life if he was not careful in the ice and snow.

Now you tell me that they went to sea to fight a war, and they didn’t win the battle, so they floated to America without doing anything?

"To be honest, even if you tell me that they are descendants of the Song Army, I will believe it, but the Yuan Army?"

Chen Mu rubbed his face: "Let's just treat them as descendants of the Yuan army."

The navigation in the Song Dynasty was extremely developed, and there were routes to Egypt and Africa. According to the skills of the Song people, even if they encountered a shipwreck, they could at least distinguish the east, west, north, and south at sea. If they came to the Americas, Chen Mu would only consider them to be home from all over the world. .

But the Yuan Dynasty?
It's not that Chen Mu doesn't believe it. His job is to go to sea to fight, and he is very clear about the history of overseas expeditions. In all dynasties, only the Yuan Dynasty had more overseas expeditions. He knows these well.

It’s not that he studied hard, but the results are so easy to remember. The Mongolian army galloped half the world, but the results of the naval battles were very different—they didn’t win.

In the conquest of Annan, the Yuan army was overwhelmed by guerrilla disturbances, not to mention the relentless heat and rain and the rampant plague. They retreated due to the heat just like they fought in Burma;

In the expedition to Burma, Zong Wang Kuo Kuo supervised the army, led by Pingzhang Xuechaowuer and Manwu Dulu Lost in the Yunnan province. The weather there was hot and drought happened. Gao Qing, the governor of Yunnan Province, led the army to help the local people They rushed to repair the water conservancy and irrigation projects in the area of ​​Jiaokexi, and later the generals accepted bribes and retired, leaving Myanmar with a Dingdui Canal they dug, which is of excellent quality and can still be used after 700 years.

When conquering Java, the ruler of Java saw the reinforcements surrendering swiftly, and asked the reinforcements to help him attack Gelang, the neighboring country. After the Yuan army conquered Queen Gelang, Java raised troops to occupy the Yuan army.

Two expeditions to Japan, the first time encountered a hurricane, and the second time encountered a hurricane, I was drowned and hacked to death, and almost the entire army was wiped out. Before that, it was still a kingdom of heaven, and after that, the Ming Dynasty became Hu thief.

But to put it this way... Chen Mu raised his hand and tapped the back of his head: "Then they are probably descendants of the Yuan army who conquered Japan and encountered a hurricane."

Hei Yunlong is not a southern general who doesn't know those battle history, even if he knows, he doesn't care, anyway, what Chen Mu says is whatever, even if Chen Mu insists that this group of people is Tang Jun or Han Jun, then he will nod and say that he heard it wrong .

He raised his hand and squinted his eyes to make a fierce gesture, and said, "Kill everything?"

"Cut what, kill what?" Chen Mu waved his hand and said, "Isn't there a hundred households named Hulan under Ma Shuai's command who don't know what to reward for his meritorious service? He is also close to the archipelago you mentioned. Let him Go and recruit those descendants of the Yuan army, and train a team in Jincheng."

"How much he can recruit is his ability. As long as the people there have no intention of attacking us, they don't need to kill people. After crossing thousands of miles of oceans and over 300 years, Emperor Taizu expelled Tatars and Emperor Chengzu made five expeditions to Mobei. The old grievances have long been It's even, what enmity do we have with their ancestors?"

The war between the Ming Dynasty and the north of the Great Wall is still going on, but this new enmity will not be repaid by the descendants of the Yuan army who floated here 300 years later.

Chen Mu seemed to have made an insignificant decision, looked at Hei Yunlong again and said, "If you can, let them live—your people have explored a lot of land in the north and east, and you won't come back just for this, right? ?”

"The commander-in-chief has already said, let them live. Later, we will find someone to send an order to Hulan, a hundred households in Jincheng, to go and recruit people."

Hei Yunlong was a bachelor, and responded to the order very simply. Then he changed the subject and said: "Where can I come back because of this matter. This place is too big, and I often walk forty or fifty miles without seeing anyone. It's just not enough."

"Sometimes the cavalry ran far away, and the houses built by the local tribe looked like gun towers from a distance, and they dared not go forward alone. The progress of the drawing was really slow, so I wanted to ask the commander to send some more cavalry."

"There is also a yellow dog. Every family in the tribe here has a dog. It is big and stupid. It is delicious when it goes to the pot...that handsome." Hei Yunlong stopped talking, and smiled embarrassedly: " Call another [-] riders, and while it’s freezing in the north, I’ll explore more places, and when spring comes, I’ll also explore the dozens of tribes in the north.”

"Six hundred riders."

Chen Mu shook his head thoughtfully, and said, "I can only give you another five hundred, which is all the cavalry in your headquarters. My servants cannot go north."

As he spoke, he raised his finger to the east and said, "I sent them in the direction of Mexico City. Chang Sheng has no cavalry anymore."

Chen Mu had nothing to do about it. He looked through the window of the port office and looked at the sea in the distance. It was in the direction of Daming. There was no news of Beiyang Phase II, which was supposed to arrive in Hong Kong at this time, which made him feel uneasy. .

　Note: The source of the Yuan army in the Queen Charlotte Islands is "British Columbia Stories" written by McKeewe, the president of the Victorian Historical Society, but I haven't read the original text, so I don't know whether it is true or not.

　　The fact that the Yuan army built canals in Myanmar comes from the Burmese history book "History of Liuli Palace". Although this book is not rigorous, it can be written seriously like the Yuan Dynasty sent 600 million troops to attack Burma-but the matter of building canals should be true. .

　　
　
(End of this chapter)