Chapter 830 Dongzhao Military Information, the troops are divided into two groups

Author: Linglinghou

Chapter 830 Dongzhao Military Information, the troops are divided into two groups

"At present, King Dongxu is named Mangda, also known as Pingdali, who succeeded to the throne in the fourth year of Zhaowu and has been in power for five years.

Although Mangda had mediocre ability and prefer extravagance, his reign for several years made the country weaken.

But after all, after two or three generations of wise kings, Dongshuo is still quite powerful now.

According to the situation investigated by the Beizhenfu Department of Jinyiwei, there were about 200,000 troops in Dongyu. Of course, if the private soldiers of feudal lords in various places were included, there would be as much as 500,000.

In addition, Dongyu would also recruit people of all ethnic groups to serve as soldiers during the war. According to the estimated 500,000 to 800,000 militias, according to the General Staff Department of the Military Affairs Council, Dongyu could recruit 500,000 to 800,000 militias."

At this time, Dong Zhining, the staff officer of the 19th Town, said: "That is, Dongxu may launch an army of up to 1.3 million?"

"No," Zhang Huangyan nodded, and then said: "This is just the estimate of the General Staff Department, but in fact, due to various restrictions, it would be good if Dongxu could mobilize 800,000 troops to fight."

Yang Guodong spoke out: "It's always right to think that the enemy will be lenient."

Zhang Huangyan nodded and said, "The equipment of the Dongyu army is not bad--the King of Dongyu hired Portuguese soldiers to fight more than a hundred years ago.

Since then, the Dongyu army has begun to equip Western firearms such as coerks and francs.

According to the information from the Jinyiwei Beizhenfu Department, the 50,000 elite troops directly belong to the Dongyu Royal Court, the equipment rate of the mezzanine is as high as 50%. There are also many large and small Fran machine cannons in the army. Some important cities have also installed red cannons.

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However, the other 150,000 troops directly belonged to the Dongyu Royal Court, had a roughly 30% of the equipment rate of the medley guns, and there were fewer artillery in the army.

But it is worth mentioning that there are 10,000 elite elephant soldiers in this part of the army, with one hundred trained war elephants!

There were also many feudal lords in Dongxu who raised elephant soldiers, and there were about 200 more than 200 people in total!”

Hearing this, several of the town staff members were frowning. Because their target soldiers were only known, they had never been in contact with them in battle, lacked experience, and it was difficult to judge the strength of the enemy and us for a while.

At this time, Dong Zhining said: "The war elephants are sensitive and afraid of fire, let alone firearms. Therefore, the war elephants of the Dongyu army can only be used as surprises, and it is impossible to take them to the front battlefield to fight our army.

If they were so stupid that they did this, our army would only need one round of artillery to collapse its elephant soldiers and rebel against its military formation."

Yang Zhan smiled and said, "In the past, General Deng Zilong used paper-paste monsters to burn fire and scare the Dongyu Elephant Soldiers. Today we have so many artillery, how can we be afraid of the Dongyu Elephant Soldiers? Just beware of their surprise attacks as surprise soldiers.

Enough.”

Although there was no elephant soldier organization in the new Ming army, some of the chieftains in the southwest had raised war elephants, ranging from a few to a dozen, and they could not afford to raise them any more.

Because war elephants are much harder to serve than war horses, a war elephant must be equipped with at least one hundred soldiers, which is extremely expensive.

Dongyu is now rich, so he can keep hundreds of war elephants. If the country is poor and weak, it would be good to be able to raise dozens of them.

Yang Zhan once saw the war elephant of Yunnan chieftains.

In cold weapons combat, the war elephant is indeed terrifying. Because it is not afraid of bows and arrows. If it is slightly worn, it is not even afraid of swords and guns. The only weakness is the elephant trunk and eyes. However, in battle, the warrior who can risk harming the nose and eyes of the war elephant

How many can it be?

Therefore, elephant soldiers are very powerful in cold weapon battles.

Unfortunately, times have changed. Nowadays, most of the world's powerful countries have entered the era of hot weapons, and elephant soldiers have slowly withdrawn from the stage of war.

After talking about the Elephant Soldiers, Zhang Huangyan said again: "As for the militia temporarily recruited by Dongxu, the equipment rate of firearms may be zero. Because Dongxu's own firearm production capacity is very low and most of them rely on imports.

During the war, our Ming Dynasty's Atlantic Navy would block the coast of Dongyu, making it impossible for it to obtain firearms from the Western countries.

Therefore, even if Dongxu can recruit 800,000 militias, most of them are holding cold weapons and storms without military training, which is not worth worrying about."

When Zhang Huangyan said this, all the generals nodded slightly and their mood became relaxed.

Then, Zhang Huangyan began to explain the situation in various regions and cities in Dongxu...

The ninth year of Zhaowu, on the second day of the October 20th.

Yang Zhan, General An Ningbo, the Southern Expedition of the Ming Empire (who was granted the title after pacifying the Shadingzhou Rebellion), commanded a 140,000 army. He set out from Mengmao, Longchuan Prefecture, and divided his troops into two groups.

The left line army was led by him personally. In addition to the 13th town of the Border Defense Army, there were two towns of Yunnan garrison and two towns of Sichuan garrison. They left Tianma Pass and directly seized Mengmi.

The right-road army was led by Yang Guodong, and under the jurisdiction of the 19th Border Defense Army, the two garrisons in Guangxi, and the two garrisons in Yunnan, leaving Hanlong Pass and directly taking Mubang.

As for the other town of Guizhou garrison, it is responsible for escorting grain and protecting grain channels.

The team of civilians who actually transported food and grass was composed of local people hired by the Yunnan Governor's Office.

Mubang was originally the Mubang Xuanwei Department of the Ming Dynasty, and was first established in the 11th year of Yongle.

Since the Jiajing period, Mubang has lost and gained again for various reasons, and gained again and lost again.

During the Jiajing period, the Ming Dynasty was politically corrupt and dark. The chieftain Han, who ruled Mubang, was unable to obtain the position of Xuanweisi through the local government of the Ming Dynasty (it is said to be an attempted extortion by local officials). It coincided with the rise of Dongyu, so he rebelled against the Ming Dynasty and surrendered to Dongyu.

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Later in the tenth year of Wanli, the Dongyu army failed to invade Yunnan. During the Ming army counterattacked, Mubang was recovered and Mubang Xuanwei Office was rebuilt.

However, by the 34th year of Wanli, the Ming Dynasty's officialdom became even darker than during the Jiajing period.

At that time, Anabilon, the country of Toho, was reigning, unified northern Myanmar, and attacked Mubang with 300,000 Toho troops.

The Ming Dynasty did not rescue the troops, and Mubang fell again.

Now, this place has been under the rule of the Kingdom of Dongyu for nearly half a century. Most of the local people have forgotten that this place was originally owned by the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, only King Dongyu and the feudal lord of Mubang, which was conferred by King Dongyu.

Mubang has an important geographical location, so Dongyu Kingdom guards this place with the royal branches as the feudal lord.

At this time, the city lord of Mubang was named Gudali. If he followed the Ming Dynasty's method of changing names to the Burmese people in the past, he would have become Mangoli.

Manguli was originally very ambitious. During the rebellion of Shadingzhou, he secretly supported Shadingzhou and was ready to take advantage of the situation and invade the Ming Dynasty.

Because ten years ago, even he, the Burmese man, knew that the Great Ming Dynasty was going to be destroyed and the country was about to be destroyed.

Who would have thought that in a blink of an eye, the Ming Dynasty not only quelled the internal strife and the outer ring, but also sent troops to quell the rebellion in Shadingzhou.

After hearing the news of that battle, Mangguli lost his covetousness for Yunnan. Instead, he was worried about whether he would take Mubang after the Ming Dynasty became stronger again.

He reported the changes of the Ming Kingdom and the military strength he showed in the quelling of Shadingzhou Rebellion to the Wang Ting.

Unfortunately, the new Wang Mangda, who succeeded to the throne, did not think that the Ming Congress planned to take Dongshu, was addicted to wine and sex all day long, and did not care about the dangers on the border.

Amid this worry, Mangguli breathed a sigh of relief when he learned that the Ming army was attacking in large numbers.

He felt that as long as he guarded Mubang for a period of time, Mangda should be able to pay attention to the safety of the northern Myanmar border.

Thinking of this in his heart, he asked the scout who found the Ming army's traces, "How many people have come to the Ming army?"

"About sixty thousand people."

Sixty thousand?

After hearing this, Mangguli was also shocked.

When they saw the generals below, the officials were all panicked, so he pretended to be calm and said, "I thought the Ming army would come by more than 100,000, but I didn't expect it to be only 60,000."

There are many dangerous passes, military camps, and cities around Mubang. There are four red barbarian cannons, twenty Fran machine cannons, and more than 10,000 defenders.

In the past, when I went to Dongshuo to capture Mubang, I attacked with more than 100,000 troops. At that time, there were only 8,000 chieftains in Mubang in Ming Dynasty, and they also held on for more than three months.

Now, it is definitely okay for us to guard for a month. Within a month, the reinforcements of the royal court will arrive!"

After being poured with chicken soup by Mangguli, the Mu Gang defenders finally raised their minds and actively prepared to resist the Ming army.

Second update.

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