The Goryeo Metropolitan Protectorate implements the Metropolitan Protectorate system, and commanders and the like are basically idle.
Li Siqi also knew that as a surrendered general, he could no longer lead troops.
So he became a wealthy man peacefully.
Li Siqi completely gave up his military power and became a wealthy man. The more than 30,000 soldiers under him were leaderless, and naturally there was no possibility of causing trouble.
Zhu Han immediately sent people to disperse and relocate all these soldiers, allocate land and houses, and transform them from soldiers back into ordinary farmers.
In order to appease these surrendered soldiers and generals, some preferential treatment was given to them. Everyone was exempted from taxes for five to ten years. In addition, they were also rewarded with a lot of food, money, cloth and other necessities.
Zhu Han's sugar-coated cannonball move was very effective. Not only did he capture Yingchang and the surrounding large grasslands in a short period of time, he also defeated the remnants of the Yuan army everywhere and shattered their final fighting spirit.
In just one month, more than 100,000 defeated Yuan army remnants came out of the mountains and forests where they were hiding and surrendered to the Ming army.
The news that Li Siqi led his men to surrender to the Ming army in Yingchang soon spread to the Mobei grassland.
"Trash! They are all a bunch of trash, and Li Siqi just let him run away!" Prince Wang Baobao of the Yuan Dynasty was furious.
The people he was scolding were naturally the officials from the Meng Yuan Dynasty who were sent to monitor Li Siqi in Yingchang.
However, these Mongolian officials could no longer bear his anger, and their heads chopped off by Li Siqi had already been dedicated to the Ming army.
"Now that Yingchang has been lost, the various tribes in the Monan Grassland are also in panic. What should we do?" Empress Dowager Qi asked worriedly.
Since Li Siqi surrendered to the Ming army in Yingchang, various tribes in the Monan grassland have been sending in distress messages, but the Mobei court has no way to send reinforcements no matter how worried it is.
Now it is November, the coldest month in winter. The grasslands are basically covered with heavy snow and the roads are impassable. Even if the Ming army stepped on the heavy snow and wantonly annexed territory on the Monan grasslands, the army from Mobei would not be able to support them.
"Don't worry, Queen Mother. It's freezing cold now. Although it's difficult for our army to march in Mobei, the Ming army is definitely not adapted to the climate on the grassland. Even if they have any rash intentions, they will definitely not take action until the spring of next year."
." Wang Baobao calmed down and persuaded Empress Dowager Qi.
In fact, what Wang Baobao was really angry about was the rebellion of his comrade Li Siqi. He was an old man who had fought with his uncle Chahan for many years. Now that he saw the critical situation, he surrendered to the Ming army without hesitation, which made Wang Baobao really sad.
cold.
Currently, more than half of Wang Baobao's army in Mobei are Han refugees recruited from Henan and Shanxi areas. Their nature is exactly the same as that of Li Siqi's generals.
Who knows if the situation is critical in the future, whether these generals under his command will surrender to the Ming army like Li Siqi?
This is what Wang Baobao is most worried about.
You must know that after the Yuan Dynasty came to Mobei, the main force that really supported the court was actually the regiments training troops under Wang Baobao, and the main force training troops in these regiments were all Han people. Once these Han subordinates all followed Li Siqi's example and surrendered
The Ming army and the Yuan Dynasty would not be able to sustain themselves.
No matter how panicked Wang Baobao is now, he must maintain his apparent calm to prevent his military morale from being shaken.
"We will use this period of time to convene the leaders of various ministries to discuss the actions after next spring. By gathering the strength of each ministry, we can gather at least 100,000 cavalry. At that time, we will attack Yingchang first, and then seize Liaodong. With Liaodong and Yingchang,
Then we can enter the Central Plains along the Great Wall and plunder all the people in Hebei and Shanxi, so that the Ming army can no longer pose a threat to the grassland." Wang Baobao said to Empress Dowager Qi.
At this time, Wang Baobao had completely transformed his identity from a Yuan general to a traditional nomadic commander.
When he was a general in the Yuan Dynasty, Wang Baobao wanted to defeat the Red Scarf Army and regain the lost territory. But now as a nomadic commander on the grassland, all Wang Baobao thinks about is how to plunder more people for food and grass.
"Yingchang is the core area of the Monan Grassland. If the Ming army takes control of Yingchang, the Monan grassland will gradually be captured by the Ming army, so there must be a big war in Yingchang."
Wang Baobao had already made a plan to lead the Mongolian army on the grassland with Yingchang as the center to consume the Ming army's strength.
The Ming army now occupies Yingchang and will definitely not give up this important strategic location easily. Wang Baobao will use the attack on Yingchang as an opportunity to lure the Ming army's reinforcements to come to the rescue. At that time, he can encircle the point and mobilize reinforcements.
After discussing this strategy, Wang Baobao immediately issued an order in the name of the Yuan Dynasty court and sent it to the host kings in the grassland, as well as the desert Mongolian and other tribes, asking their leaders to come to the court station on the Onan River as soon as possible for discussions.
military operations.
After receiving Wang Baobao's order, the responses of various Mongolian ministries were different, and they did not respond as Wang Baobao expected.
Especially the Mongolian tribes in the Desert.
After learning that Li Siqi of Yingchang led the army to surrender to the Ming army, everyone looked down upon the Yuan court in Mobei.
There are even many tribal leaders who hope that the Yuan Dynasty army will suffer a greater failure when attacking Yingchang. In this way, the Desert Mongolia can overwhelm the Eastern Mongolia led by the Yuan Dynasty and control the power of the entire grassland.
Therefore, in this case, the various tribes in Mongolia in the desert completely ignored Wang Baobao's request to send troops.
The capital of the Ming Dynasty was Yingtian Mansion.
On an empty flat land at the foot of Nanshan Mountain, a strange-looking fortress stands on the ground.
The height of this fortress is not high, only about one foot, but its appearance is very strange, like a hedgehog covered with sharp horns.
Sharp edges protrude from the city wall, and there is a circular fort on the top of the edge. There are many gun ports on the fort. Many soldiers stand on top of the fort with muskets. From the city wall, you can look down.
Shoot from all angles.
"His Royal Highness, the drill is ready." An officer came to Zhu Han holding a command arrow and presented the command arrow with both hands.
Zhu Han reached out to take the command arrow, then waved his hand and said loudly: "Start attacking the city."
Following the order, thousands of Ming troops armed with swords, guns, shields, muskets and other weapons began to attack the fortress in front.
As the garrison commander on the fortress, Luo Guanzhong saw the dark enemy outside the city, but he did not panic at all.
Although there were only less than a thousand defenders on the fortress, and the siege army outside the city numbered more than 4,000, which was four times as many as themselves, when the attacking enemies approached the fortress, the artillery on the city head
Suddenly there was a roar.
With the sound of a cannon, Zhu Han, who was acting as a military exercise referee nearby, immediately waved his hand and made a gesture.
This action indicates that a group of attacking soldiers in front have been counted dead during the exercise.
After all, the artillery on the fortress fires powerful shotguns.
Under the bullets, no matter whether you are a heavily armored warrior or a bronze-headed and iron-armed god, your life will not be saved.
The soldiers of the Ming army who were responsible for the attack were also students of the Ming Royal Military Academy. Their combat literacy far exceeded that of ordinary soldiers. However, when faced with the defense of the fortress with guns and artillery, no matter how hard they tried, they were unable to do anything.
Conquer the fortress in front of you.
After this round of artillery fire, most of the attacking soldiers were judged dead by Zhu Han.
Following the order, all the attacking soldiers immediately retreated. After some inventory, under the defense of the defenders, the attackers paid a heavy price and could only approach the fortress.
This attack could be described as a complete failure.
"Okay! Very good. The power of this bastion is indeed well-deserved!"
Zhu Han was very satisfied with the result.
This strange-looking fortress is the new type of fortress recently invented by Zhu Han.
This is the most powerful defense system in the age of muskets. Using the muskets and artillery on the bastion, as well as the triangular independent forts outside the fortress, it can form a three-dimensional defense, making all enemies who dare to approach pay a heavy price, and this kind of
The fortress is not as tall as the original city wall and is extremely simple to build.
Using this kind of fortress on the grassland is simply the most suitable tactic for restraining nomads.
"Your Highness, after an inventory of the general's garrison, thirty people were lost, all of whom were slightly injured."
As the garrison commander of this exercise, Luo Guanzhong came to Zhu Han and said respectfully.
With an absolutely inferior force, the attackers were killed almost several times, but only thirty people were slightly injured. With such a high battle loss ratio, it can almost be said to be a complete victory.
Zhu Han smiled and said to Luo Guanzhong, "How about it? After this battle, does Luo Qianhu have enough confidence in this fortress?"
Luo Guanzhong had previously made great contributions in fighting the chieftains in Guizhou, so Zhu Han specially sent people to keep Luo Guanzhong in Yingtian Mansion, Nanjing, as the implementer of the new bastion tactic.
Now it seems that Luo Guanzhong's command is effective, coupled with the strong defense capabilities of the bastion itself, a new type of defense system has been mastered by the Ming army.
Luo Guanzhong was also very clear about this. After hearing Zhu Han's words, Luo Guanzhong immediately responded.
"I would like to report to Your Highness, the general feels that this fortress is invincible in the world, let alone the Mongolians, even if the Ming Dynasty's new army is so powerful, it is invincible. With this fortress, we can be invincible.
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"Haha, that's good. Since this king sends you to build a fortress in Yingchang and then control the surrounding nomadic tribes, are you confident in completing this task?" Zhu Han said to Luo Guanzhong.
The most useful place for bastion tactics is on the grassland.
Now that the Ming army has taken control of Yingchang, all the Mongolian tribes within a radius of hundreds of miles have surrendered to the military might of the Ming army.
However, further away in Yingchang City, those nomadic tribes were not so honest. They had all made up their minds, knowing that the Ming army relied on strong military strength and logistics to suppress them with force, but the Ming army
The army was far away from the city where supplies and equipment were stored, and there was definitely nothing they could do against the nomadic tribes. Therefore, these nomadic tribes ignored the Ming army at all, and they repeatedly tentatively approached the Ming army's logistics supply line in an attempt to rob.
Zhu Han has adopted a strategy of using fortress tactics to encroach on the living space of the grassland nomads.
"Don't worry, Your Highness, I will eventually have the confidence to teach those Mongols a lesson!" Luo Guanzhong agreed without hesitation.
"Very good, then I will teach you some key points of this bastion tactic. When you get to the grassland, you must set a precedent for the Ming Dynasty to successfully restrain the nomadic tribes." Zhu Han was full of confidence in Luo Guanzhong.
As a literary giant of the generation who could leave the Ming Dynasty in history, Luo Guanzhong was naturally very savvy in other aspects. In particular, he took the initiative to write and serve in the army. The ambition in this was unmatched by ordinary people.
Luo Guanzhong learned and mastered Professor Zhu Han's tactics very quickly. In less than three days, Luo Guanzhong completely mastered a set of fortress tactics to restrain the nomads.
In fact, the core content of Zhu Han's fortress tactics to restrain the nomads is to use absolute superiority in logistics and training to restrain the erratic guerrilla tactics of the nomads.
According to Zhu Han's plan, the Ming army would build a bastion every hundred miles or so on the Monan grassland.
The scale of this new type of bastion does not need to be very large. Each bastion only needs to accommodate 500 people.
Moreover, the outer walls of these cold forts are all made of rammed earth instead of expensive blue bricks. This also greatly reduces the cost and time of building forts on grasslands with poor materials.
This entire set of bastions was basically copied by Zhu Han based on mature bastions in modern Europe.
However, the core parts of the fortress were carefully adjusted by Zhu Han to adapt to the environment on the grassland.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! For example, in order to adapt to the harsh climate on the grassland, a very deep basement was specially built inside the bastion, using the constant temperature performance of the earth to ensure that the defenders can get enough warmth in the cold winter.
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Using this set of Ming Dynasty version energy protection, Zhu Han had sufficient confidence in restraining the nomadic tribes on the grassland.
Soon after, the Ming Dynasty appointed Luo Guanzhong as the governor of Yingchang Town, the northern parallel capital. Tong commanded 5,000 troops to build a fortress on the grasslands around Yingchang.
Yunnan, Puzhou.
Since Chen Youliang's Han army captured Dali City and Kunming City, forces from all over Yunnan have voluntarily surrendered. Only Puzhou still persists in resisting, because Dali's general manager Duan Qinggong led the remnants of his troops to flee to Puzhou.
"Chen Youliang, this thief, I heard that he has assembled an army of 50,000, and wants to attack Puzhou! General manager, what should we do?" A general asked Duan Gong, the general manager of Dali.
"When the soldiers come, we will cover up the water and the earth. We must not surrender!" Duan Gong said firmly.
"General manager, what should we do now?" Another minister continued to ask.
"Order all soldiers to be ready for battle and to fight against the bandits at any time." Duan Gong said.
"Yes, General Manager." The general agreed immediately.
Duan Gong didn't stay in Puzhou for a long time, just over half a year, but he had already established a good reputation and planned to restore the title of King of Dali with the support of everyone.
This is not because Duan Gong gained his prestige, but because he has the blood of Duan family in Dali, which makes the people of Puzhou very convinced.
In this way, the Dali army stood firm in Puzhou City, and Duan Gong personally patrolled the city for several days to prevent the enemy from sneak attacks.
Suddenly, there was a rapid sound of horse hoofbeats. Duan Gong looked up and saw smoke billowing in the distance, and a horse running towards him quickly.