Tong Chizhong had been promoted to the commanding officer in the Yingyang Army because he was often given the honor of accompanying him when he was in the Yingyang Army. Although he still has five levels to climb before he can reach the rank of Commander-in-Chief, he is already one of the few young generals in the Yingyang Army.
In the Yingyang Army, all the officers are the children of the upper Jurchens. The ministers' children start as generals. If they are the children of the chiefs of large tribes, there are also those who start as Qianzong. For example, Tong Chizhong starts as Qianzong. The lower-level soldiers are all the children of the minister's family.
or slaves, with a total of nearly nine thousand people.
The original intention of the imperial court to raise eagles and raise the army was not to develop an army capable of fighting and to dare to fight. Instead, it was to provide more training. Except for not disturbing the people, the rest of the military discipline training was basically ignored.
Therefore, in the one and a half years since the formation of the army, the officers of the Yingyang Army, from top to bottom, are just like their father, flying eagles and fighting dogs every day, sensual and lascivious, and have deteriorated very quickly, and their combat capabilities have plummeted.
Tong Chizhong won the favor of Zhu Yijun because his father and ancestor were the chiefs of Jianzhou and he was very famous in later generations. When Zhu Yijun practiced riding and archery, he often asked him to accompany him, and often offered him some rewards to win him over - which was a bad taste.
I have some appreciation for him.
After following the emperor for a long time, Tong Chizhong was as loyal to the emperor as his name suggests. He often talked to Zhu Yijun about the depravity of the Jurchen upper class, and was deeply worried about it.
What Tong Chizhong means is that the imperial court's nurturing of Jurchen tribe chiefs can indeed play a role in dismantling the Jurchen combat effectiveness - but it is easy to move from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to move from luxury to frugality. Is it possible that the imperial court is still raising these people for generations? It is better to
The Yingyang Army vigorously promoted Sinology within the army and gradually Sinicized it. After several generations, there would be no distinction between Jurchen and Han people. This also allowed the descendants of these people to be able to engage in production or dare to fight and perform meritorious service, so that they would not become a burden to the court in the future.
Zhu Yijun had this intention in his plan to govern the Northeast. He followed the trend and accepted his words. In the spring of the fourth year of Wanli, he sent sinology teachers to Yingyang Army to teach them Chinese. These teachers also traced the origins from a historical perspective and promoted the Jurchens.
The concept originating from China completely disintegrated its national consciousness.
Although the Jurchens originated from the Jin Dynasty, Professor Guozijian's understanding of the Huayi debate is still very good. In terms of ethnic classification, we Chinese people have yellow skin, black hair and black eyes. As long as they have these three characteristics,
They are all of the blood of Chinese ancestors.
So how to distinguish the Huayi? One word "ritual"! As long as they use Han customs, speak Chinese, wear right gussets, and practice Han etiquette, they belong to the same clan. Previously, the Jurchens had left gussets and shaved their heads, which was not the same clan. Today, they have changed to the right gusset.
Wearing trousers and growing hair is no problem, we are all Han Chinese - if we learn Chinese language and Han rituals, we will be able to live together even more.
At this time and space, the Chinese civilization was simply crushing the cultural assimilation of the surrendered Yi people. Therefore, to Zhu Yijun's expectation, by the fifth year of Wanli, the vast majority of the Jurchens had already joined the Han people
, it’s time to celebrate the Han Festival.
Let’s not talk about how many of them follow the trend and follow the political climate. Among them, the most successful sinicization is the low-end witchcraft theory of various shamans, which is completely replaced by the subtle principles of Han Buddhism. At this time, in the Northeast, except
Traders from various places came to collect grain and mountain goods, and the bald men wearing cassocks were among the largest floating population.
Because Zhu Yijun attached great importance to missionary work to the northern ethnic minorities, the Senglu Division in this time and space received a lot of policy favoritism from the imperial court. All monks sent to Mongolia, Tatar and the Northeast must at least have good medical skills both internally and externally.
After Zhu Yijun took power in the first year of Wanli, Seng Lusi began to organize scripture debate activities and translation competitions, and spent a lot of energy to train missionary monks.
Unified training, unified examination, unified dispatch, and standardized monk education have trained a large number of missionary masters proficient in medicine and Buddhism for the imperial court. These people walked among the grasslands, Gobi and deep mountains and forests, and gained great popularity from ethnic minorities everywhere.
respect.
The superficial surgical bone setting and witch doctor methods of shamans are not comparable to the regular army trained by the imperial court. Especially in surgery, because ethnic minority herdsmen and hunters are often injured, and infection and limb deformity after injury are their biggest pains.
After the monks took action, their healing rate was several times higher than that of the shaman, defeating the primitive religion.
With such a multi-pronged approach, Zhu Yijun judged that within three generations, the Chinese Jurchens would take full credit. And because of his contribution, Tong Chizhong was allowed to lead the Thousand Eagles Army to participate in the conquest of Burma - this is the Eagle Army
Generals were assigned military duties for the first time. Although the imperial court had recruited many soldiers from the Jurchens before, they were scattered and deployed in various places on the nine sides. The establishment was very small, and the officers were all Han Chinese.
Tong Chizhong is nineteen years old this year. At the end of the third year of Wanli, he married a Han woman, and his wife gave him a son with her first child. During this campaign for the country, he petitioned Zhu Yijun several times before he was allowed to fight, and he was determined to conquer Burma.
A man knows his own martial prowess.
However, the many days of boating were almost life-and-death for him. After a long journey, he was left with an indelible impression of the vast territory and vast waters of the Ming Dynasty. When he got off the boat, he followed the large army to transfer from Guizhou.
After entering Guangdong, he was stunned by the beautiful mountains, rivers, customs and culture along the way.
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In mid-May of the fifth year of Wanli, after a long journey involving horse, foot, and boat marches, Liu Xian led the new army to Zhaoqing and met with Ling Yunyi, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.
Lingyun Yi, named Rucheng, was a native of South Zhili. He was a Jinshi in the same department as Zhang Juzheng. Like Yin Zhengmao, he was a die-hard Zhang Dang. He was the governor of Jiangxi before becoming the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and he had a good understanding of the details of the ethnic minorities in the southwest region of the empire.
When Yin Zhengmao was in Beijing, he and Zhang Juzheng often studied the relationship between Guangdong, Guangxi and Yao. The two of them had been exchanging letters with Ling Yunyi, studying how to pacify Luo Panyao. Therefore, Ling Yunyi was angry and happy about Luo Panyao's capture of Gaoyao - he had been
Waiting for an opportunity, the imperial court can approve the iron wall siege military plan jointly made by him and Yin Zhengmao.
Therefore, from the bottom of Ling Yunyi's heart, he did not want Liu Xian to step in. He had already issued an order to Governor Jun, and troops from all over Guangdong and Guangxi were arriving at designated positions one after another to carry out an iron wall siege on Luopang Mountain in Longshui. Luo
There are nearly a thousand Yao villages in the nearby mountains. Ling Yunyi is preparing to set up a dragnet and advance step by step to capture or kill all the Yao people inside, thus solving the problem of rebellion among the Yao people in Guangdong and Guangxi at once.
And Liu Xian's intervention will take away at least one-third of this huge contribution. Moreover, Ling Yunyi believes that Liu Xian's military discipline and domineering character cannot be turned around in just two years in martial arts.
, Therefore, how to arrange Liu Xian will become a more difficult problem than attacking Luopanyao.
However, all these doubts disintegrated the moment they saw the New Army. The New Army set out from the capital at the end of February and arrived in Zhaoqing, Guangdong on May 16th. During this period, they had to take a long detour of more than a thousand miles. However,
, seeing the posture of this unit standing there after lining up, Ling Yunyi knew that using this unit would reduce the casualties of the soldiers of Guangdong and Guangxi by at least half.
Liu Xian also changed a lot. He no longer had the arrogance to lead the new army. When he met Ling Yunyi, he paid homage as a military attache under his command and called him "marshal". In fact, Ling Yunyi was only the admiral of the military affairs of Guangdong and Guangxi, not the military affairs of Guangdong and Guangxi. Liu Xian is the coach of the expedition to Burma, and he also has the royal flag. They are half a pound to eight liang. The reason why Liu Xian is so humble is of course because of Zhu Yijun's secret instructions.
When Ling Yunyi saw that Liu Xian was on the road, he didn't care about himself. The two of them entered the Governor's Mansion hand in hand. After eating and drinking, Ling Yunyi asked Liu Xian if he had any requirements for the combat methods and combat tasks in this battle.
Liu Xian shook his head and said: "My subordinates have seen battles with Guangdong Yao Village in the 40th year of Jiajing. There are no requirements this time. The emperor asked us to let the new army and the soldiers learn the skills of mountain warfare. It is best to cooperate with them." Soldiers fight."
When Ling Yunyi heard about it, he thought for a while and took Liu Xian to the sand table and said: "Liu Shuai, please take a look. The land beside Luo is divided into three parts, namely Dongshan, Xishan, and Longshui back mountain, which stretches for seven hundred miles. It borders Xinxing in the east, Yangchun in the south, Yulin and Cenxi in the west, and ends with the Yangtze River in the north. It is connected by Wanshan. There are about 200,000 to 400,000 Yao, including children."
"In the past hundred years, although they have been suppressed many times and then attacked immediately, they are as rampant as before. They have gathered people from all over the world to help them wreak havoc. They are called rogues and bandits come out from all directions to plunder. There is a Yao proverb: 'The official has ten thousand soldiers, and I There are thousands of mountains, and if soldiers come and go, I will go, and if soldiers go, I will come.' To be honest, it is really difficult to pacify."
"In order to reap the rewards of one battle and return them to their homeland, we must kill them this time. Therefore, I have requisitioned 150,000 troops from Guangdong and Guangxi, with the main force of martyrs, and divided them into ten sentries to carry out an iron wall encirclement. Waiting for Choke all the intersections, then send a line of elite soldiers to attack from the outside in, and then attack with ten sentinels in the center, strangle each village, and sweep the holes with thunder."
When Liu Xian saw the flags on the sand table and that all the armies were basically deployed, he secretly admired Ling Yunyi and said with a smile: "Zhang Yuanxi and Li Xi, one is the general soldier of Guangdong and the other is the general soldier of Guangxi. Who is in charge?"
Ling Yunyi said: "After the battle begins, the two of them will each be in charge of five sentries and strangle them from the outside to the inside. They will join forces regardless of where they meet. After joining forces, they will be under Li Xi's control."
After Liu Xian heard this, he said with a hesitant look on his face: "It's okay to ask my subordinates to listen to the commander-in-chief. But after we get in, they ask me to listen to Li Xi. This..."
After hearing this, Ling Yunyi laughed and said: "I am in Zhaoqing just to wait for you. Now that you have arrived, we two brothers will act together. General Chen Zan will lead all the soldiers and ask them to follow the new army. Let's Dial in from Xinyi!"