Chapter 059 Peerless Twins (Part 2) [Added chapter 1 for the alliance leader riding alone Zhao Bixin]
Gao Pragmatic's words are half true and half false, because "pushing all the way" does not mean that there is no need to use your brain. It can even be said that in ancient wars, the technical content of "pushing all the way" was actually not low.
The Qin army during the Battle of Julu is said to have the strength to "push all the way". The former Qin army during the Battle of Feishui is also said to have the strength to "push all the way". The Yuan army during the Battle of Guandu is still said to be
Those who have the strength to “push all the way”, but what is the result?
They all lost.
It is true that these three famous battles of defeating more with less have one thing in common, that is, the two armies faced each other across the river before the war. From the tactical terrain point of view, it is easier for "planned battles" to occur, but don't forget where Phnom Penh is located.
place?
In the "Four Arms Bay" - formed by the confluence of the Mekong River, Tonle Sap River and Pasha River, it can be said that the water network is densely covered, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.
If Liu Xin just pushes forward all the way, it is possible that she will make the same mistake as Wang Li, Fu Jian, and Yuan Shao.
And there is a more important thing, that is, as long as you have enough troops to make you feel that you can "push all the way," in fact, the logistical pressure you face now will far exceed that of your opponents.
Past war cases also show that whenever you are preparing to "push all the way", you must first stockpile a large amount of supplies.
When the 400,000 Qin troops were north of Julu, why did Xiang Yu resort to desperate measures? Because as long as he couldn't win it in one battle, he might never be able to win it. The Qin army was not only huge in force, but also rich in supplies.
The key to Yuan Shao's failure in the Battle of Guandu is why it is considered the "lost Wuchao". It is precisely because Wuchao is the granary of Yuan's army. Wuchao was burned, food and fodder were in short supply, and the morale of one hundred thousand Yuan's army was in turmoil. How could there be any reason to be invincible?
Not to mention there are other factors at play.
Therefore, Gao pragmatically always attaches great importance to logistics when fighting wars. So far, except for the Tumut cavalry under his unified command in the Battle of Monan, Gao pragmatically has only two main tasks in any other war: strategy and logistics. Specifically
He basically didn't ask about the command of a certain battle. That was the job of the generals. He neither exceeded their abilities nor had the need to intervene, lest he become Chang Gong Kaishen.
However, Liu Xin does not have the favorable conditions that Gao Pragmatic did before, because Jinghua is very busy now and does not have much spare time to provide her with the huge amount of supplies needed to "push all the way".
Jinghua's expansion in southern Xinjiang was too fast. Originally, before the War of Yunnan and Burma, Jinghua only controlled Annan. If we look at the divisions of later generations, it actually only controlled the northern and central areas of Vietnam.
However, after the Battle of Yunnan and Burma, Jinghua almost completed the feat of a snake swallowing an elephant: it captured almost the entire Indochina Peninsula except northern Myanmar and Cambodia (geographically speaking, the Malay Peninsula is generally not counted as the Indochina Peninsula).
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How big is the Indochina Peninsula? 2.065 million square kilometers.
Excluding the current northern Myanmar and Cambodia, Jinghua's actual control area has exceeded at least 1.3 million square kilometers. However, before the Yunnan-Burma War, Jinghua's actual control of Annan was only more than 200,000 square kilometers.
The actual control area was expanded four to five times at once. It is easy to imagine how busy Jinghua was in southern Xinjiang. This was also the most critical factor why Huang Zhiting had to stay in Siam even though she was pregnant.
In addition to militarily purging the opposition and continuing to maintain stability in various places, Beijing also needs to establish its own set of administrative agencies in these places. The main thing is to transplant Annan's puppet government model to Siam, Nanjang, Bago, etc.
country, making it gradually become a territory firmly controlled by Beijing like Annan.
The Annan model has proven its feasibility in the past few years. There is no big problem in theory when it is transplanted to countries in southern Xinjiang with similar national conditions. However, in fact, the national conditions of each country are still different. In practice,
Targeted fine-tuning is definitely needed.
For example, in Siam, because a rebellion broke out before, Beijing immediately suppressed it with thunderous means. It did the best in suppressing the rebellion. In addition, the two armies of the Dingnan Guard Army and the Annan Assistance Defense Army were notorious, and Huang Zhiting
By personally taking charge, the transplantation of various policies will be implemented the fastest.
However, correspondingly, Siam has a very heavy construction task, especially the construction of Dingnan City, which is not only the largest construction project of Jinghua to date, but also the largest urban construction project in Siam's history. According to Jinghua's plan, Dingnan City
The construction of Nancheng is divided into at least three project phases, which take three years, three years, and four years respectively, accumulating as long as ten years.
The first phase of construction tasks is mainly to establish the core area while determining the overall scale of the city. The outer city wall will not be repaired for the time being, but twelve small bastions will be built around the city. The core area is the inner city, including the royal palace.
(Only one-fifth has been built for the time being, so that Tammarajaya can be placed under house arrest and occasionally allowed to appear to meet ministers), various government offices, the central business district and the inner city residential area, and the other is the temporary port.
The construction tasks in the second phase mainly include two points. First, the temporary port should be upgraded to a large-scale standard seaport, and the outer city wall should be built. If there is still excess construction capacity, some other facilities in the outer city can be built.
Needless to say, the third phase is to complete various construction projects in the outer city and truly complete the construction of Dingna City.
At the same time as the three stages of construction are being carried out, Jinghua must also go all out to replenish Dingnancheng with a migrant population - what is a city without a city?
But there is something special here: Jinghua will secretly and secretly control the population ratio of Dingnancheng. To put it simply, it secretly ensures that the Ming people in Dingnancheng must have an absolute advantage. Of course, taking into account the various difficulties in actual operation, this
"Absolute advantage" is temporarily determined at 70 percent.
As for the specific ethnicity of the "Ming people", Gao Pragmatic does not make any requirements. Whether you are a Han, a child, a Miao, a Yao or even a "naturalized Han" of Annan descent, in Dingna City
They are all collectively classified as "Mingren", and the only requirement is that you must speak Chinese at all times.
Gao Pragmatic insists on his consistent view: the Chinese nation has never been divided by blood, but by culture.
"When the barbarians enter China, they will be conquered by China; when the barbarians enter China, they will be conquered by the barbarians." On this point, Gao Pragmatic fully recognized Confucius's proposition.
Of course, he believed that this transformation would take a certain amount of time. Just like Annan's "naturalized Han Chinese", they could not be recognized as Han Chinese by Beijing just by shouting "I am Han Chinese".
The "naturalized household registration system" implemented in Annan has also been transplanted to Siam. Siamese people who are willing to "naturalize" only need to complete Chinese language study, and then complete various types of "naturalization" through methods such as joining the army and paying donations.
If you “contribute to society”, you can apply for inspection by Jinghua University. If you successfully pass the inspection, you can become a naturalized Han Chinese and enjoy all the same preferential treatment and social benefits as Han people.
The pragmatic Gao who dreamed of "everyone is equal" when he first time traveled has not only abandoned this unrealistic idea long ago, but has even gone so far as to create an increasingly complex division of people's levels.
As Annamites, Siamese and other aboriginal people, Gao Wuji is now strictly controlling while giving room for advancement to the outstanding talents among them, so that they change their life goals from "defeating Ming people" to "becoming Ming people"
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A stick in one hand and a carrot in the other, this trick is really tried and true - as long as you really have both a stick and a carrot.
Siam can perform the transplantation of Annam model very well, but Bago and Nanzhang are different.
As for Bago, Gao Pragmatic and Huang Zhiting need to consider the reaction of the Mon people, because His Majesty Alabang - oh, his name is Xia Muming now - although he was originally just the "King of Bago" introduced by Jinghua himself, but
After the victory in the Yunnan-Burma War, his status was confirmed by the Ming Emperor.
Zhu Yijun has officially canonized him as the "Xuanwei Envoy of the Dagu Laxuanwei Division" - according to general practice, these foreign vassal Xuanwei envoys canonized by the Ming Dynasty basically call themselves kings internally, and the Ming Dynasty will never pursue it seriously, but they
When paying tribute, the payment should be made to such and such a person as the consolation envoy.
Therefore, Xia Muming, as Jinghua's original "ally" and as an "obedient minister" of the Ming Dynasty, had a rather special status, and Jinghua could not completely ignore the interests of the Mon people represented by him.
In addition, after the war, although the Mon people disbanded a large number of "rebel troops" on the grounds of financial difficulties under Jinghua's "suggestion", they still retain 20,000 people as local troops. Although Gao Silian may not necessarily regard this as
The 20,000 militiamen with rubbish equipment were looked down upon, but some respect had to be given. After all, if the 20,000 strong men turned into corpses, it would be a big trouble.
Therefore, the advancement of the Annan model in the Kingdom of Bago is much slower than that in Siam, and even the "naturalized household registration system" has not been launched yet. As for immigration... Jinghua's current task is too heavy, just Taiwan, Annan and Siam
These three places are already too busy for Jinghua. How can they care about Myanmar for a while? It is estimated that at least until the construction of Dingnancheng is completed, Jinghua will have enough time to consider immigrating to Myanmar.
Finally, there is Nanzhang. Nanzhang... Alas, this place makes people sad and tears. It is really too poor, and from a geographical point of view, it is very difficult to develop.
In this era, it is impossible to build expressways or high-speed railways. After thinking about it pragmatically, Gao thought that he could only use waterways to drive the economic development of Nanzhang.
However, using waterways is not just a matter of words. Originally, Gao Pragmatic had already designated Dingnan City as the core city of Indochina in the future. In theory, Nanzhang's economy would be best able to interact with Siam.
However, this is actually difficult to do, because although Nanzhang is the birthplace of many river systems, most of them flow east to Annan, or first east and then south, to Cambodia. There are very few rivers that flow to Siam.
But because Nanzhang is upstream, the water is shallow and narrow, and it is not suitable for inland river ships for transportation. At most, some bamboo rafts can be used - so what's the use?
Jinghua's consistent method is military deterrence combined with interest bundling. Now for Nanzhang, military deterrence is definitely no problem, but the problem of interest bundling is very prominent.
Because Jinghua’s interests are tied up, the premise is to “make the cake bigger first”, and in the case of Nanzhang, Jinghua is also a skillful woman who has no idea how to make this cake, let alone “make it bigger”.
In this case, various reforms aimed at Nanzhang will be difficult to handle. Because without providing new profit growth points, no matter how the changes are made, they will touch the interests of some Nanzhang people. By then, it is likely that the reforms have not been implemented.
What achievements, on the contrary, exhausted the gratitude of the people of Nanzhang to Jinghua for liberating them from the Burmese. That is, stealing chickens will not make a loss, but will make a big loss.
Therefore, in Nanzhang, the transplantation work of Jinghua's "Annan Model" is progressing very poorly, even worse than in the Bago Kingdom. It can almost be said to have stagnated.
From the above, it can be seen that Jinghua itself is also facing huge pressure and challenges. Therefore, when it comes to sending troops to Cambodia, in addition to giving Liu Xin 20,000 gold and Hong Kong police troops, it is difficult for Jinghua to give her much support.
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The guarantee Liu Xin received from Huang Zhiting was to "ensure that firearms are not in short supply" - except for gunpowder and projectiles, you have to figure out the rest yourself.
Fortunately, we are fighting in the Indochina Peninsula, so there is no need to prepare winter clothing for the army. Moreover, considering that the target area is the Mekong Delta, as long as the time of launching the war is controlled well, there is still a good chance of "eating on the spot".
In other words, it means sending troops during the grain harvest period, and after arriving in Cambodia, they will directly harvest local grain to supply the army, or more straightforwardly, grab the Cambodian army's grain and grass to support the war.
Gao Pragmatic has never done this kind of thing before, so he might be worried about letting him command this kind of battle, but Liu Xin is not afraid of this.
Liu Xin herself has never done this kind of thing, but many of the Liu Jiajun generals she brought with her have rich experience in this matter.
After all, before Liu Xian fell into the arms of the high party, he was always suppressed by civilian officials and Nanjing nobles. As a result, Liu Jiajun's treatment was extremely poor, and military discipline naturally could not be improved. While resisting the Japanese, it also happened from time to time to hunt down rabbits. Some in the army
The generals have long developed a good skill in plundering land.
After Liu Wei became a highly pragmatic and optimistic general, Liu Jiajun's treatment was visibly improved. This kind of thing became less and less, but it was like a person who learned to swim and would never forget it for the rest of his life. Now let them go back to their old profession.
There was no difficulty. Even after Liu Xin told them, there were still many people who looked nostalgic...
People, it is really easy to learn bad things but hard to learn well.
On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month of the fifth year of Wanli in the Datong calendar of the Ming Dynasty, just after the Lantern Festival, the 20,000-strong Jingang garrison, led by Liu Xin, quietly dispatched troops and galloped toward the southwest.
Rice in the Mekong Delta is harvested three times a year, and the rice seedlings have just been planted before the Spring Festival. Counting the time spent traveling and fighting, it is now time to harvest the first wave of rice!
The entry point that Liu Xin prepared was the Champa City that Jinghua had just acquired.
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