News will naturally be reported back to the capital, day and night.
Yang Shen was worried: "Standing outside the Great Wall in the twelfth lunar month of winter is extremely dangerous and extremely wasteful! I am trying to catch him because he is worried that the Ming Dynasty's grain, grass and military supplies will not be transported out of the border wall!"
Zhu Houcong was happy: "Not a single shot was fired? So, I don't know how powerful the Ming Dynasty's new artillery is?"
In the shadow of the famous tree, Yu Dayou actually gave me a flag and two or three thousand soldiers to answer my questions, but he did not rush to attack.
Giving up Tucheng so easily was a big mistake. Probably he thought that Daming's appetite this time was not just Tucheng, but would attack further, and there would be a long grain road to grab more.
Something to make up for the losses he himself suffered when he went out with a large army.
However, Ming Dynasty did not intend to gain weight in one go. After so many cannons and blunderbuss arrived in Tucheng, Tucheng had already returned!
"I have already figured it out." Wang Shouren commented, "If we just force Ming Dynasty back within the border wall, even if he is captured, it will not be worth the loss. Even if his reputation is stronger, after the border town bans private markets, as long as he is not really able to unify
The right wing will become poorer as it crosses over. On the contrary, if the Ming Dynasty wants to defend the Tucheng, food, wages, and military supplies must be sent there non-stop. In another half a month, during the Chinese New Year, the border troops must also be rewarded with food and soil.
The city must be a piece of fat meat."
Xia Yan was determined: "As soon as the opportunity to fight is lost, I have lost this battle. This was a defeat for our king's army in the field, but now we are about to attack the city again. As long as the more than thirty miles of food roads are not lost, I have nothing to do!"
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"How can we keep the grain route intact?" Yang Shen, who has been transferred to the Ministry of Finance and Taxation, was upset. "We captured Tucheng, and the Beibei defenders did not lose a single soldier. Even though the horse-hanging platform was approaching at dawn and dusk,
They were captured by surprise, but there were nearly two thousand Tatars in the Maoerzhuang area. The Tucheng was still isolated. If we wanted to keep the grain road, from Pohu Fort in the west to Zhenqiang Fort in the east, we would have to face heavy snowfall.
We must move forward at least twenty miles to sweep away the remaining or hidden Tatars in the south of Tucheng! From now on, we must defend Tucheng and the horse-hanging platform. The new defense line is not more than two hundred miles? There is no border wall yet!"
This is the problem after the attack is over, the defense system will be rebuilt, and money and food will be poured out like water.
Xia Yan laughed: "How to protect the food supply, Yang Shangshu has already said it. Your Majesty, this was the arrangement before. General Guo was already in Qiang Fort. Since I don't attack, General Guo
The soldiers must have acted according to the plan."
Yang Shen couldn't help but open his mouth.
Just kill me!
Isn't it just Yu Dayou who stepped in as a side wall? That itself was probably only a matter of five or six thousand people. Now if we do it like this, the scale will exceed 10,000!
More than 10,000 troops were dispatched, but only to capture the small earth city and the horse-drying platform.
The housekeeper Han Yang Shen was caught up in calculating financial accounts.
In the north of Datong, after Tucheng was taken, the defenders from the hinterland came to change the defense. Pohu Fort immediately moved forward to the eastern section of the old border wall, while Yu Dayou moved to defend Tucheng.
A total of more than a thousand generals from Zhuma Fort and Jumen Fort came out of the border wall and combed the food supply road from Jumen Fort to Tucheng.
Although Guo Xun still did not go out, he resisted the wall fort and sent the defenders of Zhenqiang Fort twenty miles forward to prepare to set up a temporary camp on the west bank south of Yuhe River to guard against the western intrusion of the Maoerzhuang Tatars.
As for the horse-drying platform, it was only reinforced by Yanghewei.
I replied that it was only later that I received the news that the horse-drying platform had also been lost, and then I realized that the so-called movement at Shahukou was faked by flags.
The purpose of the Ming Dynasty was just to push the defense line to the north of Datong thirty to forty miles away. Needless to say, the next step was to go from Shahukou, through Tucheng, Maoerzhuang to Daqingshan and Yutailing.
Before the Jiajing period, the side of the border wall was not closed. These forts of Zhenqiang were the five outer forts that Zhang Wenjin, the former governor of Datong, requested to build. The so-called outer five forts were only south of the border wall, close to
Just a side wall.
Now, Ming Dynasty has set foot outside the Great Wall to the north of the border wall.
Based on my understanding of the strength of the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that in just one or two years, the fortresses outside the Great Wall will appear again. Although it is impossible to hastily build hundreds of miles of walls, the fortresses outside the Great Wall will also be a tough nail to crack.
More importantly, this is an attempt to encroach on the Tumut tribe from the east. If it is not eradicated, there will be sharper military fronts from the Ming Dynasty in the east that will be naturalized in the future.
"Manshou Turuo is back, ask him to immediately lead his troops to Mao'erzhuang and recapture the horse-drying platform!" Anda's face was as dark as water, "Bypass Xiashuihai and go to the north of Tucheng!"
Now that I have discovered that the Ming army has no intention of going further, I know that Liangcheng Wuyou, but I must not let the Ming Dynasty achieve its goal like this.
Now that Saibei has set out on an expedition, there will still be a tough battle.
The timing of this tough battle is just as Yu Dayou expected, I am planning to choose it during the Chinese New Year.
At that time, the generals and civilians of the Ming army must have been busy for more than half a month in the cold winter. Repairing the military stronghold in the ice and snow had limited effect, but they were exhausted.
Since the Ming army wanted to defend Tucheng, it must have enough food and military resources so that the generals would have confidence and not complain about suffering.
The Chinese New Year is the time when the mood of the Ming army is most likely to fluctuate: Why can others celebrate the New Year peacefully at home, but they have to fight to the death in Saibei?
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"The Zhengdan Festival is their most important festival. They will start preparations from the middle of the twelfth lunar month to recover a lot of money, buy a lot of supplies, and get the greatest enjoyment of the year!"
"In other words, now is the time to harvest!"
After hearing Alfonso's introduction, the mercenary coalition of Portuguese businessmen became even more excited.
"It can be said like this." Alfonso said, "I have seen the envoys and employment contracts from the old dynasty and the new king. In addition to the deposit of so much silver, and the tacit consent to plunder after conquering Thanh Hoa, all I have to do is wait for them.
Once the army enters Thanh Hoa, they can go all the way south and help them play a role in driving us away and gaining the love of their people."
"Dear Alfonso, from today on, you are my most trustworthy friend! So, should we take some silk and load it on the ship before setting off? It won't take up much space, and the silver on us is of no use."
"Of course, I will go find Mr. Wang Zhi right now. It is enough for us to leave one or two small boats. They can go back to Malacca directly."
The large-scale Portuguese caravan naturally attracted the attention of Cochin. Fortunately, they stopped briefly at Cat Ba Island to complete their "business" and then set off southward and disappeared into the ocean.
The news reached the royal palace in Thang Long City, and Mo Dengyong became increasingly anxious.
"Fourteen more days?"
"...No, if you include the time for your Majesty to rush to Cat Ba Island, there are still nine days." Ruan Wentai corrected him tremblingly, but this was also a reminder.
"It's too much to bully others! It's too much to bully others!"
The progress of the encirclement and suppression of Ruan Gan was not smooth. It was really difficult to find them in the Ailao Mountain and eliminate them as soon as possible.
They were hiding in Tibet, but Mo Dengyong needed the heads of Ruan Gan and the so-called descendants of the Li family!
To the north, the Ming Dynasty's Guangxi military officer, who had just defeated Meng Mi in outer Yunnan at the beginning of the year, Pingnan Bo Qu Zhinan and Chen Bing's border confirmed Yan Shifan's intimidation.
Ruan Wentai brought back the news that the Ming Dynasty's navy had already set off.
Mo Dengyong urgently needs to create a situation in which the overall situation in Cochin has been decided, at least so that Yan Shifan and Wang Xueyi's excuse of wanting to talk to King Li of Cochin cannot be found.
At least we should be able to deal with Ming's possible troop movements without any further trouble.
He did not know that war had started again in the northern border of the Ming Dynasty. It was impossible for the Ming Dynasty to send troops to Jiaozhi at this time.
But six days later, the news from Qinghua made his eyesight darken.
"What are you talking about? It's not a Ming warship? It's a Western barbarian?"
"It's absolutely true, they are all yellow-haired ghosts, red-haired ghosts, natives from Manglajia, and even black savages!" The one who escaped was the civil servant who governed Qinghua. He was in a state of disarray. "Qinghua has been lost.
Hua, I am guilty. It’s just that General Chen took most of the defenders away to Ailao to suppress the bandits. Their ships are strong and their guns are powerful..."
Mo Dengyong is like falling into an ice cave.
In the first two months, in order to deal with the threat of the Ming Dynasty, he mobilized troops to defend the north and suppress the west. The navy was deployed in Anxing to defend the Ming Dynasty, but he never expected to encounter a large-scale Western force that could attack the city.
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And they had gone to Cat Ba Island before.
It seems like they are just doing business, but with the current development of the situation, do you need to think carefully about it?
What made him feel like falling into an ice cave was not the destruction of Thanh Hoa, but the Ming Dynasty's determination to "use any means necessary".
However, the Ming Dynasty still did a clean job, but they did not recognize him as the "usurper" for the time being. They were still doing business in Jiaozhi. There were many wealthy families and even common people in Jiaozhi who thought the Ming Dynasty was good, and they made money from the Ming Dynasty.
As for Thanh Hoa...the people who took action were Western barbarians. What does it have to do with the Ming Dynasty?
Can Mo Dengyong spit on others? Is there any evidence?
Inside and outside Thanh Hoa City, it cannot be called a purgatory, but what bottom line can mercenaries have?
"Alfonso, it's time to contact them quickly. We don't want the indigenous leaders here to gather their troops again."
"Don't worry, no matter what, it will be difficult to mobilize soldiers to fight when they celebrate the Spring Festival. I will set off to Cat Ba Island right now. My servants are still here, and you can't swallow my share!"
"How could it be? We are still looking for one of the beauties here. Although they are short, they are still great, hahahaha!"
Alfonso participated in this battle and gained a higher degree of trust.
Now, he can run away.
In south-central Cochin, the mercenaries from the west started to do evil with their muskets as expected.
Mo Dengyong was in a dilemma and finally decided to agree to Yan Shifan's request.
As long as he has a legitimate canonization, Ruan Gan will no longer be a problem. But if he just sits back and watches the Western barbarians wreak havoc on Jiaozhi without caring, then he will really lose his heart.
As the Spring Festival approaches, the simple temporary diplomatic mission on Cat Ba Island unexpectedly welcomes three waves of people.
Yan Shifan smiled with one eye: "Brother Ruan, you are a little late. Let me introduce to you, this is the son-in-law of Duke Xingguo, who was granted the title of Lord Li, Lord Yijun Zhengjian. He just arrived yesterday and was honored by the Lord.
Li Weining wants to ask the Celestial Empire to help him defeat the traitors. My son and Wang Xuan have just sent a letter to the capital to ask Your Majesty to make the decision. This is my Commander-in-Chief of the Ming Dynasty Navy, Tan Yong, he just arrived today."
Zhao Jun's large army was behind. In order to communicate well with this side, the dispatched vanguard arrived here in advance with only a 500-material warship.
Ruan Wentai's hands were trembling, while Zheng Jian yelled: "The traitor and the minister!"
Zheng Jian, who has just turned 30, is full of energy.
The younger Yan Shifan waved his hand: "I don't care about your rights and wrongs. Since you are all here, you'd better spend the New Year here first and wait until His Majesty the Holy See arrives."
"Wang Qin's envoy, Mr. Yan!" Zheng Jian shouted loudly, "The barbarians looted Qinghua and tortured our people of Jiaozhi. How can our king bear it? The foreign ministers came with great difficulty but were unable to catch them. I beg the king's warships to send troops.
Clean up, destroy, and expel them!"
"Master Yan, my king has selected elite soldiers and strong generals..." Ruan Wentai was immediately shocked and did not want the matter to go to the stage where the Ming Dynasty would actually help the Li family.
Yan Shifan rolled his eyes: "What a joke! General Tan Shen just arrived first. Although our Ming warships are powerful, how can we defeat one against a hundred? I just didn't expect that the Western barbarian fleet arrived at Cat Ba Island. When I saw my Ming Dynasty, I still remembered them.
The enemy who invaded Guangdong in the past refused to allow trade, and instead plundered the coast on the way back to avoid getting nothing."
In front of them, Yan Shifan brushed aside many things first, but he would hit them hard later.
"If you want to fight, you have to wait for Admiral Zhao to arrive! Since the Ming Dynasty is the master, the people of Jiaozhi are also the subjects of the Ming Dynasty. In my opinion, you two should find a way to let this group of Western barbarians linger in Jiaozhi for another ten days and a half.
Wait for Admiral Zhao to arrive and then wipe them out in one fell swoop. Brother Ruan, should your navy continue to stay in Anxing to defend against the Ming Dynasty, or should you cut off the return route of this group of thieves?"
"...This." How could Ruan Wentai be the master of this?
Should we let Jiaozhi's valuable navy go to dangerous places? What if it is destroyed by the joint efforts of Westerners and the Ming Dynasty?
"The ministers who usurped the old lord never cared about the lives and deaths of the people! How shameful that my lord and his army were surrounded and suppressed by traitors in Ailao, and could not save the people from misery!"
Yan Shifan didn't take it seriously and let them quarrel.
It is a kind of retention for someone to cut off the retreat, and it is also a kind of retention to let the barbarians be tempted by the unstoppable interests without being able to counterattack hastily.
What's more, those people were still thinking about the other part of the employment fee for the so-called Li envoys and went to take over Thanh Hoa City.
Anyway, Tan Yong said that Zhao Jun's large army was only six to eight days' journey behind him.
"In that case, don't argue anymore." Yan Shifan said calmly, "Master Wang, you see, the Li family is weak but the real master, the Mo family is willing to surrender even if they have a strong army, and Jiaozhi now has a foreign invasion. Now that General Tan has arrived, can you
Please ask him to join the maritime trade company to escort the warships and sneak to the south of Qinghua to block the way for the barbarians to return south?"
After all, Wang Xueyi still had a public identity. He pretended to think, and then looked at Ruan Wentai and Zheng Jian: "You have been fighting for several years! Now you can't conquer the crowd internally, and you can't defend yourself against the enemy externally! Daming's help
The people of Jiaozhi are saved from external humiliation. After His Majesty's decree comes, you all must obey His Majesty's decree and stop fighting endlessly and harming others and yourself! If Mo Dengyong usurps his ministers and steals the throne, if you are still not satisfied, then I will petition you.
Your Majesty, send a message to the southwest to destroy them!"
Ruan Wentai's expression changed again, and Zheng Jian hesitated to speak.
Each of them wants all of Jiaozhi.
But based on what he meant now, the Ming Emperor didn’t think so.
Ruan Wentai really refused to send any more letters and told Mo Dengyong: Ming Dynasty promised him to be the envoy of Jiaozhi, but only half of Jiaozhi.
Eleven days later, on the fifth day of the first lunar month in the 11th year of Jiajing, at the port east of Qinghua City, the Portuguese sailors left on the merchant ship had just woken up.
After rubbing his eyes, he pushed away the local woman who was brought to the boat for their enjoyment, grabbed two more handfuls with a smile, and prepared to climb up the mast to see what was going on.
When he climbed to the top of the mast and looked hard into the distance, he wiped his eyes again in confusion and squinted.
After a while, his pupils shrank and he shouted at the top of his voice: "Alert! Alert!"
The shadow in the distance is still very small, but it is not an ordinary civilian ship. After all, there are many of them, and they are vaguely in a battle formation, heading straight towards this side.
Zhao Jun, who had gone south to Guangdong and participated in the naval battle of Tuen Mun, stood on the only 1,200-material flagship newly built by the Ming Dynasty that was already in service, holding the best telescope in his hand.
"The number is 40% less than what was reported from the factory. That means there are still some who have gone to the south to plunder." Zhao Jun ordered calmly, "Since there are fewer enemies, they should all still be in Qinghua City.
If you want to enjoy yourself, just rush over and leave no one behind!"
The ship was not moving fast and the sea was unobstructed. The Portuguese discovered them in advance, but they also needed to prepare for war urgently.
And the cannons that can be used on such a huge battleship are much larger than the squatting cannons that were built on land to facilitate marching.
"boom!"
I don’t know how many years later, the warships of the Ming Dynasty reappeared in this distant Southeast Asia, with a tonnage that was suffocated by the hastily arrived Portuguese leaders.
Alfonso did not lie to them. The Ming Dynasty really had such a huge warship.
But damn Alfonso lied to them!
Aren't you on Daming's side this time and helping them?
"boom!"
For many years, there has never been such loud and dense Ming artillery fire north of the Ming Dynasty's border wall.
At the beginning of the first month of the eleventh year of Jiajing, the northern and southern parts of the Ming Dynasty blossomed.
Yu Dayou stood at the top of the short and dilapidated Tucheng, looking into the distance with a telescope.
Beside him and behind him were cannons.
Outside the low earth wall in front of him, there were Yuanyang soldiers within fifty steps, forming a circle around the Tucheng and extending to the two temporary camps on the left and right wings.
With more firing meter data after the First World War in Outer Yunnan, the Ming Dynasty once again unleashed its artillery fire in many ways during the city defense battle.
The gunners in the mandarin duck formation outside the city and the bird gunners on the earthen walls built a solid line of defense.
The Mongolian cavalry is indeed brave, and the artillery fire is not enough to stop them all, but the fifty-step defense line constructed by the Yuanyang formation is like the last natural moat.
They just couldn't get to the earth wall that was less than a foot high in large numbers.
The Battle of Tucheng started on the third day of the first lunar month. I thought he had chosen a good time, because he found that even as New Year's Eve approached, the Ming army was still urgently building earth walls.
In the twelfth lunar month of winter, during the Chinese New Year, when we break through the ice and build city walls, can the soldiers and the people not be resentful?
You can't even live a good year under pressure, and you have to work from New Year's Eve to the third day of the first lunar month. You should be crazy, right?
But I don’t have binoculars. He doesn’t know how the transfer team uses horses to pull sleighs and pulls the prefabricated bricks and poor cement transferred from Huailai directly from inside the side wall, let alone the Ming Dynasty.
How many artillery shells and small squatting cannons are included in the military supplies?
Ma Fang, who had been in the heavy snow for such a long time, watched blankly as Meng Yuan Jingqi attacked with all his might and then flipped over.
Is this still the grassland warrior he is familiar with? Is this the cowardly and weak Ming frontier army in his impression?
With the war developing like this, Ma Fang could not find any good opportunity to escape.
He suddenly felt that learning horse riding and archery would be of little use to the Tatars.
"One! Two! Three! Release!"
Although this group of artillery positions within the city wall in the northeast corner of Tucheng is blocked by an earthen wall less than one foot high, the new cannons placed on the stacked forts are still raised at a sufficient angle according to the firing table, and the shells are fired
Throw it outside the city.
After a roar, someone nearby used a shovel to shovel the piled snow and sprinkle it on the barrel.
"The gentleman said that it is very easy for the gun barrel to crack!" The person responsible for daily maintenance of the artillery was distressed. He had studied in the military academy and knew some knowledge.
"Why bother with so much? Use more! Make more! Only then can we continue to improve!"
The attaché of the General Armament Department didn't take it seriously. Anyway, in his impression, the General Armament Department had enough money. His Majesty had only one request for the General Armament Department: let the Military War Bureau, Ordnance Supervision Bureau, and Treasure Gold Bureau come up with the Vietnam War.
There are more and more types of firearms, more and more powerful, and more and more practical firearms!
This is not just to fill it without losing lives, but to create more demand so that Ming Dynasty's firearm technology can continue to improve.
North of Tucheng, my heart is as cold as the weather today.
He could naturally see that the power of Ming Dynasty's firearms had reached a new level, and now it was the defense of the city that they were best at.
How could the Ming Dynasty transport so many artillery pieces to such a dilapidated town in such a short period of time?
This is just now, what about the future?
"Blow the horn and go back."
I finally made a decision.
He did not have that many craftsmen or talents at his disposal. Most importantly, his Tumut tribe did not have such a large territory.
With his current strength, he is certainly capable of defeating such a small earthen city, but the price is too high.
"Khan, I will lead my men to the south and surround them! They are alone!"
The battle had only lasted for more than two days, and Ida's generals couldn't figure it out. The Khan had clearly mobilized his troops and generals, preparing to completely swallow up the Ming Dynasty's army that dared to come out of the border wall.
"Yes, we can win that way!" An Da suddenly became furious, "The Tumote Department can win this battle, but what about the future? How many lives will be lost here?"
What I said was not what I really meant. In addition to not being able to block the entire main force of the Tumote Department on this matter, he also knew that as long as he was slightly blocked, he might be surrounded by the Ming army from Datong in a radius of more than 20
inside the circle.
"Are we going to let them occupy Tucheng in vain?" The general's eyes were blood red and he was extremely unwilling.
We still have to fight, and we can win! He didn't believe that Ming people had endless cannonballs, and he also noticed that some of the artillery pieces in the Ming army blew up on their own.
"Retreat!" I answered, knowing that this was not the place to speak.
In this battle, he just saw clearly a helpless situation.
The sound of the retreating horn echoed in the snowy field. I turned around and looked at the small earthen city. When I looked back again, my eyes were already firm.
Only the stupid Khan Ting and his stupid brother still don't understand how urgent time is.
Only four more years have passed, and the combat power of the Ming army has become so much stronger than in the sixth year of Jiajing. Naturally, there are still many useless generals in their army, but there are also people like Yu Dayou, and the emperor of the Ming Dynasty
Dare to use him, willing to use him!
The descendants of Genghis Khan still don't understand that they should give up the little power in their hands that allows them to survive, and welcome a hero as soon as possible who can truly lead them to escape this disaster.
If we don't wipe out those insects, how can we resist the increasingly powerful Ming Dynasty?