"Catch!" Li Guo nodded heavily, "We have to go all out to attack the Central Plains when we go out to Qi Mountain. We can't imitate Zhuge Liang and attack six times without success! King Jin, are you sure?"
Jin King Li Dingguo has now returned to Kunming from Ava, and the "Northern Expeditionary Army" stationed in Burma and Siam has been placed in charge of Li Laiheng.
Hearing Li Guo's words, Li Dingguo, who was tanned and thin by the hot southern sun, couldn't help but frown. How could he compare to Zhuge Liang? Zhuge Liang captured Meng Huo seven times during his southern expedition. How well did he fight? Unlike when I was trapped in Burma and Siam, I had a good start, and the territory I had conquered was larger than Dashun's original Sichuan and Yunnan provinces combined. However, after reaching Ayutthaya, the capital of Siam, the invincible Dashun Northern Expeditionary Army seemed to have lost its spirit. Not only did they not only stay under the fortified city for a long time, but also a plague broke out in the army, killing many people. In the end, they finally captured it with great difficulty. They arrived at Ayutthaya City, but the troops had lost their combat effectiveness.
After the Ming army's reinforcements arrived in large numbers at the Golden Castle south of Ayutthaya City, uprisings against Dashun's rule broke out across Siam. Even the Lanna vassal state, which originally relied on Myanmar and later turned to Dashun, took advantage of the opportunity, expelled the governor sent by Li Dingguo, and supported a Lanna prince who fled back to Chiang Mai from Ava as king.
Faced with this unfavorable situation, Li Dingguo had no choice but to temporarily withdraw his troops from Siam and gave up the city of Ayutthaya, which he had fought hard to conquer.
However, he did not return to Ava empty-handed. Instead, he looted the city of Ayutthaya and moved all the savings of the Ayutthaya dynasty over the years back to Myanmar. Moreover, a total of one or two hundred thousand industrialists and merchants in the city and farmers near the city were taken back to Myanmar and placed around the city of Salim at the entrance of Myanmar. Because the Dashun warriors could not adapt to the climate and climate of Myanmar, Miasma, so Dashun’s rule in Myanmar cannot be extended to the countryside for the time being. He can only rule from the two relatively comfortable big cities of Ava and Salim. At the same time, the vast Myanmar land will be distributed to the Burmese who are loyal to Dashun, Chieftains from tribes such as the Mon people, the Thai people, and the Mubang people.
Zhang Yong, who helped King Narei regain the capital, did not launch a large-scale attack into Myanmar. Because the Ayutthaya dynasty of Siam was already in decline by the generation of King Narei, and its control over local forces was not as good as before, otherwise it would not have been defeated by Dashun's 30,000 troops and almost destroyed the country. Although the capital city was recovered with the help of the Ming Dynasty, the dynasty's prestige plummeted because the city of Ayutthaya was looted by the Great Shun Army and its population was depleted, and it was no longer able to control the place.
Therefore, Zhang Yong and King Nare had to focus on Siam and try to restore the unity of the Kingdom of Siam first...
In addition, the Dutch, Portuguese, British and other Western forces that have firmly controlled the Indian Ocean do not want the Ming Dynasty to invade Myanmar from the direction of Siam. Once Myanmar is controlled by the Ming Dynasty, the Port of Salim will become a gateway for the Ming Dynasty navy to enter. The bridgehead of the Indian Ocean!
The Indian Ocean is already "very crowded", and no one wants to squeeze into the behemoth of the Ming Empire. Therefore, Westerners in the Indian Ocean very much welcome the powerful Dashun Empire to enter Myanmar, and will naturally provide military and technical assistance so that this foreign force that can resist the Ming Dynasty can gain a foothold in Myanmar.
At the same time, the Mughal dynasty in India had entered the Aurangzeb era. The Mughal emperor who "knew China" was well aware of the strength of the Ming Dynasty, and also did not want the Ming Dynasty to enter the Indian Ocean, so he also gave Dashun a lot of help.
Therefore, although the situation that Li Laiheng took over in Myanmar is not very good, it can be maintained and can develop slowly. It can be regarded as a well-off situation.
However, Li Dingguo was still a little frustrated because he knew that there was not much room for Dashun to expand southward. There is only a small Arakan to the west of Myanmar that can be annexed. Going further west is either the sea or the mountains covered with miasma, which cannot be crossed by an army at all.
To the east, it was blocked by the Ming-Siam coalition, and it seemed difficult to make any further progress.
Under this circumstance, for the continued survival of the Dashun Empire, and for the future of the 250,000 old camp warriors who followed Dashun and their descendants, the Northern Expedition was imperative.
"Now it seems that we are more certain to get out of Qishan than to attack Siam again." Li Dingguo said, "I have met many Western merchants in Ava and asked them about the time required for the Ming Dynasty to reinforce Siam... ....If we follow the sea breeze, the army can reach the Golden Castle in dozens of days from Shanghai. Moreover, Siam is rich in rice, so the expeditionary army does not need to carry food and grass, and can eat in Siam.
Moreover, when our army dispatched troops from Yunnan, it took more than four thousand miles to reach the city of Ayutthaya. Moreover, the route was blocked by mountains and dense forests, and it was also a plague-ridden land. Before the army reaches the battlefield, one third of them may have already fallen ill!
As for the battle in Qishan, both the enemy and ourselves were subject to logistical transfers... The Ming Dynasty had a long road, while our country was trapped in a dangerous road.
I believe that the strategy to enter Shaanxi from Sichuan is nothing more than to take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness and make a surprise attack, or to farm while fighting, and to garrison the fields in front of the enemy. In the past, Zhuge Liu came out but failed because he did not dare to use Qi and did not cultivate the fields. Today, when I go out to Qishan, I should put the wonders first and cultivate the fields as the basis. "
"How to put surprise first?" Li Guo asked.
"Qi was the first to select thousands of dead soldiers, cross all the way south and attack Guanzhong, frightening the Ming army and attracting all the Shaanxi armies to come to the aid. Farming was the basis, which meant soldiers carrying agricultural tools to grow grain and go out of Qishan to collect food. In Qinzhou and Longxi, we built forts and cultivated fields and valleys, thinking that they would last forever."
"Do you want it to last?" Li Guo frowned, "Our army has always succeeded by wandering around, while the Ming army is good at building and defending cities. Now our army wants to build forts and farm fields. Isn't it true that we are using our shortcomings to attack the other's strong points? ?”
"The emperor is talking about the Ming army in the past!" Li Dingguo shook his head and said, "Today's Ming army is not only good at building forts and defending cities, but also good at fighting in the wild."
Li Guo nodded and remained silent.
If the Ming army could not fight in the field, how could the Ming Dynasty achieve its current state of resurgence?
Li Dingguo said: "The advantage of our country now lies in the government army system. The government soldiers do not need to pay military salaries, nor do they need to spend money to raise them. One hundred thousand soldiers can be used without paying a single salary. If we can continue to farm and fight, and we can cultivate the fields and Longshang, we can last for a long time. To win.
Because recruiting soldiers for the Ming army costs money, to send one soldier to Longshang requires dozens of taels of silver a year just for military expenses. If the food supply in Guanzhong is insufficient and it has to be mobilized from Huguang, the cost of transporting food thousands of miles will be added. To employ one soldier would cost a hundred taels of silver. A hundred thousand troops are fighting in Longshang, and the annual silver consumption will be tens of millions!
At the same time, Guanlong was wasted in military affairs, and the Ming Dynasty lost millions in tax revenue every year.
And the war in the Northeast cost tens of millions, and the war at sea and with the Spaniards also cost a lot of money... How could the Ming Dynasty remain undefeated with such an aggressive military campaign? "
"Yep!"
The great military advisor Song Xiance nodded repeatedly and said with a smile: "What the King of Jin said makes sense. I recently compiled the history of the country and discovered that my success in Dashun actually lies in echoing the Donglu and bloodletting the Ming Dynasty back and forth. Although Lao Long live and Manchuria There was no contact, but in fact it still had the effect of bringing down the Ming Dynasty together. The defeat of our dynasty and Donglu was because they attacked each other before the strong Ming Dynasty was destroyed, which gave the Ming Dynasty time to reorganize in Jiangnan. Fortunately, the so-called ZTE emperor of the Ming Dynasty did not know how to rest with the people, and went all out to engage in military warfare. All his troops were used on the other side of the Pacific. With such use of force and wages, defeat was only a matter of time.
It seems that this destiny lies with the emperor after all! "
Li Guo nodded: "It is true. Since ancient times, there has been no one who has been defeated by excessive use of troops... That's it. We will also issue land coupons, not too much. We will issue 30 million acres first, and use the land in Shaanxi and Gansu to Separate it first."
He is still relatively conservative, unlike Zhu Cixiang who raised 50 million acres in one go, and he also regards land vouchers as a tool to develop rural capitalism.
Li Guo added: "However, our land coupons cannot be traded. Each one must be registered with your name. You can only inherit it and cannot transfer it to others!"
