A large group of people were walking through the peaks and valleys of Gaoligong Mountain.
If you look down from a certain peak, you will find that this southward marching team is so huge that you can't see the end to the south and the end to the back. It was huge, with hundreds of thousands of people and horses. The front team has already left Hanlong Pass and is marching on the land of Myanmar, while the elite soldiers at the rear are still at the eastern foot of Gaoligong Mountain.
This is not a large army composed of soldiers and civilians transporting military supplies, but a team including countless women, children and civilians. Supporting the old and the young, dragging the whole family with them, carrying only a few belongings, they headed south step by step. Most of the stronger men were pushing wheelbarrows, which contained bags of rice. All the mules and horses were used to carry rice and grain, and none of the horses carried a large living person on their back.
Luo Hu, the Yunnan Jiedushi envoy of Dashun, was also in this southbound team, but he was not in the front team or the middle team, but in the rear army at the rear. He also did not ride a horse, but walked step by step like ordinary soldiers, wearing leggings, straw sandals, and cloth-covered iron armor, carrying rations, water bottles, and weapons on his back.
With him were all strong men in blue clothes and white hats, carrying spears on their shoulders or carrying muskets on their backs. Everyone was carrying rations and water bottles, and they marched in silence.
An indescribable tragic atmosphere lingered over this southbound army.
This is a defeated army...a powerful defeated army!
This army is quite well equipped! More than two-thirds of the infantry were equipped with muskets, of which fusiliers accounted for nearly one-third (the proportion of musketeers). The remaining musketeers also carried powerful heavy muskets. The spears used by the pikemen also look very powerful, they are all Zhangba spears. There are also a small number of shield soldiers, and everyone is equipped with a javelin.
Whether it is a flintlock, matchlock, spear, sword, shield or javelin, they are all very well maintained.
In addition, all soldiers and generals have blue cloth-covered iron armor to protect their bodies, and under their white felt hats, there is also an iron helmet to protect their heads.
There are also some tall war horses led by cavalry (carrying food on their backs), which are also very eye-catching. This is not a Yunnan horse or a Sichuan horse, but a fold-eared horse from Tianzhu! Each one is a very impressive horse, and you can tell at a glance that they are well-bred horses.
This set of armaments, if placed in the original history, is enough to serve as the terminator of the Manchu Dynasty!
In addition to the powerful military equipment, most of the soldiers in the army are also tall and strong. At a glance, you can tell that they have been trained strictly since childhood and have adequate nutrition.
Good soldiers, good horses, good equipment...and there are a lot of them, as many as 15,000 people!
What was supposed to be a force of elite soldiers that could run rampant across the world has now become an army of exiles who have lost their country and fled in panic...
It’s sad just thinking about it!
But all of them have indeed tried their best!
In the past year or so, Luo Hu, who supervised the army in the name of Li Jicheng, commanded this army, and had many battles with the Ming army commanded by Zhu Hexing, either in ambushes, surprise attacks, or holding on to dangerous positions... ..I tried every means, but all failed without exception.
Having been defeated so many times, but still able to remain undefeated and withdraw from Yunnan as a majestic army speaks for itself.
The current Dashun Army is not weak, not only not weak, but also quite powerful!
But the enemy they encountered was even more powerful... It wasn't that they didn't work hard, it was that the strength of the Ming army was too abnormal!
The musketeers of the Dashun Army mainly still used matchlocks, but their enemies had begun to equip rifled guns and use cork bullets (minie bullets).
Such a gap can no longer be reversed by training, morale and military strategy.
So they had no choice but to leave... and become "Kshatriya Lords" in India.
The army just moved forward in silence, no one looked back, and no one stopped except to eat and rest. After walking for about two days, we finally left Gaoligong Mountain and arrived in front of Hanlong Pass in the area under the jurisdiction of Longchuan Xuanfu Envoy.
In front of Xiongguan, there is Myanmar to the south and China to the north!
Luo Hu didn't know when he was already standing on a high place, watching the large army of soldiers and horses passing under his feet and heading towards Hanlong Pass, his eyes filled with tears.
At this moment, someone flew out of Hanlong Pass and arrived at the foot of the mountain. He found Luo Hu's general flag and walked uphill. When he arrived in front of Luo Hu, he saluted: "Commander Father, we are finally waiting for you." .”
Luo Hu glanced at the man. It was his son Luo Ke. He was no longer a young man, but a strong middle-aged man.
Luo Hu nodded: "Finally we're here..."
Luo Ke asked again: "Father, how far are the Ming army from us?"
"About ten miles..." Luo Hu said, "Follow me all the way and give you gifts when you go abroad!"
As he spoke, he glanced at Hanlong Pass again and sighed: "After passing this pass... we will no longer be Chinese!"
"Father, handsome..." Luo Ke has been to Tianzhu many times. He is well aware of Tianzhu's wealth, and he also knows many things in the world, so he comforts his father with a smile and says, "It's not a big deal, the Zhu family Many of the emperor's sons and brothers have also gone abroad. Some of them have gone further than us, and they have gone to the New World, to the Southern Continent... That is the wild land! We are going to Tianzhu is a good place, but it is rich! If you go to Tianzhu, you will not be poor for generations to come."
"Forget it..." Luo Hu sighed and asked in a low voice, "Have you invited the two Lao Long live Zi Gong to come out?"
"We've already invited him out... right inside Hanlong Pass!"
Therefore, when Luo Hu was arranging the general retreat, he asked his son to take care of the matter and be responsible for unloading the coffins of Li Zicheng and Li Guo from the Longgu Mausoleum and transporting them to Hanlong Pass. Then Luo Hu will personally escort the two coffins to Xitianfu in India for burial!
Xitian Mansion is a good place to bury people... Bao Xitian Mansion!
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Luo Hu and Luo Ke escorted Li Zicheng and Li Guo's Zi Palace, and were almost the last group to leave Hanlong Pass and set foot on the land of Mubang Prefecture in Myanmar.
And the day after they left, a sun and moon flag fluttered at Hanlong Pass!
This means that the chaotic times of the Ming Dynasty since the end of Wanli have finally come to an end.
The Ming Dynasty was finally unified! All the lost territory has been recovered, and the Ming Empire is finally complete!
The Ming army that recaptured Hanlong Pass deployed their defenses while sending fast horses to Kunming Mansion. They sent the long-awaited good news to Wuhua Mountain and reported it to Crown Prince Zhu Hexing and the Crown Princess. Ding Yuying.
"My lord, I congratulate you... The Ming Dynasty has finally been unified in your hands!" The princess, who accompanied her husband on the southern expedition and took care of military and government affairs with her husband, was also crying with joy, and her eyes were wet. Yes.
The battle to pacify Yunnan is one that one cannot afford to lose!
And not only can’t you lose, you have to win beautifully!
The current results are quite satisfactory, even though it took more than a year to prepare, and it took a long time to prepare, and there was no vigorous decisive battle. But those who are good at fighting have no great military achievements!
As long as you really understand military affairs, you will know the power of Zhu Hexing's military use... From the beginning to the end, he did not give the other side any opportunity to take advantage of. No matter what tricks Luo Hu used, it was like hitting his head against a rock. There would be no other end than a bloody head.
Moreover, pacifying Yunnan is not only a military battle, but also an economic and political battle!
The most difficult thing is not to defeat it, but to hold it, hold it firmly, and not lose too much... You also have to settle all aspects and support and control the feudal forces in Yunnan. Only then can we Long-term peace and stability.
To arrange all this work in a little more than a year has shown that the couple Zhu Hexing and Ding Yuying did not disappoint Zhu Cixiang.
Zhu Hexing also had tears in his eyes, the crown prince's position was considered secure!
He smiled and said to his wife: "Yuying, write a memorial to your father... report your victory to your father, we will live up to our expectations and bring Yunnan to peace!"
