Annan became a Chinese territory from the Qin Dynasty. During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Annan was separated from the Southern Han Dynasty by Wu Quan and gradually became independent.
In the fourth year of Yongle, Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, sent Zhang Fu to lead his army deep into Annan. In the fifth year of Yongle's reign, he won a great victory and eliminated the Hu family regime in Annan. There are fifteen prefectures, forty-one prefectures, two hundred and eighty counties, three million one hundred and twenty thousand people, and two hundred and eighty-seven thousand barbarians.
Later, the Annan region was renamed "Jiaozhi", and the Annan Kingdom was renamed the Chief Envoy of Jiaozhi.
During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong, Emperor Xuanzong contracted his overall strategy. Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong and other ministers took the opportunity to make a speech.
In March of the 18th year of Emperor Shizong's Jiajing reign (1539), Mo Dengyong sent an envoy to Zhennanguan to ask for surrender, and presented the Annan land register and household registration to the Ming Dynasty.
On the third day of November in the 19th year of Jiajing, Mo Dengyong and dozens of ministers tied themselves and knelt down. They went to the Nanguan of the town to ask for surrender from the officials of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty demoted the Annan Kingdom to the Annan Capital Commandery Division, and the Annan subordinate states surrendered. As a subordinate territory, the Thirteen Roads were changed into the Thirteen Xuanfu Divisions, each with Xuanfu, Tongzhi, Deputy Envoy, and Qianshi, and the Tingdu unified deposed Zhi.
However, Annan has always existed as an administratively autonomous unit within the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
As an ambitious emperor with a large army, how could he allow such a high degree of autonomy to appear in his own territory?
Annan is located south of the Tropic of Cancer, with high temperatures and rainy weather, and a tropical monsoon climate. The average annual temperature is around 24°C. If you grow rice, you can achieve three crops a year.
Annan has a long and narrow terrain, with the terrain high in the west and low in the east. Three-quarters of the territory is mountainous and plateau. There are mountains and plateaus in the north and northwest, and plains along the eastern coast, with low terrain and dense river networks.
And hereafter. Annan's land area is less than 4% of China's and its population is nearly 100 million. It is indeed a grain exporting country.
This shows how suitable the Annan region is for growing grain.
Even if the harvest of the land now is less than one-fifth of what it will be in future generations.
Annan has not yet taken over the Mekong River region in later generations.
However, according to the records of the secret guards, those Annan people were terribly lazy, and their farming skills were far inferior to those of the Ming Dynasty.
The total population is only three to five million, but it can indeed support more than 100,000 troops.
Still able to support it, the Zheng and Ruan families fought many times.
This shows how suitable the Annan region is for farming.
It can be said unceremoniously that as long as the Annan Kingdom is captured, at least 5 million Ming people can be settled.
Moreover, the imperial court only needs to provide supplies for half a year at most to achieve self-production of grain.
This greatly reduced the pressure on the court.
In this war against Vietnam, Zhu Youjian planned to divide his troops into three groups. In the first group, 50,000 elite troops led by Lu Xiangsheng would enter Annan by land from the Yunnan area.
The second route was led by Sun Chuanting and 50,000 elite troops from Guangxi.
The third route was led by Zu Dashou, 20,000 elites and 30,000 recruits, hiding in Hainan Island.
If the two factions of Zheng and Ruan settle their differences and resist together, they will wait until the Ruan family's army moves north and directly enter the Ruan family's territory in southern Vietnam.
At this time, Annan was in the second battle of Zheng and Ruan.
Zheng Zhuge was marching south, and all the elites in the country were south of Annan. Only some old, weak, sick and disabled people were left behind in Ming Dynasty.
If the Ming Dynasty directly sends troops at this time, it can capture the northern mountains before the opponent reacts, which will greatly reduce the Ming Dynasty's subsequent battle losses.
After deciding on the candidate to lead the troops, Zhu Youjian directly called the three people together. After a brief encouragement, he asked them to keep it secret and rush to the place as soon as possible.
As for the supplies needed for the army and the war, they had already been lurked in the guard posts in Yunnan and Guangxi in accordance with Zhu Youjian's requirements.
"No. 101 and No. 102, each of you will lead a thousand-man Guards to follow the army. If the battle situation is unfavorable,..."
Imperial Guard, the army directly under Zhu Youjian. They are the most elite troops of the Ming Dynasty.
All soldiers are biochemical soldiers.
All the equipment are the most advanced weapons of the Ming Dynasty.
It can be said that these 1,000 soldiers and the 10,000 main force of the Ming Dynasty will not be a problem.
The Ming soldiers mentioned here refer to the current Ming elite. The elite of the Ming Dynasty, the world's most powerful army.
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On October 1, the 5th year of Chongzhen, Lu Xiangsheng, who had gathered his troops, directly led his troops from Yunnan into Annan on the grounds that the Zheng and Ruan factions had started a war in the Ming Dynasty territory without authorization.
The army was so powerful that it reached Chang'an Road from the border in just 7 days.
Then the army took Yamato Road as its position. Build defenses quickly.
On October 8, Sun Chuanting led 50,000 elite troops from Guangxi to Annan. After learning that Chang'an Road was empty for defense, he divided his troops into three groups to clear out the remaining Zheng forces on Donghai Road, Beijiang Road, and Daluocheng Road.
October 20th. Lord Zheng and Lord Ruan reached an agreement, and the two sides formed a coalition of 100,000 troops to confront the Ming army near Chang'an Road.
"Look for your general. I want to know why your Ming Dynasty sent troops to occupy my rivers and mountains?"
Lord Zheng stood in front of the Ming army's position on Chang'an Road and shouted.
Although he had an army of 100,000 on his side, as the news spread, Lord Zheng knew that although there were only about 50,000 troops on the opposite side, most of them were elites. They had geographical defense advantages, and they were not the ones who had been fighting hard for several years. Soldiers can do their job well.
The reason why we came here to join forces with Lord Ruan is, to put it bluntly, to show Annan's strength and to tell Mingren that we are not easy to mess with.
Lord Ruan's purpose is actually very simple, that is, he knows the truth of lip death and tooth coldness, and he does not want to interfere with Annan.
However, they obviously underestimated Lu Xiangsheng and the strength of the Ming army.
Ming's army is no longer the beggar army it once was.
If it weren't for the different geographical conditions that caused 3,000 non-combat attrition in just 7 days, how could Lu Xiangsheng choose to defend on the spot on Chang'an Road?
Annan's 100,000 miscellaneous soldiers were not taken seriously by Lu Xiangsheng at all.
"In the Ming Dynasty, if you dare to gather troops to deal with the Celestial Army, are you seeking death?"
"You, you." For a moment, Master Zheng was speechless.
In March of the 18th year of Emperor Shizong's Jiajing reign (1539), Mo Dengyong sent an envoy to Zhennanguan to ask for surrender, and presented the Annan land register and household registration to the Ming Dynasty.
It can be said that since then. The Annan region was the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
However, the Ming Dynasty has not managed Annan in these years. This greatly dampened Lord Zheng’s ambitions.
Coupled with the slow circulation of news, Lord Zheng thought that the Ming Dynasty was still suffering from the establishment of slaves in Liaodong.
Coupled with Daming's intentional misleading.
This resulted in the other party not placing too many troops on the Ming Dynasty border.
Otherwise, with the help of the terrain in northern Annan, even if the Ming army is elite, it will not be able to reach Chang'an Road in just 7 days.
"You are rebellious and have not put down your weapons yet and surrender obediently. Otherwise, a strike from the divine soldiers of Heaven will kill you to a river of blood." On the Ming army's position, some soldiers shouted disdainfully.
This is not a soldier's arrogance, but a solid confidence.
Not to mention other things, the Ming Dynasty's current military equipment and weapons are not completely unified, but the most inferior equipment is also the Lumi gun. The effective range is 45 feet (150m). Within 30 feet, it is useless even if you wear iron armor.
As for the other party, it is a completely cold weapon troop. And most of the soldiers don't have armor.
As long-range archers, due to their equipment, their effective attack distance is less than 25 feet.
In addition, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty have undergone rigorous training. How can they be compared to this kind of miscellaneous fish?
