Although there are still many flaws and shortcomings in use and manufacturing, the combat effectiveness of the Shenji Battalion is still very intuitively reflected on the battlefield.
Xu Tong used artillery fire to bombard the Song Army's naval vessels, bombard the Song Army's garrisoned cities, and bombard the Song Army's dense military formations in the wild, causing huge damage to the Song Army.
Facing the new beggar army led by Zhou Qixiang and the mighty army led by Zhu Liang, Xu Tong did not stop at all. Instead, he increased his firepower and blasted them violently, defeating them all.
Regarding the ferocious firearms that have never been seen before, it is not surprising that these two armies, which are not even considered armies, collapsed, or it would be incredible that they did not collapse.
The 10,000-strong revolutionary army defeated the two hostile armies without difficulty and achieved a comprehensive victory. It also completely defeated the many military forces that had sprung up in Sichuan and Shu, wiped them out, and won Sichuan and Shu. control of the land.
To be honest, the process is not difficult.
Basically, after the fourth year of Hongwu, the balance of power between the Ming army and other military forces can no longer be compared on the same platform. Such a comparison will only make the comparison between the two sides very ugly.
One person looks like a strong world-class weightlifting champion, while the other person looks like a heavy smoker. The contrast is too strong.
Four years before Hongwu, there were still many new recruits entering various departments within the Ming military system. From the overall new construction to the reorganization of individual units, each unit needed to incorporate a large number of recruits, which had a certain impact on combat effectiveness.
However, with the overall stability of the political situation in the Ming Dynasty, the experience of many wars, and the increasingly perfect training system of the Ming army, this situation has changed to a considerable extent.
In the fifth year of Hongwu, Su Yonglin formally stipulated new rules for the recruit training camp, which stipulated that recruits need to undergo at least one year of recruit training, and then pass the completion assessment of the recruit training camp before they can formally serve in the army and become a soldier of the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming army has completely become a professional army. Soldiers have become a formal profession. The Ming Dynasty also has a series of supporting facilities prepared for this profession.
Therefore, four years after Hongwu, or five years after Hongwu, the Ming army has basically completed the formal professionalization process. Starting from the basic project of soldier quality, it has carried out dimensionality reduction attacks on all armies of the same era.
With the continuous improvement of firearms equipment and military education, the Ming army has made great strides towards modernization. The progress of modernization has soared, and at some levels there is even a shadow of modernization.
With such an army, the Ming army often no longer considers the combat effectiveness of the enemy army as the first priority when performing military tasks.
Instead, the geographical location occupied by the enemy's army should be considered first.
For example, in the Battle of Sichuan and Sichuan, the top brass of the Ming army were most worried about the Shu Road.
The fundamental reason behind this is that the leadership of the Ming Army believes that the enemy's manpower can no longer hinder the Ming Army, and nature is the Ming Army's biggest enemy.
Towering mountain peaks like clouds, winding rivers, and unpredictable weather are the Ming army's biggest enemies, while human enemies have taken a back seat.
Therefore, after Wu Gong decided to surrender, defeating all enemies and occupying Sichuan and Shu was not considered a great success in the eyes of many Ming army generals. The biggest threat predicted before the war did not become a threat at all.
In the first month of the eighth year of Hongwu, the Ming army successfully wiped out all hostile military forces in Sichuan and Shu, and gradually occupied various state capitals in Sichuan and Shu.
At the same time, many southwest minority residents in the area south of the Sichuan Plain have also become some problems faced by the Ming army.
While the warlords were being wiped out, some military forces of a small number of residents in southern Sichuan who were greedy for money and joined the warlords in opposing the Ming army were attacked by the Ming army and were wiped out along with the warlords.
Therefore, when the Ming army entered Jiading Prefecture, Lizhou, and Xuzhou, they encountered a certain amount of hostility and resistance.
In response to this situation, Su Haisheng and Xu Tong unanimously ordered the Ming army to launch a resolute and swift counterattack, wiping out all the opponents.
The Ming army razed the hostile tribes to the ground, exploded them with gunpowder, burned the jungles with kerosene, and destroyed all their living places. This showed the powerful and fierce force of the Ming army and the power of the Ming Dynasty. This laid the foundation for the strength of the Ming Dynasty. , a tough image that cannot be messed with.
At the beginning, it must be tough.
For these uncivilized ethnic groups who follow the law of the jungle, they do not understand kindness and virtue. Being strong and invincible is the prerequisite for interacting with them.
If they want to coexist peacefully with them and carry out peaceful transformation in the future, the first thing they have to do is to show the power of their own force in front of them. Only after they feel the power of Ming's force will they imagine a conflict with Ming other than armed confrontation. How to get along.
According to Zhongdu’s research and summary of the areas inhabited by a small number of residents in southern Sichuan before the war, it was basically determined that the local residents were Tubo, Liao, Qiang, Wuman, Baiman, Moshayi, Tulaoman, and Southwest Dongs. Barbarians and other minority groups.
They live scattered in the states and various Jisu ruling areas south of the Sichuan Plain, and have a relatively wide sphere of influence in these areas.
In the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties, including the previous dynasties, they mainly implemented Jisi rule, with their original leaders as the leaders, and there were basically no Han officials.
They and the rulers of past dynasties maintained a state of sometimes peace and sometimes war with each other.
When it comes to threats, the threat from the nomads in the north must be greater, but when it comes to the difficulty of ruling, the barbarians from the southwestern tribes are definitely no less generous.
Compared with the northern nomads who have many contacts with the Han people except for military affairs due to terrain reasons, the barbarians in the southwest are almost in a primitive society due to difficult transportation, and their understanding of the Han culture in the Central Plains is better than that of the northern peoples. less.
Because they love and kill each other too frequently, everyone has always been in harmony and communicated very frequently in history, so the degree of integration of their respective national cultures, customs and languages is also higher.
Therefore, after laying a strong foundation, Su Yonglin can more smoothly implement governance of large ethnic groups such as the Khitan people and Dangxiang people, and gain their support and understanding.
But when it was the turn of the barbarian tribes in the southwest, it was really difficult.
Due to factors such as transportation and terrain, the Central Dynasty didn't even want to have contact with them. If it weren't for the ruling tentacles extending over there, they really didn't want to spend time having anything to do with this group of "mountain and forest savages".
Inherent shortcomings mean that the number of people on both sides who understand each other's customs and languages is not of the same order of magnitude.
Therefore, Su Yonglin proposed at the State Council at that time that the policy towards the barbarian tribes in the southwest would initially be to temporarily continue the restrained rule system of the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties, and to temporarily maintain a familiar and easy-to-understand state with them, so as to appease them and avoid large-scale turmoil.
When the Ming army established a firm foothold in Sichuan and Shu, its rule over the population center of Sichuan and Shu was stable, production resumed, and social transformation was completed, then it would be free to manage the Jisi ruling area.
He envisioned communicating with them in a more harmonious way through business contacts, first establishing mutual trust in business and establishing economic exchanges, and then building roads and improving the local transportation environment.
Only when the prerequisites for economic and transportation are in place can further political action be carried out.
In terms of culture, Su Yonglin suggested that cultural contact should be carried out through [Zhuge Liang], a link acceptable to both parties, and by worshiping and offering sacrifices to Zhuge Liang to find common ground between the two parties, so as to gain the recognition of these barbarian tribes. .
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