Gao Pragmatic's words are half true and half false, because "pushing all the way" does not mean that there is no need to use your brain. It can even be said that in ancient wars, the technical content of "pushing all the way" was actually not low.
It stands to reason that the Qin army during the Battle of Julu had the strength to "push all the way". The former Qin army during the Battle of Feishui also had the strength to "push all the way". It stands to reason that the Yuan army during the Battle of Guandu is still the same. Those who have the strength to “push all the way”, but what is the result?
They all lost.
It is true that these three famous battles with less to win more have one thing in common, that is, the two armies faced each other across the river before the war. From the tactical terrain point of view, it is easier for "planned battles" to occur, but don't forget where Phnom Penh is located. place?
In the "Four Arms Bay" - formed by the confluence of the Mekong River, Tonle Sap River and Pasha River, it can be said that the water network is densely covered, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.
If Liu Xin just pushes forward all the way, there is a possibility of repeating the mistakes of Wang Li, Fu Jian, and Yuan Shao.
And there is a more important thing, that is, as long as you have enough troops to make you feel that you can "push all the way," in fact, the logistical pressure you face now will far exceed that of your opponents.
Past war cases also show that whenever you are preparing to "push all the way", you must first stockpile a large amount of supplies.
When the 400,000 Qin troops were north of Julu, why did Xiang Yu burn the boat? Because as long as he can't win it in one battle, he may never be able to win it. The Qin army not only has a large number of troops, but also has abundant supplies.
The key to Yuan Shao's failure in the Battle of Guandu and why he was considered the "lost Wuchao" was precisely because Wuchao was the granary of Yuan's army. Wuchao was burned, food and fodder were in short supply, and the morale of one hundred thousand Yuan troops was in turmoil. How could there be any reason to be invincible? Not to mention there are other factors at play.
Therefore, Gao pragmatically always attaches great importance to logistics when fighting wars. So far, except for the Tumut cavalry under his unified command in the Battle of Monan, Gao pragmatically has only two main tasks in any other war: strategy and logistics. Specifically He basically didn't ask about the command of a certain battle. That was the job of the generals. He neither exceeded their abilities nor had the need to intervene, lest he become Chang Gong Kaishen.
However, Liu Xin now does not have the favorable conditions that Gao Pragmatic did before, because Jinghua is very busy now and does not have much spare time to provide her with the huge amount of supplies needed to "push all the way."
Jinghua's expansion in southern Xinjiang is too fast. Originally, before the War of Yunnan and Burma, Jinghua only controlled Annan. If we look at the divisions of later generations, it actually only controlled the northern and central areas of Vietnam.
However, after the battle of Yunnan and Burma, Jinghua almost completed the feat of a snake swallowing an elephant: it captured almost the entire Indochina Peninsula except northern Myanmar and Cambodia (geographically speaking, the Malay Peninsula is generally not counted as the Indochina Peninsula). ).
How big is Indochina? 2.065 million square kilometers.
Excluding the current northern Myanmar and Cambodia, Jinghua's actual control area has exceeded at least 1.3 million square kilometers. However, before the War of Yunnan and Burma, Beijing actually controlled only more than 200,000 square kilometers of Annan.
The actual control area was expanded four to five times at once. It can be imagined how busy Jinghua was in southern Xinjiang. This was also the most critical factor why Huang Zhiting had to stay in Siam even though she was pregnant.
In addition to militarily purging the opposition and continuing to maintain stability in various places, Beijing also needs to establish its own set of administrative agencies in these places. The main thing is to transplant Annan's puppet government model to Siam, Nanjang, Bago, etc. country, making it gradually become a territory firmly controlled by Beijing like Annan.
The Annan model has proven its feasibility in the past few years. There is no big problem in theory when it is transplanted to countries in southern Xinjiang with similar national conditions. However, in fact, the national conditions of each country are still different. In actual operation, Targeted fine-tuning is definitely needed.
For example, in Siam, because a rebellion broke out before, Beijing immediately suppressed it with thunderous means. It did the best in suppressing the rebellion. In addition, the two armies of the Dingnan Guard Army and the Annan Assistance Defense Army were notorious, and Huang Zhiting If you are personally in charge, the transplantation of various policies will be implemented the fastest.
However, correspondingly, Siam has a very heavy construction task, especially the construction of Dingnan City, which is not only the largest construction project in Jinghua to date, but also the largest urban construction project in Siam's history. According to Jinghua's plan, the construction of Dingnancheng is divided into at least three project phases, which take three, three and four years respectively, accumulating as long as ten years.
The construction task of the first phase is mainly to establish the core area while determining the overall scale of the city. The outer city wall will not be repaired for the time being, but twelve small bastions surrounding the city will be built. The core area is the inner city, including the royal palace (temporarily only one-fifth of it has been built to accommodate Tammarajya's house arrest and the occasional appearance to meet ministers), various ministries, the central business district and the inner city residential area, as well as the temporary port. .
There are two main construction tasks in the second phase. First, the temporary port should be upgraded to a large-scale standard seaport, and the outer city wall should be built. If there is still excess construction capacity, some other facilities in the outer city can be built.
Needless to say, the third stage is to complete various construction projects in the outer city and truly complete the construction of Dingna City.
At the same time as the three stages of construction are being carried out, Jinghua must also go all out to replenish Dingnancheng with the migrant population - what is a city without people?
But there is something special here: Jinghua will quietly control the population ratio of Dingnancheng without making it public. To put it simply, it is to secretly ensure that Mingren in Nancheng must have an absolute advantage. Of course, taking into account various difficulties in actual operation, this "absolute advantage" has only been determined at 70% for the time being.
As for the specific ethnicity of the "Ming people", Gao Pragmatic did not make any requirements. Whether you are a Han, a child, a Miao, a Yao, or even a "naturalized Han" of Annan origin, you will all be counted as a "Ming person" in Dingna City. The only requirement is You must speak Chinese at all times.
Gao Pragmatic insists on his consistent view: the Chinese nation has never been divided by blood, but by culture.
"When the barbarians invade China, they will be conquered by China; when the barbarians invade China, they will be conquered by the barbarians." On this point, Gao Pragmatic fully recognized Confucius's proposition.
Of course, he believed that this transformation would take a certain amount of time. Just like Annan's "naturalized Han Chinese", they could not be recognized as Han Chinese by Beijing just by shouting "I am Han Chinese".
The "naturalized household registration system" implemented in Annan has also been transplanted to Siam. Siamese people who are willing to "naturalize" only need to complete Chinese language study, and then complete various types of "naturalization" through methods such as joining the army and making donations. If you “contribute to society”, you can apply for inspection by Jinghua University. If you successfully pass the inspection, you can become a naturalized Han Chinese and enjoy all the preferential treatment and social benefits that are exactly the same as those of Han people.
The pragmatic Gao who dreamed of "everyone is equal" when he first time traveled has not only abandoned this unrealistic idea long ago, but has even gone so far as to create an increasingly complex division of people's levels.
As Annamites, Siamese and other aboriginal people, Gaowu Shi is now strictly controlling while giving room for advancement to the outstanding talents among them, so that they change their life goals from "defeating Ming people" to "becoming Ming people" .
A stick in one hand and a carrot in the other, this trick is really tried and true - as long as you really have both a stick and a carrot.
Siamese can perform transplants of Annam pattern very well, but Bago and Nanzhang are different.
As for Bago, Gao Pragmatic and Huang Zhiting need to consider the reaction of the Mon people, because His Majesty Alabang - oh, his name is Xia Muming now - although he was originally just the "King of Bago" introduced by Jinghua himself, but After the victory in the Yunnan-Burma War, his status was confirmed by the Ming Emperor.
Zhu Yijun has officially canonized him as the "Xuanwei Envoy of the Dagu Laxuanwei Division" - according to general practice, these foreign vassal Xuanwei envoys canonized by the Ming Dynasty basically call themselves kings internally, and the Ming Dynasty will never pursue it seriously, but they When paying tribute, the signature should be given to such and such a person as a consolation envoy.
Therefore, Xia Muming, as Jinghua's original "ally" and as Ming's "obedient minister", had a rather special status, and Jinghua could not completely ignore the interests of the Mon people represented by him.
In addition, after the war, although the Mon people disbanded a large number of "rebels" on the grounds of financial difficulties under Jinghua's "suggestion", they still retain 20,000 people as local troops. Although Gao Silian may not take the 20,000 militiamen with junk equipment in his eyes, he still has to give him some face. After all, if 20,000 strong men turn into corpses, it will be a big trouble.
Therefore, the advancement of the Annan model in the Bago Kingdom was much slower than that in Siam, and even the "naturalized household registration system" has not been launched for the time being. As for immigration... Jinghua's current tasks are too heavy. Taiwan, Annan and Siam alone are already too busy for Jinghua. How can they care about Myanmar for a while? It is estimated that at least until the construction of Dingnancheng is completed, Jinghua will have enough time to consider immigrating to Myanmar.
Finally, there is Nanzhang. Nanzhang... Alas, this place is really sad to hear and shed tears to hear. It is really too poor, and from a geographical point of view, it is very difficult to develop.
In this era, it is impossible to build expressways and high-speed railways. After thinking about it pragmatically, Gao thought that he could only use waterways to drive the economic development of Nanzhang.
However, using waterways is not just a matter of words. Originally, Gao Pragmatic had already designated Dingnan City as the core city of Indochina in the future. In theory, it is best for Nanzhang's economy to interact with Siam.
However, this is actually difficult to do, because although Nanzhang is the birthplace of many river systems, most of them flow east to Annan, or first east and then south, to Cambodia. There are very few rivers that flow to Siam, but because Nanzhang is its upstream, the water is shallow and narrow, and it is not suitable for inland river ships for transportation. At most, some bamboo rafts can be used - so what's the use?
Jinghua's consistent method is military deterrence combined with interest bundling. Now for Nanzhang, military deterrence is definitely no problem, but the problem of interest bundling is very prominent.
Because Jinghua's interests are bound together, the premise is to "make the cake bigger first", and in the case of Nanzhang, Jinghua is also a skillful woman who has no idea how to make this cake, let alone "make it bigger".
In this case, various reforms aimed at Nanzhang will be difficult to implement. Because without providing new profit growth points, no matter how the reform is made, it will touch the interests of some Nanzhang people. By then, it is likely that the reform will not achieve any results, but will turn Nanzhang people against Jinghua and take them out of the hands of the Burmese. When the gratitude for liberation is exhausted, it means stealing the chicken but losing the rice, but instead suffering a big loss.
Therefore, in Nanzhang, the transplantation work of Jinghua's "Annan Model" is progressing very poorly, even worse than in the Bago Kingdom. It can almost be said to have stagnated.
From the above, it can be seen that Jinghua itself is also facing huge pressure and challenges. Therefore, when it comes to sending troops to Cambodia, in addition to giving Liu Xin 20,000 gold and Hong Kong police troops, it is difficult for Jinghua to give her much support. .
The guarantee Liu Xin received from Huang Zhiting was to "ensure that firearms are not in short supply" - except for gunpowder and projectiles, you have to figure out the rest by yourself.
Fortunately, we are fighting in the Indochina Peninsula, so there is no need to prepare winter clothing for the army. Considering that the target area is the Mekong Delta, as long as the time of launching the war is controlled well, there is still a good chance of "eating on the spot".
In other words, it means sending troops during the grain harvest period. After arriving in Cambodia, they will directly harvest local grain to supply the army, or more straightforwardly, grab the Cambodian army's grain and grass to support the war.
Gao Pragmatic had never done this kind of thing before, so he was probably worried about letting him command this kind of battle, but Liu Xin was not afraid of this.
Liu Xin herself had never done this kind of thing, but many of the Liu Jiajun generals she brought with her were experienced in this.
After all, before Liu Xian fell into the arms of the high party, he was always suppressed by civilian officials and Nanjing nobles. As a result, Liu Jiajun's treatment was extremely poor, and military discipline was naturally not improved. While fighting against Japan, it often happened that he hugged grass and hunted rabbits. Some in the army The generals have long developed a good skill in searching for land.
After Liu Wei became a highly pragmatic and optimistic general, Liu Jiajun's treatment was visibly improved. This kind of thing became less and less, but it was like a person who learned to swim and would never forget it for the rest of his life. Now let them go back to their old profession. There was no difficulty. Even after Liu Xin told them, many people still looked nostalgic...
People, it is really easy to learn bad things but hard to learn well.
On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month of the fifth year of Wanli in the Datong calendar of the Ming Dynasty, just after the Lantern Festival, the 20,000-strong Jingang garrison, led by Liu Xin, quietly dispatched troops and galloped toward the southwest.
Rice in the Mekong Delta is harvested three times a year, and the rice has just been planted before the Spring Festival. Counting the time spent traveling and fighting, it is now time to harvest the first wave of rice!
The entry point Liu Xin prepared was the city that Jinghua had just acquired.
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