The people in the navy said they wanted to raise horses in Jeju, and the people in the army knew immediately why they said that.
Isn't it just because if they attack Jeju, they have to use their navy, and then use this to obtain more military expenditures.
As for the places you said are rich in water and grass, suitable for raising horses, there are actually many places, and you don't have to go to remote islands to raise horses.
It's just that although the Army knew the Navy's plan, it didn't refuse it directly.
In the future, if Liaodong is captured and the Korean Peninsula is captured, it is not impossible to go to Jeju to raise horses. It is always good to have one more horse farm.
But that’s all for the future.
Now, we still have to focus on the horse farms in the Central Plains region and the Shaanxi-Gansu region, and first increase the number of military horses, especially the number of rideable war horses.
In November of the fifth year of Chengshun, the Dachu Empire passed a series of policies to support horse administration, encourage and support private horse breeding, and at the same time expand official horse farms. There are many official horse farms planned, except for Shaanxi, Gansu, Shandong and other places. , even Guangdong, Guangxi and even Yunnan plan to open racecourses to breed horses.
It's just that many parts of the Yunnan-Guizhou region are still under the control of the remnants of the Xi Ming Army. The Chu army wanted to speed up the progress of the Yun-Guizhou war, and also because the war in the north calmed down again after entering winter.
Taking advantage of the initial subsidence of the war in the north, the Chu Empire mobilized a lot of resources to invest in the Yunnan-Guizhou battlefield. It sent five reinforcements to the Yunnan battlefield alone, four of which were newly formed second-class divisions, and one was originally deployed in Guangdong. The first-class division, which is the 13th Division.
The 13th Division, which was previously stationed in Guangdong, began to be fully reorganized and re-equipped in October, because the weapons and equipment were shipped by sea at one time, including tens of thousands of flintlock muskets and thousands of corresponding sets of musketeers. Light half-body armor, and thousands of new recruits trained in advance are also ready.
Therefore, it only took half a month to complete the personnel adjustment, equipment distribution and other matters, and then began intensive training. After a month and a half of preliminary adaptability training, they were finally transferred to Guangxi in December, and then they continued to move westward. Yunnan, participating in the war in Yunnan.
By this time, the Chu army's troops deployed in the direction of Yunnan had reached two first-class divisions and five second-class divisions, with a total strength of more than 70,000.
Just looking at the number of troops, it is not much less than the troops that attacked Shaanxi, Gansu and Shanxi.
The reason why so many troops were invested was affected by the local terrain, the complexity of the chieftains, etc., and the Chu Empire was unwilling to directly attack Huanglong with a large army, leaving many messy chieftains alone.
The military action taken by the Great Chu Empire in the direction of Yunnan and Guizhou was not simply to annihilate Ximing, but also to take advantage of this opportunity to completely reverse the situation with many local chieftains and fully implement the 'waste land and establish counties'.
This was a policy that was more radical than that of the Ming Dynasty and was even more unfriendly to the local chieftains. This was also the reason why many local chieftains resisted desperately, resulting in the slow advance of the Chu army.
But Luo Zhixue was determined to take advantage of this opportunity to march into Yunnan and Guizhou to completely bring Yunnan and Guizhou, where there are many chieftains, into actual rule and kill all the chieftains at once, instead of letting many chieftain families go and slowly change things later. Earth returns to flow.
Any reform is most likely to succeed in the early stage of the dynasty. Once the world is at peace, it will be more difficult to carry out such large-scale reforms.
Therefore, Luo Zhixue would rather send more troops, let the frontline troops fight steadily, and engage in a dragnet-like advancement method, rather than see these chieftains survive in the world and then rebel in a few years.
As the Chu army continued to increase its troops, although the combat method was still advancing steadily, there were more directions of advancement at the same time, and the overall progress became faster.
Tens of thousands of troops dispersed and pushed forward. Countless chieftains who had ruled the local area for hundreds of years or more were killed one after another. Civil affairs officials at the rear followed the army and established administrative offices at all levels of prefectures, counties, towns and even villages. Rule, and completely incorporate these places into the actual rule of the Chu Empire.
On December 26, at the end of the fifth year of Chengshun, the 13th Division of the Chu Army, which had just entered the battlefield, captured Kunming City and annihilated most of the main force of the Xingwu regime in the Western Ming Dynasty, more than 30,000 soldiers. people.
However, Xingwu Emperor Zhu Youju, Duke of Guizhou Mu Tianbo and other dignitaries of the Xingwu Dynasty had already evacuated Kunming, Yunnan Prefecture in advance and fled to Dali Prefecture.
But on the other side, the fifth division of the Da Chu Empire reached Dali Mansion not long after.
This time, the Chu army directly cut off their breakout route and surrounded Dali tightly. When the Chu army launched the final general attack, the remaining 10,000 troops of the Xingwu Dynasty were completely destroyed.
On February 4, the sixth year of Chengshun, the Chu army captured Dali City.
Duke Mu Tianbo of Guizhou led more than a hundred personal guards to cover Emperor Xingwu's breakout, but failed and was finally forced to the edge of Erhai Lake by Chu soldiers.
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In despair, Mu Tianbo led the remaining bodyguards to resist desperately and died in a fierce battle. Xingwu Emperor Zhu Youzhu threw himself into the water and died!
The rest of the civil and military officials of the Xingwu Dynasty who followed them from Kunming to Dali, including many clan members, died.
After the First World War in Dali, the Xingwu Dynasty was officially destroyed!
This is already the fourth Ximing regime to be wiped out by the Chu Empire since the death of Emperor Chongzhen, and it is also the last Ximing regime.
The first was the Longxing regime. After Chongzhen committed suicide, Sun Chuanting supported Zhu Changhao as emperor in Chang'an, Shaanxi, and awarded him the title of "Longxing".
Because Longxing Emperor Zhu Changhao was the only remaining son of Ming Shenzong Zhu Yijun, and his lineage was closest to Chongzhen's, after Chongzhen's death, he was regarded as orthodox by most of the remaining forces in the Ming Dynasty, even the ambitious leftists. Liangyu once supported Zhu Changzi, the king of Lu, to supervise the country, but was later forced to cancel the supervision and recognize Zhu Changhao's legitimacy.
After the death of Longxing Emperor Zhu Changhao, other remaining forces of the Ming Dynasty successively supported two emperors and one supervisor.
That is, Zhu Changzi, the king of Lu supported by Zuo Liangyu in Yan'an, Shaanxi Province, proclaimed himself emperor and gave him the title of Shao'an. However, the Shao'an dynasty perished within a few months.
The civil and military officials in Sichuan, headed by the governor Shao Jiechun, forced the Shu king Zhu Zhishu to supervise the country. They also failed to hold on for a few months and were wiped out. The Shu king Zhu Zhishu was killed by the Sichuan governor Shao Jiechun with his backhand. The head saved his own life.
Yungui officials, headed by Mu Tianbo, Duke of Guizhou, proclaimed King Zhu Youzhu of Guizhou emperor and awarded him the title of Xingwu. After the deaths of King Zhu Zhishu of Shu and Emperor Zhu Changzi of Shao'an, Emperor Xingwu became the last one to receive the title. An emperor widely recognized by the remnants of the Ming Dynasty, the Xingwu Dynasty took advantage of the situation and became the last regime in the Ming Dynasty to control actual territory.
Unfortunately, the Xingwu Dynasty did not last long and fell.
With the collapse of the Xingwu regime, the Chu Empire finally completed the unification of Yunnan and Guizhou.
The battle for the reunification of the Yunnan-Guizhou region was also the longest battle that the Chu army had ever fought and the largest number of troops invested.
In terms of time, after the Chu army captured Chunan, it actually entered the Guizhou area and fought with the local Ming army until the sixth year of Chengshun, and they fought for several years.
It was four years since Chengshun officially entered Yunnan, and the battle lasted for more than a year.
Although the war lasted for so long, it was mostly because the Chu Empire did not pay too much attention to this place and did not invest a lot of manpower and material resources before. However, the war lasted for several years, which cannot be faked.
In terms of military strength, the Chu army successively invested three first-class divisions, five second-class divisions and a number of independent artillery, cavalry, baggage and other troops in Yunnan. There were as many as eight division-level troops. At the peak, Chu The army has more than 100,000 troops fighting in Yunnan.
In Guizhou, although the Chu army had not fought many battles, it invested a lot of troops due to the strategic need of dragging the net. There were two A-class divisions and two B-class divisions attacking Guizhou from the south of Chu. There are also two A-class divisions and one B-class division launching attacks on Guizhou from Sichuan direction.
All in all, the Chu army fighting in the direction of Guizhou reached 80,000 to 90,000 troops at its peak.
In the entire Yunnan-Guizhou direction, the Chu army has successively invested more than 200,000 troops. This is a very huge number, even exceeding the number of troops in the previous Northern Expedition and the Western Front Campaign.
Therefore, strictly speaking, the Battle of Yunnan and Guizhou was the longest battle that the Chu Empire had ever fought and the largest number of troops invested.
It's just that it was far less intense than the Northern Expedition or the Western Front Campaign.
The Chu army invested a large number of troops in the Yunnan-Guizhou region, and they carried out more low-intensity battles, fighting all kinds of messy chieftains and gentry.
In a sense, the Yunnan-Guizhou Campaign is somewhat similar to the clearing operations launched by the Chu Army in Jiangbei, the Central Plains, Hebei, Shandong and other regions. Its targets were not only the Western Ming Army, but also various illegal armed forces.
After such a harsh drag-net battle, all the known chieftain forces in Yunnan and Guizhou were wiped out, as were all the recalcitrant gentry and the remaining Ming forces of the Western Ming Dynasty. As for the bandits and bandits, even more so. Needless to say, most of them were killed.
After the Yunnan-Guizhou Campaign, local public security quickly soared to a good level, and there was no need to carry out special operations to suppress illegal armed forces in the future.
As the Chu army captured Dali and continued to sweep away the local Can Ming and chieftain forces, the entire Yunnan-Guizhou campaign came to a successful conclusion in March, and the Chu Empire fully unified the Han territories within the Pass.
As the good news from the front line came back to Jinling City, Luo Zhixue also ordered to split the Yunnan-Guizhou Campaign Command on the spot and establish the Guizhou Garrison Command and the Yunnan Garrison Command.
In addition, the Guangdong and Guangxi Garrison Command was re-split into the Guangdong Garrison Command and the Guangxi Garrison Command.
After all, there are no major external threats in the south today. There is no need to set up a special border defense headquarters to deal with enemies all over the place and to oversee heavy troops. The provincial garrison headquarters can be directly responsible for border defense.
