Tong Chizhong was often given the honor of accompanying the Yingyang Army when he was in the Yingyang Army, and he had been promoted to command Qianshi in the Yingyang Army. Although he still has five levels to climb before he can reach the rank of general, he is already one of the few young generals in the Yingyang Army.
In the Yingyang Army, all the officers were the children of the Jurchen upper class, and the ministers' children started out as the commander-in-chief. If they are the children of chiefs of large tribes, there are also those who started out as Chief Qian. For example, Tong Chizhong started out as Chief Qian. The lower-level soldiers are all composed of descendants or servants of the minister's family, with a total of nearly 9,000 people.
The original intention of the imperial court in raising eagles and raising the army was not to develop an army capable of fighting and daring to fight. Instead, it was to make them more tolerant. Except for not disturbing the people, the rest of the military discipline training was basically ignored.
Therefore, in the one and a half years since the formation of the army, the officers of the Yingyang Army, from top to bottom, are like their father, flying eagles and fighting dogs every day, sensual and sensual, and they have deteriorated very quickly, and their combat capabilities have plummeted.
Tong Chizhong won the favor of Zhu Yijun because his father and ancestor were the chiefs of Jianzhou and he was very famous in later generations. When Zhu Yijun was practicing riding and shooting, he often asked him to accompany him, and often offered him some rewards to win over him - he had a bad taste, but also had some appreciation for him.
After following the emperor for a long time, Tong Chizhong was as loyal to the emperor as his name suggests. He often talked to Zhu Yijun about the depravity of the Jurchen upper class, and was deeply worried about it.
What Tong Chizhong means is that the imperial court's nurturing of the Jurchen tribal chieftains can indeed play a role in dismantling the Jurchen combat effectiveness - but it is easy to move from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to move from luxury to frugality. Is it possible that the imperial court has been raising these people for generations? It is better to vigorously promote Sinology within the Yingyang Army and gradually Chineseize it. After several generations, there will be no distinction between Jurchens and Han people. It also allows the descendants of these people to be able to engage in production or dare to fight and perform meritorious service, so that they will not become a burden to the court in the future. .
Zhu Yijun had this intention in his plan to govern the Northeast. He followed the trend and accepted his words, and in the spring of the fourth year of Wanli, he sent sinology teachers to Yingyangjun to teach them Chinese. These teachers also need to trace their origins from a historical perspective, promote the idea that the Jurchens are originally from China, and completely dismantle their national consciousness.
Although the Jurchens originated from the Jin Kingdom, Professor Guozijian's understanding of the Huayi debate is still very good. In terms of race classification, we Chinese people have yellow skin, black hair and black eyes. Anyone with these three characteristics is the blood of the Chinese ancestors.
So how to distinguish Huayi? One word "ceremony"! As long as they follow Han customs, speak Chinese, wear right-hand trousers, and practice Han etiquette, they belong to the same clan. Previously, the Jurchens had left-sided folds and shaved their heads, so they were no longer the same clan. Today, they have changed their right folds and grown their hair, so there is no problem. They are all Han people. If they learn Chinese and Han rituals, they will be able to live together.
At this time and space, the Chinese civilization is simply crushing the cultural assimilation of the surrendered Yi people. Therefore, to Zhu Yijun's expectation, by the fifth year of Wanli, most of the Jurchens had already celebrated the Han Festival with the Han people.
Not to mention how many of them follow the trend and follow the political climate. Among them, the most successful sinicization is the low-end witchcraft theory of various shamans, which is completely replaced by the subtle principles of Han Buddhism. At this time, in the Northeast, except Traders from various places come to collect grain and mountain goods, and the bald men wearing cassocks are among the largest floating population.
Because Zhu Yijun attached great importance to missionary work to the northern ethnic minorities, Seng Lusi in this time and space received a lot of policy favoritism from the imperial court. All the monks sent to Mongolia, Tatar and the Northeast must have at least mastery of both internal and external medical skills. After Zhu Yijun initially took power in the first year of Wanli, Seng Lusi began to hold scripture debate activities and interpretation competitions, and spent a lot of money. energy to train missionary monks.
Unified training, unified examinations, unified dispatch, and standardized monk education have trained a large number of missionary masters proficient in medicine and Buddhism for the imperial court. These people walk among the grasslands, Gobi and deep mountains and forests, and have gained great respect from ethnic minorities everywhere.
The shaman's superficial surgical bone-setting and witch-doctor skills were nowhere comparable to those of the regular army trained by the imperial court. Especially in the field of surgery, because ethnic minority herdsmen and hunters are often injured, infection and limb deformity after injury are their biggest pains. After these monks took action, their healing rate was several times higher than that of shamans, defeating the primitive religion.
With such a multi-pronged approach, Zhu Yijun judged that within three generations, the Hanization of Jurchens would take full credit. And because of his contribution, Tong Chizhong was allowed to lead the Thousand Eagles Army to participate in the conquest of Burma - this was the first time that a general of the Yingyang Army was sent to military affairs. Although the imperial court had recruited many soldiers from the Jurchens before, they were all dispersed. They were arranged throughout the nine sides, the establishment was very small, and the officers were all Han Chinese.
Tong Chizhong is nineteen years old this year. At the end of the third year of Wanli, he married a Han woman, and his wife gave him a son with her first child. This time he went to fight for the country. He asked Zhu Yijun several times before he was allowed to fight, and he was determined to let the Burmese people see his own martial arts.
But rowing for many days in a row was a life-and-death experience for him. After a long journey, he was left with an indelible impression of the vast territory and vast waters of the Ming Dynasty. When he got off the ship and followed the large army from Guizhou to Guangdong, he was stunned by the beautiful mountains, rivers, customs and culture along the way.
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In mid-May of the fifth year of Wanli, after a long journey involving horse, foot, and boat marches, Liu Xian led the new army to Zhaoqing and met with Ling Yunyi, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.
Lingyun Yi was born in Rucheng, a native of Nanzhili. Zhang Juzheng was a Jinshi in the same department. Like Yin Zhengmao, he was a die-hard Zhang Dang. He was the governor of Jiangxi before taking over as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and he had a good understanding of the details of the ethnic minorities in the southwestern region of the empire.
While Yin Zhengmao was in Beijing, he and Zhang Juzheng often studied the relationship between Guangdong, Guangxi and Yao. The two of them also exchanged letters with Ling Yunyi to study how to pacify Luopang Yao. Therefore, Ling Yunyi was both angry and happy about Luo Pangyao's capture of Gaoyao - he had been waiting for an opportunity for the court to approve the iron wall siege military plan jointly made by him and Yin Zhengmao.
Therefore, from the bottom of Ling Yunyi's heart, he did not want Liu Xian to come and interfere. He has already issued an order from Governor Jun, and armies from all over Guangdong and Guangxi are arriving at designated positions one after another to encircle Longshui Luopang Mountain with an iron wall. There are nearly a thousand Yao villages in Luopang Mountain. Ling Yunyi is preparing to set up a dragnet and advance layer by layer to capture or kill all the Yao people inside, so as to solve the problem of rebellion among the Yao people in Guangdong and Guangxi at once.
And Liu Xian's intervention will take away at least one-third of this huge contribution. Moreover, Ling Yunyi believes that Liu Xian's military discipline and domineering personality cannot be turned around in just two years in martial arts. Therefore, how to arrange Liu Xian will be more difficult than conquering Luo Panyao. question.
However, all these doubts were disintegrated at the sight of the new army. The New Army set out from the capital at the end of February and arrived at Zhaoqing, Guangdong on May 16th. During this period, it took a long detour of more than a thousand miles. However, seeing the posture of this unit standing there after lining up, Ling Yunyi knew that using this unit would reduce the casualties of the soldiers of Guangdong and Guangxi by at least half.
Liu Xian also changed a lot, and he did not have the arrogance to lead the new army. When he met Ling Yunyi, he paid homage as a military attaché under his command and called him "Commander". In fact, Ling Yunyi was only the admiral in charge of the military affairs of Guangdong and Guangxi, while Liu Xian was the commander-in-chief of the expedition to Burma, and he also had the royal flag. The two of them were equal to each other. The reason why Liu Xian was so humble was of course because of Zhu Yijun's secret instructions.
When Ling Yunyi saw Liu Xian on the road, he didn't care about himself. The two of them joined hands and entered the Governor's Mansion. After eating and drinking, Ling Yunyi asked Liu Xian if he had any requirements for the combat methods and combat tasks in this battle.
Liu Xian shook his head and said: "My subordinates have seen battles with Guangdong Yao Village in the 40th year of Jiajing. There are no requirements this time. The emperor asked us to let the new army learn the skills of mountain warfare from the soldiers. It is best to cooperate with them." Soldiers fight."
When Ling Yunyi heard about it, he thought for a while and took Liu Xian to the sand table and said: "Liu Shuai, please take a look. The land beside Luo is divided into three parts, namely Dongshan, Xishan, and Longshui back mountain, which stretches for seven hundred miles. It borders Xinxing in the east, Yangchun in the south, Yulin and Cenxi in the west, and ends with the Yangtze River in the north. It is connected by thousands of mountains and there are about 200,000 to 400,000 Yao and children in it."
"In the past hundred years, although they have been suppressed many times, they have been immediately attacked again, and the rampage remains the same. They have gathered people from all over the world to help them wreak havoc. They are called rogues and bandits come out from all directions to plunder. There is a Yao proverb: 'The official has ten thousand soldiers, and I There are thousands of mountains, and I will go when the soldiers come, and I will come when the soldiers go.' To be honest, it is really difficult to pacify."
"In order to reap the rewards of one battle and return to their homeland, we must kill them this time. Therefore, I have requisitioned 150,000 troops from Guangdong and Guangxi, with the main force of martyrs, and divided them into ten sentries to carry out an iron wall encirclement. Wait. Choke all the intersections, then send a line of elite soldiers to attack from the outside in, and then ten sentries to attack in the center, strangle each village, and sweep the holes with thunder."
Liu Xian saw the flags on the sand table and that all the armies were basically deployed. He secretly admired Ling Yunyi in his heart and smiled: "Zhang Yuanxi and Li Xi, one is the Guangdong general soldier and the other is the Guangxi general soldier. Who is in charge?"
Ling Yunyi said: "After the battle begins, the two of them will each be in charge of five sentries and strangle them from the outside to the inside. They will join forces regardless of where they meet. After joining forces, they will be under Li Xi's control."
After Liu Xian heard this, he said with a hesitant look on his face: "It's okay to ask my subordinates to listen to the commander-in-chief. But after they get in, they ask me to listen to Li Xi. This..."
After hearing this, Ling Yunyi laughed and said: "I am in Zhaoqing just to wait for you. Now that you are here, we two brothers will act together. General Chen Zan will lead all the soldiers and ask them to follow the new army. Let's Dial in from Xinyi!"
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