Chapter 383 The headache for Zhu Youxiao
Although Zhu Youxiao said that, in fact, moving the sea is useless now. After all, if you want to move all the coastal people on such a long coastline to the mainland, there will be no huge project that cannot be completed in one or two years. In this way, there will be greater public grievances. Since these military soldiers who have been corrupted in military discipline cannot even help the imperial guards to drive away pirates and plunder the coast, let alone communicate well with the people and let the people leave their homes willingly.
What's more, Kang Mazi, who is only with some genetic genes in Huang Taiji, has done this in his original history, which has caused public resentment. Zhu Youxiao naturally could not do this. He only ordered the Imperial Guards to do their best to eliminate the pirates who plundered villages and towns along the coast, and ordered Lu Xiangsheng, Gu Sanmazi and Qin Botong to find the whereabouts of the main force of Zheng Zhilong's fleet and fight as soon as possible to avoid the long-term harassment of pirates in the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty.
But sometimes the situation of the war changes so strangely. When Zhu Youxiao thought that his court did not have enough naval strength to wipe out the Zheng pirate group, he was able to defeat the Zheng group twice in a row with his advanced steam-powered warship and Gu Sanmazi, a general who was forgotten by history, through flexible tactics, forcing Zheng Zhilong to lie dormant for half a year and did not dare to turn against the court until the Ming Dynasty completely controlled Macau.
But now, when Zhu Youxiao believes that his court has formed three naval forces, and the naval officers and soldiers who have participated in actual combat have already reached a large number, and there is an outlet for the sea, and with a 9 million square kilometers of rear area for logistics support, he can completely fight Zheng Zhilong. What's more, Zhu Youxiao has also had very outstanding naval generals in his hands. In order to completely solve the problem of Zheng's pirates before the twelve years of the Apocalypse, he issued a direct order to let Lu Xiangsheng, Qin Botong, and Gu Sanmazi be fully responsible for commanding the war to wipe out the Zheng group.
Qin Botong is Gu Sanmazi's old partner, and his mind is as flexible as Gu Sanmazi. He has had experience in cooperating with each other. As a commander who was directly responsible for the Eastern Route Army of the Imperial Guards to eliminate Wu Xiang and Wu's father and son and occupy the Korchin tribe, he was also responsible for commanding the war against the resistance to the entry of the Tartars into the pass, so he already had rich experience in coordinating and allocating commands.
What's more, Lu Xiangsheng himself has very outstanding abilities, which is proven by history. Moreover, he is also the rare civil servant who can tolerate and get along well with military generals. Therefore, it is very appropriate for him to be fully responsible for the war against the extermination of the Zheng pirate group. After Lu Xiangsheng arrived at Nanjing, that is, the headquarters of the temporary headquarters of the Five Provincial Administrations, he directly delegated power to Gu Sanmazi, who was responsible for the specific tactical arrangements, and he, the highest person in charge, was only responsible for coordination.
It can be seen that Lu Xiangsheng is a very broad-minded and Measured person. He knows how to use it only when he knows how to deal with pirates now is Gu Sanmazi, so he simply gave up the war to Gu Sanmazi without hesitation.
Zhu Youxiao was also very pleased when he learned about it from the Jinyiwei. At least the three masters of the naval battle he now formed can cooperate tacitly. As long as the generals and ministers are in harmony, why worry about not being able to wipe out the Zheng Zhilong Pirate Group! ~
However, having said that, neither Zhu Youxiao nor Lu Xiangsheng nor others expected that Zheng Zhilong would use this move, which would use the guerrilla tactic of sending out several small pirates to constantly raid the coast of the Ming Dynasty, so as to make the rear of the Ming Dynasty difficult to be peaceful, and at the same time, the logistical advantage could not be fully reflected, so that the current Ming Dynasty court did not gain any advantage when it first confronted the Zheng Group.
Instead, the Zheng group sacrificed some pirates, including Japanese Japanese pirates, Westerners and other indigenous people in the South China Sea to plunder a large number of war resources, including population.
This made Zhu Youxiao very depressed. Although he was in the Forbidden City, he couldn't sleep peacefully. He paced back and forth in the western warm pavilion of the Ganqing Palace all day long. It was not only the guerrilla tactics of Zheng Zhilong's coastal harassment that made people feel headache. What made Zhu Youxiao also felt headache was that the Zheng pirate group had too much influence in the Western Pacific, and it made him almost his own stronghold in this area, making it difficult for the Ming Navy to find the main location of Zheng Zhilong and where his real strategic points were.
Moreover, in this way, the enemy was almost in a state of darkness and lightness. Lu Xiangsheng stated in his reply to Zhu Youxiao that they now want to find the main force of the Zheng group to fight as soon as possible, and were worried that they would be too aggressive and fall into the siege of the Zheng group when a certain fleet was alone, which would lead to another Sarhu appearing on the sea.
So, overall, the Ming Dynasty's war against the extermination of the Zheng pirate group has now reached a deadlock and is still in a passive position.
This forced Zhu Youxiao to admit a fact that in actual wars, the outcome was really not determined in advance by comparing the military strength of our enemies and our army at the beginning. For example, the current battle between the Ming Dynasty court and the Zheng Group deeply illustrates this point.
However, the arrow has to be on the string. In order to completely solve the Zheng pirate group and enable the Ming Dynasty's advanced productivity to create more wealth for the Ming Dynasty, it must completely occupy the rights and interests of the maritime trade. This war must be fought. What's more, in order to completely solve this matter, Zhu Youxiao has now made the entire Ming Dynasty's state machine operate for this, and a large amount of material and financial resources are concentrated in the south. If this war is not fought, the Ming Dynasty will waste a lot of war costs in vain.
"Your Majesty, this is a memorial that Mr. Lu has just submitted in an emergency. In order to find the main force of the Zheng Pirate Group as soon as possible to solve the problem of the coastal people being plundered by pirates countless times, Gu Sanmazi has personally commanded the South China Sea fleet, searched along the chicken coop to the Ryukyu area, and is even going to Japan to search. It is said that Zheng Zhilong has a close relationship with the Japanese shogunate and many daimyos. It is very likely that Zheng Zhilong's nest is no longer in the chicken coop area, but in Honshu Island, Japan."
After hearing Li Mingrui's report, Zhu Youxiao nodded and said, "Don't go so far, don't worry about where Zheng Zhilong's nest is. Tell Lu Xiangsheng that since so many pirates can attack the people of our coastal areas of Ming Dynasty countless times, it means that there must be a concentration of these pirates gathering on the nearby islands. Now we have to realize this place and find an opportunity to take them all in one go. For Zheng Zhilong's nest, as long as the coastal areas of Ming Dynasty are calm, there is still time to clean up one by one."
After Zhu Youxiao finished speaking, before he had time to rest, Mao Wenlong's report also came to Zhu Youxiao from Outer Xing'anling.
Zhu Youxiao was naturally shocked after reading Mao Wenlong's report. He did not expect that he had not yet eliminated the cunning shark in the south. The big bear in the north first arrived in East and West Siberia. According to the rules of the advance of the Rakshasa Kingdom, the Cossack cavalry was generally allowed to occupy it as the vanguard, and then directly establish an administrative system here in the subsequent subsequent development, migrating serfs to farm here, so that these uninhabited lands were completely included in the territory of the Rakshasa Kingdom.
Now, since the Cossack cavalry has arrived in East and West Siberia, it means that the entire area of the outer Xing'anling and Miaotun controlled by the Ming Dynasty will also be attacked by the Cossack cavalry. Mao Wenlong is undoubtedly a very vigilant minister. Before the Cossack cavalry really began to attack the outer Xing'anling area controlled by the Ming Dynasty, he realized what kind of enemy he was facing and asked the court for help in time.
But in fact, the Ming Dynasty court now has no time to take into account the distant Siberian situation in the north. The elite left in the north still have to guard against Jiannu and the point guard of the capital. In addition, Zhu Youxiao does not want to attack a great enemy in the north without completely solving the Zheng pirate group. Therefore, Zhu Youxiao knew that he could not and could not declare war directly with the Rakshasa Kingdom, so he had to order Li Mingrui to introduce an order to Mao Wenlong, saying that Mao Wenlong himself would choose all military and political matters, and he could also choose to negotiate with the Rakshasa Kingdom. There could be compromises, but it was necessary to ensure that the existing control area of the Ming Dynasty could not be lost.
Mao Wenlong was quite helpless after receiving the order of Zhu Youxiao. He naturally knew that the court was in a difficult position now, but he had to admit that it was really difficult for him to deal with the main force of the Cossack cavalry with his 30,000 Dongjiang soldiers and a 3rd brigade of the Imperial Guard cavalry with only 5,000 cavalry.
However, no matter how difficult it is, Mao Wenlong dared not disobey Zhu Youxiao's will. He had to find a way to deal with the Cossack cavalry to a certain extent when the Cossack cavalry entered the outer Xing'an Mountains and forced the Cossack cavalry to accept peace talks.
There is no need to worry about translation. His Majesty Zhu Youxiao, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, established a translation library in the Hanlin Academy, which specialized in training such professionals who are proficient in foreign languages. Now, after establishing a higher education institution, it has even set up a foreign language department. When Mao Wenlong and others entered North Asia, they knew that they would inevitably have to contact the Rakshasa Kingdom in the future, so they brought such translations all the way. Many of these translations are still the Jinyiwei. Because the Jinyiwei is mainly responsible for collecting foreign military intelligence, the Jinyiwei's foreign language homework has never dared to fall behind.
In fact, the current Cossack cavalry came from the Ural Mountains. They did not know that not far from them was the actual control area of an ancient empire in the east, namely the Ming Empire. In the south of the control area, there was a slightly warmer and rich plain, and in the pass, it was a highly civilized and extremely rich area, so they still marched as if they had entered Central Siberia in the past.
The Daming Sentinel Cavalry, which was appeared and brutally killed by these Cossack cavalry, attracted their attention. They did not expect to meet combat-capable cavalry in the far east, because in such a small-scale contact battle, his Cossack cavalry had rarely suffered three to one casualties, that is, six Sentinel Cavalry were killed under their command, but the Cossack cavalry also lost two.
This made the Cossack cavalry very curious and excited, because as long as this cavalry with such combat effectiveness was such a powerful place, it means that this place is not a bitter and cold place that is as unpopular as East and West Siberia, but a rich place with certain wealth.
Therefore, the Cossack cavalry now cannot wait to gallop towards the area outside the Xing'an Mountains. They were eager to rob this area because according to the rules of their Rakshasa Kingdom, the wealth obtained from the robbery would be their own income, which made the combat power of these Cossack cavalry very strong and also showed their greed to the extreme.
However, Mao Wenlong had already set up three lines of defense in the outer Xing'anling area, and there was artillery depth. In addition, he had moved the local area and the people who had moved to carry out a solid wall and clear the fields. Therefore, it was not easy for these Cossack cavalrymen to easily flatten the Ming Dynasty's controlled area in this area.
The Cossack cavalry, with Barutloskiv as the first attack on the Longshanwei in the actual control area of the Outer Xing'anling area. However, as soon as they rushed, Mao Wenlong took the lead in order to send gas and gas to anesthetize the enemy's marching order, especially now, such as the Cossack cavalry, which need to be arranged in combat formation.
As a result, before many Cossack cavalry could cut their swords at ordinary people, they were dizzy and tears were still being stimulated by these gases.
At this time, the Third Brigade of the First Army of the Imperial Guard rushed over first, and took advantage of the fact that most of the Cossack cavalry lost consciousness due to gas, and cut their swords at the arrogant Cossack cavalry.
Not long after, dozens of these Cossack cavalrymen rushed in the front and became the dead souls of the Third Brigade of the Imperial Guard Cavalry.
However, just as a gust of wind blows, the gas gas is reduced due to the decrease in concentration of the Cossack cavalry, the 3rd cavalry brigade of the Imperial Guard suddenly evacuated the scene, which made the Cossack cavalry very puzzled, but they still came to kill here. However, what they did not expect was that when they entered the defense coil of the first line of defense, countless shells suddenly poured down towards the Cossack cavalry like pouring rain.
Suddenly, the entire cold Siberian grassland began to rumbling loudly, and countless Cossack cavalrymen had not had time to draw their swords and pretend to be targeted by the Ming Dynasty.
After the artillery fire attack, the Cossack cavalry became even more angry and rushed directly toward the periphery of Longshan Guard. However, at this time, Mao Wenlong had already made the Ming army led by him start using firearms and successfully used firearms to cause a large number of casualties from these Cossack cavalry who lost their minds due to anger.
These Cossack cavalry did not expect to encounter such a strong opponent in this far east. They had to suspend the attack and start consolidating the existing control area, and also began to build a confrontation with several garrisons that the Ming Dynasty has rebuilt.
However, these Cossack cavalry did not know that the main energy of this empire is in the south, so after he suffered a certain casualties, he chose to negotiate with Mao Wenlong first.
Chapter completed!