Yuanjiang is the Honghe River. The army heads south and arrives at Yuanjiang first, and then goes east along the Honghe River.
The troops under Zhu Gaoxu were divided into five groups. Except for Wang Bin's pioneer, the remaining troops were divided into four groups and advanced one after another.
Zhu Gaoxu and tens of thousands of people passed Mengzi County, Lin'an Prefecture, and saw Yuanjiang within two days. It was early July.
The roads are relatively easy to walk along the Yuan River, and most of them are undulating hilly areas.
However, when it comes to clear weather, you can see mountains on both sides of the north and south, and there are high mountains and ridges in the distance.
The ancient river has chosen a path for people without mountain barriers.
The weather in July is still hot, and Zhu Gaoxu can't feel the breath of autumn and rain often falls.
However, everyone is still on the territory of the Yunnan Provincial Administration Commission. Because there is no war, the military camp has purged the soldiers without casualties and no disease has occurred.
When we arrived in Annan and were about to prepare for a war, it was almost late autumn.
The army arrived at Jiling Pass (old street), an important town on the northwest border of Annan Kingdom, but there was still no war and even a conflict had not occurred.
The Annan Army abandoned this pass, digging gullies and moving rocks blocked the road; however, it was useless. After reaching Jiling Pass, the terrain of the river valley was even flatter than in Yunnan.
The vanguard army Wang Bin's unit has cleared the road and marched towards Qin Station.
Zhu Gaoxu led his troops to camp near Jiling Pass. While waiting for the troops from all over the country to arrive and gather, he sent people to the villages around Jiling Pass.
Whenever the Ming army squad arrived at a village, they would first give a letter and ordered each village to requisition military rations according to the population, and generally only collected one to two dou of grain per person.
As long as the villagers paid the tax, the Ming army posted the list of people, promising to not commit any crimes and never kill the people indiscriminately. They also sent a banner of Chen's loyal ministers to the village to express their commendation.
This is something Zhu Gaoxu has been accustomed to doing since the Jingnan Battle, and he does not advocate robbing troops.
According to veterans, indulging soldiers can make everyone work harder on the battlefield; however, Zhu Gaoxu thought that this would aggravate the conflict between soldiers and locals and create new troubles in a mess.
He usually robs the treasury in an organized manner and collects the land in proportion, rather than killing all the resources, then rewarding and subsidizing soldiers, or establishing camp tricks, so that everyone can get real benefits.
After the Zhongyuan Festival, the Zhongjun received a report from Wang Bin that the first battle of the Ming army in Annan Kingdom took place at Qin Station. The Annan army had only two military camps and was easily defeated by Wang Bin's vanguard army.
Zhu Gaoxu ordered all armies to march towards Qin Station one after another after July 20th, and he led more than 300 cavalry guards to Qin Station first.
The cavalry of the personal guards headed south along the official road on the bank of the Honghe River. As soon as Zhu Gaoxu left the Jiling Pass area, he immediately discovered that the landform here was different from that in Yunnan.
There are still rolling hills near the main road, with many low hills, but the woods are getting denser and the mountains are endless.
However, the Annan Army did not guerrilla attacks in these places, Wang Bin's troops did not encounter any resistance, and Zhu Gaoxu's hundreds of troops were not attacked.
Zhu Gaoxu discovered that at this time, the chieftains of all countries and cities rarely used guerrilla tactics. After careful consideration, perhaps the enemy's army was not only due to conceptual problems, but also had conditions.
Many conditions at this time were not as good as those of later generations. The transportation of food and grass, the rule of the government, and the lethality of weapons were not very good. Guerrillas even raised in the mountains. Therefore, whether in the Ming Dynasty or Annan Kingdom, a real important town was not just about the terrain, but also about the richness of the surrounding land and whether they could support so many armies... For example, Jingzhou, an important town in the mainland.
Since the Annan Army did not understand jungle guerrilla tactics, or could not do it at all, Zhu Gaoxu was already relieved a lot.
There is a city tower at the pass of Qin Station, and the building looks no different from that of the Ming Dynasty.Zhu Gaoxu came to Annan Kingdom, except for the different languages, and looking at his scenery, he had the illusion that he was still in the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
Wang Bin and other generals came up.There was noisy under the city tower, and many enemy prisoners were crying and shouting, while the Ming soldiers around him were holding weapons and shouting.
Meet the prince!Wang Bin turned over and dismounted, held his fists and saluted.
Zhu Gaoxu immediately folded his fists and replied, pointing at the messy situation downstairs with a horse whip. What's going on?
Wang Bin said: At the beginning of the year, our envoys and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were slaughtered here. I captured two Annan people from the military camp and were about to chop their heads and comfort the soldiers here.
Zhu Gaoxu did not stop everyone and immediately stepped forward to watch.
Seeing this, Wang Bin waved his hand to the generals on the hillside. After a while, he heard a crackling sound of muskets. Then the Ming soldiers lined up with swords and guns and chopped them up as soon as they saw them.
Most of the prisoners were tied with their hands and stringed up with ropes. They couldn't run away or resist. The cries were louder and the smell of gunpowder and fishy smell in the air were pungent.
Most of the soldiers of the Annan army wore wide-brimmed hats like bamboo hats, or because it was rainy in Annan, which was easy to hide the rain.The generals wore armor and helmets, which were quite similar to the Ming army.
At this moment, Zhu Gaoxu heard someone trembling in Chinese with inaccurate pronunciation: The bright moonlight in front of the bed, suspected to be frost on the ground... My heart is on the Ming Dynasty, and I love poetry and Ming dishes the most, don't kill me... The peacock flies southeast...
Zhu Gaoxu saw in the voice that he saw an Annan Army general wearing armor, crying in Chinese.Zhu Gaoxu immediately pointed at the man and said: Don’t kill him, bring him here!
Wang Bin immediately shouted his subordinates to rush over and escort the man over.But the man was already unable to stand firm and was dragged from the ground by the two of them to Zhu Gaoxu's horse.
Zhu Gaoxu saw that this person's skin was whiter than other Annan people, and he was so scared that he was trembling all over. It seemed that he was not a general on the battlefield. He might have only become a military general because he had a good background... What's more, those who can recite poems and essays were mostly children of wealthy families even in the Ming Dynasty, let alone those in Annan people who can chant Chinese poems.
Hahaha... Suddenly there was a burst of laughter around.
Zhu Gaoxu smelled a stinking smell, and then he realized that the person in front of him had already wet. His face turned red, afraid and ashamed, and was in a mess.
Maleman, please spare your life!This man has a strange Chinese accent, but he speaks it fluently. I don’t want to be an enemy of the Ming Dynasty, nor is he a traitor who is determined to be a rebel against the Hu family!Hu knew that this place was not to be guarded, and all the trusted people were transferred away, and the rest of us were abandoned...
Zhu Gaoxu said: What is your name?
Ruan Zhi.
Zhu Gaoxu nodded and said: Ruan Zhi, are you willing to abandon the darkness and turn to the light to restore the orthodoxy of the Chen family?
Ruan Zhi nodded desperately without hesitation and bent down and said: Thank you, the general for not killing him!
Don't make things difficult for him.Zhu Gaoxu waved his hand.
Wang Bin clasped his fists and said: I'm sure you'll get the order!
When Ruan Zhi was taken away, Zhu Gaoxu immediately asked: Have you seized the Annan Army muskets?
Wang Bin said: Go back to the prince, there is!The two camps had hundreds of muskets, most of which were still useful, and Annan’s army used a large number of firearms.
Get on the horse and lead the way.Zhu Gaoxu said briefly.
The crowd turned over and walked straight through the headless corpse and bloody smear down the city tower, and went straight into the Qin Station city tower.
When they arrived at a military camp, various captured firearms, weapons, and armor were placed on the open space. The Ming army soldiers also built thatched sheds to cover them above to prevent rain.
Zhu Gaoxu got off the horse and threw the reins to Zhao Ping next to him.Although Zhao Ping is a general who leads hundreds of elite soldiers, he is still a groom in front of Zhu Gaoxu!
Zhu Gaoxu picked up a musket and checked.Wang Bin said beside him: This musket is loaded with arrows, but it is farther than our copper musket!However, the Annan Army's artillery and crossbows are not as good as us.
As expected by Zhu Gaoxu, there is no essential difference between the Annan Army's muskets and the Ming Army, and it is the same from casting technology to principle.
Although Zhu Gaoxu was not a craftsman, he could also see that casting and forging things were different. The musket in his hand was still mainly cast with copper material; the difference was that the caliber was smaller than that of the Ming army and slightly longer.
Zhu Gaoxu thought for a moment and remembered that the barrel of rifles in later generations was longer than that of pistols. It was common sense that the barrel was long and the barrel was helpful to the range.
He thought again that the bullet actually had an acceleration from stationary to high-speed exit, which was Newtonian kinematics learned in junior high school.
The thrust of acceleration depends on the inflation of gas burning by gunpowder.
When the thrust is almost the same, the longer the barrel, the longer the acceleration time, the faster the bore out speed... Zhu Gaoxu thoughtfully calculated and roughly understood the reason.
Zhu Gaoxu carefully observed each part. He gently picked up the muzzle with his fingers and found a little wood chip, which was the residue of the Trojan horse.
Obviously, Annan Army also learned to use Trojan horses to increase air tightness, otherwise it would use arrow clusters to make projectiles that could not be sealed, and the estimated range would be able to hit the front.
He also ordered the soldiers to shoot the target with the captured Annan musket, and found that at a distance of twenty steps, this musket could not penetrate the wooden board; and it was also a way to ignite open flames.
Therefore, the Annan Army's muskets were further fired than the Ming Army's copper muskets, but the Ming Army also had crossbows and artillery to make up for the long range.
Zhu Gaoxu made a judgment: the difference between the two armies' muskets cannot fundamentally affect the outcome of the battle.For a moment, his mood gradually improved.
At this time, the generals predicted the victory or defeat of the battle, and they still followed the concepts of thousands of years ago, with the right time, place and people.
It mainly depends on factors such as righteousness, people's hearts, pros and cons, climate, and terrain. Generally, it depends on the other party's military appearance and discipline and equipment.
Zhu Gaoxu knew about the Opium War, and the enemy came to rob money, and there was a bird's righteousness.
So he also attaches great importance to the technical and tactical aspects of weapons.
When a certain factor is fundamentally different, the philosophical thoughts of the ancestors will not be fulfilled.
However, Zhu Gaoxu will not face these problems at present.He also found that the army in the tropical southern region generally has poor organization and military discipline, and the battle of a dignified formation is completely ineffective!
He was even more confident.
The troops under Zhu Gaoxu were divided into five groups. Except for Wang Bin's pioneer, the remaining troops were divided into four groups and advanced one after another.
Zhu Gaoxu and tens of thousands of people passed Mengzi County, Lin'an Prefecture, and saw Yuanjiang within two days. It was early July.
The roads are relatively easy to walk along the Yuan River, and most of them are undulating hilly areas.
However, when it comes to clear weather, you can see mountains on both sides of the north and south, and there are high mountains and ridges in the distance.
The ancient river has chosen a path for people without mountain barriers.
The weather in July is still hot, and Zhu Gaoxu can't feel the breath of autumn and rain often falls.
However, everyone is still on the territory of the Yunnan Provincial Administration Commission. Because there is no war, the military camp has purged the soldiers without casualties and no disease has occurred.
When we arrived in Annan and were about to prepare for a war, it was almost late autumn.
The army arrived at Jiling Pass (old street), an important town on the northwest border of Annan Kingdom, but there was still no war and even a conflict had not occurred.
The Annan Army abandoned this pass, digging gullies and moving rocks blocked the road; however, it was useless. After reaching Jiling Pass, the terrain of the river valley was even flatter than in Yunnan.
The vanguard army Wang Bin's unit has cleared the road and marched towards Qin Station.
Zhu Gaoxu led his troops to camp near Jiling Pass. While waiting for the troops from all over the country to arrive and gather, he sent people to the villages around Jiling Pass.
Whenever the Ming army squad arrived at a village, they would first give a letter and ordered each village to requisition military rations according to the population, and generally only collected one to two dou of grain per person.
As long as the villagers paid the tax, the Ming army posted the list of people, promising to not commit any crimes and never kill the people indiscriminately. They also sent a banner of Chen's loyal ministers to the village to express their commendation.
This is something Zhu Gaoxu has been accustomed to doing since the Jingnan Battle, and he does not advocate robbing troops.
According to veterans, indulging soldiers can make everyone work harder on the battlefield; however, Zhu Gaoxu thought that this would aggravate the conflict between soldiers and locals and create new troubles in a mess.
He usually robs the treasury in an organized manner and collects the land in proportion, rather than killing all the resources, then rewarding and subsidizing soldiers, or establishing camp tricks, so that everyone can get real benefits.
After the Zhongyuan Festival, the Zhongjun received a report from Wang Bin that the first battle of the Ming army in Annan Kingdom took place at Qin Station. The Annan army had only two military camps and was easily defeated by Wang Bin's vanguard army.
Zhu Gaoxu ordered all armies to march towards Qin Station one after another after July 20th, and he led more than 300 cavalry guards to Qin Station first.
The cavalry of the personal guards headed south along the official road on the bank of the Honghe River. As soon as Zhu Gaoxu left the Jiling Pass area, he immediately discovered that the landform here was different from that in Yunnan.
There are still rolling hills near the main road, with many low hills, but the woods are getting denser and the mountains are endless.
However, the Annan Army did not guerrilla attacks in these places, Wang Bin's troops did not encounter any resistance, and Zhu Gaoxu's hundreds of troops were not attacked.
Zhu Gaoxu discovered that at this time, the chieftains of all countries and cities rarely used guerrilla tactics. After careful consideration, perhaps the enemy's army was not only due to conceptual problems, but also had conditions.
Many conditions at this time were not as good as those of later generations. The transportation of food and grass, the rule of the government, and the lethality of weapons were not very good. Guerrillas even raised in the mountains. Therefore, whether in the Ming Dynasty or Annan Kingdom, a real important town was not just about the terrain, but also about the richness of the surrounding land and whether they could support so many armies... For example, Jingzhou, an important town in the mainland.
Since the Annan Army did not understand jungle guerrilla tactics, or could not do it at all, Zhu Gaoxu was already relieved a lot.
There is a city tower at the pass of Qin Station, and the building looks no different from that of the Ming Dynasty.Zhu Gaoxu came to Annan Kingdom, except for the different languages, and looking at his scenery, he had the illusion that he was still in the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
Wang Bin and other generals came up.There was noisy under the city tower, and many enemy prisoners were crying and shouting, while the Ming soldiers around him were holding weapons and shouting.
Meet the prince!Wang Bin turned over and dismounted, held his fists and saluted.
Zhu Gaoxu immediately folded his fists and replied, pointing at the messy situation downstairs with a horse whip. What's going on?
Wang Bin said: At the beginning of the year, our envoys and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were slaughtered here. I captured two Annan people from the military camp and were about to chop their heads and comfort the soldiers here.
Zhu Gaoxu did not stop everyone and immediately stepped forward to watch.
Seeing this, Wang Bin waved his hand to the generals on the hillside. After a while, he heard a crackling sound of muskets. Then the Ming soldiers lined up with swords and guns and chopped them up as soon as they saw them.
Most of the prisoners were tied with their hands and stringed up with ropes. They couldn't run away or resist. The cries were louder and the smell of gunpowder and fishy smell in the air were pungent.
Most of the soldiers of the Annan army wore wide-brimmed hats like bamboo hats, or because it was rainy in Annan, which was easy to hide the rain.The generals wore armor and helmets, which were quite similar to the Ming army.
At this moment, Zhu Gaoxu heard someone trembling in Chinese with inaccurate pronunciation: The bright moonlight in front of the bed, suspected to be frost on the ground... My heart is on the Ming Dynasty, and I love poetry and Ming dishes the most, don't kill me... The peacock flies southeast...
Zhu Gaoxu saw in the voice that he saw an Annan Army general wearing armor, crying in Chinese.Zhu Gaoxu immediately pointed at the man and said: Don’t kill him, bring him here!
Wang Bin immediately shouted his subordinates to rush over and escort the man over.But the man was already unable to stand firm and was dragged from the ground by the two of them to Zhu Gaoxu's horse.
Zhu Gaoxu saw that this person's skin was whiter than other Annan people, and he was so scared that he was trembling all over. It seemed that he was not a general on the battlefield. He might have only become a military general because he had a good background... What's more, those who can recite poems and essays were mostly children of wealthy families even in the Ming Dynasty, let alone those in Annan people who can chant Chinese poems.
Hahaha... Suddenly there was a burst of laughter around.
Zhu Gaoxu smelled a stinking smell, and then he realized that the person in front of him had already wet. His face turned red, afraid and ashamed, and was in a mess.
Maleman, please spare your life!This man has a strange Chinese accent, but he speaks it fluently. I don’t want to be an enemy of the Ming Dynasty, nor is he a traitor who is determined to be a rebel against the Hu family!Hu knew that this place was not to be guarded, and all the trusted people were transferred away, and the rest of us were abandoned...
Zhu Gaoxu said: What is your name?
Ruan Zhi.
Zhu Gaoxu nodded and said: Ruan Zhi, are you willing to abandon the darkness and turn to the light to restore the orthodoxy of the Chen family?
Ruan Zhi nodded desperately without hesitation and bent down and said: Thank you, the general for not killing him!
Don't make things difficult for him.Zhu Gaoxu waved his hand.
Wang Bin clasped his fists and said: I'm sure you'll get the order!
When Ruan Zhi was taken away, Zhu Gaoxu immediately asked: Have you seized the Annan Army muskets?
Wang Bin said: Go back to the prince, there is!The two camps had hundreds of muskets, most of which were still useful, and Annan’s army used a large number of firearms.
Get on the horse and lead the way.Zhu Gaoxu said briefly.
The crowd turned over and walked straight through the headless corpse and bloody smear down the city tower, and went straight into the Qin Station city tower.
When they arrived at a military camp, various captured firearms, weapons, and armor were placed on the open space. The Ming army soldiers also built thatched sheds to cover them above to prevent rain.
Zhu Gaoxu got off the horse and threw the reins to Zhao Ping next to him.Although Zhao Ping is a general who leads hundreds of elite soldiers, he is still a groom in front of Zhu Gaoxu!
Zhu Gaoxu picked up a musket and checked.Wang Bin said beside him: This musket is loaded with arrows, but it is farther than our copper musket!However, the Annan Army's artillery and crossbows are not as good as us.
As expected by Zhu Gaoxu, there is no essential difference between the Annan Army's muskets and the Ming Army, and it is the same from casting technology to principle.
Although Zhu Gaoxu was not a craftsman, he could also see that casting and forging things were different. The musket in his hand was still mainly cast with copper material; the difference was that the caliber was smaller than that of the Ming army and slightly longer.
Zhu Gaoxu thought for a moment and remembered that the barrel of rifles in later generations was longer than that of pistols. It was common sense that the barrel was long and the barrel was helpful to the range.
He thought again that the bullet actually had an acceleration from stationary to high-speed exit, which was Newtonian kinematics learned in junior high school.
The thrust of acceleration depends on the inflation of gas burning by gunpowder.
When the thrust is almost the same, the longer the barrel, the longer the acceleration time, the faster the bore out speed... Zhu Gaoxu thoughtfully calculated and roughly understood the reason.
Zhu Gaoxu carefully observed each part. He gently picked up the muzzle with his fingers and found a little wood chip, which was the residue of the Trojan horse.
Obviously, Annan Army also learned to use Trojan horses to increase air tightness, otherwise it would use arrow clusters to make projectiles that could not be sealed, and the estimated range would be able to hit the front.
He also ordered the soldiers to shoot the target with the captured Annan musket, and found that at a distance of twenty steps, this musket could not penetrate the wooden board; and it was also a way to ignite open flames.
Therefore, the Annan Army's muskets were further fired than the Ming Army's copper muskets, but the Ming Army also had crossbows and artillery to make up for the long range.
Zhu Gaoxu made a judgment: the difference between the two armies' muskets cannot fundamentally affect the outcome of the battle.For a moment, his mood gradually improved.
At this time, the generals predicted the victory or defeat of the battle, and they still followed the concepts of thousands of years ago, with the right time, place and people.
It mainly depends on factors such as righteousness, people's hearts, pros and cons, climate, and terrain. Generally, it depends on the other party's military appearance and discipline and equipment.
Zhu Gaoxu knew about the Opium War, and the enemy came to rob money, and there was a bird's righteousness.
So he also attaches great importance to the technical and tactical aspects of weapons.
When a certain factor is fundamentally different, the philosophical thoughts of the ancestors will not be fulfilled.
However, Zhu Gaoxu will not face these problems at present.He also found that the army in the tropical southern region generally has poor organization and military discipline, and the battle of a dignified formation is completely ineffective!
He was even more confident.
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