Chapter 278 Taking advantage of your illness

Zhu Gaoxu did not expect that Sijia would slaughter and destroy the Ming army's village in the mine.He at least felt that the possibility was not high.

Zhu Gaoxu once looked at the old files of Dusi and read all the records about the Luchuan area, so he made such a judgment.

However, he underestimated Si's rudeness or overestimated the foresight of the toast.

...On that land, the most arrogant and difficult-to-control chieftain must be the Sijia chieftain!

During the Yuan Dynasty, Sijia's territory was very large and was called Luchuan.The Yuan army had no choice but to do anything to them. The Luchuan Kingdom continued to grow, forcing the Yuan Dynasty court to continue to give in.

The situation did not change until the Ming Dynasty's forces entered Yunnan on a large scale.

The Ming Dynasty court, Yunnan Sansi and Mufu managed the Luchuan area for more than ten years, and used the method of dividing and governing it to analyze the Luchuan area; divided it into multiple large and large chieftains, gradually weakening the strength of Sijia.

During the implementation of this strategy, Mu Ying personally led a large army to conquer Sijia several times, suppressing the resistance of Sijia chieftains with force, and thus completing the division of the original Luchuan Kingdom.

In recent years, Sijia began to merge some villages, which immediately attracted the attention of Yunnan Metropolitan Police, far away in Kunming City; it was just because this chieftain was too tricky and had long troubled the Yunnan government and was highly valued by all parties in the Ming Dynasty.

But now, Sijia is still at the time of restoring its vitality, and it is also the weakest time.

The toast who could give Yuan Dynasty a headache to survive until now should have some vision.

That's why Zhu Gaoxu made a judgment. At this time, the most correct way to think about family is to keep a low profile. He should try his best to agree to some less excessive demands of the Ming Dynasty; gradually expand and slowly accumulate strength.

Then wait for the opportunity.

...However, Zhu Gaoxu thought he was smart and obviously slapped in the face by Sijia. Sixing method directly flattened the mine in the city without saying a word!

So Zhu Gaoxu completely changed his mind and reexamined and upgraded his ideas about dealing with this matter.

He has gradually mastered Yunnan's military and political affairs. Faced with the most difficult thorn in Yunnan, he decided to take advantage of his illness and kill him!Otherwise, when Sijia becomes stronger, it will be more hot to pay attention to it.

Since he thought about doing things and did not want to do business, Zhu Gaoxu decided to find his face back; by the way, he also solved a problem for the Ming Dynasty.

After all, his current identity is Taizu's grandson, and sometimes he subconsciously feels a sense of responsibility.

Zhu Gaoxu decided to raid Meng Yangsi first. If it didn't go well, he would also think of a way out... He wrote to the emperor and continued to mobilize troops and food to carry out the war to the end.

Since the Jingnan Campaign, Zhu Gaoxu has believed that his father Zhu Di was a very visionary person, so he believed that Zhu Di would agree with his views on Meng Yangsi.

...Five thousand elite soldiers were selected from the three guards, Zhu Gaoxu used Weida and Liu Ying as generals, and Zhao Ping as generals of the personal guards; Wang Bin and Chen Dachui were left behind, and the guards in the Han Palace were commanded.

He first asked Wang Bin and Chen Dachui to meet in the study, and quietly told them that the generals of the guards Chen Gang and Jun Yu Meiqing were traitors, which made them know what they knew, but they could not alarm the enemy.

Then Zhu Gaoxu met Hou Hai, the Han Palace's Dianzhao, and reminded Hou Hai that the right chief Li Mo was a traitor.During the war, Hou Hai was asked to pay attention to what Li Mo did, especially the personnel actions of the Changshi Mansion.

The eunuch in charge of the affairs was more at ease. Wang Gui was an old man from the county prince's mansion and the confidant of Zhu Gaoxu; the yellow dog was the eunuch left by the Jianwen Dynasty, because Zhu Gaoxu saved the life of his godfather Wu Zhong, and the yellow dog was also loyal to protect him.

Zhu Gaoxu stayed both of these two people; he only took Wang Gui's godson Cao Fu on a trip.

In addition, Zhu Gaoxu asked Duan Xuehen to stay and stay with Princess Guo Yan.

At the turn of summer and autumn, it is the rainy season in Yunnan Province, and it often rains.

The Central Army chose to set off on a sunny day, but the ground was still wet, and there were several streets in the city that were soaked in water.

During the Yuan Dynasty, the government had managed the rivers and dug rivers in Kunming City and diverted them, but when the rain was too heavy, heavy floods would still occur in the city.

But now it’s time to get wet a little rain, and when we reach the battlefield, it’s a relatively low rainy season.

Zhu Gaoxu got up early in the morning and said goodbye to Guo Wei, Yao Ji and Du Qianrui, and left the harem.

Then he brought a group of civil and military officials to the ancestral temple for sacrifice and ordered the army to set off.

The number of people on this trip was only more than 5,000, and the guards were gathering in Dali Prefecture. Zhu Gaoxu led the guards to go to Dali Prefecture first, join forces, and then march into Mengyangsi.

Guo Wei asked about her return date, and Zhu Gaoxu hoped to return to Kunming City before her childbirth.

...From Kunming City to Dali City, the post road is relatively spacious and easy to walk on.The army can arrive at Dali Prefecture City within half a month.

The two groups of men and horses joined the army in one place, and the number of soldiers increased to 10,000.

Zhu Gaoxu calculated all the powerful men and husbands, calculated the number of people, and numbered 50,000, led his army out of Dali City and headed west along the Jade Road.

The next road was very difficult to walk. According to the original plan, Zhu Gaoxu divided the army into five routes and drove towards Yongchang Prefecture one after another.Depart in batches to avoid road congestion as much as possible.

No wonder the Si family chieftain was arrogant and destroyed the Ming army's walled city without saying a word.Because the Central Plains dynasty was going to conquer them, the road was really hard to walk!

However, Zhu Gaoxu walked among the winding mountains and still did not regret his decision.

A large number of soldiers, men and baggage were on the roads of the valley, like a long winding snake.

Fortunately, Sijia's power had already withdrawn from all areas east of Tengchong Qianhu. The Ming army was still a marching army in this sparsely populated place, and the danger was not great.

Most of the military households in the garrison wore light leather armor and had poor defense, but they took off their clothes at any time.

The garrison troops also wore straw hats and straw raincoats and led ponies, looking like bandits, but they were more adaptable to the environment.

The escorts of the Han Palace carried heavy iron armor. Fortunately, the central army got a lot of straw hats and straw raincoats in Yongchang Palace, so that the guards could also cover them, which not only could cover the rain, but also cover the sun when the sun came out.

All the people passed by Tengchong Qianhu Station one after another, which was the farthest stronghold for the regular army of the Ming Dynasty.If you move forward, you will almost no longer see the Han people.

But Tengchong is not in the open land, but in the valley with a dangerous terrain.

The troops continued to walk westward and soon arrived at Zhenxi Tusifu (Yingjiang). This place had a large open area, which was very suitable for large troops to gather and set up camps.

Zhao Ping reported to Zhu Gaoxu that he continued to walk southwest from the west of the town. The terrain was relatively open and flat, but when he left the remaining line of Hengduan Mountain, there was a valley road with dense forests on both sides, and wild animals often appeared... Of course, the army was not afraid of wild animals, but afraid of the ambush of the chieftains.

Zhu Gaoxu decided to send a few scout teams to come over first.

Of course, the pioneer scouts sent people from the garrison army because they had been in the southwest for a long time and were more experienced, including soldiers from the Qianhu Institute of Tengchong.

They took the small flag as their team and broke it into pieces. They did not carry gunpowder iron pills or even dried arrows and food, but they carried large bags of salt and garlic!

It turns out that what the soldiers fear most is the blood-sucking insects falling from the trees!That kind of small insect is not only terrible, but if the insect is broken, the wound will also ulcerate. If it cannot be cured, it will have to wait to die.

The scouts put on their hats to guard against them first, and then applied salt and garlic on their bodies to deworm them.If you get crawled into the flesh and it is said that you will pick it up on the wound and the insects will crawl out by themselves.

Zhu Gaoxu ordered all the people to camp here, and asked the guards to follow the example and use the method of Tengchong Qianhu Institution to deworm insects.When the camps arrived at night, there were smoke everywhere, and everyone burned various herbs to repel mosquitoes.

...As long as the army passes through the Hengduan Mountain remnants, they can contact the Diao family members of the Pingmian Military and Civilian Xuanwei Department.

Before this battle, Zhu Gaoxu had contacted Diao and agreed to fight Si's family together.

Once the two sides meet, the coalition forces will march towards Meng Yangsi. Apart from the forest, there will be no longer any obstacles that can stop the coalition forces' attack!

Seven or eight days later, the Wuxiaoqi people sent out returned to Zhenxi Daying one after another. Nine people died. A soldier was bitten to death by a snake, and the other eight were ambushed and stabbed to death by natives.

Zhao Ping's men were escorted to the ore convoy before, and they walked this road, but the Ming army was never attacked by the chieftain.All the generals and officials unanimously determined that the natives who ambushed the scouts must be soldiers from Si’s family!

The Ming soldiers were stormy and had a huge formation. It was obvious that the movement had been learned by Si.However, this place belongs to the territory of Luchuan Military and Civilian Xuanwei Office, not the territory of Mengyang Office.

After discussion, Zhu Gaoxu and other civil and military officials determined that the Si family did not wait for the Ming army to fight at Mengyang Xuanweisi, but chose to take the initiative to advance to the Zhenxi Tusifu area, hoping to find an opportunity to defeat the Ming army in dense jungles and narrow valleys!

The valley is narrow, and the roads here have not been repaired much, and they are rugged and uneven.Therefore, the cavalry could not play any role. Zhu Gaoxu's elite guards were the most fierce, but this battle was useless.

However, the Ming army was not afraid of the chieftains in this kind of decisive battle.Either use infantry to line up against the enemy, and the army like chieftains will undoubtedly be defeated!Either the chieftain dispatched elephant soldiers to rush forward, but the Ming army carried a large number of firearms.

The general officer of Yongchang Prefecture suggested that the vanguard army should go first and look for an opportunity to fight the main force of the chieftain in the valley.

But Zhu Gaoxu refused to give advice. He asked the scout in detail, and talked with Zhao Ping and others for a long time. He found that the mountainous area ahead was not cliffs, but rolling forests.

Zhu Gaoxu asserted in the central army's tent: The Sijia chieftains were dubbed as monkeys, but they were not monkeys.When the Duke of Qian was conquering Si's family, he used a large number of firearms, and Zhao Baihu also used firearms to scare away the war elephants at the mine.Thinking and practicing will definitely not be listed in the valley with elephant soldiers and fight us openly!

After hearing this, the generals agreed.

Zhu Gaoxu said again: The mountains and forests on both sides are the places that you value in thinking and acting.However, if we want to compete for the terrain on both sides of the road, we can only fight in the mountains and forests, and then we will suffer a great loss.

There was a lot of discussion in the big tent, and Zhu Gaoxu also looked thoughtful and didn't say anything for a long time.

In any case, thinking and acting have the initiative to choose the battlefield.The signs of the first battle have gradually become clear, and the battlefield is in the mountains, forests and valleys to the southwest of the town.