"Then next, we are likely to have a larger war with the Rakshasa Kingdom, but I am afraid that there will be more than one time, until it submits and takes the initiative to make peace with us!"
At the Privy Council meeting in October of the 16th year of the Apocalypse, Lu Xiangsheng, the Privy Council's co-governor and secretary of the Ministry of War, echoed the words of Zhu Xieyuan, the auxiliary minister and co-governor of the Metropolitan Governor's Office.Sun Chuanting, the deputy privy envoy, followed and said: "And the Rakshasa Kingdom is likely to take the initiative to send troops this time, they will not be willing to give up fur and wood resources to me Daming!"
”"But we don't have to wait for them to come from Eastern Siberia, we can continue to take the initiative and go north from Suzhou, which can go straight to the heart of his Rakshasa country, maybe prevent them from raising troops in Beishan in advance, or directly threaten the vicinity of his national capital."
Zhu Xieyuan followed."
But in this case, the vast territories around Turpan, Warat and the rest of the Tatars outside Suzhou Weizhou must also be sinicized as soon as possible, and become the territory of my Ming Dynasty, so that my Ming army can directly pass through the Altai Mountains here, along the Irtysh River, and finally spare the Ural Mountains, and across the Ural River, you can enter this large plain explored by Jinyiwei, and enter Moscow, the capital of the Rakshasa Kingdom!"
Sun Chuanting said at this time."
Then, the military focus will be on the strategy of advancing westward from Suzhou, and the first goal is to recover Hamiwei and Hetao!
The ultimate goal is to reach the city of Moscow!
”Zhu Youxiao said a word at this time, and said to the ministers: "Until now, the dynasty has lost a lot of territory due to the weakness of the country before, but fortunately, a lot has been recovered now, and next, everything lost must be recovered, so as to live up to the prosperity of the country today." ”"Yes!"
Zhu Xieyuan, Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng, Fu Zonglong, and Zhou Yuji, the five ministers who participated in the Privy Council, replied accordingly.So far.The strategy of recovering the Hamiwei and Hetao regions and expanding the territory west of Suzhou began to be implemented through the Privy Council and the Ministry of War.The first is military recruitment.This time, Lu Xiangsheng suggested that the military department directly recruit Sinicized Mongol soldiers and Sinicized Sauron soldiers to form a larger cavalry corps as a cavalry corps advancing westward.Because these people are born with superb riding skills, and now after many years of sinicization, they also have the awareness that it is a glorious thing to fight for the country.The Han armies in Shaanxi, Gyeonggi, and Liaodong mainly recruited the infantry of the Yongwei and Guards to form infantry and artillery corps.Zhu Youxiao approved this, and ordered the military department to reorganize a western expeditionary army, composed of infantry and cavalry artillery, and the imperial decree Privy Council determined the time of the western expedition and the corresponding plan.The current military system of the Ming Dynasty has been changed to two military institutions: the Privy Council of the Metropolitan Government and the Ministry of War.Among them, the Privy Council is responsible for the transfer of troops, the selection and appointment and dismissal of military attachés, command, military strategy resolutions, and military judicial trials.
The Ministry of War is responsible for recruitment and training, logistics supply, and national defense propaganda and education.And locally.Because the health post system has long existed in name only, coupled with Zhu Youxiao's abolition of the household registration system such as military households, the reform of the road introduction system, and the free use of the people to go out (limited to the country) and settle down, especially now that the commodity economy has further developed, after entering the steam age, there are even fewer people in the guards, and even if there are any, the officers have become de facto landlords, and the soldiers of the guards have become homesteaders or tenant farmers.Therefore, Zhu Youxiao had completely abolished the system of guards in the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse, and the Shaanxi capital division was changed to the Gansu political department, the Wei was changed to a government, and the thousand-household guard office was changed to a county, and the hundred-household guard office was changed to a township or town, and those with a large population were promoted to counties and reorganized into households.Because the imperial court acquiesced in the land of the military households annexed by the hereditary officer families for generations, and the military households were not much in the first place, and the imperial court already had enough standing troops, it did not encounter much obstacles.In addition, the world's battalion soldiers, that is, the recruited professional soldiers, were all reorganized into the Ming National Defense Force.As for the Guards, the Brave Guards, and the Tiger Ben Army, they all belong to the Imperial Army, and the Jinyi Guard and the Xichang all belong to the Imperial Army, of which the Guards and the Jinyi Guard belong to the Yulin Forbidden Army in the Imperial Army.The so-called imperial army is the army of the Beijing Division, which is not responsible for garrisoning the locality, but only responsible for going out to fight and defend the Beijing Division.The Western Expeditionary Corps, which is now in charge of the reorganization of the Ministry of War, also belongs to the imperial army and goes out on behalf of the emperor.It was only after a certain place had been conquered that the Privy Council would recruit the Wehrmacht to defend it.......
"The soldiers and horses did not move the grain and grass first, and the Ministry of War agreed that because the Western Expeditionary Corps formed this time had a scale of 120,000, the logistics supply that needed to be provided was not an easy task, and it was not necessary for experienced ministers to dispatch, and this was not the current Momeng Governor Wang Zaijin could not compete. ”Lu Xiangsheng said this to Zhu Youxiao at the court meeting on the Ming Dynasty's Western Expedition.After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao said: "As far as I know, he has always advocated foreign expansion, but what is helpless is that the imperial court has to use him every time he marches abroad, and he has also obtained military merits because of this, I hope he can get used to this kind of life that is not his own wishes but is therefore added to it, and he will be transferred to be the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, responsible for this matter!"
”"Yes!"
Lu Xiangsheng replied.Then, Zhu Xieyuan got up and said: "Your Majesty, the position of the commander of the Western Expedition has not yet been decided, and in addition, the people who will be in command of the expedition this time are Sun Chuanting, Zhou Yuji, and Qin Keqing. ”"Sun Aiqing needs to stay in Beijing to coordinate the scheduling and training of backwards, Qin Aiqing is old, it is not suitable to go on an expedition to the northwest, not to mention that in the future, the land will be changed in the southwest and return to the stream, but also rely on her, Zhou Yuji has also experienced it over the years, and it is in the prime of life, it is suitable for the national dynasty to go out on the expedition, cast the seal of the general of the west, and make him the general of the west.Zhu Youxiao commanded."
Yes!
There are also chief instructors of the army, and Tingtui has Fu Zonglong, Zhang Tongchang, Huang Degong, Wang Qiaonian, and Yang Wenyue. ”Zhu Xieyuan replied.Zhu Youxiao glanced at Lu Xiangsheng: "It's better to let Lu Aiqing personally take the role, otherwise, except for Sun Chuanting, no one can control this Zhou general, in addition, the use of troops in the northwest is complicated by the complexity of the nation, and the religion is also different, there must be those who dare to be ruthless, and there must be those who know how to restrain themselves." ”"The minister commands."
Lu Xiangsheng replied.Next, the Privy Council officially determined the time of the Ming Dynasty's expedition to the west in March of the seventeenth year of the Apocalypse, the commander was Zhou Yuji and Lu Xiangsheng, leading 120,000 troops, with the Great Wall as the line, divided into two armies in the north and south, after meeting the division in the Hetao, and then marched to Suzhou Wei together, marching to Hamiwei, of which the southern army was the Han infantry and artillery, and the northern army was the Chinese cavalry.At this time, there were still some small Mongolian tribes in the Hetao area to settle here, and they were naturally not the opponents of the Ming Western Expeditionary Army.Therefore, when they learned that a large-scale Ming army had appeared, their leader was panicked and hurriedly began to migrate west with his tribe.Outside the Great Wall along the way from Hetao to Suzhou, there are many Mongolian tribes who have not been Sinicized, and these tribes have begun to migrate westward on a large scale because of the western expedition of the Ming Dynasty.The Chahar tribe, which had already migrated to the Juhai area, also had to start migrating, and the leader of its department, Lin Dan Khan, was quite depressed: "Damn the Ming Emperor, this is not enough to drive Ben Khan to the ends of the earth!"
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