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Chapter 47 The Three Armies

"Mo's kills my envoy, and their fortune will end."

Chen Mu said this in the map of the guards of the military office, and behind him was a map presented by Mo Dengyong when he surrendered to the Ming Dynasty during the Jiajing period.

The history of Annan belonging to the Ming Dynasty was to follow Zheng He's voyage to the West. The Yongle Dynasty had two major events. In addition to voyage to the West, another major strategic decision in the southwest was to go to Annan in violation of the ancestral teachings that "the land is not enough to provide, and the people are not enough to be ordered" in the ancestral teachings, and to start a war with Annan.

It was an unprecedented bragging battle. The Annan Records record of the battle, which was recorded that the Ming army of 800,000 went out of Zhennan Pass. Dayue refused it with 7 million. It was unable to compete with the enemy. The Ming army attacked Shenglong and 'robbed women's jade and silk, accounted for food and storage, divided officials to do business, and recruited refugees. In order to live for a long time, they castrated boys, collected copper coins from all over the place, and sent them to Jinling.'

In this way, after this record-breaking battle of mobilizing 7.8 million troops, Annan became the later Jiaozhi Governor General. Zhang Fu left once and the local area rebelled once. He stationed 80,000 troops, and spent one million taels of silver a year, and could only receive 70,000 taels of tax.

In fact, both sides mobilized only 300,000 troops in this battle, and Annan moved 210,000.

By the time of Emperor Renzong of Ming and Emperor Xuanzong, the policies were completely contracted, and the Annan he had built had become a bottomless pit, so he might as well just shrink.

Since decades ago, Mo Dengyong usurped the throne of the Li Dynasty and garrisoned Shenglong, the former ministers of the Li family ruled the south with the Qing Dynasty, allowing Annan to enter the era of confrontation between the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

In the north of Mo Dengyong, there was also the enemy of the Ming Dynasty. When did Guangxi start to launch troops? Mo Dengyong knelt down at the bottom of Zhennan Pass, handed over all the maps, and gave out the disputed land. The Ming Dynasty withdrew its troops and refused to fight. Mo Dengyong turned around and beat up the old ministers of the Li family.

This trick made Emperor Jiajing very happy and appointed Mo Dengyong as the commander of Annan. In this way, Mo Dengyong was called the commander of Annan in the Ming Dynasty, and established the Yuan Dynasty as the emperor, and controlled Annan for decades.

In the past, the relationship between the Mo family and the Ming Dynasty was once relatively harmonious. Now, Mo Maochao, the great-grandson of Mo Dengyong, was in power. There was a general in the country, Mo Jingdian, who once attacked the Southern Dynasty soldiers surrounded Qinghua. Perhaps only one war could kill all the old ministers of the Li family.

"At this critical moment, it's not wise to kill me." Chen Mu glanced at the generals sitting in the room and said, "I'll take the idea of ​​whether to fight or not. How can I fight? Brothers come and make the idea."

Chen Mu had no choice. The Portuguese who could help him did not enter Annan. The information about Annan came from the Guangxi Provincial Administration. Except for the map in his hand, everything depends on guessing. At this time, his combat thoughts were the same as Liu Zhen.

Under the seat are Chen Lin and his curious son Chen Jiujing, who stands beside him, Bai Yuanjie with a firm face, Deng Zilong who is ready to beat his hands, and of course, Zhang Shijue, who is from the martial arts lecture hall, Shao Tingda Hu Liangpeng, the old pillar of the Nanyang Military Palace, and others are indispensable.

At the end of the day, Lin Manjue and Lin Xiao, who were uncomfortable in the same room as all the generals.

"Ship Chen, the imperial court order has not been issued yet. What is the battle? It is still unresolved at the moment. There is only one thing to be resolved urgently."

Hearing Bai Yuanjie's solemn words, Chen Mu nodded and asked, "Brother, please tell me, what's the matter?"

Old Bai blinked, looked at Chen Lin and Deng Zilong, looked up at Chen Mu again, and said, "In this battle, Bai can no longer be allowed to collect supplies!"

As soon as this statement came out, the generals in the hall laughed and laughed. The Nanyang Military Office fought many times over the years, and basically each general was considered to be his own duties. Deng Zilong was the vanguard every time, Chen Lin was the central army every time, and Bai Yuanjie was the logistics every time.

"Hahaha, Bai Shuai, you are the commander-in-chief of Guangdong. If you don't care about the transportation and supplies, who can do it?"

Chen Lin laughed and told Bai Yuanjie that he was in trouble, but he saw Bai Yuanjie saying seriously: "That's true. In the past, Bai was in Guangdong and was unwilling to do this matter, but this battle did not require Guangdong's supplies. He had to fight from Guangxi, Malacca and Champa, and there was no need for Bai to transport supplies."

Chen Mu nodded with a smile, looked back, and asked, "General Hu, how about transferring you into Guangxi to control the coastal supplies, and how about the Bai Shuai leads Guangdong troops to station in Qiongzhou Zhushangchi?"

The so-called Zhuchi refers to the Beibu Gulf in later generations, which is the sea area where Guangxi fishermen often go to war with the Mo family and Li family ships. It takes a 500-mile voyage from the west of Qiongzhou to the Honghekou.

"As long as Bai Shuai strangled the pearl pond and the baggage, the military ships could be transported to the Li family's jurisdiction and could hinder the enemy's coast. We would not fight any great formations in this battle. For those wars, the former ministers of the Li family were sent to Qinghua to contact the former ministers of the Li family and inform them of the news that they wanted to attack the Mo family."

"The purpose of this battle is to take down the Honghe River, clear the important roads, and punish Mo Maoqia, but it is not to destroy the Mo family, nor to support the old ministers of the Li family." Chen Mu drew several circles behind him with bamboo whip.

"The former ministers of the Li clan in the south were weak. Zheng Song of the Qing Dynasty, Wu Gongji of Xuanguang, and surnames such as Ruan and Li dominated various places. They nominally respected the Later Li master, but actually had different subordinates and only attacked the Mo clan."

Chen Mu smiled, and the more he said, the generals under his command nodded and understood what he meant.

Chen Mu was very bad. Although in his words, he did big things to save the world all day long, in fact, the world of Ming Dynasty saved has nothing to do with the people of Ming Dynasty.

Just like this time, the attack on Mo family was actually just because Mo family killed the envoys he sent, and he needed rivers and land to open up the baggage route to Yunnan. It was not about helping Annan unify, nor about putting that land into the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

At least it is not actually the purpose.

The lessons of wisdom are not far away, and it is not enough to make ends meet in the territory to govern Annan, so he naturally will not do such things again.

In his handbook to the court, he proposed to issue several edicts to reward, first militarily settle in the river bank, and then enfeoff the powerful ministers in various places, further intensify the separatist forces, and rely on power to make the local area stable for several years.

Two or three years were enough in Chen Mu's opinion. After that, as long as the Nanyang Military Mansion could still get everything they wanted on that land, there was no need to rule.

However, the progress of the matter was beyond Chen Mu's expectations, and the court was much more radical than he thought.

Just as Chen Mu was discussing affairs with the general and the general, the personal soldiers at the door presented a letter. After Chen Mu saw Zhang Juzheng's personal letter outside the staff room, he clenched his fists and returned to the staff department.

"The court has issued an order. We can discuss the war against Annan, and the Ministry of War will discuss the matters. Just one order for this war, hurry up."

"The Ministry of War plans to jointly advance the three sides to destroy the Mo family, and the southern coast of Shenglong is the place where our Nanyang military prefectures will attack. Liu Shuai, who was stationed in Yunnan, joined forces with Duke Wu of Xuanguang, and Yu Shuai of Guangxi, left Zhennan Pass, and finally the three armies merged in Shenglong."

"Mr. Chen's little trick is not easy to use!"

Chen Mu spread his hands, observed a moment of silence for the arrogant Mo regime, and said, "Everyone will discuss it!"
Chapter completed!
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