The army of Prime Minister Yang began the Western Expedition in a mighty manner during the personal farewell of His Highness.

His route is still the one from the last Western Expedition, that is, he used cavalry to leave the pass and went north to Guihua City. Now it is an important base.

Because there were already a large number of Han people, and the militias that later militias were migrated later, there are currently five militia brigades including Fengzhou, Naturalization, Jiuyuan, Wuyuan, Shuofang, etc., but they were not prefecture-county because they were assigned to the pastoral areas of Tumote and other departments. But in fact, they have been semi-agriculturalized. Although the militia's agriculture cannot be self-sufficient due to poor natural conditions, but because of subsidies and trade with herdsmen, they live no worse than the mainland, and are actually better than the mainland militias.

After all, they have a cheap protein supply.

It is difficult to drink milk in the mainland.

The key is trade.

The food they produce is not mainly eaten, but is sold to herders.

The latter relies heavily on food, which is the support of herders to ensure that they are not starved to death in winter. The grazing cattle and sheep may freeze to death in a vain disaster, but this kind of problem is not needed to be considered in food.

But what kind of food does not matter.

So the militia there mainly planted sorghum and soybeans, and now they have begun to introduce corn and potatoes, especially tofu, raw bean sprouts, and sorghum wine. These are already the main industries of the militia there.

But don’t underestimate this. There is a family of Shanxi merchants who started making tofu in pastoral areas.

In the cold winter, bean sprouts are all luxury goods for herders.

So those herders also welcome them, at least for the moment, after all, tens of thousands of households in the five militia brigades will not affect their interests.

Wait until they feel the impact...

At that time, they no longer had the ability to do anything.

Besides, the Mongolian princes and masters all welcomed militias. Militias had to pay taxes when doing business, and these taxes were handed over to them, but they had no right to set tax rates. However, the tax paid by militia businesses was indeed given to them, especially the expenses of the masters, a large part of the money they paid came from these taxes. Similarly, their business also brought herders around the masters.

This way, the masters will be more likely to obtain worship.

It's interdependent.

Although militias prohibited worshiping the masters.

But this does not prevent them from working closely with the masters.

Of course, Yang Feng's 50,000 cavalry were just one of them, and he did not attack Guanzhong at all, but went directly to rescue Ningxia.

In the south is the Jingying attack on Shanxi and Shaanxi.

The eight armies of the Jing camp, which had already been in place, were divided into five strategic directions. The two armies attacked Xinkou and Niangziguan respectively, and joined forces to attack Taiyuan. The two armies attacked Wueryu and Tianjingguan respectively and then joined forces to Lu'an. One army attacked Wushan, where there were a series of fortresses of the Yuan Dynasty, which was also the main attack direction of this battle.

Another army attacked Wuguan.

The other two armies attacked Guanzhong and Longyou in two routes from Hanzhong.

The attack of the eight armies was followed by nearly one million militia, responsible for transporting and replenishing supplies for them with all available transportation tools.

Because the water transportation was quickly cut off, all of them were basically by land.

Horse carriages, donkey carts, ox carts, even trolleys, camels, donkey teams, and even porters, and all militia areas along the way are responsible for their supplies.

This can be said to be the general mobilization of most of the empires.

On the millions of square kilometers of land that have completed reforms from south to north, all militias have been used up, and the teams transporting materials have been continuously extended on all roads...

Eight armies.

Although an army has different forces, the minimum amount is more than 20,000, and the maximum amount is even more than 50,000.

The army of the Beijing camp is a group army with a division as the main body to ensure the highest combat effectiveness, and then add a number of mixed brigades of varying numbers.

Therefore, in order to ensure the attack on the main attack direction of Wushan, there were seven mixed brigades under the army, each with more than 5,000 people, and then a division of 20,000 people was added. Such a large scale must ensure the rotation after the loss to a large extent. The Great Yuan Dynasty built a series of bastions in Wushan, Shanzhou, Hangu Old Pass, and Tongguan, claiming to let the blood of the Red Turban Army flow from Wushan to Tongguan. Because of the terrain restrictions, it was impossible to launch heavy troops, so it could only chew forward little by little.

The combined total of eight armies exceeded 300,000.

Moreover, this is an offensive battle, and the opponent has long been a bastion. Now even the gate of the temple is a bastion, so there is no trick in the war, just to use firepower to smash the bastions.

The tactics envisioned by the gentry of Jiangnan were not realized in Jiangnan because of surrender, but now they have been realized in the Dayuan.

Those gentry of Shanxi and Shaanxi who had achieved serfization, or Shihou, leaned against their favorite Emperor Dayuan, prepared to use countless bastions to bleed the Red Turban Army like those thieves in the distant Netherlands, and even most places in Guanzhong were bastioned.

Anyway, they are now in the real feudal era.

Of course, Emperor Dayuan had no management rights. He worshipped Bagas or the Chinese name Yuanhao. His only requirement for the gentry of Shanxi and Shaanxi was to not cut off money and food. The others had nothing to do with him. The Shangshu Ling of Shanxi Xingtai, Shaanxi Xingtai, and Longyou Xingtai was to decide, which was elected by the councils of the three places. The local governments directly divided the feudals, that is, to grant titles to those gentry who originally controlled the places, such as Mei Guozhen, Feng Congwu and others were all kings, and the rest were all dukes and marquis.

Even the elders in power in a small county are earls.

Even a squire is a baron.

Completely dreaming of returning to the Western Zhou Dynasty.

One step is to go straight back to the Confucian dream of the Three Dynasties.

Therefore, these vassals are really concerned about their territory, and even some baron fiefs have built simple castles.

Guanzhong is especially suitable for this.

Small precipitation.

The rammed earth prism can be preserved for a long time.

This kind of bastion is extremely low and does not need to be too much. Just protect Feng Jue himself.

Just like European castles or Japanese daimyo castles, now those real old cities have begun to be demolished.

It hinders the sacred people from suppressing the unruly people. What if the unruly people control the city’s rebellion?

The city walls were demolished, and the Fengjuemen lived in their own castles. The unruly people dared to rebel and sent troops to suppress them directly. On the contrary, the unruly people wanted to attack them but had to face the bastion. Then they could not open the bastion. The reinforcements from other Fengjuemen around arrived. This system can be said to have completely overturned the old system.

But it is indeed easy to use.

The main reason is that the gentry is very experienced now. Most of their failures in the past were because of the rebellious people in large cities, so they directly demolished the city walls, leaving the rebellion of the unfair people without relying on them, and then built small castles that protected them and the clan. In this way, there is no need to worry about the rebellion of the unfair people in the city, which will eventually lead to a loss of the whole market. Moreover, the cost can be minimized. It has to be said that in more than ten years, they finally grew up.

But unfortunately...

Their enemies are strong enough to crush them.

While the North was mobilizing, the area controlled by His Majesty the Southern Emperor also mobilized to start a new round of conquest by the Emperor of Ming Dynasty.

Myanmar, Taigong City.

"The Baojing is more than a hundred miles southeast."

Mu Rui pointed to the steep mountains in the southeast and said.

At this time, Myanmar was actually no longer the era of Mang Yinglong. After Mang Yinglong's death, all regions fell into civil strife. Mang Yingli tried to attack Yunnan to establish his authority, but was beaten by Mu Chaobi, Liu Ju, Deng Zilong and others, and even chased Awa. Their mortal enemy, Aragan, used Portuguese mercenaries to capture Bai Gu, and even captured Mang Yingli and brought back Dongxu to chop. Mang Yingli's younger brother King Liangyuan succeeded to the throne, which turned the tide and finally saved Upper Myanmar with Awa as the core.

But at this time, Lower Myanmar, with Touo as its core, was actually under the control of the Arakans.

The southernmost Shalian is a Portuguese colony.

So the task Wanli gave Li Chengliang was actually a mistake, because Dongyu was not from Burmese, but from the Aragans.

"There are really inexhaustible gems there?"

Li Rumei said with her eyes lit up.

"It's hard to say whether it's impossible to get it all, but so far, I haven't seen what it's going to get it all, but it's Mengmi Tushi. Although he's still surrendered, the territory is his after all, and mining is also him, but they are just our merchants. I'm processing, but the big head is still in his hands."

Mu Rui said.

"Ma'am, such a good place, but these dogs are occupied."

Li Rumei said angrily.

Then he looked at the ruby ​​on Mu Rui's belt with greedy eyes...

"Brother Ziqing, like this one, is everywhere."

Mu Rui said with a smile.

"Stop talking nonsense. The enemy is here. We are here to attack the Mang clan for Your Majesty. Mengmi Chieftain is Your Majesty's loyal minister. Don't think about it."

Li Chengliang stroked his beard and shouted.

The Myanmar army ahead of them was already in line.

Taigong City is the northern gateway of Awa, facing Nan'an Zhengguo City, Malay City, and Awa City, along the right bank of the Irrawaddy River, Li Chengliang's cavalry went down the river by land, Mu Rui led Yunnan troops to transport supplies with ships and water. To the east is the Mengmi Tushi guarding the flank, so the Burmese people could only choose to fight, otherwise this army of water and land could approach Awa City.

"There are more war elephants, franchises, and cavalry. They have more war elephants. The others are no different from our court in the past. This war elephant looks like a bird gun, and there is not even a buttstock, and it is still stuck."

Li Rumei said holding up the telescope.

"They traded with the Portuguese, and Shall even had Portuguese castles, and the Arakans started their business through maritime trade."

Mu Rui said.

"Their horses are pretty good!"

Li Rumei looked at the cavalry and said.

"There are all ranches in the west, and the best ranches. Hu Yuan liked it because it was the best ranches in the south."

Mu Rui said.

"Then let them see what real cavalry is!"

Li Rumei said.

After saying that, he directly activated the war horse.
To be continued...