This sentence of high pragmatism is half-true and half-false, because "pushing all the way" does not mean that you don't need to use your brains, and it can even be said that in ancient wars, the technical content of "pushing all the way" is actually not low.

The Qin army at the time of the Battle of Julu was supposed to have the strength to "push all the way", the former Qin at the time of the Battle of Weishui was also said to have the strength to "push all the way", and the Yuan army at the time of the Battle of Guandu was still said to have the strength to "push all the way", but what was the result?

They all lost.

It is true that these three famous battles of winning more with less have one thing in common, that is, before the war, the two armies were facing each other across the river, and it was relatively easy to "plan battles" from the tactical terrain, but don't forget, where is the location of Phnom Penh?

In the "Four Arms Bay", formed by the confluence of the Mekong, Tonle Sap and Basha rivers, it can be described as a dense water network, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

If Liu Xin just pushes all the way, the possibility of repeating the mistakes of Wang Li, Fu Jian, and Yuan Shao is not impossible.

And more importantly, if you have enough troops to feel like you can "push all the way", you will actually face far more logistical pressure than your opponents.

Past examples also show that if you are ready to "push all the way", you must first hoard a large amount of supplies and supplies.

When the 400,000 Qin army was north of Julu, why did Xiang Yu break the boat? Because as long as he can't take it in one battle, he may never be able to take it, and the Qin army is not only huge, but also has abundant materials.

The key to Yuan Shao's defeat in the Battle of Guandu, why it is considered to be the "lost black nest", is precisely because the black nest is the granary of Yuan's army. The black nest was burned, the grain and grass were in an emergency, and the hearts of the 100,000 Yuan army were in turmoil, so how could there be any reason to be undefeated? Not to mention that there are other factors that work together.

So far, except for the Tumut cavalry under his unified command in the Battle of Monan, in any other war, Gao Pragmatic's main work is only two things: strategy and logistics, and he basically does not ask about the command of a specific battle, it is the work of the commanders of the army, he neither exceeds their ability, nor does he need to meddle, so as not to become Chang Gong Kaishen.

However, Liu Xin does not have the same favorable conditions as Gao Shishi before, because Jinghua is very busy now, so busy that he doesn't have much spare energy to provide her with the huge amount of material supplies needed to "push all the way".

Jinghua's expansion in southern Xinjiang was too fast. Originally, before the Battle of Yunnan and Burma, Jinghua only controlled Annam, and if the division of later generations is concerned, it is actually only the northern and central regions of Vietnam.

However, after the Battle of Yunnan and Burma, Jinghua almost completed a feat of swallowing elephants: it took almost the entire Indochina Peninsula except for northern Myanmar and Cambodia at one time (geographically the Malay Peninsula is generally not counted as the Indochina Peninsula).

How big is Indochina? 2,065,000 square kilometers.

Excluding the current northern Myanmar and Cambodia, Jinghua's actual control area has exceeded at least 1.3 million square kilometers. However, before the Battle of Yunnan and Burma, Jinghua actually controlled only more than 200,000 square kilometers of Annam.

The actual control area has been expanded by four or five times at once, and it is conceivable how busy Jinghua is in southern Xinjiang, which is also the most critical factor for Huang Zhiting to stay in Siam when she is pregnant.

In addition to purging the opposition militarily and maintaining stability in various places, Jinghua also had to establish its own set of administrative institutions in these places at the same time, the main of which was to transplant Annan's puppet government model to Siam, Nanzhang, Bago and other countries, so that it gradually became a territory firmly controlled by Jinghua like Annan.

The Annan model has proven its feasibility in the past few years, and there is no major problem in theory when transplanted to countries in southern Xinjiang with similar national conditions, but in fact the national conditions of each country are still different, and targeted fine-tuning is definitely needed in practice.

For example, in Siam, due to the outbreak of rebellion before, the Jinghua side immediately completed the suppression by thunderous means, and did the best work to suppress the rebellion.

However, the construction task of Siam is very heavy, especially the construction of Dingnan City, which is not only the largest construction project in Jinghua so far, but also the largest urban construction project in the history of Siam. According to Jinghua's plan, the construction of Dingnan City is divided into at least three phases, which will take three years, three years, and four years respectively, and accumulate up to ten years.

The first phase of construction was mainly to establish the core area with the overall size of the city determined. The walls of the outer city will not be repaired for the time being, but twelve small fortresses will be built around the city. The core area is the inner city, including the royal palace (only one-fifth of which has been repaired for the time being, so that he can be placed under house arrest and occasionally let him appear to meet with his ministers), the yamen of the ministries, the central business district and the inner city residential area, and the temporary port.

The second phase of construction has two main tasks, one is to upgrade the temporary port into a large-scale standard seaport, and to build the outer city wall, if there is still surplus construction capacity, some other facilities in the outer city can be built.

Needless to say, the third stage is to complete the construction of the outer city and truly complete the construction of Dingnan City.

At the same time as the construction of the three phases, Jinghua must also go all out to replenish the migrant population to supplement Dingnan City - what kind of city is there without people?

But here's something else to worry about: Jinghua will quietly control the proportion of the population of Dingnan City in a non-public manner. To put it simply, it is to secretly ensure that the Ming people of Dingnan City must have an absolute advantage. Of course, in view of the difficulties in actual operation, this "absolute superiority" has only been determined at 70 percent for the time being.

As for what kind of nationality the "Ming people" are, Gao Pragmatic does not make any requirements. Whether you are a Han Chinese, a servant, or even a Miao, Yao, or even a "naturalized Han" of Annamite ancestry, they are all counted as "Ming people" in Dingnan City, and the only requirement is that you must speak Chinese at all times.

Gao pragmatically adhered to his consistent viewpoint: The Chinese nation has never been a nation divided by blood, it is divided by culture.

"If Yi Di enters China, then China will be; When China enters Yidi, it will be Yidi. On this point, Gao pragmatic fully endorses Confucius's proposition.

Of course, he believes that this transformation will take a certain amount of time, just like Annan's "naturalized Han people" are not recognized as Han people by Jinghua by shouting "I am Han".

The "naturalized household registration system" implemented in Annam has also been transplanted to Siam, and Siamese people who are willing to "naturalize" only need to complete Chinese language learning, and then complete various "social contributions" through such methods as joining the army and paying contributions, etc., they can apply for the inspection of Jinghua, and successfully pass the inspection to become naturalized Han Chinese, and enjoy various preferential treatment and social benefits that are completely consistent with those of Han people.

When I first crossed over, I still dreamed of the high pragmatism of "everyone is equal", but now not only has I abandoned this unrealistic idea a long time ago, but even intensified it, making the hierarchy of people more and more complicated.

As the aborigines of Annamite and Siamese, Gao Pragmatism is now strictly controlling and giving the outstanding talents in them room to rise, so that they can change their life goals from "defeating the Ming people" to "becoming Ming people".

With a stick in one hand and a carrot in the other, this trick is really tried and tested - as long as you do have a stick and a carrot.

Siam can perform the Annam model transplant very well, but Bago and Nanzhang are different.

On the Bago side, Gao Shishi and Huang Zhiting need to consider the reaction of the Mon people, because His Majesty Abrabang - oh, his name is now Xia Muming - although he was originally just the "King of Bago" pushed by Jinghua himself, after the victory in the Battle of Yunnan and Burma, his status was confirmed by the Ming Emperor.

Zhu Yijun has officially canonized him as the "Great Gu Raider Propaganda Envoy" - according to general practice, these foreign vassal envoys canonized by the Ming Dynasty basically claim to be kings internally, and the Ming Dynasty will never seriously pursue it, but when they pay tribute, they will pay a certain and so Xuan Envoy.

So Xia Muming, on the one hand, as Jinghua's original "ally", and on the other hand, as the "obedient minister" of the Ming Dynasty, his status is relatively special, and Jinghua is not good to completely ignore the interests of the Meng people represented by him.

In addition, after the end of the war, although the Mon people dismantled a large number of "rebel troops" on the grounds of financial difficulties under Jinghua's "suggestion", they still retained 20,000 people as local troops. Although Gao Silian may not take the 20,000 militiamen equipped with garbage in his eyes, he still has to give some face, after all, once the 20,000 strong men turn into **, it will be a big trouble.

As a result, the progress of the Annam model in the Bago Kingdom was much slower than that of Siam, and even the "naturalized household registration system" was not introduced for the time being. As for immigration...... Jinghua's task is too heavy now, just Taiwan, Annam and Siam, these three places have already kept Jinghua busy, where can I take care of Myanmar for a while? It is estimated that at least until the construction of Dingnan City is completed, Jinghua will have the spare energy to consider immigrating to Myanmar.

Finally, there is the South Palm. Nanzhang ...... Alas, this place is really sad for the listeners and weeping, it is too poor, and from the geographical point of view, it is very difficult to develop.

In this era, it is impossible to build high-speed highways and high-speed railways, so Gao Pragmatic thinks about it and thinks that he can only use waterways to drive the economic development of Nanzhang.

However, the use of waterways is not just a matter of moving the mouth, and Gao Pragmatic has already set Dingnan City as the core city of the Indochina Peninsula in the future, and theoretically speaking, the economy of Nanzhang is better to interact with Siam.

However, in fact, this is very difficult to do, because although Nanzhang is the birthplace of many water systems, most of them flow eastward to Annam, or first east and then south, to Cambodia. There are very few rivers that flow to Siam, but because Nanzhang is the upstream of it, the water is shallow and narrow, and it is not suitable for inland waterway ships of a transportation nature, at most you can use some bamboo rafts - what is the use?

Jinghua's consistent means is military deterrence plus interest bundling, and now for Nanzhang, military deterrence is certainly no problem, but the problem of interest bundling is very prominent.

Because of the binding of Jinghua's interests, the premise is to "make the cake bigger first", and in the case of Nanzhang, Jinghua is also a clever woman who is difficult to cook without rice, and she doesn't know how to make this cake at all, let alone "make it bigger".

In this case, it will not be easy to carry out various reforms against Nanzhang. Because on the premise of not providing new interest growth points, no matter how it is changed, it will touch the interests of some Nanzhang people, and it is likely that the reform has not made any achievements, but it will exhaust the Nanzhang people's gratitude to Jinghua for liberating them from the Burmese people.

Therefore, in Nanzhang, the transplantation work of Jinghua's "Annam model" is progressing very poorly, even worse than in the Bago Kingdom, and it can almost be said that it has stagnated.

From all of the above, it can be seen that Jinghua itself is also facing huge pressure and challenges, so in the matter of sending troops to Cambodia, it is difficult for Jinghua to give Liu Xin 20,000 Jingang garrisons, and it is difficult to give her much support.

Liu Xin's guarantee from Huang Zhiting is only to "ensure that firearms are not scarce" - except for gunpowder and projectiles, you have to figure out the rest yourself.

Fortunately, it is a battle in Indochina, so there is no need to prepare winter clothes for the army, and considering that the target area is the Mekong Delta, as long as the time to start the war is well controlled, there is still a good chance to "eat on the spot".

In other words, it is to send troops during the grain harvest period, and after arriving in Cambodia, directly harvest local grain to supply the army, or more bluntly, to grab the grain and grass of the Cambodian army to feed the war.

Gao Pragmatic has never done this kind of thing, let him command this kind of operation, he is afraid that he is beating the drum in his heart, but Liu Xin is not afraid of this.

Liu Xin herself has never done such a thing, but many of the generals of the Liu family army she brought are experienced in this matter.

After all, when Liu Xian was not in the arms of the Gao Party, he was always suppressed by civilian officials and Nanjing nobles, so that the treatment of the Liu family army was extremely poor, and the military discipline was naturally not good.

After Liu Wei became a highly pragmatic and optimistic general, Liu Jiajun's treatment was visibly improved, and this kind of thing became less and less, but this is like a person who will never forget it for the rest of his life after learning to swim, and now it is not difficult for them to return to their old business, and even after Liu Xin told them, there are still many people who look nostalgic......

People, it's really easier to learn bad than to learn.

On the sixteenth day of the first month of the fifth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, just after the Lantern Festival, the 20,000 troops of the Jingang garrison army quietly sent troops under the leadership of Liu Xin and galloped to the southwest.

The Mekong Delta's rice crops are three times a year, and the seedlings have just been planted before the Spring Festival.

And the entry point that Liu Xin prepared was the city of Zhancheng, which Jinghua had just arrived.

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