1179 Mobei Three Clan
On the grasslands controlled by the Ming Dynasty, there are more than one settlement like Guihua City. In the eastern Mongolia, nomadic settlements have been established here on the Korqin grassland, which are under the jurisdiction of Lu Xiangsheng, Liaodong.
Here, the model is the same as that of the Naihua City, where the Mongols grazed and the Han people farmed, the two combined and their advantages complement each other.
However, the settlements here on the Korqin Grassland have only been under construction for less than a year and cannot be completely self-sufficient. Therefore, when the army went to fight, it needed to prepare additional money and grain. However, Liaodong was in ruins and there was no excess food and grass supplies.
The main force in the Battle of Mobei that was about to begin was not the Liaodong troops. However, Lu Xiangsheng still rushed to the settlement of the Korqin Grassland. In addition to selecting soldiers who went to war mainly with Mongolian books, he came here to inspect the promotion of high-yield crops.
Whether it is the seeds of high-yield crops or the old farmers who planted them, they were all transferred from Guihua City to the order. The Governor came here to check them in person, and the old farmers in charge talked a lot to Lu Xiangsheng. What made him happy was that according to the old farmers' wishes, although this place is not as fertile as the Hetao Plain, the planting prospects are still very large. In addition, he also suggested that Lu Xiangsheng could also promote high-yield crops in the Liaodong Plain, and there was no need to occupy existing farmland. It would only supplement the existing farmland and would also have great harvests.
When the military rations sent from Shanhaiguan arrived, Lu Xiangsheng also inspected the place here as soon as the army gathered. Lu Xiangsheng looked at the cavalry about 10,000 people and scanned the generals standing in front of the team. Most of them were originally from the Cavalry Camp. Due to the accumulation of merits, they all led one army.
Now the Liaodong divisions have also been reorganized for the first time and come according to the new number. The original Dongjiang Army has been abolished, and the entire Liaodong is classified as the Liaodong Military Region. Just like in the pass, it is divided into two parts: local and field battles. Among them, the field battles are mainly cavalry, and they are all equipped with military supervisors. The troops to go to the expedition are as follows:
Lu Da, deputy general of the First Battalion of the Liaodong Cavalry of the Ming Dynasty, led more than 2,500 troops, for the commander of the expedition.
Liu Xingzhi, deputy general of the Second Battalion of the Liaodong Cavalry of the Ming Dynasty, led two thousand cavalry troops.
Mao Chengzuo, the lieutenant general of the Third Battalion of the Liaodong Cavalry of the Ming Dynasty, led two thousand cavalrymen.
Huang Degong, the gang general of the Fourth Battalion of the Liaodong Cavalry of the Ming Dynasty, led two thousand cavalrymen.
Zuo Liangyu, the lieutenant general of the Fifth Battalion of the Liaodong Cavalry of the Ming Dynasty, led two thousand cavalrymen.
Lu Xiangsheng looked at them with a serious expression and said loudly: "Although you are not the main force in this Battle of Mobei, you must not weaken the reputation of our Liaodong Military Region. Anyone who dares to avoid war, refuses to fight, retreats in the face of battle, and delays military aircraft will never let you go!"
What he said was actually more of a routine statement. How could the army brought out in Lu Xiangsheng's style be a coward? These generals led the army are also optimistic about, and they are all brave and good at fighting. Each army is also equipped with factory guards and military supervisors. Even if the commander really has a passive war, he will not get what he wants!
Lu Da was the head coach. After hearing what Lu Xiangsheng said, he drove his horse out of the line. The other four generals also followed him and clasped their fists with him. Lu Daxian said loudly: "Don't worry, Governor General, the last general will never weaken the name of Liaodong!"
"Don't worry, Governor General, the last general will never be weak in the name of Liaodong!" The other four generals shouted loudly.
Seeing this, Lu Xiangsheng nodded and said loudly: "Okay, you will go to Langjuxu Mountain for me, go to the vast sea, and promote the power of our Ming army!"
After the oath, more than 10,000 horses drove their horses north and left in the dust.
At the same time, in Guihua City, Hong Chengchou was the head commander and was also inspecting the 50,000 cavalry under his command. Only the Guihua Military Region can have so many cavalry. Most of these cavalry are grassland Mongolian soldiers. Of course, some are cavalry drawn from Shanxi.
Hong Chengchou looked at the cavalry and didn't say much, but just sent an order that those who wanted to get promoted and make a fortune would have to perform well. After that, he swore an oath to go to war.
After several years of planting and promotion, the high-yield crops in the Hetao area have achieved gratifying results, especially potatoes, which are even more surprising. Not only does the yield be large, but they seem to taste good with grassland meat. Therefore, this expedition of the naturalized military region basically does not require food support within the pass.
The Naturalized Army was the main force of this Battle of Mobei, and therefore, the commander of the entire battle was the Naturalized Governor Hong Chengchou. Even in the Western Regions after the Battle of Mobei, the commander would be Hong Chengchou.
However, in the early stage of the Battle of the Western Regions, the commander of the Ming army was Yang Sichang, the governor of Baotou, and the general was Zhongyong Bo Mangui. The Baotou army under the naturalized military region had a total of about 10,000 cavalry. They did not go to Mobei and rushed to the Western Regions first.
In this war, the naturalized military region almost all out, and all its troops were exhausted. It even eliminated cavalry from Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places. Except for the cavalry from Shanxi, led by Hong Chengchou, the cavalry from several important border towns in Shaanxi and Gansu were all classified under Yang Sichang's name. Otherwise, if it were just Baotou, it would not be possible to produce 10,000 cavalry.
Yang He, the father of Yang Sichang, has been steadily serving as his three-sided governor in this plane. When his son went to war, he naturally had to support him. The cavalry that he had pulled out was naturally the most elite cavalry under his command.
It can be said that in the upcoming war in the northern region, the Guangming Army dispatched more than 70,000 cavalry troops, which was far beyond the scale of the war in the south.
At this time, the main force of Khalkha was still in the Western Regions, and was caring on the territory of the Weila tribe.
The Khalkha tribe is actually divided into three major tribes, their leaders are Tushetu Khan Gundbu, Zasaktu Khan Nolbu and Chechen Khan Shuolei. Without foreign enemies, these three tribes also fell in love and killed each other for grassland pastures, water sources, etc. But at this time, they were proud and raising their glasses together to celebrate.
I saw Tushetuhan Gundbu raise his glass and laugh and said, "Come on, toast to completely eliminate the tribes of Weilath!"
When the other two people heard this, they laughed and raised their glasses to respond.
The Weila tribes and the Khalkha tribes have always been mortal enemies and attacked each other.
More than ten years ago, it was the Khalkha powerful, who defeated the Weila tribes in one fell swoop. Although they did not annex the Weila tribes, they had enslaved them for a long time. However, unexpectedly, Gushi Khan rose up and led the Weila tribes to defeat the Khalkha tribes.
Then, although Gushi Khan led his troops westward and headed to Qinghai-Tibet, the successor Ezirtu Khan was still brave and led the Wei Lat tribe to suppress the Khalkha tribe, which made the three tribes have to join forces to fight against the enemy. But even so, they still felt that the Wei Lat tribe was difficult to deal with.
At the end of last year, the Erath tribe was like a mountain, pressing against the hearts of these three Khans.
But in a blink of an eye, Weilath was defeated, and they stepped on the ranch of the original Weilath tribe, drinking the milk of the originally belonging to the Weilath tribe, watching the women of the Weilath tribe dance for them, and outside, there were countless cattle, horses and sheep from the captured Weilath tribe. How could the three of them not drink happily in this situation?
After putting down the wine glass, the women around him poured them all over. Among them, Tushetuhan Gundbu looked at the other two and laughed: "We have to thank the Tsar this time we completely eliminate the Erath tribe!"
"Yes, this is a group of madmen." Zasaktuhan Nolb also said with a smile, "He actually proposed to jointly attack the Anti-Lat team at this time. If we were ourselves, we wouldn't have chosen to attack when the winter just passed!"
For them, the nomadic peoples on the grassland, cattle, horses and sheep are their foundation. After winter, the earth revived, and it was the time for cattle, horses and sheep to gain weight. Generally speaking, they were too late to grazing at this time, so they would go to fight. That's why Nolbu spoke like this.
After hearing this, Gunbu nodded and said, "It is indeed a group of madmen. People who don't know think they have a great grudge and grudge against the Weila tribe. They kill people when they see them. When the people of the Weila tribe encounter the Tsarist Russian army, they will not let go of them, regardless of the elderly, weak, women and children. They are simply not human!"
"Actually, you don't know. As far as I know, there is really a big grudge!" Chechen Khan Shuolei, who had not spoken, played with the cup of all the horse milk wine in his hand and said, "It's worth it. Eziertu not only attacked us, but also became enemies with Tsarist Russia and robbed all the things they robbed from the east. How could he not anger the Tsar!"
Hearing this, the other two people didn't know the inside story, so they inquired about it. After Chechen Khan explained, they suddenly realized it.
It turned out that Tsarist Russia had never had a hard time. Before that, no one even wanted to be the throne, because everyone who became the Tsar died of misfortune.
At this time, Tsarist Russia was far less powerful than later generations, and was often invaded by Poland. Even the Tsar was supported and designated by the Polish king. In this way, the great nobles of Tsarist Russia naturally disagreed and often fought. Later, Mikhail Feodorovich was elected to become the Tsar.
However, Mikhail was a cowardly and unsuccessful Tsar. His father, Falalette, was detained by Poland for many years and returned to China. Mikhail immediately issued an order saying that the Patriarch Falalette enjoyed the same treatment as the Tsar. Falalette's orders were equivalent to the Tsar's edict, and the Patriarch became the actual Supreme Emperor.
After that, Patriarch Filalette gradually gained real power and began to rule Russia with iron fist. It was also because of this that Tsarist Russia gradually became stronger.
The Patriarch Filalette first took a series of measures to stabilize people's livelihood, strengthen the tax system, and enrich the treasury through taxation. Among them, the most important source of wealth was the vast Siberia.
Tsarist Russian merchants exported expensive fur and wood to European countries by plundering Siberia, which were welcomed by European countries. Therefore, Tsarist Russians made huge profits, and the treasury gradually became fuller.
Filalette is an ambitious man. While consolidating his material foundation, he is also reorganizing his army and working hard to regain the occupied land with force.
It was under such a background that Eziertu led the army of the Weila tribe to intercept the property that Tsarist Russia plundered from Siberia. In this way, while the Tsarist Russia was panicking, it was a matter of joining the Khalkha tribe and destroying the Weila tribe.
Hearing Chechen Khan's explanation, Tushetu Khan Gunbu couldn't help laughing: "This is really Eziertu deserves to die. Cutting off people's wealth is like killing parents. What's more, Tsarist Russia has to rely on this wealth to revitalize its national destiny!"
"Haha..." Zasaktu Khan Nolb laughed too. He pointed at the two sitting opposite him and said, "In this way, Eziertu has presented a big gift to both of you!"
In the past, there were no Tushetu Khan, and there were no Chechen Khan. It was after Gunbu and Shuollei became the leader of their tribe that they began to call Khan. In other words, after Gunbu declared himself as Tushetu Khan, and Shuollei declared himself as Chechen Khan, they destroyed the tribes of the old enemy Guards. This is their great achievements. It is therefore that Nolbu said that.
When Gunbu and Shuolei heard this, they were also proud. This was enough to show that their position of Khan was well deserved!
So the three proud people began to drink happily again, pointing at the Wilat woman dancing in the middle of the tent from time to time, and the atmosphere was very warm.
After a while, Gunbu suddenly looked at Shuolei and said, "You are familiar with Tsarist Russia. If we show up, will they agree?"
In the annexation war of grassland tribes, generally speaking, the enemy women and children who are taller than the chariot are not killed. Women can give birth to children, and children grow up will become warriors of the tribe. Only in this way can the tribe grow in less danger after annexing other tribes.
After hearing this, Chechen Khan thought for a moment: "May not work. Although there are no Wei Lat tribes, if our tribes annexed Wei Lat tribes and become stronger, this is not what Tsarist Russia wants to see."
Speaking of this, he frowned and explained: "Tsarist Russia has regarded the land in the north as their own inexhaustible treasure house. They have been sending people eastward to plunder, but they don't want to break their wealth if we become stronger in the future!"
Upon hearing this, Gunbu suddenly swears: "His grandma, if he is really strong, he will really rob their wealth. Let's make a fortune by ourselves!"
When Nolbu heard this, he shook his head and said, "Where can we sell the things that Tsarist Russia plundered from the north? That is, those countries in the extreme west need them, but we can't sell them!"
Hearing this, the other two were silent. It seemed that this road to wealth was not suitable for them.
However, Gunbu suddenly thought of something and immediately said to the other two: "It seems that the Ming Dynasty sent troops to the north and was competing for territory with Tsarist Russia!"
"What, there is such a thing?" Chechen Khan confirmed in surprise when he heard this.
Nolbu was also surprised and said: "The Ming Kingdom actually sent troops to the north? Then wouldn't our Mobei..."
After hearing this, Gunbu shook his hand and said, "Of course I haven't passed through our Mobei. I passed by Liaodong, and there are very few people. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to compete with the Tsarist Russian army in the north!"
Hearing this, Noelbu not only did not breathe a sigh of relief, but instead seemed worried and said, "When did this happen? Could it be that the Qing Dynasty in Liaodong had been defeated by the Ming Dynasty? If the Ming Dynasty was so powerful, we...we are afraid..."
Seeing his expression and hearing his worried words, Chechen Khan became nervous and hurriedly said, "It seems that the reason why Eziertu is so powerful is because the Ming Kingdom is supporting him behind him! Now that we have destroyed the tribes of Wei Lat, will Ming Kingdom take revenge on us?"
Seeing that they were so nervous, Gunbu couldn't help but smile and said, "Has the Ming Kingdom been our enemy forever? Even during the heyday of the Ming Kingdom, their Chengzu personally conquered the northern part of the Mobei region, but it was still impossible for us to do anything about it. Now, we are afraid that the Ming Kingdom will not succeed?"
Hearing this, the other two were relieved. Among them, Nolbu nodded and smiled and said, "It seems that I am too worried, just a country. If we send troops, we will take them around the desert and Gobi to see how long they can last!"
"Yes, if the Ming Dynasty dares to send troops, they will definitely let them know that our three tribes in the north are not comparable to those in the south!" Gunbu's voice was very loud, his tone was very firm, and he was obviously confident.
They also heard about the Ming Dynasty captured Hetao. But they didn't care. As they said just now, Mobei is too far away from Ming Dynasty. Ming Dynasty sent troops so many times, but he has never really conquered Mobei. What are you afraid of about the Central Plains dynasty, an old opponent who is aware of the roots and bottoms!
So the three of them raised their glasses to celebrate again. However, after a while, Nolbu seemed to have doubts and put down his cup and said, "Now the remnants of the Weila tribes are still hiding everywhere, and we have not completely wiped out them. What if the Ming Kingdom sends troops over?"
Speaking of this, he saw that the two of them looked a little disapproving, and quickly added: "The Wei Lat tribe has surrendered to the Ming Kingdom. Now that the Wei Lat tribe has been beaten like this, I think the Ming Kingdom will definitely send troops."
"Haha!" Gunbu immediately said with a hint of ridicule, "Even Gushikhan refused to come to rescue him, will Ming Kingdom send troops? Even if he sends troops, it is probably a perfunctory thing, right?"
The three tribes in Mobei are actually the most feared by Gushikhan. If Gushikhan had not sent troops to Qinghai-Tibet, even if Tsarist Russia found them and said they would join forces to fight Gushikhan, they would probably have to consider it again and again. Therefore, while they attacked Gushikhan this time, they were very nervous, and the focus of the investigation and vigilance was also placed on Gushikhan's side.
What they did not expect was that they heard news from the Weila people they captured that Gushikhan would not come to rescue him. This was also the main reason why the three of them were drinking happily here.
Hearing Gunbu say this, the other two nodded. Indeed, even Gushikhan refused to come to rescue him. How strong can the Ming Dynasty do if it sends troops?
So, the three of them also began to drink. However, before they could leave, a fast horse suddenly came and then hurried into the camp and reported to the three of them: "Report, I found that the Ming army was not taken away at night in the east!"
Chapter completed!