Yang Feng looked at the grassland still covered in ice and snow.
Although it's almost February, it's still 20 degrees below zero here.
In the wasteland behind him, huge camel cities have been surrounded. Within the defense line composed of Bactrian camels connected end to end, the Ming army cavalry who marched all the way from Kaiping quickly set up tents, but there was no
How many bonfires…
"Your Majesty, there is no cow dung nearby. I'm afraid no one has been nomadic here for many years."
Zhang Fu came over and said.
"I told you no one is here."
Yang Feng said.
This area must be visited by the Ming army every time they raid. How could there be anyone there? The most recent time was in the 25th year of Hongwu, which was the year he first came. But before he came, the Ming army had just targeted Antana.
The last Mongolian group headed by Ha Chu tried to attack the Donggui Group. But the funny thing is that Zhu Yuanzhang actually did it under the guise of revolting against the Bei Yuan Dynasty, because Yesu Dieer killed the great Khan of the Bei Yuan Dynasty, Tuo Gu Si Tie
Mu'er then sent Andanaha back to the east to summon the old Mongolian tribes that had surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, so Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the regicide of Yesu Die'er to attack.
The Emperor Ming defeated the regicide rebel on behalf of the Emperor Yuan.
Of course, no matter what the reason is, I'll beat you up if you dare to come back.
From now on, no one dares to come back.
"How can we build the city if we don't have any people? What's more, it's useless to have fewer troops and it's difficult to supply more. Even if we transport it from Kaiping to the north, we have to travel nearly two thousand miles. What's more, it's so cold here in winter that we need to burn firewood for heating.
The only thing that can be burned on the grassland is cow dung, and there are no herdsmen here.
Even the cow dung doesn’t need to be burned.”
Zhu Di said.
"Why should we start from Kaiping, why not Huining?"
Yang Feng said.
He then took out the artist's hand-drawn version of the satellite map.
He had already prepared it.
As long as Zhu Yuanzhang garrisoned troops here, he could guarantee all supplies, and by ensuring all material supplies here, it meant that his sphere of influence had crossed the Greater Khingan Mountains. Although reclamation of wasteland was definitely not possible, but...
There is nothing to be disappointed with.
In fact, he just wanted to station troops in such an iconic place on the grassland.
It's purely personal preference.
"From Huining, we can travel upstream along the Nen River to Xing'anwei, then use land camel caravans to cross the Greater Khingan Mountains, and then take the Tao'er River, all the way to the upper reaches of the Halaha River. As for burning firewood, that's too easy.
Just cut the wood directly from the upper reaches and then release it along the Halaha River. Even the materials can be released. It just so happens that the boat doesn't have to go back. The materials are also delivered with firewood.
There is no need to garrison too many troops, just one Qianhu garrison is enough.
Fishing in the sea.
One in the mountains.
Send another one to Xing'an Guard."
Yang Feng said.
Xing'an Guard is the Jisu Guard affiliated to Huining.
Huining's Jisi Guards have reached as far as Lingbei.
Anyway, it's just those small tribes who come to contribute some local products and then go back with a title.
As for water transport on the Nenjiang River, it can be done anywhere. In fact, it can be done anywhere below Nenjiang County. During the Republic of China, inland river ships had stable ferry flights to Da'an, so you can just find a pier along the coast. In fact, you can also try to see if you can enter the Taoer River.
If a big ship can't get in, a small boat can't get in?
Then the rest is to head towards Aershan, in short, find a shipping starting point in the upper reaches of the Halaha River.
The rest is just drifting all the way.
Zhu Di was a little moved.
He is good at this.
"Your Majesty, do you know who will be the biggest border trouble in this area in the future?
Russian.
Do you know how they expanded to this area from nearly 20,000 miles away by land?
Just by the river.
Their armed reclamation regiments used water transportation to move forward among large rivers. They first found a tributary in the upper reaches, and then drifted down the tributary. They stopped to build castles at suitable places along the way. Now we call it Wala.
The Mongols would send troops to drive them away. If they couldn't hold on, they would retreat by water. When the Mongols moved to other places, they would come back to build castles.
As long as I didn't chase them away once.
They took root.
Then they would use this castle as a base to keep coming more people until they were ready, and then move forward overland to find the next tributary of the river system, and then build a boat to drift.
In this way, we crossed the river systems one by one, moving forward slowly but steadily.
Finally, all the way to Triton.
At that time, Maokouwei belonged to them.
We have to learn.
Don’t be afraid of difficulties, as long as you can actually control the land, difficulties are nothing.”
Yang Feng said.
“It’s such a bitter cold place and we can’t farm, so what are we doing here?”
Tan Yuan said.
"Remember, you don't have to worry about too much land. No matter what kind of land, as long as there is a possibility of occupying it, it must be occupied. Being unable to cultivate it does not mean that it has no value. Even if it is a desert, there are still minerals underground. The more land we occupy, the more land we occupy, the more land we occupy, the more land we occupy.
The thicker the family wealth left to future generations, they may discover its value at some point. What's more, even if you can't farm here, you can still graze, raise more cattle and sheep to sell, or even raise cows and milk them to make milk powder. If
The road to Xing'anling is opened, and cattle raised here can be sold to the Huining Reclamation Area.
The vast pasture here is enough to raise millions of cattle.
Millions of cattle.
There are really millions of cows. Is your emperor happy?"
Yang Feng said.
"Millions of cows, how is that possible?"
Tan Yuan looked at the ice and snow in front of him with obvious disbelief.
"At that time, the area around Hulun Lake in the north was called Hulunbuir City, which was similar to a prefecture. Each prefecture had more than one million beef cattle and nearly one million dairy cows, adding up to more than two million head, and there were even more other livestock. This is the total cattle population.
Quantity, that is, those that are still being raised, and those that are slaughtered and sold are not counted.
Your poverty limits your imagination."
Yang Feng said.
Of course, there is no need to tell them the difference between cattle and cattle breeds.
Ambassador Yang does not lie.
Just tell them selectively.
"Select a thousand cavalrymen and ask them to go upstream along the Halaha River. After entering the mountains, wait until spring to see if they can cut down the trees and release them. If they can be released here, they will leave the trees as evidence. Then they will go to Huining via the Xing'an Mountains and from Huining.
Returning to Peiping can be regarded as their meritorious service.
As for the others, rest here for ten days and then go to Helin."
Zhu Di said.
"Unload my big net, and I'll show you why this place is called Fishing Sea."
Yang Feng shouted to the soldiers behind him.
The soldiers quickly unloaded what he wanted from a camel.
Fishing in the sea...
That's what fishing is for.
This place is a great place for winter fishing.
So the next day, the 30,000 troops could already eat fish.
They rested in the fishing sea for ten days. Yang Feng led the fishing team and kept catching fish. During this season, they cleaned the internal organs of the fish and then threw them aside to freeze them. When the army set off again,
On the backs of all the horses were fish weighing more than ten or even dozens of kilograms that had been frozen and turned into weapons. They continued to head west along the Lququ River or the Klulen River to Helin, but they still found no nomadic tribes along the way.
Occasionally there are a few scattered herdsmen, who must be escaped herdsmen.
The problem of household escape among nomadic tribes is also very serious.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, tens of thousands of herdsmen fleeing their homes and fugitives fleeing from the interior were wandering outside the Great Wall in Ji Town, in the Rehe Mountains.
When these troops saw the army, they surrendered immediately.
Through them, it can be determined that there are currently no large tribes in the entire lower reaches of the Ququ River, including the lower reaches of the Onan River in the north.
But the Tula River has it.
That is, the tribe that originally belonged to Yesu Die'er.
They were nomadic in the Tula River. Togu Si Timur or Emperor Tianyuan of the Northern Yuan Dynasty was attacked and killed by him when he passed by his territory on the way to Helin. Later, Yesudier was supported by the Wala and other tribes.
Khan, led his tribe to move westward. After his death, his son Enke succeeded to the throne. Enke died in civil strife, and Elbek of Kublai Khan succeeded to the throne.
This part of Yesudie'er's tribe originally fled back to the Tula River.
They are also on the way to Helin.
This is easy to handle!
"Let's go, finally we have some meat to eat!"
Yang Feng looked at the map and said.
The Tula River is the Tula River, which is south of Ulaanbaatar.
It is certain that their wintering place is Ulaanbaatar.
Twenty-nine thousand cavalry began to attack along the Luqu River.
Five days later.
Night, by the Tula River.
"Thirty miles ahead!"
A group of reconnaissance cavalry returned in the wind and snow, and the leading officer reported to Zhu Di.
"Rocket launch!"
Zhu Di said.
An officer immediately took out the rocket and placed it on the ground and lit the fuse. Then, with the flames ejected from the tail, the rocket shot straight into the sky. Soon, the same flames rose at two points in the sky on the left and right, and then exploded in mid-air. This represented
The left and right flanks of this army received orders to attack.
Of course, a 29,000-strong army cannot come from one direction.
In fact, the attack is in the middle.
The left and right wings will be separated and outflanked. Once the surprise attack is completed in the middle, the enemies will definitely disperse and flee, and they must be surrounded and annihilated.
"Walk!"
Yang Feng shouted.
Then he spurred on his horse.
Zhang Fu, who was the forward, also picked up a spear.
They led a thousand cavalry forward and advanced along the Tula River. Behind them, Zhu Di's central army followed like spread eagle wings in the wind and snow. It was only twenty miles away. Half an hour later, there was a wind in front.
The tent appeared in the snow. They immediately began to charge at full speed. The cavalry's horse hooves trampled, immediately awakening the sleeping tribe. Then some people rushed out of the tent in a hurry, and then roared in terror, and more and more people rushed out of the tent.
, and others blew their horns in a hurry.
But it's of no use.
The surging cavalry crashed into their camp instantly.
The first wave didn't use spears at all.
They just ran at full speed between these tents.
Then……
Throw grenades directly.
The enemies, who were already in chaos, had no intention of resisting amid the constant explosions. They all ignored their families and ran towards their horses desperately.
But the sound of the explosion startled all the horses.
After all, this is Mobei.
These horses may not have heard the explosion of a grenade.
They even broke away from the rope and ran away without caring about their owners, and those who caught the horse had to fight to control it because the horse was frightened.
But then the second wave arrived.
The Ming army cavalry on horseback swept through the entire camp with spears. They also would not entangle. If they encountered the enemy, they would stab them to death. If they did not encounter them, they would ignore them and just keep running forward. Anyway, there were everywhere in front of them.
Tent. This kind of large wintering camp is where the entire tribe gathers. Tens of thousands of men, women, old and young crowd together in a place leeward and facing the river, relying on the fodder stored in the autumn. The reason why this place is popular is because there are mountains behind it.
This means there is firewood for heating in winter.
With water, firewood, and grass, this is the perfect wintering place.
And then comes the third wave.
All cavalry are the same and will not tangle with the enemy.
It means collision, trampling, wave after wave, so that the enemies are never able to gather. After rushing through one camp, they rush into the next. And behind the third wave, is the main force sweeping in like a raging wave.
That is a devastating blow.
"Why is there still a city wall here?"
Zhang Fu, who was at the front, looked at a broken city wall in front of him in astonishment.
It is indeed a city wall.
It's just that after the ravages of time, only a circle of rammed earth is left, and it is very small, with an estimated circumference of only two miles. However, it still provides a barely adequate defense. At this time, some awakened enemies have boarded.
city wall, and then raised his bow and arrow at them.
"What's so strange about this? There were a lot of cities here in the Liao Dynasty.
There are also a large number of Han Chinese!"
Yang Feng said.
So it is not surprising that Han genes were later found.
Because Mongolia developed on the basis of the Menggu and other ministries during the Liao Kingdom. The Liao Kingdom was the only ancient dynasty other than the Yuan Dynasty that could be said to truly rule the grasslands. They had 30,000 troops stationed in the grasslands, not only Ulaanbaatar
There are several military states in the area, and a large number of Han craftsmen and Bohai people migrated to settle here to provide supporting facilities for the garrisoned Khitan army.
After the fall of the Liao Kingdom, Yelu Dashi tried to regroup his forces to counterattack in Zhenzhou in this area.
But in the end no one supported it.
He had no choice but to found Xiliao.
He took away a large number of elites, but there were still a large number of Khitan, Han, and Bohai people left behind. These merged with the Menggu and other grassland tribes, and eventually formed the Mongolia that swept across Europe and Asia.
Modern archeology has uncovered a bunch of ancient city ruins in this area.
"put!"
At this time, Zhang Fu had already roared.
The cavalrymen, who were being forced to circle the city, took out fire sticks on their horses one by one, and then lit the fuses of the three-eyed muskets in their hands. While circling the city, they sprayed dense flames at the enemies on the wall.
Although the enemies were indeed on the city walls, these walls had long since collapsed, and there was no protection such as parapets. The continuous shooting of the three-eyed gun made them scream and fall. The sudden firearm strikes made the remaining
Everyone fled instinctively, and soon a defensive gap appeared on the city wall. Zhang Fu, who arrived at the bottom of the city, stood up directly from the horse and jumped into a collapsed gap when the horse stopped.
Several enemies inside were waving their swords to fight, and he smashed his maces forward wildly.
From behind, more cavalry jumped onto the gap from horseback.
Ambassador Yang stood up knowingly. He almost fell off his horse when he was about to jump. Finally, he got angry and took out a grenade, opened the safety cover and threw it in.
Then continue running along the base of the city wall.
Throw grenades inside while running.
The camp behind them that they had previously invaded had been flooded by Zhu Di's army.