The Ordo of Yuzmulendek Khan in the Kazakh Khanate is located on a grassland with fertile water and grass.
It is midsummer at this time, with abundant water and grass, long grass and flying birds, and flocks of cattle and sheep. It is the best and busiest season of the year for prairie people.
Mulundek Khan was riding on a sweaty horse, standing on a hill, overlooking the beautiful grassland in front of him. There were flocks of cattle and sheep on the grassland, eating grass leisurely. In the sky, the eagle
There were bursts of chirping, and on the empty grassland, the warriors of the grassland were galloping their horses and singing in the wind.
"The eagle on the grassland has grown up, our horses have become stronger, and the cattle have become fatter. It's so happy!"
Mulundekh Khan has become much older, and his life has been difficult these past few years.
Since the war with the Ming Dynasty, the Kazakh Khanate was defeated. Not only did it lose hundreds of thousands of grassland warriors, but it also lost the fertile Dayuz grassland. The herdsmen of the Kazakh Khanate could not go in to graze.
In addition, one hundred thousand good horses need to be paid to the Ming Empire every year. This is undoubtedly an extremely heavy burden for the Kazakh Khanate, which is full of grassland nomads. It is like a big mountain weighing heavily on the Kazakh Khanate.
On top of the country's head, it was difficult for them to even breathe.
This is a shameful battle!
Mulendek Khan's prestige in the Kazakh Khanate was greatly affected. Many rebellions broke out over the years, but he suppressed them all with clever means and at a very small cost.
But the Ming Empire is like a huge shadow that always hangs over the Kazakh Khanate. Mulendek Khan has always been worried about it and cannot forget it. He has also been working hard to prepare for another war with the Ming Empire.
"Khan~ Do you want to?"
When Mulundekh Khan heard this, his most trusted minister, Balandu, immediately understood what Mulendekh Khan was thinking.
"Yes~"
"Shame can only be washed away with blood. Whatever the Ming Dynasty imposed on our Kazakh Khanate, we must pay it back a hundred times or a thousand times."
"There must be a showdown between our Kazakh Khanate and the Ming Dynasty. Only one male lion can exist in this land of Central Asia."
Mulundekh Khan nodded solemnly. He was ambitious and had lofty aspirations. He was a descendant of the Golden Family. He dreamed of one day being like Genghis Khan, uniting all the grassland tribes, whipping the world, and recreating the glory of the Golden Family.
However, in the battle that year, the Ming Dynasty almost smashed all his confidence and pride to pieces, which made him have trouble sleeping and eating all these years, and he was always dreaming about how to defeat the Ming Dynasty.
"But, Great Khan, we are no match for the powerful Ming Empire in any aspect."
When Balandu heard this, he couldn't help but want to persuade him.
The Ming Empire was too big and too powerful.
In Hezhong and the Western Regions alone, the Ming Empire possessed terrifying military strength. It deployed more than 200,000 troops in these two places, all of which were well-trained and well-equipped elites.
Even for infantry, the Ming Empire equipped the infantry with war horses, which could be used as cavalry at any time. As for the cavalry of the Ming Empire, they were simply a nightmare.
Balandu still remembers clearly in his mind that there were only 20,000 Ming cavalry, but they killed hundreds of thousands of Kazakh Khanate's elite cavalry, cutting off the Kazakh Khanate in one fell swoop.
The backbone of the Ming Dynasty had to bow its head to the Ming Empire and pay tribute every year.
Over the years, the Kazakh Khanate has gained a deeper understanding of the Ming Dynasty. Mulundek Khan even learned the writing and language of the Ming Dynasty. He reads newspapers from the Ming Dynasty every day and understands all aspects of the Ming Dynasty in detail.
He should know how powerful and terrifying the Ming Empire was.
The powerful Ming Empire not only possesses strong military power, but in other aspects, the Ming Empire is now undoubtedly the strongest in the world.
"Back then, when Genghis Khan, the ancestor of our Golden Family, we Mongolians were far inferior to the Song Dynasty at the same time in terms of numbers, so-called economy, and technology, and were even inferior to the Jin Kingdom."
"But the great Genghis Khan, was he afraid of this?"
"No, he not only destroyed the Jin Kingdom, Xixia, but also the Khwarez Mo. Later, we Mongols almost conquered the entire world. The Song Dynasty was very rich, had a large population, and was able to manufacture various products.
There are all kinds of tools, but haven’t they all been wiped out by us Mongols?”
"We not only destroyed the Song Dynasty, we also went all the way west and swept across the world. We beat the Europeans to their knees and begged for mercy, and the Europeans trembled when we beat them."
"Isn't this enough to explain that the so-called wealth, technology, and population are not the most important, the most important thing is unity. As long as we Mongolians and nomadic tribes on the grassland unite together, the seemingly powerful Ming Empire will also be
It’s just an illusion, and it’s nothing more than vulnerable to a single blow.”
Mulundekh Khan recalled the glory of his ancestors and spoke with great ambition. The Ming Empire was powerful, but when the grassland people united as one, no matter how powerful the empire was, it was no match for the grassland people.
"And now we have no choice but to go to war with the Ming people."
"Every year, one hundred thousand war horses are used to attack the Ming Empire. What a heavy burden this is. Look at how many horses you can still see on our grasslands."
"In the past, every household in our grasslands had more than a dozen horses, but what about now?"
"There is also the fertile Dayuzi Grassland, which is a blessed land given to us grassland people by the Immortal God. However, now, we cannot enter it for grazing. We can only let the grass in Dayuzi grow old and let the rivers flow in vain.
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"We are the eagles of the grassland, but the people of Ming Dynasty are like dark clouds in the sky, binding us tightly to this small world. We must break this bondage before we can truly soar into the blue sky."
Mulendekhan's hands were trembling slightly.
He is not unaware of the power of the Ming Empire. The railways of the Ming Dynasty are about to reach the Western Regions. Once the train is opened, the Ming Dynasty's control over Hezhong, the Western Regions, and Nanyun will become stronger, and it will be even more difficult for the Kazakh Khanate.
The Ming Empire was defeated.
In his mind, he was also recalling the battle that year, when 20,000 Ming cavalry rushed across hundreds of thousands of his elite cavalry. The mighty armies clashed, but his side fell like a dumpling. Several head-on confrontations
, hundreds of thousands of elite cavalry were completely defeated.
He would never forget that scene for the rest of his life.
It's a shadow that will never go away from my heart.
"Khan, do you have any plans?"
Balaam knew that he could no longer stop Mulundekh Khan, and he also knew clearly what he said.
Over the years, life has been difficult for the grassland people. Every tribe and every herdsman household has its own tasks. It must turn in a certain number of horses on time as tribute to the Ming Dynasty. In order to ensure that there are enough horses, they often have to give up grazing.
More cattle and sheep.
At the same time, he also needs to bear more onerous taxes, because Mulundekh Khan is strengthening his troops and learning from the Ming Dynasty to build fully armored cavalry. These all require money, and naturally fall on the bottom herdsmen. How can this life be easy?
Without a good fight with the Ming Dynasty, how could the Kazakh Khanate stand up?
Apart from anything else, if we do not defeat the Ming Empire, the grassland people will always have to carry a heavy burden, and life will only become more and more difficult.
The Ming people were squeezing the living space of the Kazakh Khanate in every aspect.
Now to the north and west, the Kazakh Khanate has almost been surrounded by the Ming people. The huge pressure from the Ming Empire is pressing down like a mountain.
"The plan is very simple. We will not go head-to-head with the Ming Dynasty. Instead, we will play guerrilla and spread out and proactively attack various parts of the river and the Western Regions, so that their cavalry will be exhausted."
"Their cavalry are all cavalry wearing armor. They are heavy and running around will definitely be unbearable. We can seize the opportunity to annihilate them."
"As long as we annihilate a certain number of Ming cavalry, we can engage in a decisive battle with them. The elite armored cavalry that I have prepared for many years will surely tear them to pieces easily."
"No one can beat us on horseback!"
Mulundekh Khan looked very confident.
He has studied the Ming army in detail over the years. The total number of Ming armies is said to be one million, but they are scattered across the vast territory of the Ming Dynasty.
This is true even in the Western Regions and Hezhong areas. There are only a small number of troops stationed in the vast areas. This is a weakness caused by the Ming Dynasty's elite military policy.
Mulundekh Khan spotted this weakness of the Ming Empire and prepared to formulate guerrilla tactics to disperse his cavalry and attack the Ming Dynasty's rivers and various places in the Western Regions, so that these Ming cavalry would be tired of running around, and then look for suitable places.
opportunity to annihilate the Ming cavalry.
When a certain time comes, the heavy armored cavalry carefully prepared by Mulundekh Khan can be sent on the battlefield to defeat the Ming people with a great victory on the frontal battlefield and regain the glory and confidence of the grassland people!