It was precisely because of the protection of the Great Bright Sun and Moon Flag that Enke's tribe survived last winter's snowstorm.
The entire tribe felt extremely fortunate to Enke, the tribal leader, for his wise decision.
Some Mongolian tribes further west did not receive adequate supplies of food, cloth and medicinal materials because they did not submit to the Ming Dynasty.
Enke and others heard that several tribes were seriously damaged in the blizzard last winter.
At least half of the cattle and sheep were frozen to death, and many men, women, old and weak died of illness and disease.
After the beginning of spring, all parts of the grassland finally breathed a sigh of relief.
And Enke knew that his tribe would never be in danger from now on, because the Ming Dynasty gave Enke and these surrendered Mongolian tribes great preferential treatment.
Enke's tribe received thirty high-quality sheep transported from the Central Plains. These sheep were strong and had white, fine and long hair.
According to the officials of the Ming Dynasty, as long as the wool is harvested, ten pounds of wool is equivalent to one tael of silver.
And you must know that ten pounds of mutton on the grassland cannot be exchanged for more than one tael of silver.
So Enke arranged for the best sheep raising experts to start domesticating and raising these thirty sheep after the beginning of spring.
As long as these thirty sheep are multiplied into a huge flock, Enke's tribe will be equivalent to a gold mine.
From then on, the entire tribe could rely on a steady harvest of wool in exchange for a steady stream of silver. With the silver, the tribe could buy sufficient food, cloth, medicinal materials, etc. from the Han caravans.
"Sir, a team of Ming cavalry is coming." A small tribe member Tuomu suddenly rushed in and said from Enke's yurt.
At this time, Enke finally used a transparent glass to taste the sweet kumiss.
When he heard that a pair of Ming cavalry came to his tribe, Enke immediately stood up and felt a little excited, because the Ming cavalry meant that there was a new mission for him.
Since returning to the tribe last fall, every time Ming assigned a task and completed it as ordered, the rewards and rewards he received would be valuable.
So now Enke and everyone in his tribe gave the most respectful welcome to the Ming cavalry who came to convey the order.
Enke led several tribal leaders out of the camp in person and went to greet the Ming Dynasty's cavalry.
"It turns out to be Mr. Li Qian. Long time no see. Enke wants to say hello to you." As soon as Enke saw the person coming, he immediately said in fluent Chinese.
This group of Ming army cavalry only has more than twenty people, and the leader is wearing light cotton armor. He is Li Shan, the Qianzong of the Mobei Protectorate on the grassland.
Since repelling Timur's sneak attack in the last battle on the grassland, both Li Shan brothers have been promoted for their outstanding military achievements.
Li Shan was awarded the title of Commander-in-Chief of the Rangers of the Mobei Protectorate.
Li Shan has been to the Enke tribe several times.
"Enke guerrillas, there is an order from the Mobei Protectorate." Li Shan did not show too much politeness to Enke, he directly took out the warrant in his hand and said loudly.
When Enke heard this, he quickly led his leaders and respectfully walked to the front to listen to the order.
"Bayanbulu and other tribes were rebellious, disobeyed the imperial teachings, and intended to rebel. Enke was ordered to send a hundred cavalrymen to obey the order and follow the army to fight against the thieves."
Li Shan read out the order loudly and quickly.
This order from the Mobei Protectorate can be said to be concise and concise, without any sloppy nonsense.
"General Enke obeys the order!" Enke quickly took the order.
Then he decided to ask his leaders to gather a hundred strong men from the tribe to prepare to follow Li Shan back to the Mobei Protectorate.
Afterwards, Enke started chatting with Li Shan.
The two of them chatted for only a few words before Enke found out clearly that these rebellious Mongolian tribes must be in trouble.
In order to consolidate the order of various tribes in Mobei, Zhu Han ordered the implementation of a relatively strict pasture classification system in Mobei.
As long as the grassland division system is implemented, it is equivalent to fixing each tribe on the land, making it impossible for them to migrate on a large scale, and facilitating the jurisdiction of the Mobei Protectorate.
However, after all, this playground division system cannot be perfect. There will always be some tribes who feel that they have suffered a loss on the pasture issue, and thus harbor resentment against the Ming Dynasty.
Regarding these tribes, Zhu Han's order to Luo Guanzhong, the governor of Mobei, was to deal with them strictly and quickly.
Since the pasture division on the Mobei grassland is not good enough, the biggest problem is that there are too many people and too little pasture.
If some tribes can be eliminated, there will be more pasture and the problem will be solved.
The Bayanbulu and several other tribes killed the herdsmen of surrounding tribes because of the issue of pasture division. These herdsmen all belonged to the tribes that submitted to the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, the actions of the Bayanbulu tribes were equivalent to declaring war on the Ming Dynasty.
Luo Guanzhong, the protector of the Mobei Protectorate, immediately ordered each Mongolian tribe to send their own elite soldiers and horses to follow the Mobei Protectorate in a crusade against Bayanbulu and other rebels, following the strategy Zhu Han had left behind.
Soon the Mobei Protectorate sent a thousand Ming troops, plus 5,000 Mongolian servants from various tribes, to launch an attack on Bayanbulu and several other tribes.
Bayan Brudenbulo originally wanted to run away to avoid the Ming army's attack, but because they had brought their family with them and the Ming army was traveling lightly, they were caught off guard.
The two sides engaged in an encounter on the grassland that was evenly matched in terms of numbers.
As the commander-in-chief of this crusade, Li Shan had full authority to command the Mongolian servant armies of Enke and other tribes.
Cewangala, the leader of the Bayanbulu tribe, led more than a dozen allied tribes to fight against the Ming army with 7,000 men.
Cewangala and others saw that under the flag of the Ming army on the opposite side, most of them were Mongolians from various tribes such as Enke, and they were all furious.
"Enke and these people, the anger of Changshengtian will definitely fall on them."
"They don't want to be eagles on the grassland, but they want to be dogs of the Ming army. Not only will we kill all the Ming army this time, traitors like Enke will never let them go."
Bayanbulu and other tribes knew that they had no future with the Ming army. The only hope now was to defeat the Ming army, and then send people to contact Wang Baobao and others in Hala and Lin to counterattack the Ming army and regain their own pasture.
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Now all Bayanbulu and other tribes need to do is defeat the Ming army in front of them.
The Mongolian servant army under the Mobei Protectorate also knew that the Bayanbulu tribe traitors must be completely defeated in this battle.
The Mobei Protectorate of the Ming Dynasty can achieve its first victory since its founding, and thus have greater influence on the grassland tribes.
If the Mongolian servant army defeated Bayanbulu and other tribes, they would not only get more rewards from the Ming army, but also share the population, livestock and pasture of Bayanbulu and other tribes, which would be of great benefit to their own tribes.
As the Ming army's artillery fired and the Mongolian rebels' horns blew, the two sides started fighting on the grassland.
Although the Bayanbulu and other tribes did not lag behind the Ming army in terms of numbers, they were completely unable to compare with the Ming army in terms of weapons, armor, artillery and muskets.
In fact, the equipment level of tribes such as Bayanbulu is not as good as that of Enke and other Ming army servants.
Enke and other servants of the Ming army were each equipped with a piece of cotton armor and decent iron helmets.
The huge gap in weapons and training between the two sides was immediately apparent after the battle.
In less than half an hour, the elite pioneers of Bayanbulu and other tribes were completely destroyed.
The bows and arrows of Bayanbulu and other rebels shot at the Ming army, and it was almost impossible to cause effective damage.
Whether it is the superior armor of the Ming Dynasty official army or the ordinary cotton armor of the Mongolian servant army, it can effectively defend against the rebels' bows and arrows.
However, the muskets that appeared from time to time in the Ming army's formation were like the god of death, harvesting the lives of the Mongolian rebels.
Many Mongolian tribes that had good relations with the Ming army were also equipped with some muskets.
Therefore, the firepower advantage of the Mobei Protectorate is definitely a nightmare for the rebels.
The entire battle did not last even an hour. Bayanbulu and other tribal rebels dispersed after Cewangala and others escaped.
The strong combat power of the Ming army completely destroyed the mentality of Cewangala and other rebel leaders. They just panicked and fled, and they did not even have time to take away the women and children in the tribe.
The Mongolian servants of Enke and other tribes chased behind the rebels like a strong wind.
Naturally, the women, children and other properties of these tribes quickly fell into the hands of these Ming Ming Mongolian troops.
Regarding how to deal with these properties and captives, Enke and others did not divide them up privately according to the rules on the grassland, but very cautiously asked the Mobei Protectorate of the Ming Dynasty for instructions.
Now that the Ming Dynasty has established a new order on the grasslands, they will naturally no longer be allowed to privately divide the property of hostile tribes.
The power to distribute spoils of war is also a manifestation of dominance.
After this battle, almost no tribe on the Mobei grassland would dare to disobey the Ming army in the slightest.
Several rebellious tribes such as Bayanbulu were subsequently divided up their pastures and livestock under the auspices of Luo Guanzhong, the Protector of Mobei.
Those young women were assigned to the Ming army soldiers in the Mobei Protectorate.
Whether they are Han Chinese or Jurchen and other tribal soldiers recruited from Liaoyang, the soldiers of the Ming Army in the Mobei Protectorate are basically single. If we want these soldiers to be stationed safely in this bitter and cold place in Mobei, it is natural to provide them with a solution.
Issues between men and women.
As for the children who were less than the height of a wheel, Luo Guanzhong followed the rules on the grassland and did not kill them, but incorporated them under the command of the Mobei Protectorate.
Zhu Han had long told Luo Guanzhong that the population on the grassland was the most precious resource, and these children, who had great nurturing value, were a weapon for the Ming army to consolidate the grassland in the future.
These captured Mongol Khanates will receive education from the Ming Dynasty in the Mobei Protectorate.
It won't be long before they completely forget their origins as Mongolian nomads and consider themselves Ming people.
Then, with the military skills trained since childhood, hundreds of children will grow up to become elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.
For the efforts and achievements of several tribes such as Enke in this battle, Luo Guanzhong certainly not only rewarded them with pasture and livestock.
After all, in defeating these Mongolian rebels this time, the main force of the Ming army actually did not exert much effort.
The fighting on the battlefield and the subsequent pursuit were all completed by Enke and other Mongolian servants.
Therefore, Luo Guanzhong asked the court for instructions to reward Enke and other Mongolian tribes who had made meritorious services.
After Zhu Han received the victory report of the Mobei Protectorate's record-breaking victory, he also very much agreed with Luo Guanzhong's suggestion.
Controlling the precious women and children on the grassland under the jurisdiction of the Mobei Protectorate, and giving some rewards to those Mongolian tribes who have made meritorious services, can be said to be the best of both worlds.
With a stroke of his pen, Zhu Han directly ordered the Mobei Protectorate to provide military pay to these Mongolian servant tribes based on the standard of up to one hundred soldiers per tribe.
According to the standards of the Ming army, the salary of one hundred soldiers was definitely a huge amount of income for a Mongolian tribe.
You must know that if converted according to the prices in the two cities, the military salary of a soldier in the Ming Dynasty is enough to feed five herdsmen in different districts.
This reward from the Ming Dynasty is equivalent to helping these Mongolian tribes feed five to six hundred people for free.
Not only that, Zhu Han also ordered the Mobei Protectorate to reward each tribe with a batch of new muskets.
This batch of new muskets were all researched and produced by the Machinery Manufacturing Bureau of Yingtianfu.
According to historical standards, this batch of new muskets produced by the Yingtianfu Machinery Manufacturing Bureau have completely broken away from the category of matchlocks and officially entered the standard flintlock sequence.
This batch of new muskets all use fine steel bodies and high-quality flint, and the effective musket firing rate is more than 70%.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Although these muskets are slightly smaller in caliber than the original matchlock guns, their accuracy, weight and maneuverability have been greatly improved.
Such exquisite new muskets were not fully deployed by the Ming army.
But Zhu Han ordered them to be rewarded to those Mongolian tribes who had made meritorious deeds. This was definitely not the reason for cheating.
This is because after this battle in the Mobei Protectorate, Zhu Han clearly realized that although these Mongolian tribes had surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, their fighting power was still very strong.
Simply controlling them politically and economically is far from foolproof.
It would be best to use military means to change these powerful nomadic tribes.
The flintlock gun, which represents industrial strength, is the best weapon.
This exquisitely manufactured flintlock gun is an absolutely insurmountable technological peak for the nomadic tribes on the grassland.
When these nomads became accustomed to using flintlock guns and the tactics of flintlock guns, they could no longer get rid of their dependence on firearms.
All the manufacturing, maintenance and gunpowder supply of firearms were in the hands of the Ming army, which meant that the military capabilities of these nomadic tribes were completely controlled by the Ming army.
Once any tribe on the grassland wants to resist the Ming army, there is no need to go through a special crusade. It only needs to cut off the supply of weapons to the rebels, which can greatly weaken their combat capabilities.
Under Zhu Han's strategy, the Mobei Protectorate quickly distributed thousands of muskets to various tribes such as Enke, and sent instructors to station among each tribe to teach these grassland herdsmen how to use flintlock guns.
As a result, the Ming army further penetrated into various tribes militarily.
But Enke and other Mongolian tribes were also very happy and grateful for this.
These new flintlock guns were powerful, easy to operate, and very easy to use.
Moreover, the muskets equipped by the Ming army in the Mobei Protectorate were exactly the same as the muskets used by these Mongolian servants. This made Enke and other tribal leaders feel that the Ming army really regarded them as their own, and everyone was interested in the Ming Dynasty.
Support from the heart.
In less than half a year, the Mobei Protectorate's dominance over the grasslands was perfected.
