The Shun army's light cavalry traveled across the snow-covered plateau. For a time, the snow covered their bows and knives. Hundreds of horses galloped through the pagoda temple. Even though Galdan had the ability to navigate the world, it was difficult for the Tibetan army to withstand the fierce attack of the Shun army soldiers. At that time,
A great defeat, a rout.
The local nobles of Tibet and Tibet who originally relied on Galdan and the Dalai Lama to start a rebellion also joined Dashun one after another and intercepted the rebels everywhere. The situation was instantly reversed.
Major temples provided food, tea, milk tea, and butter to the Shun army. Li Maoheng rushed forward with his troops and attacked all the way to Shigatse. Galdan tried to close the city and defend it.
However, the officers and soldiers of Dashun Army used flintlock fire to suppress the city head, and the vanguard warriors ascended the city to attack. In half a day, they crossed the siege and entered the city.
Galdan was defeated again and again, and almost had the idea of suicide by taking poison.
He is a devout believer in the Yellow Sect, and his rebellion this time was not just because he received the instruction from his elder brother, Seng Gehun Taiji.
More importantly, it was because the Dalai Lama, whom Galdan respected very much, also agreed to raise troops to rebel, so he contacted everyone and asked the paramilitary troops to enter the snowy area to expel Dashun.
Now that the army was defeated like a mountain, the Dalai Lama immediately changed his face and prepared to send monk soldiers to capture Galdan, and put all the blame for the Tibetan army's massacre of Milayin and the Qin sergeant-officials on Galdan alone.
Galdan was shocked when he heard the bad news. In despair, he jumped off the cliff and committed suicide. His body was broken into pieces and no bones were left. After that, despite many searches by the Shun army, Galdan's body could not be found.
This also left the legend of Galdan's Nirvana and Buddhahood on the snowy plateau. Later, the Yellow Sect monks who were bloody purged and retaliated by the Dashun Army fabricated the story that Galdan had not died but had achieved Nirvana and became a Buddha.
It is said that he returned like a lotus after a hundred years and led the monks and laymen of the Yellow Sect to expel the rule of the Shun army.
As for the fifth Dalai Lama, he forced Galdan to death and arrested a group of nobles around Galdan. He tried to use the heads of these Oirat Mongolian nobles and princes to calm the anger of the Dashun army.
However, Li Maoheng had already received instructions from the imperial court. This time he entered the snowy area, he must completely change the political structure on the snowy plateau and consolidate Dashun's rule.
After Li Maoheng led his army into Lhasa, he immediately trapped the fifth Dalai Lama and escorted him back to Beijing. Then he summoned the major local nobles and great lamas from Tibet to hold the Kashag Conference and re-selected a young boy from Qinghai.
The sixth Dalai Lama.
Li Maoheng submitted a letter to the court, requesting General Zhao Zilao to be the governor of the Tibetan Dudu Mansion, and he also selected four prestigious leaders from the local nobles in the snow area who had assisted the Dashun army in marching as deputy governors.
In order to avoid the concentration of power in the hands of a hereditary nobleman from the Snow Region, the Shun Dynasty adopted the method of establishing vassals, often appointing four to six noble leaders who were closely affiliated with Dashun as deputy governors at the same time.
Under normal circumstances, the important military and political affairs in the snow area are jointly handled by these deputy governors. The governors directly appointed by the Shun Dynasty are not responsible for daily military and political affairs. They will only intervene in the snow area when facing important crises.
affairs.
At the same time, in order to weaken the power of the hereditary noble leaders in these places, the Shun Dynasty also forced them to leave their hereditary territories and come to Lhasa to live and work permanently after serving as deputy governors.
This separated the relationship between these local powerful people and their own territories, making it difficult for important noble leaders who served as deputy governors to use the troops in their own territories to launch rebellions.
After sorting out the military and political affairs in the snowy area, Li Maoheng ordered Zhao Zilao to lead 2,000 troops to station in Lhasa, and he led other troops to return to Qinghai.
In this battle, Dashun's army marched at an astonishing speed like lightning, passing through snow-covered mountainous areas thousands of meters high, marching for more than 6,000 miles in the excruciating wilderness, and quickly put an end to the Galdan Rebellion.
Relying on strong force, they launched a bloody purge against the leaders of the monks and lay nobles who rebelled in the snow area, and killed more than a dozen monks and lay nobles, large and small, and re-established the military and political organs of the snow area headed by the four deputy governors of the Dudu Mansion, consolidating the
Shun Chao's dominance over the snowy plateau.
From then on, until the Shun Dynasty started a war for hegemony with the Daimeer Empire entrenched in the Indian subcontinent, the Snow Region Governor's Mansion enjoyed a period of peace and stability that lasted for decades.
It was also during this period that language, writing, culture, and commodities from the Shun Dynasty began to flow into the snowy areas in large quantities, enhancing exchanges between Qinghai-Tibet, Sichuan-Tibet and other places.
Many young nobles from both the monastic and secular circles in the snow area also went to Tokyo to study, or were awarded the title of Dashun.
But at that time, Li Maoheng's great military exploits in quickly quelling the rebellion in the snow area did not attract many people's attention.
Because at the same time that Galdan launched the rebellion, his brother, Sengge Huntaiji, who was in charge of the Mongolian Four Owarat Alliance, had already taken advantage of the Shun army's attention to the southwest corner and took the opportunity to send troops to bypass the Altai Mountains.
To the north, starting from the Mobei grassland beyond the reach of the Dashun Army, they intervened in the civil strife in Khalkha Mongolia.
In the Khalkha Mongolia in Mobei, there were originally three tribes: Zasaktu Khan, Tushetu Khan and Chechen Khan.
In the third year of Chongde, the three great Khans respectively sent envoys to Shenyang to express their homage to Huang Taiji and presented "Nine White Tributes", that is, eight white horses and one white camel as tribute every year. The cover was pure and white, and this tribute represented good luck. The emperor
Tai was so happy that he had planned to set up forty-nine banners based on Mongolian Mongolia's example, and also set up several banners in Mobei. Unexpectedly, he suddenly died of illness during the battle of Huolu and did not implement it.
After Dorgon came to power, he tried to divide the eight Zasaks in Khalkha into left and right wings, thereby making the political connection between the Khalkha Mongolia and the central government of the Qing Dynasty closer.
However, at this time, the Qing army was deeply involved in the internal war within the Pass, and Dorgon was continuously defeated by the Dashun army, and was eventually captured by Li Laiheng in the Battle of Xuzhou.
The prestige of the Qing army on the Mobei grassland also suffered a heavy blow. After that, a dispute broke out among the three Khalkha tribes. Zasaktu Khan was killed, and many of his subordinates surrendered to Tushetu Khan. The new Khan demanded
The reply was fruitless and the two sides reached a deadlock.
Zhasaktu Khan then asked for help from the Junggar tribe, and Senggehun Taiji took this opportunity to intervene in the civil strife of the three Khalkha tribes.
He carried out general mobilization in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, led 30,000 horsemen, circled the north of the Altai Mountains, and suddenly rushed into the Mobei grassland.
The Dzungars had the support of Zhasak Tuhan, and were guided by the Khalkha Mongols along the way, so they could march boldly and make a quick raid, instantly defeating the Chechen Khan tribe, the strongest among the three Khalkha tribes, and the Zhasak Khan tribe.
Saktu Khan's army united in one place, and then attacked the pastures of Tushetu Khan and the Yellow Sect's great lama Jebzundamba. They robbed tens of thousands of camels, horses, cattle and sheep, and their troops also expanded to 40,000 horsemen.
the crowd.
The combined forces of Junggar and Khalkha, with a total of about 45,000 cavalry, then went south and broke into the Monan grassland.