Chapter 435 Daming is sure to win the two wars with Junggar and Raksha at the same time
The war between the Ming Dynasty and the Junggar tribe throughout the 22 years of Xiaokang was mainly based on mobile pursuit, annihilation and harassment warfare. After all, nearly 200,000 Junggar troops had just been annihilated, and the Ming Dynasty itself was slightly weakened and suffered a lot of material losses.
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When the final wave of pursuit and mobile warfare ended, it was already autumn. It was bitterly cold in the north. There was no need to continue to use troops in late autumn and cold winter. Instead, each other took a breather and rested for a few months to give the wounded soldiers time to recover.
If we think about the next step, it will only happen after the spring of the 23rd year of Xiaokang.
As for the farming, reform, reform, and scientific research in the Ming Dynasty, they will continue to advance steadily, so there is no need to worry. Anyway, attacking the Junggar tribe will not disrupt the internal governance rhythm of the Ming Dynasty. The national power of the Ming Dynasty will only increase with time.
The stronger you are, the more you will not exhaust your potential at the expense of burning it.
Time soon came to the spring of the 23rd year of Xiaokang, and the Ming Dynasty's army strictly followed the plan set last year. At the end of February, the weather in the plateau area just got warmer, and they started to advance.
On the North Road, Li Dingguo prepared about 100,000 cavalry, which were deployed in the area from Lanzhou to Jiuquan. Whenever there was an opportunity, he would conduct expeditions and harass, mainly killing, wounding and capturing the enemy's active forces, as well as plundering property and strategic materials.
Even grain and grass were tried to "take advantage of the enemy". When encountering Junggar tribesmen, they slaughtered and plundered all the cattle and sheep, killed them and ate them, so as to reduce logistical pressure.
This kind of invasion and invasion will not send out a hundred thousand troops. Often a small force of twenty to thirty thousand, with a maximum of no more than forty thousand, dares to run rampant in the Western Regions and attack at every turn, ranging from one thousand to two thousand miles.
So much so that the Junggar people, who had just been defeated miserably last year, gave up the pastures around Hami and retreated all because Hami was relatively close to Jiayuguan and Yumenguan, so it was too easy for them to be plundered, burned and killed by the Ming army.
But even if they retreated from Hami to the vicinity of Luntai, they still could not completely avoid the Ming army's attack.
When pursuing the pursuit, the Ming army also used a new type of logistics vehicle that was newly built in recent years but was actually not that difficult. It was the "Conestoga Caravan" that was only used by the Americans during their westward expansion in the 19th century.
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The Conestoga caravan is a long vehicle with a length of more than two feet. The four-wheeled carriage can weigh three tons when fully loaded, including its own weight, and requires multiple oxen and horses to pull it.
If you have no impression of this thing, you can imagine the "Tom and Jerry" cartoon, other American western movies, or play "Red Dead Redemption" and you will get to know it.
To put it bluntly, the only quality advantage of this kind of car is that it can be used on both land and water, making it easy to cross rivers. The shape of the carriage is originally like a boat, with both ends turned up. It is also watertight and can be used as a boat when driven into the river.
When the Ming Dynasty wanted to attack the Western Regions, it did not mean that it could not rely on water transportation throughout the entire process. There were also rivers in the Western Regions, especially the Hexi Corridor. It was just because all the rivers were inland rivers and were often not connected to each other to form a river network, so even if there were ships
, and there is no way to switch from one river to another. You have to constantly load and unload and change vehicles on the waterway, and the cost is not worth the gain.
With the amphibious caravan, you can use a section of the waterway to go down the river. If there is no waterway, you can use a horse-drawn cart. The transportation capacity is greatly improved, and the logistics cost is also reduced exponentially.
With the blessing of this powerful logistical weapon, the amount of ammunition supplies that the troops harassed by the Ming Dynasty's expedition could be doubled, and Galdan was beaten to pieces.
The Central Asian tribes that he had just destroyed and annexed a few years ago, as well as other Tatar tribes near Balkhash Lake north of the Tianshan Mountains, were finally ready to make a move. After a Ming army raided Luntai, burned, killed, looted and retreated,
, the resistance of the neighboring ministries was finally ignited, and the Tatars entered civil war again.
In order to establish his authority, Galdan killed chickens to scare monkeys. Of course, he could not be lenient at this time. He severely punished the tribes who took the lead and dared to rebel. He even directly slaughtered the first rebel among them, leaving no chickens or dogs behind.
The heads of all the nobles in the tribe were sent to other tribes as a shock.
But in any case, Galdan's frantic attitude of fighting fires everywhere further seriously weakened his national power.
Although he forced new recruits to join the army many times and barely replenished the size of the army to 200,000 or even 300,000, the combat effectiveness of the army dropped by more than half. After the recruitment ratio was high, there were still years of war, and the Tatar people were also
There is plenty of food to eat, and the clan relies on women and children to graze the animals. Men and even the elderly have been recruited to serve as soldiers, and the overall livestock production has declined.
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Galdan's northern territory was in such chaos and fighting each other that his control over the southern territory was completely weakened to the extreme.
How could the Ming army not seize this opportunity? So from March of this year, the Ming army carried out operations to capture Qinghai-Tibet with a small force of 30,000 to 40,000 people.
Speaking of which, I have to thank Galdan for his series of killings when he went to Tibet six years ago to hunt down his enemy Oqiltu Khan.
Originally, the chieftains in Uzang were also very dissatisfied with the Central Plains imperial court. They had always respected the Ming Dynasty as Zhengshuo in name only, but that was it. The Ming Dynasty could not gain any actual control benefits.
But it's better now, because from six years ago to three years ago, Galdan went on four years of crazy conquests and killings in Qinghai-Tibet. All the disobedient chieftains and nobles were almost killed by him. During Galdan's conquest process,
, the number of people directly killed reached hundreds of thousands, which can be called a bloody thunder technique.
Now the Ming army is going to do it again and kill everyone loyal to Galdan. In the end, the remaining resistance will be much smaller. After the killing, there will be a power vacuum.
This is really a once-in-a-lifetime clever trick to let the enemies of the enemy draw hatred first - except that the enemies of the enemy here are not friends, but all three parties are enemies of each other.
The Ming army advanced all the way and took over most of Qinghai in just half a year. During the process, the Ming army's frontline generals also played some tricks.
For example, after encountering the Qinghai-Tibet chieftains and seeing the king's division coming, the Junggar cavalry was attracted away, leaving their own garrison empty, and then they wanted to raise their own troops to restore the country, so that after the restoration, they could continue to be vassals to the Ming Dynasty in name, without actually having to
He was governed by officials sent by the Ming Dynasty and returned to his native land.
But how could the Ming Dynasty let their ideas succeed? Whenever they heard that they were raising troops to restore the country, the Ming Dynasty would immediately stand still and stalemate with the Junggar cavalry on the front line.
Anyway, fighting on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is hard work. The Han soldiers are all from the plains. If the climate is not suitable for the soil and water, it is necessary to take two more breaks before continuing to advance to higher altitudes.
Then when the Dzungar cavalry saw that the Ming army had not pressed forward and that the lair in the rear was on fire, they had to turn back and run exhausted, and went back to attack and shock the Uzbeg chieftains who had raised their own troops to return to the country.
The Ming army waited until both the Junggars and the Uszang chieftains were defeated, then "adapted to the plateau climate" and continued to move forward to clean up the mess and grab heads.
In short, there is a saying: Anyone who does not take the initiative to be a dog for Ming Dynasty should just go and be a dog for the King of Hell.
In the 23rd year of a moderately prosperous society, the Qinghai issue was completely resolved. In the 24th and 25th years of a moderately prosperous life, the Tibet issue was completely resolved. In accordance with this policy, the Ming army fought steadily and pushed the Ming Dynasty's territory theoretically to the Himalayas.
Nepal.
Subsequently, the Ming Dynasty also set up a minister in Tibet to coordinate the affairs of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and began to gradually return the native land to Qinghai. Because the two factions of chieftains and nobles who were anti-Ming and anti-Garrison were all killed, this process went very smoothly.
Historically, the Qing Dynasty failed to achieve these things (the Qing Dynasty established a minister in Tibet, but failed to change the situation), because the fighting between the Qing Dynasty and the Junggar tribe in parallel time and space lasted for too long.
So much so that when the Qing army came back, the Junggar people had occupied Qinghai-Tibet for too long. The generation of local people who resisted the Junggars was long gone. The descendants had all been smoothed out and had formed an identity with the Junggars. The Qing Dynasty wanted to wash them back.
It's very difficult.
But the current situation is that the Ming army caught the Junggars and came back to wash them out less than five years after they destroyed Qinghai-Tibet, and they did so in such a systematic way. This made the resistance drop exponentially, and everything seemed to be more natural.
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It took the Ming army three years to completely solve the plateau problem, cutting off nearly half of Junggar's land area, and continuing to bleed Galdan.
In the twenty-fifth year of the well-off period, that is, in 1687 AD, according to the original plan, after the plateau problem was completely solved, we could finally launch a final unified general offensive against all the Tatars who had been fighting for many years without stopping.
However, even in this year, Galdan seemed to realize that his end was approaching, so out of fear, he further raked in wealth and bought arms from his allies in the Rakshasa Kingdom and asked for help.
Moreover, he further preached to the Rakshasa people the principle of losing one's lips and teeth, and even resorted to the tactic of "professing vassalage to the Rakshasa people" by jumping over the wall to save one's life, which was really shameless.
As a result, the Rakshasa people coveted Galdan's promise, and the Rakshasa people themselves wanted to expand eastward, and finally broke out the Yaksa War with the Ming Dynasty in the area north of Heilongjiang in advance, in order to contain the Ming Dynasty.
Fortunately, the Qinghai-Tibet issue has been completely resolved, and Ming Dynasty can at least withdraw part of its national power from the issue of troops on the southwest plateau to deal with the two simultaneous wars in the northeast and northwest.
The Rakshasa people did not want to work for Galdan at first. They just wanted to take advantage of the situation and make the Ming army admit that "all the land north of Heilongjiang belongs to the Rakshasa Kingdom. As long as you sign a treaty and promise this matter, then we will no longer
If we form an alliance with Galdan, we will also cut off the arms trade that sells guns and cannons to Galdan, making it easier for you to eliminate Galdan in the future."
However, how could the Ming Dynasty recognize that the land north of Heilongjiang belonged to the Rakshasa Kingdom? Even if it was to eliminate Galdan, it would not work for fear of making many enemies at the same time.
If you want to fight, then fight, so what if you deal with two enemies at the same time!
So Zhu Shuren ordered Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong, who were both in their twilight years on the front line, to take charge of one direction respectively.
Li Dingguo was in charge of the northwest and Galdan.
Zheng Chenggong was transferred from Datong and Zhangjiakou to the northeast to deal with the Rakshasa Kingdom.
The Ming Dynasty had the national power to win two wars at the same time!
Before sending troops, Zhu Shuren also secretly gave Zheng Chenggong some advice, telling him: "There is nothing to fear from the Rakshasa troops in the Far East, because they have to travel thousands of miles to fight us here. Even if Ming Dynasty's logistics is difficult, the Rakshasa people
It will only be more difficult. They still have no water transportation at all, and everything must be transported by horses for nomadic transportation.
Therefore, even if the Rakshasa people want to fight with me for a long time in the Ming Dynasty in the future, they will not always fight with us in the outer northeast. As long as they annihilate a few of their troops and destroy and rob their settlements, they will only have
We retreated a full six to seven thousand miles to the west and chose to go south from the Kazakh Central Asian grasslands to join forces with Galdan to attack the Ming Dynasty."
Zheng Chenggong thought about it, and the prince's teachings were indeed correct. If the Rakshasa people wanted to transport troops from Europe to the outer northeast to fight the Ming army, they would have to travel 12,000 miles. However, to transport troops from Europe to Kazakhstan in Central Asia, it would only take six
Thousands of miles.
The Rakshasa people are not stupid. If the 12,000-mile journey is doomed to fail, follow-up reinforcements will definitely only be sent to the 6,000-mile journey.
Historically, the Qing army was so procrastinating and useless in the Battle of Yaksa because the Qing army abandoned the research and development of firearms technology after entering the customs and was still using old-fashioned Hongyi cannons. As a result, it was completely unable to face the Rakshasa.
The new Western-style anti-gun fortresses built around Yaksa were no match for the lethal firepower of the Rakshasa people who used European guns to defend the city.
But all this is not a problem at all in front of Zheng Chenggong's Ming army. Isn't it just some bastions and cannons? Let General Vauban teach them what is the authentic bastion siege method! What is the authentic explosive shell siege method?
Mortar!
In the face of absolute strength, the Rakshasa Far East Army, which only had a few thousand soldiers, was finally annihilated by the Ming army.
The Rakshasa people still refused to admit defeat. They felt that there were many accidental factors and wanted to try a second time.
So it took another year from Europe to slowly mobilize the army to supply supplies along the way, and got more than 10,000 troops. It was considered that all the capital was on the line——
This is not to say how large an army of 10,000 people is to the Rakshasa Kingdom, but in the form of a ten-thousand-mile expedition, if 10,000 people reach the Far East, there will be more than 50,000 people providing logistics along the way. Not just tens of thousands of households.
Along the way, poor people and enslaved Tatar herdsmen were left with their families and families destroyed.
It's a pity that the Rakshasa people spent a lot of their national resources and worked hard to raise more than 10,000 expeditionary troops, but in the end they were plotted by Zheng Chenggong.
When Zheng Chenggong first came into contact with the main force of the new wave of incoming enemy troops, he pretended to be unprepared and did not anticipate the main attack direction of the Rakshasa army. Then he "thrown off his armor" on the north bank of Heilongjiang and retreated, leaving some supplies for the Rakshasa people.
The Rakshasa people obtained supplies on the spot at a glance, and even captured some small boats that had not been burned when the Ming army retreated hastily. The greedy nature of those colonial plunderers was ignited again.
They looked at the fertile and fertile land on the south bank of the main stream of Heilongjiang River, and thought that as long as they crossed the river to grab a big one, they could support the war with war. They did not worry that this was a ploy to lure the enemy, and crossed the river directly.
Unexpectedly, it was the summer of the 27th year of Xiaokang's reign, and the Heilongjiang River had abundant water and was navigable.
As a result, not long after the entire Rakshasa army crossed the Heilongjiang River, they discovered that the Ming army's North Sea Fleet had actually entered the river in a roundabout way from the Heilongjiang estuary at Kuye Island and Temple Street, and then came to intercept the Rakshasa people after they had crossed the river.
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Looking at the turbulent Heilongjiang, and seeing a bunch of 24- to 38-gun sailing frigates sailing directly into the inland river to cut off their return, the morale of the Rakshasa army collapsed.
The main force of the Ming army ambushing on the south bank also closed the encirclement network in time. In the end, they only paid the price of a county seat and several towns around the ambush battlefield being destroyed, looted and burned by the Rakshasa army. The main force of the 14,000-strong Rakshasa expeditionary force was
Completely kill them all.
This battle really traumatized the Rakshasa people. In the following decades, they no longer dared to look directly at the Heilongjiang River Basin, or even dared to come around the Hanhai. The Ming army also completely gained control over Mobei Mongolia, and
Control of surrounding areas suitable for human habitation.
In the Rakshasa country, due to the destruction of the expeditionary force, several important ministers were punished, which led to a fierce change of blood in the court. The newly-in-power court officials announced that they would no longer confront the Ming Dynasty with force, and would only send small troops and sell arms.
Join forces with Galdan and strive to defeat the Ming Dynasty in Central Asia and its territories.
As for the Ming Dynasty, in the 28th year of Xiaokang's reign, it was completely determined that the Rakshasa people would no longer launch an offensive in the outer northeast and they were completely driven away. After another year or two of rest, they finally launched the final blow against Galdan.
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At this time, the Rakshasa people still firmly support Galdan. Of course, it is not because the Rakshasa people have any noble international sentiments. They completely consider that "if Galdan cannot hold on in the end, the Rakshasa Kingdom will
How much land can be annexed from the areas Galdan once occupied, and can we hold Central Asia in our hands?"
If the Rakshasa people do not send troops and do not fight side by side with Galdan, then when Galdan collapses, they will not have the convenience to reach out and divide the inheritance. In the end, it is that simple, or people will be destroyed if they don't do it for themselves.
Unfortunately, in the face of absolute power, all tricks are useless.
Thirty years after the establishment of a moderately prosperous society (1692), the final general offensive began. There is nothing to describe in detail in the process, because it can be summed up in four words: it was overwhelming.
The generation gap in weapons and technology, the momentum of the country's rising period, the psychological advantage of winning many battles before, the fear within the enemy and the old grudges of the other conquered Tatar tribes against Galdan, everything came together.
The people of the world are all on the side of the Ming Dynasty, but Galdan has a slight advantage in terms of geographical location and supply difficulty.
Galdan fought for many years and reduced the total population of the Tatar tribes from five hundred to several hundred thousand to close to six million, to a mere four million.
The population of the areas occupied by the Central Asian countries, plus the population of the Qinghai-Tibet area he originally owned, together, were originally 11.1 billion at the peak. However, after repeated vendettas for possession, and the resulting
The epidemic, famine and starvation caused the population to drop sharply in eight years from the 22nd to 30th year of moderate prosperity. Now the total number is less than 7 million.
Of these seven million, two million are from the Qinghai-Tibet region, and only five million remain from the conquered ethnic groups in Central Asia.
Therefore, when Galdan was in his last desperate struggle, the remaining population in his hands had dropped from nearly 20 million at its peak to only 9 million. The young and strong among them were repeatedly recruited to serve as soldiers.
It can be said that the national power has been exhausted to the extreme.
After spending eight years fighting against the Ming Dynasty, does his Junggar tribe have the qualifications to do so? The current data shows his fate!
After two years of offensive, the so-called "300,000 prairie cavalry" that Galdan finally re-raised finally collapsed. Galdan himself fell ill due to anger in the spring of the 32nd year of Xiaokang (1694).
Later, he was assassinated by his subordinates who wanted to surrender, and his body was presented to the Ming Dynasty to ask for peace.
However, the Ming Dynasty will not do anything like letting the tiger return to the mountain. If it demands peace, it must all be included in it and accept the return of the land. It will not consider asking for peace that only recognizes the Ming Dynasty as Zhengshuo in name, because the Tatars have too many historical misdeeds.
!Capricious and untrustworthy!
The remnants of the Galdan army had no choice but to seek refuge with the Rakshasa people and unite to survive. The Ming Dynasty continued to pursue them in the 32nd year of Xiaokang, following the remnants of the Junggar soldiers who surrendered to the Rakshasa people, as well as the 50,000 Rakshasa people who gathered in Central Asia.
The European soldiers fought bloody battles and eventually wiped out most of them, and the remaining soldiers also fled back to Europe.
The Ming Dynasty has completely taken over the Kazakhs, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan areas that were once controlled by the Junggar tribe. Whether it is Almaty or Samarkand, they are the territory of the Ming Dynasty - since these places once belonged to the Junggar tribe, of course they belong to the Ming Dynasty now.
, nothing wrong.
The battle for the northwest region has now come to an end.
There is no longer a khanate in the name of Tatar on the earth. The khanates established in the name of the descendants of Genghis Khan have all been destroyed.