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Chapter 1222 Chagatai Khanate

A hundred-footed worm, dead but not stiff.

The retreat of the Great Yuan court and the withdrawal of the Jiangnan Central Plains gave everyone hope, but Zeng Yunfeng also saw the crisis.

The achievements made by Genghis Khan are not only these. The reason why the Yuan court retreated steadily in the Central Plains has a lot to do with their rule.

However, it is undeniable that Genghis Khan of the Mongolian Empire and his descendants Kublai Khan, Wo Kuotai, Tuo Lei and others left a huge legacy to his descendants.

This huge foundation will not be easily disintegrated by the offensive of the rebel army, as long as they are given time, they will definitely be able to recover.

In comparison, the recovery of the Mongols is much simpler. All they need are horses, iron tools, population, and pastures.

But the biggest limitation to them is the most uncomfortable point for the people of the Central Plains.

Nomads only need to have war horses, a population, and vast grasslands, and they can recover quickly. Before the age of firearms really came, it would always be difficult for the farming peoples in the Central Plains to deal with the nomads.

However, if the farming peoples in the Central Plains want to truly resist the invasion of nomadic peoples, they must rely on the advantages of terrain and long-term recovery.

Only when the national strength is strong and the people's livelihood and economy recover, can the Central Plains truly suppress the nomadic peoples everywhere.

Otherwise, some mere measures will be a drop in the bucket, as long as one or two battles will consume the long-term accumulation of the farming nation.

Whether it is the corvee of the war, or the impact of the annual harvest and planting season, it will cause huge damage to the farming nation.

Nomads need time, and the Central Plains region also needs time.

But nomads need a shorter time. To put it bluntly, it takes a long time to climb the technology tree in the Central Plains.

But climbing the technology tree is not necessarily so easy, and at the point where the current era of cold weapons and firearms is handing over, there is no doubt that nomads have a huge advantage.

As long as you give them some time, maybe another 18 years later, they will give birth to a new batch of bowmen.

At that time, hundreds of thousands of troops will be much easier for them, and the Central Plains nation will rely on dozens or even millions of corvee people if they want to mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops to fight. Transportation of huge quantities of food.

The consumption of war supplies brought about by the huge territory is geometrically different.

From Zeng Yunfeng's point of view, I don't know if this is good or bad?
Whenever a war starts, most of the civil servants of each Central Plains dynasty are not so happy.

In particular, officials who govern internal affairs are more aware of the impact of war on farming peoples.

Every time a war is launched, there is no doubt that it will delay the farming season, and even delay the grain harvest, which will cause a series of economic and people's livelihood turmoil.

This will have a huge impact on the sowing and harvesting of food in the coming year.

The victory of any foreign war of the Central Plains Dynasty is undoubtedly based on the tragic sacrifice of the people.

Whether it is Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty or other emperors, the food and grass consumed in a national war is immeasurable, and Zeng Yunfeng must be prepared for this.

After Zeng Yunfeng and others got ready, they continued to set off and passed the customs along the Silk Road route. At this time, they had already changed their outfits and walked in the Hexi Corridor. After all, here, the influence of the Han people is gradually declining.

The entire Western Regions have been lost for hundreds of years, and the control over the Western Regions has been weakening more and more since the Tang Dynasty.

The influence of the Han people was even far less than that of the Tang Dynasty.

The weakening of administrative power and military power in the late Tang Dynasty brought the entire western region out of control.

In the hundreds of years since then, the Western Regions have been controlled by generations of rulers of the grassland peoples, and the Central Plains Dynasty has almost been unable to control the Western Regions.

But Zeng Yunfeng is very clear that although most of the Western Regions are barren and even deserted, there are still large areas of desert.

But the terrain here is extremely critical. Only by closing the gates of the Western Regions can the Central Plains really breathe.

And first of all, the key place that is not surprising is the Kansai Seven Guards in the Hexi Corridor.

The Kansai Seven Guards are headed by Hami, the westernmost Hami Guard. The Kansai Seven Guards means whether the Hexi Corridor, the Qilian Mountains, and the entire Kunlun Mountains of the Tianshan Mountains can be closed, which also makes this a particularly important pass.

Losing the Hexi Corridor means losing the opportunity to capture the Western Regions.

At the same time, hundreds of years of cultural and national changes here have led to the intertwining of various cultures, and the regime change of the Chagatai Khanate has also made this place a mess. The competition between brothers has never stopped, and the fighting has never stopped.

The relationship between the Yuan Dynasty court and the Golden Horde Khanate, Chagatai Khanate, Yier Korea, and even the extinct Wokuotai Khanate was mutually restrictive and even contradictory.

The regimes of the corresponding Ilkhanate, Golden Horde and Chagatai Khanate are independent of each other and hardly affect each other.

But there is one thing that everyone must be clear about, especially for the Central Plains Dynasty, that is, the rulers of these khanate regions are undoubtedly descendants of the golden family Bor Jijin.

As long as these Khanates become stronger, they will undoubtedly covet the Central Plains Dynasty, because the example of their ancestor Genghis Khan is there, because many of them claim to be of pure blood, even if their blood has long been related to iron. Mu Zhen couldn't beat him.

But how many people can withstand the temptation to unify the entire continent. The glory and prosperity of the Great Mongol Empire are engraved in their hearts.

Even though they are no longer the orthodox Mongolian culture, and some even belong to the Communist culture, one thing is unavoidable, that is, they have a coveted heart for the Central Plains.

After seeing Du Juntai's military deployment, Zeng Yunfeng felt relieved.

Although Du Juntai's offense was insufficient, he was more than successful in defense, and he was able to withstand the offensives of Ruyang King Chahan and Kuo Kuo Timur.

Although the Eight Xings of Taihang cannot be won, they can be strategically stalemate in this area, and the reason why Zeng Yunfeng went west was to solve Du Juntai's troubles behind him.

As for Uzang, Zeng Yunfeng did not believe that the rulers of Uzang dared to invade them.

If such a thing really happened, Zeng Yunfeng wouldn't mind destroying the regime in the entire Wusi Tibetan area again, after all, it's not like he hasn't done this kind of thing before.

From Chang'an all the way to the west, even if they modified and changed clothes, the journey was not easy.

The interrogation here is no less than that in the Central Plains, or even more. Of course, relatively speaking, it is much more loose. A dozen camels were walking on the road, and the sound of camel bells was heard far away.

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