Daming Crazy Emperor

What about the people of the Siberian Khanate?
In fact, there are not many people in the Siberian Khanate.

Because the Siberian Khanate was separated from the Golden Horde, and when Batu conquered Europe and established the Golden Horde, he brought a total of 15 Mongolian cavalry.

During the heyday of the Golden Horde, the combined population of all the indigenous tribes here was just over 800 million. When the Siberian Khanate was established, the population of the Golden Horde was less than 400 million due to years of war.

This less than 400 million people did not all come to the Siberian Khanate, because the Golden Horde split into the Siberian Khanate, the Kazan Khanate, the Crimean Khanate, the Astrakhan Khanate, etc. Several great khanates and more than a dozen small khanates and tribal alliances.

Although the Siberian Khanate is large in size, it is a place of bitter cold, and there is not much population.

As for the population of the Siberian Khanate, they have not made any specific statistics.

In short, when the Siberian Khanate was separated from the Golden Horde, the total population should have been less than 50.

Moreover, the invasion of the Siberian Khanate by Tsarist Russia is not a matter of a year or two. Both sides have been fighting for five or sixty years.

Population reproduction in a bitterly cold place is already quite difficult, coupled with decades of wars, the population of the Siberian Khanate will naturally drop sharply.

At this moment, it is not bad that the Siberian Khanate has half the population left.

In other words, at this moment, the Siberian Khanate has more than 20 dead.

More than 20 people are distributed in an area of ​​300 million square kilometers, which is naturally sparsely populated and difficult to find.

Fortunately, Taichang brought a lot of Spike warships this time, and the Hubei River Basin is the main grazing area of ​​the various tribes of the Siberian Khanate, and its tributaries run through most of the West Siberia Plain. They want to find the Siberian Khanate. People are not difficult.

Hubei City is the place where Taichang, Zhao Shujiao, Luo Weilin and others meet.

After more than half a month of construction, it has already begun to take shape. At least the city walls of ten miles in length and width are almost completed, and more than half of the ten large piers have been built.

The reason why Taichang wanted to build a big city here was mainly to prevent Tsarist Russia from counterattacking.

After all, sooner or later, there will be a battle between Ming and the Continental Union, and Tsarist Russia must be quite unhappy after being forced back to the west of the Ural Mountains by them.

Once the war breaks out, Tsarist Russia will definitely send troops to retake the former colonial stronghold.

And the vast area of ​​more than three thousand miles from the Hubei River to the Arctic Ocean is guarded here, so he naturally wants to build a big city here.

Moreover, he has not built any supply points on the nearly ten thousand miles of waterway from Xinxijiang to here. After this big city is built, it can also be used as a supply place for the fleet.

Standing in front of the large telescope on the side of the Emperor, Taichang kept scanning the construction progress of Hubei City, with a look of anxiety on his face.

Since the availability of reinforced concrete, the speed at which Daming built cities and docks was truly astonishing.

Coupled with the addition of more than [-] troops, Hubei City is taking shape at a speed visible to the naked eye.

With this progress, it is estimated that the city wall and the dock will be completed in two or three days.

However, the anxious look on his face still lingered.

Because his main purpose of coming here was to defeat the Siberian Khanate and take the whole of Siberia.

The problem is, at this moment, he hasn't even found his figure!
Where did these guys go?

He was frowning and thinking, when Zhang Yuanfang suddenly led a sailor to walk up from the hanging ladder.

Looking at the map in Zhang Yuanfang's hand, Taichang couldn't help but rushed forward and said anxiously: "How about it, Yuan Fang, have you found someone from the Siberian Khanate?"

Zhang Yuanfang nodded quickly and said, "Yes, Your Majesty, we finally found someone from the Siberian Khanate."

The chief was so frightened that he hurriedly bowed his hands and said, "The last general will see the emperor."

Taichang waved his hand slightly and said, "Bai Li, tell me quickly, where are the people from the Siberian Khanate?"

The general looked at the map in Zhang Yuanfang's hand, and said awkwardly: "Your Majesty, this, the general can't tell, because the tributaries of the Hubei River haven't been named yet, and the general doesn't know what those tributaries are called.

The end will be bold, how about we spread out the map? "

Taichang waved without hesitation: "Follow me."

After finishing speaking, he led the two of them to a large conference room.

On the table in this large conference room is a larger map, which is the entire Siberia region.

Zhang Yuanfang spread out the map in his hand, made a rough gesture, and then moved the small map to the corresponding area on the big map.

Immediately afterwards, the general manager pointed to the small map and introduced: "Your Majesty, you see, the last general is in charge of this tributary.

This tributary extends all the way to the south for about a thousand miles, and there are more than ten smaller tributaries on both sides of this tributary.

At the end of the day, after going deep into this tributary for two or three hundred miles, he found the tents of the Mengyuan tribe, and all the way in, including the small tributaries on both sides, there were tents of the Mengyuan tribe everywhere.

These Mongolian Yuan tribes even organized tens of thousands of cavalry to attack our warships with bows and arrows. As a last resort, they ordered hundreds of warships under their command to fire several rounds of volleys before scaring the cavalry away.

Later, the last general took his warships to investigate this tributary and its small tributaries carefully.

The general felt that this place should be a large gathering place of the Siberian Khanate. Judging by the size of its tents, there were at least more than [-] people gathered in this area. "

Taichang compared the location on the big map, and couldn't help but have a strange look on his face.

Because the place where this tributary is located is only a thousand miles away from the city of Altai.

It's just that Altai City is to the west of the Hubei River, and this tributary is to the east of the Hubei River, and there is a large mountain in the middle.

He really didn't expect that the people of the Siberian Khanate were so close to the city of Altai.

If he had known this was the case, he might as well have sent troops directly from Altai City.

More than [-] people are already a lot. For the nomadic tribes at the moment, more than [-] people are equivalent to the population of a province.

So, should we immediately send troops to surround these more than [-] people?
Taichang thought about it carefully, and then asked, "Are there only tens of thousands of cavalry?"

The general said cautiously: "Your Majesty, this last general is not sure. In short, except for the tens of thousands of cavalry at the beginning, the last general has never seen them organize people and horses to harass the river."

There are more than [-] talents and tens of thousands of cavalry, which seems a bit small for the Mongolian Yuan tribe.

However, even the most powerful Mongolian Yuan tribe, with more than [-] people, can pull out at most [-] to [-] cavalry.

This amount of people is nothing to them at all.

Taichang thought for a while, then asked, "How about their equipment?"

The general recalled: "All the generals saw were bows and arrows, scimitars and spears, and most of them were wearing leather armor, and there were not many sets of armor."

Such poor equipment only needs to send the Jingqi of the Wanshen Wuying to rush over with the Daizi rifle and sweep it away.

The question is whether to send troops there immediately.

Taichang looked at the big map again, and decided to wait.

It was because they discovered one settlement, and the others have not been found yet.

Moreover, the Ebei River is only [-] miles long, and their current location has penetrated more than [-] miles into the Ebei River.

In other words, the remaining section of the river is at most seven thousand miles long, and the Spike Warship can go back and forth in about half a month.

If you add the investigation time, it will be about 20 days at most.

More than half a month has passed by now, and if he waits a few more days, he estimates that the entire west bank of the Hubei River will almost be explored.

At that time, it will not be too late for him to divide his troops to attack according to the situation of other people's settlements.

If he sent troops to attack now, he didn't know how many troops he would send there.

After all, other places have not returned, and he does not know how many settlements will be found in the end, let alone how many people there will be in these settlements.

If he just sent troops there blindly, he might waste time and dispatch them back and forth.

Besides, the city walls and piers of Ebei City will be completed in two or three days. If he pulls people away now, it will also affect the progress of the city walls and piers here.

He thought about it carefully, and then said decisively: "You first draw all the tributaries you have explored on the big map, including the terrain on both sides of the tributaries, and draw everything you remember."

There is no such tributary on the big map at the moment.

Hearing the words, the general said "Zunzhi" quickly, and then picked up a sharpened charcoal pencil and drew it carefully on the big map.

At this moment, the generals of the Ming army are not so powerful. Not only can they read and write, but they are even more proficient in drawing maps.

Taichang just looked at it for a while, then raised his head and said: "Yuanfang, you continue to wait on the flagship of the navy, and if you have any news, report it immediately."

Hearing this, Zhang Yuanfang quickly cupped his hands and bowed, "The general will understand."

In the next few days, the Spike warships sent to investigate came back one after another, and the tributaries on the west bank of the Ob River were almost explored by them.

The problem, except for the settlement of a Siberian Khanate that was always discovered before, nothing was found anywhere else!
what on earth is this kind of happenings?
Looking at the big map densely filled with tributaries, Taichang frowned again.

People from the Siberian Khanate won't all go to the Yeni River Basin, right?

He frowned and pondered for a while, then said loudly: "Chuan Liqing, Wen Zhao, Bianjiao, Lijiao and Yuanfang."

Soon, Yuan Keli, Cao Wenzhao, Cao Bianjiao, Zhao Liaojiao and Zhang Yuanfang gathered in the conference room.

After paying respects to the monarchs and ministers, Taichang pointed to the map and said: "We have almost finished exploring the tributaries east of the Hubei River, and now we have found a settlement of the Siberian Khanate in total.

This is quite strange, what do you think? "

Everyone looked down at the big map on the table, with a hint of surprise on their faces.

what on earth is this kind of happenings?
Did the people of the Siberian Khanate go to the Yeni River Basin?

This should be unlikely.

Because both sides of the Hubei River are basically plains, and there are quite a lot of grasslands.

From the map, except for the part near the Arctic Ocean to the east of the Yeni River, the rest are almost all mountains, and there is no grassland at all.

In other words, the grassland to the east of the Hubei River accounts for at least half of the grassland area of ​​the Siberian Khanate.

The nomadic tribes basically lived on grass, and it was unlikely that they would go to the mountains east of the Yeni River.

Cao Bianjiao frowned and pondered for a while, and then analyzed carefully: "Your Majesty, I think that the Siberian Khanate may only have a population of a few hundred thousand.

Because Weichen led the army all the way from Monan to Mobei, he didn't meet many people from the Mengyuan tribe. The total number of people from the Mongolian Yuan tribe in Monan and Mobei was less than 100 million.

The Siberian Khanate is still in the north of Mobei, where the weather is colder and survival is more difficult.

Based on the weather conditions here, the people of the Mengyuan tribe should have all migrated to the south before it was frozen.

After all, the freezing time in the south is shorter than that in the north. After they move to the south, they can have at least one or two more months of grazing time.

If they stay in the north and stay in the cold for more than half a year, even if people can bear it, cattle, sheep and horses can't bear it.

This is basically consistent with the current situation.

The people of the Siberian Khanate should have all migrated to the south before the ice was frozen, and they would slowly nomad north when the seal was unblocked here.

In other words, the settlement we found may be the main settlement for people to spend the winter, and the Siberian Khanate may not have a large population! "

Uh, is this possible?