Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 2657 The Mongol conquest of Wei is unstoppable.

In fact, at the beginning of the war between the Manchus and the Tuoba Wei, Hong Chengchou and Zhang Tingyu suggested to Emperor Kangxi that they pretend to form an alliance with the Tuoba Wei. Once the Tuoba Wei forces were concentrated on the Yuan-Mongol front and the Manchus were less vigilant, they could then break the alliance and launch a decisive battle, which would easily swallow up most of the Tuoba Wei forces.

It must be said that Xuan Ye was quite tempted by this suggestion.

However, after some struggle, he reluctantly gave up the suggestion.

In addition to seizing the population, pastures, and livestock of the Tuoba Wei, Xuan Ye also wanted to use this battle to get rid of the puppet emperor and officially ascend to the throne.

The grassland culture is martial, and while winning through such means might bring tangible benefits, the fact that victory was achieved by first forming an alliance and then betraying it meant that Xuan Ye's second objective could not be achieved.

However, Xuan Ye still chose to wait until the Yuan Mongols and the Tuoba Wei clashed before officially launching his attack.

Only after the Mongol and Manchu dynasties began their campaigns did Xue Rengui launch his large-scale conquest of Tang. The Jin dynasty wouldn't dare launch its conquest of Tang so confidently without first engaging in conflict on the grasslands.

On the Mongol side, the veteran general Muqali and the Han Chinese hereditary ruler Shi Tianze were the ones who made the move.

Although Temujin was willing to take action himself, he was no longer as brave as he used to be!

Therefore, it could only be handed over to one of his generals.

In this battle, whether it was the Mongol elders represented by Muqali, or the Han Chinese and Western Region people represented by Shi Tianze who had integrated into Mongolia relatively late, their enthusiasm for fighting was relatively high.

In the present Yuan Dynasty, Temujin retired to the position of Muhou, and Kublai Khan ruled as the crown prince. Kublai Khan heavily relied on Han Chinese and people from the Western Regions.

In the Yuan Dynasty, the lives of ordinary Han Chinese or people from the Western Regions might not have been very good, but once they entered the system, everything would be completely different.

As for the old Mongol nobles, it was purely because of the stimulation from the Khanate.

After all, the three khanates that have been established—the Luandi Khanate, the Murong Khanate, and the Jalal Khanate—and their rulers, Modu, Murong Ke, and Muqali, are not from the Borjigin family.

The non-Mongol Khanates comprised half of all the Khanates, which naturally made these Mongol nobles very envious.

The higher-ups have already opened the door to granting fiefdoms and titles, so those below naturally want to use their military merits to earn such an opportunity.

The Mongol army was well-trained and its generals were fierce, and the soldiers were also willing to fight to the death. Naturally, they made great strides in the battle against the Tuoba Wei.

Compared to more than a decade ago, the quality of the Yuan Mongol army has been further improved.

Although the early Yuan Dynasty discovered iron ore resources in their own territory, their mining efficiency was limited at that time.

However, in the war between Xizhou and Liangzhou, they occupied the entire Xizhou and half of Liangzhou. For them, the most important thing they gained was not the land, but the population of that land.

In particular, there are various talents from Liangzhou and Xizhou.

These people improved their efficiency in mineral exploration and mining.

In addition, during these ten years, they also discovered a large amount of mineral resources in Central Asia. Furthermore, through cooperation with the Second Persian Empire and by serving as mercenaries, they also gained a large number of people from Central Asia, West Asia, and even a small portion of the Roman Empire.

Among them are various talents. Therefore, with the help of these mineral resources, their military equipment has been improved once again.

On the Tuoba Wei side, Tuoba Ren and Yuan Shanjian were defeated one after another, and Yuan Shanjian even died on the battlefield.

The ferocity of the Yuan Mongols was even more alarming to the Tuoba Wei than it had been more than a decade earlier.

After all, to be honest, although the two sides occasionally have minor conflicts on the border, there hasn't been a large-scale conflict for more than a decade.

As the Yuan and Mongol dynasties turned their attention to the Western Regions and Central Asia, the number of clashes between the two sides dropped dramatically. During the three-year pandemic, everyone was affected, making friction even less likely. Everyone was anxious to migrate their pastures northward.

Therefore, the performance of the Yuan-Mongol army once again refreshed their impression of the Yuan-Mongol army.

What shocked them even more was that only one-third of the troops dispatched by the Yuan Mongols were from the Yuan Mongol core, namely the early Northern and Southern Xiongnu, Western Xianbei, and other small steppe tribes. These constituted the main body of the Yuan Mongol ethnic group.

The remaining two-thirds consisted of Han Chinese, people from the Western Regions, and even Central Asian peoples who served as vassal troops.

However, to Tuoba Wei's surprise, the fighting spirit and will of the auxiliary troops were not inferior to those of the main Mongol army.

In the seven years since the beginning of the five-year restoration period, Kublai Khan, considering the large number of auxiliary troops within the Yuan-Mongol Empire, sought to enhance the combat effectiveness of this large number of ordinary troops.

Therefore, the treatment of auxiliary troops was divided into three grades, and the treatment grade could be improved according to military merit. One beheading one person could be promoted from grade three to grade two, three beheadings could be promoted from grade two to grade one, and ten beheadings could even get rid of the auxiliary troops and be treated the same as the Yuan Mongols.

Furthermore, once he himself left the ranks of the auxiliary troops, his entire family could also be granted Mongolian citizenship.

As you can see, it's quite easy for a vassal army to rise from third class to first class.

It was only when one was promoted from a first-class auxiliary soldier to a Yuan Mongol citizen that the task became difficult. However, the benefits were also plentiful all at once.

Although the Mongol Empire was composed of multiple ethnic groups, whether it was the initial Northern and Southern Xiongnu, or other small tribes that later integrated into the grasslands, or the Western Xianbei, their cultural foundation was the same: grassland culture.

Therefore, this part of the tribes integrated very well and quickly merged into the current Yuan Mongol main body.

However, when it came to the Western Regions, Central Asia, or the Han people, the same integration methods were no longer applicable due to their different cultural backgrounds.

Moreover, the internal conflicts between different ethnic groups in the Yuan Dynasty were real.

Therefore, Kublai Khan introduced such a system.

The entire Yuan Dynasty was divided into Yuan Mongol subjects and non-Yuan Mongol subjects, and an upward system was left for non-Yuan Mongol subjects.

Due to the different treatment between Yuan Mongol citizens and non-Yuan Mongol citizens, whether military or civilian, non-Yuan Mongol citizens would instinctively strive to climb the social ladder in order to improve their treatment.

In this way, Kublai Khan stabilized the Mongol heartland while leaving enough hope for the peoples he conquered later.

In particular, during the five-year recovery period, a large number of auxiliary troops were also interspersed among the Yuan-Mongol mercenaries. Under Kublai Khan's deliberate favoritism, a large number of warriors successfully joined the Mongol nationality from among these auxiliary troops. This allowed these individuals to benefit their entire families and set a good example for the rest of the population.

As a result, the entire auxiliary army was no longer as lifeless as before, but began to come alive. Because of this, their fighting spirit and will were even greater than those of the Mongol main force.