Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1260
The Ming Dynasty wanted to unify the world, and it would be a matter of time before they conquered Guanzhong, but the Kingdom of Jin was not so easy to conquer.

The right time, place and people are harmonious, and if one of the three gets one, one side can be separated.Although the state of Jin is not as powerful as the Ming Dynasty, it occupies a geographical advantage in Guanzhong, and the country is relatively stable, and the people are basically loyal. There are two of the three. It is not easy for the Ming army to destroy it.

However, the general trend of unification is also irreversible. The battle between the Ming Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty will come sooner or later.

Near Kaesong in the northwest of Shenyang, a military camp is located here. In the large tent of the Chinese army, Gao Yigong stood in front of the map, watching Horqin Mongolia.

This northern attack on Mongolia, in addition to ensuring the peace of northern Xinjiang, making the plan to relocate people to fill in Liao smoothly, and attacking Horqin so that the Mongolian tribes could not be unified, there is also an important purpose, which is to attack the Kingdom of Jin and fight together. Prepare to rule the world.

This is also the reason why Jin Guo suddenly provoked troubles at Tongguan and Pujinguan.

If the Ming Dynasty wants to attack the Kingdom of Jin, it must eliminate the threat from the north. Otherwise, Mongolia will be like a sharp knife on the back of the Ming Dynasty. country, it will be contained by the Mongols.

Furthermore, Mongolia has not yet formed a strong core, and all the tribes are scattered. If the Ming Dynasty left it alone, Horqin or other Mongolian tribes would definitely reunify the grasslands and grow into towering trees again.

"Marshal, the grazing land of Horqin Mongolia is located in the eastern part of Mongolia, on the southern slope of the Greater Khingan Mountains, and at the western end of the Songliao Plain. That is, from the Greater Khingan Mountains to the Songliao Plain." Jiang Youguang pointed at the map and drew a circle.

Jiang Jiashi lived in Datong and fought against the Mongols all the year round, so he had a much better understanding of Mongolia than Gao Yigong and others.

When Dashun occupied Beijing back then, it didn't think about the problems outside the customs at all, and its vision was very limited.

Gao Yigong looked at the area he had drawn out, which was half the size of Beizhi, and couldn't help frowning: "In such a vast area, where are the Horqin Mongols mainly concentrated?"

In an area half the size of Beizhi, looking for traces of more than [-] people, without knowing the exact location, it is difficult for the army to find the target.

"At that time, Huang Taiji compiled Eastern Mongolia into ten banners. Horqin was divided into left and right wings. Each wing was divided into front, rear and middle banners. There were six banners in total, and each banner had its own pasture. After Wu Keshan proclaimed Khan, he established the The Mongolian Royal Court, but the Six Banners of Horqin have been retained, so the location is easy to find.”

The man who spoke was Niu Colu Tan Tai, but now he has changed his surname to Han. In the new household registration system, he did not have the name Man. In the Ming Dynasty, there were only two identities: Mingren and Guiyi.

He knew Mongolia better than Jiang Youguang. After Gao Yigong heard it, he couldn't help asking: "General Tan knows the specific locations of Horqin's ministries, and where is Wu Keshan's tent?"

Seeing this, Jiang Youguang was a little unhappy and handed him the wooden stick in his hand, giving up the seat to Tan Tai.

Although it is stated that the DPRK is implementing a new ethnic policy, and wants to twist together the minorities in the country and the Han nationality, not emphasizing the various ethnic groups, but emphasizing that everyone is from the Ming Dynasty, or Chinese, but in fact, the Han people are very concerned about surrendering generals. Discrimination still exists.

It will take a long time to fully integrate.

Tan Tai is used to this, he didn't care about Jiang Youguang's unhappiness, he won't do much to please the general, and he won't give him a chance to be promoted, there is always a gap, so he might as well seize the opportunity by himself to earn credit , climb up step by step.

At this time, he stood next to the map and circled, "There are about 17 people in the entire Horqin Mongolia. The main pastoral area is near Wu Keshan's Wangzhang, on the bank of the Liao River, at the western end of the Liaosong Plain. The banners are distributed in Around the royal court."

Tan Tai clicked several places on the map with a wooden pole, and finally clicked back to Wangting, which is probably near today's Liaotong, and then said: "The Horqin people usually herd herds and serve as soldiers in wartime. Although they probably lost There are more than 2 young and strong, and more than 4000 people have been lost in Shenyang, but if all the 15-year-old men are mobilized, there should be more than 2 people available.”

Tan Tai told all the information he knew, and Gao Yigong already knew the information he ordered people to collect.

At this time, he was silent for a while, and said: "After Wu Keshan attacked Shenyang, the nearly [-] soldiers in his hands should not have been dispatched to the banners. The army is ready, and we will attack immediately."

After the First World War in Shenyang, Wu Keshan's modest prestige fell to the bottom.

The originally loose tribal alliance almost collapsed.The Monan Mongolia, which lost its troops and lost its generals, has returned to its various tribes. Some tribes received the news that the Ming army was gathering in Datong. Fearing reprisals, they began to move westward into the Hetao area controlled by the Jin Kingdom.

Among the Ten Banners of Eastern Mongolia, Guo Erluosi's front and rear banners also began to move north to avoid Ming army's revenge.

Wu Keshan intends to temporarily avoid the edge of the Ming army, but Horqin Six Banners has more than [-] people, and it is not like those small tribes who say that they can survive by finding a small pasture by accommodating.

Just after winter, sheep and horses need fresh pastures to replenish their fat, and more than [-] people need to prepare a lot of forage when they migrate. not easy.

For so many years, the population of the grassland can only be maintained at more than 100 million most of the time, because it can only support so many people.

When the population increased, the tribes either fought for pastures or invaded and plundered southward.

The Horqin Grassland is a fine grassland, where Xianbei and Khitan both made their fortunes and grew step by step.He moved to the west, most of the grasslands had owners, and moved to the north into Siberia, where the living conditions were too harsh, and he didn't want to follow the example of the small tribes in Monan and enter the Kingdom of Jin to be Hauge's vassal, so he stayed in Horqin.

After much deliberation, he decided to go to Moxi. After the Zhungeer tribe moved westward, the pastures there were divided among several small tribes in Moxi, and some were given to Mobei Mongolia.

It's just a long journey from east to west. He is going to wait for the sheep and horses to fatten up and the herdsmen to store a certain amount of pasture, and then break through the barriers of the Mongolian tribes along the way, go to the Jungar Basin, and defeat the Huite tribe there. Grab the ranch.

It's just that although Wu Keshan had a good idea, Ming Dynasty didn't give him time.

Although the Ming army tried their best to train the cavalry, and gave 3 Yi Cong Chinese books and military merit fields, intending to keep them in the Central Plains, the number of Ming army cavalry is still only about [-], and there are more than [-] outside the order. Dragoons.

For this northern attack on Mongolia, the Ming Dynasty dispatched about [-] cavalry, and [-] to [-] infantry and dragoons to cooperate.

In Liaoning, the main force for this attack was [-] cavalry, accompanied by another [-] infantry.

At the end of March, when the government was busy resettling the people filling Liao, the Ming army began to attack across the board.

Two hundred miles north of Shenyang, on a grassland west of the Liaohe River, there are nearly a thousand white Mongolian tents scattered. This is the grazing land of the Horqin Zuoyiqian Banner.

At this time, the sun is shining brightly, the green grass is breaking through the ground, the men are driving the flocks and grazing outside, the smoke is puffing up next to the yurt, and the women are cooking and eating, heating the kumiss, the atmosphere is peaceful and wonderful. grassland scene.

But at this moment, there was a rush of hooves, and several bloody herdsmen galloped back to the camp. One man fell off his horse before he could get there, and the rest ignored him and beat him desperately. The horses ran to the front of the camp from a distance.

Hearing the movement, the Mongolian herdsmen couldn't help raising their heads to look at the cavalrymen who were running. When the herders saw it, they quickly got on their horses and galloped back.

When they arrived in front of the camp, the herdsmen saw that the cavalrymen were all wounded and covered with blood, and they were all surprised. They were about to ask each other, but the leading cavalry shouted loudly: "Quickly, tell Taiji that the Ming people came to kill us." It's..."

Before he could finish his sentence, he fell off his horse. Everyone saw that the blood hole made by several firecrackers on his back had already drained his blood.

In an instant, there was chaos in the tribe, and at this time, nearly Wanming army cavalry had already rolled in, their horseshoes stepped across the grass, splashing pieces of mud, the Ming army cavalry raised their three-eyed blunderbuss and raised their horses, like a group of Hungry wolves pounced on the Mongolian camp in the distance.

Hearing the herdsmen killed by the Ming army, they panicked immediately. Taiji of the Left Front Banner and Wu Bashan, Wu Keshan's younger brother, got the report and hurried out of the big tent. Looking south in horror, he saw countless cavalry galloping in the distance. When he came, he was suddenly shocked.

They were worried that the Ming army would come for revenge, but they didn't want the Ming army to come.

At this time, his bodyguard brought him a war horse, and without saying a word, he got on the horse, and ignoring his followers, urged the horse to flee.

The Ming army rushed to the front of the camp in a blink of an eye. Tan Tai pointed his saber left and right, and the Ming cavalry split into three teams. The two teams surrounded the Mongol camp to prevent the Mongols from escaping. The team charged directly into the camp.

"Kill!" Some Mongolian men got on their horses one after another. Nearly a hundred Mongolian men rushed out of the camp with bows and arrows, and rushed towards the Ming army, but the Ming army raised their hands and hit one piece, and then swung the gun fiercely. Smash, the Mongols fell one after another.

Soon the Ming army rushed into the camp, and screams suddenly rang out. Mongolian men, women, and children ran around among the tents carrying their burdens.

Inside the camp, there were staggered corpses everywhere, and the green grass outside the camp turned scarlet.

Tan Tai beheaded a Mongolian Khan with a single knife, and looked back at the soldiers who were killing herdsmen, women and children. The camp was full of heads, severed arms, and bloody limbs. There are streams and streams, and they can't help waving their knives and shouting: "Don't kill it, keep it for use!"

Oil was a relatively precious thing in ancient times, and the common people could not eat much oil for a year. The social development of the Ming Dynasty and the production changes brought about by the commercial society meant an improvement in production capacity and organizational capabilities, which meant that the quality of life of the entire society was improved. get improved.

It turns out that if you are full, your life will be considered good, but according to the current standards of the Ming Dynasty, you must be able to eat meat, oil, and fruit to be considered good.

The Ming Dynasty encouraged the people to grow soybeans as a cash crop in Ningliao, which was an opportunity for many people. Gao Yigong and others, as well as the bureaucrats in the north, are already planning to open oil-pressing workshops in Liaoning. The oil is bought in the south of the Yangtze River. The bean dregs left over from oil extraction are used to raise livestock, especially omnivorous pigs.

However, the Han people are not good at breeding and grazing, so keeping these women and children can help them breed, form an industrial chain, enrich meat, and improve the physical fitness of the people, especially the army.

After he roared, the surrounding Ming army stopped moving, but there were not many people left.

Seeing this, Tan Tai hurriedly ordered a group of people to guard him, and then pulled out the reins, and ordered loudly: "Go! I will go straight to Wu Keshan's royal court!"

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