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Chapter 1321
At the end of March in the tenth year of Wanli, the emperor signed an imperial edict to Qi Jiguang, the governor of Guihua City Garrison in northern Serbia, in Tsinghua Garden, Beijing.

The imperial edict has only six characters.

Along the prairie, go forward!
Qi Jiguang who embarked on the journey is not alone. There are four other Ming troops attacking with him. One is Dong Yiyuan, who is in command of the Long Live Army. Composed of the Imperial Forest Army and the Beiyang Banner Army, using the most advanced weapons and equipment, they have made great achievements along the way.

The second road is the King of Shunyi, King Congsun of the Jin Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty, and he was attached to the Dragon and Tiger General Kutuk Tucher Chen Hongtaiji. He selected eight thousand armored riders from Qinghai to respond to the emperor. Mongolian heavy army.

The third route is for Hussar General Dong Chang'ang of the Duoyan tribe. His tribe was named the Ming Mongolian Light Army by the emperor, enclosing the troops of the Horqin Grassland along the way, and stationed along the way with cattle, sheep and horses. It can be used to explore the way for scouts, the two wings can be used to cover light cavalry, and the rear can also provide luggage, which is boundless and boundless.

On the last route, Liang Menglong, Minister of the Ministry of War and Governor of the Northern Saibei Railway, led the six border guards out of the fortress, and set up the governor's railway office in Guihua City.

The armies of the four routes marched westward, they were like floods walking, under the waves, all the tribes were changed.

After 300 years, the grand scene of large-scale human migration once again appeared on the grassland.

But this time is very different from the past.

First of all, Qi Jiguang's marching speed was severely restricted. They couldn't march too fast, at least not for the Zhejiang Army and the Long Live Army as the main force. Tolerance, lack of vegetables.

Within the range of Bansheng, it is not a problem to obtain all food, but once they leave the Yinshan Mountains and enter the northern side of Tianshan Mountains, eating becomes a big problem.

The Mongols invented milk powder as early as the period of Genghis Khan by General Huiyuan. Huiyuan may not be the first person to invent milk powder, but he reported the milk powder dried on the stove to Genghis Khan, and Genghis Khan immediately used it as his arm. The chain of command that refers to is extended to the entire grassland, and meat floss is similar to it.

Today, these two things have become the special products of Beiyang Industrial Zone, in addition to dried vegetables and pottery cans produced by the factory.

Relying on the latter alone is not enough to supply the supplies needed by the army, while the former requires changing the eating habits of the soldiers of the Ming army. In fact, for the soldiers of the Zhejiang Army and the Long Live Army, this is much more difficult than planning and executing a battle.

At this time, people still don’t know what lactose intolerance is, but Qi Jiguang used the soldiers’ bodies to prove that the Zhejiang soldiers who drank the same milk as the Mongols had diarrhea after drinking it, which greatly affected their combat effectiveness.

There are also some stubborn people who don’t report or ask for leave even if they have diarrhea. They persist in pinching their noses and drinking hard.

Because of the heavy luggage, they had to march very slowly and explore the location of water sources, Gobi, and deserts for a long time in order to plan a thunderous offensive.

The army spread out, and the troops at the southernmost point were directed at Hamiwei, and they wanted to attack the Yarkand Khanate together with Zhang Chen, the general who had blocked Alta; the troops at the northernmost point set up Jinshanwei in the Altai Mountains. Recruit gold husbands who are willing to mine gold in Jinshanwei.

Altai means Jinshan in Mongolian. As early as the Han Dynasty, some people mined gold in the mountains, but the scale was not large until the Mongol Empire. But this time it was different. The Beiyang Banner Army went into the mountains to explore The topography was drawn and a map was passed on to Naturalization and soon sent to the Forbidden City.

Although the scale of the mine has not yet been explored, it was named Jinshanwei by the emperor. It is obvious that this is the second Great Ming Dynasty in the eyes of the emperor.

Unknowingly, the meaning of gold in the Kingdom of Jin founded by Al Da has been very different from the original gold.

Who could have imagined that the Kingdom of Jin, which was confronted with the Southern Song Dynasty, was reduced to a country rich in hardware by the Ming Dynasty.

As for the Chinese army on the Western Expedition, led by Qi Jiguang, they pursued the Khan Court of the Northern Yuan Dynasty all the way to the northern foot of Tianshan Mountain. Now his enemy is the most powerful Heshuo tribe in Oirat Mongolia.

Qi Jiguang's army is the first in the world to have an air force directly under it. Now the Zhejiang Army has two flying fish commanders and 76 flying fish airships under its jurisdiction. The wounded teacher and supporting hundreds of students and more than 31 soldiers, search soldiers, and air scouts.

And his opponent, Buyan Chechen Khan of Mongolia, was the first person in the world to make anti-aircraft weapons. During his stay in Khalkha Mongolia, he used a weapon similar to a bed crossbow to shoot through flying fish, resulting in three flying fish airships crashed.

In fact, in the battle called the Battle of Khalkha, there was only one flying fish shot by Buyan Chechen Khan, and it was not shot down by a giant crossbow. There is superstitious fear in the air, which leads to the combat plan of using large-scale flying fish air strikes to start the war.

One of the airships that were too dense in the air was hit by a crossbow arrow and caused it to lose balance, and then hit the remaining two airships. The crew cabin fire ignited the surface of the airship, causing the three airships to fall.

It was also the fall of these three airships that directly brought victory.

They carried a large number of projectile weapons used for explosions and landed in the enemy's formation, directly triggering a large-scale retreat. Just in time for Dong Chang'ang's light cavalry to outflank the flanks, the heavy cavalry from the Great Ming and Jin Kingdom gathered them in a large-scale troop. Defeat them all.

Even the flying fish behind won without even starting to bomb.

People learn wars in wars. Flying Fish has gone through several battles under the hands of Qi Jiguang, glowing with great brilliance, almost invincible, and thus undergoing earth-shaking changes.

Accompanying each battle report back to Beijing were Qi Jiguang's proposals for the transformation of the Flying Fish warship. The immature weapons and tactics became more and more mature in the process.

Prestige is the most real in war, but none of the people who gain prestige in war is in vain.

Because people know that if you follow him, you will succeed and live, but if you follow others, you will fail and die.

At the turn of spring and summer in the 11th year of Wanli, at the northern foot of Tianshan Mountain, Qi Jiguang was ordered by the emperor to crusade against the remnants of the Northern Yuan Dynasty.

It's just that the battle situation this time is different from the past. The enemy's will could not persist until the moment when the flying fish approached. Perhaps it had absorbed too many deserters from the Khalkha tribes, or perhaps the superstition of divine punishment had spread too intensely.

The battle didn't start at all, and the tribesmen just saw the flying fish and fled in all directions. Then the tribal leader swept away his majesty, and was challenged to shoot and kill by ambitious men. Seeing the bad situation, Khan fled west again, and the whole tribe was torn apart. Some followed the Great Khan in fear, and some fled north and west into the Gobi and mountains.

Even those who directly surrendered to the Ming army won the victory without any effort.

(End of this chapter)