open sea

Chapter 1323 National Boundary
Qi Jiguang believed that the tribes on the grassland must be dispersed, not only for the rule of the court, but also for the lives of the subordinate tribes.

If you are attached, you are not an enemy, but a common people.

The stories on the grassland are repeated. Maodun, Tanshihuai, and Temujin are people who meet once in hundreds of years. Except for the ten years when they entered their heyday, the rest of the time they repeat the drama of tribal disputes. With ghosts in their hearts, they gather in one place and have different dreams in the same bed.

Even if the spoils are unevenly divided, wars can be fought.

This is too scary for Qi Jiguang. He hasn't gone west yet. The further west the troops following him go, the more difficult it is to expect to go to Beiyang with supplies. He doesn't believe that the speed of the imperial court's railway construction can keep up. The speed with which he fought.

Even if he investigates slowly and attacks quickly, the repair of the railway will not be completed in a short while.

From now on, the Mongolian plateau will be his rear area, and the auxiliary troops and food supplies will come from here.

If the various tribes don't raise cattle, sheep and horses for him, what's the point of calling him every day?

Qi Jiguang knew very well what he was doing and what the court behind him was doing.

His country had never had such an experience - they were looking for the edge of the border.

Since the opening of the sea, books from various countries have been sent back to China along with the battle reports, which contain other people's cultures, other people's technology, and other people's habits.

Greatly enhanced Ming people's understanding of the world.

How are the borders of most countries in the world divided?
They expanded all the way in their heyday, fought endlessly, and used their wisdom and courage to make people surrender until they met an evenly matched opponent. National borders are defined.

This is a link that the Central Plains Dynasty has been missing since the Qin Dynasty.

Where is there any equal power? The sea, mountains, deserts, plateaus, these rare treasures, all the children around have one.

Of course, their ancestors didn't want to have either.

In short, the Central Plains Dynasty only had the actual line of control.

Those who can be recruited have all been recruited long ago, leaving behind opponents who are sitting on natural dangers in all directions.

There is no need to talk about these lines of actual control.

To the south of this place is the sea, so I won’t go there. It’s agreed that you are not allowed to go ashore, and I will beat you when you go ashore;

It doesn’t rain all the year round to the north of this place, so I don’t need to go there, let’s build a wall, it’s convenient to entertain you when you come over;
To the west of this land is an impassable mountain, what?There are still living people on the other side of the mountain!Alas, I can't be angry enough.

1000 years passed like this.

But now they suddenly found that the problems in many places can be solved, the sea is not a problem, my brothers have boats; the desert is not a problem anymore, my brothers can build a railway to bypass it.

If this is the case, the problem will be serious. Brothers, who are well-known farming experts in the world, want to reclaim a few acres of wasteland for planting. What's wrong?

It’s just that the land is the same as the sea, the farther it is from the core land, the greater the consumption of the expedition. In fact, Qi Jiguang is already far away from the core land, so Qi Jiguang dare not continue the westward expedition without opening up the transportation channel and without a stable rear .

Even though his troops have made a lot of preparations for this, drinking horse milk like the Mongols solves the biggest water source problem, and eating is also the biggest problem. This problem comes from the Long Live Army.

The composition of the Long Live Army was drawn from the Tengxiang Second Guards and the Beiyang Banner Army trained by the emperor himself. The chief general is Dong Yiyuan. He is a good general and a good soldier. There is only one shortcoming-the luggage must be well prepared.

In fact, this is not a shortcoming. Any army that is not fully prepared will be ruined. Correspondingly, this is their advantage. Other troops may collapse directly if they are short of supplies. They will not collapse, but will only reduce their combat effectiveness.

But for this absolutely elite army, the painstaking efforts, money, food, and military pay they spent on training them, as long as they can't exert their due combat effectiveness, it will be considered a big loss.

They generally have a better demand for supplies. They have to manage enough gunpowder and food. Like the Mongolian light and heavy armies that follow, they don’t need to eat fruits and vegetables at all. They only need mare’s milk to drink and dried meat. If you win the battle, you can share some combat power or reward some money, and you can follow the main force to the battlefield.

The dried vegetables and soybean milk powder sent by Beiyang military columns, pack horses and camels are all for the Long Live Army.

On Qi Jiguang's western expedition route, the conquest of Oala was the first to bear the brunt. During this period, going south to obtain Turpan and Hamiwei and further attacking the Yarkand Khanate was also the top priority.

No matter which way the western expedition takes, it cannot supply tens of thousands of troops for continuous consumption. He has to set up post stations one after another, and camps one after another. Only by transporting luggage here can the troops be supplied to the west to contact the Kazakh Khanate.

As for the Yarkand Khanate?
That's just to fight. In Qi Jiguang's mind, he is not as good as Heshuo. To him, Oirat Mongolia is actually a blocker on the marching road. You have to fight. If you don't fight, you don't know how good you are, but you have fought. Just take it.

Because the Oirat Mongols seldom participated in the war with Ming Dynasty, the officials of Ming Dynasty called them Oala Tartars, saying that they were slower than Xuanda Tartars, that is, Alta. Although they never paid tribute to China, they never came to invade the border.

Only the poor and rascals in Oirat Mongolia will be mobilized by Tubo and come to rob them. Relatively speaking, in the long tug-of-war between Daming, Yarkand, and Tubo around Hamiwei, the frontier generals of Daming on this battlefield are still relatively unwelcome to Oala of.

Not long after Qi Jiguang broke through the Heshuo Department, the battle report from Tong Deng, the commander-in-chief of Gansu Province, also arrived. His troops took Jiayuguan's garrison Dayun as the forward, and captured a small town with only three or four thousand households without firing a single cannon. Hami is now stepping up its defenses in response to the counterattack of Turpan Khan, which belongs to the Yarkand Khanate.

Tong Deng believed that his troops did not fight in Hamiwei. Tubo Khan didn't know the truth, and he would definitely lead his troops to attack when he received the news. Maybe when Qi Jiguang saw the letter, the troops were gathering, and he would send troops in a month or two. If Qi Jiguang had recovered In Luntai County, please ask Qi Jiguang to act cheaply.

Because Luntai County is far away from Hamiwei, but it is located in the northwest of Turpan City, whether it is attacking the enemy's back or cutting off the main force of the Yarkand Khanate's future aid, Tong Deng can provide assistance.

The victory of capturing Hamiwei belonged to Dayun, who defended Jiayuguan. Before the battle, he led more than ten cronies into the city disguised as merchants. After chatting with the people in the city for three days, the city was instigated to rebel.

(End of this chapter)