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Chapter 1365 Armed Begging
Qi Jimei was ordered to go to the Ottoman Empire to request an army to enter the Black Sea to meet Qi Jiguang who was on the Western Expedition, not because Qi Jiguang walked fast.

But Qi Jiguang couldn't go back.

Qi Jiguang seemed to be pushing a huge snowball when he was going uphill, rolling until he could only move forward and could not release the force. Once the force was released, the snowball would crush him to pieces.

Since Tubo was pacified, Qi Jiguang's large troops also assembled and cultivated in Luntai at the northern foot of Tianshan Mountain.

After a long journey, they finally found a place where the troops could rest and graze. Everyone should have been happy. In order to consume the energy of the subordinate tribes, Qi Jiguang even coaxed the men on horseback to repair the old city of Luntai, promising to follow the Mongolian soldiers In the future, it will be the fence of the Ming Dynasty and teach the method of farming.

All traditions in this world are nothing compared to money, food, and safety if they are not forced by knives or discriminated against.

When you are persecuted with a knife and discriminated against, it is not a matter of tradition, but a matter of self-esteem.

As long as they are not forced by knives, don't Mongolian men want to farm?It really can't be planted, you Han people build a Great Wall to enclose all the places where it rains, so what should we do?

Now they heard Qi Jiguang say that land can be planted near Luntai, and in the future they will plant these lands, and the city walls can be repaired one by one.

But what worried Qi Jiguang the most happened here.

I don't know who doesn't have a good eye to spread the news on the grassland. Now on the grasslands and Gobi in the north and northeast, there are rumors that the Ming Khan is going to recruit warriors to go west.

The prodigal son who left home and wanted to roam the Great Wall, the desert bandits who ganged up and struggled to survive in the desert, the grassland horse thieves infested with large groups, and even some tribal chiefs who failed to conquer each other led the tribe all the way to join the Great Ming Khan's Western Expedition .

Those who were near came from a hundred miles away, and those who were far away even drove nearly a thousand miles all the way. Even the Qianhe River, that is, the Qiergis tribes near the Yenisei River, also had several tribes galloping all the way.

Qi Jiguang didn't take this matter seriously at the beginning, and people came here here and there.

A dozen or so today and dozens of them tomorrow, although they looked pitiful because they looked pitiful, they ordered the veteran Hu Shouren to find a job for them among thousands of households of the Mongolian Qing Army.

But that’s not the case in the future. Like the refugee camp, there are two to three hundred people a day, sometimes even thousands of people, and some even run out of food, and send riders who still have enough energy to rush all the way to see people bow down and shout for help. We have to send troops to transport food to bring them here.

Even the tribes who joined the Mongolian Qing Army came here with their families. Qi Jiguang left, and they didn't have enough food, so they could only graze and follow all the way west.

Qi Jiguang was very kind. For more than a month, more than 2 people took all the food they ordered, and in the blink of an eye, they ate up all the food that Tongdeng sent from Tubo at the northern foot of Tianshan Mountain.

If you continue to eat, the mare's milk is not enough to drink.

There was no way, seeing the scouts discover the terrain and garrison of Yili Bali to the west, and Hu Shouren stayed in Luntai, watching nearly [-] people repair the city wall, feed the six animals, and open up wasteland. The Mongolian light army set off again and went straight to Yili Libali is armed to beg for food.

In the entire northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, no one has ever seen such a formation.

More than [-] light cavalry generals split up and walked out in a wave of flat push battles. The Zhejiang army with iron hats and armor on their heads carried bird guns and followed behind the artillery. Hundreds of Mongolian heavy cavalry from the Ming and Jin Kingdoms lined up. A large team holds the line.

The people on the Yili Grassland saw this army coming up like a black cloud from a distance. They dared not close the felt tents, dare not drive the cattle and sheep, and rode on their horses and fled westward.

In their field of vision, scattered cavalry first appeared on the high grassy slope, and their tattered fur coats with bare shoulders could easily make them mistaken for a group of robbers along the line.

The herdsman warriors belonging to the Yarkand Khanate had already cursed and called the second brother who herded the sheep and the sixth brother who fed the horses back to the felt tent to find a knife, and carried the fourteenth brother who practiced arrows onto the horse's back. If you kill them, you can take them to the market in Yili Bali to exchange for some money.

But following the cavalry on the grassy slope in leather armor and goggles, there were several spears with big flags written on them rising up on the grassy slope.

The eight or nine brothers who got out of the felt tent were a little flustered, and the knife seemed to be a little heavy. They turned their heads and ran into the tent again. Two older girls and younger daughters-in-law assembled outside the felt tent with bows and arrows and sticks for driving sheep.

Wait for a while, Qingqi has run down the hillside, black infantry with scimitars and hard bows came down from the grassy slope, and the artillery carts pushed by horses and people also went to the high point. The soldiers of the army rode on the horses and oxen as soon as they appeared on the stage, and walked westward all the way.

It looks like they are not here to rob. Seeing this kind of people, there is no need to go up and ask them what they are doing, just admit that they are unlucky and run away.

Isn't it a coincidence that they really came to rob.

In a blink of an eye, the light infantry who ran down the hillside did not let go of cattle, sheep, horses, even chickens, and milk bottles. In the end, even the felt tents were removed, and they turned back to the same way, while other large troops continued to advance westward.

The Zhejiang Army Qianhu sent by Qi Jiguang to the Qianhu Division of the Qing Army can still restrain the sergeants, but they cannot restrain them because it is unfair.

The Zhejiang army and the Mongolian heavy army from the Kingdom of Jin have always been able to eat well and eat well, but the light army can't do it. As a surrendered army, they can only eat enough from the beginning, and now they have expanded a large group of hungry and ruthless people , and then only care about restraint, it will only be counterproductive.

But there are still military laws, and you can't take out a knife to rob, so everyone puts out a battle to requisition.

Scaring people away, isn't it considered robbery?
When people come back, I’m afraid they will get lost and can’t even find their home, because everything has been evacuated, and everything in the Mongolian Army camp can be used, even if it’s a piece of wood, it will eventually go where it should go .

The army swept past like a swarm of locusts, and the leaders of small tribes assembled hundreds of troops to intercept them, but they were discovered by the scouts, and then three thousand households surrounded them, and the leaders surrendered without firing a shot. .

The agreed field battle on the prairie, we have a horse and a knife to count as a soldier, but your heavy cavalry stood in line, and finally even pulled out the cannon, how can you fight?
In this way, the army advanced all the way to Yili Bali City. The [-] tribal warriors under the city and the [-] defenders on the city stared at each other. When it's over, I'm almost peeing my pants.

The trembling city lord sent someone to pretend to be brave and ask: "You, you, what are you doing here?"

"We came to ask for food, the more the better, go back and ask the city lord if he would like to raise food for the Ming army."

"Almost forgot." After asking, Chao Hua, the general of the Mongolian Qing Army, finally remembered, patted his head and said, "Your city lord probably knows about Emperor Ming, please pay tribute."

(End of this chapter)