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Of course, he has seen the power of muskets before, and now he owns one, and his heart immediately blossoms with joy.He thinks that the Chinese are friends enough to give gifts as soon as they come, unlike Raksha ghosts who only know how to rob.

Moreover, Harabin has three brothers, and he is the second eldest.Yue An's words had already moved his heart. After driving away the Raksha ghosts, he took some of his clansmen to move north and own their own grassland to prosper. Wouldn't it be better than nesting in the Balahubu?

For the Mobei and Lake Baikal regions, nothing more than the establishment of the Protectorate.

The Datong army was stationed in important cities, and the Mongols were scattered and organized into various guards.Through military, political, economic and religious rule, it is ruled in many aspects, and the ministries are not allowed to merge with each other. Whoever dares to annex other people's pastures is a public enemy.

Basically, it is like learning how the Manchus ruled Mongolia, but there is no Mongolian prince, only large and small Mongolian guardians.

"Da da da da!"

A Mongolian cavalryman rushed over, hissing and shouting: "Taiji, the Raksha ghost wants to escape!"

"Chase!"

Harabin got on his horse and led his troops to catch up without thinking about talking to Li Zheng.

The Datong army had no horses, so Li Zheng couldn't catch up, so he led his soldiers to take over the castle.

It was hundreds of Buryat Mongolian cavalry who besieged Chita City for more than half a month.There were only 20 Cossacks and 30 servants in the city, but they repelled the attacks of the Mongols many times. More than 80 of these Mongols were killed or injured under the city.

The Cossacks guarding the city did not take it seriously in the face of the Mongol siege.

Now the Datong army is here, although only [-] troops are sent, but they still have artillery.When the Cossack defenders saw the artillery coming ashore, they knew that Nerchinsk had fallen, so how could they dare to hold on?Just ride the horse and run away.

Hundreds of Mongolian cavalry drove fifty enemy troops in pursuit.

Those Cossacks and servants all had war horses. While running away, they turned around and fired arrows. Several Mongolian cavalry fell from their horses one after another.

The archer can continue, but the musket cannot be reloaded while fleeing on horseback.

There are many mountains around Chita, and the flat area is not large.

The Cossacks and servants rode on horses and could only escape from the narrow river bank.After fleeing for several miles, there was a swamp of reeds in front of us, so we had to steer into the valley on horseback.

In the end, they abandoned their horses and walked on foot, fighting in the dense forest.

After half a day, Harabin returned covered in blood.In this pursuit, nearly a hundred of his men were killed or injured, all of which were caused by the sniper guns fired by the Cossacks in the forest.As a result of his battle, he only killed 8 Cossacks and 11 indigenous servants, and captured a few, and the rest of the enemies all ran away.

Seeing Li Zheng again, Harabin felt that his face was dull, and asked: "My lord general, the Raksha ghosts are very powerful. Can I exchange my horse for a firearm? I can deal with them when I meet them in the future."

Li Zheng comforted: "Although the Raksha ghosts ran away more than ten times, they lost their horses and no boats. Presumably, few of them can leave the mountain alive. As for the horses for firecrackers, I have to ask my superiors, the Datong Army." Commanders cannot dispose of ordnance at will."

Harabin was a straight-hearted person, but he couldn't tell that Li was perfunctory, and said excitedly: "The price is negotiable, how about ten horses for one firecracker?"

"I'll go back and ask for instructions." Li Zheng said with a smile.

It is of course possible to exchange ten horses for one gunpowder, as long as the gunpowder is stuck.

Without ammunition, a firecracker is just a stick of fire.

For the Datong army in the north, merchants can transport grain and grass, but they transport their own weapons, and merchants are strictly prohibited from carrying any hot weapons.

Historically, Cossacks fought Chukchi for hundreds of years.Primitive tribes like Chukchi even learned how to smelt iron and use guns and artillery during the war, but they still couldn't learn how to make gunpowder.

Harabin left with a bag of refined salt, which was a gift from Li Zheng to the Balahu patriarch.

The Datong army drove the Cossacks away, and the news quickly spread throughout the Balahu tribe, and the patriarch brought his son to visit him in person.After some exchanges, Balahubu was willing to submit to the emperor of the Celestial Dynasty.

The tribes further west also gradually heard the news that they were going to come to Chita to ask the Datong Army to send troops when the snow would melt in the coming spring.

As long as they can drive away the Rakshasa ghosts, they are willing to take the lead in attacking the city and serve the emperor for generations!

Chapter 995 [Mobei]

Sometimes war is like child's play.

Historically, Sage was murdered by two brothers, and his followers fled and scattered in all directions.When Galdan learned of his brother's death, he hurried back from Tibet and won the loyalty of more than a thousand Mongolian cavalry.

―What can more than a thousand cavalry do?

However, Galdan resisted all opinions and took the initiative to attack the two elder brothers.

In a hurry, his two elder brothers only had time to gather more than 1 cavalry.Galdan charged forward with his spear in hand, shouting: "Wherever my gun is pointed, you will charge there!"

The main general was so brave that the soldiers under his command died one after another, defeating the enemy army ten times his size on the spot.

The enemy fled to Jinlingkou and guarded the dangerous place.Galdan led more than 20 cronies, braved the rain of arrows, abandoned his horse and climbed the mountain, and the rest of the soldiers dared to follow.Galdan captured one brother alive, while the other brother fled to Qinghai in embarrassment.

At this time, Galdan was only 26 years old, and it took less than a year to set off from Tibet to regain the Khan throne.

The Datong Army's expedition to Mobei this time, the enemy is Galdan's elder brother, Zhuote Babatur.

Because Mobei is full of pastures, after Sengge was killed, a large number of his followers returned to Zhuote Babatur, because they all received rich pasture rewards.

But this guy is rather cowardly. When he learned that the Datong army was coming, he took his troops and fled ahead of time.

Zhang Tieniu set off from the Horqin Grassland with 4 infantry, 6 cavalry, 18 civilian husbands, and 30 mules and horses.Traveling to the Hulun Buir Grassland, the Mongolians have been walking around, chasing and stopping for more than two months, only tens of thousands of livestock and thousands of women and children were seized.

After Sengge's death, his son Cewang Arabutan led his followers to join Zhang Tieniu's command, and even Galdan's biological mother was in Raoledu Hufu.

Tse Wang Alabatan was very familiar with the grasslands, so he led Zhang Tieniu's cavalry straight to the rich grasslands.After tossing for a while and wasting countless food and grass, it was finally determined that there was no main force of the enemy on the grasslands in the upper reaches of Heilongjiang (the eastern part of Mobei).

All gone!

Zhang Tieniu continued to lead his troops westward, all the way along the Kerelun River.

This river is the mother river of the Mongols. Anyone who wants to unify Mobei marches along this river, as did Genghis Khan back then.

When they arrived at Da Han Er (Wendur Khan), they encountered a small group of cavalry sent by Fei Ruhe.

"How's the game going?"

Zhang Tieniu asked.

Leading the team was a cavalry battalion commander named Ouyang Qi.I replied: "One of the enemy troops fleeing from the east was intercepted by you. There were only [-] cavalrymen, and the rest were all old and strong women, children and livestock. What is the name of the H Buddha who is resident in Aoergao? Zundamba Khutu

Ketu, I still had time to run, followed thousands of people and surrendered. "

Yanjun Wan smiled and said: "I'm afraid this person is planning to run away. I am a native of Mobei. How can I help the Zhungeer Ministry to fight?"

Ouyang Qi said: "Your army dispatched troops quickly, and the enemy army needs time to gather. Fei Dudu guessed that the enemy was gathering while advancing, and secretly sent a large number of troops to attack the grain road. Your army did not have two grain transport teams attacked before, killing and injuring civilians." — More than a thousand and four hundred, but the enemy

The raiding force was also wiped out. "

"Where did the enemy retreat?"

Cao Bianjiao was not depressed at all. I took 74 people to the expedition and marched for a full eight months.

Ouyang Qi said: "There are no traces of the enemy army anywhere. Fei Dudu thinks they are heading north, so he sent you to lead Zhang Dudu."

The entire Mobei is divided into eight small regions by the Altai Mountains, the Hang'ai Mountains, the Kent Mountains, and the Xiaoxing'an Mountains.

The west is the Xiaohu Basin, the central part is the Selenge Grassland, and the east is the grassland in the lower reaches of the Bailong River.

The Hulunbuir small grassland is part of the grasslands in the lower reaches of the Bailong River. Its geographical function is to threaten Hebei and Northeast China, and it is an important support for Mobei Mongolia to fight south.

As for the Selenge Grassland in the middle, the Mobei Mongolian Royal Court is specially located here because it is the core of the Mobei Grassland.To the east, you can attack the lower reaches of the Bailong River; to the west, you can attack the small lake basin, or even cross the Altai Mountains to the Western Regions;

Mountains and rivers; the Baikal region cannot be conquered northward.

No matter how the enemy advances, it is possible to abandon the Selenge Grassland, otherwise next year they will wait to drink the northwest wind.

Batur is now in Zuo Xiaocheng's army, and that man is not yet the person in charge of the National Security Council in Chahar.

The Chahar Department is divided into several chief protectors, and Batur is permanently stationed in the first chief protector of Chahar.Du Hu's own mother, the princess of the Qing Dynasty, has always known Batur clearly, and the two even gave birth to eight children one after another.That guy also took his wife and children from the south, and now they are getting along very well.

"There are few mountains and grasslands in the north, and the river network is very simple, which is more conducive to your army's operations and the movement of Mongolian cavalry."

Yan Junwan is not a good-for-nothing scholar back then, I am very much like her in the Chahar Grassland, with meticulous work in my hands, and I often go to Mobei with the caravan.

Zuo Xiaocheng frowned: "Where can the enemy's main force go?"

Batur said: "Old men, women, children, livestock and food, at least half of them went into a certain mountain in the north and hid them. As for the main force of the enemy army, I am afraid they are still circling around. It is very unlikely that your army will continue to retreat northward, but we will surround you The food road. It is a large stock attack, but the main force bypasses

Go, completely cut off your military supply road. "

Zuo Xiaocheng encountered the problem of Zhu Di's seventh Northern Expedition. Hundreds of thousands of small troops were dispatched. The Mongols dared to fight at all, and they had been making detours in the vast grassland.

It has not been eight months since they retreated into Mobei, and the total record of the two small armies is not to kill less than 4000 Mongolian cavalry, capture less than 9000 old and strong women and children, and seize less than 10 livestock.On the other hand, he lost 102 members of the Xiaotong army, nearly 2000 civilian husbands were killed and injured, and a batch of food and grass were burned by the enemy.

"Boom..."

Two thousand young cavalry came from the southwest, and they were discovered by scouts from the Xiaotong army more than ten miles away.

The scouts did not flee immediately to report, but watched from a distance.Because the Mongolian cavalry in front of them seemed to be here to make a surprise attack, the direction was completely right, and very few of them were wounded.

Seeing the scouts from the Xiaotong army, the Mongolian cavalry also stopped.

— A Mongolian nobleman, with only a dozen or so riders on his back, said, "You want to submit to the Celestial Dynasty, you must submit to the Celestial Dynasty!"

The scouts of the Xiaotong Army are stationed in Hetao, and they have learned to speak Mongolian long ago.The captain of the scouts let the half-soldiers go forward. The situation was that Miao immediately went back to report the news, and he himself rode down to meet him: "Who is he?"

The Mongolian nobleman said: "You are Zhungeer Tai Ji Tserdan Shaobu, and the murdered Sage is your father. You have done business with Batur, the right villain of the Celestial Dynasty. The right villain said that as long as you surrender In the Celestial Dynasty, you can be the protector of the Anbei Protectorate Mansion, and you can also lead the people to the pasture."

The scout captain asked, "Why is he here now?"

Tserdan Shaobu explained: "Fei Ruhe and Zhang Tieniu are afraid of you, afraid that you will rebel, and the pasture that was allocated to you is right under my nose. I dare to murder you again, and I am afraid that it will stir up your father's former troops. So this battle, you have been forced to follow me

Beside, all your wives and children were taken away by me. "

The scout captain asked again: "Where did the main force of Mobei go?"

Tserdan Shaobu said: "We are cutting off the grain roads of the small army of the Celestial Dynasty in the southwest. We gathered [-] young cavalry, intending to cut off the grain roads and at the same time lure the cavalry from the Celestial Dynasty to throw their infantry back to help. Lu set up an ambush to defeat the main cavalry of the Celestial Dynasty."

The scout leader asked again: "Where are the women, children and livestock in Mobei?"

"In the north, it's all the way to the North Sea [Lake Baikal], and it's all hidden outside the territory of the Buryats," said Zeldan Shaobu. "The Buryats are very strong. We dare to resist, so we can only help. Hiding the property of the Mongolian tribe. When you came to defect to the Celestial Dynasty, you just came out of the camp

He was chased and killed when he was far away, and he was killed - Qian Shaoqi escaped. "

The scouts took those Mongols, such as her, to Zuo Xiaocheng's residence.

Zuo Xiaocheng was still talking, and Batur asked: "In those years, you contacted the Mongolian nobles. What do we think? Why didn't he come to seek refuge?"

Zeldan Shaobu said: "Your father's old army is rarely willing to serve the Chinese government. But we are afraid that the Chinese government will mean what it says. When the time comes, not only will we go to the grassland, but we will even lose our lives. As long as you go out with the army, Playing the banner of father, certainly not allowed

The young nobles defected.It's been..."

"What was it?"

Wan asked along the army.

Tserdan Shaobu said: "In the next few days, Fei Ruhe and Zhang Tieniu divided the positions of Khans, and sealed seven Deputy Khans in one breath, and even took out their own pastures. Some nobles are greedy for pastures, and I am afraid that there will be a war That's fine, the Celestial Dynasty's small army has an absolute disadvantage, so we will choose to defect."

When Batur sent a secret agent to contact, he could only promise a few positions as the Protectorate, which is currently under the jurisdiction of the Protectorate of Anbei.Mobei is divided into countless capitals, how much grassland can each nobleman divide?If Fei Ruhe and Zhang Tieniu promised so little.

It was people like Tserdan Shaobu who had no vengeance with Fei Ruhe and Zhang Tieniu who killed their father, and lived in fear every day, so they were determined to join the Celestial Empire.

But that's not enough, the enemy does have a tough fight to fight.But as long as the battle situation is favorable to the Xiaotong army, it will be a matter of time for the Mongolian nobles to defect, and the enemy's will cannot be exploited.

Zuo Xiaocheng ordered the [-] infantry and civilian husbands to retreat slowly towards the south, while he personally led the [-] cavalry to gallop.

Due to the division of troops to find the enemy, the cavalry seldom dispersed, and it took time for Zuo Xiaocheng to gather his troops.Padrothba, therefore, led four thousand cavalry, and set off at once as a pioneer.

The food road in the south hadn't been cut off yet, and halfway along Junwan, they received a message from the scouts.

Several food transport teams were attacked, and more than [-] people were killed or injured.

On the riverside at the foot of the northwest mountain in Dzamar County, Mongolia, Zhuotba met scouts from Mobei Mongolia.After some pursuit and killing, Zhuo Teba killed more than a hundred enemy soldiers, but he dared to continue chasing, who knew how many enemy troops were hiding in the mountains behind.

In fact, the main force of the enemy army is all outside the mountain, waiting for Zhuo Teba to bump back.

Seeing whether Zhuo Teba had been fooled, Fei Ruhe and Zhang Tieniu actually took the initiative to attack, and [-] Mongolian cavalrymen charged towards Zhuo Teba.

Hit or hit?

Zhuo Teba was only firm for a few seconds before he issued an order: "The whole army is in armor!"

Those were the elite of Xiaotong's cavalry division, with one man and two horses, with a stomach and provisions under the other horse.

[-] enemy cavalry chased after them, and the [-] soldiers were in a panic or hurriedly put on armor.

Perhaps, what kind of small army is needed, and the four thousand small cavalry can fight like her.

Chapter 996 [Big Bang]

Zhuote Babatur's understanding of the Datong Army came from the Khalkha Mongols who were annexed by him.

He knew that the infantry of the Datong Army could form a chariot formation, supplemented by muskets and artillery.Faced with such a formation, no matter how brave the Mongolian cavalry was, they would not be able to charge in even if they risked their lives.

That's why Zhuote Babatur had to go around in circles, stretching the supply line of the Changtong Army, and cutting off the food road after the main force circled around.The main force had to go to intercept the grain road, and the small troops could not be effective. The few teams he sent were all eaten by the Datong army.

Once the grain road is cut off and it is known that its main force is heading south, the cavalry of the Datong Army will inevitably abandon the infantry and come quickly.