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Chapter 524
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The entire bloody fight lasted for more than two hours. The Ming army continued to use rifled guns and bayonet phalanxes to resist the charging enemies, and at the same time used rangers to shoot close to the face to harvest the outflanking enemies.

As the scale of the gains became more and more exaggerated, Galdan, who clearly held an absolute advantage in military strength, was finally sobered up, knowing that the battle could not be fought like this.

Unfortunately, it's too late.

The half-day delay in the bloody battle allowed more reinforcements to arrive from behind the Ming army, making it even more difficult for Galdan to escape, and his retreat was further forced into a tight position.

In the beginning, he faced only 4 Ming cavalry, but now, with the addition of new troops, the number may have been [-], or even [-].

The Ming army in the Shahukou Pass also received some reinforcements during this period, and even dared to go out of the Shahukou trench defense line directly after the Junggar tribe was shaken, and launched a counterattack to support the friendly army.

More importantly, at the end of the battle, Galdan discovered that there were traditional nomadic horse archers under the banner of Chahar and Horqin Mongolia in the direction of Ulanqab in the northeast, which he had looked down upon and ignored. , Responding to Daming's call, came over to flank and attack, grabbing heads to gain military exploits.

I am afraid that the number is tens of thousands.After all, the Mongolian tribes in the grassland can all be soldiers. The Chahar and Horqin people have enjoyed more than 30 years of peaceful farming and reproduction after they surrendered to Ming Dynasty.

Seeing this scene, Galdan almost exploded with anger: Isn't the behavior of these people raped!Everyone is the descendant of Genghis Khan, do these people have no sense of honor?Help the Han people to kill the Mongols?
You know, when Galdan marched before, he had been noticing the activities of Chahar people on the grasslands due east and northeast, but he didn't take it seriously.

Because he originally came to invade the Khalkha Mongolian grassland.When he occupies the Khalkha Grassland, he will naturally border on the Chahar Grassland further east.At that time, there were Chahar people who were active, and he only thought that the other party was afraid of him and was on guard for self-protection.

If the Ming army had used a clear-cut Han cavalry to go out of the customs ahead of time, then Galdan's scouts would have been vigilant when they saw it, and immediately notified, and Galdan would respond.

However, the other party's Mongol identity made Galdan feel that everyone was of the same race, and they were just forced to retreat here and defend themselves together, so they didn't take it seriously.

Unexpectedly, Li Dingguo colluded with these Chahar and Horqin Mongolians in advance!

Using their cover status, they went to the north behind Galdan to detour ahead of time, blocking the last direction of Galdan's escape, and completing the long-distance detour that was inconvenient for the Han army to block the road.

Obviously, Li Dingguo must have promised the other party a lot of benefits.Or at least tell them that the Ming army will fight tough battles, but once Galdan shows signs of collapse, they can follow up and fight with the wind.

Judging from the results of the Grassland Allied Forces' response to the call of the Ming regular army and their willingness to contribute to the suzerain, Li Dingguo's promise has obviously worked.

People on the prairie, even if they don't have much military pay, they are willing to fight with the wind. This is a rare opportunity to rob livestock, property and people.As long as the Ming army survives the initial stage of attacking, who will not follow up with hunting and looting?
Even if thousands of tribesmen or even more soldiers died in the bloody battle, compared to the annihilation and spoils of war, that would be willing.

Grassland people are fierce and despise their lives. As long as they can be plundered, dead people are nothing.

All these nets made Galdan's spine completely broken, and he couldn't even retreat quickly.

The Ming army's cavalry and Chahar Horqin cavalry in all directions chased the defeated Junggar army who had lost their unified command system and fled for their lives.

The battlefield that stretched for more than a hundred miles was constantly pierced and cut, and small divisions and encirclements were being realized everywhere.

The Junggar army closest to the east of the battlefield was surrounded by the formation, and either fought to the death or had to surrender in the end.

They also know that persimmons are weak, and after being besieged, they only picked the Chahar Mongols who were of their own ethnicity to fight, thinking that they were weaker and easier to break through in that direction.

As a result, the Chahar people and Horqin people who originally planned to come to pick up the cheap and fight the wind, had to swallow the bitter fruit themselves, and consumed each other's lives in the Mongolian civil war with the Junggar tribe. In the end, their respective casualties exceeded [-], but it was still Junggar. Human casualties are far worse.

The troops deployed by the Junggar Department on the east side were eventually annihilated by the entire army.Only the troops close to the middle and west of the battlefield can break through.

And the follow-up pursuit continued for many days.Li Dingguo held hundreds of thousands of troops, but he did not put all his cards on the table in the first decisive battle.

This showed that he had obviously thought about it. The cavalry on the grassland came and went like the wind. It was impossible to expect to catch the opponent's tail or completely surround and annihilate them. They would always be broken out by large troops.

Therefore, Li Dingguo's idea is to deploy troops in batches along the nine sides of the Great Wall. The troops on the eastern defense line attack first, and after defeating and annihilating the enemy as much as possible, the enemy will naturally flee all the way west.

However, the Ming army deployed in the Nine Frontiers and other reserve teams closer to the West Frontier Pass. After receiving the urgent news that the friendly army in the east has won six hundred miles, they can immediately leave the pass and go north to intercept, allowing Galdan to escape on his way back to the west. Skinned layer by layer.

The situation of the pursuit battle became more and more chaotic, but the result was like a snowball, getting bigger and bigger.

Li Dingguo took the Han Chinese cavalry and the Chahar Horqin Mongolian cavalry from Shahukou to Guihua City, where they fought another large-scale field battle with the remnants of Galdan, killing tens of thousands of enemies.

Then Daming ambushed the reserve team in Hetao in advance, and then intercepted from Guihua City to Canhepi at the corner of the Yellow River, where there was another bloody battle, and countless Junggar cavalry who originally wanted to march along the plain on the north bank of the Yellow River were also surrounded. Drive down the Yellow River——

The main reason is that in the north of the Yellow River in this area, there is the existence of the Yinshan Mountains.In order to escape quickly, Galdan didn't want to go north to bypass the Yinshan Mountains, so he chose to go south of the Yinshan Mountains, on the flat and narrow valley plain on the north bank of the Yellow River. Unexpectedly, he was chased away by the Ming army again here.

After finally escaping to the west entrance of Yinshan Mountain, Galdan, who had lost three battles and three times, felt that it was necessary to adjust his route. He would rather go to the north of Yinshan Mountain and go to the desert. As a result, when he wanted to cross the mountain near Wuyuan (Baotou), he was deployed by Li Dingguo again. The reserve team left the customs and went north to fight hard, and tens of thousands of casualties were captured.

The four battles and four major defeats lasted for more than half a month, from the defeat at Killhukou to the defeat at Guihua City, to Canhebei, and finally to Wuyuan.

Li Dingguo turned to battle and pursued for more than six hundred miles. In the first battle to kill Hukou, 7000 soldiers were captured and wounded. The Yellow River is countless, and there were [-] prisoners in the four battles and five plains.

Galdan's more than 17 strong soldiers were wiped out as many as [-]. Even among the soldiers who fled back, there were still many lightly wounded.

If he hadn't caught some Khalkha traitors who had joined him to recover their blood when he was in Khalkha Mongolia, I'm afraid there would not even be 11 soldiers left to fight after returning.Now counting the temporary capture of the same clan, he can barely have about [-] soldiers with well-preserved combat strength, and [-] to [-] lightly wounded.

However, the combat effectiveness of the 13 Khalkha militiamen who have just been captured is obviously not comparable to the Junggar's hundred-fighting army that has gone through 30 years of conquest.Because the Khalkhas have not fought a war for [-] years since they were naturalized in Ming Dynasty.

Of the more than 11 intact soldiers in Galdan, only [-] native Junggar soldiers are the real elite.

After returning to Luntai, Galdan was able to frantically conscript new tribesmen and tribesmen to join the army to make up for the shortage.After all, he is the hero who has mastered a population of 600 million Tatars, with the level of nomads in the grasslands.The loss of 600 elite soldiers for 20 million Tatars is nothing.

But the quality of the militias of these new Latin men will definitely be much worse than the veterans he brought to conquer the Central Asian, Qinghai and Tibet countries.

……

After the Ming army won the battle of Lien Chan and Lian Jie all the way from Killing Hukou to Baotou, the news quickly spread back to the Nanjing court.

The Nanjing ruling and opposition parties were naturally very excited, and immediately began to deploy the next strategic goal.

When the news arrived, the emperor Zhu Ciyu was in the palace, discussing and guessing the battle ahead with his family, so as soon as he heard about it, he immediately discussed with his father and uncle to see if the next step should be to launch a full-scale counterattack immediately, and try to get rid of the Junggar tribe in one go. The roots are completely broken.

After Zhu Shuren heard this idea, he didn't express his opinion immediately.Zhang Huangyan next to him saw that he didn't make a statement, so he didn't make a statement for now.

Zhu Shuren suddenly turned to the three children next to them who were burying their heads in eating melons and fruits, namely 12-year-old Zhu Hekun, [-]-year-old Zhu Hetan, and [-]-year-old Zhu Hezhi, and kindly asked about the investigation:

"Do you think it should be pursued or not?"

Zhu Hekun was more domineering and irritable, and immediately said in high spirits: "Now our Ming Dynasty is so powerful that it is far ahead of the Han and Tang Dynasties. In the past few years, in order to show compassion for the people, we put relief first, did not practice war, and accumulated a lot of money.

The ugly people in Junggar don't know that I am benevolent and righteous, and Yelang is arrogant and self-defeating. It is time to take advantage of the victory and pursue it.In this way, my great Ming martial arts can completely surpass the Han and Tang Dynasties. Even if I enshrine a wolf as a xu and restrict Yanran Mountain, I can't match it. "

The more Zhu Shuren listened, the more he wanted to laugh, not because of his grandson's knowledge, but because he saw a show-off kid who "has just learned a lot of idioms, and he piles up idioms and allusions crazily when he speaks".

This kind of feeling is like writing essays with junior high school students. Some junior high school students who have learned a lot of idioms can't help but use all they can and show off a few more times.

In order not to dampen his grandson's confidence, he did not comment immediately, but turned to the other two.

Zhu Hetan doesn't like to show off so much, and he lacks the courage of his second brother, and his usual studies are relatively average. He has learned all the subjects taught by the bachelors.

At this moment, he didn't know whether he should fight. After all, he was only ten years old, so he said: "I have heard from Xueshi Liu of the Institute of Geography that Luntai is more than [-] miles away from Hetao, and there are two more miles from Jiuquan to Jiayuguan." thousands of miles.

As long as we can bring [-] soldiers to Luntai, we will be able to destroy Galdan.As for whether the Junggar tribe or other Western Tatar tribes can be wiped out, I really don't know.

There is a sequence of hearing, and there is a specialization in the art industry.The matter of attacking and attacking should be judged by Li Guogong and other long-time generals. Whether the logistics and military supplies can run for thousands of miles should be judged by Zheng Guogong of the Ministry of War.After defeating the enemy, whether you can defend the territory/expand the territory for a long time, you should ask the Ministries and the Ministries. "

Zhu Hetan's words were very cautious, and in the end he didn't come to any conclusions himself. He just said that what should be handled by professionals, and he didn't know the details.

Zhu Shuren still didn't comment, and turned to Zhu Hezhi to inquire, but Zhu Hezhi was more than a year younger, and now he is only nine years old. Obviously, the three views have not yet formed, and his knowledge is not as good as that of his two elder brothers. He hesitated and said something naive As a matter of fact, it seems that he wants to guess his grandfather's thoughts.

But how could Zhu Shuren fail to see a child's attempt to flatter?

He pretended to show off a little bit, at one moment implying that he should be beaten, and at another moment that he should be cautious. Zhu Hezhi was also vacillating.

So Zhu Shuren finally confirmed: he just wanted to copy the correct answer to flatter him.

Of these three grandsons, one is courageous and decisive, the other knows the limits of his abilities, and the other is smart in emotional intelligence, and is good at pleasing his father and grandfather, each has its own advantages and disadvantages.

Zhu Shuren accepted it as soon as it was good, fearing that continuing to raise Gu would affect their brothers' relationship, so he asked the three grandsons to scatter aside, and he said directly to Zhu Ciyu:
"Although the child's words are not applicable, the questions he asked are worth pondering. Let Li Dingguo now organize a new force to pursue the expedition, continue to defeat Galdan and expand the results of the battle, that is definitely possible.

However, around Luntai, whether the old place of Junggar can be defended is debatable and vigilant.The local Hulu have always refused to accept my Ming Dynasty, even when the Ming Dynasty was founded, the former Mongolian khanates never submitted to me.In this way, it is impossible to defeat a tribe and let all the surrounding tribes return to their hearts.

Even if those surrounding tribes were just annexed by the Junggar tribe a few years ago, at most, when my Daming was dealing with Junggar, they fell into trouble and joined forces with Daming to restore the country.But from now on, will they directly surrender to me, Daming? "

After Zhu Ciyu heard this, he felt that the king's father seemed to be inclined not to fight, and he was also a little unwilling: "So, is it just defeating and not expanding the results of the battle?"

Zhu Shuren Zhizhu touched his beard with his hands: "We need to expand! But for the northwest, we can't aim to expand the land at present. We must be mentally prepared. We are only going to weaken the vitality of Junggar! Even, you can contact and encourage other Being annexed by Junggar, various chiefs made various promises.

In this way, once the strength of the core ministries of Galdan is weakened, the conquered ministries around them will spontaneously start to move.In this way, it is like when Cao Cao punished Gongsun Kang and was in a hurry to oppress Gongsun Kang, Gongsun Kang joined forces with Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi.If Cao Cao's pressure is slow, Gongsun Kang and Yuan will try to harm each other.

After all, Luntai is thousands of miles away, and now it is unaffordable to expect a long-term garrison to occupy it. The destruction of the Junggar tribe is destined to be a protracted war.My Ming Dynasty will spend ten years of national power, or even 15 years, to come to Yongding West Frontier!Eradicate nomads in the Central Asian grasslands! "

Zhu Ciyu was silent, admitting that Jiang was still old and hot, and that his father's knowledge was really scheming and scheming, and he couldn't compare with him.

He was just a little unwilling: "Then in the past few years, you have been focusing on weakening, and you can't get the real benefits of expanding the territory?"

Zhu Shuren remained silent, but showed an inscrutable expression, asking them to use their brains again.

A few minutes later, Zhu Hetan, who has a relatively wide range of interests and also likes to study human geography, first thought of an idea, and couldn't help showing off: "Father, grandfather, I have an idea, I don't know if it is right."

The old god Zhu Shuren stroked his beard on the ground: "Let's listen to it."

Zhu Hetan said nervously: "According to what my grandfather said just now, one of the important reasons why it is difficult to determine the barbarians in the Western Regions is that the Mongolian and Yuan tribes and khanates never surrendered to our Ming Dynasty at the beginning of our founding.

It was only more than [-] years ago that the descendants of Huduntu Khan led the Chahar tribe to surrender, but that was only the successor of Beiyuan, and it did not represent the meaning of the other three khanates established by Genghis Khan.

Therefore, whether you can submit to the opponent and secure the territory in a short period of time has a lot to do with whether the local people, trade, and culture are close to the Han and Ming.

Now the territory of Junggar can be divided into two parts. When Xueshi Liu from the Institute of Geography gave me a class, he once said that the northern half of the territory and the Hu outside the Tianshan Mountains are all descendants of Tatars.As for the land of Qinghai-Tibet, the former Yuan Dynasty called it Uzang, and after our Ming Dynasty established its foundation, there were also many scattered people who professed to our Ming Dynasty.

This time, I heard that when the Junggar tribe attacked Khalkha Mongolia, some of the Khalkha tribes around Guihua City abandoned the clear and turned to the dark. Tibet, it can be seen that he is the spiritual leader of all Mongolians'.

That being the case, can I, Daming, do the opposite?For the northern border of Junggar, it mainly focuses on attacking and weakening, and helps its civil strife.For the southern half of the territory, which is Qinghai-Tibet, the main method is to conquer and rescue by force.

The local chieftain had already been a minister to Daming, and now that Daming went to rescue them, he might not be as resistant as the Northwest if he wanted to change the land and return it to the exiles.Once we have mastered Tibet, our Great Ming will be the spiritual leader of all the Mongols, and then go to the northern circle to occupy it, maybe we can get twice the result with half the effort and punish rebels with obedience? "

Zhu Shuren was finally relieved, sighed, and educated Zhu Hekun next to him: "As a prince, it is not enough to learn to be brave and ruthless. You must also learn from your third brother. Geography, culture, belief, ethnicity, and history must be taken into consideration. .”

After the education, Zhu Shu got up and finally concluded with his son: "The third brother is right. Although it is not as thorough as I thought, but the general direction is the same. Let's refine it according to this idea."

……

After Zhu Shuren made his statement, because what he said was indeed reasonable, Zhu Ciyu would not sing the opposite.

Zhu Ciyu is now 36 years old, he has already reached a mature age, and he is no longer eager to prove that he surpasses his father.Therefore, after careful consideration, it was handed over to the Ministry of War and other yamen for a total calculation, and then referring to the historical cognition of the subordinate country by the Ministry of War, to make an overall plan,

Finally, it was determined that "with the Kunlun Mountains as the boundary, the northern half of Junggar should be attacked and weakened, and the internal self-reliance should be provoked; for the southern part of the Kunlun Mountains, the main goal should be to rescue and restore, send troops to occupy, and carry out real reforms to return the land to the people." Phased extermination plan.

The territory of the Junggar Department is still too large, and it cannot be eaten in one bite or within a few years.

Then eat Qinghai-Tibet first, then Xinjiang and Central Asia!

(End of this chapter)