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Chapter 525 Daming is sure to win the two wars with Junggar and Raksha at the same time
The war between the Ming Dynasty and the Junggar tribe, throughout the 22 years of Xiaokang, was dominated by sports pursuit and harassment wars.After all, nearly 20 Junggar soldiers had just been annihilated, and Daming himself was slightly injured, and the material loss was also huge.

At the end of the last wave of pursuit campaign, it was already autumn, and it was bitterly cold in the north. There was no need to use troops in late autumn and cold winter one after another, so we temporarily took a breather and rested for a few months, so that the wounded soldiers had time to recuperate and recover.

Thinking about the next move, it will be after the spring of Xiaokang's 23rd year.

As for farming, reforms, reforms, and scientific research in Daming, they will continue to advance steadily, so there is no need to worry.Anyway, attacking the Junggar tribe will not disrupt the internal governance rhythm of Ming Dynasty.The national strength of Ming Dynasty will only become stronger with time, and will not be exhausted at the cost of burning potential.

The time soon came to the spring of the 23rd year of Xiaokang, and the Ming army strictly followed the plan set last year. At the end of February, the weather in the plateau area just turned warm, and they started to advance.

Li Dingguo on the North Road prepared about [-] cavalry, which were deployed in the area from Lanzhou to Jiuquan.Expeditionary raids and harassment are carried out whenever possible, mainly to kill and injure the enemy's vital forces, and to plunder property and strategic materials.

Even the grain and grass were tried to "result in the enemy's food". When encountering Junggar tribesmen, they slaughtered and plundered all the cattle and sheep for a while, so as to reduce the logistical pressure.

This kind of raid and harassment would not send out a large army of [-]. Usually, a small army of [-] to [-], with a maximum of no more than [-], dared to run amok in the Western Regions and attack for a thousand li or two thousand li at every turn.

So much so that the Junggar people who had just suffered a disastrous defeat last year gave up the pastures around Hami and retreated, because Hami is still relatively close to Jiayuguan and Yumenguan, and it was too easy to be looted and burned by the Ming army.

But even if they strode back from Hami to the vicinity of Luntai, they still couldn't completely escape the Ming army's harassment.

During the pursuit, the Ming army also used a new type of logistics vehicle that was newly built in recent years, but it was actually not very difficult. ".

The Conesto Caravan is a long-body vehicle with a length of more than two feet. The four-wheeled carriage, including its own weight, can weigh three tons when fully loaded, and it needs multiple horses and oxen to pull it.

If you have no impression of this thing, you can imagine the cartoon "Tom and Jerry" and other American westerns, or you can get to know it after playing "Red Dead Redemption".

To put it bluntly, the only quality advantage of this kind of car is that it can be used amphibiously, making it easy to cross rivers.

And when Ming Dynasty wanted to attack the Western Regions, it was not impossible to rely on water transportation throughout the entire process. The Western Regions also had rivers, especially the Hexi Corridor.It's just because all the rivers are inland rivers, they are often not connected to each other and cannot form a river network, so even if there are boats, it is impossible to switch from one river to another, and you have to constantly load and unload and change vehicles on the waterway, and the cost is not worth the candle. up.

And with the amphibious caravan, it is possible to use a section of waterway if there is a river going down the river, and then use a horse-drawn cart if there is no waterway, the transportation capacity will be greatly improved, and the logistics cost will also be doubled.

With the blessing of this logistics weapon, the amount of ammunition and supplies that the troops harassed by the Ming Expedition can also double, so Galdan was beaten all over the place.

The tribes of Central Asia that were annexed by him just a few years ago, and the other Tatar tribes near Lake Balkhash north of the Tianshan Mountains, are finally ready to move.After the Ming army raided Luntai, burned, killed, looted and retreated, the resistance of the neighboring ministries was finally ignited, and the Tatars entered the civil war again.

And Galdan, in order to establish his prestige, killed chickens and monkeys, of course he could not be soft at this time, he severely punished the tribes who took the lead in rebellion, and even directly executed the first rebel among them. The heads of all the nobles in this department passed on to the rest of the departments to deter them.

But in any case, Galdan's frantic gesture of fighting fires everywhere further severely weakened his national power.

Although he forced recruits to join the army many times, and barely replenished the size of the army to 20 or even 30, the combat effectiveness of the troops has dropped by more than half.But after the conscription rate was high, there were years of wars, and the people of Tatars were also greasy. The clan relied on women and children to herd animals, and even the elderly men were arrested and served as soldiers. The overall production of animal husbandry declined.

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Galdan's northern territory was in such a mess, killing each other, his control over the southern territory was completely weakened to the extreme.

And how could the Ming army not seize this opportunity?So from March of this year, the Ming army carried out the operation of collecting Qinghai-Tibet with a small force of 4 to [-] people.

Speaking of it, I have to thank Galdan for the series of killings when he went to Tibet to hunt down his enemy Oqiertuhan six years ago.

Originally, those chieftains in Uzang were also very dissatisfied with the Central Plains court. They always respected Daming as Zhengshuo in name, but that was all, and Daming could not get any benefit from actual control.

But it’s better now, because from six years ago to three years ago, Galdan’s crazy conquest and killing in Qinghai-Tibet continued for four years. , the number of those who were directly killed reached hundreds of thousands, which can be called the Bloody Thunder Wrist.

Now that the Ming army has come back to wash it in reverse, and then kill all those loyal to Galdan, the remaining resistance will be much smaller in the end, and a power vacuum will almost appear after the killing.

This is really a once-in-a-lifetime coup to let the enemy's enemy pull hatred first—it's just that the enemy's enemy here is not a friend, but the three parties are enemies of each other.

The Ming army advanced all the way, and within half a year, they took most of Qinghai.During the process, the front-line generals of the Ming army also played a little trick,

For example, when Qinghai-Tibet chieftains saw the king’s arrival, the cavalry of Junggar were attracted away, and their garrison was empty, and then they wanted to raise troops to restore the country by themselves, so that they could continue to be ministers to Ming Dynasty in name, not in fact. It was governed by officials of the Ming Dynasty, and the land was reformed.

But how could Daming let their idea succeed?Anyone who heard that he was raising troops to restore the country, Daming immediately stood still and confronted the Junggar cavalry on the front line.

Anyway, fighting on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau was hard work, and the Han soldiers were all from the plains. If the climate is not adapted to the water and soil, it is right to take two more rests before continuing to advance to higher altitudes.

Then the Junggar cavalry saw that the Ming army did not push up, and the nest behind them was on fire, so they had to run back and run exhausted, and went back to attack and frighten the Uzbek chieftains who raised their own troops to restore the country.

After the Ming army waited for the Junggars and Uzang chieftains to lose both, they "adapted to the plateau climate" and continued to clean up the mess and grab the head.

In short, it is just a sentence, anyone who does not take the initiative to be a dog to Daming, then go to be a dog to the King of Hades.

In the 23 years of a well-off society, the Qinghai issue was completely resolved.In the 24 and 25 years of a well-off life, Tibet has also been completely resolved.According to this policy, the Ming army fought steadily and pushed the territory of Ming Dynasty theoretically to the Himalayas and to Nepal.

Later, the Ming Dynasty also appointed a minister in Tibet to coordinate the affairs of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau region, and began to gradually reform the native land in Qinghai.Because the chieftain nobles of the two factions who opposed Ming and Karma were all killed, the process went very smoothly.

The Qing Dynasty did not accomplish these things in history (the Qing Dynasty set up a minister in Tibet, but failed to change the land to return to the people), because the fighting between the Qing Dynasty and the Junggar tribe in parallel time and space lasted for too long.
So much so that when the Qing army came back, the Junggar people had occupied Qinghai-Tibet for too long. The generation of local people who resisted Junggar had long since disappeared, and the descendants were all smoothed out. They had formed their identification with Junggar, and the Qing Dynasty wanted to wash it back. It's hard.

But the current situation is that the Ming army caught Junggar and came back less than five years after the destruction of Qinghai-Tibet, and the washing was so methodical, which made the resistance drop geometrically, and everything seemed more logical.

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It took the Ming army three years to completely solve the plateau problem, cutting off nearly half of Junggar's land area, and continued to bleed Galdan.

In the 25th year of Xiaokang, that is, in 1687 AD.According to the original plan, after the plateau problem is completely resolved, it is finally possible to give all the Tatars who have been fighting for many years and have not stopped a final unified general attack.

However, even in this year, Galdan seemed to realize that his doomsday was approaching, so out of fear, he went further to search for wealth and bought arms and asked for help from his Raksha allies.
And he further preached to the Raksha people the truth that the lips are dead and the teeth are cold, and he even put on the trick of "surrendering the vassal to the Raksha" to save his life. It is really shameless.

Ever since, the Raksha people were greedy for Galdan's promise, and the Raksha people themselves wanted to expand eastward. In the end, the Yaksa battle with Ming in the area north of Heilongjiang broke out ahead of schedule, thinking that it would contain Ming.

Fortunately, the Qinghai-Tibet issue has been completely resolved, and Ming can at least withdraw part of its national power from the use of troops on the southwest plateau to deal with the two simultaneous wars in the northeast and northwest.

The Raksha people didn't want to sacrifice their lives for Galdan at first, they just wanted to take advantage of the fire to make the Ming army admit that "all the land north of Heilongjiang belongs to the Raksha country, as long as you sign a treaty and promise this matter, then we will no longer If you form an alliance with Galdan, you will also cut off the arms trade that sells guns to Galdan, so that you can easily eliminate Galdan in the future."

However, how could it be possible for Ming to admit that the land north of Heilongjiang belongs to the Raksha Kingdom?Even if it is to eliminate Galdan and fear of making multiple enemies at the same time, it will not work.

If you want to fight, you can fight, so what if you deal with two enemies at the same time!

So Zhu Shuren ordered Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong, who were both in their twilight years, to be in charge of one direction.

Li Dingguo is in charge of the northwest, for Galdan.

Zheng Chenggong was transferred from Datong and Zhangjiakou to the northeast to deal with the Luocha Kingdom.

Daming has this national power and can win two wars at the same time!

Before dispatching troops, Zhu Shuren also secretly gave Zheng Chenggong some advice, telling him: "The troops of the Raksha people in the Far East are not to be feared, because they have to travel thousands of miles here to fight with us. My Ming's logistics is difficult, but the Raksha people It's only going to be more difficult. They don't have waterways at all, and everything has to be transported nomadicly by horses.

Therefore, even if the Raksha people want to fight against Ming Dynasty for a long time in the future, they will not always fight against us in the outer northeast. As long as they annihilate a few of their troops and rob their settlements, they will only have Going back west for a full six to seven thousand miles, I chose to go south from the Kazakh Central Asian grassland and join Galdan to fight my Ming Dynasty. "

Zheng Chenggong thought about it, and the teaching of the prince was indeed correct. If the Raksha people wanted to transport troops from Europa to the Northeast to fight the Ming army, they would have to travel 1 miles.And it is only [-] miles from Europa to Kazakhstan in Central Asia.

The Raksha people are not stupid. If the 1-mile route is doomed to fail, follow-up reinforcements must only pile up the [-]-mile route.

In history, the Qing army fought so procrastinatingly in the Battle of Yaksa because the Qing army abandoned the research and development of firearm technology after entering the customs, and still used the old-fashioned Hongyi cannon.So much so that it was completely impossible to face the new western-style anti-gun fortress that the Raksha people built around Yaksa, and it was also no match for the lethal firepower of the Raksha people to defend the city with European guns.

But all of this is not a problem at all in front of Zheng Chenggong's Ming army.Isn't it just some bastions and cannons?Let the general of Vauban teach them what is the authentic bastion siege method!What is an authentic blasting bomb siege mortar!

In the face of absolute strength, the Raksha Far East troops with only a few thousand people were finally wiped out by the Ming army.

The Raksha people still refused to admit defeat, feeling that there were many accidental factors, and wanted to try a second one.

So it took another year from Europa to slowly mobilize the army to supply supplies along the way, and got more than 1 troops, which is considered to have paid off——

It's not about how big an army of 1 is for the Rakshasa Kingdom, but the battle form of a ten-thousand-mile expedition. When 1 people go to the Far East, more than 10 people will provide logistics halfway.Not only tens of thousands of impoverished households along the route and enslaved Tatar herdsmen were ruined.

It's a pity that the more than 1 expeditionary forces assembled by the Luocha people at the expense of national power were finally calculated by Zheng Chenggong.

When Zheng Chenggong first came into contact with the main force of the new wave of incoming enemy troops, he pretended to be insufficiently prepared and did not anticipate the main attack direction of the Raksha army.

The Raksha people got the supplies as soon as they saw it, and even captured some small boats left behind by the Ming army when they retreated in a hurry, and the greedy nature of those colonial predators was ignited again.

They looked at the fertile and fertile land on the south bank of the main stream of Heilongjiang, and when they thought that as long as they crossed the river to grab a few big ones, they would be able to support them by fighting. They didn't worry that this was a tactic to lure the enemy, so they crossed the river directly.

Unexpectedly, it was the summer of the 27th year of Xiaokang, and Heilongjiang was abundant in water and could be navigated.

As a result, not long after the entire Rakshasa army crossed the Heilongjiang River, they discovered that the North Sea Fleet of the Ming Army had already entered the river from the mouth of the Heilongjiang River at Kuye Island and Temple Street. road.

Looking at the surging waters of Heilongjiang, watching a group of sail frigates with 24 to 38 guns sail directly into the inland river to cut off the way back, the morale of the Luocha army collapsed.

The main force of the Ming army ambushing on the south bank also gathered the encirclement net in time. In the end, it only paid the price that a county town and several towns around the ambush battlefield were destroyed, looted and burned by the Raksha army, and the main force of the 4000-strong Raksha expeditionary force was completely wiped out. Kill all.

This battle really hurt the Raksha people. For decades, they never dared to look directly at the Heilongjiang River Basin, and even dared not come around the vast sea.In this way, the Ming army completely took control of Mobei Mongolia and surrounding areas suitable for human habitation.

In Luocha, because of the collapse of the expeditionary army, several important officials were punished for this, which led to a wave of blood changes in the court. The courtiers who were newly in power declared that they would no longer confront Ming Dynasty with force, and only sent small troops to sell arms, Join forces with Galdan and try to defeat Ming Dynasty in Central Asia and border areas.

As for Daming, in the 28th year of Xiaokang, it was completely determined that the Raksha people would not launch an offensive in the outer northeast, and after they were completely driven away, they rested for a year or two, and finally launched the final blow to Galdan.

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At this time, the Raksha people still firmly support Galdan. Of course, it is not because the Raksha people have any noble sentiments for international attention. How much land can be annexed from the area that Galdan once occupied, and whether Central Asia can be held in hand.”

If the Raksha people did not send troops and fight side by side with Galdan, then when Galdan collapsed, they would not have the convenience to reach out to share the inheritance.In the final analysis, it is that simple, or people do not want to kill heaven and earth for themselves.

Unfortunately, in the face of absolute power, all ghost tricks are useless.

In the 30th year of Xiaokang (1692), the final general attack began.In fact, there is nothing to describe the process, because it can be summed up in four words, that is, it will be destroyed.

The difference in weapon technology, the momentum of the rising period of the national fortune, the psychological advantage of repeated victories, the timidity of the enemy, and the old hatred and old hatred of the rest of the conquered Tatar ministries against Galdan, everything came together.

The weather, time, and people are all on Daming's side, but Galdan can have a slight advantage in terms of geographical advantage and supply difficulty.

Galdan has been fighting for many years, and the total population of the Tatar tribes has been reduced from five hundred to hundreds of thousands to nearly 600 million to only 400 million.

The population of the occupied areas of the Central Asian countries, plus the population of the Qinghai-Tibet area he originally owned, the two parts added up, the original peak period was also 22 million and hundreds of thousands.However, the vendettas of repeated back-and-forth, and the resulting plagues, famines and starvation have dropped sharply in eight years from 30 to 700 years since Xiaokang, and now the total number is less than [-] million.

Of these 700 million miles, 200 million are from the Qinghai-Tibet region, and only 500 million are left in the conquered ethnic groups in Central Asia.

Therefore, when Galdan was dying, the remaining population in his hands had dropped from nearly 2000 million at its peak to only 900 million.Among them, the young and strong were repeatedly drawn into the army, and the national strength can be said to be exhausted to the extreme.

He spent eight years of fighting with Daming, back and forth, did he have the qualifications for the Junggar tribe?The current data is his fate!
After two years of attack, the so-called "30 grassland cavalry" that Galdan finally re-raised finally collapsed.In the early spring of the 32nd year of Xiaokang (1694), Galdan himself fell ill due to rage, and was later assassinated by his subordinates who wanted to surrender, and dedicated his body to Daming to ask for peace.

But Ming won’t do the thing of returning the tiger to the mountain. To ask for peace, it must be all attached to it, accepting the reform of the land and returning to the exile. It doesn’t consider only acknowledging Ming as Zhengshuo’s peace in name, because the history of the Tatars is too bad. !Capricious and unbelievable!

The remnants of Galdan had no choice but to seek refuge with the Raksha people and survive in a group.In the 32nd year of Xiaokang, Daming continued to pursue, and fought bloody battles with the remnants of the Junggar soldiers who voted for Rakshasa and the [-] European soldiers gathered by the Rakshasa people to Central Asia, and finally wiped out most of them, and the remnants also fled back to Europe.

Daming completely took all the Kazakh, Tajik, and Uzbek regions once controlled by the Junggar tribe. Whether it is Almaty or Samarkand, it is the territory of Daming—since these places once belonged to Junggar, they of course belong to Daming now , nothing wrong.

The competition for the Northwest Territories has come to an end.

There is no more khanate named after Tatar on the earth, and the khanate established in the name of the descendants of Genghis Khan has been destroyed so far.

　There will also be a daily [-]D update today, and the book will be finished soon.The new book "Brother Zhuge Liang" asks for tickets, collects and pursues updates

　　
　
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