Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 577 Occupying Horqin

If it was during the Yongle period.

Kaipingwei is the end point of the Ming Empire on the frontier of Monan.

The large piece of fertile soil in the entire Luan River Basin from Gubeikou, which is north of Miyun Weiwei to south of Kaipingwei, was originally the territory of Ming Dynasty.

Only later in the Xuande period, because of the short-sightedness of the civil servants, they voluntarily gave up these territories, just like giving up Jiaozhi.

The court dominated by civil servants is always not aggressive, and only knows how to reduce the operating costs of the court as much as possible to create a prosperous age.

This kind of short-sightedness has led to the current Ming Empire having to use steel knives and steel guns to take back these territories and redevelop them.

In other words, now that the Ming Guards have come to Kaipingwei, it is only to regain the lost ground.

of course.

The Duoyan Three Guards near Kaipingwei, namely the Wuliangha Tribe, did not make good use of Kaipingwei, so that the current Kaipingwei City is still nothing but ruins.

The Harqin tribe is a relatively small tribe, so they will not take the initiative to attack when they know that the main force of the Ming army has appeared.

But Wuliangha is the largest tribe among the Mongolian tribes bordering the Ming Dynasty from Liaodong to Xuanfu.

Moreover, Wuliangha and Horqin belonged to tribes with relatively good relations. Since the reign of Xuande, the Horqin tribe has been supporting Wuliangha to go south to invade Daming.

Now that the guards have entered Kaipingwei, these Wuliangha tribes naturally no longer let the guards pass Kaipingwei as easily as the Harqin tribe.

Therefore, after the Second Corps of the Second Guards Army and Li Dingguo's troops entered Kaipingwei, they learned from Jinyiwei that [-] Wu Liangha cavalry were coming to Kaipingwei, intending to eat the Ming army.

For this reason, Li Dingguo's Ministry took the initiative to act as a bait, and led [-] Wu Liangha cavalry into the pre-set ambush circle of the Second Corps of the Second Guards Army.

The [-] Wuliangha cavalry were inflicted a lot of casualties by the artillery of the Second Guards Army. When the infantry and cavalry charged, the Wuliangha cavalry fled directly, leaving tens of thousands of corpses behind.

Daming's army is already in an invincible state on the battlefield.

The Tartar cavalry could no longer pose any threat to the Ming army.

After Wuliangha's fiasco, the tribal leader had to move the tribe to Liaodong.

However, Ming's army did not march in immediately. Instead, officials were successively selected and dispatched in Kaipingwei and Daning prefectures, preparing to build cities and reclaim wasteland, and re-reform and divert these former territories that belonged to Daming to bring them under the rule of Daming.

The news of the disastrous defeat of the [-] cavalry of the Wuliangha tribe also reached the Chahar tribe.

The tribal leader of the Chahar tribe was very panicked. He knew that his tribe could no longer compete with the Ming Dynasty, and Horqin was a very large tribe, so he could not compete, so he turned to the Lindanhan tribe in the north. Attack, the whole tribe naturally migrated in the direction of the Lindan Khan tribe.

As a result, the Second Corps of the Second Guards Army successfully occupied the territory of the Chahar tribe.

Daming's territory in Monan finally made a breakthrough compared to the Yongle period and no longer flinched.

After occupying the two areas of Chahar and Wuliangha, the Ming army directly entered the territory of the Horqin tribe.

The Horqin tribe is the largest tribe in the northeastern part of the southern desert.

In addition, this tribe has always had a close relationship with Jianlu, so it has received a lot of care from Jianlu, and now it can be regarded as a tribe with strong soldiers and horses in the entire Monan area.

The Second Corps of the Second Army of the Guards and Li Dingguo's Ministry did not enter the Horqin tribe immediately, but rested and assembled in the Tainingwei area, and also prepared to prevent the Horqin tribe from raiding their rear.

However, what Li Dingguo, Jiao Lian and others did not expect was that the cavalry of the Horqin Department really intended to sneak attack the rear of the Second Corps of the Second Corps of the Ming Guards.

After all, any Mongolian tribe now knows that its cavalry is no longer an opponent of the Daming infantry, artillery and cavalry mixed arms.

Therefore, the Horqin tribe also knew that even if their own tribe was strong and strong, they could not compete with Daming head-on, so they adopted the technique of splitting and sneak attacking in an attempt to disrupt Daming's rear.

It has to be admitted that this countermeasure of the Horqin tribe is very vicious.

Daming has now occupied a lot of land, and a large number of new prefectures and counties have appeared. These new prefectures and counties are naturally weak in defense forces, so it is most convenient for the Horqin cavalry to make breakthroughs in guerrilla tactics.

But what the Horqin tribe didn't expect was that Daming had already established Monan Province and the governor of Monan.

Now as soon as Chen Zilong arrived in Renmonan, he added a large number of garrison soldiers behind the main force of the guards who marched eastward to Horqin, and continued to build countless castles, pass walls, and communication trenches.

Large-scale areas are first built with iron wire and wooden fences, while the vicinity of the castle is mainly closed walls.

The entire grassland in the Ming-occupied area of ​​Monan has been cut in just half a year. Daming used walls and barbed wire to cut into squares. There is only one official road connecting each square, and each square has a center. castle.

Once the Horqin cavalry rushed into these places, it was like entering a maze, and they would be attacked by the Monan army and merchant groups in various castles. The small-scale ones would even be directly annihilated, while the large-scale ones would be intercepted by the main force of the guards. Live to annihilate.

The Horqin tribe had no choice but to give up the tactics of sneak attacking the Ming Dynasty's rear, and had to move north with its own tribe and Shunzhi and other Manchu forces who had defected to them.

After learning that the number of enemy attacks on various ministries in the Monan area had decreased, the Second Corps of the Second Guards Army and Li Dingguo's Ministry continued to march towards the Horqin tribal area.

The Horqin tribe is the largest tribe in the left-wing Mongolia, and its territory is also the largest in the left-wing Mongolia. Therefore, when the Second Corps of the Second Guards Army entered the Horqin tribe, it took almost a long time to reach the area where the royal court of the Horqin tribe was located.

But at this time, most of the main force of the Horqin Tribe had followed the remnants of the Jianlu forces from the main settlement of the Ewenki to the Nuergandusi area, which was the birthplace of the Jianlu.

The Second Corps of the Second Army of the Guards simply launched an attack on the Yehe tribe, and after annihilating the main force of the Yehe tribe, they went south directly from Kaiyuan with the First Corps of the Second Guards Army to carry out a north-south campaign against the Jianlu. Flank.

At this time, the Horqin tribe and the remnants of the Jianlu forces did not know that they had fallen into the situation of being pinched by the Ming army from the north to the south, and they were still advancing in the area controlled by the Haixi Jurchen.

The leader of the Horqin tribe now regrets the alliance with Jianlu at the beginning. He did not expect that Jianlu would quickly decline to such a situation after entering the customs. Sometimes he really wanted to betray Jianlu and form an alliance with Ming, but he had to be afraid that Jianlu would still Zhenghongqi and Xianghongqi with full combat power.

In addition, Daming maintained a tough attitude towards the tribes on the grassland, so the leader of the Horqin tribe could only continue to live a life of homelessness with his cousin Jianlu Aixinjueluo family.

(End of this chapter)