open sea

Chapter 1520
In fact, Qi Jiguang really didn't want to continue fighting west, and his staff realized a very important problem.

As far as the land of Siberia is concerned, at least under the condition that rice and corn greenhouses are not popularized at present, it can only withstand the survival mode of living in a large area and a sparse population.

This is not a matter of winning or losing a war, but that losing a war will definitely lose everything, but winning a war may not necessarily win all.

Because the Rakshasa country is poor, they have captured more than a hundred towns and villages, but let’s not talk about giant cities like Beijing, Nanjing, and Yangzhou.

They had never seen a town comparable to Xiningwei. Basically, every time they marched, they received information, and the whole army was elated, and they repeatedly asked the information provider how big the town was.

Then the former army broke out from the camp, roaring and attacking the city, and finally everyone was dejected.

What they want to attack are big cities and towns like Xiningwei, Liangzhouwei, and Shandanwei. For this reason, they did not hesitate to mobilize artillery, and the artillery carriers were exhausted like old scalpers, and finally transported to the city. The soldier was so angry that he wanted to be a rebel.

All they saw were little things like Red Mountain Fort, Warm Spring Fort, Red Cliff Temple Fort, and Boar Slope Fort.

To put it bluntly, is it equipped with heavy artillery?
The big troops have realized that in the northwest land, there may never be a super-large-scale town like the one in China.

If you go further west, you will arrive at Europa. Qi Jiguang and his group also know what is going on in Europa, and the information sharing work of various military governments is very good.

Looking around the world, there are very few giant cities that can accommodate 10 people.

Madrid only has a few tens of thousands of people, and Seville has 10 people, but now it has to count Daming Port, which is two administrative districts.

They expect to find a big city with a population of tens of thousands in this wilderness, which is tantamount to wishful thinking.

Without big cities, there would not be enough food, and there were countless people in small villages everywhere, which could only be a huge burden for the West Conquest Army.

Qi Jiguang is unwilling to fight anymore. If the fight continues, his army of millions of people will become an army of 200 million people, but in fact he can't even produce 30 regular armed forces, but he has to feed 200 million mouths .

And nomadism is a production method with very low output... The nomadic soldiers who were not divided into tribes by Qi Jiguang were very happy to eat meat every day. Once they were divided into tribes, the days of eating meat would be over.

How do you say that?It is said that the family is rich, but the hairy ones are not counted.

They gathered and plundered a lot of livestock along the way westward, and the soldiers of the Long Live Army and the Zhejiang Army were used to eating meat, so they didn't understand and didn't want to understand the way of life on the grassland.

The Ming army ate it, and the Cong Zheng army also ate it.

But how many cattle and sheep can support them to eat like this all day long?

If it is found that something is wrong and sustainable development is needed, nomad soldiers will be allocated intermittently to entrust pastures. Once the pastures are allotted, the way of life will change.

The number of cattle and sheep raised by a herdsman can be counted. The sheep that eat today will not come back to life tomorrow. Only when it is alive can it grow hair and produce milk endlessly.

In order to keep them alive, the herdsmen are exhausted physically and mentally, guarding against wolves, snow, and bears.

We also have to guard against the nomadic soldiers who are hungry and eager to jump over the sheepfold.

Everyone is willing to be a soldier and does not want to be a herdsman, and a soldier does not have to worry about food and clothing.

Qi Jiguang didn't want to fight anymore, so he had to negotiate with the Raksha Kingdom. He negotiated with Beliski in Tuka City. As a result, the Tatar messenger he sent was killed. There was no way, the army attacked two hundred miles west, and arrived in Xiaka Mucheng.

Continuing the negotiations, Belsky led the army away again, and the messenger failed to keep up.

Attacking westward for another [-] miles, we arrived at Kazan on the Volga River.

Arriving in Kazan, seeing autumn coming and winter coming soon, Qi Jiguang thought it was a good opportunity to negotiate, and continued to send people to the west to negotiate, and further west was Nizhny Novgorod.

At this moment, the marching order of the Ming army has changed. They can feel that they are getting closer to the capital of the Raksha Kingdom. Except for the Chechen Khan of the Jin Kingdom, the main force has been replaced by the third battalion of the Zhejiang Army, and the Long Live Army is behind. Suppress the troops and send people to contact the Ottomans in the south.

However, Dong Yiyuan's task was very difficult. His scouts went to the Crimean Khanate and sent out more than 200 experts. In the end, less than 50 people were able to reach the Crimean Khanate alive and safely, and arrived in Ottoman through the Crimean Khanate. Yes, even less.

At least this year, I didn't expect to get Ottoman's food and grass assistance, but the Crimean Great Khan Grai II, who had been prepared for the arrival of the Ming army in the East, sent troops north without hesitation. The Ming army raised food and sent envoys to plan Set borders, pay tribute to the Ming emperor and other matters.

Qi Jiguang, who was in Kazan, was a little hard to understand the actions of the Crimean Khanate. He arranged for his general Chaohua to move to the southwest to guard against the direction of the Crimean Khanate's advance.

Qi Jiguang couldn't understand, since he wanted to transport food to the Ming army, why did he send troops westward, and did not transport any food with empty hands.

In the following months, the envoys communicated and communicated, so that Qi Jiguang gradually became sure of Ge Erer's intentions.

This is a process of borrowing flowers to offer Buddha.

Several thousand cavalry commanders of the Crimean Khanate sent troops westward, entered the Ukrainian grasslands, copied the city of Poltava in Poland and Lithuania, plundered tens of thousands of white slaves, and burned many villages. .

Then the two ten thousand riders escorted the looted grain, leather, and woolen fabrics to the northeast, and drove the livestock team to Kazan under the guidance of the messenger.

The other ten thousand households escorted the white slaves back to their Kafata slave market, and sold the white slaves robbed from the grasslands of Eastern Europe to Ottoman, the suzerain country.

Since the establishment of the Crimean Khanate, they have been doing this, but they rarely dispatch on a large scale. Usually, Cossacks and nomads cross the border alone, grabbing what they see.

Get it back and sell it to Ottoman, who has a great demand for white slaves, which is also the main source of income for the Crimean Khanate.

However, in such a large-scale dispatch like this time, looting in the form of war is very rare.

In fact, to be honest, the Golden Lion in Novgorod is actually not too bad. If he escaped from the city of Nizhny to the west, he went through all kinds of hardships and escaped to the grasslands of Eastern Europe and was killed by the Crimean Khan. The troops caught them and sold them to Ottoman as slaves. That would be really miserable.

Finally, let Su Tan reward Qi Jimei, the envoy of the Celestial Dynasty stationed in Shangguo, who went out and walked on the street called Qi's hard-core retainers. After Qi Jiguang and Qi Jimei's two masters, writing "Journey to the West" will inevitably become a good story.

But the real golden lion is much more unlucky than this.

He was the majestic chief of a hundred households of the Western Army of the Ming Dynasty, and the chief of the Tatar tribe. When he recruited soldiers in Xianuo City, he was dismissed because of frostbite on his hands and feet and his inaccurate shooting. He didn't even grab this iron job.

In the end, relying on the many brothers who supported him, he was accepted by the city's consul as a city patrol guard, and he was given a big wooden stick to lead someone to patrol at night.

Then there was an envoy from the Ming Dynasty's Western Expedition Army calling at the door late at night to find Beliski for a peace talk.

(End of this chapter)