Take the arsenal to Da Ming

Chapter 312 Entering Khalkha
After Chahar was fully occupied by the Ming army, Barhu, who was adjacent to the Horqin tribe, knew that he was no opponent of Ming Dynasty, so he quickly surrendered.

Ordos, which is adjacent to Shaanxi, also surrendered, and Tang Ning immediately sent troops to Dongtumed and Xitumed.

The population of West Tumed is about 15, and the population of East Tumed is about 20, and the troops sent by the Ming army are almost equal to their total population.

Moreover, the two are not connected, and are separated by Turpan of the Yarkand Khanate in the middle, so they cannot support each other.

Its only advantage is probably the depth of defense.

After successive failures in several battles with the Ming army, East and West Tumed chose to move continuously until there was no way to retreat, and then surrendered to Ming Dynasty one after another.

Until now, Daming has bordered on the east, northeast and south of the most powerful Northern Mongolia Khalkha.

In fact, when the Ming army attacked the Tumed Department, the Khalkha Department was discussing whether to provide assistance to the Tumed Department, slowing down the speed of the Ming army's occupation of the Territory.

However, the Khalkha tribe, like the Chahar tribe, is not monolithic, and is divided into several tribes, namely the Tushetu Khan tribe, the Zasaktu Khan tribe, and the Chechen Khan tribe.

The strength of the Chahar tribe is also very strong, but after fighting the Ming army, it was quickly defeated. Prince Abnai of Chahar fled to the Khalkha tribe with less than a thousand horses.

At the beginning, the brave Khalkha tribe of the Eight Banners Army was known, but now even the Manchu and Qing Dynasties have been defeated by the rising Ming army and incorporated.

Now that the Ming army is strong and strong, even the powerful Khalkha tribe cannot reach unity in terms of war and peace, so it has been delayed in assisting the Tumed tribe.

But even now, the Ming army is about to approach the Khalkha tribe, and it is still not clear whether it is war or peace.

Tang Ning knew very well that the strength of the Mongolian cavalry had not declined too much. The once powerful Mongolia could not even defeat the much smaller Manchurians who were also nomads.

The fundamental reason is that it is divided internally, being drawn together, being broken down one by one, and internally fighting each other for various reasons.

This is also the main reason for the decline in the strength of Mongolia as a whole.

Therefore, it is necessary to take advantage of its internal division and unify it as soon as possible.

The facts in the official history prove that the unified Mongolia is terrible. For example, the unified Junggar a few decades later posed a great threat to the Qing court. You must know that it was still the most powerful period of the Qing court.

Therefore, we cannot allow Mongolia to be unified, and we cannot give it time to unify.

So, shortly after the conquest of Tumed, Downing immediately ordered troops to be dispatched to Khalkha from the east, northeast, and south, with a total strength of nearly 50.

First of all, under the front of the Ming army was the relatively weak Che Chen Khan. After learning that the Ming army sent troops, Che Chen Khan immediately asked for help from the neighboring and most powerful Tuxietu Khan.

The Tuxietu Khan tribe immediately reinforced [-] troops, and at the same time pulled in the Zasaktu Khan tribe in the west of Khalkha, but the Saktu Khan tribe only sent [-] troops symbolically.

Obviously, the Zhasaktu Khan is not under the Ming army now, and the Khalkha tribe has a vast territory. It is still far away for the Ming army to threaten the Zhasaktu Khan. For some purposes, the Zhasaktu Khan The leader, Cheng Gong, wants to use the power of the Ming army to consume the strength of the other two.

Especially the Tuxietuhan tribe, the two tribes are adjacent to each other, and there are many grievances and grievances between them.

The Tuxietu Khan tribe is even stronger, and the Zasaktu Khan tribe often suffers. Now such a good opportunity to weaken the strength of the Tuxietu Khan tribe will naturally be more beneficial to the Zasaktu Khan tribe.

Therefore, Cheng Gong also ordered the tens of thousands of people sent out to preserve their strength as much as possible.

Gonpo, the leader of the Tuxietu Khan, naturally understood Cheng Gun's intentions, but now he has no choice but to win over Cheng Gun as much as possible. Otherwise, once Cheng Gun hides behind and makes trouble, the problem will be serious.

According to Abu Nai's suggestion, Gonbu should not take the initiative to attack the Ming army's hollow infantry formation, let alone engage in a decisive battle with the Ming army, but should use the vast geographical advantage of the Khalkha tribe to fight against the Ming army as much as possible.

The only way for the Khalkha tribe to win is to delay. The longer the delay, the more likely the Ming army will retreat.

After all, the Ming army dispatched 50 troops, and the daily consumption was huge. After a long time, Daming's finances, which had just stabilized for more than two years, would inevitably be tight. It would be difficult for Tangning to withdraw the troops by then.

This is the experience that Abney summed up through his own failures, and it can be said to be very correct.

Gonpo also followed Abnai's suggestion. After discussing with Shuo Lei, the leader of the Chechen Khan tribe, he asked the Chechen Khan tribe to move into the Tuxietu Khan tribe first, leaving only the army to fight with the Ming army.

According to the instructions of the General Staff Department, the Ming army naturally wanted to find the main force of the Khalkha tribe to fight with it, defeat the main force as quickly as possible, and force it to surrender.

However, under the leadership of Gonpo, the leader of the Tushetu Khan tribe, the Khalkha tribe only kept a certain distance from the Ming army and did not fight directly at all.

Once the Ming army cavalry pursued them, they retreated quickly. Even if the Ming army cavalry dispatched only half of their strength, they did not want to fight at all.

From time to time, they often sent troops to attack and disturb the supply line of the Ming army. After suffering a few losses, they also calmed down.

Even if the original habitat of the Chechen Khan tribe was occupied, they still had no intention of fighting the Ming army to take it back. They just led the Ming army to run around on the vast grassland.

The Ming army naturally understood the enemy's intentions, and it was impossible to continue like this, and the strategy had to be changed.

An army of 50 may seem like a lot, but investing in the sparsely populated grassland is a drop in the bucket. It is simply unrealistic to fully occupy the vast Khalkha with an army of 50.

After discussion, the staff formulated two strategies. First, the cavalry was dispatched separately, and at the same time five cavalry divisions were sent to support it, so as to strengthen the strength of the cavalry and increase the number of cavalry divisions entering Khalkha to twelve.

The cavalry division had only one purpose, to go deep into the Tuxietu Khan tribe, to pursue the relocated people of the Chechen Khan tribe, as well as the tribesmen of the Tuxietu Khan tribe.

These tribesmen dragged their families, as well as grazing horses and sheep and various belongings. There was no way to move quickly. Once their tracks were locked, they did not believe that the Khalkha Mongolian army could continue to hide.

On the other hand, they took advantage of the conflict between the Zasaktu Khan and the Tuxietu Khan to win over the Zasaktu Khan, saying that as long as they surrendered to Ming Dynasty, Cheng Gun, the leader of the Zasaktu Khan, would be granted the title of Kazaktu Khan. Prince Erka.

Of course, in order to win over successfully, the premise is to convince Cheng Gong that the Khalkha tribe is not Ming's opponent, and will only fail in the end.

Since he can only rank second in the Khalkha tribe and cannot surpass his old rival Tuxietu Khan tribe, why not join Daming?

If you take refuge in Ming Dynasty, you can become the prince of the entire Khalkha tribe, but if you resist to the end, you are likely to be wiped out.Even if it is not eliminated, it can only be suppressed by the Tushetu Khan.

Cheng Gong, who understands this, believes that he will have his own judgment.

After the Ming army adjusted its strategy, it quickly separated the infantry from the cavalry, and the cavalry division that was going to support them also went north immediately, splitting into several routes and entering the hinterland of the Khalkha tribe to find the habitat of its tribe.

(End of this chapter)