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The changes in the Tianlong Empire have to start from half a month ago, the attack of the steppe tribes on the Tianlong Empire is, in the final analysis, just a southern invasion war launched by the Turkic tribes in the steppe tribes;

The passive defense of the garrisons on the northern border of the empire gave the predatory Turkic tribes more opportunities to burn and plunder in the towns near the frontier fortress, and beauty, gold, silver, iron, and goods, all of which became the spoils of war for the Turkic tribes.

Every day, countless border towns were sacked by the cavalry of the Turkic tribes, and a large amount of the wealth and population belonging to the empire were plundered by the Turks.

On the surface, the Turkic cavalry sent two or three thousand cavalry to plunder the border towns of the empire at a time, but in fact, there were at least 10,000 or more Turkic cavalry waiting not far away.

Faced with such a predicament, the already under-armed defenders finally gave up all plans to take the initiative, and after losing the threat of the Imperial army, the Turkic cavalry plundered the border towns of the Empire even more frantically, and its plundering range even extended to the northern part of the Empire!

The six northern provinces of the empire are the rich lands that the empire has developed through border trade for hundreds of years, and the Turks who set foot in the northern part of the empire for the first time have plundered millions of gold and silver treasures in just one small town in the province of Alsace!

The dazzling gold and silver and splendid costumes, as well as countless delicate and beautiful young noble ladies, completely aroused the wild and wolf nature in the blood of the Turks, and the Turkic khans, who could not control the whole army, had to take advantage of the situation to transfer the attack of the Turkic army to the northern provinces of the empire.

In this way, in just a few days, the cavalry of the Turkic tribes plundered nearly 200,000,000 gold and silver coins, and this was only pure gold and silver coins, and other valuable goods could not be counted by numbers, at least not by the Turks themselves.

The Turkic tribes, with a population of only a few million, have a total output value of less than 10 million gold coins a year, and the plundered gold and silver coins in front of them are already equivalent to the total output value of all of them for 20 years!

Stimulated by wealth, the cavalry of the Turkic tribes turned into the most ferocious slaughterers, and aimed their scimitars at the people of the northern provinces of the Celestial Dragon Empire, and the wealth belonging to the Celestial Dragon Empire was plundered by the Turks in a steady stream.

When truckloads of transports full of gold, silver and jewels were sent back to the Turkic tribes in the rear by the Turkic tribesmen's escort cavalry, the success of the Turks made the other steppe tribes blush, especially the Jurchen and Khitan, who were closest to the Turkic tribes, and their hearts were full of remorse!

You must know that before the Turkic tribe's Jili Khan led his army south to invade the Tianlong Empire, he once invited the Nurhachi Khan of the Jurchen tribe and the Wanyan Aguta Khan of the Khitan tribe to jointly send troops, but the latter two were afraid of the strength of the Tianlong Empire and chose to refuse to send troops.

The Jurchen tribe and the Khitan tribe, whose population size and overall strength were not much stronger than the Turkic tribes, watched as the Turkic tribes brought back more and more wealth and slaves from the Tianlong Empire, but they themselves missed this opportunity in vain, and the huge gap in their hearts soon caused chaos.

The dissatisfied Jurchen and Khitan warriors pointed the finger at the Khan, who refused to send troops in the first place, and a series of conflicts broke out between the vassal warriors and the Khan's direct warriors, making the two tribes extremely unstable.

Whether it was the Turkic tribes that succeeded in the southern invasion, or the Jurchen tribes and the Khitan tribes who missed the opportunity to invade the south, their political system was a loose tribal federation, and the so-called khan was only the strongest recognized by the vast majority of tribal leaders.

Nurhachi Khan of the Jurchen tribe has the strongest cavalry of the Jurchen tribe of 60,000 Eight Banners, but the more than 100,000 cavalry of other tribes of the Jurchen tribe will not obey his orders;

This tribal alliance was a way for the tribes of the steppe to maintain their independence and a means of limiting the power of the khan, and when Nurhachi and Wanyan Aguta found themselves unable to control the situation, they had to compromise in exchange for the support of the tribal leaders.

On the fourth day after the Turkic cavalry returned a large amount of goods, the 160,000 cavalry of the Jurchen tribe and the 200,000 cavalry of the Khitan tribe embarked on a journey south to invade the Tianlong Empire.

In the original Jurchen tribe, only 60,000 elite cavalry directly subordinate to Nurhachi were organized into the Eight Banners Cavalry by Nurhachi;

Nurhachi, who has always wanted to change the existing pattern of the Jurchen tribe, under the banner of giving full play to the strength of each tribe to grab more spoils, organized the armies of more than ten other tribes into the Eight Banners Cavalry according to the color of their armor and armor, and carried out unified deployment and operation.

Of course, the leaders of the other tribes were not fools, and it was impossible for them not to see Nurhachi's intention to take the opportunity to annex them, and in order to dispel the concerns of the leaders, the far-sighted Nurhachi appointed the five strongest leaders as the bannermen of the Eight Banners.

In addition to these five banner masters, the warriors of the other tribes formed the basic structure of the Eight Banners cavalry with 300 people as a cow, and the commander of each cow was the small leader before these warriors, and Nurhachi quickly stabilized the hearts and minds of the army in this way.

Among the reorganized cavalry of the Eight Banners, the three banners directly under Nurhachi's command were the Yellow Banner, the Yellow Banner, and the Blue Banner, which were directly commanded by the Khan.

The remaining five flags, such as the positive red flag, the inlaid red flag, the inlaid white flag, the positive white flag, and the inlaid blue flag, are also called the lower five flags because the leaders of other tribes serve as the banner owners, and they are distinguished from the upper three flags of Nurhachi from the name.

After the 160,000 cavalry of the Jurchen tribe and the 200,000 cavalry of the Khitan tribe arrived in the northern frontier of the empire, the Jili Khan of the Turkic tribe immediately led 200,000 Turkic cavalry to join forces with them, and the steppe army, with a total strength of 560,000, launched an all-out attack on the defenders of the northern frontier of the empire.

At this time, six of the thirteen standing legions defending the northern frontier of the empire had been disabled by the cavalry of the Turkic tribes, and the remaining seven legions were not fully staffed; even with the reserve troops sent by the imperial military headquarters, their total strength was less than 200,000!

With 200,000 imperial soldiers of uneven combat strength, blocking the southern invasion of 560,000 steppe cavalry, such a war was already doomed from the beginning; even if the defenders had fortresses and cities to rely on, it was difficult to stop the advance of the steppe cavalry.

In fact, the Khan of Jili, the Khan of Nurhachi, and the Khan of Wanyan were far more powerful than ordinary people think, and instead of blindly attacking the fortified fortresses and cities, they bypassed these places and led their armies into the northern provinces of the empire!