The copper mine is located in the red stone cliff at the northwest foot of Daban Mountain, for Li Zicheng, this is really an unexpected joy, he originally almost gave up the search for copper ore and iron ore, maybe the Xining area is short of metal resources, or the metal resources belong to deep mines, with the current means of exploration, can not be found at all, leaving two craftsmen to continue to search, that is, dead horses as live horse doctors, anyway, in Xining is also idle.

But what makes people headache is that the red stone cliff is located at the fracture of Datong Mountain and Daban Mountain, which is not the traditional Gongwei area of Xiningwei, in fact, the red stone cliff is still outside the border wall of Qinghai in the Ming Dynasty, there is a Ming Dynasty, it has always been a nomadic area of the Mongols, and now it is the sphere of influence of the Mongolian Maili cadres.

When Li Zicheng made a northern expedition to Ganzhou and crossed the Daban Pass, he still took advantage of the cold weather, the pasture grass was completely withered, and the herdsmen of the Maili cadres moved back to the upper reaches of the Datong River.

The current Xining Army has an extremely strong demand for copper and iron, and it is not easy to survey such a copper mine, of course Li Zicheng will not give up easily, but the Red Stone Cliff is at the mouth of the Mai Li Cadre Ranch, how can Mai Li Gan give up?

With the current nomadic situation of the Maili cadres, they naturally will not master the mining and smelting technology of copper ore, and the pastures near the Red Rock Cliff are their life#root.

If the two sides can live in harmony, the Mongols graze, the Han people mine, as the population continues to gather, clothing, food, shelter and transportation will have to keep up, and the Mongols and Han people have different lifestyles and products, and it is entirely possible for this place to develop into a prosperous trading port.

If the young people of both sides have a certain attraction, on the basis of intermarriage, there may also be a good story of national friendship, cooperation, solidarity and mutual assistance.

Li Zicheng smiled bitterly and quickly gave up daydreaming.

Due to the extensive nature of the way of life, it is determined that the nomads have been fighting for survival all their lives, if the Han people's "full of warmth and lust # lust" is a kind of depravity, then the nomads do not even have the qualifications for this kind of degeneration, whether it is ordinary herdsmen, or the leaders and nobles among them, they have to worry about pastures, milking, possible white disasters and black disasters during the day, and only at night, stripping and putting on the kang is their only entertainment.

Once they come into contact with the wealth of the farming people, it is a cruelty for the nomads to give up their nature of aggression and plunder, which requires self-control beyond human control.

It would be inconceivable that the same stunningly beautiful woman, dressed in a crop top, walked fifty miles along the banks of the Ganges River in Ah San, without protection, and could return to her place of departure intact.

How can we get the McLi cadres to abandon the pastures in the Red Rock Cliffs area?

There is only one answer: war! Only by means of war, when the nomads are frightened, will they give in and even move to new pastoral areas to avoid the strong.

The Da Yue clan entrenched in the Hexi Corridor was forced to migrate to Tuhuannu because of the fear of being beaten by the Xiongnu, and the Xiongnu were also in a state of collapse under the military blows and political deterrence of the Han Wu Emperor's continuous expedition to Mobei, and there was a division internally, and the Northern Xiongnu Zhizhi was forced to move west to Kangju north of the Altun Mountains to avoid the edge of the Han army, but, tragically, even so, the Han army still did not forgive the Huns who had brought great disasters to the Han nation.

As Emperor Mao Zi said: Forgiveness is God's business, and we are only responsible for sending them to God!

In the Han Dynasty, although the Han people did not say it, they had already done so: even though the Northern Xiongnu Zhizhi moved thousands of miles west, General Chen Tang, the deputy lieutenant stationed in the Western Regions, still did not let him go, "Those who commit strong men will be punished even if they are far away"! Zhi Zhishan was killed, and the Xiongnu nation was annihilated in the long river of history, and no trace can be found again.

If he has enough strength, Li Zicheng also hopes to conquer Mai Li Gan in this way.

But he calculated that even if all the cavalry were concentrated, the Xining army would only be six or seven hundred, and a large number of infantry, in front of the nomads, could basically only be brave, whether it was fighting or chasing the enemy, they could not exert their due combat effectiveness, in case of defeat, there was no speed to escape, and they could only be reduced to the nomadic cavalry's exploits in vain, accumulating their battlefield self-confidence.

Moreover, the Maili cadres were nomadic in the area of Datong Mountain, with a wide area and a large difference in terrain, and it was difficult for the Xining army to completely eradicate them.

What to do? Knowing that there is a copper mine in the Red Stone Cliff, can you only watch it, not eat it?

Li Zicheng suddenly thought of Bayar, and the Xining army defeated him twice, mainly using various tactics, including the final use of an overwhelming number of cavalry, and most importantly, the use of firearms to seriously wound his cavalry.

Can you use a firearm to seriously injure the McLey cadre again? Even if you can't completely wipe him out, at least knock him down, let him leave Daban Mountain, and choose his own ranch again!

The Xining Army now has rifles, and it has become an army, and the Ma Youshui Department has distributed 500 gunners, and the last time outside the city of Ganzhou has initially demonstrated its combat effectiveness.

However, Ma Youshui is guarding the crossing of the Yellow River, which is very important and cannot be transferred back for the time being.

If the copper mine in Hongshi Cliff is related to the development plan of the Xining Army, the Ma Youshui Department stationed in the area of Sanchuan Prefecture is related to whether the Xining Army can survive west of the Yellow River, and its strength can only be enhanced, not weakened.

The only one who can fight with the cadres of Mai Li is the Zhou Bin Division, and the soldiers of the Zhou Bin Department have completed the shooting training of five hundred households, and the next thing is to carry out tactical training, but unfortunately, the number of rifles is far from enough, so the craftsmen can only work overtime.

Li Zicheng originally planned to let Song Wenbu get in touch with the rifle early, but it seems that the plan is going to change, or let Zhou Binbu form combat effectiveness as soon as possible.

In addition, Liu Yunshui's troops should also strengthen training, and the cavalry is absolutely indispensable to deal with the Mongolian Maili cadres, otherwise once the Mongolian cavalry is unfavorable in battle, they will immediately retreat, the cavalry will come and go like the wind, and the Xining infantry will only have dry eyes.

It's still a froster, the grass hasn't germinated yet, and the Maili cadres won't come to the Red Rock Cliff for the time being, so they must let the craftsman workshop add it? The "Extinguishing Brightness" you are watching now Chapter 250 The Nomadic Tribe is only half a chapter, to see the full version, please search for Baidu: (Ice + Thunder + Chinese + Text) After entering, search again: Extinguishing Ming