Yang Chengzu is a rough hand, tall and thin man, Yuan Shizhong has a few relationships with him, but he knows that Yang Chengzu's former appearance is quite tall and strong, and the reason why he looks like this in front of him must be because of his displacement in Dashun.

His more than 3,000 subordinates are also not far from the appearance of starvation, it is said that when they were brought to the Tuntian Grange in the north of Zhuxian Town to settle that day, there was a local Tun Tianzhuang head to deliver food, those people devoured it, and actually ate one or two hundred people to death.

From this, we can also see how much suffering these people have suffered.

After confirming that Yang Chengzu's side was not a fraudulent surrender, Li Xianfeng, the governor of Henan, and Yuan Shizhong, a guerrilla in Kaifeng, and Jia Dashan, the garrison of Germany, jointly sent an urgent letter to Shandong.

Yang Chengzu, the general of the exile army, led the troops to surrender, which is a big deal, and it is also an active surrender, which is of greater significance than when Yuan Shizhong led the small Yuan battalion to defect at night.

The expedited fast horse line from Henan to Shandong has been quite smooth, and Shandong has adopted a relatively flexible way for these relay points. At each relay station, it was an inn opened outside the Lingshan Trading House, and it also received merchant guests, and what they had to do was to feed the horses for urgent transmission.

The news reached Shandong, and before the fifteenth day of the lunar month, there was a clear order from Shandong, which was the secret music of Li Xianfeng.

Although the rumors in the market are false, they also have his truth, Li Xianfeng, the governor of Henan who is loyal to Li Meng, the Duke of Qi, has indeed sent a letter to the imperial court, and what is said in it is almost spread.

The so-called rush to the doctor, and now the Ming Dynasty is also in a similar state, Henan Governor Li Xianfeng's actions in Cao Ying's heart in Han are originally to make people feel like they are taking advantage, not to mention that they can catch the troops.

The Ming court understands one thing, the noble and the martial arts are, there are no troops in their hands, no one listens to what they say, seeing that in Li Xianfeng's mouth, this thief Yang Chengzu can serve the Ming Dynasty, this is really a cheap fall from the sky, from Henan to Datong, Shanxi, and did not say that the imperial court should pay for food or anything, so it was simply promised.

When he was in the Exile Alliance, this Yang Chengzu was a big man who stomped his feet and trembled on the ground, but now he led the crowd to surrender, so he couldn't pay so much attention to decency.

The location of the Tuntian Grange in the north of Zhuxian Town, which houses the displaced people, is quite meaningful, surrounded by the Tuntian Grange, and the guards of the various Granges who are busy in the winter reserve, after withdrawing from Kaifeng City, did not disband and go back to work, but maintained the establishment and maintained the state of combat readiness.

In case something is wrong, these guards of the Tuntian Grange can be pulled out and put on top and wait for the army to come and pacify.

Yang Chengzu is an old man, of course he knows why this intention is, but he surrenders sincerely, and he has no intention of tabooing this kind of thing.

Among these more than 3,000 people, there are quite a lot of officials at all levels, they are the elite of the army, compared to ordinary soldiers, the probability of survival on the battlefield and in the escape is much higher, when they are sheltered during this period of gathering and chatting, they are all sighing with each other, when the disaster in Shaanxi and Henan, if the Ming Dynasty can have such a measure, where will it be like today, the people can survive, who will rebel and make trouble.

Henan Governor Li Xianfeng's twists and turns, the news naturally also reached Yang Chengzu's ears, now he and his soldiers and horses are in a state of not being able to move at all, Yang Chengzu also wanted to ask Yuan Shizhong what he meant by this matter, but he never waited for the people in Shandong.

He is not a fool, and he vaguely guesses that the reason behind this matter is probably not as simple as the rumors say.......

After resting for about a month, Yuan Shizhong personally brought people to Yang Chengzu's army, Yang Chengzu's etiquette was very good, and he took out the only remaining gold and silver treasures, saying that he wanted to entrust Yuan Shizhong to give it to the marshal, which was actually a gift to Yuan Shizhong.

What he didn't expect was that Yuan Shizhong didn't ask for his gold and silver treasures, and he was quite polite with him, and the first thing he said was:

"Qi Guogong asked me to ask you, where will Yang Chengzu go in the future, he is willing to be a rich man, and the rich places controlled by Shandong will go with him, and if he is willing to continue to fight and join the army, then there will be other arrangements."

Yang Chengzu's answer was also crisp:

"The villain has been fighting for more than ten years, if he lives a peaceful life, I'm afraid the villain won't be able to live, please send it to the Duke of Qi!"

Hearing Yang Chengzu's words, Yuan Shizhong took out the appointment document from Shandong, appointing Yang Chengzu as the deputy general of Kaifeng, the rank of regimental garrison, and the soldiers and horses under his command were organized into two regiments and 4,000 people.

There is a precedent for Chen Yongfu, the chief soldier of Datong, and Kaifeng is also familiar with it, because the situation in Weishi County is urgent, and the two regiments brought by Jia Dashan to garrison are guided, and one regiment is assigned to Yang Chengzu, and Yang Chengzu retains 2,000 people.

The rest of the people who are willing to join the army should go to the military camp for training, and those who are willing to serve the people can be granted fields around Kaifeng City and become farmers.

That is, about three days after this appointment, Yang Chengzu felt distressed that the more than 1,000 soldiers and horses who followed him were stripped of Shandong, and this distressed feeling had not passed, a large number of supplies and equipment were transported over, Shandong was so rich, and this name was willing to spend.

These weapons, clothes and armor, looking at it made Yang Chengzu dumbfounded, his sons and daughters are equipped with these sharp weapons, and these two thousand people are afraid that they can catch up with the original four thousand people, and six thousand eight thousand are possible.

After this equipment, almost all of the tattered soldiers and horses under Yang Chengzu were eliminated, and the big swords, spears, bows and arrows, leather armor, ring arm iron armor and other armor were all brand new, and at first glance, they were made with heart, and there were more than 400 horses.

Advantageous weapons, armor, the greater the possibility of surviving on the battlefield, the combat effectiveness is equal to doubled, the entire army is beaming, and immediately Yang Chengzu's old subordinates came to say, saying that it was Brother Yang, this Shandong is so generous and rich, why bother to defect to the mean Ming court.

These days of rumors, these generals also know in their hearts, but these people were scolded back by Yang Chengzu with a smile, saying:

"Even you and I can know about this rumor, doesn't Yuan Shizhong know, doesn't Shandong know?"

Having said this, everyone suddenly realized, and each went back to the camp to accept the new equipment happily, and when the regiment sent by the Jiaozhou battalion came, Yang Chengzu, who was still happy, and all the generals under his command knew that their eyes were small, and they looked at the 2,000 people in Shandong.

Almost half of the two thousand men were dressed in armor like tin cans, and there were six cannons, and there were 800 guns, and the soldiers were even more powerful than their proud sons.

Yang Chengzu's news gradually became more and more flexible, and he heard that the regimental garrison and the regimental deputy garrison of this regiment were all temporarily rushed over from Guide and Yanzhou.

The big knives, spears and Ming armor provided to Yang Chengzu are all equipment that Shandong has eliminated from the army's redress, which is just suitable for Yang Chengzu's army, which mainly fights with cold weapons.

Yang Chengzu is different from Chen Yongfu, the chief soldier of Datong, Chen Yongfu sent his son Chen De to Shandong as a proton, and when he went to Datong, the whole family stayed in Kaifeng, his more than 9,000 Yu soldiers, and most of his family members lived in Kaifeng City, and this loyalty basically would not be suspected.

And Yang Chengzu came to defect for a month, and he was about to be sent to Shanxi, and this army of soldiers and horses are all unconcerned bachelors, and it is difficult to have a restraint.

In this case, this time we will use a stronger force to contain it and go north together, and the regimental garrison and deputy garrison who came over this time can be regarded as the meritorious elite of Shandong.

The regimental garrison was originally the deputy of the Ma Army, Wei Li, who had killed the enemy in Beizhili and made meritorious contributions, and the regimental deputy garrison was Wang San, who had made meritorious contributions at the Whirlpool Station.

The two generals of the close branch with 2,000 people who have strengthened their firearms and equipment are enough to balance Yang Chengzu's 2,000 people, and they are completely able to occupy the dominant position.

The appointment of the imperial court soon came down, Yang Chengzu recognized the righteousness, led the troops to return, and specially appointed as the general of Datong border town, under the command of the chief soldier Chen Yongfu.

Although it was close to the first month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the team led by Yang Chengzu was worried about national affairs and was unwilling to delay in Kaifeng City.

When Yang Chengzu's 4,000 soldiers and horses were in Henan, there were naturally "merchants" from Shandong and Henan to help prepare military supplies, but after entering Shanxi, they couldn't get help, but at this time, they didn't have to wait for those merchants from Shanxi to come over to flatter, and then went to Shanxi to do business, and sent secret letters to the merchants on the marching route.

After Gao Shenghe in Pingyao City was slaughtered in blood, the businessmen in Shanxi were all trembling, for fear of the footsteps of the Bugao family and the Sheng family.

This time, after the Liu family had a secret letter came out, each family found an opportunity to serve and please, how could there be no reason not to rush up, Yang Chengzu from Henan to Datong this road is extremely easy, as the chief general of the first army, Yang Chengzu did not worry about military supplies for the first time.

Whether the army is strong or not, can also be seen from the discipline and marching style, along the way, the quality of the Jiaozhou battalion regiment made Yang Chengzu and his soldiers and horses ashamed, and at the same time dispelled those unstable thoughts.

When Yang Chengzu's army was walking on the road, it was the Chinese New Year's Eve and the first month, and the seventeenth year of Chongzhen had arrived......

All over the world, those who can celebrate the New Year carefree and happily are probably those children from rich families, and all the people in the world have no calm mood. Some people are worried, some are frightened, some are excited, and some people are disheartened, but they don't have the joy and joy of the New Year.

Of course, the relatives of the Duke of Qi are still quite happy, because Li Meng has been at home for an unprecedented period of time during this time, and the relatives of each family are now in this Jinan City, which is really a year of reunion.

Compared with the happiness of his inner relatives, Li Meng's mental state is really not high, although he is in the middle of the dispatch, but there is always a hidden worry, that is, the current soldiers and horses of the old battalion and the soldiers and horses of Nanzhili have not been fighting for a while, and the combat effectiveness of this army can only be maintained in battle, if it is too long to be peaceful, it will definitely be affected.

The armies stationed outside the city of Jinan are also thinking about going to war, and being stationed in the city is actually more difficult than fighting, because every day is in the midst of training and exercises, but the marshal is personally there to supervise, and there can be no slightest relaxation, which is really miserable.

Speaking of which, it was all the New Year, and the soldiers and horses of each battalion were given a seven-day vacation by Li Meng, and they finally relaxed, but on the eighth day of the first lunar month, the marshal did not come to supervise and supervise the training, which made everyone breathe a sigh of relief, and everyone was relaxed for a day.

On the shooting range outside the Qi State Mansion, Li Meng was raising his gun to shoot, this time the barrel was much thinner than the arquebus of the Jiaozhou battalion, and it didn't seem to have a beak hook that hooked the arquebus.

Sun Hedou and Guo Dong, who rarely appeared in the Mansion of Qi State, stood beside Li Meng, watching Li Meng finish the shot, erect the barrel, take a slender strip and slide it up and down a few times, then take out a two-finger-thick paper tube, bite one end, sprinkle a little on the side of the medicine pool first, and then pour all of them into the chamber of the gun, and then bite the other end, put the lead bullet into it, and tamp it a few times with the strip.

He blocked the paper ball in the chamber of the gun again, and then held the gun flat with both hands and took a shooting pose.

Because the barrel of this firearm is very thin, it is not as heavy as the current Shandong standard smoothbore gun, so naturally there is no need to put a wooden fork on it. At the rear end of the barrel, there is a device similar to a bird's beak hook, but it is in the opposite direction to the bird's beak hook, and it is much smaller.

Li Meng used his right thumb to pull the small hook back, aimed at the wooden target in front of him, hooked the trigger, and with a soft snap, the "little hook" hit down.

With a bang, the gun fired, and the sound of the disembowel was much quieter than that of the heavy smoothbore gun, but the whistling of the lead bullet flying in the air was much sharper.

There was not much smoke coming out of the muzzle, and after the shooting, immediately a soldier in the ditch behind the wooden target crawled out, and after checking the target, he said loudly:

"Handsome! 85 Ring~~!! ”

Guo Dong, Sun Hedou, and several craftsmen all bowed down and praised:

"Great handsome marksman, handsome marksman."

Li Meng and several officers standing behind Li Meng, including the soldiers standing there, all turned their eyes to the table on the side, and there was a young craftsman apprentice standing next to the table, with an hourglass on the table.

"This time it took 40% less than the shot just now."

The faces of the soldiers present were full of joy, and the faces of the craftsmen were quite proud, Li Meng held the firearm in the posture of marching with a gun in the drill, moved up and down a few times, nodded and said:

"It's almost half as light, and a few people have moved the target over the past."

Huang Ping, the commander of the pro-soldiers on one side, hurriedly commanded, and several pro-soldiers trotted to the wooden target, pulled out the target, and came back again.

A group of people here didn't care about the difference between dignity and inferiority, gathered around the wooden target, looked at the hit place, and someone took a bamboo stick and probed into the bullet hole, pulled it out to see the depth, everyone was even more amazed, Huang Ping on the side smiled and said:

"I didn't expect this lead bullet to be a lot smaller, but the power looks bigger, with such a sharp weapon, our Jiaozhou battalion is even more invincible."

The people around nodded their heads, and Li Meng was holding the gun and watching it over and over, obviously quite satisfied, but Guo Dong heard what Huang Ping said, but his face was a little embarrassed, and he glanced at Sun Hedou, and said hesitantly:

"Dashuai, it is a little difficult for our workshop to manufacture this gun on a large scale, the spring between the hammer and the trigger can be manufactured in batches, but the batch of qualified finished products is too small."

When Li Meng heard this, he diverted his attention from the firecracker, and looked at Li Meng looking up, Guo Dong was so scared that he immediately didn't know how to speak, Sun Hedou coughed, and said:

"Lord Guogong, this flintlock pistol is indeed a sharp weapon, but the parts on it are much more exquisite than the standard firecracker of our Jiaozhou battalion, not to mention that our craftsmen are not skilled, if it were not for these hydraulic machinery, I am afraid that we still have some things that cannot be made, today's trigger spring of this firebolt is still specially invited to the old locksmith of Jining City to cooperate, and the things that are forged by hammer are not good with more than 20 times."

After Sun Hedou finished speaking, Guo Dong also mustered up the courage and added a few words:

"I heard Duncan and De Walter say that even in the Western land today, such firearms have not been used on a large scale, and the villain and Sun Zheng went to Master Fei to ask, and this is indeed the case."

Relying on the fire rope to ignite gunpowder, the arquebus that fires the projectile and the flintlock pistol that hits the flint with a hammer and ignites the gunpowder with a spark, the flintlock pistol is relatively lightweight, the design steps are simple, and the rate of fire is fast and powerful, so it is naturally the first choice for weapons, but what Sun Hedou and Guo Dong said is also the thing.

With the relatively crude hydraulic machinery of the Jiaozhou Battalion Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau, there are indeed many things that need to be improved if we want to achieve the level of manufacturing flintlock pistols, or if we want to achieve the level of making flintlock pistols that can be used on the battlefield.

The barrel of the gun is easy to say, but the spring that connects the hammer is the most ordinary thing in modern times, and in this era, manufacturing is a great problem.

Those skillful old craftsmen can do it, but such a handicraft cannot be produced on a large scale, so what use can it be.

Li Meng looked at the fire gun in his hand, sighed, pondered, and said:

"Since there is still a locksmith who can build this, let him go to the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau to see if he can improve the machinery, if he can make it in batches, all the people involved, this father will be rewarded."

Among the heavy gifts sent by Zheng Zhilong was a jeweled flintlock pistol, which was also used to decorate and show off among the nobility and the wealthy in Europe.

After being discovered by Li Meng, he didn't pay attention to his preciousness, but valued the advanced nature of this flintlock pistol, and immediately sent it to the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau for them to imitate.

Those craftsmen from the West all know that there is a flintlock pistol, and some people have been exposed to its manufacturing, but the manufacture of this thing is not just to know that it can be made, machinery and tools, this aspect is very demanding, and it will not be applied for a while, so they can only work slowly in this direction.

Looking at Guo Dong and Sun Hedou Cheng's frightened appearance, Li Meng waved his hand, smiled and said with relief:

"There is no need to feel guilty, and now our Jiaozhou battalion arquebus is enough, your weapons manufacturing bureau must work hard, not only to produce sharp weapons, but also to train more craftsmen, this is the foundation of the future of Shandong, do you know?"

The foundation of Shandong, Guo Dong and Sun Hedou were shocked when they heard this, Shandong's foundation should be the grange and the army, what does it have to do with this workshop, but Li Meng's attention to the craftsman and craftsmen is also a well-known thing, and he thought that this was the preference of the superiors.

Sun and Guo naturally will not refute, bow down together to answer, Li Meng still has "industrial revolution" and "industrial country" and other words in his mind, although he does not know too much, but the importance of industry Li Meng still understands, in Laiwu's weapons manufacturing bureau, in Yanzhou's mining, in Jining and Jiaozhou's handicraft workshops, these are the seeds of industry in the future, it may not be anything now, but the future will inevitably have a great future.

Since it can't be made, although it is a pity, Li Meng still knows the key point, at present, Shandong firecrackers are standard arquebuses, to ensure the quality and power of these firearms, it is enough for Shandong's army.

Compared with the peace and tranquility on this side of Shandong, there is no peace in other places in the Ming Dynasty, and Wu Sangui, the chief soldier of the Ningyuan regiment who has retreated to the Zhongtun guard in Guangning, was shocked to find that the two yellow banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty began to gather troops and horses in the east of Shaheyi, and no one paid attention to them when they sent people to the peace talks several times.

Do you want to drive yourself back to Guannai from the Liaoxi Corridor, Wu Sangui, who has always thought that he can easily maneuver in the hands of Shandong, Daming, and Manchu Qing and obtain the greatest benefits, really doesn't know what to do.

For the regent of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Dolgon, if he wants to restore the morale of the Eight Banners who were defeated in the Guannei and the death of Huang Taiji and fell a lot, and if he wants to sit in this position for a long time and sit firmly, he needs to continue to win, and the easiest way to achieve victory at present is to fight these Ming soldiers and horses who are still outside the Guan, which is too easy to fight.

Zhang Xianzhong fought a series of fierce battles with the Ming Dynasty's officers and troops in the south of Huguang, and the territory he occupied was lost, and Zuo Liangyu, who was repeatedly urged by the imperial court's will, led the army to re-enter the empty city of Wuchang.

For the Great Western Army, the situation is becoming more and more embarrassing, it is said that with the Ming official army in Hunan and Jiangxi, and the combat effectiveness of Zhang Xianzhong's department is between Bozhong, and Zhang Xianzhong's Ai Nengqi, Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu Several generals have also grown up, but this battle is still shrinking.

The reason is very simple, in the land of Huguang, there are still Dashun Li Zicheng's troops stationed on Zhang Xianzhong's flank, although Dashun and Daxi, the two most powerful civil powers at present, call each other allies, and Li Zicheng's soldiers and horses and Zhang Xianzhong's soldiers and horses have occasional contact, and it is Li Zicheng's troops who retreat.

But Zhang Xianzhong is still very strict against the soldiers and horses of Dashun, Li Zicheng can silently merge Luo Rucai, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai have a good relationship, God knows if they will be eaten by Li Zicheng.

Therefore, looking at the situation in Hunan and Jiangxi, Zhang Xianzhong simply no longer sought to operate outside, but directly prepared to go west to Sichuan, Shu was closed, self-contained, and entered Sichuan to operate his own world, and also prevent people from outside from attacking him.

The main force of the Great Western Army began to assemble in the areas of Guizhou and Yiling in the first month and February of the 17th year of Chongzhen, preparing to enter Sichuan along the Yangtze River against the current.

No one knows whether Zhang Xianzhong's move made Li Zicheng's heart relieved or regretful, but after the Great Western Army moved like this, Liu Zongmin, the chief general of Dashun, led the army north to western Henan.

It is said that this time is different from before, Hou Sui and several general soldiers discussed, in order to avoid the logistics supply in the past, the army was scattered, resulting in the recurrence of the collapse of the army.

Simply found a strategy in Qi Jiguang's old paper pile, a few people have a car, the car is placed with the soldiers' clothes and supplies, when the camp meets the enemy, these cars are connected end to end as a barrier, this method of warfare, is the so-called partial van, Qi Jiguang in order to deal with the Mongols on the grassland and came up with a strategy.

It's just that these vehicles are all wheelbarrows, otherwise there would be so much animal power available for such a large-scale soldier and horse.

The Ming court was requisitioned and issued, ordering Shaanxi, Shanxi and Beizhili to pay two taels of silver per Ding in each prefecture and county still under the control of the imperial court, and this policy made many people ruined.

But finally put together an army that can be handled, and the Ming court counted on this army to defeat the exile army and earn back some luck for the Ming Dynasty.

The tens of thousands of southern soldiers led by Lu Jiude, the eunuch who guarded Nanjing in Nanjing, seemed to be the most stable army in the entire Ming Dynasty, but the pressure he suffered was also the greatest.

The army of the two Huai generals Ma Gang has always maintained an offensive posture, building a large ship in Yangzhou, Jiangbei, looking at the posture of crossing the river at any time, while Chen Liu, the general soldier of Xuzhou who is stationed in the Xuzhou area of Fengyang Prefecture, is building boats in Chaohu Lake in Luzhou Mansion, and looks like it is going down the river.

There are 70,000 soldiers and horses in these two places, and they are all strong armies, and it is difficult for Lu Jiude, Huang Degong, and Liu Liangzuo to deal with them all the way, let alone maintain pressure on both sides at the same time. Lu Jiude continued to move, shrink and release the line, and recruited troops in Zhejiang, but he still felt that he was watched by two giant beasts and couldn't move.

At the end of the first month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the grassland north of Datong also became unstable......

In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, the order from Jinan City came to Zhang Kun's hands, and this order was a difficult thing to understand in the military order of the Jiaozhou battalion.

Zhang Kun led an advance team to the north, killed Xiang Fuyi, captured the Zhongtunwei City, and established the Tuntian Grange at the beginning of Yongping Mansion, but he was transferred to the Datong generation in Shanxi Province to serve in a partial division, and he was not the main general, which was not a reward, but more like a punishment.

However, Zhang Kun didn't have any plan for this order, he was as smart as him, but he could guess the intentions of Li Meng, the Duke of Qi, and he could also see that he had the intention to promote him.

Under the command of Zhang Jiang, the general soldier of Hebei, although relatives of the same clan can take care of each other, but in fact it is also a great limitation, after all, relatives and clans have to avoid suspicion, in the Hebei army, Zhang Kun has fewer opportunities to be promoted, and the reason why he took the initiative to run the grange is also to change from a military position to a civilian function with more space and prospects.

When he went to Datong, Shanxi, he was not ambiguous here, and simply explained the things at hand to the professionals such as Tuntian Zhuangtou and the bookstore from Shandong, and ordered two hundred personal soldiers to go together, and these personal soldiers selected by Zhang Kun were all proficient in firearms.

Going from Yongping Mansion to Shanxi, looking at the difficulties and obstacles, but with the help of the Jinzhou Liu family in Zhending Mansion, all this is extremely easy.

Zhang Kun and his entourage, disguised as a caravan, arrived in Datong on the twenty-first day of the first month, according to the official position of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Kun was only the rank between the garrison and the thousand generals, but the order of the Duke of Qi Guo arrived in advance gave Zhang Kun a very high position, the deputy general of Chen Yongfu, the general of Datong.

At present, Datong's troops under the control of the commander-in-chief Chen Yongfu have Ou Man. Garris is responsible for an infantry regiment of 2,000 people, and there will be 4,000 people led by Yang Chengzu, a general of Datong appointed by the imperial court, while Zhang Kun only has 200 people in his hands, and his status in the army in the past may not be higher than Wei Li, but this time he was appointed as a deputy general.

Zhang Kun, the deputy garrison of the regiment, came to Datong Mansion from Hejian Mansion to see this appointment, and it was degraded there, and it was clearly promoted.

The original purpose of setting up the border town of Datong was to defend against the Mongol army on the steppe, and this enemy still exists to this day - it turned out to be the Tumut Department of Tatar Mongolia.

The Mongolian tribes in the steppe are a large force, with many factions, mainly divided into Eastern Mongolia and Western Mongolia, Western Mongolia is mostly the power of some Mongolized Turks and other ethnic groups, while Eastern Mongolia is the real Mongolian tribes such as Chahar, Korqin, and Tumut.

And these so-called Eastern Mongolian tribes are all allies or subordinates of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and a large number of Eastern Mongolian tribal cavalry participated in several entry and battles against the Ming Dynasty.

At the end of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, although the Manchu Tatars adopted a grand strategy of contraction, the Tumut Mongols, who were close to the border towns of Datong, were eyeing Datong and Shanxi.

You must know that the price of salt and iron sold suddenly skyrocketed more than ten times in three months, and no one can support it......

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