After listening to Batur Huntaiji's narration, Li Hongfei also felt a lot of emotion. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In the absence of advanced equipment such as tanks, armored vehicles, or heavy machine guns, automatic weapons, etc., the only ones who dared to argue with the Cossack cavalry were probably the Mongol cavalry.

And Li Hongfei also knew in his heart that in the next few decades or even hundreds of years, cavalry will still be the mainstream of expeditions carried out by the armies of various countries, and if the Ming Dynasty wants to continue to expand its territory, powerful cavalry is an indispensable part.

The formation of the new cavalry has begun to be implemented, but no matter in terms of equipment cost or combat effectiveness, it is still inferior to the old cavalry troops.

Batur Huntaiji's suggestion was very useful, and it also made Li Hongfei excited, after all, the other party can become the leader of the largest tribe in the Mongolian steppe, and his strategic vision and ability to command troops are still worthy of recognition.

Eventually, Batur Huntaiji successfully became the commander-in-chief of the Mongol cavalry column.

However, the 8,000 Junggar cavalry under his command (the descendants and collateral lines are added together) were all scattered and supplemented into the major cavalry divisions, which was the usual means of the Ming Dynasty to control the army, even if the combat effectiveness was reduced, it was not hesitated.

What's more, after becoming the Ming National Defense Army, even if the Mongolian cavalry still mainly uses cold weapons, its combat effectiveness will not be reduced much.

Among other things, the three hundred 70-mm field guns specially equipped for the Mongol cavalry alone were enough for them to face any equal number of enemy cavalry, and they would not be left behind.

After Batur Huntaiji announced his submission to the Ming Dynasty, the entire Mongolian steppe belonged to the Ming Dynasty in theory.

That is to say, the Russian-Manchurian coalition army is now rampant and domineering in the Mongolian steppe, which can be regarded as "invading" the Ming Dynasty, and the participation of the Ming army in the war has become an inevitable trend.

On July 23, 1651, the Ming Dynasty officially declared war with the two countries on the grounds that the Russian-Manchurian alliance invaded the land of the Ming Dynasty and brutalized the people of the Ming Dynasty!

On July 24, under the order of the commander-in-chief Zhang Chao, the Ming army moved from west to east, and at the same time from Suzhou, Liangzhouwei, Xiningwei, Ningxia Zhongwei, Ningxiawei, Yan'an, and Datong.......... A total of 300,000 troops were sent to cross the previous Mongolian-Ming border and officially enter the Mongolian region.

At the same time, the Ming court issued a war mobilization order, ordering the Central Plains to enter the wartime system, and the defenders in the Central Plains were automatically upgraded to the national defense field army, as the second echelon, ready to support the front-line battlefield.

Some retired soldiers under the age of 40 go to the local militia management department to report and participate in basic military training, so that they can be replenished into active duty at any time and go to the front line.

As soon as the wartime system was promulgated, the number of soldiers in the Ministry of National Defense, which was less than 500,000, was instantly expanded by half, reaching a huge number of 700,000 field troops.

This is only a war mobilization order issued to Central China, and the south of the Yangtze River has only entered a state of second-level combat readiness, turning some private enterprises into military industrial enterprises, and even the Ministry of Defense has not even expanded the number of recruits.

It can be said that only with veterans who have been on the battlefield before and have actual combat experience, the Ming Dynasty can arm at least 1 million field troops.

Simply competing in strength, even Lao Maozi is not the opponent of Daming..........

In fact, Li Hongfei really has nothing to worry about about the war in Mongolia, whether in terms of military strength or geographical location, the Ming Dynasty has an absolute advantage.

Tsarist Russia's military center of gravity in Eastern Europe, the attack on Mongolia was originally a labor expedition, although there was the Manchu Qing assistance, but the Ming Dynasty also won the hearts of the Mongolian tribes, plus the Mongolian cavalry assistance, the Manchu Qing Dynasty's advantage in the field can be ignored.

As for the contest between the Ming Dynasty and Tsarist Russia, anyone with a discerning eye can see which is stronger and which is weaker.

Of course, in any war, no one can arbitrarily judge the victory or defeat until the last moment, and there are countless examples in history of the weak defeating the strong.

However, it just so happened that the Ming army led by Li Hongfei had fought several classic battles in which the weak defeated the strong, so it was almost impossible for the Russian-Manchurian coalition army to find self-confidence in this aspect.

After Li Hongfei formally signed the war order in Suzhou, he soon stopped caring about the entry of the national defense forces into Mongolia, but turned his target to the Ming air force, which had been dormant in the northwest border area.

That's one of his main goals here.

Since the instructor was stationed in Majiazhuang, Beijing, the Air Force was driven by Li Hongfei to this bitter cold place in the northwest.

At first, Guo Sheng also thought that it was out of the need for secrecy, after all, the airship was too large and easy to attract attention.

However, after the Air Force came, the scientific researchers in charge of the airship research program did not accompany them at all, but moved to a naval base in Bohai Bay.

After all, most of the scientific researchers in the Ming Dynasty wear many hats, and it is impossible to set up a research institute in the northwest for the sake of an airship research plan.

More importantly, the power system of the airship is comparable to that of the early ship power system, and the study of the power system of the ship at the naval base is of great help to the development of the power system of the airship.

Therefore, the relocation of airship researchers to the naval base is not only to facilitate the use of local materials, but also to provide inspiration for the design of the power system.

Since the institute is not moved to the Northwest Territories, what is the Air Force to be transferred here?

It wasn't until a year ago, on the eve of the invasion of Mongolia by the Russian-Manchurian coalition army, that Li Hongfei issued a secret warrant that solved Guo Sheng's doubts.

It turned out that Li Hongfei was going to attack Xinjiang and Tibet...........

As for why the sensitive period of the invasion of Mongolia by the Russian-Manchurian coalition was chosen, it was because once a war broke out in Mongolia, the eyes of the surrounding countries in the Western Regions would be focused on the Mongolian steppe.

This is thanks to Situ Yan's intelligence system, which detected the small moves of Tsarist Russia and the Manchu Qing Dynasty in time, which allowed Li Hongfei to anticipate the enemy's opportunities everywhere and arrange his followers in advance.

So in this year, Guo Sheng sent his most elite special forces to cooperate with the agents of the National Security Bureau's Field Service Department to go deep into Xinjiang and Tibet, with the special forces responsible for protection and deterrence by force, and the agents of the National Security Bureau responsible for inducement and incitement.

In just one year, many middle-level officials in the fifteen countries of the Western Regions, and even some high-level officials in small countries, have been bribed or installed by the National Security Bureau.

Even which countries can be recovered peacefully, which countries will resist, how many main forces of resistance there are, and how many troops will be needed to suppress them, the NSA has figured it out.

Why did the Ming Dynasty "occupy" the Mongolian tribes, and even if they wanted to send troops, they had to work hard to create all kinds of reasons, while for Xinjiang, Tibet and other places, they directly used the word "recovery"?

The reason is very simple, as early as 1368, the Ming army conquered the capital of Yuan, the Yuan Dynasty fell, Yuan Huizong fled north to today's Mongolian region, and continued to use the country name "Great Yuan", known as "Northern Yuan" in history.

Until the fall of the Northern Yuan Dynasty in 1402, the Mongols were divided into many tribes, most of which chose to be a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty in order to protect themselves, and this was done for more than 200 years, during which although wars broke out with the Ming Dynasty many times, they were never occupied by the Ming Dynasty.

That is to say, Mongolia can only be regarded as the territory of the Yuan Dynasty in a fundamental sense, and has never been included in the Ming Dynasty, so the entry of the Ming National Defense Force into Mongolia, without a legitimate reason, can only be regarded as an armed invasion, which is the so-called "occupation".

Xinjiang is different from Tibet, not to mention the Xinjiang region, which has been an inseparable part of Chinese territory since the Han Dynasty.

In 60 B.C., the central government of the Western Han Dynasty established the Western Regions Protectorate, and Xinjiang officially became part of Chinese territory.

In 1406 alone, the Ming Dynasty set up Hamiwei in Xinjiang and appointed local clan leaders to oversee local military and political affairs for officials at all levels and maintain the security of trade routes.

No matter what happened to Xinjiang later, and no matter how many "independent kingdoms" were derived from this region, the Ming Dynasty never recognized their legal status, and in the national map of the Ming Dynasty, it was clearly marked that Xinjiang belonged to the Ming Dynasty.

As for Tibet, it was conquered by the Mongol Khan Kublai Khan in 1271 and was officially incorporated into the Chinese territory.

It was not until 1368 A.D. that the Ming Dynasty replaced the Yuan Dynasty and made a peaceful transition in the form of confiscating the old seals of the Yuan Dynasty and replacing them with the new seals of the Ming Dynasty, and inherited the national sovereignty over Tibet.

Both Xinjiang and Tibet, at least in the early Ming Dynasty, were part of the Ming provinces, although the Ming Dynasty was weakened in the middle and late periods, unable to control these two places, but the successive Ming Dynasty rulers have never recognized the independence of these two places, and even vassal states have not been canonized.

Therefore, attacking Xinjiang and Tibet can only be regarded as "recovering the homeland", not "occupying", and even if it is the most despicable sneak attack strategy, there will be no opposition in China..........

Now that the analysis of the strength of various countries is placed in front of Li Hongfei, he will wait for Li Hongfei to read the analysis book and decide the final plan.

"After reading your analysis book, I found that this Yarkand Khanate is the most arrogant one, and if you want to recover Xinjiang, it seems that you have to start with him!" Li Hongfei quickly came to a conclusion.

The Yarkand Khanate was founded in 1514 by Sultan Saeed Khan on the former land of the former Chagatai Khanate.

The capital of the Khanate was in Yarkand, and its territory included the Turpan, Hami, and Tarim basins.

The territory of the Khanate is bordered by the Jiayuguan Pass of the Ming Dynasty in the east, Tibet in the south, Kashmir in the southwest, Uzbek Bukhara Khanate in the west, Ferghana Valley in Uzbekistan, Tien Shan in the north, and Dzungaria in the north.

Although the Yarkand Khanate was "illegal" to the Ming Dynasty, the strength of the other side should not be underestimated, and in terms of territory alone, it was the largest of the fifteen states in the Western Regions.

At the same time, his force is not weak, in the more than 100 years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, once invaded the Ming Hamiwei, Shazhouwei, Chijin Mongolian Wei, until the Ming army was forced to retreat to Jiayu Pass, it can be seen that this country is not easy to provoke.

In addition, the other party controls the Silk Road, and the economy is not much worse than the northwest region of the Ming Dynasty, and it is really difficult to rely on money to buy the other party.

"The current leader of the Yarkand Khanate, whose name is Abdullah, is a staunch hater of the Han people, and he is good to the people of the Ming Dynasty of other nationalities, but if he finds that there are Han people doing business in the Yarkand Khanate, regardless of the reason, he will confiscate all his belongings and expel him from the country, and at worst punish him for a crime and kill him on the spot." An NSA intelligence officer explained.

The intelligence work of the Yarkand Khanate was the most difficult thing to do, and if it was not done well, it would be a matter of worrying about one's life, and as for the development of intelligence personnel of ethnic minorities, they were worried that the time would be too short for them to smoothly master all kinds of intelligence skills.

In the end, the NSA could only select some agents with strong linguistic talents to specialize in learning the languages of ethnic minorities in the northwest region, so as to infiltrate the Yarkand Khanate to steal intelligence.

Even so, the NSA lost more than a dozen elite agents to figure out the distribution of forces in the Yarkand Khanate, as well as cultural customs.

"Since the Russian-Manchurian alliance invaded the Dzungar region, the Yarkand Khanate has also begun to move, and even secretly colluded with Tsarist Russia, Chen Bing Junggar border, it seems that he wants to take the opportunity to get a piece of the pie. The subordinates felt that since the other side had transferred the main force to the Dzungar border, resulting in the empty army of the capital Yarkand, this was the best time for us to launch an attack. The intelligence officer continued.

The Yarkand Khanate and the Dzungar Khanate have always been hostile forces, and border clashes break out between the two sides almost every year.

Although Tsarist Russia wants all the territory of the Junggar Khanate, Lao Maozi is also self-aware, it belongs to the labor expedition, and there are nearly 500,000 civilians in the Junggar Khanate, so it is a bit unrealistic to completely eat this area in a short time.

At this time, the Yarkand Khanate took the initiative to post it, but it allowed Tsarist Russia to find a better solution.

That is, in exchange for the food and material supplies of the Yarkand Khanate, part of the land that was not actually occupied.

The Yarkand Khanate occupies the important trade checkpoint of the Silk Road, and the food and materials are naturally very rich, and it is undoubtedly a very cost-effective deal for the Yarkand Khanate to exchange a part of the grain and materials for a large area of land in the enemy country.

Of course, this was no different for Tsarist Russia.

Food and materials are scarce resources, with these things, the Russian army can solve the logistics supply problem of some long-distance expeditions, not to mention that this land is dead, and it can't run away if it is left there, so it will be temporarily handed over to the care of the Yarkands, and when the time is ripe, it will be "taken" back.

No matter what kind of calculations the two sides had, but everyone hit it off very tacitly, just before the Ming Dynasty officially entered the war, the Yarkand Khanate had already increased troops to the Junggar border area, intending to expand its territory.

"That's a good analysis, by the way, what's your name?" Li Hongfei asked.

"His subordinate Yang Song, who was previously the captain of the Gongwei Division of Jinyi Wei Xining Mansion, is now the head of the Western Regions Branch of the Field Service Department of the National Security Bureau." Yang Song replied.

can lurk in the northwest region until the whole country is unified as a Jinyi guard, which shows that the other party is definitely an old spy.

After all, the previous northwest was ruled by the peasant army for several years, and then the Manchu Qing and Dashun armies fought several big battles here.

Of course, from the intelligence analysis of the countries of the Western Regions, everything has been proven.