Yes, this is Li Chen's handiwork. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info he found someone to write this, and also found someone to incite it, the purpose is to send troops to the north. However, Li Chen did not lie and deceive people, Mongolia has rich resources, which everyone knows.

In addition to the big copper mine and big gold mine that Li Chen said, there are many high-quality mineral deposits. Large iron ore, Baiyun Obo not only has a large iron ore, but also the world's largest rare earth mine, and the Sulige natural gas field in the Ordos Basin has huge reserves. There are five major open-pit coal mines in China, and they account for four of them.

In addition, there are alkali ore, fluorite, copper-molybdenum ore with the largest reserves of trona in Asia, high-quality graphite, natural silica sand, agate ore and miscanthus ore. More important is the oil reserves, which are 1.5 billion barrels.

Here, according to later statistics, there are more than 80 kinds of minerals in Mongolia. Mineral resources are very rich, but for a long time, this area is not the main activity area of the Han people, and those grassland peoples, do not have the knowledge and ability to discover, the shallow resources are dug up, the deep resources have no choice, so these resources are sleeping, sleeping until modern times to be excavated.

These resources are not the focus, as long as the entire Mobei is laid, it will naturally be Datang's. Li Chen didn't plan to develop it now, there are a lot of resources that are not used now, but he wants to send troops to the north, to build momentum, to mobilize the enthusiasm of the people, he thought of this aspect, simply took advantage of the new continent in the ascendant, and used newspapers to guide and discuss, so that the people were enthusiastic about the northern grasslands.

However, guidance is guidance, not only in terms of resources, but also that the Huns have superb copper craftsmanship, which is also true. Although in our impression, those nomads are riding and shooting, that is, herding sheep, and then they are Ao Bao.

Culturally. Economically, they are not as good as the Han people. In addition to making some leather jewelry, their craft is probably to make bows and arrows. It's just that many people don't know that in fact, as far back as the Qin and Han dynasties, the Huns also had superb bronze craftsmanship. This is also what Li Chen learned in college, which greatly subverted his previous impression of those nomads on the grassland, and made him remember it deeply, so now he brought it up again.

Actually, if you think about it, it's not unexpected. Bronze is probably the first metal widely used by human beings, with a relatively low melting point and a relatively good shaping ability. The history of the grassland, according to the research of later archaeologists, is actually not later than the history of the Han people.

The Yinshan area has a long history of ancient human activities, and it has been found that the kiln culture is 500,000 years ago, which is the Paleolithic culture of the same period as the Zhoukoudian Beijingers. By more than 5,000 years ago, this place was already part of Yangshao culture.

So it's no surprise that they have good bronze craftsmanship. In addition to weapons, there are also very good bronze handicrafts, the representative is the ornament. This is an ornament, widely used in belts, saddles or some decorations, and the technology is quite advanced.

The Huns were able to be fierce for a while during the Qin and Han dynasties, and they relied on this kind of bronze craft. Their bronze weapons are not bad. On the one hand, the Han Dynasty produced many famous generals, such as Wei Qing, Huo Quzhi, Li Guang, Li Ling, etc., and on the other hand, the Western Han Dynasty used the power of the whole country to crush the Huns.

In addition to these major aspects, the Han army has fully popularized iron weapons, which is even more powerful than their bronze weapons.

The reason for this gap is probably the gap between farming and grazing, which can feed more people with the same area, so that some professionals who do not participate in food production can be cultivated, and only then can science and technology progress. And grazing, this is not possible.

Therefore, it is not difficult to understand that Outer Mongolia has to go it alone. The blank space in Outer Mongolia is a pain in the hearts of all Chinese. We have the land, but it has been cut off from us. However, this can also be understood, grazing and farming are completely two different mentalities, and the Manchu Qing did not have the idea of completely integrating Mongolia into China, so there will be a later separation.

Far away, the point is not this, the point is that Li Chen guided this trend, took advantage of the profit-seeking mentality of the people of the Tang Dynasty, and launched this battle of the country, all of which made those people on the grassland very uneasy.

Datang's attitude towards the grassland this time is very different, they have no model to follow at all, and the emperor of Datang is obviously not satisfied with the name of a heavenly khan, and uses the reason that it has not appeared before to conquer them. And the way the grassland was handled after that was obviously different from before.

The way Datang treats the state of detention makes them very uneasy. Instinctively uneasy about a new way of life. What's even more disturbing is that the domestic atmosphere in the Tang Dynasty, they don't understand what is called popular support, and it is called guidance with theory, but their intuition is wrong.

The grassland is best to have copper and gold mines, we have lived here for hundreds of years, even since our ancestors, for thousands of years, where there are still copper and gold mines that have not been discovered. What our ancestors had a big copper mine to support us to make, what is some kind of forbidden word, stinky reason.

There are really people looking for it, but no one has ever found it. It was used as an excuse and reason for Datang, which made them very uneasy, and it also became a reason for them to resist the Tang army, and Datang was different from the past this time.

The resistance of the grassland was very fierce, and they constantly had to harass them, with tens to hundreds of people, harassing the Datang forwards.

This time, in addition to the different reasons for the Tang Dynasty's troops, the way of war is also different. In the past, when the Han people went out to the grassland, they always used cavalry as the mainstay, and the infantry army was to escort grain and grass behind, and they didn't even need to get the infantry army, because the infantry army was too slow to keep up with the speed of the cavalry.

Judging from the example of the Han Dynasty's several major defeats of the Xiongnu, most of them were cavalry. Wei Qing and Huo Qubing both used cavalry. In the fourth year of Yuanjiao, although a large number of infantry was also used, it was still mainly cavalry.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, when Li Jing, the Duke of Weiguo, broke the Eastern Turks, the infantry army was almost useless, Li Jing used 3,000 cavalry to constantly drive away the Huns, and then attacked at night, and the infantry army was useless, that is, following behind the large army, playing a threatening role.

But this time, the Tang army drove them unhurriedly, like driving sheep. The infantry army continued to build roads, kept building fortifications, and had to extend forward one by one, but they did not advance quickly. This confuses them.

This time the Tang army attacked with the infantry army as the main force. The cavalry is the forward reconnaissance, constantly driving them away, and the infantry army follows up, what is this for? They don't understand.

They tried the Khitan and gathered thousands of soldiers and horses, trying to outnumbered them and constantly encroaching on the Tang army. However, the Tang army was not stupid, and when he saw that there were many people, he immediately ran, united with the infantry army, and retreated to the well-repaired camp. The Khitan tried to attack, but the head broke and the blood flowed, leaving hundreds of men and horses, and not even a single hair was caught.

That camp, don't look big, but it's enough to accommodate a hundred people, relying on the camp, the Tang army keeps shooting, in addition to the tricky and vicious muskets, there are also powerful artillery, the Khitans are like dogs gnawing hedgehogs, nowhere to start, they don't even have siege weapons, they can only rely on flesh and blood, and finally run away in embarrassment.

However, they still didn't give up, and once again. Several ministries united, and they tried to encircle the point to send reinforcements. Surrounded the most forward, newly repaired barracks, gathered nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses, intending to gradually eat the nearby Don army. But I didn't expect that I couldn't wait for anyone after waiting for two days.

The Tang army's camp was constantly advancing, and after it was repaired, it would gradually move forward to transport grain, grass, and materials, and after they observed it for a long time, they found that there was a pattern that at least a batch of materials would be sent every day.

Their idea is very good, to surround the camp, so that they can not get foreign aid, and they can also continue to loot the materials of the Tang army, and it is best to grab some Tang army gunpowder and Tang army muskets, so that they can fight and grow stronger.

But the ideal is very plump, but the reality is very skinny, I waited for two days and didn't wait for the expected supply of the Tang army, but I found that nearly 10,000 Tang army cavalry gathered, and they were almost surrounded. If it weren't for the expansion of the reconnaissance area in order to reconnoiter the traces of the Tang army's supply convoy, they would almost be surrounded, and then none of them would have been able to escape.

Now it's too late to run, the Tang army formed a semi-encirclement network, and launched an attack on the more than 10,000 grassland allied forces, they suffered heavy losses in this battle, the Tang army continued to attack with firepower, and they only cared about holding their heads and running away, and finally calculated, only half of the men and horses ran out, and the remaining half were either immortal sleep or became prisoners of the Tang army.

After that, they didn't dare to touch those strikers, and the Tang soldiers were fewer, so they immediately ran away. If the number of people did not reach more than four or five times that of the Tang army, the Tang army would even dare to attack without fear of sacrifice. They had muskets right away, and they fought very quickly. Two to three times the number of people, not even enough for the Don army to fight.

There were so many people that the Tang army didn't pay attention to them at all, and they still don't know what a telegraph is, and they don't know that there are telegraphs laid between the barracks, and each barracks is not isolated.

After that, they used various methods, such as double, or even triple armor, to see if they could withstand the muskets of the Tang army. It's useless, at most you can block it more.

The Tang army was very shrewd, when they found that they could resist the revolver gun immediately used from a distance, they consumed it with them, and used their own light riding fast horses, and dragged people tired and dragged down, before they started to clean up, it was ironic, they started on horseback, and often used the mobility of horses to bully the Han barbarians, and now they are dragged down by the Tang army.

It was even more useless to deal with the infantry army, and the infantry army didn't even feel that they had two layers of armor, and they didn't find out until they cleaned the battlefield. In the end, the loss of troops made many tribes who were originally uneasy because of the abnormal dynamics of the Tang Dynasty, and they made another trouble.

Before Li Chen sent his troops, he recruited envoys from all ethnic groups who were the envoys of the Tang Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty and intimidated them

After that, he drove them away and brought his opinions back to the grassland, which was not taken seriously at the beginning, but now it is fermented, and Li Chen has terrifying methods, so that some people do not dare to resist, and now they have suffered a big loss, and they want to surrender even more. After arguing for a few days, in the end, I finally agreed on my opinions, and if I couldn't win the fight, and I didn't want to surrender, then I ran away.

The Tang Army's march this time is really slow, let's consume it with the Tang Army. Datang sent 200,000 troops this time, and marched in two ways to see how long the Tang army could last.

The army of 200,000 people, including an equal number of horses, war horses and horses, the rear supply pressure is very great. Although I don't know how many people the Tang army actually used, it definitely won't last long. As long as they move, they will live in the water and grass anyway, take all their belongings with them, and run as far as possible.

Along the way, they also polluted the water source, so that the Tang army could not even find water. This is their best way to deal with the Han people, and the ancestors have wisdom.

It's just that the reason why I am running now, and I have lost a lot of young people to run, is also because of the wisdom of our ancestors, saying that now is not the time to run.

Finally, a cold winter has passed, and the spring of cattle and sheep is the time to grow meat. Migration is very physically demanding, and if you migrate now, I don't know how many cattle and sheep will fall on the way. But there is no way to do this, if you don't run, the Tang army will come.

However, it was not completely impossible to avoid losses, they sold a large number of cattle and sheep to those Datang caravans who were not afraid of death and dared to risk the danger to come to trade. Although the price is getting more and more expensive, even more than ten times, they still have to sell. Sell the thin cattle and sheep and exchange them for all kinds of supplies.

At this time, no one was going to rob them, and they threatened that the caravan would disappear near that tribe, and all the tribes in that vicinity would not want any caravan to approach.

As a result, because of the war caused by the attack on the Tang caravan, they still have to protect the caravan, otherwise those cattle and sheep will die here, and there is no way to get all kinds of supplies that they are in short supply. It's just, can they run away?

With a roar, the train entered the station, and as usual, it was another train in front, and the Yulin Army and the Shence Army appeared in it, responsible for the arch guard. It's just that an officer frowned as soon as he got out of the car.

'What's going on, why is there so much stuff piled up here?' He called the person in charge of the station and asked, and the person in charge said in a panicked manner, "General, because the train was delayed, it turned out that the train should have arrived early and arrived late." ’

As a result, the train left on time, and when it arrived, a large amount of goods would pile up here, and I immediately found someone to empty the place. ’

The officer was so impatient that he raised his hand to look at the watch he had bought last year, and he had to ask someone to clear a place, and after checking that the supplies were fine, he packed them in sacks and built a simple fortification.

After he did his security work, the train slowly entered the platform, and he hurriedly drove those helpers away, and asked the soldiers to form a team and line up to welcome Li Chen.

This is Youzhou City, outside Youzhou City. The train did not enter the city of Youzhou, and a huge railway station was set up outside the city, where a large number of supplies were gathered. Youzhou has become the transportation hub of the northern Tang Dynasty, don't forget that the Grand Canal also passes here,

Because of various factors, this is not only the starting point for Li Chen to set out to conquer the grassland, but even Li Chen began to build a new capital here.