"Your Majesty, the informant is the leader of a small Mongol tribe, and according to his account, they came into contact with the remnants of the Jiannu while raiding Russia. The remnants of the Jiannu had hooked up with Lin Dan Khan again, but this time they were raiding Russia together. Lin Wence entered the palace and reported to Zhu Youxiao.

"So, did the remnants of Jiannu run to the lower Volga River basin?" Zhu Youxiao looked at the map and asked. Lin Wence nodded and said: "According to the information from the informant, it is speculated that the remnants of the Jiannu should have escaped to the region and hooked up with the Mongolian Tumut Department, but I don't know what their relationship is for the time being." ”

"I'll let Jinyiwei investigate." Zhu Youxiao nodded, and Lin Wence asked, "Your Majesty, do you want Mongolia to put pressure on you and change your policy towards Mongolia?" ”

"Don't make a noise for now, just don't know anything." Zhu Youxiao said.

"Obey." Lin Wence bowed, and then withdrew from the Qianqing Palace. Zhu Youxiao summoned Tian Ergeng to the Qianqing Palace and handed over the task.

"Your Majesty rest assured, the minister will immediately send someone to the Volga region to spy on intelligence, but it may take a little longer." Tian Ergeng said.

"This matter is not too urgent, first find out the movements of the remnants of Jiannu." Zhu Youxiao nodded and said, the remnants of Jiannu must be wiped out no matter what, and the blood of millions of Han people in Liaodong cannot be shed in vain.

After Tian Ergeng retired, Zhu Youxiao convened another military meeting and issued orders to the Northeast Military Region, the Northwest Military Region, and the Central Military Region to prepare for war.

"Lin Dan Khan colluded with the remnants of Jiannu again this time, obviously he is still a thief, I must continue to give some color. All military regions should hurry up their preparations for war, and when the time is ripe, we will personally conquer Mongolia again. Colonel Zhu Youxiao decided at the military meeting.

The emperor had a personal expedition to Mongolia, but no one objected. Sun Chengzong did not object to anything. The emperor's personal expedition to Mongolia is also the traditional 'program' of the Ming royal family. Ming Chengzu Zhu Di personally conquered Mongolia three times, and all of them returned victoriously. However, Yingzong's personal expedition to the tile spur resulted in the change of Tumu Fort, which is more tragic.

Originally, after Yingzong, the emperor was more cautious in his personal expedition. However, Zhu Youxiao had already personally conquered Mongolia once. He also defeated the Mongols.

With the current national strength of the Ming Dynasty after the reform, it is not difficult to conquer Mongolia.

What's more, it was also a hasty dispatch of troops, and there was plenty of time to prepare.

"Your Majesty, since you are going to conquer Mongolia, the imperial court must not continue to export weapons and equipment to Mongolia, lest Mongolia's strength be too inflated and difficult to deal with at that time." Sun Chengzong said.

"Aiqing doesn't have to worry, that bit of weapons and equipment is not a matter of concern. My Ming military industry has long been different from what it used to be. Zhu Youxiao said calmly.

He dared to continue exporting cold weapons and armor to the Mongols. Naturally, he has his killer feature. At this time, the military manufacturing technology of military factories has advanced by leaps and bounds, and the emergence of steam forging hammers has greatly reduced the manufacturing cost of military equipment. At the same time, hydraulic presses were also developed, but the tonnage was relatively small. But such a small-tonnage hydraulic press is not a problem for making steel rails and small-caliber guns.

At this time, Daming was developing a larger tonnage hydraulic press, and if a breakthrough could be made, then the artillery manufacturing technology would change from iron mold casting cannons to forging cast cannons.

The most important thing is that smokeless gunpowder began to be used in the military, and the bolt rifle developed by Zhu Youxiao's order has already been eyebrow-raised. It's just that it's not finalized yet.

Zhu Youxiao's statement that the time is ripe is actually waiting for a new rifle.

Once a new rifle is developed. Then the Mongols could only completely hit the streets, and since then they have been reduced to the existence of soy sauce. Originally, Zhu Youxiao also wanted the Mongols to act as a-stirring stick in the Eurasian continent, but the Mongols dared to hook up with the remnants of Jiannu, and I don't know who gave them the courage to challenge the bottom line of the Ming Dynasty again and again.

In fact, it was Zhu Youxiao who gave the Mongols courage.

The Mongols plundered and exported wool and leather. He had a lot of money in his hand, and Lin Dan Khan used this money to buy a lot of weapons and equipment.

By the autumn of the tenth year of the Apocalypse, when bilateral trade was at its peak, the Mongols had nearly 50,000 sets of sophisticated cavalry equipment.

According to the agreement between the two sides, during the autumn trade of the eleventh year, Daming will also export 30,000 sets of sophisticated equipment to Mongolia.

Through the export of high value-added weapons and equipment. In exchange for a large amount of wool and leather with no added value, it is naturally a big profit for Daming.

Today, the annual profits from the Mongols are very considerable and are getting bigger and bigger. Bilateral relations, indeed, seem to be relatively relaxed at the moment.

However, Lin Dan Khan's mind is lively, as long as the current relationship is maintained, wait a few more years, when the Mongols are armed with more than 100,000 elite cavalry, it will not be easy to argue with the Ming State at that time.

For the defeat of the royal city at the beginning, Lin Dan Khan was apprehensive in the past, and he didn't even dare to think about retaking the royal city again. However, with the expansion of military power and the run-in of joint operations with Mobei Mongolia, Mobei Mongolia began to obey him, and its ambitions grew like weeds again.

Recapture the royal city and pastures.

A shame before the snow, attack the Central Plains!

All kinds of ideas kept germinating, and in the process of constantly plundering Central Asia and Russia, Lin Dan Khan suddenly felt that he had the hope of reviving Mongolia, and he was probably the second Genghis Khan!

Over time, Lin Dan Khan really regarded himself as a Genghis Khan-like figure and began to be stunned.

However, the defeat at the beginning was still a little shadowy. At present, the strength of Mongolia is not good to tear up the face with the Ming Kingdom, so Lin Dan Khan is still patient.

Wait a few more years, and the power of Mongolia will be a little stronger!

With the beginning of the spring of the 11th year of the Apocalypse, Lin Dan Khan once again set his sights on Tsarist Russia and began to break into Russia to plunder.

When Lin Dan Khan's troops arrived in the Volga River valley last year, they ran into Huang Taiji again, only to find that Huang Taiji had conquered the Tumut Division, and his life was still quite nourishing, and the Tumut Department led by him also had nearly 100,000 men, and his strength should not be underestimated.

Although Huang Taiji fled without a fight, Lin Dan Khan was quite resentful. However, it turned out that the Ming army at that time was indeed difficult to match.

Today's Huang Taiji, who looks like a human and a dog, has greatly increased his strength, and he can be regarded as an object that can be united. After Huang Taiji learned that the emperor of the Ming Kingdom continued to sell weapons and equipment to Mongolia. But he suddenly felt that revenge was hopeful, and tried his best to encourage Huang Taiji to first taoguang and raise obscurity, and then the two sides would join forces to attack the Ming Kingdom.

The two sides are willing, like dry firewood, hit it off, and hooked up together again. The two sides then concluded an agreement on a secret alliance and began joint operations. Plundering Tsarist Russia.

Russia in these years was also a relatively barbaric country, and it was not too weak in terms of force. However, after Huang Taiji conquered the Tumut tribe, he learned from the pain and strengthened discipline and training. The Mongols led by Lin Dan Khan, because of their sophisticated weapons and equipment, coupled with the continuous plundering of foreign countries in recent years, have also accumulated a lot of war experience, and they have frequently broken into Russia by virtue of the mobile advantage of cavalry. Plundered a large number of serfs.

After plundering these serfs, they were sold to the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty welcomed these Russian serfs, because these Russian serfs were used to being enslaved, and it was more convenient to use, and the Ming Dynasty only needed to give them a certain amount of remuneration and improve a little treatment, and these Russian serfs were willing to work happily.

Moreover, after these Russian serfs found that they were better treated in the Ming Dynasty than they were oppressed by those nobles in Russia. is also willing to stay in the territory of Daming to do things.

By plundering Russian serfs, the troops of Lin Dan Khan and Huang Taiji fought many battles with the Russian cavalry. They used the Russian army as a training object.

The Russians were forced hard, and suddenly a large number of well-equipped Mongolian cavalry appeared, and Huang Taiji continued to give advice to Lin Dan Khan, this guy was resourceful, and repeatedly made the Russian army disgraced and defeated.

These Russia can be said to be in big trouble, and Russia's power is a relatively frustrated country. That is, later in the Soviet era, it broke out.

Russia, of course, does not hesitate to deal with external invaders, because they have a climatic advantage. If any army invades Russia and wants to destroy the Russian regime, it will be freezing in winter. The alien invaders froze to death in large areas. Napoleon's French army, and Hitler's Nazi army in Germany, invaded Russia because of Russia's harsh climate.

Although Russia is relatively frustrated, the protective power of its dragon vein is relatively strong.

However, the Mongols and the remnants of the Jiannu that the Russians faced this time were not aimed at destroying the core power of Russia and completely governing Russia. It is a gang of bandits for the purpose of plundering people and money.

In general, it is troublesome to plunder the population to a certain extent. However, the Mongols and the remnants of the Jiannu could sell these people to the Ming Dynasty for money, and then buy the military equipment of the Ming Dynasty.

The pattern of war was completely different, these Mongols would never plunder Russia in winter, and even in the rainy season of autumn in Russia, the Mongols retreated.

Now the Russians are really down to blood, and they are being targeted by a group of bandits, which is really a disaster.

The Mongol raids also disrupted the process of Russia's continued expansion.

At this time, Russia was still a country located in the upper reaches of the Volga River, and its area of activity did not extend to the lower Volga River, and the lower reaches of the Volga River belonged to the territory of nomads. The Russians did already have a tendency to expand into the lower Volga and east of the Ural Mountains.

Historically, in the early days of the Qing Dynasty, Russia began to bully the surrounding nomads, and then some nomads returned to the Manchus.

And the Russians continued to expand eastward, but they only set up some strongholds, mined gold mines, and did not really develop and settle.

The real development of Siberia was only after Nicholas II built the Eastern Railway, and towns began to appear along this railway, and began to develop the resources of Siberia and the Far East. The real development east of the Ural Mountains was after the German army invaded the territory of the Soviet Union during World War II, and the Soviet Union moved its industry to the east of the Ural Mountains.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has risen, the Ming Dynasty and Russia have become the biggest opponents of the Ming Dynasty in occupying Siberia. Zhu Youxiao's support for Mongolia to plunder other countries and nationalities was not completely ineffective, at least it curbed the process of Russian expansion and allowed the Ming Dynasty to gain more time.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty was actively building a strategic railway to the Western Regions, once this railway was built, and then the railway could be repaired to the Central Asian steppe, so that the railway could be repaired to the lower reaches of the Volga River, Siberia and other places. As for the Eastern Railway in later generations, Zhu Youxiao also planned to build it, but not now.

The China Eastern Railway is very long, and there is not so much commercial interest for the time being, so we can wait until the local railway network is almost completed.

There will inevitably be a war between the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia in the future, and after the news that Lin Dan Khan came into contact with the remnants of Jiannu reached Zhu Youxiao's ears, Zhu Youxiao already felt that Lin Dan Khan's ambition was still immortal.

Zhu Youxiao did not immediately tear his face with Mongolia, there are great interests in trade with Mongolia, and exchanging weapons and equipment for wool makes bilateral trade profitable, and Zhu Youxiao is unwilling to lose this piece of fat. However, the threat of the Mongols could not be ignored, and the Mongols, who had obtained excellent equipment, did greatly improve their combat effectiveness.

It's time to update the army with equipment.

So Zhu Youxiao began to frequent the military factory, and smokeless gunpowder rifle cartridges have been manufactured in the military factory, but the gun design has always made Zhu Youxiao not very satisfied.

The military factory designed a total of more than a dozen rifles, and the performance was unsatisfactory, which made Zhu Youxiao a little disdainful, and the military factory could only continue to improve the design.

However, in the research and development of grenades, Zhu Youxiao was more satisfied.

With smokeless gunpowder, it didn't take much time for the military factory to develop a wooden-handled grenade, which was characterized by being thrown far enough and with smokeless gunpowder, the explosion was also the most powerful.

This kind of thing equips the Ming army, which has a great significance.

In this era of hand-to-hand combat, grenades can be used to kill and injure close targets. Of course, if the melee reaches a certain level, it can't be used.

If trench warfare appears, then the effect is even greater.

Thinking of trench warfare, Zhu Youxiao's eyes lit up, heavy machine gun! That thing is the big killer, and in this day and age, it may only take a heavy machine gun to turn a battle of thousands into a one-sided slaughter.

Zhu Youxiao immediately asked the military factory to set up a machine gun research and development group, and wrote down the chain bullets of the heavy machine gun and the principle of continuous ammunition supply by recoil, and handed them over to the research group for research and development.

"As long as a machine gun is developed, it will be rewarded." Zhu Youxiao said in front of a group of military factory R&D personnel that the machine gun is obviously not too complicated. The most important thing is to use the recoil feed, not everyone can have such a whimsy.

As long as you think about this, you will not be too difficult to develop a machine gun with more thought in terms of structural design. (To be continued.) )