"The official army won a great victory, the official army won a great victory, the central army went deep into the steppe and annihilated 230,000 Mongolian cavalry."

As the good news of the Ming army was transmitted back to the Beijing Division, the entire Beijing Division was boiling, and the unprecedented victory of the 006th Division turned the Beijing Division into a sea of celebration.

The news soon spread to the provinces as well, and it quickly caused a huge sensation.

The Son of Heaven personally conquered the steppe, not only invincible, but also directly annihilated the Mongolian army of 230,000, which was simply an unimaginable victory.

Even when Chengzu swept the grassland, he never achieved such a brilliant victory. But today, it is beyond Chengzu's record.

"Daming Daily": "Today, Zi waved his army to the Northern Expedition and personally conquered Mongolia. The Mongol tribes were all frightened and panicked, and in a battle with the 006 Division, the Mongols lost 230,000 troops, intending to exchange the conditions of being a minister and paying tribute for a truce, which was rejected by the Son of Heaven. The reason why the Son of Heaven rejected Mongolia's request for peace was because the Northern Expedition to Mongolia of the Ming Dynasty would be a war of annihilation. ”

As soon as this report came out, the whole country attracted attention.

The battle situation after Zhu Youxiao's personal conquest of Mongolia obviously exceeded many people's expectations, and the expected futility did not appear.

In less than a month of spring, the Ming army achieved an unprecedented victory in the war against Mongolia. At the same time, what makes people even more unbelievable is that the official claims that this is a war to destroy the country.

But how to destroy the Mongols?

This issue soon caused huge controversy, and many people still thought that it was impossible for the Ming Dynasty to destroy Mongolia, after all, the Mongolian steppe was too big, and the Mongols could hide and hide everywhere.

However, they were soon slapped in the face, and the "Daming Daily" soon reported on the grand occasion of road construction and city construction on the grassland.

"Our Daming Railway has run through the north and south of Mongolia. A small fort for five miles along the way. Ten miles and a big fort. A town in fifty miles, a city in two hundred miles. Mongolia can be divided into two within three months, and another railway can be built through the east and west of Mongolia within half a year. ”

The emperor built the railway to Mongolia, and many people suddenly realized.

If there were railways, where would the Mongols still be able to jump.

Once the railway was built to Mongolia, the Ming Dynasty would be able to gain a firm foothold in the steppe. The Mongols will not be able to graze normally on the steppes and will only be consumed by the Ming in the end.

The construction of railways and cities to Mongolia was slow, but it was the most effective way.

In fact, the great victory achieved by the 006th Division has already made Zhu Youxiao's pro-campaign very beautiful, and at this time, even if Zhu Youxiao's class teacher returns to the dynasty, it will be able to blow for N years.

Obviously, Zhu Youxiao did not go to conquer Mongolia for the sake of bragging about his great achievements, but for the actual interests of the Ming Dynasty.

As long as the Mongols are eliminated, the Ming Dynasty will no longer need to send millions of soldiers to guard against the Mongols in the north. At the same time, it will also be able to completely obtain various resources in Mongolia, and the grassland economy will become very large, and Mongolia will also have various mineral resources and so on. And in terms of long-term strategy. It is also beneficial to the Ming Dynasty and harmless.

Whether it is to save military spending or eliminate hidden dangers. Or to open up commodity markets and raw material production areas, the Ming Dynasty has the interest motive of destroying Mongolia.

Therefore, the battlefield is really from the beginning, and it is not for any good success.

Of course, this real military expenditure may become relatively large, after all, the construction of a large number of railways and towns on the grasslands, these are all smashed with money.

However, as long as the railway is repaired, it can be used in the future, which can be said to be an investment, and it is obviously not a loss.

The defeat of the Mongols was a foregone conclusion, the only question was how long it would take for the emperor to end the war and allow the Ming army to withdraw from the Mongols.

It is clear that this war will not last long, because the Mongols have lost again. The 50,000 cavalry led by Wang Guoxiong finally caught the main Mongolian force, and under a violent attack, the main Mongolian force has been completely defeated.

The defeated Mongol army soon scattered and fled in all directions on the steppe.

Many of the Mongol cavalry did not go to join Lin Dan Khan, but went back to their tribes, or simply wanted the Ming army to surrender.

After all these years of contact, the Mongols also understood the Ming army's policy of dealing with prisoners. To deal with the captured Mongols, the Ming army would not take their lives, at least they could hold on to their lives. If their tribe also surrendered to the Ming army, they would be free.

Lin Dan Khan has obviously been defeated, at this time, many tribes of Mongolian cavalry, as long as they have not been transferred, basically surrendered to the Ming army has become a foregone conclusion, simply surrender, these Ming troops can still send them back, so as not to look around in the steppe.

Under such circumstances, there were fewer and fewer troops following Lin Dan Khan.

Although the Ming army did not know where Lin Dan Khan was hiding, they knew that Lin Dan Khan would definitely flee to Central Asia after his defeat. And it must have been with a large number of cavalry, and among the Mongol cavalry that fled in the direction of Central Asia, the largest number must have been the troops led by Lin Dan Khan.

The pursuit of the Ming army lasted for nearly three days, all the way to the Tangnu Ulianghai area.

Lin Dan Khan had fled the Mongolian steppes from the narrow valley of the Tangnu-Uliang Sea and fled to Central Asia in disarray. There is no need for the Ming army to pursue it, the Ming army has won this war.

The Ming army wanted the Mongolian steppe, and Lin Dan Khan didn't care much about his life or death. The next thing for the Ming army to do was to close the door and fight the dogs, and completely eliminate the participating military forces of the Mongols.

Wang Guoxiong directly occupied the long and narrow river valley leading to Central Asia, and arranged machine guns here, as long as the terrain here was arranged with machine guns, it was basically impossible to open a man's house.

Mongolia is finished.

Then there's the sweeping environment.

Wang Guoxiong then counted the results of the battle, and found that more than 50,000 Mongolian cavalry were killed and nearly 60,000 Mongolian cavalry were captured.

There were also large numbers of Mongol cavalry scattered throughout the steppe.

After determining the results of the battle, Wang Guoxiong immediately sent the battle situation back to the headquarters.

When Wang Guoxiong's battle report was returned to the headquarters, Zhu Youxiao was overjoyed.

"There is no longer any suspense in this war, and Lin Dan Khan has been driven to Central Asia. Mongolia could no longer organize any decent resistance. Railroad lines can be extended, and towns don't have to be built as much. Two hundred miles to build a city will do. Sun Chengzong suggested to Zhu Youxiao.

"What Aiqing said is reasonable. That's it. Zhu Youxiao agreed to this suggestion. Suddenly the plan for the construction of the railway and the city was changed.

Then Zhu Youxiao personally led more than 200,000 Ming troops. Begin a sweep across the steppes. The first area to be swept was the eastern part of the Mongolian steppe.

It has not been swept up before, and there are many Mongol tribes grazing in the area. Lin Dan Khan also did not have time to transfer these tribes.

This sweep became Zhu Youxiao's spring outing, and it didn't look like a war at all. The tribes in the eastern part of the Mongolian steppe surrendered one after another under the sweep of the Ming army.

These surrendered Mongols were soon taken by the Ming army to the areas already controlled for resettlement.

The resettlement policy of the Ming Dynasty is very simple, and it is the same as the previous Mongolian resettlement policy, each Mongolian household is allocated 5,000 mu of grassland, and if the conditions are poorer, more can be allocated to them.

This time, however, it was no longer the Mongol aristocracy that was in charge of the Mongol herdsmen. Rather, the Ming Dynasty directly administered these Mongolian herders. Tax collection is also carried out by the Ming Dynasty, and it is a policy of ten taxes and one tax. The pastures are grazed in rotation every year, and the livestock raised are mainly sheep, and the number of goats must be controlled to less than five to avoid damaging the pastures.

As for the Mongol nobles of those tribes, they were imprisoned by the Ming army. The Ming Dynasty will no longer distribute any ruling benefits to these people to prevent them from forming a separatist force.

"Your Majesty, the yellow sheep is roasted, you can taste it."

"Everyone, let's try it together."

On the steppe. Zhu Youxiao and a group of ministers roasted a few yellow sheep, and the whole process of pro-conquest was relaxed and pleasant. The most delicious thing on the grassland is yellow mutton.

Meat of wild animals in general. It's not very tasty, but it has some strange taste, and it's not as good as the meat of domestic animals.

However, the yellow mutton is very delicious, and the Han people have regarded the yellow mutton as a good thing since ancient times. After a large number of killings, the yellow sheep became extinct in the Central Plains, but there are still yellow sheep in Mongolia, which makes Zhu Youxiao feast.

On the other hand, the sweep of the Ming army made a large number of tribes lay down their arms and surrender to the Ming army, and the efficiency of the sweep was still very fast.

After all, people on the grassland can run, but cattle and sheep can't hide.

Under the intensive search of the Ming army, those tribes could not hide at all. As long as it is exposed, the sweep of the Ming army will come soon.

The scale of railway construction by the Ming army on the grassland was also larger, and the construction of the east-west railway line was directly started, and the efficiency of the utilization of human resources was greatly increased.

Basically, within a year, the main railway lines of the entire Mongolian region can be repaired, and some railway branch lines can be built at the same time.

The victory of the war also allowed the Ming to capture a large amount of booty, a large number of cattle, sheep, horses, and many Mongols.

However, the cattle and sheep were still allocated to the Mongolian herders to resume production, and if they coveted this little profit and destroyed the production on the grassland, it would be more than worth the loss.

After all, the grassland economy is still relatively important to the Ming Dynasty, which needs raw materials such as wool and leather produced on the grassland.

Only when production is resumed, can we continue to milk Daming.

However, a lot of war horses have been captured, and these are real trophies. Some gold, silver, jewelry, and other things were also seized, all of which were vegetable farms of the Mongolian aristocracy.

In this war, except for those Mongolian nobles who followed Lin Dan Khan to Central Asia, the other Mongolian nobles will be wiped out by the Ming Dynasty next.

The Mongolian tribes in the eastern part of the Mongolian steppe basically had no armed force to resist the Ming army at this time, and after the sweep lasted for nearly two months, this steppe area was basically swept by the official army led by Zhu Youxiao, and most of the Mongolian tribes were swept away.

This entire grassland was also included in the notification area by the Ming army.

Zhu Youxiao transferred a large number of officials and civil servants from the rear and began to resettle these Mongolian herdsmen, who no longer existed in a tribal model, but became independent in the model of family ranches and owned their own property.

When the Ming army swept into western Mongolia, it was resisted by some rebel forces. The resistance was all Mongol cavalry that had been routed from the battlefield. Many Mongolian nobles were making their last stubborn resistance at this time.

If the Ming army wanted to sweep the western part of Mongolia clearly, it had to rely on the railway and city network to carry out continuous sweeps.

Zhu Youxiao was determined to establish a new order in Mongolia, and those Mongolian nobles became the biggest casualties, which is why the war continued. 、

If Zhu Youxiao was willing to give these Mongolian nobles a way out and give them some ruling benefits, even if not a lot, a large number of Mongolian nobles would submit to the Ming Dynasty, and the war would basically end directly.

The Ming Dynasty, who was already able to crush these Mongol nobles in terms of strength, did not need to make any compromises. After Zhu Youxiao swept the eastern part of Mongolia, he immediately deployed his military forces to the western part of Mongolia, relying on the supply of railway supplies, and began to carry out a continuous sweep in the steppe areas of western Mongolia.

Another big victory was transmitted back to the Guannei, and this time the whole country of Daming was completely shocked. The Great Khan of Mongolia was driven out of the Mongolian steppe and fled to Central Asia?

The war of the Ming Dynasty against Mongolia has been basically won?

The occupation of the Mongolian steppe by the Ming Dynasty has become a fact, and Mongolia will become a province of the Ming Dynasty in the future?

With these doubts, people from all over the country who are following this war have continued to pay attention to the direction of the war situation.

In the middle of the fifth lunar month of the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse, the railway of the Ming Dynasty was finally built to Ulaanbaatar in later generations, that is, the new royal city of Lin Dan Khan.

The Mongols here have run out.

By the time the railway was built here, the Daming had already taken control of the eastern Mongolian steppe and had swallowed half of Mongolia.

This was followed by a full-scale sweep to the west.

The railroad soon played a huge role, and the Ming army could get ample supplies through the railroad. The towns along the railway line were very effective in preventing sudden attacks and harassment by the Mongols.

With the Ming army under the battalion step by step, it was only a matter of time before the entire western part of Mongolia was taken.

The Ming army has been completely victorious in this war. (To be continued.) )