The torrential rain continued to fall, and everyone felt as if they had fallen into the water, completely soaking wet. Rain trickles down the face, blurring people's vision.

Lin Dan Khan, under the poor visibility of the torrential rain, vaguely saw the dragon flag of the Ming Kingdom in the telescope. The whole person was not good in an instant, as if he had fallen into an ice cave, and a cold spread out from his heart.

"No way, this can't be!" Lin Dan Khan shouted in disbelief in his heart, he would rather believe that he was dazzled, than believe that there was another cavalry hidden in the Ming Kingdom, didn't Huang Taiji's group of Jiannu mean that there were only 20,000 cavalry?

Since the smuggled Jin merchants were served in a pot, Jiannu has long been blind to the people in the Ming Dynasty, and can only be blinded. How could they possibly know that the group of cavalry trained by Zhu Youxiao before was attacking thieves in Shaanxi and other places.

And how many cavalry there are in the Ming Dynasty, even those ministers in the court don't know, how can Jiannu know. This information obviously killed Lin Dan Khan, and this rainstorm made Lin Dan Khan even worse.

It can be said that Lin Dan Khan was very unlucky, and it is normal for him to be pitted.

When Lin Dan Khan picked up his glasses again to look at the past, the picture in the telescope was much clearer, which made Lin Dan Khan clearly see the attacking Ming cavalry.

The next moment, Lin Dan Khan was desperate.

Huang Taiji also noticed the movement over there, picked up the binoculars and looked at it, and then was so frightened that he was urinating, his fat body twisted on the horseback, and he turned around and ran away with 20,000 Jiannu cavalry in a panic.

Really ran, and ran cleanly, leaving the Mongols behind as cannon fodder.

It's like that joke. Two people were chased by tigers. You don't need to run faster than a tiger. You just need to run faster than the other person.

Holding the attitude of a friend of the dead and the poor, Huang Taiji saw that the situation was not right, so he ran away with the people.

When Lin Danhan saw Huang Taiji running away, he immediately beat his chest.

What about the festival? What about your rituals?

Jiannu, who didn't look back, seemed to be torturing him with his actions, how much is a pound of discipline? Bring me two pounds.

Lin Dan Khan only woke up at this time that Jiannu's barbaric and cunning snatching the group was completely untrustworthy.

In order to take in these Jiannu, Lin Dan Khan did not hesitate to fight with the Ming Dynasty. As a result, the tide of battle was just unfavorable. Immediately turned around and sold them.

It's really blind that I will take them in!

At this moment, Lin Dan Khan regretted it, but it was too late. The only thing you can do at this time is to run away!

The 30,000 Ming cavalry that suddenly came out of the box came in an instant and rushed to the battlefield quickly. The encircled Ming cavalry finally broke free from the encirclement. Immediately afterwards, the whole team was carried out, and then the retreating Mongols were pursued.

"Your Majesty, the overall situation has been decided, and the Mongols have been defeated." Sun Chuanting looked at the situation on the battlefield with a telescope on the high platform built by the Chinese army, and then said to Zhu Youxiao happily.

"......" Zhu Youxiao only felt speechless at this time, if the Mongols don't die. Obviously, the Ming army could not have won so easily.

"Your Majesty, now you can order the infantry to come out of the camp and charge." Lu Xiangsheng immediately suggested.

"Just send a few divisions out. The Chinese army should not mess up the formation, and then give orders to the cavalry troops, give me the main force of the Mongols, and do not give the Mongols a chance to assemble. Zhu Youxiao did not get carried away and shouted an order for the whole army to attack.

If all the Ming troops rushed out and killed a Mongol cavalry, it would be very happy and sad. Now the torrential rain is pouring down, the visibility itself is relatively poor, and the surrounding area is full of hills, and there is still a risk of being raided.

"No."

The camp gate was wide open, and tens of thousands of infantry slaughtered out of the barracks at this time, they actually just went out to sweep the battlefield, and many Mongolian cavalry who died on their horses became two-legged infantry, scattered all over the battlefield. And those Mongolian cavalry with horses were being chased by the cavalry of the Ming Dynasty at this time.

Many of the Mongol cavalry, in the confusion, broke away from the main army and ran back to the tribe on their own. The entire Mongol army soon fell apart.

There were also some Mongol cavalry who couldn't escape and simply surrendered.

On the previous battlefield, the Ming army was busy capturing the Mongols who were still alive, and the wounded were also treated with all their might out of humanity.

The so-called all-out treatment is also a bit of a guinea pig's rush.

At the request of Zhu Youxiao, the Central Army has emerged and trained the first batch of surgeons. According to the arm, sawing the thigh, taking lead bullet, blood transfusion, etc., these alien wounded became the best test subjects.

In the bloody surgery, these surgeons are making rapid progress according to the basic theories put forward by Zhu Youxiao.

However, those injured are a bit miserable, because the research on anesthetic drugs has not kept up, and they can only use acupuncture to anesthetize, and the effect is okay, but sometimes it doesn't work.

At the same time, the infantry began to clean up the battlefield and carry all kinds of dead bodies.

There were human corpses and horse corpses, many of which were bombarded beyond recognition and mutilated by artillery, and the tragic situation made some recruits in the Central Army vomit. People are like this, in the face of those disgusting things, they get used to it when they spit and spit it, and their nerves naturally become coarse.

In the evening, it was finally raining and clearing. A round of sunset showed half of its head, illuminating the clouds on the horizon golden yellow.

Looking at the brilliant sunset, Zhu Youxiao remembered Li Shangyin's poems.

"The sunset is infinitely good, but it's just near dusk."

It's just that Zhu Youxiao doesn't know whether this poem is suitable for depicting the Ming Dynasty or Mongolia. But there is no doubt that Lin Dan Khan is like this round of sunset that is about to set, and after this defeat, he can no longer pose any threat to the Ming Dynasty.

The defeat of the Mongols not only caused them to lose their royal city, but also caused Lin Dan Khan's prestige to plummet, and the Ming Dynasty was already able to dismantle Lin Dan Khan's rule over the steppe.

Lin Dan Khan was driven all the way out of the east of the Great Xing'an Mountains by the Ming cavalry and fled to the steppe. When he fled to the steppe, there were less than 50,000 Mongol cavalry left around him. The others are dead, and the others are scattered.

The next day, Zhu Youxiao entered the Mongol royal city. This so-called royal city. In fact, it is much more humble than the city of the Ming Dynasty. It's just a small city in the Ming Dynasty, or even worse.

At this time, there was not a single Mongol in the Mongol royal city, and all the Mongol tribes were transferred to the steppe in the west in advance.

"It seems that Lin Dan Khan was already ready to retreat before, but it's a pity that his brain was impulsive, otherwise this time he would not have been able to decide the overall situation so quickly in the battle with Mongolia." Sun Chuanting looked at the empty Mongolian royal city and said.

"That's how reckless men are." Lu Xiangsheng commented. Zhu Youxiao said in a good mood: "Hehe! It seems that in a few days, I will be able to return to Beijing, and I can leave it to you Aiqing here. ”

"Your Majesty. You might as well wait a few more days and bring some loot back with you. Sun Chuanting said.

"It's a good idea, but I don't know how much loot Wang Guoxiong and Li Wei can snatch back." Zhu Youxiao suddenly looked forward to it, and asked at the same time: "Have you counted yesterday's results?" ”

"Your Majesty, it's almost been counted, and it will be done later." Lu Xiangsheng replied, and as he was talking, he reported the statistics outside.

In yesterday's battle, nearly 50,000 Mongolian cavalry were annihilated, of which more than 4,000 were captured, and the rest were all killed on the battlefield.

And the Ming army also lost more than 2,000 cavalry on its side. Seeing this battle damage, Zhu Youxiao felt a pain in his flesh, but this kind of war damage was exchanged for a huge territory in the entire Northeast region. It can only be said that it is worth it.

It's so worth it.

Northeast China is a huge region, including the eastern part of Inner Mongolia in addition to the three eastern provinces. Now that Mongolia has been broken, the eastern part of Inner Mongolia in later generations has also been targeted by Zhu Youxiao.

In this area, there are nearly 400 million acres of arable land resources and nearly 700 million acres of grassland. At this time, the cultivated land developed by the Ming Dynasty in the northeast region was less than 100 million mu, and the development potential was very huge.

In these years, the Russians have not yet expanded into the Outer Northeast, and the arable land, grasslands and forest areas in the Outer Northeast will also be Ming. However, the area that is too far north is too cold, and there is no need to rush to full development for the time being, and those high-value resources can be developed first, such as gold mines.

Zhu Youxiao waited for three days in the Mongol royal city, and cavalry escorted back the captured Mongol soldiers one after another. By three days, the number of captured Mongol cavalry had risen to more than 40,000.

For these captives, Zhu Youxiao implemented a policy of differential treatment, as long as it was not the Tumut tribe under the direct jurisdiction of Lin Dan Khan, as well as those large tribes, the Mongol soldiers and Mongol nobles of other small tribes were all released.

And told them that as long as they are willing to submit to the Ming Dynasty and obey the control of the Ming Dynasty, they will all be allocated to the grassland, and each male will be given 5,000 acres of grassland. And the Ming promised never to tax them, and to open trade to them.

The policy of using Mongolia to contain Mongolia was officially put into effect.

The focus of this policy was to give profits to the Mongol aristocracy while at the same time dividing interests. Imagine, a group of small Mongolian tribes exploited by Lin Dan Khan, after subjugating the Ming Dynasty, did not have to be exploited by Lin Dan Khan, and at the same time, the Ming Dynasty did not tax them, and obtained a large amount of grassland, would they still be willing to return to the rule of Lin Dan Khan?

The Ming did not need to rely on taxation to exploit the Mongols, just through trade. But Lin Dan Khan can't, he has to be taxed. So such a measure is something that Lin Dan Khan cannot emulate.

But there are still direct taxes. But this tax will be collected by the Mongol nobles, and the collection will also go to the Mongol nobles. So as to give profits to those Mongolian nobles, let these Mongolian nobles help the Ming Dynasty maintain its rule.

So what should these small tribes do if they rebel after subjugating the Ming Dynasty?

This is easy to do, and it is directly suppressed!

These small tribes are numerous, and they do not belong to each other, and their lives are very good. Even if one or two small tribes of Mongol nobles rebelled, other Mongol nobles would not be willing to obey these rebellious Mongol nobles, and if they obeyed those rebellious Mongol nobles, it would not mean that they had entered a system ruled by Mongols, and the interests of these Mongol nobles would inevitably be harmed.

And under the Ming Dynasty, there was no need to pay taxes from above, and ordinary Mongolian herders could be exploited, where could such a good thing be found? And with money, you can go to Daming unimpeded to spend money, and go to the world of flowers to enjoy life. At that time, even if someone rebelled, those Mongolian nobles would take the initiative to help the Ming suppress the rebellion.

It's all about profit.

What Lin Dan Khan can't give, Daming can give.

While giving benefits to the Mongol aristocracy, by keeping these Mongols from subordinate to each other, there would be no problem of a single rebellion being a large group.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao only let the Mongol soldiers of the small tribes be released, and only accepted those small tribes who were subjugated. It is to avoid the emergence of a Mongolian tribe that is too powerful within the jurisdiction, and if a Mongolian tribe is too strong, it will not be so easy to suppress if it suddenly has enough to eat and support itself to rebel.

Swap for a few hundred small tribes, and it's pretty straightforward.

At that time, none of these Mongolian nobles will obey anyone, and it doesn't matter if a few people are full and want to rebel, it will be very easy to suppress. And the Mongol nobles of the small tribes, as long as they were not kicked in the head by a donkey, could not have rebelled.

Of course, the Ming Dynasty also wanted to ensure the interests of those Mongolian herdsmen, and would limit the amount of taxes levied by the Mongolian nobles. In this way, with enough pasture, Mongolian nobles and Mongolian herders can live with peace of mind.

5,000 acres of grassland can raise 500 sheep, but in order to protect the grassland, Zhu Youxiao decided to introduce a policy that 2,000 acres of grassland must be vacated every year for fallow grazing. This avoids overgrazing and prevents the pastures from desertification. Each herdsman raised 300 sheep a year, and even if the Mongolian nobles collected a 10% tax, they could live a good life.

And those Mongol nobles, who joined the ruling tribe of a thousand men, could get 30,000 sheep with a tax of 10%.

The most important thing is that after these Mongol tribes were subjugated to the Ming Dynasty, the pastures would be fixed. There will no longer be a big transition between spring and autumn.

In the past, these Mongols had to make a great transition in spring and autumn, because the steppe was a world of the jungle. Mongolian herders had to huddle so that they would not be wiped out by other tribes.

But the grassland is very large, so many livestock are concentrated together, it is necessary to continue to carry out nomadic herding, without nomadic herding can not raise so many livestock, the annual yield of pasture per mu of land on the grassland is only about 100 kilograms.

This kind of nomadic herding method is actually unable to make full use of grassland resources.

Once the pastures were fixed, it was almost impossible for the Mongols to rebel. Because the allocated grassland area is relatively large, the neighbors are relatively far away. Mongolian herders will be dispersed to various pastures to graze their herds, and will not gather at other times except for some events that will be held each year. If there is an abnormal gathering, then it will immediately arouse the vigilance of the government.

The Ming Dynasty did not seem to levy taxes on the Mongols, but they could easily shear wool from these Mongols. It was easy to achieve this by means of trade, and if the Mongols did not have industry, then trade must not be equal. Of course, it can't be too outrageous, and on the surface it is relatively fair.

Ordinary herdsmen naturally have to spend money when they have money, and they will buy a large number of Daming products. The Mongolian aristocracy is the richest, and they will spend even more when they have money, and they will go directly to the Ming Pass to consume, or even settle down, and let their children receive the education of the Ming Dynasty.

The wool is sheared layer by layer, but it is sheared gently, which is acceptable to all levels, and they can live in peace.

The core of this policy of using Mongolia to contain Mongolia is the distribution of interests. The nobles of the small Mongol tribes were no longer taxed by Lin Dan Khan. And those Mongolian herders also got a lot of pasture, a pasture that will always belong to them.

As for allocating pastures to Han Chinese grazing, that's actually not very reliable.

The Han people are not very professional in herding, and they may not be able to tolerate the loneliness on the grassland, where many things are inconvenient, especially in education. At the same time, if you really want to exterminate the Mongols, it will take a lot of effort, and the Mongols may fight guerrilla warfare with the Ming Dynasty, which will be completely thankless at that time.

And how long will it take to restore the grasslands to production? So there's no need for that at all. Moreover, the barbaric habits of the Mongols were not particularly serious, and they could still be managed.

The main thing is that this policy can both stabilize and occupy the Mongolian regions at a relatively low cost.

With the release of these captives, the news that the Son of Heaven of the Ming Kingdom had broken the Mongol alliance was like a wing, and it quickly spread to the Mongol tribes in all corners of the steppe.

When those small tribes heard about the policies and treatment of the Ming Dynasty, many small tribes immediately raised their clans to vote and drove their cattle and sheep towards the Mongolian royal city. (To be continued.) )