Yu Ge is a few months older than Zhang Yan and is Zhang Ke's eldest son, but compared to Zhang Yan, who has received a full set of education in the East and the West, Yu Ge is more like a complete wild boy. Tough, rude, and wild.

When you are eight or nine years old, you can ride wild horses, gallop in the grasslands, kill evil wolves, fight fierce tigers, and there is nothing you dare not do.

From childhood to adulthood, in his heart, there are only two people he admires the most, one is his father Zhang Ke, and the other is the pride of the Mongols, Genghis Khan!

"Father, the child has inquired that those bearded men came from the far west, where the pastures of Genghis Khan's descendants were once the pastures, and those bearded men were slaves of the Mongols, who for hundreds of years were to obey the orders of the Mongols, and to sacrifice every woman to the Mongol warriors. Now they have killed the Great Khan of Mongolia, although Lin Dan Khan is not worthy to be a descendant of the Golden Family, but it is not something that those bearded people can kill! ”

The more Yu Ge spoke, the more angry he became, he suddenly knelt down on one knee and roared angrily: "Father, please give the child an army of 100,000, and the child will go and kill all those bearded people, so that they can crawl under the feet of the Mongols again and become the slave of the father." ”

What and what!

Zhang Ke listened to this kid's words, and his brows couldn't help but lock deeply.

"Yuge, who told you all this?"

After a while, Yu Ge replied honestly: "It's my mother, and my grandfather, they say that I have the blood of the Golden Family and the Zhang Family, the two most noble bloodlines, and my mission is to conquer, like you, and Genghis Khan, to make the world surrender at your feet - Father, is there anything wrong?" ”

Zhang Ke looked at his son, who was still a little immature. I have a headache, my Mongolian daughter-in-law is really a bad thing, how can I teach a militant!

Especially the self-righteous kids. If you don't teach him a lesson, I'm afraid that something bad will happen sooner or later. Most of those who killed Lin Dan Khan were Russians who crossed the Ural Mountains.

Although they were conquered by the Mongols, the Russians accepted Western civilization and their military power grew rapidly. Coupled with their adaptation to cold climates, their combat capabilities are quite strong. Although the number is not large, the title of fighting nation is not for nothing.

And with the Russians entering Siberia. The world has entered a new era, and Zhang Ke can't help but pay attention to it, and stretch out his hand to grab his son's wrist. Pulled him in front of the huge sand table and pointed to the vast grassland area.

"Yan'er, what do you think of the situation in the grassland?"

Zhang Yan was still a little apprehensive in the face of his eldest brother, who was half a head taller than him, but his father asked. He couldn't help but say.

"Enlighten the Emperor. The child thinks that it is easy to fight the grassland, but it is difficult to control the grassland. ”

"Go on."

"Yes!" Zhang Yan groaned and said: "In history, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty fought with the Xiongnu, and Huo Qu was sick and Yan Ran took advantage of the merit and killed him in Beihai. However, the Han dynasty did not really rule the Mongolian steppes, let alone the regions further north. Not to mention far away, Ming Chengzu Zhu Di also attacked the desert several times. Although he won frequently, he did not have the ability to annex the grasslands after all. ”

The more Zhang Yan spoke, the smoother it became. said with a smile: "Throughout history, the Central Plains attacked the north several times, all in order to solve the disaster, but after winning the war, they all retreated to the front line of the Great Wall without exception. The child thought it was not an accident, but there was a deep reason. ”

"Speak."

"Well, I've heard my uncle say that everything you do must pay attention to investment and return, and if one person does this, the same is true for the country." Zhang Yan said thoughtfully: "Any empire has a limit to expansion, and this limit is the pressure on finances. Take the Han Dynasty as an example, it did its best to win the battle of Mobei, but the army lost seventy percent and lost more than 100,000 head of livestock. Speaking of which, it is also a self-loss of eight to kill a thousand enemies, but no, it is a self-loss of one thousand and five! ”

Zhang Ke listened to his son's words, and gradually smiled, his cultivation of Zhang Yan is all-round, I hope that this son can use a rational mind to look at the problem, and it is not bad to hurry up now.

"Yuge, Yan'er, do you know why fighting on the grassland often outweighs the losses?"

Yu Ge scratched his head and said, "Father, is it a warrior on horseback on the grassland, brave and good at fighting?" ”

"Yan'er, what do you think?"

"Father, the cavalry is erratic, and the consumption of supplies is very small. And the men and horses of the Central Plains, if they want to fight against the cavalry, whether it is against the cavalry, or with the chariot formation or the phalanx, a large number of people and horses must be huddled together in order to win. As a result, the consumption of logistics and supply is staggering, the supply lines are long, and the water and soil are not adapted, and the losses are heavy, and it is inevitable that they will not be able to bear it. ”

Zhang Ke nodded with satisfaction, it was indeed not easy to fight against the grassland. Although Zhang Ke had just concentrated hundreds of thousands of horses to defeat Lin Dan Khan, it was because he had been in business for a long time, and Lin Dan Khan's station was in the area of Monan, if the battlefield was placed in Mobei, he would not be so easy.

"For thousands of years, it was easy to fight the grassland, but it was difficult to occupy the grassland, but now the situation is different. The production of the steppe was limited and could not supply too many troops. However, in the era of cold weapons, cavalry is the most powerful type of troops, and the men and horses sent by the Central Plains are several times, or even more than ten times that of the grassland, and the little cattle and sheep war horses that are snatched back are not enough to consume on the road. However......" Zhang Ke said with a smile: "Now that we have entered the era of hot weapons, the development of firearms has greatly reduced the advantage of cavalry, and as long as you use a small number of men and horses, you can defeat a larger number of cavalry." ”

As Zhang Ke's son, Yu Ge is not stupid, on the contrary, he quickly grasped the key to his father's words.

"Father, isn't the most powerful firearm in the world your people? Why don't you send an army to the children, kill the beards, and sweep the grasslands! ”

"Silly boy, I have said so much to tell you that those bearded men are equally proficient in firearms, and they are cunning. Like me, they have the ability to conquer the grasslands, and they are by no means easy characters to deal with! ”

Zhang Ke's face was grim, and he said in a cold tone: "Yu Ge, what kind of 100,000 troops do you propose, my father will never send them, and I won't do a loss-making business." If you want to deal with those bearded men, you have to learn to be more cunning than them, and train your men to be more fierce than them, with the least amount of troops. Go win the battle. Such a victory can only be sustained if the gains outweigh the payouts! “

Around the sand table, the father and son talked about the second half of the night. Hearing these things for the first time in Yuge's life completely subverted his stereotype. The real battle is not a heroic epic, but a mental game full of brutality and calculation. He finally understood that his father was not only a conqueror, but also an actuarial master. After a thorough conversation, Yuge not only understood the history of the grassland, but also saw through the future of the grassland. Big break, big stand. At that moment, the slightly young man quickly matured. He did not hate the war, on the contrary became more obsessed.

"Father. The child does not want your army of 100,000, but the child hopes that you will support me and follow the path of Genghis Khan and conquer everything! ”

The ambition of the son. Zhang Ke couldn't help but be surprised.

"Yuge. You know, this is not a Yangguan road. When the Mongols went on an expedition, there were countless casualties, aren't you afraid? ”

"As a man's husband, it is the most honorable thing to shroud in horse leather! Great Father, please fulfill your child! ”

Zhang Ke let out a long sigh and said slowly: "Children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren. Don't be a horse or cow for your children and grandchildren. I wanted you to retreat, but I didn't expect ...... That's it. Rather than let someone else be this conqueror, let it go to my son! ”

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From this day on, Zhang Ke set aside a 200-mile grassland outside Xifengkou as a special training base. From this day on, a large number of young people adapted to the cold climate were recruited, including Han Chinese and other tribes. Every soldier undergoes the most rigorous training.

Not only should you be proficient in all kinds of firearms, but you must also learn to build fortifications and castles, and you must be able to speak various languages...... There is even special training to resist the cold, and every day people are frozen to death from frostbite. In the face of such cruel training, Yu Ge, as the prince, unexpectedly endured it, and was even stricter than ordinary people.

For three years, the divine weapon has been sharpened and revealed a dazzling light!

Yu Ge personally led 800 soldiers, with 3,000 pack horses, towards the depths of the grassland, these years there has been news of "bearded" haunts, they have been entrenched near the North Sea, the power is still developing rapidly to the east.

What my father said was right, the bearded man also had the ability to conquer the Mongol tribes, and there was constant news that the steppe tribes were conquered and annexed, and those cavalrymen who came and went like the wind frequently suffered in front of firearms. The rules of the game have changed, and the traditional Mongol cavalry could not keep up with the trend of the times and could only be ruthlessly eliminated.

Yu Ge is no longer the impulsive youth he once was, he is more like a mature hunter, patiently waiting for his prey to appear.

"Your Highness, a group of bearded men attacked the Trans-Khalkha Department, killing more than 300 people, plundering thousands of horses, and a large amount of food."

Yu Ge muttered silently: "This is the fourth sneak attack in two months, it's really rampant!" I'm going to shoot you! ”

After some analysis, Yuge determined the next target of the group, and 800 soldiers were ambushed on the banks of the Martyrdom River, where Genghis Khan ascended the throne.

Yu Ge's ambush site was chosen in a valley, and they waited for three days, and a group of six or seven hundred people, carrying thousands of pack horses, came in style. The Russian at the head was called Torbuzin, his nose was red, he held a silver flask in his hand, and he kept pouring liquor into his mouth, and his esophagus was boiling with fire.

Nursery Buzin is a petty officer in the army of Tsarist Russia, and it is absolutely impossible for Nursery Buzin, who still retains the aristocracy and serfdom, to be promoted without any background. He had to choose the sword to go sideways, leaving the army controlled by the nobility and going to a wider world.

Since more than ten years ago, the goods from the East suddenly flowed to the West in large quantities, tea, silk, porcelain, the three major fist commodities, all the best.

The countries of Western Europe fell, and the upper echelons of society were all proud of their own Chinese goods, and even in the painter's brush, the gods used exquisite oriental utensils and wore light silks.

At this time, Tsarist Russia was still barbaric, poor and backward, they had no access to the sea to share the huge profits of trade, and they did not have enough gold and silver in exchange for coveted goods.

Under such stimulation, it is not difficult to see the result, a large number of Russians chose to cross the Ural Mountains, use their weapons to conquer vast lands, fight all the way to the east, and get everything they want from there.

Zhang Ke's butterfly movement finally caused a huge storm, and the Russians entered Siberia earlier than in history, and the scale was also larger.

The Mongols were still a nightmare in the minds of the Russians, and when they first entered Siberia, they showed great restraint, but after some fighting, the Russians quickly saw the nature of Mongol weakness.

They no longer have the bravery of Genghis Khan's time, and their tactics are even more backward, but Russia is not what it used to be, they easily robbed the land of the Mongol tribes, plundered the wealth, and the greed of the Russians Needless to say, all the tribes of Siberia suffered an unprecedented catastrophe.

Dorbuzin was overjoyed, and with a few more attempts, he would be able to amass enough wealth to hire more men and horses, and when the time came to annex the Mongol tribes and go south to the fabled paradise, what could be better!

The alcohol made him dazed and suddenly slammed.

Nursery Buzin's eyes widened and he roared, "Which idiot? Who told you to shoot? ”

Before the words fell, gunshots rang out from all directions, and bullets rained down on the Russian robbers in the valley, and in an instant corpses were scattered all over the field, and the dirty blood stained the rocks red.

"How is it possible, how can the lowly Mongols have powerful firearms?" Torbuzin roared loudly, it must have been some impudent Russian scum who sold muskets to the Mongols. Does he even know what he's doing?

If you let me know, he must be burned alive!

Nursery Buzin kept swearing in his heart, and suddenly there was an earth-shattering roar from the ground, and Nursery Buzin felt as if he was on the sea, his body kept shaking, and he was thrown into the sky, fell hard, and drowned in a cloud of gunsmoke......

It was just a small-scale ambush battle, and Yu Ge didn't take it seriously, and after defeating the Russians, he immediately asked his men to clean up the loot, and after resting, he quickly threw himself into the next battle.

He didn't care, but the history books wrote a lot about the war, and they saw it as the beginning of the westward expansion of the conquerors of the East, the moment that changed the world.

In the following twenty years, the prince Yuge led his few men and horses, fought continuously, killed tens of thousands of Russians before and after, and finally led 8,000 men and horses across the Ural Mountains.

Following in the footsteps of Genghis Khan, reconquering Europe, his men and horses attacked westward, killing all the way, conquering all the way, and finally crossed the Danube and killed the Rhine, conquering the distance even beyond Genghis Khan back then.

i.e. after the Xiongnu, Turkic, Mongol, Yuge's expedition was called the Fourth Yellow Peril, the nightmare of the West! (To be continued......)