The war between the Ming Dynasty and the Dzungar Department was dominated by sports pursuit and harassment warfare throughout the 22nd year of the well-off. After all, nearly 200,000 Junggar soldiers had just been annihilated, and Da Ming himself was slightly injured, and the material loss was also huge.

In the end, when that wave of pursuit movement battles ended, it was already autumn, and it was bitterly cold in the north, so there was no need to use troops in late autumn and cold winter one after another, so they temporarily relieved each other, rested for a few months, and gave the wounded soldiers time to recuperate from their injuries.

If you want to have the next step, it will be after the spring of the twenty-third year of Xiaokang.

And Daming's domestic farming, reform, law change, and scientific research will always be steadily promoted, and there is no need to worry. Anyway, if you fight the Dzungar Ministry, it will not be a big mess of the internal governance rhythm of the Ming Dynasty. The national strength of the Ming Dynasty will only get stronger and stronger with time, and it will not exhaust itself at the cost of burning potential.

The time soon came to the spring of the twenty-third year of Xiaokang, and the army of the Ming Dynasty also strictly followed the plan set last year, and at the end of February, the weather in the plateau area had just warmed up, and it began to advance.

Li Dingguo prepared about 100,000 cavalry on the northern route, which were deployed from Lanzhou to Jiuquan. When there is an opportunity, they will go on expeditions and harass them, mainly to kill, injure and capture the enemy's living forces, and to plunder property and strategic materials.

Even the grain and grass were tried to "give the enemy as much grain as possible", and when they encountered the Dzungar tribesmen, they slaughtered and plundered the cattle and sheep for a while, killing and eating them, so as to reduce the logistical pressure.

This kind of rush and intrusion will not send out an army of 100,000, often a small army of 20,000 or 30,000, no more than 40,000, dare to run rampant in the Western Regions, and attack 1,000 or 2,000 li at every turn.

So much so that the Dzungar people, who had just been defeated last year, gave up the pastures around Hami and retreated, just because Hami was still relatively close to Jiayuguan and Yumen Pass, and it was too easy to be looted and burned by the Ming army.

But even if he retreated from Hami to the vicinity of Luntai, he still couldn't completely escape the attack of the Ming army.

When the Ming army was pursuing, it also used a logistics vehicle that was newly built in recent years, but in fact it was not very difficult, that is, the "Cornesto Caravan" used by the Americans in the westward movement in the 19th century.

The Cornesto caravan is a long-body car with a length of more than two zhang, a four-wheeled carriage, including its own weight, with a full load of three tons, which needs to be pulled by many oxen and horses.

If you don't have any impression of this thing, you can imagine the "Cat and Mouse" cartoon, as well as other American Westerns, or play "Red Dead Redemption".

To put it bluntly, the only quality advantage of this kind of car is that it can be used both water and land, easy to cross the river, the shape of the carriage is a boat-type, upturned on both sides, and the water tightness is also good, and it can be directly rowed when it is driven into the river.

And if the Ming Dynasty wants to attack the Western Regions, in fact, it is not impossible to rely on water transportation throughout the whole process, and there are rivers in the Western Regions, especially the Hexi Corridor. It's just that because all rivers are inland, they are often not connected to each other and cannot form a river network, so even if there are boats, they cannot switch from one river to another, and they have to constantly load and unload by waterway to change vehicles, and the cost will outweigh the losses.

With amphibious caravans, you can have a section of waterway along the river, and then use horse-drawn carts when there is no waterway, which greatly improves the transportation capacity and reduces the logistics cost exponentially.

With the blessing of this logistical weapon, the amount of ammunition that the troops harassed by the Ming expedition could also be doubled, so Galdan was all over the ground looking for teeth.

The Central Asian tribes, which he had just destroyed and annexed a few years earlier, and other Tatar tribes near Lake Balkhash north of the Tien Shan Mountains, were finally ready to move. After a surprise attack by the Ming army on Luntai, burning and looting, and retreating, the resistance of the surrounding tribes was finally ignited, and the Tatars entered the civil war again.

In order to establish his authority, Galdan killed chickens and monkeys, of course, at this time, he could not be soft, so he severely punished the tribes who took the lead in rebellion, and even directly slaughtered the first of them.

But in any case, Galdan's frenzied attitude of fighting and extinguishing fires everywhere has further seriously weakened his national strength.

Although he forcibly recruited new recruits many times and reluctantly replenished the size of the army to 200,000 or even 300,000, the combat effectiveness of the troops dropped by more than half. After the proportion of conscription was high, there were years of war, and the Tatar people also had vegetables, and the tribe relied on women and children to graze, and men and even the elderly were arrested to serve as soldiers, and the overall livestock production declined.

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Kaldan's northern territory was so chaotic that he was killing each other, and his control over the southern territory was completely weakened to the extreme.

And how could the Ming army not seize this opportunity? Therefore, from March of this year, the Ming army carried out the operation of collecting Qinghai-Tibet with a small force of 30,000 or 40,000 people.

Speaking of which, I have to thank Galdan for the series of killings when he entered Tibet six years ago to hunt down the enemy Ozirtu Khan.

Originally, those Tusi of Wusizang were also very dissatisfied with the Central Plains Imperial Court, and they had always only nominally respected the Ming Dynasty as Zhengshuo, but that's all, the Ming Dynasty couldn't get any benefits from actual control.

But now it's okay, because from six years ago to three years ago, Galdan in Qinghai-Tibet for four consecutive years of crazy conquest and killing, all the Tusi nobles who are not subordinate have been killed by him, and in the process of Kaldan conquest, the number of people directly killed has reached hundreds of thousands, which can be called a bloody thunder wrist.

Now the Ming army is going to wash it again, and then kill all the people loyal to Galdan, and in the end the remaining resistance is much smaller, and after the killing, there will be a power vacuum.

It's a once-in-a-lifetime trick to get the enemy's enemy to hate first—except that the enemy here isn't a friend, it's all three enemies.

The Ming army advanced all the way, but in half a year, it took most of Qinghai. In the process, the front-line generals of the Ming army also played a little trick,

For example, after the Qinghai-Tibet Tusi saw that Wang Shi was coming, the Dzungar cavalry was attracted away, and their garrison was empty, and then they wanted to raise their own troops to restore the country, so that they could continue to nominally be vassals to the Ming Dynasty after they returned to the country, instead of being actually governed by the Ming officials and changing the land and returning to the stream.

But how could Da Ming let their idea succeed? Anyone who heard that he had raised his own troops to restore the country, the Ming Dynasty immediately stood still and held on to the Dzungar cavalry on the front line.

Anyway, the war on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is already hard, and the Han soldiers are all from the plains, and if the climate is not adaptable, they need to rest for two more before they can continue to advance to higher altitudes.

Then the Dzungar cavalry saw that the Ming army was not pressing, and the lair in the rear was on fire, so they had to roar back and run for their lives, and went back to destroy the Wusi Tibetan Tusi who had raised troops on their own to restore the country.

After the Ming army waited for the Dzungar and the Usi-Tibetan Tusi to be defeated, they "adapted to the plateau climate" and continued to clean up the mess and grab the head.

In short, it is a sentence, anyone who does not take the initiative to be a dog for Daming, then go to be a dog for Hades.

After 23 years of being well-off, the Qinghai problem was completely solved. In the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth years of being well-off, Tibet has also been completely solved. In accordance with this policy, the Ming army fought steadily and steadily, pushing the territory of the Ming Dynasty all the way to the Himalayas and Nepal.

Subsequently, the Ming Dynasty also set up a minister in Tibet to coordinate the affairs of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and began to gradually change the land and return to the river in Qinghai. Because the two factions of Tusi nobles who were anti-Ming and anti-Kar were all exterminated, the process was very smooth.

The Qing Dynasty did not do these things in history (the Qing Dynasty set up a minister in Tibet, but it failed to change the land and return to the stream), because the Qing Dynasty and the Dzungar Department in parallel time and space fought for too long.

So that when the Qing army came back, the Dzungars had occupied Qinghai-Tibet for too long, and the generation of the local people who rebelled against the Dzungars was long gone, and the descendants were all smoothed out and formed an identity with the Dzungars, and it would be difficult for the Qing Dynasty to wash it back.

And the current situation is that the Ming army came back to wash less than five years after the capture of Dzungaria and the destruction of Qinghai-Tibet, and it was washed so orderly, which made the geometric progression of resistance drop, and everything seemed to be more natural.

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It took the Ming army three years to completely solve the plateau problem, directly cut nearly half of the land area of Dzungaria, and continued to bleed Galdan.

In the twenty-fifth year of Xiaokang, that is, in 1687 AD. According to the original plan, after the plateau problem was completely resolved, it was finally possible to give a final unified general attack to all the Tatars who had been fighting for many years without stopping.

However, it was in this year that Galdan seemed to realize that his end was near, so out of fear, he went to great lengths to loot wealth to buy arms and help from his Rakshasa allies.

And he further preached the truth of cold lips and teeth to the Rakshasa people, and even put forward the trick of "vassalizing the Rakshasa as a vassal" to jump over the wall to save his life, which is really shameless.

As a result, the Rakshasa people coveted Galdan's promise, and the Rakshasa people themselves wanted to expand eastward, and finally broke out in advance of the Yaksa War with the Ming in the area north of the Heilongjiang River, thinking that the Ming was being contained.

Fortunately, the Qinghai-Tibet issue has been completely resolved, and the Ming Dynasty can withdraw some of its national strength from the issue of using troops on the southwest plateau to deal with the two wars that occurred simultaneously in the northeast and northwest.

The Rakshasas didn't want to sell their lives to Galdan at first, they just wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob and make the Ming army admit that "all the land north of Heilongjiang belongs to the Rakshasa country, as long as you sign a treaty and promise this matter, then we will no longer ally with Kaldan, and we will cut off the arms trade that sells guns and cannons to Galdan, so that you can eliminate Galdan a little easier in the future."

However, how could the Ming Dynasty admit that the land north of Heilongjiang belonged to the Rakshasa Kingdom? Even if it is for the sake of destroying Galdan, for fear of making multiple enemies at the same time, it will not work.

How about fighting that and dealing with two enemies at the same time!

So Zhu Shuren ordered Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong, who were already in their twilight years on the front line, and the two were responsible for one direction each.

Li Dingguo was in charge of the northwest, to Galdan.

Zheng Chenggong was transferred from Datong and Zhangjiakou to the northeast to deal with the Rakshasa Kingdom.

Daming has this national strength and wins two wars at the same time!

Before sending troops, Zhu Shuren also secretly gave Zheng Chenggong some advice, telling him: "The troops of the Rakshasa people in the Far East are not to be afraid, because they have to travel thousands of miles to fight us here. They also had no waterways to transport them, and everything had to be transported by horses and herders.

Therefore, even if the Rakshasas want to fight with my Ming Dynasty for a long time in the future, they will not always fight with us in the outer northeast, as long as they annihilate several of their troops and destroy their settlement footholds, they will have to retreat a full six or seven thousand miles to the west, and choose to go south from the Kazakh Central Asian steppe and join forces with Galdan to fight our Daming. ”

Zheng Chenggong thought about it, the prince's teachings were really right, if the Rakshasa people wanted to transport troops from Europa to the outer northeast to fight the Ming army, it would take 12,000 miles. And the transport of troops from Europa to Kazakhstan in Central Asia is only six thousand miles.

The Rakshasa people are not stupid, if the 12,000 miles are doomed to fail, the follow-up reinforcements will definitely only be able to pile up all the way to the 6,000 miles.

In history, the Qing army dragged on in the Battle of Yaksa, completely because the Qing army abandoned the research and development of firearms technology after entering the customs, and was still using old-fashioned Hongyi cannons. So much so that it was completely unable to face the new Western-style anti-artillery fortresses made by the Rakshasas around Yaksa, and they could not resist the lethal firepower of the Rakshasas defending the city with European guns.

But all this, in front of Zheng Chenggong's Ming army, is not a problem at all. Isn't it just some bastions and cannons? Let the Vauban Commanders teach them what an authentic siege is! What is an authentic blasting bomb siege mortar!

In the face of absolute strength, the Rakshasa Far East Army, which was only a few thousand people, was finally annihilated by the Ming army.

The Rakshasa people still don't admit defeat, feel that there are a lot of accidental factors, and want to try a second one.

So it took another year from Europa, and slowly dispatched a large army to supply along the way, and got more than 10,000 troops, which can be regarded as taking the old book-

It's not that an army of 10,000 people is big for the Rakshasa country, but the combat form of a 10,000-mile expedition, 10,000 people to the Far East, not to mention 50,000 people on the way to provide logistics. Not to mention tens of thousands of poor families along the way, and enslaved Tatar herdsmen, whose homes were ruined.

It's a pity that the more than 10,000 expeditionary forces that the Rakshasa people spent their national strength to put together were finally calculated by Zheng Chenggong.

When Zheng Chenggong first came into contact with the main force of the new wave of attacking enemy troops, he also pretended to be underprepared and did not anticipate the main attack direction of the Rakshasa army, and then "lost his armor and unloaded his armor" on the north bank of the Heilongjiang River, and left some supplies for the Rakshasa people in defeat.

As soon as the Rakshasas saw that they had been supplied on the spot, and even captured some small boats that had not been burned by the Ming army when they retreated in a hurry, the greedy nature of those colonial raiders was ignited again.

They looked at the fertile and fertile land on the south bank of the main stream of the Heilongjiang River, and when they thought that as long as they crossed the river and grabbed a big one, they would be able to fight the war, so they did not worry that this was a trick to lure the enemy, and crossed the river directly.

Who knows, it was the summer of the 27th year of Xiaokang, and Heilongjiang was abundant in water and could be navigated.

As a result, not long after the Rakshasa army crossed the Heilongjiang River, it was discovered that the Ming army's North Sea Fleet had already entered the river from the mouth of the Heilongjiang River on Withered Leaf Island and Temple Street, and then took advantage of the Rakshasa people to cross the river to cut off their way back.

Looking at the turbulent Heilongjiang River, watching a bunch of sail frigates with 24 to 38 guns drive directly into the inland river to cut off the way back, the morale of the Rakshasa army collapsed.

The main force of the Ming army ambushed on the south bank also closed the encirclement network in time, and in the end, it only paid the price of ambushing a county town and several towns around the battlefield that were destroyed, plundered, and burned by the Rakshasa army, and completely wiped out the main force of the 14,000-strong Rakshasa expeditionary force.

This battle really hurt the Rakshasa people, and they never dared to look at the Heilongjiang River basin for decades after that, and they didn't even dare to come around the Hanhai Sea. The Ming army also completely grasped the control of Mobei Mongolia and the surrounding areas suitable for human habitation.

In the Rakshasa country, because of the destruction of the expeditionary force, several important ministers were also punished, resulting in a wave of blood exchange in the court, and the newly powerful courtiers preached that they would no longer confront the Ming Dynasty by force, and only sent small troops to sell arms and join forces with Galdan to strive to defeat the Ming in Central Asia and the territory.

On the Ming side, in the twenty-eighth year of Xiaokang, after completely determining that the Rakshasas would no longer launch an offensive in the outer northeast and completely knocking them away, they rested for another year or two, and finally launched the final blow against Galdan.

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At this time, the Rakshasa people still firmly supported Kaldan, of course, not because the Rakshasa people had any noble international attention, they were completely considering that "if Galdan can't hold on in the end, how much land can the Rakshasa State annex from the area that Galdan once occupied, and whether it can hold Central Asia in its hands."

If the Rakshasas do not send troops and do not fight alongside the Kaldan, then when the Kaldan collapses, they will not have the convenience to reach out and share the inheritance. In the end, it's that simple, or people don't kill for themselves.

It's a pity that in the face of absolute power, all tricks are useless.

In the thirtieth year of Xiaokang (1692), the final general offensive began. And the process is actually nothing to repeat, because to sum it up in four words, that is, to destroy the withering and decaying.

The difference in weapons technology, the momentum of the rising period of the country's fortunes, the psychological superiority of the previous victories, the internal fear of the enemy and the old grudges of the rest of the Tatar conquered tribes against Galdan, all came together.

The time and the people are all on the side of the Ming Dynasty, but Galdan can have a slight advantage in terms of geography and supply difficulty.

After many years of fighting, Galdan has beaten the total population of the Tatar tribes from 500 to 6 million from 500 to 6 million to only 4 million.

The population of the occupied areas of the Central Asian countries, plus the population of the Qinghai-Tibet region that he originally owned, these two parts combined, were 11 hundred thousand at their peak. However, the vendetta of repeated see-saw possession, and the plague, famine, and starvation caused by it, have been sharply reduced in eight years from 22 to 30 years of moderate prosperity, and now the total is less than 7 million.

Of these 7 million miles, 2 million are in the Qinghai-Tibet region, and only 5 million of the conquered peoples in Central Asia remain.

Therefore, when Galdan was finally dying, the remaining population in his hands had fallen from nearly 20 million at its peak to only 9 million. Among them, the young and strong have also been repeatedly drawn to serve as soldiers, and the national strength can be said to be exhausted to the extreme.

Consuming national strength with Daming, he has been fighting for eight years, does he have the qualifications of the Junggar Ministry? Now the data is what happened to him!

After two years of attacking, the so-called "300,000 steppe cavalry" that Galdan finally re-pulled up, finally collapsed. In the spring of the 32nd year of Xiaokang (1694), Galdan himself fell ill because of his anger, and then was assassinated by his subordinates who wanted to surrender, and sacrificed his body to the Ming Dynasty to ask for peace.

But the Ming Dynasty will not do the thing of returning to the mountain, and the demand for peace must be all attached, accept the land and return to the stream, and do not consider the peace that only nominally recognizes the Ming Dynasty as Zhengshuo, because the Tatars have too many historical misdeeds! Capriciousness is not credible!

The remnants of Galdan had no choice but to take refuge in the Rakshasa people and survive together. In the 32nd year of Xiaokang, the Ming Dynasty continued to pursue, fighting with the remnants of the Dzungar soldiers who threw themselves at the Rakshasa and the 50,000 European soldiers gathered by the Rakshasas in Central Asia, and finally annihilated most of them, and the remnants fled back to Europe.

The Ming Dynasty completely pocketed the Kazakh, Tajik and Uzbek regions that the Dzungar Department once controlled, whether it was Almaty or Samarkand, they were all the land of the Ming Dynasty - since these places once belonged to the Dzungaria, then of course they belong to the Ming Dynasty now, and there is nothing wrong with it.

The competition for the northwest region has come to a complete end.

There was no khanate in the name of Tatar on the earth, and the khanate established in the name of Genghis Khan's descendants was all destroyed.

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