It was precisely because of the protection of the Great Bright Sun and Moon Banner that Enke's tribe survived the snowstorm last winter.

The entire tribe was overjoyed by the wise decision made by Enke, the leader of the tribe.

Some of the Mongol tribes further west did not submit to the Ming Dynasty and were not supplemented by the abundant grain, cloth, and medicinal herbs.

Enke and the others heard that several tribes were badly damaged by last winter's blizzard.

At least half of the cattle, sheep and livestock were frozen to death, and many men, women, old and weak, died of illness.

After the beginning of spring, the grassland departments finally breathed a sigh of relief.

And Enke knew that his tribe would never be in danger of crisis again, because the Ming Dynasty gave Enke great preferential treatment to these subjugated Mongol tribes.

Enke's tribe received thirty fine sheep transported from the Central Plains, and these sheep were sturdy and had white and delicate long fluff.

According to the Ming government, as long as the wool is harvested, ten catties of wool are equivalent to one tael of silver.

And you must know that on the grassland, ten catties of mutton are less than one or two pieces of silver.

So Enke arranged for the best sheep breeders to start domesticating and raising these thirty sheep after the beginning of spring.

Just take these thirty sheep and breed them into a huge flock, and the tribe of Enke will be equivalent to a gold mine.

From then on, the whole tribe could rely on the steady harvest of wool in exchange for a steady supply of silver, and with silver, the tribe could buy sufficient grain, cloth, medicinal herbs, and so on from the Han caravans.

"My lord, a team of Ming cavalry is here." A tribesman's little tomu suddenly rushed in, Enke's yurt said.

At this time, Enke finally tasted the sweet mare's milk wine in a transparent glass.

Hearing that a pair of Ming cavalry had come to his tribe, Enke immediately got up, and his heart became a little excited, because the Ming cavalry meant that there was a new task for him.

Since returning to the tribe last autumn, every time Da Ming gives a mission, as long as he completes the order, the rewards and rewards he receives are very valuable.

So now Enke and all the people in his tribe gave the most respectful welcome to the Ming and cavalry who came to deliver the order.

Enke led the leaders of several tribes out of the camp in person and went to meet the cavalry of the Ming Dynasty.

"It turned out to be Mr. Li Qian, I haven't seen you for a long time, Enke has asked you to say goodbye." As soon as Enke saw the arrival, he immediately spoke in fluent Chinese.

There are only more than 20 cavalry members in this group of Ming troops, and the one led by them is wearing light cotton armor, which is Li Shan, the general manager of the Mobei Protectorate on the grassland.

Since the last time they repelled the sneak attack of Tayin Timur in the Battle of the Steppe, the Li Shan brothers have been promoted because of their outstanding military achievements.

Li Shan was awarded the title of Mobei Protectorate and Ranger Qianji.

For the tribe of Enke, Li Shan has been here several times.

"Enke guerrilla, Mobei Protectorate has an order." Li Shan didn't say too much politeness to Enke, and directly took out the warrant in his hand and said loudly.

When Enke heard this, he hurriedly led his leaders and respectfully walked to the front to listen to the order.

"Bayanburu and other tribes rebelled, disobeyed the imperial court's indoctrination, and intended to rebel, so they ordered Enke's department to send a hundred cavalry to listen to the order, and follow the officials and soldiers to fight for thieves."

Li Shan read the order out loud and quickly finished it.

This order of the Mobei Metropolitan Protectorate can be described as concise and to the point, without dragging mud and water.

"The last general Enke obeys!" Enke quickly took the order.

Then he decided to let these leaders under him hurry up and gather a hundred strong men in the tribe, and prepare to follow Li Shan back to the Mobei Protectorate.

Subsequently, Enke talked to Li Shanpan.

After the two of them chatted for a few words, Enke had already inquired clearly about these rebellious Mongolian tribes must be more than lucky.

In order to consolidate the order of the various tribes in Mobei, Zhu Han ordered the implementation of a relatively strict grassland division system in Mobei.

As long as the grassland division system is implemented, it is equivalent to fixing the various tribes on the land, so that they have no possibility of large-scale migration, and it is convenient for the Mobei Protectorate to govern.

But after all, this kind of playground division system cannot be perfect, and there will always be some tribes who feel that they have suffered a loss in the grassland problem, so they have a grudge against the Ming Dynasty.

For these tribes, Zhu Han's order to Luo Guanzhong, the protector of Mobei Prefecture, was to solve it strictly and quickly.

Since the grassland division on the Mobei grassland is not good enough, the biggest problem is that there are too many people and too little grassland.

If some tribes can be eliminated, then there will be more grasslands, and the problem will be solved.

Bayanburu and several other tribes killed the herdsmen of the surrounding tribes because of the division of grasslands, and these herdsmen all belonged to the tribes that submitted to the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the actions of the Bayanburu tribe are equivalent to declaring war on the Ming Dynasty.

According to the strategy left behind by Zhu Han, Luo Guanzhong, the capital of the Mobei Metropolitan Protectorate, immediately ordered the various Mongolian tribes to send their elite soldiers and horses to follow the Mobei Metropolitan Protectorate to defeat Bayanburu and other rebellions.

Soon, the Mobei Protectorate sent 1,000 Ming troops, plus 5,000 Mongol servant troops from various tribes, to attack Bayanburu and several other tribes.

Bayan Brudenbulo originally wanted to escape from the attack of the Ming army, but because they dragged their families and brought their mouths, and the Ming army moved lightly, they were caught off guard.

The two sides had an encounter on the steppe, evenly matched in numbers.

Li Shan, as the commander of this crusade, had full command of the Mongol servant army of Enke and several other tribes.

The leader of the Bayanburu tribe, Tselu Allah, led an alliance of more than a dozen tribes to meet the Ming army with 7,000 men.

When Celu Alla and the others saw that under the banner of the Ming army on the opposite side, most of them were Mongols from various tribes such as Enke, and they were all angry.

"Enke, these people, the wrath of the Immortal Heaven will definitely come to them."

"They don't want to be eagles on the grassland, but they want to be the dogs of the Ming army, not only do we kill all these Ming soldiers this time, but these traitors like Enke must not let them go."

Bayanburu and other tribes knew that they had no future in the Ming army, and their only hope now was to defeat the Ming army, and then send people to contact Wang Baobao and others in Hala and Lin to counterattack the Ming army and recapture their own pasture.

Now what Bayanburu and other tribes need to do is to defeat the Ming army in front of them.

And the Mongol servant army under the Mobei Protectorate also knew that this battle must completely defeat the traitors of the Bayanburu tribe.

The Mobei Protectorate of the Ming Dynasty could establish the first victory since the opening of the palace, and then have a greater influence on the grassland tribes.

If the Mongol servant army defeated Bayanburu and other tribes, they could not only get more rewards from the Ming army, but also get a share of the population, livestock and pastures of Bayanburu and other tribes, which would be of great benefit to their own tribes.

With the sound of the Ming army's artillery and the Mongolian rebels' horns, the two sides fought on the steppe.

Although Bayanburu and other tribes did not lag behind the Ming army in numbers, they were completely incomparable with the Ming army in terms of weapons, armor, artillery and muskets.

Even, the equipment level of Bayanburu and other tribes is not even as good as the servant army of the Ming army like Enke.

Enke and other servants of the Ming army were also equipped with a piece of cotton armor and a decent iron helmet.

The huge gap in weapons and training between the two sides was immediately apparent after the engagement.

In less than half an hour, the vanguard elite of Bayanburu and other tribes were completely lost.

The bows and arrows of Bayanburu and other rebels were shot at the body of the Ming army, and it was almost impossible to cause effective damage.

Whether it is the superior armor of the Ming official army or the ordinary cotton armor of the Mongolian servant army, it can effectively defend against the bows and arrows of the rebels.

And the muskets that popped up from time to time in the Ming army's array were like death, harvesting the lives of the Mongol rebels.

Many of the Mongol tribes who had good relations with the Ming army were also armed with muskets.

Therefore, the firepower advantage of the Mobei Protectorate is definitely a nightmare for the rebels.

The whole battle did not last even an hour, and the rebels of Bayanburu and other tribes dispersed in a hurry after the escape of Zerlu Allah and the others.

The strong combat effectiveness of the Ming army completely collapsed the mentality of the rebel leaders such as Cela Ala, and they only fled in panic, and even the women and children of the tribe did not have time to take them away.

The Mongol servant armies of the Enke and other tribes pursued the rebels like a raging wind.

Other property, such as women and children of these tribes, naturally quickly fell into the hands of these Ming Mongol troops.

As for how to dispose of these properties and prisoners, Enke and the others did not divide them privately according to the rules of the grassland, but were very cautious to ask the Mobei Protectorate of the Ming Dynasty for instructions.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has established a new order on the grassland, it is natural that they will no longer be allowed to privately divide the property of the hostile tribes.

The power to distribute the spoils of war is also a manifestation of dominance.

After this battle, there will hardly be any tribe in the Mobei grassland that dares to disobey the Ming army in the slightest.

Bayanburu and several other rebellious tribes were then divided up pastures and livestock under the auspices of the Mobei Metropolitan Huluo Guanzhong.

And those young women were assigned to the Ming soldiers of the Mobei Metropolitan Protectorate.

The soldiers of the Ming army in the Mobei Protectorate, whether they are Han Chinese, or Jurchen and other tribal soldiers recruited from Liaoyang, they are basically single, and if these soldiers can be stationed in the bitter cold place of Mobei with peace of mind, it is natural to solve the problem of men and women for them.

As for the children whose height was less than the height of the wheel, Luo Guanzhong did not kill them according to the rules of the grassland, and incorporated them under the command of the Mobei Metropolitan Protectorate.

Zhu Han had already told Luo Guanzhong that the population on the grassland was the most precious resource, and these children with great cultivation value were the weapons for the Ming army to consolidate the grassland in the future.

These captive Mongol khanates will be educated by the Ming Dynasty in the Mobei Metropolitan Protectorate.

It won't be long before they completely forget their Mongolian nomadic origins and call themselves the Ming people.

Then supplemented by the military skills trained since childhood, hundreds of children will grow up to become elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

For the efforts and achievements of Enke and other tribes in this battle, Luo Guanzhong certainly did not just reward them with pasture and livestock.

After all, this time to defeat these Mongol rebels, in fact, the main force of the Ming army did not exert much strength.

The fighting on the battlefield and the subsequent pursuit were all completed by Enke and other Mongol servants.

Therefore, Luo Guanzhong asked the imperial court for instructions and rewarded Enke and other meritorious Mongolian tribes.

After Zhu Han received the victory report of the Mobei Metropolitan Protectorate, he also agreed with Luo Guanzhong's suggestion very much.

Keeping the precious women and children of the steppe under the jurisdiction of the Mobei Protectorate is the best of both worlds when it comes to rewarding the meritorious Mongol tribes.

With a stroke of his pen, Zhu Han directly ordered the Mobei Metropolitan Protectorate to pay these Mongolian servant tribes military salaries according to the standard of a maximum of 100 soldiers per tribe.

According to the standards of the Ming army, the salary of a hundred soldiers is definitely a lot of income for a Mongolian tribe.

You must know that according to the price of goods in the two cities, the salary of a soldier in the Ming Dynasty is enough to feed the rations of five herdsmen in the change area.

This reward of the Ming Dynasty is equivalent to helping these Mongolian tribes feed five or six hundred people for free.

Not only that, Zhu Han also ordered the Mobei Metropolitan Protectorate to reward each tribe with a batch of new muskets.

This batch of new muskets was all researched and produced by the Machinery Manufacturing Bureau of Ying Tianfu.

According to historical standards, this batch of new muskets produced by the Tianfu Machinery Manufacturing Bureau has completely gotten rid of the category of arquebuses and officially entered the standard flintlock sequence.

This batch of new-style muskets is all made of stainless steel and high-grade flint, and the success rate of effective muskets is more than 70%.

Although slightly smaller in caliber than the original arquebus, these muskets were greatly improved in accuracy, weight, and handling.

Such a delicate new musket was not fully equipped for the Ming army.

However, Zhu Han ordered them to be rewarded to those meritorious Mongolian tribes, which was definitely not the reason for eating inside and out.

This is because after this battle of the Mobei Metropolitan Protectorate, Zhu Han clearly realized ...... Although these Mongol tribes submitted to the Ming Dynasty, their combat effectiveness was still very strong.

Merely controlling them politically and economically is far from foolproof.

It would also be better to be able to change these formidable nomadic tribes militarily.

And the flintlock pistol, which represents the strength of industry, is the best weapon.

This exquisitely crafted flintlock pistol is definitely an insurmountable technological peak for the nomadic tribes of the steppe.

When these nomads became accustomed to the use of flintlock pistols and the tactics of flintlock pistols, they could no longer get rid of their dependence on firearms.

And all the manufacturing and maintenance of firearms and the supply of gunpowder were all in the hands of the Ming army, which was equivalent to the military ability of these nomadic tribes being completely controlled by the Ming army.

And once any tribe on the grassland wants to resist the Ming army, they don't even need to go to a special crusade, they only need to cut off the supply of weapons to the rebels, which can greatly weaken their combat ability.

Under Zhu Han's strategy, the Mobei Protectorate quickly distributed thousands of muskets to Enke and other tribes, and sent instructors stationed among the tribes to teach these grassland herders to use flintlock muskets.

In this way, the Ming army further penetrated into the various tribes militarily.

And the Mongol tribes such as Enke are also very happy and grateful for this.

These new flintlock pistols are powerful, easy to operate, and very easy to use.

Moreover, the muskets equipped by the Ming army in the Mobei Protectorate are exactly the same as those used by these Mongolian servants, which makes Enke and other tribal leaders feel that the Ming army really regards them as their own, and they support the Ming from the bottom of their hearts.

In less than half a year, the dominance of the Mobei Protectorate on the grassland was perfect.