Chapter 244: The Great Development of the Western Regions?
Arutai's death caused the Caucasian cavalry, who were already frightened by Yang Feng, to collapse instantly.
In their eyes, this is simply the devil.
They are Orthodox Christians.
Of course, more importantly, as the Khan's Guards, they have been hit hard by the Ming army one after another, and they were originally very afraid of the Ming army, but this time they were actually because the previous losses were too great, and Erlebok also wanted to preserve the strength of this guard, and deliberately let them stay behind. It's just that they didn't expect the front line to be defeated so quickly, so they had to face the Ming army again, and Zhu Di pursued Erlebuke alone, and Arutai inspired them to muster up courage and prepare to fight in an ambush to wash away the shame of the past......
As a result, the shame was not successful.
Arutai himself ended up in a different place.
Morale collapsed instantly.
These Caucasian cavalrymen, who had followed the Mongol Khan for more than a century, did not hesitate to turn around and flee.
However, by this time, Erlebok had also run away.
"Stop chasing!"
Zhu Di stopped Yang Feng.
Yang Feng looked at him suspiciously.
"Let him cross the Golden Mountain, and see how he and Haohai take revenge on Ugqi Hashha."
Zhu Di said with a smile.
Indeed, the main result of this battle is that Ugqi Hashha fled without a fight, and he betrayed Erlebok and Yuros, including the other divisions that participated in the war and suffered heavy losses, will also shift the responsibility to him and force it too hard, they really don't care about finding trouble with Ugqi Hashha, but if the Ming army slows down, or shows no intention of south of Jinshan.
That's different.
Everyone needs a target to vent their anger, and they need to make up for the losses in this battle.
Who to look for?
Looking for him, of course!
There is the righteousness of the Great Khan's crusade, the fighting spirit of the same enemy, and the motivation to plunder.
The main thing is that there is nothing else to grab.
They are now sandwiched between the Ming Dynasty and Timur, leaving only the Junggar Basin, the Yinli River Valley and the Land of the Seven Rivers, which cannot provoke Timur to the south, and to the east, they are not lost.
The latter and King Hami Zhongshun are now vassals of the Ming Dynasty.
The armies of Song Cheng and King Su were still behind to back them up.
To the north is Zhu Di.
Looking around, there is no one who can fight.
Since you can't rob others, of course, you can only rob it internally.
"That's it, we're going to have to stay here for a while."
Yang Feng said.
"In this case, I will ask the capital for help.
Now that spring has begun, there are many livestock seized this time, and there is no shortage of everything in the steppe, just in time to build a city in Kobdo.
However, the ambassador has to quickly find a way to replenish the ammunition, this time the ammunition is almost exhausted, we have to stay here for a few months, if the rear ammunition can be transported during this period, it is the best, if it can't be delivered, then it will depend on the ambassador. ”
Zhu Di said.
Got it!
You're blowing the sky, but who knows if what you're saying is true or not?
I can establish a kingdom in the Western Regions.
But you've got to cash in on the blows.
You said that you can make ammunition in the Western Regions, then you have to make it for me, you say that you can make a fortune here, then you have to show me the possibility of making a fortune, after all, you can't treat me as a reclamation team member who got on a thief ship in Huining. However, it is also understandable, after all, Ambassador Yang has a criminal record, and those reclamation team members who were pitted in the past are indeed worry-free, but let Zhu Di give up the fiefdom of Beiping and give up the established foundation to run thousands of miles away to overcome obstacles, there must be enough rewards. Yang Feng touched his mouth up and down, boasting that the sky was falling here, and he patted the ditch when he pit people, what should King Yan do with tens of thousands of horses?
So, you have to come up with something real.
"Ammunition, then you really have to go to Hami."
Yang Feng touched his mustache and said.
It shouldn't be difficult, the potash saltpeter mine in the south of Hami can be located and found, and the rest is a matter of mining, but he is making gunpowder and not fertilizer, so he doesn't need too much at all, and it is enough to mine 100,000 catties. And sulfur can be collected in the sulfur ditch of the Tianshan Mountains, near Hami, and the remaining charcoal is not worth mentioning, but the gunpowder of the Ming army is to add sugar.
This certainly can't be done.
White sugar is at the level of hard currency luxury goods in the Western Regions.
It's not a big deal, it's just a little bit more powerful.
Just decorate it more.
And then there's the lead needed for the projectile.
That's no problem with that.
Because there are also lead-zinc mines in the Hami area.
In fact, there are iron mines, coal mines, copper mines, and all open-pit mines.
Thinking about it this way, it's still a good place to engage in industry!
"Well, I can really give you what you want, but it's just that there is a shortage of manpower, because there is a need to open a mine."
Yang Feng said.
"People? Handed over to the king of Don't lose Bali, since he is my Ming vassal, when the Ming needs him to be a minfu, he will have a minfu, if he refuses, then he is disloyal to the Ming, since he is disloyal to the Ming, then it is reasonable for the Ming to crusade against him. ”
Zhu Di said with a smile.
"Yes, that's right!"
Yang Feng said.
Of course, when the Ming Dynasty crusaded against him, it was also reasonable to catch their people as coolies by the way.
However, this loss of eight miles does have to be solved, one is that he occupies a good place, Zhu Di wants to establish a base for conquering the Western Regions in the future, the first step is to establish industry and agriculture in the Tianshan Mountains, that is, military industry and grain, and now it is still mainly nomadic, which is definitely not possible. The second is that this Don't lose the king of Bali, although he is a descendant of the golden family, but in fact, he has been indoctrinated, for Yang Feng, the Mongolian tribes can actually be tolerated, after all, he has the same messy relationship with the vultures, Hu Ligai, and Kuwu in Huining......
At least the latter was to think that they were closer to Ambassador Yang than to Emperor Ming.
But don't lose eight miles, it's hard to be intimate.
They cleared the battlefield and then returned to Tongbo.
The main battle with Tongbo was over, and part of the cavalry was still in pursuit, but the vast majority had already returned.
The results were quickly counted.
Eight thousand were beheaded, but ten thousand were captured.
That is to say, the Mongolian tribes that participated in the war were considered to have lost nearly half.
Among them, there were even entire surrenders, including Kun Timur, who also belonged to the descendants of Ali Buge.
Although some say that he is the son of Erlebak, this is obviously unreasonable, after all, Ugqi Hashkha will not kill his father and then set him up, not to mention that Elebok's son Benjasri fled to Timur. In other words, Ugqi Hashha was preparing to destroy the Erlebak Manmen, and Kun Timur was soon killed by the ghost Li Chi, and the ghost Li Chi was born Ben Ya Li, so it is more reasonable to say that Ali is not a brother. This time he was also in the formation of the Chinese army in Erleboke, and after the formation collapsed, he was scattered by the Ming army, because he ran into a valley and was intercepted by the pursuing Zhu Neng.
Then he happily surrendered with less than a thousand of his men.
Zhu Di was originally authorized by Zhu Yuanzhang to recruit Mongolian nobles and make him an official.
Therefore, he was directly appointed as the commander.
Then several Mongolian nobles who also surrendered were given the title of commander respectively, as for the territory, it was very simple, the vast steppe was designated at will, anyway, in the future, the Mongolian plateau would also become a commander like Huining. But one is definitely not good, one in the east and one in the west, Yan Ran in the east is in command of the envoy, Hanhai in the west is in command of the envoy, Yan Ran is in command of the envoy in Hara and Lin, and Hanhai is in command of the envoy in Kobdo. As for the Hulunbuir Dacao, the principle was assigned to the command of Huiningdu, and then the troops were stationed in Hara and Lin and Kobdo, and these commanding envoys had their own pastoral areas, and they were not allowed to cross the border without an order.
Then give the temple!
So it's locked in the pastoral area.
Then trade was liberalized, and the steppe became a happy paradise for profiteers......
I like it!
Of course, now that Kun Timur and the others didn't know about it, they were just pleasantly surprised to find that King Yan of the Great Ming Dynasty was really benevolent! Not only did they pardon them and make them officials, but they also spoke Mongolian, and they were all grateful for a while.
They told Zhu Di that there was indeed a coalition army led by Gui Lichi, which was already on the south bank of the Har Lake, ready to intercept and defeat the retreating Ming army.
As for the strength of about fifteen thousand.
They are willing to lead the way for the king.
"I'm just going to Hami, so you're going with me, by the way, where is your family?"
Yang Feng said.
Fight the Mongol cavalry with the Mongol cavalry......
What a beautiful picture.
"Ambassador, we fled with the Khan's court, and most of our family members are missing."
Kun Timur said somewhat embarrassedly.
So their family is very likely to be in the women and children that Yang Feng bought, but there is no need to tell him this, it was all spent by Ambassador Yang, could it be found out, and then let Zhu Di return the money?
Of course not.
Besides, Ambassador Yang promised those people that he would bring them to Monan.
To be a man of his word, he must be true to his word.
Can they be sent back and continue to suffer in Mobei with Kun Timur?
"It's just a woman, I'll take you to grab a younger and more beautiful one!"
Yang Feng patted him on the shoulder and said.
The cavalry under Kun Timur was excited.
I have to say that following Ambassador Yang is like going home, and Ambassador Yang speaks very well.
Since this is the case, Zhu Di doesn't care, the Ming army is running out of ammunition, and if it continues to move forward, it will inevitably suffer heavier casualties, in the end, he is only 22,000 people, and now there are less than 20,000 people who can fight, and it is too dangerous to continue to move forward. Horses, cattle, sheep, and camels were captured in this battle, so food was plentiful, and the area around Kobdo should indeed be fortified, and the Ming army was resting and building a city there. At the same time, Yang Feng carried a letter to the capital to transport ammunition to King Su and Song Cheng, and together with the Kun Timur department, they went to attack Guilichi, and after the battle, they went south to Hami, and the Ming army there sent Suzhou by post road. As for Kun Timur and others, even if they escorted ammunition, but Suzhou's ammunition was limited, and it was difficult to say how much they could replenish this expeditionary force.
In the Ming army, because of the cost of transportation, Gansu had the lowest proportion of firearms and equipment.
In particular, there are very few new ones.
Gunpowder is also mostly old.
After all, it has only been more than five years since the Ming Dynasty began to use new firearms, and it has been used in Huining, Waguo, Annan and other battlefields, and remote theaters like Gansu have to wait in line......
They don't really have a big fight, of course, they have to be at the back.
However, Yang Feng thought about it, and he couldn't just take the Mongolian cavalry, so he called Zhang Fu again, and the latter took his subordinates with him, after all, the work of making gunpowder could not use Mongolian cavalry, and Zhang Fu's subordinates were more familiar with this. Zhu Di took out a part of the remaining ammunition from each department and replenished the ammunition to 50% for the 2,000 people in Zhang Fu's department, which was enough for them to fight a big battle.
In the end, Yang Feng took Zhang Fu's two thousand, and Kun Timur's seven thousand, and those who surrendered also had some wounded soldiers, and they would definitely not be able to participate in the battle, and a total of nine thousand cavalry went straight to Kobdo.
Then go to Lake Howl.
By the time they arrived on the southern shore of the Har Lake, it was already a real spring.
The pure water of the lake, like green grass, and flowers spread all over the field.
And then......
"Kill!"
On the battlefield where thousands of troops and horses were fighting, Ambassador Yang was like a raging silverback gorilla, holding his giant sword in both hands, not even riding a horse, and frantically rushing into the middle of the enemy army.
The greatsword turned into arcs of light.
Every time it passed, it brought up a splash of blood.
One by one, the limbs of the Mongolian cavalry were cut off, the heads fell, and the war horses with their hooves cut off and the cavalry that were cut off at the waist accompanied him forward in the beautiful steppe. Behind him, the same Mongol cavalrymen, who looked like fanatics, roared furiously and charged at their opponents, piercing their bodies with spears and cutting off their heads with scimitars. Instead, Zhang Fu and his subordinates watched Yang Feng's performance idly on the side.
They did not encounter the main force of the Ghost Force, who had already learned of the defeat of Hetongbo, and then led the main force of the department back to their pastoral area.
His pastoral area is in Lake Kyrgyzstan.
His tribe is actually called the Kyrgyz Division, or also the Beggar Division.
As for these are actually a small tribe with him, this is the best pasture, of course he was reluctant to leave, but Yang Feng and others suddenly killed him, and it happened that Kun Timur had a bit of a grudge against them in the past, so he and Yang Feng ignored Zhang Fuxian's proposal to surrender and killed them directly.
The latter collapsed in an instant.
They only had two or three thousand cavalry in total, and when they encountered almost four times as many enemies, and there was a monster level like Yang Feng, of course, they could only collapse.
The reason for this is actually very simple......
"Hurry up with your people, I'll leave it to me here, I promise you!"
Ambassador Yang, dressed in other people's blood, roared.
Kun Timur's subordinates looked at the women and children who were fleeing, and they rushed towards these prey with a howl like wolves, and the cavalrymen who were fleeing turned around and cursed Kun Timur one by one in the flight, watching them pounce on their women.
But now I don't care about women.
Escape matters.
Soon only the dead bodies and the hunting cavalry of Timur were left on the steppe.
Ambassador Yang dragged his giant sword through the blood-stained grassland......
"It's called wolf nature!"
He said to Zhang Fu, who was speechless.
"No one likes wolves on the grassland, for them, wolves are the most evil, and the eagle is what they respect, and the embroidered eagle on the nine-white silk of Erleberk is the eagle."
Zhang Fu said.
"Well, you don't understand."
Yang Feng said.
Of course Zhang Fu didn't understand.
"You don't want to take these people again, just like you did with those vultures, where to burn and loot, right?"
He said.
"We are relatives, and burning, killing and looting are also indispensable for you."
Yang Feng said.