Chapter 92 King Yan urges westward expansion

The withdrawal of Timur did not mean that everything was over.

King Yan returned to the army, and the soldiers who followed King Yan to attack at risk suffered heavy casualties. There will be a lot of losses. After all, it took the risk of burning Timur's grain and grass. The biggest problem is not really attacking, but retreating. It was withdrawn from the encirclement of Timur's army.

Even if King Yan uses soldiers like a god, he can't help but be damaged.

After some soldiers were wounded, they fought continuously and could not support themselves. In addition to the lack of medical treatment, it is impossible to follow the continuous maneuver of the army. Someone commits suicide, someone asks someone else to give a painful one.

Needless to say, it is difficult to say.

After returning to Tingzhou, he found the body dead under the city. There are nearly 100,000 corpses, among which there are many armistice ceremonies to collect corpses, after all, there are too many corpses, which also hinders the siege of the city, and the collection of corpses on the battlefield is also a war etiquette that both sides must abide by, unless that side is so mad that there is no bottom line at all, otherwise they will abide by it.

But nearly 100,000 corpses, what is the concept of northern Xinjiang?

It must be known that the population of Daming is only over 100 million, and 100,000 men are unbearable for a certain county and a certain government. The overall population of the Western Regions is only a few million. Almost all the strong men had to be called up for battle. The death of nearly 100,000 can be said to have dealt a devastating blow to the demographic structure of the northern Xinjiang region.

If this kind of blow is not brought in, I am afraid that two or three generations will not be able to recover from it by relying on natural recovery alone.

The vitality of the entire northern Xinjiang has been greatly damaged.

Even if these remaining Mongols turned their allegiance to the Yan king. But for King Yan, it is not too useful.

It's a mess.

It gave King Yan a headache.

However, in the face of this mess, King Yan's biggest idea was to first report the victory in Beijing, and then urge Beijing to go west again.

The reason is very simple, all the problems faced by King Yan, the biggest problem is the logistics problem. If you can get through Beijing, even if you can't get some benefits from Beijing, you just need to open up Beijing's business routes. It was enough for King Yan to get some benefits.

After all, the Western Regions are along with the West.

Although it is said that the situation of hostility between King Yan and Timur will not change for a long time. This has a certain impact on the trade routes, but it does not mean that the trade routes are cut off.

The Mongols never cut off trade routes in wars, even if the two sides are hostile now, the risk of merchants doing business has greatly increased, but no matter how much it increases, it can still be connected, not to mention anything else, just say that some generals under the command of Timur, don't they engage in smuggling?

In fact, King Yan also engaged in some smuggling with the Northern Song family in the Western Song Dynasty and monopolized the goods of the Western Regions to the Central Plains. But it didn't work out well.

On the one hand, there was the hostile relationship between the King of Yan and the Nanjing court.

There is this relationship, but it doesn't matter much.

After all, King Yan also has connections in Nanjing. For many people, everyone fights a war and a war is a war, and many years of friendship are friendship. In fact, the smuggling matter is not so strictly controlled.

The problem is that the purchasing power of the Beijing market is much greater than that of the Nanjing market.

The Industrial Revolution was an explosion of wealth.

Because of the long-distance transportation, the things that were sold from the Western Regions were all rare treasures. This is not to say that in the Western Regions, Central Asia and even Europe, there are only rare treasures. Rather, it is the transportation environment of the Silk Road. It's not a curiose. There is no excess profit, and it is not at all cost-effective to ship to the East.

In the face of rare treasures, it is not that the Nanjing dignitaries have no money, but that there are a group of nouveau riche in Beijing. All of a sudden, these people have money. I don't know where to spend it, He Xi himself has done experiments, and he maintains the He Mansion family, about 10,000 taels a year, which is already a very luxury.

In this era, an annual income of 10,000 yuan is enough for them to do whatever they want. However, Beijing has given birth to many enterprises with hundreds of thousands of yuan, or even millions of yuan. Many people don't know what to do after they get rich?

They are the largest consumer market for these treasures.

In addition, what King Yan needs, Nanjing City will never be able to supply. What does King Yan need? It's weapons, food, cloth, farm tools. and so on. Can these things be obtained from Nanjing?

No.

Even King Yan judged that relying on Yan Guo's poor hematopoietic ability alone, he would be able to pull with Timur in the Western Regions in the future, and even if he defeated Timur, it was unlikely that he would advance westward. Without him, the logistics can't keep up, just like now.

If King Yan mobilizes the whole country and gathers all the Mongolian strong men, he can also have more than 100,000 troops or even more cavalry gathered here. But logistically, King Yan couldn't bear it at all, and in the end King Yan had no choice but to do so.

Fighting Timur with a small number of troops, most of them were staring at the rear.

It is not up to King Yan himself to decide whether King Yan can defeat Timur or not, and how far King Yan can go westward. Rather, it is in Beijing, to be precise, the railway from Beijing to the Western Regions.

Therefore, King Yan once again wrote to urge Beijing to build the railway as soon as possible and launch a northwest offensive.

It is even hoped that Beijing will plan a railway from Beijing to Hami.

If this railroad is repaired. It is the greatest benefit to King Yan.

Of course, there are some threats.

After all, the power of the central government will also extend along the railway line. However, it depends on who is in power. At least Yan Wang is confident that Beijing will not dare to do anything to him.

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When the news of King Yan's victory reached He Xi's hands, it was already the end of Longwu's second year.

Since the Denlai Raiders, the war between Beijing and Nanjing has reached a stalemate.

As soon as Fu Youde made a move, he saved the situation in Shandong. Don't say it on this, it's not going to take a sting. It's just that Har doesn't spend his father, and Naha is not Fu Youde's opponent. But Harbour doesn't know what he wants. He decisively became a shrunken turtle. Cowering the army in several ports.

With the support of sailors, plus several ports, it is a very well-run water city. Fu Youde couldn't attack it either.

But in any case, the area controlled by the Northern Army has almost touched Nanzhili along the coastline of Shandong.

After all, the appearance of Fu Youde, coupled with the reconstruction of the naval division of the Southern Army, made the strategic plan of Ha Thorn advance into Nanzhili without spending any time.

After this battle, both sides tended to calm down.

After all, the situation is clear. If Shandong does not fight a battle of Jinan and take down Jinan, Shandong and the mountainous areas in central Shandong, it is impossible for the army to move south. But even if Jinan is taken. And Xuzhou....

The most worrying thing about Xuzhou has never been the city of Xuzhou, but the Yellow River.

As mentioned above, the Yellow River in the Yuan Dynasty was divided into multiple strands into the sea. This is the legacy left by Song Jin. Although the Yellow River was repaired after entering the Ming Dynasty, the Yellow River was only included in the water control project in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the Yellow River in Xuzhou is the most dangerous place. The city of Xuzhou was flooded several times.

This is where the most worrying thing is.

At this time, Beijing's manpower and material resources were on the westward expansion strategy, and the railway was extending every day. He Xi didn't have the energy to fight a battle of Jinan, because if it did, this battle would be a bigger battle than the battle between the rivers.

This determination, He Xi does not have yet.

Because the decisive battle itself represents not only the problems of the front, but also the problems of the rear.

However, many people are already a little anxious.

He Xi has been urged to fight a decisive battle many times. Without him, they saw Ding Xian's achievements.

What will Ding Xian do during this period of time?

It is to issue Nanjing new currency, and use Nanjing new banknote to send money to the soldiers below. It seems that all of a sudden Nanjing has discovered an inexhaustible cornucopia.

With the joint efforts of all parties, Nanjing's finances have been improving all the way. With financial incentives, a lot of things started running right away.

First of all, it is Xuzhou Iron Works. The Xuzhou Iron Works, which were almost copied from the Taiping Iron Works, used the conscription of several counties, and the Xuzhou Iron Works had already begun to produce. It was even possible to supply a part of the front line with guns, artillery.

Xuzhou Iron Works represents that after a year of adjustment, Ding Xian's policy of following Beijing step by step has achieved certain results.

At least in Nanjing, the production of firearms began to climb. Although in terms of quality and cost, there is still a big gap between Nanjing's firearms and Beijing's. However, in terms of quantity, Nanjing has begun to expand production.

Even Nanjing's plan to prepare for the formation and training of a million-strong army as a whole has been put on the agenda. However, whether it can be achieved is still a long-term plan, but it is very possible to train an army of 300,000.

It could even be done this year and next.

Because of this. Many people below want He Xi to launch a decisive battle in advance and take Nanjing when it is not ready.