The prairie is so vast. After Huduntu was beaten to the west by the Jiannu slaves, the territory of Haraqin was almost as big as Zhejiang Province in later generations.
The Haraqin tribe in the far west are not direct descendants of Subudi, let alone a powerful Haraqin tribe.
Therefore, Huang Yi and Hedan Batter launched a surprise attack and were able to kill more than a dozen of them in one month.
It is too difficult to attack the Mongolian tribes and completely annihilate them. Many Mongolian light cavalry will escape in every attack.
At this time, most of the Haraqin tribes knew that a powerful enemy was coming, and many tribes put aside their past grudges and joined together to keep warm.
Some tribes were busy migrating eastward with the idea that they could not afford to offend but could afford to hide.
Several tribes have sent envoys to the co-lord Subu for help.
The already united tribe can organize two to three thousand string controllers, so it stands to reason that they have the strength to fight.
However, they were concerned about their children, property, and cattle and sheep for the winter, so they did not dare to attack Huang Yi. Instead, they organized their forces to defend against Huang Yi's attack.
Huang Yi had reason to believe that many of the chiefs of the Haraqin tribe should be close to Jiannu. After all, they had entered the customs and robbed together.
It is very likely that a messenger has been sent to Jiannu for help.
If we go to attack at this time, the enemy will be prepared, and reinforcements from the Jiannu may appear in a certain Karaqin tribe.
Sixty-seven or even more small and medium-sized Haraqin tribes are powerful when gathered together. With the supervision and command of Jiannu, the phenomenon of Haraqin tribes having their own agenda and refusing to take the lead will be curbed.
Huang Yi will inevitably face a fierce battle, leading to a tragic victory.
After a miserable victory, Huang Yi was unwilling to overexpend the strength he had finally accumulated.
So when the fight was going smoothly, he suddenly retreated three hundred miles, leaving the well-prepared enemy in awe.
Next the enemy will face a big problem.
If we continue to waste time in a camp that has been fenced with solid wooden barriers, a food crisis will arise.
Moreover, the thirty-six Kalaqin families in the late Ming Dynasty were never monolithic, but scattered.
When the tribe is likely to be wiped out, they can stick together. After the crisis is resolved, they are guaranteed to start fighting with each other.
There is another big question. When the reinforcements of Jiannu are coming, can the Haraqin tribe not be served with good wine and good meat?
If you can endure it for ten days and a half, who can endure it for a long time?
Moreover, the Jiannu were superior to the Tatars and were domineering.
After knowing that the enemy had retreated, the Kalaqin tribe who asked Jiannu to come for support must have felt like inviting a wolf into the house, and over time they would become alienated.
After a month of fighting, there were no more Haraqin tribes within three hundred miles of the base area.
Huang Yi decided to withdraw his troops, and then continued to personally participate in the investigation. After the New Year, the Haraqin tribe's defenses relaxed and they launched another surprise attack.
Try to kill another seven or eight tribes.
First, select tribes with slave-building troops to attack. The purpose of the investigation is to find out how many slave-building troops there are. The upper limit for whether you can attack is no more than one slave-building army.
Huang Yi's method of managing the prairie is simple and crude!
It is still necessary to eliminate the original ruling class and support the proletariat to take charge of the country and become the new chief. It is also necessary to prevent the new chief from becoming bigger and becoming a hidden danger, so the subdivisions are not attributable to each other.
In total, thirteen tribes of varying sizes were eliminated and twenty-one tribes ruled by the proletariat were reorganized.
Sixty-three chiefs were appointed who were not subordinate to each other and were directly under the leadership of the base area, and grazing land was divided for each chief.
There were originally a lot of spoils, but in order to ensure the survival of the twenty-one newly formed tribes and maintain the authority of the sixty-three new chiefs, nearly 80% of the spoils were distributed.
However, iron armor, leather armor, and cotton armor were not evenly distributed. Each chief had no more than two pairs of iron armor, and there were only one or twenty knights equipped with leather armor.
This means that these new chiefs do not have the strength to wage war, and their men and horses can only fight a dozen scattered horse thieves and catch the sentry horses that come to spy.
However, the patrol team formed by Huang Yi would patrol the territory from time to time. The patrol team not only consisted of base cavalry, but also more than 300 warriors carefully selected by the 63 new chiefs.
Huang Yi treated these warriors who agreed to serve for three years favorably, and would personally brainwash them and teach them to speak Chinese and write Chinese characters.
Try to make them the new chiefs in the future.
These Mongolian warriors are cavalry who are skilled in bow and horse. Their food and daily life are the same as those of the cavalry in the base area. They are also equipped with iron armor, leather armor and cotton armor.
The reason why the Mongolian light cavalry couldn't defeat the Jiannu cavalry was because of poor equipment. Not only were there few iron armors, but some tribes couldn't even afford iron arrowheads and had to grind them with bones.
Huang Yi selected the best horses for more than 300 Mongolian knights, wrapped them into iron men, and equipped them with iron arrows and feathers.
When encountering the Jiannu cavalry, as long as they dare to fight and are willing to fight tooth and nail, three hundred against three hundred, the Mongolian cavalry will definitely win.
There is no need to worry about the loyalty of these Mongolian knights, they have become vested interests in the rise of Huang Yi's power.
Anyone who is loyal to Huang Yi and makes meritorious service will definitely become a grassroots officer. If he insists on retiring after three years, he will definitely become a chief who manages dozens of households and hundreds of people.
The campaign will begin as soon as the autumn harvest is over, and the plan is to end the journey before the snow falls.
The result was very good. The iron hoofs were like autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves. The Haraqin tribe, which was three hundred miles away from the base area in a straight line, was wiped out.
With the twenty-one Mongolian tribes under Huang Yi's rule grazing outside the base area, the probability of the base area encountering a sudden attack is even lower.
Next, Huang Yi will set up more than 20 herdsmen groups within the core circle within a hundred miles of the base area.
Each group has at least ten households and a maximum of fifty households. The group leader is selected from the Mongolians who attached themselves last year, and the treatment is the same as that of the militia general banner.
The team members are of course the Mongolian slaves rescued this time.
There must be children in the team leader's family who are regular soldiers under Huang Yi's command, and their loyalty must be higher than that of the peripheral tribal chiefs.
In the past month, Huang Yi has maintained contact with Hedanbaatar, and both have stated that if the other party's attack is blocked, they will spare no effort to help.
However, so far, neither of the two families has encountered a strong confrontation, so they are still attacking independently.
Huang Dayong, Bi Daxi and other fifty knights who went to contact not only brought back more than 600 Han people, but also brought back the latest news.
Hedanbaat'er had already eliminated five tribes that had been planning for a long time. His management method was completely different from Huang Yi's, which was direct annexation.
After more than a month of fighting, a total of nearly 200 pieces of armor were seized, gold and silver treasures worth 30,000 taels of silver were seized, and a population of nearly 3,000 was gained.
When Hedanbaat'er discussed merits and rewarded them, he added the surrendered knights to Karatu, Morigan, Huhru, Agush, Shultu, Dumehe, Teng'er, and Jebirge respectively according to their merits. Wait for the big boss who started his career after him.
