Ali had a large cement pool built on the top of the mountain, hired carpenters from the tribe, and built a roof. Gather the spring water. After all, there are so many people and animals now, and water resources cannot be wasted at all.
Baobab trees can live for five thousand years and are more than ten meters in diameter. Clothes can be made from the bark, and the trunks can be dug into shelters. The water in one tree can feed a family for a month.
The baobab fruit is eaten locally and is considered the most flavorful of all tree fruits, and is also used to make juice.
Fruits have high energy value and are rich in protein, calcium, phosphorus and a large amount of vitamin C.
The seeds are rich in lipids and are used to extract edible oil, which can be used for cooking.
The seeds contain twice as much calcium inside as spinach. The vitamin content is more than three times that of oranges. The leaves can also be used to make soup. It's just a baby tree.
When these people came to the mountain, they immediately picked out huge baobab trees as a family unit and began to dig houses for accommodation.
The trunk of this tree has soft wood. The wood chips they used to dig out with their hoes flew into the air, and they quickly dug out the room. People can live in it.
This will not damage the trunk and cause the tree to die.
After people leave, do not dig out new growth at any time to maintain the living area. over time. These dug holes will heal again. The bark will grow back on the outside, just like before.
The soft trunks dug out will be eaten by livestock. Nothing is wasted.
At this time, the top of the hill became very noisy. Camels, sheep, cattle, but also donkeys and dogs. Wandering around. Eating freshly dug baobab trunk scraps. Make various calls.
Their excrement is also collected and dried by the tribesmen and used as fuel for cooking fires. The cow dung ashes are not thrown away, they use them to brush their teeth. The dregs from brushing your teeth are sprinkled under the tree and can also be used as fertilizer.
Old Kuba also came here with his three sons and granddaughter. His three sons all carried guns on their backs and held a suitcase tightly in their hands.
Here's the $650,000 in cash the tribe received twice. It is all the cash assets of the tribe. For safety reasons, it was also sent here.
Various families here still have some personnel left behind, and weapons are distributed. Used to guard one's livestock and property.
Ali had no time to care about them these days. Ali was busy building fortifications and bunkers with large and small stones and digging trenches.
Ali didn't know whether this group of enemies had heavy weapons, but it was better to be more prepared.
Ali ordered these people not to go out. Because blasting is about to begin and a cave is dug in the mountain. Used to store ammunition, food, and water. It is also used to house people.
Ali downloaded information about cave dwellings on the Loess Plateau from the Internet. He used explosives to dig some cave dwellings here. These cave dwellings on the stone mountains can withstand the bombing of artillery shells. Moreover, these cave dwellings are built on reverse slopes, so it is not easy for artillery shells to explode.
Time passes day by day. Ali trained troops in the mountains in the morning and built fortifications, cave dwellings, weapons warehouses, etc. in the afternoon.
The tribes on the other side of the river also heard gunshots every day. They fired the guns and started shooting, trying to get familiar with the operation, use and maintenance of the weapons as soon as possible.
This place has entered a period of relative calm. A month later, when the warlords come here again, it may be time for war.
Yang Fan did everything he could. Ali did the rest.
On this day, Yang Fan was handling official business in the study. He is very busy now. He was in charge of all kinds of affairs for the 78,000 people in Nanyuan, even though he left all the routine work to Zhang Shize and Zhou Yuji. However, there are still many things that require his instructions.
At this time, Lin Yueru shouted outside the door: "Report"
"Come in."
Lin Yueru, dressed in military uniform, opened the door and came in. Lin Yueru is a tall man with a good figure of 175cm, and looks very attractive in military uniform. I just can always wear the uniform with a seductive feeling.
Although she is a wife, there are military rules in the army.
Here Yang Fan is the commander-in-chief and Lin Yueru is the intelligence director.
Of course I went home
, that is my wife.
"What's the matter?" Yang Fan didn't raise his head, still immersed in official duties.
"The latest information is that to defeat Huang Taiji, many Taiji and Tabu Nang are being sent to the neighboring Mongolian tribes. They are communicating with each other. It seems that they are planning to hold an alliance conference."
Yang Fan suddenly raised his head, his eyes bright. This is a danger signal. The Mongols are showing signs of uniting.
The reason why the Mongols have turned into a puddle of mud is because they have lost their unity and become a piece of loose sand. As long as Mongolia can be reunited, the slaves will tremble.
Lin Danhan wanted to do this, but failed, and finally died in Dacaotan, Qinghai.
Galdan also wanted to do this, and he went further than Lindan Khan. He unified Mongolia and Mongolia, conquered the entire Kazakhstan, subdued the Qinghai-Tibet region, and occupied the three Khalkhas in Mobei.
He also received arms support from Tsarist Russia. Equipped with a large number of arquebuses and camel artillery.
Just when he took the last step and sent troops to Monan Mongolia. The area he controlled had exceeded that controlled by Kangxi.
But in the end, he lost two battlefields in Ulan Butong and Zhaomodo, and finally failed.
Yang Fan did not expect that the Tumut people who were at the end of their rope would actually make this move. This suddenly made the situation complicated.
Yang Fan walked to the map and moved his fingers back and forth around Guihua City, Jiuyuan City, and Linhe City. His expression gradually became serious.
This battle is not easy to win.
If the Mongolian alliance is completed, this place will become a place of four battles. To the east, there is also the possibility that the Northern Jiannu could take the retreat route at any time. Yang Fan doesn't believe Yuandu Du, so he can safely leave his back to him.
To the north are the Khalkha Mongols and to the west are the Alxa Mongols. There are also Qinghai Tumut Mongols and other messy Mongolian tribes in Qinghai.
The situation west of Yumenguan is more complicated.
To the north of the Tianshan Mountains is the base of the Mongolian desert. Here are the Oara people, who are called Erut and Oirat people.
The main force is the five major tribes. All are powerful. Their territory reaches Jiayuguan in the east and Tianshan Mountain in the south. It reaches the Aral Sea in the west and central Siberia in the north. The vast territory and large population are a tough nut to crack.
The Torgut tribe was originally nomadic in the Yar area near Talbahatai. In 1630, the leader of his tribe, He Orlek, had a disagreement with the leader of the Junggar tribe, Baturhuntaiji, so he led his tribe and some herdsmen of the Durbot tribe and Heshuote tribe to move westward to the lower reaches of the Volga River. At this time, in 1628, it was the eve of the departure of the Torgut tribe.
The other four major tribes are:
The Dulbert tribe herds from the right bank of the middle reaches of the Irtysh River to the upper reaches of the Inshim River;
The Heshuote tribe, centered on Talbahatai and Yinli, herded the vast area from the upper reaches of the Irtysh River to Lake Balkhash, to Urumqi and the Tianshan Mountains in the south, and to the Chuihe River Basin in the west (later part of it followed Gushi Khan to develop on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau).
These people from the Heshuote tribe later went to Qinghai and Tibet. And finally unified there. The vast Heshuote Khanate was established. Their descendant, the Great Khan, was Lu Bu Zang Danjin, the man who played under the lantern in Qinghai with General Nian in the Yongzheng Dynasty.
The Junggar Tribe (i.e. the Choros Tribe) is located to the east of the Heshuote Tribe, with Hebukshali as the center, extending to the left bank of the upper reaches of the Irtysh River in the north, Altai in the east, and the Junggar Basin in the south.
The Huite tribe pastored in the Yuledus River Basin.
Among them, the leader of the Heshuote tribe is serving as the leader of the Oirat Alliance at this time.
"Do you have detailed information about Mongolia in the desert? How many people and soldiers do they have?" Yang Fan asked.
Lin Yueru shook her head helplessly. Said: "I don't, it's too far there. My adoptive father can't reach there. This information came back from Guihua City. I can put the hidden stakes there, which is my best effort. Where are we We have reached the end of our strength.”
Yang Fan nodded, feeling a little embarrassed for Lin Yueru.
Yang Fan knew that when Galdan challenged Kangxi, there were 200,000 households and more than 600,000 people in the four tribes during Galdan's period.
How many of them are there now? No more so than in future generations
More.
Yang Fan looked at the map, and his eyes wandered around Central Asia. South of the Tianshan Mountains were the remnants of the Chagatai Khanate, now called Yarkand. Finally, our eyes fell on Congling (Pamir Plateau). This is the eternal pain in many people's hearts.
This was the homeland of the Han and Tang Dynasties. The entire Western Region west of Congling was under the influence of Confucian culture and was the birthplace of the great poet Li Bai.
Nowadays, this place has long been changed beyond recognition, with great changes in history and vicissitudes of life.
Yang Fan sighed, complex emotions welling up in his heart.
Yang Fan recited in a low voice: "Tianbao Hu soldiers were trapped in the two capitals, and there was no Han camp in Anbeiting. Since Gao Xianzhi's defeat in the Battle of Talas, our Chinese army has not crossed Congling for a full thousand years. What we are waiting for is already It’s been too long.”
Not anymore today.
