Lin Yueru likes to eat medium-rare steaks. She is from Yaoguang.
She cut the steak with a knife and fork while taking a sip of red wine.
The steak was bleeding, and the red wine in the burgundy goblet highlighted her red lips, making her look like she was drinking blood.
If Lin Yueru were to put two hairpins with horns on her hair, she would look like a sexy little devil.
The little girl looked a little chilly. She didn't like steak that was still bleeding, she thought that was how barbarians ate it.
"We are in big trouble this time. According to the informant's tip, there are many people coming this time. The seven Tumut tribes in the Qaidam Basin in Qinghai are the Tumut people left behind after Dayan Khan conquered Qinghai. They sent people here. They said they would send 30,000 troops."
Yang Fan sneered, "The Tumut people in Qinghai are all little reptiles, who else."
"The Yarkands, the remnants of the Chagatai Khanate, have expressed that they can send 30,000 troops. There is also the Erut (Oirat) alliance of the Wara people, among which the Heshuotes, Junggars, and Huite people are ready to send 50,000 troops each. Jingqi. Taiji of the Torgut tribe has been oppressed by the Jungar people for a long time and has deep conflicts. Their attitude is unclear now."
Yang Fan put down the sugar cake and thought for a while. He remembered that two years later, in 1630, the Torgut tribe was forced by the Dzungars to move westward, to the Ukrainian prairie, and to go nomadic in the lower reaches of the Volga River.
When they were oppressed by Tsarist Russia and wanted to come back, it was the Qianlong period.
The Torgut Ministry can try to take advantage of it and create some cracks in the Oirat Alliance.
Yang Fan's expression turned serious this time. There were already 210,000 people, and it was estimated that the three Khalkha Khanates would also get involved. It is not a big problem for the three of them plus the Bayin Nuoyan tribe to gather 100,000 cavalry.
Yang Fan once again strengthened his determination to deal with the Khalkha people in advance before the war started. Lest a war breaks out and they are behind the scenes.
Lin Yueru took a sip of red wine, wiped her mouth with a napkin, and said: "It's not over yet. I heard that people from the Kazakh Khanate are also coming. I don't know how they talked about it. Sir, if you think of touching the Loop, it really stirs up the situation in all directions. ah."
Yang Fan said: "There are no fools in this world. If you treat others as fools, you are a fool yourself. You have to look forward to Shu. The Ming Dynasty captured the Hetao, which made it clear that it was interested in advancing westward. In the prosperous days of the Han and Tang Dynasties, all China was flooded with the Western Regions, and the territory As far away as the Aral Sea. It is impossible for these forces in the Western Region not to pay attention."
Lin Yueru said: "I understand that the Kazakhs came to join in the fun, but there is something even more outrageous. The Rakshasa people also sent people here, and they are said to sell weapons to the Oirat Alliance. Mainly matchlock guns."
Yang Fan's face darkened. Damn old man. I didn't come to settle accounts with you, but you came to tease me first.
"Who is coming from the Rakshasa Kingdom?" Yang Fan asked.
"I heard it was Petrovsky, the Siberian governor stationed in Kashrek City." Lin Yueru said.
In 1581, Tsarist Russia launched an attack on the Siberian Khanate, and on October 26, they captured Kashlyk, the capital of the Siberian Khanate, and began to rule the area.
At this point, Yin Fan IV's life achievements reached their culmination. After Yin Fan IV's death, Tsarist Russia entered a period of dormancy, with little change in its territory. It was not until 1696, when Peter I became Tsar, that Tsarist Russia entered the outbreak stage again.
During this period, in 1598, the Cossack mercenaries basically occupied the entire territory of the Siberian Khanate, and thus controlled the Eurasian land trade. Then they used this as a base and supply relay station to continuously expand eastward, and successively established Tomsk (occupied in 1604), Yakutsk, fur livestock and walrus ivory distribution centers (occupied in 1632).
At this time, their vanguard troops were operating west of Lake Baikal and were in constant conflict with the Buryat Mongols. With their current strength, even if they cannot bring down the Kazakh Khanate, they cannot shake Mongolia in the desert. They have simply been exploring eastward in Siberia.
During the Little Ice Age, Europe was also unprecedentedly cold. The demand for furs in Western Europe increased dramatically and prices skyrocketed. Fur was called soft gold during this period. Tsarist Russia's expansion into Siberia was mainly driven by the huge profits from the fur trade.
The growth of Shanxi merchants was also related to the fur trade. They sold the furs on the grasslands to the gentry class in the Ming Dynasty at high prices, thus making a fortune. Completed primitive accumulation.
"The strength of the Rakshasa people in the Western Region is limited. They will not send troops, and there are only a few thousand of them in Siberia, so there is nothing to fear." Yang Fan thought for a while and said.
Although he knew that their strength was limited, Yang Fan was still very unhappy. Because, in his mind, the Mongolians are also members of the Chinese nation. But Maozi is not. They interfered in our internal affairs, which made Yang Fan very angry.
"Sir, although they have not sent troops to join the war, they are selling their matchlock guns. They have prepared 10,000 Tsarist muskets and are ready to sell them to the Dzungars."
Yang Fan thought about what the Tsar's Musket was.
He turned on his mobile phone and looked up the history of firearms development in Tsarist Russia. It took me a while to understand the context.
Because of the Mongolian rule, Tsarist Russia completely missed the development of muskets. It was not until they became independent that in 1550, Emperor Yin Fan directly introduced the most advanced matchlock guns from the West. Known as the Tsar matchlock.
The Thunder Emperor Yin Fan followed the example of Western Europe and formed a shooting army. The equipment of this unit is rather strange. The musketeers not only have a matchlock gun, but also a steel half-moon axe. When shooting, the handle of the ax is inserted into the ground, and then the matchlock gun is placed on the axe, which serves as a shooting stand.
When the enemy rushed forward, they threw away their matchlocks and drew out their axes to fight.
Moreover, the Shooting Army also imitated the Czech Hussite chariots and equipped them with this wooden-armored four-wheeled carriage. It’s similar to Yang Fan’s car camp. But there is no steel plate armor of Yang Fan's car camp.
After Yang Fan finished reading, he curled his lips, it was all rubbish.
Yang Fan has now replaced his flintlock guns on a large scale, and Da Mao will not be uniformly equipped with standard flintlock guns until a hundred years later. It was useless for them to learn from the Hussite chariots. They would be blasted to pieces in front of Yang Fan's Napoleon cannon.
Come and try it quickly. 】
Once there is a generational difference in weapons, it cannot be offset by the bravery of officers and soldiers. Otherwise, First Crow and Second Crow would not have suffered such a miserable defeat.
Yang Fan said: "It is better to cut off one of the enemy's ten fingers. Don't worry about Lao Maozi and Kazakh for now. They dare to interfere in the internal affairs of our Ming Dynasty. I will go to them to settle accounts after I deal with the Mongols. Madam, please sort out the supplies in the warehouse. , prepare a report for me. I have made up my mind. After the Spring Festival, I will change the cavalry army into camel cavalry, and then raid Tushetu Khan. Kill them in one battle. Shock the Khalkha people."
"Master, there are now a total of 115,675 camels. Do you want to allocate 100,000 camels to An Sanxi?" Xiao Niangpi knew the family's resources very well, and she didn't even need to look up the information, she just opened her mouth.
"Yes, give him 100,000 head. This operation must be foolproof. Prepare three supplies of ammunition and five supplies for An Sanxi. Also distribute the thickest winter clothes in the warehouse. After the third day of the Lunar New Year, organize manpower and send the supplies Put it on the camel and drive to Duolun." Yang Fan said.
Xiao Niangpi nodded. Now that the master has decided, she will execute it unconditionally.
"Sir, this class of students from the Jiangwu Hall graduated years ago. Can you let them follow them to the battlefield for internship?" Xiao Niangpi asked.
This is already a tradition of Yang Fan's system. The last military school graduate went to Duolun battlefield for internship.
"How many people are there in this session?" Yang Fan asked.
The Jiangwu Hall has been separated from Xinghe Academy and an independent Army Officer School has been established. The Naval Academy was also established on Jeju Island and is currently in the construction stage.
"There are three thousand people. They have been trained for a year. They are all selected from soldiers with good performance. They all have war experience before going to school."
Yang Fan nodded happily. He had been expanding the scale of the school in the past two years and finally saw results. Even though it's all quick. He can be regarded as coming from a regular military academy. This is of great significance to the regularization of the army.
When these people return from the grasslands, they can be sent to serve as grassroots officers in the newly formed infantry army.
These people were all Yang Fan's domestic slaves and graduated from regular military academies, starting from the grassroots level. This basically eliminated all the problems of the Ming Dynasty's army and eliminated the possibility of warlordism from the root. Yang Fan can achieve complete control over the army.
"Let's all go. Soldiers will not truly understand war unless they go to the battlefield. Let them also learn how cavalry fights." Yang Fan said.
