When Yang Fan saw that the Oirat people had retreated, he did not stop his troops there. Instead, he led the cavalry from the Jia Ding Regiment and Zhang Shize led the British Duke's 1,500 cavalry, totaling 5,000 people, to pursue them.
But the Oirat people really didn’t want to fight.
They left behind Gushi Khan's nephew, the second-in-command of the Hoshuote people, and the next Oirat Khan-Eqirtu in history. Let him stay in Linhe City and lead 10,000 elite cavalry to break up the rear.
This man is the nephew of Gushi Khan and the next leader of the four Oirat tribes. Because the Heshuote people controlled the trade channels between Xinjiang and the mainland, they were able to sit firmly at the head of the Oirat Alliance for several generations.
Yang Fan was also somewhat curious about him. This man's life was also very interesting.
He is Galdan's father-in-law, and it was only after Galdan beat up his old father-in-law that he became the number one man in the Oirat League. And Galdan's little wife came in a very disgraceful way. The eldest wife is the daughter of Oqiltu, and the younger wife is the granddaughter of Oqiltu.
Oqiltu's granddaughter Ahai was originally going to marry Cewan Alabutan, the son of Galdan's brother Sengge.
After Seng Ge was assassinated, Junggar was in chaos.
Sengge's wife, Galdan's sister-in-law Cewanzalem, went to the Snowy Holy Palace in person and brought Galdan back. According to the tradition of the grassland people, when the elder brother dies, the younger brother marries his sister-in-law.
Cewanzalem was the daughter of the Oirat leader and Heshuote Khan Oqiltu. She is called Anu. After marrying Galdan, she was honored as Anukedun. Therefore, Oqiltu became Galdan's cheap father-in-law.
Anu is very beautiful, with fair skin and a very tall figure. He is probably about the same height as Qin Liangyu and Fu Hao. Above 186 cm. In addition to her beauty and hot figure, she is also a female general comparable to Choros-Mandu Haisqin.
Not only does she have a high level of force, but she also has military command skills. Later, he was killed on the battlefield by Kangxi's army.
Historical records record that during the Battle of Zhaomodo, Anu wore bronze armor, hung a bow and arrow from his waist, and held a spear. He led the elite Junggar cavalry to charge many times.
Anu's mount is also different. It is said to be "like a camel but not a camel". I don't know what kind of strange beast it is.
One of the reasons why she chose Galdan was that they had known each other since childhood, were childhood sweethearts, and had a good relationship. But Oqirtu married him to Sengge, who succeeded the Khan.
Galdan gave up the throne and also lost his first girlfriend.
Another reason is that Galdan is the most outstanding son of Batur Hutaiji. His special status and outstanding talents can revitalize the Junggar tribe.
Huitaiji was originally going to pass the throne to him, but he declined and gave it to his elder brother Sengge. He became a monk himself and became a master.
For the sake of the overall situation of Junggar, Galdan finally returned to secular life and came back to inherit the Junggar tribe.
Anu's father is the leader of the Oirat Alliance and the largest and most powerful Heshuote Khan in Mongolia, the desert. So even if others killed Sengge, they still couldn't compete with Galdan.
Galdan returned to secular life thoroughly, and he soon let himself go.
After Galdan married his sister-in-law and sat on the throne of Junggar, he fell in love with his sister-in-law's niece Ahai. Snatch her to be his little wife. Ahai has been betrothed to Cewang Alabutan since he was a child, and the two of them are childhood sweethearts and have a very good relationship.
In the fifteenth year of Kangxi's reign, she married her sister-in-law. In the sixteenth year of Kangxi's reign, he raided the Heshuote tribe and captured his father-in-law alive. By the way, the extremely charming A Hai was also taken in. Cewang Alabutan naturally refused, and the two clashed. Galdan also blinded his nephew Cewang Alabutan in one eye. The two became enemies.
Later Cewang Alabutan and Kangxi joined forces to engage in Galdan. Galdan fought against Kangxi on the front line. Cewang Alabutan attacked the Junggar tribe and stole their homes. As a result, Galdan not only lost the three Khalkha Mongols he had obtained, but was still on the way to retreat. Galdan died of illness in Acha Amutatai by the Buyantu River in the Khovd region.
Khovd was a long strip of territory that roughly encompassed both sides of today's Altai Mountains.
The Altai Mountains have historically belonged to the Khalkha Mongolia. Later, during the Republic of China, Xinjiang governor Yang Zengxin led his troops and snatched it away on the eve of Outer Mongolia's separation from the Beiyang government.
That’s why today we can see the complete topography of Xinjiang with three mountains and two basins.
The Altai Mountains are so important. General Yang made a great contribution.
He guarded the border for decades, maintained the harmony of all ethnic groups, and was deeply loved by people of all ethnic groups. When he attended banquets and public events, he was always surrounded by Imams of various nationalities.
Decades after his death, many elderly people of all ethnic groups still shed tears when talking about the old general.
Eqirtu led 10,000 elite troops to break up the rear, and encountered Yang Fan and Zhang Shize's 5,000 cavalry several times. They suffered heavy losses without the advantage of firearms.
The performance of the flintlock rifles equipped by Yang Fan's servants can reach the level of the British Brown Bess flintlock rifles during the First Crow War.
Moreover, Yang Fan also has a better breech-loading rifle, and hundreds of thousands of them have been produced. It's just that I've been considering changing to a flintlock gun for two years and haven't put it into service yet.
Whether it is range, accuracy, or rate of fire, it completely suppresses Oziltu's Central Asian matchlock gun.
Outside Linhe City, the two sides fought three battles, and Oqiltu only had 3,000 people left.
He was frightened. From then on, Sayazi ran away. Fleeed all the way into Alxa territory.
At this time, Alxa's main force had been lost in two dispatches. Both Heishui City and Juyanhai City looked down upon the wind.
Oqirtu could not stand and ran all the way to Hami.
When Yang Fan's army arrived at Juyan City on the coast of Juyan Sea, they stopped their pursuit.
Juyanhai is a large lake in the desert, 380 kilometers north of Jiayuguan. This is an isolated oasis in the desert. Occupying this place, together with the north and south of Jiayuguan, blocked the passage from the Western Region to the East.
If the army in the Western Regions wants to go around, they can only take a long way around Khalkha Mongolia, and then cross the Great Gobi southward. This would have been impossible without Mongolia conquering the three Khalkha tribes.
Yang Fan's goal has been achieved, and this war is over. The mission of Beijing Camp has been completed.
Juyan City has such a great reputation. The frontier poets of the Tang Dynasty wrote too many poems here. Yang Fan has always been fascinated. However, after visiting this place in person, I discovered that Juyan City is nothing more than a small earthen enclosure.
Seeing Yang Fan's disappointment, Zhang Shize smiled and said: "This is not Jiayuguan Pass or Yumen Pass. How do you expect there to be any great city here? Besides, the water in the Heihe River has been greatly reduced due to drought in the past two hundred years, and this oasis has also shrunk a lot. It is no longer the grand scene of hundreds of miles of lakes and swamps with birds and animals everywhere during the Han and Tang Dynasties.”
Juyanhai is the tail lake of Heihe River, the second largest inland river in my country. It was called Juyanze in the Han Dynasty and Juyanhai in the Tang Dynasty. It originated from the Heihe River deep in the Qilian Mountains.
After flowing through the three provinces of Qinghai, Gansu and Inner Mongolia for more than 800 kilometers, the Heihe River merges into two Gobi depressions on the northwest edge of the Badain Jaran Desert, forming two large lakes in the east and west, collectively known as the Juyan Sea. Juyanhai, like Lop Nur, is a peculiar wandering lake. Its position changes from east to west, from south to north, and the lake surface changes from time to time.
Looking outside the city, beside the lake, the dense grassland. Yang Fan couldn't help but chant:
"Outside the city of Juyan, hunting geniuses, the mountains are burning with white grass and wildfires.
Driving horses when the clouds are clear at dusk, and shooting vultures on the plains in autumn.
Protecting the Qiang lieutenants, the generals crossed the Liao Dynasty at night.
A jade target, a horn, a bow and a bead are used to rein in the horse, and the Han family will give Huo whoring and Yao. "
Since ancient times, this place has been the front line of the melee with the grassland forces when the Central Plains dynasty was strong. In the 17th year of Hongwu, Song Sheng led his troops to capture Yijinai (the former site of Juyan City) and built the old city of Yijinai. Later, Weilu Guards, Baichengzi Guards Station for Thousand Households, and Weiyuan Guard Station for Thousand Households were established between Suzhou and Yijinai (Juyanhai) Lake, connecting the old city of Yijinai.
After Zhu Zhanji came to power, Xuande abandoned this place for five years. This became the pastureland of the Mongolian Turghut tribe in the desert. The later Alxa people were the Oara people, who had the same origin as the Mongolian Mongols.
The Zhu Zhanji period was a period of large-scale loss of territory in the Ming Dynasty.
The Hamiwei, Alxa region, Snowy Area, Jiaozhi, Kalimantan Island Old Port Xuanweisi, most of Myanmar, Monan Mongolia, and the entire Heilongjiang Basin in the Western Region were all abandoned.
What hurts Yang Fan the most is the whole black
The loss of the Longjiang River Basin. A total of 3.05 million square kilometers. The area is even larger than the 50,000 square kilometers of the Yangtze River Basin. The water volume is larger than that of the Pearl River Basin and second only to the Yangtze River Basin.
The biggest negative consequence of the abolition of Nurgandusi is the loss of control over the development of Northeastern minority groups. Jiannu moved south from the Heilongjiang River Basin to southeastern Liaoning.
Zhang Shize looked at this majestic Daze and was filled with emotion. In the strong northwest wind, the tall grass fell over and over again. Like the waves of the sea. With a melancholy outline, a horse soars into the air, shooting a vulture and drawing a bow, all the heaven and earth are in my heart.
He turned to Yang Fan and said: "We marched thousands of miles to the west with the Jingying Camp and fought hundreds of battles. We fought in the siege and field battles and were invincible. Now that we are here, we have restored the homeland of the Hongwu Dynasty. However, the Jingying Camp has been exhausted. Without combat power, we can only stop here. Report victory to His Majesty. The soldiers have been homesick for a long time, and it is time for the Beijing camp to go home."
Yang Fan nodded, the 80,000-strong Beijing camp had suffered 40,000 casualties so far. It's time for the class teacher to return to the court.
Things in the northwest are over, and Yang Fan can only do so much for the Ming Dynasty. In the days to come, what he wants to do has nothing to do with Daming.
After he returns to the capital camp, he will unify Desert Mongolia, Monan Mongolia, Khalkha Mongolia, Buryat Mongolia, and Qinghai Haixi Mongolia. Founded his new city in Ili. The railway will be built to Ili and even continue westward across the Ural region. Stop at Tsaritsyn.
On the ocean, he has accumulated a fleet of clippers, sailing warships and warships for the coming year, and will also sail south to expel the Dutch and Spanish from the Southeast Asian archipelago. Monopolize trade in Southeast Asia and East Asia. Migrate the excess population of the Ming Dynasty southward to Southeast Asia and Australia. Migrate westward to Central Asia, and move northeastward to Liaodong.
A new era of sailing to Nanyang, taking the west entrance, and venturing into Guandong is about to come. In his view, the problem of the Ming Dynasty was that there were too many people and too little land. The land of Ming Dynasty could not support the increasing population. But there is too much land suitable for cultivation in this world.
As long as they continue to conquer, I am afraid that the Ming Dynasty will not have too many people, but not enough. If the excess population is gone. Those gentry who robbed land and the civil servants who randomly apportioned money could no longer play the game. They will find that what they grabbed is worthless.
Because the people vote with their feet and won’t play with you anymore.
If these places are not enough, there is America, and I am afraid that a few hundred acres of land for each household will be more than enough.
Yang Fan didn't have time to carry out any complicated reforms or directly conflict with civil servants, nobles, clans, and gentry. Simply pull out the firewood and get rid of the landless people. Let the gentry sit in their thousands of acres of farmland and cry. Because they can't find anyone to farm.
More than a hundred years have passed since the Age of Discovery, and Yang Fan is extremely anxious. If such a historical opportunity is missed, it will be an eternal regret and regret.
"The wind has picked up, let's go back to the city."
Volume 4: The north wind is miserable and the chaotic tooth flag ends
