The beggar emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty - Chapter 581

Moxi Mongolia, also known as Wala, is mainly composed of four large tribes, which are distributed on the vast grassland east of the Caspian Sea and west of Yanmenguan.

Among the four, Zhungeer department, which dominates the western regions and the area north of the western regions, is the most powerful, with no less than 50000 people controlling the strings. During the glorious period, Kang Mazi was once afraid and fought against the Qing Dynasty for hundreds of years.

However, at this time, although the strength of Jungar department was rising rapidly, due to the mutual restraint of the other three tribes, its strength was far inferior to that in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty.

The other three parts are durbert, Heshuote and turhute. In addition, there is a huite Department attached to turbert.

Now the Jungar department is ambitious and wants to annex all the departments. In recent years, the fighting between the tribes has become more and more frequent and intense. If according to the historical process, the durbert department will be torn apart by the Jungar department in a few years.

The Heshuote department was also forced to go south to Qinghai. Finally, it dominated Tibet and established the Heshuote khanate, which was destroyed by Nian gengyao.

As for the turhute department, it was also forced to move westward and lived in the Volga River Basin until the reign of Qianlong. Under the oppression of the Russian people, it returned to the East under the leadership of its leader wobashi. Finally, it was settled in Xinjiang by Qianlong.

This time, the army led by Lu Xiangsheng first attacked the Junggar department. In the face of nearly 200000 troops, Batur, the leader of the Junggar department, did not dare to despise it.

Because these 200000 people were Mongolian cavalry with one person and two horses, they wanted to fight against the Qin Dynasty together with the other three departments at the first time. However, the turhute department was far away near the Caspian Sea and occupied the durbert department and the hushuote department in the western regions and Kazakhstan. They had long been in the same boat and fire with the Zhunger department. Naturally, they would not send anyone to join the alliance, and even had the mentality of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, They won’t believe the nonsense of the Junggar army. Go to hell with the 200000 army.

They have no doubt that Monan and Mobei could make up 200000 people to control strings, but even if they had heard about it in the west, they can now make up 100000 people in the dark land killed by the eastern ministries and immortal women, the Ming Dynasty and the Qin Dynasty.

Indeed, the Mongolian warriors who followed Lu Xiangsheng this time included 100000 people, almost all men over the age of 14 and under the age of 40 in all tribes.

However, in addition to these 100000 warriors, nearly 60000 people took their mothers-in-law with them, and some even took two. Most of these Mongolian women are strong women and young girls who have just married. They are also one person and two horses, carrying bows and knives.

All the logistical work along the way is done by these women. They not only brush horses, feed horses, cook and set up tents, but also serve their own men at night. Almost both husband and wife have a tent.

Lu Xiangsheng, who was educated in Confucianism since childhood, is naturally very resistant to this kind of husband and wife soldier. He has never heard that he can bring his mother-in-law in war since ancient times, even in the Mongols. However, his majesty has explained that grassland knights can bring women to war when they apply for enlistment, so they have to carry out even if they are dissatisfied.

The reason why these Mongolian cavalry chose to bring their mothers was that most people were divided into two, or even three or four mothers, so they wanted to bring a pool of people, and the rewards would be richer at that time.

Second, the journey is far away. It will take at least half a year. I’m afraid it will take two or three months to march alone. It’s natural to take my mother-in-law.

Of course, taking a mother-in-law has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that some chores can be done by those women. The disadvantage is that people who don’t take a mother-in-law blush and are easy to go to the wrong tent at night.

At the beginning, those who didn’t bring their wives often secretly bullied the mothers of those who brought their wives, and there were also guys who directly traded their wives. Lu Xiangsheng executed the military law several times and killed hundreds of people before stopping this trend. No one dared to act recklessly.

As for private transactions, you love me. Lu Xiangsheng doesn’t care about it. He just restricts the 5000 Han cavalry and must not do such shameless things.

Lu Xiangsheng’s strict military law not only did not make those people who did not bring their mothers angry, but stimulated them to kill Zhungeer one by one.

Even the 5000 Han cavalry decided to choose him to be a concubine of the grassland girl to solve the urgent need. After all, I don’t know when I can go back to the Central Plains.

With 180000 people and more than 300000 war horses, each of them carried dried meat that could be eaten for three months and a small amount of beans and salt. There was no logistics supply at all.

People chew dried meat every day, while the war horses graze all the way. They travel every morning and graze in the afternoon, bypassing the desert areas in the south. Therefore, it took nearly three months to reach the vicinity of Jungar. At this time, the dried meat was also eaten up.

But it doesn’t matter. You can also kill horses, but no one will choose to kill horses at this time, because more than 100000 people of Jungar department are scattered everywhere, where there are not only food, drink, but also sleep.

The Jungar tribe, which is also a nomadic tribe, naturally knows this set of market. However, how dare these 100000 evil wolves break into the habitat of the Jungar tribe?

So even if you don’t want to fight hard with each other, you have to take all the fighting soldiers of the tribe and advance to the East early.

There’s no way. If they are scattered everywhere, they will only be broken by each other and take their people to avoid their edge. There are a lot of old people and children. In addition, cattle and sheep can’t run away from each other. The only way to survive is to gather all the people who can mount a horse and carry a knife in the clan to fight to the death.

Perhaps after seeing their determination, the other party will retreat without fighting. After all, the wars of all tribes on the grassland are like this in the past. No one dares to force other tribes whose strength is not much lower than their own tribe into a desperate situation.

Because when they are forced into a desperate situation, they will certainly fight to the death. As a result, both sides will be hurt and blood will flow into a river, which no tribe can afford.

However, the Zhungeer tribe is not facing the nomads in the past, but the cavalry warriors considered by their own family after being accepted by the Qin Dynasty. It is none of their business whether the tribe will be swallowed or destroyed by other tribes after heavy casualties.

All they know is to kill the enemy, make meritorious service, earn silver reward, and then go back to buy cloth, food, liquor and all the good things of the Han people.

And those who have not been assigned to grassland women, horses, cattle and sheep, let alone one by one, want to kill Zhungeer department immediately.

Because they want to do meritorious service and divide the grassland of the nobles, cattle, sheep, horses and beautiful girls.

In the face of life and death, the Jungar Department has indeed poured out this time. It has also gathered 150000 people, accounting for 70% of the total population.

All the habitats left are old people who can’t ride a horse, children shorter than the wheel, and pregnant women. Except these three kinds of people, everyone has to fight.