In Nanyuan, all the soldiers in the Beijing camp felt that the atmosphere was unprecedentedly tense.
Free movement is no longer allowed in each camp area. At night, there is a strict curfew and people are strictly prohibited from going out.
There are 80,000 people and 160 battalions, and the training intensity has also increased. Every day, their physical strength is exhausted. It is really a blink of an eye, and they train until the lights go out.
They were all tired, like dead dogs.
After returning to camp at night, I fell on the bed and fell asleep immediately, snoring loudly.
Although the training was too hard, the food was also better than ever.
In the morning, there are meat buns and soy milk tubes. At noon, each group has an iron basin of stir-fried vegetables, an iron basin of braised pork, white flour steamed buns, and white rice. For dinner, there is millet porridge with beef patties, which is also generous.
Eat, no limit.
During the Ming Dynasty, it was forbidden to kill cattle, but these days, beef is supplied every day as if it is free. Officers and soldiers secretly said that these cattle are said to come from the grassland.
After the soldiers in the Beijing camp were eliminated again, the remaining ones were in good health. Moistened by high-intensity training and sufficient meat, rice, white flour, and vegetables, the muscles all over their bodies bulged like balloons. Their physical strength also improved every day.
Strengthening day by day.
Although what they eat are modern, quick-frozen and dehydrated vegetables, the nutrients of these vegetables are very well preserved. All people with night blindness have basically been cured.
People in the southern suburbs of Beijing can see strange scenes every morning.
Eighty thousand people, 160 battalions, under the stars in the early morning, ran neatly out of Dahongmen. They ran ten kilometers north in a straight line and arrived at Yongding Gate. Then, they circled the city wall of the capital and marched outside the city. Then they ran back to Nanyuan.
military camp.
Everyone was wearing full-body armor, carrying weapons, carrying fried noodles bags on their backs, and pig-kidney-shaped water bottles attached to their lunch boxes hanging around their waists. In addition, there were other equipment, luggage, etc.
This body weighs a full sixty kilograms. The length of this lap is equivalent to a marathon.
Yang Fan has now stopped training in other sports, and is just practicing hard on his physical strength.
Without physical strength and endurance, these soldiers cannot survive in the northwest because the future battlefield environment has become very harsh.
"One two one, one two one, one, two, three, four." The officers took the lead in shouting.
The soldiers roared, their voices rising into the sky. So many people shouted together, their ears were ringing.
"Five kilometers, I love you. If I don't run for a day, I will miss you to death."
"Let's compare who is a hero and who is a good man on the march."
"Shedding skin and flesh will not leave behind; bleeding and sweating will not shed tears."
With loud slogans that shook the world, large troops came running in long lines from a distance.
There are 500 men at the head of a battalion, one platoon for each corps, and a total of 100 platoons form a square formation. Officers run in front and on both sides, restraining the formation at the same time.
A team of 80,000 people started running neatly, their footsteps rising and falling at the same time, shaking the sky and making a deafening noise. The earth was shaking.
The shield soldiers carry shields, the pike soldiers carry spears. The crossbow soldiers carry crossbows and arrows. The gun soldiers carry bird guns. The soldiers all wear rubber shoes and raise dust all over the sky.
Their roars could be heard and the earth trembled in the capital.
On the city wall and at the city gate, many people were watching the excitement.
You would never have the opportunity to see a Western scene like Beijing Camp training. Beijing Camp has not left Beijing for training for more than 200 years.
Yang Fan has ordered Xinghe Iron Works to cast a new batch of Napoleon-style steel cannons and produce new Gatling machine guns. Since this year, the third-generation flintlock rifles that have been produced at a high speed will also be shipped out of the warehouse to equip the troops.
Facing the new situation, Yang Fan did not want to hand himself over to the Loop.
If the Mongols unite, they will arm about 300,000 cavalry. According to the Mongolian policy of one ding for five and one for every four. Their population is estimated to be between 5 million and 6 million.
The Ming Dynasty's policy towards Mongolia was relatively tolerant. As long as they surrendered or even did not cause trouble, they would open border trade and tribute trade.
By the end of the Ming Dynasty, all Mongols and ethnic groups with Mongolian ancestry in Eurasia (such as the four Haixi Jurchen tribes in Manchuria, Yehe, Hada, Huifa, and Ula) totaled tens of millions of people.
After the Qing Dynasty's long-term reduction policy, by the Qianlong period, the population of Mongolia had dropped to about one million.
Facing the terrifying strength of the Mongols, Yang Fan could only use hot weapons to deal with them.
In fact, it is a good thing that they all unite. Yang Fan from the province has been looking for them everywhere. Since they have formed an alliance, let's solve them together.
The combat effectiveness of these soldiers in the Beijing camp was not enough. Yang Fan did not dare to rely on them. Taking them into battle was to train them through actual combat. Yang Fan must expand his hot weapon troops to serve as the backbone of the Western Expedition.
With the firearms infantry as the intermediate force and the 80,000 Beijing-based infantry with cold weapons as the auxiliary force. At the same time, the existing cavalry force on hand will be used as the mobile force to go all out to win this battle.
Yang Fan has thought clearly that in the face of the increasing rise of the Jiannu, Yang Fan must take the first step to unify Mongolia and cut off an arm of the Jiannu. They must not be allowed to move westward to the west of Duolun. The city of Duolun will be built into a
A fortified city on the grassland.
The current situation is that either Yang Fan will take Mongolia under his command, or Huang Taiji will take Mongolia under his command. Whoever can conquer Mongolia will be able to establish an absolute advantage over the other party.
This advantage not only includes the geographical advantage of the Mongolian Plateau, which is the terrain advantage of being able to dive and attack from all sides, and seize the offensive initiative. It also has the advantage of obtaining the human resources of Mongolia and forming a large-scale cavalry group to crush the troops.
Yang Fan has advanced firearms, excellent horses, and large-load four-wheeled carriages. He is even planning to build the Longhai Railway to the northwest and the railway to the grassland. The conditions for marching to the northwest are already met.
Yang Fan will build the Longhai Railway wherever he goes as his army advances westward. Even if it goes all the way to Europe.
The railway leading to the grassland starts from Tianjin Port in Dagukou, first builds the road to the capital, then builds it to Zhangjiakou and enters the grassland, passes through Jining (Ulanqab) to Guihua City, and then continues to Jiuyuan City (Baotou)
and Linhe City (Bayannur). If this railway is built, the Hetao will be completely impregnable.
Yang Fan decisively sent troops to deal with the Haraqin and Duoyan tribes north of Jizhen in order to block the development of Jiannu towards Monan Mongolia.
At this time, the situation of the struggle between the Ming Dynasty and Hou Jin Dynasty was to fight for the control of Mongolia. Whoever got Mongolia would have an overwhelming advantage over the enemy. Huang Taiji got Mongolia and began to frequently invade the pass. If Yang Fan got Mongolia
, the slaves would be oppressed east of the Liao River and there would be no room for development.
Moreover, it is also wishful thinking for them to hold on to a corner of Liaodong. Because Yang Fan has already established a colony in Vladivostok. They will gradually compete with the Jiannu for the Jurchens, Saurons, and Ewenki who are the barbarians north of the Songhua River.
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Encroaching from north to south, these people are armed and more ferocious and barbaric than the Jiannu. Their power will gradually shrink over time, and will eventually be squeezed back to the primeval forest of Hetuala.
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