When Guo Ning was serving as a soldier in northern Xinjiang, he and his companions were full of fear of the Mongols. The most important reason was that the Mongolian cavalry, with its super mobility, could advance and retreat within a range of thousands.
Use time and space as your greatest assistance.
In order to cope with this advantage, Guo Ning made great efforts in the collection and transmission of military intelligence. The large number of forts, beacons and dense roads scattered across northern Xinjiang consumed huge resources and were also part of it.
This is what has to be done when the Central Plains regime and the grassland regime confront each other since ancient times. This was true in the Qin and Han Dynasties, in the Song and Jin Dynasties, and in the Great Zhou Dynasty. However, the basic work of the Great Zhou Dynasty was to support the advance of its elite troops and use their own strengths to conquer the country.
The length of the enemy is different from that of the Qin, Han, Song and Jin Dynasties but is like the Tang Dynasty in its heyday.
I thought it through very carefully, but when I put it into practice, I found that there was no need to worry about intelligence. In recent years, Mongolian military intelligence did not go through the forts and beacons at all, but came directly with the caravans and light and dark trade routes.
When the Ding Navy was founded, its main source of revenue was the fur and horse trade with the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties. Horses, for that matter, were originally needed by the south. In recent years, the weather in the south has been abnormal, and water often drips into ice in winter. Countless people are interested in furs, felts, and felts.
The demand for cloth and the like is also skyrocketing; the quantity is so huge that it far exceeds what the northeastern hinterland can provide.
It’s not that the Great Zhou Dynasty had to make this money, but the Great Zhou Dynasty itself was also the place where a large number of goods were dumped by the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty, and it had to sell enough goods to balance it.
Therefore, the Great Zhou Dynasty has been working as a second-tier dealer between the Southern Song Dynasty and the Mongolian grasslands. While maintaining military confrontation with Mongolia, it has always encouraged close economic exchanges.
The advantage of this is that for the purpose of doing business, the Mongols themselves will bring all kinds of news. There is no need to inquire specifically about the distribution of the tents of the various Mongolian tribes, the fatness of the livestock, the strength of each tribe's troops, and the status of the tribal leaders.
All firm and wavering positions will be conveyed to Yousi in time. The situation on the grassland has no secrets at all to Da Zhou.
There are also a lot of corresponding troubles. That is, the Mongols have their own Mongolian loyalty and stubbornness. If there is any disturbance in the Great Zhou, there will always be people who try their best to escape from the territory of the Great Zhou and report the situation to those who have ruled them for generations.
Tribal leaders.
Of course, more people are not out of loyalty, but out of the most straightforward interests. For example, this time, many Mongolians living in the territory of the Great Zhou felt that since the Great Zhou wanted to reduce the garrison in northern Xinjiang, the Mongols
It will definitely become great again. So many Mongolians who had lived a happy life in the Han Dynasty suddenly missed the scenery of the grassland and yearned for iron hoofs and long swords.
The residents on the grasslands have been like this for thousands of years. Sui Feng is a necessary skill that penetrates deep into the blood. Even in the capital city, there will be people who improvise and try to escape. Along the northern Xinjiang, which stretches for thousands of years, there are more people like that.
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In just two decades, more than 300 Mongolians fled from their camps and transportation lines. There was a newly established felt cloth factory at a stronghold near Jinshan, and there were also Mongolians who had just learned the craft of weaving felt cloth.
The craftsmen joined forces and launched an escape that was close to a riot.
When Lu Wusi was questioned in Zhongdu, he immediately proposed that the reason was to arrest the Mongolians who mastered the patterns of felt cloth weaving. This was really not nonsense.
However, people in the Central Plains are inevitably a little slow in understanding the current situation of the grasslands.
Guo Ning instructed his subordinates to let Mongolians of all origins escape back to the grasslands, because the more Mongolians fled, the faster the news that the Great Zhou's northern border garrison was about to be greatly reduced would spread faster, and the wider the scope of the spread. This It will affect other Mongolian tribes who are crazy about poverty on the grassland, and let them form a fierce momentum to promote the decision of the Golden Family and Genghis Khan. Xu Ding saw this plan in his eyes and felt that it was a conspiracy that the Mongols could not deal with.
The first half of this conspiracy went smoothly. However, after the Mongols escaped back to the grassland, the situation they faced was slightly different from Guo Ning's expectation, and the process of achieving the goal had a little more twists and turns than expected.
Those other Mongolian tribes that were driven crazy by poverty are, in all likelihood, gone.
Previously, Belgutai's troops failed in the battle with the elite Zhou army, and had to sit back and watch the Zhou army retreat safely, taking along countless Han slaves who fled from the depths of the grassland.
Belgutai was furious about this, and he also found a reason to explain his failure. He immediately reported that this battle was due to the internal instability of the Mongols, which created an opportunity for the Han people to attack northward, and also because of the various Mongolian tribes. Internally, there were so many traitors who were pro-Han people that they dared not fight and could not win the war.
This was an excuse, but when he led his troops to fight against the Zhou army, nearly ten thousand households around the battlefield did not take the initiative to support them. And when the Zhou army retreated, many tribes in the eastern part of the grassland were spectators from beginning to end. .Not to mention pursuit, not even sending troops to cause nuisance...
This was the result of Dazhou's financial offensive, and it was also a sign that after Genghis Khan's Western Expedition, the orders of the Golden Family of the remaining troops were gradually being violated. This scene was indeed so ugly that it attracted the attention of Genghis Khan himself!
In the third month after the war ended, Genghis Khan's envoy arrived and ordered the traitors to be severely punished and the cowards on the battlefield to be killed. Those responsible for the action were the Kang people, Boyawu people, and the Kipchak cavalry with high noses and deep eyes.
Two years ago, when large groups of Mongolian cavalry were outflanking the river and trampling hundreds of thousands of Khwarezm cavalry into flesh, these foreigners trembled and thought they were seeing the end of the world. But when they obeyed Genghis Khan's order, When they went on a killing spree on the Mongolian plateau, their waists became hardened again, and they suddenly understood why Genghis Khan became the most terrifying conqueror.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue the exciting content! Genghis Khan himself was never restricted by region or ethnicity. The Mongol Uluth was founded by him and defined by him. What he needed were warriors, His definition of the Mongols was only warriors who could fight or massacre for him.
Those who cannot do this are not considered Mongolians and should be killed without mercy.
After three years of intense heat, the purge of many vacillating tribes in the eastern part of the grassland broke out again. Groups of cavalry following Genghis Khan from the Western Regions to the east ran rampant on the grassland. They obtained a small number of Mongolian centurions and decadons. With the help of a small number of elite troops from Belgutai, they massacred people in the name of Genghis Khan.
Several thousand-household tribes in Mongolia were completely exterminated, and those who survived would be merged under the direct management of the Golden Family, organized into death squads, and thrown into the battlefield where they would die at any time.
This purge lasted just one month and ended.
It’s not because the Kipchaks are softer, or because the Mongols have lost their bloodiness and bravery. It’s because the number of people on the grasslands is limited. Since Genghis Khan launched foreign wars, the number of pure-blooded aboriginal tribes on the grasslands has been declining. is continuing to decrease.
Many old men and women tried hard to resist, tearing at the enemy with their fingernails until their nails turned up, and biting the enemy with their teeth until their teeth shattered. But no matter how hard they fought, they could not fight against the strong men.
The Kipchak cavalry quickly killed no more and waited to achieve their goal.
At this time, on the grassland controlled by the Golden Family, there was once again no wavering and weakness; the thoughts and actions of everyone were only obedience to the Great Khan; everyone was once again unified into one place by pure violence,
Many Mongolians who rushed back to the grasslands from the Great Zhou Dynasty saw such a scene soaked in blood again, and then found discarded corpses in the deep grass, including old people, men, women, and others. children.
The massacres by the Mongolian army have always been brutal, and almost all the Mongolians had blood on their hands, tempering their toughness. But what will happen when they see everyone in their tribe die?
Aren’t the days when the stars on the grassland were spinning, countries attacking each other, and endless killing and plundering gone? Aren’t all the tribes on the grassland united into one, vowing to conquer the distant lands that stretch across thousands of mountains and thousands of rivers? ?Why is the result of conquest like this?
Many Mongolians met their compatriots on the way, and then returned in groups, and soon ran into the Kipchak cavalry who were still suppressing them everywhere.
When the two sides collided, the Mongols heard that their headquarters had been annihilated. Even though midsummer had just passed and the scorching autumn sun was still there, they all felt as cold as if they were in an ice cave. However, the Kipchak cavalry was showing off its power and was full of murderous intent. .
The two groups of people first yelled at each other, then threw clods and stones at each other, and finally quickly escalated to hand-to-hand combat, with arrows flying. The two groups of people were like wild beasts, biting, howling, and rolling at each other. In the blink of an eye, , there were new corpses bleeding with blood, mixed with the black soil and slightly yellowed vegetation. The eyes of many corpses were still wide open, full of unwillingness and fear.
Only a handful of people were left alive. They knelt on the ground and bowed their heads to the foreign race that had not long been conquered by their companions but had suddenly become the upstarts of the grasslands.
The young Boyawu man Yue Timur was standing proudly in front of these people.
After his father Tutuha died in a battle with the Zhou army, Yuetemur was recommended by Belgutai. He first inherited his father's remaining troops, and later took charge of a group of Kipchaks and became the newly appointed officials. One of the thousand households in Qincha.
Young people have a flexible mind and strong learning ability. Yue Timur has already mastered Mongolian. He asked curiously: "Are you Mongolians or Hans? You come from a Han country because you can't live well there. good?"
The surviving Mongolians lowered their eyes, with strong resentment flashing through their eyes. But they covered up their resentment and only said honestly: "The country of the Han people is very rich and the people are gentle. We lived very well there. So I returned to the grassland to repay the great sweat."
Yue Timur's father, Tutuha, died in a battle with the Northern Zhou Army at the beginning of the year. Yue Timur had absolutely no good impression of the Han country in the south. Hearing this, he immediately let out a sigh and cursed: "Who are you kidding?" Yeah! Those men are very vicious!"
After a while, he looked at the knights gathered around him and thought about how difficult it was to feed these wolves since he became a thousand-year-old. He thought about how vast this grassland was and how barren it was compared to his hometown.
He asked again: "Perhaps the army is ferocious, but the people are gentle?... You said that their country is very rich. How rich is it?"