Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 715 We Can't Take Advantage of Others
Overall, Daming is fairly peaceful this year.The climate of that damned little glacier is still testing Daming. Droughts, locusts and hailstorms continue one after another, and bad news about grain harvests in various places comes from time to time, which is simply the rhythm of driving people to death.However, in the Central Plains and Northwest regions where the disaster was the most serious, the pressure that could crush a regime already had a channel to vent. Firstly, the two Optimus Primes of Ming Dynasty were really outstanding, and they were quite foresighted in their respective positions. A large number of water conservancy facilities have been built in the area under their jurisdiction, such as canals made of cement, large screw pumps, and irrigation wells, etc. At least within their area of ​​jurisdiction, natural disasters have little impact. Will die of drought.At the same time, the promotion of high-yield crops such as potatoes also gave them more means to deal with natural disasters. For example, when the disaster was severe, they recruited a large number of people to repair cement roads and provided relief with work, which not only allowed the common people to have food to eat, but also Improved traffic conditions.

The most important thing is that Ming regained control of the Yinchuan Plain, and vigorously expanded outwards, with the momentum of taking over the entire Hetao Plain!
In the early days of the founding of the country, the Ming Dynasty briefly ruled the Hetao Plain, but then gave up, leaving only some strongholds to monitor the wind and grass in the Hetao Plain, and do their best to ensure the Yinchuan Plain.It wasn't that Ming didn't know the value of the Hetao Plain, and it wasn't that they didn't want this piece of fertile land that guaranteed harvests from drought and floods. It was really too difficult to control this piece of land!The Hetao Plain is suitable for farming and animal husbandry. It is a treasure land for farming and nomadic peoples. No one is willing to give up. The Ming army stationed in the Hetao Plain is bound to be counterattacked by the entire Mongolian Plateau, and the Hetao Plain is too much. Narrow and long, with the strength of the Ming army, it was too difficult to defend such a long area, so we had to give up.By the end of the Ming Dynasty, not to mention the Hetao Plain, even the Yinchuan Plain had become a hunting ground for the Mongols. Every spring and autumn, a large number of Mongolian cavalry would come over the side wall to harvest a crop of people and property. The Yinchuan Plain has also become sparsely populated.No one would have thought that the Tianxiong Army moved to the northwest of the town for only one year, and with more than [-] troops, they beat the Mongols' heads all the way, beating them without temper, firmly controlling the Yinchuan Plain, and then issued a very favorable policy The policy recruits immigrants!In Shaanxi and Ningxia, a large number of farmers who lost their land moved to the Yinchuan Plain with the help of the government, where they obtained land, free agricultural tools and seeds, and redeveloped the Yinchuan Plain.The mining of coal mines and the maturity of heating technology have also greatly improved the living conditions there. With enough coal, there is no need to worry about freezing to death in winter.At the same time, the Tianxiong Army also captured Ulanqab. These lands also need a large number of people to develop. If there is land to grow and food to eat, the devil is willing to raise his head to rebel?
Even in the cold winter season, you can still see a large number of farmers dragging their families with them, struggling to walk outside the Great Wall. Those who fall will fall, and those who do not fall will continue to walk. As long as they can reach the area under the jurisdiction of the Tianxiong Army, there will be people alive Hope of going down.At the same time, at the request of Lu Xiangsheng, the Ming court collected a large number of criminals detained in prisons and sent them to the border. There was no way, the land was too large and there were too few people, so we needed more people to fill it up, otherwise how could we survive!

The Tianxiong army was not idle either. They would dispatch as long as the weather allowed to drive out the Mongolian tribes, then drilled concrete piles, pulled barbed wire to enclose the land, and then pitched tents.Once the immigrants arrived, tents, coal, and cooking utensils were all ready, and then the Tianxiong Army would give them a set of leather armor, a flintlock gun, and a bag of seeds. From now on, this land will belong to them. When people came back on horseback and tried to break through the barbed wire, they would fight to the death with guns until the entire army was wiped out or Tianxiong Army reinforcements arrived.The seeds given to them are also determined according to the quality of the land. In relatively dry places, they are given beet, rapeseed, barley, soybean, sunflower seeds or ryegrass seeds, and in places where irrigation is more convenient, they are given wheat and potatoes. The best place to plant rice.The principle of land distribution is wet land for farmers and dry land for criminals.As for the Mongolian herdsmen who originally lived there, they could choose to work on the ranches and horse farms run by the Tianxiong Army or Han merchants, or they could choose to move to farther places.This naked expansion undoubtedly angered the unruly Mongols. Throughout the winter, bloody conflicts in the Hetao area continued. Return color.The Mongolian cavalrymen, who had given the Ming army such a headache and were even frightened by the rumors, were repeatedly beaten outside the barbed wire fence. They often gathered hundreds of people to fight an immigrant stronghold of about a hundred households, but they could not be defeated. Instead, hundreds of people were killed.The Mongols have always believed that the Han people are cowardly and not good at fighting. Outside the colonial strongholds surrounded by two-meter-high barbed wire, they finally saw what it looks like after the bloody blood in the bones of the Han people broke out. Men die, women go up, women die If there is only one person alive, they don't want to come in anyway, that kind of aggressiveness makes them terrified!

————How many people who dare to move to this kind of place are good babies?Besides, my wife and children are all here, and there is a wilderness all around, there is no way to escape, I can only fight to the end!

The application of barbed wire and landmines made the Mongolian cavalry suffer a lot. The defense facilities of the colonial strongholds seemed simple, but they couldn't beat them no matter what.What was even more terrible was the flintlock guns and crossbows in the hands of the armed immigrants. These things were so easy to use. Many Mongolian cavalrymen were blasted off their horses before they could reach the effective range of their riding bows.The most exaggerated thing is that each colonial stronghold has two or three steel Frang machine guns imitated by the Tianxiong Army. Look at the right time to shoot, and one shot can kill 50 or [-] people!It can be said that armed immigrants have an absolute advantage in equipment, and the overlord of the Mongolian steppe has met a strong opponent.What makes them feel wronged the most is that whenever they attack the colonial strongholds, regardless of whether they are defeated or not, the Tianxiong Army will definitely report and retaliate. A large number of cavalry armed to the teeth aggressively ran to their tribe to kill people The tribes disappeared completely in the wind and snow, leaving nothing but burnt tents and corpses lying on the ground.

The battle that broke out between nations for the living space is so cruel and bloody.

Facing the continuous influx of armed immigrants, the Mongolian tribes were helpless. Looking at the barbed wire winding like the Great Wall on the prairie, they finally realized the humiliation and humiliation of nomads such as the Huns and Turks when they faced the stretching Great Wall. have no choice.That's right, in the eyes of the nomads, the Great Wall is the product of the evil Han people's frantic encroachment on territory. Shaanxi, Hetao, Hedong, Hebei, Monan, and the Western Regions...these lands that originally belonged to them have been enclosed piece by piece. , and then "since ancient times".Besides, their troubles are not limited to the expansion wave of armed immigrants, natural disasters are also tormenting them.

Yes, natural disasters.

This natural disaster has little effect on those fanatical armed immigrants, but it is fatal to nomads:
This winter, the entire Mongolian Plateau is surprisingly warm, with very little snow!
That's a boon for armed migrants, and it means this winter isn't all that tough.But for the nomads, this climate is a terrible disaster, and death comes quietly.

Everyone knows that, except for the circle near the Yellow River, the entire Mongolian Plateau is quite dry, especially in winter.Grazing requires a lot of water. It is difficult to find water for grazing livestock in winter. They can only eat snow. If there is little or no snow, winter grazing will be in trouble. The livestock will not have enough snow to eat, and they will soon die. It will lose fat, the female animals will miscarry, and even cause the death of a large number of livestock. The disease is rampant, and the whole tribe will have no future. The Mongols call it "black disaster".Since the beginning of winter, although there have been many snowfalls on the Mongolian plateau, the ideal snow accumulation has never been formed. It melts the next day after it falls at night, or forms thin ice, which cannot be eaten by livestock. At that time, the rivers and lakes were frozen, and there was no snow, so the daily water needed by the livestock was gone. Coupled with the dryness of large areas of grass, it was even worse. The entire Mongolian Plateau was full of crying, except for begging for the blessing of the Longevity God. Besides, they couldn't think of any other way.

The Tianxiong Army’s ranch has no such troubles. They have laid water pipelines extending in all directions. There is no snow, and they can directly dig out the ice on the lake surface and use a screw pump to pump up the lake water, and send it to the canal of the ranch through the water pipeline. This is the advantage of captivity, and this is the crushing of technology and IQ.

The black disaster that swept across the entire Mongolian plateau, the aggressive expansion of Han Chinese armed immigrants in the Hetao area...

What is double ghost knocking on the door?This is.

However, the Mongols never dreamed that their troubles had just begun.

After discovering that the Mongols were massacring sick and weak livestock, Qian Yu excitedly ran to Datong and reported the situation to Lu Xiangsheng: "The black plague on the grasslands is extremely serious. In Wuhai and Bayannur alone, there are 10,000+ head The cattle and sheep have been killed, and such a disturbance will definitely weaken the Tartars! My lord, the general thinks that our army can take this opportunity to attack and take Wuhai and Bayannur in one fell swoop!"

Lu Xiangsheng waved his hands with a smile and said, "No, don't touch them for now."

Qian Yu became anxious: "My lord, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!"

Lu Xiangsheng said: "We can't take advantage of people's danger."

Qian Yu: "..."

Lu Xiangsheng said: "Feed the horses with the best horse feed. If there is not enough high-quality horse feed, just feed them with rice. In short, next spring, I want to see that every army horse in the racecourse is fat and strong, full of energy!"

Qian Yu was at a loss: "My lord, what are you trying to do?"

Lu Xiangsheng said with a smile: "I said, we can't take advantage of people's danger, wait until tomorrow spring they survive the black disaster, and then go to war in an all-out way, and take San Niangzi City in one fell swoop!"

Qian Yu rolled his eyes upside down and screamed in his heart: "My lord, according to this momentum, by next spring, the livestock of the Tazi will be dead in sevens and eighties, right? To start a war at that time... You are not taking advantage of people's danger like this! ?”

(End of this chapter)