Chapter 423: The Great Sweep
"The government army has a great victory, the government army has a great victory, and the Central Army has penetrated deep into the grassland and annihilated 230,000 Mongolian cavalry."
As the Ming army's victory was transmitted back to the capital, the entire capital was in full bloom. The unprecedented victory achieved by the 006th Division turned the capital into a sea of celebration.
The news soon spread to various provinces and quickly caused a huge sensation.
The emperor personally conquered the grasslands, not only invincible, but also directly annihilated the 230,000 Mongolian army. This was an unimaginable huge victory.
Even when Chengzu swept the grassland, he never achieved such a brilliant victory. But today, he surpassed Chengzu's achievements.
"Da Ming Daily": "Today, I led my troops to fight the northern expedition and personally attacked Mongolia. All Mongolian tribes were frightened and frightened. When they fought with the 006th Division, Mongolia lost 230,000 troops, intending to exchange for a ceasefire with the conditions of paying tribute, which was rejected by the emperor. The reason why the emperor refused Mongolia to seek peace was because the Ming Dynasty's northern expedition to Mongolia would be a battle to destroy the country. If Mongolia did not destroy it, it would never extinguish the troops."
As soon as this report was released, it attracted national attention.
The situation of Zhu Youxiao's personal battle after his expedition to Mongolia was obviously beyond many people's expectations, and the expected return did not occur.
Less than a month after spring, the Ming army achieved an unprecedented victory in the war against Mongolia. At the same time, what is even more incredible is that the official actually claimed that this was a battle to destroy the country.
But how to destroy Mongolia?
This issue quickly caused huge controversy. Many people still believed that the Ming Dynasty could not destroy Mongolia. After all, the Mongolian grasslands were too big, and the Mongolians could hide and seek everywhere.
However, they were soon slapped in the face, and the Daming Daily soon reported on the grand occasion of building roads and building cities on the grasslands.
"My Daming Railway has run through the north and south lines of Mongolia. A small fort is five miles apart, a big fort is ten miles apart, a town is fifty miles apart, and a city is two hundred miles apart. Mongolia can be divided into two within three months, and another railway can be built to run through the east and west directions of Mongolia within half a year. Although the grassland is large, there will be no place for the Mongolian army to stand."
When the emperor built the railway to Mongolia, many people suddenly realized it.
If there is a railway, the Mongolians can't jump up.
Once the railway is built into Mongolia, the Ming Dynasty will gain a foothold on the grassland. The Mongolians will not be able to grazle normally on the grassland, and will eventually be consumed by the Ming Dynasty.
Although the city is relatively slow to build a railway to Mongolia, it is the most effective method.
In fact, the great victory achieved by the 006th Division has made Zhu Youxiao’s personal expedition very glorious. At this time, even if Zhu Youxiao returned to the court, he could still be a fan of n years.
Obviously, Zhu Youxiao did not go to conquer Mongolia for the sake of bragging and great success, but for the actual interests of the Ming Dynasty.
As long as Mongolia is eliminated, the Ming Dynasty will no longer have to deploy millions of troops to guard against Mongolia in the north. At the same time, it can completely obtain various resources in the Mongolian region, and the grassland economy will become very large. At the same time, Mongolia also has various mineral resources, etc. In addition, in terms of long-term strategic aspects, it will also be beneficial to the Ming Dynasty without any harm.
Whether it is saving military spending, eliminating hidden dangers, or exploring commodity markets and raw material origin, the Ming Dynasty had the motivation to destroy Mongolia.
So from the beginning of the battlefield, it is not for the sake of great success.
Of course, this real military expenditure may become relatively large. After all, large-scale construction of construction on the grassland and large-scale construction of railways and towns is all made with money.
However, as long as the railway is repaired, it will be useful in the future. It can be said to be an investment, and obviously it will not be a big loss.
The defeat of Mongolia is a foregone conclusion, and the question is how long it will take for the emperor to end the war and let the Ming army withdraw from Mongolia.
Obviously, this war will not last too long because Mongolia was defeated again. The 50,000 cavalry led by Wang Guoxiong finally caught the main force of Mongolia. With a violent blow, the main force of Mongolia was completely defeated.
The defeated Mongolian army soon fled scattered on the grassland.
Many Mongolian cavalry did not go to meet with Lin Dankhan, but went back to their tribe, or simply wanted the Ming army to surrender.
After years of contact, the Mongols also understood the Ming army's policy of dealing with prisoners. The Ming army would not take their lives against the captured Mongols, at least they could hold their lives. If their tribe also surrendered to the Ming army, they would be free.
Lin Danhan was obviously defeated. At this time, many Mongolian cavalry tribes, as long as they were not transferred, basically surrendered to the Ming army in order to be a foregone conclusion. These Ming troops could send them back so that they could not search everywhere on the grassland.
Under such circumstances, the troops following Lin Danhan were getting fewer and fewer.
Although the Ming army did not know where Lin Danhan was hiding, they knew that Lin Danhan would definitely escape to Central Asia after his defeat. And he must have brought a large number of cavalry. Among the Mongolian cavalry that fled to Central Asia, the largest number of troops must be the troops led by Lin Danhan.
The Ming army's pursuit lasted for nearly three days, and it was the most important thing to reach the Tanguwulianghai area.
Lin Danhan had fled from the Mongolian grasslands from the narrow valley of the Tanguwulianghai and fled to Central Asia in a panic. There was no need for the Ming army to pursue it. The Ming army had already won this war.
What the Ming army wanted was the Mongolian grassland, and Lin Danhan was not very concerned about the life and death of Lin Danhan. What the Ming army had to do next was to close the door and beat the dogs and completely eliminate Mongolia's participating military forces.
Wang Guoxiong directly occupied the narrow valley leading to Central Asia and arranged the machine gun here. As long as the terrain here is arranged with machine guns, it is basically a one-man who can pass through the pass.
Mongolia has been declared finished.
Next is the sweeping environment.
Wang Guoxiong then counted the results and found that more than 50,000 Mongolian cavalry were killed, while nearly 60,000 captured Mongolian cavalry.
A large number of Mongolian cavalry were also scattered throughout the grassland.
After confirming the results of the battle, Wang Guoxiong immediately sent the battle situation back to the command center.
When Wang Guoxiong's battle report was returned to the command center, Zhu Youxiao was overjoyed.
"There is no suspense in this war. Lin Danhan has been driven to Central Asia. It is impossible for Mongolia to organize any decent resistance forces. The railway construction line can be extended, and there is no need to build so many towns. Just build a city in two hundred miles." Sun Chengzong suggested to Zhu Youxiao.
"What I said is reasonable. Just do it." Zhu Youxiao agreed to this suggestion and immediately changed the construction plan of the railway and city.
Then Zhu Youxiao personally led more than 200,000 Ming troops and began a large-scale mobilization on the grassland. The first area to be swept was the eastern part of the Mongolian grassland.
There has been no sweep before here, and many Mongolian tribes are grazing in this area. Lin Danhan did not have time to transfer these tribes.
This sweep became Zhu Youxiao's spring outing, and it didn't seem like a war. The tribes in the eastern part of the Mongolian grassland surrendered one after another under the sweep of the Ming army.
These surrendered Mongolians were soon taken to an area that had been controlled by the Ming army for resettlement.
The resettlement policy of the Ming Dynasty was very simple. Just like the previous Mongolian resettlement policy, each Mongolian household allocated 5,000 mu of grassland. If the conditions were worse, more grasslands could be allocated to them.
However, this time, the Mongolian aristocrats were no longer used to manage these Mongolian herders. Instead, the Ming Dynasty directly managed these Mongolian herders. Tax collection was also officially implemented by the Ming Dynasty, and it was a policy of one ten tax. The pastures had to be rotated grazed every year, and the livestock raised were mainly sheep, and the number of goats must be controlled below five to avoid damaging the pastures.
As for the Mongolian nobles of those tribes, they were locked up by the Ming army. The Ming Dynasty would no longer allocate any ruling interests to these people to prevent them from forming separatist forces.
"Your Majesty, the yellow sheep is ready, you can try it."
"Dear friends, try it together."
On the grassland, Zhu Youxiao and a group of ministers roasted a few yellow sheep, and the whole process of personal expedition was relaxed and pleasant. The more delicious thing on the grassland was yellow lamb.
The meat of ordinary wild animals is not very delicious, but it has more or less a strange taste, not as good as the meat of domestic animals.
However, yellow mutton is very delicious. Since ancient times, the Han people have regarded yellow mutton as a good thing. After a large number of hunts and killings, yellow mutton became extinct in the Central Plains, but there were still yellow muttons in Mongolia, which made Zhu Youxiao have a great treat.
On the other hand, the Ming army's large-scale mobilization caused a large number of tribes to put down their weapons and surrender to the Ming army, and the efficiency of the mobilization was still very fast.
After all, people can run away on the grassland, but cattle and sheep cannot hide them.
Under the intensive search of the Ming army, those tribes could not hide at all. As long as they were exposed, the Ming army's sweep would soon arrive.
The scale of railway construction by the Ming army on the grassland was also larger, and the east-west railway line was directly started, and the efficiency of human resources utilization was greatly increased.
Basically, the railway trunk lines in the entire Mongolia region can be repaired within one year, and some railway branch lines can be built at the same time.
The victory of the war also allowed the Ming Dynasty to seize a large amount of spoils, a large number of cattle, sheep, horses, and captives of many Mongolians.
However, those cattle and sheep were still distributed to Mongolian herders to resume production. If they seek this immediate benefit and destroy production on the grassland, it would be more than worth the loss.
After all, the grassland economy was still relatively important to the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty needed raw materials such as wool and leather produced on the grassland.
Only when production resumes can we continue to milk the Ming Dynasty.
However, a lot of war horses were seized, which were real trophys. Some gold, silver, jewelry and other things were seized, all of which were vegetable markets for Mongolian nobles.
In this war, except for the Mongolian nobles who followed Lin Danhan to Central Asia, other Mongolian nobles will be beaten up by the Ming Dynasty in the future.
At this time, the Mongolian tribes in the eastern part of the Mongolian grasslands had basically no armed forces to resist the Ming army. After nearly two months of sweeping, the grassland area was basically swept away by Zhu Youxiao and the government army, and most of the Mongolian tribes were swept away.
This entire grassland was also included in the notification area by the Ming army.
Zhu Youxiao transferred a large number of officials and civil servants from the rear and began to resettle these Mongolian herdsmen. In the future, these Mongolian herdsmen no longer existed in the tribal model, but were independent in the family ranch model and owned their own property.
When the Ming army swept into western Mongolia next, it was resisted by some resistance forces. Those resistance forces were the Mongolian cavalry that had been defeated from the battlefield. Many Mongolian nobles were making the final resistance at this time.
If the Ming army wants to clear the western Mongolia region, it has to rely on railways and city networks to carry out continuous sweeps.
Zhu Youxiao was determined to establish a new order in Mongolia. The Mongolian nobles became the greatest victims of interests, which is also the reason why the war continues.
If Zhu Youxiao was willing to give these Mongolian nobles a way out and give them some ruling interests, even if not many, a large number of Mongolian nobles would have expressed their submission to the Ming Dynasty, and the war would have basically ended directly.
The Ming Dynasty, which was able to crush these Mongolian nobles in terms of strength, no longer needed to make any compromises. After Zhu Youxiao swept the eastern part of Mongolia, he immediately deployed his military force to western Mongolia. Relying on the supply of railway supplies, he began to carry out a continuous large-scale mobilization in the grassland area in western Mongolia.
Another great victory was passed back to the pass, and this time the whole country of Ming Dynasty was completely shocked. The Mongolian Khan was actually driven out of the Mongolian grassland and ran to Central Asia?
Has the Ming Dynasty's war against Mongolia been basically won?
The Ming Dynasty's occupation of Mongolian grasslands has become a fact. Will Mongolia become a province of the Ming Dynasty in the future?
With these doubts, people around the country who were paying attention to the direction of the war situation continued to pay attention to the direction of the war situation.
In the mid-5th month of the lunar calendar in the 13th year of the Apocalypse, the railway in the Ming Dynasty finally came to the later generations of Ulaanbaatar, which is the new royal city of Lin Danhan.
The Mongolians here have run away.
When the railway was built here, the Ming Dynasty had already controlled the grasslands in eastern Mongolia and swallowed half of Mongolia.
The next step is to sweep westward.
The railway quickly played a huge role, and the Ming army could obtain sufficient supplies through the railway. The towns along the railway were very effective in preventing the sudden attacks and harassment of the Mongols.
It was only a matter of time before the Ming army took over every step of the camp.
This war has been completely won by the Ming army. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!