Qi Jiguang believed that the tribes on the grassland must be broken up, not only for the rule of the court, but also for the lives of the subordinate tribes.

If you surrender, it is not the enemy, it is the people.

The stories on the grassland are repeated. Maodun, Tan Shihuai, and Temujin are people who meet once in a hundred years. Except for the more than ten years when they entered their heyday, the rest of the time was repeated. The tribes gathered together with their ulterior motives and dreamed of the same bed.

Even if the spoils are divided, a war can be fought.

This was too terrifying for Qi Jiguang. He hadn't gone east yet. The more he followed the troops who went out of the frontier, the more difficult it would be to recharge the supplies to Beiyang. He did not believe that the speed of the imperial court's construction of railways could keep up with his speed of war.

Even if he slowly investigates and attacks quickly, the railway construction will not be repaired in a short while.

After the Mongolian Plateau, it will be his rear, and all auxiliary troops and food will come from here.

If the tribes don’t raise cattle, sheep, and horses for him, what’s the point of fighting every day?

Qi Jiguang knew very well what he was doing and what the court behind him was doing.

His country has never had such experience-they are exploring the edges of national borders.

Since the opening of the sea, the books sent back to China with the war report were books from various countries, including other people's culture, other people's technology, and other people's habits.

It greatly enhanced the Ming people's understanding of the world.

How are the national boundaries of most countries in this world divided?

They expanded all the way during their heyday, conquering endlessly, using their wisdom and courage to make people surrender until they met a close opponent. In short, they were reluctant to fight again, so they could only sit down and have a good talk, so that both sides determined the national borders.

This is a missing link in the Central Plains dynasty since the Qin Dynasty.

There is no evenly matched, the sea, mountains, deserts, plateaus, and these rare treasures are all there to find.

Of course, their ancestors didn't want to have it either.

In short, the Central Plains dynasty only had the actual control line.

All those who can be conquered have long been conquered, leaving all the opponents who have natural dangers in all directions.

These actual control lines need not be discussed.

This place is the sea to the south, so I can’t go over. I promised that you will not go ashore, and I will beat you up when I get ashore;

It doesn’t rain all the way north of this place, so I don’t need to go there, build a wall, you come here to facilitate entertainment;

This place is an unsurpassable mountain to the west. What? There are still living people on the other side of the mountain! Alas, I can't reach it.

A thousand years have passed like this.

But now they suddenly found that many problems in many places can be solved. The sea is not a problem. Brother has a boat; the desert is not a problem. Brother can build a railway and go around it.

Then this would make the problem a big deal. As a world-famous farming expert, what's wrong with me, if you want to reclaim a few acres of wasteland to plant?

However, land is the same as sea. The further away from the core territory, the greater the expedition. In fact, Qi Jiguang is now far away from the core territory, so he did not open up the baggage channel and did not have a stable rear. Qi Jiguang did not dare to continue the western expedition.

Even though his troops had made a lot of preparations for this, drinking horse milk like the Mongols to solve the biggest water source problem, and eating food was the biggest problem, and this problem came from the Long Live Army.

The composition of the Wansui Army was drawn by the Tengxiang Guards and the Beiyang Banner Army trained by the emperor himself. The main general was Dong Yiyuan, and the general was a good general and the soldiers were good soldiers. There was only one disadvantage - the baggage must be prepared.

In fact, this is not a disadvantage. Any army's baggage is not ready, and this is their advantage. Other troops may have a shortage of baggage and will directly collapse. They will not collapse, but will only reduce their combat effectiveness.

But for this absolutely elite force, the effort, money spent on training them, food consumption, and military pay supply, as long as they cannot exert their due combat effectiveness, they will lose money.

They generally have a better demand for supplies, and they have to manage enough gunpowder and enough food. For example, the two armies of Mongolia that followed did not need to eat fruits and vegetables. As long as they have horse milk to drink, meat floss and jerky, they can share some combat power or reward some money to follow the main force to go to the battlefield.

The Beiyang used military ranks, dried vegetables sent by pack horses and camels, and soy milk powder were all for the Long Live Army to eat.

On Qi Jiguang's western expedition, conquering the Oirat was the first to be hit. During this period, he went south to obtain Turpan, and the Hami Guards and further attacked the Yarkand Khanate were also the top priority.

No matter which road to the Western Expedition was, it could not provide tens of thousands of troops to continue to consume. He had to set up one post after another, establish one camp after another, and use Luntai County where the Heshuo Ministry was located as the front-line base camp, and transport supplies to this place from many places to supply troops to contact the Kazakh Khanate to the west.

As for the Yarkand Khanate?

That's just a fight. In Qi Jiguang's heart, Wei Lat Mongolia is actually a roadblocker on the marching road. He wants to fight. If you don't hit others, you won't know that you are good, but you can just be convinced after you fight.

Because Wei Lat Mongolia rarely participated in the war with the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty officially called them the Oirat Tatars, saying that they were slightly more gentle than Xuan Datars, and although they never paid tribute to China, they did not attack the border.

Only the poor scoundrels in the Mongolian area of ​​Weilat would be robbed by Tubo. Relatively speaking, in the long-term tug-of-war between the Ming Dynasty, Yarkand and Tubo surrounding the Hami Guard, the border generals of the Ming Dynasty still prefer the Oirat on this battlefield.

Shortly after Qi Jiguang captured the Heshuo headquarters, the battle report from the general of Gansu, Tong Deng, was also sent. His troops took Dayun, the garrison of Jiayuguan, as their vanguard, and captured Hami, a small town with only three or four thousand households without firing a single artillery. They are now stepping up defense to deal with the counterattack of Turpan Khan under the Yarkand Khanate.

Tong Deng believed that his troops did not fight in the Hami Guards, and the Tubo Khan was not aware of the facts and would lead his army to attack after receiving the news. Perhaps Qi Jiguang was gathering when he saw the letter and would send troops in another one or two months. If Qi Jiguang had revived Luntai County, please ask Qi Jiguang to act cheaply.

Because Luntai County is far from Hamigu, but is located in the northwest of Turpan City, whether it attacks the enemy's back or cuts off the main force of the Yarkand Khanate in the future, it can provide assistance to Tong Deng.
Chapter completed!