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Chapter 143 Tubo

The Ming army's exit from the customs was an extremely terrifying event for the entire Western Regions.

People do not need to know who the Ming army was going out of seclusion, nor do they need to know where they were going in the end.

Just knowing the news that 30,000 Ming troops came out of seclusion made the entire Western Region panic.

The nobles thought too much and sent letters of help from Hami City to Tubo, and the news soon spread south of the Tianshan Mountains.

The royal governors of various royal families, Aqimu, made preparations. While preparing for the caravan, they sent envoys to see what the Ming army wanted to do, they also missed the leader to go to a village to prepare for the war.

In history, once the Central Plains dynasty could not control the Western Regions, this land on the border would frequently occur. On the one hand, the minerals, pastures, grasslands and sufficient sunshine in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains made the nobles of the Western Regions extremely extravagant. On the other hand, the yellow sand in the desert in the center of the Western Regions also made ordinary people poor to death.

The more difficult life is, the fewer means of making a living, the more conflicts and struggles will be triggered.

Because there is no other way.

When disaster comes, meat eaters have no other way. The simplest and most brutal way is to cause trouble and start a war.

If you win, everyone will be happy. Even if you lose, will the resources in the city-state be different?

As long as you can survive, what are these cruel facts?

Although the governors of Yarkand are brothers of the same clan, they are suspicious of each other and the tradition of attacking each other has a long history like their Mongolian bloodline.

For the people of the Central Plains, the Western Regions have always been a very dangerous place.

Let’s see how they recruited soldiers. The governor living in the city sent people from all walks of life to go out to count Dingkou in the village and draw from three.

Three Dings draw one, five Dings draw two, six Dings draw three, seven Dings draw four, if there are more than ten brothers, four or five Dings draw.

It’s true that you are going to draw strong men, and you are not willing to go and have to force them, but this is wiser than drawing children in the Republic of China.

The draw of the number in the Republic of China was a lottery draw. Some people took the lead in the final draw of the single number in the village with weak voice, and the number of households was lost.

Don’t miss Bali, Yili Bali, Selekur, Vakhan and other places have the opportunity to recruit soldiers, but Tubo has no chance.

The Western Regions are vast and sparsely populated, and villages and pastures are particularly scattered. The situation where agriculture and animal husbandry is present determines that it is neither like the Central Plains dynasty has the financial resources to use large-scale standing troops, nor is it like the Mongolian herders who have large-scale soldiers and follow the war.

The troops gathered in the main cities in various places, and it took two or three months to allocate weapons. The Tubo horse Heima looked at Hami horse Heima by the Ming army and was forced to ask for help from him. He immediately ordered the powerful firemen in the city to draw manpower and send people to the east to investigate the situation and gather elite troops to wait and see the situation.

The Tubo Ma Heima had a small plan in his heart, and Hami was reluctant to surrender to him. Because of his suspicion, even his business route was blocked for a long time. The merchants he sent to the border of Daming to cheat money were always robbed and killed by Hami halfway. It was because of his backing to the Ming Dynasty, which made him dare not raise troops.

This time he never expected that the Ming Dynasty would send troops to attack Hami. Needless to say, the result was, even if he thought about it, Hami would definitely be cold.

He knew Hami's troops very well. Not to mention Hami or his Tubo, even the entire Tianshan South Road was only more than 600,000. Even if the Oirat on the north Road of Tianshan is still more than 600,000, it would be more than one million.

In such a large place in the Western Regions, a million people spilled out, and rounded up meant that there was no one.

In the competition for combat effectiveness, Tubo and the entire Yerkand tied together could not defeat the regular army of the Ming Dynasty. Here, Tubo Ma Heima thought about the old army of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the Ming Dynasty's troops in Liangzhou, Ganzhou and other places.

Therefore, Tubo horse Heima was never prepared to confront the Ming army head-on. Although he had some muskets from the west, he could gather 5,000 strong men in just two or three months, spend some money and recruit 3,000 guards to serve him, and many firemen could also gather 1,000 heavy armored horse infantry.

But war is an economic account. His army fought against even ten thousand Ming troops in field battles, which is probably enough for three days.

If you lose, you will naturally be done. Even if you win, the most casualties will definitely be the strong soldiers. It is the farming season that the soldiers are damaged and the generals will be lost. This winter, there will be famine.

If we could survive until next year, the Mongols who were employed by him earlier would go south to plunder the Tubo, which had insufficient garrison power, and their brothers and uncles who were governors from all over the country would not miss this opportunity.

In the Western Regions surrounded by wolves, he is the last loser regardless of the battle.

For Tubo Ma Heima, facing the Ming Dynasty on this land, there is only one important factor that determines the outcome of the war - whether he can destroy the Ming Dynasty's food route.

At the top of the Tubo city, horses were covered with heavy knee-length armor, and the armor-length heart-protecting mirrors under the setting sun were reflected by the sunlight in the same color as the desert outside the oasis.

He looked to the east with a frown, holding a Mongolian-style helmet with a pennant, and raised his arms to tell something to the nobles who gathered beside him.

The most elite troops of Tubo have gathered under the city. With the help of their servants, eight hundred experienced veterans from the Western Regions put various mail mails and water bags on the backs of camels, putting the most powerful sturdy armor on the war horses, waiting for the orders of Tubo to go to war.

"Hu Chi'er, after I leave, you must pay attention to the firemen in and outside the city. If anyone wants to make trouble, use your army to quickly annihilate them. This time, it will take at least half a year to go on the expedition."

The fireman named Hu Chier showed relaxation because he had no chance of winning against the Ming army. They didn't think it would be a big battle, but it would undoubtedly be very hard and costly.

How can you be more comfortable and happy when you follow out of the city than staying in the city?

As for why the Ming Dynasty, who had been silent in the Western Regions for a long time, suddenly went out of the border, it was not important to them.

Perhaps it was because of the holy lion of the grassland that Altan Khan was old and devoted himself to worshiping Buddha, which made the Emperor of Ming Dynasty relax again?

No one here knows that Altan Khan is dead.

"Hami's cowards have always regarded the Ming army as their backers. This time, the backers are probably going to scare him to death. He said that 30,000 Ming troops have come out of seclusion, and I don't think there are so many. I will investigate the situation of Hami while preparing to attack in the southeast desert."

"If the Ming army comes, don't panic. The Ming Dynasty's troops will go on an expedition. Just guard for a few days. I will attack their food route. If I can't provide food for three or five days, they will rob them. If I can't provide food for half a month, they will have to retreat."

Tubo horse Heima looked into the distance, his eyes full of strange expectations: "It's best, Hami can last for half a month, the Ming Emperor has never been the master of the Western Regions. When they destroy Hami, Hami will be mine and yours."

This is undoubtedly a very ambitious yearning, and under the current situation known to Tubo, it is indeed the most likely thing to happen.

As Tubo horse Heima finished speaking, the firemen all felt a strong desire for war in the East.

No one knew that in the northwest they led to the valley where Luntai was covered with mountains and hills, an elite army named Long Live was stationed on the shore of the Salt Lake for a short rest.

The Long Live Flag in the Mountains was flying in the wind, and the soldiers who pulled out the Tubo Post wiped the blood from the blade on their arms and armored leather pads. The narrow eyes under the eyebrows of the bowl showed sharp eyes to the southeast valley.
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