Daming iron-blooded Chief Assistant

Chapter 206 Kazakh Khanate

The residence of the Northwest Protectorate, Suiye City.

Boren looked at the bustling immigrants dragging their families outside the Governor's Mansion. The severe drought in the north of the Ming Dynasty had lasted for a year.

More and more immigrants chose to come to the Western Regions to seek a living, and the pressure on him was also increasing.

After so many years of immigrants in the previously occupied areas, the land has been almost divided. It is necessary to occupy new places as soon as possible, otherwise the new immigrants will have no land to divide.

There is very little arable land in the Western Regions, which is a battleground for military strategists, and the combat effectiveness of the field troops in the Duhufu is no problem.

The problem is that the enemy is too scattered. For example, the four tribes of Oala have been attacked now, leaving only the Junggar tribe. They avoided the Ming army's Bingfeng, and even abandoned the Junggar Basin and fled to the north.

Moreover, they have already contacted the Raksha country and started to equip large-scale firearms.

The Kazakh Khanate, another target of the Northwest Protectorate, has a population of just over a million, but it is spread over a vast land.

These places are also mixed with mountains and deserts, which makes it impossible for the army field troops to pursue thousands of miles with a month's supplies like in Mobei.

We can only build a fortress step by step, first control the river bank, and sweep away the surrounding tribes.

At present, the railway has been built to Suiye City. In order to build this railway, millions of lives have been filled in. To build the Ural River, at least 200 million people are needed.

Now the countries in the Western Regions have been frightened by the Ming Army, leaving the Yili River Valley, there is no man's land within a thousand miles to the west and north.

It is already very difficult for the field troops to go out to arrest people. The supply line is too long, so even if they are caught, they will not bring much, and many people will die on the way.

And to the south are poor and tyrannical mountain people, arresting them often outweighs the gain.

The goal Zhang Zongxian set for the Northwest Protectorate was to establish a fortress after occupying the Issyk-Kul Basin instead of expanding southward, and concentrate on completing the Raiders of the Kazakh Khanate and West Siberia.

Unable to explain the difficulties he encountered to the cabinet, he hoped that the cabinet would agree with him to go south to fight in order to obtain enough manpower to build the railway.

In Zhang Zongxian's view, further south is Afghanistan. The cost of ruling the mountainous region is too high. Even if it is conquered, there will be hidden dangers in the future. He strictly ordered the Northwest Protectorate not to go south, and asked them to use their energy to conquer the northwest.

As for the manpower problem, the cabinet will find a way to solve it for them.

As for how to solve it, it is natural to arrest the aliens, and now the railway will soon be built to Lianyungang, so that from Lianyungang to Suiye City can be directly connected by railway.

Soon a Northwest human resources company was registered and established. The person in charge was Hu Biao, who used to manage horses. Now his official position has reached the position of commander of the Jinyiwei. Although the current Jinyiwei has existed in name only,
The power has been taken over by the investigation department, and it no longer has the original power. It has completely become the means of Zhang Zongxian rewarding the non-legislative system and his own people.

Not long after the Northwest Manpower Company was established, it placed orders to buy Kunlun slaves from various companies in the south. Each strong Kunlun slave was priced at five taels of silver. The cabinet also specially opened up Lianyungang as a receiving place.

These open companies are worrying that there are no good products that can make them pay back quickly. After receiving the order, looking at the Kunlun slaves all over the mountains and plains in Southeast Asia, isn't this giving them money?
By June of the second year of Yongli, the first batch of [-] Kunlun slaves boarded the train to Suiye City, and there were another [-] Kunlun slaves waiting to be loaded, which also caused the price of Kunlun slaves to plummet. From five taels to three taels.

Even so, the profit is very high. After all, it is a no-cost business. These open companies still want to sell Kunlun slaves to the landlords of Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Zongxian, who had already anticipated this situation, in the name of the cabinet prohibited people who did not have household registration in Daming from engaging in any work in Daming, even if they were bought slaves.

After solving the manpower problem for the Northwest Protectorate, a new garrison organization was built for the Northwest Protectorate, so that they have enough mobile forces.

With sufficient manpower, the speed of railway construction has been greatly accelerated. The originally planned railway line has also been increased to three.
One starts from Hami and passes through the Kazakh Khanate to the Ural River. This railway is the middle line.

The newly added northern line starts from Guihua City, goes west after arriving at Beihai, and goes until it reaches the Kazan area of ​​later generations.

The newly added southern line starts from Hami City and is built along the Tianshan Mountains from Shule City (Kashgar) to the Caspian Sea.

The three railways will directly have a large number of straight-line railway links. Of these three railways, the northern line and the middle line are relatively less mountainous, and the southern line is the most complicated. The construction period is expected to be as long as more than 30 years.

At the end of the third year of Yongli, regardless of the cost of manpower, the railway from Hami was built to Yibohai (Lake Balkhash), where the hinterland of the Kazakh Khanate was completely exposed to the soldiers of the Ming Army.

The Ming army planned to build a large fortress on the northern shore of the lake as a starting point for attacking the hinterland of the Kazakh Khanate. The staff of the Northwest Protectorate assumed that they would first complete the construction of the central railway, and then go north to eliminate the Junggar and Raksha people.

At this time, the Kazakh Khanate also understood that the Ming army was here to destroy their country, and they could not escape to the north. The Raksha Kingdom in the north was as greedy as the Ming Dynasty, and it only destroyed the Siberia Khanate 30 years ago.

Yesmuhan of the Kazakh Khanate assembled a total of [-] troops and went to Yibohai to prevent the Ming army from building a fortress on the north bank.

Facing the menacing [-] Kazakh army, the staff department was overjoyed. They were afraid that you would not come if there were too many people.

Soon the staff worked out a battle plan, leaving three divisions with more than 5 troops to deal with the attack of the Kazakh army, and another division was sent to detour behind the enemy to cut off the enemy's retreat.

On the sixth day of March in the fourth year of Yongli, the Kazakh army of [-] arrived at Yibohai. Before the Kazakhs could set up camp, Boren led three cavalry divisions to meet them.

Facing the menacing Ming army, Yesmuhan immediately formed a convex half-moon formation to deal with it. The soldiers who were the worst in the battle were arranged in the central protrusion, and the two wings were equipped with elite soldiers. Support is always available.

When the enemy breaks through the formation of cannon fodder and continues to penetrate, they will become mice that get into the pocket and face the enemy on three sides. The elite fighters who have changed from the end of the wings to the front will quickly seal the exit of the pocket and start a war of annihilation.

After observing the enemy's formation, Boren quickly understood the enemy's thinking and made a countermeasure. He wanted to surround the enemy in turn. Three cavalry divisions formed a concave half-moon formation to deal with it, and hit the enemy's two wings first. , Let the roundabout cavalry division cooperate to attack from behind the enemy, and completely annihilate the enemy.

(End of this chapter)