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After Ma Jinshui entered the Tianxin Palace and saluted, he presented the prepared intelligence documents.

"Your Majesty, the Pseudo-Shun spies have received news that Li Zicheng suddenly sent troops to capture Chijin Guard and Shazhou Guard of the former Ming Dynasty in the first ten days of this month, and plans to capture the entire Turpan before May."

After listening to Ma Jinshui's report, Liu Sheng read the intelligence documents carefully, and then asked the guards to hang up the map of the northwest region.

This map was recently drawn by Yousi based on the map information provided by Liu Sheng. In fact, it is more accurate to call it the Great Northwest Situation Map.

It details the areas actually occupied by several forces in the northwest region before the first month of this year.

It can be clearly seen that in the northwest, in addition to Damei and Li Shun, there were also the Yarkand, the Heshuote Khanate, and the Heshuote tribe, one of the four major tribes of the Oara (later Oirat Mongolia).

Among these major forces, the Heshuote Khanate was established by Gushi Khan a few years ago. It was actually from the Heshuote tribe.

Gushi Khan's real name was Tulubaihu (Mongolian meaning: talented and intelligent). He was the fourth son of Haninoyan Hongguoer, the former leader of the Heshuote tribe. His ancestors were the Borzhijin clan of the Mongolian gold nobles.

The Tulu Baihu boy was famous for his bravery and intelligence. At the age of thirteen, he led his troops to defeat the Gogar tribe of the Yarkand Khanate who invaded Oara, and his reputation spread throughout the grasslands.

In his youth, he mediated a major war between Oara and Transkarkha Mongolia.

The Gelug Sect of Tibetan Buddhism highly praised this matter and gave Tulu Baihu the title of "Great Master".

Because the Mongolian transliteration of "Great Master" is similar to "Gushi Khan", Tulu Baihu has been passed down in the name of Gushi Khan since then.

From the early years of Chongzhen to the seventh year of Chongzhen, Tulu Baihu repeatedly led his troops to compete with Russia for pasture, and there were many conflicts and even small-scale wars.

He had defeated the Russian army in the war, so his reputation was even greater.

In the eighth year of Chongzhen's reign, there was civil strife in Qinghai and Tibet. Tulu Baihu responded to the invitation of the Gelug sect and took the opportunity to take control of Qinghai.

In the 11th year of Chongzhen's reign, the Heshuote Khanate was established in the Qinghai-Tibet region.

Currently.

The Heshuote Khanate was only established for five or six years, which can be said to be the time when the army's combat effectiveness was the strongest.

And because the internal situation was initially stable, the Khanate was officially enterprising.

During the pre-Ming Dynasty, they crossed the borders of Sichuan-Tibet and Yunnan-Tibet, and often invaded and occupied areas actually controlled by the pre-Ming Dynasty.

After Damei captured Sichuan, the Khoshote Khanate's military operations on the Sichuan-Tibet border were restrained.

As for the Heshuote tribe, it is one of the four major tribes of Oara. It was previously adjacent to the Ming Dynasty and Monan Mongolia.

Now it is adjacent to Li Shun and Monan Mongolia.

The current head of the Heshuote tribe is Gushi Khan's nephew, Oqiltu Khan.

Therefore, the relationship between the Heshuote Khanate, the Heshuote Tribe, and even the entire Oara Tribal Alliance is quite close.

As for the Yarkand Khanate, it evolved from the Eastern Chagatai Khanate.

It has been a state for more than a hundred years and fell into division decades ago.

But in the early years of Chongzhen, the Yarkand Khanate was unified again under the hands of Abdullah, the governor of Turpan.

Abdullah can also be regarded as the hero of Western Xinjiang.

After unifying Yarkand, he successively defeated the Varazhungar tribe and also won a victory in the war with Russia.

It can be said that the Yarkand Khanate is equally powerful today.

In the early Ming Dynasty, Turpan was actually the Sixth Guards of Guanxi in the Ming Dynasty.

After Xuande was lost for a time, Chenghua Liting swept the cave and briefly recovered the Six Guards of Kansai.

Unfortunately, it was later lost again due to various reasons.

The Six Guards of Kansai rebelled against the former Ming Dynasty and established the Turpan Khanate, which was later defeated and annexed by the Yarkand Khanate.

However, the Central Plains Dynasty still habitually called Hami, Shazhou, Chijin and other old places of the Six Guards of Kansai as Turpan.

Because Turpan is an important route for the Silk Road in the Western Regions, the Yarkand Khanate specially appointed Aqim (a regional consul, similar to a governor) to manage it.

According to the information known to Liu Sheng, the current governor of Turpan is Abdullah's younger brother, Sulitang.

Suritan was more than ten years younger than Abdullah and was trusted by him, but in fact his ability was mediocre and it would be difficult to defend Turpan under the offensive of the Shun army.

It is very likely that the Shun army has now captured Hami and occupied the entire Turpan Basin.

After examining the map, Liu Sheng turned his attention to the Qinghai-Tibet area.

last fall.

The Shun army that occupied Lintao Prefecture in Gansu and Shaanxi expanded towards Qinghai and fought several battles with the Mongolian tribes under Gushi Khan who occupied the Qinghai Lake, and almost all won great victories.

As a result, Li Shun's territory expanded to the east and north coast of Qinghai.

Now the Shun Army has marched westward to Turpan, showing strong expansion. Liu Sheng felt that neither Gushi Khan nor Abdullah would leave the Shun Army alone. Turpan can be regarded as Abdullah’s starting place and his hometown.

Although many places in the Western Region are now severely desertified, the Turpan Basin is still considered fertile.

There was no way Abdullah would give up.

Similarly, the banks of Qinghai Lake are excellent pastures, which were used by Gushi Khan to arrange the Mongolian tribes that followed him, and to entrust many sons except the eldest son to manage various tribes.

It can be said that the pastures around Qinghai Lake were as important to Gushi Khan as Turpan was to Abdullah.

Li Zicheng occupied the east and north shores of Qinghai Lake with his front foot, and then captured Turpan with his back foot. Maybe he would be attacked by the Heshuote Khanate and the Yarkand Khanate.

Perhaps Li Shun will perish in the pinch between the two khanates.

Or perhaps, the Shun army will defeat the two great khanates and truly gain a foothold in the Western Regions.

Liu Sheng believes that no matter what the situation is, it will be beneficial to Damei.

If Li Shun is defeated, Da'ei can take the opportunity to capture the rest of Gansu and Shun's army.

Li Shunruo's victory was tantamount to acting as the "vanguard" of Da'ei's reopening of the Western Regions.

As for whether Li Shun would become strong enough to threaten Damei, Liu Sheng was not worried.

He traveled through time from later generations, has many golden fingers, and has become the orthodox dynasty of the Central Plains.

In this case, if he couldn't defeat Li Zicheng, who was established in the Western Regions, he could simply give up the Central Plains to him and go to North America to become the chief of the Yi tribe.

Thinking of this, Liu Sheng turned around and looked at Ma Jinshui, who was standing quietly in the hall.

"In the next period of time, Xunfengwei can take advantage of Li Shun's war with Ye Erqiang and Heshuote to plant spies among these major forces."

"Then just send back important news about Li Shun, Yarkand, Khoshot Khanate and Oara in a timely manner."

"In addition, we need to pay more attention to news about the war between the Qing Dynasty in Northeast China and North Korea, and we should also deploy more spies to North Korea."

After listening to this, Ma Jinshui cupped his hands and said "yes" before exiting Tianxin Hall.

Liu Sheng summoned another map of the Northeast region and began to think about it while looking at it.

Last autumn, not only did Li Shun make big moves, but the Qing Dynasty also made big moves.

Just as Liu Sheng expected.

Because the last time Hauge invaded and lost troops and generals, the Qing court realized that it would be difficult to plunder food, population and other resources through the invasion in the future.

Coupled with Liu Sheng's instructions, the Northern Xinjiang Wei army put increasing pressure on the Qing captives.

Therefore, the Qing Dynasty sent troops to North Korea last autumn.

One is to once again ask North Korea for food and other supplies, and even for its population.

Secondly, it directly occupied Pyongan Road and Hamgyong Road in North Korea!

In fact, much of the territory of the two Koreas of the Li family belonged to the pre-Ming Dynasty. In fact, a considerable part of the Jurchens in Jianzhou fled to the north from these two realms in the early Ming Dynasty.

The Li family founded Korea some time in the late Ming Dynasty. At first, they were ambitious and continued to expand northward in an attempt to occupy the northeast.

Unfortunately, in the end, they were afraid of the might of the Ming army and had to move nearly a hundred miles south of the Yalu River and surrender to the Ming Dynasty and become a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty.

The Qing Dynasty now learned from the Liao Kingdom in the past and regarded itself as the Zhengshuo of China, so it sent troops to occupy Ping'an Road and Xianjing Road on the pretext of taking back the Jurchen ancestral land in Jianzhou.

Li's North Korea could neither defeat the Qing army nor dare to do so.

Under the policy of compromise and clearing things up, King Li Jie of Joseon directly admitted his fate.

Ping An Road and Xianjing Road were almost handed over to the Qing Dynasty.

However, Ping'an Road and Hamgyong Road have always had strong folk customs.

The local mountain people had many rebellions under the rule of Lee's Joseon. Now that the ruler was changed to the Qing Dynasty, there were even more rebellions.

From last autumn to this spring, the Qing Dynasty has been busy suppressing the rebellions in Ping'an Road and Hamgyong Road.

According to the analysis of the information sent back by North Korea's Xunfengwei spies, many of the "peace-denying faction" of Lee's North Korea are behind these rebellions.

It can be seen from this that Lee's country in North Korea is not all weak.

After looking at the map for a while, Liu Sheng couldn't help but touch the short beard on his chin and muttered to himself.

"Nowadays, Hauge has lost power in the Qing Dynasty, Daishan is seriously ill, Dorgon and Jierhalang are in power, and they are acting more prudently."

"If you want to continue the strategy of 'driving wolves and chasing deer', I'm afraid you still have to put some pressure on the Qing captives." (End of Chapter)