Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 576
As soon as the guard cavalry caught up, they quickly threw Zhen Tianlei out.

In a moment, there was a loud explosion.

Several Kalaqin cavalrymen were blown out, and even the war horses shattered like exploded balloons.

Culie also heard a violent explosion.

Looking back, he saw that the cavalry behind him were in chaos, so he was so frightened that he quickly turned his horse and retreated from Qingsong County.

The Harqin cavalry is naturally no better than the Manchu cavalry.

Today's Mongolian cavalry has long since declined.

These Harqin cavalry were no exception. They were more like robbers who robbed houses. Although they were skilled in riding, they no longer had any military spirit.

Seeing that he had suffered countless casualties, and he no longer had the mentality to rob Qingsong County, he fled in a panic.

But now.

The Ming army would not let them go away at will, and the cavalry of the guards continued to chase up, and caught a Kalaqin cavalry who had fallen from the bullet, and chopped it in half on the spot.

It wasn't until nightfall that a hundred or so cavalrymen from the guard army withdrew back, and at the same time they brought back more than two hundred heads of the Karaqin cavalrymen.

A defense battle that took place under Qingsong County ended like this.

Xin Qingdong couldn't believe his eyes. He didn't expect hundreds of officers and soldiers of the Guards to beat Kulie back in a panic, leaving more than [-] corpses behind.

But the officers and soldiers of the Guards did not feel so excited about it.

Harqin's cavalry was no more than a second-rate cavalry in this era, and suffered heavy losses from Mu Ying and Qi Jiguang in the era when the bird gun was popular. What's more, the guards are now in the era of rifled guns.

Therefore, for the guards who had already defeated the Manchurian iron cavalry, such a victory was indeed nothing.

But for Yu Yingshi and other business groups and common people, the victory of the Guards undoubtedly increased their confidence in continuing to live here.

So the whole city cheered.

Xin Qingdong was also very happy, because the lord paid an extra month's salary just because the guards repelled the Karaqin cavalry.

But overall, this is indeed something to be happy about.

The Qingsong County of the Ming Dynasty was finally able to continue to exist on the grassland, and the seeds of the Han civilization continued to be sown on this land.

The armed merchant groups robbed the tribes and horses of the Harqin tribe even more blatantly.

Xin Qingdong was also hired by his lord as a servant, and was responsible for plundering the Karaqin tribe for the lord. He was accompanied by dozens of people, including Han Chinese, Kunlun slaves, Hongmao Fan,

He didn't know where his lord found these people, but he had to admit that these people were desperadoes who only recognized money, and they did not hesitate to travel hundreds of miles away to harass various Mongolian ministries for high salaries.

Xin Qingdong himself became a desperado, because he found that plundering people and animals for his employer was more profitable than working, although there were also dangers, such as being surrounded by some tribal cavalry and unable to escape.

But for more wealth, he can only choose to be a mercenary of the lord, robbing people and animals for the lord.

There are even relatively powerful business groups and individuals who specialize in the occupation of plundering people, robbing the herdsmen from various parts of Mongolia and selling them at high prices to other business groups that need labor to make profits.

Today, Daming is not the conservative farming regime of the past. In order to meet the primitive accumulation of capital, he naturally has to keep making progress, relying on plundering a large amount of cheap labor and obtaining a large amount of land to meet his own needs for expanding the scale of production.

The steam industrial revolution in Kannai has already begun.

A large number of new industries and new things are constantly emerging, and the value of social wealth continues to increase, but it is also accompanied by the collapse of a large number of backward industries and the increase in labor costs and land costs in the customs. Therefore, more and more businessmen have to shift the direction of pursuing interests to customs Foreigners even have to use the most brutal way to obtain more capital benefits.

Therefore, even though the Harqin tribe did not dare to provoke Da Ming after failing to attack Qingsong County, the business groups of Daming would still take the initiative to provoke him, and even the Ming army would take the initiative to provoke them.

After Chen Zilong arrived in Qingsong County, he immediately ordered to eradicate the bandit-like Harqin tribe. The reason was naturally that the Harqin tribe dared to attack Qingsong County by surprise, blatantly provoking Ming's military might.

Khan Polo Khuri of the Karaqin tribe did not dare to provoke the Ming army after learning that the [-] cavalry had been defeated and returned, so he had to move the tribe to a farther place.

Even Polo Kuri was afraid of being retaliated by Daming, so he sent envoys to Daming, hoping to submit to Daming, willing to respect Daming as the master, and did not want to be Daming's enemy.

But the envoy was intercepted by Chen Zilong, and as the governor of Monan, Chen Zilong had a very tough attitude. He not only beheaded the envoy sent by the Karaqin tribe, but also said that if other tribes dared to take in the Karaqin tribe, he, Chen Zilong, would join them. exterminate.

Chen Zilong's attitude is in line with Daming's current interests, so the merchant group and the common people actively support him. The most direct manifestation of this support is that the court supports him. Chen Zilong was able to train recruits in Monan smoothly. The Monan First Army was established on the basis of army reserve recruits.

Chen Zilong himself, as the supreme commander of the first army in Monan, began to lead this newly formed second-rate army of the Ming Dynasty to conquer the Karaqin tribe. Although it was said to be conquering the Karaqin tribe in name, it was actually encroaching on Monan.

At the same time as the Monan Army, there were also various armed merchant groups. Chen Zilong encouraged them to continue to plunder the means of production in areas that were not the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and said that as long as the population and wealth they plundered, they would recognize the legitimacy of their possession.

Therefore, from the 24th year of Chongzhen, the entire Monan grasslands can be seen everywhere in the Ming army or Han armed business groups, and they crazily swept the entire Monan. They were defeated and had to choose to migrate to a farther place.

There are also a few relatively large Mongolian tribes who dare to unite to fight against the Monan Army, but although the Monan Army is a second- and third-rate army of the Ming Dynasty, their weapons are also very sophisticated, and they are backed by a large number of financial groups. The Mongolian cavalry is still not theirs. The opponent, basically, can only return home in a disastrous defeat.

In the march of the Monan Army and the merchant group, the continuous expansion of the Ming territory was accompanied by more and more merchant groups and common people leaving the customs, and began to have their own territory on this vast grassland. , trade began to gradually extend to these places, and banks, casinos, and brothels began to rise above the desert.

The Second Corps of the Second Army, the main force of the Guards, and Li Dingguo's Ministry were at the forefront of expanding the territory. Not long after occupying Qingsong County, they occupied the ancient city and then Luanhe River.

Now, they have arrived at Kaipingwei.

(End of this chapter)