Valley Emperor

Sooner or later, the Tatars and the Tang Empire will have a battle of life and death. This is not something the Tatars can choose, but the inevitability of the development of the Tang Empire.

Altan Khan is not stupid, he can only see from the expansion of the Tang Empire in recent years. Even if he brought people from the Hetao area to the Western Regions, the war with the barbarians of the Southern Tang Dynasty will still break out!

When the Datang Empire occupied the northern grasslands and the northeastern region, if they did not go west, Altan Khan dared to screw his head off and throw it into the ditch.

In order to be able to fight against the Tang Empire in the future, Alta Khan has been organizing troops to expedition westward in order to accumulate more power.

So far, he has led the Tatar army to successively take the territory of the Oara and the Tubos, and this year, he has taken the Kazakh Khanate and the Yerkian Khanate.

In this way, the area actually controlled by the Tatars is larger than in any previous era, and the strength is stronger, but this still cannot make Altan Khan feel much at ease.

Because in the past war with the Datang Army, Altan Khan deeply knew that those southern Tang barbarian troops could not be judged by common sense, especially their guns were too sharp and manpower could not stop them. .

Fortunately, he has already accumulated a lot of craftsmen on hand by capturing the artisans of the Tubo, Yarkand Khanate and Kazakh Khanate, and made guns and weapons for the Tartars.

Although it is still a hand-made arquebus, the quality is not good, but it can be used anyway.

As for the artillery, although it is also an old-fashioned front-loading shotgun, the caliber is not large, but it is better than nothing!

However, with all this, he still felt that it was not enough, so he still planned to continue the westward expedition, all the way westward, and then go to Eastern Europe.

He didn't believe that those Southern Tang barbarians behind him could chase him all the way!

Anyway, the Tartars are nomads, as long as there are grasslands, they can go there, and the mobility of the cavalry is also very strong. If those southern Tang barbarians really dare to chase them all the way, Altan Khan has the confidence to drag them alive. die.

With a supply line of several thousand kilometers at every turn, he did not believe that the Southern Tang Manzi could solve it!

With this mentality, Altan Khan continued to march west after winning the Central Asia region. If nothing else, they would soon encounter the Persian Safi dynasty, and then the Ottomans. dynasty.

If you go south, you will encounter the Timurid dynasty that is currently entrenched in northern India, and there are many mountains in the above areas, especially if you want to go south, the area controlled by the Timurid Empire is quite large. They are all mountainous areas, which can directly abolish more than half of the combat effectiveness of the Tatar cavalry.

In the Persian area and the areas under the control of the Ottomans, there are also many mountainous and desert terrains. It is hard to say who wins and who loses.

However, as long as Alta Khan is not stupid enough to give up his cavalry superiority and engage in some tough mountain battles, it is estimated that he will not lose there, and at most he will not be able to obtain any benefits.

Altan Khan was frightened by the development and expansion of the Tang Empire and went all the way to the west. Although it sounded bad, he also gained his own development opportunities.

At least, that's how a huge Tang Dynasty appeared in the Western Regions and Central Asia!

Relatively speaking, there is no such situation in other countries around the Tang Dynasty. Whether it is Fusang, Annan or Myanmar, they are basically indifferent to the expansion of the Tang Dynasty.

The daimyos of Fusang, now there is no need to worry about the threat of the Tang Dynasty, and now they are still beating to death, almost every day, there are daimyo fighting, resulting in more and more poor people and more and more people. The less it is, the Datang Fusang Affairs Yamen is already very optimistic. In another five years or so, the total population of the Fusang Islands will definitely drop to less than 3 million people.

In ten years, it is estimated that there will be only about one million people left.

Today, the Datang Fusang Affairs Yamen has begun to suggest that they can try to land in parts of the Fusang Islands on a small scale, and then carry out large-scale immigration and administrative rule.

On the Annan side, the Southern and Northern Dynasties are now fighting to the death, and under the instigation of the Tang Dynasty, even the Burmese side is also involved.

In short, now on the Nanyang Peninsula, there is a mess of porridge, wars every day, and the Portuguese who control Malacca are suffering from headaches. In these days of wars, no local indigenous people come to do business with the Portuguese, because of these Damn natives only want all kinds of weapons, nothing else.

As for the Portuguese weapons, the manufacturing cost is quite high, and the number is also small. They are not enough to equip their own native servants, so how can they sell them to these natives.

On the other hand, the other islands in the South China Sea are much quieter, because nowadays there is basically no official regime on the islands in the South China Sea. In fact, there used to be, but after so many years, they were all killed by the Tang Navy or pirates. .

Now there are a lot of indigenous tribes and primitive kingdoms on the islands of Southeast Asia, but there is not a single official, relatively large country.

For the time being, the Datang Empire only established colonial strongholds on islands in the South China Sea, and mainly controlled ports. If immigrants and ruled, the two developed islands, Luzon Island and Banten Island, were the main ones. In other places, large-scale immigration has not yet been carried out.

The immigration is mainly in the Nanyang region, especially on islands with imperfect infrastructure. The casualties are too great. Today, medicine is still not developed enough, and the empire is somewhat helpless about the situation of these islands.

Therefore, these places can only be included in the jurisdiction of Banten and Luzon in a general way, and bastions were established to control the port, but no large-scale immigration activities were carried out.

In this case, the actual control area of ​​Banten House and its theoretical jurisdiction are also very different, because on the official map of the Tang Dynasty, the jurisdiction of Banten House is west to Sumatra and east to New Guinea. Island, south to Timor Island, north to Sulawesi Island and various messy small and medium islands in the above area.

However, the current actual control area of ​​Banten is only the western area of ​​Banten Island, and then a very small number of areas in the eastern part of Sumatra Island, plus a Timor Island. As for other places, at most it only controls a port and builds a Just a bastion.

Its actual control area is not as large as that of Luzon Prefecture. The theoretical control area of ​​Luzon Prefecture includes the entire Luzon Islands (Philippines) and Borneo.

As for the actual control area, as long as it is all of Luzon Island, part of Mindao Island.

Among them, Luzon Island is also the most successful area of ​​the Tang Empire’s overseas immigration development. So far, many immigrants from the mainland have successfully occupied the whole island with hoes and arquebuses, and established villages and reclaimed land. farmland.

The advanced development experience of Luzon Island has already begun to be extended to the colonization activities on other islands. For example, in Mindanao Island, the military has always been a helpless local native, in front of the immigrant army of the Tang Empire. , there is no resistance at all, so that the immigration development activities on Mindao Island are relatively smooth.

Looking at the surrounding area of ​​the entire Datang Empire, in fact, there are no countries or forces that can pose any threat to the Datang Empire itself, and even few can resist the annexation of the Datang Empire.

The only exception is the Tatars!

After these Tatars went to the Western Regions and Central Asia, their strength became stronger and stronger, and even so powerful that the current Datang Army felt a little helpless.

Although the Datang Army in the northwest region has tried to attack the Tubo region, it has not been used indiscriminately.

Therefore, although they entered the Tubo area, they had to retreat because the logistics could not support it.

In this case, the army has high hopes for the railway, and on the other hand, it is desperately developing the cavalry!

In order to obtain more horses, the army strongly demanded that the newly established Hefeng province must give priority to the development of animal husbandry, especially horse breeding, because the military's demand for horses is very large.

However, the training of cavalry is still relatively difficult. After all, the Tang Empire is not like the Tatars. All the people are soldiers. Every Tatar man who has lived on horseback since childhood is a natural cavalry, and he still brings his own horse. kind.

It was much more difficult for the Datang Empire to develop cavalry. Many of the recruits they recruited did not even know how to ride a horse, and then they had to gradually cultivate equestrian skills. Even the cultivation of horses was more troublesome.

Up to now, it has made the army executives regret a little. They have long known that the Northeast War would not be so ruthless. At any rate, leave a few people from Chahar and Duoyan Sanwei to come down and recruit them as cavalry. Let them graze, that's fine.

But it is a pity that in the now huge western Liaoning, eastern Liaoning and the three northeastern provinces, it is basically impossible to find a few people from the Chahar Department and the Duoyan Sanwei. They were either wiped out by the army or wiped out by later immigrants. If there were any left, they would now run further north, or simply west, to join the Tatars.

In contrast, their enemies, the Tatars, are much better than the Tang Empire!

The killing was too ruthless at the beginning, and now even to find someone to herd, they have to immigrate from the mainland, which also makes the army a little depressed.

But it's just a little depressing~www.wuxiaspot.com~ It is the basic policy of the empire's foreign expansion, and it is impossible for the army to change this policy in the northeast region.

Besides, it was only difficult at the beginning. The empire had a population of 100 million and 10000000, and it was not easy to find a few million people to engage in animal husbandry.

Since the establishment of government in Hetao and Fengzhou, many people have come to live from Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei and Shandong. Most of them were organized by officials to engage in animal husbandry in Hetao and Fengzhou.

Under the many means, the army is reluctantly continuing to expand the cavalry force!

Even in order to expand the cavalry unit, the Army has cut down part of the infantry unit on its own, thus freeing up the establishment and funds to train the cavalry unit.

In this way, the cavalry units of the Datang Army have rapidly expanded, not counting the divisional cavalry, but only counting the independent cavalry units. It has expanded from 50,000 cavalry many years ago to 100,000 cavalry now!

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