Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 427 Scarlet Inner Asia

When the cold winter came, when the bitter cold wind swept across the Kazakh grassland with ice knives, in the tents of the Qing people, the bannermen were wrapped in thick cotton robes and roasted by the fire, while outside their tents, frozen corpses But covered with ice and snow.

The Kazakh Khanate and the Oirat Alliance have fought for more than 100 years. The two sides have won and lost each other, but neither side has completely wiped out the other.But today, the Manchus from a foreign land completely destroyed the Kazakh Khanate like a group of devils from hell.

Originally, the Kazakh Khanate had been severely damaged in the confrontation with Moxi Mongolia. When the Manchu and Qing army came, the Kazakh ministries had never seen such a modern army.Their sabers, bows and arrows, as well as a small number of matchlock guns, could not resist the equipment and organization of the Qing army at all.The generals under Fei Yanggu's seat quickly led the New Army and the Eight Banners Army, and before winter came, they ravaged every Kazakh tribe they saw.

What Cheng Lin and the others did was very simple, that is, burning, killing and looting.The Qing army did not need to win over the Kazakhs, or other local nomads. They only needed to destroy these tribes and rob them of all their supplies, fur coats, livestock and food, and women.

In a temporary tribal camp of the Kazakh Khanate, Cheng Lin held a carbine in one hand and a saber in the other.Shouts of killing came from everywhere in the tribe, and the flames rushed up.

This camp has been breached by the army led by Cheng Lin. They originally wanted to avoid the Qing people who came to this grassland. They would rather take the risk of winter migration, pulled up their tents, and migrated to the Turan lowlands. Escaped the Manchu pursuit.

But the Qing people didn't mean to let it go. The army led by Cheng Lin was the only iron army in Fei Yanggu's hands. Even under such difficult conditions, they were able to track their enemies despite the wind, snow and severe cold. .

Cheng Lin is a key figure in this army that can fight tough battles and challenge difficult conditions. His temperament and military management methods make this new army, which was not outstanding at first, integrate a group of Eight Banners and wild Jurchens. Finally, it became a real iron army that could fight.Fei Yanggu granted the title of Wu Yi Army to the army led by Cheng Lin. Although it only had more than 3000 troops, it relied heavily on it.

In the camp at this time, Wu Yi's army, who had already broken through the defense, was killing people, and even Cheng Lin himself was killing people with his own hands.

The restrained young Kazakh chief stared at Cheng Lin viciously, and he shouted: "You demons!"

Cheng Lin said with a blank face, "Surrender, bring your tribe with you, and I will stop my soldiers from killing."

The chief said angrily: "Impossible, impossible! We will not be your Jurchens' slaves, never!"

Cheng Lin nodded: "Then you can die."

He drew his saber with his own hands, and directly chopped off the chief's head.The other Kazakh men were also desperately resisting, but the volley of guns from the Wu Yi Army soldiers shot them down directly, and the crying and scolding of women and children came one after another.

The soldiers of Wu Yi Army looked as cold and indifferent as their generals. Their hands were already stained with blood all the way from the Mongolian plateau to the Kazakh grassland.For ordinary soldiers, they just want to live, just obey orders, and it is meaningless to pity or think.

Cheng Lin knew his mission very well. He was undercover in the remnants of the Qing Dynasty, turning himself into Fei Yanggu's sharpest knife. , It completely became almost unoccupied, which is convenient for Su Shuhuan to take over the area.

From Mobei Mongolia to Moxi Mongolia, Manchu Qing has caused a lot of killings in this year. Except for the lucky ones who took refuge in Ming Dynasty, the tribes of Khalkha Mongolia and Oirat Mongolia have been completely disintegrated.The Qing army killed tens of 10 people and captured hundreds of thousands of slaves.When they came to the Inner Asia region, they did the same thing.

Fei Yanggu needs supplies for the winter, and the Manchus need slaves to support the bannermen, so the killing and brutality of the Manchus now are even more terrifying than when they were in the Central Plains.At this moment, there are no traitors such as Hong Chengchou and Fan Wencheng advising Fei Yanggu to treat the people well. For Fei Yanggu, whose conditions are difficult and whose final destination is in Europe, the people in the Inner Asia region can only be to him. slave.

Many slaves of the Eight Banners will freeze to death and starve to death this winter, and the slaves often resist.The Eight Banners used the bloodiest means to suppress it, and then the generals like Cheng Lin went to capture new slaves to make up for it.

On the other hand, as an important civil servant, Wenhe, who followed Fei Yanggu from the copy, also optimized Fei Yanggu's new Eight Banners system, providing a certain degree of stability for his master-Ying's dual class structure.Because at this stage, the Manchu Qing had a large number of slaves, and the exploitation of these slaves was the main reason why the Bannermen could survive.Slaves graze, work, and even fight.So Wenhe suggested to Fei Yanggu that if a slave made meritorious service, such as producing more products and making military exploits, he could become a bannerman, that is, a superior person.

A group of Mongols who were enslaved at the beginning showed their loyalty to Feiyangu and were incorporated into the army.Wenhe divided the slaves and provided some basic stability by providing this channel for class advancement and rewarding slaves who performed well.

"This tribe has been exterminated, let's continue west." Cheng Lin said to his subordinates.

His subordinates sighed: "I'm afraid we will kill this grassland before spring comes."

Cheng Lin said indifferently: "That's the best."

Looking at the ground covered with thick snow, he said quietly: "If we want to survive in the Qing Dynasty, we must eliminate the nomads here, obtain all the materials and manpower we can obtain. The commander said, go west , is a more fertile and gentle land, which will be our new home, and in order to finally arrive, we will do whatever it takes."

The subordinate's expression froze, and said: "Only the general's order is to follow!"

Cheng Lin, who didn't talk much, fell into silence again. What he was thinking in his heart was, when Daming's garrison army came here, how long would it take to turn this arid and barren land into a paradise for Daming?Killing and violence are always not good enough, but thinking of the results it can achieve, Cheng Lin is also content with it.

(End of this chapter)