Chapter 398 Lin Dan Khan

As for the royal caravan, the border troops did not dare to block it. After all, this was a caravan organized by the royal family. What was the difference between this and seeking death?
No matter who you are, if you dare to block the royal caravan today, you may be dismissed tomorrow after an imperial decree is issued, or you may be charged with a crime and your home will be ransacked.

The first caravan dispatched by the Royal Commercial Bank consisted of almost a hundred taels of carriages, more than 300 people, and brought about 30 taels of silver in goods.

With so many goods, I don't know how many people will be jealous.

In this caravan, Zhang Qingfeng did not arrange any guards to protect it. Based on Zhang Qingfeng's understanding of the grassland, caravans without guards are the most likely to be robbed.

After all, money touches people's hearts, just like a three-year-old child holding gold ingots, if you don't grab it, who will you grab?
Actually, Zhang Qingfeng was going to use this caravan as bait, if anyone dared to touch this caravan, then Zhang Qingfeng would have a reason to take revenge.

Don't blame Zhang Qingfeng for being ruthless, after all, he is reluctant to let his children not be caught by wolves. This is the sacrifice he must make to implement the grassland strategy.

Zhang Qingfeng's final idea is to completely incorporate Mongolia into the territory of Ming Dynasty, just like the Qing Dynasty.

After the first caravan entered the grassland, at the same time, more than 1 trained cavalry were also ready to go out to fight at any time.

In addition to more than 1 cavalry, the security army trained by Zhang Qingfeng in the capital has also been transferred to 5000 people. These people can be used as infantry to support the cavalry.

Except for a few people such as Zhang Qingfeng and Emperor Wanli, no one else knew about these soldiers and horses.

Sure enough, grassland trade is not that easy to do.

Less than half a month after the first caravan of the Royal Commercial Bank left Zhangjiakou, the entire caravan was robbed, and more than 300 people in the caravan were killed, and only a few escaped back.

When the news reached the capital, Emperor Wanli was furious and threatened to take revenge on the Mongolian tribes who had robbed the royal firm.

Later, Emperor Wanli ordered that a cavalry force of tens of thousands be dispatched into the grassland to avenge the Mongolian tribes that robbed the royal caravan.

At the same time, 2 Royal Security Corps were ordered to take over Zhangjiakou Pass to cope with the cavalry attack.

"Your task is to burn, kill and loot all the way after you leave the customs."

When the cavalry left the customs, Zhang Qingfeng personally went to the school grounds to see everyone off.

"Don't worry, uncle, my subordinates will understand." A group of officers assured Zhang Qingfeng.

This time the royal cavalry entered the grassland mainly to deter the Mongols.

Only when the Mongols knew that a cavalry could kill them at any time, they would not dare to do anything to the royal firm on the grassland in the future.

Just like the European powers in the late Qing Dynasty, they scare you first, and then do business with you, and you have to treat them like a master, for fear that others will turn their backs.

After the royal caravan was robbed and killed by the Mongols, everyone knew that Emperor Wanli was very angry and the consequences were serious.

Therefore, when more than 1 cavalry entered the grassland, and Emperor Wanli ordered [-] security corps to take over the defense of Zhangjiakou, the court ministers did not do anything drastic.

Emperor Wanli was really angry. The Mongols dared to rob his caravan just to cut off his money.

With Emperor Wanli's greed for money, Zhang Qingfeng only fanned the flames from the sidelines a little, and Emperor Wanli agreed to Zhang Qingfeng's revenge against Mongolia.

Under Zhang Qingfeng's order, soon, more than 1 cavalry entered the grassland with lightning speed, and even some people who wanted to inform the Mongols had no time to respond.

Twenty-five thousand security forces also quickly took over Zhangjiakou, and quickly blocked the entire pass, and no one was allowed to enter or exit the pass at will.

On the grassland, after [-] cavalry entered the grassland, they rushed up to burn, kill and loot when they encountered Mongolian tribes.

Wherever the cavalry passed, there was blood and rain.

No one thought that for a royal caravan, the emperor of Ming Dynasty would go to war.

Going out of the grassland from Zhangjiakou, Chahar Mongolia is to the northeast and Tumed Mongolia is to the west.

According to the direction of the first royal caravan going northeast, this royal cavalry mainly targeted the Chahar Mongolian tribe in the northeast.

Chahar Mongolia is the territory of Lindan Khan.

Lin Dan Khan was the instigator of the Hua Hua Department's invasion of Ming Dynasty last year, so Zhang Qingfeng's goal was naturally to attack Lin Dan Khan, who had just emerged.

At this time, Lin Dan Khan was 22 years old this year. He inherited the Khan position at the age of 13, and he has only taken power in the past two years.

Historically, Lin Dan Khan was ambitious and always wanted to restore the powerful Mongolian Empire. In the past few years, he would increase the training of the army and then plunder the Ming Dynasty.

As the 35th Great Khan of Mongolia, it is natural for Zhang Qingfeng to take Lin Dan Khan as the first goal.

Of course, he would not directly let Emperor Wanli send troops to attack Lin Danhan, because the court would never agree.

He prepared to expand the scale of the war little by little, and finally dragged the court into the water, forcing the court to invest more troops.

Tens of thousands of Ming army cavalry burned, killed and looted on the grassland, which soon alarmed Lin Danhan who was far away in Chifeng City.

On the grasslands, horses spread news quickly.

The news of hundreds of kilometers arrived in just a few days.

When Lin Danhan heard that the Ming court sent [-] cavalry from Zhangjiakou into the grassland to plunder his herdsmen, he was furious, and immediately counted [-] soldiers and horses to go south.

However, there is no way to compare the speed of a large troop march and a single man's march.

For a distance of several hundred kilometers, Lin Dan Khan had to gather troops in the early stage. It took almost half a month before he led 5 horses to the territory on the west side of Xing'an Mountains, and finally met more than 1 royal cavalry.

For more than half a month, more than 1 royal cavalry looted on the grassland, and countless cattle, sheep and horses were sent into Zhangjiakou Pass almost every day.

Just when Lin Dan Khan led his troops to the southeast, the royal cavalry had already dealt with more than 20 horses and [-] cattle and sheep.

After the spies found out that Lin Dan Khan led 1 cavalry, more than [-] royal cavalry quickly retreated towards Zhangjiakou.

At the same time, several fast horses left quickly. This is to notify the [-] to [-] infantry stationed in Zhangjiakou in advance to prepare for battle.

The news that the Ming army entered the grassland to plunder also reached the ears of the Tumed Mongolians.

Although the Ming army plundered the Chahar tribe, they were also Mongols. Although the Tumote tribe did not send troops to support them, they made people start looting the border of Datong Mansion of the Ming Dynasty, which put a certain amount of pressure on the Ming army.

Over the years, the Mongols have always suppressed the Ming army, and the Mongols plundered if they wanted to, and ran away when they were done.

None of the Mongols thought that now the Ming army would dare to plunder them on the grassland. This is simply intolerable.

On the Chahar Mongolian grassland, more than 1 royal cavalry fled quickly, and more than 5 cavalry led by Lin Dan Khan continued to pursue them. Soon the two sides came to Zhangjiakou.

The Royal Cavalry was led by a young man named Chen Mo. The cavalry he led had participated in the Battle of Nagasaki and the Battle of Osaka, and he had his own understanding of new cavalry operations.

On the grassland, he did not try to use [-] cavalry to head-to-head with [-] Mongolian cavalry, because even if he could win, he would lose a lot, so he led the cavalry back to near Zhangjiakou.

At this time, more than 5000 musketeers were already prepared outside Zhangjiakou. After the cavalry arrived, they hid directly under the protection of the infantry phalanx.

At this time, the royal cavalry plus 5000 infantrymen suddenly had more than [-] people.

However, for the more than 3 Ming army, Lin Danhan didn't take it seriously. If the enemy can't handle this point, then his ambition to restore the Great Mongol Empire is also a joke.

(End of this chapter)

Tap the screen to use advanced tools Tip: You can use left and right keyboard keys to browse between chapters.

You'll Also Like