The Great Ming Dynasty Dominate Overseas

"Thousands of miles to fight the battle, Guan Shan Du Ruo Fei!" Major General Yang Jingxin muttered these words, unable to help but a little bitterness on his face.

He led 10,000 mountain infantry from his hometown in Leshan, Sichuan, a few hundred meters above sea level, and traveled 1,500 li in 20 days through Ya'an, preparing to enter Tibet's Qamdo, which is 3,600 meters above sea level.

The key point is that 1,500 miles are not 1,500 miles on the plain, but 1,500 miles across the majestic Hengduan Mountains, across the raging Jinsha River, Lancang River and countless glaciers.

There are more than 40 mountain passes with an altitude of more than 3,000 meters in the middle, of which 12 mountain passes with an altitude of more than 4,800 meters!

What is the concept of 4800 meters above sea level?

In a certain time and space, Napoleon attacked Italy in 1800 and crossed the St. Bernard Pass in the Alps at an altitude of 4800 meters.

Napoleon only climbed over one such mountain, and it has since been recorded in European military history. It has been blown up for hundreds of years. The great painter drew several oil paintings to record this matter.

As for such mountains, Yang Jingxin and his soldiers turned 12 in 20 days!

On the way to the west, the biggest challenge they faced was the unattainable mountains with skyscrapers and clouds.

It's really unbearable to look back

The first step is to climb Erlang Mountain. This is the first high mountain on the way to Tibet. The mountain I have passed before is also a mountain, but it is really incomparable with Erlang Mountain.

Between the Sichuan Basin and the Hengduan Mountains of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, there is a long and narrow transition zone, namely the Zhongshan hills of the Qionglai Mountains at the edge of the basin. Going westward, it is the Erlang Mountain known as the "first barrier on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau". Within the range of less than 100 kilometers from east to west, the altitude has risen steeply from nearly 500 meters to more than 5,000 meters, forming a transition zone from the second step to the third step in the geographical pattern of my country, and it has also become a natural part of the Sichuan Basin and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The boundary between geography and humanities.

There is one mountain as high as one mountain. After Erlang Mountain, it is Zheduo Mountain. Zheduo Mountain is a branch of Daxue Mountain. The highest peak is 4900 meters above sea level, and the pass is 4298 meters above sea level. The altitude difference with Kangding County is 1,800 meters. It is Sichuan-Tibetan. The second high mountain pass on the line that needs to be crossed.

Within a hundred miles, there is no one inhabited, and the air on the mountains is even thinner. Although the inland sun is shining, the place is frozen three feet, cold wind and snowy peaks!

Not only the impact on the landscape, but also the strong altitude sickness suddenly hit at this time-shortness of breath, fast heartbeat, chapped mouth and face, swollen face, nosebleeds, dizziness and other symptoms such as ghost possession, which makes people caught off guard.

The troops made a lot of preparations, equipped with "Rhodiola" potions, and everyone chewed and consumed them.

Rhodiola has a certain effect on alleviating altitude sickness, and it can be used!

Even if it is not possible, psychological comfort can be achieved.

At the same time, the army has also prepared a large number of ginseng imported from North Korea, sliced ​​and distributed to officers and soldiers, everyone has it!

It’s really not hesitating to pay. Some officers and soldiers got packages of ginseng slices that were distributed. In those days, medicinal materials were scarce, and ginseng was very expensive. It was called a hanging medicine. If the king wants to kill three times, eat Korean ginseng. , Can live to the fifth shift before going to the west.

Some old military officers are very emotional, such as the head of the army Yang Zhan.

He was holding a bag of top-grade ginseng with precious velvet antler in it, which was a supply for high-ranking officers!

He nagged and told his son Yang Jingxin: "Don’t think you were an army officer before, but in fact you were treated as a slave by a civil official. He would drink and drink at every turn, and when he was called to station work, a fourth-rank prefect would dare to criticize the third-rank. The general kneel down! The food is smelly and moldy Chen Liang, not to mention some ginseng, it’s good to have some vegetable heads for you, brothers are injured, go to a doctor near the county town to see, there are officers and people. Take care, the soldier is waiting to die there!"

Not only ginseng, but also cordyceps and spicy pepper!

The efficacy of Cordyceps has been discovered by Chinese medicine practitioners. Before entering Tibet, the government of Ming Dynasty had consciously bought Cordyceps in large quantities, then made them into medicines and distributed them to officers and soldiers.

Let alone the effect, at least morale is encouraged.

There are also many hot peppers that promote blood circulation. Everyone comes with chili powder. Sprinkle some of it when you eat, which will heat the blood and help fight the cold.

In addition to medicinal materials, food is more important. The military requires that troops entering Tibet have food. This is a top priority.

Don't look at "you have to eat", you have to know that this is Tibet's heavenly road!

The staple food is rice, noodles, compressed biscuits, and fried noodles, while the non-staple food is dried vegetables and dried meat strips.

In the plateau area, the water is turned on at a very low level. You can put your hands in the open water without being scalded.

At this time, the Ming Army has a big killer, a pressure cooker!

As Xiaoqiang Xiaoqiang, if you don't get some simple and easy things out, it will be nothing.

It is not difficult to use pure copper pots, rubber produced in Southeast Asia and made into sealing strips, and then adding a pressure relief raft to the lid of the pot. The key is to have rubber sealing strips.

Therefore, on the plateau, the Ming army also had delicious rice. Marching on the snow line, the hot rice can greatly encourage morale.

Rice is not often eaten, and it is mainly fed to sick patients, because it is not easy to carry fuel, and it is transported by livestock carrying coal packages.

On the way to Tibet, it was rare for the Ming army not to be "locusts", that is, not to sweep away the animals and plants along the way. The requirements given today are not to move the place, but the Ming army did it.

Not hitting animals and birds, not fishing, is a religious belief that takes care of the Tibetans.

The natural environment on the road in Tibet is steep. It is very likely that if you cut down a piece of wood for firewood, the natural environment here will be destroyed and it will not be restored for hundreds of years.

Unlike the attack on foreign countries, the Tibetans are now treated as the citizens of Ming Dynasty. They don’t beat their own people, they don’t kill their own people, and they cannot preemptively attack them. They have to kill people like Zhuge Liang. The result is clear. The army did it too.

Marching into Tibet is by no means a trivial matter. It is part of the grand strategy formulated today, and his focus is on the casualty rate of the army. He said that he should let the soldiers enter Lhasa with a smile instead of letting the soldiers march in despair.

Therefore, in order to ensure the health of the soldiers, the court paid a lot of money, and the court did it.

With sufficient preparations, I still encountered great difficulties when turning over the mountain. I originally thought that Erlang Mountain was too high to compare with Zheduo Mountain. Zheduo Mountain was more than 4,300 meters above sea level, which was more than 1,000 meters higher than Erlang Mountain. The air on the mountain is thin, and no grass grows. Everyone carried a load of dozens of kilograms, headache, chest tightness, breathlessness, and obvious difficulty in breathing...Even if you eat ginseng and deer antler, it will feel better at best, but it is still difficult.

Yang Jingxin’s troops are still mountain infantry!

They are all local Sichuanese ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ on the habitual mountain roads, but they are better than plain soldiers on the plateau.

Climbing a mountain is definitely a laborious task. Zeduoshan is very strange. Several peaks are lined up together, and it is hard to get over one. The altitude is a little bit lower, and I was about to catch my breath. I didn't expect another snowy peak in front of me. I keep climbing every day, and in some places it is only five or six miles away in a straight line, but I have to walk from the first day to the next day. First down the mountain, then up the mountain, the four seasons in one day.

At the lowest altitude of two or three kilometers, the climate is still relatively hot, like the end of spring and the beginning of summer, climbing halfway to the mountainside, the climate becomes deep autumn. The last is the lack of oxygen in the mountains and the dripping into ice.

Everyone knows that staying in a hot and cold climate is the most likely to get sick, even if it is a strong mountain infantry, there will inevitably be combat attrition!

Not only people can't stand it, but even Yunnan horses and Guizhou donkeys, who have always endured hardships and hard work, can't stand it. There are not a few horses and donkeys that die on the snowy road.

Fortunately, 10,000 yaks arrived in time and became a transport team!

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