Emperor Ming Dynasty

Chapter 1128 Afghanistan

At this time, the Liao Kingdom, far away in Central Asia, under the leadership of Jia Daihua, united with 2000 people from the Zhao Kingdom, totaling [-] horses, and headed towards the Badak Mountains in the south.

The Badak Mountains are located between Anxi, Liao Kingdom, and Persia. The most famous one is the Wakhan Corridor, which is an important gateway to Anxi.

It is located in the south of Congling, and its geographical location is extremely important.

It was also the case that Jia Daihua spared no effort and directly led his troops to attack and occupy Badak Mountain.

In this coalition, the Han people accounted for no more than 3000 people, and the rest were indigenous soldiers recruited from the Liao and Zhao countries.

"General!"

Jia Daihua was riding a horse and wearing leather armor, but he seemed to be in high spirits. The wind and sand in Central Asia had sharpened his temper. The pampering in the Liao Kingdom had been completely forgotten.

"Say!"

Ye Bushua threw a fat man in front, not caring that his head was bruised and bloody, and said respectfully:

"Badak Mountain is already in chaos at this time."

"Oh?" Jia Daihua raised his eyebrows: "Elaborate."

"This businessman told me that Badak Mountain had long been overthrown by the Bukhara people, and its governor was named Yali. I heard that after the fall of Bukhara, he had already closed himself up and relied on the Mughals!"

At this time, Afghanistan was ruled by the Mughal Empire, a dynasty established by the Mongols.

In the past, Jiadaihua did not pay attention to the Mughals at all. It can be said that he did not care at all.

But at this time, the Mughals were powerful and tyrannical throughout the south. They annexed several kingdoms in the Deccan region and occupied Bengal. The country reached its peak.

Unfortunately, last year the Yusuf Chai people suddenly revolted and plundered Juqi, cutting off the communication between Delhi and Kabul and between Kabul and Kashmir.

Although the rebellion was put down in time, the Afghan region was already unstable and was currently in a stable state, and there was no time to support Badakshan.

"Hahaha, God helped me!"

Jia Daihua laughed: "Their masters can't even protect themselves, let alone themselves?"

These words immediately boosted the morale of the expedition team.

Immediately riding on the hot wind, he headed south.

At this time, Badakshan learned the news that the Liao Kingdom was moving south. Yalibek, who enjoyed independent treatment, was shocked and immediately asked Kabul for help.

However, the distant water could not resolve the nearby fire. In just ten days, with one horse and three horses, the Ming army swept across the Badak Mountains and arrived at its capital.

This is a narrow and short earthen city. The surface of the city wall is full of traces eroded by wind and sand. The round temple roof tells the story of the beliefs of the Peace Sect.

There are no ravines or moats here, just a dilapidated city gate.

Jia Daihua didn't care about this.

Although he didn't bring any artillery, he had a lot of home-made weapons.

He ordered the captured herdsmen to carry the soil on their backs, walk slowly towards the city wall, and then slowly pile it up. With the efforts of thousands of people, it only took three to five days to reach the level of the city wall.

At that time, the cavalry can rush directly up the hillside and level the city.

During this period, he even ordered people to attack nearby tribes, large and small, and forced them to hand over part of their grain, cattle and sheep, so as to maintain the army's logistics.

Only feeding the enemy is the lowest cost strategy.

Sure enough, as the slope of the soil increased day by day, the pressure in the city increased. Yali could not bear the tense atmosphere and had to send people out of the city to attack.

There are more than [-] troops, including cavalry and infantry. According to common sense, the Ming army should be sure of victory.

Unfortunately, in Jia Daihua's opinion, he has the best chance of winning.

The armor rate of this Bardak army is less than [-]%, most of them are malnourished, and their weapons are even made of stone. Apart from relying on their better riding skills, they are not worth mentioning at all.

He looked back and glanced at himself. With [-]% armor, sharp iron tools, toughness and neat discipline after practicing for a long time, victory was simply a piece of cake.

"Attack and enter the city to eat!"

Sure enough, as he expected, just one impact caused the army to collapse and surrender on a large scale.

Years of peace and barren land have long made them vulnerable. Otherwise, the Bukhara Khanate would have conquered this place by just sending a partial army.

At the moment when the army collapsed, Burke and Yali of Bardock Mountain went directly out of the city and surrendered.

The war was more like a parade than a conquest.

But Jia Daihua had been the prime minister for several years and knew this very well. It was easy to conquer but difficult to rule.

The small city of Bardock has only about [-] to [-] people, and it is basically the residence of nobles and soldiers.

Its narrow territory is filled with a large number of tribes. In addition to paying a small amount of cattle and sheep, their biggest contribution is the supply of soldiers.

This is also the origin of the [-] soldiers in Badak Mountain.

Although he is a berk (governor), Yali can only rule one city. The vast countryside is occupied by tribes, and he cannot control its people at all.

Jia Daihua glanced at the fat-bellied Yali. This kid had occupied Balak for several years, but he had made him fat and strong.

Unfortunately, although this area is important in location, the land is barren. Nearly half of it is desert or mountainous, and less than [-]% of the land is suitable for farming.

In other words, only grazing can be done.

How could such a place be divided into feudal states?

"If you had waited any longer, your life would have been in danger."

Jiadaihua raised his head, sneered, and said in Bukhara dialect.

This time, Yali was so frightened that he knelt down and trembled, his fat body shaking non-stop: "Prime Minister, spare your life, Prime Minister, spare your life, I have never thought of sending troops to restore the country..."

As he spoke, he raised his head and turned pale. In order to prove his usefulness, he quickly said: "If you want to conquer Afghanistan, I suggest you go to the west. There are Persians there. I heard that a young king of theirs has succeeded to the throne. For Everything around me is sluggish!"

“If you’re going south, I advise you not to do it because that’s the Mughal Empire, they took Kabul and they’re weak now, but they’re still very powerful.”

Hearing this, Jia Daihua frowned: "How many soldiers and horses do the Mughals have?"

"They have 2 people in Kabul, and they can also recruit tribal cavalry. They have a lot of armor and sharp bows and arrows."

Hearing this, Jia Daihua calmed down a lot.

His 1 people are alone, and the reinforcements behind him don’t know when they will arrive!
It seems that if we really want to establish a vassal state, we can only go west to plunder the lands of the Persians.

At this time, Muhammad Amin Khan, the deputy king of Afghanistan, immediately decided to send troops after hearing Badakshan's request.

This was not an impulsive decision on his part, but a fear of Daming.

You know, Badak Mountain is truly a mountainous area, located south of Bukhara and north of Afghanistan. It is an important gateway.

Once occupied by Akira, Afghanistan will be in danger.

When the time comes when Mingren colludes with those rebellious tribes, how can he, the governor, be stable?

Deep down inside, he was eager to try.

The power of the Chinese dynasty has been spread in various books, especially the destruction of the Kingdom of Bukhara, which shocked many people.

At this time, the Mughal Empire was also extremely powerful. If the two collided, wouldn't they be able to compete with each other?
In this way, he immediately gathered [-] cavalry, [-] infantry, and tens of thousands of civilians to escort the grain and grass, and marched northward in a mighty manner.When the news came, Jia Daihua was startled: "I don't want to offend you, but you dare to touch me?"

"Which nearby city has more money and food?"

It wasn't his style to wait for others to attack, he asked Yali.

"The largest city nearby is Kunduz in the southwest, but it is controlled by the Persians, while in the hands of the Mughals is Varsaj, three hundred miles away from Badak Mountain."

"Very good!" Jia Daihua said with a chuckle: "I would like to see the handiwork of the Mughals."

In this way, he arranged for 5000 people to garrison the city of Barak, and then the cavalry swept through Valsadj, sweeping away all the food and people.

Even the city was demolished.

This is called strong walls and clear fields.

When Muhammad Amin Khan arrived in Varsaj, he could no longer walk.

When he saw the plundered town, he was immediately made angry and laughed.

At the same time, the troops under his command were dissatisfied and too lazy to walk through the hills.

Without official channels, the march was a disaster.

Seeing this, Muhammad Amin Khan had to give up, and then sent a large army to slaughter all the nearby tribes, and returned satisfied after collecting thousands of corpses.

In his letter to Delhi he wrote:

"The Ming army only relied on a huge number of troops, which were inherently weak. They dispersed after a thousand cavalry attacks. They were able to defeat the Bukhara people only by taking advantage of their unpreparedness...

When I arrived at Badak Mountain, the Ming people had burned it down, leaving a mess behind. I had to retreat to Kabul to avoid running out of food and fodder for the army..."

After learning that the Mughal army had retreated without a fight, Jiadaihua breathed a sigh of relief and began to think about how to expand the territory of Badak Mountain.

Such a narrow place is definitely not enough to support the founding of the country.

"Kabul in the south cannot be provoked. The current plan is to go west or east."

"There are many mountains in the east, making it difficult for the army to march, while the southwest is a plain area. Although it is controlled by the Persians, the king is a young child and the king's power is weak, so it is a good place to attack..."

In this way, relying on many years of experience in governing the country, Jia Daihua directly organized [-] Badak troops and marched to the Kunduz area in the southwest together with [-] Ming troops.

Persia and the Mughals divided Afghanistan, with the southwestern region occupied by the Mughals, and Persia occupying the best parts of the west and south.

Although the Kunduz area is a plain, it is too far away from Persia, thousands of miles apart.

Belongs to a side area within a side area.

The army easily occupied the small city of Kunduz. A large river passed through the city, bringing a lot of time and shaping a valley.

This is the northern plain of Afghanistan. It is the Amu Darya plain, formed by the impact of the Khali River, the Murghab River, the Balkh River and the Kunduz. Its banks are irrigated agricultural areas.

Separated from Kabul by the Hindu Kush Mountains, it can be said to have natural security factors.

The most familiar thing is that when the Huns were driven westward by the Great Lunar Eclipse, they moved here, re-established the kingdom, and established Blue Moon City.

It can be said that this is naturally an agricultural area.

In addition, most of the residents here are nomadic tribes who moved south from Bukhara, and their language is similar to that of the Liao Kingdom.

It is even separated from the former city of Bukhara by the Amu Darya River, so it is very close.

In this way, it will be convenient for the two countries to support each other.

"No wonder the Liao Kingdom believed in the Peace Religion. It turned out to be spread from here to the north!"

Jia Daihua was overjoyed. While sitting in Kunduz, he headed west for more than five hundred miles and included the entire irrigation essence area under his control.

He was trembling here, waiting for the Safavid Empire's conquest and preparing for a defensive counterattack.

And he didn't know.

For the Safavid dynasty at this time, the Amu Darya plain was more than two thousand miles away from Tabriz, and there was no time to react.

In other words, for Safavid, who was in decline, the dilapidated border areas could not contribute much tax at all, and were not worth investing in troops at all.

Its greatest threat has always been the Ottoman Empire to the west.

The governor of Afghanistan Province even ignored it, and the entire Amu Darya Valley fell into the hands of Jadaihua.

"This place is truly a good land for feudal lordship and nation-building."

……

At this time, Beijing was naturally unaware of its measures, let alone that the former Yuezhi's hometown had been brought under its control.

For the Beihai Governor's Mansion, the busiest thing this year was the suppression of rebel bandits and the development of the north.

Fengjing Mansion, which had been built by the Manchus for many years, was incorporated into the territory. A large number of serfs became common people, and taxes were paid on the farmland, which supported the prosperity of the Beihai Governor's Mansion.

You know, in the past, these hundreds of thousands of serfs had to support the Manchu aristocracy and tens of thousands of troops, but now it is more than enough for just the Beihai Governor's Palace and the [-] border troops.

Wang Fuzhi was naturally extremely relaxed about this.

It is not difficult to sort out taxes, but the difficult part is to open up the north.

Over the years, there has been an endless stream of Rakshasa people, and they have established countless trading stations on Beihai. Although they have created taxes, they are not in line with Beihai's strategy.

Wang Fuzhi understood that the imperial court had planned a lot of land near Beihai and was preparing to establish a city-state.

That is, one city and one country.

If the Rakshasa people are still allowed to do whatever they want, how can these lands belong to the Ming Dynasty?

The day lilies are cold.

In this way, Wang Euzhi had to harden his heart and continuously sent troops to plunder those wooden villages and plunder the Rakshasa people.

For several months, he realized that this was not going to work.

"Better to occupy than to plunder!"

Using his brain like this, he immediately had an idea.

Occupy those Rakshasa villages and villages, then move the people there, and then continuously reinforce them to build a city.

This saves a lot of effort.

You must know that in the entire wilderness, tall trees are the most abundant, and cultivated land is scarce.

The Rakshasa people cut down trees, cultivated the land, and even built wooden villages, which was equivalent to opening the road in advance to prepare for them.

In this way, Beihai would be relieved, but for the Cossacks, it would be a disaster.

Faced with the plunder of the Ming people, they actually united to help each other and continued to harass, trying to prevent the Ming army from settling.

　Recommend to friends, Du Fu in the late Ming Dynasty, worth watching

　　


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