This has led to a very special situation in the Chu army now, that is, some of the newly purchased war horses were purchased from the Mongols or even the Eastern captives!

This is highly similar to the Ming army!

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, many of the Ming army's war horses were purchased directly from the Mongolian grasslands. At that time, the Ming army's enemy was Monan Mongolia.

Later, Monan Mongolia was controlled by the Eastern Captives, and this kind of war horse trade actually continued. The Eastern Captives even got involved themselves, acting as the financial backers and selling war horses to the Ming army through middlemen.

Don't think it's unbelievable that the two sides are still trading war horses when they are at war. This is the reality.

Whether it is the Ming army or the Chu army, because they lack excellent war horses, they all urgently need war horses on the grassland.

The Ming army thought that the horse government had collapsed in the middle and late stages, and the Chu army had not yet had time to expand its own horse government, so they were all short of horses!

In contrast, whether it is the Mongolians on the grassland or the captives from the East, they are also in urgent need of food, cloth, tea, and various ironware from the Central Plains.

Especially tea, which has been a strategic material for the Mongolian nomads in recent hundreds of years. On the one hand, it is used to supplement vitamins, and on the other hand, it is just for religious needs.

There are urgent trade subsidies on both sides.

Under such circumstances, the Chu army also obtained some war horses from Monan Mongolia in the past two years, and the number was quite large.

In the five years since Chengshun, the Great Chu Empire obtained more than 5,000 war horses from Monan Mongolia, mainly from the Xuanda area.

Moreover, a considerable number of these war horses are led by the Dongji people behind them. The Dongji people will definitely not intervene personally, but will do so through intermediaries.

However, the quality of these war horses obtained from Monan Mongolia was not very good, and they could not meet the army's demand for heavy cavalry.

If the army wants to develop heavy cavalry, I'm afraid it will have to find a way to increase the number of war horses imported from the Western Regions, and this is actually a way to treat the symptoms rather than the root cause.

It is best to obtain excellent horse breeds and then breed excellent war horses yourself.

This is what the Damanying Military Horse Farm is doing now. They use the many stallions obtained from the Western Regions through various official or private or even smuggling channels, including a large number of Arabian horses, Kazakh horses and even a group of carefully selected horses.

Selected Mongolian horses, etc.

Nowadays, a large number of excellent stallions of various types are gathered at the Damaying Military Horse Farm, and these excellent stallions will be continuously cultivated in the future.

On the one hand, it is to directly breed more Arabian horses and Central Asian horses, which are already excellent horses.

In addition, these outstanding stallions are also used for cross-breeding in an attempt to breed better war horses.

And all of this takes time!

Therefore, the Chu Empire Army may not be able to produce heavy cavalry for a while, and can only continue to carry forward the light cavalry.

As for the war horses used in the light cavalry, some of them will be solved internally, some will be solved from the Yarkand Khanate, and some may be solved from the Heshuote Ministry in the future. At the same time, some will be solved from the smuggling transactions in Monan Mongolia.

Among them, the deformity of Monan Mongolia is a smuggling trade that is only maintained by the tacit understanding between the two parties. You can't say that they are kidnapping people to enrich the enemy, or that the Chu Empire is seeking to enrich the enemy. It is purely because both sides have their own rigid needs!<

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Dong Capture has so many horses in his hands that he can't even use them all...

Not to mention the Mongolian tribes in Monan, they have no shortage of horses!

However, they are in extremely short supply of ironware, tea, cloth and other supplies from the Central Plains.

For the Chu Empire, a large number of war horses were needed, as well as ordinary horses, cattle, sheep, and even wool.

There is a natural complementary trade relationship between the two sides.

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The empire actively sent envoys to contact the Yarkand Khanate, the four Mongolian tribes in the Mongolia, and the three Mongolian tribes in the Northern Mobei. These efforts not only expanded its sources of war horses and other livestock, wool, leather and other materials, but also expanded the dumping market for its own industrial products.

In addition, in order to further cut off the foreign aid of the Eastern captives, they even tried to pull them into the chariot against the Eastern captives.

It's just that although these foreign races have made contact with the empire and even agreed to trade with the empire one after another, they have not easily entered the empire's chariots.

This made many high-ranking officials in the empire very dissatisfied, shouting that people who are not from our race must have different hearts!

In fact, life in most of these desert Mongolia and Mobei Mongolia is not easy.

For example, in Mobei Mongolia, why do people flirt with and even submit to the Eastern captives? It's because the Russians from the west have already killed them... They are so pressed that they can hardly breathe.

At the same time, Mongolia and Mongolia did not have a good relationship with them, and a war broke out between them.

In order to protect themselves, they adopted the strategy of making friends at a distance and attacking closely, and adopted the policy of going to the east to kidnap people to protect themselves.

The Heshuote tribe, the nominal boss of the Desert Mongolia, is not doing well, because the Zhungeer tribe, one of the Desert Mongolia tribes, has been very strong recently.

The Jungar tribe not only defeated the Russians recently, but also forced the Russians to stop going south and turn east to threaten Mobei Mongolia.

At the same time, the Jungar tribe also actively moved eastward to seize the playground of Mobei Mongolia, and continued to expand to the southeast, continuing to launch wars against the Yarkand Khanate entrenched in Hami and Turpan.

Because of the strength of the Zhungeer tribe, the Heshuote tribe simply gave up its traditional territory in Moxi and directly entered Tibet on a large scale.

If you can’t offend me, you can’t afford to hide!

The Heshuote tribe went to the snowy area to bully the local chieftains, but the Yarkand Khanate in the Hami-Turpan area could not escape and could only resist the invasion of Jungar.

This is also the reason why the Yarkand Khanate so decisively surrendered to the Chu Empire.

It was because of being overwhelmed by Zhungeer that in order to protect themselves, they couldn't wait to keep the thigh of the Chu Empire, and then obtained a large number of weapons to resist Zhungeer's invasion.

Of course, the Great Chu Empire also obtained a large number of war horses from the Yarkand Khanate, and even used the Yarkand Khanate as a channel to import excellent war horses from Central Asia further west, and sent some industrial products through the Yarkand Khanate.

Sold further west.

Nowadays, the entire northwest is in chaos. The empire is able to maintain an overall positive situation for the empire under this complicated situation. It does not allow Mongolian Mongolia and Mobei Mongolia to launch a war against the empire and maintain normal relations.

We can even attract some Monan Mongolian tribes and empires to do business secretly, which is already very good.

As for more, there is basically no hope now, at least not until the Donglu people are defeated.

The Dongji people's previous achievements in Monan Mongolia were much more threatening to the nomadic people than the guns and artillery of the Great Chu Empire!

But even so, on the eve of a massive battle in Liaodong, the Chu Empire sent many missions to the north and northwest in an attempt to continue poaching people from the east. No matter how unsuccessful, they must stabilize the situation.

them to prevent them from being used by the Eastern captives.

In particular, Monan Mongolia is the focus of this large-scale diplomatic operation of the Chu Empire.

Because Monan Mongolia is also divided into many tribes, not to mention that several of the tribes defected to the Eastern captives at the beginning. They were even enemies of the Eastern captives and fought with the Eastern captives for many years.

Only after losing the battle in the end was he forced to surrender to the Eastern Captives.

Among them is Monan Mongolia, the most powerful Chahar tribe in the past.

In the past, Lin Dan Khan had great ambitions and wanted to lead the Chahar tribe to reunify Monan Mongolia!

During the same period, the Dongpi people wooed the Horqin and other tribes south of the Nen River Basin and the Nei Khalkha and other tribes to the north.

Finally, after many years of war, Lin Dan Khan was defeated and forced to flee to Qinghai, where he eventually died.

As soon as Lin Dan Khan died, the remaining troops of Chahar were even less able to resist the attack of the Eastern captives. In the end, the Eastern captives once again defeated the remaining forces of the Chahar tribe and captured his son Ezhe, and soon after captured Lin Dan.

Namu Zhong, one of Khan's wives, and Lin Dan Khan's posthumous son Abu Nai.

Moreover, Huang Taiji was not afraid of meat and fish, and directly married Lin Danhan's Yishuang...

At this point, Lin Dan Khan's lineage was completely finished, which eventually led to the Chahar tribe and its affiliated Karaqin, Tumut and Ordos tribes to completely surrender to the Eastern Capture.

And these things have only happened in the past few years!

Although forced by reality, the Chahar tribe and many of its affiliated tribes have surrendered to the Eastern Banishers, but the hatred of the past cannot be eliminated in just a few years.

In the past, many Chahar soldiers who died in the war with the Eastern Banishers, their fathers, brothers, and their sons and nephews are all still there!

At this time, the secret mission of the Da Chu Empire quietly arrived at the territory where Tumut was located!
Chapter completed!