The Revolt of the Three Feudatories: All-in at the start in Beijing

The vanguard's charge failed, and the Chechen Khan knew that defeat was imminent. He immediately charged towards Subutai, determined to kill the enemy general and seize their flag!

Subutai naturally also saw the Chechen Khan.

Are you afraid? Of course not.

His first instinct was to charge straight at the enemy. He had somehow replaced his saber with a long-handled round hammer, the surface of which was covered with protruding spikes and topped with a spearhead.

This looks exactly like a sea urchin.

When the spiked club and the hammer collided, the Chechen Khan was thrown from his hand by the recoil from the spiked club. Knowing he was about to die, he immediately turned his head to shout for mercy.

He had only just taken control of a few hundred thousand followers.

He was still young, and the Chechen Khan didn't want to die. Surrendering would at least allow him to continue being a nobleman and living a life of luxury.

As a result, Subutai, already intent on killing, smashed a spiked iron hammer directly into the face of the Chechen Khan, instantly turning him into a bloody mess, barely alive.

With the death of the Chechen Khan, the soldiers belonging to the Chechen tribes in the surrounding area began to fall into chaos. Without their leader, they did not know who they were fighting for.

The retreating troops, fleeing in such a manner, immediately created a situation where one force was used to devour another, and the previously stalemate collapsed in an instant.

Subutai immediately frowned.

It wasn't for any other reason than that I felt I couldn't rely on my strength to always try to kill enemies in battle, in case I got ambushed by someone with a musket one day.

If they die in battle like the Chechen Khan, that's one thing, but if they lose these 30,000 cavalry, then they will have failed His Majesty.

Just as Subutai had established an advantage with 30,000 troops against 40,000, Wanyan Wu's side had already begun to reap the rewards.

These hastily recruited herdsmen were simply incapable of fighting a fierce battle, and since they were unarmored, the vanguard collapsed immediately after being hurled at them by the Blue Banner soldiers.

This was a battle that was almost utterly devastating.

This is similar to how the generals at the end of the Ming Dynasty could often rout 50,000 to 60,000 peasant armies with just a few thousand elite troops.

Untrained peasant armies are most vulnerable to long-range weapon attacks, which can easily demoralize them.

Tushetu Khan, who had retreated to the central army, saw that the large army of old and weak in the distance had been easily scattered. Fear of death took hold of him, and he hurriedly came to the side of Zasagtu Khan.

"Zasaqtu Khan, let's surrender! If we keep fighting like this, the Khalkha will be wiped out!"

After Tushetu Khan finished speaking, he looked anxiously in the direction of Subutai. The speed of the advance was too fast, and their central army was likely to collapse soon. They had to surrender first in order to maintain a certain position.

Thinking of this, Tushetu Khan was about to order surrender when he suddenly felt a chill on his neck and his vision went black!

"Two idiots! Why didn't they surrender when they should have? Wouldn't it have been better to follow His Majesty as a general than to be stuck here in the northern desert eating sand?"

Zasaktu Khan muttered to himself as he watched Tushetu Khan fall from his horse, then sheathed his blood-stained scimitar and shouted.

"The Chechen Khan, Tushetu Khan, is dead!"

"Everyone lay down your weapons and surrender!"

The ravaged Mongol front-line soldiers had long lost their will to fight. Upon hearing Zasak's words, they immediately laid down their weapons and surrendered, a move that was remarkably swift.

Seeing that the situation was settled, Subutai rode up to Zasagtu Khan's side and said, "Before we set off, His Majesty said you would defect, and I didn't expect you to actually do it."

Upon hearing this, Zasagtu Khan also showed a look of lingering fear. "Back then, His Majesty mobilized the entire strength of his tribe to prepare for an eastward march on Beijing. He was worried about me, his neighbor, so he made a bet with me beforehand: as long as I didn't attack his people in Ili, he would make me a king after the city of Beijing was captured!"

"Looking back now, sometimes it's not entirely a bad thing that a person is unambitious and timid."

What Zasagtu Khan meant was that he had neither ambition nor courage, and he didn't want the throne.

Subutai understood the implication, so he beckoned to his personal guards and took out a yellow imperial edict.

"Don't worry, His Majesty isn't as stingy as you think. This is a bestowal of the title of Prince, a hereditary title!"

After receiving the imperial edict, Zasagtu Khan looked at the seal on it, and his hands began to tremble.

He truly hadn't expected Galdan to grant it so readily. Although he wouldn't have military power, he was given the treatment befitting a prince, which meant he could now live comfortably in Beijing.

This is much better than eating sand every day in the Gobi Desert, and you don't have to worry about being annexed by the Chechen Khanate or your life.

With Zasagtu Khan acting as an intermediary, the remaining Mongols surrendered very quickly. Not only that, but a large number of the direct descendants of the Chechen Khan and Tughtu Khan were all purged.

These people were high-ranking nobles who controlled 30-40% of a tribe's wealth, so they had to be killed immediately, otherwise they would become an obstacle to ruling Mongolia.

He had been dreaming of joining the Han army, but instead he was met with the executioner's blade. The resentment of these Mongol nobles made Wanyan Wu's hands go numb.

Afterwards, Subutai, following Liu Mu's instructions, gathered the population of the three tribes and selected those who had made significant contributions in this military campaign from among the 30,000 Han cavalry to serve as centurions and chiliarchs.

From then on, like in the south, the northern desert region would primarily rely on quota-based grazing. If there wasn't enough food, the Central Plains would provide grain subsidies. They would only need to raise the cattle and sheep needed by the Han Dynasty and wait for merchants from the Central Plains.

After fixing the boundaries of the pasture, it can also reduce the desertification of grasslands, which is a win-win situation. At this time, there are grasses everywhere in the northern desert, and all kinds of wild animals can be seen everywhere.

After dealing with the northern desert region, the army continued its journey towards Uriankhai, which was also Subutai's base.

From Taiyuan to Datong, then to Guihua City in southern Inner Mongolia, crossing the Gobi Desert in northern Inner Mongolia, and finally reaching the Langjuxu Mountain, this is a complete trade route.

As for the problem of uneven roads, they will become smooth as more people walk on them, and then tracks can be laid for horse-drawn carriages. Once steam engines and trains are understood, the original tracks can be used.

This is a complete upgrade path.

Those with foresight will definitely want to maximize their benefits.

Subutai traveled light this time, and arrived at the outskirts of Uriankhai in just ten days.

There are two large lakes here. Although they are saline lakes, they still gave rise to a large number of pastures and forests in the surrounding area, and they are not the Gobi Desert that we see today.

Subutai immediately dispatched a large army to disperse and gather all the Oirat and Khalkha tribes.

Yes, there are still many Mongolian tribes scattered around here, and Liu Mu will not let any of them escape his control.

Only by securing them in one place can the grassland be safe.

Otherwise, it would be extremely dangerous for a caravan to come and face a tribe of two or three hundred people.

Wanyan Wu, along with five thousand followers and the weapons and armor given to him by Liu Mu, began to enter the Tuva Basin.

He began to establish his Jin Dynasty.

As for sending a large army to help him?

That's unnecessary. They can't even handle a mere Tuva tribe, so why would the Jin Kingdom want to come here?

Moreover, this process may be extremely brutal. Our great Han Dynasty, a land of propriety, cannot commit such impolite acts.