Aspirations for Nation and Beauty: Chapter 21: Foundation

After the second wave of charge was completely defeated, Gu Erdan completely lost his confidence in wanting to break through from the front. In his opinion, the front line of defense of the Northwest Army was too strong. Rain and throwing guns are like Hades who bribed people's lives. The impact of wave after wave is like waves hitting the reefs on the shore. residual red.

The frontal defense line of the Northwest Army is not indestructible, but whenever a gap is exposed, soldiers from behind will immediately fill it in, and quickly melt into it and become an organic whole. The Mott cavalry, whose morale was getting lower and lower, couldn't seize this fleeting opportunity at all, and could only use their spears in vain to attack the opponent's thick shield line of defense, but this was almost equivalent to suicide, especially for the light cavalry behind. Even more so.

Gul'dan's only hope was pinned on the friendly army who attacked the granary from the flank. As long as he could destroy the granary of the opponent, no matter how much he paid, it would be worth it, but fate didn't seem to be on his side. The second wave of attack collapsed, and it seemed that there was still no movement there. The expected black smoke did not rise from the rear of the opponent. Gul'dan sank slowly with his heart. When the official timidly asked the chief whether to launch the third wave of charge, the desperate Guldan even wanted to kill himself at that moment, and the enemy still waving banners in front of him spied on him eeriely like a dormant beast, what should he do? manage? It is meaningless to continue to charge. The opponent's full preparation shows the huge difference in combat effectiveness between the two sides. Surrender? Gul'dan didn't dare to imagine what kind of result he would get. The only way right now was to evacuate first, escape from this ominous place far away, and then figure out what to do.

It's a pity that God no longer gave him a chance. When it was officially known that the Luobei people had abandoned him and fled and that the flank attacking army had been wiped out, the panicked Guldan was still in a daze. The soldiers led by the noble officer had unceremoniously circled up several of his personal soldiers and forced them to come up and ask him to surrender himself to the Northwest Army. Only then did Gul'dan realize that his career as a chieftain had finally come to an end.

On February 27, 697 in the Gregorian calendar of the mainland, the decisive battle of Boyue Lake that shocked the Tengger Prairie finally came to an end after more than four hours of brutal fighting. After this campaign, the Northwest Army completely destroyed the armed forces of the Mote clan on the East Tengger Grassland, second only to the Luobei people. The Mote army, which suffered heavy losses, finally turned against them, and it will only taste the taste of the chieftain for more than two months. After being bound, Gu Erdan asked Li Wufeng to surrender, and Li Wufeng accepted the opponent's surrender after asking everyone on the opponent to put down their weapons and obey him unconditionally.

In this battle, the Northwest Army wiped out 200,000 Mott cavalrymen, of whom more than 90,000 were captured. More than 80,000 Mott warriors were killed in this battle, and 150,000 horses were captured, as well as countless supplies. Although most of the Luobei escaped, more than a thousand people were killed in the raid on the granary.

And the Northwest Army also paid a heavy price. In order to withstand the enemy's charge on the frontal battlefield, the defense point of the Third Division of the Great Northwest Army was the first to bear the brunt and bear the greatest pressure. After the war, there were only less than 12,000 soldiers left, and a considerable number of soldiers were injured and temporarily lost their combat effectiveness. The Guards Division and the Fifth Nanjielock Division, which assisted in the defense of the two wings, were slightly better. The Guards lost more than 5,000 people, and the Fifth Nanjielock Division performed fairly well because it was the first time it participated in such a large-scale battle, but it also showed a gap with other divisions in terms of casualties. More than 7,000 people lost their lives in the fighting. In the defensive battle of the granary, the Second Division of the Great Northwest Army led by Sha Lang fully deployed the solid defense line built by transport vehicles, inflicting heavy damage on the incoming Mott cavalry. The Mote people lost their fighting spirit, and the battle did not last long before it was declared over. Shalang's Second Division won the war with only more than 2,000 casualties.

On March 11th in the mainland Gregorian calendar, Su Qin, deputy director of the Northwest Administrative Bureau, represented the Tanghe Empire's Northwest military and political envoy and Governor of Northern Luzon Li Wufeng to hold the Mote family representative meeting in Huohuaji by the Boyue Lake in the Mote territory At the meeting, Su Qin announced the appointment of the central government of the Tanghe Empire, awarded Guer Sufu the title of earl, and appointed him as the lord of the Mote Dominion to lead the Mote family. Under the leadership of Li Wufeng, the envoy and Governor of Northern Luzon, the internal affairs are generally handled by the Mote people independently, and major matters involving the national economy and people's livelihood must still be reported to the Northwest.

Immediately afterwards, with the support of Li Wufeng, Guer Sufu started a large-scale purge operation. Almost all the pro-Luobei conservative nobles were declared rebellious. Under the swords and guns of the Northwest Army, most of the conservative nobles were beheaded. At that time, the family members and their slaves and herdsmen were all divided up by the nobles who were pro-Northwest, and the faction pro-Li Wufeng occupied absolute power in the Mott clan. As the chief villain, Gu Erdan, considering his special status, after discussing with the northwest side, Gu Erdan ordered him to commit suicide.

After a series of consultations and secret discussions, the Mote people imitated the Northwest governments to carry out administrative reforms, and established the Internal Government, the Internal Affairs Office, and the Military Affairs Office, referred to as the Three Offices, respectively managing administrative and judicial affairs, family affairs, Military affairs, the Military Affairs Office is not under the leadership of the lord of the Dominion, but directly controlled by the Northwest Military Affairs Staff Headquarters. The head of the military affairs government is directly appointed by the Northwest Military Government Jiedu Mansion, while the appointment of the other two government heads is nominated by the lord of the self-government and submitted to the Northwest Military Government Jiedu Mansion for approval.

The Northwest promises to completely liberalize the import and export of various daily necessities such as grain, salt, wine, iron and ironware, as well as important materials in the territory of the entire Mot people, and to ensure that the entire Mot people have a safe and healthy life during the spring famine every year. The supply of low-priced grain and grass has assisted the Mote people in terms of capital and technology to build the spark set into a small city in a relatively short period of time to promote the circulation of commerce. As the branch line of Huohuaji to Qingyang, the northern commercial road, Northwest will also be expanded in the near future to make the road level reach the level of the roads between Northwest prefectures, and the road from Yinchuan to Huohuaji will also be included in the construction plan Start planning. Northwest will build two schools in Huohuaji free of charge to provide primary education for the children of Mott nobles and upper-middle-class people. All teachers will be provided by Northwest. The teaching will be bilingual in Tang and Hu, and Tang will be used as a written language. It also promises that Northwestern University and Northwestern Military Academy will accept further study requirements for those who have graduated from junior schools with excellent grades.

After the war, although the Mott people calmed down the dissatisfaction within the Mott clan by purging the conservative nobles, and the pro-northwestern aristocracy also completely won the dominant position, it was still a dilapidated situation in front of them. More than 80,000 Mott fighters were killed in the war, which not only caused a great loss to the military strength of the Mott people, but also caused tens of thousands of Mott families to be in grief. The spring famine has made almost all Mott families face a desperate situation , and the finances of the entire Mott clan had collapsed. When Guer Sufu came to power, the treasury of the entire clan was less than 3,000 gold coins. A sense of anxiety permeated the entire Mott tribe, and many lower-class herdsmen began to flee.

Facing the grim situation in Mott's family, Guer Sufu's only reliance is on the Northwest. Wufeng finally agreed to provide Mott with an interest-free loan support plan after an emergency consultation with Xiao Tang, Su Qin, Ling Tianfang, Wang Liao and other senior staff in Qingyang, temporarily providing a loan of one million imperial gold coins for Purchase spring fodder from various ethnic groups in the adjacent grasslands; Northwest provides Mote with grain, salt, tea, production tools, cloth and other necessities worth one million imperial gold coins; provides three million imperial gold coin loans for Guer In the name of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Sufu gave comfort to the families of the soldiers who died in this war ~IndoMTL.com~ to stabilize the emotions of the people at the bottom and buy people's hearts; provide one million imperial gold coins as the financial turnover of Guer Sufu's regime, use Day-to-day operating expenses of the Guersuf regime. All loans are secured by Mott Dominion taxes and are repaid gradually over ten years.

After signing the loan agreement, the two sides signed a supplementary agreement on the relationship between the two parties and various affairs. The Mott Dominion accepts the leadership of the Northwest Military and Political Jiedu Mansion, but maintains its autonomous status. The military and diplomacy are in charge of the Northwest. Internal affairs are guided by the Northwest. The tariffs between the territories of the two sides, and the tariff revenue of goods from other places are all collected by the Dominion of Mott, and no share is paid to the Northwest. Mott's armed forces were reorganized in an all-round way, imitating the Northwest to the bone and divided into two types: the reserve force and the regular army. The daily training management of the reserve force is in the charge of the Military Affairs Office, while the regular army is directly responsible for training and mastering by the newly established Northwest Military Joint Staff Headquarters. All regular army military expenditures and The training subsidy expenses for the reserves are borne by the Northwest Government. It was initially agreed that the regular army would be 50,000 cavalry, which would be selected from the existing Mott armed forces, and the reserve army would be temporarily set at 60,000, with regular training and regular service (mainly responsible for patrolling and daily security in the territory of the Mott Dominion) In case of an emergency, the Military Affairs Office can directly call up the reserve service as regular service.

This series of agreements has had a profound impact on both the Mott people and the Northwest government. First of all, the status and relationship between the two parties have been clarified, and a good foundation has been laid for future cooperation. With support from all sides, they began to embark on the road to prosperity and fully integrated into the Northwest Economic Circle from all aspects of politics, economy and culture. At the same time, they retained their own ethnic customs and traditions, which also laid the foundation for the Northwest government to develop relations with other nomadic peoples in the future.