Sooner or later, the Tatars and the Tang Empire will have to fight a battle of life and death, which is not something that the Tatars can choose by themselves, but the inevitability of the development of the Tang Empire.

Altan Khan is not stupid, he can only see from the expansion of the Tang Empire in recent years, even if he leads people to withdraw from the Hetao region to the Western Regions, but the war with the Southern Tang barbarians will still break out!

When the Tang Empire occupied the northern grasslands and the northeast, if he did not go west in the future, Altan Khan dared to twist off his head and throw it into the pit.

In order to be able to fight against the Tang Empire in the future, Altan Khan has been organizing troops to the west in order to accumulate more strength.

So far, he has led a Tatar army to successively take the territory of the Warats and the Tibetans, and this year he has taken the Kazakh Khanate and the Yarkand Khanate.

Taken together, the area under the de facto control of the Tatars was larger and more powerful than at any previous time, but it still did not reassure Altan Khan.

Because in the past war with the Tang Army, Altan Khan profoundly knew that the army of those Southern Tang barbarians could not be judged by common sense at all, especially their guns were too sharp and manpower could not stop them at all.

Fortunately, by capturing the craftsmen of the Tibetan, Yarkand and Kazakh khanates, he had already accumulated a lot of craftsmen on hand and made guns and weapons for the Tatars.

Although it is still a handmade arquebus, the quality is not good, but it can be used anyway.

As for the artillery, although it is also an old-fashioned front-loading shotgun, the caliber is not large, but it is stronger than nothing!

However, with these, he still felt that it was not enough, so he was still ready to continue the westward expedition, all the way west, to Eastern Europe.

He didn't believe that those Southern Tang barbarians behind him could chase him all the way!

Anyway, the Tatars are nomads, as long as there is a steppe, they can go, and the mobility of the cavalry is also very strong, if those Southern Tang barbarians really dare to chase all the way, Altan Khan is confident that they will be dragged to death.

With thousands of kilometers of supply lines at every turn, he didn't believe that the Southern Tang barbarians could solve it!

With this mentality, Altan Khan, after taking Central Asia, continued to march westward, and if nothing else, they would soon meet the Safavid dynasty of the Persians, and then the Ottoman dynasty.

If you go south, then you will encounter the Timurid Dynasty currently entrenched in northern India, and there are many mountains in the above areas, especially if you want to go south, the areas controlled by the Timurid Empire are quite a lot of mountains, which can directly abolish more than half of the Tatar cavalry.

And the Persian region and the area under the control of the Ottomans, there are also many mountainous and desert terrain, and it is really difficult to say who will win and who will lose in this fight.

However, as long as Altan Khan is not stupid enough to give up his cavalry superiority and engage in some kind of mountain fortification, it is estimated that he will not lose there, at most he will not be able to get any benefit.

Altan Khan, frightened by the development and expansion of the Tang Empire, went all the way to the west, although it didn't sound good, but he also got his own development opportunities.

At least, this is how a huge Tang Jin Kingdom appeared in the Western Regions and Central Asia!

Relatively speaking, other countries around the Tang Empire do not have such a situation, whether it is Fuso, Annam or Burma, now in the face of the expansion of the Tang Dynasty, they are basically indifferent.

The Daimyo of Fusang, what kind of threat to the Tang Dynasty can be taken care of there now, and now they themselves are still fighting to the death, almost every day there are Daimyo calling back and forth, resulting in the more they fight, the poorer they are, and the population is getting smaller and smaller, the Datang Fusang Affairs Yamen is already a very optimistic estimate, and in another five years or so, the total population of the Fusang Islands will definitely be reduced to less than three million.

In another 10 years, it is estimated that there will only be about a million people left.

Now, the Tang Fusang Affairs Yamen has begun to suggest that it is possible to try to land in parts of the Fusang Islands on a small scale, and then carry out large-scale immigration and administrative rule.

On the Annam side, the Northern and Southern Dynasties are now also fighting to the death, and under the provocation of the Tang Empire, even the Burmese side is involved.

In short, now the Nanyang Peninsula is also a mess, fighting every day, and the Portuguese who control Malacca on the side are all having a headache, and there are no local natives to do business with the Portuguese every day, because these damned natives only need all kinds of weapons, and nothing else.

The Portuguese's weapons were quite expensive to manufacture, and the number was small, and they did not have enough to equip their own indigenous servant army, so how could they sell more to these natives.

However, the other islands in the South China Sea are much quieter, because now there is basically no formal regime in sight on the islands in the South Seas, there used to be some of them, but after so many years, they were all killed by the Tang Navy or pirates.

Now there are a lot of indigenous tribes and primitive kingdoms on the islands of the South Seas, but there are no formal and relatively large countries.

For the time being, the Tang Empire only established a colonial base on the islands of the South Seas and controlled the ports, while the immigrants and ruled mainly on Luzon Island and Banten Island, two relatively mature islands, while other places have not yet carried out large-scale immigration.

Mainly in the South Seas to carry out migration, especially on the islands with imperfect infrastructure, the casualties are too great, and now medicine is still not developed enough, and the empire is also a little helpless about the situation on these islands.

Therefore, these places can only be included in the jurisdiction of Banten Province and Luzon Province, and fortresses are established to control the port, but there is no large-scale immigration activity.

In this case, the actual area under the control of Banten Province is also very different from its theoretical jurisdiction, because on the official territory of the Tang Empire, the jurisdiction of Banten Province is from Sumatra in the west, New Guinea Island in the east, Timor Island in the south, Sulawesi Island in the north, and various small and medium-sized islands in the above area.

However, the actual area under the control of Banten Province is only the western part of Banten Island, and then a very small area in the eastern part of Sumatra, plus a Timor Island, as for the rest of the province, at most it only controls a port and builds a fortress.

Its actual control area is not as large as that of Luzon, which theoretically controls the entire Luzon Islands (Philippine Islands) and Borneo.

As for the actual control area, as long as it is all of Luzon and part of Myerna.

So far, many immigrants from the mainland have successfully occupied the island, established villages and cultivated farmland, relying on hoes and arquebuses.

For example, in Minlao Island, the military has always been helpless local natives, and in the face of the immigrant army of the Tang Empire, there is no resistance at all, so that the immigration and development activities on Mianlao Island are relatively smooth.

Looking at the entire surrounding area of the Tang Empire, in fact, there are no countries and forces that can pose any threat to the Tang Empire itself, and even few can resist the annexation of the Tang Empire.

The only exception is the Tatars!

After these Tatars went to the Western Regions and Central Asia, their strength became stronger and stronger, and even so strong that the current Tang Army felt a little helpless.

The Tang Army in the northwest region, although it has tried to attack the Tubo region, but it has not been used indiscriminately, and the main force of the Tatars does not play frontal combat with you at all, but chooses the strategy of avoiding the battle head-on and harassing from the flank.

Therefore, although they entered the Tibetan region, they had to retreat in the end because the logistics could not support it.

In this case, the army has high hopes for the railway on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is desperately developing cavalry!

In order to obtain more horses, the army strongly demanded that the newly established Ha Phong province must give priority to the development of animal husbandry, especially horse breeding, because the demand for horses in the military is very large.

But the training of cavalry is still more difficult, after all, the Tang Empire is not like the Tatars, all the people are soldiers, every Tatar man who has lived on horseback since he was a child is a natural cavalry, and he still brings his own horses.

It is much more difficult for the Tang Empire to develop cavalry, and many of the recruits they recruit do not even know how to ride horses, and then they have to slowly cultivate equestrianism, and even the cultivation of horses is more troublesome.

Until now, it has made the army top brass regret it a little, and they have long known that they would not kill so ruthlessly in the Northeast War, so they should leave a little Chahar and Duoyan Sanwei people down, recruit them as cavalry, or let them graze, it is very useful.

But it is a pity that there are basically no people in the vast three provinces of western Liaoning, eastern Liaodong and Northeast Liaoning, and there are basically no people from the Chahar Department and Duoyan Sanwei, who were either annihilated by the army or by later immigrants.

In contrast, their enemies, the Tatars, are much better than the Tang Empire!

At the beginning, he killed too hard, and now he has to immigrate from the interior to find someone to graze, which also makes the army a little depressed.

However, it is only a small depression, and it is the basic policy of the empire's foreign expansion, and it is impossible for the army to change this policy in the northeast.

Besides, it was only difficult at the beginning, the empire has a population of 100 million people, and it is not easy to find a few million people to engage in animal husbandry.

Since the establishment of the Hetao and Fengzhou governments, many people from Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei, and Shandong have come to live, and most of them have been organized by officials to engage in animal husbandry in the Hetao and Fengzhou areas.

Under the many means, the army side is barely continuing to expand the cavalry troops!

Even in order to expand the cavalry units, the army side cut out some of the infantry units on its own, so as to free up the establishment and funds for the formation and training of cavalry units.

In this way, it is the cavalry units of the Tang Army that have expanded rapidly, not counting the divisional cavalry, only counting the independent cavalry troops, it has expanded from 50,000 cavalry many years ago to 100,000 cavalry now!

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