In the western Mongolian wilderness of Ili in northern Xinjiang, there was no Dihua city at that time, and the station of Galdan was in Yili. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

At the foot of the Tien Shan Mountains, the ground is covered with a layer of carpet-like green grass, and the melting snow water on the snow-capped mountains forms a river, the river water is crystal clear, reflecting the blue sky and white clouds. There were a few wisps of clouds hanging in the clear blue sky, and the air was unusually fresh, with a scent peculiar to the grassland. In the south, it is a hot autumn tiger, but in the early autumn grasslands are crisp and crisp, with colorful wild fruits on the hillsides and white sheep on the meadows.

The camp of Galdan was stationed in this beautiful steppe, and Western Mongolia was still relatively powerful at this time, they occupied the most fertile water and grassland in northern Xinjiang, while the Turkic Yarkand Khanate was compressed in the desert Gobi region of southern Xinjiang, with only a few pitiful oases in their hands.

But the Turks did not dare to provoke the Mongols, they did not have the courage to seize the Mongols' territory. Although the Mongols were a pagan to be exterminated in their Celestial Religion, the Arabs who believed in the Celestial Religion were as honest as dogs during the Mongol Empire's westward expedition. Although the Mongol Empire has weakened, the Mongols of Dzungar West Mongolia are still strong. Every time the Turks made trouble, they were ruthlessly suppressed by the Mongols.

"Great Khan! The Ming Mission is here! A Mongolian soldier hurried into the Chinese army camp in Galdan to report it.

Galdan stood up: "The Ming Mission is here?" They're finally here! Let them in! ”

The Ming envoy had already said that it was coming, and it had sent envoys before, but it was only a dozen people. This time, I heard that there was a delegation of hundreds of people, and they were going to give themselves a batch of gifts.

The last time the envoy sent by the Ming Dynasty arrived, Galdan had just returned to Ili from Tibet, that is, from Tibet to northern Xinjiang, and he had not yet fully controlled the situation. Now that he has defeated his opponent, he has become the Great Khan of Dzungar Mongolia. As for the Turks who took advantage of the civil strife in Dzungaria Mongolia to cause trouble, Galdan did not have time to take care of them for the time being.

A delegation of more than 500 men appeared outside the camp of Galdan, and except for a few civil officials on camels, the rest were cavalrymen on tall horses, and they were three horses per man. The war horses under their crotches are strong and mighty at first glance, obviously not Mongolian horses, but they do not look like the delicate war horses of the Arabs, but like good horses used by the Rakshasas. Galdan, who knows horses very well, can see at a glance that the Rakshasa horse is hard-working, both the height of the Arabian horse and the endurance of the Mongolian horse, in fact, the Rakshasa horse is a Mongolian horse, the Arabian horse and the Tessian horse are a mixed breed of horses.

Arabian horses are good horses, tall and robust, with fast acceleration, long sprint distances, and great loads. However, Arabian horses are afraid of the cold, and they are too delicate, and they are easy to die if they are not raised well, and their endurance is poor.

Because of the above-mentioned shortcomings of the Arabian horse, the Mongols preferred to use the short Mongolian horse rather than the Arabian horse when they went west. The Mongols marched westward, and when they arrived near Europe, they encountered the tall Tessie horses, and those European tin cans riding tall horses brought certain trouble to the Mongols at first. Later, the Mongols adopted the mangu tactic, dragging European knights to fly kites, which could not kill them with arrows, but also exhausted them.

During the Mongol occupation of Moscow, the Russians and Ukrainians used the high-quality war horses of the Mongolian and Arabian horses to cross with the European horses, and thus the Don hippopotamus was born.

With the decline of the Mongol Empire, the Rakshasas grew stronger and stronger, and now their territory has expanded to Central Asia. At this time, the Dzungar Mongols were facing the threat of the Rakshasas in the west, and the Turks in the south were ready to move. Previously, Western Mongolia was still facing the threat of the Qing Empire in the east, but now that the Qing Empire has collapsed, Dzungaria has one less great enemy.

According to the history of the Qing Dynasty, the Kaldan colluded with the Rakshasas, in fact, the Manchu Qing Dynasty smeared Kaldan, although the Dzungars had trade contacts with Russia, but it was only normal trade exchanges, Dzungar sold cattle, sheep and minerals, and bought muskets from Russia. What Russia really supports is the Turks in the Western Regions.

Since the fall of the Dzungar Mongols, the Turks have rebelled several times, and there are Russians behind them. From the rebellion of the Great and Small Districts, to the Aguba rebellion, and then to the so-called Three Regions Incident, there was the support of the Russians behind it.

After the five hundred cavalry approached, Galdan was shocked by the momentum of the cavalry, and saw that each of these cavalrymen was tall and strong, and their faces revealed a murderous aura, and at a glance they knew that they were veterans who had experienced a hundred battles. Although they had no thick armor on them, only cotton armor, the muskets they wore were the ones they had never seen before.

Dressed in a bright red official robe and a black gauze hat, Li Guangdi jumped off his camel and walked up to meet Galdan.

"Welcome the envoy of the Ming Dynasty to our Dzungaria!" Galdan stepped forward with a smile on his face.

The Ming Dynasty had sent envoys before, and the requirements for Dzungaria were very simple, as long as the Mongols were vassals to the Ming Dynasty, the Ming recognized the status of the Dzungar Mongol vassal state, and the two sides carried out trade exchanges from then on, and the Ming Dynasty would provide weapons to the Dzungars to deal with the invasion of Tsarist Russia.

Having just defeated his political opponent and became the Great Khan of Dzungaria, Galdan's life was not easy, because the Manchus were defeated by the Ming army, and the Russians chose to join forces with the Manchus, and at the same time supported the Turks, trying their best to suppress Galdan, preparing for the invasion of northern Xinjiang, and trying to take Xinjiang into their pockets.

It is not a bad thing for Dzungaria to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, to become a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, to obtain the support of the Ming Dynasty, and with the support of the Ming Dynasty, Galdan has the confidence to block the invasion of the Rakshasas.

Not to mention anything else, it is the Rakshasa war horse ridden by the Ming Mission that arrived this time, which is said to have been captured from the Rakshasa people. The Ming envoy said before that the Ming army had fought with the Rakshasas in Nuer Gandusi, and the Rakshasas were defeated, and the Ming Dynasty took advantage of the shipping routes to control the area around the Outer Xing'an Mountains and formed an encirclement of the Manchus.

"This is a gift we brought!" Li Guangdi pointed to a few boxes unloaded from the camel's back and said, "Here are 500 quick robbers, the same muskets used by our cavalry, and matching bullets, one gun with 200 rounds, a total of 100,000 rounds of ammunition." ”

"What's in it for this gun?" Although Galdan could see that the Ming army was equipped with a new weapon that he had never seen before, he did not know how powerful this gun was.

Li Guangdi turned his head and said to Chen Shuigen: "The Great Khan wants to see the power of our weapons, you show him!" ”

"No!" Chen Shuigen bowed and jumped on his war horse. He waved his whip, and the horse sped at a gallop. On the back of the bumpy horse, Chen Shuigen picked up the rear-loading rifled gun, aimed at a hare running a hundred steps away and pulled the trigger, only to hear a gunshot, the muzzle of the gun spewed out a puff of green smoke, and the hare fell to the ground in response.