Chapter 916: Adjust South American Conquest Plan

Jama Khan gave Marin a good lesson. In the past, Marin thought that nomads would kill cattle and slaughter sheep and eat meat all day. When he was a child in his last life, Marin mistakenly thought that the Mongols eat roasted whole sheep every day, and the people of the New Xinjiang eat lamb skewers every day ...

Unexpectedly, people mainly rely on goat milk, horse milk and milk for maintenance, but just kill some sheep to eat from time to time, instead of eating meat every day.

In fact, this is normal. Some small herders have few sheep. If you kill the sheep every day to eat meat, the growth rate of the sheep simply cannot keep up with the speed of the herdsmen slaughter. After all, it takes one or two years for the sheep to grow up, and it takes longer for the cattle and horses.

Therefore, normal nomads rarely kill ewes. Under normal circumstances, eating meat is to kill rams. The ewes are kept as much as possible, and the lambs will not be slaughtered. There are two main reasons for this: one is a flock and does not require too many rams. After all, a ram can be bred with multiple ewes; also, ewes can provide goat milk during lactation. Therefore, in normal flocks, there are fewer rams and more ewes. If slaughtering sheep, the slaughter of the male must be given priority. As for the mother, she was forced to slaughter. For example, the ewe is old and cannot be pregnant. As for the lamb, it was a pity to kill because it didn't grow up completely.

Of course, this also has the consequence of eating adult rams and old ewes, which will inevitably have a very heavy smell. Eating more of this kind of lamb, the herdsmen inevitably have a bit of staleness, which is one of the reasons why the ancient Chinese people despised the herdsmen of the grasslands. But in order to save costs, herders have to do so. Unlike modern people, in order to avoid being tainted with stale smell, most of them eat lambs or castrated lambs several months old ...

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This conversation opened up a new world for Marin. The original cost of survival for nomads was so low ... Moreover, he suddenly regretted why he didn't communicate much with the two Mongolian doctors Mozgen and Battle. Otherwise, he already knew this ...

But this is no wonder, because in ancient times, these habits of the herdsmen, in the eyes of the farming people, were "savage and uncivilized" performances, and were not worth publicizing. Therefore, Mozhgen and Battle will not deliberately introduce these things. Therefore, Marin does not know much about these natures.

After sending away Jamahan, Marin immediately had a long talk with Mozhgen and Battle, verifying the truthfulness of the situation that Jamahan said.

Mozhgen and Battle told Marin that in fact, the herdsmen are generally self-sufficient in life. However, no matter the nomadic people in Eastern Europe or the nomadic people in central and eastern Asia, they are very afraid of a cold enemy ...

Winter in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Northeast Asia is very cold. Even if the sheep is covered with thick wool, it may not be able to bear it. If there is a snowstorm, a lot of sheep will be lost.

Therefore, once the blizzard falls in winter, the grassland tribes must suffer severely. And how the grassland tribes recovered their losses and robbed them in the Central Plains ... This is also one of the important reasons for the thousands of years of resentment between the Chinese dynasty and the grassland tribes ...

This is not to say that grassland nomads are born to be brave, but because the herdsmen on the grassland cannot live unless they are brave. In the face of severe winter, they will either starve to death or plunder south. In the end, the nomads who survived became robbers ...

Of course, this is an ancient nomad. After accepting central management, modern herdsmen can trade smoothly with the whole country. Under the advanced freezing technology and transportation conditions of later generations, the mutton and beef on the grassland can be smoothly delivered to the whole country. However, most of China's areas are mainly farming and lack of meat. Coupled with the later popular eating steak and hot pot, beef and mutton consumption is relatively large, leading to beef and mutton also rose. Therefore, the herdsmen of later generations have much more money than the farmers ... Farmers with only a few acres of land in the family, facing the herdsmen of cattle and sheep, is definitely the poorest of the poor ... So, the farmers had to go out to work ...

Of course, the prerequisite for herders to be rich is a huge market. For example, Inner Mongolia and Outer Mongolia, Inner Mongolia is backed by the Chinese market, and is still a food empire, so the herders are very rich. In Outer Mongolia, there is no market, and they specifically exclude the Chinese food empire, so they only have cattle and sheep, no sales, and they are still poorer countries ... They are pro-Maozi, but Maozi cannot afford their cattle and sheep ... ... Maozi itself lives by eating potatoes, and the economy relies heavily on selling oil and gas. How can there be more money to buy cattle and sheep in Outer Mongolia? Besides, Maozi ’s younger brothers in Central Asia are mostly cattle and sheep, and the freight to Moscow is still low ... In short, standing in the wrong team can only make the people suffer from poverty ...

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Of course, those are off-topics. The real reason why Marin was interested in this was because he wanted to conquer Pampas.

However, the Pampas grassland is too large, with a total area of ​​760,000 square kilometers, which is more than ten times larger than that of the North Sea.

Previously, Marin considered the plan to conquer the Pampas grassland with the thinking of farming nations. In that plan, Marin planned to establish farming areas in Buenos Aires and other places that are now descendants of the La Plata Estuary. Then, when the farming area can provide enough food, then dispatch the Cossack cavalry to sweep the nearby grasslands and gradually advance until they occupy the entire Pampas grassland.

However, after learning the way of life of the grassland people, Marin suddenly felt that he was still too conservative ...

According to his previous plan, the Cossack cavalry attacked and could only choose to sweep the area near the farming area. Because, if you run further, the supply will not keep up.

But in this way, how many sites can be occupied? In the first phase, Marin planned to send 500 Cossack cavalry to pampas. In the case of a fixed farming area, the 500 Cossacks would not leave the farming area at most hundreds of kilometers in order to ensure adequate supplies. Otherwise, supply will be difficult. In this way, the site obtained is at most the size of the Jutland Peninsula, that is, about 20,000 square kilometers.

But if the Mongolian cavalry method is used instead, a mare with milk will be taken on the expedition, and the entire 8.67 million square kilometers of Pampas grassland will be captured. The example is there. The Mongolian empire used this method to conquer the large Eurasian continent ... if it had a limited population, it would be possible to capture all of Europe and all of Asia ...

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Coincidentally, the current Marin is very similar to the original Mongolian Empire. It is also powerful and has a huge territory to conquer ...

Moreover, what is more advantageous than the Mongolian empire is that the indigenous Indians are too backward because of their civilization, and their combat effectiveness is far worse than that of the Mongolian empire's opponents ...

Therefore, although the army has fewer troops than the Mongolian Empire, Marin's difficulty in conquering the Americas is lower than that of the Mongolian Empire in conquering Eurasia.

The only problem is that Marin uses the traditional farming society's battle mode ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ is very dependent on the transportation of grain and grass ...

As a result, the range that Marin can reach with his troops is very limited. Because, no matter the strength or the supply, they can't keep up ...

The method of bringing a milking mare as a food source during the Mongolian cavalry expedition inspired Marin. If the problem of military demand is resolved, then Marin ’s army can fight far and far, and take up the great America first.

But there is a prerequisite for using Mongolian conquest tactics, that is, there are enough mares ...

Only with enough mares to provide horse milk can Mongolian cavalry spread across the entire American continent. And the Pampas grassland is the best horse breeding ground appointed by Marin ...

Pampas grassland has no extreme heat in summer and no severe cold in winter, and conditions are much better than Mongolian grassland. The development of the horse breeding industry here is absolutely promising. If enough Mongolian horse mares are hoarded on the Pampas grasslands, then the Cossack cavalry, including the German Cossacks, will easily occupy a large area. Not to mention, the fertile land such as Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay will be seized first. Then, hit the plateau and wipe out the Inca Empire ... As for the Brazilian tropical rainforest, Mongolian horses are not used to it, or wait ...

In the same way, this method can also be used for conquering the North American continent. But the North American forest is annoying and not suitable for cavalry. Therefore, conquering the North American continent may be more difficult than conquering South America.

To this end, Marin developed two sets of plans, directed at the simple and rough of South America and North America South America, directly using Mongolian cavalry tactics, with mares sweeping across the Pampas grasslands and Uruguay; while North America first occupied the eastern coast Slowly cut trees and reclaim wasteland. At the same time, some Cossack cavalry were sent to expedition and harassment, to fight and drive away the aborigines in order to obtain more land, and at the same time to avoid the harassment of reclaimed areas by indigenous people ...