Yue Fei led his army out of seclusion and fought for more than half a year.

As September begins, the weather is getting colder and colder.

The late autumn of the Little Ice Age is so cold that it makes people feel a little desperate.

It is not the coldest time yet, and in another month, there will definitely be no activities suitable for humans outside.

For example, if you urinate outside and the cold wind blows, you will definitely freeze on the ground.

Although it was not the coldest time, except for some trembling guards in the entire Korchin tribe, there were almost no other figures. The Tartars were all huddled in the tent to burn charcoal to keep warm.

After Haoge led the Inlaid Blue Flag away, according to reliable information, the Ming army successively wiped out many small tribes.

But it has never appeared in the Korqin area. After all, the Korqin tribe is strong, so Obama gradually relaxed his vigilance.

Some generals gathered in Oba's tent, and there were several large pots of carbon fire burning in the middle of the tent, which was very warm inside.

While drinking horse milk wine, the Tartars were discussing the Ming army's invasion of the grassland.

Military advisor Achiz said:

"Khan, some time ago, the Ming army was moving frequently, and many Mongolian Yuan tribes were destroyed. Now they seem to have stopped moving suddenly."

Gao Jitai is the number one strong general under Obama, and he doesn't take the Ming army seriously.

He heard the military advisor's words, he was very disdainful:

"Hmph, that's because the Ming army did not attack our Korqin tribe. As long as they dare to step into Korqin half a step, this general will definitely let their entire army be destroyed."

Amuio:

"General, don't be careless. Since the Ming army can sweep across the various tribes of the Mongol Yuan, they will definitely not be as weak as Haoge said."

""From the end, as winter arrives, the temperature is getting lower and lower every month, almost reaching minus thirty degrees below zero. Their muskets cannot be ignited, and they are not suitable for military operations at all. They will definitely have a temporary cession and will not start again until the beginning of next spring."

Dajitai map:

"Yes, I support this statement. Now it's so cold that I can't go out at all. It must be difficult for the Ming army to replenish supplies. They are all wearing iron armor and cannot keep the cold at all. They will never invade Korqin for the time being..."

None of the Korqin elites thought that the Ming army would launch an attack on Korqin in such cold weather.

After the agreement reached, the Tartars went back to their tents and went to enjoy themselves with the stolen Han woman.

The Ming army was really as the Tartars said, all wearing iron armor?

Of course not. As a time traveler, how could Zhu Youjian not know that he was in the Little Ice Age in the late Ming Dynasty.

Before leaving, Zhu Youjian had already prepared cotton jackets, cotton pants and large quilts for Ming Jun.

Although the Ming army was still wearing iron armor, they were wearing very warm cotton coats, cotton pants, cotton hats and gloves, and even war horses were wearing small cotton armor.

It's just now that late autumn has just entered, and it hasn't entered the harshest winter, let alone the cold winter.

From the perspective of natural science, the ice age is a climatic phenomenon.

During the period it occurs, temperatures will drop significantly and cause various disasters.

The late Ming Dynasty was at the peak of the fourth Little Ice Age, a famous Little Ice Age in world history.

Due to the bad weather it brought, countries around the world, including the Ming Dynasty, experienced severe turmoil during this period, which directly changed the world history.

There have been four Little Ice Ages in my country's history, the first time occurred in the late Shang Dynasty, which directly led to the Shang Dynasty in the Zhou Dynasty.

The second time happened in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, leading to the chaos of the Three Kingdoms.

The third time happened in the late Tang Dynasty, leading to the troubled times of the Five Dynasties.

The fourth time happened in the late Ming Dynasty.

The Little Ice Age at the end of the Ming Dynasty was one of the most severe natural disasters in my country's history.

According to the records of "Northern Travel Records" by Tan Qian, a famous historian in the early Qing Dynasty.

From the tenth year of Shunzhi to the thirteenth year of Shunzhi, the North Canal of Beijing was frozen for 110 days every year.

This period is the end of the Little Ice Age, and the peak of the Little Ice Age at the end of the Ming Dynasty was during the Chongzhen period.

According to modern technology, during Chongzhen's reign, even the southern Guangdong region fell more than a foot thick with blizzards.

All parts of the north were frozen for thousands of miles, all rivers and rivers were frozen, and the canal transportation was almost deposed.

Livestock, crops, and people were frozen to death, and countless frostbite were injured, and the temperature of the Celsius reached an astonishing minus 40 degrees Celsius.

At this low temperature, boiling water will be instantly frozen into white mist.

Trees, flowers and plants will be completely sealed by the rare "ice", and even when people wear several layers of cotton coats, they will feel biting cold and harsh.

From this we can see what kind of hardships the northern land in the late Ming Dynasty experienced.

However, in addition to the extremely cold weather, agricultural yield reduction caused by natural disasters was also an important reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

The peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty did not begin during the Chongzhen period. In fact, the entire Ming Dynasty has been undergoing large and small peasant uprisings since its inception.

However, the peasant uprising that was truly affected by the Little Ice Age should start with the Wang Er Uprising.

In the seventh year of the Tianqi revelation, affected by the Little Ice Age, the entire Shaanxi area was under income, and the people could only rely on eating tree bark and grass roots to survive.

At the beginning, due to the influence of the Little Ice Age, it has not yet fully developed.

Therefore, although there were a large number of peasant soldiers who were rising one after another, they could not shake the foundation of the Ming Dynasty.

But after Chongzhen ascended the throne, the power of the Little Ice Age was completely released, and peasant uprisings in the entire Ming Dynasty became more and more frequent.

In July of the first year of Chongzhen, Wang Jiayin, Yang Liu, Buzhanni and others rose up in Shaanxi.

The main leaders of the rebel army such as Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, and Li Zicheng also revolted one after another around the third year of Chongzhen.

Although the main feature that ultimately directly leads to the Little Ice Age is cold, it does not mean that it is its only feature.

In addition to cold, drought, breeding locust plagues and rat plagues are all characteristics of the Little Ice Age.

The biggest impact of the drought in the late Ming Dynasty was the Chongzhen drought that occurred between 1637 and 1643.

The severe drought caused this severe drought and the wide range of disasters are beyond the present.

According to statistics, a total of 23 provinces were affected at that time, including North China, Hebei, Henan and other areas, which were even affected by the disaster for more than five consecutive years, and could be called a thousand miles of barren land.

Moreover, this severe drought showed extremely unusual characteristics, with drought in the north and flooding in the south.

As the name suggests, drought in the north and flood in the south means that when drought is experienced in most parts of the north, the southern part is experiencing flood disasters.

Such a disaster distribution not only increases the complexity of the disaster, but also makes disaster relief work difficult.

But this is not the most terrible. The years-long drought has also caused locust plagues and rat plagues.

The locust plagues and rat plagues in the late Ming Dynasty generally occurred along the banks of the Yellow River, and lasted for a long time, with the longest eruptions even for five consecutive years.

Such a long disaster period directly led to the out of control of the disaster situation in the entire northern region, and the entire Ming Dynasty fell into an unprecedented desperate situation.

It can be seen from this that although the Little Ice Age was not the only reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty, it was definitely the most important reason.

Due to the arrival of the Little Ice Age, the northern grasslands and grasslands declined in large numbers, and the Qing regime, as a nomadic people, had to go south to try its best.

The agricultural yield reduction caused by the Little Ice Age also caused peasant uprisings to come one after another, and eventually pulled the entire Ming Dynasty from the inside out.
Chapter completed!