As for the Jurchen strategy, Zhu Youzhen's actual plan is greater than what the Jurchens can see.

In Zhu Youzhen's view, the strength of the Jurchens lies in the military, and the essence of the Jurchen fishing and hunting nation coupled with the establishment of the Eight Banners system has given them a very strong military aristocratic arm.

However, they also have weaknesses, that is, the social system is backward, the economic structure is single, the population is small, the resources are insufficient, the strategic space is narrow, the level of science and technology is limited, and the overall social and economic strength is insufficient.

The advantages of Daming lie in the leading social system, huge economy, large population, relatively rich resources, leading scientific and technological level, broad strategic space, and strong overall social and economic strength.

Of course, the weakness is also very obvious, because the bureaucracy and the army are seriously corrupted, resulting in insufficient military strength, and the stability pressure brought by the northern displaced people is greater.

In a comprehensive comparison, in addition to the military, the Ming Dynasty basically crushed the Jurchens in other aspects.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen set a strategy of shrinkage, not using his own weakness to fight the enemy's strength, but using his own strength to drag the enemy's weakness to death.

As long as the first line of Shanhaiguan can be held, and North Korea and Mongolia can be co-opted, and the foreign trade channels of the Jurchens can be blocked, as long as the Ming Dynasty itself does not waste and stabilizes the domestic situation, it can be dragged to death.

Of course, for Zhu Youzhen's strategic deployment, few people at the top of the Jurchen leadership can detect it, even if it is Huang Taiji, they can only get a glimpse of it, this is the gap between the times.

In Zhu Youzhen's view, which has 2,000 years of experience in the changing world situation, when one large and one small two countries contend, the big countries have the right to choose the mode of confrontation, and they also have the space and time for confrontation.

The two countries are fighting for hegemony and surrendering without a fight, which is definitely not just talking, and Zhu Youzhen has experienced a real example.

Moreover, Zhu Youzhen did not let the Ming Dynasty sit idle, and opened the sea to requisition grain from the south and overseas to stabilize the situation in the north, and started a new army to train a new army to strengthen its military strength.

However, due to the limitations of the times, even if he was as strong as Huang Taiji, he did not fully understand the fundamental purpose of the Ming army's contraction on the whole front, but the impact of this strategy was seen earlier than the other banner masters of the Jurchens, so he was reluctant to attack the Ming Dynasty on a large scale.

"What Yue Tuo said is very true, but now that the plan is now, our Dajin Khanate has reached the point where it is necessary to attack, so let's discuss the direction of the attack, Yue Tuo, you talk about it first."

Huang Taiji is extremely intelligent, so naturally he can't let Yue Tuomeng pass the test, he has to pry out the thoughts in his head, and he must express his position.

Yue Tuo was still complacent about not making a public statement just now, but at this time, when he heard that Huang Taiji ordered his generals again, he secretly called bad luck in his heart.

"Great Khan, the minions think it may be inappropriate to directly attack Ningyuan, Jinzhou and other places."

Seeing that Huang Taiji had to force himself to express his position, Yue Tuo could only directly express his thoughts and thoughts.

Hearing Yue Tuo's words, Huang Taiji instantly became interested, and he also felt that it seemed inappropriate to attack Ning Jin directly, but he couldn't think of anything wrong.

"What's wrong, you're not very old, you don't want to learn from the southerners who drop their book bags, don't sell them, if you have something to say, say it quickly."

Before Huang Taiji could speak, Mang Gurtai couldn't sit still.

"Fifth uncle, don't worry, now the Ming army in Liaodong is all cowering in a few fortified cities, it is not easy to fight, of course, this is not the key, the problem is that even if we are defeated, according to the urine nature of the Ming army now, it will definitely be burned, and there will definitely be nothing left for us."

After Yue Tuo finished speaking, Huang Taiji also knew where his worries were, attacking the fortified city had never been the strength of the Eight Banners Army, and it might not be able to reap much benefit from attacking it.

"And now our Dajin Khanate is fighting against the Ming army, basically a battle between pure military personnel, fighting for attrition, outside the Shanhai Pass, the people of the Ming Dynasty are empty, the population and food have nowhere to supply, directly attacking Ningjin, it is absolutely inappropriate, unless you can attack Shanhaiguan and fight to the pass, otherwise it is useless to capture Ningjin."

Since he had already said it, Yue Tuo simply said it happily.

"Now what I lack is food and population, so the purpose of the attack is also to obtain food and population, and the slave thinks that the direction of the attack must be based on this premise."

As soon as Yue Tuo finished speaking, Huang Taiji suddenly stood up, laughed and said: "Second brother, your son was born so well, just like I thought, let's fight this battle just for the sake of food and population, and those hard bones that don't have much meat can't be gnawed." ”

When Dai Shan heard this, he had to laugh twice, he didn't like the sons of these two deceased wives very much, one was extremely unsuccessful, and now he had become a prisoner of the Ming Dynasty, and the other followed Huang Taiji's ass all day long, singing against himself.

"Since Liaodong has no food and no population, this Khan is going to go to Guannei to meet the Ming Emperor this time."

At first, Huang Taiji felt that it was inappropriate to directly attack the front line of Ningjin Pass, but at this time, after Yue Tuo's inspiration, he figured it out in an instant, not only did he have no meat, but he was also full of fangs, and he couldn't do a loss-making business.

Later, Yue Tuo pointed out the purpose of the attack, and Huang Taiji instantly made up his mind to go around the Guannai.

Mang Gurtai and Dai Shan were shocked when they first heard that Yue Tuo was against attacking Ning Jin, but later they were shocked when they heard that Huang Taiji actually wanted to attack Guan Nei directly.

Of course, the Guannai is good, the population is large, the food is more, the silver is more, I heard that the women are a little more watery, but it is not so easy to attack the Guannai, just a Shanhaiguan, it stopped the Jurchens' fantasy of the Guannai flower world.

"Eighth brother, Shanhaiguan is not so easy to fight, and if you want to attack Shanhaiguan, you must first solve Ningyuan, Jinzhou, Songshan and other large and small cities, I'm afraid that before we reach Shanhaiguan, we won't have enough food to eat."

In a hurry, Dai Shan's kung fu fight was not done, and the eight brothers and eight brothers were all called away.

"Don't go to Shanhaiguan."

Huang Taiji said bluntly.

"Where to go? You can't fly over with wings. ”

Mang Gurtai on the side couldn't hold it back, and Yue Tuo next to him also looked puzzled.

"This is a confidential matter, you don't need to ask again, Ben Khan has his own conclusion, and you are only in charge of the whole army."

As for where to enter the customs, in fact, Huang Taiji didn't know the bottom of his heart at this time, he just remembered that Fan Yongdou seemed to be able to transport grain through a certain pass on the Great Wall.

Since mules and horses can be walked in that place, the army will definitely be able to pass, so Huang Taiji suddenly made a plan to enter the customs and plunder.

But where to enter the customs is a key secret, even if Huang Taiji can decide now, he will not show it to others.