Huang Taiji is neither a historian nor a sociologist, and he doesn't know much about the underlying reasons for this, but he knows that if he doesn't go to the south to grab a handful now, the team will definitely not be easy to lead.

"Since the Southern Dynasty has changed its new emperor, it is really difficult to fight the grass valley like before, you all tell me where you are going to fight this time?"

Huang Taiji actually wanted to fight the Ming Dynasty, but because the details of the new emperor of the Ming Dynasty were really incomprehensible, and there was no good direction of attack, he naturally had to wait.

Although Huang Taiji did not understand the truth of using foreign wars to divert domestic pressure, he understood that starting a war was not the goal, and the key was to win the war.

If he loses, the contradictions will naturally all focus on him, and the threat to Huang Taiji's rule will be greater, so he is more cautious than anyone else, and he will never go to war without more than seventy percent certainty.

In fact, the current situation of Huang Taiji and Zhu Youzhen is very similar, both of them have just ascended the throne, Huang Taiji ascended the throne in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, and Zhu Youzhen ascended the throne in the seventh year of the Apocalypse.

Carefully speaking, Huang Taiji's situation is more difficult, after all, in the war that did not have contact in the winter of the seventh year of the Apocalypse and the beginning of the first year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji was stolen by Zhu Youzhen, although there was no actual loss, but it was indeed a disadvantage.

So for this battle, Huang Taiji can't afford to lose.

"Now that the Dongjiang Mao Wenlong has curled up back on the island, we have no ships and no sailors, we definitely can't beat it, and the Dongjiang River is also a poor jingle, and it's useless to beat it, if you want me to say it, attack Jinzhou Ningyuan, where a lot of food is hoarded, and we will get rich if we beat it."

It was Mang Gurtai again, and as soon as he heard that Huang Taiji was determined to fight the Ming Dynasty, he immediately showed his good strategy that he had been planning for a long time.

"What about the second brother? What do you think? ”

Huang Taiji was noncommittal when he heard this, and turned to Dai Shan.

"What Lao Wu said is feasible, and there is nothing else to fight, the Ming Dynasty gave Liaodong more than five million taels of silver a year, and there must be a lot of good things over there in Ningjin, and besides, we are also familiar with those Ming dogs in Ningjin, and we know it in our hearts."

Dai Shan also supported Mang Gurtai's idea, and Huang Taiji didn't know if the two had colluded before.

"Yue Tuo, you can also talk about it."

Huang Taiji can't say anything against this direction of attack, and he has six years of experience in the Apocalypse, so he is familiar with fighting.

But he also felt that he could think of it on his side, and the Ming Dynasty would definitely be able to think of it, and the opportunity to surprise was gone, and the fight might not be as easy as the Ningyuan War in the sixth year of the Apocalypse.

So he wanted to hear the advice of Yue Tuo, who was good at planning.

Yue Tuo saw that Huang Taiji called his name, and knew that this was Huang Taiji, and he should not particularly agree with Dai Shan and Mang Gurtai's opinions, or rather, he wanted to hear other opinions.

And it just so happened that Yue Tuo also had a different opinion.

"Great Khan, the minions feel that it seems inappropriate to directly attack the front line of Ningjin."

After Yue Tuo finished speaking, he raised his eyes and glanced at Huang Taiji, and found that his body moved forward, knowing that he was interested, so he continued to talk about his immature idea.

"The slave thinks that the strategy of the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong is obviously different from before, since the new emperor of the Ming Dynasty ascended the throne, the Guanning army in Liaodong seems to have shrunk the defense line, and all of them are shrinking in Ningyuan, Jinzhou, Shanhaiguan and other big cities."

"For more than two years, there has been neither a continuation of the previous strategy of continuous city building, nor the initiative to attack, and almost nothing has been done for more than two years except to strengthen the city defense and train soldiers."

"In the past two years, we have also used small forces to attack and harass Ningyuan, Jinzhou and other cities, but no matter how we provoke, the Ming army will not be able to hold out, even that reckless man Mangui will not go out of the city."

"The slave listened to the detailed work, it is said that Yang Hao, the governor of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty, gave a death order, and those who dared to go out of the city to stand in the wilderness were beheaded regardless of victory or defeat, and said that this was the meaning of the Ming Emperor."

"And what's more, the Ming Dynasty moved all the people outside Shanhaiguan to the Guannei, leaving only a fortified city full of soldiers, and we didn't even have land to fight the grass valley, and we couldn't do it if we wanted to catch some Ming dogs and come back as Aha."

Speaking of this, Yue Tuo looked helpless, paused and said.

"When those Ming dogs left, they destroyed all the houses, and even buried the wells, and our Eight Banners warriors didn't even have a place to camp at night, and they had to find water and firewood when they got to a place, and the previous strategy of eating the enemy was completely useless."

"And when fighting, you need to consume a lot of food supplies, once you can't capture the city, in addition to casualties, there is also the consumption of food, which is a loss-making business."

Yue Tuo licked his lips, turned his head and said to Dai Shan and Mang Gultai again.

"Why didn't the Great Khan advocate the conquest of the Ming Dynasty in the past two years, the main reason is that the Ming dogs have learned to be smart, what kind of strong walls and clear the wilderness, the consumption of our support for the conquest cannot be exchanged for equivalent or more harvests at all, and most of our attacks are dry consumption, and there is no harvest at all."

"It's really different, anyway, it's absolutely impossible to use the old way again."

Speaking of this, this Yue Tuo wisely closed his mouth, and did not express any opinion on the ideas of Dai Shan and Mang Gurtai.

"What Yue Tuo said is that a cow in my banner went to Ningyuan to try his luck, but he touched a nose of ash under the city, and thought about going around again, but he ran for more than 30 miles, and he didn't find a single hair, and finally had to run back in a gray way, not only did he not find half a bag of grain, but he also killed and injured a few under Ningyuan City, and then counted the consumption on the way, this transaction is definitely a loss."

Speaking of the new situation on the front line of Ningjin Pass, Mang Gurtai also remembered the previous incident, and the Ming Dynasty's strategy against gold on the front line of Ningjin Pass was indeed different from before.

In the past two years, the Eight Banners Army has never received more than half a bag of grain and a single population from the Ming army.

A lot of land has been obtained, except for a few large cities in Ningjin, the Ming army gave up most of the land, and now in the area of Ningjin, the Eight Banners Army can let go of the running horse, it seems that the Ming Dynasty has completely abandoned this area.

In fact, Zhu Youzhen did not give up, but turned this area into a war zone, in order not to be an enemy and to avoid the senseless sacrifice of the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Regarding this strategy, Zhu Youzhen's original words to the Liaodong Governor's Mansion were that the closing of the punch at this time was to make the next punch more violent, and the closing of the punch should not drag the mud and water, and the punch would be more powerful.

The top and bottom of the Jin Kingdom did not see the Ming Dynasty's plan at first, thinking that the Ming Dynasty was afraid of them, so they had no choice but to shrink their forces.

But as time went on, the Jurchen people of insight realized that such a contraction was actually more harmful to the Jurchens than taking the initiative to attack.