"Li Dingguo, you lead 15,000 soldiers, thinking that it is the left road, rush to Meiyusuo and Dongjiazhuang, and then go directly to Baozhou City."

"I led 15,000 men to the right flank, captured the right guard of Yanqing and Yulin Fort, and then seized Tumu Fort."

As soon as the army left the border city, Zhu Youxiao called Li Dingguo and instructed him.

There is no way, it is really these border town forts and guard posts, the combat effectiveness is too low, and the army is divided into two, so as to save valuable time and increase efficiency.

This kind of border town military fort and guard post is only more than a thousand soldiers at most, where can it stop the attack of the army?

If it weren't for the fact that he wanted to use Mount Tai to suppress the top of Mount Tai and subdue the enemy army and let them collapse without a fight, Zhu Youxiao even wanted to divide the 30,000 soldiers of the Guards into more than five brigades and attack separately to collect the northwest territory of the empire as soon as possible.

"Li Dingguo, remember, you must be ruthless, one word, be fast!"

Zhu Youxiao saw that Li Dingguo was receiving the order and was splitting the army, and continued to emphasize to him.

The main reason is that the time is too urgent, so Zhu Youxiao is not in a hurry.

It is getting closer and closer to the third day of March, the birth of Xuanyuan, the traitor who ascended the throne and became the emperor, and swore to fight the army without a way.

Before that, Zhu Youxiao must take all the great northwest of the empire into his pocket and take full control of it.

The biggest purpose of this is to completely cut off all ties between the Ming Empire and the northern grasslands.

And only after fully controlling the Great Northwest of the Scales Country, can it be done.

The deeper purpose is that Zhu Youxiao knows that the ice age of this era has just arrived, and it will intensify in the future.

The Ice Age is an irreversible disaster that is extremely destructive to the earth's original climate and environment.

In his previous life, Zhu Youxiao was very interested in studying what the Ice Age was.

It turned out that this was due to changes in the Earth's orbit.

In the case of inexplicable gravitational changes, the earth's autobiographical orbit has been shifted, and the original magnetic field of the Linqiu has been greatly changed, which has caused the arrival of the so-called "ice age".

This ice age has occurred several times in history, and all of them have caused extremely serious disasters.

However, the ice age will pass very quickly, and in a few decades at most, the Earth will return to its original orbit and rotate, thus ending this mysterious catastrophe.

In this ice age, an era of intensification, as long as the connection between the Ming Empire and the grassland is completely blocked, it is a peerless move.

The increasingly turbulent disasters will make the grassland peoples in the north of the empire unable to obtain the material output of the Ming Empire, so that they will collapse without a fight!

This is not a fantasy.

In fact, the climatic effects of this mysterious Ice Age were even more damaging to the steppes of the northern part of the empire.

The vast majority of the steppe peoples, they are nomadic people, they do not know how to farm, and they do not have a stable ability to produce food and materials on their own.

They are not an agrarian people, and they really have little resistance to the harsh climate when the climate and environment are getting worse and worse.

Winters are getting colder and summers are getting hotter, which is a clear feature of the Ice Age.

In this extreme natural environment, livestock on the grasslands will inevitably die in large numbers, and with the sharp decrease in rainfall, it will become difficult for people and animals to drink water on some grasslands.

At this time, the grassland people did not even know how to dig wells, and they did not have enough tools and materials to dig wells.

Looking at it this way, if you can't get the material trade of the Ming Empire, it will definitely collapse on its own quickly.

Then, they have only two ways to go: one is to attack other tribes and plunder the survival materials and territory of other tribes to meet the survival needs of their own tribes.

The second was to launch a large-scale attack on the Ming Empire in the south, in order to invade the Central Plains and occupy the territory of the Han Rao, so as to obtain enough survival materials to feed their tribal population and livestock.

With the strength of the Ming Empire now, there is no way to ask for the second choice of the grassland tribes.

Because what Zhu Youxiao wanted was for them to gather and launch an attack on the Ming Empire, lest he couldn't find them if he wanted to.

Because the grasslands in the north of the empire are too large and vast, even if the empire's million-strong army is put into it, it is only a drop in the ocean, and it can't make any waves.

The steppe people are a people on horseback, almost all of them are elite cavalry, and if they can beat you, they will fight.

If they find that they can't beat you, they will run.

In the case that they are determined to run away, in the vast prairie, you will not be able to catch up with them no matter what.

Zhu Youxiao was not worried that they would fight, but he was afraid that they would not gather to attack the northern border defense line of the Ming Empire.

As long as they come, Zhu Youxiao is absolutely sure that he will beat them to the ground, happily collect their cattle, sheep and horses, laugh at the war horses they send to the door, and get a large number of free miners, that is cool.

After destroying a large number of cavalry of these steppe tribes, as long as the super official road is repaired to the grassland, and a large farm is built, every one or two hundred miles or so, another city is built

In this way, it is easy to bring the steppes in the north of the empire into the territory of the empire, and turn these steppes into part of the Ming Empire.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao, who had been premeditated for a long time, is now in such a hurry to send troops to collect and control the great northwest of the Ming Empire, and he has a variety of schemes.

It is not an exaggeration to describe it as killing three birds with one stone.

The first is to eliminate corrupt officials, unscrupulous merchants, local tyrants and shoddy gentry in the northwest of the country, and obtain a large amount of land and a large amount of money and grain.

Second, to relieve the northwest crisis of the scale country, we can also get a large amount of territory, which can further promote the implementation and promotion of the two basic national policies of the Ming court, and greatly increase the money and grain base and population of the Ming Empire.

The third is the most important thing, to strangle the grassland peoples in the north of the scale country, continue to develop and grow, and always plot the ambition and sustainable development of the Ming Empire.

Whether they fight or die, or annex each other, without the material output of the Ming Empire, these grassland peoples will weaken extremely quickly with the intensification of the ice age disaster.

In the future, they will no longer be able to pose any threat to the Ming Empire.

"Your Majesty! Take care! The ministers will meet your majesty on the line of Magukou Fort and Chang'anling Fort for no more than three times. ”

Li Dingguo had already divided the officers and men of the 101st Division into two, and before setting off, he assured Zhu Youxiao.

He is now the absolute core of the Ming Empire, and he has the right to consult a large amount of military information, but he knows how lax the armament of these military towns and guards in the northwest of the Ming Empire is.

It is appropriate to describe it as vulnerable.

Don't three, even if it is two times, he can control and clean up the entire Baoan Prefecture, he is confident that he can do it.

The reason why it takes three hours is that Li Dingguo is a very reliable guy, he will not deliberately brag, and he must leave a way out and a little room for himself in everything.

Otherwise, once you encounter some unexpected circumstances, delay some time, and cause yourself to slap yourself in the face, it will be extremely bad.

At that time, I just didn't know how to step down, and thinking about it would inevitably make me very embarrassed.

"Hmm."

Zhu Youxiao jumped on the back of the snow treading god horse and said in high spirits, "Just do your best." ”

The big sword in his hand raised it forward, and said with a lot of arrogance, "Li Dingguo, don't put too much pressure on yourself, those traitors are really nothing, they are all some local chickens and dogs, and they are vulnerable!" ”

"Let's split up and go now!"

Zhu Youxiao began to urge the war horse, "I'll try it this time, go to the city first, is it cool or not?" How cool is it? ”

"Hahaha!"

After speaking, he laughed loudly as he drove the snow treading horse and galloped away!