Yang Cong is gathering people, mobilizing food and wages, manufacturing equipment, and preparing to recover the Hetao, what is his opponent, Altan Khan, doing?

To tell the truth, Altan Khan was really miserable this time, and it wasn't until he was inexplicably killed that he knew that the opponent had been replaced.

It turned out that the rice bucket of Xianning Hou Qiuluan had already been dismissed and investigated, and it was Yang Cong, the governor of Zhejiang, who led the army to fight him!

Yang Cong's name is a household name in Daming, and Altan Khan has naturally heard of it, and he has also fought with Yang Cong.

It's just that it was more than ten years ago, and he wasn't a Great Khan at that time.

Of course, whether he is a Great Khan or not, he is still very impressed by that attack on Xuanfu Town, because whether it is him or his eldest brother Ji Nang, they have won more and lost less in the battle, and they have almost never encountered a big defeat like that Xuanfu Town, and of course he is deeply impressed.

Yang Cong, this guy, is really powerful, playing with others on other people's turf, it's just looking for death!

Therefore, when Altan Khan heard that the commander of the Ming army was Yang Cong, he ran away without looking back.

What are you kidding, don't run, wait for someone to really give you a two-sided encirclement?

Fortunately, he ran fast, otherwise, when Yang Cong led the army to surround him, it was really hard to say whether he could run away.

In fact, he did not lose too much this time, although he lost 30,000 fine horsemen, but he plundered countless food and property, and even he robbed no less than 100,000 people, and most of these were sent to the Uliang Habu in time and handed over to the foot soldiers who stayed there to take care of.

At this moment, he was thinking about whether to make armor for his subordinates.

Before the change, he would not have this idea at all, because no one on the grassland at this time can make iron, and no one can make iron tools, they even have to buy iron pots from Daming or simply grab them, otherwise, they will not even have anything to cook rice.

However, this is different, because he deliberately grabbed a lot of copper and iron.

This time, he deliberately explained that whether it was an iron pot or hoe in a commoner's house, an iron door or a bronze statue in a rich family's house, as long as it was copper and iron, he would not let it go, and all of them would be "moved" back.

Moreover, he also gave a death order, when he met blacksmiths and coppersmiths and other craftsmen, he must not hurt others, and he must take all the people of the family, old and young, not one of them left!

Originally, he did this for the long-term development plan of the tribe, with these artisans, they can basically be self-sufficient in living materials, so that the tribe can rest assured that it will reproduce and continue to grow and develop.

However, after suffering this big defeat, he hesitated a little.

This multiplication is not only enough to have living materials, but also food, otherwise, everyone has iron pots, kitchen knives and so on, but there is no rice to cook, it is not fake.

And the food sources on the grassland were either exchanged with Daming through the horse market, or directly plundered from Daming.

At this time, Xianning Hou Qiuluan's rice bucket has been dismissed and investigated, and it was replaced by Yang Cong, who is good at using firearms, if you don't build more armor, how can you go to Daming to loot, people are guns and cannons, and thunder or something, you have not rushed to others and have been beaten into a sieve by others, and you have robbed a fart!

He didn't hesitate for long, and the secret agents planted in various border towns came with the news that Yang Cong was recruiting troops and horses.

In the three towns of Shanxi alone, there are no less than 100,000 people and horses gathered!

This guy, why are you recruiting so many people?

In order to strengthen the border defenses?

This is obviously impossible, as a defensive side, the defense of the border towns of the Ming Dynasty is still very strong, as long as each border town can have one or two thousand horses, and the commander is not a rice bucket, basically, even if he leads the army of 100,000 in the past, he may not be able to reap the benefits, because there are too many border towns and fortresses in the Ming Dynasty, and there are Great Wall arch guards on the periphery, as long as people have a little heart, it is basically impossible to attack it.

Yang Cong's ability has been proven through several battles, this guy is amazing, he is in charge of the northwest frontier defense of the Ming Dynasty, and it is enough to have 10,000 horses in each border town, but at this time, he is recruiting troops and horses, gathering more than 100,000 troops, is he full of food?

The consumption of more than 100,000 troops, Altan Khan can not be clear, every time he is about to go to the Daming border pass to fight the autumn wind, he will make all the troops assemble, in order to save food.

Even if it is the Ming Dynasty, it is impossible to gather more than 100,000 troops to defend there for a long time, because of the consumption of more than 100,000 troops, the Ming Dynasty will not be able to hold on, and in a few years, the Ming Dynasty will be overwhelmed by the more than 100,000 troops!

Obviously, Yang Cong wanted to gather a large army and recover the Hetao.

This time, Altan Khan no longer hesitated, everyone was going to knock on the door, and he was still breeding a fart!

He should even give an order to gather all the blacksmiths and coppersmiths that have been taken captive, and make all the armor, pots and pans, as long as they are iron or copper, all of them are collected, melted, and used as materials, leaving only a small amount of iron pots to cook rice.

At the same time, he also ordered all tribes to move to the northwest, and to vacate all the grasslands in the southeast as much as possible.

His move was specially used to deal with the Ming army.

Because the border towns of the Ming Dynasty are basically concentrated in the southeast of the Hetao, there is a Ganzhou town in the west, and the town of Ganzhou is too far away from the inland of the Ming Dynasty, and it is quite difficult to transport grain and grass, so the Ming army will definitely attack from the southeast.

He thought that as long as the southeast of the Hetao was vacated, there would be room for a roundabout, and at that time, even if the Ming army rushed into the Hetao, it would not be able to find anyone, but he could lead the cavalry to harass everywhere, cut off the grain routes of the Ming army, and even break them individually.

I have to say that his strategy is still quite good, if the Ming army uses conventional tactics to fight them, he may really make the Ming army scorched or even defeated.

It's a pity that Yang Cong didn't plan to use conventional tactics at all, and he didn't even plan to launch an attack within the year.

At this time, Altan Khan lost a lot of money, because the climate in the southeast of the Hetao is not a little better than that in the northwest, and the water and grass there are also the most abundant.

They are nomadic people who mainly graze their herds, and if they have no grassland, how can they graze and give up the grassland that is the most suitable for survival under their hands, and the loss is huge, you can imagine.

He waited for the Ming army on the left and couldn't wait, and the Ming army on the right couldn't wait, and the waiting was about to spurt blood, and the Ming army still didn't move at all.

Where did Yang Cong know his thoughts, and even Yang Cong didn't know that he had moved all the tribes to the northwest of Hetao.

There is no way, in the vast grassland, it is too difficult to send scouts to investigate, because people have no fixed place, and most tribes have little contact with outsiders, you rashly send scouts to investigate, or you can't find anyone, even if you find the estimated scout, you can't come back.

He was not in a hurry, because the tactics he was going to adopt were to fight steadily and steadily, step by step, and investigate in advance, which was basically unnecessary, as long as he could find out the situation around the army when the war started, and ensure that he could advance layer by layer.

So, the two sides were consumed like this.

Altan Khan ordered people to desperately build armor to deal with the firearms of the Ming army, and at the same time came to a strong wall to clear the field, preparing to use the flexibility of the cavalry to raid the Ming army, but Yang Cong was silently repairing the railway, seriously training his men and horses, and it seemed that there was no intention of attacking at all.