After listening carefully to what Qin Hong said, Zhu Houzhao said with a smile: "Qin Qing, it's been hard work, in the past three years, Qin Qing has made great contributions to the great governance of Guyuan. ”

"It's just the duty of the minister, and the minister doesn't dare to take credit." Qin Hong hurriedly spoke.

In the past three years, Qin Hong has made great achievements in people's livelihood, reclaiming wasteland, shaping the military system, punishing corrupt generals, and making the northwest prosperous. However, Zhu Houzhao, the defects of the military household system are too obvious, if the military household system is not abolished, sooner or later the northwest will still decline, and once there are natural and man-made disasters, the northwest will still collapse.

The army is used by the state to maintain stability, and to put it bluntly, no matter what goes wrong, the army must not have problems, and this is the most important thing.

However, the military household system depends on the tuntian, and the stability of the army is placed on the grain harvest, and the good years are good, everyone can survive, and it can also reduce the burden on the imperial court, but once the year is not good, encountering natural disasters, and the imperial court is unable to provide disaster relief, then a large number of military households will go to the front line of rebellion in order to survive, and the damage caused will be the greatest.

Some people will say that if you don't need relief in disaster years, you have to have money for relief in the imperial court, plus the corruption of officials, how much can you do below?

The army system of the Ming Dynasty is definitely to be molded, from top to bottom change, take out the military household system is the first step, change the military household system to the recruitment system. It's just that this has to solve the hereditary generals and civilian officials who are attached to the military household system to suck blood, this interest group is huge, far beyond everyone's imagination, but no matter how difficult it is, it has to be done, otherwise it will drag down the Ming Dynasty more and more.

"Your Highness, the minister has prepared 10,000 cavalry, which can be searched with His Highness." Qin Hong said on the side at this time.

Zhu Houzhao was stunned for a moment, and suddenly sighed in his heart, this Qin Hong is really a capable person, and he actually prepared 10,000 cavalry for himself.

Seeing Zhu Houzhao's hesitation, Qin Hong hurriedly said: "Your Highness, these 10,000 cavalry are skilled in arches and horses, and at the same time, they are all from the northwest, and they are very familiar with the time, many people have gone out before, and they are also familiar with the environment of the grassland. ”

After listening to Qin Hong's explanation, Zhu Houzhao also nodded, and then said: "This is very good, then let them come over, and the army will set off in three days." ”

On this night, Zhu Houzhao left Qin Hong to eat in the barracks, and at the same time left him in the barracks to sleep all night, and the next day, Zhu Houzhao convened the three commanders and deputy commanders of the Black Dragon Army to hold a meeting together, discussing how to send troops, and Qin Hong, as the governor of the three sides, naturally also participated in the meeting.

There is a board behind Zhu Houzhao, and there is a map hanging on the board, and Zhu Houzhao highlights two locations on the map, one is Fengzhou Beach and the other is Ordos.

"There are two strategic goals this time, one is here!" Zhu Houzhao pointed at Ordos with a small stick: "If you finish fighting here, there is still plenty of time, the fighting spirit is strong, and the morale is high, then the palace is ready to lead people to attack here, that is, Fengzhou Beach." ”

Ordos, the name of the name in the later generations no one does not know, the famous Ordos cashmere, at this time, the whole Hetao is seriously desertified, the precipitation has plummeted, and this is not the place where the river is abundant in people's eyes. There is also one of China's four major deserts, the Mu Us Desert, and the only place where you can live for herding is Ordos.

Although the precipitation here is not enough for farming, it is still abundant and suitable for grazing, Zhu Houzhao doesn't have to think about it, the people of the fire screen must be here.

Because he has no other place to go except Ordos, as for Fengzhou Beach, it is definitely the old nest of the fire screen, and Fengzhou Beach in this era is what later generations said Hohhot.

For thousands of years, the infantry of the agrarian nation has had strong combat effectiveness after forming a formation, but it is at an absolute disadvantage in the face of the nomadic cavalry in terms of mobility, intelligence ability, and strategic initiative. Therefore, if the agrarian people fought only with infantry, they could only be beaten passively, and could not deal a devastating blow to the nomadic cavalry at all.

In order to inflict a devastating blow on the nomads, the farming peoples often had to assemble large cavalry units to attack each other's lair.

For although the nomadic cavalry came and went like the wind, their herds and tents moved slowly, making them easy targets. Therefore, since the famous general Huo Qu of the Han Dynasty, he dispatched elite cavalry to attack the nest of the nomads with fast fighting, which has become the only way for the Central Plains farming people to destroy the war potential of the steppe nomads.

However, the basis of this tactic is a large number of war horses, such as in order to implement this tactic in the era of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, 400,000 official horses were quickly consumed.

In addition, pastures need to occupy arable land, which puts farming peoples at a disadvantage compared to nomads in raising a large number of war horses. Especially after the Tang Dynasty, due to climate changes, the desertification situation in the north was serious, and many pastures were in areas where farmers and nomads competed, and the cost of raising horses rose. Although the Central Plains regime was not small in terms of the absolute number of war horses, it was obviously at a disadvantage in relative numbers compared with the nomadic regime.

At the same time, the organizational level of the steppe nomads was also improving, so this tactic was becoming more and more difficult to implement, but it was this tactic that Zhu Houzhao wanted to implement.

My horses don't have as many as you, so I can't outrun you, but it doesn't matter, I want better armor and equipment, and my plate armor has far more protection than yours, and you don't necessarily kill one of us if you shoot ten arrows, but if you shoot you, you can kill you. This enabled Zhu Houzhao to realize such a strategy of cavalry to fight the old nest, and in the grassland, livestock and population will always be the foundation of prosperity.

In this battle, if Zhu Houzhao can lead people to attack Ordos, then the three-year operation of Huosiao will be ruined, and the losses will be incalculable.

If Zhu Houzhao can lead people to defeat Fengzhou Beach, then the fire screen will inevitably be injured, even if Zhu Houzhao drives the fire screen away, and then occupies Fengzhou Beach for a month, the tribe of the fire screen can't stand it, has nowhere to graze, and migrates further north or Qinghai and Ningxia, it is simply impossible, no one will give him this opportunity, he can only fight with Zhu Houzhao.

Of course, it is impossible for Zhu Houzhao to wait here for a month, Zhu Houzhao's strategy is to go to Ordos first, and then attack Hohhot.

After finishing his strategic concept, Zhu Houzhao put down the wooden stick in his hand, swept his eyes over the faces of everyone present, and said with a serious face: "I'm done, who is in favor and who is against!" ”

"Your Highness, it's okay to fight Ordos Chen, but isn't it too hasty to fight Fengzhou Beach?" Qin Hong looked at Zhu Houzhao and said with some concern.

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