After the winter, a large army of Jiannu marched on the endless snowfield.

It has crossed Lake Behail and entered Central Siberia further north.

Look around.

On a flat snowy field.

Larch trees are scattered and scattered, and from time to time a few reindeer and snow wolves will flee in a hurry.

In the middle of the huge army of Jiannu, there was a wide carriage.

The outside is covered with fur, and inside is a small gilded stove from the Ming Dynasty, burning animal gold carbon.

Warm as spring.

There were four people sitting in the wide carriage, one was the Jurchen Great Khan Emperor Taiji, the other was the Great Bel Daishan, and the other was the Mongol ruler Ezhe.

The last person was Fan Wencheng in a white robe, holding a white cat in his hand.

Crossing Lake Beihail is the territory of Tsarist Russia, and this expeditionary force composed of Jurchens, Mongols, and Han Chinese came to this land with only one purpose.

Take the vast expanse of Central Siberia.

Ezhe has always looked down on this Han man, and he really can't understand how the Great Khan Emperor Taiji, who is as wise as a steppe eagle, could listen to the words of this steppe fox.

It was a thankless effort to conquer Tsarist Central Siberia, which means peaceful place in Mongolian, and there were not many women and gold and silver to grab.

Stationed here are the most powerful Cossack cavalry in Tsarist Russia, they are known as the first cavalry in the West, and their reputation is no less than the most powerful Eight Banners in the Far East.

Ezhe held back all the way, as the emperor's forehead, he thought he was closer, and couldn't help but say: "Ama, where is the Central Plains in the south of Xipol, you can rob women and gold and silver." ”

"Besides, Yuan Chonghuan knows that we have come to attack the Central and Western Pol of Tsarist Russia, and we will definitely attack the Jurchen city on the other side of the Daling River."

Fan Wencheng knew that this Ezhe had been holding back all the way, and he was also waiting for him to take the initiative to sow discord, because not only did he not understand, but many Belle Beers also did not understand.

Just borrowed his mouth to spread some words.

Fan Wencheng added some beast gold carbon to the gilded small furnace to make the flames more vigorous: "The Great Khan still remembers the battle of Sarhu. ”

The battle of Sarhu, but it was an important turning point between the Jurchens and the Ming Dynasty, how could Huang Taiji not remember, and nodded as usual.

The words of the Battle of Salhu successfully attracted Ezhe's attention, and Fan Wencheng continued: "In the Battle of Salhu, the Ming Dynasty gathered more than 100,000 troops, but the Jurchens only had tens of thousands of people. ”

"The final result was an unprecedented strategic victory for the Jurchens, which certainly included the great Khan and the beyler beziers, as well as the courage and skill of the Eight Banners."

"Put that aside for now, let's talk about something deeper."

"On the eve of the Battle of Salhua, in order to be able to protect this army of more than 100,000 people, the Ming Dynasty cabinet prepared 900,000 stone for grain and grass alone, as well as 14.4 million bunches of grass and 800,000 stone beans."

"There are only two ways to transport such a huge amount of grain and grass."

Fan Wencheng took out a map of the Ming Dynasty from the side and drew two lines with his fingers.

One is to take the sea, departing from Dengzhou Mansion in Shandong Province to Jinzhou Zhongzuo Institute, and then transporting it from Jinzhou Zhongzuo Institute to the Liaodong front.

The second is to go through the state to Shanhaiguan.

"The land transportation distance of the two routes is almost 700 miles, and one person and one mule carry the grain and grass to transport by land, and the grain and forage that needs to be consumed every day is worth five cents of silver at that time, and a round trip is one or two dollars of silver."

"Basically, it costs three taels of silver to transport a stone of grain to the front line."

"Grain and grass are only the most basic guarantees, and fighting a war also requires the replenishment of various weapons and armor, gunpowder, lead bullets, horses, guns, etc., and transporting these burdens is a huge consumption."

"This is only the abacus from Dengzhou Mansion to the front line, and the cost of transportation from Tongzhou to Shanhaiguan, from all over the Ming Dynasty to gather a large amount of heavy grain and grass to Dengzhou Mansion and Tongzhou, which is another astronomical amount."

"In the year-long campaign, the Ming Dynasty spent a total of four million taels of silver, basically emptying the treasury of the Ming Dynasty, in fact, the Jurchens did not attack at that time, and if it dragged on for a while, the Ming army would collapse by itself."

As the controller of Mongolia, Ezhe's ability to govern the army and fight is very high, and his political literacy is pitiful, with his ability to govern the army and combat far beyond ordinary people, he clearly knows that a large army expedition needs to consume a lot of heavy grain and grass.

But he didn't expect that a battle of Sarhu would actually empty the treasury of the Ming Dynasty.

Fan Wencheng once again drew a line on this fine map of the Ming Dynasty contributed by the Jin merchants: "Although there are only more than 300 miles from Shanhaiguan to Daling River, with the baggage reserves of the Liaodong border army, a maximum of 50,000 troops will be used. ”

"Beyond this limit, if we don't need to fight, the Liaodong border army in Yuan Chonghuan's hands will collapse by itself."

Fan Wencheng put away the map of the Ming Dynasty and talked about another irrelevant matter: "The interior of the Liaodong Border Army, there are many military leaders, the infighting is very serious, coupled with the corruption of military discipline, the sergeant is already considered elite if he does not kill the good and take the risk." ”

"Don't expect them to prepare for war drills, they have long been corrupted into a group of soldiers, and they often gather more than ten times the number of troops in each battle before they dare to face the Jurchen Eight Banners head-on."

"If you dare to face it, as for whether you can fight it, it's another matter."

"Of the 300,000 border troops on the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty, there are only two that can really fight, one is Yuan Chonghuan's family Ding pro-army Guanning Iron Cavalry, and the other is Cao Wenzhao's rectification of a Cao family army that uses a new type of bird gun."

"Even the Cao family army, which is second only to the Guanning Iron Cavalry, in the flat Liaodong, is already very good to be able to fight against the Jurchen Eight Banners with seven times the strength."

Speaking of this, Ezhe understood what Fan Wencheng meant, even if Yuan Chonghuan wanted to recover Liaodong, he didn't have enough troops and heavy grain and grass.

This expedition only came to a part of the Jurchen Eight Banners, and there were as many as 30,000 Eight Banners in Liaodong, more Han Eight Banners, and 50,000 Mengba Banners who could go over to support at any time.

With 30,000 banner soldiers alone, 300,000 border troops are needed.

The brave and warlike 50,000 Mengba Banners in the flat Liaodong against the 400,000 Ming Dynasty border troops should not have much of a problem.

Not counting the Han Eight Banners, which had the largest number of people, the Ming Dynasty army needed 700,000 troops against 30,000 Eight Banner soldiers and 50,000 Mengba Banners.

With the current baggage support of the Liaodong border army of the Ming Dynasty, a maximum of 50,000 troops can be dispatched.

The huge strategic gap between 700,000 and 50,000 made it difficult for even ten Yuan Chonghuan to subdue Liaodong.

Fan Wencheng promoted this expedition against Tsarist Siberia, and there was another purpose, which was to clearly tell Yuan Chonghuan that the Jurchen hinterland was empty, and he only dared to hold on and not attack.

Just ask you if you dare to restart the strategy of Dalinghe Fort.

Can't?

By the time the Jurchens conquered Central Siberia, the territory was no less than that of the Ming Dynasty, and there would be no chance in the future.

Dare.

Fan Wencheng wanted to use this Dalinghe Fort strategy to completely consume the last elite of the Ming Army and completely destroy the fighting spirit of the Ming Army.

This is Yangmou.

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