After reading Yu Yunwen's plea, Li Yan quietly put it aside, and then looked at Li Xiu and Li Ci, who had already arrived at the palace, and his twenty sons who had just become adults, and said: "The characteristics of nomads riding horses and hunting determine that they are born warriors, the people are soldiers, and the soldiers are the people, and the way of nomadic life cannot guarantee that the nomads have sufficient food accumulation. In this way, the nomads will inevitably invade the southern farming peoples for plunder, so as long as the nomads are not completely destroyed, the nomads will definitely invade our Dazhong. ”

After a pause, Li Yan looked at his sons and asked, "Then how to deal with the nomads so that we can never suffer in the future?" ”

Li Yan didn't answer with his sons, so he replied to himself: "The Great Wall can protect our farming people from being harassed by nomads, but it is precisely because of the existence of the Great Wall that our farming people and nomads will always become opposites, this Great Wall is like the Han boundary of the Chu River, most of the previous dynasties would only guard behind the Great Wall, painting the grassland as a place outside the square, and never taking a step, this seems to be a kind of self-protection, but in fact, in my opinion, this is self-restriction and self-erection of enemies, Therefore, I will never do such a stupid thing, only let the nomads completely become a part of our Dazhong, and the grassland becomes a part of our Dazhong's inalienable territory, so that the nomads will no longer attack our Dazhong, as for how to make the nomads become a part of our Dazhong, we must first completely conquer them, and then use culture to assimilate them......"

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Soon after, Li Yan transferred Yu Yunwen and asked him to transfer the order of the school, which was regarded as a warning to Yu Yunwen and Li Cun, and then continued to conquer the grassland tribes by himself.

Tietong in the autumn of the eighth year.

After more than half a year of conquest, the Wangu Division, the Tatar Division, the Wang Ji Thorn Division, the Gulie Division, the Mier Division, the Eight Thorn Hu Division, the Mengusi Division, and the Chachi Thorn Division were successively defeated by the Chinese army, and some were even directly destroyed by the Chinese army.

Today, most of the remnants of the Mongol tribes are gathered in the area of the Troubled River and the Buerhan Mountains, led by the Mongol kingdom's Erjin Hebule, that is, Hebul Khan.

A small number of Mongols fled to Dajin and were completely integrated into the Jin people, and now they are gathered in the Shangjing area to defend to the death.

The weather in the north, after autumn, will get cold, and the temperature is frighteningly low, and many areas even sprinkle water into ice.

And many of the officers and men of the Chinese army came from the south, and they simply couldn't stand that kind of weather.

Therefore, if the Mughal Kingdom and the Dajin Kingdom cannot be destroyed as soon as possible, Dazhong can only temporarily withdraw its troops and make a comeback after the spring flowers bloom in the next year.

But if this is the case, then it will undoubtedly give the Mongols and the Jin people a chance to breathe, and then there may be countless variables.

Li Yan brought Xu Guanzhong and Liu Qi to discuss countermeasures.

Liu Qi boldly proposed: "It is better to take the risk of attacking once, if you can defeat the Menggu State and the Dajin Kingdom, you will continue to fight, if you can't defeat the Mengwu Kingdom and the Dajin Kingdom, you will withdraw the troops for the time being." ”

Liu Qi's idea was that if the Mongols and Dajin could be defeated, the Chinese army could occupy the places of the Mughuls and Dajin to rest, so that they could not only occupy important places and not give the Mongols and Jin people room to escape, but also put pressure on the Mongols and the Jin people to surrender them.

Xu Guanzhong disagreed with Liu Qi's radical ideas, Xu Guanzhong said: "The law of the husband and the soldier, the whole country is the first, and the country is second......"

What Xu Guanzhong means is that the basic principle of war is that making the enemy surrender as a whole is the best policy, and destroying the enemy country is the second choice.

Xu Guanzhong said: "Now, our Chinese army has forced the Jin and Mongols into a desperate situation, we should stop and find a way to make the whole country surrender, and we should not continue to fight, in that case, the Jin and Mongols will be trapped and fighting, causing unnecessary casualties to our Dazhong." ”

Liu Qi opposed the negotiation of peace now, and said: "But the problem is that now, neither the Jin nor the Mongols can really surrender, at most they just want to use the strategy of delaying the army to deceive us away, and then continue to occupy the Northeast Plain and the Mongolian Plateau, and continue to be the enemy of our Dazhong, so we must lay down Shangjing and the Nanhe River, so that the Jin and Mongols are afraid, and they will surrender the whole country." ”

Xu Guanzhong asked Liu Qi rhetorically: "Then if we lose the battle in Dazhong, at that time, the Jin and the Mongols will inevitably make a comeback, and then there will be a tug of war, and even, we will promote their real unification, and then become our great enemy, so it is better for us to accept it now, and then use political means to destroy Dajin and the Mongolian tribes little by little." ”

Speaking of this, Xu Guanzhong bowed to Li Yan and said: "Official, the policy of reducing the number of Ding implemented by Dajin is not advisable, and it can't really eliminate Hulu, so it is not okay to blindly fight, now, we have already hurt Dajin and the Mongolian tribes, and the minister feels that it is not time to take the risk of continuing to fight, it is time to stop and have a good talk with the Jin and the Mongols." ”

The so-called Ding reduction policy was one of the policies formulated by the Jin Dynasty government to deal with the Mongols, that is, to regularly send troops to kill the Mongol tribesmen, and all the adult men of the Mongolian tribes were within the scope of being killed, and when they reached the age of poverty, they were even more killed, and this policy was called "Ding reduction".

To put it bluntly, Dajin was afraid that the Mongols would endanger its rule, so he regularly sent troops to kill the Mongols, and then robbed the Mongols' women and children to strengthen himself.

The Mongols hated the Jin people to the core, and if it weren't for Dazhong's pressing too hard, they couldn't have merged with the Jin people for anything.

(Historically, the Jin Kingdom was destroyed, the Mongols carried out a massacre of the Jin people, and Temujin even ordered that "only the Yan clan cannot be pardoned.")

In fact, there is also the credit of the Song people - the Jin State moved its capital to Bianjing after negotiating peace with the Mongols, and the Jurchen nobles who once relied on the emperor's prestige for their fortune lost their backers, and the people who had been oppressed took the opportunity to take revenge. ）

Therefore, blind killing is not advisable, and it will also be met with crazy retaliation.

Liu Qi also bowed to Li Yan and said: "Official, the minister agrees with the marshal's intentions, but the minister insists on laying down Shangjing and the difficult river first, otherwise with the greed and cunning of the Jin and Mongols, they will never obediently vassalize our Dazhong, and will never cooperate with our Dazhong to divide and govern them." ”

The ball was kicked at Li Yan's feet again.

Li Yan knew too well what kind of beating nature and survival ability of the Jin and Mongols were, and it would be absolutely impossible to conquer them without completely crippling and destroying them.

Therefore, this time it was actually Xu Guanzhong who was wrong.

But—

Xu Guanzhong's worries are not unreasonable, after all, winter is coming, if he can't capture Shangjing and the Nanhe River in one fell swoop, it will become the home of the Jin and Mongols, and it is likely that the Jin and Mongols will find an opportunity for the Jedi to fight back.

But even so, Li Yan still decisively stood on Liu Qi's side and said: "If you don't destroy the Jurchens and the Mongols, it will be difficult for me to sleep and eat, so continue to fight!" ”

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