Gao Tang said: "What Brother Chen said is extremely true. This time, we will stick to it according to His Majesty's will. ”

"Yes, according to His Majesty's will, I will not stick to it." Chen Cheng was very excited when he said it, and couldn't help but stand up and walk back and forth in the lobby for a few steps.

Gao Tang and Chen Cheng made up their minds that they couldn't stick to it. But the Spurs on the Tarnu side made up their minds to withdraw. Of course, he can't just return to Tiandu with the army, or disband the army except for the garrison here, it's not feasible.

What he has to do is to go back to the court first, meet the stunned emperor, and make a comprehensive report on the combat situation in these days. To this end, he made his own writing a long chapter.

When he was done, he defended all his troops from north to south. As for the few troops located in the west, he also ordered them to move closer to the east to prevent the Han army from advancing westward. Although the west side is more desolate. But as the protector of the Tartars, Spur must judge the situation. Various military deployments are carried out on the spot.

After completing these deployments, he mounted his horse and took some of his retinue back to Tiandu City.

After a journey of nearly 1,000 miles, the spurs returned to Tiandu City after twenty days. I went back to the house to repair it overnight, and I entered the palace early the next morning to meet the stunned.

Na was stunned for a long time knowing that the Spurs did not attack Pingliangzhou, and when he saw him, he pouted, without the slightest sense of welcome.

Spurs had long expected this outcome. I don't really care. After worshipping the stunned, he talked about the war. Two classes of civil and military ministers stood on both sides and listened.

Spurs repeated what was written on the cantata. Finally, Spurs fell to his knees and said, "Please punish the ministers." ”

"You deserve to be punished. I gave you such the right army, and in the past two months, I didn't even take it. He said in a daze.

Spur knelt down and said, "The minister is willing to accept the punishment." ”

The stunned pursed his mouth and looked around the two classes of civil and military forces below. At this time, the entire hall was silent. I felt that even if I took a breath, I could hear it clearly. At that moment, he heard the sound of his own heartbeat.

He really exhaled, and the sound of that breath was wafting through the hall, and all the ministers heard it.

Then, he said, "You all say that you should punish the Great Protector General?" ”

This is tantamount to asking in vain, none of the ministers below have offended the general of the protector, and even the prime minister Lunta does not dare to openly offend the general of the protector.

Under the Tarsus, the military leader was still higher than the political leader. In other words, the Tatars are still the most military-oriented. Although their military also declined with the end of the Sino-Tatar Wars. If nothing else, just look at their failed expedition to the west.

And this decay is manifold. The Tatars were originally a nomadic people, and they came from the desolate desert in the north to the mountains and plains in the south, and they were a little overwhelmed. In other words, there is a certain problem with adaptation. As a result, their former nomadic life is unsustainable. This has led to a degradation of the race's capabilities.

But they are not fully integrated into an agrarian lifestyle, resulting in a state of spiritual emptiness.

There is no desert to gallop on. There is no prey to chase, no more wandering life. They were like wild birds in a cage, depressed.

The entire ethnic group is facing such confusion, can the combat effectiveness of the army still be strong? The strength of the army is bound to be a continuation of this situation. It's also in a place of emptiness. Cavalry is not like cavalry, and infantry is not like infantry. Once defeated by the opponent, it will become a piece of scattered sand.

Such an army can no longer look at the world.

However, despite the fact that the fighting capabilities of the Tatar army were already degrading, they retained at least 300,000 elite divisions. This force was almost entirely cavalry, equipped with the best armor and weapons, as well as war horses under the crotch. The mission of this army was to protect the Tatar royal family and nobility.

Of course, this elite division naturally can't act rashly.

Counting from the fingers, it has been nearly five years since the Tatars captured Dahua. Liu Yong came back in two and a half years.

After nearly a year of fighting, there was a temporary peace between the two sides. And this peace is exactly what the Tatars wanted. Because after losing the rich territory south of the Tianjiang River, the country is already in tatters at the economic level. Most of the north of the Tianjiang River is farmland, and it can be said that it is an agrarian society dominated by agriculture. The degree of economic activity and income-generating capacity cannot be compared with the prosperous business in Jiangnan.

And once it encounters a disaster year, the people can't help but be miserable, and even the Dayang Imperial Court is difficult to get by. To retreat to the north of the Tianjiang River is to lose the country's economic lifeline.

Moreover, the Tarslavs, as a nomadic people, had a tribal-based star-like administration, which was unusually small under the civilization of Middle-earth.

As a small point, how can we govern such a vast territory?

At least they don't have that ability for the time being. When the territory south of the Tianjiang River was lost, which could be taxed, the treasury of the Dayang court began to become stretched.

Moreover, the army is a money-burning thing, and it is impossible to play without money.

In the past two years, the Han people who can farm have fled, died, and disappeared. Almost a third of the land is left unused. What to do with these lands? Let the Tatars go to farming? Obviously not a realistic thing.

First of all, the Tatars did not farm. There is no yield if it is hit. Again, there is no economic benefit. Don't talk about any economic benefits, being able to eat a full meal is to burn high incense. And they graze and hunt in the desert steppe, and the benefits are much better. And there is no shortage of meat to eat throughout the year.

Moreover, the Tatar disposition was accustomed to wandering. He likes to live an unfettered and free life like galloping on the grassland. You let him live every day with his face to the loess and his back to the sky year after year, it is better to let them die.

Farming requires stability, not soaring in the sky. If you want to farm, you have to become an old cow, but an eagle.

Another point is that there are few Tatars! Even there aren't so many people to farm!

Therefore, in the face of the abandoned large land, the Dayang Imperial Court is also extremely helpless. Moreover, many of these abandoned fields are in the hills, which are not suitable for grazing. Even the plains are not suitable for grazing, and in winter the grass is gone. Moreover, the grass of this plain is so untouched that it will never grow again after eating a few stubbles.

The Dayang Imperial Court, which originally intended agriculture as the economic foundation, was almost faced with this unraveling of the pot.

And now, there are two paths in front of them. First, go south to capture the south of the Tianjiang River. Second, return north and continue tribal nomadism.