Yue Tuo really agreed at this time, the reason why Huang Taiji has been closed these days. Compared with the futility of this expedition, the military changes of the Ming people are more tricky. After all, the former can still learn a lesson, and look forward to teaching the Ming army a lesson when he goes out next time. The latter is something they can't interfere with, because this is a self-change that has taken place within the Ming army.

Zilharang finally couldn't help but say: "King Khan doesn't have to worry so much, the officials of the Ming Kingdom, the policies formulated above are often ridiculous and unruly below." It is indeed worrying that the Ming Emperor set up a military academy, but whether these cadets who graduated from military academies can be reused in the army is another matter.

The positions of generals in the Ming army are in the hands of the nobles and generals, and if these students want to get these positions in the army, they will inevitably have conflicts with those nobles and generals. Whichever side the emperor of the Ming Kingdom supports, he will lose the loyalty of the other side, and for our country, the division within the Ming army may not be an opportunity..."

Yue Tuo immediately interrupted him and said, "How can we do nothing and expect a split within the Ming army? What if the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom suppressed the opposition of Xungui and Jiangmen? The minister looked at the Ming Emperor, who had just ascended the throne, and his behavior was absolutely similar to the previous Ming Emperor, and it was always unexpected, which was the biggest reason why our two expeditions last year and this year were unsuccessful. If we pin our hopes on the fact that the Ming army will not be able to use these students who have graduated from military academies, we will think that it is not advisable..."

Huang Taiji turned around and stopped the two from continuing to debate, and then said: "What you said makes sense, but whether the military academy of the Ming Kingdom can achieve tangible results and how much combat effectiveness it can improve the Ming army, we still need to continue to observe, and it is too early to draw any conclusions."

Of course, what Yue Tobel said is also right, we can't be indifferent to the military changes of the Ming Kingdom, and we still need to send people to find out what changes these changes have brought to the Ming army. In addition, I think that the map reading and cartography taught by the Ming people in military schools are also quite meritorious.

Therefore, I plan to set up a martial arts school, so that the teachers of each banner can first learn this art of map reading and cartography, so that they can teach it to the young children in the banner. Yue asked you to run this martial arts, and Tuna served as the chief instructor of martial arts, what do you two think? ”

Yue Tuo knew that Huang Taiji asked him to operate this martial arts, in fact, he was asking him to put on a name, otherwise he might not be able to suppress those disciples and young sect disciples with Tuna's identity, so he quickly agreed.

Knowing the reason why Huang Taiji didn't come out, Yue Tuo was about to say goodbye with Ji'er Harang, but Huang Taiji said: "Actually, I'm still thinking about one thing these days, and you are here today, and you will also refer to it for me." ”

Huang Taiji said as he took out some small red flags from the box on the side, with a clear character on them. Huang Taiji planted these small red flags around the Houjin Kingdom before he said.

"The Jurchen tribes living in the Songhua River, Nenjiang River, and Heilongjiang areas north of my Houjin have surrendered to my Jianzhou Jurchens as early as the time of my father Khan, and they are the people of my Houjin. But since last year, the Woji tribe and the Sauron people in the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River have turned to the Ming Kingdom. This led to the Sauron and Beishan Jurchen tribes in the upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River beginning to alienate our country.

From the upper reaches of the Ussuri River to the coast of the East China Sea, the Varkha tribe, which has always been hostile to our country, has attacked the villages on our border several times after receiving the support of the Ming state. The most worrying thing is that they have begun to unite with the East China Sea and try to unite against our country.

As for the Karaqin tribes being attacked by the Ming people, except for a few tribes who fled into the Yiju area, everyone else fell into the hands of the Ming people. Now look at this sand table, can you tell me what exactly Mingren wants to do? ”

Yue Tuo and Zilharang carefully watched the situation on this sand table, this was the first time they had time to think about the situation around the Houjin Kingdom. On such an intuitive sand table, they were stunned to find that before they knew it, the Houjin Kingdom was once again under siege.

Although Lin Dan Khan's westward move and the submission of North Korea caused two gaps in the encirclement of the Ming army on the sand table, everyone knows that although North Korea has surrendered in words, it may not be convinced in his heart, otherwise it will not be pushed back every time an order is issued to North Korea.

Although North Korea is not a link in the encirclement of the Ming army, it may not be an ally that the Houjin can rely on, and if the situation between the Houjin and the Ming Dynasty changes, North Korea will probably soon be able to defect to the arms of the Ming State.

As for the gap left by Lin Dan Khan's westward migration, looking at the actions of the Ming army sweeping the Karaqin tribes, we know that the Ming people are working hard to fill the gap left by the westward migration of the Chahar department. Once this gap is filled, the situation around Houjin will revert to the bad situation before Huang Taiji ascended the throne.

Yue Tuo stared at it for a long time before he said with an ugly face: "The Ming people are rebuilding the encirclement of our country? Those southern barbarians are really cunning, and while they say that they want to live in peace with us, they intend to surround us again, which is really too deceitful. ”

Just when Yue Tuo was angry, Huang Taiji said coldly: "What, did you two only see this? That's really disappointing. The Ming people planted nails in Heilongjiang and the East China Sea, so that these savage Jurchens united to be enemies of our country; He also tried his best to make good friends with the Mongolian tribes. Don't you think this strategy sounds familiar? ”

Yue Tuo hesitated for a long time, but he still didn't understand Huang Taiji's thoughts, but Zierharang said with a wit: "In the past, Fei Yingdonggong once said: If you want to cut down a big tree, how can you break it suddenly, you must cut it down with an axe, gradually to a small one, and then you can break it. How can an equal country be destroyed if it wants to take it in one fell swoop!

These methods adopted by the Ming people are exactly the reason for cutting down large trees. It's just that the monarchs and ministers of the Ming Kingdom have always been arrogant, how could they know Fei Yingdonggong's plan and adopt it? ”

Yue Tuo suddenly realized: "Yes, first cut off the arm of the savage Jurchen, and then cut off the thigh of the Mongolian tribes, making it difficult for our country to expand its strength, and then it will be consumed with our country for a long time, this is really a plan to cut down big trees." ”

Huang Taiji sighed, and said quietly: "It is indeed a plan that Fei Yingdong came up with, we wanted to use it to deal with the Ming Kingdom, but we didn't expect the Ming Kingdom to use it against our country." ”

Whether it was Yue Tuo or Zierharang, he didn't dare to answer, when Fei Yingdong used such a strategy to deal with the Ming State, the Ming State was tied up, watching them first unify the Jurchen tribes, and then defeat Mongolia and North Korea, and did not come up with any commendable countermeasures.

Now that the Ming Kingdom is using such a strategy to deal with Houjin, they also can't think of a way to deal with it. Because compared with the Later Jin, the Ming State had too many means available except for force. The cost of circumnavigating the Korean Peninsula to the shores of the East China Sea and the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River far exceeded the cost of traveling by land to the two places.

However, Houjin was unable to cope with such an action, because the cost of competing with the Ming Dynasty for the coast of the East China Sea and the Savage Jurchen tribes in the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River was still something that Houjin could not afford for a long time.

After a long silence between the three of them, Yue Tuo, who was more anxious, finally couldn't help but break the silence and said, "Since King Khan has seen the tricks of the Ming people, hasn't he come up with any countermeasures?" ”

Huang Taiji hesitated and said: "Originally, I had some ideas, but now it seems that it may not work." ”

Yue Tuo immediately subconsciously asked, "King Khan might as well come and hear why it doesn't work now." ”

Huang Taiji thought for a moment and said, "Originally, I thought of bypassing the Guanningjin defense line and breaking through the Great Wall in the north of the Ming Kingdom from the grassland. As long as they were able to plunder the Ming Pass and the Gyeonggi area, in order to protect the safety of the northern border, the Ming monarchs and ministers would direct their resources to the entire Great Wall defense line.

With the wealth of the Ming Kingdom, the resources invested to maintain the Great Wall defense line, including the Guanningjin defense line, are also astronomical. In addition, there have been many natural disasters in the north of the Ming Kingdom over the years, and if the Ming court invests all its domestic resources in the northern defense line, it will no longer have the spare strength to bear the disaster relief and support other strategies to attack our country.

However, now the Ming people are attacking instead of defending, and they are winning over the Mongolian tribes on the steppe to cut off the possibility of our army attacking through the steppe. He also instigated the rebellion of the savage Jurchen tribes in the East China Sea and in the north of our country. Although the resources consumed by these actions are not small, they are within the burden that Ming can bear.

And now our country has not only restrained some of the energy of those savage Jurchen and Phi Dao Ming armies, but it is also difficult to complete the strategy of integrating Manchu and Mongolia that was formulated before. If the Ming people continue to hold on, it may give Lin Danhan a chance to make a comeback. So I said, now that idea doesn't work. ”

Yue Tuo thought for a while and said: "In this case, why don't the Khan King make peace with the Ming Kingdom, and beat Lin Dan Khan to death first." The reason why the Ming State is now able to exert influence on the steppe is that it lures the Mongol tribes with mutual markets; The second is to encircle the leaders of the left and right wings of Mongolia.

Although our country is not yet able to compete with the Ming State for control of the right-wing Mongolian tribes, many of the left-wing Mongolian tribes have already submitted to us. As long as Lin Dan Khan, the recognized Mongol Great Khan of the Mongol tribes, was gone, the Mongol tribes in the steppe lost their nominal co-leader.

China first took the submission of the left-wing Mongolian tribes, and then competed with the Ming State for the ownership of the right-wing Mongolian tribes. After all, the Ming people are accustomed to farming life, and the living habits of our Jurchens are not as similar to those of Mongolia, as long as Lin Dan Khan, the Mongol Khan who is hostile to our country, is no longer there, the Mongolian tribes may not be dependent on our country.

If the Mongol tribes belong to me, then the steppe will also belong to our country. The idea that the Ming people now used the Mongols as a northern barrier was difficult to realize. The first line of the Great Wall of the Ming Kingdom is not only under the front line of our country's soldiers. ”

Yue Tuo's suggestion is actually the one that Huang Taiji has been thinking about the most these days. However, he was still worried that there were loopholes in this plan that he did not expect, so he has been unable to make a decision.

Seeing that Huang Taiji was still silent, Yue Tuo said again: "King Khan, this expedition is fruitless, and there will inevitably be a group of people who will reiterate and reconcile with the Ming Dynasty." If we can't prepare first, I'm afraid that the three bailes will have to use the topic to play. It is better to strike first than to control others as the latecomer. ”

After being silent for a long time, Huang Taiji finally nodded slightly and said: "Okay, just bow your head to that Ming Guo child, the two of you go back and prepare, and after a few Heshuo Beile return to the city, we will mention the matter of keeping peace with the Ming Kingdom..."