Xiao Ruxun smiled coldly.

"It's just that in the eyes of the civilian officials, fighting a war is spending money, so when I went to Japan to get back 10 million taels of silver, they couldn't believe it, they didn't believe that they could get so many benefits from fighting, or they only regarded the silver money they could see as benefits, and they couldn't see any other benefits.

They can't see how many attacks of the Northern Captives we can avoid after a counterattack, take the previous Battle of Ningxia as an example, I beheaded 3,000 captives in the first battle, and piled their heads outside the Great Wall to become a Jingguan, which scared them so much that they did not dare to invade for three years, and usually, the Northern Captives did not invade several times that year?

A successful counterattack can keep them from attacking for three years! Mr. Xu, suppose that we will lose ten taels of silver every time the Beiyu go south, and attack ten times a year, that is, one hundred taels of silver will be gone, and if we successfully counterattack once, will the silver required for this counterattack be more than the loss of the Beiyu ten times to the south?

Even if it is reciprocal, a counterattack of one hundred taels of silver, but if you can keep the north from going south for three years, three hundred taels of silver will be saved, and we will still earn two hundred taels of silver? Isn't it? Do you need to talk more about the benefits of keeping enemies out of the country?

At least the people can not be harmed, production will not be hindered, and the houses, cities and defenses we have built will not be damaged, these are all money! Don't they know that every time we go south, we have to pay not only military expenses, but also more compensation for losses?

Are these fees low? These expenses are used to rectify the army, train elite soldiers to attack outside the fortress, why worry about the injustice in the north? Why did Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sit on the Great Wall and attack the Xiongnu? Why do you want to launch a decisive battle in Mobei even when the domestic household registration is halved?

That is to completely fight for fear of hurting the Huns! Let them not dare to invade us again, causing damage to the people's houses, heaven, earth, cities and other facilities, these trivial expenses seem to be small, but they add up to a lot, and over time, it is far more expensive than the army to attack outside the fortress once! ”

Xu Guangqi has never been exposed to these practices, and has no experience in them, but he is only judged by the knowledge in books and hearsay, so he naturally cannot draw accurate conclusions, and he is speechless about the expenses listed by Xiao Ruxun.

"If there is no thing, it is natural that the northern captives do not go south, but how can the northern captives not go south? When the weather is cold and there is no food to eat, they will inevitably go south to rob us of our food to eat, and we cannot stop them unless we kill them all.

There is no point in blindly defending, we must directly destroy their nests, destroy the foundation of their survival, and force them to continue to go south, this is the only way! ”

Xiao Ruxun pulled out his war sword and put it on his table: "If you don't want to fight, there is no other way but to stop the war with war!" Kill all the enemies, and without the enemy, there will be no war. ”

Xu Guangqi swallowed his saliva, and looked at Xiao Ruxun's eyes full of murderous intent, he felt that he couldn't look directly at this kind of gaze.

"Mr. Xu, if you want to save the country, I also want to save the country, but saving the country is not just a simple word on the lips, saving the country must be practiced, how to practice it, just rely on it."

Xiao Ruxun held his sword: "With this sword, since ancient times, there has been no one who has not killed the country, and it is impossible to save the country without killing people, and when necessary, you must dare to use this sword to kill." ”

"Murder?"

Xu Guangqi looked at the sword that shone with cold light and shook his head: "Governor, I'm ...... I don't want to kill. ”

Xiao Ruxun was silent for a while, and then put his sword into the sheath.

"You scholars, claim to be the descendants of Confucius, if Confucius knows that you don't even dare to kill people with a sword, and you don't know what you will be angry about, scholars, scholars, you are reading living things to death, and today, how can you save the country without killing people?"

Xiao Ruxun left the big tent, and Xu Guangqi was stunned in the tent.

He felt that his full stomach was suddenly a little insufficient, and he didn't know how to use it.

On the tenth day of the first month of March, the five armies returned to the camp according to the predetermined plan, and came back to report what they knew and the current situation, and Xiao Ruxun further confirmed that the northern captives he was facing were no longer armies but tribes.

The castles and castles north of the first line of Xia Mizhuang have basically been occupied by them, and the news from Chai Guozhu also confirms this.

The north of the first line of Xia Mizhuang and Wei Yuanwei has basically been filled with the tribesmen from the north and south, and there are many northern captives living in the city to escape the cold, according to this way, they have more people who are successively crossing the Great Wall to settle in Datong, and constantly encroaching on the territory of the Ming Dynasty to the south, if they are allowed to stay, it will be difficult to clean up.

But in other words, it's also a great opportunity, a great opportunity to catch them all.

Prior to this, Xiao Ruxun wanted to attack Datong and rescue the Datong town that had been besieged for two months, according to the spies' report, there were not only the northern captives around the town of Datong, but also a large number of old and weak women and children living under the town of Datong, and the tent and wooden house surrounded the entire Datong city, if it wasn't for the tongue before, Xiao Ruxun really couldn't believe that the town of Datong had not been lost in this situation.

How much of a feeling of despair brought about by psychological pressure must this be, are Mei Guozhen and Ma Gui still alive?

What kind of persistence have they used to persist until now?

Xiao Ruxun didn't know, but he didn't want to wait any longer.

Among the 100,000 northern captives in total, Xiao Ruxun estimated that there were at least 30,000 who could fight, and they surrounded Datong Town with a large ring of wooden houses and tents, and they didn't know where the people who fought were, and where the old and weak women and children were.

But according to Xiao Ruxun's guess, it is estimated that the innermost and outermost are combat soldiers, and the middle circle is the people who live, and they want to use such momentum to force Datong City to surrender by itself, so as to get Datong City without bloodshed.

However, none of this matters, as long as Datong City has not been lost.

"Datong City has not yet been lost is something I never expected, this gives us a great opportunity, as long as we clean up the outside of this circle of Beiyu can rescue Datong City, and then rely on Datong, it is not difficult to expel the Beiyu, now, the situation of the Beiyu is like this, you see."

Xiao Ruxun held a military meeting in his military tent, and then drew a sketch of the situation in Datong City that he had guessed.

Datong City is surrounded in the middle, and there is a large circle of Beiyu camps on the periphery, surrounded by groups, and the water is impassable.

"It's actually such a siege method, this is forcing Datong to collapse and surrender by itself!"

Li Rusong looked at this situation and blurted out the purpose of the Beiyu.

"That's right, this is the purpose of the Beiyu, the Beiyu can't attack Datong, and they covet Datong's property, so they want to force Datong City to surrender by themselves in this way, our goal is to eat all the Beiyu in this circle, and there is no one left."

Li Rusong patted his chest: "It's easy, Governor, you give it to me Li Rusong, and I'll take it for you one day!" ”