(Recommended reading: Li Hongyu learned from Bahat that Lin Dan Khan gathered 80,000 troops in this western expedition, of which 50,000 came from the Inner Khalkha Department, 10,000 from the Chahar Department, and the remaining 20,000 came from the left wing of the Eastern Mongol Mountains, which was already the limit of the troops that Lin Dan Khan could mobilize.

Originally, Lin Dan Khan hoped that the Horqin Department could send 20,000 troops, but unfortunately the Horqin Department found a reason to refuse, otherwise the strength of the Western Expeditionary Army would reach 100,000.

Among the left-wing tribes of Modong Mongolia, the most powerful is naturally the Chahar Department, but how could Lin Dan Khan mobilize the main force of the Chahar Department to participate in the Western Expedition, and he must let the Nekhalkha Department and other tribes go to be cannon fodder first.

Li Hongyu felt quite helpless about this, thinking that Lin Dan Khan was too selfish when he commanded the left wing of the Eastern Mongolian Empire, and such an important western expedition to the Har Department had to dispatch a considerable number of troops no matter how it was said, otherwise wouldn't it be a matter of letting the Inner Khalkha Department take the initiative in controlling the Western Expeditionary Army.

In this way, how will Lin Dan Khan control other tribes in the future? How will the other tribes perceive his move to take advantage of the opportunity to exclude dissidents?

The Inner Khalkha Ministry invested a large number of troops for this western expedition, and the Khan of the Inner Khalkha Department, Zhuolik Tuhong, believed in Li Hongyu's strategic vision, and at the same time was extremely worried about the situation of the Inner Khalkha Department sandwiched between Lin Dan Khan and Nurhachi, so it was better to lay a new world in the Western Expedition to avoid the dilemma of being attacked by the enemy on his back.

In addition to the Mongols, the Jurchen Yehe tribe also participated in the western expedition, and the Yehe tribe had already formed an alliance with the Inner Khalkha tribe, and was ready to send 20,000 troops to participate in the western expedition, and distribute the spoils according to the merits of the war.

For the Jurchen Yehe's participation in the war, Lin Dan Khan naturally welcomed with both hands, the stronger the Western Expeditionary Army, the more fruitful the Western Expeditionary Expedition will be, and when the Western Expeditionary Army is exhausted from fighting with the other party, he can take the opportunity to make profits, not only to defeat the enemy in one go, but also to consolidate the rule of the Inner Khalkha and other departments, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

The Jurchen Yehebu is now in a very embarrassing situation, and after being forced to move to the Ningyuan area, he is like an ownerless duckweed with no sense of belonging, if it were not for the resettlement funds allocated by the Wanli Emperor and Li Hongyu's secret help, I am afraid it will fall apart.

In order to improve the morale of the Yehe tribe, and at the same time to divert the complicated contradictions within the Yehe tribe, Jin Taishi and Buyangu decided to participate in the western expedition, and only by winning the battle could the emotions of the people of the Yehe tribe be appeased.

Unlike in the past, Jin Taishi and Buyangu did not have any worries about attacking this time, and Li Hongyu would secretly fund Ye Hebu.

In fact, not only the Yehe Ministry, Li Hongyu will also secretly fund the Inner Khalkha Ministry, and it will not be a problem at all to support the Inner Khalkha Ministry and the Yeh Jurchen Ministry at that time with the financial strength of the Customs Department.

It is precisely because of this that Zhuolik Tuhong, Jin Taishi, and Buyangu decided to devote heavy troops to the west, and they believed that Li Hongyu would definitely not break his promise.

In Li Hongyu's view, this western expedition is mainly divided into two major stages, the first stage is to subdue the Modong Mongolian right-wing tribes, the Modong Mongolian right wing ostensibly regarded Lin Dan Khan as the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, but in fact they had already been independent and did not obey Lin Dan Khan's orders, so the Western Expeditionary Army should take the lead in taking the Modong Mongolian right-wing tribes.

The second stage is naturally the conquest of the Mongol tribes in the western part of the country, which is the most arduous and tragic stage, because the place occupied by the Mongols is vast and sparsely populated, and it is bound to take a lot of time and energy to gain a firm foothold there, Li Hongyu will not let the Mongol expeditionary army repeat the mistakes of the ancestors of the western expedition hundreds of years ago, and must consolidate the control of the occupied territory step by step.

When the Mongol army marched westward, the new army of the Ming Dynasty would cooperate with them to launch an attack on the right wing of the Mongol and the Mongol tribes in the west of Moxi, so as to relieve the border problems that plagued the northwest.

In this way, the strength of the Mongolian army in this western expedition is as high as 120,000, including 80,000 Mongolian troops, 20,000 Jurchen soldiers, and 20,000 new Ming troops, which is enough to make the first stage of the plan successfully completed.

Although the Mongol army accounted for two-thirds of the strength of the Western Expeditionary Army, in Li Hongyu's view, the Jurchen soldiers and the new Ming army were the main forces of the Western Expeditionary Army in the first stage.

After hundreds of years of baptism, the Modong Mongol tribes, which lived relatively comfortably, had already lost their courage to gallop on the battlefield, and were not the opponents of the Moxi Mongolia and the Mobei Mongolia with a relatively harsh living environment on the battlefield.

Otherwise, in history, Nurhachi would not have destroyed Modong Mongolia so quickly, as for Moxi Mongolia and Mobei Mongolia, Nurhachi only made his superiors submit, and it was not until the Kangxi period that the Kangxi Emperor personally conquered and destroyed Geldan who unified Moxi Mongolia.

However, in the second stage, the Mongol army will play an important role, and Li Hongyu believes that after the first phase of war and reorganization, the combat effectiveness of the Mongol army of the Western Expeditionary Army will be raised to a higher level, and it will be enough to fight with the Mongol army in Moxi.

In the final analysis, the strength of the Mongol army has an absolute advantage in the Western Expeditionary Army, and it is suitable for fighting in the northwest region, so Li Hongyu needs them to support the beam at that time.

According to the plan set by Li Hongyu, the Western Expeditionary Army will start to launch an offensive next year to officially open the curtain of the Western Expedition, and before that, he must prepare the logistics of the Western Expeditionary Army, to put it bluntly, through the money earned by the Customs Department to provide material support to the Western Expeditionary Army.

Of course, Li Hongyu's supplies were mainly provided to the new army of the Ming army and the Jurchen soldiers, and Ye Hebu had already defected to the Ming Dynasty and was also counted by Li Hongyu into the sequence of the Ming army.

Bahat finally came to the capital, and Li Hongyu naturally wanted to fulfill the friendship of the landlord, so he took Bahat to visit the capital after taking leave from the Hanlin Academy.

Bahat was shocked by the grandeur and prosperity of the capital, and it was the first time he had seen such a huge city and a thriving market, and the population of the capital alone seemed to have caught up with the population of the five Inner Khalkha provinces combined.

Under the guidance of Li Hongyu, Bahat had a great time, visited almost all the scenic spots in the capital, tasted all the snacks he could eat, and feasted on them.

At this time, Bahat finally understood why the ancestors had been obsessed with re-entering the Central Plains after being driven back to the desert by Emperor Hongwu, and the Central Plains region was as beautiful as a paradise on earth compared to the grassland.

Naren Toya is more admired by Jiangnan, telling Bahat Jiangnan is completely a rare fairyland in the world, and the prosperity and wealth of the market are far beyond imagination, which makes Harbat have a lot of longing for Jiangnan.

It's a pity that Bahat didn't have time to go to Jiangnan because he wanted to participate in the Western Expedition, so he could only wait for the Western Expedition to find time to go to the Jiangnan area to see it.

Bahat, who was having fun in the capital, didn't know that the capital, which seemed to be calm on the surface, was clouded and cloudy due to the serious illness of the Wanli Emperor, and the atmosphere was already tense to the extreme.

Bahat did not stay in the capital for long, and after a few days of play, he set off to return to the steppe, he was an important general of the western expedition of the Inner Khalkha tribe, and he had to rush back to assemble and reorganize the troops.

"Brother Yu, this is something sent by Governor Li."

Li Hongyu personally sent Bahat out of the city, and when he returned home, Qin Yue, who stayed at home, handed him a sealed envelope.

This letter was sent by Li Ruzhen's henchmen not long ago, and he handed it to Qin Yue in person.

Li Hongyu knew that Li Ruzhen had found out who had left the capital during this period of time, so he took the envelope and walked to the study in the backyard.

Qin Yue knew that he had something to do, so she pulled Naren Toya and left with a smile, so as not to disturb Li Hongyu to think about the problem, although she didn't know why Li Ruzhen sent someone to send this envelope, but judging from the cautious attitude of the messenger, there must be something important in the envelope.

When he arrived at the study, Li Hongyu opened the envelope and saw that it was indeed the information of the pro-army fake person recently, including the identity of the fake person, as well as the time of leave and the time of leave.

After Li Hongyu flipped through the papers that recorded the information of the pro-army on leave, he picked up his pen and listed the names of several people on a piece of rice paper, as well as the time of the leave and the cancellation of the leave.

Due to the urgency of time, it was impossible for Li Hongyu to investigate all those pro-military personnel who had taken leave, so it was necessary to narrow down the scope according to the corresponding conditions and conduct covert investigations on key personnel.

In Li Hongyu's opinion, people who can be trusted by Emperor Wanli should not be in a high position, in that case, it is easy to be targeted, and more importantly, the high-ranking officials of the Beijing army are more likely to contact the forces of various factions in the capital, so how can Emperor Wanli rest assured.

Therefore, Li Hongyu thinks that the person who may get the holy decree of the Wanli Emperor is a middle- and lower-level military attaché, so that he will not have anything to do with the forces of various factions in the capital, and he will rely more on the imperial power.

Li Hongyu believed that Emperor Wanli's city government must have made arrangements for the situation after his death, and to be precise, after King Fu was forced to leave the capital to go to the vassal, Emperor Wanli should have considered the possible struggle for the throne after his death, and must have dealt with it, and secretly cultivated a reliable candidate among the pro-army.

Among the middle- and lower-level military attachés listed by Li Hongyu, there are two thousand households, one deputy thousand households, and five hundred households, and these eight people are the most suspicious in Li Hongyu's opinion.

If you divide it into more details, there are three people who took leave to go out of the city to visit their homes before the Wanli Emperor issued the holy decree, and none of them have returned to Beijing at present, they are a thousand households, a deputy thousand households and a hundred households, these three people are the objects of Li Hongyu's most suspicion, because they are not in the capital, they are very easy to be ignored by the outside world.

The Ming Dynasty implemented the cantonment system, so the pro-army and the military households of the Beijing army all lived in the towns and villages near the capital, so the first thing Li Hongyu did was to go to the hometown of the three to find out the recent situation of the three of them, whether to go out to visit relatives and friends or stay at home and close the door.

Li Hongyu felt that if someone held the holy decree of the Wanli Emperor, then his mood would definitely feel nervous, where was the mood to visit relatives and friends, there was a good chance that he would stay at home and guard the holy decree, in case the holy decree was missing, he could not afford this consequence.

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