Xiao Ruxun stretched out his hand and pointed to a certain place in the map, and the generals stepped forward to watch, all of them were surprised at first glance.

"Naturalization City?!"

Li Rusong shouted in a low voice, generals, look at me, I look at you, and they were speechless for a while.

"That's right, Naturalization City, this time the governor not only has to recover Datong, but also fights all the way to Naturalization City! Kill Tumut completely! And that's not all! Cooperate with Tumut to attack several tribes in Datong, and they must also be killed together! This governor wants to let these barbarians know about it! Plundering the Ming Dynasty is refreshing for a while, and after being refreshing, you will have to pay the price. ”

In fact, Xiao Ruxun wants to say more than this, his real purpose is to occupy the Naturalization City, and to re-pull up the northern defense system in the Hongwu period that the Ming Dynasty gradually abandoned since Yongle Xuande, and even he wants to attack the Hetao to recover the Hetao and restore Zhu Yuanzhang's defense system, especially Dongshengwei.

Dongshengwei is an important guard station set up by Zhu Yuanzhang in the northeast corner of the Yellow River Hetao area, in the northern border defense in the early Ming Dynasty, it is the only one that can control the Hetao as a whole, and its place is in the east of the surrendered city built by Zhang Renyuan in the Tang Dynasty.

Dongshengwei actually plays the role of connecting Liaodong in the east and Gansu in the west, from Dongsheng to the east there are Datong, Xinghe, Kaiping, Daning and Liaodong, from Dongsheng to the west of Ningxia, Lanzhou, Zhuanglang, Liangzhou, Shandan, and Gansu.

The Helan Mountain, the Beishan Mountain of Gansu Province and the Hetao were all under the control of this defensive line, which made the northern frontier of the Ming Dynasty from point to surface, east and west, echoing each other, so that its entire northern frontier defense line steadily advanced to the north of the Great Wall for hundreds of miles.

This line of defense is a very aggressive and active strategic defense that is completely different from today's nine-sided important towns, which allows the Ming Dynasty to have enough strategic depth in the northern theater of operations and gives the Ming government enough time to react.

Moreover, even if the Northern Captives broke through this line of defense, the Ming army still had enough time to build a second line of defense on the Great Wall, and use the strength of the Great Wall to block the Northern Captives from the Great Wall, a distance of hundreds of miles was enough for the Ming government to organize defensive forces, and most importantly, the main production areas and population settlements were within the protection of the Great Wall.

Defending the enemy outside the country means that the war will not burn in the country, there are people in the country and production, once it is destroyed, the loss is unpredictable, and after the war, the government needs to organize other forces to restore production, the productivity of the agricultural country is very fragile and easy to destroy, but it is difficult to recover.

This back and forth of more than a year and countless energy had to be consumed, and the money and materials used for post-war recovery were far more than the money needed for simple operations, and this business was particularly not cost-effective, so if it could keep the enemy out of the country, it would be the most strategic and cost-effective.

And some people just can't see it, they are constantly shrinking the defense line, thinking that shrinking the defense line to a place closer to the country will cost less money, and the money needed for transportation will be less, so that the country's finances will be easier, and they will need less military spending, and they will be able to suppress the military power by the way.

As a result, the territory of the Ming Dynasty shrank smaller and smaller, and shrunk smaller and smaller.

Eventually, the literati government shrank the vast national strategic territory of the Hongwu Yongle period to the extent that it had been after the unification of the Qin Dynasty in the Jiajing Wanli era.

The guards in Liaodong, the guards in the northwest, and the guards near Yinshan Mountain in the north were all abandoned, and the northern defense line of the entire country shrank on a large scale, becoming a passive defense tactic that could only be defended by relying entirely on the Great Wall.

Whenever there is a war, the people will always be displaced and suffer greatly, and the production and economy of the border passes will suffer greatly, and they will not be able to recover in a short time, so they still have to continue to supply from the hinterland.

The combat effectiveness of the army is getting worse and worse, the status of the soldiers is getting worse and worse, the military land has been embezzled in large quantities, the system of guards has been basically destroyed, the arrangements for the army left by Zhu Yuanzhang have been completely bankrupt, and the strategic situation of the Ming Dynasty has fully shifted to the stage of being passively beaten, all of which Xiao Ruxun does not want to see.

He knew that even if he hit the original location of Dongshengwei, hit the Guihua City, which is now Hohhot, hit the fishing sea where Lan Yu had arrived, and even hit the Wolf Juxu Mountain and Yanran Mountain reached by Huo Quzhi and Dou Xian, he still couldn't win the change of strategic national policy in the Ming Empire led by the literati government.

They just want to live in peace, make money in peace, annex land in peace, political struggle in peace, live and die in peace, and it is best that all the enemies in the world are dead, and only people and land are left here in Daming, so they can continue to fight happily.

However, they have not considered what kind of price they need to pay for their so-called stability in return, and your retreat can only be exchanged for the enemy's inch, and only when the enemy is afraid, they will treat you with caution.

Therefore, Xiao Ruxun beheaded 3,000 Beiguan captives in Ningxia in the first battle, and piled up a Jingguan outside the Great Wall, such a deterrent force scared Ningxia captives for three years and did not dare to attack, and they could not retreat when dealing with them, but could only clean them up fiercely.

Of course, the Ming Wen government also has a good point, that is, it is absolutely uncompromising towards the barbarians in the north, and its attitude towards the Mongolian tribes is very tough, no matter how many people kill them, no one will say that the army killing is bad, anyway, as long as they don't let them look at it, they won't talk much, which is better than the Song Dynasty.

Naturally, for the Ming government, it is better to have more than one thing, it is best not to fight on both sides, and it must cost money to start fighting, and if they want money, they will start to fight for money, and they will start fighting for me, which is very annoying, so it is better not to fight.

This kind of thinking not only makes the civilian officials follow the truth, but also influences the military attachés, who feel that it is okay to perform their duties and fight a defensive war, and there is no need to attack outside the fortress.

Isn't it still like this?

The two Han Dynasty are the wolf Juxu Le Shi Yanran, but so what? Are the Hu people dead?

Daming Taizu went on eight northern expeditions, and Chengzu personally conquered Mobei five times, and even reached the point of sealing the wolf Juxu, so what, didn't the northern captives still go south every year?

Those who talk about expansion don't even think about whether those lands are good for the Ming Dynasty, what is the use of him in places where no food can grow? Not only cold, but also very expensive money, no income at all, every year to paste in I don't know how much money to maintain, do you really think that Daming is so rich?

Therefore, under the guidance of such an ideology, saving money has become an important principle of the Ming government's strategic defense.