"The General Staff Department believes that there are several ...... troubles" Zhang Han motioned to Sun Yao to continue, and Sun Yao continued: "The first is that the grassland is too large, our troops are insufficient, and the trade routes are too extensive, which makes it difficult for us to take care of the end and not make any mistakes...... The second is that in the event of a war, if the enemy and the whole people are soldiers, no matter what the relationship is in peacetime, except for a few people, most of the herdsmen and nobles will stand on the opposite side of us, which will lead to too many of our enemies, and the number of outnumbered will be very different! Third, we are a guest army far away, from Lizhuang to Qingcheng alone there are nearly a thousand miles, along the way our army has no defensive ability except for supply points, not only the logistical pressure is high, not only the business road has the risk of being harassed and cut, but also the more dangerous is that our military division is transferred to the north, it is easy to be divided and surrounded by the enemy with superior forces, and each annihilation ......"

Liang Xing said: "Yang Sisun took the initiative to attack head-on with 300 people and defeated the enemy's 5,000 cavalry, and we transferred troops at least 300 people, what are you afraid of him?" ”

Sun Yao shook his head and said, "Yang fought the battle beautifully, but we can't think like this......"

Sun Yao saw Liang Xing's eyes glare, and hurriedly said: "One, Yang is in good command, and second, there are four artillery pieces with the army, and we have no way to ensure that every time we transfer troops, there will be an artillery crew accompanying us......"

This is indeed a key point, Yang Sisun can win that battle, the key is indeed to have an artillery crew with him, the power of the four artillery pieces is really unequal, otherwise Yang Sisun is powerful, I'm afraid that battle will not be easy to fight!

Now there are still too few four-pounder guns!

The commander of the artillery battalion was still Tang Wangzong, and the Portuguese Joao and other officers joined the military and became Tang Wangzong's deputies and subordinates.

Asked a group of white skins to enter the army, Zhang Han was also quite helpless...... Although the Ming Dynasty had a tradition of attracting Tartar officials, it would not cause resentment, and it was more acceptable than a pure mercenary form, but more importantly, there was a serious shortage of excellent artillery talents.

Gun commanders and higher-level commanders are not capable of knowing words or arithmetic, and they need many years of experience in actual combat...... Zhang Han's artillery was cast more and more, and he slowly waited for the young people in the literacy school to come out, received military training, and then selected qualified ones to join the artillery, and then slowly practiced...... This is the best way, but it is not urgent, at least for a year or two, he needs these foreign officer helpers, at least, they can serve as instructors to assist in the training of new soldiers.

Sun Yao saw that Wang Changfu was about to speak again, so he made a firm hand gesture and motioned for the other party to wait.

"So the conclusion of the military division is that if we keep a small area of trade and continue to operate, then military operations need to give way to political and diplomatic efforts to please the Mongols as much as possible, and then we continue to expand the size of the cavalry, and the final goal is to use cavalry to control cavalry, and to use high mobility to high mobility, but in doing so, we will lose a lot of profits in the north in two to three years, at least hundreds of thousands a year, and I don't think this is what everyone is happy to see...... Therefore, the suggestion of the General Staff Department is to refer to the key points of the war against the northern captives, build the military fort all the way to control the key passes, as a supplement, stamina, control the strategic points, and slowly encroach and encroach...... Our goal is not to maintain the trade route, but the ultimate goal is to control the Tumut and the Mongols of Mobei, so that they can be truly incorporated into the system of Yusheng! ”

After Sun Yao finished speaking in his last breath, his tone also became sonorous and powerful, and his words were also extremely determined.

"What a big determination......"

Although he had been involved in it, Sun Jingting was still shocked by Zhang Han's determination and will at this time.

You must know that even if the Ming Dynasty is the power of a country, whoever proposes to completely digest and control the Beiyu now will be regarded as a madman!

As Sun Yao just said, from the Qin and Han dynasties to the Ming Dynasty, except for a few periods when the Han people went deep into the grassland, most of the time they were on defense, and even in the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Song Dynasty, the dynasty built by the Han people was pressed and beaten by the nomads in the north.

The war between the two sides is not equal, on the one hand, there are natural cavalry, and on the other hand, if you want to build cavalry, you have to pay a great price. During the Northern Expedition to the grassland during the Han Dynasty, the wolf was finally sealed, and the price was the exhaustion of the whole country...... The situation is the same during the Ming Dynasty, the five northern expeditions are laborious and wealthy, the national strength is really not able to hold on, and the five expeditions, the income is really limited, the nomads can easily be reduced to zero, the army will be transferred to dodge, and the Ming army is difficult to supply, it is bound to not stay in the grassland for a long time, and the infantry-based army goes deep into the vast grassland of the sea, the risk is also infinitely large, the Guogong Qiu Fu will have 100,000 soldiers, and the result is that the enemy rashly advanced, and was wrapped in dumplings on the grassland...... When Chengzu was in, the Ming army was majestic when there was such a thing, to the Yingzong period, the Jingying soldiers were not the opponent of the first, before the Yingzong command was at a loss, the tens of thousands of elite cavalry of Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, were also defeated first, and the two armies were comparable in the outpost battle, which shows that the combat effectiveness of the Ming army has been inferior to that of the northern captives.

At this time, not to mention the rise of the Eastern Captives, the Northern Captives have only stopped for a few days, and the Ming Army has been on the defensive for up to two hundred years, not to mention that the Northern Captives are really digested, even if someone really fights all the way to the grassland and then gains a firm foothold, this is already a great achievement.

"What our predecessors didn't dare to do and couldn't do, we can do and succeed, and this is a lifetime in vain." Zhang Han did not raise his voice, but his tone was full of impassionedness, and revealed a very confident and majestic atmosphere.

At this time, everyone was shocked to realize that the young proprietor who had been following had grown to such a point?

In a word, it is necessary to annex the Mongolian tribes with a territory of nearly 10,000 miles and hundreds of thousands of people?

This plan sounds crazy, and it feels like crazy, but everyone is still discussing it seriously, and everyone feels that following Zhang Han, this crazy plan can succeed!

"Now we can't move Lin Dan Khan and the Khan Ministry, we still have to be friendly with them for the time being, digest Tumut to Ordos, and then the Taobu, stop at Oirat Mongolia, go north to Mobei, and border the Russians......"

Within a few years, it will be very difficult to complete the grand strategy of going north and annex the northern Mongolian tribes, and then burn the flames of war to the Mongolian tribes in the east, and even border the Houjin in advance, which will be troublesome at that time, and may even cause the complete failure of the northward strategy......

"Of course, the Military Command Department is subordinate to the grand strategy." Sun Jingting said: "We have begun to prepare, and we have strategically tilted towards the north in the barracks and many measures. ”

"The General Staff Division also has a specific plan...... "Of course, the army is mainly from the Xinping Fort area, and there is also a part from Zhangjiakou to the west, and the plan of the General Staff Division is to ......build a fortress in five miles and a pier, a military platform in ten miles, and a fort in important places."

Sun Yao pointed to the sand table in the middle of the conference room, pointed to a point on the west side of Zhangjiakou Fort, and said: "Here to build a larger military fort, here is the original Xinghe guarding the thousand households, the terrain is critical, we want to build a fort here in advance, Fang Guang Sanli, not only garrison, but also an important turnover station for the east of the business road, and then the Daqing River, Erlong River and other rivers, in the dangerous pass places that are easy to cross the river, the scale can be a little smaller, the military fort with a circumference of about 900 steps is appropriate, and then to Jining Haizi, to build a big fort, into the water Haizi, Build a small fort, on the bank of the Dahei River, build a small fort, and finally push it to the Xiaohei River, Daqingshan, and the old Fengzhou land, and build forts respectively. ”

The places that Sun Yao refers to are all aimed at Qingcheng, that is, the core of Western Mongolia, that is, the Naturalization City and Bansheng City, from west to east, one by one military forts are built, as long as they are completed, a huge noose will be formed, and sooner or later those unruly northern captives will be tied up like wild dogs.

Of course, this plan is very good, but Li Dongxue can't help but show a different color on his face, the Department of Military Affairs is not only in charge of military and political affairs, but also factory production, the army's barracks, and the logistics bureau of the military and political system are all under the rule of the Military and Political Department.

"Dongxue, you don't have to grin your teeth......" Zhang Han smiled at this time: "Knowing that you are under a lot of pressure, you should pick more deputies to assist you, you don't have to grasp everything in your hands......"

Li Dongxue said: "How dare subordinates be afraid of hardships and hardships? Just thinking of such a big project, there are dozens of military forts alone, and in terms of the military fort with a circumference of three miles, it is necessary to build at least 200 furnaces to burn bricks in the early stage, dig soil into trenches, and fire hundreds of thousands of city bricks, and then build a fort, and the buildings inside also need a large number of bricks and wood, and the materials required require a large number of manpower, and I am really a little afraid to think about it......"

There are so many military forts, plus dense military platforms and fire piers, such a large amount of work is unimaginable...... That is, the new king of the dynasty, the founding king with absolute authority and millions of manpower, can do such a thing.

Li Shenming said: "It's no wonder that Dongxue is so afraid of difficulties, these military forts have to be built within a radius of 2,000 miles, which is already much more difficult than in the interior, and it is extremely difficult to do such a thing outside the Saiwai." We have dozens of military forts in Datong and hundreds of military fire piers, but they were slowly built over a hundred years......"

At the beginning of the establishment of Datong Town, the defense was also the first and the Mongolian Department of the Tile Spur, the border defense pressure at that time was very great, the military castle built was very dense, and it was also the most military fort in the nine-border area, and the most perfect military town, but although Datong controlled thousands of miles, the border fort was also repaired in the mountainous border, but after all, it was with the power of the whole country, and the imperial court supported the finance with the opening of the law that was still intact at that time, and the local government provided manpower and material resources, which began to take shape within dozens of miles, and then tinkered for decades, and finally formed the scale in front of him.

Zhang Han wants to be the commander of the Acropolis and the commander of the two guards, but what he built is a huge project comparable to the Datong defense line, and it is also built in the hinterland area of the Beiyu, if this thing is really done, it will really be famous for eternity!

The people present also thought of it, and their eyes were extremely eager.

Money and business are important, but people also seek fame!