"Yes......" Li Gui replied: "Since you want to analyze, you have to look at the overall situation and look at yourself first...... We and Yusheng are now strong and strong, don't brag and say, Lin Dan Khan's 100,000 people come over, and we can send 10,000 people to catch rabbits all over the grassland...... But our shortcoming is that the cavalry is insufficient, the infantry is sufficient and strong, and the northern captives are not opponents. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The disadvantage is that it is not easy for infantry to move in the steppe, it is not easy to fight, and it is even more difficult to pursue. Previously, we repaired the fort and waited for them to fight, and later closed the military fort and trapped Tumut in several lines, which completed the annihilation. If you fight with the Chahar people and the left-wing Mongols in the wider steppe, you can build the military fort all the way to the past...... This amount of work is already so large that we can't bear it, and it's completely unimaginable. Moreover, if we forge ahead, the next question is, how to cooperate with the infantry and cavalry to travel thousands of miles, and at the same time prevent the nuisance and large-scale attack of the Eastern Captives? With all due respect, if we don't think about how to deal with the east, we can't go east at all! ”

Everyone nodded, what Li Gui said was indeed the truth. At the beginning, the forts were pushed north from Xinping Fort, and several important points were grabbed, and Zhang Han had been accumulating strength for a long time, accumulating a lot of material wealth, sufficient manpower, and close distance, so it took half a year to complete the general project, and then the soldiers and soldiers were stationed, and put on a posture of guarding, and when the Tumut Department reacted, and Yusheng had become a noose, strangled on their necks so that they could not move, and finally Yusheng completed the strangulation, and also made half of Inner Mongolia fall into the hands of Yusheng.

Obviously, the left-wing Mongolia can't do this, and Yusheng's management of the steppe will take a few years to see real results, the logistics supply capacity can not be compared with the Xinpingbao and other places in the year, manpower and material resources are not sufficient, and it is impossible to build the fort all the way to the Chahar department, the place is too large, and the left-wing departments have a lot of room to move, and it is impossible to use the method of building the fort to get it again, the so-called can not be repeated, the fortress tactics are suitable for Tumut, but there is no way to deal with Chahar.

In addition, Li Gui also pointed out the defect of the lack of cavalry combat power, and Yusheng's cavalry training has never stopped, but the cavalry is not infantry, and the infantry can be called elite after training for a few months, and the cavalry has to be trained all the time, and it is best to keep fighting, which is called the elite. At present, only the Lancer Regiment and the Chaser Battalion are qualified cavalry, and the combat effectiveness of the two Gun Cavalry Regiments was originally thought to be very strong, but after the battle against the Eastern Cavalry, the military department has already understood that the Gun Cavalry Regiment can cover the Northern Cavalry, but if it is very difficult to fight the Eastern Cavalry, it will even suffer some small losses, but it is said that the Eastern Cavalry can play a beautiful battle loss ratio like the Ming Army, and the military high-level does not believe it.

It can be defeated, but it will not be defeated, let alone destroyed.

The issue of the East Capture raised by Li Gui is even more important.

If the Chahar is attacked on a large scale, it is inevitable to enter the sphere of influence of the Eastern Prisoners, the reason why the Eastern Prisoners have stopped in the past two years, and they have not attacked Liaoxi on a large scale, in addition to the meritorious work of the old grandson to re-operate, the defense of Western Liaoning has been pushed back to Jinzhou and Daling River, the Thirteen Mountains have merit in containment, Dongjiang Town has merit in containment, Dengzhou Town and the Sailor have also been restrained, and all parties have been contained, plus Donglu has focused on operating Mongolia, Liaoxi has not been invaded in the past two years, but the left-wing Mongolian departments often see the Jurchen army, Sent troops many times in a row, even if it was to plow all the disobedient left wing departments, Chahar's Lin Dan Khan could not stand up, not only did not protect the ministries, but also took advantage of the fire to rob, when the five coalition forces were defeated by Dai Shan, and the remnants of the foothold was unstable, Lin Dan Khan forced over again, and annexed the remnants of the five herdsmen of Inner Khalkha to his command, and the fried flowers fled, and was later rescued by the cavalry of Yusheng...... Now the fried flowers are still raised in Qingcheng, which can be regarded as a big banner with Yusheng...... As long as the merchant army enters the territory of the left-wing Mongolia, a large-scale conflict with the eastern captives is inevitable, the loss of trade is a trivial matter, and the income from grain is not high, but everyone asks themselves, is the merchant army ready?

The battle between the Thirteen Mountains and the Bahrain Department, so that the proudest group of officers in the military hierarchy also understood, the combat effectiveness of the Eastern Captives is incomparable to the Northern Captives, in history, the 4,000 people of the Emperor Taiji chased the Chahar people of 100,000 thousands of miles away, 4,000 soldiers plus thousands of auxiliary soldiers and thousands of Mongolian servant soldiers, less than 20,000 people entered the Jifu siege of the Beijing Division, defeated many main forces of the Ming army, whether it was Liaozhen or Xuandabing, they were not opponents. Regardless of the method of battle, bow and arrow, military discipline, personal combat skills, and the self-confidence and arrogance of the victorious division for many years, these bonuses are not available to the northern captives, and such a tiger and wolf division to fight, the infantry has no logistical support, the number of cavalry is small and not as good as the elite of the opponent, how to fight this battle?

Li Shenming usually doesn't express much opinion on military issues, and at this time he couldn't help but nod and said: "What Li Gui said is right, our army is still weak against Shangdong. In particular, the distance is too far and can only be supplied along the grassland, and the supply of the army is not just a grain transport team. Now it seems that it is impossible to fight in a big way, nor can it be pursued, so it can only be based on small fights and passive defense. ”

Li Gui nodded and said: "What Mr. Li said is exactly what his subordinates meant, weigh it and consider it, because of the reason of the Eastern Captives, we can't eat the left-wing Mongolia, since we can't eat it, we don't have to beat Lin Dan Khan at this time or think about annihilating him, keep him, it's enough to block him, this guy staying in the left wing is also the Lord who causes trouble for the Jurchens, he wants to move west, but it's not so easy!" ”

"Good!" Without waiting for Zhang Han to speak, Liang Xing first struck the festival and admired.

With Liang Xing, the military bigwig, taking the lead, Ren Jing, Yang Sisun and others all applauded one after another, and so did Duo'er, who had a lawsuit.

Everyone has fun ideas, but it is indeed Li Gui who expounded it very well, this is a qualified blueprint for a grand strategy planned in consideration of the actual situation of the enemy and us, starting from the most fundamental reality, it can be said that how the merchant army will go next and how to continue the battle are all very clear in Li Gui's long speech.

After Liang Xing praised it, he asked: "Li Gui, tell me, how long will it take for us to only fight back and use small-scale battles to weaken Lin Dan Khan's strength, but not to get involved in Liaodong?" ”

"Two to three years." Li Guidao: "There are many reasons, the most important thing is to accumulate their own internal strength, two to three years later, Yusheng and I can earn eight million or more, raise two to thirty thousand cavalry and fifty or sixty thousand infantry, more than 100,000 soldiers and accumulate a large number of materials, and can afford to supply logistics along the way to Liaodong to advance, at that time proposed a decisive battle, but also!" ”

In fact, at least half of Li Gui's words were Xia Xiping's meaning, and when Xia Xiping was considering the time of the decisive battle with the Chahars, he also fully considered the time that Zhang Han usually hoped for when chatting with him.

In the eighth year of the Apocalypse or the ninth year of the Apocalypse, it was the time for a decisive battle, overseas trade, trade with Russia, trade income from the interior, the production of cloth on the steppe reached three million horses, and the occupation of the entire northern cloth market, copperware, pig iron, wrought iron, fine iron ware...... When the combined income can reach tens of millions or more, at that time, financial and material resources can support a life-and-death battle that requires all efforts, and the opponent is the most powerful enemy that Zhang Han has been blowing the wind and thinking about: Dongyu.

If Lin Dan Khan knew, he didn't know what the expression would be on his face, and the last Genghis Khan, who thought highly of himself, really didn't know what kind of expression his face would be if he knew that he didn't even have the qualifications to be a qualified opponent.

As for why Zhang Han blows this wind...... The reason is also very simple, there is no eight years of the Apocalypse at all, nine years of the Apocalypse, and only the second year of Chongzhen.

In the second year of Chongzhen, the national fortune of the entire Ming Empire will come to a crucial turning point, with the capture of the east and the peasant uprising in northern Shaanxi.

The first time the Dongyu entered the Kou, crossed and eliminated the Xuanda army, the Ming army only left the Qin army and the Guanning army in Shaanxi, the Guanning army became a feudal town, the Qin army was small in number and poorly equipped, and it was brave and weak in follow-up, and almost always trapped in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and other places to fight with the peasant army, but Zhang Han did not focus on these, whether it was Guanning or Xuanda or the Qin army, he didn't have to pay attention to it, he was concerned about the peasant uprising, only when the surging peasant uprising officially began, he would officially put the deal with the Donglu on the agenda.

If there is no peasant army making trouble, how can it be proved that the Ming Dynasty has lost all the hearts of the people and the national fortunes have ended?

Just like Zhang Han trained 100,000 strong soldiers, he could enter the Beijing division through Datong at any time, but that was not the right way to win the country, even if the heads of people killed by force were rolling, but to clean up the hearts of the people, there was no decisive success in decades of hard work, and it was really like the Manchu Qing Dynasty from the north all the way to the south, but it was to kill a Qing Dynasty, but that was also the backbone of the Han nation to be discounted, and the righteous gentlemen and the people who dared to die either died in the national disaster, or took refuge in the mountains, or hid in the world, of course, there will definitely be a large number of officials and gentry who choose to be attached to, but that kind of "talent." "What's the use?

Ban Dang knows loyal ministers, usually brags about himself with loyalty, but there are few who dare to fight for righteousness and death at a critical juncture, and they only care about their own interests, and heroes like Yan Yingyuan and Lingnan Sanzhong are not able to succumb to violence and threaten. The word "righteousness" does not seem very important, but in fact, it is still very important for the stability of the rule and the smooth transfer of power. Didn't the Manchu Qing Dynasty enter the customs under the banner of exterminating the peasant army? At the beginning of the Qing army into the customs, although it was a foreign race ruling China, but in a considerable number of strata the Qing army was to avenge Chongzhen, almost all over the country is a rumor, if it is not for the Manchu high-level unwilling to repeat the mistakes of the Meng Yuan, must mix the world, force the Han people to shave their hair and make it easy to obey, I am afraid that the history of the unification of the early Qing Dynasty will be the easiest history of the founding of the country, and will not be repeated, until the Kangxi period barely settled the world.

Zhang Han didn't have any loyalty to Daming, and he had done everything about smuggling the Northern and Eastern captives, so was he still afraid to tear his face with Daming? Although the apocalypse is kind, it is not a reason why he can't start, the key point is still in the word "righteousness", if you can't think of repeatedly, you can win the world smoothly, and you can't do it well.