When Zhu Youxiao received the report that the Yarkand Khanate had invaded Yumen Pass, he immediately convened the ministers of the headquarters to discuss the issue of recovering the Western Regions.

"Your Majesty, the Yarkand Khanate was originally divided, but after Abdullah succeeded to the throne last year, it has begun to reunite the Yarkand Khanate. If they were allowed to continue to expand everywhere, perhaps within a few years, the Yarkand Khanate would control the entire Western Regions. Xu Xianchun, deputy commander of Jinyiwei, who is responsible for studying the intelligence of the enemy's country, said to Zhu Youxiao that now the Jinyiwei foreign intelligence system has begun to be laid everywhere, and the key intelligence targets are still Mongolia and the Yarkand Khanate.

"And what's going on in Mongolia?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

"Lin Dan Khan may be preparing to reconquer Mobei Mongolia, but Mobei Mongolia and Moxi Mongolia are very close this year, as if they have the intention of uniting." Xu Xianchun reported.

Now Mongolia is divided into three parts, namely Mo Nan, Mo Bei, Mo Xi, Mo Nan Mongolia is led by Lin Dan Khan, there are 400,000 men who can fight, after the war with the Ming Dynasty, now there are 100,000 Mongolian households to take refuge in the Ming Dynasty, plus the loss of the war, Lin Dan Khan can mobilize only more than 200,000 soldiers.

Mobei Mongolia is the Khalkha Department, which was bullied by Lin Dan Khan a few years ago, so he signed an alliance with Lin Dan Khan, but seeing that Lin Dan Khan was defeated by the Ming Dynasty, he turned his face directly.

Moxi Mongolia is the Dzunkar tribe, living in the Dzunkar Basin, controlling the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, as well as the Ili River Valley, and its territory expanded north to the Altai Mountains and west to the Balkhash Lake region, a rapidly rising Mongolian tribe.

At this time, the Yarkand Khanate was also re-emerging. For a time, the alien forces in the northwest region were somewhat complicated.

"Ladies and gentlemen. Do you think that if Lin Dan Khan started a war with Mobei and Moxi Mongolia. Who wins and who loses? Zhu You asked everyone.

"Your Majesty, I think Lin Dan Khan has a better chance of winning." Lu Xiangsheng analyzed: "Although the Monan Mongols led by Lin Dan Khan were defeated by the imperial court, they lost a large area of grassland and population. But now that trade has resumed, and I, Daming, have exported some weapons and equipment to Lin Dan Khan. With these advantages, even if Mobei and Moxi Mongolia are united, they may not be Lin Dan Khan's opponents. If Mobei and Moxi Mongolia were united, it would not be easy to swallow them with the strength of Lin Dan Khan. ”

Zhu Youxiao nodded, and Sun Chuanting said: "Now the pattern of division in the northwest region is the most beneficial to our Ming Dynasty. Any force that might unify the northwest region is a threat to us Ming. Since the Yarkand Khanate has taken the initiative to invade our Ming territory. It is indeed a godsend, the imperial court can annihilate it in one fell swoop, and then fully intervene in the situation in the northwest to ensure that there will be no unified pattern of alien races in the northwest. ”

"What Sun Aiqing said is reasonable, but to destroy the Yarkand Khanate, the imperial court will not fall into the quagmire of war, and they must be dealt with as soon as possible." Zhu Youxiao nodded and said, "Let's come up with a combat plan!" ”

"Your Majesty, the road to Gansu can be built before the beginning of spring next year, and the conquest of the Yarkand Khanate will be effectively guaranteed in terms of logistics." Sun Chuanting said: "Therefore, the dispatch of troops can be arranged after the spring of next year." And our cavalry force has expanded to 100,000. Half of it can be used for combat. The field army can also draw more than 100,000 troops for combat, and it is enough to destroy the Yarkand Khanate. However, if you only use the Yarkand Khanate, there are aliens on all sides, and the defense border will be very long. ”

"So strategically, we can destroy the Yarkand Khanate first, and then destroy the Zunkar tribe, as well as Qinghai and Yibu. Sweep the surrounding area, and the last thing that remains is Mo Nan Mongolia and Mo North Mongolia. Lin Dan Khan now wants to continue to attack Mobei, and we can export a batch of weapons and equipment to the Khalkha Department of Mobei to balance the forces of the two sides. ”

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Just when Zhu Youxiao held a meeting of the Command, public opinion also began to exert force. The news of the invasion of the Yumen Pass by the Yarkand Khanate quickly spread throughout the Ming provinces as the newspapers quickly attracted people's attention to the Western Regions. "Daming Daily" and other newspapers began to constantly revisit the history of the Western Regions, and a public opinion to recover the Western Regions was quickly brewed.

"Daming Daily": "The Western Regions have been my Chinese territory since ancient times, and during the Northern Song Dynasty, due to the abandonment of the Western Regions, the alien race grew, and finally Mongolia unified all parts of the northwest, causing the disaster of Mongolia entering the customs. Now that the Holy Son of Heaven rules the Quartet, the invasion of the Ming Dynasty by the alien races in the northwest is tantamount to self-defeat......"

After some public opinion brewed, many people of the Ming Dynasty were indignant at the behavior of the Yarkand Khanate, and supported the imperial court to send troops to sanction the Yarkand Khanate.

After the meeting of the Supreme Command, Zhu Youxiao immediately began to dispatch troops.

The strategic goal of this war is clear, that is, to recover the entire Western Regions region and establish a stable and secure national defense of the Western Regions.

Therefore, it is not only the Yarkand Khanate that is being wiped out, but also the Dzunkar tribe that occupies the Jungkar basin and the Heyi tribe that occupies Qinghai are all the targets of this war.

After the annihilation of these forces, the surrounding forces were left with two forces: Mobei Mongolia and Monan Mongolia. In order to thwart Lin Dan Khan's desire for expansion and prevent Lin Dan Khan from unifying Mongolia, Zhu Youxiao immediately sent an envoy to make formal contact with Mobei Mongolia, and planned to export a batch of weapons and equipment to Mobei Mongolia, so as to control Mongolia with Mongolia.

At the same time that the strategic intent is clear, the supply of logistics materials can also keep up with the supply of logistics materials because the highway has been built in Gansu.

At this time, before the beginning of spring, Zhu Youxiao had already begun to transport war materials to Gansu.

Although Zhu Youxiao intended to quickly sweep the Western Regions, he still had to be prepared to fall into the quagmire of war. Therefore, adequate preparations were made for the preparation of combat materials. Continuously mobilized grain, gunpowder and other materials to Shaanxi and Gansu.

Among them, it is still of great use to store a little more grain in Shaanxi and Gansu.

Zhu Youxiao remembered that in the year when Chongzhen first came to power, a severe drought broke out in Shaanxi, and there was no rain in northern Shaanxi throughout the year. At that time, there will definitely be a lot of victims, although they have been emigrating from northern Shaanxi in recent years, the population in northern Shaanxi is still very large. When the time comes, disaster relief or something will need a lot of food support.

Even if the grain is transferred to Shaanxi and Gansu and cannot be used up for war fighting, it can still be used for disaster relief.

In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, because the Northeast region, Taiwan, and Luzon all had grain output, and Beizhili had a bumper harvest again, the food in Zhu Youxiao's hands became unprecedentedly abundant for a while.

Having more food is not a bad thing, and it is an important material to support the next large-scale construction activities or war activities. As long as we do not allow this grain to flood into the market all at once and keep the grain price too low, if the grain price is too low, the production enthusiasm of agricultural producers will be hit.

As a result, a large amount of grain is now in its hands and has not been put into the market. (To be continued.) )