Da Ming wants to use troops against Horqin?

Huang Taiji synthesized and analyzed all the information sent back by the secret spies, and came to a conclusion that was both surprising and gratifying, of course, he could not be sure that the Ming Dynasty nine-sided garrisons had undergone a major reorganization, and it was normal to replace the old and new armies and conduct large-scale military training.

As for the accumulation of a large number of grain and grass and other military materials, in fact, it is quite normal to think about it, a large number of troops are stationed on the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty, there are millions of people, even if the large reorganization, cut by nearly half, but at least there are hundreds of thousands, a large amount of grain and other materials are consumed every day, it is now autumn, and it is about to enter winter, so it is normal to prepare in advance and store grain and grass.

He couldn't confirm whether the Ming army would use troops against the Horqin Grassland, but he did not rule out this possibility, and still ordered Yue Tuo, who was responsible for guarding the Horqin Grassland, and the patriarchs and elders of the various tribes to be on guard.

Dajin warriors are invincible in the field, this is recognized, the once powerful Ming army did not dare to go out of the city to fight, they all cowered in the city, relying on the strong city to defend it, and it was Dakin's weakness to attack the fortifications, which really made him quite helpless.

Daming spent countless sums of money, invested a lot of manpower and material resources, worked hard to manage the Nine Frontier Defense Line, dispatched heavy troops to strictly defend it, and managed the entire Nine Border Defense Line as solid as gold. Of course, the nine border defense line is one, but it is not without weaknesses, as long as it is broken one point, the whole line will collapse, the problem is that it is difficult to break one of them, even if it is broken, it will suffer from the fierce counterattack of the Ming army, it is difficult to hold, and the opportunity is lost.

The Ming army is cowering in the city and can't defend it, he really can't help it, but if the Ming army goes out of the city to fight, then there is a chance, however, he doesn't dare to be careless, now the Ming army is equipped with a large number of muskets and artillery, and the combat power has improved a lot, like Cao Bianjiao's wolf battalion, Lu Hongniang's Phoenix Legion, and Li Xin's Shenji battalion are all the elite of the elite, dare to face the Dajin Iron Cavalry, which makes the Dajin warriors suffer heavy casualties, and also makes him vigilant and a strong sense of crisis.

The sense of crisis comes from the improvement of the military strength of the Ming Dynasty, the various strict policies and measures of the Ming Dynasty on the outside of the Guan, such as the eight families, these rich businessmen or officials who have a close relationship with Dajin have been beheaded all over the house, shocking countless people with a desire for profit, even if the benefits are high, no one dares to risk losing their heads to smuggle iron ore, grain and other contraband out of the customs, and now the investigation is very strict, and a case is found to deal with a case, no matter what your identity, the light one loses his head, the family property is confiscated, and the heavy one is to exterminate the family, after cutting off a bunch of heads, No one dares to defy the law anymore.

Although the land outside the customs is endless, but the materials are scarce, the tribesmen are mainly grazing, not engaged in production, the population base is small, basically rely on plundering and border trade to maintain the use, and the food can also be solved, but some important materials such as iron ore can only be purchased from the Ming Dynasty or the Xian Empire, and now these things are all forbidden, so that he has a painful feeling that his throat is choked.

The Ming Dynasty's strict ban on the border has made Huang Taiji feel very uncomfortable, coupled with the failure of the border for two consecutive years, he can't grab anything, this day is getting tighter and tighter, so that the patriarchs and elders of many tribes are very dissatisfied, and the third time he committed the border defeat, forcing him to take the risk of using troops against the Xian Empire.

The scum of the Xian army's combat strength made him both surprised and surprised, but he didn't calculate that the Ming Dynasty dared to send a large army to help, so that it fell short, making him grit his teeth with hatred, he didn't want to take the opportunity to annihilate Li Xin's expeditionary force, but the Xian Empire was mostly hills, which was not conducive to cavalry galloping, coupled with the powerful muskets and artillery of the Ming army, and hundreds of thousands of troops from the Badao Prefecture of the Xian Empire were chasing after him, and he had no chance to find an opportunity to fight with Li Xin's expeditionary force, so he could only retreat while robbing along the way.

Regarding the invasion of the Xian Empire, Huang Taiji, who has always been far-sighted and far-sighted, has his own views, and he has indeed grabbed a lot of things, and it can be regarded as having a certain explanation for the tribes, relieving the internal pressure, which is a political victory.

But there are two sides to everything, the Qi'er Harang Department was beaten by Cao Bianjiao's wolf battalion and suffered heavy losses, Abatai's 20,000 partial divisions and the garrison left in Yizhou were beaten by Li Xin's expeditionary force and withdrew in embarrassment, he personally led the main force to besiege Hanyang Wangcheng, and fought fiercely with the eight reinforcements of the Xian Empire, although he successively defeated the Qinwang reinforcements, but he also paid a lot of casualties, cumulatively, the casualties still made him flesh pain.

Although he killed a large number of Xian troops, but that was the Xian army, not the Ming army, in his eyes, the Xian Empire could not pose a threat at all, the Ming Dynasty was the most powerful enemy, and the cannon fodder of the Xian army was consumed by a certain amount of strength, this business was not cost-effective at all, the population base of Dajin was too small, and one less died, not to mention that the dead were all young and strong, and many of them were elite warriors, and the little thing he grabbed could not make up for his losses at all, and the loss was big.

If you have to use one sentence to summarize the achievements of the invasion of the Xian Empire and his mood at this time, it is to win face, lose the inside, ice and fire, and be so sour that you don't want it.

The labor expedition, the soldiers are exhausted, the material consumption is too much, and it is autumn now, the cold winter is coming, and it is necessary to make various preparations for the long winter, it is no longer suitable to start the war, and now the question discussed is the issue of the return of the class division to the dynasty or the transfer of the Horqin grassland, the army was originally the return of the class division to the dynasty, but the information transmitted back by the secret spy made Huang Taiji a little entangled.

Yue Tuo, Amin and other young Baylor agreed with Huang Taiji's point of view, believing that the Ming army was very likely to use troops on the Horqin grassland after the beginning of spring, and the main force must stay, looking for an opportunity to encircle and annihilate the main force of the Ming army, depleting the war potential of the Ming Dynasty, and if you are lucky, you can also take the opportunity to break the city and break the Ming army's nine-border defense line together, and open up a good situation.

The opposition accounted for the vast majority, the old Baylor general, the patriarchs of various tribes, and the elders thought that the Ming army was only training, how dare they go out of the city to fight field battles, and there were many of them like Cao Bianjiao, and there was no need for the main force to stay in the Horqin steppe for the winter, and they were not prepared for the winter, and they lacked all kinds of cold-proof materials, and there were people who froze to death.

Moreover, the soldiers have been on the expedition for nearly half a year, they are already exhausted and homesick, and if they are not allowed to go home to reunite with their families, the resentment in their hearts will be heavy, although it will not cause a mutiny, but it will affect their morale. Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if the Ming army uses troops on the Horqin grassland in the spring of next year, we will have enough time to react, all the cavalry troops, highly mobile, as long as the tribes on the Horqin grassland can hold out for a few days, even if they can't fight, they can run.

Later, there was a bit of a mockery in his words, and some of the old qualified big Baylors were still quite dissatisfied with Huang Taiji's decision to appoint Yue Tuo to guard the Horqin Prairie, and they didn't say a lot of bad things about him behind his back, looking for his fault, and of course they had to sneer at the opportunity at this time.

Well, if the reasons mentioned above are all false, then please take out the evidence of the Ming army's Horqin steppe, and speak with facts, don't say that those are false, they are useless.

This sentence really went to the core, and the army of Huang Taiji and others, they just came to the conclusion through the comprehensive analysis of the intelligence transmitted back by the hidden secret spies, how can there be any conclusive evidence? If you want to have a conclusive proof, you either tie up Hong Chengchou, the governor of Liaodong, to the king's tent and torture him to extract a confession, or wait until after the spring of the next year, when the Ming army really dispatches, this is called conclusive evidence, otherwise it is really impossible to convince others.

Huang Taiji had a headache.