"In addition, it is not only cotton and silk that can be spun, but also wool. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info" After talking about the northwest, Li You set his sights on Lin Dan Khan again, now that the new army of the nine sides has been completed, and Cao Wenzhao's military operation in Jiangnan is also coming to an end, it seems that it is now possible to consider completely solving the problem of Lin Dan Khan.

Although Lin Dan Khan's strength is weaker than that of Huang Taiji, the land occupied by the Mongol tribes is more vast, and Li You needs to mobilize more troops to completely solve this problem, but if this is the case, it is not suitable for Lu Xiangsheng to lead the troops or Cao Wenzhao and Man Gui to lead the troops, so he continued, "I plan to follow Chengzu and lead the army to conquer Mongolia and completely exterminate Lin Dan Khan." ”

After several years of hard work, now the situation in Beijing has been firmly controlled by Li You, and these newly appointed officials have gradually been recovered by Li You, coupled with Cao Huachun and Luo Yangxing's Dongchang, Jinyiwei, and old ministers like Sun Chengzong to guard the court, Li You can finally rest assured that he can lead the troops to the battle, rather than intriguing with the courtiers in the court, he prefers to lead thousands of troops and horses to fight against the enemy, so that he can feel the blood of the day.

"Your Majesty, the son of a daughter can't sit down, although now the prosperity of my Ming soldiers far exceeds that of previous generations, but after all, soldiers are a dangerous thing, Your Majesty is in danger of my Ming Dynasty, how can you be in danger? It's better to choose another good general to lead the troops to the battle. Sun Chengzong persuaded bitterly that the previous two imperial expeditions were all victorious, so he did not question Li You's military talent, and could only persuade Li You from the aspect of political stability, hoping that he could accept the advice to stay in the capital.

"I have made up my mind, and now it is difficult for General Lu, General Man, and General Cao to command an army of this size." Last time to destroy Huang Taiji, Li You sent more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, and this time he planned to double the number and gather enough 300,000 troops to go on the expedition, so as to completely solve Mongolia.

"General Lu, you quickly go and re-verify the number of soldiers in the Beijing camp and the nine sides, and come up with a plan for transferring troops; Wang Shangshu, you need to prepare the ordnance needed for the army to go on the expedition; Elder Sun Ge, you and the household department began to prepare food, military uniforms and other things...... "Li You directly began to arrange tasks, 300,000 troops set out to fight, it is not a matter of a word, just preparing for it may take a long time," ...... Cao Huachun and Luo Yangxing, you two continue to strengthen the infiltration of the Mongolian tribes, be sure to inquire about their internal situation, now the Mongolian tribes are not all dependent on Lin Dan Khan, if there are tribes willing to surrender to my Ming Dynasty and help attack Lin Dan Khan, my Ming will not hesitate to reward. ”

Today's Mongolian tribes can be described as a plate of scattered sand, and the Horqin Mongols did not deal with Lin Dan Khan before, so they submitted to Huang Taiji, and now they have been completely wiped out by Lu Xiangsheng; In addition to the Horqin Mongols, there are also many tribes who are not convinced by Lin Dan Khan, and even fight with him endlessly, which is a combination of vertical and horizontal and divides its strength. A good opportunity to gather more soldiers and horses to solve Lin Dan Khan together, I believe that someone will be willing.

"Slave maid/micro minister obeys!" Cao Huachun and Luo Yangxing hurriedly responded, in fact, they had already started this work, the Mongols could not do without the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, they had already buried countless spies in the caravan, and went deep into the Mongolian departments to inquire about the military situation, contact the tribal leaders and upper-level monks who were dissatisfied with Lin Dan Khan in various places, and now it is quite effective.

"When the war is calmed down in the future, the cattle and sheep raised by these Mongols can be sold to the Central Plains on a large scale, cowhides, beef, beef bones, sheepskins, wool, mutton, these are extremely useful things for my Ming Dynasty, Mongolian herdsmen can also have money to buy tea, silk cloth from the Central Plains, if you don't fight, you can get what you want, presumably the situation in the north can be much more stable." Relying solely on military deterrence to maintain peace is a matter of high investment and low return, and is often very unreliable, but the use of the economy to control is different, not only to reduce military spending, but also to more effectively restrain these alien races in the steppe and integrate them into the system of the Central Plains.

When the Mongols get used to this mode of cooperation and make more profits from it, if there are still people who want to make trouble in the future, the Central Plains will not even need to send troops to encircle and suppress them, but only need to threaten to reduce the amount of purchases, and I am afraid that they themselves will be in a hurry to destroy those few restless tribes first, in exchange for the recovery of purchases.

"In this battle, General Lu, General Man, General Cao, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others led the army to the north with me, and General Yue stayed in the capital." Li You made the same arrangement as before, taking away some of the senior generals, and leaving Yue Yun to guard the capital, so that he could reduce some unnecessary worries, so that he could rest assured in the Northern Expedition.

The plan of this Northern Expedition was to first go east and then west, first exterminate Lin Dan Khan in the east, and then enter Hexi to go to the west, restore the Hami Wei of the year, and even the earlier Western Regions Protectorate and Beiting Protectorate, remembering the scene when he fought in the Western Regions with Li Guang, Wei Qing, Gao Xianzhi, Yuchi Sinhala Rama and others, Li You was a little stupid for a while.

Even though there is no wealth in the Central Plains and no beautiful scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, the sunset over the long river and the lonely smoke in the desert are also a refreshing and fascinating scene, and the vast yellow sand and towering snow-capped mountains are also intoxicating.

"Where my Central Plains is strong, there are all hidden Western Regions, but unfortunately since the Anshi Rebellion, the Central Plains dynasties have not been able to look westward, even if there are heroes like Zhang Yichao, they can't go against this trend, and now hundreds of years have passed, it's time to let the banner of the Central Plains flutter in the Western Regions, if this battle is won, my Ming army will chase after the Han and Tang Dynasties, and go far to the Song and Jin Dynasties!" Li You said impassionedly, all the generals in the palace are full of blood, and even a person like Sun Chengzong is excited.

"Okay, now that the strategy has been decided, let's go and get busy." The general direction has been determined, the order has been given, then they can begin to make intensive preparations.

Immediately Cao Wenzhao began to command the army from Jiangnan to return to the north, of course, he did not bring back all 30,000 troops, he only took 20,000 people, and 10,000 people under the command of a Song army general to rectify the guards in Jiangnan, and by the way, continue to support Hong Chengchou, so that he can do a good job of finishing up Jiangnan.

And on the grassland, the last great man of the Golden Family, the son of Khutuktu Khan, Lin Dan Batur, also smelled the smell of danger coming from the south, and countless knights rode to his command on war horses, ready to meet this great battle.