"Sigh the law ......"

When the time entered the wax moon, a heavy snow began to cover the northern part of the Ming Dynasty.

Looking down from the sky, in the vast snowy plateau, you will see a white patch, occasionally revealing brown ground, which makes you feel that you are living in the world.

In the season of minus 20 degrees, people have the inherent impression that at this time, it is often the time when the north wind is howling, the snow is falling, and people are mostly roasting at home.

However, at the sound of the horses' breathing, a team dressed in cloth armor uncharacteristically appeared in the snow.

They hurried west along the frozen River of Trouble, and the flaming mandarin duck jackets on their bodies were like a flame in the snowfield, burning and moving slowly......

"Be careful under the feet of the horses' hooves, in case you step on some mouse holes, even people and horses fall down, and freeze to death in the snow, then it's no wonder that others!"

The voice of the Qianhu officer sounded, which made the young soldiers who were guarded in the center of the cavalry team cheer up their spirits.

"Li Dingguo! Watch your soldiers! ”

"Yes!"

The Thousand Household Officials rode past a young general and called out his name.

Faced with the reminder of the Qianhu official, Li Dingguo, who was dressed in cloth armor, also responded to the other party with a childish voice.

He rode out of the ranks, and glanced at his soldiers, his cheeks cold, but his heart was hot.

This is Anbei Mansion in the province alone, and the current Li Dingguo and them are going to Hulan and Hypothermia, which was renamed Anbei County, as a change of guard.

Although Mobei is cold in winter, it rarely has such a heavy snowfall.

It can be said that Li Dingguo and their arrival were very unlucky, and the heavy snow this time made their road to changing guards extremely difficult.

Li Dingguo on horseback looked to the north, the stretching Buerhan Mountain had been covered with snow, and when he looked up, there was thick snow all over the field.

"Baihu, do you say that Wolf Juxu Mountain is here?"

Li Dingguo's team are all freshmen who graduated from Yanshan Military Academy, as educated soldiers, everyone knows the story of Huo Quai's seal of Wolf Juxu, and everyone wants to know if Buerhan Mountain is Wolf Juxu Mountain.

In this regard, it is difficult to verify because the history is too long, but Li Dingguo has heard His Royal Highness explain that the name of Wolf Juxu Mountain is different in each era, but if you really want to find out the real location of Wolf Juxu Mountain, then it should be hidden in Buerhan Mountain.

"It should be here, but I don't know which mountain it is."

Li Dingguo responded to the little flag officer, and at the same time turned his horse's head and followed the soldiers and horses westward.

Along the river all the way to the west, they will soon arrive at the westernmost city of the Ming Dynasty in the land of Mobei, Anbei County.

Shan Yu Province, as proof that the Ming Dynasty inherited the Tang Dynasty Shan Yu Protectorate, this provincial name full of foreign names will not make people uncomfortable, but will make them always remember that this place is the territory of the Ming Dynasty since ancient times.

The one who led the Xiao cavalry guards to change their guards was Cao Bianjiao, who was ready to set off without resting after arriving in the capital.

At this moment, his short beard is full of ice slag, but as a military general, he doesn't care about this bitter cold weather.

At the end of the day, no matter how cold it is, it's much better than the highland climate of Dogan.

Although the Mongolian Plateau is also a plateau, it is still small compared to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, so Cao Bianjiao is not unsuitable.

He led the cavalry guards all the way to the west, and the team stretched long in the snow.

A silvery white front, as if to suggest that there is no end to this road for everyone.

It's just that such a hint is very insignificant in front of the gradually conspicuous city.

Like a fiery red dragon, the troops rushed towards the gray-brown city in the vast white world.

As they approached, they were discovered by the soldiers at the head of the city, and the gates were opened, and the unfinished stone bridge was supported by wood, and below it was a frozen moat, as hard as iron plates.

It seems that he hasn't seen anyone else for too long, and the Tiance guards stationed here poured out of Anbei County in a rush and hugged the soldiers of the Xiaocai guard.

Some of them took over the weapons, some helped shoot the snow, and some helped to get the package, all in one time outside Anbei County was extremely lively, and the commanders of the two armies also met at this moment.

"Cao family boy, how is it? Taste the bitter cold of this desert north! ”

"It's nothing compared to Uszor!"

Sun Shoufa rushed up, laughed and greeted Cao Bianjiao, Cao Bianjiao also responded to each other with a smile, after all, Sun Shoufa is a figure of his uncle's generation.

"Let's go! Advanced City, let you see this Anbei City I supervised! ”

Sun Shoufa threw a pot of hot wine for Cao Bianjiao to warm up, and Cao Bianjiao was not hypocritical, and opened it and poured it into a big gulp.

The people of the Ming Dynasty did not like to drink the so-called liquor in later generations, and more people liked rice wine, rice wine, and fruit wine.

Rice wine is very uncomfortable to drink when it is cold, but as long as it is heated slightly, it makes people feel happy in the mouth, and they unconsciously want to drink a second cup.

Cao Bianjiao breathed a sigh of relief, then turned over and dismounted, and shouted behind him: "Call Li Dingguo to accompany the team!" ”

After that, he and Sun Shoufa walked into the city with a smile.

Li Dingguo, who was arranging the soldiers and horses of the headquarters, was summoned, and he also trotted all the way to follow the two in armor.

Due to the lack of resources in Mobei, Anbei City is built with cement and stone as a whole.

Although it is called Anbei City, it is only the provincial governance of the province and the government of Anbei Province, so the whole city is divided into two cities, inner and outer cities, with a circumference of twelve miles.

As the first important town in Mobei, Zhu Youzhen personally designed the city, its city is four zhang high, 48 forts, eight city towers, the shape is a big circle, there is a moat around the city.

There are eight urn cities on all sides of the city, which resemble the shoulders and feet of a turtle, covering an area of about 8,000 acres, and can accommodate 100,000 people to live and live after completion.

Because it is along the Trouble River, there is a moat introduced from the Trouble River around the city, which is about three zhang wide and about seven feet deep, and is called the Wolf City because it is located in the south of the Wolf Juxu Mountain.

In the city, there is a street of the general military office, the chief secretary and other official offices, there are also two long streets of the people's life and trade, and there are more than 20 square markets for living.

There are not only sewers underneath the castle, but also a water system driven by a steam engine, and a heating yard that is responsible for heating in winter.

Of course, these are all part of the future planning, the current time for the city to take over is too short, many things have not yet been built, and even the construction has to rely on the soldiers and some residents.

"There are now 1,600 emigrants in the city, and there are four market towns and sixteen villages around it, just like the one on the map."

On the city wall, Sun Shoufa introduced the situation in Shan Yu Province and Anbei Province:

"In the four towns and sixteen villages around Anbei Province, there are more than 13,000 people who have migrate."

"Most of them moved here this year, so the entire Anbei Province only has the cultivated land that was reclaimed by the Beiyu before."

"There are now two prefectures and eight counties in this desert north, with more than 124,000 people and more than 70,000 acres of cultivated land, so there are not many soldiers and horses that can be raised."

"The Anbei Mansion you changed guards only has more than 23,000 acres of cultivated land, and the tractors have been temporarily given to Hanhai Mansion in the east, and they are relatively safe over there."

"After the beginning of spring next year, the imperial court will send a thousand tractors to Anbei Mansion, but these things are handled by civil officials, so you don't have to worry about them."

"In addition, there are only 15,000 people in Anbei Prefecture, of which 10,000 are herdsmen, and there are more than 5,000 people who cultivate the land, and the cultivated land is basically distributed to them."

"According to the situation in this ghost place, even if a thousand tractors are sent every year, I am afraid it will take several years to be self-sufficient, so there is only one guard of soldiers and horses stationed, and the grain needs to be transported by Modong Province."

"The northern captives in the west did not dare to invade, and they have moved west to Kobdo at the foot of the Golden Mountain, more than 1,800 miles away from here."

"In short, here is to train the troops, defend the land, don't engage in any expeditions, and don't go to burn the famine, there is not enough food to eat, and the expeditionary army is easy to run out of food."

Sun Shoufa told Cao Bianjiao about the situation in Shan Yu Province and Anbei Mansion, and Cao Bianjiao listened all the time, and asked people to write down everything Sun Shoufa said.

After Sun Shoufa finished speaking, Cao Bianjiao also turned his head to look at Li Dingguo at the end of the team, and asked jokingly:

"Li Dingguo, do you think this place is suitable for stability?"

"Back to the general soldier ......" Li Dingguo seemed to expect Cao Bianjiao to ask, so he had already been prepared, so he replied:

"Judging from the strength of the dynasty, as long as the imperial court needs it, it will be able to use this place as a base in the next year to launch an expedition of tens of thousands of iron cavalry to Zasak Tulu."

"The year after tomorrow?"

"This kid is joking, isn't he?"

"It's too child's ...... to think about war"

Li Dingguo's words made many generals shake their heads and joke, and even Cao Bianjiao and Sun Shoufa felt that Li Dingguo's words had a bit of a taste of coming out of his mouth.

An expedition from the city of Anbei in Anbei Province to Horin and Xiaohai (Lake Baikal), and tens of thousands of cavalry were to be dispatched.

Speaking of this distance alone and the mobilization of soldiers and horses, this kind of battle requires at least 100,000 stone grain and grass, and no less than 20,000 people need to drive and transport.

In terms of the grain yield per mu in Mobei, 100,000 stone grain requires at least 1670,000 mu of cultivated land to be harvested.

Looking at it this way, it doesn't seem like much, but the problem is that there are more than 140,000 soldiers and civilians in the province alone, and the grain they eat plus military horses, mules and horses, and horses must be at least 6,700,000 stones.

At present, Modong Province is unable to be self-sufficient, and all the food outside the customs is supplied from inside the customs.

If you want to transport 6,700,000 stone from Beizhili, which is more than 3,000 miles away, to this place, you need to bring at least 4 million stone of grain when you set off.

The basic needs of the military and civilians required the expenditure of four million stone rice and wheat, not to mention the expedition.

Therefore, 100,000 stone of grain does not seem to be much, but for the military and civilians of the province alone, it can be described as an unbearable burden.

"In terms of the tractor output of the national dynasty, as long as His Royal Highness is willing, he can transfer tens of thousands of tractors to supply Anbei Mansion, so that more than 100,000 acres of cultivated land can be reclaimed within a year."

"These cultivated lands are more than enough to include the cultivated land of Anbei Prefecture itself, not to mention sending 10,000 troops."

Li Dingguo said neither humbly nor arrogantly, which made many generals who did not understand the national strength of the Ming Dynasty stunned.

Although they know that tractors are of great help to agricultural production, they are completely unaware of the output of Daming tractors.

Now after Li Dingguo's words, they know that Zhu Youzhen did not put much energy into Shan Yu Province.

"According to what you say, as long as Your Highness thinks, the dynasty doesn't have to wait for the railway to arrive in Anbei, and we will be able to recover Yunzhong and Yanran?"

Sun Shoufa and Li Dingguo are the most familiar with each other, and they know that he knows a lot of news that he doesn't know, so he can't help but be curious to inquire.

In the face of inquiry, Li Dingguo did not speak, but only responded with a gesture.

After a year of discussion, the province is now subdivided into four prefectures, namely Anbei, Yanran, Hanhai, and Yunzhong.

However, according to the administrative plan, only the two prefectures of Anbei and Hanhai belong to the Ming army at present, and the Yanran Mansion in the western part of Mobei and the Zasaktu Department is stationed, as well as the Yunzhong Mansion in the Baikal area in the north have not yet been recovered.

The reason why it failed to recover is very simple, that is, Da Mingyan can't transfer so many resources to open up to the north and west.

Not to mention that Daming is experiencing a large-scale drought at the moment, the cost of fighting in the interior alone makes it difficult for Daming to afford.

It is important to know that the cost of employing troops in the inland is several times or even more than ten times the cost of using troops in the coastal areas.

Although the Ming Dynasty only needed 10,000 cavalry to sweep through Mobei, recover the two provinces, and by the way, conquer the Western Regions to the west, and recover Anxi, Beiting, Mengchi and other places in the Tang Dynasty, these were ineffective expansions.

Only by immigrating to Shibian, leaving Han culture in the local area, establishing long-term rule, and collecting taxes by the administrative team, can these places be stabilized.

Although the Ming Dynasty could follow the example of the Qing Dynasty and invest millions of taels every year to stabilize Mongolia and Xinjiang, with the Confucian scholars' temperament of throwing it away, if the local output could not be produced, then they would also persuade future kings to abandon this large territory as they persuaded Xuanzong to throw away Jiaozhi.

Therefore, even if he had the strength to recover the remnants of the Western Regions and Mobei, Zhu Youzhen did not order troops for a long time, but was digesting some territory that had not yet been digested.

"How is the construction of the Mobei Railway?"

After all, Cao Bianjiao of this plane has also studied books such as "Yanshan Economy" and "Territory Culture" compiled by Zhu Youzhen, so when he understood that Zhu Youzhen had the strength not to do it, he immediately thought of the four words "effective land expansion" on Zhu Youzhen's lips.

After knowing what Zhu Youzhen was waiting for, he asked the Qianhu official behind him, and this person quickly responded when he heard this:

"Construction just started last month, and now it will be built from Zhangjiakou to Kaiping Province, and then north to Murowei County of Hanhai Province in Shanyu Province, and then split into two."

"A route to the east, along the Heishui River, connects with the Liaomo Railway in Hanhai City, Modong Province."

"One to the west, repaired to Anbei City, Anbei Province, the total length of the railway is 4,000 miles, the Ministry of Industry has reported that it will be opened to traffic in 15 years, and if there are enough workers, it can be advanced to 10 years."

"Ten years?" Listening to the words of Qianhu Guan, Cao Bianjiao frowned.

When is it ten years later, twenty-six years after the Apocalypse, and at that time, King Qi may have already been a vassal.

People say that "people die and politics rest", once the king of Qi leaves, can the Ming Dynasty still open up to the outside world?

Cao Bianjiao's face was cloudy, and no one around him knew what he was thinking, only Li Dingguo had long known the "dirty" of the Yanshan faction.

So after thinking that Cao Bianjiao was also a student of Yanshan, in order to prevent Cao Bianjiao from thinking too much, Li Dingguo had to stand up and say:

"Your Highness should launch a western expedition and a campaign to recover the entire territory of Mobei around the twentieth year of the Apocalypse."

Li Dingguo's sudden opening made everyone's attention focus on him.

In the face of everyone's attention, the sixteen-year-old Li Dingguo was not timid, but explained generously:

"The train does not need to be repaired to Anbei City, as long as it is repaired to Hanhai City, and then the waterway and the difficult river can transport supplies to Anbei Mansion."

"The terrain from Modong to Hanhai Mansion is flat, similar to the plain, and it should be able to be repaired in three years."

"As for the Western Regions, the opening time of the Jingjia Railway is also in the twentieth year of the Apocalypse, so it can be matched before and after."

Li Dingguo's generosity made the generals look at him with admiration, of course, this does not include Cao Bianjiao.

Cao Bianjiao didn't think that this was Li Dingguo's outstanding vision, but felt that Li Dingguo's intelligence was enough to make an analysis.

Zhu Youzhen wrote a passage in the "Yanshan Strategic Dictionary", which made Cao Bianjiao remember it deeply.

"Intelligence is the key to the success or failure of all operations, and military intelligence, economic intelligence, and scientific and technological intelligence are all crucial to the decision-making of the country and the military."

This point is very eye-catching in the battle between Daming and Jianyu.

In the early days of the war between the two sides, Nurhachi relied on the intelligence of the people of Liaodong to continuously defeat the Ming army, learned the weaknesses of the Ming army, and even made Zhu Youzhen suffer a big loss when he was a teenager, so that Nurhachi seized the opportunity in the battle of recovering Liao.

That is, Zhu Youzhen accumulated enough cavalry and artillery, beheaded more than half of the elite in the first battle, and then filled in the customs and immigrants into Liaodong, and disintegrated the offensive of the Jin army from both military and intelligence, otherwise according to Nurhachi's military talent, it would be difficult for the Ming army to compete with it in the early stage.

Cao Bianjiao remembered very well that King Qi once said one sentence, that is:

"Militarily, my opponent is Lao Nu, and politically my opponent is Huang Taiji, the reason why I can defeat them is mainly by dismantling their intelligence, cultivating the country's own intelligence, and then using the intelligence to find fighters and win victory."

Although Cao Bianjiao felt that these two people did not deserve such an evaluation as King Qi, this sentence was very right.

When the generals, the army, and the national strength are all comparable, a piece of intelligence is enough to change the entire battlefield situation.

Perhaps in the past, the proportion of intelligence in war was not large, but with the beginning of the industrialization process of the Ming Dynasty, especially the continuous change of weapons and equipment, the proportion of intelligence in war is very large.

Only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can one win a hundred battles...... And the information in Li Dingguo's hands is beyond the reach of Cao Bianjiao.

Thinking of this, Cao Bianjiao probably had an arrangement for Li Dingguo in his heart, but before that, he still had to take the school examination for Li Dingguo.

"In your opinion, do you need to send 10,000 troops to deal with the northern captives?"

Cao Bianjiao asked Li Dingguo, and the generals also looked at him, and Li Dingguo replied with neither humility nor arrogance:

"If you only recover Mobei, you only need to send 3,000 iron horsemen and send a messenger to surrender without a fight."

"If you want to add the recovery of the Western Regions, then you should send more than 20,000 cavalry, with Hexi and Shan Yu as the north and south roads, all the way to the south and all the way to the north, so that the Western Regions can be determined."

"If you want to encircle and annihilate Hudun Rabbit, you will go first on the south road, and after recovering the southern Xinjiang, you will go north to the north to encircle and encircle the leaves, and then the cavalry on the north road will go on an expedition to encircle and suppress, and the south road will intercept."

Li Dingguo's method is to bag his pocket, but the premise of this tactic is that the Western Regions must be divided, otherwise as soon as the Southern Route Army recovers Hami and Turpan, Lin Dan Khan will run away in a puff of smoke.

"What if Tiger Rabbit Dun unified the Western Regions in the twentieth year of the Apocalypse?" Cao Bianjiao asked, but Li Dingguo shook his head categorically: "This is impossible!" ”

"Why?" Looking at Li Dingguo's determined appearance, Sun Shoufa became interested.

"Tiger Rabbit Dunzhi is talented and sparse, although he is good at military battles, he is short in strategy."

"Right now, the Xilu have formed an alliance, and there is Wara in the north, and the Tiger Rabbit Dun is still promoting the Red Religion without knowing whether it is alive or dead, which will definitely make it detached from morality within the country, and it is not conducive to the confrontation with the Xilu."

"In the future, if our army goes out of the fortress, we only need to issue a document and no longer pursue the past of the Karaqin, Chechen and other departments, and the two troops and horses will inevitably come to vote."

"Without these two soldiers and horses, Hutudun is only more than 100,000 troops, 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers and horses, how can they resist the power of the heavenly soldiers?"

Although Li Dingguo is still young, he is already proficient in applying politics to military affairs.

In a religious dispute, he can seize the opportunity to divide the people under the command of Lin Dan Khan.

Unless, in the next few years, Lin Dan Khan suddenly announced that he would no longer promote the Red Religion and change back to the Yellow Religion, otherwise this shortcoming of his will always exist.

As far as this method is concerned, all the generals think that Li Dingguo, who is still a hundred households, will at least be a general soldier in the future, and even the governor of an army.

"I want to transfer you to Yanran City in the west, what do you think?"

As soon as Cao Bianjiao opened his mouth, he sent Li Dingguo to Yanran City, the westernmost part of Anbei Mansion.

It was the government of Yanran Mansion in the future, but it was only a county of Anbei Province at the moment.

Although it is still more than 1,200 miles away from the station of the Zasaktu Department, if the Mongols of the Zasaktu Department take risks to attack the grass valley of the Ming Dynasty for the sake of supplies, then Li Dingguo will be on the front line.

Let the sixteen-year-old boy Lang lead the troops to garrison Yanran City, and send this news back to the capital, I am afraid that it will cause criticism.

"The last general will not fail in his mission!"

Li Dingguo responded without hesitation, and Cao Bianjiao, who saw this, also bowed slightly:

"From today on, you are the generation of thousands of households in Yanran City, but although you are a generation of thousands of households, you only have the right to defend the land, but not the right to attack."

"Yes!" Li Dingguo bowed his head in response, and Cao Bianjiao stopped saying anything when he saw this, but continued to visit Anbei City with Sun Shoufa.

It was Li Dingguo, after responding, he followed the process in the army to take over the Qianhu of the Xiaocai Guard who should have been sent to Yanran City.

Many hundred households were still stunned when they saw Li Dingguo become a generation of thousands of households, but Li Dingguo had already begun to arrange soldiers and horses to camp in an orderly manner.

According to the plan, they needed to stay in Anbei City for three days, and then rush to Yanran City to change their garrison.

For Li Dingguo's sudden promotion to the generation of thousands of households, many officials of hundreds of households who did not know his details were a little dissatisfied, but for many thousands of households among the Xiao cavalry guards, they knew Li Dingguo well.

Not to mention that Li Dingguo has become a generation of thousands of households, even if he turns positive tomorrow, they don't think it's strange.

After all, this is the person brought up by King Qi......