After calming the emotions of the two, Gao Yiming said with a smile: "It's cold and cold at night, let's go to sleep." ”

"Your Majesty, what about you?!"

"I'm not sleepy yet, think about some things again, Ying'er will sleep in Feng'er at night, good! You two go quickly. ”

Zhou Hou nodded, pulled Yuan Guifei away, leaving Gao Yiming to sit alone, he wanted to go through the new year's work plan again, once the year was over, he believed that the war of the grassland departments would begin, Geldan would go east, and the Qing army would go west or south, so what should the Ming army do?

In fact, he has thought about the relevant result thousands of times, that is, to consolidate the Hexi Corridor and take the opportunity to occupy Shandan, which has been a place for the Central Plains Dynasty to raise military horses since the Han Dynasty.

The Ming army also chose a grassland in the Yin Mountain as early as a year ago, but with that place alone, it is impossible to cultivate hundreds of thousands of good horses without one or two decades, and the Ming army does not have so much time now.

Once Shandan is captured, then the Ming army will go to war directly with Mark, Marker only has fifty or sixty thousand soldiers in his hands, and his close neighbor is Benjamin, with seventy or eighty thousand horses, fortunately, these two tribes are not in harmony and can be used by the Ming army.

After the occupation of Shandan, the next big enemy of the Ming army is Geerdan, and the most difficult thing to do in the northwest is this Geerdan, this guy has been entangled with the Qing Dynasty for many years in later generations, from Shunzhi to Kangxi, like a cowhide plaster, it is a Xiaoqiang who can't be beaten.

At this time, although Geldan was fledgling, there were no less than 400,000 men with armor in his hands, almost all of whom were cavalry, so they could crisscross the grassland for thousands of miles, which was beyond the reach of the current Ming army in any case.

If you want to firmly control it after capturing Shandan, then there are only two ways, either let Geldan not get out of the grassland in a short time, or the Qing army will advance fast enough, and these two world enemies will clash in advance, and finally form a three-legged situation.

In either case, the Ming army needed to actively prepare for war.

For this reason, as early as the day before yesterday, when it was still warm, Gao Yiming had already dispatched Zhang Tongchang, the governor of Guangxi, with Jin Shenghuan and Ai Nengqi, to lead 200,000 troops to strengthen the defense line of Liangzhou (Wuwei in later generations), Gansu Wei (Zhangye in later generations), Suzhou (Jiuquan in later generations), and Jiayuguan (the Ming Dynasty closed Jiayuguan in the third year of Jiajing, and moved the people of the three counties in the west of the Guanxi to enter the customs, and since then, Dunhuang, Guazhou, Yumen and other cities in the Shule River basin have become desert places without the establishment of "wind sowing buildings and willows for thousands of miles, and the moon shines on the quicksand for another day").

Here in Gansu Wei, there are 40,000 war horses smuggled by Gao Yiming from various parts of the grassland through underground channels, and 30,000 horses transferred from Yinshan Ranch, a total of 70,000 horses, including many mares, in order to start breeding a large number of war horses once Shandan is captured.

Originally, Shandan belonged to the area controlled by the Shaanxi Xingdu Division of the Ming Dynasty, but because of the lack of attention from the imperial court, Jiajing was actually occupied by the grassland tribes.

In the uncertain thoughts, time flies quickly, and in a blink of an eye, the sky begins to show the whiteness of the fish's belly, and a new day and a new year begins. During this period, Zhou Hou saw him two or three times, but when he couldn't persuade him, he laid a futon on the spot and let him lie down and think.

Gao Yiming crawled out of the quilt, stretched his waist, picked up the cotton cloth in the basin by the stove, wiped his face fiercely, sobered himself up, and then opened the palace door and went to the morning court with firm steps.

At the same time, Dolgon, who was in Shengjing, also began to fight hard, preparing for the new year's life.

"Ladies and gentlemen, today is the first early dynasty, the new year has begun, the Malay newspaper, the two departments of the steppe of Mark and Benjamin, in order to compete for the grassland, have begun to deploy troops, ready to do a big job, Molun and Mandu Lu are ready to marry, Lin Dan and Dayan are more interesting, originally the two in-law tribes, one winter was provoked by Geldan with a little trick is also sabre-rattling, so our opportunity has come." Dorgon clenched his hands into fists.

"Chen Haoge asked for war, the previous year after a war in vain, this expedition to the west, the minister will screw off the heads of the leaders of the grassland tribes, and send them to the emperor to see." Looking at Haoge with a hideous expression, the little emperor of Shunzhi shrank into the throne in fright.

Because according to Hong Chengchou's report, a conspiracy against Hauge has already been carried out, and the key to that scheme is to use Hauge's lustful temperament to select a beautiful assassin to attack and kill him, and then steal the order arrow in Hauge's hands to mobilize the soldiers and horses of the Three Banners for the emperor.

The key to this plan lies in the female assassin, Hong Chengchou already has a goal and is training in a special way.

A doll in his early tens, how big do you expect him to be, so because he has a ghost in his heart and is frightened by Haoge, Shunzhi feels a little swayed.

Dolgon glanced back at Shunzhi and said to Hauge with a sneer: "Good! Since Prince Su has the courage to compete for the first, this king will order on behalf of the emperor to appoint you as the generalissimo of the Western Expedition, Duoze and Qierharang as the deputy marshals, and lead 250,000 warriors of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty to level the grassland, and Prince Lilie will be good. ”

"In!"

"You lead the troops and horses of the headquarters to the south to strictly prevent the Ming army from attacking and harassing Shengjing in the north."

"Yes!"

"Good! Now that the grand strategy has been decided, please be loyal to your life, this king will continue to expand the army in Shengjing, and prepare for the next step of going south to destroy the Ming and enter the Central Plains. ”

"Regent, please don't forget, once the tribes of the steppe are destroyed, Geldan will also appear in front of us, Geerdan's power should not be underestimated, it is better to plan early, once the Ming army and Geerdan join forces, it will be very unfavorable to us." Dai Shan reminded.

"Prince Lilie reminds me that this expedition to all the departments of the grassland must be used in conjunction with grace and power, and I am ready to set up the Mengbaqi after pacifying the grassland, and expand my Baqi warriors to 60 to 700,000, so Haoge, you should go here and kill less."

Hauge frowned and glared at Dolgon, clenching his fists, silent, too lazy to pay any more attention to this pretentious fellow.

Seeing that this guy was disrespectful to himself, Dolgon's liver hurt, but at present, the court is still inseparable from Haoge, so he can only endure it, and he is also waiting for Hong Chengchou to launch the extermination plan, at that time, when Haoge's three banners are in hand, he will hold four flags and eight banners in his hand, so that the balance of power in the court will be completely tilted towards him, and at that time, who is he still afraid of, he will really become the uncrowned king of the Qing Dynasty.

It's all well-calculated, but he doesn't know that he has been sold by Hong Chengchou.

The expressions of Dolgon and Hauge were seen by Hong Chengchou standing in the ranks of the ministers, he believed that Hauge's expedition to the grassland tribes would definitely achieve great prosperity, and at that time, Hauge would enter Shengjing with supreme merit, and a full-scale conflict would definitely break out with Dolgon, and then he could implement his plan of killing two birds with one stone, the two birds were Hauge and Dolgon, and the final beneficiary was naturally the little emperor Shunzhi.