Longevity begins with Jinyiwei

And all the changes in the situation now are due to the Beihou of that town!

Houjin, rather than making an enemy of the entire Ming Dynasty, might as well say that he is making an enemy of that Zhenbeihou!

As long as Houjin wins this time and Zhenbeihou loses, everything will change in an instant with the current situation of Daming!

Daming, won't give Zhen Beihou a chance to rise again!

In Daming, there will never be a second Marquis of Zhenbei!

Houjin is still invincible and unstoppable!

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Just as the people of the world thought, this war was a war that shouldn't have happened at a time when it shouldn't have started.

If the situation in the capital is not stable now, and the undercurrent is still raging, not to mention, the sick body of the emperor is the biggest hidden danger.

There is also the civil unrest that has spread from Shaanxi, and the gentry class that is about to move.

It can be said that this battle is also a great adventure for Li Xiu!

But he has no choice, if he doesn't move now, he won't have a chance to move for a long time in the future.

Taking advantage of this limited time, what he wants is to show his strength again, sweep away internal and external injustices, and lay the foundation for the future.

Therefore, under his arrangement, Zhongyi Bo Zhao Wu commanded the only remaining [-] troops in the Beijing camp, echoing the Yongwei camp, and coupled with the high-ranking emperor, stabilized the order in the capital.

Zhou Yuji, the chief soldier of the Xuanfu, led the army to prevent the Shaanxi bandits from messing around in Shaanxi, and suppressed the increasingly boiling civil unrest in Shaanxi for the time being.

And Jizhen...

Compared with Li Xiu's other generals who were unable to participate in this battle due to Li Xiu's various arrangements, Erwazi, who was in Ji Town, was undoubtedly much luckier.

The Jizhen iron cavalry also participated in this battle for the side of the road.

From the Xifengkou where Nurhachi broke through the pass, the iron cavalry went north, unifying several Mongolian tribes that belonged to Ming Dynasty in the first battle of the capital, and stepped on the grassland!

And Erwazi was undoubtedly the first general to get the news of this battle. In fact, when Li Xiu was planning this battle, he had already ordered Kuai Ma to notify Jizhen to prepare for the battle.

And when the actual military order to go to battle was issued, the Jizhen iron cavalry was also the first army to enter the Mongolian grassland in this battle!

Of course, compared to the tens of thousands of cavalry led by Li Xiu, Ji Town's troops are naturally much weaker. Er Wazi only gathered [-] cavalry. After merging several Mongolian troops, the momentum is huge, and the force instantly swells to More than thirty thousand.

Echoing the main force led by Li Xiu, the army numbered [-], divided into two groups, and marched north to the grasslands!

A war that is destined to leave a deep and colorful mark in the history has also completely kicked off the curtain!

Chapter 213 begins!

Chapter 214 Strategic Purpose

The sea is boundless.

If you have never been in this boundless Gobi, it is difficult to imagine what kind of scene it is, and you can't understand why the northern border has been troubled since ancient times, even if it cannot be eradicated.

In fact, if he hadn't taken control of the two border towns of Ji Town and Xuan Mansion in advance, and arranged for these two towns to start exploring Mongolia, Li Xiu would not have dared to start this war so hastily.

Of course, the most important thing is the existence of the system panel, which gave Li Xiu unparalleled confidence.

The vast Gobi, vast grasslands, for a war, the most important thing is the understanding of the geographical environment.

And all of this, with the advance investigation arrangement and the knowledge of astronomy and geography brought by the system panel, is enough to support Li Xiu to lead the army to fight in the desert.

In fact, this march into the grassland was different from most of the northern expeditions to the Tartars in history.

To be precise, the strategic purpose is different from any northern expedition to the Tartars in history.

Every time in history, the Central Plains dynasty conquered the grasslands, most of the reasons were because a generation of heroes appeared on the vast grasslands, who combined the various ministries of the grasslands, enough to pose a fatal threat to the Central Plains dynasty.

But today's Mongolian grassland is not like that.

From Hongwu to Xuande, the Ming Dynasty lasted for several dynasties, expending countless manpower and material resources, plowing the courtyard and sweeping holes, and completely defeated the Mongolian rule over the grassland.

In addition, the imperial courts of the Ming Dynasty spared no effort to mix sand in the grasslands, pull sideways, and fan the flames everywhere.

It also made Mongolia, a synonym for glory, completely become a function word in name!

Today, Mongolia still exists in name, but its de facto rule has long since ceased to exist.

Today's grassland has already formed various ministries acting independently, and no one cares about others. Although Lin Danhan intends to unify Mongolia and create greater glories, but this era is no longer the era of his Mongolia. The rise of Nurhachi also directly shattered his dream!

One mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, and they are both nomads. How can Nurhachi realize the unification of Mongolia.

Through military, marriage and other means, a large number of Mongolian tribes were attracted, which directly and completely shattered Lin Dan Khan's dream.

Up to now, Lin Dan Khan, the great Mongolian Khan, has become useless, and only the Chahar tribe in Liaohetao can control him. Moreover, he is still a remnant defeated by Huang Taiji's army!

The situation that was once respected by all the tribes in Monan was completely lost with that big defeat!

And the tribes in Mobei have long refused to recognize Mongolia and have thrown themselves into the embrace of Houjin, while Moxi...has been an enemy of Mongolia for a long time, and has long been a de facto enemy!

Today, the hope of Mongolia's reunification is infinitely close to zero!

In such a Mongolia, in fact, the threat to Ming Dynasty is infinitely close to nothing.

It was against this background that Daming's nine-border system gradually eroded, until the rise of Jurchen, Liao Town was the center of gravity, and Daming's finances were overwhelmed, which also allowed Liao Town to swallow most of the money and food resources of the rest of the border towns. The remaining eight border towns have been completely reduced to the point where they are irreversible today.

Under such a situation, Li Xiu led his army to march north to Mongolia. The strategic purpose was naturally not to plow the courtyard and sweep the caves, seal the wolves and live in the Xuxu, and even, he did not want to pacify the whole Mongolia, but just to pacify the southern desert. In the north, those Mongolian tribes that have been conquered by Hou Jin, or surrendered to Hou Jin.

As for Moxi, they have all gone to Xinjiang. The Junggar Khanate will not be established for decades. It is impossible for Li Xiu to pay any attention to it for a long time in the future.

With such a strategic purpose, the way of fighting is naturally to show military power, oppress and submit!

And the whole strategic plan was naturally planned in Li Xiu's mind long ago.

This war will be divided into three steps.

The first step is to contact Lin Danhan, march together, and integrate the various Mongolian ministries that have surrendered to Ming Dynasty.

The second step is to conquer the tribes who have surrendered or have a close relationship with Houjin, and to deal with the support that Houjin may arrive to pacify Mongolia.

The third step, of course, is the establishment of post-war rules.

Moxi is naturally excluded, and Mobei, which borders Liaodong, will naturally be occupied by the tribes who surrendered to Ming Dynasty. Lin Danhan can also restore part of the so-called glory of his ancestors, and occupy Monan to achieve his wish.

In this way, Liaodong in the grassland will be doomed to endless disputes, and the Ming Dynasty is high above, fanning the flames and driving away the tigers and wolves.

Such a post-war rule dominated by Ming Dynasty does not want to last for a long time, but only hopes that in the future, it can alleviate Ming's external troubles, besiege Houjin, and leave precious breathing time for Daming.

As for changing with time...

That is also a matter of the future.

If he succeeds, no matter how he changes, it will only be a minor ailment, which will eventually be resolved!

If he can never recover, then what does it matter to him!

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In fact, in any war, the fighting time is often short-lived, and most of the time is spent on the march and on the go.

And in this boundless Gobi, it is even more so!

The way of war is also completely different from that of farming civilization.

There is no siege and defense of the city, and there is not much formation of troops.

Especially when the Central Plains cavalry marched north to the grasslands, the most important thing was how to find the enemy without losing their way!

That's the point!

From ancient times to the present, most of the northern expeditions to the Tartars, and the losers, were mostly defeated by these two steps.

As long as these two steps are completed, the last step, the elimination of the Tartars, will lose very few people.

After all, those who dare to conquer the Tartars in the north must have elite soldiers and strong generals, and the possibility of defeat is naturally extremely small.

And this battle is naturally the same.

The strategic purpose is to deter and subdue, but since it is for deterrence, bloody killings are naturally indispensable.

For this nation on horseback, if they don't scare them, don't kill them to make them terrified, how can they be willing to be used by Ming Dynasty!

The army marched northward, joined several Mongolian tribes outside the Xuan Mansion who had surrendered to Ming Dynasty, and went northward all the way, followed by killing all the way.

Those who surrender will draw their troops to fight with them. Those who are obsessed with obsession will destroy their troops and slaughter their clans, and serve as slave soldiers. Children, women and children will be used as spoils of war and distributed to several Mongolian tribes who accompanied the army to expand their strength.

In fact, this kind of war is far more enjoyable than the war in the Ming Dynasty.

All the members are cavalry, and they don't have too many worries about food, grass and armaments when they are taken from the enemy and used for the enemy.

Such a mode of warfare is naturally completely different from the step-by-step combat method of the farming nation. Running thousands of miles, dividing and interspersing, it is quite similar to the way champion Hou led the army thousands of years ago!

It's just that the difference in strategic goals has led to this method of combat, which is only applicable to the early stage of the war.

After all, along the way, there were not only pure killings. There were also many tribes who had a deep hatred with Houjin, welcomed the king's teacher, and then sent out elite soldiers to fight with the army. Not to mention the slaughter along the way, the Mongolian ministries whose strength has also expanded rapidly along the way, and the main force of Li Xiu's headquarters who have also expanded their strength a lot.

The difference in strategic goals led to this large army, like a snowball, as the battle continued, it also became larger and bloated.

In the end, the tactics of rushing and interspersing were no longer applicable, and transformed into an upright way, pushing all the way across, completely destroying all the original order of the grassland!

Chapter 214 Strategic Purpose

Chapter 215 Kneeling

In September of the second year of Chongzhen.

This short period of less than a month is like a dream for the Mongolian tribes on the Monan grassland.

The reason is that several tribes threatened Daming Border Town, and they retreated without even breaking through Daming Border Town.

No one expected that a bloody storm would descend on the grassland just like that.

In this world, with the help of the system panel against the sky, Li Xiu's understanding and application of the way of the military strategist can be said to have surpassed the understanding of the world.

The long history, the writings of many military strategists, and the experience of many famous generals in battle have all been mastered by him and turned into his own use.

Especially the foundation of the army, when Li Xiu has already formed it, leading the army to fight is almost like a dimensionality reduction strike.

After a lapse of more than a hundred years, the various ministries of the grassland have once again experienced what it means to sweep acupoints in a plow court and what it means to be bloody and rainy.

Moreover, this time, more than any other time before, it is unpredictable and unstoppable!

In less than a month, more than half of Mobei was almost penetrated by Li Xiu's troops!

Despite Houjin's warning in advance, the Five Divisions of Neikalkha, who were entrenched in Mobei and close to Monan, once seemed to be separated from Houjin, and were later wiped out by Nurhachi's Huang Taiji led the army, and they retreated across the board!

At this time, Lin Danhan, who was driven to Mobei by Huang Taiji, had just mobilized and rectified his troops, and was about to wait and see the situation, but Li Xiu's soldiers were about to arrive at his door!

Lin Danhan, who is determined to revive the glory of Mongolia but has repeatedly failed, is also at this moment uneasy like never before!

The so-called allies must be when the strength of the two sides is equal.

But now, Daming, who should have been weakened, is showing a fierce front that has never been seen before!

In less than a month, they swept across most of Mobei and trampled countless Mongolian tribes under their feet!

In this situation, it seems...with him or without him, or to clean him up, it's not too difficult!

The camp was set up with tens of thousands of cavalry, plus the snowballing effect of the Mongolian ministries all the way, the troop strength had grown from [-] cavalry at the time of the expedition to the current [-]!

And this is the result of Li Xiu's strict control, otherwise, this army will only become bigger and bloated!

[-] iron cavalry camped for dozens of miles on this vast grassland. Groups of iron cavalry rushed forward, and the tumbling sun and moon flags surged on this grassland like a tide.

The mighty military power has already made countless rebellious Mongolian men have to bow their heads and surrender at the feet of that god-like man!

Yes, even though it has only been less than a month, Li Xiu's name, on the Mobei grassland, has been accompanied by the unstoppable front of soldiers, and with the blood of countless people, it has been deeply imprinted on the absolute The hearts of most Mongolian men.

Wherever the handsome flag came, no matter how proud the prairie eagle was on weekdays, he had to put away his arrogance, show humility, and kneel lowly on this land.

And Lin Danhan's big banner, which was supposed to represent the whole of Mongolia, had to be overshadowed by the handsome flag at this moment.

woo woo woo...

The sound of the boundless horn resounded through the grassland.

The gate of the camp was wide open, the army array was lined up, and blood-stained armored soldiers stood in rows. These soldiers who accompanied Li Xiu in battles all over the world, under the undoubted victories, all put on a haughty look, as if looking down at the soil. Like a dog, he watched Lin Danhan and his generals slowly walking from the gate of the camp.

People are under the eaves and have to bow their heads!

At this moment, in Lin Danhan's mind, what he thinks is that he bowed his head temporarily, but...

He looked ahead at the bloody cloak that was fluttering in the wind, and a strong sense of powerlessness already filled his heart.

After fighting for decades, how could he fail to see the horror of the army in front of him, even if he couldn't see the horror in front of him, the record of sweeping half of Mobei in less than a month can explain everything.

Such a large army, such a commander...