At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Mongolian nationality in northern China was divided into three parts, centered on the desert.

Monan: The departments south of the desert are called Monan Mongolia, and those that belong to this part are: Korqin, Zarat, Dulbert, Bahrain, Zalut, Naiman, Khalkha, Maomingqi, Wulazhi, Karaqin, Uzhumuqin, Chahar, Tumut, Ordos and other departments.

Their distribution area is "connected to Shengjing and Heilongjiang in the east, Yili East Road in the west, the Great Wall in the south, and the desert in the north, stretching for more than 10,000 miles".

Mobei: north of the desert, called Khalkha Mongolia, which belongs to Chechen Khan, Tushetu Khan, Sanyin Nuoyan, Zasaktu Khan and other departments, distribution area, "east to Heilongjiang Hulunbuir City (now Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region), south to Hanhai, west to Altai Mountain (now Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region), north to Russia".

Moxi: The departments west of the desert are called Moxi Mongolia, that is, Oirat Mongolia, and the Dzungar Department, Heshute Department, Turghut Department, Dulbert Department, and Huite Department belong to this part. Its distribution area extends from the Altai Mountains in the east to the Ili River basin in the west.

Gan Hui thought that Moxi could be ignored for the time being, and set the first goal to capture Monan and destroy the Mongol tribes in Monan.

The second goal is to capture Mobei, occupy the Mongolian Plateau, and solve the northern border trouble once and for all!

If Mobei is broken, and the climate further north is even worse, and there are no tribes left, you can call it a day!

He is confident that he will fight against Monan, but he is cautious when he sends troops to Mobei, after all, the Han Dynasty in the Central Plains has never had a history of conquering Monan, let alone Mobei!

But Gan Hui knows that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Da's Northern Expedition, the strength of the Mongols still exists, Xu Da won not easy, Hongwu five years, Xu Da led the army out of the Sai Yuan, the result was 10,000 casualties, and the deputy general Li Wenzhong was also defeated, and there was no major battle after that.

Xu Da did not, the general Lan Yu attacked the Yuan, and broke the Yuan army in Yuerhai (that is, Bear Lake, located in the southwest of the Hulunbuir grassland), completely breaking the backbone of the Yuan Dynasty.

After Zhu Laosi ascended the throne, he was not in the right position, so he attacked Mongolia five times, but the Mongols avoided Mobei without fighting, and his army could not find the enemy in hand, so he was helpless.

When the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty died and the emperors who sat on the throne were all older than the women of the deep palace, one generation was not as good as the generation, the soldiers were bearing, and the emperor was a country, and the Ming Dynasty only endured the invasion of the Mongols from generation to generation, and they could not kill the Ming Dynasty, but it was very disgusting.

Now the situation is very good!

The king of the southeast is equivalent to the founding emperor, and the founding emperor always has a wave of market, and the Mongol tribes of southern China followed the Tatars into the customs and lost half of the essence of a whole generation.

In contrast, Daming has also been messed up into a nest of porridge, and the north has been severely damaged, but the victory is that Daming is big enough, and there is no chaos in the south!

The south of Xuzhou is full of peace and contentment, wealth and population, plus there is also the southeast country to feed, hundreds of millions of silver dollars and food support, the population of the south has increased sharply, to a certain extent offset the decline in the population of the north.

The key is that those generals who fought in the south and the north are here!

Gan Hui couldn't think of losing when dealing with Monan Mongolia, and the difficulty was to deal with Mobei Khalkha Mongolia.

It is known as a million string controls!

After all, it's one thing to be able to produce so many cavalry, but even if it's half, it's terrifying, even if it's a tenth, a hundred thousand cavalry, you have a headache!

In those days, the power of cavalry was extraordinary, horses were tanks, and they couldn't be defeated without horses!

Leaning back in his seat, Gan Hui carefully thought about the enemy's best strategy.

He returned to Nanjing, where he discussed with Yan Changwu how to deal with the Mongols.

Gan Hui was poor when he was a child and did not study, joined the Southeast Army, the requirements of the Southeast King were high, advocating that officers should be able to fight, but also have knowledge, Gan Hui read many history books, carefully studied how the Central Plains Dynasty dealt with the northern nomads, and saw a variety of methods.

cavalry against cavalry;

In fact, this thing is very easy to do, that is, sweep and kill, see people and kill people, see houses and burn houses, kill animals when you see livestock, there is no need to fight against their team, you kill all their tribesmen, they have no foundation.

Therefore, this thing should be done on the initiative, not waiting, it is an organized sweep, and do not wait for people to threaten the door to do it.

Li Mu, Wei Qing, Li Jing, and Zhu Laosi, who are just like this, have proven that this strategy is useful.

Organize a group of macho men and fast horses, go to their grasslands, kill people when they see them, and feed the war with war! Don't clash with their main forces at all, run when you see their troops! Kill only civilians, fight a war with them, and win!

Champion Hou Huo will do this when he is sick, and he will maneuver to maneuver. Taking offense as defense, Xiao Huo killed more than 100,000 Huns with 10,000 cavalry and cried for his father and mother. It turns out that nomads lack effective means of defense in the face of mobile strikes than agrarian peoples.

economic sanctions, salt and iron tea embargo;

There are also salt mines in the grassland, but with the tragic processing capacity of the tribes, their salt is bitter, while the salt made in the Central Plains tastes whatever it tastes, and the tribes need the salt of the Central Plains.

There are also iron mines in the steppe, but it is impossible for the tribe to smelt at all, there is no input of Central Plains iron, and the arrowheads used by the tribe are made of bone and stone!

As for tea, if the tribesmen don't drink tea, they won't be able to pull it out, and their stomachs will be full of!

Sadly, economic sanctions are often unsuccessful, and Yan Changwu said: "All along, China has never lacked cents." ”

He said some inexplicable words, which made Gan Hui very incomprehensible, and he didn't dare to ask, only Mr. David dared to raise the bar with Yan Changwu in the whole world.

However, looking at the Jin merchants who were later liquidated by Yan Changwu, Gan Hui seemed to understand the meaning of the Cent Party.

Now that the king of the southeast is in the dynasty, there should be very few cents of the party.

The best way to do this is to divide them within and let them kill each other;

Li Chengliang, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, did this before, and he was very successful, and later if he hadn't supported the old wild boar skin, the Ming Dynasty would not have been attacked by Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong and others, and there would have been no Tatars entering the customs! Therefore, Li Chengliang cannot atone for his sins even if he dies!

The best defense cavalry is the Great Wall, don't think that the ancients were stupid, in fact they were very smart!

It is difficult to send troops to the grasslands to sweep for a long time, and only the Great Wall is the loyal support of the Han nation.

build walls and dig trenches;

forts are built where water and grass are fertile; Standing of border patrol and early warning; Establish a large depth and be able to defend and counterattack at the first time; Use its influence to divide and buy nomadic regimes. In a word: money. Therefore, when the Central Plains was strong, the nomads could not please them, and the internal decay and decline were the main reasons for their vulnerability.

Cultural aggression plus economic dependence.

Carry out open mutual markets, exchange daily necessities for nomadic leatherds and horses, but severely punish the trade of weapons, armor, firearms and other military supplies with nomads.

Lure them into smoking, drinking, and playing mahjong to make them fall.

Export Buddha statues to them, make them worship Buddha, and eliminate their martial spirit.

Carry out economic bribes with the middle and high-ranking personnel of nomadic tribes to attract their members to travel and study in the Central Plains, and strive to intermarry with their next generation and assimilate the language and writing.

Differentiation and disintegration, because the nomads are not monolithic, there are hawks and doves, support the doves to fight the hawks, we must interfere in the internal affairs of the nomadic tribes, and cultivate agents early.

Yan Changwu noticed that Gan Hui was frowning and puzzled, so he couldn't help laughing, pointing at himself, Gan Hui looked at him blankly, not knowing why.

Seeing his bull's heart, Yan Changwu pointed to the map of the southeast country again.

Gan Hui finally came to his senses.

Immigrant!