Wang Bo listened to Song Tao's words, slapped his thigh, and laughed: "Chief, I'll just wait for your words, it's too boring to make a small fuss, just make him earth-shattering." You say, whether to fight Taiyuan or Xi'an, it's really not possible, let's go to the capital with you and arrest Chongzhen. ”

Song Tao listened to Wang Bo's words, his eyes suddenly darkened, and he smiled at Wang Bo and scolded: "You are not afraid of big things, when did Lao Tzu say that he was going to fight Beijing." Before our Far East enters the Central Plains, the Ming Dynasty must not be chaotic. I mean, find a fat sheep to do a vote, grab enough at once, and save endless tossing. ”

Wang Haiyang's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said with a smile: "Chief, what do you ......mean?"

Song Tao waved his hand, called a special combat team member behind him, asked for a map from his hand, spread it on the ground casually, pointed to a place and said, "What do you think of here?" ”

Wang Haiyang, Wang Bo and the others squatted down and looked at it, and they couldn't help but be stunned. The place Song Tao pointed to turned out to be one of the nine important towns of the Ming Dynasty, Ningxia Town.

Ningxia Town, has always been an important town in the northwest border, belongs to the north of ancient Yongzhou, its land is backed by mountains and rivers, and the four stops are dangerous. Since ancient times, it has been the Zhuxia Domain, which is the junction of the agricultural culture of the Central Plains and the nomadic culture of the grassland outside the Saiwai.

In the town of Ningxia in the Ming Dynasty, although the Yellow River, which is hundreds of miles long from north to south on the east line, is still playing a role, Helan Mountain, which lies in the northwest of Ningxia Town, plays a greater role in military affairs than before. At the same time, relying on the danger of Helan Mountain, the Great Wall was built again, which seemed to be psychologically isolated from everything outside Helan Mountain.

The setting of the trilateral general system in Shaanxi organically unified the three towns of Yansui, Ningxia and Gansu, with Ningxia Town in the middle, and the three towns and the Guyuan General System Mansion forming a horn trend, thus highlighting and showing the special status of Ningxia Town in the northwest frontier of the entire Ming Dynasty.

When Wang Bo heard this, he said excitedly: "Chief, we listen to you." Just hit Ningxia. It was very fat, and the town of Ningxia was broken, and the seized grain was enough for more than 100,000 of us to eat for several months. ”

Wang Haiyang frowned and said, "Chief, if the Ming Imperial Court learns that Ningxia Town has been lost, it will be desperate to take it back." After the Ming Dynasty abandoned the Hetao Plain and retreated to Ningxia, it lost its buffer zone for defense. Ningxia Town, especially the Yanchi and Lingwu areas east of the Yellow River, bear the brunt. It became a breakthrough for the Mongol tribes to go south.

It's better to fight Ningxia Town than to fight Taiyuan. We organized the exile army to fight Taiyuan, which can only be regarded as an internal trouble for thieves, but if the Ming Dynasty loses Ningxia, the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty will be torn apart, which is a big thing. At that time, the whole of Shaanxi and Shanxi will have to be messed up, and Daming will have to be shaken a few times. Don't scare us, chief, let's take a long-term view.

If we don't want the Ming Dynasty to be in chaos, at least for now, it is not appropriate to move the nine-sided town of the Ming Dynasty. Although the Ming Dynasty is an important town on the nine sides. In the eyes of our Far Eastern Army, it is no different from paper paste, but with this layer of paper, no matter how ruthless the thieves everywhere are, Daming will not take it too seriously. ””

Song Tao shook his head and said with a smile: "We will defeat Ningxia, and after we have robbed all the grain, we will withdraw to the Hetao, and let Daming take it back." Maybe those military leaders and local officials of the Ming Dynasty can report a big victory. It also makes Chongzhen happy and happy, haha......"

Everyone listened to Li Ming's words. They all laughed.

Wang Haiyang thought for a moment, and then said in a deep voice: "If we use the banner of the Wandering People's Army and the Wandering People's Army as a cover to capture Ningxia Town, we will move quickly to transport the grain, and then quickly withdraw from Ningxia Town. That's doable. As long as the Ming Dynasty can quickly recover Ningxia, the impact on the Ming Dynasty is not great. ”

Song Tao nodded and said: "I chose Ningxia Town as my goal, mainly because the military leaders there are all wealthy, and each one is fatter than the other." There is also the food and other materials that we looted after we broke Ningxia Town. It can rely on the Yellow River waterway to quickly reach the Hetao area. ”

In the next few days, Song Tao personally led the special combat team into Ningxia Town, conducted a field reconnaissance of the situation there, and drew a detailed map. Then he returned to the camp camp, got together with Wang Haiyang, Wang Bo and others, studied and formulated a battle plan for attacking Ningxia Town, and reported it to Li Ming by telegram.

Li Ming received Song Tao's telegram and smiled bitterly. He and Gao Jianguo also had a plan to seize Ningxia Town before, but later they were afraid of scaring Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty out of trouble, so they shelved this plan, and when the time was ripe, they would launch this plan again.

But I didn't expect Song Tao to be so anxious, and he actually wanted to fight the idea of Ningxia Town now. He was still more interested in the plan sent back by Song Tao, after all, the Far Eastern Army would not occupy Ningxia Town, but would quickly withdraw after looting the supplies. As long as the Ming Dynasty recovers Ningxia in a short period of time, the impact on the Ming Dynasty will not be too great.

From the historical records of the Ming Dynasty, the military geographical location of Ningxia Town is a fertile field with "mountains and rivers at its back, and four stops are dangerous". In the Ming Dynasty, Ningxia was bordered on three sides, and the end of the Ming Dynasty was the area where the military was used, so its military tun and military construction achievements were outstanding.

The total number of soldiers of all kinds in the town reached 70,000 horses at the peak, of which the guard set "seven out of ten to plant, three out of ten to defend the city". It has created the achievement of "the most in Ningxia in the world". With the construction of water conservancy, the management of water administration has been strengthened, and by the early Wanli period, the number of tuntian has been expanded to 18,828 hectares.

The land, livestock, and pastures of Ningxia were annexed by the royal government, military chiefs, and officials. Therefore, the oil and water here are very rich, especially for more than 200 years in Ningxia, which is the king of Qing, and it is a family wealth. If the Hetao base area breaks Ningxia Town, the looted grain and other materials will be enough for more than 100,000 displaced people in the Hetao base area to eat for a year.

Although Ningxia Town is indeed a fat sheep worth starting, it is not so easy to easily break through Ningxia Town with the Hetao guerrilla detachment composed of Shaanxi refugees. The terrain of Ningxia Town is extremely dangerous, and the fortifications are very complete.

The Great Wall built by the Ming Dynasty in Ningxia is very large. It has been advocated for eight years, and has undergone successive repairs and repairs, and has gradually formed. The four backbone side walls, including the east wall, the west wall, the north wall and the old side wall of Guyuan, are about 3,000 miles long and are under the jurisdiction of Ningxia Town and Guyuan Town.

At the same time, there are also a number of gates along the Great Wall, the most important of which are: Zhenyuan Pass, Beiguanmen, Da Dengkou Sanguan, Chimu Pass, Shengjin Pass and Dongguanmen. In the open area near the front line of the enemy's front line or the traffic point, a pier platform was added, and the army was sent to guard it, which was called the beacon, commonly known as the "beacon fire pier". In the event of an enemy situation, smoke rises during the day, fires are raised at night, and piers are passed from one to another, so that the border can be prepared, so that the command center of the military city can deploy troops and generals in advance to deploy the battle guard.

In the defense area of the town, there are 596 beacons, as an important supplement to the fortification of the Great Wall. Of course, Helan Mountain itself is also a natural barrier, it has 36 large and small mountain passes, most of them can pass through people and animals, the big mouth is unhindered by the passage of military horses, the Ming Dynasty builds a wall and sets up a pass in the big mouth, and the small mouth chooses to be guarded by the garrison, and its defense is relatively perfect. (To be continued.) )

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