Invincible Zhengde

Chapter 218 Who approves, who opposes!
Listening carefully to Qin Hong's words, Zhu Houzhao said with a smile: "Qin Qing, you have worked hard. In the past three years, Qin Qing has made great contributions to the great governance of Guyuan."

"It's just my duty, I dare not take credit for it." Qin Hong said hastily.

In the past three years, Qin Hong has made great achievements in people's livelihood, reclaimed wasteland, reshaped the military system, punished corrupt generals, and made the Northwest prosperous.But Zhu Houzhao, the flaws of the military household system are too obvious. If the military household system is not abolished, sooner or later the Northwest will still decline. Once natural disasters and man-made disasters occur, the Northwest will still collapse.

The army is used by the country to maintain stability. To put it bluntly, no matter what goes wrong, the army cannot go wrong. This is the top priority.

However, the military household system relies on farming, and puts the stability of the army on the harvest of food. In a good year, everyone can survive, and it can also reduce the burden on the court. But once the year is bad and natural disasters occur, the court is unable to provide disaster relief. , so a large number of military households will go to the front line of the rebellion in order to survive, and they will cause the greatest damage.

Some people will say that relief in disaster years is not enough, it must be provided by the court with money to provide relief, plus officials are corrupt from top to bottom, how much can there be in the bottom?

The military system of the Ming Dynasty must be reshaped, from top to bottom, the first step is to remove the military household system, and change the military household system to a recruiting system.It's just that it needs to get rid of the hereditary generals and civil servants who are attached to the military household system and suck blood. This interest group is huge, far beyond everyone's imagination, but it has to be done no matter how difficult it is, otherwise it will drag down Daming more and more.

"Your Highness, I have prepared [-] cavalry, and you can search for them together with Your Highness." Qin Hong said from the side at this time.

Zhu Houzhao was stunned for a moment, and sighed in his heart, this Qin Hong is really capable, and he even prepared [-] cavalry for himself.

Seeing Zhu Houzhao's hesitation, Qin Hong hurriedly said: "Your Highness, these ten thousand cavalry are skilled in bows and horses, and they are all from the Northwest. They are very familiar with the weather. Many of them have been out before and are familiar with the grassland environment. In case His Highness's people are not familiar with the terrain."

After hearing Qin Hong's explanation, Zhu Houzhao also nodded, and then said, "That's very good, then let them come over, and the army will set off in three days."

That night, Zhu Houzhao left Qin Hong to eat in the barracks, and at the same time left him in the barracks to sleep all night. The next day, Zhu Houzhao called the three commanders and deputy commanders of the Black Dragon Army to a meeting to discuss The most important thing is how to send troops. As the governor of the three sides, Qin Hong naturally participated in the meeting.

There is a board behind Zhu Houzhao, and a map is hung on the board. Zhu Houzhao marked two locations on the map, one is Fengzhou Beach, and the other is Ordos.

"There are two strategic goals this time, one is here!" Zhu Houzhao pointed at Ordos with a small stick: "If after finishing here, there is still plenty of time, the fighting spirit is strong, and the morale is high, then I am going to lead people to attack here , which is Fengzhou Beach.”

Ordos, the name that no one knows in later generations, the famous Ordos cashmere, at this time, the entire Hetao is seriously desertified, and the precipitation has dropped sharply.There is also the Mu Us Desert, one of the four major deserts in China, in Hetao. The only place where you can live in grazing is Ordos.

Although the precipitation here is not enough for farming, the water and grass are still lush and suitable for grazing. Zhu Houzhao doesn't even need to think about it, the people from the fire screening must be here.

Because apart from Ordos, he has no other places to go. As for Fengzhoutan, this is definitely the lair of Huosie. Fengzhoutan in this era is what later generations call Hohhot.

For thousands of years, the infantry of farming peoples has strong combat effectiveness after formation, but they are at an absolute disadvantage when facing nomadic cavalry in terms of mobility, intelligence capabilities, and strategic initiative.Therefore, if the farming people fight only with infantry, they can only be beaten passively, and they cannot cause a devastating blow to the nomadic cavalry at all.

In order to deal a devastating blow to the nomadic people, the farming people often have to form a large-scale cavalry unit to attack the opponent's lair.

Because although the nomadic cavalry came and went like the wind, their herds and tents moved slowly, making them easy targets.Therefore, since the famous general Huo Qubing in the Han Dynasty, dispatching elite cavalry to attack the lairs of the nomads quickly has become the only way for the farming peoples in the Central Plains to destroy the war potential of the grassland nomads.

However, the basis of this tactic is a large number of war horses. For example, in the era of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, 40 official horses were quickly consumed in order to implement this tactic.

In addition, pastures need to occupy arable land, which puts farming peoples at a disadvantage compared to nomadic peoples in raising war horses in large quantities.Especially after the Tang Dynasty, due to climate change, desertification in the north was severe, and many pastures were in areas where farming and nomads competed, so the cost of raising horses rose.Although the Central Plains regime is not small in terms of the absolute number of war horses, compared with the nomadic regime, it is obviously at a disadvantage in terms of relative numbers.

At the same time, the organization level of the grassland nomads is also improving, so this kind of tactics is becoming more and more difficult to implement, but this is what Zhu Houzhao wants to implement.

I don't have as many horses as you, and I can't run as fast as you, but it doesn't matter, the armor I want is better, my plate armor has far more protection than yours, you may not be able to kill us alone after shooting ten arrows, but Shooting you will kill you.This enabled Zhu Houzhao to realize the strategy of cavalry attacking the old nest. On the grassland, the population is always the foundation of prosperity.

In this battle, if Zhu Houzhao can lead a surprise attack on Ordos, then the three-year operation of Huozhai will be ruined, and the losses will be immeasurable.

If Zhu Houzhao can lead people to destroy Fengzhou Beach, then Huozhai will definitely be injured, even if Zhu Houzhao drives Huozhai away, and then occupies Fengzhou Beach by himself for a month. It is simply impossible to move further north or Qinghai and Ningxia. No one will give him this opportunity, so he can only fight Zhu Houzhao.

Of course, it is impossible for Zhu Houzhao to wait here for a month. Zhu Houzhao's strategy is to go to Ordos first, and then surprise Hohhot.

After finishing talking about his strategic concept, Zhu Houzhao put down the wooden stick in his hand, glanced over the faces of everyone present, and said with a serious face: "I'm done talking, whoever agrees, whoever opposes!"

"Your Highness, I have no objection to beating Erdos minister, but isn't it too hasty to fight Fengzhoutan?" Qin Hong looked at Zhu Houzhao and said worriedly.

(End of this chapter)