In today's wars, cavalry usually use their mobility to move quickly and conduct raids, while infantrymen need to be careful and take steps forward. Everyone knows this.

However, step-by-step approach is just a general statement, and it seems to have no direct relationship with specific strategies and tactics. Everyone is still confused about how the Governor is planning to fight.

Fortunately, Yang Cong immediately explained: "Specifically, it is to advance with a fortress. A fortress is built every fifty miles, and then connected by railway. Look, from Fugu to Ningxia vanguard, the straight line distance is about 500 miles. If we build along the Yellow River, we still need to turn a small turn. This distance will roughly become about 600 miles. In other words, we only need to build more than ten fortresses along the way. At that time, the main force of the Northern Yuan Tatar tribe will be surrounded by us within a radius of less than 400 miles. If they do not escape, they will be wiped out sooner or later by us!"

This guy, his plan is a bit bold.

Hetao refers to the middle part of the big "Ji" bend in the Yellow River, and the defense line of the Ming Dynasty is now all on the east and west sides and bottom of the "Ji" bend.

His meaning is to directly build a fortress line, seal the top of the bend of "Ji" and encircle all the main forces of the Northern Yuan Tatar tribe in the middle of "Ji" and bending!

If this happens, the Tartars will not be able to counterattack wildly!

However, it seems that the Tartars counterattack is nothing, because the Tartars are not good at siegeing the city, and the Ming army is equipped with muskets, artillery and thunder. If the Tartars are stupid and come to attack the city, it will be a pity.

In other words, as long as the fortress line is built, the main force of the Tatar tribe surrounded in the middle will be in danger. I just don’t know if Altan Khan will stay in Hetao and fight with the Ming Dynasty.

This issue is not something that needs to be considered now.

If Altan Khan gave up on Hetao and fled to the south of the desert in panic, it would be the best. In that case, Hetao would be recaptured.

If Altan Khan is unwilling to give up Hetao and insists on fighting with the Ming Dynasty, it will be another set of tactics.

Yang Cong didn't say what would happen if the Tartars stayed and fought to the death. Then he began to dispatch personnel and supplies.

He pointed to the Great Wall Pass about fifty miles away from Fugu and said, "This is Gushan Fort, and it is also our first stop to advance into Hetao. Zhifu, you will lead a hundred thousand troops to gather here before defending the nearby Great Wall. You must not let the Tartars break through the Great Wall and come in to make trouble."

This task is simply too simple. The Great Wall near Gushan Fort is only a few dozen miles in total, and he has a total of 100,000 troops under him. It would be strange if the Tartars could rush in.

Upon hearing this, Yu Dayou bowed without hesitation and said, "I will obey the order."

Immediately afterwards, Yang Cong said to Zhang Juzheng: "Uncle, you lead 10,000 Tunwei to be responsible for expanding Gushan Fort. The city wall must be raised to about two meters, and the castle scope must be expanded by about twice. Within one month, the construction must be completed."

When Zhang Juzheng heard this, he couldn't help but look helpless.

Now he is almost becoming a contractor. The 10,000 Tunwei mentioned by Yang Cong is not a border army equipped with firearms, but a strong Tunwei who specially gathered to build railways and castles. He is used to commanding these people. The problem is that his goal is to be the chief minister of the cabinet, not to be a general!

However, Yang Cong said nothing, but he didn't dare to refute it. He could only bow and say loudly: "Sir, obey the order."

Immediately afterwards, Yang Cong said to Wang Xuan: "Sir, allocate all the materials for the construction of the railway to Fugu City as soon as possible, and lead the remaining Tunwei to build the railway as soon as possible. Within one month, you must build the railway from Fugu to Gushan Fort."

Only then did Wang Xuan understand why the railway from Beijing to Baodezhou was repaired, and Yang Cong kept ordering people to make railway tracks and sleepers. It turned out that the railway had to be built until Ningxia's avant-garde.

He has developed experience in building railways. He has been working on fifty miles in about a month, which is just a small matter for him.

He bowed without hesitation: "Sir, please obey the order."

At this point, even if the first combat plan was almost done, no one present expected that Yang Cong would have such a tactic.

Is this also called war?

If Altan Khan ignores you and you can repair it at will, then it will only be a matter of time before the railway is built to Ningxia vanguard, and there is no need to spend a single soldier.

Of course, it was impossible for Altan Khan to ignore it. The Ming army would block the main force of his Tatar tribe in the middle of Hetao. Can he remain indifferent?

When Altan Khan heard the news that the Ming army had set out to fight, he immediately began to mobilize the army and was about to start working.

However, he did not mobilize the army so quickly, because he could not afford the food and grass for more than 100,000 troops. Therefore, usually, the soldiers of various tribes were scattered everywhere to grazle, and they would only gather temporarily when they were about to fight.

This is similar to the nature of the Ming army's guards, but they mainly grazed and had more cavalry.

It would take a certain amount of time for each tribe to gather all the soldiers together. It would take time for him to gather at the location he designated. Therefore, when he assembled all his troops, a month would have passed.

At this time, the Ming army had already built Gushan Fort and began to advance towards his territory.

The way of advancing the Ming army was quite strange. They did not rush forward or search for tribes scattered on the grasslands everywhere. They just moved along the river bank line, and after walking about fifty miles, they stopped there.

Immediately afterwards, the Ming army would start building fortresses and railways, regardless of your reaction.

This really made Altan sweat and a headache because he didn't have any chance to launch a sneak attack!

As he expected, even if the Ming army did not find his main force to fight him, they would find tribes scattered on the grassland and defeat them one by one.

In that case, his opportunity came, because he moved the tribes near the Ming army's border town to the east and south, and even if the Ming army advanced two hundred miles forward, he could not find anyone.

Once the main force of the Ming army left the border town and went deep into the Hetao grassland, his chance came. He could take advantage of the Ming army's dispersion to use the advantages of the cavalry to defeat them one by one, and even directly cut off the Ming army's food route, allowing the Ming army to collapse directly.

However, he didn't ask him to fight at all, and he just focused on building fortresses and railways, so he had a headache.

The consumption of this more than 100,000 army is no joke. People eat horses and chew them, and they can’t afford to eat them in one or two months!

In desperation, he had no choice but to take the initiative and take a risk.

On this day, a oath-taking ceremony was also held near Otok in the northwest of Hetao.

Altan Khan gathered 80,000 cavalry and 60,000 infantry to prepare for the "invasion" of the Ming army.

More than 100,000 people gathered together, which was also quite spectacular. After a passionate mobilization, he waved his hand and led his army to the Great Wall near Gushan Fort.

He didn't believe it anymore. On this Hetao grassland, the Ming army infantry could do his elite cavalry. Even if there were no 60,000 infantry and only 80,000 elite cavalry, he had confidence that he could make the Ming army frustrated and even flee with great defeat.

This is his territory, so how can the Ming army be presumptuous!

So, who was so anxious that he escaped in this battle?
Chapter completed!