"If reinforcements do not support Datong for the time being, then Datong will need to stay for at least twenty days."
In the emperor's tent, after listening to the report of the military officer of the General Staff, Li Xiu's eyes circulated on the sand table, and then asked, "Can Datong hold on?"
"There are Datong vanguards, Datong Left Guards, Datong Right Guards, and Datong General Office directly under the artillery battalion. The registered troops were 9,856. The results of the General Staff's last month's surprise inspection showed that there were no errors in the actual military strength and the records of the military registration book of Datong."
"The rating of the actual combat drills for inspection has also reached the level B. When food, grass and weapons are sufficient, as long as the main general does not make strategic mistakes and supports it for one month, the problem may be less than 11!"
After listening to the report from the military officers on the side, Li Xiu immediately took the inspection and rating results of Datong handed over by the military officers. After reading them in detail, he slowly let go. After pondering for a while, he said: "The General of Datong Qi Feng is quite smart. He still has a way of leading troops to fight. There is little possibility of a problem. This order is decided like this."
"Abide by the order!"
The military staff immediately took the order and left.
Li Xiu's eyes were still gathering on the military terrain sand table on this frontier.
"How many troops can be mobilized in the three sides of Shaanxi?"
Finally, Li Xiu's eyes turned around and fixed them on the three sides of Shaanxi, and asked again.
"Report to Your Majesty, the total number of soldiers and generals recorded in the Yellow Book of the Three Borders of Shaanxi is 145,869. Apart from the soldiers guarding various important places according to the pre-determined plan, up to 50,000 people can be drawn. If there are more, it will destroy the stability of Shaanxi and create a void in defense."
"According to Plan No. 5, if the enemy attacks Datong, your Majesty, you will personally lead the main force to take charge, the three sides of Shaanxi will send iron cavalry north into the grassland, plow the ground to sweep the caves, threaten the enemy's rear, and destroy the foundation of Lin Dankhan and Daishan's rule in Mongolia in the southern desert."
"In this way, the stability of the Shaanxi Guard troops can be maintained, and the elite cavalry enter the grassland to attack the enemy's rear without too much food supply, and take it from the enemy and use it for the enemy."
"When necessary, you can also go around the back and cooperate with the main force to fight against the enemy,"
"The day when I led the main force to arrive in Datong was when I stepped on the grassland north of Shaanxi and plowed the caves and told Zhou Yuji that when I went out of the grassland north, all the soldiers were attacking the enemy!"
"Abide by the order!"
Another military officer took the order and left.
Li Xiu was still standing in front of this sand table. While listening to the report of the military officers, he also issued decrees and orders, mobilizing the military forces of the entire northern border to move for this battle.
Until everything was deployed, Li Xiuzhi's eyes were still frozen in this military sand table covering the border.
In fact, in terms of the military strength of the eight border towns besides Shanhai Denglai, it is undoubtedly far superior to the Mongolian and Later Jin coalition forces. If the eight border towns and the imperial guards are added to the full mobilization, it is also easy to gather an army of 600,000 or 700,000.
But obviously, it is impossible to concentrate all forces.
All important places require troops to guard, and the internal situation also requires stability.
Moreover, war is all about financial resources!
Today, Daheng does not have enough financial resources to support such a large-scale military mobilization, and even the Daheng treasury has no ability to start this war.
The food, money and supplies of this war were all drawn from the money shop and merchant group early on by Li Xiu.
And the money and business groups are undoubtedly in an extremely critical period.
Nowadays, the chaos is obviously not military politics, and the economy and people's livelihood are naturally greatly affected, especially when the economy and people's livelihood. When the court is short of money, it is impossible to intervene. It can only rely on the money shops and merchant groups under the Ministry of Internal Affairs to maintain the stability of the economy and people's livelihood on the market and avoid further expansion of corruption.
Under such circumstances, although the money shops and merchant groups have become giants today, in fact, they have no spare energy to support this war.
With a 300,000 army, the food and materials that were fought for three months were already the limit that they could be drawn.
But it is obviously a difficult thing to end this battle in three months.
It is precisely because of this that after he ascended the throne, he attacked the former Ming royal family to plunder the wealth of the former Ming royal family and make up for the financial embarrassment that Daheng is almost unable to expose the blame.
But even so, most of the troops in this battle, the border towns, cannot be moved without any urgency. Not long after the military reform was initially completed, they are still in a state of destruction. Just like the once deserted and corrupt military camp, the military camp of the garrison was re-formed after the military reform.
Li Xiu also placed great hope for this. After all, no matter what the military garrison system will evolve in the future, at least at present, under extremely difficult financial pressure, the formed military garrison can ensure that nearly 200 military garrisons in the northern border do not require the support of the court. While stabilizing the place, there is even more spare energy to feed the court.
Just like the military camps of Shaanxi garrisons, this autumn harvest was provided to the Shaanxi garrisons, and even a considerable amount of food and grass was surplus.
Today, Shaanxi still has constant natural disasters, but there has not been much civil unrest. This surplus of food and grass undoubtedly played a huge role.
The northern provinces are basically in the same model as Shaanxi. With the special nature of military camps, their ability to withstand natural disasters is naturally far higher than that of ordinary people.
Even if there are natural disasters, the harvest of military camps can be guaranteed under the maintenance of discipline. The only difference is how much it is harvested.
The surplus military food in the army fed back to the people's livelihood under the natural disaster, and the suppression of the market's grain prices by the money houses and merchant groups under the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as well as the ruling class that gradually moved towards efficient operation under the destruction of various places, and the local interest classes that were destroyed under the once chaotic chaos, took such a number of measures, so they barely suppressed the endless civil chaos in the north under the endless natural disasters in the north.
Under such a heavy responsibility, the various garrisons in the northern border naturally did not have to be moved. If they could, they would try not to move.
In this way, the troops that can be used in this battle are obviously far less than those of Lin Danhan and the Later Jin coalition forces who knocked on the edge this time.
Obviously, as always, this is another war under disadvantage.
The scale of troops, the stability of the rear, the supply of food and grass...
Everything is at a disadvantage.
"call……"
As his thoughts circulated, Li Xiu also breathed a long sigh.
This...it should be the last time.
After fighting this battle and winning this battle, this will not happen again.
This endless vicious cycle of ghosts should end here. Li Xiu, his Daheng, should fight a wealthy battle in the future!
Chapter completed!