The place where the Xitou grass is most abundant, on the southern foot of Dasong Mountain, Altan Khan's tent stands tall. The tents are densely covered with camps, stretching for dozens of miles. The elite cavalry of the Tatar tribe gathered here.

The power of the Tatar tribe is still so powerful that no one can match it in the south and north of the desert. However, Altan Khan was not excited at all because the Ming army began to build fortresses again!

The Ming army's fortress tactics really gave him a headache. He could not beat him or block him or her. What if he could do?

He stared at the map in front of him for a long time, but he was still at a loss.

Fortunately, there was no one else in the tent of Khan at this moment, that is, he and his younger brother Kunduli. If others were there, he would not have shown such a helpless expression.

Kunduliha was just an impatient person, and he kept him in a while and didn't say a word. He really couldn't do it. Seeing Altan Khan frowning and staring at the map without any intention of speaking, he finally couldn't help asking: "Khan, are we going to let the Ming army build a fortress like this and ignore it?"

Altan sighed and looked up and said, "What can we do?"

Kunduliha said in a rough voice: "We will lead our army to raid. No matter how tight the Ming army defends, they can't spread out more than 100,000 people and horses to protect all fortresses and such a ghost railway. We just need to pick places with few people to attack. They can't catch up with our cavalry. If the situation is wrong, we can run. What's there to be afraid of?"

Altan Khan shook his head helplessly and said, "Xiao Kundu, you don't understand. The Ming army's fortress was built too densely. If we run rashly to attack, we may be surrounded."

Kunduliha really didn't understand. He said inexplicably: "The distance between the fortresses of the Ming army is at least dozens of miles. At the speed of infantry, it takes at least half a day to travel a few dozen miles. We only need an hour to fight back and forth. As long as we are careful, how can we be surrounded?"

Alas, you are so naughty!

Altan Khan explained helplessly: "Other fortresses not only have a defensive role, but also can garrison troops and transmit. Most importantly, it can also provide a logistics place for the scouts. The reason why you think we cannot be surrounded is mainly because you ignore their scouts. Yes, it was indeed difficult for the scouts of the Ming army to survive on the grassland in the past, because they were not only in danger of life at all times, but also had no place to replenish food and drinking water. Therefore, the scouts of the Ming army rarely went deep into the grasslands in the past. When we acted on the grasslands, he

It is also difficult for us to detect. It will be different now. With the support of the fortress, they can completely spread the scouts within a radius of hundreds of miles. Anyway, it will take less than a day for them to ride back to the fortress to replenish them, right? They can even send several teams of scouts to rotate, and keep staring at us for twelve hours. How can we sneak attack? In the current situation, we will be discovered before we get close to their fortress, and we sneak attack deep into the hundred miles and then turn around. Have you calculated how much time will it take?"

Kunduliha shook his head honestly and said, "I haven't calculated it."

Altan Khan said angrily: "I have calculated that it will take almost an hour to rush to a hundred miles. Then, no matter how many Ming troops attacked, it will take at least half an hour to wipe them out. Then, we will return the same route, and it will take about an hour, which will last nearly three hours. The Ming army is not pure infantry at this time. They have chariots, and three hours are enough to make all the Ming troops within a radius of hundreds of miles. Will we run away at that time?"

It is really possible that this can't be escaped. Although Kunduliha is a naughty man, he is not a fool. He still knows how powerful the Ming army is now. It doesn't need too much. As long as there are 40,000 or 50,000 Ming troops surrounding them, it will probably be difficult to escape even if they have 100,000 elite cavalry, because the Ming army's muskets and cannons are so powerful. That blast is simply unbearable!

Kunduliha shook his head awkwardly, and then said in a rough voice: "Then we can play around Wei to save Zhao. Aren't they concentrating the main force around the fortress? We can go to attack Ningxia Guards or Ganzhou Town. The Ming troops stationed in these two places are only more than 10,000 at most. Can we still defeat them?"

Do you still know how to surround Wei and save Zhao?

Unfortunately, this war is not a matter of paper.

Altan Khan still shook his head helplessly and said, "Absieging Wei to save Zhao, you must also do so. What's the use of us going to sneak attack Ningxia Wei or Ganzhou Town when you are not afraid of others surrounding you? They have a tight defense at this moment. It's difficult for us to break through the Great Wall on the periphery. Even if we break through, will we dare to rush in? As long as they mobilize the army to pick it up from behind, we can't escape!"

Kunduliha really didn't expect this. His thinking was basically still when the Ming army was passively defending.

Altan Khan knew quite well that the Ming army was different now. As long as he was not careful, the main elite cavalry of the Tatar tribe might be surrounded and annihilated by the Ming army.

A sneak attack is obviously undesirable, because the Ming army is not only not afraid of his sneak attack, but instead thinks that he will lead his army to sneak attack. If he really leads his army to sneak attack, it will be over.

So, what should I do?

Altan Khan thought for a long time and finally came up with a good solution, that is, to treat the person's way.

Didn’t the Ming army rely on fortresses to advance?

He also built a fortress to block the Ming army's way!

The reason why he had this idea was not whimsical, because there was originally a fortress between Dasong Mountain and Xiaosong Mountain, which was built by the Ming army more than a hundred years ago. Although it was a bit dilapidated and repaired, it could still be used.

The direction of the fortress of the Ming army is now exactly the direction of Songshan Fortress. If the Ming army can be blocked to the east of Songshan, they can at least use the passage to the west to maintain contact with the tribes in the north, and the main force of the Tatar tribe does not have to withdraw from this abundant grassland. If the Ming army pushes the fortress to Ganzhou Town, it will be troublesome. At that time, no matter how unwilling he is, he must give up this last abundant grassland.

At this moment, he didn't care whether the other tribes agreed or not. No matter how unwilling he was, he had to draw the infantry to help him defend Songshan Fort, otherwise he would be polite.

He couldn't do it with the Ming army, so it would be easy to deal with other tribes in the south of the Mo.

The tribes in the south of the desert had no choice. Facing the main elite cavalry of the Tatar tribe, they also had no strength to fight back. They could only draw the young and strong men according to Altan Khan's request and go to Songshan Fort to help Altan Khan repair the fortress and defend the city.

In less than a month, the young and strong men from various tribes arrived at Songshan Fort one after another. At this time, Altan Khan had already commanded the young men in the headquarters to restore Songshan Fort.

Although Songshan Fort was not very dangerous, it gathered nearly 50,000 infantry in various parts of the southern part of the Moon. Sun Tzu's Art of War said: "If you want to surround it, if you want to attack it, if you want to double it, if you want to divide it." According to this statement, the Ming army had to assemble 250,000 troops to conquer this fortress.

Can the Ming army gather 250,000 troops?
Chapter completed!