According to what Qi Fang thought, he believed that Zhang Jun must now hope that the sooner the war, the better, and the sooner the ending, the more in Zhang Jun's interests.

It is certainly beneficial for Qi Fang himself to end this battle quickly.

But compared to the slim future, Qi Fang did not trust Zhang Jun and did not feel that he would get any benefits that would satisfy him after completing the task successfully.

In contrast, maintaining such a situation, confronting the rebels and constantly fighting, but even if they cannot win, they cannot lose. Maintaining an unbeaten situation and constantly wasting the money and food of the court, making Zhang Jun extremely difficult to get hurt!

Wouldn't this be great?

OK! That's it!

Qi Fang then decided to take advantage of his existing advantages to reoccupy the regained areas, arrange defense lines, and then maintain the status quo and send some troops to harass the rebels, but do not fight with the rebels unless the rebels dare to attack him.

The army is here to eat, drink, have fun, consume food and military pay, give the army more benefits and give itself more benefits, so that its subordinates can be more grateful to themselves, be loyal to themselves, and keep their basic foundation.

Even if the Privy Council questioned this, his reasons were quite good.

The number of troops under his command was insufficient to make progress. The thieves were powerful and dared not be defeated again. They could only wait for the arrival of the army of the Chizhou Commander and make progress when the troops were sufficient.

Before this, he could only defend the previous Song army's achievements and not lose the rest. After the army of Chizhou Tutongsi arrived, he would talk about it.

The Privy Council can urge him, and he can also shirk him. Unless the Privy Council is really willing to change his generals in the last battle and take the risk of unstable army, he has nothing to say.

Qi Fang did not intend to take the lead, and at the same time, Zhang Xiaohu followed Zhao Yucheng into Luoxiao Mountain.

The peasant army began to practice internal strength and did not intend to continue to make progress in a short period of time. The other rebel troops also learned about the offensive of the Song army and the current uprising situation, and stopped taking action and actively prepared for war.

For a moment, the uprising of Jiangnan West Road was temporarily stable.

The situation inexplicably entered some strange balance.

But if we balance here, there will be problems there.

Su Yonglin encountered some emergencies.

The Tatar tribe, a grassland tribe located north of Linhuang Prefecture, sent people to meet Su Yonglin and presented war horses, cattle and sheep, leather, bone products and other grassland products as tributes, hoping to continue their vassal relationship with the Jin Kingdom and hope to surrender to the Ming Kingdom.

This emergencies surprised the Ming court quite a bit.

Since Su Yonglin destroyed the Jin Dynasty and established the Central Plains, he has always been defensive and vigilant towards the northern grasslands and has no intention of making progress.

For example, in the northwest region, he stationed the Hebei Corps with Han Jinggui as commander in Datong Province northwest of Zhongdu, guarding inside and outside the Great Wall, and was alert to Wang Gu's troops north of the Great Wall.

The Wanggu tribe was a tribe that guarded the border for the Jin people. The leader served as an official of the Jin people and had close ties with the Jin people. After Su Yonglin destroyed the Jin people, he quickly seized the Great Wall and sent troops to defend themselves to strictly prevent the possible southern invasion of the Wanggu tribe.

However, for so long, there has been no sign of invasion of the south, but he has never sent anyone south to contact the Ming Kingdom. I don’t know what kind of thoughts he has.

Su Yonglin's meaning is that if the Wang Gu tribe doesn't come to provoke him, he doesn't want to provoke the Wang Gu tribe. He tries to maintain the status quo and does not change it.

This is true in the northwest and the northeast. The local area of ​​Linhuang Prefecture is governed by the Xuanjia Army under the Liaodong Corps.

Wei Kexian, the first deputy commander of the Liaodong Corps, led this army to garrison in Linhuang Mansion, and the Tatar tribe was guarded against.

According to the information learned by the Ming court, compared with the Wang Gu tribe's surrender and introverted attitude towards the Jin Kingdom, the Tatar tribe showed more independence, sometimes surrendering to the Jin Kingdom, and sometimes back-striking the Jin Kingdom. The two sides often had wars and often cooperated.

The Jin Kingdom often had no choice but to spend money to eliminate disasters. The Tatar tribe was tactful and surrendered to the Jin Kingdom after taking the money. He bullied other tribes on the grasslands by relying on the Jin Kingdom. During this period, he dominated the eastern part of the Mongolian Plateau.

Su Yonglin was also very alert to such a tribe that turned against each other faster than flirting with books, and ordered the Liaodong Corps to guard against the Tatars, so as not to suffer losses and be deceived.

In addition to the defense of the Hebei Corps and the Liaodong Corps on the outside, Su Yonglin also directly commanded the Yanyun Corps to be responsible for the mountain defense and the Great Wall defense line north of Zhongdu. It is the second line of defense south of the first line of defense formed by the Hebei Corps and the Liaodong Corps.

This constructed a three-dimensional maneuverable defense model and still had strong defense capabilities for grassland cavalry.

Because the main energy is to develop oneself and deal with the Western Xia, Su Yonglin did not take matters on the grassland too seriously.

First of all, as far as he knows, the tribes on the grassland are fighting endlessly, and there is no unified core of the regime that can threaten the Central Plains.

Secondly, if Su Yonglin remembers correctly, Temujin, who eventually unified the grassland and created the Great Mongolian Kingdom, was still a baby or had not been born at all, and was not enough to become the object that Su Yonglin feared.

Third, Su Yonglin had absolute confidence in the military strength of the Ming Dynasty. He believed that the Ming army he brought out would never fail on the grassland.

Adding up various factors, Su Yonglin did not focus on the grassland for the time being. While raising war horses, he practiced cavalry. His main target was not the grassland, but the Western Xia and Southern Song Dynasty.

Su Yonglin's view is correct.

During this period, there were tribes such as the Tatar tribe, the Naiman tribe, and the Kelie tribe on the grassland, which was quite powerful. The direct origin of the Great Mongolian Kingdom, Qiyan tribe is not the strongest tribe at present.

The entire plateau is from east to west, and the four major groups of Tatar, Qiyan, Kelie, and Naiman and the five heroes of the northern Merqi Group coexist. In order to compete for the highest power to dominate the entire plateau, the five major tribal groups fought fiercely.

The five major groups have fought against each other, and they are not a monolithic part.

There are different branches within each group, and there are always many contradictions between branches. No leader with full strength and charm can complete the unified task.

Therefore, during this period, the political state on the grassland was divided and there was indeed no force that could pose a threat to the Ming Dynasty.

However, Su Yonglin is not interested in the grassland, which does not mean that the grassland is not interested in him.

After Su Yonglin destroyed the Jin Kingdom, he temporarily cut off the ties with the tribes on the grassland, and naturally the old trade between the two sides disappeared.

At the beginning, the Wanggu tribe and the Tatar tribe were inexplicably frightened by the sudden collapse of the powerful Jin Kingdom. They only dared to protect themselves and did not dare to deal with the Ming Kingdom, for fear that the Ming Kingdom would cross the Great Wall to attack them.

But as time went by, they found that the Ming Kingdom had no intention of going to war with them, but was just guarding the Great Wall defense line.

After doing this for a long time, these tribes began to wonder what the Ming Dynasty meant, and they also needed to trade with the Ming Dynasty. After losing the trading path, they would not get many things.

Because the Wang Gu tribe had a closer relationship with the Jin Kingdom, he did not dare to act rashly, so he could only send people to negotiate with the Tatar tribe and ask the Tatar tribe who had fought with the Jin Kingdom to come forward to contact the Ming Dynasty and see what the Ming Dynasty thought of them.

In addition, Yesuge, the leader of the Qiyan tribe, led his troops to attack the territories of the Tatar tribes many times, which caused great losses to the Tatar people. The Tatar people were also very unhappy and hoped to get a strong support.

Under the urging of this situation, in August of the second year of Hongwu, the Tatar tribe took the lead in sending a delegation of more than 500 people to the south, carrying cattle, sheep, horses and other tributes that had been presented to the Jin Kingdom, and embarked on the way to the Ming Dynasty to worship the emperor.

The first thing they came into contact with was the patrol cavalry team of the Xuanjia Army. The patrol team reported the news to Wei Kexian, and Wei Kexian personally led the five hundred elite cavalry to meet with him.

There were also some Chinese-speaking people from this group of Tatar who went south. They saw the fully armed Wei Kexian and the Five Hundred Black Armored Cavalry, rationally not using force, but taking the initiative to negotiate.
Chapter completed!