"Your Majesty, Na Dan Khan summoned a total of more than 200,000 troops from the inner and outer Khalkha, Tumot, and Ordos. I also divided into three groups to confront our Ming Dynasty." The officials of the Governor's Office of the Five Army marked the movements of the Mongolian cavalry on the map in the middle of the imperial tent. The three arrows separated, facing the three armies of the Ming Dynasty.

"More than 200,000 soldiers? Lin Danhan will save trouble for my Ming Dynasty." Faced with such pressure, Li You laughed without rushing, "The Mongols can't even beat Jiannu, so how could they be my Ming Dynasty opponent? If they retreat into the desert, scattered all over the place, lengthen the front line, and then send troops to harass the logistics supply line, I have no good way to deal with it. Unexpectedly, Lin Danhan actually used such a stupid move, concentrating all the troops of the Mongolian tribes here, which saved us a lot of effort."

Li You knew that during the process of Lin Danhan's decision, the Jinyiwei played a considerable role. They bribed the lamas trusted by Lin Danhan and promised to have a high position with a large sum of money, so they just told Lin Danhan to persuade him. As for other tribes, they had spent a lot of money to buy them, or threatened and intimidated them, so that these tribes gathered together. If they could win this battle, the Jinyiwei would receive a great reward after the war.

Lu Xiangsheng, Cao Wenzhao and other generals were also full of joy. Like Li You, their most worried question before the war was how to find the main force of the Mongols. Now Lin Danhan is planning to fight them face to face. Now, without waiting for the war to begin, the Ming Dynasty has already held the victory in his hand.

"If they join forces and defeat each one, they may cause us some trouble. But now, the strength of the three groups of troops is not as good as that of our Ming Dynasty. In this battle, our Ming Dynasty will win or lose." Lu Xiangsheng was also optimistic about the result of this battle. In the past, the Ming army's strength in the Battle of Sarhu was actually far superior to Nurhaci. Unfortunately, Nurhaci took advantage of the opportunity of the Ming army's division of troops to defeat each one. In the end, the Eastern Affairs Bureau has been so decayed that it cannot be cured. However, Lin Danhan has taken the initiative to give up the advantage of inside combat.

Of course, even if they combined more than 200,000 troops to deal with any of the three armies of the Ming Dynasty, they would not get any advantage, but they could cause some trouble for the Ming Dynasty, but now they don’t have to worry about this problem.

"Now there is still three days away from where Lin Danhan is. Three days later it will be the time for our Ming Dynasty to destroy Mongolia!" Li You said confidently, and then made arrangements. The Jinyiwei who obtained the task was the Jinyiwei. They will shoulder the task of inciting some tribal leaders to turn against each other at the last moment. The new army that fought head-on in the Ming Dynasty can also win, but it is always good to reduce some losses.

Lu Xiangsheng and Cao Wenzhao also received an order, and they would lead a team of troops to protect Li You's wings, while Li You led a large army to garrison the central army. The more specific strategy should be made in the war, based on the dynamics of Lin Danhan's army, and learn from Chen Qingzhi's "hawkeye" skills to be used again.

A group of Jinyiwei left the camp quietly, then put on the clothes of the Mongolians and started to go to the tents of the leaders of various tribes to persuade them to turn against each other. Lu Xiangsheng and Cao Wenzhao were also making final preparations for the war.

Three days later, Li You and Lin Danhan each led more than 100,000 troops to meet on the vast grassland. Both sides showed their own flags and then began a tentative attack. Teams of Mongolian cavalry roared and waved scimitars, bent their bows and arrows, and roared towards Li You's big flag. However, the army in front of Li You remained motionless like iron castings, and did not take this bluffing enemy seriously at all.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" In front of the musketeers who had already set up a dense formation, these cavalry were just a piece of cake. After several rounds of shooting, the group of raided Mongolian cavalry were beaten to pieces. Then the breastplate cavalry went into battle and completely wiped them out easily. They could not even make the Ming army's formation fluctuate.

"The Mongols are so embarrassed?" Li You reached out and took several arrows shot down by the Mongolian cavalry from his personal guards. He saw a bone arrow mixed in the middle of the iron arrows, which made Li You couldn't help but sigh, "It seems that the lesson of the Eight Great Masters of Shanxi merchants has indeed scared a group of people, and the Jinyiwei and the soldiers on the Nine Borders have also made great contributions."

The Mongols lacked smelting technology and could only obtain metal from the Central Plains merchants. In the past, they could use unscrupulous merchants to buy iron ingots needed to build swords, guns, arrows and arrows. However, since Li You uprooted the eight great masters of Shanxi merchants and Yan Ren and the merchants were not allowed to send prohibited items outside the pass, few people have done this business again. Even Tian Hongyu, the father-in-law who has never known the highest status, relied on Concubine Tian to be quite favored in the palace and tried to go to the grassland to make a lot of money by the Jinyiwei, but he was found out by the Jinyiwei and was severely dealt with by Li You. Not only did Tian Hongyu be demoted to a commoner, but even Concubine Tian was also thrown into the cold palace. In this way, except for some merchants dressed as merchants with secret missions, who has the ability to provide iron tools to the Mongolians?

Unfortunately, the number of iron ingots sent by the Jinyiwei was too small to satisfy the daily consumption of the Mongols. So several years have passed, and the Mongolians have fewer and fewer iron tools in their hands. Now even the arrows are bone-like. If Li You can't win this battle under such circumstances, then his many missions will be in vain.

"Transfer the order and order General Cao to lead his cavalry to attack and rush straight to the junction between Lin Dankhan's central army and the right wing." The "Eagle Eye" skill played a role at this time, and Li You keenly discovered a big loophole in Lin Dankhan's military formation.

The central army waved its flag and quickly passed the order to Cao Wenzhao. Cao Wenzhao, who had been a little impatient, immediately led the army to attack after receiving the order. The artillery began to cooperate with their actions and aimed the gun at the position Li You had just pointed. Now the Mongols still arranged military formations according to their inherent impressions, and they didn't know that they had fallen within the range of the Ming army's new cannons.

The screaming shells quickly plowed out several blood grooves in the Mongolian military formation. The Mongolian cavalry who found that their position was not safe began to avoid the shells in panic, and their formation immediately became chaotic.
Chapter completed!