The defeat and flight of the Chahar tribe led to the conquest of Mongolia south of the Gobi Desert by the Later Jin. Jizhou and Xuanda of the Ming Dynasty faced direct threats, which also created conditions for the Later Jin to attack the Ming Dynasty.

It was actually quite difficult for Zhu Youxiao to change this historical trend because he was not a veterinarian and could not cure Lindan Khan's intermittent mad cow disease.

But if you change your thinking, there are still many ways, it depends on whether you can grasp the root cause of the changes in the situation.

That’s right, it was difficult for Lin Danhan or Hu Duntu to realize his ambition of unifying the Mongolian tribes because of the existence of the Later Jin Dynasty and its active intervention in the civil war among the Mongolian tribes.

The Mongolian tribes gradually turned to the Later Jin, firstly because they could not defeat them, and secondly because they could gain benefits.

If the Later Jin Dynasty had not won over the wealth of the Mongolian tribes, even if it had used force to force the Mongolian tribes to form an alliance, it would have been a "forced alliance" and would not have made the Mongolian tribes willingly surrender and work hard.

This is just like the relationship between the Ming Dynasty and the Mongolian tribes: if you appease them, there will be peace; if you don't appease them, there will be war.

Compared with the Later Jin Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty was obviously more abundant in material resources and money, and was more attractive to the Mongolian tribes.

Therefore, the Ming army in the northern border towns must become stronger as soon as possible. This is the basis for implementing various strategies.

First, the Ming army had to be able to resist the plundering of the Mongol tribes before it could control them with the two most powerful means, namely, market rewards and trade;

Secondly, the Ming army had to exert sufficient military pressure on the Later Jin, at least to be able to harass and attack continuously, to contain and disrupt the Later Jin's conquest of the Mongol tribes;

The final solution to the problem was to reoccupy Daningwei and then push the front line northward and eastward to Yizhou (Yixian and Fuxin, Liaoning), forming two strategic points with Ningyuan and Jinzhou.

This would not only stop the Later Jin from advancing westward, but also re-establish contact with the left-wing Mongolian tribes, and form a pincer attack on the Later Jin with the Ming army group in Ningyuan.

Well, if such a strategic situation can be formed, it will not be a three-way deployment, but a four-way attack.

Zhu Youxiao touched his chin and laughed.

These arrangements are all made according to the course of history. Even if they are not completely successful, they will not be worse than the historical results, right?