The battle situation in the Western Regions was in a stalemate. Yue Zhongqi and Lin Jianzhang's troops spent a lot of effort to capture Liangzhou some time ago and were stationed in Liangzhou at this time.

The Ming army suffered a lot of casualties when they captured Liangzhou, which was naturally because of Russia's dispatch of troops. However, facing the powerful offensive and firepower of the Ming army, the Qing army did not defend Liangzhou even with the assistance of Russia. After losing thousands of troops, Liangzhou retreated from Zhangye, and relied on Jiayuguan to defend again.

Considering the arrival of severe cold in the northwest and the extremely difficult battle between Zhangye and Jiayuguan, Yue Zhongqi asked Zhu Yicheng for instructions and temporarily slowed down. The entire army used Liangzhou as the forward base to rectify and waited for another war to begin next year.

The same is true for Liaodong. It comes earlier than the winter in northwest Liaodong, so the attack from Liaodong north will be carried out again in the spring of next year. Therefore, the battle situation between the two places has not changed much for the time being, and everything will not be restored after the beginning of spring.

As for Mongolia, the remnants of Korqin made a comeback after receiving assistance from Russia, causing considerable losses to the Mongolian tribes throughout the autumn.

In a furious manner, Ortai sent 50,000 cavalry to encircle and suppress him. Who would have thought that Nomon Ehrhetu was extremely cunning. Ortai's encirclement and suppression failed to catch Nomon Ehrhetu's tail. Instead, let Nomon Ehrhetu take advantage of the opportunity of the gathering of troops from the Mongolian troops to avoid his edge. He attacked several Mongolian tribes in a row, burning, killing, looting and doing everything. When Ortai's army arrived, Nomon Ehrhetu and his troops had long known where to escape.

There has never been a saying that one can be a thief for thousands of miles and never defend against thieves for thousands of days. Nomon Erhetu and others were originally Mongols, so they knew all the Mongolian tribes and terrain. It was extremely difficult to find their traces and siege them in such a large Mongolia. After a few months, Ortai only tried hard to kill more than a hundred people from the remnants of Korqin. As for Nomon Erhetu himself, he didn't even see his shadow.

Apart from the above battlefields, Myanmar is now fighting in full swing.

The remaining forces of the Tohsu Dynasty in Myanmar and the Meng people have joined forces in the face of Gao Jin's occupation of Myanmar. They are supported by Western countries behind them. As the forces against Gao Jin have not been eliminated, the situation in southern Myanmar is not optimistic. The two sides are fighting back and forth. Although Gao Jin has a military advantage, Myanmar's terrain is complex, it has no choice but to deal with the other side for a moment.

Apart from the war on land, the South China Sea has not been peaceful recently.

The Spanish who were driven out of Luzon were ready to move again, intending to regain their lost territory. As for the Dutch, French, Portuguese and even British, they had normal diplomatic relations with the Ming Dynasty on the surface, but in fact, they had many small actions in private. These incidents made Zhu Yicheng work hard and work hard every day.

Although the current situation is complicated, Zhu Yicheng and his military ministers have already peeled off their knots from all over the place and gradually figured out some things.

Zhu Yicheng's previous predictions were correct. The Ming Dynasty is currently facing containment or even encirclement from the Western world. The reason for this situation is obviously because of the rise and rapid expansion of the Ming Dynasty, which has caused Western countries to be extremely afraid of this new empire.

As the Ming Dynasty became stronger, the Western world's attitude towards the Ming Dynasty changed from being friendly to being prepared and vigilant.

Since Zhu Yicheng revived the Ming Dynasty, he has adopted an open-minded national policy, which is not only reflected in external expansion, but also has greatly changed in trade, politics, diplomacy and other aspects.

Judging from the development of a country, Zhu Yicheng did this. History tells us that the policy of closing the country is a dead end. If the Ming Dynasty locked the country like the Qing Dynasty and became the boss and was intoxicated by the beautiful dream of the Celestial Kingdom, then in less than a hundred years, the original historical situation would be expected, thus making the Ming Dynasty unable to keep up with the times and fall into humiliation in modern times.

Since Zhu Yicheng wants to build a thousand-year empire, he must use new national policies. This is also the reason why Zhu Yicheng strongly encouraged commerce and turned his attention to the ocean when he was restored.

Facts also prove that Zhu Yicheng has a great vision. Now the territory of the Ming Dynasty is far superior to that of all dynasties, and its national strength is extremely strong.

But this directly affects the interests of Western countries. While the Ming Dynasty was expanding rapidly outward, Western countries also changed their senses towards the Ming Dynasty, which led to the current situation.

Zhu Yicheng knew very well that this was inevitable. In this world, there is no eternal friendship between countries, and there is only benefits. If the Ming Dynasty occupied a little more in the world, then other countries would lose some.

For their respective interests and fear of the overly strong Ming Dynasty, it was inevitable that Western countries would unite to target the Ming Dynasty at this time. But Zhu Yicheng was not afraid, nor was he worried, because he knew that this situation was due to the strength of the Ming Dynasty, which also proved the correctness of Zhu Yicheng's policy.

At present, although the Ming Dynasty is full of dangers, the Ming Dynasty is still strong. As long as the Ming Dynasty can overcome this difficulty, the Western world's containment of the Ming Dynasty will completely fail. By then, the Ming Dynasty will become the world's number one power, and even the alliance of the Western world will be of no use to the Ming Dynasty.

These days, the Ming Dynasty not only prepares for wars that break out everywhere or are about to break out, but also tries to make diplomatic efforts.

Western countries are not a monolithic part. The temporary alliance between countries is just for the sake of interests. It is absolutely impossible for each other to have the same heart.

Once the so-called alliances of Western countries have rifts, or if major events happen in Europe cause countries to lose the energy to take care of the Ming Dynasty, then the so-called alliance will be broken.

It is precisely because of this that the Ming Dynasty currently continues to maintain normal diplomatic relations with European countries on the surface. Even Russia and Spain, which directly had actual conflicts with the Ming Dynasty, did not take the means of expelling each other's envoys, and only asked the other party to make a reasonable explanation of the current situation through diplomatic channels and protested.

The two sides quarreled diplomatically, and they also told lies that they didn't even believe in themselves. These lies were negotiated in an extremely serious way. But in private, their actions were very clear to each other, and they did not completely break up for the purpose.

When the floor bell set beside him rang again, Zhu Yicheng looked up at the exquisite floor bell made by Daming himself.

Watches were brought to China by Western missionaries during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. They have existed for hundreds of years. With the continuous development of the Ming Dynasty's technology, the Ming Dynasty can now make watches that are no less than those produced in the West, and are even better than the West in some aspects.

Now it is already eleven o'clock in the evening. Although Zhu Yicheng still had some official documents to finish, he felt very tired. In addition, tomorrow he would meet an important messenger from the West. The identity of this messenger was extremely special. Perhaps the arrival of this messenger was an opportunity for the Ming Dynasty to break the current deadlock. Zhu Yicheng had to pay attention to it, so Zhu Yicheng had to give up the idea of ​​continuing official duties and force himself to rest.
Chapter completed!