Zhao Yu was greatly relieved when he received Ni Liang's report, and the Third Brigade annihilated more than 4,000 enemies at the cost of more than 300 casualties, surrendered the rest of the Yingzhou Army, and captured Changhua County. He ordered Sun Jin to guard the Minling Pass and lead the 7th and 8th regiments to guard the Huihang choke point from Minling to Laozhuling, so as to cut off the enemy's passage to reinforce Hangzhou from the West Road, and then ordered Ni Liang to lead the 9th Regiment to escort the Yingzhou Army to surrender and return.

The Shaoxing side of the guards attacked in all directions, and recovered the eight counties within three days, and after Dong Yicheng's troops retreated into Taihu Lake, they sent a brigade of marines to recover Pingjiang Mansion, and with the surrender of the Yingzhou army, the Song army has completed the encirclement of Hangzhou from the south, west and north, and the east is the sea, where there is also a naval army led by Lu Xiufu waiting in the open sea. And three of the four ten thousand households in Hangzhou have been wiped out, so Lin'an Mansion can be said to be in the bag.

However, Zhao Hao did not rush to make a move, but turned the spearhead to the Zhending Wanhu Army stationed in Jiankang, and only by transferring them out of the city could Zhao Mengjin create a fighter. At present, Dong Yicheng robbed Liujiagang and took Pingjiang, which is to put down the bait. Because militarily Jiankang is an important town, but economically Liujiagang is the hub of grain transportation from the south to the north, pinching the economic lifeline of Dadu, and losing Jiankang is just a gain or loss of a place, so he firmly believes that the enemy's Zhending army will come to fight for Taihu Lake, and now there are signs that the enemy's Longwan naval army and several other thousand households under the jurisdiction of the Wanhu Prefecture of the seaway grain are assembling at the mouth of the Yangtze River.

The other battlefields were fought quite smoothly, recovering many states and counties, and effectively restraining the strength of the Yuan army. However, it was difficult to capture the local central city, among which the new Song army was backward in weapons and lacked the means to attack the fortifications, and it was still at a disadvantage in the field battle, even the Huai'en army, which had the largest number of people under the command of Wen Tianxiang, was still difficult to break through the city of Ezhou, and it became a war of attrition.

The Song army was able to turn Jiangnan upside down in a short period of time, of course, because of Zhao Hao's accumulation, and often secretly rejoiced that Kublai Khan died at the right time. His original method of 'scheming' was clever, but there were many uncertain factors, it was not like poison that worked immediately after eating, nor like a knife that pierced it and saw red, and no one knew when Kublai Khan would die of illness. But before he died, he did another big thing and helped Zhao Hao, of course, Kublai Khan's original intention was not like this, and it was also forced by the situation.

The vast territory of the Yuan Dynasty has always been praised by historians, but the political turmoil of the Yuan Dynasty has also been criticized by historians. The reason for the turmoil is actually caused by the large territory and poor governance. The large number of tribes in the territory and the great economic and cultural differences between the various ethnic groups and regions have brought practical difficulties to effective administration. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he attached to the Han Law and adopted the Central Plains system in an attempt to correct defects and renew, but it was still unable to overcome the national contradictions and social contradictions that arose one after another.

The Mongol aristocratic rulers, who founded the country by force, then took military suppression as an important means of governing the country, and established a military defense system for this purpose. The highest military body of the Yuan Dynasty was the Privy Council. The Yuan is composed of the prefect, the same infect, the deputy cardinal, the courtier, the court judge, the senator, the experience, the capital and other officials. There is also a judge in charge of court-martials and prison proceedings. The Privy Council was directly subordinate to the Emperor, and its duty was to "preside over the secrets of the world's armour." Where the palace is forbidden to stay in the guards, the military wings of the border court, the conquest and garrison, the brief reading and dispatch, the transfer of meritorious officials, and the control and scheduling, all of them are helpless." If there is a local situation that requires the dispatch of troops, a Privy Council will be set up in the local area, and the matter will be stopped.

Because the Yuan Dynasty pursued a policy of Mongolian supremacy, the military secrets were only known to the two Mongolian governors, and the Han people were not allowed to check them. The center of the Yuan Dynasty had another military department. Compared with the Privy Council, the power of the Ministry of War is relatively small, and its function is mainly "to control the decree of the post post and the pastoral of the county." Where the city is abandoned, the mountains and rivers are dangerous and easy, the military station is in the tuntian, the naturalized people in the distance, the official and private animal husbandry land, the camel and horse, the cattle and sheep, the eagle falcon, the feathers, the leather of the levy, the post car, the mail, the only response, the public house, the soap subordinate, all of which are at their disposal, and the position is the same as that of the military logistics department.

The military garrison of the Yuan Dynasty can be roughly divided into two categories: the central garrison system and the local town garrison system. Before entering the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongol Great Khan's guard was served by Ti Xue. The cowardly Xue system originated from the nomadic aristocracy's Naker (companion) and pro-army. Different from the central forbidden army of the Han Dynasty, in the nomadic society of the steppe, the cowardly Xue was not only the personal guard of the Great Khan, but also had the nature of a royal household cadre, a proton battalion, and a training school for the children of nobles. Most of the military and political officials of the Mongol Khanate were served by the coward, so the cowardly Xue also had the function of the central government of the khanate.

As the dry city of the imperial power, the guards were under the direct jurisdiction of the Privy Council. Its functions are roughly as follows: First, as a standing army, it will defend the two capitals and nearby areas. Second, as the central armed force that controls the locality, whenever there is a rebellion, it goes out to fight and fight. Third, during the non-military period, Tuntian provided food for the army to reduce the burden on the state. Fourth, undertake the construction and repair of the two capitals. This not only became the power of the Yuan court to strengthen the checks and balances between ethnic groups, but also laid the foundation for the rise of the Semu Quan in the political arena.

After entering the Yuan Dynasty, the power of Tixue was greatly weakened, but his role as a traditional Mongolian royal guard remained, and he received special treatment. He was set up as a captain in four shifts, and was in charge of the palace guards and the imperial guards. Unlike the Guards, Xue was not subordinate to the Privy Council but directly to the Emperor. However, the cowardly Xue also lost the function of the large army in the Mongol era, and rarely went on expeditions without the emperor's personal expeditions, and its military role was to check and balance with the guards. And the central forbidden army composed of cowardly Xue and the guards is a balancing force to control the local suppression armies.

Different from the Song Dynasty's policy of "strong cadres and weak branches", while maintaining the elite troops of the central government, based on the needs of public security and national defense, the Yuan Dynasty stationed a large number of troops in important inland towns and remote fortresses. Kublai Khan and his advisers determined the scale of the national garrison, and ordered King Zong to generalize the town to the border of the throat, while Heluo and Shandong were the heart of the world, and the Mongols and Tanma Red Army were the big mansions to Tun. To the south of the Huai and Jiang rivers and to the south of the South China Sea, the famous feudal counties were garrisoned by the Han army and the new attached army, and according to the distribution of regions and armies, a number of towns and garrisons were divided.

The so-called Han land mainly refers to the territory under the jurisdiction of the original Jin Dynasty, that is, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Liaodong, Shaanxi and Gansu, and also includes Sichuan. After the destruction of the Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty took the Song Realm as the new territory, and the south of the Yangtze River was the economic center at that time.

According to the distribution of the Yuan Dynasty's military forces, Jiangnan was heavily garrisoned because the original Song capital was located, and it was an economically developed and densely populated area, so it was heavily garrisoned, and most of the new annexed troops composed of the Song Dynasty's troops were stationed here. However, the military strength in South China was relatively weak, so in the event of the rise of anti-Yuan forces, the Yuan court often transferred Jiangnan troops to support, so that sometimes the Jiangnan forces weakened.

The prominent role of the Yuan Dynasty in the military and political construction was because after the Yuan Dynasty conquered the Han Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, many places did not agree with foreign rule, and rebellion activities continued to occur. Excessive accumulation in the Jiangnan area has intensified local social contradictions. The occurrence of the above situation made the rule of the Yuan Dynasty in a state of instability, so military suppression was undoubtedly a necessary means for the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty. In order to strengthen the effective control of the vast territory, according to the traditional Mongolian custom of dividing the feudal territory, the Yuan Dynasty also established the system of the king leaving the town.

The so-called king of Zong went out of the town, that is, the king of Zong was enclosed in a certain place, responsible for the conquest of the town in the area, and supervised the local military administration on behalf of the imperial court. In fact, this kind of feudal is not a real feudal, it is a feudal domain without governing the domain, and only takes the "feudal afterword". Their main duty was military suppression. Therefore, nominally, King Zhenzong is the highest military and political governor of the Zhenshu District, but the regional administration is not under his control, and the administration is controlled by the local officials of the province. The division of labor between the two lies in the fact that the king of the town focuses on the control of the army, while the local administration and part of the public security are controlled by the local bureaucratic system of the Yuan Dynasty. As a result, a system of different towns and sects was formed.

After two expeditions to Qiongzhou, the Jiangnan Yuan army conquered Annam, occupied the city and expedition to Japan, almost all of which were drawn from the new annexed army in Jiangnan, and these battles caused great losses in the strength of the new annexed army, especially in the conquest of Japan, 150,000 people died at sea. And this can also be said to be Kublai Khan's intention, you must know that the military equipment of the Tanmachi soldiers is mainly provided by the military households, and the insufficient part is supplied by the government. The winter and summer uniforms and weapons of the Han soldiers were issued by the government, and rations were distributed on a monthly basis.

The implementation of the military household system can ensure that the country has a stable supply of troops, and can also maintain a large army without the excessive burden on the government. The equipment of the newly attached soldiers was all provided by the government, with rations of six buckets of rice and one pound of salt per month, and four buckets of food per person per month for their families. After many years, the number of new annexed troops stationed in Jiangnan was greatly reduced.

With the reduction of foreign wars, Kublai Khan felt that Jiangnan had been stabilized, so in the 22nd year of the Yuan Dynasty, the Yuan court reorganized the troops under the jurisdiction of Jianghuai and Jiangxi provinces, and reorganized them into 370,000 households to garrison various places, which were divided into upper, middle and lower three classes, and the total number of Yuan troops stationed in Jiangnan was reduced to more than 200,000, nearly half less than before.

The only solution is to deploy the limited number of troops in key areas, generally in accordance with the government by the 10,000 households to garrison, and then divide the troops to garrison the prefecture under their jurisdiction, and the county is generally composed of the newly attached army and the township soldiers to take on the task of maintaining public order and fighting thieves and thieves, and according to the different levels of the county, the number of lieutenants assigned to the county also ranges from 2, 300 to 1,000 people.

However, the Mongols were very distrustful of the new annexed army, and did not equip them with weapons, so that each of the lieutenants could only have a suffocating stick, so that when the thieves were arrested, they were not only unable to catch the bandits, but were wounded by them. Taking into account the actual situation, after careful consideration, the Mongols distributed ten pairs of bows and arrows to the lieutenants of the large counties, and only five pairs of bows and arrows in the small counties, which shows how effective their combat effectiveness is.

Therefore, it is okay for the lieutenant army to scare the villagers, and the war has to rely on the town army. This also allowed the Song Dynasty rebels who occupied remote areas to develop and grow, and they were able to quickly recover many county towns after the war. At the moment, Zhao Yu gave an order, and the Jiangnan area was full of smoke, and the Jiangnan Yuan army took care of one thing and the other, and took care of itself, of course, it was difficult to support the war in other places, and could only watch it be annihilated by the Song army one by one.

On the other hand, the Yuan army's 10,000 households were under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council, and the Privy Council envoy was concurrently served by the crown prince or the king of Zong, so now Zhenjin is also the privy envoy in charge of the local town army. But Kublai Khan died, he had not yet ascended to the throne, Empress Nanbi was in charge of the country as the empress dowager, and the power of the Xue army directly led by the Great Khan was not transferred to his hands.

For these reasons, the power in the hands of Zhenjin is greatly limited, and the only one who can control the kings is the privy envoy, and if he wants to succeed in ascending to the throne, he must seize the military power. However, it is difficult to say whether the various kings can support him, and the areas where the kings of the sect are out of the town at present include Lingbei, Hexi, Tibet, Yunnan, Jiangnan and other places. Among the kings of the town sect, the king of the sect in the north has the greatest military power. The power of the Jianghuai kings to command the army was slightly inferior. The kings of Hexi and Yunnan were somewhere in between.

Mobei was originally the fundamental place for the prosperity of Mongolia, and Helin was the capital of the former empire, but after the Yuan Dynasty shifted the political center of gravity to the south and set the capital in Kaiping and Yanjing, Mobei lost its old glory and was regarded as a frontier. However, the Yuan emperor, as the titular Great Khan of the Mongols, had to control the steppe region and make the Mobei kings obey his orders and ensure that the region was not politically shaken by hostile forces. To this end, the Yuan Dynasty gradually strengthened the military and political construction in the Mobei region.

In the third year of the Yuan Dynasty, Kublai Khan named his fourth son Namuhan as the king of Beiping, and went out of the town of Mobei to lead the army of the kings to prevent the kings of the West who refused to be ordered by Haidu. In the eighth year of the Yuan Dynasty, when Haidu and the queen of the Chagatai system were competing for the Hezhong region, Namuhan was ordered to lead the army of the kings of Lingbei to enter Alimali. While the Yuan Dynasty continued to replenish the supplies and weapons of the Alimali garrison, it also sent An Tong, the right prime minister of Zhongshu Province, to Alimali with the title of Xingzhongshu Province and Privy Council, to assist Namuhan and strengthen the attack on Haidu.

However, this system of leaving the town was broken in the winter of the thirteenth year of the Zhiyuan Dynasty. At that time, the kings of Xiliji and others held Namuhan and An Tong rebelled against the Yuan, and Mobei fell into chaos. Later, the Yuan Dynasty sent troops, surveyed the war, but the western defense line has been withdrawn to the east, but Helin is still an important garrison town in Mobei, and the sea and other places set up the Xuanwei Division to manage the garrison's Tuntian and garrison. In the twenty-first year of the Yuan Dynasty, Namuhan and others were released and returned to the dynasty, and were renamed the king of Bei'an by Kublai Khan, and were still ordered to go out of the town of Lingbei, as the youngest son of Kublai Khan, he was also the most powerful contender for the throne, and Zhenjin must be supported by other kings if he wants to take the throne safely......