After occupying the city of Sizhou, Zhao Yu ordered the Duge Department and the Protector Baggage Regiment to be stationed, and he led the Guardian Army Guards Regiment and the Guard Battalion and the Badu Department to stay in Xuyi City. His camp did not choose to be in Xuyi County, but gave it to Batu. He chose a Chen Garden, which was close to the mountains and rivers, which was a wealthy merchant's courtyard, and fled early after learning the news of the Song army's northward advance.

The area of Chen Garden is very large, the style adopts the style of Su Yang, takes the water of the Huai River into the garden, the mountain in the city, and quarries the Taihu Lake stone as decoration, the whole is simple and elegant, very suitable for the taste of Zhao Yu. Due to the hasty escape of the master, everything in the garden was preserved, and even the grain in the storehouse and the servants left behind did not have time to take it away.

Of course, the choice to stay here is more for safety reasons. Although Du Ge and Batu behaved very deferentially, Wang Yinglin and the others were still not at ease, and the strength of the surrendered army was more than theirs, and it would be difficult to clean up once something happened. Although the county government is convenient for the council, it can be located in the center of the city, facing the street to the west, which is not conducive to defense and is not convenient for retreat.

The Chen family manor is backed by mountains and close to the water on the left and right, and there is only one bridge to figure it out to the outside world, so the chariot battalion of the pro-guard regiment arranges the chariots at both ends of the bridge, which can easily block the road to the outside, and occasionally use the chariot as an activity fortress and a guard post on the water's edge. If something happens, they can quickly form a car formation to form an impregnable outer defense. And the manor is close to the south water gate of the city, so it is convenient to withdraw to the outside of the city if it cannot be guarded.

Zhao Hao likes water, and still chooses a courtyard near the water as his residence. Since crossing the river, he has been stationed in the field with the army, at first living in the house I don't know whether it is adapted to the field, or the recent continuous march and combat too tired, after entering the city, he actually got sick, and he has a low-grade fever for several days, so that he feels that he has no strength in his body, and he is lazy and unwilling to move.

"Your Majesty, you still have to take care of the dragon body, don't bother!" Wang De took the decoction made by himself, and as soon as he entered the house, he saw the little emperor sitting on the couch wrapped in a quilt to review the official documents, and hurriedly stepped forward.

"It's just an occasional chill, so there's no need to make a fuss!" Zhao Yu glanced at him and said.

"Your Majesty, don't underestimate it, it's okay to make a big deal!" Wang De was still chattering and handing the medicine bowl to the emperor.

"I see that you are old, how did you become so verbose?" Zhao Yu took the medicine bowl and drank it in one gulp, and said with a smile.

"Yes, Your Majesty has grown up now, how can the old slave not be old!" Wang De took the medicine bowl and put it down, took the water and let His Majesty rinse his mouth, then wiped the water stains left on His Majesty's mouth with a handkerchief, and took a piece of sugar and put it in his mouth and sighed.

"Now that I know that I have grown up, I still have to nag about everything!" Zhao Hao felt a little crying and laughing, he was so old, but he was still coaxing a child, taking medicine and giving a piece of candy. But looking at Wang De again, he suddenly found that he was really a little old, his body began to be a little rickety, and the wrinkles on his face increased.

"Your Majesty, take medicine and rest for a while!" Wang De said and put away the official documents placed on the couch, and wanted to help His Majesty lie down.

"Alas, well!" Zhao Yu looked at the busy Wang De, wanted to refuse but couldn't bear to refuse his kindness, so he handed him the fold in his hand and lay down. Wang De covered him with a quilt, added charcoal to the brazier, and asked the little yellow door on duty to take good care of it, and then retreated lightly. Zhao Yu couldn't sleep when he lay down, still thinking about things in his head.

At present, Xuyi has arrived, and Chen Fenglin, who marched by water, has also arrived in Shanyang and launched an attack. Shanyang City is also a military town, first built by Xun Xian, the general of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and later after the reinforcement of the past dynasties, the city is three feet high and eight feet, there are eleven miles long around, three and a half miles in diameter, it is also a strong city, there is 'Shanyang of iron, Qingjiang of paper paste'. After Meng Yuan moved Wanhu Mansion, the capital of the Mongolian army in Hebei and Shandong, to Tuntian, on the shore of Hongze Lake, there were more than 20,000 people.

As for whether Shanyang can be recovered, Zhao Yu is not too worried. Most of the first army led by Chen Fenglin had nearly 20,000 troops, and they had the convenience of boats and ships to carry heavy artillery. The disappearance of the city wall was precisely due to the advent of the era of firearms, and the southern invasion of Yuxi Timur took away most of the garrison in Shanyang, and only one thousand households were guarded, which could not resist the attack of the Song army at all.

Zhao Hao stopped the attack at the moment, as Li Qian said that he was suffering from the lack of troops, he did not dare to advance rashly, and now they had already advanced hundreds of miles out of the other Song armies, and there was a huge gap on the left flank, and there was a danger of being outflanked by the enemy in a roundabout way without the cover of friendly troops. And he also knew that the Mengyuan court would not let them act arbitrarily, and would definitely send troops to stop them.

At present, the troops stationed in the north and south of the Huai River on the Mengyuan side have either been annihilated or surrounded, but they are not without the strength to fight back, and in the hands of Zhenjin, they still have an army of more than 200,000 - the guards and pro-army.

The guard army is a special existence in the military system of the Yuan Dynasty, it is the most important armed force controlled by the Great Khan himself, and it is the central guard organization set up by the Mongol rulers after entering the Central Plains after imitating the Central Plains Dynasty that is different from the traditional cowardly Xue army of the steppe, and its status is equivalent to the imperial guard army of the Song Dynasty and the imperial forest army of the previous dynasty.

In the era of Kublai Khan, the guards played an irreplaceable role in quelling the rebellions of the kings, especially in balancing the Han army and effectively controlling the government. As a branch of the Central Forbidden Army, it also embodies completely different characteristics from the cowardly Xue, and the relationship with the cowardly Xue is actually the epitome of the duality of the Yuan Dynasty rulers.

Although both the cowardly Xue and the guards were both central janissaries, they had a clear division of functions. The composition and treatment of the pro-army soldiers of the guards were no different from those of ordinary soldiers, and their main function was to balance the local armed forces, rather than having multiple political functions like the cowardice. Cowardly Xue was responsible for the safety of the emperor, in charge of the defense of the palace and the trunk ears, and generally did not go out to fight. The guards are not only responsible for the security of the two capitals, but also the standing elite troops used by the imperial court to 'control the light', and can go out to fight at any time.

As a cadre city of imperial power, it is also different from the cowardly Xue in terms of subordination, and the guards are in charge of the envoys under the command of each guard, except for the East Palace and the harem guards, all of which are subordinate to 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.

Therefore, on the one hand, because of its confidential nature, it occupies an important position in the absolute monarchy, and whether it can effectively control the military power of the Praetorian Guard and in what way to control it is an important criterion for judging the rise and fall of the absolute monarchy. On the other hand, since the guards were the main force in the Gyeonggi region, they were close to the palace and became a security barrier for the Yuan court. With the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty controlling and developing the Han land in the Central Plains, under the condition that the military function of Ti Xue gradually degenerated, the guards and pro-army became the backbone of the Yuan army, and gradually replaced the military status of Ti Xue as the 'Great Chinese Army' of the whole army.

According to the intelligence from all sides, Zhao Yu basically figured out the situation of the guards and the army. Kublai Khan formed the Twelve Guards Guards Army in the Yuan Dynasty, and its main force was mainly the Han army. At the same time, there are Semu and Mongol guards, and the Semu "brave people of all countries" who were originally subordinate to the Mongolian military are gathered as pro-army guards, and each guard is under the command of envoys and other officers.

The five guards of the Han army are composed of the front, rear, center, left and right, in addition to the Han army from all over the country, but also screen the elite of the Song army to enter the charge, each guard 10,000 people. The camps are all in the south of Dadu, the avant-garde camp is in Fanyang, the guard is camped in Baiyankou, the middle guard is camped in Miaozhou, the right guard is camped in Yongqing County, the left guard is camped in Dong'anzhou, and Yongqing County is in the east. In addition, it also built a Haikou guard subordinate to the 10,000 households of grain transportation, built a camp in Haikou, counted 6,000 soldiers, and gave 100,000 hectares of land to be stationed.

Semuwei is divided into left and right, and the Kipchak Wei pro-army is under the command of the division, led by Tutuha, with 19 marching households and 3 tuntian, and the unified army is between 15,000 and 20,000 people. Among them, the Kipchak army is known for its good warfare, especially in the destruction of the Song Dynasty and the Pingding Haidu, Naiyan rebellion, and the camp was established in Qingzhou; The Halalu Wanhu Prefecture was composed of some soldiers who were attached to Genghis Khan with Arslan during the Mongol army's westward expedition, and 3,000 Harat soldiers of the 'Han Sijian Kingdom' led by the return of the Katar Miri.

In the Yuan Dynasty, Gui Chiwei and Xibao Chiwei were also 'hunting Eagle Fang households', more to take the separation, release and leak the nationality of Blanxi, but also lay monks and those who are absent from service and other households, after entering the Yuan Dynasty, there are many Mongolians, Semu people to fill the position, Kang'an people Ming'an command, leading 100 households and 80 people, the army in 5,000 people, building a camp in Danzhou; Long Zhenwei is composed of personnel drawn from the sergeants of various guards, and is divided into 3,000 troops from Kipchak, Tang Wu, Western Regions, and Left and Right Asu, and more than 600 old Han troops, and built camps in Yongguan, 43 places in the east and west of Tun, a total of 4,000 people.

After the unification of the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongol army guarded Mobei and was led by the kings, and there were not many left in the Central Plains, among which there were not many of them incorporated into the guards and pro-army, and only four Mongol guards were established successively, three of which were subordinate to the Privy Council, and the left and right Yi Mongolian guards were under the command of the pro-army. Zuo Yi's guards set up 100 households and 62 wishes, commanded an army of 4,000 people, and built a camp in Cangzhou; The Youyi Mongolian guards set up 100 households and 100 9 people, and the unified army was 7,000 people, and the camp was built in Wuqing.

The guards of the East Palace were built by Kublai Khan for real gold, and the Mongolian guards were composed of the five Tanma Red Army, and 10,000 households were divided into the guards and the army, with more than 8,000 troops and camped in Yizhou. After Zhenjin succeeded to the throne, his team was strengthened, the specific situation is unknown, the estimated number has increased greatly, and the strength has also become the head of the guards and pro-army......

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