Yuxi Timur's angry remarks did not resonate with the generals, which made him extremely disappointed. However, the generals were unanimous in their efforts to relieve the siege of Yangzhou, and they knew very well that Yangzhou's gains and losses not only involved their own economic interests, but also Yangzhou was an important node on the Grand Canal. If the Song army controls Yangzhou, it is equivalent to getting a bridgehead to attack Jiangbei, and it can go north along the canal at any time, which can not only threaten the safety of the capital along the river, but also enter the Central Plains and force the capital.

"Cardinal, the top priority is to relieve the siege of Yangzhou and drive the southern army back to Jiangnan, so as to ensure that the two Huai are not lost, and to provide taxes for the imperial court!" Although most of the various departments under his jurisdiction are stationed in Tuntian, north of the Huaihe River, Yangzhou also threatens his own territory, so he still hopes to take advantage of the unstable foothold of the southern army to drive it away, so as not to harm himself.

"Ha Tusun, do you have a good plan to break the enemy?" Yuxi Timur calmed his anger and looked at him and asked.

"Cardinal commander, I think that the current army of the Southern Dynasty crossing the river is only tens of thousands, and our army has nine thousand households and more than 20 thousand households in Lianghuai, and the strength is far superior to it. Hatusun replied.

"Yes, the southern army is mostly an infantry army, lacking cavalry, and the movement is slow, while we are mostly cavalry, and we can come at dawn and night, and send an army to raid and cut off the pontoon bridge on the river, and wait for it to find that it has fallen into the encirclement!" Wanhu Zahuertai was very appreciative.

"Stupid, although the southern army lacks cavalry, but the navy is strong, they camp along the canal, and if they find something wrong, they will withdraw from the water, what is the use of only cutting off the pontoon bridge?" Qianhu Habichi in Guabu Town pouted and said, last year, the Song army raided its own station, and tens of thousands of soldiers took a boat to the opposite bank in an instant, and then took a boat to go calmly, no matter how fast the cavalry was, it was impossible to wade across the river.

"Ha Qianhu was frightened by the Southern Army!" Zahuertai smiled and said, "Even if the southern army can evacuate by boat, it will inevitably panic under the siege of the army, and the army can take advantage of the enemy's boarding of the boat to chase and kill, even if it can't wipe them out, it will kill most of them." ”

"Hehe, Zawanhu is really brave and strategic!" Ha Bichi laughed angrily, "At this time, the southern army is no longer the scum who fled when they heard the wind, they are not only sharp in firearms, but also extremely brave, dozens of people are fighting to the death in the face of thousands of iron cavalry, and their tens of thousands of troops are fighting according to the battalion, but I am afraid that it will not be the southern army that will be defeated by then, and the blood under the city of Yangzhou may not be dry yet!" ”

"You ......" Zahuertai was furious when he heard this, and pointed his finger at him and shouted, but he didn't know how to refute for a while, his face turned red and embarrassed, and he suddenly got up and saluted after a while, "Cardinal, the young general is willing to lead the soldiers and horses of his headquarters to raid the camp of the Southern Army and capture and kill the puppet emperor of the Southern Dynasty!" ”

"Okay, Ben Shuai is lacking a warrior to lead the army to relieve the siege of Yangzhou, since Zawanhu is invited to go, then it will be approved!" Yuxi Timur drank the wine in the cup.

"Cardinal commander, the southern army has already surrounded Yangzhou with an iron bucket similar, and only one of the ten thousand households will be sent there, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to succeed!" Hatusun thought that Yuxi Timur would scold him for his arrogance, but he didn't expect to respond in one bite. And although he didn't think that the southern army was invincible, he was not confident enough to break the enemy with only one million households under his command.

"There is no joke in the army, I just need to go to Yangzhou to lure the enemy, since Zawanhu volunteered, there is no need to fake others!" Yuxi Timur said lightly.

"Cardinal, Zahuertai is just a momentary anger, not his original intention, and ask the cardinal to take back his fate!" Ha Tusun can be appointed as a place to be the capital of ten thousand households, naturally not mediocre, listening to his meaning to use Zahuertai as bait to lure the enemy, this job is basically to send people to the head, even more anxious and authentic.

"Ben Shuai didn't want him to die, but if he could drag the southern army of Yangzhou for a few days, it would be a great achievement, and I would ask for credit for him!" Yuxi Timur pressed his hand to sit down, and his tone of voice was very tactful, but there was no doubt that everyone could listen to the order.

"Yes!" Ha Tusun also knew that there was no room for reversal, and after Shi Li, who was pale, he sat down dejectedly, and saw that Zahuertai, who was sitting at the bottom, was already like a dead man.

"Du Shuai......" Zahuertai also came back to his senses at this time, knowing that he had just been too reckless and had crashed into a dead end, not only did he hate Habichi to death in his heart, but his intestines were also repentant, and he looked at him with a begging face.

"It's hard to turn things around, so let's ask for more blessings!" Ha Tusun patted him on the shoulder and sighed lightly.

"It seems that the cardinal commander has a strategy to break the enemy, and he will definitely be able to win in one battle!" Sesana's territory is adjacent to Hatusun, and the two sides will naturally have a conflict of interests.

"A few months ago, Ben Shuai had already planned to defeat the puppet dynasty and remove the threat to our dynasty. At this time, it was ripe, and he reported to the Privy Council to ask the Great Khan for approval, so that the commander could lead the people of the Wanhu Prefecture in Shandong, Hebei and Huaibei, Henan to crusade against the Southern Dynasty and relieve the siege of Yangzhou. Yuxi Timur took out a gold medal tiger talisman and said.

"Obey the decree of the Great Khan, the Commander General!" All the generals in the tent were knowledgeable, and when they saw the two tigers they took out and were bigger than their palms, they all hurriedly got up and saluted.

The tiger head gold medal is taken from the meaning of the ancient "tiger symbol", after the Mongolian army, it also imitated the Central Plains Dynasty as a symbol of the status of the general and indicate the size of the power. There are three kinds of tiger-shaped talismans in the Yuan Dynasty, which are "10,000 households, 1,000 households, and 100 households." Ten thousand households Peijin Tiger Talisman, the Fu Zhao is in the shape of a tiger, and each is divided into upper, middle and lower three classes. "Tiger head card" is divided into four grades according to the number of ornamented jewels on the brand: three beads, two beads, one bead, no beads, three beads are the highest, two beads are second, and one bead is the bottom.

In addition, there are different grades such as "tiger head gold charm" and "tiger head silver charm" according to the material, pure gold is the highest, gold and copper alloy is second, and gilt is the lowest. And the Yuxi Timur is holding the three-bead gold medal that only the prince and the marshal are qualified to wear, with the pattern of two tigers facing each other, which is the first class of noble Jufang can hold, and is given by the Great Khan, and the role is similar to the 'imperial pen' given by the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, and it is an expedient right.

"Okay, my plan is to stick to Yangzhou, attract the troops of the southern army, and at the same time cross the river with the main force of the two capitals and Wanhu Prefecture, and go straight to the south of the Yangtze River......" Yuxi Timur was very pleased with the surrender attitude of the generals, and spread out the map to explain his battle plan to them.

Its plan was to strictly order the soldiers of the three 10,000 households in Yangzhou to hold Yangzhou at any cost, and firmly drag the Song Dynasty army here. At the same time, he ordered the provincial Zuo Cheng Ma Shao to preside over the administrative affairs of Yangzhou, during which he could start peace negotiations with the Southern Dynasties and duly agree to the conditions put forward by him. In short, it was to keep the Southern Korean army under the city at any cost, so as to win precious time for the main force of the southern invasion.

At the same time, the army of 70,000 households and part of the 10000 households under the jurisdiction of the two capitals near Gaoyou was gathered as the main force of the southern crossing, crossing the river from Chongming, Tongzhou, avoiding the Song Dynasty's river defense points, rushing to Kunshan and Changzhou, seizing Suzhou, and after obtaining supplies, according to the development of the situation, either directly take Lin'an, or detour behind the enemy to annihilate the northern invasion of the southern army rescued by the Hui army.

In order to prevent the Song army attacking Yangzhou from discovering the flaws and retreating to Jiangnan, the battle plan failed. The army wanted to put on a posture of rescuing Yangzhou, but it divided its troops halfway and went to Yangzhou with a force under his banner to confuse the Song army, while the main force secretly and quickly went to Tongzhou and smuggled across the Yangtze River. By the time it discovered the intention of the main force to invade the south, it was already too late. The unfortunate Zahuertai Department was a feint army pretending to be the main force, and when the Song army was found to withdraw for reinforcements, it also had to cooperate with the departments guarding Yangzhou to chase and kill it.

"The cardinal commander's clever plan is to invade Jiangnan to force the enemy to retreat, but the young general is still a little worried!" Yuxi Timur finished speaking, and all the generals looked at each other and gasped, and after a while, Sesana barely squeezed out a smile and said, "Cardinal, the Southern Dynasty has heavy troops along the river, and there are two naval forces stationed at the mouth of the river, the Imperial Naval Division and the First Water Army, how can we cross the Yangtze River." Even if the smuggling is successful, they can quickly control the crossing and cut off our retreat, which will not fall into the dilemma of having strong troops in front and no way back. ”

"Well, you're worried, but it's not!" After raising his glass and inviting the generals to drink a bowl of wine, Yuxi Timur drew a circle on the map with his finger and said with a smile, "This time, the southern army crossed north to attack Yangzhou, not only used its most elite imperial front guards, but also transferred the main forces of the armies along the river and some state armies, and the troops along the river east of Dantu were empty. The Imperial Naval Army escorted the expedition with the puppet emperor of the Southern Dynasty, and the main force of the First Naval Division sailed according to the old practice to escort the merchant ships returning north. Therefore, the troops of the Southern Dynasties in the Jiangdong area were empty, and the defense of the river was useless, and I also sent troops to the south several times to attack and probe, and the enemy troops could only strictly defend the fortress, and could not send troops to encircle and suppress, and they came and went freely, forcing them to start moving the residents along the river to the state capital. ”

"The cardinal knows that he knows that he will win every battle, and the young general still feels that it is inappropriate!" Sesana listened to his explanation, but he still said uneasily, "Commander, the imperial court set up the Wanhu Mansion in Shandong and Henan and the Wanhu Mansion in Huaibei, Henan, with the intention of defending Gyeonggi. If it is as the plan of the cardinal commander, the main force of the two capitals and Wanhu Prefecture will cross to the south to defeat the puppet dynasty, and once the attack is not smooth after crossing the river, it will not be able to return north quickly. Then as long as the southern army in Jiangbei conquers Yangzhou, it will be able to go north along the canal, while our dynasty only has some guards left to defend in the Lianghuai area, and I am afraid that if we are unable to stop the enemy, it will go straight to the Central Plains like entering a no-man's land and threaten Gyeonggi! ”

"Cardinal, the young general thinks what Sedu Shuai said is good!" Ha Tusun also interjected, "The young general heard that the little emperor of the Southern Dynasty had many tricks, and he was the best at setting up suspicious formations and attacking the west. The battle of Yangzhou the day before yesterday was too weird, and although it was not as easy as it was to capture Yangzhou City with the combat effectiveness they showed, it was not impossible to fight in one battle. And in front of them, they are so procrastinating, which is inconsistent with the tactics of going deep into the enemy's belly to fight and quickly decide, but there is a reason to expose flaws and lead our army to the south to go deeper! ”

"Then what you mean is to use the army to fight a decisive battle with the southern army under the city of Yangzhou, but can you break through the southern army camp with your strength, and how many people are left?" Yuxi Timur sneered when he heard this.

"The young general didn't mean this, but I wanted to ask the imperial court to mobilize the guards to help attack Jiangnan, or defend Lianghuai!" Hearing his unkind tone, Sesana waved his hand repeatedly.

"The young general does not have the intention of questioning the commander, but thinks that caution is the best, the army should not move lightly, and it is better to make some preparations as Hadu Shuai intended!" Ha Tusun also hurriedly agreed.

"The guards are pro-army?! How can we use it, but how useful is it when it comes! Yuxi Timur listened to the advice of the two Duwanhu, took a sip of wine from the bowl, sighed and smiled bitterly.

The generals were very puzzled when they saw that they couldn't say what they were suffering, and they felt that the guards and the army were also a major combat force in this dynasty, so it was so unbearable! Speaking of guards, the pro-army is also a strong army formed by the Great Khan Kublai Khan, who was killed in the battle of Möngke Khan leading a large army to attack Hezhou, Sichuan, and the Mongol armies from all walks of life stopped conquering and rushed to the Mongolian Plateau to compete for the Khan, and Kublai Khan and Ali Buge were the most powerful contenders for the Khan.

At that time, Kublai Khan's army consisted of his own cowardice, the Mongol army (the Zara department in the Wutou army, and later the support of the Hongjira army), the Han army (Hebei, Henan, Shandong Han Shihou army), and only the Tachaer department supported him among the Mongol kings, obviously lacking the support of the Mongol kings, and the Mongol army was not a weapon for fighting a civil war, so they could only rely on the strength of the Han army, and they developed into a guard army.

So Kublai Khan recruited the guards to form the Wuwei Army, and took the Han army as his direct army, of which the role of the Han army could not be ignored, helping it seize the throne. After Kublai Khan's accession to the throne, the two major systems of the Mongol army and the Han army formed during the Mongol Khanate period were gradually organized into the Su Guard Army and the Zhenshu Army. The Su Guards were divided into the Cowardly Xue Army and the Guards Army. The Cowardly Xue Army has a long history, and the Cowardly Xue of more than 10,000 people can defend the emperor and the palace, but it is difficult to defend the Beijing Division and the larger area, which requires the guards of the pro-army.

The Guards Pro-Army Organization was founded in the first year of the Central Dynasty and was the central army formed by Kublai Khan in imitation of the forbidden army system of the Central Plains Dynasty. The first guard organization followed the Chengjin system, called the Wuwei Army, with about 30,000 soldiers, and the soldiers came from the army under the Han army of the Central Plains. In the first year of the Yuan Dynasty, the Wuwei Army was renamed the Guards and Guards Army, which was divided into two wings, left and right. In the eighth year of the Yuan Dynasty, the left and right wing guards were rebuilt into the left, right and middle guards. After the sixteenth year of the Yuan Dynasty, it was classified according to different ethnic groups in the guards and pro-army. The original Three Guards were expanded into five guards: front, rear, left, right, and center, with the Han army as the main body, called the Han Guard, and then increased.

Those who can be incorporated into the guard army are ordered by the imperial court to select and transfer elite soldiers in the designated army, concentrate in the capital, and form the guard army; This also includes the creation of a new guard from the original Guard. Although it is not as good as the Mongol army, it can be regarded as a strong army, and everyone wonders why it looks down on it......