Chapter 1237: A battle that bets on the fortunes of the country

For taking the three counties of Hetao, Temujin can be said to be full of confidence, after all, the more difficult Zhenbei Pass has been defeated by him, and the three counties of Hetao, which are just a horse and a flat river, are simply vulnerable in his opinion.

Temujin appointed Yang Shilang as the vanguard of the attack on Yinshan County, first, he wanted to see a good show of fratricide; the second is to hit the morale of the Jin army; The third is also self-confidence in one's own huge military strength.

But in the end, although Temujin saw the good scene of fratricide, he couldn't laugh at all.

Among the ten counties of Yinshan, except for two counties that surrendered voluntarily, the remaining seven counties were forcibly captured, and the strength of resistance was even greater than the other, and finally Yuanmeng also hit a big nail under Yinshan City.

The people in the cities of Hetao are all soldiers, men, women and children participate in the defense of the city, which also makes the Yuan and Mongolian army die thousands of elite soldiers every time they capture a city.

If Yuanmeng followed this trend and attacked city by city, even if he could finally take the three counties of Hetao, I am afraid that he would have to pay the loss of 120,000 troops, which was already more than worth the loss for Temujin.

In order to scare the Han people in the city, so as to reduce the resistance of the Han people and surrender the city without a fight, Temujin ordered that the city could be slaughtered to deter the Han people.

Temujin's order was deeply rooted in the hearts of the whole army, and this also caused the Yuanmeng army to slaughter the three cities and kill nearly 100,000 innocent people when they attacked Yinshan County.

In the face of the slaughter of the alien army, the people of Yinshan can be said to have wailed for a long time, but what Temujin did not expect was that the iron-blooded deterrence did not make the Han people frightened, but aroused the stronger resistance of the people of Hetao.

All the people of Hetao hated Yuanmeng, and a large number of light and strong people took the initiative to join the militia of the Qin army.

When did the sheep-like Han people become so courageous?

Temujin was also puzzled by this, but in the end, it could only be attributed to the fact that over the years, the Jin army had won many battles against foreign races, which caused the national self-confidence of the Han people to rise greatly, so these low-level people were not afraid of Yuanmeng.

Driven by hatred, the mood of the people of Hetao to join the army was extremely high, and the militia of the Jin army also continued to grow, and finally was stopped by Qin Wen and Wang Meng when it reached the level of 200,000 people.

There are still many people who want to join the army to resist the Yuan, but the Jin army can't afford it, after all, the militia is also a soldier, and once they die in battle, they also need to pay a pension. Although the pension of the militia is much less than that of the regular army, this is still a great burden for the Jin army, and the 200,000 militia is completely sufficient, so the militia of the Jin army will only be maintained at the level of 200,000.

With the cooperation of the regular army, militia, and common people of the Jin army, Yuanmeng only captured fourteen ordinary county seats, and even one county town had not been captured, and 60,000 elite troops had already been lost.

Although the casualties of the Jin army were greater, and the militia alone sacrificed 120,000 years, the militia had everything for the Jin army, and it was soon re-recruited and recovered.

The Jin army relied on the militia to consume the elite of Yuanmeng, but the elite of the Jin army preserved its vital strength.

Under this situation, even if Yuanmeng has 400,000 iron horses, it will be consumed less and less, and finally the Jin army overtook and lost the battle.

After realizing this, Temujin ordered the slaughter to be stopped after slaughtering the three cities, and the resistance of the Han people was too great, and although stopping the slaughter of the cities at this time would not resolve the hatred, at least it would not continue to increase the hatred.

In this way, in the first wave of battles with the Jin army, although Yuanmeng took the land of thirteen cities, he lost 60,000 elite troops.

With the arrival of 150,000 Qin troops in Yinchuan, the number of Han Chinese troops has increased instead of decreasing, and now it has reached an astonishing 580,000, which also made Temujin feel great pressure.

Since losing to Qin Hao at Yanmen Pass, Temujin had never lost a battle in the east, and now this huge pressure not only did not frustrate Temujin, but made him excited.

We must win this battle and wash away the shame of losing to Qin Hao in the first place. Temu swore to himself in his heart.

The total number of Qin-Jin coalition troops was as high as 580,000, of which 200,000 were militiamen and only 380,000 regular troops, but the strength still exceeded that of Yuan and Meng.

Even Temujin had to admit that although Ka Yuanmeng was on the offensive on the surface, the Qin and Jin coalition forces could only be beaten passively, but in fact Yuanmeng was already struggling in Hetao.

The 580,000 Qin and Jin coalition troops defended the Hetao like an iron wall, and it was not easy to fight even an ordinary county town, let alone a heavily guarded county town.

Continuing to attack the city will only consume their own troops, and if they don't attack the city, they will consume food and grass in vain, and Yuanmeng has fallen into a dilemma.

What kind of person is Temujin, he is Genghis Khan, how can he be stumped by such a small problem when 340,000 elite iron horsemen are in his hands?

The main problem that Yuanmeng is facing now is still the lack of troops, as long as they can continue to increase their troops and occupy superior forces, they may not be able to crush the Qin-Jin coalition army.

But the strength of Yuan and Mongolia is only 200,000 troops left, and it is also necessary to guard against Nurhachi of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the east, and if the troops continue to be recruited, the rear may be unstable.

After weighing the pros and cons, Temujin finally decided to continue to transfer troops from the country, after all, both Qin Wen and Qin Hao had mobilized all the forces under their command, if he didn't go all out, how could he block the next all-out counterattack of the Qin-Jin coalition army?

Temujin has neither lack of courage nor a lot of courage, so he is ready to have a battle with Qin Hao: a battle to gamble on the fortunes of the country, and he will finish his work in one battle.

If you win, you will naturally get everything from the other party, step on the corpse of the enemy, sweep the Central Plains and be invincible in the world;

If defeated, the foundation of Yuanmeng's country will be shaken, and it may even be destroyed.

"Pass the order down, recruit 100,000 veterans from the country to go south, and recruit another 200,000 new troops."

As soon as Temujin said this, the high-level leaders of Yuanmeng were full of surprise, and Tuo Lei was the first to stand up, and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, don't, if you are transferring troops, the domestic military strength will drop to 100,000, if the Manchu Qing Dynasty is coming, what can we resist Dayuan?" With those 100,000 veterans and 200,000 new troops, they can't stop the Manchus. ”

A hint of determination flashed in Temujin's eyes, and he said in a deep voice: "The battle of Hetao is a battle in which both the enemy and us gamble on the fortunes of the country, and now that Qin and Jin have been broken, I Yuanmeng naturally have to be put to death to have the possibility of winning this battle."

Now I have decreed that before the end of the Battle of Hetao, all the people of our Great Yuan Kingdom should also be soldiers and go to the national disaster together. ”

Tuo Lei opened his mouth when he heard this, but in the end he was speechless, he knew that what Temujin said was right, that is, to gamble the fortunes of the country on the First World War, which was too hasty for a country.