Chapter 1171: Dead Nest
"Your Majesty, Jiangdong is a great victory!" In the camp of Xuyi City, Wang Yinglin, the governor of the political affairs, hurriedly broke in, and before he entered the house, he shouted excitedly.
"Governor Wang, please be silent, Your Majesty is eating!" Wang De hurriedly greeted him, waved his hand and said in a low voice.
"Eh, such great news is just for Your Majesty's meal!" Wang Yinglin was still excited, and couldn't suppress his voice and said with a smile.
"Let Governor Wang come in!" Recently, the little emperor was worried about the war, and his diet and sleep were not very good, Wang De naturally did not want people to disturb His Majesty's meal, and after listening to the sound from the house, he knew that His Majesty had heard it, so he glared at him resentfully, and flashed away helplessly.
"Your Majesty, Jiangdong has won a great victory, the 100,000 troops of Mengyuan are all counted, and the enemy chief Yuxi Timur is the head!" Wang Yinglin was on the rise, and he didn't care about Wang De's attitude, so he entered the hall with compassion, gave a random salute, and handed over the newly arrived war report.
"Good, good, good, we have been struggling for more than ten years, and the Central Plains is in sight!" Zhao Yu heard that he put down the chopsticks in his hand, although he had already been prepared for the annihilation of the Yuxi Timurid army, but he was also slightly excited when he heard the news of the victory.
"Congratulations to Your Majesty on the fulfillment of your wishes, my Great Song Dynasty has lost the Central Plains for a hundred years, and today I finally captured the two Huai, Your Majesty drinks the Yellow River, and the Central Plains in the north is on the same day!" Although Wang Yinglin defected to the Xing Dynasty a few years after moving to Qiong, it was also an extremely difficult period.
In the second year of Jianyan, in order to resist the southward movement of the Jin soldiers, Du Chong, the defender of Tokyo, artificially broke the embankment of the Yellow River in Huazhou, causing the Yellow River to be diverted and divided into the sea from Surabaya and Jishui to the southeast. The Yellow River has changed from the north into the Bohai Sea and into the Yellow Sea in the south, mainly swinging in the south for nearly a hundred years, during the period when the flow of the Huai into the sea, the main stream migration from Zhengzhou below to above the Qingkou is uncertain, from time to time from Surabaya, or Bianshui, or Whirlpool, or from Yingshui into Huai, or at the same time into several branches. At this time, the Song army had already captured Sizhou, and the camp stood in the middle of the river, and Wang Yinglin said that although the meaning of drinking the Yellow River is different in the traditional sense, it cannot be wrong.
"If I can recover the Central Plains and return to the old capital, I will be able to face my ancestors and ancestors happily in the future!" When Zhao Yu heard about his intentions, he often talked about 'expelling the Tartars and herding horses to the west' when he was in Qiongzhou, not only did everyone feel too far away, but he was also panicked, but as the leader of the Great Song Dynasty, he always had to draw a good blueprint for everyone as a goal. And after moving south, including him, every time the temple was sacrificed, the emperors of the past dynasties, whether they were wise or mediocre, had to talk about it, although they were all talking about it, but I have to say that I am now the closest moment to victory.
"Your Majesty revived the Great Song Dynasty, expelled the Tartars from Jiangnan, and today recovered the two Huai, which is enough to go down in history and rank as the Ming monarch!" Wang Yinglin felt that the little emperor was modest, and he was quite emotional in his heart, and then gave a salute.
"Annihilation of the Yuxi Timurid Corps, the Jiangdong War has ended, but the Mengyuan side has mobilized the guards to go south, and now the forward has arrived in Zhengzhou. Although we have occupied Huaidong, because of the lack of troops, we only control the important towns along the river, and we urgently need to transfer troops and reinforcements; On the other hand, the Huaixi side is progressing relatively smoothly, but the scheduled plan has not yet been completed, and Xiangyang and Shouzhou are still in the hands of the enemy. In short, although the situation has improved, it is still too early to talk about a complete victory. Zhao Yu quickly calmed down from the excitement and picked up the battle report to read it carefully. Wang Yinglin nodded yes and began to think about how to consolidate the victory.
The battle report was jointly signed by Jiang Xuan, the governor of the political council, Zhao Mengjin, the Jiangdong Preparation and Establishment Division, and Ni Liang, the commander of the imperial guards. He ordered Xiao Huangmen to take down the food, spread out the map, and compare it while looking at it, Wang De could only sigh when he looked at the remaining half of the meal, and cooked a cup of ginseng tea with his own hands and sent it.
After a while, Zhao Yu finished reading the battle report and breathed a long sigh of relief. There is no flowery rhetoric in the whole battle report, but it only uses plain and straightforward language to tell the course and results of the entire Jiangdong Campaign. But he still felt the fierceness and thrilling of the battle, especially when he saw Yuxi Timur suddenly change the direction of his march, bypass Pingjiang and Kunshan, and avoid the preset ambush circle. Fortunately, several people reacted quickly, adjusted their deployment in time, quickly evacuated the residents, and finally surrounded the enemy army on the north bank of the Songjiang River.
"Hehe......"
"Your Majesty, why are you laughing?" Wang Yinglin, who was in deep thought, was suddenly interrupted by a burst of laughter from the little emperor, and he looked at him and asked curiously.
"I want the world to be impermanent, who would have thought that Timur, who was famous and commanded hundreds of thousands of troops, was killed in a muddy pond and had his head cut off by a pawn of our army!" Zhao Hao stopped laughing and replied. And I was a little gloomy in my heart, thinking that he led the army to the south with high spirits, ended up like this, and died so badly, how do you feel? I'm afraid that the intestines will be repentant at that time.
It turned out that Yuxi Timur had just rested for a while in Jiading City, and the cavalry of the Song Army had already caught up, and he knew very well that there was no one in Jiading City, and there was no food for him, and he could not hold the lonely city with the remnants of less than 1,000 people in his hands, so he could only hurriedly get on his horse and continue to flee north from the city. However, the cavalry of the Song army was very difficult, and they clung to them, and they could not get rid of the pursuit. And after dawn, they lost the cover of darkness, and their tracks were revealed and could not be hidden.
There was a huge disparity in the strength of the two armies, and the Song army was familiar with the terrain in local operations, and had guides to guide the way, and constantly divided troops to outflank and intercept in pursuit. Yuxi Timur led the remnants of the army to rush left and right, changed direction, and divided troops to prevent the enemy from covering his escape, but the disparity in strength could not be made up for by these small tricks. After a day of escaping, a large river appeared in front of him to block the road, and there were less than fifty people left around him, and they were all in disarray.
At this time, Yuxi Timur found that the big river in front of him was not the Yangtze River, but the Taicang River that he had crossed when he came, and the extreme place was Liujiagang. If Zhao Yu knew that he had abandoned him in order to get rid of Ha Tusun and flee here, he was afraid that his stomach would hurt from laughing, this is really the reincarnation of the world, and his fate is determined, and in the end he still can't escape the arrangement of fate.
There was a great river in front of them, and the pursuers came later. Yuxi Timur could only travel along the river to try to find a ferry, but there was no board on the vast river, and was discovered by a Song army that searched here. He didn't dare to fight, so he rushed to a small road and fled, the gunshots in his ears continued, the bullets were flying along his scalp, and the only people left around him were shot and fell from time to time, and there were fewer and fewer people, and finally only a lone horse was left.
The pursuers were getting closer and closer, and the path in front of them became narrower and narrower until it was gone, and Timur, who had no way to retreat, saw that the paddy fields in front of him were dry and the land was cracked, so he wanted to rush over and flee with his horse. But he didn't know that after the Spring Festival, in order to prepare for farming, the villagers who were hiding outside had secretly gone home to release water to irrigate the fields. His mount is considered to be a good horse, but the war horse itself is not light, plus the burden of carrying people is greater, and the running of a day and a night has already overdrawn his physical strength, and he was trapped in a few steps in the paddy field, sinking to the abdomen, and he couldn't move!
The Song army that caught up did not know that the embarrassed enemy soldier in front of them was Yuxi Timur, and when they saw that he was in an embarrassment, they asked him to abandon his horse and take off his armor and climb over and surrender. This is also a good intention, wearing a suit of dozens of pounds of armor can not climb on dry ground no matter what, only the rolling and crawling of the soldiers who lose weight and limbs can get out of trouble. But Yuxi Timur may not want to be humiliated on the verge of death, maybe he will just be wrong, he did not do what he said, but he picked up his bow and shot at the pursuing Song army, injuring a Song soldier.
Several Song soldiers were furious, shot together, shot Yuxi Timur to death, and then threw the lock sleeve and pulled up his body, searched for a fuse from his body, only to know that he was the enemy leader Yuxi Timur, so he cut off his head, stripped off his armor, took the weapon and happily went back to ask for credit. The generals were also annoyed that they couldn't find him, so they salvaged his body after receiving the report, and ordered the captured enemy soldiers to identify it correctly before reporting it to the enemy general for beheading!
"Yuxi Timur is ashamed to be a man, he has no overlordship, and his death is also a stench for 10,000 years. It's a pity that once King Xiang died, there would be no heroes in the world! Wang Yinglin didn't have the joking heart of the little emperor, and snorted coldly and said disdainfully. He thought that it was similar to the situation of the overlord Xiang Yu back then, but the ending was very different.
At that time, after Xiang Yu crossed the Huaishui, only more than 100 horses were left to accompany him, and he was chased by the Han army because he was lost in Yinling and delayed time, Xiang Yu rushed to Dongcheng, and only 28 horses were left. In the decisive battle of Wujiang, Xiang Yu commanded the twenty-eight horsemen, rushed back and forth, and hurried south to the Wujiang River. The ending after that is known to everyone, Xiang Yu felt that he had no shame to see Jiangdong's father, so he ordered all the riders to dismount and fight with the Han soldiers with short weapons, Xiang Yu killed hundreds of Han soldiers alone, and finally killed himself. What a heroic and heroic death was, even the enemy had to admire, and the deeds could be passed down through the ages, remembered and sighed by the world!
"Hehe, it is also a place to die, and there are several kings in the world!" Zhao Yu didn't think it was a pestle, and still said with a smile. He looked at the ending, but in fact, he didn't care about how Yuxi Timur died. In this battle, the 100,000 troops of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty suffered 50,000 or 60,000 casualties, nearly half of them were captured, several 10,000 households were killed or captured, and tens of thousands of war horses were captured, and countless armor and ordnance were captured.
The Mongol Yuan was based on Mongol rule, but since the time of Temujin, they have been fighting in all directions, and since then there have been constant wars, and their cronies have suffered heavy casualties as a result, and even if they annexed other tribes, they are still at a disadvantage in numbers. In the first battle of Jiangdong, 100,000 Mongol soldiers were annihilated, and the foundation of rule was seriously weakened, and they would have to rely more on foreigners to maintain their rule. And when Meng Yuan turned from prosperity to decline and went to decline, was the loyalty of those people still reliable......