Chapter 417: Rebuilding the Great Song Dynasty
For the sake of his loyalty, Tokhtar was willing to be captured, and was dismissed as a commoner and rushed to Huai'an Road, too worried that Xue Xue would kill Toto, and sent many of his henchmen to save Toto's life.
Xue Xue did plan to take her life on the way to Huai'an Road, but the power of the party was still there, and it didn't take too much to wait for manpower protection, so she had to give up.
However, it was said that after Tokhtar was dismissed, the troops besieging Gaoyou were scattered into a mess, and Rao was too unspoiled to control such a large and complex team, and Yuekuo Cha'er and Xue Xue were even more difficult to convince the public, and many troops who came in the name of Mutokh retreated on the spot, unwilling to obey the orders of the imperial court.
The acting chief soldier was too busy controlling these troops, and how could he have the energy to lead the troops to continue the attack on Gaoyou, so Zhang Shicheng in the city took this opportunity to repair it.
Wen Xuan and others knew that this was Su Sheng's strategy that had an effect, and after the fall of the Toktok party, it meant that the Yuan court must be a traitorous minister, and they were busy fighting for power, so they naturally had no intention of conquest of the rebels in various places.
Wen Xuan thought that this was a good opportunity to break the Yuan soldiers, so he ordered Shen Fu to persuade Zhang Shicheng to send troops to counterattack.
The "million-dollar soldiers" outside the city were in chaos at this time, and no one refused to obey the leadership of Tai Buhua, so that after being counterattacked by Zhang Shicheng, there was no one to lead the troops to fight, and every officer was worried that his own troops would incur unnecessary losses, so they rushed to flee with their subordinates, and many camps were given to Zhang Shicheng's troops.
Tai Buhua and Yue Kuo Cha'er had the intention to continue to ask for meritorious service to the thief, but no one obeyed the order, so they had to evacuate with their headquarters.
Wen Xuan saw that the Yuan soldiers had no intention of fighting, and knew that this battle would be won, so he took Mu Chong and others into battle in person, and divided into several troops to chase and kill the Yuan soldiers.
Yi Shuai is a taboo for soldiers, so that this million-strong division was chased by the troops led by Zhang Shicheng and Wen Xuan and others to lose their armor and abandon their armor, no one turned back to fight, and the discarded weapons, armor and military food supplies were everywhere, and they were completely dispersed by the Gaoyou Righteous Army within a few days, and even more disappointed in the imperial court, they simply led people to Zhang Shicheng's command.
The news of Toto's dismissal and the defeat of the Yuan soldiers at Gaoyou immediately spread, and Liu Futong, who led the Northern Red Turban Army, briefly joined forces with Du Zundao to begin a counterattack, recapturing many cities in one fell swoop; Ni Wenjun, who commanded the Southern Red Turban Army, also led Ming Yuzhen and Chen Youliang and other capable subordinates to break down and suppress their Yuan soldiers.
One month later, in the first month of the fifteenth year of Zhizheng, Ni Wenjun led his army to recapture Chuyang, and immediately fought fiercely with the three sons of Yuan Weishun Wang Kuan Che Puhua to repay Ennu, receive slaves, Buddhist slaves and marshal A Sijian to lead the water army in Hanchuan.
Ni Wenjun led Chen Youliang and Ming Yuzhen to attack, and crashed into the enemy's ship formation with a fire raft, causing most of the Yuan soldiers to die in the fire, and the southern Red Turban Army won a complete victory, and the three sons of Weishun Wang were all defeated and killed in this battle.
All of a sudden, the rebel armies in various places, which were already almost wiped out under the leadership of Tokhtar, suddenly rose up in great momentum, and fought hard from the low tide that had been suppressed by the Yuan soldiers for a long time, and achieved considerable results.
After the siege of Gaoyou was lifted, Zhang Shicheng's power expanded rapidly, and it was no less than the scale and power of the Red Turban Army in the north and south.
After Tokhtar was dismissed, Su Sheng left Dadu on the pretext of visiting relatives and returned to Wen Xuan's side to help, because he knew that it was time for Wen Xuan to help Han Lingyue take revenge.
For more than two years, Sheng Wenyu has been following Wen Xuan's instructions to "secretly communicate with Du Zundao", telling Du Zundao that he has won the support of many people, and he can seize Liu Futong's military power when King Xiao Ming is born.
Du Zundao didn't know that Wen Xuan and Han Lingyue were still alive, so he didn't doubt Sheng Wenyu's words, after learning that he was dismissed, Du Zundao also felt that it was time to support Han Lin'er to come out and establish power, so after making preparations, he finally personally led someone to pick Han Lin'er out of Dangshan.
Du Zundao didn't know that Wen Xuan, Han Lingyue, Mu Chong, Shen Fu, Su Sheng, Tie Niu and others had secretly arrived in Yingzhou after receiving Sheng Wenyu's news, and only after Han Lin'er was pushed to the stage by Du Zundao, he tricked the thief into telling the truth about killing Han Shantong, the king of Ming.
The self-righteous Du Zundao took advantage of Liu Futong's loyalty to Han Lin'er to win his short-lived support, and in the name of preparing to assist King Xiaoming in rebuilding the Great Song Dynasty.
After discussion, they decided to build a capital in Bozhou, so they jointly welcomed Han Lin'er to Bozhou.
Under Du Zundao's arrangement, someone went to dismantle the timber of the Taiqing Palace to rebuild the palace for Han Lin'er, supported him to ascend the throne as the emperor, called King Xiaoming, the country name Song, the year name Dragon and Phoenix, and honored Han Shantong's wife Yang as the queen mother.
At this time, Han Lin'er still didn't know the truth of the facts, and regarded Du Zundao as his father, and as soon as he ascended the throne of God, he immediately rewarded everyone.
Du Zundao and Sheng Wenyu were named left and right prime ministers for their auxiliary merits, while Liu Futong and Luo Wensu, the elders of Mingjiao, were one level lower than them and were named Pingzhang political affairs, and even Liu Liu was named a member of the Privy Council, and Mao Gui, Li Wu, Cui De, Guan Duo, Pan Cheng and others were generalissimos.
At the time of the reward, Wen Xuan and the others did not show up, although Han Lin'er is now safe, but in order to get rid of Du Zundao this thief openly, they did not immediately take action against Du Zundao.
In addition, according to Wen Xuan's meaning, whether Liu Futong is worthy of their trust is also to take advantage of the situation at this time to investigate, if he does not keep his promise and also moves his crooked mind, then even he will be removed together.
After Du Zundao became the prime minister, he instigated Han Lin'er to ask Liu Futong to hand over the military power, and Han Lin'er was bewitched by Du Zundao's bewitchment to obey him, so he ordered Liu Futong to hand over the military power.
Liu Futong didn't comply, so Du Zundao discussed with Sheng Wenyu to set up a Hongmen banquet in his bedroom in the name of Han Lin'er, tricking Liu Futong and Liu Liu to go, intending to kill the two of them on the spot.
While Liu Futong and Du Zundao were intriguing, Sheng Wenyu reported every move of the two of them to Wen Xuan and Han Lingyue.
Wen Xuan smiled slightly after hearing this, looked at Han Lingyue beside him and said, "It seems that the time has finally come to avenge Brother Ling, that nephew of yours has been bewitched by this thief for a long time, so it is better to take this opportunity to let him see the truth." ”
Han Lingyue nodded, secretly led someone to kidnap Han Lin'er, and then everyone pretended to be a knife and axe hand arranged by Du Zundao and hid in the dormitory, eavesdropping on the conversation between Du Zundao and Liu Futong.
Because of Wen Xuan's arrangement, Sheng Wenyu did not inform Liu Futong of Du Zundao's evil intentions, but Liu Futong and Liu Liu happily went to the banquet without bringing many guards.