Chapter 323: The Province of Soldiers

The Song army is currently strong and has a high fighting spirit, from the previous 100,000 people to the 20,000 Yuan soldiers who fled in the desert, to some time ago with twice the strength of the Yuan army to fight with the Yuan army, to the current one-on-one Song army is not showing weakness to go up and do it, the changes in which Kublai Khan and the entire Mongolian army can not figure it out.

The Mongols themselves are full of tribes, and they have always ruled in a mode of respecting the strong, so the icing on the cake is not lively when the traffic is busy, and now when the snow is sending, when Kublai Khan mobilizes the troops of various tribes, he has to pay a great price, and the prosperous scene of the past has gone forever.

This can be thanks to the expansion of Genghis Khan, the territory of the Mengyuan Empire is extremely huge, and the Song army captured only a very small part, but recovered the part of the territory that originally belonged to China.

Even the Zhongshu Province was lost, and the proportion was less than one-tenth of the entire Mengyuan territory, but the blow to the military system of the entire Yuan Dynasty was huge and could not be recovered, and the other khanates and vassal states in the territory would not be as obedient as before.

In the heyday of Kublai Khan, it was also the southern invasion of the army led by Boyan, and the Central Plains garrison of Xiangyang was taken until the Empress Dowager of Lin'an Song surrendered, and the number of troops entering China reached more than 1.5 million.

This number may be a bit watery, but even if it is a 20% discount, it is also the main force of 1.2 million cavalry, which does not include the Han soldiers and generals who surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty, if you count those people, the data may not be accurate.

These 1.2 million elite Mongolian cavalry is the cornerstone of the Mongol Empire's hegemony where the horse's hooves can reach, and successive generations of imperial pioneers fought on horseback to create the largest country in history, the Mongol Empire.

However, there is no country that can last by relying on tyranny and killing, even without the birth of Zhao Tianyou, the Han army led by Zhu Yuanzhang and others will overthrow the Yuan Dynasty after eighty or ninety years, and establish a new Ming Dynasty dominated by the Han people.

When the news reached Kublai Khan, who had already led the main army south, Yuan Shizu, who had not been angry in front of his courtiers for many years, knocked over three tables and smashed countless treasures.

There have long been Song people in Zhongshu Province who have resisted, but they are all carried out quietly underground, and they are active in county-level cities with few garrisons. But this time, the main army of the Song Dynasty came so secretly, and when he attacked Zhongshu Province, he gave him a big dismount, and the fourth prince Namuhan was his favorite son.

"Stop the march, the army will be diverted to Dezhou, notify the other troops, and all march towards Dezhou, and concentrate superior forces to start a decisive battle with the Song army there."

Kublai Khan's forces at his disposal were stretched thin, so he used the name of the imperial driver to gather these 480,000 troops, and planned to go south in three ways, trying to find the main force of the Song army's northern expedition and have a large-scale battle.

Concentrated all his forces to intercept the Song army in Dezhou, which was already Kublai Khan's highest importance to this Song army, giving up the defense of the southern line of the entire Zhongshu Province was tantamount to letting the Song army cross the Yellow River, if from the overall military strategy, the price paid was too great.

At this time, there are no large bridges, and no one can be sure of crossing the river safely, especially for a large river of the scale of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, only by luck and weather to fight boats, of course, this refers to when it is in a state of war.

Do you want to cross the Yellow River? I'm sorry we can't say yes, but there's your enemy on the other side of the shore looking at you, ships? Pontoon? No matter what method you use, you will not be able to escape the surveillance of the opposing army. After all, you can't jump out of the river, and you can provide a place for warships to dock, and you probably know your enemies better than you know, and anyway, that place is still under their occupation.

It is true that part of Zhao Tianyou's army is still on the south bank of the Yellow River, but they are just a cover left by Zhao Tianyou, and they will not really force the Yellow River, and it is not wise to waste the lives of soldiers in the obvious disadvantage.

The main task of these Song troops was in the northwest, and after staying in Henan Province to attract enough attention, they went west to Tongguan, and crossed the mountains to collect Jingzhaofu, the ancient capital of Shaanxi Road, which is the ancient capital of Chang'an and today's Xi'an.

This is a small tactic of Zhao Tianyou, from the coast with the help of the powerful carrying capacity of the South China Sea Fleet, from the coast from Cangzhou Qingzhou to Dagukou, from Qizhou to the shore to Huanglong to kill the Yuan Dadu.

Kublai Khan was really fooled, leading the army south to prepare for a decisive battle with the Song army along the Yellow River, but he didn't expect that the whole army of Namuhan who went to Dezhou was annihilated, and immediately changed Kublai Khan's opinion.

In Kublai Khan's view, it would be impossible to do it without more than 100,000 Song troops, and it still needed the support of a large number of firearms, otherwise 60,000 cavalry would be able to fight against 200,000 Song soldiers.

Kublai Khan was a stubborn national hero, and he reused Han officials to demote generals, either to give them the corresponding national treatment, or to benefit all the Han people, it was because of his need to consolidate his power, and his view of the Han people in his bones was always a fourth-class person.

Zhao Tianyou's use of this tactic has deep meaning, if Kublai Khan's army can be attracted to the north bank of the Yellow River, then this most powerful super firepower South China Sea Fleet support, from the Dagu mouth Haihe River into Dadu Road, along the way can be said to have no opponent.

Capture Dadu and take Baoding and then take Zhending, block Kublai Khan's route to the north, and strive to select the final decisive battle in the southern part of Zhongshu Province, or within the scope of Hebei Province. He didn't want to make the mistake of the Ming Dynasty, he just drove people away, and did not leave the heirs of the golden family behind, so that they fled north to the Mongolian plateau and continue to live in the name of the Mongol Empire.

There is also a little bit of selfishness in this, after all, the jade belt on Kublai Khan's body means a lot to him, he will not let him go anyway, even if Kublai Khan runs to the edge of the sky, he will chase and kill thousands of miles to get the jade belt in his hands.

More than 400,000 Mengyuan cavalry had already arrived in Shenzhou and Jizhou, and arrived at the boundary of the Daimyo's Mansion.

However, at this time, the Song army had already entered Dadu Road all the way north, and there were dozens of scout messengers who sent military emergency reports from Wangcheng every day, closely observing the Song army that was fighting along the seashore, and reporting to Kublai Khan all the way south.

At this time, Kublai Khan finally understood what this team was for!

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