After Kublai Khan, the great leader, consulted with his nobles to come up with a number of countermeasures, the entire Great Yuan began to mobilize.

Hundreds of fast horses galloped from the capital to all parts of the country.

When the Great Yuan was first established, of course, the big boss controlled the military power of the whole country, and there was a Privy Council, which was in charge of military and political affairs, and was the highest military authority, and its important positions were mostly held by Tatar and Semu nobles, but if there was a critical situation, it was completely determined by the circle of Tatar nobles.

The so-called luster nobles only need to obey the order.

For example, this time the big boss held an internal meeting of the nobility.

As for the ordinary conquest, garrison, brief reading, dispatch, meritorious service, etc., it is enough to follow the will of the big boss and manage it in a unified manner.

But the situation is different now, and they have to set up separate privy councils at the same time to control the military on the spot.

Such a Privy Council is often named after a region, and is often set up temporarily.

Zhongshu Province has set up a military department to manage things such as pastoral care in Tuntian, and sometimes manage the post station.

The military administration of various regions is in charge of the provincial prime ministers, and usually also by the Mongols and Semu people.

As mentioned above, the army of the Tatar bandit group consisted of three main parts: the Tatar army, which consisted of Tatars including some Semu troops; The Tanma Red Army, at first, referred to the forward, heavy or distant troops composed of elites drawn from the Tatar tribes, and later also joined by the Semu and Han Chinese; The Han army, that is, the army composed of the Han people in the former Jin Dynasty area and some Jurchen and Khitan people, also included the early reorganization of the Great Song army.

The army is organized according to the decimal system, which is divided into four levels, including 10,000 households, 1000 households, 100 households, and brands, which are led by 10,000 households, 1000 households, and brand heads.

The non-Tatar army's 10,000-household mansion and 1,000-household office also placed "Daru Huachi", which was a prison officer, and was exclusively held by Tatar or Semu nobles.

According to the different tasks undertaken, the army is divided into two major systems: the garrison and the garrison.

The guards are divided into the "cowardly Xue" army directly under the jurisdiction of the big boss and the guard army under the command of the Privy Council, which mainly guards the palace in peacetime, guards Gyeonggi, and also goes out of Beijing to conquer in wartime; Suppress the armies and garrison them in the key areas of the country.

In the current situation, the north is the key garrison area of the Tatar army and the Tanma Red Army; To the north of the Yellow River, the Han army, which was mainly composed of the Han people in the north, and the Han prisoners collected during the attack on the Great Song Dynasty formed a new annex army, and part of the Tanma Red Army was assigned to supervise and command.

The border areas were guarded by the troops of the Tatar kings and the indigenous tribal armies, who were divided or out of the towns.

Officers at all levels are generally hereditary, but the imperial court can transfer and appoint others.

Now, the first order of the big leader Kublai Khan was to abandon the defense of the north, and the Tatar army and the Tanma Red Army went all out to Zhuozhou to the south.

It is necessary to build the Zhuozhou region into a steely defense line, so that the Liuqiu pirates can crash their heads and bleed there, so as to annihilate them in one fell swoop!

The Han army north of the Yellow River, the new annexed army, and part of the Tanma Red Army quickly retreated north, approaching the Zhuozhou area, and at the same time began to continuously block the strongholds.

The remaining Tanma Red Army was organized into thousands of cavalry rangers, and they had to be ready to cut off the supply of the other party's baggage.

The Tatar kings and the armies of the indigenous tribes on the border are advancing towards the Central Plains with all their might, and what more border do you want, the final blow!

This is actually a way to lure the enemy deeper: give up a part of the plain, let the enemy go deeper, and when the other side is far away from Shandong, the cavalry will begin to harass and the infantry will begin to block.

When the enemy was exhausted, the Tatar army and the Tanma Red army began a major counteroffensive!

This is actually a very mature battle used by the Tatars.

After Genghis Khan unified the tribes, he immediately began a large-scale attack on the dynasties of the northern Song dynasty.

At first, they relied entirely on the mobility and attack power of the cavalry, and like the nomadic armies of the past, they did not have the coordination of infantry to attack the fortifications.

In the face of the tall and strong walls of the Central Plains, the mighty cavalry was powerless, even though they were invincible in the field.

But the Tatars had always been good at plagiarism, and they learned the skills of infantry from the Liao, Jin, and Western Xia armies, changed the tactics of relying solely on cavalry, and learned to use the new invention of gunpowder from the Great Song Dynasty and the stone-throwing weapons learned from the Huihui.

In the use of tactics, the Tatars particularly emphasized the mobility of their troops, and the main tactical characteristics were long-distance outflanking and detouring, and attacking in separate and combined directions.

They maneuvered over long distances to an extent unprecedented in history, often maneuvering on a large scale for hundreds of miles, making it difficult for the enemy to anticipate and guard against their attacks.

They also relied seldom on a mere frontal assault in battle, and the usual method was that a small group of cavalry would constantly harass the enemy, retreating when attacked, and when the pursuing enemy army was scattered and exhausted, the cavalry, which had already been scattered and exhausted, would swarm after a dense burst of bow and arrow fire.

At the same time, they also incorporated a large number of Han and other ethnic minorities in the north, and used the advanced offensive equipment of the Han nationality to undertake the task of attacking the city, so that they could almost overcome the battle in the east, whether it was a wild battle or a destruction of the city.

This tactic was used handily in their two expeditions to Europe, especially in the second expedition, in which 120,000 Tatar troops defeated and wiped out a combined European army of 600,000 in just two months.

In fact, the cavalry of the Tatar army could not at any time outmaneuver one-on-one against the European heavy armoured cavalry, whose spears and swords were far more lethal than their sabers, spears or maces.

The horses of the European cavalry were also much taller than the Tatar horses.

However, the strategy and tactics of the Tatar cavalry were far inferior to those of the European cavalry------ and the battles of the European armies, no matter how large the army, were fought in a small battlefield.

Moreover, the European armies had the usual chivalrous style and believed in front-to-head one-on-one dignified battles, and when they met the Tatar army, which could make a battlefield for a hundred miles and was accustomed to roundabouts, they did encounter unimaginable war scenes.

The Tatars have always attached great importance to espionage work, and they sent a detailed report to the Shandong region that there were no more than 30,000 regular pirate troops, but there were many musketeers------ or hundreds of thousands, and they were all good at shooting!

The former makes people happy to hear it, but it's only 30,000 households------ but the latter makes people crazy when they hear it!

Hundreds of thousands of people armed with firearms and good at shooting?!

The entire Great Yuan was only 300,000 troops, less than 100,000 musketeers------ begging pirates to be crazy, they actually allowed civilians to carry firearms?!!

Of course, they also knew that the firearms of the civilians were nowhere near inferior to the rifles of the regular army, but they were all the same as the muskets of their musketeers.

Kublai Khan, the big leader, once thought that if his 300,000 troops entered the Shandong region, it would be easy to talk about the plains------ but if he had to go to the hills, mountains and cities------ the picture of being attacked was really unimaginable!

Kublai Khan, the big leader, gave up his ambition to regain Shandong, and could only wait for changes.

However, what awaited was the official declaration of war by the Liuqiu pirates on the Great Yuan.

What else can the big boss Kublai Khan do to calm the morale of the army except laughing?!

Luckily, there was still time to set it up.

When the basic battle arrangements were completed, the whole country of Dayuan also began a general mobilization.

Among the Tatars, all men over the age of fifteen and under the age of seventy were conscripted------ and they were originally a fighting people who dismounted to herd cattle and went on horses to attack.

In fact, the so-called fighting people are the barbarian peoples who can participate in the robbery at any time.

Then the whole country began to levy horses, and all the best of the Tatars, Semu, and Han Chinese were requisitioned regardless of race!

Needless to say, those small herding households, such as the Styer Fan family, have more expropriation.

Needless to say, this is a life-and-death battle since the establishment of Dayuan------ there is no need to defend even the border, all the forces must be used.

Of course, the good news is that there are ------ begging pirates to dispatch only 20,000 men, and they are still divided into forces!

This news made the Tatar nobles full of confidence, and let them go north smoothly------ and then annihilate them en masse!

The remaining thousands of people in Shandong are not to worry!!

Just when everyone was full of confidence, the big boss Kublai Khan opened everyone and summoned the crown prince Zhenjin alone.

Kublai Khan then began to talk to him like a father:

"Who told you to send someone to attack the pirate child without permission?!"

"I thought ------"

"You think you can take the opportunity to provoke their relationship?!"

“------”

"If this was possible, I would have arranged it a long time ago------ you ruined my plan!

My son, the danger of the Great Song Dynasty lies in the fact that the local military strength is too big to fall, we could have let them mess up internally------ then the Lu family is clearly a family that can rebel against the Song Dynasty at any time, and a little trick can make them suspicious, but your hand directly alerted them! ”

"Ah------ damn me!"

Syllable!

Kublai Khan slapped his son, who was blaming himself.

"Remember! It's always someone else who is wrong, and it's always someone else who damns it!! You are the Great Khan of the future, and you will always be right!! ”

Kublai Khan looked at his son covering his face in horror, his heart softened, and he gently hugged his son and said: "As long as I live, you don't advocate on your own------ you haven't even passed through the winter on the steppe, and you won't know what is sinister."

Go, leave here at once with the five hundred guards I have prepared for you, and go to the Ilkhanate.

Later, if I win, you will tell them to conquer the land of Tianzhu; If I'm defeated, you'll stay there and wait to gather the remnants of our army. ”

Zhenjin's head rested on his father's thick chest and whined: "They are only 20,000 people------ we will not be defeated!" ”

"No, of course not------ I've heard that the pirate leader's son is in the army; That little boy in the Great Song Dynasty often messes around in the army------ I regret it after hearing it, let you stay with Hanchen for too long.

Don't take anyone with you when you go, for all I have for you are the warriors of our people!" ”

"I don't bring Wang Sui?!"

"No need, I'm going to send him to Da Song to dispose of ------"

"Don't, he's a loyal servant of my Great Yuan!"

"He's a loyal servant. I now want him to die for Da Yuan. ”

"Great Khan, you said he was with me, you are very happy!!"

"I did------ but I don't need it anymore."

PS: Thank you for the book friend Australian Lao Wu, the bright moon and the breeze, walking on the bridge and the reward of fish and feathers and steel.