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Chapter 349: Forcibly crossing the Juma River

Chapter 25

More than half a month has passed in a blink of an eye, and the Song army outside Bazhou City still has not moved, and within dozens of miles around, the fast horse scouts sent by the Yuan army from all over the country are about 1,000 people, distributed in all directions to monitor every move of Bazhou City.

The Song army was strong, with plenty of food and grass, and with the firearms and ammunition that had been replenished twice in succession, they had made comprehensive preparations two days ago and could set off at any time. The three directions are all cities that are still under the control of the Yuan Dynasty, and no matter which way you go, you need to keep killing them to reach the Yuan capital that Kublai Khan had worked so hard to build.

The generals under him were eager to try, and they all wanted to be the vanguard officer who opened the way, but they were always stopped by Zhao Tianyou with a smile, and no matter who came to ask for battle, they were not approved. Since the effect of the surprise attack has not been completed, then he is still waiting, waiting for Kublai Khan to gather some troops, Zhao Tianyou is ready to have a grand battle, and wipe out all Kublai Khan's military forces in Yuan Dadu in one fell swoop.

Yuan Dadu was constantly repaired and improved in the hands of Kublai Khan, and magnificent palaces rose from the ground, carrying too many of his own emotions, and Kublai Khan would not abandon the city and flee before complete despair.

Zhao Tianyou was also a little uncertain about whether this judgment was accurate, and the many Yuan army scouts around him continued to appear, indicating that the Yuan army in several military cities near Bazhou was ready to go to war.

Baozhou is in the southwest, Zhuozhou is in the northwest, and due north is Daxingfu and Tongzhou, all of which are military important places where the Yuan Dynasty army is stationed.

It was not until the late autumn of this year, when the Song Dynasty army had crossed the Yellow River for two months, that Zhao Tianyou received the last batch of supplies from the sea and put on brand new winter clothes for the soldiers.

As soon as the weather in the north enters the late autumn, the temperature drops quickly, and the soldiers must be replaced with new clothes and equipment, otherwise these soldiers, mainly brought from the south, will be unable to resist the coming cold weather, and Zhao Tianyou does not want to repeat the mistake of being defeated by the weather when Hitler attacked the Soviet Union.

The autumn wind turned yellow, and the Song army in Bazhou finally set off, and they were stationed here for several months, and the daily training was not relaxed.

"Kill the capital of Yuan and capture Kublai Khan alive!"

The first vanguard force, led by Li Yiming, took the army defending Bazhou as the main force, and swaggered towards Zhuozhou, an ancient county one hundred and twenty miles away. Along the way, there was desolation, some of the ripe grain was unharvested, and the peasants who were about to become the warring area, as long as they had the slightest way, would have fled from this place a long time ago, who would lose their lives for a little food.

Zhuozhou is only a few dozen miles away from the capital of Yuan, it is the south gate where heavy troops are stationed, and it is also the first line of defense under Kublai Khan's foot, there are more than 80,000 troops stationed here, and the lord of the city, Hari Chiduo, was once the captain of Kublai Khan's most trusted guard, and he is definitely Kublai Khan's descendant troops.

In fact, at this time, there were already different voices within the Yuan Dynasty, but they had not directly reported the case on the table, and Kublai Khan had also heard of it in private, but he no longer had the energy to carry out a major purge.

As the power of the Song army's artillery spread throughout the country, not only the Yuan Dynasty began to cast cannons, but with the spread of Chinese trading merchant ships, dozens of countries that exchanged shipping were trying to imitate the cannons of the Song Dynasty. The appearance can be imitated, and the formula of gunpowder can be studied in depth, after all, in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, there are countless craftsmen who can make gunpowder, and this time they have become technical experts hired by various forces with high salaries.

However, the core technology of the Hongyi cannon is cannonballs, which cannonballs cannons can not be thought up overnight, even if you are given a basket of cannonballs to take back and take them apart, you can't make cannonballs with the same effect.

Walking down from horseback, living in the south of the Yangtze River, and mingling with the Han people, there was already a very traditional Mongol internal force that strongly opposed Kublai Khan's ideas. The issue of moving the capital to Yanjing, I don't know how much Kublai Khan wasted his mind, leaving the steppe Mongols to rule the world, learn Han culture, in order to maintain progress and not fall behind, but many people do not understand.

At this time, if they wanted to negotiate peace with the Song army, they could return most of the encroached territory to the Song Dynasty, and even return part of Henan Province and Hebei Province taken from the Jin State to the Song Dynasty as compensation.

This territory is only a few tenths of a small matter for the entire territory of the Mongol Empire, after all, their territory has now spanned Europe and Asia, and they have occupied dozens of countries, some of which are territories and populations, and they don't care about this part of the Song Dynasty.

According to Kublai Khan's temperament in the past, once he sensed such a change, it would inevitably lead to a bloody purge, and he had countless subjects and subordinates, but he did not need the slightest flawed and unloyal subordinates.

But now it's different, the entire middle or high-level has this kind of uneasy mood, which is the worry that the Yuan army will not be able to defeat the Song army in most of them, rather than being defeated by the Song army, it is better to negotiate peace in advance and give up some benefits to win time.

If Kublai Khan had an attack, he would have to kill too many people, and I was afraid that it would cause a deeper panic, and if it was more serious, it would destroy his rule, so at this critical time, he silently recorded the names of those people, waiting for the autumn queen to settle accounts with them.

Most of the troops and resources that have been requisitioned have already arrived, and even the troops that have not arrived have also approached Dadu, and they will arrive in less than a few days. Millions of cattle, sheep and horses came to the capital from all directions of the grassland, and there were tens of thousands of horse-drawn carts carrying winter pastures, almost emptying half of the Mongolian steppe.

With such a large-scale conquest, Kublai Khan could not have a second chance, he had to withstand the attack of the Song army in the capital of Yuan, and strive to rely on the cold weather to find a chance to win when winter came.

It is common sense that the southern army is afraid of cold and the northern army is afraid of water, why did the Song army in Bazhou wait for two months, and the weather cooled down before starting to move troops, the reason for this is not clear to Kublai Khan, but his intelligence summary is that the Song army in Bazhou needs material support by sea.

He didn't guess that Zhao Tianyou would not easily move the sword soldiers, it was to let him gather all the men and horses, and stew them in the capital of Yuanda, otherwise he would have to send cavalry to chase him to the grassland, not to mention the time and effort, when he arrived at the home of the Mongolian cavalry, whether he could easily win the battle or not.

Li Yiming led the army to forcibly cross the Juma River, and Hali Chiduo sent cavalry to prepare to meet the enemy on the opposite bank, but he was killed and injured by the guns of the firearms battalion, and he could not get close to the crossing of the Song army across the river, so he could only watch a large number of Song troops cross the river.