The Battle of Yiliebao, which took place in the autumn of 1217 A.D., was later considered a crucial battle that changed the course of history.

Although the battle lasted for a short time, from the beginning to the end of the two days, and the casualties caused were not too great.

According to the post-war report of the 10th Division of the Western Song Army stationed in Yilebao, the division's personnel losses in the Battle of Yiliebao were 228 killed and 319 seriously wounded, totaling more than 500 people.

And their results were 2,869 beheadings and 1,036 prisoners, totaling more than 3,900. Because the result of the battle was that the Song army took complete control of the battlefield, most of the killings turned into beheadings, and the seriously wounded turned into prisoners. The actual losses of the Mongols should not exceed 3,900, which is too much, and 5,000 will be the sky.

Compared to the 200,000 army, 5,000 casualties and missing are completely bearable.

In addition to casualties, the Battle of Ireburg also had some losses.

For the Western Song Dynasty, most of the wheat fields around Yiliebao were destroyed, and a large number of grains that could be harvested were turned into ashes!

This made it impossible for the Western Song army, which was superior in combat strength, to advance towards the Broken Leaf Valley in the summer of the following year.

From this point of view, Temujin spent 5,000 lives buying another year for his empire. It can't be said that it's not worth it.

But among these 5,000 lives, one belonged to Temujin's favorite son, Tulei.

Because Jochi had people shoot black guns before, and now Tuo Lei was sniped again. Temujin's two sons-in-law were killed at gunpoint by the Western Song sharpshooters.

The death of Temujin's two beloved sons (whether Temujin loved Jochi or not) is considered by later historians to be the main reason for his extreme measures in the Western Regions to confront the Western Song Dynasty.

In fact, before the Battle of Yilebao, the Mongol and Western Song envoys had been secretly negotiating in the city of Gaofu in Western Xia.

Temujin wanted the Ferghana Basin, and in exchange, he allowed Xiliang to move to the Shaye and Ili valleys as a buffer state between the Western Song and Mongols......

However, after losing Jochi and Tuolei in succession, Temujin ordered the recall of the supreme magistrate he had sent to Western Xia, and suspended the peace talks with the Western Song Dynasty.

The Western Song Dynasty, on the other hand, was encouraged by the Battle of Yiliebao - although the situation on the front line was more difficult than before the Battle of Yiliebao, the 5,000 beheadings and prisoners greatly encouraged the civilian and military generals of the Western Song Dynasty.

Everyone is gearing up, wanting to go to the Western Regions to get a few Mongolian heads to change officials and make a change of grange.

Therefore, the Western Song Dynasty court no longer wanted to negotiate with the Mongols - if the head was cut off so well, there must be a national thief! Who would dare not let it? Don't want to die?

So both sides are determined to fight to the end!

Of course, this is just a later interpretation. For the Mongol Khan Temujin and the Song Emperor Zhao Xin, who were in the whirlpool of history, the decision to suspend the peace talks was the result of careful consideration.

"Great Khan," said to Temujin in private, "Li Zun, the king of the Xia Kingdom, said to his ministers, that our war with the Western Song Dynasty would only benefit the Zhou and Eastern Song Dynasty...... It's better to end it sooner rather than later, so as not to lose both. ”

Temujin had apparently suffered a great deal of damage from the death of his two sons, and the defeat of Ireburg had put him under great pressure.

After the Battle of Irebourg, there were rebellions in Central Asia and throughout Persia. The two countries of Western Liao and the Golden Horde are also ready to move, and seem to be preparing for a counterattack.

The Great Khan of Mongolia looked at his supreme judge, but just smiled bitterly: "Unlucky and bald, do you think that I insisted on fighting the Western Song Dynasty for the sake of the death of Tuolei?" ”

The Great Khan shook his head and asked himself: "After the Battle of Yiliebao, I no longer have the capital to bargain with the Son of Heaven of Chang'an. My 200,000-strong army didn't even win the battle of more than 10,000 people of Chang'an's Son of Heaven, if you are still willing to negotiate peace with me?

As for losing both...... It's us who hurt now! What hurt the Western Song Dynasty? In the battle of Yirebao, the mines were lost and thousands of Mongol warriors were lost. How many people died in the Western Song Dynasty? More than 1000 though, right? With a population of 40 million, hundreds of thousands of military households, and millions of soldiers (target shooters) in the Western Song Dynasty, would they care about this loss?

I still underestimate the enemy, and the battle of Yiliebao should not be fought! ”

As Temujin spoke, his brows furrowed tightly, and his face was gloomy and terrifying.

He paused, "But the rats in Western Liao, the Golden Horde, and the land of Hezhong and Persia are not the Western Song Dynasty!" My Great Mongolia can't beat the Western Song Dynasty, can't I beat these rats?

They don't expect the Western Song Dynasty to help them now, there are still nearly 2,000 miles from Yiliebao to Chachi! They Han people can't compare to the heroes on our grassland, and they can come and go thousands of miles by driving cattle, sheep and horses. They have to go to the fields! A 2,000-mile road is not a matter of a few years.

Moreover, I have ordered the three major oases of Tarath, Sailan, and Sadhara and dozens of small oases to be completely bulldozed! The population was evicted, the irrigation canals that had been built for millennia, the fertile farmland was salted, all the trees were cut down, and the water supply of the oases was filled with sick and dead livestock...... I will turn those fertile oases into barren deserts! ”

Listening to Temujin's words, he gasped. The Great Khan was really angry, and his anger was about to turn the rich Western Regions into a barren desert.

However, this is also the most effective way to stop the rapid expansion of the Western Song army in the Western Regions.

Unlike the Ili River Valley, the Broken Leaf River Valley, and the Fergana Basin, which are large areas of fertile soil formed by the Tianshan Mountains, there are many oases in the Western Regions that are not ecologically sustainable.

These oases can be artificially destroyed so that they cannot be revived for at least a few decades.

If the Great Mongols continued to adopt this extreme scorched earth tactic during the Western Regions War, then the Western Song Dynasty would inevitably abandon the war in the end because it was unprofitable.

After all, the Song people were farming people, and the purpose of their westward expansion was not so much to save Xiliang, but to grab a few rich pieces of land in the Western Regions where they could open feudal towns.

If they have no way to seize the rich land, the desire to attack will naturally be greatly weakened.

But it's still too early for Temujin's scorched earth tactics to take effect!

Because no matter how much he scorched the earth, he could only destroy the desert oasis that was already relatively fragile.

In areas like the Shattered Leaf Valley, where there is a large amount of water from snowmelt, it has little effect.

Therefore, in the next few years or even more than ten years, the expansion of the Western Song Dynasty in the Western Regions will continue.

However, this scorched earth tactic could still delay the actions of the Western Song Dynasty, allowing Temujin to calmly gesture the power of the Western Regions and divert it to the island of Asia Minor and the Eastern Roman Empire!

In 1418 A.D., after suppressing rebellions in various parts of the Western Regions, and completely destroying the oases of Tarath, Sailan, and Sadara. The Mongol Great Khan Temujin finally handed over Central Asia to his second son, Chagatai, and then returned to Tabriz in the west with the main force.

The former capital of Jerodashi is now the capital of the Mongol-Persian Empire. It was here that Temujin Khan, a generation of heavenly pride, would command the final war of his life, the conquest of Asia Minor.

The Western Liao Empire, which had caused trembling among Christians in Eastern Rome and Western Europe, would be completely destroyed within 10 years after 1418.

When a generation of Tianjiao died, what was left to the heir was a rather vast empire.

All of Persia, Asia Minor, Syria, the Caucasus Mountains, the Volga-Ural River basin, and most of the middle of the rivers were incorporated into the lands of Greater Mongolia.

The Golden Horde in the north, and the Seljuk kingdom in the south, all became vassals of Great Mongolia.

Moreover, Temujin also left behind a fairly strong army, including not only a Mongol army of more than a dozen thousand households (which fused with a considerable number of Kipchaks), but also an effective imitation of the 30,000 cowardly guards established by the Dashi Guards!

A fairly powerful navy was even formed by recruiting pirates from the Mediterranean and Black Seas.

This vast empire would continue to expand for more than a hundred years after Temujin's death, eventually becoming the master of the entire Balkan Peninsula and for a time invading Italy.

The whole of Christendom will tremble at the feet of the Mongol Empire, and the only hope for the West is the Egyptian Empire, which absorbed the population of the West and the heritage of Eastern Roman civilization in the Mongol war of expansion!

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At the same time that Temujin recalled his peace envoys, Zhao Xin, the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, made the same decision to fight the Mongols to the end.

For the current Western Song Dynasty, this is the only right decision.

Because the Western Song Dynasty could not do without war, without war, the country would lose its goal, and the "gun doctors" and the military class would also lose the channel to rise.

These are the soldiers who have returned from target shooting, and if you don't let them rise, they will climb up themselves...... It's just that the person sitting on it will be shot if he doesn't do it.

Therefore, fighting a war is the way to maintain stability in the Western Song Dynasty, killing and eliminating internal troubles, and winning to eliminate the enemy!

Of course, as an official of the Western Song Dynasty, it is not possible to defeat the battle.

Because the defeat could not obtain enough booty and land for the soldiers and gunmen......

Therefore, the official family who can't win the battle must be shaking the dragon chair under the buttocks.

But now Zhao Xin can finally breathe. The Great Mongolia was not as powerful as it had imagined, and it still couldn't defeat the soldiers and the gun doctors—although Temujin's skills in using soldiers were very good, and he didn't let the Great Song Western Expeditionary Army take advantage of anything.

But those thousands of heads and captives speak for themselves...... When it comes to the combat effectiveness of the troops, the Mongols are still inferior.

Well, the difference is as it should be!

How can a Mongolian warrior be compared to a gun doctor? There are more than 10 million Ding Zhuang in the Great Song Dynasty, and there are only more than 100,000 "gun showtalents" (including gun shows). One in a hundred!

Did the Mongols have this condition? The cowardly Xue Jun can't do one out of a hundred, at most one out of ten.

Moreover, the "gun doctors" were also richer than the Mongol warriors, and could afford more expensive equipment and training—target hunting was not only an upward path, but also a mechanism for the distribution of social wealth.

Because "Gun Xiucai", "Gun Lifter" and "Gun Jinshi" all have certain tax exemption and exemption privileges.

The grassroots political power in the Bashu Zhulu Road, Jinghu South Road, and part of the Jinghu North Road area in the Western Song Dynasty was also controlled by these "gun doctors".

Therefore, shooting targets is directly related to the wealth and poverty of the people of the Western Song Dynasty. Therefore, as long as the people of the Western Song Dynasty have a little wealth, they will not hesitate to invest in target shooting......

Good muskets, good gunpowder, will always be the best-selling goods in the Western Song Dynasty!

The crackling sound of gunfire was the most common noise in the urban and rural areas of the Western Song Dynasty.

If a Gentile who does not know the situation arrives in the Western Song Dynasty and hears this kind of gunfire, he will definitely think that there is a war somewhere!

In fact, this is the students of the Western Song Dynasty practicing!

Of course, no one around Huaqing Palace put guns indiscriminately, otherwise who would be shocked?

Zhao Xin, who was in a happy mood, was discussing the war in the northwest with the ministers in the Chongzheng Hall at this time, mainly how to reward the heroes.

The front line has cut so many heads, and the reward is indispensable.

However, the Western Song Dynasty had no money...... If you don't have money, you can still fight, and you can let 200,000 troops run thousands of miles away to fight and settle fields.

That's where the best of the best comes out!

Of course, no money doesn't mean you can't give out prizes, otherwise it's not a joke that those military masters will rebel!

"In the battle of Yiliebao, 10,000 defeated 200,000 enemies, how can you give a big victory!"

Zhao Xin said with a smile: "The big victory is the merit of the group...... The soldiers below will be counted according to the number of times they go out of battle, and they will be given a small merit once they go out of battle, two medium merits, three major merits, four large and one small merits, and so on. If you should be transferred to an official, you will be transferred to an official, and if you should be given a cabinet post (for military attachés), you will be given a post (for civil officials).

As for the first merit (referring to the first level of merit), it should also be rewarded! The doctor gave Enke and gave him a real job! The ...... of the Appreciation Grange from a military family

The Chongzheng Hall has now become a hall of righteousness, and the emperor Lao Tzu is dividing the gold and silver for the minions below!

But now the Western Song Dynasty is divided into wealth and official positions in this way...... As long as the first merit of the gun doctor is enough, he can still become a county official from Xiucai, and he can also add a post, and then take office to make money - corruption and bribery are certain! Rather than letting those who can't be caught catch it, and not letting those who can be beaten be greedy, at least people don't make money in vain.

Without the first merit, you are the champion, and you are staying at home, no one knows you, and there is no chance to get the real shortage.

"Your Majesty, there are not enough granges that can be allocated in the account of the Ministry of War......," said the secretary of the Ministry of War, Bi Siqiu, "If you want to let the soldiers and generals who have made meritorious contributions to the Western Expedition have their own income, they must grant land in the Ili River Valley." ”

"Grant land in the Ili Valley?" Zhao Xin asked, "Does anyone want it?" ”

"You can give a little more land." Han Tuoxuan suggested, "As usual, in the granting of land in Guanlong and Jingchu, a Zhuangzi only has 200 acres of dry land, and if it is a paddy field, it is only 100 acres...... The grange in Ili can be doubled, and one farm is 600 acres. In addition, ten more horses of Shu brocade were given as the travel expenses for the family to move to Yili. ”

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