Chapter 599: The Man Who Met Kublai Khan at Night
Trapped in a lonely city, without reinforcements, it is often a place of death.
However, Diaoyu City is different, it can hold on for 36 years, but it is not the grain stored in it for 36 years.
However, its geographical location is special, it is entrenched in the mountains, surrounded by rivers, and the enemy army will either attack the city across a river, or cross the river to attack the city under the city.
But the city is only a few hundred meters away from the riverside, and it can't open up too much formation, if you put a fort under the city, it is a target, and a few cannons can be dismantled at the head of the city.
On the other hand, if a fort is placed on the other side of the river, it is too far away, not to mention that it poses little threat to the city wall, and it is especially easy to hurt the people who are besieging the city.
In other places, there are even more rugged mountains and cliffs, and in the era of cold weapons, this city cannot be attacked at all.
There are only a few ways to break the city. If you can't storm it, then besiege it to death.
After all, the grain and grass stored in the city are limited, as long as the siege army outside continues to besiege the city, even if the siege is not attacked, the grain and grass in the city will be exhausted one day.
However, in Diaoyu City, it has the ability to produce grain independently. First, Diaoyu City is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the outer wall covers a large area of mountainous land, with many mountain springs and wells. The land on the hill can be cultivated to grow crops.
The second is that there are two large and small heavenly pools in the city, and there are springs that feed water into the heavenly pools. Fish are produced in the Tianchi for fishing and eating, and the Tianchi itself is also living water, which can be drunk.
At the time of the siege, the city was self-sufficient, and it could take a long time to reduce food and clothing, but the army outside the city could not afford to consume it.
Due to the geographical location of Diaoyu City, it is impossible for the Mongolian army to besiege this mountain city anytime and anywhere, which requires a large number of manpower.
To maintain a large military force, it is necessary to withdraw troops in a year and a half, or leave a small number of troops to patrol the vicinity of Diaoyu City.
As soon as the army withdrew, it was very simple to get out of the city, and the terrain of Diaoyu City was complex, so you could find a random place to climb out, and you could go straight to Ciqikou.
There are dense bamboo forests, and there are many grasses on both sides of the Jialing River, which can hide people and boats.
As long as the Mongolian army is not closely monitored, they can send people to go out day and night, go down the river, and get some supplies and even soldiers from other places! Because there are too many people in the land of Shu who are still willing to help the Song lord.
'Zhang Shijie Weizhen Yashan rescued the Zhao family, and the three gods will escort thousands of miles to establish a new monarch' has spread all over the country.
Everyone knows that there is an emperor in Diaoyu City, and the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty is in Shuzhong.
Although the Great Yuan has leveled the world, as long as the Zhao family is stuck in Diaoyu City like a nail one day, the Great Song Dynasty will not die.
Zhejiang, Fu, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Hu, Shu and other places have rebellions from time to time, mostly under the banner of Song Tianzi.
Although because of the death of the three gods, a basin of cold water was poured on all the righteous people in the world, and many speculators died down.
But there are still many local uprisings, and these are those who can't bear to be reduced to a fourth-class people, regardless of whether the three gods are dying or not.
You must know that in another world, after the defeat of Yashanhai, 100,000 scholars in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were martyred, and there were 50,000 in Fu Jian, and there were many scattered in various places.
These scholars, who should have been martyred at the beginning, now choose to survive because of the existence of Emperor Hongguang, or secretly hibernate to make trouble, or simply put up a banner and defect to the small rebel army that is still resisting.
There are even more peasants, and the people do not have any martyrdom plots, and directly gather crowds to riot.
Many officials in prefectures and counties were officials of the Southern Song Dynasty, and on the one hand, they surrendered to protect themselves, and did not dare to fight against the Mengyuan sword soldiers. On the other hand, it was also because Emperor Deyu surrendered and issued an edict to make all parts of the country submit.
The mentality of officials like them is very simple, which side is stronger, and if they look at the wrong direction of the wind, they may change the king's banner at any time.
After all, they used the emperor to make them surrender as a reason, and naturally they could also use Emperor Hongguang of the Shu Song Dynasty as an excuse to rebel against Meng Yuan.
It is conceivable that in the face of small uprisings in various places, how could they try their best to suppress them? They basically turned a blind eye and were very perfunctory to the Mengyuan court.
In another world, Kublai Khan valued Wen Tianxiang so much, but in the end he killed him.
Because more than three years after the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, there were rebellions in various places, and there was a madman in Zhongshan who called himself 'Lord of Song' and gathered thousands of people to rescue Wen Tianxiang.
The capital also found an unsigned letter, mentioning the burning of the city reeds, driving the two wings of the people who guarded the capital to rebel and respond to the prime minister.
Although this little turmoil can be broken overnight, the prime minister of the Yuan Dynasty at that time, Liu Mengyan, said: As long as Wen Tianxiang is alive, the Song people will not give up, and they always want to rescue him and restore the world, how can this person not be killed?
So Kublai Khan had no choice but to kill Wen Tianxiang.
Zhao Song has been dead for three years, and a Wen Tianxiang can attract people to think about raising troops all the time, not to mention that there is an Emperor Hongguang now?
There is no emperor, and there are people who oppose the slogan of rescuing the prime minister, so you can imagine how anxious Dayuan should be now that there is an emperor sitting firmly in Diaoyu City.
Now the kings of the north are rebelling, and the south is a group of people thinking about Song.
The rebel armies were wandering around, and no matter how fierce the Mengyuan soldiers were, they could not stand the uncertainty of the people's hearts, and the anti-Yuan forces were scattered in 1,800 prefectures and counties south of the Yangtze River.
As soon as the army arrived, it was all obedient to the people, and as soon as the army left, they pulled the flag and rebelled.
Kublai Khan was so anxious that he couldn't wait to give up Jiangnan.
It was easy to fight the world, and the Mongolian army swept through the south of the Yangtze River in a few years, but the next governance found that it was not like that. The local officials obey the yang and the yin, and the hearts of the people everywhere fluctuate.
Jiangnan had already dragged down his 200,000 troops, and if he transferred these 200,000 troops and went north to quell the rebellion, he suspected that the south would basically fight in vain.
"Tune the army of Ali Hague, as well as Fan Wenhu's army, don't care about the small chaos in the place, converge with Ashu, and break the Diaoyu City first!" Kublai Khan said angrily.
"The Great Khan thinks twice, the puppet emperor of Diaoyu City is not able to send troops at all, if the world is decided, it will destroy itself if it is not attacked!" Hearing that Diaoyu City was going to be attacked again, he hurriedly persuaded Wen Chen.
Just kidding, is Diaoyu City so easy to fight? If it is to be broken, it will be broken long ago.
The combined soldiers of Ashu, Ali Hague, and Fan Wenhu were only 200,000, and Meng Ge used 400,000 troops to fight Diaoyu City, and the final result was that Meng Ge died......
If it weren't for Meng Ge's death, how could he have happened to Kublai Khan?
"Then Emperor Hongguang is rooted in Shuzhong, how can the world be decided?" Kublai Khan said angrily, he knew very well that the emperor was the root, otherwise, the hearts of the southerners were dead, how could they dare to rebel, and who could they support?
Only when the Great Yuan Dynasty is in decline, will there be people like Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang who can support themselves. But at this time, the Great Yuan is in full swing, and the anti-Yuan forces in various places are just small forces, if everyone supports them, and there is no unified support object, it is a plate of scattered sand, and there is no need to worry. I'm afraid that they're all for one goal.
Kublai Khan is indeed a generation of heroes, and he knows that if Diaoyu City is not managed, Jiangnan will not be stable.
He knew that it would be difficult to fight, but no matter how difficult it was, he would have to fight: "Mobilize Boyan's 200,000 troops to the south! I personally sit in the capital, and there will be nothing to do in the north!"
The ministers were in an uproar, but Boyan was exterminating the rebel kings in the north, leaving the rebel kings in the crisis capital alone, and mobilizing 200,000 troops to go south to join Ashu, a total of 400,000 to fight Diaoyu City.
What a bold decision this was, and where did the average emperor make it?
Any emperor attaches great importance to the danger of the crisis capital, concentrates his forces to solve the problems around him, and temporarily spares the remote enemy.
Kublai Khan, however, went the other way, seeing a city in Shu in the south as a danger to his heart, but was confident that many rebels in the north were not worried, and transferred the army around him to a distant place.
When the crowd saw that he had made up his mind, they did not dare to stop him again.
In fact, Kublai Khan was worried on the surface, but he was also worried in his heart: "Another 400,000...... I'm not going to be like my brother and planted in Diaoyu City, right?"
He couldn't sleep at night, looking at the map and calculating how long the 200,000 army without Boyan could last.
At the same time, look at the door from time to time, as if expecting someone.
Sure enough, in the second half of the night, someone walked into the Purple Pavilion in a grand manner, but everyone didn't notice him.
"Don't think about it, if you insist on this choice, Dayuan will be finished. A voice said.
Kublai Khan hurriedly looked up, knowing that only then did he find that a man with colored eyes had unknowingly stood in front of his table.
The eunuch serving on the side seemed to have just seen it, and the corners of his mouth twitched, but he didn't shout.
Because this man is not the first time he has come, when he first came two months ago, he was knocked unconscious just as he tried to scream, and then I don't know what this man talked about with the Great Khan, who often met him here at night.
Kublai Khan had secretly instructed someone to ambush and thoroughly investigate the traces of this person, but he found nothing, and he always stood in front of him unconsciously.
Kublai Khan simply maintained his bearing as a Great Khan and chatted with him.
This man had made clear what had happened in the south two months earlier, and after a long time, his men had quickly sent him information, and he knew that what he had said was not bad at all.
And it's a version of the truth, not a folk version. Not only that, but even if there were some things that were happening in the West at the same time, even if they were thousands of miles away, he could say it.
It seems that this person has the ability to travel to the East China Sea at dusk, and he is still in the south in the morning, and he comes to the north to tell him stories in the evening. Sometimes they also bring some fresh lychees from the south of the Yangtze River or fresh grapes from Tibet......
Not only that, but he also often tells stories, and the stories he tells are extremely attractive and beyond his imagination, and they are not at all the same as the stories of opera and folklore.
The vision is often in charge of the overall situation, and it is strategically located to the extreme, often talking about the affairs of the world, and what stories such as "the Great Khan bends the bow and shoots the eagle", "The Yue family's army breaks Zhuxian Town", etc., are not the same vision.
In particular, some examples of the end of the world are often cited, which makes Kublai Khan seem to have opened the door to a new world.
Doomsday wasteland?
Kublai Khan was a little addicted to listening to the story, and he was both in love and fear of this unique mysterious person.
For a few days, Kublai Khan would wait in this room all night, and then huff and puff the next morning.
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