Chapter 497: Shandong's Deployment (3)

Prince Hedan was not so lucky, Kublai Khan had made up his mind that he must be punished, but when Prince Hedan returned to Dadu, there was a dispute between Prince Moge and Kublai Khan on how to treat Hedan, Prince Moge insisted on his own opinion, he believed that the Dayuan court had just had room for relaxation with the sea in the Mobei grassland, this time was the most sensitive period, if the court punished Prince Hedan, it was likely to cause huge turmoil, resulting in the agreement between the court and Haidu, And the meaning of Prince Moge, Kublai Khan also understood, after all, the Mongolian tribal leaders who supported Haidu on the grassland had a tendency to increase, and if many princes were also chilled at this time, it would be really difficult for the imperial court to maintain. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Therefore, Kublai Khan adopted the opinions and suggestions of Prince Mogo, and the scene above the main hall was just a double reed sung by Kublai Khan and Prince Moge, and the poor thing was that Wuliang Hetai was kept in the dark.

Of course, judging from the situation, Wuliang Hetai is also satisfied, after all, the emperor basically agreed with what Wuliang Hetai said, and also gave Prince Hedan the warning he should have.

This is the emperor's mental technique, and Kublai Khan, who was a Mongolian, also slowly learned this.

The deployment of a large-scale battle in Shandong has slowly begun to take shape, and Kublai Khan's intention is that this battle is best fought in Juzhou or Haizhou, through continuous battles, to defeat the Ming army invading Shandong, and to maintain and consolidate the rule of the Great Yuan court in Shandong.

Kublai Khan also began to pay attention to the control of the local government at all levels, which he did not care about before.

The concept of fighting the world on horseback has penetrated into the bone marrow of Kublai Khan, many years ago when Kublai Khan personally led his troops to fight, whether it was fighting in the north or in the south, he was accustomed to slaughtering the city, and made the opponent submit with tragic killings, as for what to do after the killing, he really didn't think so much, Kublai Khan also believed that the strength of the army was the absolute element of dominating the world, and the rest were not important.

But after ascending the throne for a long time, Kublai Khan realized that there were some problems in his own understanding, he could indeed fight the world on horseback, but if he relied on horseback to govern the world, it would be a bit ridiculous, and for a long time, Kublai Khan was analyzing the reasons for Wu Shaogang's success, and he found that Wu Shaogang attached great importance to local governance.

Kublai Khan began to pay attention to people's livelihood matters, especially farming matters, in Yanjing and the area of the Daimyo's Mansion, in the spring ploughing season, the government at all levels is not allowed to interfere with the people at will, and must support the people to do a good job in spring ploughing.

It's a pity that Kublai Khan paid attention too late, or Wu Shaogang's crossing, so that Kublai Khan's efforts had little effect.

After years of conquest, Ahma, the prime minister of the Great Yuan Court, wantonly collected wealth among the people and supplied the expenses of the Mongolian army, which made the taxes in the places controlled by the Great Yuan Court extremely heavy, and the people and merchants could hardly bear it.

The situation in Shandong is even worse, after all, this was previously a place controlled by Li Pu, after suppressing Li Pu's rebellion, the Mongolian army wantonly looted and killed in Shandong, the purpose was to completely eliminate Li Pu's influence on the local area, such looting and killing, to a certain extent, did quickly stabilize the place, but also made the people and the government serious confrontation.

The common people are indeed obedient, as long as they can live, they will be satisfied, even if they can't live, they don't dare to do anything else, but the people are indifferent and even hostile to the government in their hearts, which cannot be changed in a short time.

It was this aspect that Kublai Khan overlooked.

Haizhou, Yizhou, Tengzhou, Xuzhou and Pizhou and other places occupied by the Ming army, in a very short period of time, the common people turned their hearts to the Ming court, the Ming court can stabilize them, the local government can let them farm with peace of mind, those who have no food at home and are about to starve to death, but also can get the food relief from the government, to ensure that they do not starve to death.

Under such circumstances, it is strange that the common people do not support the Ming court.

The people's will in this era may not be able to play a key role in the conquest and fighting, but the stability of the local area can have a decisive impact on weekdays.

Tengzhou, Xuzhou, Yizhou, Pizhou and Xuzhou, which are war zones, although the atmosphere is a little tense, the common people are mostly stable, on the contrary, Jinan Mansion and other places controlled by the Dayuan Imperial Court are obviously a little restless, and the rich families are trying to move in the direction of Dadu and even Kaifeng Mansion to avoid encountering the invasion of war, resulting in the destruction of their families.

Wu Shaogang was also deploying the Battle of Shandong.

In his opinion, the decisive battle has already been rolled out, and the life-and-death game between the Ming court and the Dayuan court will be carried out in the next year or even several years, and both sides are in a situation of endless death, and Shandong will become the main battlefield.

Once Shandong was completely occupied by the Ming army, Yanjing and the Daimyo Mansion and other places were in great danger, and the Great Yuan Court was also completely compressed to survive in space, not only losing the south, but also almost losing the entire Central Plains, and the fruits of years of hard work would be completely lost.

Under such circumstances, Kublai Khan must fight hard.

Wu Shaogang is not desperate.

Shandong is also quite critical for the Ming court, once the whole of Shandong is taken, the Ming army can attack Hebei to the north, which is the last barrier between Yanjing and Dadu, to the west can attack the Daimyofu, once Hebei and the Daimyofu and other places are taken, then the Kaifeng Mansion will be completely safe, and the Dayuan court will gradually go to the edge of destruction.

If you can't take Shandong, not only will Kaifeng Fucheng be in danger at all times, but the entire south will not be able to calm down.

Shandong is the place where Wu Shaogang is determined to win, and it is also an important bargaining chip for the Ming court to completely exterminate the Dayuan court.

The rest of the two sides in Shandong is a fierce fight, and there is no other way to choose.

Wu Shaogang's idea is similar to Kublai Khan's idea, he believes that the decisive battle should be carried out in Juzhou or Jinan Province, as long as the Mongolian army is completely defeated, then Dengzhou, Laizhou, Mizhou, Pennsylvania, Dezhou and other places, do not need to use too many troops, will return to the Ming court, if the Mongolian army is defeated in Juzhou or Jinan Province, will not stick here, will choose to retreat to Hebei East Road to hold the defensive line.

The intelligence that the Mongol army was constantly gathering troops towards the area around Jinan Province made Wu Shaogang highly excited, and he hoped for a real showdown with Kublai Khan.

Li Tingzhi and others were also not idle, and were also thinking about how to deploy troops to fight a decisive battle with the Mongolian army in Shandong.

The hardest thing is Yuan Shichun, as the deputy privy envoy, responsible for intelligence matters, and needs to collect a lot of information from Dadu and Shandong, and provide it to the emperor and the court for reference.

Tong Weihua, Yao Shu, Shi Tianze and others, who returned to Kaifeng Mansion, were not idle, and according to their own understanding of the situation in Dadu, they helped analyze many possible situations.

The understanding of everyone is the same, that is, Kublai Khan attaches great importance to Shandong, and will never allow Shandong to be occupied by the Ming army, so he will send heavy troops to garrison Shandong, and at the same time, Kublai Khan also hopes to completely defeat the Ming army in Shandong.

When the intelligence that the Mongolian army gathered around Jinan Mansion in Shandong Province was estimated to be more than 200,000, Wu Shaogang fell into deep thought, although he was extremely excited, but he also had to think carefully and deploy, and could not let the excitement sway his thoughts, and the decisive battle of the Mongolian army in Shandong was extremely critical, related to the future of the Ming court.

For several days in a row, Wu Shaogang summoned Li Tingzhi and others separately to discuss matters, and the things they asked were also very clear, that is, how the Ming army should fight the Mongolian army in Shandong.

When Li Tingzhi entered the house, Wu Shaogang almost made a decision.

"Father-in-law, sit down and talk."

"Your Majesty, has the deployment of Shandong been decided?"

Wu Shaogang nodded, his expression slightly serious.

"This battle is very important, no matter how you describe it, I need detailed planning, your Aiqing's opinion is to concentrate troops in Shandong to fight against the Mongolian army, I also see it this way, I think that in terms of troops, we must have an advantage, the Mongolian army does not have about 200,000 troops, then I will invest 300,000 troops, and fight against them, but there is one point, I still need to remind Cai Siwei and others, don't think about the situation of the battle of Lianshui County again, That is to say, don't think about completely exterminating the 200,000 Mongolian troops in the battle of Juzhou or Jinan, the purpose of this operation is to completely defeat them, let them suffer heavy losses, and then evacuate Shandong... ”

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that he can completely exterminate the Mongolian army, but it is an undesirable thing, Kublai Khan can not tolerate the defeat of Shandong, and will definitely ask the Mongolian army to resist desperately, the minister has discussed it with Yao Shu, Shi Tianze and others, and they also have this opinion."

"My father-in-law is right, but in the 200,000 army and Shandong two aspects to make a choice, I think Kublai Khan still has a number in his heart, this time in Juzhou or Jinan Mansion to fight, Kublai Khan is not entirely to be able to hold on to Shandong, but also look forward to defeating me, and then covet Kaifeng Mansion and other places, I expect that once the Mongolian army is difficult to support, Kublai Khan will definitely order the Mongolian army to withdraw quickly to avoid the danger of annihilation, after all, among the 200,000 Mongolian troops, there are 100,000 Mongolian iron cavalry, It is also the most elite army of Kublai Khan. ”

"What the emperor said is that the minister understands."

"Well, after the morning of the day after tomorrow, I will discuss this matter specifically, I will entrust you with the matter of stability in the south, the prince is still inspecting the south, and I also ask my father-in-law to worry about all the matters that need to be paid attention to."