Chapter Eighty-Nine: Punitive Action
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Overnight, Gao Huaiyuan and Yue Kun, Huang Yan, Li Ruohu and others looked at the map and formulated a detailed plan of action, and early the next morning, he ordered the troops to select the elite cavalry and form a cavalry team of more than 3,000 people alone, named the Xiao Cavalry Army, appointed Li Ruohu as the commander of the Xiao Cavalry Army, and assigned half of the light artillery under Xing Fang to Li Ruohu, so that he quickly trained his soldiers and horses and prepared for the battle.
And this time, after they repelled the Mongolian army, they captured a lot of Mongolian war horses and pack horses, and also selected a batch and handed them over to Li Ruohu's Xiao Cavalry Battalion, and also selected 2,000 auxiliaries, who were responsible for sending supplies, weapons, armor and other items to the Xiao Cavalry operation, so that the Xiao Cavalry Battalion became a fast mobile force with the whole army as cavalry in a short time.
On the other hand, Gao Huaiyuan immediately ordered Lizhou Road and Chengdu Fu Road to close all the cities of the Tibetan side, and not to buy and sell grain, copper and iron, tea, medicinal materials and other materials to any Tibetan tribe, and ordered the city to post a poster, demanding that the Tibetan tribes must severely punish the tribal leaders who let the Mongol army cross the border and attack the Song territory, hand over their heads to the Great Song Dynasty, or cut off all contacts with these tribes, and at the same time informed these Tibetan tribes that the Great Song Dynasty would send troops out of the country to punish those tribes who let the Mongolian army take advantage of the road. The tribes were ordered not to help the tribes that were inclined to the Mongols, but to assist the Song army in dealing with them.
Only in this way can the Tibetan tribes obtain the right to trade with the Great Song Dynasty, enter the city and trade with the Southern Song Dynasty, of course, this time the Tibetan must open the number of horses imported to the Southern Song Dynasty, otherwise, they will not want to eat salt, drink tea or drink spicy wine every day.
This trick can be regarded as a relatively ruthless trick, because the Tubo people are very dependent on the Southern Song Dynasty economically, and they cannot produce many materials, so they can only trade with the merchants of the Southern Song Dynasty through the market, once the Southern Song Dynasty cuts off their supply of materials such as salt, tea and grain to Tubo, then their life is really difficult!
As soon as this move came out, it immediately set off an uproar in Sichuan, and a large number of Tibetan merchants were blocked from the city, and they were not allowed to enter the market to trade with the merchants of the Southern Song Dynasty, although the merchants of the Southern Song Dynasty would also suffer losses as a result, but Gao Huaiyuan's edict clearly stated that once any merchant dared to secretly trade with Tibet without authorization, he could be regarded as a financial enemy, and would behead the merchants who violated the imperial edict, confiscate all their property, and immediately use his intelligence system. Soon two or three merchants who secretly smuggled and sold materials to the Tibetan merchants were found out, and they were immediately arrested and brought to justice, and all the family property of the two or three merchants was directly confiscated.
In this way, the Tibetan tribes panicked all of a sudden, they have seen the Great Song Dynasty so tough for the first time in the past hundred years, and soon the Tibetan tribes have also received the news that the Mongolian army finally returned after sending troops to the Song realm, and after word of mouth, the defeat of the Mongolian army was exaggerated as a fiasco, some people even rumored that the Mongolian army was almost wiped out by the Song army, and even their commander Tuo Lei was seriously injured by the Song army, and only a few Mongolian troops escaped from the Song realm, so that It greatly shocked the pro-Mongolian faction of the Tibetan tribes.
Immediately afterwards, a cavalry of the Song army suddenly sent troops from the Duolong Bridge in Jiezhou, entered Longshang, and at a very fast speed, swept through the Tubo tribes through which the Mongolian army passed, and launched a large-scale crusade, which caused some Tubo forces along the way to flee one after another, and could not resist the Song army at all, but there were also some Tubo tribes who gathered some soldiers and horses to meet the Song army, but they did not expect that they had just engaged with the Song army, and they were hit by a cannon that split their heads and covered their faces. The Tubo army, which had never seen such sharp firearms at all, was chased and slashed by the cavalry of the Song army, even if they were beaten to pieces, and were chased and slashed by the cavalry of the Song army.
So those tribes that had not yet fallen to Mongolia immediately expressed their attitude, expressed their support for the Song army's crusade, severely condemned those tribes who borrowed from the Mongolian army, and some tribes with slightly greater power also took the opportunity to send troops to participate in the crusade against these tribes, saying that it was to help the Song army punish these tribes, but in essence, they did take the opportunity to expand their territory, robbing property, cattle and sheep and slaves, and at the same time they also wanted to show goodwill to the Southern Song Dynasty as soon as possible, and to resume trade with the Southern Song Dynasty as soon as possible, and use their goods in exchange for urgently needed salt, tea, Grain, iron and other supplies.
Gao Huaiyuan personally inspected the five prefectures outside the Guanwai, inspected the areas that had been invaded by the Mongol army, expressed his condolences to the surviving people, and vigorously commended some of the forts that resolutely resisted the Mongol army, rewarded some local meritorious Tu leaders with some petty officials and money and goods, and began to carry out the aftermath work after the war, so as to stabilize the situation in the five prefectures outside the Guanxi as soon as possible.
At the same time, Gao Huaiyuan returned to Lizhou, ordered Lizhou Road to allocate money and goods out of the customs, rebuild Jiezhou City, and took advantage of the opportunity that the people in this Jiezhou City and the people in the surrounding large area were all killed by the Mongol army, and recovered a large number of borderless lands in Jiezhou, and gave it to Yue Kun, ordering him to recruit new troops, garrison troops in Jiezhou Tuntian, train a strong fighting force of soldiers and horses, and be ready to send troops to fight at any time.
Through Gao Huaiyuan's bloody battle with the Mongolian army this time, and successfully repelled the invasion of the Mongolian army, coupled with the military's purposeful publicity, Gao Huaiyuan's relatives led the pro-army to defeat the Mongolian army, which was extremely exaggerated and exaggerated, and it was rumored that Gao Huaiyuan was shaped like a god of war, so that Gao Huaiyuan quickly erected a tall image in the minds of the people in Sichuan.
In the past, the common people only heard how powerful Gao Huaiyuan was, but after all, he led the army to Jingdong and pacified Li Quan's rebellion far away from Sichuan, and people did not have a strong impression of him, but this time he led the army to repel the invasion of the Mongolian army, but the things in front of these people, not to mention the folk newspapers, the brutality of the Mongolian army was exaggerated very powerful, and the massacre of Jiezhou made the people hate the Mongolian army, so the people unconsciously regarded Gao Huaiyuan as a benefactor. thinks that if Gao Huaiyuan is not fortunate to be in Sichuan this time, I am afraid that they may all be harmed by the scourge of Mongolian Tatars, so the people's gratitude to Gao Huaiyuan can be said to have reached an unprecedented level.