Hearing Zhang Xizai's question, Chen Dexing couldn't help but nod appreciatively, this person has a bit of a world vision, he sees not only a corner of China, but also the whole world, at least the situation in the entire Eurasian continent.

The current Great Mongolia was actually only Kublai Khan's Ulus, and Kublai Khan's orders could not reach the west of Beshbali. The Chagatai and Ogedai kings of Central Asia did not listen to Kublai Khan's orders. As for Hulegu and the Golden Horde Khan, the most powerful of the Mongol Western Daozong kings, they only nominally obeyed Kublai Khan, the Great Khan. In fact, the Ilkhanate and the Golden Horde were both independent states.

Chen Dexing smiled and asked: "Tingyang, tell me your opinion, is it better to keep Kublai Khan, the Great Khan, or to destroy him?" ”

Zhang Xizai glanced at a huge map of the world hanging on the wall of the governor's room. On the map, the territory of the Golden Horde and the Ilkhanate is incomparably vast, and both are larger than the entire Central Plains Han Land!

"Your Majesty, recently the General Staff Department has received some news about the Golden Horde and the Ilkhanate. There was a war between the soldiers of the Golden Horde and the soldiers and horses of Ilkhan Hulegu in a place called the Caucasus. The main reason for this war is said to be because of religion. The Golden Horde was a Celestial Sect, and the Ilkhan Hulegu was a Lamaist. And Hülegü's territory is the center of the Heavenly Sect. Hulegu's suppression of the Celestial Sect and the promotion of Buddhism and Nestorianism in the Great Eclipse and Persian homelands brought the two Mongol khanates into hostility. Kublai Khan, on the other hand, believed in Lamaism, and most of his subordinates believed in Lamaism......"

The General Staff Department of the Ming Dynasty believes that within the Great Mongolia, there are not only factional conflicts, but also sectarian contradictions - the conflict between Tibetan Buddhism and Tianfang Sect!

And. This sectarian conflict is still quite fierce, and it has reached the point of resorting to war!

Zhang Xizai glanced at Chen Dexing. said with a smile: "The minister thinks that Hülegü's territory is not smaller than that of Brother Be'er. And it's richer, and the population is even greater. The reason why he is now on par with Brother Bei'er is because he doesn't believe in the Heavenly Sect. And the predecessors of the Golden Horde, Batu and Jochi, were also not in the Heavenly Sect......"

Chen Dexing frowned: "What you mean is that once Kublai Khan is defeated, the power of Lamaism in the Great Mongolia Kingdom will be greatly weakened, and Hulegu may also convert to Tianfangjiao." ”

"There is also the possibility of becoming the Great Khan and Caliph of the Mongols!" Zhang Xizai said, "For the Golden Family, Kublai Khan is a sweat with bad rules. But Hülegü wasn't. As long as he converts to Tianfang Religion and is supported by the followers of Tianfang Religion, he will definitely become the co-ruler of Mongolia after Kublai Khan! ”

In fact, the information obtained by Zhang Xizai is not accurate. Although Hulegu practiced Buddhism, sectarian conflicts within the Ilkhanate were between Christianity and Celestial Christianity. Influenced by his wife, the Christian Agus Krotun, Hulegu adopted a pro-Christian and anti-Celestial policy, and was once regarded as a Mongol crusader by European Christians at the time.

However, Chen Dexing also did not know much about what religion Hulegu supported—both Baoyin and Guo Kan said that Hulegu was a Buddhist—but one thing is certain, Hulegu and the Heavenly Sect were hostile. And he had a very close relationship with Kublai Khan.

As long as Kublai Khan still retains a certain amount of strength and retreats to Central Asia, he will be able to join Hülegü. Become a force that blocks the greening of Mongolia.

In Chen Dexing's plan, the Mongols should be enlightened by the Heavenly Daoist Sect, not become the Heavenly Sect!

As for the extermination of Mongolia, Chen Dexing did not think about it at all. Because it can't be done! It is one thing to fight the Mongols in the Central Plains and in Liaodong. It's another thing to go to the vast Mongolian steppes, the Central Asian steppes and the Kipchak steppes to fight the Mongols – it's the 13th century, not the 18th or 19th century. The current Mongols have not lost their wildness. The Mongols in the hands of Hülegü and Beerge were the elite who lived in the steppe and fought all day long. The combat effectiveness was no weaker than that of Kublai Khan's Mongol soldiers. Relying on Chen Dexing's hands of tens of thousands of Eight Banner soldiers, they can't contain them......

It seems that Kublai Khan, the Great Khan of Mongolia, will continue to be in office for the time being. If he and his army of more than 100,000 are destroyed in the Central Plains. Then the Mongol co-rulers could only be produced between Hülegü and Beerge. And it is extremely likely that Hülegü will convert to the Heavenly Sect for the sake of power. At that time, Tianfangjiao will become the state religion of Great Mongolia!

Chen Dexing grinded his teeth, sneering in his heart. He can't be a spearman for the Heavenly Sect under any circumstances. However, Kublai Khan can't be allowed to retreat with his whole body, otherwise the 200,000 Mongol army is also equipped with H medicine weapons, and Hulegu and Be'er Ge will have to bow down and be vassals, not to mention a bunch of kings of the Chagatai and Wokotai lines.

Although these Mongol Ulus in the Western Province were only a few thousand households when they were first sealed (Hülegü did not have a thousand households, but an expeditionary force composed of two out of ten strong men from each thousand Mongolian households), over the decades, they had already merged with the Turkic races of Central Asia and the Kipchak steppe. The Golden Horde could even mobilize the armies of the Maharajas of Urross. The military strength is not weak, if it is subdued by Kublai Khan, several Mongol khanates will be united, and there will immediately be hundreds of thousands of nomadic cavalry!

When the time comes, the Northland Frontier will be in chaos for decades! The situation of the Han-Hungarian tug-of-war in history is likely to reappear between Ming and Mongolia!

Thinking of the tug-of-war between Ming and Mongolia, Chen Dexing had in his mind the famous phrase commonly used by later generations when commenting on the grassland policies of the Ming and Qing dynasties: "Ming repairs the wall, Qing repairs the temple".

It seems that the only feasible way to deal with the Mongols, or the other steppe, is to keep the Great Mongols divided. At the same time, it is necessary to spread the Celestial Taoism to a part of the Mongols, and to foster a Celestial Taoism Mongolia, and it is best to form a tripartite chaos of the Celestial Sect Mongolia, the Celestial Taoist Sect Mongolia, and the Lamaist Sect Mongolia.

This is also the reason why Chen Dexing sent Baoyin to the Western Regions to preach and win over the king of the Wokotai lineage.

He looked at everyone with a smile, but his tone was non-negotiable: "The goal of this battle should be to subdue the entire northern Han land, inflict heavy losses on Kublai Khan's Mongol army, and then drive out of the Central Plains...... And, to avoid the Mongols from ravaging the Central Plains before retreating! ”

In the battle for world supremacy, the Mongols are a complete nonsense player! Everywhere they passed, they were killed, burned, and robbed, the fertile land turned into a desert, and the inhabitants were slaughtered eighty or ninety percent! The good and rich lands are all ruined by the sparsely populated barren land. Their atrocities in the Great Food Country, even the Crusaders, the enemies of the Heavenly Sect, could not look past it, and were unwilling to unite with Hülegü - although the Crusaders were under the banner of religion, they still came to seek wealth and grab territory, if the Mongols destroyed the territory of the Heavenly Sect, they would still be a fart in the east?

And Chen Dexing is now not worried about whether he can win against Kublai Khan - this is impossible! There is a "Guo Rugui" by Kublai Khan's side, and the battlefield is one-way transparent to Chen Dexing, how can he be defeated? And Chen Dexing also has a weapon in his hand that is more powerful than a bronze cannon - Heavenly Dao Ticket! Before his expedition to the south, he had already ordered Qu Huajie to transport 30 million yuan worth of gold, silver and bronze to Yanjing, and there were also the same number of Heavenly Dao tickets!

The warlord of the Northland, the feudal town of the Southern Song Dynasty, not everyone wants to be the emperor. Such as Shi Tianze, Zhang Rou, Gao Gao, Xia Gui, Liu Quan, Zhang Jue, Lu Wende, etc., the lord of the world has no share of them at all, and all they want is glory and wealth.

Therefore, what Chen Dexing is most worried about now is that Kublai Khan's dog jumped over the wall and slaughtered Henan and Shaanxi into a blank field. There are millions of Han Chinese there, as well as big cities like Kaifeng, Luoyang, and Jingzhaofu. Moreover, the Han people in the north at this time had a military tradition, and they were a better source of soldiers than the Han people in the south of the Yangtze River. Chen Dexing only got these Han people, and he could immediately implement a government soldier system under the soldiers of the whole people (peasants), and when the time came, there would be soldiers on the top and soldiers on the bottom, and bulldozing the Southern Song Dynasty was not a matter of exploring the bag and taking things?

Chen Dexing set his eyes on Guo Kan, "Guo Qing, have you contacted your father-in-law?" ”

Guo Kan's stepfather is Shi Tianze, Chen Dexing had a little holiday with him, during the Battle of Sichuan, several sons and nephews of the Shi family died in the hands of Chen Dexing, and Shi Tianze's nephew Shi Quan was still executed by Ling Chi. Shi Tianze's son Shi Bin was even more frightened to cut off relations with his father, and is now a righteous instructor in Guo Kan's department.

"I have already been contacted, not only my father-in-law, but also Zhang Degang (Zhang Rou)." Guo Kan smiled, "Instructor Shi can go to Taiyuan at any time, as long as the Heavenly Dao ticket is in place, they are willing to defect." ”

Shi Tianze and Zhang Rou were Li Pu's two pillars in Hedong. The total number of troops under the command of the two is more than 30,000, and they are all veterans of long-term battles, well-equipped, well-trained, and very experienced in combat.

If the two of them can be bribed to defect, Li Pu's Hedong Army will collapse immediately!

Moreover, among the heroes of the Northern Land and the feudal towns of the Southern Dynasties, it is not only Shi Tianze and Zhang Rou who can be defeated by silver bullets. Yan Zhongji, the Mongol Han army stationed in Datong; Dong Wenwei, who garrisoned Dengzhou and at the same time proclaimed himself a vassal to Li Pu, the Southern Song Dynasty, and Kublai Khan; In the Southern Song Dynasty, Xiangyang Zhenjiedu made Gaoda, Huaixi Jiedu made Xia Gui, Dongchuan Jiedu made Lu Wende, Lizhou Jiedu made Liu Quan, and Xingyuan Jiedu made Zhang Jue, all of them now have contacts with Chen Ming. Defection is just a matter of price!

Chen Dexing's complexion became serious, his tone was full of solemnity, and he said loudly: "Since the goal has been set, what we have to consider now is how to achieve it!" The lonely king now has an idea, Kublai Khan has Kublai Khan's style of play, we don't need to pay attention to him! Let's fight ours! He can march to the Daimyo Mansion, and we can also march to the Taiyuan Mansion! Take Li Pu first, the mountains and rivers in the east of the river, there is a tendency to build from a high house, once it is obtained by Lone, Heluo and Guanzhong are all under the soldiers of the Lone King...... Xia Gui, Gao Gao and Li Yanguo took refuge in us, Kublai Khan is the turtle in the urn, how dare he stay in Henan? They will flee in panic! The Lone King will fight him in the middle of the pass! What do you think? (To be continued......)