Unexpectedly, as soon as the Mongols left, the king of Goryeo sent troops to kill these 72 Mongol town guards, rekindled the war, and moved the capital from Kaesong to Ganghwa Island, in order to show his determination to fight the Mongols to the end with natural dangers.

Ogedae was furious and sent troops to conquer again, this time all the way to the south of the peninsula, but he could not capture Ganghwa Island, which was separated by a river, and instead suffered a defeat in Gwangju. Even the coach was killed by a stray arrow. After the Mongol army collected its troops, the third expedition to Goryeo began in the second year of Duanpyeong, that is, last year. Now that some of the soldiers and horses stationed in Liaodong had begun to invade the south of the Yalu River, in order to capture the entire territory of Goryeo as soon as possible and capture alive the rebellious king of Goryeo, it was necessary to send a large army to reinforce the Goryeo raiders in Liaodong.

Everyone said that Liaodong was originally the jurisdiction of the left head marshal Gichi, and it was supposed that Chichi should lead his own troops and horses to solve the resistance of Goryeo. But this time the Goryeo war was very resolute, not only the defenders and officials, but even the peasants, small businessmen, monks, Taoist priests and traveling doctors organized teams to fight against the Mongol army, and the women even dressed in white clothes formed a white team to attack the Mongol cavalry in the fields day and night.

If reinforcements are not sent in time, it is estimated that the army of the Chi may also suffer the same defeat as the previous expeditionary army. There are legends in Helin City that the Great Khan will send at least one prince-level official to Liaodong this time, and will send at least 20,000 additional cavalry troops to Liaodong.

This was an opportunity, and Song thought that if Kublai Khan could preside over this crusade, he might be able to raise his position among the kings. In this way, the princes of the Wokotai and Tuolei families were provoked, thus setting off a great infighting.

But he was unwilling to let Kublai Khan's strength improve so quickly, with his sharp sense of knowing people, Song Yichang instinctively felt that the main opponent of the Great Song Dynasty in the future was neither Qu Chu nor Kuanduan, but this upright and clever Tuo Lei prince.

He was reluctant to make the heroic nobleman stronger, but he wanted his ambitions to be exposed as soon as possible, so as to trigger civil strife in the Mongol dynasty.

Based on his observations during this period of time, he believed that Bai Yijie's judgment that infighting might break out in the Mongol Empire was very probable. Although he didn't know how Bai Lejie deduced it, with his own witnesses, he found that there were contradictions and competition not only between the king of the sect and the king of the sect, but also between the ten thousand households and the ten thousand households in the local area. Because the Mongols were not able to establish a top-down county system like the Central Plains, but according to traditional customs, local heroes served as local governors to manage the people and finances in a unified manner. Therefore, the town-guarding chiefs in various places were very seriously towned, and in addition to actively providing soldiers and horses in expeditions that could harvest merit and spoils, the generals in various places were reluctant to move to other places. He also refused to take the initiative to lead troops to support other lords when they encountered defeats. There is a bit of a cold look-aside.

As for the division between the gold families, it is even clearer. The princes of the Jochi family, while Jochi was still alive, had already openly ignored Genghis Khan's orders and stranded in the Scythian steppe in the west with a large army and refused to return. It was evident that he was preparing to make an expedition to the Rus' principalities further west to occupy new territories as soon as the opportunity arose, and then set up a palace tent and never returned. If it weren't for Jochi's early death, this plan might have been realized while Genghis Khan was alive.

But now the princes of the Jochi clan are still guarding the fiefdoms in the west with their large armies, and they will still venture west to get rid of Warin's control if they have the chance. Even, if they are given a chance, they will lead their troops back to snatch the throne.

Chagatai seems to be in good health at the moment, and the unusually low-key life he has left in his fiefdom is completely different from the appearance of his previous years fighting with Jochi and coveting the throne. Probably because the sweat seat fell into the hands of Ogedei, his ambition has been exhausted. Or Genghis Khan saw this son very clearly, and arranged for him to be the hometown of Western Liao, a place where the Wu'er people lived. The residents here are afraid of the Wu'er people who are good at running a business, but they lack the courage to fight bloodily, coupled with the abundant local products in the Western Regions and the beauty of women, it is a gentle trap to trap and kill heroes.

However, his sons are still young and frivolous, and they are categorically unwilling to waste their heroic spirit in the land of beauty. They held the mighty Khamli Turkic soldiers, who fought the Mongol army in Khorasan for many years, and even Genghis Khan admired their bravery, with their dreaded rangers who excelled in guerrilla warfare and raiding, as well as Islamic light infantry who excelled in defending and besieging cities. They were even able to hire the cavalry of the Alan tribe who came across the Black Sea, and these brave cavalrymen disdained bows and arrows, but preferred to use their spears to fight the enemy in hand-to-hand combat, and their bravery and fearlessness even attracted the attention of the invincible Mongolian heavy cavalry in hand-to-hand combat.

They are not willing to stay on this grassland and sit on the grass to watch the descendants of Wokotai take over the throne in peace.

As for the sons of Tolei, they were by the side of Ögedei, and they controlled the elite troops that Genghis Khan used to conquer the four seas, and they were even more of a great trouble for the Great Khan.

At one time, the Great Khan sent his sons to attack Jiangnan in an attempt to establish his own domain to compete with the Mongol princes of the other three factions. But the unexpected Song Dynasty was not so vulnerable as imagined, but instead put the sons of the Wokotai family in an embarrassing situation of not advancing or retreating.

The conversation gathered around the fire pit continued enthusiastically, and some people salivated about the dancing girls of the Western Regions who were unclothed and protruding from their waists in the gathering area of the eastern and western regions of the city, and the Mongols were fascinated by the princes of the Great Khan, the sergeants and the little envoys.

Some people also said that the women of the Great Food Country are more charming and enchanting than the dancers of Khorasan, and even the King of Batu, who is known as a bad woman on weekdays, has moved his mind and wants to apply for a strategy before the Great Food Country.

Some people also joked that although the women of the Rus' principalities on the steppe were blonde and blue-eyed, they were handsome, but they were as strong as oxen, and they were no less powerful than men. When defending the city, he tied two thick braids behind his back, wore a long shirt of coarse wool, held a heavy axe in his hand, and a waist knife pinned to his waist, and some women carried heavy wooden shields. It's like a man marching and fighting, such a ferocious mother-in-law, the Mongols will lose their arrogance when they see it, where is there still the fun of fish and water? I really don't know how the men of the Duchy of Darros usually live.

It was also said that in recent days I heard that there was a Sultan Zalandin of Khorezm who claimed to be dead in the Ispidar region. The men of Mingbulnu were immediately arrested by the Mongol soldiers stationed there, and under severe torture, they confessed to being fakes. But Chagatai Khan was still suspicious of Zalandin's death, for when his henchmen assassinated him and brought his head to the palace, the head had been tossing and turning in the hot Persian mountains for days, and his face was unrecognizable. If it is said that he killed a shepherd in the mountains casually to ask for merit and reward, it is not unlikely.

At present, the territory of Chagatai Khan is not stable, and the Turkic inhabitants who believe in Orthodoxy break out from time to time small rebellions, and if Zalandin is really not dead at this time, if he comes out again and calls on the people to drive out the Mongols, it will be difficult to extinguish him.

Some people also said that the merchant who had returned from the Western Regions yesterday said that the Great Qin State had recently been attacked by the Turks who believed in Islam, and that it was under duress from the autonomous city-states in the west, and that there was a shortage of money, food, soldiers, and horses. Therefore, he specially sent envoys to the east, hoping to meet the Great Khan in the city of Holin, form an alliance with the Mongols, and attack the Seljuk Turks in the east and west, and relieve the temporary urgency.

These short-sighted fellows don't see what the end of this will be, the Western Xia has proven the failure of this short-sighted diplomatic strategy, and the Great Song and Goryeo are proving the consequences of this strategy, but man is a short-sighted creature after all, as long as he can relieve a momentary emergency, even if he forms an alliance with the devil.

Song Yichang sighed in his heart, the world is really different from before. The notes of the Tang people, at most, are just a record of Khorasan, Tianzhu, Dayue Clan, and Kangju, and there are too many absurd places in them. And today's people are already talking about the terroir of Great Qin and Great Food Country, and it is quite credible.

This was naturally the unintentional intervention of the Mongols, who, at the cost of blood, reconnected the known civilizational world while expanding their territory. But there was so much blood and death that many bustling cities and highly developed civilizations were left obscure after the Mongol devastation and massacre.

Song Yichang didn't think of these things for the time being, what he thought of was that the territory of the Mongols was too vast, they conquered cities, destroyed enemy countries, fought for decades, although the soldiers and horses became stronger and stronger, but there were more and more enemies. Those distant Great Food Kingdoms, Rus' Principalities, and Goryeo Kingdoms will all become powerful allies of the Great Song Dynasty in the future. But just like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's strategy of wanting to connect with the Dayue clan, in order for foreign aid to play a role, first of all, the Great Song Dynasty must have the courage and elite soldiers to face the Mongols alone.

These are the things that Bai Yijie and Zheng Yunming have to consider.

He had to think about how to meet the Mongol Khan and set about his plan.

He was thinking about how to cross the Ninefold Janissaries to make contact with the Great Khan, when he suddenly heard three long beard sounds in the direction of Wan'an Palace in the southwest.

After a while, a young man who looked like a servant ran into the store and asked, "Which one is Mr. Song Yichang?" ”

Song Yichang raised his hand and said, "I am Song Yichang." ”

"The Great Khan is receiving envoys from all countries in the world who have come to make pilgrimages, and Mr. Hao Jing has sent me to Mr. Tongchuan to Wan'an Palace. Wait for the opportunity to be summoned by the Great Khan. ”