Preparation for the Western Expedition
Ying Chunzhi was overjoyed, on the one hand, he ordered Shen Duo and Gao Zhongjiao to gather loyal militia, cross the Huai River, and attack Haizhou on the East Road of Jinguo. Due to the lack of food aid, the troops were temporarily stationed in Donghai County, less than 10 kilometers east of Haizhou. On the other hand, the secret report to the imperial court: the Central Plains can be restored. In view of the Kaixi incident, Shi Miyuan ordered Chunzhi to operate in secret. The righteous army that returned to obedience was unified into a loyal army, and the loyal and righteous food were given. So tens of thousands of people such as Ma Liang, Gao Lin, and Song Dezhen in the East China Sea came to the Lianshui army on the north bank of the Huai River to return to Shun.
The most important: Among them, there is a big man who also has his heart to the Southern Song Dynasty at this time: Li Quan!
At the beginning of the Red Jacket Army uprising, Li Quan was not a very dazzling character. After the curtain call of the first wave of protagonists, he suddenly rose and quickly appeared on the stage of history!
That was the last handsome man of the Jin Kingdom, after the unjustly killed servant San Anzhen who was unjustly killed in the war of 'lost in the north and gained in the south' led the Flower Hat Army to suppress Yang An'er, Liu Erzu, and Hao Ding... The first generation of leaders was slaughtered, and the remaining second generation leaders began to fend for themselves!
Since the uprising, the purpose of the Red Jacket Army has been to resist gold! At this time, it was exterminated by the Flower Hat Army, and the hatred escalated! In order to survive and take revenge, they decided to defect to the Song Dynasty and become the Song Dynasty to resist Jin!
On August 21, Jin Guozuo's servant Sanyifu played: As the new capital, Kaifeng Mansion should be given a good name, and build yƬ to promote Weishi County in the south of Kaifeng to Thorn County, Suizhou in the east to defense, and Zhengzhou in the west and Yanzhou in the north can shield the capital Kaifeng in the east, west, north and south directions. Jin Xuanzong said, "Zongmiao, mountains and mausoleums are all in the fallen central capital, and Kaifeng is not the place where I have lived for a long time".
Now look at the process: the Mongolian army will not hesitate to take advantage of the victory to pursue, enter Kaifeng, and let the tragic situation of Jingkang in the Northern Song Dynasty reappear? This is the best option, and it is also in line with the example of the Mongol army, who never give the enemy a chance to breathe! But the strange thing is: the Mongols suddenly slowed down their attack!
This month, Genghis Khan led almost all the Mongolian elite soldiers back to the Mobei steppe, and before leaving, he handed over the Central Plains to Mu Huali, the Mongolian god of war and one of the four masters, and named him the prince and king. He undertook to act, gave him a golden seal of oath, left the ten armies such as Hongji Ra and the armies of the Fan and Han dynasties to Mu Huali, allowed him to establish a province in Yanyun, and told him that "the north of Taihang, I am from the strategy." To the south of Taihang, Qing and Mianzhi "is equivalent to splitting the soil and sealing the king, and giving the Central Plains of Guangbao to a different surname!"
Mu Huali is an alternative among the Mongolian soldiers! He doesn't seem to be a native of the Mobei steppe, and he is not rude. Even Genghis Khan cursed and spat with contempt when dealing with his enemies, but he wouldn't! He is gentle and delicate, quiet and rational. It seems that he secretly walked out of the grassland and entered the Han region to study in Han very early? Even his tactics are clearly layered, with a strategy that is completely different from the field warfare of the nomads in the northern cold zone. So the god of war was finally entrusted by Genghis Khan at this time, and he was solely responsible for the governance of this super-large area of land in the Central Plains!
Such special, but his background is only a slave!
If the rise of the Mongols is due to an unborn genius like Temujin, then Muhuali is not inferior! Like a miracle, the illiterate cypriot aristocrats, the illiterate slave genius generals, these are all inexplicable! But it really existed, so much so that it changed the history of mankind!
The figure of the Mongolian god of war Mu Huali shrouded the entire Central Plains!
But you can stand in the position of Genghis Khan. What is this? Is it because the nomads in the cold zone of Mobei have never seen the world and are easy to satisfy? Or is the hatred soaked in enough blood that the Mongols no longer want to destroy the Jurchens? Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain that Genghis Khan took the vast majority of his troops and left the good situation to the wisest generals. But this god of war has only 15,000 Mongolian warriors! In this way, the Jin Kingdom will not only have a chance to breathe, but also be more likely to counterattack and return to the north bank of the Yellow River!
At great risk. Of course, it's more dangerous! Genghis Khan's only possibility was that the emerging Mongol Empire faced a more powerful and dangerous adversary than the Jin state, Khorezm!
Thanks to the blessing of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", we know that Genghis Khan once conquered this country in the west, and Guo Jing leaped down from the top of the cliff. Capture its capital, Samarhan...
The real Khorezm in history is great, and its origin, survival, and growth are a magnificent epic in the long history of mankind, and it is no worse than other races!
Khorezm country, the old translation returned to China, and the fire sought the country. It is located in the lower reaches of the Amu Darya River, the mother river of Central Asia, and on the south bank of the Aral Sea. Before the Mongols arose, it also lived with the tide, and after the rise of Temujin, the country appeared almost simultaneously with a great man - Mokomat!
The ancestors of Mokomat lost their catties. Hartsa was a slave of the Seljuk Turkic Empire. The starting point is so low, and if you want to develop, you can only rely on hard work. Lost pounds. Harcha struggled all his life, and left a good background to his son before he died. Muhammad was appointed governor of Khorezm and took the title of "sand"... By the time Mokomo came to power, the Khorezm region had become a country. However, at that time, the kingdom of Khorezm had many competitors of the same rank, and a suzerain. We were very familiar with this country, which was the Western Liao founded by the outstanding Khitan figure Yelu Dashi! Khorezm is a vassal state of Western Liao!
Mokemo ascended the throne, first defeated the Gur Dynasty, and his power soared, and then challenged the Western Liao, and jointly divided the Western Liao with Qu Zhulu. What Mokomo got was the Siman, the middle of the Amu Darya River. Subsequently, Mokomat moved his capital to the city of Samarhan. Then he destroyed the Gul Khanate, possessed the whole territory of Goshenin, and then attacked the caliphate of Baoda (present-day Baghdad). During the whole process, he was only frustrated by the heavy snowstorm of Mount Asadamat and had to retreat...
By the time Temujin unified the Mongols, attacked the Jin Kingdom, and captured the central capital, Mokomat had already owned the entire Persia, Iraq, Khorasan, Afghanistan, and the Transoxiana region, becoming a superpower dominating Central Asia!
Looking at the above, Mokomo's achievements and development speed are no less than Genghis Khan! Both are at opposite ends of Asia! In all fairness: if the Mongol Empire was the strongest in East Asia, then the strongest in Central Asia and even West Asia must be Khorezm!
Compared with the Mongol Empire, which arose in the cold region, Mokomat's Khorezm was actually ahead of the curve in terms of civilization, especially in terms of communication with the outside world...
Khorezm took the initiative to reach out to Mongolia. In 1215, when Genghis Khan captured the central capital, an envoy from Khorezm came to his door. These envoys saw with their own eyes the middle capital city where the corpses were piled up like mountains and rivers of blood, and when they saw the withered and uninhabited Central Plains for thousands of miles, they immediately respected Genghis Khan! I feel that it is a kind of existence that can be socialized.
And the desire that they have always had in their hearts, but they never dared to do it, let alone say it, was also stopped!
Before them. The Central Asians never dared to invade Han China. Even though Mokomo is extraordinary, it has not fluttered to this point. So, his messenger made a real wish - trade!
Trade with the East Asian powers is the greatest wish of every Central Asian country! That would lead to great and lasting wealth! At that time, everyone knew that the handicrafts produced in East Asia, to be precise, the Central Plains and Han were unparalleled in the world!
Genghis Khan also had this intention, and the Mongol Empire was also full of lust for possessions! He treated the messengers of Khorezm well and ordered them to bring their decisions with them. Mongolia recognized Khorezm as the ruler of the West, just as he himself was the ruler of the East. The two sides are on an equal footing, peaceful and friendly... Next, Genghis Khan is about to send his first Mongol envoys! And it's on this group of messengers. The collision of two of the most powerful empires of the time, the fuse of the unprecedented Mongol expedition to the west in human history, will be ignited!
This month, Mu Huali captured Suizhou on Zhongdu Road and Lizhou on Hebei East Road. Because of Lizhou's surrender, Mu Huali, who was enraged, prepared to slaughter the city. At this time, a hundred household officers named Zhao Jin came to him and cried, "I am from Lizhou, and my mother and brother are in this city." I am willing to redeem the life of a city with my own life" Mu Huali obeyed the advice and no longer slaughtered the city.
On September 17, the Mongol army attacked Xizhou on the southeast road of the Jinguo River and Fenxi County in Pingyang Prefecture. On the 19th, they attacked Qinzhou. 23rd. Attack Jiaocheng County and Qingyuan County, the capital of Taiyuan Prefecture on the Northeast Road of Jinguo River, and enter Taiyuan Prefecture. On October 11, he attacked Dingzhou Zhongshan Mansion and Xinle County on Hebei West Road, and then captured Cizhou.
18th. The right secretary of the Jin State and the servant of the imperial history Xu Gu Shangshu, opposed the southern expedition "In the past, the longs of Shizong and Zhangzong, the treasury was full, and the world was rich." Still not working. Today, once I march south, I will not be able to fight, I will not be able to retreat, and I will be in a period of truce. Not visible also. In addition, he has Jiangnan accumulation, and I stop all the way to Henan, and the disadvantages of conscription can be chilling. Today should be speeded and. When Mongolia hears it, it will also collect traces, so I have no constraints, so it is also "Jin Zhangzong ordered the ministers to discuss." Shangshu Zuo Cheng Gao Ruli believes that it is necessary to let the Southern Song Dynasty seek peace first, so that we can accept it when we see it. Zhang Xingxin, the governor of the government, proceeded from the people's foundation and vigorously opposed this southern expedition.
Xu Gu was ordered by Jin Xuanzong to draft a proposal and a text. But today's power is in the hands of the Shuhu Gao Qi. After reading it, Shuhu Quanchen thought that this article had the meaning of mourning and praying, and he showed weakness. So the peace negotiations could not be carried out, the two countries of Jin and Song, continue to fight...
On the 27th, the Mongol soldiers captured the three counties of Zouping, Changshan, and Zichuan in Zizhou, East Road, Jinguo. On November 12, Binzhou, Dizhou, and Bozhou on Shandong East Road were captured. On the 15th, Zizhou was captured. On the 16th, Yizhou on the East Shandong Road was captured. On the 24th, he attacked Taiyuan Province. On December 1, attacking Luzhou on the South Road of Hedong, Dutong Mafu was killed in battle. On the 7th, it captured Yidu Mansion, the capital of Shandong East Road. On the 18th, Mizhou on the East Shandong Road was captured, and Jiedu made Wanyanyu die in battle.
On the 5th, due to the war between the Jin and Song dynasties, in order to raise military rations, the Southern Song Dynasty issued an edict: the people can accept Su to supplement the officials.
This month, Xu Ding, the political affairs of Jin Guopingzhang, sent an edict to invade the south in Sichuan and Shaanxi in three ways: Fengxiang Mansion, Qinzhou, and Gongzhou. But at the same time as he set out, he still wrote the book 'Six Can't Do the Southern Expedition Now' to persuade the emperor to give up this senseless war. On the 20th, Wanyan Yun led 10,000 cavalry to invade Sichuan. On the 25th, they entered the Huchi Fort in Xihe Prefecture. On the 26th, the Tianshui Army was captured, and Huang Yansun, the defender of the Southern Song Dynasty, fled. The Jin army continued to capture the White Ring Fort. On the 27th, entering the cattle fort in Fengzhou, Liu Xiong, the guard of Dasan Pass, saw that the back road was copied by the Jin army, and hurriedly abandoned Dasan Pass and fled.
This month, after receiving military pay and materials from the Southern Song Dynasty, Li Quan's team grew rapidly, and in a short period of time, he and his brother Li Fu seized the sea and Ju Zhuzhou on the East Shandong Road and the capital of the East Shandong Road, Qingzhou Yidu Mansion.
This year, Jin Guo Yanzhou Thorn Shi Wen Sak Xi played, "You can do another major diversion of the Yellow River in the west of Xinxiang County, Weizhou, Hebei West Road!" Let the Yellow River no longer take the road of the Huai River, but take the old road from the Liukou of Cheongju to the sea. In this way, Shandong, Daimyo and other roads can be zoned to the territory of Henan. In this way, there is a natural danger of the Yellow River as a barrier to resist the Mongol cavalry, and the retreat is enough to prepare for the defense, and the advance is enough to magnify the map" However, everyone thinks that the Yellow River has been diverted to the south for a long time, and now it is not a good idea to make another major diversion to change it back to its old course...
Genghis Khan does not underestimate any opponent, let alone Khorezm, the number one power in the West! He gave an order: Recruit elite soldiers in the Mongolian tribes and follow him to the west! At the same time, he conscripted troops from Wu'er, Haralu, and Western Xia...
The first two agreed, and they were very conscious of being a little brother. (To be continued......)