The cavalry brigade galloped on the school field, that is, after the fifteenth day of the first month, the northern land was still frozen and solid, and hundreds of horse hooves knocked on the ground with a rumbling sound, which was very imposing.

Kublai Khan sat on the horse on the platform of the military field and watched happily as the cavalry galloped. Through the gaps in the cavalry, several cocoon-like things could be seen on the ground. It was a thick piece of felt, and each one was wrapped in a Mongolian nobleman. They are all nobles of the Bo'er family, and they are also traitors who have always opposed Kublai Khan.

Not long ago, Hao Ren sent the traitors of the Ögedai Khanate and the Chagatai Khanate to Dadu. Even though he had already received the letter, Kublai Khan was still extremely surprised. The Mongolian nobles in Dadu commented on Hao Ren as 'very similar to the Han Chinese'. This is undoubtedly mocking Hao Ren's admiration for Han culture, and even more questioning Hao Ren is not a good hand at fighting.

In a year of the Western Expedition, the heads of the Ögedai Khanate and the Chagatai Khanate were captured and sent to the capital. This undoubtedly proves that this skepticism is not justified. If the leaders of these two khanates were really useless, they should have been wiped out in the previous crusades.

For nobles, Mongolia does not like to hack to death with knives too much. After all, he is a nobleman, and he still has to be a bit of a nobleman. Five steps of direct blood splattering are too rough. Therefore, the execution of nobles is usually done with poison or wrapped in felt and trampled to death by horses. Kublai Khan gave these sons and daughters the method of execution for their rebellion and being trampled to death by horses. Personally watching the execution fully released the resentment in Kublai Khan's heart.

At this moment, the crown prince Zhenjin, who was sitting next to Kublai Khan, said: "Father, I don't know when to summon Hao Ren Wanhu back?" ”

"Huh?" Kublai Khan turned his head to look at his son. His son Zhenjin also once led troops to crusade against the son of the attacking Helin. Now the sea was wrapped in felt, under the hooves of the cavalry in front of Kublai Khan.

"Father. Hao Renwanhu has made great contributions, and he should be allowed to return to Dadu to receive the reward. Jin Jin continued to tell his opinion.

"Humph!" Kublai Khan snorted coldly. This kind of careful thinking is too easy to understand, after Hao Ren led the Hebei soldiers to solve the two major khanates, if Hao Ren was allowed to stay there, it was possible to let him sit big. The best thing to do, naturally, is to transfer it back to Dadu. This was a political tactic of the Han people, and Zhenjin was considered the leader of the Han Confucian people.

"Are you jealous of Hao Ren?" Kublai Khan asked Zhenjin with an unkind expression.

Zhenjin's expression changed greatly, he didn't expect his father to say such a thing. Is Zhenjin jealous of his cousin Hao Ren, that is naturally there. However, Zhenjin himself felt that according to the Confucian philosophy, jealousy was malignant and should not be done. And the reason why Zhenjin put forward such a point of view is also to protect Hao Ren and Dayuan Sheji. To be so 'misunderstood' is simply a supreme insult.

Looking at his son's expression of being insulted and hurt, Kublai Khan was even more dissatisfied. Regarding the degree of sinicization of Hao Ren and Zhenjin, most of the Mongolian nobles in the capital generally believe that Hao Ren can actually be regarded as a Han Chinese. But Hao Ren does not have the hypocrisy of real gold. What if you are said to be jealous, admit it frankly, or just laugh and fool the past. As the crown prince, what is he afraid of? Are you afraid of gossip?

I wanted to teach my son a few words, but seeing that there were a lot of people around, Kublai Khan frowned and ordered: "You go down first, and when the horse team stops, you will check whether those people are really dead." ”

Waiting for Zhenjin to get off the stage with grievances, Kublai Khan asked Boyan next to him, "Boyan, what do you think will happen next?" ”

Boyan replied indifferently: "Prepare to meet the Song army." At the same time, the westward migration began. ”

"Alas......" Kublai Khan sighed. Kublai Khan really started operating in Dadu in 1256, and more than 20 years have passed since then. At that time, Zhao Jiaren, now Kublai Khan's sworn enemy, was just 16 years old and was serving as a county lieutenant in Linqing, Fujian. More than 20 years have passed, and both of them have become the supreme of the two countries, but in the war between the two, it seems that Zhao Jiaren has the upper hand.

Looking down from the stage, I saw the figure of the prince Zhenjin appearing in the audience, no matter how you look at it, there is no domineering that has to be noticed. Kublai Khan's heart was unhappy again. Zhenjin was only three years younger than Zhao Jiaren, and Kublai Khan did not dare to expect Zhenjin to be comparable to the Emperor of the Song Kingdom. If your descendants are so virtuous, what will happen to the future of Mongolia?

Boyan continued to say indifferently: "Great Khan. The matter of moving west should be fast, and what to bring and what not to bring needs to be decided as soon as possible. ”

Kublai Khan knew that what Boyan said was very right, and the reminder was very timely, but he still immediately felt a kind of disgust in his heart. He didn't look away, he didn't want Boyan to see this disgusted expression. Because Kublai Khan knew very well that this disgust was actually more directed at Kublai Khan himself. Less than a decade ago, Mongolia was still in absolute superiority over the Song state. In less than a decade, the situation has been completely different.

Finally suppressed his dissatisfaction, Kublai Khan turned his head and asked Boyan, "Let you deal with the Song army, how long can you resist?" ”

"If it is 100,000 Song troops, it can resist for two months." Boyan's tone was indifferent, "If it's 300,000 Song troops, twenty days." ”

Although he didn't know how Boyan made his judgment, Kublai Khan still responded: "It's up to you." Also, what do you think of Hao Ren. ”

So he let him stay in the local area. Hao Ren never liked to be a Mongolian prince. Boyan's answer was very simple.

Although he was in a low mood at this time, Kublai Khan was still amused by these words, and couldn't help but laugh twice. Boyan often makes people feel humorous, although he himself does not necessarily mean to make people happy. As this is the case, many people will worry that Hao Ren will stand on his own feet in the grassland, and these people will also think that Hao Ren is almost a Han man.

Obviously, Boyan does not have such an inconsistent view. He also thought that Hao Ren was a Han Chinese, and because of this view, Boyan felt that Hao Ren had no interest in standing on his own feet in the grassland. Claiming to be king in the steppe is a hobby of the Mongols, not of the Han people.

If there were no real gold Fangcai's words, Boyan's words would be a simple statement. With the words of real gold Fangcai, Boyan's words made Kublai Khan have to laugh.

By this time, the horse team had galloped out of the circle, leaving only a few cocoon-like things in the middle of the school field. When Kublai Khan looked down, he saw that Zhenjin led people to check whether a few nobles from the family had died. Looking at his son's somewhat nervous figure, Kublai Khan felt a wave of anger in his heart.

More than 20 years ago, Zhao Jiaren was only 19 years old. At that time, Kublai Khan and Zhao Jiaren fought in Ezhou, and the Mongols suffered more than 10,000 casualties. Zhao Jiaren was already murderous at a young age, and his son would be nervous when he looked at a dead person. It's really funny!

At this moment, Wang Donglu, the chief of the guard, led someone over. When the man saw Kublai Khan, he immediately knelt down and put his hands on the paperwork. Kublai Khan took it and looked at it, and his originally thin eyes were even more thin into a thin line. He turned his head to look at Boyan and said with a straight face: "The Song army is storming Zhigu Village. ”

Boyan didn't say anything after hearing this. He had already estimated when the Song army would attack, and estimated that it should be April, but he didn't expect the Song army to start so early.

At this time, Zheng Jie, the former chief of staff of the Song Army and the current commander of the Shandong Theater, was sitting in the headquarters in the city. The troops began to land in the early hours of yesterday morning, and by the evening all fighting was over. Now the siege warfare of the Song army has already had a lot of routines, and Zhigu Village is not a big city. Outside the city, some high platforms were built, and the musketeers suppressed the high platforms, and the infantry attacked the city with long ladders. It's as simple as that.

The only question was what to do with the prisoners in the city. As a trade port designated by the Mongol Great Khan and the Great Song Dynasty, Zhigu Village has a large population in the city. The thunderous attacks of the Song army did not leave them a chance to escape.

Although Zheng Jie wanted to screen and purge immediately, it was more important to launch an attack on Dadu at this time. The Song army is not a Mongol army, and letting the Song army engage in indiscriminate massacres will greatly hurt morale.

"The troops haven't come down yet?" Zheng Jie asked the chief of staff. The chief of staff shook his head helplessly, this time a total of five divisions came. The first batch consisted of two divisions and 20,000 men. As a result, the first batch of 3,000 people who landed had already conquered Zhigu Village for a whole day, and 20,000 people had not all been able to get off the ship.

"How can it be so slow!" Zheng Jie couldn't help but complain. In fact, he also knew that he shouldn't complain, but he couldn't help it. One of the things that has changed in the Great Song Dynasty is that the concept of the port is very different. In the past, the harbor was all in the shallows, and it was easy for the small boats to land on the shallows at low tide. When the tide is high, the small boat that lands can return to the sea and back to the big ship in the ocean.

Zhigu Village is such a place. However, in the current Great Song Dynasty, the concept of the port changed, and the port was located in the deep water area, and the wharf had to be built far into the water. In this way, the big ship can be parked directly next to the dock, the personnel can get on and off the ship through the gangplank, and the cargo can be loaded and unloaded using the crane on the dock. The overall efficiency has increased several times.

The two divisions that followed Zheng Jie to attack Zhigu Village both boarded ships in Haizhou, and with this model, the two divisions only took one morning to complete boarding. It's been two days now, and the two divisions have not all been able to get off the ship.

The chief of staff knew that there were some things that he could not remember, and that a large ship could not be stranded on the shore at low tide like a small boat. Because of the heavy weight of large ships, once they run aground, their own weight will crush the ship. Now there is no other way than to log in and wait according to the old model.

"Commander, are we going to let the Red Turban Army hurry up and go north? Don't care so much, pounce on Cangzhou. We also sent men to meet them. "The chief of staff came up with a set of plans.

"Without a telegraph, there is no effective command." Zheng Jie, former chief of staff of the Ministry of War, sighed. When they were in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, the dispatch of the Song army was very convenient, thousands of miles apart, and the intelligence communication was only two or three days. Thousands of miles away, a skilled telegraph operator could even make a communication within an hour.

On the battlefield, an hour is often just the time it takes for a battalion-sized unit to complete a move.

But it has to be a country with very complete infrastructure like the Great Song Dynasty, and in Hebei, thousands of miles away is another world.

Without waiting for the chief of staff to speak, Zheng Jie, the former chief of the general staff, said: "I'll wait and prepare to storm Dadu." Once we reach the capital, our 30,000 men will definitely be able to break through the city walls. ”

The Chief of Staff agreed with this. The Great Song Dynasty has the ability to break through any city wall. Not to mention 30,000 people, even if there are only 20,000 people, or even only 10,000 people, the Song army is sure to break through any city wall. So the chief of staff asked: "Commander, what next?" ”

"Let them unload the straw rope first, and the troops will start building the station." Zheng Jie replied. Speaking of this, Zheng Jie suddenly frowned, and he smiled: "Those captives can't let them be idle. Let the captives also help the repair station. It just saved us a lot of troops. ”

Upon learning that the Song army was attacking Zhigu Village, the Mongol Khan Kublai Khan immediately handed over the defense work to the Marshal Boyan, and he himself began to prepare for the westward migration. Sending Hao Ren to the west was a prelude to the westward migration. It's just that Kublai Khan didn't expect Hao Ren to be so able to fight, and it took a year to solve the major enemy on the way west. Now is the time to concentrate on moving west.

Marshal Boyan was also happy to get rid of trouble. After he took over the responsibility of defense, he did not immediately send rescue troops, but sent a large number of reconnaissance cavalry. This decision was very correct, and the news that Zhigu Village did not hold it soon came. If you rush to send reinforcements, it will be like a discouraged tiger.

Next, the news about the Zhigu Village came continuously. Like the Battle of the Yellow River, the Song army began to build military stations.

In the Battle of the Yellow River, the Song army built a military station every thirty miles. This kind of military station took on a checkered shape, allowing the Song army to travel between the military stations at will. Determined that the Song army would continue to adopt the old model, Marshal Boyan ordered close surveillance, and at the same time ordered the people between Zhigu Village and Dadu to be relocated to Dadu.

This order was given in Mongolian, which means yurt, easy to move. The Great Khan or the tribal leader ordered the gathering, and everyone dismantled the yurt, put it in the Mongolian cart and left. What used to be a place where yurts were gathered turned into an empty no-man's land in the blink of an eye.

When the Mongol cavalry carried out such an order, they found that the Han Chinese villages would not be moved so easily. For the Han villages that were unwilling to relocate, the Mongol cavalry could only slash and kill them village by village, and after killing, they threw the corpses into wells and rivers to pollute the water with all their might. Then evacuate the village.

Seeing the corpses coming down from the upstream, Song Jun, who originally wanted to draw water from the river, was disgusted. The news was quickly sent to Zheng Jie, and everyone in the headquarters had encountered such a situation for the first time, and it seemed that there was no other way than to scold loudly.

The Song army was either beaten by the Mongol army before, or fought in the field with the Mongol army. This kind of experience in penetrating into the core of Mongol domination is basically nil. They really didn't have anything else to do but scold loudly. No one expected war to be so disgusting.