Chapter 63: The Road to Unification
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This war did not last long, from the beginning of the army to the defeat of the White Night Army, only a dozen days. Counting the time when the two sides really fought each other, it was only a few days.
But in the past three or five days, the Southern Song Dynasty army was completely annihilated, Yang Yuanhong's army was lost by more than half, and both forces suffered serious blows, so they had to retreat.
What happened in the past ten days was not only these, the Mongolian army took advantage of the defeat of Yang Yuanhong and the Southern Song Dynasty, and attacked quickly, and the Mongolian cavalry of the brigade almost wreaked havoc on the territory of Yang Yuanhong and Li Xuxia in a lightning way.
The sudden Mongol attack caught several members of the anti-Mongolian alliance by surprise, and they could not believe that the two sides had only ceased fighting at the end of last year, and Mongolia had resumed the war.
The house happened to rain overnight, and the ship was late and encountered a head wind; The passing year is unfavorable, and there are many disasters and difficulties; It is a phrase used to describe the beginning of Yang Yuanhong's 1270 years.
Due to the lack of foreknowledge, people set their sights on attacking Bai Ye, and inadvertently, they were greatly taken advantage of by the Mongols.
Li Xuxia's army had no casualties, but he gathered a large army on the border of Baiye, and the defense in other places was empty, so the Mongol army took advantage of this gap to attack and occupy a large area.
He had to be busy leading the army to drive out the invading Mongol army, and the two sides fought to the death in the land of the former Western Xia, and people's brains were almost beaten into dog brains.
Yang Yuanhong made matters worse, the war with Bai Ye was no longer effective, and he was attacked by the Mongolian army in the backyard, he didn't care so much, and he wanted to turn the horse around and save the fire in the backyard.
Yang Yuanhong retreated and turned around, but Bai Ye didn't do much to stop it, which was unexpected by the Mongolian side, and in their minds, Bai Ye should take the opportunity to drag Yang Yuanhong back.
However, Bai Ye generously sent Yang Yuanhong back, and made a deal with him casually, and even released all the captured prisoners.
This action made the strategists under Yang Yuanhong a little confused, and they couldn't understand what this meant, especially the batch of weapons in the sale, even if it was not the active equipment of the White Night Army, it was very good.
Yang Yuanhong went back in a daze, and Bai Ye started a new step, he sent an envoy to the Southern Song Dynasty to negotiate with the Song court's gang, not to negotiate peace, but to let the Southern Song Dynasty bring back the prisoners of war.
These captives were all Han Chinese, and it was not good to treat them like Mongol captives in the white night, and let them do some light work every day, and then give them food regularly. More than 20,000 people ate and drank in his territory every day, and they could not be forced to stay to increase the population, and they were wasted in food, so Bai Ye had to let them go.
After the defeat, they missed their families day and night, and their homesickness was very serious.
Considering that the Southern Song Dynasty was rich, and very rich, Bai Ye decided to let the Southern Song Dynasty ransom these captives.
The Southern Song Dynasty court listened to the request of the White Night Messenger, and was silent, they didn't want to pay the money, and they had to pay the money.
It is about prestige among the people, about tens of thousands of families, about the lives of more than 20,000 people. Even the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty did not dare to disregard the lives of tens of thousands of people.
They knew that this was Bai Ye's naked blackmail, but they could only pinch their noses and accept it. None of them gave the White Night Messenger a good look, and sent one to pick up the soldiers, and at the same time deliver the silver taels.
The price of selling prisoners in the white night was not expensive, ordinary soldiers were ten taels of silver, and the officers were bought and sold in grads, and the highest officer, the white night was sold for ten thousand taels of silver. In this way, it makes the Southern Song Dynasty feel painful, although they are rich, it does not mean that they like to be blackmailed.
There was no way, pinching his nose and admitting it, the Southern Song Dynasty paid a total of more than 300,000 taels of silver and successfully took all the soldiers back, and their move won the cheers of the people of the Southern Song Dynasty, but it only made the world in an uproar.
The flames of war were ignited from here in the White Night, and then spread rapidly, and strangely enough, the whole land was at war everywhere except for the White Night forces.
Tubo broke his trust, turned his face and tore up the peace treaty with the Southern Song Dynasty, and once again waved his army into the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty. This time, they were determined to tear off a piece of meat from the Southern Song Dynasty.
They had been attacking Dali's army, completely destroying Dali, and the land of Dali became part of Tibet. The king of Tubo left 20,000 Tubo soldiers in Dali to suppress it, and the rest of the troops divided their troops to attack the Southern Song Dynasty from two directions.
The Southern Song Dynasty wanted to scold her mother, since the establishment of the anti-Mongolian alliance, the boss did not act like a decent, but fought for many years, the border was always on fire, and the expenditure on military spending in a year far exceeded that of previous years.
Bai Ye was very happy at this time, building a seaport in Haizhou on the one hand, and sending envoys to various ministries on the other. After he fought with the Southern Song Dynasty and Yang Yuanhong, his sharp firearms were known all over the world, and he sent envoys to sell weapons.
The sale of weapons was surprisingly smooth, not only to the anti-Mongolian alliance forces, but also to Mongolia and Tibet.
Over the years, several forces have been secretly imitating the weapons of the White Night, but the progress is not high, and the quality of the muskets and artillery created is too poor, and it is either easy to explode or easy to mute.
Now the white night is sent to the door, and the idea is that if you don't buy it, you will fall behind, and if you fall behind, you can't beat others. So although the price of these weapons is not cheap, several forces can only swallow this bitter fruit silently.
Whenever these leaders saw the high cost of weapons, they always had a headache, and secretly made up their minds that they must develop their own muskets.
In addition to muskets and artillery, the Mongol Empire also had the legendary Huihui Cannon, a kind of trebuchet, which is said to have been specially brought back from the Persian side in order to wipe out the power of the land.
These trebuchets were powerful and had a long range, about the same distance as the guns of the White Night, but they were not very strong, and they could be destroyed by artillery bombardment, even with solid iron bullets.
The war became more and more tragic with the new equipment of weapons, and the Southern Song Dynasty was the richest and equipped with the most White Night Arms, and they fought with Tubo, and even won a small victory this time, suppressing Tubo.
Tubo had no money, and there were too few weapons to exchange cattle and sheep for Bai Ye, and in front of the Southern Song army equipped with simple guidance and bullets and bullets provided by Bai Ye, they were actually repulsed.
The Mongols and Li Xuxia and Yang Yuanhong tore each other in the north, and the restorers of the Jin Kingdom and the Western Liao also stabbed the Mongols in the back and bleed the Mongols.
I have to admit that when the Mongol Empire was still strong, it carried many forces on its own, and did not fall behind, and this empire was indeed the country that occupied the largest land area across Europe and Asia.
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As the years passed, the war did not stop, but became more tragic.
In two years, they dragged down the restored Jin and Western Liao, and they were once again wiped out by the Mongols. Only this time the Mongols did it very ruthlessly, bloodily slaughtering fifteen cities, killing rivers of blood, and the land was red.
Li Xuxia and Yang Yuanhong, who were fighting against the Mongols, were still holding on, and the Mongol Empire was also in decline until now, and they were not the rising sun after all, but the afternoon sun that was slowly setting.
Although the tiger is dead, the remnants are still there, Mongolia is aging, Yang Yuanhong and Li Xuxia are not comfortable, most of their territory has been captured by Mongolia, and each other has reached the last moment, whoever can eat each other can produce a new transformation.
The Southern Song Dynasty has repelled the Tubo army in the territory, and they sent troops to Dali, under the banner of recovering the country for the Duan family, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that the army of the Southern Song Dynasty wants to occupy Dali.
The Southern Song Dynasty has changed the most in the past two years, and it has become unexpected for Bai Ye, the old emperor died of illness, Jia Rudao was assassinated, and a new generation of Southern Song Dynasty emperors ascended the throne.
The new emperor is a very strong figure, as soon as he comes to power and gathers power, he punishes those who dare to disobey in the court, showing his extremely domineering side. On the other hand, he was very close to the people, encouraged industry and commerce, developed agriculture, and made all the government decree reforms, so that the decaying dead wood of the Southern Song Dynasty exuded amazing vitality.
If it weren't for Bai Ye's careful investigation of the new emperor, he would have thought that this guy was a traverser. According to the investigation, he is a native of the country, there is nothing special strange about him when he is young, he has not been struck by lightning, he has not been seriously ill, he has not been flooded, his life is ordinary, and he is no different from a teenager who grew up in the royal family.
The new emperor brought the Southern Song Dynasty back to life, but it was too late, the power of the White Night was about to become great, and even if he was a traverser, he would not be able to shake the panic.
And what is the general trend?
Today, the power of the white night represents the wheel of the times, and the times move forward, and the wheels are unstoppable.
Two years have passed, this year is 1272, and several batches of junior high school and high school students have graduated, and Bai Ye's strength has grown rapidly.
The summer is hot, the grass is green and the leaves are everywhere, and in this season, Bai Ye received Yang Yuanhong's request for help. He opened the letter and looked at it, he couldn't help but smile, and threw the letter away, he didn't care about the benefits promised on it, he didn't need to send the beauty treasure.
He got up and looked at the blue sky, and this time it was time to really start the road to unification.