Chapter 11: The Battle of National Fortunes

At the banquet that night, the masters recruited by Wanyan Honglie fought with Zuo Xiaoyou one by one, but without exception, all of them were subdued by Zuo Xiaoyou with super martial arts, which established the status of the first master of Zhao Wangfu in one fell swoop. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In the months that followed, Zuo Xiaoyou inadvertently showed some of his unique views on governing the country and the military, which made Wanyan Honglie suddenly open his mouth and pay more and more attention to it.

"Since Temujin unified the steppe tribes and made great efforts, Mongolia has become stronger and stronger, and this kind of strength is not a good thing for the Jin State, the prince must take precautions and eradicate it as soon as possible, otherwise after a few years, Mongolia will become stronger and more prosperous than at this time, not to mention eradicating it, it will be difficult to gain an advantage even if it is opposed to it."

After Yan Honglie returned to the palace of King Zhao on this day, he had been worried, and then called Zuo Xiaoyou to talk about the Mongolian threat to the Jin State. The current emperor of the Jin State doesn't seem to care much about Mongolia, but as a hero of the world, Wanyan Honglie sees the threat of Mongolia to the Jin State, but he can't make up his mind himself, and he doesn't have enough reasons to convince the current emperor, so he wants to hear Zuo Xiaoyou's thoughts, and Zuo Xiaoyou did give his own thoughts: Mongolia must not stay.

Great minds think alike.

Seeing that Zuo Xiaoyou was similar to what he thought, Wan Yan Honglie was happy in his heart, and hurriedly asked, "Why did Mr. Zuo teach me?" ”

Since showing enough martial arts and talents, Wanyan Honglie's title to Zuo Xiaoyou has become 'Mr. Zuo'. Zuo Xiaoyou's age is not yet eighteen years old, but Wanyan Honglie completely forgot his age and called him Mr., which can see Wanyan Honglie's personality charm. It's no wonder that so many masters are willing to work for him, and it's no wonder that Yang Kang will 'recognize the thief as his father'.

Giving up all positions, in this era, Wanyan Honglie is definitely one of the best leaders, talented outside, gentle and delicate inside, for a woman who doesn't love herself, and a son who is not her own flesh and blood, can you do that, ask yourself, if you put yourself in your shoes, can you do this?

Presumably, more than 90% of people will say: can't do it!

In the past few months of getting along, Zuo Xiaoyou has also become more and more aware that Wanyan Honglie is a good monarch, if he can become the emperor of the Jin State, if he can defeat the Mongols, if he can merge the Southern Song Dynasty, wouldn't it be good?

As long as he didn't treat the Han people as the lowest two-legged sheep like the Mongols, wouldn't it be better?

Zuo Xiaoyou thought about it for a few months, and finally could only shake his head and sigh. Because there is already a good example in history, and that is the Qing Dynasty. During the Qing Dynasty, the children of the Eight Banners were high, and the Han people were low-level slaves, and even when the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded, Lafayette also paid all kinds of land indemnities, and he was not distressed at all, and carried forward the spirit of 'rather giving to friends than domestic slaves'.

History has proved that the land of China, which was ruled by foreign races, was definitely an era full of darkness, and those who advocated the prosperity of the Kangqian era were only because there were no great powers running over to eat your meat in that historical period, so that you could have a period of peaceful development for decades, and once the great powers wanted to eat meat, you would completely appear in its original form.

As an ordinary person, which dynasty is the favorite and the most mentioned? There are basically two: strong men and prosperous Tang Dynasty.

In China, excluding ethnic minorities, ordinary people call themselves 'Han people, Han people', while in Chinese settlements abroad, they are called 'Chinatowns'.

These are also the two most powerful dynasties in Chinese history. As for the Yuan Dynasty, which had the largest territory, and the Qing Dynasty, which was the second largest in terms of territory, they were both established during the period of extremely aggressive foreign rule. Although the territory is indeed very vast, the ordinary Han people have a difficult time to survive, and the dynasty is precarious, and such a dynasty is definitely not what ordinary people expect.

The common people always pay attention to the things that are closely related to their lives, clothing, food, housing and transportation, which is the most basic guarantee, and these are things that the Yuan Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty could not bring to the Han people.

Some people may retort, how good the Qing Dynasty was! The Qing Dynasty had the largest population, reaching 400 million.

But Zuo Xiaoyou wants to say: If there were high-yield crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes in the Han and Tang dynasties, the population of China would have exceeded 100 million or 1 billion long ago. In the past, the population was small, except for the reduction of the war, because of the lack of crops with super high yields, and potatoes, sweet potatoes and other things were introduced in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, and then the Ming Dynasty was wiped out by the Manchu Qing Dynasty and enjoyed its success.

However, the emergence of the Yuan Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty was still beneficial, at least it made the Han people realize what it was like to be ruled by foreign peoples, so there was a desperate resistance after the Japanese invasion. According to the actual situation, once China was occupied by Japan during World War II, the outcome was basically the same as that of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

There are also many people who will say how good Japan's development has been after the war! I also want to be Japanese.

But you must know that the good thing about Japan's development is the economy, and the military power is completely controlled by the American father, and once the Japanese economy reaches a certain number, it will be sheared by the United States. Don't you see the Plaza Agreement, which brought Japan back to before liberation overnight!

Since then, the Japanese economy has fallen into economic stagnation for more than two decades, which the Japanese themselves call the lost two decades.

And the story of Japan once again tells us that there is only an economy, but there is no corresponding military force to protect itself, and the end is to be sheared. But Japan is okay, at least Japan is still there, but the Song Dynasty was so economically developed, but because of the lack of military protection, it was finally destroyed by the Mongols. There are even Japanese people who take the opportunity to 'go to history', saying that 'there is no China after Yashan', and later the fall of the Ming Dynasty was also 'gone to its history', saying that 'there is no China after the death of the Ming Dynasty'.

However, many Chinese believe the Japanese nonsense and engage themselves, but an upright Chinese suspects that he is not a thing. Hateful and ridiculous.

Therefore, a strong country, both economically and militarily, must grasp both hands, and both hands must be hard, otherwise the end will be very miserable.

The reason why New China has been able to develop from a poor and backward country to a top power in the world in just a few decades is that even the Yankees are wailing: China cannot be allowed to continue to develop, and we must contain it, otherwise we will all be doomed.

What is the reason? It's because we have thousands of years of history to draw on, and these are things that all other countries in the world don't have. And this is just the beginning, there are more wonderful things waiting for the upright Chinese to witness in the future.

Because of the experience of foreign rule, even if Zuo Xiaoyou admired Yan Honglie's personality charm, he still would not help the Jin State to annex the Southern Song Dynasty. It's just that it's not realistic to ask the Southern Song Dynasty to annex the Jin Kingdom, so Zuo Xiaoyou only thinks about the task requirements. Don't let Mongolia become strong, it is enough to destroy civilization by barbarism. It's not that hard to do.

"Gather the army, hide all the masters in the prince's mansion in the army, and when you get close to Temujin and his minions......" Zuo Xiaoyou made a downward chopping motion: "Behead it!" After a pause: "Then Mongolia will be chaotic, and then the prince only needs to support a group of Mongolian tribes and hedge with other tribes, and Mongolia will destroy itself without the help of the Jin State." ”

These words made Wan Yan Honglie's eyes blazing and extremely hot. Grabbing Zuo Xiaoright's hand, he laughed: "Mr. Zuo is really my son's room." ”

Don't look at the Jin State is a country formed by the Jurchens, but it has been influenced by Han culture for a long time, and the current ruling class is not much different from the Han people, so Wanyan Honglie will say things like 'my son's house'.

In Zuo's view, Han culture is like a melting pot, no matter what is thrown in, it will be melted. In fact, a strong country is never single. The most typical is the Tang Dynasty, at that time, there were many foreign officials in the Tang Dynasty, and there were even Japanese officials in the Tang Dynasty, the more famous one is Fujiwara Kiyokawa. This Fujiwara Qinghe never returned to the Tang Dynasty after coming to the Tang Dynasty, and he married a Tang Dynasty woman and gave birth to a daughter named Xi Niang, who later went to Japan in order to go back to his father's hometown to have a look. But at that time, the sea traffic was very dangerous, and the bride encountered wind and waves at sea and almost died.

Even so, of the team of more than 100 people, only 31 people finally arrived in Japan alive, and Xi Niang was one of the survivors. And that year, Xi Niang was only fourteen years old, a quite brave female man......

And the reason why Datang is strong is because it has the bearing of accepting all rivers.

I'm the strongest, I'm the best, it's not easy for any of you to come, work for Lao Tzu honestly!

It's just that the change of dynasties is inevitable, and after a long time of peace, there will eventually be slackness, and the Tang Dynasty will inevitably decline. Just like the US imperialism in reality, how strong it was more than ten years ago, but messing around with yourself, didn't you start to decline in the end! It is also a matter of time before China is replaced by the center of Han culture.

According to Zuo Xiaoyou's strategy, in the next few months, Wanyan Honglie has been contacting courtiers and lobbying the current emperor of the Jin Kingdom.

"It only takes 100,000 cavalry to bring the Mongols into decline. If this is not possible, the minister is willing to resign. After months of lobbying, when Yan Honglie swore that he issued a military order, the Emperor of Jin finally agreed, only after this autumn's harvest, he would use the army to conquer Mongolia.

Of course, Mongolia also had its own spies, and after observing the transfer of military rations from the Jin State, they began to reorganize their forces for war.

Nomads are a people on horseback, so they fight with a quick word, come and go like the wind, and the assembly time is very short. And there is no need for grain and grass at all, everyone will bring enough rations for a few days, and then go directly south to loot and replenish on the spot. Moreover, it was by virtue of this tactic that the Mongols laid down a vast territory that had no one before or since.

However, the Mongols' tactics of fighting to feed the war were only suitable for land warfare, and if they encountered naval battles, it would be a dead end. Historically, the Mongols made two expeditions to Japan, but the end was very tragic.

In 1274, Kublai Khan sent 30,000 troops and 900 warships, and once landed in Bode. In order to prevent the night attack of the Japanese people, the Yuan army retreated to the ship and camped at night. Unexpectedly, a typhoon broke out overnight, hundreds of warships disappeared without a trace, and more than 13,000 people died in the belly of the fish. After this battle, the myth of the invincibility of the Mongols was shattered.

Kublai Khan was so angry that he sent envoys five times in succession to coerce Japan into submission. At this time, the Japanese people were blown into a daze by the furious rush that fell from the sky, and they were dizzy, so they naturally refused to give in, and simply killed the messenger.

"The two countries will fight each other, and they will not be killed." At that time, Khorezm in Central Asia was because of the beheading of Genghis Khan's envoy, which provoked the "whip of God" to rage into the sky and set off a 10,000-mile rush of the Mongols' westward expedition. When Kublai Khan heard that the Japanese had killed his envoys, he immediately flew into a rage and sent 140,000 troops to fight against Dongying again in 1281. However, the Japanese people defended it with danger, and the Yuan army was repeatedly unable to attack. And just when the two sides were at a stalemate, the typhoon hit again, and in an instant, 4,000 warships capsized and sank to the bottom of the sea, and more than 100,000 troops were wiped out.

The Yuan Dynasty crossed the sea twice to the east, but both of them were unfavorable and returned with a feather. The Japanese fought against the water, the Jedi counterattacked, the Mongol cavalry did not practice naval warfare, and the two lives of man and land were undoubtedly important factors, but it was the sudden typhoon that really played a decisive role. The Japanese reverently worship it as a "kamikaze", believing that "a good wind relies on its strength, and the heavens bless Yamato".

Because of this 'kamikaze', at the end of World War II, in order to save the fate of destruction, the little devils organized a suicidal "kamikaze special attack team" to attack Pearl Harbor, and the fantasy miracle appeared again. But this time the kamikaze didn't look forward to it, but two mushroom clouds floated over, which blew up the Yamato nation into three meat and four vegetables, but it was not in vain to "wind and clouds" on the historical stage.

But at present, the war between the Jin State and the Mongols is a pure land war, and it is the most suitable steppe war for cavalry duel. Because of the early assembly of the Mongols, the Jin State also had to speed up the pace of military rearmament, and finally completed the final preparations before the autumn harvest. But by this time, the Mongols had already taken the initiative to attack, and a tragic encounter with the Jin troops had started on the border of the Jin State.

Ten years later, although the Jin army was a little worse, but now there is still a group of elite, although the Mongols took the initiative to hold the pass, but also occupied a certain advantage, but under the resistance of the Jin cavalry, there was not much success.

At this time, Wanyan Honglie personally commanded an army of 80,000 and joined the 20,000 cavalry troops on the border, a total of 100,000 cavalry, and launched a big battle with the Mongolian cavalry on the steppe that was related to the fortunes of the country.

Although the Mongolian cavalry came and went like the wind, if it was a war with a large force of 100,000 people, mobility would no longer be important. Whose war horse is better? And who is more well-equipped?

In terms of soldiers, the pampered Jin troops were a little worse; In terms of war horses, the two sides are about the same; But in terms of equipment, it is still the richer Jin Guo who has the upper hand. Therefore, after the 100,000 troops of both sides collided together, a balance of power was formed for a while, and both sides also suffered heavy casualties.

But in this process, the masters of the Zhao Wangfu have already approached Temujin, including Zuo Xiaoyou. (To be continued.) )