Chapter 164: Wang Dechen invades Shu

However, it is said that the Mongolian Meng Ge is the Khan, a hard-working emperor, decisive in everything, not luxurious, the entire Tulei family is well-behaved, the military orders and government orders are unified, and soon won the heartfelt support of the kings and nobles, and the foundation is stable. Meng Ge thought about fulfilling Genghis Khan's last wish to expand his territory and open a vassal to establish Khan. Since Genghis Khan's expeditions to the west and Batu to the west, the sphere of influence of the Great Mongolian State has expanded to Central Asia and Eastern Europe, but the state of Murayi, which is located in the Middle East and roughly belongs to later Iran, is unwilling to pay tribute, which greatly annoys Möngke. In his own preparations for the southern expedition of the imperial court, he let his younger brother Hülegü lead the army to the third western expedition.

Hulegu also gathered the main army in Khala and Lin, and let the cowardly Buhua lead more than 10,000 pioneers to attack westward first, and he himself led the main army of the westward expedition to Turkmenistan a year later. In the third year, the main forces were stationed in Turkmenistan, in the fourth year they attacked Uzbekistan, and in the spring of the sixth year, they marched to northern Iran.

The 100,000 army of the Murayi State seemed to have little combat effectiveness, and nearly half of it was wiped out by the cowardly vanguard troops, which naturally could not stop the attack of the main force of Hulegu, and the king Rukredin could not avoid becoming the king of the dead country, Möngke canonized Hulegu as the Ilkhan, and after the Kipchak Khanate, Mongolia established a great khanate in the Western Regions. Of course, Hulegu fought against the Abbasids and Ayyubids, occupied Syria, approached the Mediterranean, defeated the Balkan coalition, captured Cyprus, threatened Egypt, forced the Byzantine Empire and Western European countries to send envoys to make friends with him, and finally died at the hands of the Southern Song Dynasty soldiers and civilians and left his horse on the northern shore of the Mediterranean.

Meng Ge wanted to attack the Southern Song Dynasty, but it was difficult for a while, so he adopted the advice of his brother Kublai Khan, decided to avoid the main defense line of the Song army, cut off the Dali Kingdom in the southwest first, and borrowed manpower and material resources from the southwest to attack the Song Dynasty in a roundabout way, avoiding the fortified area of Yu Ji. Since the establishment of the country by Duan Siping, the ancestor of the Bai nationality, the country has gone through two eras before and after, and it has been more than 200 years. The former was usurped by Prime Minister Gao Shengtai, and was called Houli after returning to Duan Zhengchun, until the current national situation is declining, King Duan Xingzhi's power has fallen, and Prime Minister Gao Taixiang has controlled the national government, and the internal contradictions have become increasingly intensified and tended to split. Meng Ge ordered Kublai Khan to lead an army of 100,000 people out of Xiao Pass and prepare to attack Dali through Lintao. Kublai Khan was very clever in using his troops, he asked the general Wuliang Hetai to lead the army and horses of the western route to pass through the Aba grassland along the Yandang Road, and advance forward with great fanfare; Zongwang copied the army and led the eastern road to attack Huili to contain and confuse, and led the middle road to cross the Dadu River in Hanyuan, secretly went south along the Guqingxi Road, and fell under the cover of Tubo and traveled through the valley for 2,000 miles, and suddenly the troops came to the Jinsha River, which constituted great psychological pressure on the Dali Kingdom.

At this time, Meng Ge ordered Wang Dechen to go out from Liupan Mountain, lead the army into Shu, enter Leshan, and respond to Kublai Khan, and the situation in Jiannan suddenly became sinister.

Duan Xingzhi, the king of Dali, was unwilling to lose the country and be humiliated, refused Kublai Khan's surrender, and deployed troops along the Jinsha River with Prime Minister Gao Taixiang, and sent Gao Tong to lead an army to garrison Huili to confront the Mongolian Central and Western Route Army. However, the Wuliang Hetai Department crossed Zhongdian into the Dali realm, surrendered the Naxi people, occupied Lijiang, and gathered the military strength of all ethnic groups in Lijiang to attack the main flank of the Dali army, forcing Gao Taixiang to retreat to the capital of Dali. Cangshan and Erhai failed to block the Mongolian iron cavalry, Dali was defeated, Gao Taixiang was killed, Duan Xingzhi became the hereditary governor of Dali, Dali surrendered to Mongolia, Kublai Khan returned north, Wuliang Hetai continued to lead the army to conquer the southwest provinces, and since then the force of the north and south of the Great Song Dynasty has been formed.

The Central Plains with advanced culture and technology has been repeatedly bullied by the backward northern nomads, and the main problem is that horses are not as good as people, so Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty opened a royal horse garden in the northern grassland to raise military horses, which has been quite effective, and has to attack the Xiongnu in the north and stabilize the Han border. To the Tang Dynasty, there were 36 Imperial Horse Gardens, which could basically meet military needs, but the Anshi Rebellion made this cause abandoned, and the Central Plains was in a passive situation. In order to raise military horses, this dynasty opened a tea and horse market along the border to exchange tea for horses. Due to the continuous wars between Song, Jin, and Mongolia, many merchants did not go north to Yima, but changed to the southwest, and changed the tea road to Sichuan and Yunnan, but it happened to fulfill the intention of Wuliang Hetai, and he led the army to advance into Hunan along the ancient tea horse road.

Li Fu, the pacification envoy of Hunan and the prefect of Tanzhou, was a martyr who led the army and civilians to resist desperately at the head of Tanzhou City. Not only did the elite open the meal and the Xiaoxiang embroidery building participated in the resistance, the people and horses of Xiaoyao Valley quickly went south, and the good hands of the Sanxian Cave quickly went north, and the southeast martial arts came to the aid of Tanzhou, which finally made the veterans of the Wuliang Hetai Division tired, and the attack power was significantly weakened. The gold and silver swords were also able to see Bai Xiaoxiang again on the front line of the anti-Mongolian resistance, although Yang Yaoming did not see the resentment in Bai Xiaoxiang's eyes, he obviously noticed that many of this person's behavior and habits were similar to Mu Lan.

Wang Dechen marched into Sichuan, and Yu Jue's mountain fortress defense system played an unexpected effect, so that Wang Dechen must pay a heavy price for every city. The Snow Mountain Sect played the role of a mainstay, bringing the southwest martial arts unprecedentedly united, that is, the Ecstasy Sect, and also sent the golden boy and jade girl to participate in the battle.

That Wang Dechen, the Han Mongolian general, since he was a child, followed his father Wang Shixian to Mongolia, went to Shangdu to see Wokotai, gave the name "Brother Tian", served the crown prince, long-term training by Mongolian nobles, military preparation, skilled in bows, sabers and guns. At the age of seventeen, he began to participate in the war against the Song Dynasty, and was later ordered to inherit his father's title, Peihu Fu, and lead the armies under the jurisdiction of the Commander-General's Mansion. At the age of twenty-one, in order to cooperate with the main battlefield of the Eastern Front, the Song army in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River was transferred eastward, and for the first time, he led the army to attack Shu alone and reached Luzhou. After withdrawing, he strengthened his forces and re-entered Sichuan and occupied the area of Chungju and Fuling. Wokotai died, Hara and Lin fell into a power struggle, postponed the attack on the Song Dynasty, and the Song and Mongolian armies in some places retreated north. Yu Jue took this opportunity to mobilize troops and fight Wang Dechen in Cangxi. Wang Dechen personally risked the arrow, but his mount was killed by flying stones, and he commanded the attack on foot. Because his brother Wang Zhichen was killed, he was forced to retreat north.

He also fought against Xiqiang and was a very famous young general in the Mongol army. When Yu Jue first arrived in Shuzhong, he took the opportunity to reorganize the defense of Sichuan, and first recaptured Hanzhong from the Mongol soldiers.

Meng Ge ascended the throne, Wang Dechen entered the court to receive a new sigil, and still commanded the armies of the Commander-General's Palace. According to the accumulation of his knowledge in Sichuan several times, Chen played the benefits and made suggestions to Meng Ge, which were all adopted. In view of the offensive and defensive strategy of the Southern Song Dynasty, he adopted a corresponding and long-lasting offensive and defensive strategy, built cities and valleys along the border, and placed troops to defend them, as a forward base for attacking the Song Dynasty, which caused great pressure on Yu Jue.

When Kublai Khan attacked Dali, he was ordered to repair the city of Luoyang, and then sent troops to attack Chengdu and besiege Leshan. Yu Jue sent Wang Jian to take Zhang Xiaotian and their loyal army to rush to help, and Yang Hanfeng accompanied him with Shenyutang, and the two armies wanted to meet, a bloody battle.

The Mongol army had a distinctive feature in warfare, they were skilled in bows and horses, first charged with light horses, and fired bows and arrows about twenty paces away from the enemy. The Song army held swords and guns, but before they could meet the enemy, they had already suffered countless casualties. In the face of the strong bow and hard bow of the Mongolian army, the rattan players of the Song army are not enough, and they can't stop the rain of arrows of the Mongolian army. After the rain of arrows, the light cavalry of the Mongolian army quickly divided to both sides, and the heavy cavalry iron cavalry in the middle stood out and hit directly with a lance, forming a more powerful impact. The Mongols relied on such a simple tactic to fight the world without the strength to fight back, but when they met Yang Hanfeng, they ran into their opponents. Yang Hanfeng had been going all out to train the Divine Hall for a long time, and the Divine Hall was trained by Zhuge Wuhou's Eight Array Diagram. The Eight Formations is an offensive formation that alternately combines infantry, rooks, and bows. Of course, Yang Hanfeng is not retro and did not train the soldiers, but chose a tall and strong martial arts expert to replace the soldiers with a rattan card. Thinking that the Cao Wei cavalry is probably somewhat similar to the Mongolian cavalry, Zhuge Liang's eight array diagram was used for the Cao Wei cavalry, and was moved by Yang Hanfeng to deal with the Mongolian cavalry, and it really broke Wang Dechen.

Wang Jian had been on Diaoyu Mountain for some days, mobilized the army and the people, and built Diaoyu Mountain into Diaoyu City long ago, and his subordinates had also practiced with Shen Yutang for a long time, and the Eight Formations were skillfully performed.

Bashu is so precipitous, everyone knows the difficulty of the Shu Road, so how can Wang Dechen easily withdraw from Sichuan after he was defeated? Emei sent good men to Zuo Mian, Qingcheng sent to Yunding, and Kuaidaomen rushed to Longqing, volleying along the way. Although it is not as good as the army with banners and swords and guns, it has strong attack power and is unable to defend against it, which makes Wang Dechen anxious, and Yu Jue applauds.

Wang Dechen finally led the army to open a bloody road to Jianmen, but he met the top heavenly king - Wulin Feiyan.

Ouyang Yan was alone, of course, she had no choice but to join the army, but the psychological pressure she caused to the Mongolian army made Wang Dechen unexpected. She stood in front of the army, full of arrogance, Wang Dechen ordered the Chinese army to shout: "That little woman, quickly give way, so that you will not die." If you don't come to your senses, I will trample you into a meatloaf. ”

Ouyang Yan smiled softly and said, "Then you can try, what can thousands of troops and horses do to beat me?"

A group of light horses came running. Dozens of steps away, bows and arrows were fired in unison, and the arrows flew like rain towards Ouyang Yan alone. A good Ouyang Yan, with fluttering clothes like a Lingyun fairy, collected the rain of arrows with just one move of Liuyun Flying Sleeves, and scattered back with a flick of his hand, and those light cavalry who fired arrows fell off their horses one after another.

A team of heavy cavalry pounced with spears and lances, according to the equipment of the heavy cavalry, they are all long blades and long handles, which can hurt the opponent at a distance of two and a half zhang, but when they meet Ouyang Yan, they can't get close at all, I saw her sword light flashing, and before the heavy cavalry approached, those war horses were already injured by the sword qi, and they made a rolling gourd, and those heavy cavalry were also thrown to the ground. Dafan heavy cavalry because the equipment is too heavy, can not live without horses, just that Mingguang chain mail has more than 70 catties, plus dozens of catties of lance, are 100 catties of equipment, majestic on the horse, leaving the back of the horse is too cumbersome, almost unable to move, how can there be any attack power?

Not to mention, only Ouyang Yan was alone, but another group of women's troops fell from the sky in a trance and suddenly appeared beside Ouyang Yan. The Mongolian sergeants were stunned, an Ouyang Yan had already made them helpless, and it was unimaginable trouble for a group of such women to come.

It was the Peach Blossom Valley experts brought by Grandma Sang, they heard the triumphant song of the soldiers and civilians of the Great Song Dynasty, and they couldn't stay in that desperate situation in that world, and they wanted to = personally lead it, wanting to teach the Mongolian army a lesson. But their arrival not only shocked the Meng army, but even Ouyang Yan was inexplicable, she looked at Grandma Sang with strange eyes.

Of course, Grandma Sang understood why she was surprised, and said softly: "Peach Blossom Valley." ”

Ouyang Yan nodded, no longer paying attention to them, and turned her gaze to Meng Jun, seeing that Meng Jun's scalp was numb.

She shouted to the Chinese military tent: "Song man Wang Dechen, do you want to destroy the Song Dynasty?"

That Wang Dechen was also a martial arts master, and replied with full energy: "Each is his master, not to mention that as long as Yu Jue gives up resistance, Sichuan can be saved from slaughter." Wars are bloody, and stubborn resistance can only bring more lives to life. ”

Ouyang Yan said: "Don't think that you are hiding in the army, my Great Song Dynasty can't do anything about you, even if it is a million army, if I want to take the head of someone, I can still capture it." ”

Wang Dechen said: "I believe you have this ability, but you can't be afraid of you because you have this ability." killed a Wang Dechen, and naturally there are other people who will preside over the Chinese military account. I can only assure you that I will refrain from killing in Sichuan, and my focus will be on appeasement. But the two countries are at war, and the government is out of the imperial court, and many things are not something I can do if I want to. ”

Ouyang Yan sneered a few times: "Come on, don't talk about you Wang Dechen, tell Meng Ge and Kublai Khan, whoever kills the Song people in vain will sit in the Jinluan Palace, and I, Ouyang Yan, will also take his head!"

Ouyang Yan's words were sonorous, so that the Mongolian army was silent, and even a general like Wang Dechen was terrified.