"Report to the Privy Council, Yangzhou has another battle report!" A dozen miles away from Gaoyou City, a battalion outside Yangzhou, was covered with clouds and flags. A messenger rushed into the gate of the Central Army and fell off his horse. The general of the gatekeeper quickly took off the letter bag he carried on, and ordered the soldiers to help him into the tent next to him to take the wound to rest. He hurriedly entered the big tent to report.

"Baodu is stupid, Ma Shao is incompetent!" Yuxi Timuer took the mailbag, took it out, and looked at the case and cursed. Seeing this, the generals in the tent looked at each other and didn't know how to answer.

"Sir Shu, is there any change in Yangzhou?" Sesanna, the commander of the Grand Governor's Office of the Mongolian Army in Hebei, Shandong, was ordered to summon 10,000 households from Huai'an to rush out of Gaoyou City to prepare to lift the siege of Yangzhou, but after he arrived, he was reluctant to move troops. However, he was very anxious. Yangzhou was not only his own jurisdiction, but the three 10,000 households in the city were also his troops. Seeing that Yuxi Timur's face was not kind and spoke filthy, he was shocked and asked in his heart.

"Hmph, you can read it yourself!" Yuxi Timuer threw the letter to him and snorted coldly.

"Ah, Yangzhou is defeated!" Sesanna quickly picked it up and read it carefully. He didn't know much, but he could barely understand it. The more he read it, the more frightened he became, and his face became darker and darker.

"Yangzhou is defeated?!" The generals in the tent looked disbelief when they heard this. They thought that although the Southern Army concentrated 60,000 troops, the Yangzhou City defenders and reinforcements also had three ten thousand households of the army, and the mobilized Ding Zhuang's troops were not inferior to those of the Southern Dynasty. Moreover, they held the city and occupied the advantage of the territory. How could they be defeated if the war lasted only ten days? Based on past experience, a cavalry of one 10,000-person team on their own could defeat the army several times the army, but they were defeated with equal strength. It was completely unreasonable!

"Yesterday, the capital was captured and 20,000 elite cavalry of Yangzhou, and 3,000 infantrymen left the city to break through the central camp of the Southern Army, but the attacks were blocked by the enemy artillery. In anger, they were attacked by the enemy artillery and suffered heavy losses. When they retreated, they were defeated by the defeated soldiers and were unable to look after each other. They were blocked and killed by the Southern Army and were defeated. Half of the soldiers and horses retreated into the city were damaged, and more than 10,000 soldiers were lost, and countless weapons, horses and armor were lost. The Southern Army took advantage of the victory to seize the former site of Baocheng, Yangzhou, and the army moved the camp to four miles in front of the city to get a camp, surrounding the city. They were cutting down trees, making equipment, and preparing to attack the city." Yuxi Timur said hatefully.

"Yangzhou city is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and there are also a large amount of food, grass and weapons stored in the city. If you only need to hold on for a while, the Southern Army will not be able to capture it for a long time. Under the threat of our army, you will retreat without fighting. But its rash attack will not only damage the troops and generals, but also disrupt the deployment of our commander and make the situation in Huaibei more dangerous!"

"What Shushu said was very much. Badu was reckless and fought against the enemy without authorization, which led to great defeat. But he also wanted to break the enemy's siege as soon as possible and drive them back to Jiangnan. The Southern Army has always been cowardly, but now it has become so brave. Even if it has made mistakes, it is understandable. And it is time to use people. I would like to calm down and let him make meritorious." Seeing that his anger was not diminishing, Sesanna seemed to want to establish his authority in Badu, and he would inevitably be implicated, so he quickly pleaded for mercy.

"Hmph, a bunch of stupid pigs!" Yuxi Timuer sneered and cursed, "What kind of person is the right prime minister Boyan? He led his troops across the north and south and presided over the attack and destroying Jiangnan. But after several battles with the pseudo emperor of the Southern Dynasty, why did he give up the southern expedition again, and instead rebuild the city and build the city building along the river. He had long realized that the Southern Dynasty was no longer the past, and our iron cavalry could not defeat the South, so as to avoid attacking them head-on. But Badu was still willful and defeated. You still did not understand the profound meaning and were still expelling him. Isn't it stupid?"

"What Shushu taught him is that if the right prime minister had not seen through the situation and rebuilt Yangzhou City, I was afraid that the Southern Army had already gone north along the canal and penetrated deep into the abdomen!" The Shuhu Wanhu Wanhu, the revengeful man, said with a smile. The Wanhu whom he belonged to was severely damaged in the war last year, almost completely destroyed, and he was also dead in name only. Whether he could recover at the moment depends on Yuxi Timuer's face, so he naturally had to flatter him.

"Same stupid!" Yuxi Timuer still did not give him a good face, but said with a gentle expression, "What does our dynasty need most now? It is food. Losing Jiangnan has already put the court in crisis. If you lose the two Huai Rivers, you will lose the foundation of the country. Therefore, we must not only defend the two Huai Rivers, but also retake Jiangnan!"

"Shishou is a bit serious! Our dynasty is in the north of the Moon and south of the Moon. Without food, there are cattle and sheep to survive. How can we hurt the country's foundation?" Sesanna thought that the three thousand households he belonged to had suffered a lot, but he did not want to actively rescue them, but insulted everyone, and retorted with anger.

"The rat is short-sighted. The Khan was able to inherit the Khan throne, and to unify the Central Plains and appease the kings. It was not only elite soldiers and generals, but also the food and grass of the Central Plains. But you have forgotten the Khan's difficulties back then!" Yuxi Timuer asked, lit up and shouted.

Seeing everyone stammering and still not understanding the reason, Yuxi Timur was no longer able to scold him. He served in the northwest for many years before the Great Khan Kublai Khan, and had worked in the northwest for many years to suppress the rebellious king of the clan. He understood many things under his influence. He knew that when Kublai Khan was competing with his brother Alibuge for the position of the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, the former did not have an absolute advantage.

Alibuge was the leader elected by the Mongols, and he also received allegiance from most Mongolian military households under Tolei's name because of his youngest son. In the four-year war between Kublai and Alibuge, Kublai relied on the support of soldiers from territories such as Jingzhao and Henan. The war between him and Alibuge was essentially a conflict between Mongolia's two governance concepts, "grassland-based" and "receiving and integrating".

The concept of governing the country that Kublai Khan implemented to accept the sinicization was not widely recognized by the Mongolian tribes at that time. During the war, even the troops under Kublai Khan were unwilling to fight against Alibuge, and Kublai Khan had to summon Han troops to fight. In the end, Kublai Khan was able to defeat Alibuge and attack the Khan throne, and the food was the one who helped Kublai Khan win the war.

At that time, the population on the Mongolian grasslands was reproductive very quickly, and the food from various conquered areas supported the population far exceeding the nomadic economic supply capacity of the grasslands. The capital of the Mongolian Empire, Helin, needed thousands of large trucks to transport food every day. The areas controlled by Kublai Khan at that time were precisely the food supply of Mongolian grassland cities such as Helin. Kublai Khan decisively implemented a grain ban on the Mongolian grasslands.

At the same time, serious natural disasters occurred on the Mongolian grasslands, and the Mongolian tribes had an extremely difficult survival. Alibuge had to urge the Khanate, who was nominally loyal to him, to supply food to the Mongolian tribes, which in turn had intensified the conflicts between him and his allies, and the quarrels were finally at the point of war. Just as Alibuge and his allies fought, Kublai's army rushed towards Helin.

In desperation, Alibuge ordered his defenders to surrender on the spot, but he must remember who the real Mongol Khan was. Alibuge confidently believed that his subordinates would always be loyal to him, but he forgot that the basis of power was common interests. As a result, his subordinates all defected to Kublai Khan because Kublai Khan could make the children of the grassland live a better life.

Kublai Khan was familiar with Han culture, especially the military farming policies of the Central Plains dynasty. He attached great importance to the role of agriculture and military farming. He knew that the vulnerability of the single economic structure of the nomadic people in the past made them unable to withstand serious natural disasters. Once they encountered natural disasters, they were prone to losing all the results. Therefore, he actively promoted military farming strategies and allowed his core guards to cultivate on a large scale in various places.

Kublai Khan even made preparations for military farming during his two expeditions to Japan. The first expedition to Japan used the military farming army. The second expedition to Japan was deployed as follows: the Eastern Army was led by Xindu and Hong Chaqiu, led by Mongols and Jurchens, and 20,000 Khitan soldiers, and 100,000 Khitan troops, and took 900 warships, plus 7,000 Khiri sailors, and took 100,000 military rations, and set off from Goryeo; the Southern Song army led by Fan Wenhu, Li Ting and others, and took 3,500 warships, and set off from Qingyuan and Dinghai. The two armies agreed to meet in June, and the Eastern Army was responsible for the battle, while the Jiangnan Army was stationed in the occupied areas to produce rice and grain, which was a long-term solution. It was only because of the defeat that it could not be implemented.

Kublai Khan's success made Yuxi Timur feel a lot. He realized that the Mongols had become a dual economy that combines farming and nomadic forces. This structure had sufficient centripetal force and a relatively stable social structure. With food that could be stored, nomadic peoples had a material basis for long-term confrontation with other dynasties, so that the situation of "sweeping khans" would not occur everywhere.

With a stable grain production, when fighting against hostile forces, not only can you have enough food and clothing, but you can also help your allies, which also distinguishes the dynasty from the previous nomadic regimes. The income from military farms has also become a major source of income for Mongolian military nobles. It can help stabilize the national finance and appease people in the situation of losing the situation of plundering and obtaining property. It also wins over the sect kings who tend to be rebellious in the northwest.

At present, the dynasty is full of internal turmoil, and there are rebellious kings outside. In Yuxi Timuer's view, it was because of the loss of Jiangnan that the court had financial difficulties and even lost an important source of food. The shortage of money and grain made the court unable to launch a large-scale war and retake Jiangnan again, and there was no way to continue to appease the kings in the northwest, conquer the rebellious Haidu, and repair the two-faced and three-killed Zongguos.

Therefore, Yuxi Timuer felt that Zhenjin sent him to take charge of Lianghuai, not only to defend Lianghuai, consolidate Jiangbei, but also to retake Jiangnan. But the guys in front of him were really only considering their own gains and losses, but could not see the overall situation clearly, and were still calculating about the gains and losses of Yangzhou. How could they not be angry...
Chapter completed!