Chapter I Can't Fail
The battle plan proposed by Yue Chi Chaer made Zhen Jin excited. You should know that if it was as he said, it would not only at least force the Song army to retreat to the Huainan line, but also relieve the dangers of the capital and Huainxi, and even threaten the Sichuan-Shu water routes, forcing the Song army to withdraw. This would reverse the passive battle situation and the political and economic situation would also be improved.
"Khan, I think it's still time to fight back the Southern Army. Moreover, the Southern Army has only lost some food and grass, and its strength has not been severely damaged. The situation is not optimistic!" Li Qian saw the performance of Zhen Jin in his eyes and frowned.
"Is Ping Zhang too pessimistic?" Yue Chi Cha'er said with a little dissatisfaction after hearing this, "The army cuts off food for one day, will cause panic, will run away in three days, and will mutiny if there is no food for five days. Now the food and supplies of the Southern Army have been burned down, and it will last for only ten days by keeping the food in stock. In order to avoid the collapse of the army, as long as they are not fools, they will retreat first."
"Shumi, the Southern Dynasties occupied a rich land in the south of the Yangtze River. Only the rice in Jiangdong can be ripe for the whole country. It is easy to raise food and grass to meet the military use in the front; secondly, the Song army controlled the canal and could deliver food and grass to the front after only a few days and only a few days. Furthermore, the Southern Dynasties' military discipline was strict and well-trained, especially the imperial guards directly controlled by the emperor of the Southern Dynasties, who were bravest in the three armies, would be dispersed only because of shortage of food." Li Qian retorted.
"What Ping Zhang said is not without reason, but you must know that the young emperor of the Southern Dynasty has been injured by our army, and he was regarded as the soul of the Southern Army. When he learned that he was seriously injured, he would inevitably be frightened. If there were no dragons, the morale of the army would be in chaos. How could they be invincible!" Yue Chi Cha'er attacked disdainfully.
"The Emperor of the Southern Dynasty was injured, and the news has not been confirmed yet. The war report was also unclear. He said that he was bombarded by our arms while boarding the ship and retreating. He said that he was injured. He was not sure whether he was seriously injured or just injured his skin? Now he is determined that he was seriously injured and cannot be in charge of the director. Is it too arbitrary?" Li Qian was indeed skeptical about this. "In addition, the war report was a matter of many days ago, but it did not mention that the Southern Army had any signs of withdrawing troops, nor did it report that the Emperor of the Southern Dynasty was injured. It can be seen that this matter is mostly speculation."
"Sir, I think there is a lie in military affairs ahead?" Zhen Jin asked unhappily with a gloomy face.
"Khan, I think there are many speculations in the war report, but it does not deny the merits of the soldiers ahead. Therefore, I think that before the news is confirmed, I should act cautiously and not be trapped in the tricks of the Southern Dynasty!" Li Qian bowed and said.
"Isn't Pingzhang's words also a guess? How can we judge that the military report in front is false?" At this time, Yue Chi Cha'er sneered, "Pingzhang has never experienced the battle formation, how can we know the fleeting truth of the warplane. The Southern Army has no movement at the moment. It can also be considered that the Southern Dynasty concealed the news that the back camp's supplies, food and grass were burned, and the emperor was injured, and was secretly planning a aftermath. This method is a very common move in the war, not a strange thing!"
"The words of Privy Council are not without reason. Things that the king of the country was killed and secretly kept in order to stabilize the morale of the army are common in history. Let's take a step back, the emperor of the Southern Dynasty was only frightened and did not hurt a single hair, but it was always true that the food, grass and supplies were burned. The fire that soared into the sky was not extinguished for three days, and could be seen a hundred miles away, and it would never be able to hide it from everyone!" Brother Sang interrupted at this time.
"The front army was not moving at all. Perhaps it was because of the secret plan to withdraw troops. The two capitals of Henan and Shandong were wiped out. This was because the Southern Emperor secretly conquered Chen Cang and secretly transferred the troops besieged Yangzhou back to Jiangnan, which led to Yuxi Timur's misjudgment of being wiped out in Jiangdong. The Southern Emperor could use his same trick again, leaving only an empty camp to deploy suspicious troops, but secretly deploying retreat troops. This is the lesson of the previous car. I think that no matter whether it is true or false, I should start an attack and try to avoid missing the opportunity, otherwise it would be too late to regret it!"
"Khan, what Brother Sang said is exactly what he wants!" Yue Chi Cha'er continued, "The Southern Dynasty is prosperous and can easily raise the food, grass and supplies needed in front of the army, so he stays in a state of support and then fights back. But our dynasty first loses Jiangnan and then the two Huaihe Rivers, and the wealth has long been exhausted. At present, the enemy and our army are in Xuzhou, Fuli is confronting, and the supply of hundreds of thousands of troops is in Countless. In order to aid Henan, the court has already devoted all its money. If the war is stalemate for a long time, military supplies will inevitably be difficult to supply. Our dynasty will collapse first. Therefore, taking advantage of the Southern Dynasty's food, grass, and military supplies are short of military supplies, seizing the fighter is the best choice at the moment!"
"Rumorous words ruin the country!" Li Qian said angrily as they listened to the two of them singing, "The current forces that our dynasty can use have been deployed in Huaibei, but the rebellion of Haidu in the northwest has not been put down. Last year, the Yan tribe in the northeast also rebelled on the grounds of the reduction of rewards over the years and taxes that were due to the court's greed for the innocence. He rebelled and contacted Haidu, so he acted rashly. If he was defeated, all the elite troops would be lost and no more troops could be adjusted. Not only would the capital be difficult to protect, the Han territory was lost, and it would be difficult to gain a foothold when retreating to the south of the desert."
"What do you think Zuo Xiang?" Zhen Jin heard the argument between the two and had calmed down from the excitement just now, and could not make a decision for a while, so he looked at Zuo Xiang'an Tong and said.
"This... I think what Ping Zhang said is the truth!" An Tong had not spoken, but in fact he was also in doubt. At this time, the Khan asked, which made him not know how to answer for a while.
An Tong was born into a Mongolian family and his ancestors were close to the Golden Family. He entered the court as a young man and experienced countless storms. He naturally knew the current situation of the court best, so he understood that the current situation was indeed very critical.
After Mengge became the Great Khan, he went south to attack the Southern Song Dynasty and died at Diaoyu City. Mengge originally felt young and had no heirs. In this case, Mengge's two younger brothers, Alibuge who stayed in the northern grasslands, and Kublai Khan, who followed Mengge to attack the Song Dynasty, began to compete for the position of the Great Khan. Alibuge stayed in Duhara and Lin of the Mongolian Empire on the grasslands, which naturally represented the interests of the nobles on the Mongolian grasslands. For example, the Khanate Khanate, Chagatai Khanate, and Ogedei Khanate, most of the areas ruled by these three Khanate were grasslands, so they supported Alibuge.
Kublai Khan was different. After Kublai Khan ascended the throne as the Khan Khan, he was appointed as the chief military and national affairs of the Han area in the southern part of the desert. He had been in the Han area in North China, so he naturally accepted the sinicization and appointed a large number of Han aides and Confucian scholars, so he unconsciously implemented the sinicization. Kublai Khan himself also liked Han culture. By the time Mengge died, a group of emerging classes in the Han area had gathered around Kublai Khan, including the Mongolian kings enfeoffed in the Han area, forming his own small group.
There is even a saying that when the upper class aristocrats had a stroke, Mongke went south to attack the Southern Song Dynasty, in order to seize power. After Mongke's death, Alibuge wanted to trick Kublai into the grassland to house arrest or kill him, and then called the Khan, who was discovered by Kublai Khan. At this moment, Kublai Khan was in the Han area in the south of the desert, with strong soldiers and strong internships, so he snatched before Alibuge's self-proclaimed himself as the Mongol Khan in Kaiping, who was later set as the Shangdu by him. Then, with the support of other Mongolian nobles, Alibuge held a Mongolian noble meeting in Halahelin, also known as the Mongol Khan.
Among the kings of the West Road, there were only the sons of Torei. Mengge's brother Hulagu sent envoys to both sides to express his support for Kublai and condemn Alibuge. They are all brothers. Why did he support Kublai Khan? Moreover, at that time, the Il Khanate was just beginning to be established and was destroying other Arab Hari countries. There was no formal founding.
This is precisely because Kublai Khan gave Hulagu great benefits. He expressed his support for Kublai Khan, who assigned the Persian territory from the west of the Amu River to the Egyptian border, as well as the local Mongolian, and the Arab military and civilians to the rule of Hulagu. Under such circumstances, the Persian area, which was originally directly governed by the Great Khan government, actually became Hulagu's territory, and Hulagu thus established another Khanate on such a vast land.
Seeing Hulagu supporting Kublai Khan obtaining a large area of land, the Khan Khanate was jealous. Beergo Khan of the Khanate fought for the Central Asian region under Hulagu's control, and in this way, Alibuko and Kublai Khan fought in the east, and in the west, the Khan Khanate and Hulagu. After Kublai Khan became the Great Khan of the Mongolian Khanate, he sent people to enthrone Hulagu as Il Khan, and Hulagu established the Il Khanate and recognized Kublai Khan as the Great Khan of the Mongolian Khan.
Other Mongolian princes, except for the direct control of Mongolia, basically did not recognize the Khan of the Mongolian headquarters and Kublai Khan. They had political sovereignty over themselves. The three major khanates did not recognize them and declared their independence. With the independence of each khanate, in fact, except for the Il Khanate, the other, except for the four major khanates, was in a very embarrassing position after all the four major khanates were established.
Naiyan was a descendant of Genghis Khan's younger brother Ochijin, and his grandfather was the famous King Tachaer. In order to suppress the power of the kings in the northeast, Kublai Khan stopped the Xuanwei Department of the North Liaodong Road and set up a province in the northeast to rule. Due to the damage to interests, Naiyan was already very dissatisfied. After Kublai Khan's death, the compromise of real gold and financial shortage led to further decline in control of the Mongolian sect kings. In addition, his lower households in the Jiangnan and Central Plains fiefdoms paid to the court, and the tributes he received were not delivered. Naiyan, who had already been dissatisfied, rebelled on this grounds.
Chapter completed!