Chapter 1: The Name Is Lost
One morning in late August, the city gate had just opened, and a cavalry surrounded a general and rushed out of the southern gate of Dadu. He slowed down and looked back at the tall city tower. He sighed lightly, chuckled and waved his hand to the salute soldiers, walked onto the main road through the suspension bridge, and headed south.
This is not the first time Boyan left Beijing, but this time he left, he felt mixed feelings and a little sad. In name, this trip was ordered to go to Kaifeng and command the Hanoi army. In fact, everyone knew that he had been demoted from Beijing. Therefore, there were no friends to see him off, no relatives to say goodbye, and only a team of 100 people accompanied him, which was desolate.
I remember that I was ordered to attack Song and commanded a 200,000 army. The Khan led all the ministers to send him off. He captured the young emperor of the Southern Dynasty and the Empress Dowager back to Beijing. The Khan led all the ministers to welcome him. Then he led his troops to fight many times to quell the rebellion of the kings in the northwest, and went to the old capital and Lin Fu army to suppress the rebellion. All the ministers went out of the city to see each other and gave him a farewell party. What a glory, but now everything is passing by. After over 50 years of age, they will be demoted and fled out of the capital.
Boyan thought about the fact that he had fought for the Yuan Dynasty for half his life, and was in charge of the Secretariat. He had been working diligently for the country, but was finally dismissed from the capital by the Khan, and was expelled from the capital. He still felt a little sad. Thinking about this period, he had not made any big mistakes, but was impeached by all the ministers. On the surface, it was because he had handled the Langzhong incident, but he also understood that it was because he was involved in the dispute over the throne.
The dispute over the throne of Khan has always been cruel, and Boyan is very clear about this. Since Genghis Khan founded Mongolia, only Ogedei Khan has successfully passed the throne. The rest are full of blood, brothers turn against each other, and uncles and nephews are killed. Every time there is a turmoil, the strength of the Mongolian Empire will be weakened, causing a new division. Although there is no large-scale war in the succession of Zhenjin? But it is taken by the Southern Dynasty? The Jiangnan was seized.
In his heart, Boyan was not willing to interfere with the royal affairs? He just wanted to be an important official and an isolated official. But the current situation? He knew that the Mongolian Yuan could no longer withstand a major turmoil. If he wanted to successfully complete the handover of the Khan throne, he could only use the Han law? According to its system, the transition of imperial power cannot be completely solved. Although the Han law cannot completely solve the problem? It may always ease the current tension in the court.
Zhenjin has always advocated Han law. The dynasty also used Han ministers more than that in the past, Boyan thought that his intention was to be the eldest son of Ganmala, and wanted to establish him as a culprit. In addition, Zhenjin also used Ganmala as the prefect of the capital, which was similar to the Southern Dynasty's use of the crown prince in charge of the capital. It can be seen that although it was not clearly stated as a culprit? However, various signs indicate that the culprit was the culprit? Boyan naturally did not object when Li Qian and others supported him.
Thinking about it now, Boyan thought that he had fallen to such a level, but there were still two things to be careless.
First, on the issue of becoming a crown prince, he did not indicate his position, so that the Han and legal factions who supported Ganmala and the old sects who supported Tiemur both believed that he was not from his own side. He was powerful and deeply trusted by the Khan. He had the ability to control the situation. Once he stood on his own, it would lead to their defeat. Therefore, he was afraid of both sides. Both wanted to knock himself out of dust.
Second? On the issue of the sect king who was deployed to the guards? What method was used to resettle him? He had a conflict with the real gold. He followed the way of the strong in front, the weak in the middle, and the elite guarding the capital. In this way, when the Southern Army attacked, the front-line troops would not collapse at once, and they would win time to mobilize reinforcements. Once the periphery was lost or the losses were heavy, the Southern Army would also lose its spirit. The middle-level troops could drag the enemy and then dispatch the elite troops from the rear to counterattack. If both lines of defense were broken, the elite troops in the capital could defend the city and call on the army from all over the country to support the king, and encircle and annihilate the Southern Army, which was at the end of its strength.
However, the Khan's opinion was to place weak brigades on the front line, and strong brigades on the second line, and elite troops were placed on the second line, and elite troops were guarding the capital. This means to consume the purpose of consuming the strength of the Southern Army, and then the second-line troops launched a counterattack to block the offensive of the Southern Army, and at the same time mobilized the elite troops in the capital to counterattack, so as to achieve the effect of defending the enemy outside the national gate.
Boyan knew that if the Southern Army launched an offensive, it would inevitably break through with elite troops first and open the breakthrough. However, his side placed the weak brigade on the front line, which could not stop the first wave of attacks of the Southern Army, and even collapsed at a touch, resulting in the opening of the national gate. The Southern Army, which invaded in large numbers, could break through in different routes and divide and encircle and annihilate the troops arranged on the second line. At this time, the troops were greatly damaged, and it was too late for the elite troops in the capital to reinforce again. Not only did they lose the ability to counterattack, it was even difficult for them to defend the capital.
Now, Boyan reflected on the differences between himself and the Khan in the deployment of military forces. In fact, the fundamental reason was not military, but political. People were close and alienated, and the land was fat and thin. Although these sect kings who entered the Khan were all relatives, they were also far and near. According to the Khan's arrangement, the kings' food and wages were mainly raised by themselves and subsidies to the court.
In this way, no one is willing to go to a wealthy prefecture and county, so that at least there is no need to worry about food and wages, and there is still oil and water to be reaped. In poverty, local governments cannot eat enough, so how can they be given extra money? In this way, the kings are running around in order to be assigned to a good place. Some even want to imitate the old grassland system and call themselves kings on the spot and take over local military and political affairs. For this reason, many people have followed Boyan's path, hoping that he can lobby for him.
But as a result, the Khan enfeoffed his son-in-law and the queen's family to a wealthy land with an imperial edict, and those "distant relatives" could only eat soil. They were simply distributing to the land by their relatives and alienation, and had nothing to do with the strength of each tribe. This caused everyone to be dissatisfied, and the resentment was spread to Boyan, thinking that he was unfair and did not speak up in justice in front of the Khan. This led to his demotion this time, and it became a situation where everyone pushed him down and few people defended him.
Boyan also understood that it was actually the Khan who lost trust in him that he had been demoted from the capital today, and he was worried that he would be a powerful minister, especially after his death, no one in the court could restrain him, forming a situation where the master was weak and the ministers were strong. But he had no idea about this, and was loyal to Dayuan and had no dissatisfaction with Dahan. He had a clear conscience to such an end.
However, what made Bo Yan unwilling to do was underestimate the warlike and cunning emperor of the Southern Dynasty. After the Langzhong incident, the reason why he dismissed the public and demanded rewards for the Wang family was because the Wang family guarded the garrison and if punished, it might incite chaos, which was not conducive to the current overall situation of stability. In addition, the Yuan army lost consecutive battles and lost morale in the Northern Expedition, and feared the Southern Army like a tiger. Therefore, a victory was needed to stabilize the morale of the army and let the world know that the Southern Army was not invincible.
Of course, Boyan also considered the reaction of the Southern Dynasties to this, and would inevitably be "indicted" because of this matter. However, he thought that the Southern Dynasties had just experienced a great war, the army needed rest and supplements, the people needed to recuperate, and the newly harvested place might be consolidated. The Southern Dynasties showed great "sincerity" in the peace talks and made considerable concessions.
Therefore, Boyan concluded that there was no need for major conflicts in the Southern Dynasties, and even if the troops were used, they were mostly in Xichuan. The Xichuan terrain was complex, the material transportation was difficult, and the Southern Army entering Shu was dispersed, which was not conducive to the war. As long as one side made more compensation and strictly ordered the Wang family to withdraw from Xichuan as soon as possible, the young emperor of the Southern Dynasties could also explain to the government and the opposition, and would not launch a war at all costs for hundreds of lives.
When the Southern Dynasty proposed huge compensation, Boyan was not surprised, but just bargained with him calmly. When the Southern Army set up a huge formation in Yingtian Prefecture and made an attacking posture, he was not nervous. He just ordered the troops in front to retreat twenty miles away, closely monitor their dynamics, and not to provoke the Southern Army on their own initiative, and not give them a new excuse to use their troops.
But what surprised Boyan was that everything the young emperor of the Southern Dynasty did was smoke. He just used the Han River to easily solve the problem of mobilizing troops and supplies. After conquering Hanzhong, he not only cut off the retreat of the Wang family in Xichuan, but also blocked the Wang family's rescue route. Not only did Wang Weichun, who was guarding Langzhong, became a turtle in the jar, but Wang Weixiao, who was also stranded in Chengdu, was also unable to fly.
In this way, the young emperor of the Southern Dynasty not only avenged the revenge of Langzhong for losing his troops and generals, but also successfully seized Hanzhong and obtained the "Shukou" he had always dreamed of leaving Sichuan and moving north. His own plans were all gone. From this perspective, he responded to the mistakes and was dismissed from the position of the Right Chief of the Central Secretariat. It was not unfair to demote the legitimate emperor of the capital, and should also bear the responsibility for this...
The team leaving Beijing was thirty miles away by the afternoon. Although it was late summer and early autumn, it was still hot and there were no war horses. Boyan ordered a temporary stop. After nearly ten years of war in the north, the population has not yet recovered to the time. The prefectures and counties were several miles away from the city, and they were in the wilderness. At this time, they were not in front of the village or the shop behind them. The soldiers found a forest to beat the top.
Boyan dismounted and someone drank the horse and fed it. He sat down in a shade of a tree, and a follower sent him drinking water and dry food. ‘Swoosh, swosh, swosh…’ He had just drunk a gas water, and before he could put down the water bag, suddenly the bowstring sounded, and several arrows had arrived. Boyan could not dodge and hit the chest.
"Protect the best!" Seeing this, several of the followers rushed over and blocked them. Because the weather was hot and although they were in the suburbs, they were in the capital. The large bandits had long been wiped out, and the small bandits did not dare to provoke the official army, so they were not armed. The armor and weapons were tied to the auxiliary horse, and they were only protected by waist and knife. In panic, they were not enough to take off the weapons at all. They could only use their bodies as shields to cover them.
Boyan's guards were all elite, but they were suddenly ambushed and shot a lot by arrows. When the arrows stopped, the soldiers who were hiding behind the trees and war horses were lucky enough to survive, they found hundreds of people surrounding them to be killed. They were all covered in armor and black clothes, and covered in their faces. They could not tell whether they were soldiers or bandits.
Chapter completed!