Zhao Bing breathed a sigh of relief after receiving the notice from Ni Liang. The Third Brigade wiped out more than 4,000 enemies at the cost of more than 300 casualties, surrendered to the remaining troops of the Yingzhou Army, and captured Changhua County with the situation. Of course, he was very comforted. He ordered the 7th and 8th Regiments to guard the main section of the Huihang throat of Minling to Laozhuling, which was cut off the enemy's access to reinforce Hangzhou from the West Road, and then ordered Ni Liang to lead the Ninth Regiment to escort the Yingzhou Army's surrendered troops back.

The guards in Shaoxing attacked everywhere and recovered the eight counties within three days. After Dong Yicheng's troops retreated into Taihu Lake, they sent a brigade of land to recover Pingjiang Prefecture. With the surrender of the Yingzhou Army, the Song army had already completed the encirclement of Hangzhou from the south, west and north directions. To the east was the sea, where there were also naval troops led by Lu Xiufu waiting for the sea outside the sea. The four ten thousand households and three ten thousand households in Hangzhou had been destroyed, so Lin'an Prefecture could be said to be in the pocket.

However, Zhao Bing did not rush to take action, but turned his finger to the Zhending Wanhu Army stationed in Jiankang. Only by transferring them out of the city could they create fighter opportunities for Zhao Mengjin. Dong Yicheng robbed Liujiagang and took Pingjiang, which was to put down the bait. Because Jiankang was a major military center, but in terms of economy, Liujiagang was a hub for grain transportation in the south and the north, pinching the economic lifeline of Dadu, and losing Jiankang was just a gain or loss in one place. Therefore, he firmly believed that the Dizhen Ding army would come to compete for Taihu Lake. Now there are signs that the Dilongwan Naval Army and the other thousands of households under the Seaway Transportation of Grain Wanhu Mansion were gathering towards the Yangtze River Estuary.

The other battlefields were still quite successful, and they recovered many prefectures and counties, effectively restraining the strength of the Yuan army. However, it was difficult to capture the local central city. Among them, the newly formed Song army was backward and lacked the means of attacking, and they were still at a disadvantage in the field. Even the Huai'en army, which was the largest number of people led by Wen Tianxiang, still found it difficult to capture Ezhou City, and it became a war of attrition.

The Song army was able to turn Jiangnan upside down in a short period of time. Of course, because Zhao Bing accumulated strength, he often secretly thanked that Kublai Khan died. He had a clever method of "planning" him, but there were many uncertain factors. It was not like poison taking effect now, nor was it like a knife that turned red when he was stabbed in. No one knew that Kublai Khan would die one day. But before he died, he did another major thing and helped Zhao Bing. Of course, Kublai Khan's original intention was not like this, and it was forced by the situation.

The vast territory of the Yuan Dynasty was praised by historians, but the political turmoil in the Yuan Dynasty was also criticized by historians. The reason for the turmoil was that the territory was too large and the governance was poor. Due to the distribution of many tribes within the territory, there were great differences in the economy and culture of each ethnic group and regions, which brought practical difficulties to effective administration. After the founding of the country, the Han law was attached and the Central Plains system was adopted to correct the ills and update, but it was still unable to overcome the ethnic and social contradictions that had risen one after another. In addition, the excessive suppression of fiscal policies aroused constant resistance, making the country's situation difficult to stabilize.

The Mongolian aristocratic rulers who founded the country by force then used force suppression as an important means of governing the country, and established a military garrison defense system. The highest military institution of the Yuan Dynasty was the Privy Council. The Court was composed of the magistrate, the Tongzhi, the Deputy Privy Council, the Co-Class, the Co-Class, the Co-Class, the Co-Class, the Co-Class, and the Chief Officer. There were also officials responsible for military law and prison lawsuits. The Emperor Zhili of the Privy Council was responsible for "controlling the secrets of the world's military and armor. All the palaces were forbidden to guard the border, the wings of the border, the garrison, the brief review of the dispatch, the transfer of merits and the transfer of officials, and the control of the dispatch, and all the orders were controlled." If there was something to be done in the local area, the Privy Council was set up in the local area, and the matter was stopped.

Since the Yuan Dynasty pursued the policy of Mongolia supremacy, the only two Mongolian chiefs knew about the secrets of military registration, and the Han people were not allowed to check it. The central government of the Yuan Dynasty also had a Ministry of War. Compared with the Privy Council, the Ministry of War had relatively small powers. Its main duties were "in charge of the government orders of the county, post and post and villages in the world. When the city was abolished, the mountains and rivers were dangerous and changed, the place where the military stations were stationed and farmed, the people who were born in the distance, the land of official and private livestock, camels, horses, cattle and sheep, hawks, feathers, leather, posts, post transportation, only responded, public offices, and so on, and all were appointed to the logistics department of the military.

The military garrison defense of the Yuan Dynasty can be roughly divided into two categories: the central guard system and the local guard system. Before the Yuan Dynasty, the guards of the Mongolian Khan were appointed by Qyxue. The guards of the nomadic nobles originated from the Nakeer (pampered by) and the personal army. Unlike the central imperial guards in the Han area, Qyxue was not only the guards of the Khan in the grassland nomadic society, but also had the nature of royal housework cadres, proton camps, and aristocratic children training schools. Most of the military and political officials of the Mongolian Khanate were appointed by Qyxue, so Qyxue also had the functions of the Khanate Central Government.

As the Gancheng of imperial power, the personal guards were directly under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council. Its functions are roughly as follows: First, as a standing army, defending the two capitals and nearby areas. Second, as the central force that controls the local area, they will rebel and go to fight. Third, during the non-military period, they will farm and feed themselves, reducing the burden on the country. Fourth, they will be responsible for the construction, repair and other labor service of the two capitals. This not only became the force of the Yuan court to strengthen checks and balances among the nations, but also laid the foundation for the rise of powerful ministers on the political stage.

After entering the Yuan Dynasty, Cyxue's power was greatly weakened, but the role of the traditional Mongolian royal guard still remained and received special treatment. Cyxue was appointed as the chief, divided into four shifts, and was responsible for the guards of the palace and imperial guards. Unlike the guards' personal army, Cyxue was not affiliated with the Privy Council and was directly under the emperor. However, Cyxue also lost the function of the large-scale army in the Mongolian era. He was not the emperor personally and rarely went to the expedition. His military role was to check and balance with the guards. The central imperial guards formed by Cyxue and the guards' personal army were the balanced force that controlled the local garrisons.

Unlike the Song Dynasty's "strong, weak branches" policy, while maintaining the central government's elite troops, the Yuan Dynasty sent a large number of troops in important towns and remote fortresses in mainland China based on the needs of public security and national defense. Kublai Khan and his counselors determined the scale of the country's garrison and ordered the king of sects to conquer the border areas. Heluo and Shandong were in the heart of the world, so they used Mongolia and explored the Ma Red Army to garrison them. Huai, Jiangnan, and the land was south of the South China Sea. Then the famous vassal counties were guarded by Han army and Xinfu army, and divided several town garrisons according to the distribution of the region and army.

The so-called Han area mainly refers to the original jurisdiction of the Jin Dynasty, namely Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Liaodong, Shaanxi and Gansu, and Sichuan. After the destruction of the Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty used the Song territory as the newly expanded territory, and Jiangnan was also the economic center at that time. The commander-in-chief of the army, Boyan and others examined the geographical appropriateness. According to the needs of military defense, they planned to leave 63 stationed troops, and then divided the troops and went out to guard the troops four times.

According to the distribution of troops in the Yuan Dynasty, Jiangnan was originally located in the Song capital, and it was also a densely populated area, so it was heavily guarded. Most of the new affiliated troops composed of surrendered troops of the Song Dynasty were stationed here. However, the troops in South China were relatively weak, so when anti-Yuan forces rose, the Yuan court often mobilized Jiangnan's troops to support it, which sometimes weakened the troops in Jiangnan.

The role of the Yuan Dynasty in military and political construction of the central government was because the Yuan Dynasty conquered the Han territory. After the Southern Song Dynasty, many places did not agree with the rule of foreign races, and resistance activities continued to occur. In addition, the Yuan Dynasty implemented direct rule in the so-called restricted areas in the past, which triggered fierce resistance from local tribal leaders; excessive accumulation in the Jiangnan region intensified local social contradictions. The above situation made the rule of the Yuan Dynasty unstable, so military garrison was undoubtedly a necessary means for the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty. In order to strengthen effective control of the vast territory, according to the traditional custom of feudal division, the Yuan Dynasty also established a system of sect kings leaving the town.

The so-called king of Zong was given a title, that is, the king of Zong was given a title to a certain place, responsible for the garrison and garrison in the area, and represented the court to supervise local military and political affairs. In fact, this kind of title was not a real title, but a title to the vassal without governing the vassal, and only took the "feudal intention". Their main responsibility was to military garrison. Therefore, in name, the king of Zong was the highest military and political chief of the garrison in the town, but the regional administration was not under its jurisdiction, and the administration was controlled by the local officials of the province. The division of labor between the two is that the king of Zong was focused on governing the army and garrison, while local administration and part of the public security were controlled by the local bureaucratic system of the Yuan Dynasty. It was the so-called "to control it with a prince and make important officials govern the affairs." This formed a garrison and a different sect.

After two expeditions to Qiongzhou, the attack on Annan, Chameng and the expeditions of Japan, almost all were drawn by the New Army of Jiangnan. These wars caused great losses to the new Army, especially when expeditions to Japan, 150,000 people died in the sea. This can also be said to be Kublai Khan intentionally. It is important to know that the military equipment of the Red Army of the explorer is mainly provided by the military households, and the insufficient part is supplied by the government. The winter and summer military uniforms and weapons of the Han army soldiers are distributed by the government, and rations are distributed monthly. The insufficient part of the clothing, other equipment and expenses are collected by the military households and sub-house households and sent to the army regularly.

The implementation of the military household system can ensure that the country has a stable source of troops and maintain a huge army so that the government will not bear too much. The equipment of the newly attached soldiers is provided by the government, with 6 dou of rice and one kilo of salt per month, and each family member pays four dou of grain per month. It can be said that the supply is all paid by the state's finances. The huge amount is a heavy burden for any country, so Kublai Khan regards them as consumables. Many years later, the number of new affiliated soldiers stationed in Jiangnan was greatly reduced.

With the decrease of foreign wars, Kublai Khan felt that Jiangnan had stabilized. So in the 22nd year of Zhiyuan, the Yuan court reorganized the troops under the jurisdiction of Jianghuai and Jiangxi provinces, and reorganized them into 37 10,000 towns and garrisons, which were divided into three levels: upper, middle, and lower. In the end, the total number of Yuan troops stationed in Jiangnan was reduced to more than 200,000, which was nearly half less than before.

After reorganization, the burden was reduced, but the contradiction of large land and few soldiers was highlighted. The only solution was to deploy limited troops in key areas. Generally, according to the prefecture, the garrison of Wanhu Prefecture, and then divided into prefectures under the jurisdiction of the prefecture. The county was generally composed of the new affiliated army and the township soldiers to maintain public order and fight against thieves and robbers. According to the different levels of the county, the garrison of the Wei army also ranged from two to three hundred to thousands.

However, the Mongolians distrust the new affiliated army very much and did not equip them with weapons. The Wei army could only hold a stick, so that they were not able to catch the bandits when they were arresting the thieves, but were injured by them. Considering the reality, after careful consideration, the Mongolians issued ten bows and arrows to the Wei army in the big county, and only five bows and arrows in the small county, which shows how powerful it is.

Therefore, the Wei army was still just enough to scare the people of the countryside, and had to rely on the garrison army to fight. This also allowed the Song Dynasty rebel army, which occupied remote areas, to develop and grow, and to quickly recover many county towns after the war started. At this moment, Zhao Bing ordered, wars broke out everywhere in the Jiangnan area, and the Yuan army in the Jiangnan was unable to take care of themselves. Of course, it was difficult to support the wars in other places, and could only watch them annihilate them by the Song army.

On the other hand, the Yuan army's ten thousand households were under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council, and the Privy Council envoy was appointed by the prince or the sect king, so now the Zhenjin served as the Privy Council envoy in charge of the garrison troops in various places. But when Kublai died, he was unable to ascend to the throne of Khan. Empress Nanbi was also governed by the empress dowager, and the military power of the Qiexue army, led by the Khan, was not transferred to his hands.

These reasons have greatly restricted the power in Zhen Jin's hands. Only the real position of Privy Councilor is the Privy Councilor. If he wants to successfully ascend to the throne of Khan, he must seize military power. However, it is still difficult to say whether the sect kings can support him. At present, the areas where the sect kings are out of town include Lingbei, Hexi, Tufan, Yunnan, Jiangnan and other places. Among the sect kings, the sect kings in the north hold military power, and the power is the greatest. The sect kings in Jianghuai are slightly inferior to the military power. The kings in Hexi and Yunnan are between the two.

Mobei was originally the foundation for Mongolia's prosperity, and Helin was the capital of the former empire. However, after the Yuan Dynasty moved its political center south and established its capital in Kaiping. After Yanjing, Mobei lost its old glory and was regarded as a border. However, as the nominal Mongolian Khan, the Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty had to govern the grassland area so that the kings of Mobei could obey their orders and ensure that the region did not shake politically with hostile forces. To this end, the Yuan Dynasty gradually strengthened the military and political establishment of the Mobei region.

In the third year of Zhiyuan, Kublai Khan appointed his fourth son Namuhan as the King of Beiping, and went out to the north of Mo to command the army of the kings to prevent the kings of the West Road who refused to be ordered by Haidu and others. In the eighth year of Zhiyuan, while Haidu and the Chaga Taihou King were fighting for the Hezhong area, Namuhan was ordered to lead the troops of the kings of Lingbei to station in Alimari. While the Yuan Dynasty was constantly replenishing supplies, military weapons and other items, it also sent Antong, the right prime minister of the Secretariat, to carry out the title of Secretariat and the Privy Council, to Alimari to assist Namuhan and strengthen its attack on Haidu.
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