The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty wrote the imperial edict of "The Imperial Examination of Slaves in Heaven":

"The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty issued an edict to the world: China has created the world since Pangu, Nuwa repaired the sky and created humans, and Emperor Xi created the characters and established the extreme, so there was a god clan. It was passed down from Heluo, and it originated from Long, Han, Yan, and Lu, so it became the lord of China. Since the Huaxia Alliance, the ancestor emperor conquered Chiyou, Gaoyang conquered Jiuli, Shunwang pacified Sanmiao, and ruled the ten thousand squares, and there were Zhongxia, which lasted for thousands of years... Zhou whipped Rongdi, Qi slaughtered Beiyi, Han conquered Xiongnu, and Tang destroyed Turks, which had great martial arts and the peace of Zhongtu..."

"Mengyuan's slaves in China, the desert is fierce and stubborn, the northern Chou barbarians, the Xiongnu, the Chinese slaves... Taking advantage of the decline of the Xia fortune, they showed off their power for a while, and slaughtered the people in China... They slaughtered the people like plucking, relying on their evil customs, as fierce as fire, and surging like water, and the Xia people became pigs and dogs, fighting for their lives in the cage... It was really a great rebellion, slaves deceiving the master, and dogs barking their homes... Therefore, the way of heaven was attacked, so I ordered me to raise the six armies personally, and to question the deceased ministers..."

"...The strong horses and elite soldiers, strong ships and cannons, can't stop them. The king's battle is like rain, and when they arrive, people will be happy... If you dare to disrespect the enemy, you will be in danger of being in danger of being dissatisfied within the world, once the army arrives, the tribe will be in trouble..."

"The emperor's anger flows through blood for thousands of miles; the Chinese people's anger leads to the mountains and rivers; but with this anger, even if you escape thousands of miles away, you can survive... I admire this!"

The biggest feature of this manifesto is: domineering and wild.

It was just a condescending tone, with no room for negotiation, and no mention of surrendering and rebellion. It was just one thing: you are very brave and dare to rebel, and I am going to destroy you.

Li Luo means that the Mongol Yuan was a slave rebellion. This is unreasonable.

Moreover, it also extended the history of China to the legendary era in a serious way.

The manifesto actually does not have much effect on the war itself. The main function of this manifesto is to be used as "historical material" in later generations.

Look, even Emperor Hongwu said that the Meng Yuan was originally a slave to China and was a rebellion.

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Except for Yang Xu from Yalu River and the navy attacking Haijin, the other four routes of the Tang army were real Northern Expeditions. The four routes had as many as 270,000 soldiers, of which 130,000 cavalry!

At this time, the Yuan army cavalry stationed in Jiangbei, Henan were 200,000. In addition, more than 100,000 "Song Army" loyal to the Yuan court, they could use more than 300,000 troops.

However, since the Tang court secretly controlled more than 200,000 Song troops, the Tang army actually had more troops than the Yuan army. What's even more serious is that the Yuan army did not know this.

On August 12, Chen Shuzhen's troops of the Tang army crossed the river from Anqing Prefecture, due to Wang Silang's escape, crossed the Yangtze River the next day and occupied Anqing Prefecture City.

Jiangjun's troops crossing the river from Jinling were fiercely resisted by the Yuan army in Yangzhou. The commander of the Yuan army in Yangzhou, Adalutai, led 50,000 Mongolian Semu cavalry, supervised the Song army and the township dynasty, and firmly defended the north bank of the Yangtze River.

The tens of thousands of Song troops here are the most loyal soldiers and horses, mostly composed of Han people in Yanyun. They are called Song troops, but in fact they are completely Yuan troops.

Just add one sentence, it’s really good, it’s worth pretending. After all, you can cache reading and read offline!

Han Shao, the Yangtze River Navy of the Tang Army, ordered the naval artillery to bombard the stronghold on the north bank, and the "Song Army" fought to the death, while the Mongolian Seminyak Iron Cavalry was waiting for the battle behind. As long as the Tang army broke through from the river bank, the cavalry would appear wherever the Tang army formed the river bank position, and launched a condescending attack.

The Song army's crossbows and firearms occupied a high position and shot fiercely at the Tang army crossing the river. They also used stone throwers to fire a large number of fireballs in an attempt to burn down the Tang army's warships and pontoon bridges.

"kill!"

"Boom-"

"Bang bang—"

"Swoosh-"

"Chirky—"

"put!"

"shooting!"

"Mordauga!"

"Huwuhehaoning!"

The battle situation fell into heat from the beginning, and the two armies were fighting on the banks of the river dozens of miles long, with thousands of people fighting each other.

The Northern Army had a strong will to resist, and with the strong Jiangwu Fortification, Jiang Jun's troops were unable to land smoothly.

A whole day later, the Song army of Jiangfang was killed and injured heavily under the firearms of the Tang army warships, but the Tang army was still unable to establish a position on the shore, and instead lost two thousand troops.

However, Jiang Jun's troops had no hope of landing soon. The strategic purpose of this Tang army was to cover the 100,000 troops led by Li Luo to cross the river in Ezhou and delay the Yuan army in Yangzhou to support Hanyang.

You should know that the Yuan army in Hanyang is also very strong.

Therefore, even if there are many casualties, Jiang Jun's troops will hold back the Yuan army in Yangzhou here.

"Shishou, there are only tens of thousands of Tang troops on this road. Should we deliberately put them ashore and then wipe them out?" Semin general Hawadin said to Mongolian general Adalutai.

Adalutai sneered, "They are in a strong morale. First use the Yangtze River and the fortress to spend their energy and let them bleed more. When it is almost done, then let them land and destroy them with the Dayuan Iron Cavalry!"

"twitter!"

Adalutai looked at Tang Jun who was unable to land for a long time and showed a cold smile.

In recent years, the Tang army has been using the Yangtze River natural danger and navy to prevent the Dayuan cavalry from moving south, so that it gradually grew stronger. But now, the Dayuan can also use the Yangtze River.

It is not so easy to capture the north shore where heavy troops are defending and fortresses. Not to mention the other things, just talking about wooden stakes in shallow waters is enough for the Tang army to have a headache. The Dayuan soldiers and horses are condescending to resist the Tang army on the river with their fortifications, occupying a great advantage. Even if the Tang army can attack, they will not have much strength.

Otherwise, is it still a natural danger to the Yangtze River?

In fact, the Yuan army had always wanted the Tang army to fight in the north and then annihilate the main force of the Tang army in Jiangbei. In recent years, it took so much effort to build river defense fortifications, but the purpose was to stop the Tang army from crossing the river.

If they really can stop crossing the river, they will not be happy. Isn’t it impossible to fight the main force of the Tang army in Jiangbei?

The real purpose of building fortifications is to consume the Tang army and let the Tang army bleed as much as possible when they landed.

When necessary, take the initiative to release the Tang army.

Therefore, Kublai Khan's instructions to the Yuan army were: "Form defense in sections, focus on assistance. Put it on the shore and take the opportunity to encircle and annihilate it."

It seems that they are strictly guarding the enemy, but in fact they are just to consume the Tang army. As long as the Tang army breaks through first, the Yuan army in other places will use the maneuverability of the cavalry to encircle and annihilate it.

To be honest, this is indeed a great move. If the Tang army did not secretly control a large number of Song troops, even if they cross the Yangtze River and defeat the Yuan army, the loss would be a huge number, and it would be hard to say whether they could cross the river.

As for the main attack from the sea, it is also unreliable. How many ships do you need to transport a 300,000 army? Such a huge fleet cannot achieve a tactical raid. Once you accidentally encounter a hurricane, it will be over.

Therefore, sea attack is destined to be a partial master and cannot be used as a main attack method at all.

"Taiwei, you can't fight like this. There are many fortresses on the shore and dense wooden stakes. The Yuan army is so arrogant that our army cannons can't keep bombarding, right? Even if you don't care about shells, the firearms can't bear it." Han Shao looked at the Tang army soldiers who could never dodge and could only fight bloody battles by the river, and were anxious.

"You can't always fight a clever war. How can there be so many clever wars to fight?" Jiang Jun frowned and put down his eyes. He found that the Yuan army's cavalry suffered very little losses. Although the infantry suffered heavy casualties, they could still persist. And he had already suffered more than 2,000 casualties.

Moreover, there are 20,000 cavalrymen who are unable to participate in the war now.

But if you don’t fight like this, how can you fight? There are fortresses everywhere on the north bank of the Yangtze River today, with thousands of fortresses, covering more than 2,000 miles. Yangzhou is an important town. If you don’t cross the river from here, how can you attract the Yuan army in Yangzhou?

If you fight here harder, it will be easier for Your Majesty to cross the river.

"At most, we will have a turnaround when we fight for another day." Jiang Jun said with some distress. The casualties were indeed a bit too big.

"Transfer the order, suspend the entry into the palace and retreat to the floating bridge to repair it." Jiang Jun said helplessly.

At least it will take another day.

At the same time, Adalutai, the commander of the Yuan army on the north bank, also ordered the launch of rocket rockets, intending to burn down the Tang army's pontoon bridge and warships near the shore.

For a time, many floating bridges caught fire, and even some Tang army warships caught fire.

"Bang bang!"

"Boom boom!"

The Tang army's firearms also fought back fiercely, and the "Song Army" was also killed and injured.

However, the Song army had fortress defense, which greatly offset the attacks of Tang's arms. Often, the Tang army could only kill and injure a hundred "Song Army" in a round of expensive firearm bombardment.

It depends on the Tang army retreating temporarily, and tens of thousands of "Song army" suddenly burst into shouts.

The Mongolian Seme cavalry who were under the formation behind were even more arrogant.

The fierce offensive and defensive battle finally ended temporarily, and the two sides widened their distance and licked their wounds.

Seeing the Tang army retreating in an orderly manner and without any morale frustration, the generals of the Yuan army all looked ugly.

The Tang army is indeed a tiger and wolf soldier, and it is really the strong enemy of the Dayuan Iron Cavalry.

The next day, the Tang army attacked again. The two sides were once again caught in a war of attrition.

Although the Tang army was unable to cross the river to land, it restrained 100,000 Northern Army.

"There are no need for so many big Yuan cavalry here." Adalutai thought of a key point, and pointed his whip at the other side, "Just relying on these tens of thousands of Tang troops, we have dragged down 100,000 of us. We can't do this! This way is not the main attack direction of the Tang army!"

Deputy coach Hawadin rode his horse up a small hill, looked into the distance, and then came to Adalutai again.

"The general is right. There has been no follow-up troops from this Tang army. It has been a day since then, and it makes no sense. He can only point..." He pointed to the west, "The main attack is in the west!"

Adalutai nodded, "I think so too. Li Luo may not be here. Humph, he either crossed the river in Hanyang or from Anqing. But Li Luo was treacherous like a fox. Do you know if he is here?"

This is also possible.

If he mobilized troops to the southwest to support him, he would have been defeated by Li Luo's plan to mobilize troops. What is Yangzhou the main attack direction of the Tang army?

Isn't it possible that he had drawn troops to support the southwest, and more Tang troops appeared on the other side of the back?

Then how can he guard Yangzhou?

Therefore, even if Ada suspected that Yangzhou was not the main attack of the Tang army, he did not dare to easily support the southwest.

This is a loss of no intelligence. The Yuan and Tang sides have serious inequality in intelligence. It is very difficult for the Yuan army to conceal the actions of the Tang army, and it is also difficult for the Yuan army to figure out the actions of the Tang army.

"Report——!"

A Yuan army provoked a horse and rushed over.

"Well, the Song army from Chuzhou is here to support!" The tentman reported.

"How many people are there? Did General Huantuo come in person?" Adalutai showed joy.

At this time, he didn't know that Huantuo had been killed by the Tang army undercover in the "Chuzhou Mutiny".
To be continued...