September in the north, the autumn is clear and the grass is yellow and the deer is fat, which is a good time for Mongolian Seminary nobles to hunt.

Kublai Khan led a large number of princes, nobles and palace concubines to the royal hunting ground to "dismount and let fly" to hunt.

Xue Chan Khan was always galloping on his horse, whistling in the Wushan forest, and he was: the old hero is there, pulling his bow and shooting at the great wilderness.

With a "swoosh", a Mongolian palace concubine over 40 years old shot down a pheasant with a neat arrow, which made Kublai laugh.

"My Nanbi, shooting pheasants is nothing. If you want to shoot, shoot geese!" Kublai Khan stopped his horse and pointed at the geese in the sky and smiled.

After saying that, he also said to the guards around him, "Today's geese, the Legend of the Condor Heroes cannot do anything, everyone else can shoot!"

Although the geese fly higher, it is still easy for the Sagittarius to shoot. So they are not allowed to shoot.

Nan Bi is the second queen of Kublai Khan, and has always been favored by Kublai Khan. At this time, she looked at the geese that were flying over and frowned and said with a frown: "My noble sweat, you really make the helpless Nan Bi. How can Nan Bishe shoot down the geese in the sky?"

But as soon as she finished speaking, she heard a whoosh sound, a feather arrow shot straight into the sky, and then a whine came from the sky. A wild goose caught in the arrow struggled to turn a few somersaults in the air, then flapped its wings and fell down.

Falled!

"Okay! My Hudu is lost, your archery has improved even more!" Kublai Khan looked at his favorite daughter Hudu is lost, the previous Queen of Goryeo.

This arrow suddenly became lost and shot.

Hu Du lost his mind and said, "Father Khan, the reason why my archery skills have improved is because I use my prey as Li Luo every day. Since I returned to Dadu, I have been hunting for seven days. Every day, I will shoot many Li Luo who has wings and Li Luo who has horns."

How could she not hate Li Luo? The country of Goryeo was destroyed by Li Luo, and her title as Queen of Goryeo was gone. In the end, Li Luo exchanged her and her children for a large number of plowing oxes.

She wanted to bite Li Luo to death, to kill this man who deceived her trust, to use herself to betray her!

When Kublai Khan heard Hu Dumilo mention Li Luo, his face suddenly became dark. He tried hard to adjust his mood these days, but his daughter was destroyed again.

"My Hudu is lost, don't insult your powerful enemy like this." Kublai Khan said coldly, "Li Luo is not a beast with wings and horns, he is a strong enemy of the Yuan Dynasty. Only when we Mongolians face our enemies can we respect ourselves."

Boyan was worried that the Khan would be angry, so he immediately stepped forward and said, "Khan, although the Dayuan lost the Battle of Henan and the Battle of Yongzhou, Dayuan won the west. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was about to unify Oerdawulus (White Horde) and Sibanwulus (Green Horde). My entire Great Mongolian Kingdom will be completely unified."

Kublai Khan finally smiled.

After the Yuan Dynasty unified the Daduwulus (Golden Horde), the White Horde and Green Horde, which were affiliated with the Golden Horde, remained independent. Now, they are about to be destroyed by real gold.

Boyan continued to talk about what Kublai Khan had known for a long time: "His Highness Anxi is about to conquer Rom (Rom Sultanate), and will soon be able to get Haixi Island (Asia Minor). The Yuan Dynasty will expand its territory for thousands of miles and attract millions of people."

This year, Li Luo expanded his territory, and Kublai Khan was not idle either. He would soon take over the entire Eastern Europe and Asia Minor.

The territory of the Great Mongolian Kingdom, nearly 20,000 miles from east to west, is actually the largest country in ancient times.

Boyan looked at Kublai Khan carefully and said, "The Khan, now he has lost Song land and half of Jin land, and Dali, half of Xixia and the entire Goryeo. My Dayuan is the only one left in the east, including Liaodong, Dasha, Ganliang, Heshuo, and Tubo. It is beyond the reach of the western territory. The Khan, the slaves, think it is time to consider moving the capital to the Western Capital (Alimari)."

The Yuan court set Alimali (Ili), the former capital of Chagatai Khanate, as the Western Capital. Not only did it have vast grasslands with abundant water and grass, it was also in the middle of the Great Mongolian Kingdom. Whether it was to the western or eastern front, it could reach it by horse within a month.

Kublai Khan didn't say anything, looked up at the geese in the world for a long time without saying a word.

Since Henan suffered a crushing defeat and Yongzhou strategy failed, Dayuan completely retreated to Heshuo. Kublai Khan understood that it would be difficult for him to defend Dadu.

Now, Li Tang surrounded Dayuan from Hexi, Henan, and Goryeo on three sides, and there were powerful navys who could land in Haijin at any time. Dayuan's soldiers and horses suffered heavy losses, and they were also losing sight of one and the other. Can he still stop Li Luo from capturing Heshuo?

Even if it can be stopped, how many Mongolian cavalry will be killed or injured?

He actually didn't feel sorry for losing Henan. What he felt sorry for was that the battle of Henan actually lost 50,000 precious Mongolian warriors. The Red Army and the Han Army were not counted.

Nowadays, there are only more than 80,000 Mongolian cavalry in the Han area of ​​the Yuan Dynasty. In addition to the garrisons of the Khanate in Liaodong, the desert in the south and north, and Shangjing Helin, there are only 150,000 and 160,000 Mongolian cavalry in the entire eastern region.

Of course, there are still more than 100,000 Mongolian cavalry in the West, all of which are the soldiers and horses of the previous Khanate. These soldiers and horses must not be transferred to the east, otherwise the West will be unable to suppress them.

In the entire Great Mongolian Kingdom, the total strength of the Mongolian cavalry dropped to less than 300,000, and it really could not be lost in large quantities. Otherwise, what would he use to control the Red Army of the Detective Horse? What would he use to control the Han army? What would he use to control the territory of more than 10,000 miles east and west?

Only when the Mongolian Iron Cavalry still has the strength of it can suppress the Semu Army and Han Army several times and be used by the Dayuan.

Therefore, rationally speaking, Dayuan should give up Hebei and Hedong and retreat to the north of the Great Wall.

But he was really unwilling to give up.

The Han land was built by the Yuan Dynasty with great effort, so how can we quit voluntarily?

Kublai Khan was very conflicted. He had been in a dilemma since the news of his defeat came.

But Boyan's next words helped Kublai Khan make up his mind.

"Khan, I forgive my servants' words. Although Khan has been around for generations, this year is 75. Khan will take care of the land in the west by himself..." When Boyan said this, it was hard to say anything else.

The meaning is very clear.

Da Khan, you are already seventy-five years old. If you don’t go to the west to stay, you may not have a chance. With such a large territory in the West, how can you truly be stable without Da Khan’s staying in power for a few years?

Kublai Khan nodded with a gloomy face, "Boyan, tell me, for me, Dayuan, is the East more important than the Westerly, or should the Easter more important than the Westerly?"

He actually knew very well in his heart that he wanted to hear the opinions of his ministers.

Boyan said: "I thought that a few years ago, of course the East valued the West valued the West valued it less than the West. But now, of course, the East valued it less than the West valued it more than the West."

"Da Khan, before, I, Dayuan, owned the Jin land, Song land, Dali, and Goryeo. The population under my rule was large and I could not use all the money, grain and slaves. But now, the only thing left in the Han land is Heshuo, and the entire eastern population is less than tens of millions. How can I afford the Dayuan?"

"But the West is different. According to the latest number calculated by the Secretariat, the six major western provinces in the Yuan Dynasty have a population of more than 40 million. If Fulin (Eastern Rome) is built, the population will increase by tens of millions. Therefore, the west is more important than the east is less than the east!"

"Instead of fighting with Li Luo in Heshuo and losing the Mongolian cavalry, it is better to voluntarily withdraw from Dadu and move the capital to Alimari. Dayuan was not afraid of Li Luo, but was not cost-effective to spend money with him in the Han area." Boyan said bitterly.

These topics can never avoid Mongolia’s most fatal weakness: too small population.

Can't afford to die.

There are only so many Mongolian soldiers left, distributed on such a vast territory, and they are no longer sufficient to use. Where can they be consumed in large quantities?

"It's not that far." Kublai Khan touched his silver braid, "The Tubo people are still attacking Sichuan, and the King of Yunnan also sent troops to Tianzhu. If these two places win, the Dayuan Iron Cavalry will immediately go south again and regain Henan and Shaanxi!"

"Even if I don't win, I will never give Heshuo to Li Luo. I will let him exchange money and grain for it. After giving enough money and grain, I will return Heshuo to the Han people. If I don't give it, then continue to fight and let the Semin soldiers and the Han soldiers fight. I want to see if Li Luo cares about the death and injury of the Tang army, or whether it cares about money and grain."

This old man was thinking of using Heshuo for the greatest benefit.

This is a conspiracy.

If Li Luo is willing to spend money to redeem Heshuo, he can make a big profit, and he will have a step to go to abandon Heshuo.

If Li Luo is unwilling to spend money to redeem it, he must take back Heshuo with the casualties of the Tang army soldiers. If he does this, it is equivalent to regarding money and food as more important than the lives of the soldiers. In this way, what will the Li Tang army and civilians think of their emperor?

Li Luo's mercy disguised as he will be self-defeating.

"The khan is very smart. I think Li Luo will be in a dilemma at that time. In the end, he will probably take money and food to redeem it for the sake of his face." An Tong smiled.

"That's not necessarily." Kublai Khan shook his head, "Li Luo is treacherous, and this person rarely suffers losses. He may not have no way to solve this trick. An Tong, you must hurry up when transferring slaves."

An Tong said, "Don't worry, Khan has now sent more than 500,000 Han slaves to the west. By next year, more than one million will be sent. Khan, based on what his servants saw, simply sent all the Han people in Hebei and Hedong to the west, so that Heshuo will become a dead land and an open space for thousands of people."

Kublai Khan also thought about it, but such a big plan is very difficult to implement.

How many people are there in Hedong, Hebei? Not counting the Mongols, there are still eight million Han people (including the Jurchen Khitan).

Most of these eight million Han people were survivors of the Liao and Jin dynasties, and they were the most obedient and obedient to the Yuan Dynasty. But if they were asked to leave their hometowns to go to the distant Western Regions, most of them would definitely not be willing to do so.

The only ones who voluntarily went there were the Han army and their families, the Han army's family, the Han officials who served the Dayuan family, and the gentry and wealthy families from all over the country. Together, it was only more than one million. Adding more than one million Han slaves, he could only take away three million people in batches.

The remaining five million Han people will not leave.

The Han people relocated to the land very seriously. If they were forced, they would probably resist. This is second. The most important thing is that even if they were really willing to go, how could there be so much food for them to eat on the road?

Even if there is so much food, why give it to them?

Besides, how could the Tang army give up when millions of Han people were taken away? That was something that was about to be pursued.

"Don't be too greedy, otherwise it will be a bad thing." Kublai Khan warned An Tong, "Just take away the slaves, Han army, and Han officials."

Brother Sang said fiercely: "Shan, do you want to get all the men who will not leave at that time..." He said as he made a move to cut his neck.

Boyan immediately opposed: "No! How can millions of Han people be killed? They won't rebel? Will the Han army not rebel? The Tang army is on the south bank of the Yellow River. As long as you take action, the Tang army will still be unable to reach the river?"

Brother Sang said: "If Dayuan really wants to leave Heshuo, he will leave a broken Heshuo for Li Luo. He can't give him any more money. Otherwise, he will be killed. The five Han people with surnames Li, Wang, Liu, Zhang, and Wanyan will kill all the rest except a few."

"Okay! Brother Sang, is this what you, the prime minister, should say?" Kublai Khan was unhappy. "I have been their emperor for decades. I cannot kill them just because I am leaving. They have no guilt. Killing so many people will be of useless hatred, besides proving that the skills of the Yuan Dynasty are poor, and besides letting me leave an eternal infamy in the Central Plains, is there any benefit?"

"So what if these people left to Li Luo? Can he destroy Dayuan by adding millions of Han people? Why don't you leave a way out and room for Dayuan to fight back? Brother Sang, have you become cowardly because of fear, and have you become mindless and cruel because of cowardly?"

Brother Sang was so scared that he immediately knelt down, "My big sweat, my slave is confused. The slave loses his mind like an angry yak. ​​Please punish the Khan!"

"Put your body flat." Kublai Khan looked at Brother Sang dissatisfiedly, "Only those who can afford to lose and remain calm when they lose are real heroes. A few battles in Dayuan are not a big deal. But if you defeat a war, you lose your mind, and that is to seek death."

"You all have to remember that I have said earlier that the Mongolians should look for pastures with abundant water and grass, hunting grounds with wild animals, and obedient slaves. Instead of fighting for a bunch of jackals who also eat meat for a piece of boring ribs."

"The Han people have a saying that too much is too little. You must grasp the right measure in everything. It is the same as killing people. Those who can kill enemies surrender because of fear. Those who can kill enemies fight desperately because of despair. No one has ever been able to kill people with a knife to fight out of the country."

"There are still thousands of miles of land and tens of millions of people in the Dayuan period. You can do it yourself. In a hundred years, you will still assist the prince and do not disappoint me."

Everyone knelt down together: "Zhe! The servants will never forget the teachings of the Khan!"

…………

Jiangling, Fengzi Palace.

"The red beans are born in the south, and there are a few pieces of them in spring..." Li, who was only four years old, was reciting Tang poetry in a silence. A white fox was still squatting at her feet.

"Okay, Xiangyang has a good back." Cui Xiuning pulled the little girl and scratched her nose, "What reward does Xiangyang want?"

Li tilted his little head, "I want to sleep with my mother tonight."

Cui Xiuning smiled and said, "Why do you want to sleep with your mother? Is your nanny not good?"

Li nodded cutely, "Hello, mama, but mama is not a mother."

Cui Xiuning hugged Li with some distress, "Then Xiangyang will sleep with the queen mother tonight, and the queen mother will tell you a story."

Li smiled so hard that his eyes were like crescent moons. He hugged Cui Xiuning for a long time and refused to let go. The white fox looked at the little master, wondering why the little master was so happy.

Cui Xiuning gave birth to six children in four children, and a adopted daughter, Li, who is equivalent to the legitimate daughter. However, because she is busy with work and has many children, she actually has little time to accompany them, even if she is accompanying them, she often teaches them to study.

He rarely sleeps with his children, so he tells even less stories.

Li is not her and Li Luo's biological child, but Cui Xiuning is not biased. Li Wei, the eldest princess, should have, and Li also has it.

"...But, this time the child called the wolf and no one came to save him. He shouted loudly, and no one believed him anymore. He thought he was lying, but the result was..."

At night, Cui Xiuning was holding Li on the bed. When she was about to finish "The Wolf is Coming", the call from the female official Yan Chan'er came from outside the bedroom, "Report to the Queen, there is Yizhou Military Newspaper."

Cui Xiuning quickly said, "So the child was eaten by a wolf." He handed Li to the palace maid and then came to the study.

The spy Li Zhi was already waiting.

"Teacher. Shangshu Wanyan (Du Lie) set up firearm positions in the Ganwang River Valley of Songpan, pretending to retreat and attracting the Tubo army to pursue it. He defeated the Tubo coalition forces 100,000, and captured two leaders of Achaima and Tuosima. Shangshu Wanyan asked to take advantage of the victory to attack Tubo, and his memorial should still be on the way."

Cui Xiuning asked nervously: "How are our army's casualties?"

The battle in Yizhou has been fighting intermittently for a while, and this time it finally won the decisive battle.

Li Zhi replied: "More than 5,000 people were killed in battle and more than 11,000 were injured. Thirty-eight thousand Tubo cavalry were killed, and countless injured were incapacitated. More than 24,000 Tubo horses were seized and more than 60,000 Tubo horses were seized. Only more than 30,000 Tubo troops fled back to Tubo. Now, the young and strong people of the Tubo tribes have been lost, which is a good time to take advantage of the victory to win Tubo."

Cui Xiuning frowned, "There are many casualties. Have the people in the west of Yizhou been poisoned?"

Li Zhi smiled and said, "Teacher, don't worry, the Tubo coalition forces have not been able to break through the Songfan grassland defense line. They fought for more than half a month, but they didn't get anything."

Cui Xiuning shook his head, "Kublai used them again and again, and they were defeated by the Tang Dynasty twice, and the young and strong people in the tribe were wiped out. At this time, the Tubo tribes were like a weak patient and could not escape for a while."

"There is no need to deal with them for the time being. Recovering Tubo, and advancing from Songfan is the worst strategy. General Mabalangjie gave His Majesty the last words before his death. The best strategy to recover Tubo is to advance from the Yarlung Zangbo River in the south."

After Cui Xiuning finished speaking, he was about to order Du Lie to let Du Lie go to the army. He told him that it was not the time to conquer the Tubo tribes, and even if he wanted to continue using troops, he should not advance from Songfan.

"Now only Hengbei is left. Is there the latest military information?" What Cui Xiuning is most worried about now is Hengbei.

The most recent military information in Hengbei was that the Yuan Dynasty's Yunnan King had moved south from the Afghan mountain pass in later generations. It was intercepted by Qu Shi, the general of the Tang army of Hengbei, in the northeast of the Tianzhu River (Indus River) in later Pakistan.

Qu Shi had few soldiers, and the Yuan army was all cavalry mainly composed of eye-catching soldiers, so Qu Shi could only defend according to the pass.

But it is obvious that with Qu Shi's troops and cavalry, he could only stabilize the defense line of Guanhe at most.

Once the Yuan army breaks through the defense line and enters Hengbei, a great anti-Tang riot among the Indians will break out of Hengbei.

As soon as the anti-Tang riot broke out, the Tang army decided not to defend Hengbei under the army of the king of Yunnan.

Once Hengbei is lost, both Myanmar and Dali will face the Yuan army's military peak. Once the Yuan army invades Nanyang, it is not impossible for the anti-Tang riots in Nanyang.

Li Zhi shook his head: "The latest military information is probably two or three days away. What students are most worried about is that even if the military information arrives, it will happen many days ago. The second batch of reinforcements in the Tang Dynasty will not reach the Hengbei battlefield for a while. Therefore, the key is to see whether the hard work can play a role."

Hard…

Cui Xiuning estimated that thank you for your hard work, it should be almost time for Tianzhu. As for whether she can play a role, relevant information must be on the way.

In order to ensure insurance, Cui Xiuning immediately issued a secret order to Chen Shuzhen, who had just crossed the river and returned to Jiangnan, asking her to lead 50,000 Tang troops south to Mianzhou, so as not to increase the consequences after Hengbei fell.

However, it would be too late to let Chen Shuzhen rescue Hengbei. Even if Chen Shuzhen's troops use the fastest speed, it will take at least nearly a month to arrive in Hengbei.

"Don't worry, teacher. Although Qu Shi only has 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are invincible. Yesian Timur is a defeated general under the Tang Dynasty. This time he will definitely be defeated again." Li Zhi said.

A big defeat?

That is impossible.

Cui Xiuning was certainly not that optimistic. Qu Shi not only had to resist the Yuan army several times his own, but also guarded the vast Hengbei to prevent the anti-Tang riots by the Indians. He even had to guard against Liang Guoli, the south of the Ganges, and attacked the Yuan Dynasty, and then attacked him from behind.

There were only tens of thousands of soldiers and horses with limited cavalry, and the logistics were not easy. How could it be that the Yuan army was defeated?

The Nanyang Ocean is empty and there is only a little troops guarding the various places, so it is difficult to mobilize troops to support Hengbei.

Cui Xiuning thought about it and decided to squeeze out some soldiers nearby.

"Take 3,000 soldiers from Myanmar, 5,000 troops from the Nanyang Protectorate, 3,000 soldiers from Jiaozhou, 3,000 soldiers from Dianzhou, and 2,000 soldiers from Xiangzhou, and quickly support Hengbei."

Cui Xiuning issued an order to the Military Advisor's Office, and asked the Military Advisor's Office to send these six thousand reinforcements to Hengbei as quickly as possible.

On that day, a few fast horses rushed out of Jiangling and galloped south along the post station avenue.

Eight hundred miles of speed up!

Within half a month, six thousand reinforcements can be sent to Hengbei.

At the same time, Cui Xiuning issued an urgent order to Du Lie, who ended the battle of Yizhou, so that he would lead the imperial guards without having to go east, but instead go south directly, and the guards were extremely empty after being transferred several times.

For example, the Nanyang Protectorate Palace, this time, another 5,000 soldiers were dispatched to Hengbei, and only a few thousand soldiers were left to guard such a large territory.

If Du Lie directly leads troops to the south, he can make up for the military vacuum there.

This is the best way.

In the past, Cui Xiuning believed that more than 700,000 troops of the Tang Dynasty were enough. However, as the territory grew bigger, it was discovered that it was not enough to use it at all.

It seems that at least we have to train new recruits.

So, an order to recruit new recruits was issued again.

"The Ministry of War will recruit five thousand new recruits in Yangzhou, five thousand new recruits in Yizhou, five thousand new recruits in Dianzhou... and another fifty thousand people..."
Chapter completed!