Shi Miyuan was willing to lend the road to Mongolia. On the one hand, he wanted to disturb the border situation and find an excuse to dispatch political opponents in the DPRK, so that he could free his hands to calmly manipulate the candidates for the emperor's heir in Lin'an; on the other hand, he naturally wanted to
Add some trouble and chaos to the new neighbors in the north, and use a war taking place in the heart of the Central Plains to delay the prosperity of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
From his position, such an idea was considered cunning. But precisely because of his position, he failed to predict what kind of shock this move would have to all parts of the Song Dynasty. And because the whole plan involved confidentiality
, completely determined by the curtains, without any leakage, which led to the failure of the knowledgeable people under his command to warn him.
Therefore, when the nearby Central Plains suffered from war, the first people outside the Central Plains to get the news and the first to be furious were actually concentrated on the east and west routes of Huainan in the Song Dynasty.
They are officials who have placed their wealth on business, farmers who can live a stable life because of the continued peace, craftsmen who work in various workshops and mines that are constantly opened in close cooperation between the two families, and people who have increasingly communicated with the Central Plains.
The closer the merchants are.
In the past few years, the Zhou Dynasty has penetrated into the Song Dynasty and Huaihe areas in all aspects, and even its own Central Plains, Shandong and other places, it has almost completely condoned the exchanges of Song people. It has taken measures to restrict this.
There were very few officials in the Song Dynasty.
In this respect, Lianghuai and Jinghu areas are quite different.
Zhao Fang, the general in charge of Jinghu, was unambiguous in both military and political affairs. Under his rule, the people's interactions with the Zhou Dynasty were always controllable.
Jia She, the most powerful official in the Huaihe and Huaihe areas, had private connections with the Zhou court that were deeper than outsiders imagined. Li Yun, a close minister of the Zhou emperor and an important official in charge of industry and commerce, often went south to raise funds, and would even half-jokingly say
Jia She was called father... With such a close relationship, Lianghuai was nominally the territory of the Song Dynasty, but in fact more people relied on the Zhou Dynasty for food.
On the other hand, various places in the Central Plains of the Great Zhou Dynasty relied on the transportation capabilities of the great rivers and were also closely tied to the Huaihe River and the Huaihe River.
Once the Central Plains falls into the flames of war, it will be extremely terrifying for the two Huaihe Rivers.
At the beginning of the Mongol invasion, countless factories and mines were shut down, and the Song people working there fled back one after another. When the war spread, those who fled reported in horror the horrific massacres and plunders of the Mongols, and more and more people
People escaped with injuries, and more and more people were trapped in the battlefield and found it difficult to escape.
In one Chuzhou city alone, thousands of residents were worried about this. Thousands of people pressed for news in front of the Yamen every day, hoping that their families would be safe. Somehow, the news spread that the Mongolian army was passing through the Song Dynasty.
, and people in the whole city reviled him endlessly.
This is the case in Chuzhou, the slightly larger prefectures and counties in the Huaihe River and Huaihe River, and the slightly more economically developed cities and towns. As for places such as Xuyi and Zhenjiang Prefecture, which have become increasingly prosperous in the past two years, more than just human lives have been lost. Because industries have been destroyed, I can’t wait to be on the spot.
There are no fewer than hundreds of wealthy businessmen and civilians who wiped their necks, and a rough estimate is that the money wasted is in the millions.
The Song Dynasty was a society where scholars and scholars were in power. Under normal circumstances, these ordinary people and merchants were not able to have much influence. Even if the best among them had some political influence, they had to speak through the officials they relied on.
But at this time, when an earth-shaking event suddenly occurred outside the border, no one in the Song Dynasty government dared to act rashly before getting clear instructions from the central government, and no one knew how to deal with it. Only Jia She, who was aware of the situation, suddenly fell ill.
No one is seen at home, and no one cares. So, what should the common people and merchants do?
A few ants on a hot pot asked around and ate everywhere, and finally found the loyal army stationed in Chuzhou.
When they entered the military camp, they found hundreds of elite cavalry and well-trained soldiers in the camp.
As soon as I asked, I found out that many of the troops stationed in the Central Plains of the Great Zhou Dynasty were from the Red Coat Army, and the Zhongyi Army was a remnant of the Red Coat Army. Its leader Yang Miaozhen maintained contact with many Zhou army generals. This time the Mongolian army
The sudden attack caught the Zhou army off guard and suffered heavy losses. The number of casualties among veteran generals and soldiers belonging to Yang Miaozhen's uncles, who could be determined by the Zhongyi Army alone, exceeded 500.
How could Yang Miaozhen endure this?
She is Yang An'er's sister, a core figure in the Red Coat Army regime. She was the person who once supported the great cause of the Red Coat Army with her unparalleled pear blossom spear. Now she is retreating to Chuzhou, not because she gave up her old army, but because
She felt that the Red Coat Army officers would have a better future as members of the Zhou army under Guo Ning's command!
For this reason, Yang Miaozhen has always been content to maintain the old relationship. She ran the leading horse farm in Lianghuai and dominated the local mink trade, but she never interfered in other matters. Previously, Guo Ning regarded Yin Chang's mistakes as
As a result, Yang Miaozhen ruthlessly purged a large number of old Red Coat Army troops, but Yang Miaozhen did not know what to do.
But Yang Miaozhen would not watch her old relatives and friends die one after another, let alone tolerate them dying at the hands of the Mongols!
She has never been in battle in the past few years. Her main experience has been dealing with the Song court and maintaining the existence of the loyal army. The Song people have always been wary of people fleeing from the south to the north, let alone a fully organized army. Even though Jia She always
Take care, the wind and frost swords in the officialdom are still more sinister than the light and shadow of swords on the battlefield.
Fortunately, despite the wind and frost, Yang Miaozhen's decisive temper has not changed, and her courage has not diminished. Now that she has made the decision, she immediately gathers her elite cavalry.
This decision also made many people in Chuzhou city overjoyed. Everyone has heard about how ferocious the Mongols were day after day, but after all, they have never seen it with their own eyes, but everyone knows how fierce the old Red Coat Army is.
No matter what this army will do, at least I can ask them to save the lives of my relatives!
At present, everyone not only raised supplies for Yang Miaozhen's department, but also mobilized various connections to remove obstacles along the way for Yang Miaozhen and his party.
For the officials of the Song Dynasty, if they were to directly find a way to intervene in the chaos in the north, they would be afraid of the wolf in front and the tiger in the back. But Yang Miaozhen's intervention was different.
If things are not harmonious, what will be consumed is the Zhongyi Army, an army that is semi-independent outside the imperial system. If things go well, they can take the opportunity to form a good relationship with the people under their rule. Why not? To put it bluntly,
Even if the Zhou Dynasty pursues the Song army's entry later, it is debatable whether the Zhongyi Army is considered a Song army.
At that time, Yang Miaozhen led his troops to leave Chuzhou and cross the Huaihe River in Sizhou.
Ordinarily, with the outbreak of war in the Central Plains, Sizhou, as an important border town, should have been closed off long ago. However, Yang Miaozhen and his subordinates had a very close relationship with the Zhou army, and they all had fought against the Mongols.
They trusted each other. So she galloped along the road without any hindrance. Instead, she continued to select the stragglers she met along the way and included those who were still willing to fight into the team.
When they arrived at Guide Mansion, the number of cavalry under Yang Miaozhen had exceeded 2,000.
Fortunately, the Zhongyi Army had a large number of horses and had collected many armored staffs from the Huaihe River, so the newly recruited subordinates still had horses to ride on, and they were generally tall and powerful horses from the North.
At this time, outside the old city of Suiyang, two thousand Mongolian families were worried about the fortress of the ancient city of Suiyang.
Before Tuo Lei led his troops to invade the Central Plains, he specifically ordered not to attack the city to avoid unnecessary losses of troops. However, as the control area continued to expand, if some important military nodes were not captured, no matter how powerful the Mongolian cavalry's mobility was,
It is also inevitable to be passive.
Therefore, including these two thousand households, the Mongolian armies in various places have been trying to recruit people from the Han people in recent days, planning to use them to fill ravines, hold arrows, and use them as consumables when attacking fortresses.
Of course, this kind of temporarily assembled troops had very weak fighting will. The only reason they could charge forward was that the steel knives used by the Mongolian army in the back to intimidate seemed more powerful than their former colleagues in the front. In the early years, the Mongols were first
When they first invaded the Central Plains, ten Mongolian cavalry could drive thousands of servants into battle, but this was no longer possible. The Han Dynasty was changing, and they were very angry. Two thousand-man troops were watching the surrendering troops, fearing that they would not be dedicated.
In fact, the two thousand-man teams themselves were not satisfied with the organization.
They were the five soldiers who followed Mu Huali back then. Later, after hundreds of battles, they were constantly expanded and divided. In a team of 1,000 people, no more than 600 people could be used to drive the Central Plains. The day before yesterday and yesterday, because
The prisoner camp in Pan Gang rioted one after another, and they successively sent hundreds of people to support them.
At this time, in order to deter the servants who were attacking the fortress, the two captains lined up the remaining men along the perimeter of the fortress to ensure that the front looked terrifying. For this reason, they even mobilized the light cavalry that were originally scattered in the distance.
Come back and recharge.
Who could have expected that a fine cavalry would come out from behind them at this moment?
The Mongolians are indeed very skilled in tactics. After discovering that the enemy was approaching, the two hundred cavalrymen at the rear immediately turned around to intercept them without waiting for the commander's order. According to the nomadic people's experience in dealing with the Central Plains cavalry, they would dispatch the enemy as soon as they had the slightest contact with them.
The horses wandered around, firing bows and arrows intensively. Many of them carried bulu, hand axes and the like with them, and they also mixed in the rain of arrows and threw them.
This wave of arrows immediately knocked down the cavalry on the opposite side.
A Mongolian captain took the opportunity to shout repeatedly, and slowly pressed forward with his men, planning to fire another wave of arrows within fifty steps. On his left and right, the Mongolian cavalry galloped, opened their short bows, and constantly adjusted their positions.
, as long as the commander gives the order, it can be released at any time.
However, a moment later, in the churning smoke and dust on the opposite side, a dozen riders suddenly accelerated. They passed over their fallen companions as if they were flying in the clouds, and like a sharp arrow shot out of the string, they crashed into the Mongolians in the blink of an eye.
