Yu Wenhui's granting of land was incidental, and establishing grassroots officials through granting land was the real purpose.
Most of the officials who were assigned to manage and grant land were powerful men in his army, mixed with some scholars who were under his control. These people supervised each other and deeply penetrated his power into every corner, allowing him to
On the occupied land, every household's population is firmly controlled.
Although this method is slow, it is irresistible. As long as it is implemented for a few years, the Song Dynasty's finances will inevitably deteriorate due to the continuous loss of population. Even the food may not be edible, and it will be self-defeating. Once there is a natural disaster, the Southern Song Dynasty regime will be destroyed in an instant.
It will collapse without even needing an army to attack.
However, Yu Wenhui was counting the time, suddenly became a little irritable, and decided to speed up the process of the war. Taking advantage of the general trend at this time, he sent various secret envoys to continuously bribe the officials of the Song Dynasty. Within a few months, a large number of Song Dynasty officials opened the city gates.
Surrender to him, the King of the South.
Historically, although there were many loyal ministers in the Southern Song Dynasty, more surrendered. There are more than 200 military generals named in the history books, and hundreds of thousands of troops before and after took refuge with the Mongols.
In addition, Yu Wenhui unintentionally asked the ministers of the Song Dynasty to come to "apologise" and wipe out all the loyal people in the Southern Song Dynasty court. Therefore, the Southern Song Dynasty court at this time was much worse than in history.
Although the Southern Song Dynasty court was willing to resist, it was worried about angering the "Southern King". Yu Wenhui always kept a line against the Southern Song Dynasty and never even posed to attack Lin'an City, which was different from the previous Jin invasions.
, which made the monarchs and ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty feel lucky.
In particular, at this time, there was no talk of war in the court, and the mainstream voice was: Anyway, Yu Wenhui only captured some land and population, so it is better to let him go, rather than angering the Southern King and causing him to send troops to attack.
The capital is much better.
The imperial court of the Southern Song Dynasty was so confused that even Yu Wenhui did not expect it. After taking in a large number of surrendered generals and officials who had taken refuge in the Southern Song Dynasty, he got the advice of these people and simply avoided Lin'an City. He divided his troops into more than ten groups and continued to move forward.
Southern invasion.
The army of the Song Dynasty was relatively concentrated, and there were no local troops at all. That's why Fangla raised troops and swept across several states. Even when its power was at its most expanded, it occupied an area larger than that of the Jin Kingdom.
Yu Wenhui avoided Hangzhou and did not attack Lin'an. The Song Dynasty court did not take any action to rescue various places, as if it did not know that if these places were gone, the Song Dynasty court would not be able to exist.
Yu Wenhui was sitting in the middle, checking the advancement of various armies every day. Suddenly, he felt like playing a cheat game in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Almost all players who played Romance of the Three Kingdoms used this tactic, concentrating their troops and constantly occupying the city. When encountering sufficient troops,
Go around the cities with many generals and attack the empty cities with few guards and few troops.
As more and more cities are occupied, players can recruit more troops, relying on the number of troops to push through those difficult cities one by one.
The invasions of Liao, Xixia, Jin, and Mongolia in the past dynasties all involved burning, killing, and looting. They did not encounter much strong resistance at first. After the Song army was dispatched, they usually fought a big battle and retreated with the looted goods.
.These nomads never had the idea of going deep into the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty, because they were worried about going deep alone and did not have such strong supplies, so they could not invade too deeply.
Yu Wenhui is different. His understanding of the Southern Song Dynasty is far better than anyone else in this era. Even if he doesn't understand it well enough, just search it on the Internet and you will understand everything.
Yu Wenhui's more than ten armies, although their speeds are different, are like snowballs. Every time they conquer a place, their strength increases by one point.
Several months later, good news finally came. An army advanced to the seaside and penetrated the entire Song Dynasty.
After more than a month, armies from all walks of life occupied almost all the port cities along the coast. Seventy-eight percent of the ships in the Song Dynasty fell into the hands of Yu Wenhui, leaving only Mingzhou (now Ningbo) for the navy of the Song Dynasty.
The main base.
As the battle against the Song Dynasty progressed, Yu Wenhui became more emotionally complicated, because every time his army succeeded in attacking a city, he would think of the humiliation in history. In the copy of Genghis Khan, human nature is almost real.
It's like recreating everything in history.
The wretchedness of the Southern Song Dynasty's court was so rotten that it filled my nostrils when I was reading history books. At this time, it was as if I was actually there, seeing all the wretchedness of the Southern Song Dynasty's officialdom. Even if it was the enemy, Yu Wenhui's experience would never be easy.
As long as they get out of the way of the main force of the Song army, the Song army is like the NPCs in the Three Kingdoms game. They will never take the initiative to provoke. Even if they are separated by Wu Wenhui's army, they will not move as long as they do not take the initiative to attack.
Yu Wenhui checked the map. At this time, there were only seven strategic places left in the Southern Song Dynasty where the army gathered, as well as the nearby cities controlled by these strategic locations. The rest of the country was completely lost. If he wanted to conquer the cities again, he would have to go with the army.
The Song army was defeated.
Yu Wenhui continuously issued orders, mobilized troops and generals, and prepared to attack Mingzhou first, seize the last seaport controlled by the Song Dynasty, and cut off the way for the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty to escape to the sea first.
If the Southern Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers were allowed to flee to sea, he would really have some trouble. After all, the sea is vast, and the Song Dynasty's shipping was not inferior to the Ming Dynasty. It is very likely that he would occupy a certain island and settle there, making it impossible for him to complete the task of destroying the Southern Song Dynasty.
The armies that attacked various places along the coast of the Song Dynasty, under the orders of Yu Wenhui, returned to their respective armies, using the force of outflanking to gradually compress the area controlled by the Southern Song Dynasty court.
The guarding general of Mingzhou at this time was not any famous anti-Yuan general in history, but Fan Wenhu, a general whose incompetence shines through the annals of history!
This man is a notorious general in history who is always defeated. Not only will he be defeated in every battle in his life, but he will also flee in battle. After surrendering to the Yuan Dynasty, Kublai Khan wanted to use war to wipe out the Southern Song Dynasty's surrendered troops, so he sent this man to lead 100,000 soldiers.
The army marched eastward to Japan, but only three people from the 100,000-strong army returned, and the whole army was wiped out on the sea. At that time, almost all the troops in the eastward expedition were Han Chinese, and only a very small number of Mongolians.
Faced with such an opponent, Yu Wenhui just sent troops to attack directly without making any plans. He was not an outstanding commander anyway, and his generals were more capable of fighting than he was.
All he had to do was wait for a few days, and sure enough, good news came. Under the encirclement of the army, Yu Chongheng took advantage of the fact that the Mingzhou defenders were unable to leave the city for reconnaissance, so he deliberately led a small group of troops to show off their power and attract the defenders to leave the city.
He launched a surprise attack and wiped out this Song army, and was the first to lead the army into Mingzhou.
General Fan Wenhu, in order to sell himself for glory, not only surrendered himself, but also ordered all the ships to be sacrificed, allowing Yu Chongheng to make his first contribution.
After Mingzhou was conquered, the Southern Song Dynasty court finally became anxious and sent four armies in succession to conquer, two of which were famous anti-Yuan generals.