Smelting and Exploding the Heavens

Chapter 51
It took Fan Zhuoyuan a month to take over the capital and engrave a stele to record his meritorious deeds.

This month's army is not without action, except for arranging for the bureaucrats who have been loyal to themselves in Kyoto to take up posts in the local area to assist in governance.

It means that the army will attack in all directions and sweep away the scattered resistance forces in various places.

These resistance forces composed of warriors have extremely strong personal combat effectiveness, and they are scattered in the wilderness and mountains, making it extremely difficult to eliminate.

So Fan Zhuoyuan and his subordinates discussed a way to take advantage of the fact that Japan has many mountains and few plains, and each plain is an important grain-producing economic zone.

First strictly control the grain-producing areas of the plains, and then use the strategy of benefiting the people to win over civilians and businessmen, and on this basis, establish a militia that is separated from the warrior class, and control the mountain strongholds guarding the plains.

Taking the major strongholds as the main points, with the experienced soldiers and generals of the Fan family army as the backbone, leading the local militia who are familiar with the place to sweep into the mountains, they can often reap great achievements.

After all, the tactics of guerrilla warfare are very dependent on the support of the local people. Without the intelligence resources and food supplies quietly provided by the people, guerrilla warfare can starve to death in the end.

Fan Zhuoyuan's tactic has completely cut off the foundation of the local warrior class. Even though there are still many warriors in various places who still insist on resisting, it is difficult to become a force, and they have become a force like bandits and bandits.

And the imperial envoy also came to Kyoto from Kyushu this month with Fan Wenhu...

The special envoy is a Mongolian named Yuxi Timur. He wears traditional Mongolian aristocratic costumes and has curly hair, which resembles a Mediterranean style. Long braids are drawn down on both sides of his forehead.

The body is extremely thick, with a typical inverted triangle face shape, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, dark skin, and thick beard. It still seems to maintain a simple nomadic style, and has not been corroded by the extravagant life of most people.

Yuxi Timur was not a diplomatic official, but a royal doctor.

Although he was a civil servant, he had excellent military skills. In the 24th year of the Yuan Dynasty, Zong Wang Naiyan launched a rebellion, and Kublai Khan personally conquered it.In the following year, he fought against the rebel King Hadan in the HLJ River Basin, and made considerable military exploits.

This time he went south to Koryo and went to Japan on the way, because he had just put down the rebel King Hadan, when he met the defeated soldiers of the Eastern Route Army and heard the news that the Eastern Route Army was destroyed by a typhoon.

Therefore, while reporting to the imperial court, he led his cronies to the south, took advantage of the typhoon to stop, and went directly to Japan, with extremely strong action and political acumen.

Since Fan Zhuoyuan took Kyoto completely and controlled the situation in Japan, Yuxi Timur, who landed on Kyushu Island, did not rush to the front to fight for military power, and took the credit of destroying the country into his own hands.

Because he knew that it was too late. Although Fan Wenhu, the commander of the Jiangnan Army, was an idiot, when he arrived in Kyushu Island and asked around a little, Yuxi Timur immediately knew that the real man in the army was Fan Wenhu's son, Fan Zhuoyuan.

From the various deeds of this person, one can tell that he is a decisive person who kills and kills. If he fights for power, his life may be in danger.

What's more, during the trip to Kyushu Island, Yuxi Timur had already discovered that Fan Zhuoyuan had managed the place like an iron bucket, with both politics and military affairs, people's support, and a new interest group attached to the surrendered army of the Southern Dynasty had gradually formed.

It is absolutely impossible for him to lead a team of dozens of people to win power, so he can only take one step at a time and inquire about the abilities of Fan Zhuoyuan, who is leading the battle on the front line.

In the end, it doesn't matter if you don't inquire, but once you inquire, even Yuxi Timur, who is used to seeing famous courtiers and fierce generals, can't help being shocked.

Although Japan's local army is not strong enough, after all, it has an absolute numerical advantage, and there are veterans from the Song Dynasty who fled here to help.

However, Fan Zhuoyuan was able to win a lot of battles. Originally, a big victory was nothing. Once the defeated army retreated into the mountains, Fan Zhuoyuan's subordinates would have no choice but to do nothing.

However, he still uses both political and military strategies to easily wipe out the local resistance forces by occupying one place, and then gather troops to attack the next place.

Yuxi Timur has seen too many generals who can fight, but very few generals who can combine politics and military. The only way for most generals to stabilize the place is to massacre the city.

In the court, there are only two people who can have this ability.As the prime minister, Boyan, he combined the method of political attack to conquer the Southern Dynasty. He recruited and surrendered a large number of Southern Dynasty troops with little or no killing, forcing many places to surrender without a fight.

The second is Han general Guo Kan, who once accompanied Xu Liewu on an expedition to West Asia, and repeatedly defeated more than [-] cities of the Green Sect army and more than [-] cities of the Crusaders in West Asia, and conquered many countries. The people in the conquered land are afraid, and even the opponents exclaimed "General Dongtian, God and man."

However, such a famous general who shocked the world has not been reused by Kublai Khan since he left Hulagu and returned to the country. Most of them were only used for local counter-rebellion.

In Yuxi Timur's view, Fan Zhuoyuan's ability may not be as good as the above two, but he has one of the biggest advantages, that is, he is young!
He is only 22 years old now, and he already has the power to destroy the country. If he is appointed in the future, he has a great chance to match or even surpass the above two generals.

The only pity is...he is from the south!
Like Guo Kan, who grew up in the Mongolian military camp since he was a child, and was regarded as one by the Mongols, but because he was not a direct descendant of Kublai Khan, even though he destroyed the country and countless cities, he was not of great use.

And Fan Zhuoyuan, as the southerner whom the Mongolian Yuan regime feared the most, naturally couldn't be of great use, and might even be heavily guarded and controlled.

But Yuxi Timur is not a pity because of this. As Kublai Khan's direct descendant, his thinking is consistent with Kublai Khan's, and the southerners are unruly and cannot be reused.

Now Yuxi Timur is watching in front of the Monument of Merit at the entrance of the palace city, he has already heard what Fan Zhuoyuan did a month ago, that kind of method of killing and killing one's heart is definitely not for the reckless.

Yu Xi Tie Mu'er seemed to be looking at the inscriptions on the monument, but in fact he was thinking about what Fan Zhuo had done since the day of the expedition, and every move was aimed at the vital points of Japan.

Split the ruling class and the people, and then split among the ruling class, win over one faction to fight against the other, and promote civil forces to check and balance the old ruling class, and mediate as a conqueror.

All kinds of means, no matter how you look at it, don't look like a 22-year-old young general can use it.

Thinking about it, Yuxi Timur looked at Fan Wenhu who had a flattering smile beside him, and gave a meaningful smile.

Xindao: It is said that a tiger father has no dog sons, but if a dog father can give birth to tiger sons?
Yuxi Timur had never looked down upon Fan Wenhu, who surrendered without firing an arrow, but this time he knew how to delegate power to his son, and he made a wise decision.

Fan Wenhu said: "Special envoy Timur, I don't know the rules, he is dealing with government affairs in the main hall, if he fails to come out in time, Fan must teach him a lesson!"

Yuxi Timur looked at the main hall, only from this person knew that he would come but did not come to greet him, he knew how rebellious he was, even if he had the power to destroy the country, he must not be reused!

He strode into the hall with his head held high, and Fan Zhuoyuan sat at the head, watching Yuxi Timur who was striding forward from a distance, squinting his eyes slightly, and then left his seat to respond.

"The last general is busy with government affairs, and he is not ready to meet him in time. Please don't blame the special envoy of the imperial court!"

Fan Wenhu angrily stepped forward and said: "Heng Wu! Why don't you even understand this bit of rules? The special envoy represents His Majesty and is the authority of the imperial court! You should have come out of the city to meet him!"

(End of this chapter)