In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 323: The Mongolian-Jin Alliance fights against the Song Dynasty

Tuo Lei fell into a deep sleep after drinking the talisman water.

After Chen Nayan and others walked out of the room, Aotun Shiying escorted them all the way to the entrance of the courtyard, looking back nervously into the room from time to time.

There was no reaction in the room for the time being. When he arrived at the entrance of the courtyard, Ochen Nayan suddenly turned around and said to him: "In the eighth year of the Great Khan (the eighth year of Genghis Khan's proclaimed Khan, the sixth year of Jiading in the Song Dynasty), you and your brother Aotun Baohe were here. Zizhou (Zibo, Shandong) led the people to surrender to our great Mongolia?"

Aotun Shiying was stunned for a moment and nodded yes.

"Back then, the Great Khan granted you two brothers the title of Ten Thousand Households. This shows that the Great Khan valued you very much."

Aotun Shiying immediately said that the Great Khan would never forget the kindness of knowing him. Then he said a few more words. The implication is that our brothers have also tried our best to help Mongolia in recent years.

At the same time, he was also expressing his stance to Chen Nayan. The Great Khan loved his fourth son Tuo Lei the most, so they should be even more loyal to Tuo Lei.

O Chen's face remained unchanged, and he suddenly sneered: "What if Tuo Lei is not here?"

"Hiss" Aotun Shiying took a breath, and his face suddenly changed.

Orchen Nayan looked at him deeply and asked, "How is your mother's health?"

Aotun Shiying's expression changed again.

Historically, this man was relatively filial to his mother. When he fought with the Jin Kingdom, he was victorious and wanted to kill the prisoners, but his mother shouted: "The Ruhua people are afraid of death and surrendered. This soldier Wu'er will drive him to fight to the death. How can he bear it?" Kill them!" Aotun Shiying listened to his mother's words and did not kill the prisoners.

But I don’t know if the historian changed it. His mother claimed to be Chinese, and I don’t know if it is true or not.

Anyway, it is certain that Aotun Shiying is filial to his mother.

This guy is now 51 years old, and the old mother is naturally even older.

His mother and family were all in Yanjing, and his son and younger brother were all in the army. What did Chen Nayan mean when he suddenly said this?
At this time, Chen Nayan reached out and patted him on the shoulder: "Both your brother and your son are our Dameng warriors. Their futures are limitless. He Khan also values ​​them very much. He Khan said that after the Jin Kingdom is defeated this time, you can return. Yanjing looked at his mother and said hello to her for Hehan."

After saying that, Chen Nayan turned around and left.

Aotun Shiying stood blankly outside the courtyard gate, his face turning green and red, and he vaguely understood something.

After a while, he finally came to his senses, turned around and called a few Tuo Lei guards, ordering them to go into the city to find the Jin Dynasty doctor and bring him back at all costs.

After the guards left, his mind was in confusion. He wanted to go out and summon Tuo Lei's trusted generals and troops immediately, but he felt powerless.

"Where's Da Jinchi?" Aotun Shiying suddenly thought of his eldest son.

The subordinates immediately stepped forward to report: "Da Jinchi has gone to discuss matters."

"..." Aotun Shiying glared. He was not a member of the Wanhu family. What was he going to discuss?

The subordinates said that He Khan sent someone to summon him. Da Jinchi was very happy when he heard that he could represent his status in the discussion. He went away happily.

"Hey." Aotun Shiying sighed and lowered his head feebly.
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The main hall on the other side was overcrowded, and most of the Mongolian nobles and senior officials gathered here.

What was originally a three-pronged campaign to conquer gold was disrupted by the troublemaker Zhao Yurui, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty.

Wokuotai has a headache, a terrible headache, a real headache.

It is not right to continue attacking the Kingdom of Jin now, nor is it right to negotiate for peace. It is really a dilemma.

Of course, when he thought about the current mood of Emperor Wanyan Shouxu of the Jin Kingdom, he was probably even more uncomfortable than himself, and he finally felt a little better.

I heard that the Song army secretly pushed behind the Jin soldiers and used artillery trebuchets to violently fuck the Jin soldiers. Would Wanyan Shouxu have vomited blood if he knew this?

Moreover, Wanyan Shouxu used Caizhou to lend a road to the Song army. I am afraid that the Song army will take advantage of the situation and capture Caizhou.

In addition, Chenzhou, Nanyang, Yuzhou, Junzhou, etc. near Fangcheng Mountain will definitely be unable to be defended by the Jin Kingdom. In this way, the Jin Kingdom may lose half of its country in the next half month.

Wanyan Shouxu was afraid that even in his dreams, he would ask about the whole family of Hou Zhao and Rui.

In comparison with this, Wo Kuotai felt a little better.

However, he couldn't hold it back after all.

"Trash." Wo Kuotai said two words fiercely.

There was an uproar all around, and everyone looked at Wokuotai.

Only then did Wo Kuotai come to his senses, his face turned red, and he cursed: "I said that Zhao Yurui, the emperor of the Song Dynasty, is simply pretending to be a Song Dynasty person."

"A soldier never tires of deceit." A sentence suddenly popped up among the quiet crowd.

Brush, Wo Kuotai looked up, but he didn't know who said it.

Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, and for a while many people couldn't tell whose voice it was.

But Wokuotai vaguely felt that it was Subotai's voice.

Of course Subotai also hated Zhao Yurui, even more than Ogedai, but he was right. Soldiers never tire of deceit. From a war perspective, Zhao Yurui was very clever.

Not only did it play tricks on Jin and Mongolia, it also severely damaged the armies of both countries at the same time.

Subotai's words reminded Ogedai that thinking about these things now has no meaning and hates Zhao Yurui, and it will not help the situation. Everyone must think of countermeasures quickly.

"Ahem." Wo Kuotai coughed a few times: "Our army has taken Zhengzhou as planned. Originally, the forward cavalry could reach the gates of Nanjing early tomorrow morning."

"But - the fourth brother Tuo Lei was defeated at the foot of Fangcheng Mountain. In this case, the current situation is not as smooth as we imagined -"

Wokuotai's first sentence was to brag that his troops had succeeded in capturing Zhengzhou and that they would be able to reach Nanjing tomorrow. Then in his second sentence, he put the responsibility on Tuo Lei.

Of course the nobles and senior officials knew what it meant. If Tuo Lei was present, some people would definitely speak for Tuo Lei. We cannot blame Tuo Lei for being incompetent, we can only say that the people of Song Dynasty are too bad.

But now that Tou Lei was not present and was said to be seriously ill, the scene fell silent for a while.

After a while, someone in the crowd asked, how many troops does the Jin Kingdom have?
After Wanyan Heda was destroyed, the main force of the Jin Kingdom was completely lost. Are there no soldiers left?

Wokuotai said that the Nanjing garrison originally numbered about [-], but Weizhou Wuxian retreated to Nanjing with [-], so there should be [-].

Chen Nayan was originally the commander-in-chief of the East Route Army in the three-pronged attack on gold, and was responsible for attacking Weizhou Wuxian.

But he did not fight for half a month. Then after Wokuotai captured Luoyang, Wu Xian got the news and abandoned the city. He ran into Nanjing with [-] troops and horses to help defend Nanjing. So now Nanjing There are [-] more soldiers and horses than in history.

This was not easy to fight. Historically, Nanjing only had 90 defenders. The Mongolian army fought from March to December, with stops and starts. There was nothing that could be done about Nanjing. In the end, because the food was running out, there was no outside. With the reinforcements, too many people dying in the city, and the plague spreading, the death toll in Nanjing reached [-], so Wanyan Shouxu led his people to escape Nanjing.

Now that there are 6 troops in Nanjing, the Mongolian army is obviously even more difficult to fight.

"Let's negotiate peace." Subotai's voice sounded again from the crowd: "The Song people are our country's biggest enemy now. We should discuss matters with the Jin Kingdom and attack the Song people together."

His words seemed to have stirred up a hornet's nest, and the scene became noisy.

"I'm afraid that Wanyan Shouxu won't agree. If we fight like this, how can he be willing to do it?"

"You killed all the Jin soldiers in Zhengzhou today?"

"Except for the soldiers and horses in Nanjing, the Jin people have almost no troops outside that can fight. If Wanyan Shouxu is interested, he should agree to negotiate a peace."

"Why negotiate for peace? It is better to destroy the Jin Kingdom first, and then compete with the Song people."

There was a quarrel at the scene, and the nobles in the hall were divided into three factions.

One faction, headed by Subotai and Tuolei faction, advocated negotiating peace and attacking the Song people first.

One faction, headed by Zong Wang Ying Chitai (He Chiwen's son), advocated continuing the fight and first fulfilling the Great Khan's will to destroy the Jin Kingdom.

The reason of this faction is also more pertinent. The main force of the Jin Kingdom has been defeated by the Song people. The Song people must now be grabbing territory in the east and south of Henan. There are no reinforcements to the west and north of Nanjing in the Jin Kingdom. It is better to destroy the Jin Kingdom directly. country.

Moreover, the Kingdom of Jin doesn’t have much territory or troops anymore, so your peace talks have no obvious effect, so you still expect them to contribute?As long as the Song Dynasty sent out a partial army, they could deal with the Jin Kingdom.

Whoever destroys the Jin Kingdom first will get the remaining soldiers and resources of the Jin Kingdom.

There is also a faction headed by Hushengsun, Tasi, etc., who do not speak and basically remain neutral.

From a practical point of view, it makes more sense to continue to make gold.

There were almost no soldiers or resources in the Jin Kingdom, and the territory was almost robbed by the Song people.

Now that Mongolia is negotiating peace with them, it won't get much help. Even if the two countries send troops at the same time, how many troops can the Jin Kingdom send?
If he wanted to defend Nanjing in the Jin Kingdom, he could send up to [-] troops and horses. These [-] troops and horses were not enough to defeat the Song people.

Therefore, negotiating for peace or not will really not help Mongolia much.

But peace talks are beneficial to the Kingdom of Jin, and Wanyan Shouxu can relax. As for how long he can resist, no one knows.

The scene was a bit noisy, and Wo Kuotai felt a headache after listening to it for a while.

In his heart, he really hated the insidious Emperor Zhao Yurui of the Song Dynasty, and he also wanted to beat the Song Dynasty people.

But they were afraid that both sides would be displeased. If the three-pronged attack on the Jin Dynasty failed, it would be ineffective to defeat the Song people. Once they failed to win, or failed to achieve a big victory, it would mean defeat for both sides.

That means his new Great Khan is completely incompetent.

Moreover, how many troops and horses the Song Army has come in, and how many lines of Song Army are there. They are completely in the dark now, and they are short of food and grass. Tuo Lei has just died, and their morale is greatly reduced. At this time, they will definitely not be able to fight the Song Army decisively. What if Wanyan Shouxu is a madman? , they didn’t attack the Jin Kingdom to attack the Song Army, what if Wanyan Shouxu attacked them from behind?

Wo Kuotai has made up his mind.

At this moment, Orchen Nayan strode in from outside. Wo Kuotai looked up and felt that Orchen Nayan was beaming with joy and nodded to him.

Wo Kuotai was overjoyed.

"Stop arguing." Wo Kuotai shouted loudly.

The scene became quiet.

Wokuotai felt very unhappy, because if Genghis Khan was here, he would be quiet immediately if he said stop making noise.

Now he said something and then stopped.

Obviously his majesty is far inferior to Genghis Khan.

"It is Father Khan's legacy to attack the Kingdom of Jin." Wo Kuotai said loudly: "We sent out troops in three directions and mobilized troops. Is there any reason to withdraw our troops and negotiate for peace in the middle of the battle?"

"This Khan decided to continue attacking the Kingdom of Jin."

There was an uproar below, Subotai and others were shocked and angry.

But Wokuotai immediately expressed his position that he would send troops at dawn tomorrow. If he could reach the city of Nanjing in the morning, he would attack Nanjing for half a month. If he could not defeat Nanjing, he would return from Weizhou and negotiate peace with the Jin State. From then on, he would use all his strength to deal with the Song people.

This decision was quite pertinent, and Subotai and others finally agreed.

Early the next morning, the news of Tuo Lei's death spread throughout the army. Wo Kuotai cried bitterly and vowed to fight the Song people until death, and then sent someone to send Tuo Lei's body back to the grassland.

Then after the whole army was reorganized, he led an army of 26 people straight to Nanjing.

In the original history, after Wokuotai arrived here, he only gave Subotai [-] troops to attack Nanjing. He himself returned to the grassland with the sick Tolei and the rest of the main force. (Of course, he also used Shaman to kill the seriously ill Tolei on the way).The reason why the main force of the Mongolian army left at that time was also due to food shortage.

After all, it is possible to find food and drink for tens of thousands of people, but it is not easy to find horse feed for hundreds of thousands of war horses.

This time, because the Song people were behind, Wokuotai did not dare to return to the grassland first, and gathered the entire army to set off for Nanjing.

At the same time, he sent a large number of sentries to investigate the direction of the Song army.

He also considered sending a partial army to Tongguan to capture Tongguan first, but it was too far away from Tongguan, and the surrounding areas of Tongguan may now be occupied by the Song army, so he finally gave up this idea.

Before the Mongolian army marched, they gathered tens of thousands of people from around Zhengzhou and drove them into civilians to march forward together.

At noon the next day, the Mongolian army vanguard arrived at the gates of Nanjing.

However, Nanjing city was almost uninhabited for hundreds of miles, and the Jin Kingdom had strong walls and clear fields, so a large number of people fled into Nanjing.

Nanjing City will gather more than 250 million people just like in history.

Precisely because there were too many people, food eventually ran out, plague became rampant, and residents eventually began to eat each other. When the city was destroyed, more than a million people died, which was very tragic.

As soon as the Mongolian vanguard arrived, the Jin Kingdom directly shot arrows to seek peace.

Wanyan Shouxu wrote a letter, saying that the Song people were shameless and they were willing to negotiate peace with the Mongolian army and fight against the Song people together.

Come on, as expected by Wo Kuotai, Wanyan Shouxu's mentality was shattered by the Song people. Now he desperately wants to seek peace and fight the Song people first.

At this time, the main force of the Mongolian army has not arrived yet, and there are still more than 300 trebuchets behind.

That day, the Mongolian forwards ignored Wanyan Shouxu and plundered supplies everywhere. However, it was winter and the fields were cleared by strong walls. They didn't get much, so they had to go further.

On December [-], Wokuotai arrived at the gate of Nanjing.

At the same time, the Mongolian army sentry cavalry came back one after another, and news from all directions was gathering here.

The Song army defeated Chenzhou in early December and Guide on the fourth day of December.

They successively defeated Lushan, Lushi, and Yongning.

Many Jinguo counties and states have directly reduced their income.

The Song army's sentries and cavalry all arrived in Luoyang.

After Luoyang was captured by the Mongolian army, only [-] defenders were left. The defenders of Luoyang were greatly shaken. A messenger came to ask whether they should fight or retreat.

Judging from the information he received, Wokuotai found that Song Jun was quite sinister.

After the Song army won a great victory at Fangcheng Mountain, almost as they thought, they were not in a hurry to attack Nanjing, nor were they afraid of his alliance with Jin. The Song people continued to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, attacking cities and plundering territory everywhere.

In less than a month, it has occupied more than a dozen counties and states in the west, south and east of Henan.

When Wokuotai's army crossed the Yellow River and entered, they did not attack many small counties and attacked Luoyang and other large counties first.

The Song army attacked counties as soon as they saw them, and occupied them once they captured them.

Ogedai, Subutai and others discussed and felt that the Song army would enter at least 20 people. Otherwise, you would have to station troops everywhere, which would require a lot of troops.

The Mongolian army only has 26 troops, and there are not many horses and horses, so it will not stay long.

If we want to have a decisive battle with the Song Army, food and grass will be a problem.

Therefore, Wo Kuotai did not want to start a fight with the Song army first.

Subotai had seen the power of the Song army's artillery. After the Song army occupied the prefectures and counties, if more artillery was fired in each prefecture and county, it would not be easy for the Mongolian army to break in in the future.

Now is the best opportunity for the Mongolian army. The artillery of the Song army must not have come in yet. If you go to attack these counties and prefectures, you have a chance to defeat them, but when they return to the grassland and come back next time, the difficulty will increase exponentially.

But it is impossible for the Mongolian army to attack the counties occupied by the Song people one by one now.

Even if you defeat it, it will be difficult to hold it, unless the 10,000+ Mongolian troops do not go back and all stay in Henan.

Wokuotai immediately decided not to care about the Song army. He was optimistic about the movements of the Song army's various troops and horses and attacked Nanjing first.

This guy is also eager to clear his name, and is focused on destroying the Jin Kingdom first, and then prepares for a showdown with the Song people.

In fact, some sentries from the Song Army came here to explore and discovered that the Mongolian army had not negotiated peace with the Jin State and was still attacking Nanjing. The Song Army was no longer anxious.

Wang Jian, Yu Jie and others first seized territory in various parts of Henan, then divided the land with local tyrants, sent troops to garrison, and at the same time transported artillery in large quantities from Lianghuai.

Henan was occupied by the Song army, and it would be impossible to spit it out in the future.
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In the city of Nanjing.

"Bang." Wanyan Shouxu got angry for the sixth time today and pushed some bowls and basins on the table.

He had been so worried that he hadn't slept well for almost three days and three nights, so he still had time to eat.

Ever since the news of Fangcheng Mountain's defeat reached here, Wanyan Shouxu had asked about the motherhood of Zhao and Rui's family more than a thousand times a day on average.

All the vicious words that could be used were used on Zhao Yurui and Song Ren.

The Song Dynasty was founded hundreds of years ago. No, in the history of the Han Dynasty, there was no such shameless and unfaithful emperor as Zhao Yurui.

The day before yesterday, Wanyan Shouxu asked Zhang Tiangang to look up the history of the previous dynasties and see if there were any dynasties that had agreed to unite to fight together, but suddenly rebelled behind their backs.

Zhang Tiangang searched the history books for several days but could not find it. Wanyan Shouxu became even more angry and cursed Zhao Yurui every day.

But such anger was meaningless. Bad news came one after another from various parts of the Jin Kingdom, and the Song people even released Wanyan Heda.

Let Wanyan Heda deliver the message.

The Song people wanted the Jin State to surrender unconditionally, and then they would ensure the safety of Wanyan Shouxu and help the Jin State fight against the Mongols. They also wrote a lot of letters in the letter. Wanyan Shouxu tore it into pieces without reading it at the time, and then burned it all.

Now he still believes that there are ghosts in Song Dynasty, and he doesn't believe a word Zhao Yurui says.

At this time, everyone in the Jin Kingdom felt that something was wrong, and they all wanted to negotiate or seek peace with Mongolia.

But Wokuotai ignored Wanyan Shouxu and led more than 20 troops to surround Nanjing.

On the [-]th, when the Mongolian army was waiting for tens of thousands of civilians, Wanyan Shouxu once again sent people out of the city to seek peace.

Wokuotai replied the same as the Song army, surrendering unconditionally, opening the city gate, and then helping you fight the Song people.

Well, the conditions are the same in both countries.

How do you choose Wanyan Shouxu?
At that time, Wanyan Shouxu almost wanted to agree to Wo Kuotai and surrender, and he could still go and fight the Song people.

But in the end I didn’t dare to make up my mind.

There are also many people in the DPRK who oppose unconditional surrender.

Some people even mentioned that the Mongolian army had just captured Zhengzhou and massacred the Zhengzhou defenders. They said that the Mongolian army was brutal and massacred the city at every turn.

Wanyan Shouxu summoned Wanyan Heda today and asked, after the defeat at Fangcheng Mountain, how did the Song army deal with the captured Mongolian and Jin armies?
Wanyan Heda said, the Jin soldiers also asked questions in batches, and those who refused to surrender would be killed.

He added: "The Mongolian army was directly killed by the Song army."

In other words, everyone on the Mongolian side, regardless of Mongols, Jurchens, Hans, or Khitans, the Song army directly killed them all without asking.

There were many Jin civil and military officials present at the scene, and everyone looked at each other in confusion. Many people thought that although the Song people were feuding with the Jin people, they seemed to hate the Mongols even more.

"What do you think, Duke Rui Guo?" Wanyan Shouxu asked again.

Wanyan Heda blushed and his face turned red. He dared to speak out and could only say: "The defeated general deserves to be punished by death. Please punish him."

It means that he is a person who has lost the battle and is not worthy to give opinions and refuses to say whether it is better to surrender to the Song Army or the Mongolian Army.

Wanyan Heda hated the Mongolian army, and of course he also hated the Song people.

But now that surrendering is related to the fate of the country, how dare he speak.

Besides, he believed that none of them could vote.

Regarding the surrender, the Song Dynasty and Mongolia were divided into three factions. It must be said that at the end of the Jin Dynasty, there were still many loyal ministers in the court, and several Han ministers demanded to fight to the death, which greatly surprised Wanyan Shouxu.

After Wanyan Shouxu's hesitation, on the 21st, tens of thousands of Mongolian soldiers arrived at the scene, began to fill the ditch with soil, and attacked Nanjing. Hundreds of trebuchets began to smash.

The Jin army resisted desperately, but the Mongolian army failed to capture it after several consecutive attacks.

On the 26th, Ogedai had already considered withdrawing his troops and negotiating peace.

Suddenly, urgent reports came from Weizhou and the west.

"The Song army occupied Tongguan, and the Song soldiers rode across the Yellow River to Puzhou."

"Shandong Peng Yibin's tribe is attacking the Daimyo. Yan Shi and Aruda are a little unable to withstand it, so they send people to ask for help."

"What?" Wo Kuotai almost jumped up when he heard it.

Unexpectedly, he did not fight the Song Army, but the Song Army took the initiative to fight him. Peng Yibin was nominally a general of the Song Dynasty.

Now the Song army is occupying Tongguan in the west, the sentry cavalry is in Luoyang, and the name is in the north. Is this trying to block the Mongolian army of 10,000+ in Henan?
Zhao Yurui has a really big appetite. Can he swallow it all?

Wokuotai was furious and quickly ordered peace negotiations with the Kingdom of Jin.

Wanyan Shouxu was simply ecstatic.

So the two countries of Mongolia and Jin superficially negotiated peace, and the Jin State declared itself a vassal, giving them annual coins and fighting against the Song Dynasty together.

Wokuotai had no time to quarrel with Wanyan Shouxu, so he hurriedly made an agreement and immediately raised troops to return north. At the same time, he ordered the Mongolian troops from all over Henan to withdraw north.

The Mongolian army now occupied places such as Zhengzhou and Luoyang in Henan, but knowing that they could not hold it at all, they all evacuated in the name of returning it to the Jin Kingdom.

The army crossed the Yellow River and arrived at Weizhou first. They originally wanted to garrison Weizhou, but after thinking about it, they returned it to the Kingdom of Jin and continued northward.

In the first month of the eighth year of Baoqing (1232), the Mongolian army arrived in Zhangde. They heard the news before they entered the city. Yan Shi and Arruda were completely unable to hold on and retreated to Zhangde Mansion.

On the third day of the first lunar month, Wokuotai entered Zhangde, and Yan Shi and Aruda came forward to pay their respects.

The two said that the Song Army had a trebuchet that dropped fire and oil bombs directly at the top of the city. It caught fire as soon as it was thrown, and no one could stand on the top of the city. Then the Song Army pushed the artillery in front of the city gate and bombarded the city gate directly. The door opened with a bang, and the back could no longer be guarded.

Wokuotai and other Mongolian nobles looked at each other in shock. According to this, there will still be a city that can be defended in the future?

"The attack by the Song army was sudden this time. From now on, the city gate will be sealed with large rocks, and the Song army's artillery bombardment will be useless." Yan Shi immediately said: "It's just the Song army's trebuchets throwing kerosene bombs, which is very scary. , difficult to guard against.”

Wokuotai walked around the room upset and angry. Artillery and trebuchets. When did the Song people have these powerful siege weapons?
"Can we build artillery?" Wo Kuotai turned around and asked everyone.

(End of this chapter)