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

Chapter 403 Disaster in the Principality

As he walked, he scolded Geerqin angrily, thinking that he could not defeat Zai with his henchmen.

Geerqin cried out, and they were ambushed on the opposite side, and there were many crossbows.

They even seemed to see artillery, but they didn't fire at them.

"What? Artillery?" Brother Caiba trembled in fright.

He was still frightened by the battle with the Song Army back then. The Song Army's artillery fire caused heavy casualties to them, which caused psychological shadow among the herdsmen. Now some herdsmen will subconsciously feel it when they hear the loud noise. Trembling.

"Is the Song army supporting them?" Ahali suddenly exclaimed: "Miza, the Song people are framing you?"

"??" Brother Caiba's expression began to solidify, and he looked dumbfounded.

In his mind, he couldn't help but recall what Mo Yong said to him again.

Mo Yong encouraged him to kill all the nobles and then supported him to become the only king of Tubo.

"Damn it." Brother Caiba finally came to his senses, fearing that he had been deceived by the Song people.

"Boom!" A sudden cannon shot in the distance shook the entire Luoxue City.

More defeated soldiers in front ran here.

In just a moment, a large number of fine knights appeared on the street.

"Dismount." The other person suddenly shouted to dismount.

Then everyone began to dismount and draw their bows.

"Zai?" Brother Caiba gritted his teeth.

"Miza, let's go quickly." Ali felt something was wrong. Today they only gathered three to four thousand people, which was not a large number. As long as they retreated first, they could gather more people.

"Emission." A command was given from the opposite side, and arrows came like rain.

"God's Arm Bow, God's Arm Bow—" Ali looked in horror at the featherless arrows fired from the opposite row.

As a former Song Army soldier, he knew very well that this kind of featherless arrow was unique to the Divine Arm Bow.

Behind Zai's soldiers and horses, the Song army was hidden.

"Plop, plop, plop."

There were a large number of divine arm archers on the opposite side, shooting furiously in the street. The people on Caibago's side fell on their backs. They had suffered a defeat in front of them, but now everyone was even more panicked.

"Come up, up, up, this is our Luoche City, defeat them." Brother Tseba tried to boost morale.

Soldiers and horses from both sides began to move forward. Zai's men in the back row shot arrows, and the front row also picked up weapons.

In the narrow streets of Luoche City, the two armies quickly fought together.

But from time to time, Zai's people in the back row would shoot their magic arm bows at this side of the back row. After a while, Caibago's soldiers and horses could not resist it.

I don’t know who took the lead first, but they suddenly dispersed. Then the herdsmen fled in all directions, and many people fled directly to their homes.

These people are all locals. Once defeated, they subconsciously run home.

Brother Tseba still had a chance when he started to retreat. When he wanted to run after being defeated, he found that an army was also coming from the other end of the street.

This army was surrounded by Zai's people, but in the middle were all Song troops. Many of them were former Tubo people like Mo Yong who had their Han names changed.

"It's the Song Army, it's the Song Army." Brother Caiba cursed on the spot, finally realizing that he had been tricked by the Song people. Did the Song people want to kill someone with a borrowed knife?

In less than half an hour, the entire street returned to its previous order.

The victorious side looks for the wounded in the surroundings. Those who are seriously injured can be directly dealt with, and those who are slightly injured can be pulled up.

A Tubo noble and Song people such as Mo Yong and Ge Meng appeared on the street.

This nobleman was Zai who was the first to surrender to the Song people.

Zai has become very Chinese in recent years. He yearns for Han culture. After the Song people conquered Tubo, he has been learning the etiquette and culture of the Song people. He changed to Hanfu early and also learned Chinese.

He was very smart. After the victory of the Song Dynasty, he knew that sooner or later, the Song Dynasty would annex Tubo.

After watching the Song army attack the Jin Kingdom, defeat the Mongols, and occupy Xixia, Zai became more determined and wanted to join the Song people.

Before Zhao Yurui plotted against Tubo, Zai had already taken the initiative to send his son to Lin'an to seek refuge.

His son told Zhao Yurui that after hundreds of years of division, the people of Tubo were already suffering and needed the Song Dynasty's support to manage the land.

But Zhao Yurui said, you have wise men who share your praise.

Zay immediately understood what he was going to do.

"Bang." Brother Caiba, Ah Li, Geerqin and others were pushed heavily to the ground and knelt in front of Zai.

At this time, they were already in the Chajia Temple, and Gyaltsen and a group of others were standing around watching.

Everyone looked at Brother Caiba with strange expressions.

Brother Caibago was so majestic just now, but now he is so pitiful.

"You dare to kill me? The people of Luoxue City will not let you go." Brother Caiba is still stubborn.

He even glared at Mo Yong and the others: "The Song people are trying to drive a wedge between us, we should unite."

"Is it still useful to say this now? You killed such a nobleman and also killed Gyaltsen. You are our sinner-"

"?" Brother Caiba looked confused.

"?" Gong Gyaltsen was also confused.

"Plop!" At this moment, there was a sharp pain behind him, and someone stabbed him hard in the back of the heart with a knife.

"Hmm" Gong Gyaltsen was in disbelief and looked at the person who stabbed him in disbelief.

It was Zai's eldest son, Dawa.

"Hiss" Brother Caiba gasped, also in disbelief.

Do you dare to kill all the wise men in Tubo?

He had just taken control of the overall situation and did not dare to take action against Gyaltsen.

"Pu Chi Pu Chi" Before he could react, the scene was filled with screams, and the monks of Shajia Temple fell to the ground one after another.

After a while, Zai slaughtered all the Shajia Temple.

"Crazy, crazy, you're crazy-" Brother Caiba was almost scared to pee.

"It's not that I'm crazy." Zai looked at him coldly: "It's you, Brother Caiba, who killed so many nobles for power."

"Because Gyaltsen didn't recommend you, you even killed Gyaltsen, and burned down the Sakya Monastery. You are the scum of our people and the enemy of all the people -" As Zai With a cold voice, someone started to light a fire at the scene. This ancient temple, which had been established for more than a hundred years, was completely burned by Zai.

Brother Caiba was even pushed into the sea of ​​fire.

Seeing his brother Caiba screaming in the sea of ​​​​fire, Ali, Geerqin and others who were still kneeling next to him were horrified.

"Mo Yong, don't give orders, I want to join the Song Army, and I am willing to change my Chinese name to a Chinese surname -" Ahali finally regretted it.

He and Geerqin frantically kowtowed to Mo Yong, expressing their willingness to rejoin the Song Army and change their surnames to Han.

"It's too late." Mo Yong looked at him coldly: "Those who know the current affairs are heroes. Ah Keili, you still don't understand that this land no longer belongs to your people, it belongs to the Song Dynasty."

After saying that, he raised his head and looked around: "The imperial court is in Qinghai-Tibet Province, and it only needs people from the Song Dynasty - and dead bodies -"

"Kill" Zai raised his knife and chopped off Alili's head with one blow.

Chajia Temple has a strong local foundation. After the fire, many people came to put out the fire, but the war continued.

Zai and his men continued to fight with Caibago's remaining men, and the city was filled with flames of war.

The fire in Chajia Temple burned for two days and two nights. After the fire was extinguished, a large number of herdsmen came to pray and knelt around the temple.

Unexpectedly, a riot of soldiers suddenly arrived and attacked them indiscriminately, killing almost all the believers.

When they were almost killed, Zai and Song Jun came.

When the Song army heard about the turmoil here, they rode to Luoxue City with 10,000 soldiers to help quell the turmoil in Caibago, and then drove away the rebels.

But at this time, Luoxue City was in a very dilapidated state. It was first in chaos and then burned down.

In just two or three days, no fewer than ten thousand people died in the city.

Soon this incident was spread throughout Tubo by Song Tingtong.

At the end of June of the third year of Yuanzhen, the various tribes of Tubo held a meeting at Chajia Temple to recommend the governor.

Caibago had evil intentions. After losing the vote, he led his troops into the Chajia Temple. He first killed the nobles of various tribes, then massacred the Chajia Temple, and burned the centuries-old temple to the ground.

Zai was the only nobleman to escape that day, and then returned with troops and horses for revenge, and invited the Song army to help.

Tsebago ignored morality and massacred the people, causing public outrage. His whole family was captured and killed by Zaidu.

The incident at Setsuna Temple was later called the Bloody Conference.

Because soon another bloody meeting came.

Only a dozen days later, Zai summoned all the well-known and highly respected wise men in each region, as well as the new chiefs of each state, basically the sons of the people who had been killed before, to have another meeting and re-recommend the governorship.

As a result, at the meeting, someone proposed to join the Song Dynasty in the future and merge with the Song Dynasty.

A large number of people at the scene objected.

As a result, Zai threw the cup without saying anything.

A group of armored soldiers rushed in from outside and cut down all those who had just opposed it.

Then the Song army, led by Zai and four other obedient nobles, divided into several groups and attacked and destroyed the unwilling bases of large and small states one by one.

The two new leaders of these large and small states were killed within a month of each other. People were panicked, and many elite generals also died in the first meeting.

It became quite easy for the Song army to attack their base areas. They only needed to defeat the main force and then publicize the release of all slave status, give each herdsman family, divide the pasture land, and establish property rights. They will own it forever and can freely buy and sell their pastures.

This is equivalent to the Chinese original version of attacking local tyrants to divide their fields.

The Song Army divided the pastures here, and at the same time guaranteed that no taxes would be collected for the first three years, and the subsequent taxes would be lower than those of the nobles.

Of course, the Song army also asked them to consider themselves as Song people and learn Chinese characters.

There were sporadic resistances throughout Tubo. With the continuous pacification of Zai and the Song army, it took more than a year until the fourth year of Yuanzhen to pacify Tubo.

Anyone who dared to resist or disobey was either killed or taken away to build roads and mines.

By the fourth year of Yuanzhen, Tubo was also officially included in the territory of the Song Dynasty and became Qinghai-Tibet Province.
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In the spring of the fourth year of Yuanzhen (1236), Ji Fu was near.

An endless line of war horses is slowly crossing a large river. This endless army of horses is the Mongolian army, which was once the strongest army in the world today.

At the end of the eighth year of Baoqing, Ogedai was forced to agree to the westward expedition of Batu's eldest son. After that, the Mongol Empire successively gathered troops and horses, and finally gathered 120,000 troops and 500,000 horses, officially start.

The eldest son's western expedition was divided into five groups. The first group was the Jochi family, led by the commander Batu, and the lieutenants were Batu's eldest brother Orda, fifth brother Xiban and sixth brother Tangwuti.

The second line is the Chagatai family. Chagatai made his grandson Buli the chief general and his son Badar as his deputy. It can be seen that Chagatai treated the sons of his eldest son Mu'atugan quite well. Later, He also passed the throne to Mu'atugan's other son, Haraxule. This Western Expedition should be a test for Buri, but this guy loves to drink. He often makes trouble when he is drunk, and even humiliated Batu. He Guiyou, probably because of this reason, the Khanship of Chagatai was later given to his younger brother Haraxuli.

The third line is the family of Wo Kuotai. The leader is Guiyou and his deputy is his other son Hedan.

The fourth route is of course the Tuolei family, with Meng Ge as the leader and Hulagu as the deputy.

In addition to these four main forces, there are veteran generals Subotai and his son Wu Lianghetai who lead another army as the forward.

Batu was the commander-in-chief of the entire army, and Subutai was the deputy commander-in-chief.

This western expedition was carried out several years in advance. The Mongolian army's preparations were not sufficient and their morale was not sufficient.

At that time, Mongolia and the Song army were fighting for Xixia. The Jin Kingdom had not been destroyed, and Xixia was still fighting for it, so the preparations were a bit hasty.

But Mongolia's strength is there after all. It cannot defeat the Song Dynasty, but it can defeat others.

In the first year of Yuanzhen, Subotai took the lead in leading the vanguard into the eastern barrier of the Rus principalities. The Volka Bulgarian Khanate, located in the middle reaches of the Volga River, easily defeated their army and invaded the capital. All the residents of the capital city of Buri'er were massacred and the city was burned down. However, according to Batu's wishes, the Mongolian army recruited 20,000 strong men in the Khanate as servants. Except for these strong family members, all others were slaughtered.

In the second year of Yuanzhen, Batu asked Meng Ge to attack the Kipchak tribes in the southern barrier of the Rus Principality. Meng Ge led the army to cross the Dnieper River and captured and killed the Kipchak leader Ba Chiman.

At this point, the barriers in the eastern and southern parts of the Principality of Rus were all cut off by the Mongolian army.

In the autumn of the second year of Yuanzhen, Batu personally led the army. He first conquered the Mordova Kingdom, and then crossed the Volga River. By the spring of the third year of Yuanzhen, he successively captured Xia Ryazan, Vlajimil, and Luoshi. Tofu, Mo Shige and more than a dozen towns, annihilated the Grand Duke Kuoerji's army.

In August of the third year of Yuanzhen, Batu sent his army to cross the Don River, destroy the Aso Kingdom at the northern foot of the Caucasus Mountains, invade the southern border of Orosi and loot it, and then sent envoys to Qiwa (now Jifu, the capital of Klan). He asked the Grand Duchy of Jifu to surrender, but the envoy was killed.

Batu was furious and led an army to besiege Ji Fu in mid-September. He drove countless trebuchets around him. Ji Fu resisted for several months and was finally captured.

The Mongolian army selected 30,000 elites from Jifu Principality. Except for these 30,000 elite family members and craftsmen, all the rest of the people, merchants and officials were killed.

Then the Mongolian army continued its westward attack to capture the Principality of Garic, and its Grand Duke Daniel fled to Magyar (Kingdom of Hungary).

In the spring of the fourth year of Yuanzhen, the entire territory of the Rus Principality was basically conquered and occupied by the Mongols. The Mongols destroyed countless cities here and massacred millions of people. However, according to Batu's wishes, they also collected 100,000 surrendered soldiers. military.

They massacred the people here, recruited troops, and further expanded their military strength.

At this time, Batu gathered his army and prepared to rest in Galicia (today's Clancy), and then attack Poland and Hungary.

More than 200,000 Mongolian troops and nearly a million horses and mules are crossing a large river to gather in Galicia.

(End of this chapter)