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

Chapter 410 Zhao Yurui doesn’t look like Han Chinese at all

Kublai Khan asked the whole family to leave, and at the same time ordered his men to call Bru Hague.

Blue Hague was his Chinese teacher, and he was also in charge of the craftsmen's households in Yanjing, Zhongshan Road, and Jahalahe Forest. He was also responsible for the construction of Helin City and Wan'an Palace.

After a while, Blue Hague also arrived.

Blue Hague probably heard the news, and when he entered the door, he anxiously asked what happened.

"There is a group of cavalry coming from the east, about tens of thousands of them, but we still don't know whose soldiers and horses they are." Kublai Khan said.

Blue Hague was surprised: "Is it Hehan? There is no reason."

There was no reason for Ogedai to wait until now if he wanted to attack the towed mine system, and Blue Hague couldn't continue talking in the middle of his sentence.

"I'm afraid they are pretending to be the Song Army." Kublai Khan said: "They came all the way, traveling thousands of miles without wanting to be discovered. They are most likely pretending to be our Mongolian army."

"Tens of thousands of people pretending?" Blue Hague couldn't believe it.

After all, no one has ever done this in history. Tens of thousands of people put on the armor of the other country?

But considering Zhao Yurui's behavior and the national strength of the Song Dynasty, only the Song Dynasty can do this kind of thing.

If you ask the Mongols to pretend to be Song soldiers, you can dress up 10,000 Song army armors, but it will be very time-consuming and expensive.

Crucially, no one in history has ever done this.

It is generally possible to pretend, raise a false flag, and use a small number of people to pretend, but it is really difficult to handle tens of thousands of people all changing into the clothes and armor of the opponent's army.

"You also come with me, take your family with you, and follow me out of the city first. We will guerrilla outside the city. If the situation goes wrong, we can withdraw at any time." Kublai Khan was very smart. It would be dangerous to hide in the city and be surrounded. It would be easier to run out. Safety.

"No." Blue Hague did not hesitate and decided to run out of the city with Kublai Khan.

"Helin City was built by you, do you think it can be defended? How many troops can attack it?" Kublai Khan asked again.

Blue Hague smiled bitterly.

Great Mongolia is at its peak now, and no one has thought that anyone will attack Helin City, so the height of the city walls and the defensive design are all very ordinary.

Seeing Bulu Haiya smiling bitterly and saying nothing, Kublai Khan knew that Helin City could not be defended.

Of course, he was not in a hurry to leave. The enemy army was still more than two hundred miles away from them. Generally speaking, it was impossible to get here at night.

He made good preparations and gathered a thousand elite troops.

Before dawn the next day, he rushed out from the west gate of Helin City with a thousand elites and his family.

As soon as Kublai Khan left, he also led people from behind to enter the city from the east. After entering the city, he ordered the city gates to be sealed.

"Song Army, it should be Song Army, they are all pretending to be Song Army." There was blood on Yizha's body. He personally fought hand-to-hand with the Song Army sentries and cavalry, and then escaped back.

He was sure it was Song Jun.

"The Song Dynasty people are here?" Luheteni also looked incredulous.

If you think about it more carefully, the only one who can be sneaky and covertly travel thousands of miles to find the Harahe Forest is to pretend to be a Mongolian.

"The Song army numbered tens of thousands, and they brought at least hundreds of thousands of horses."

"On the outside are tens of thousands of fine knights, all wearing our Mongolian armor, driving out and chasing our people."

"I rushed in with all my strength and found that there were tens of thousands of Song troops inside."

"The number of Song troops should be around 60,000 to 70,000."

"What do the Song people want to do?" Someone on the side said in a deep voice: "While negotiating peace with us, they come to attack Hara Helin?"

"What else do you want to do? The peace negotiation is a sham, just to deceive others. Zhao Yurui is indeed treacherous." Luheteni scolded angrily.

At this time, it was finally confirmed that it was the Song Army, but the Song Army's forward had already arrived dozens of miles away.

The Song army rested more than 200 miles away yesterday, but got up and marched before three o'clock in the morning.

It was the end of August, and September was about to begin. The sunrise was relatively early, and there were no obstacles on the grassland, making marching very convenient.

At daybreak, Soluheteni led his people to the top of the city. After hearing a long horn sound in the distance, a group of cavalry appeared darkly on the horizon.

As expected, all the cavalry were dressed as Mongolians, and then more and more cavalry appeared in all directions in Helin City.

"Huh!" Luheteni breathed a long sigh of relief with an angry look on his face.

She must be thinking in her heart, why did you Zhao Yurui come to beat us orphans and widowed mothers instead of going to Wokuotai?

But if Zhao Yurui were in front of her now, he would definitely reply to her, "I just like to beat up orphans and widowed mothers."

"These Song people are simply looking for death. When the soldiers and horses from all walks of life arrive, they will all die on the grassland." Yizala said loudly at this time to boost the morale of the surrounding people.

They pieced together the whole city, and in the end even some of the strongest craftsmen went to the city, and they managed to get less than 20,000 people together.

Everyone's heart is desolate now.

Of course, their messengers for help also rushed in all directions.

About a thousand miles to the south is Heishui City, where tens of thousands of Mongolian troops are stationed in Xixia, and they can go north for support at any time.

There is Batu to the west, Wokuotai to the southwest, and the territory of Chagatai to the southwest.

Although there are not many elite soldiers and horses in these places due to the Western Expedition, they can certainly support some.

If Wokuotai of Guanshan also gets the news and sends troops and horses from Guanshan to intercept them, this Song army will be completely blocked on the grassland and will surely die sooner or later.

Yizha was encouraging morale, but Brother Alibu said: "I'm afraid that the Song army will also start fighting in Xixia and other places at the same time."

Then no one can save us.

Moreover, this is not the first time that the Song Army has done this. The last time the Song Army traveled thousands of miles to attack Guazhou and Shazhou, Meng Gong personally led an army across the Yellow River to attack Zhongxing Prefecture, thus containing the support of the Mongolian army.

Now that the Song army has more troops in Xixia, they will definitely do this kind of thing.

After Brother Alibu finished speaking, there was silence all around, and many people were afraid that there would be no reinforcements.

"Don't worry, the Song army has come all the way. Supply is a problem. As long as we hold on for a few months, we will retreat." Someone else said.

"The Song army is extremely cruel. I'm afraid they have started to plunder our herdsmen from all sides." Zhu Luheteni said heartbrokenly.

Zhu Luheteni was right. The Song army traveled thousands of miles and did not bring hundreds of thousands of civilians like Zhu Di did in the Northern Expedition. Therefore, they followed the Mongols along the way and supported war by fighting.

Lu Wende and Meng Ying were commanding the camp at this time. More than 60,000 Song troops surrounded Halahelin City. The camp was about five miles outside the city.

The Song army was not in a hurry to attack the city, and immediately plundered everywhere.

The Song army sent 20,000 cavalry and rushed in all directions. The Song army's targets were all within a radius of 500 miles.

It was August and September, just after the rainy season, when the water and grass on the grassland were at their most fertile. The cattle, horses and sheep were grazing outside. However, Helin City was limited in size, so most of the cattle, horses, sheep and herdsmen were outside the city.

The Song army was divided into twenty groups, each consisting of more than a thousand soldiers, and rushed in all directions.

Then they killed people when they saw them, and robbed cattle, horses and sheep when they saw them, leaving only some young and strong women to work as husbands.

Every time they grabbed cattle or sheep, they would pass outside the city and be transported into the Song army's camp. So from day to night that day, Luheteni and others were on the top of the city. They saw large numbers of cattle, horses, sheep and various robbed materials outside the city, being transported into the Song army camp one after another.

There were curses everywhere at the top of the city, and many people shouted to go out of the city and fight the Song army.

But Luheteni said that the city gate had been blocked and he was not allowed to go out.

At this time, they also calculated that there were only more than 70,000 people in Helin City, and more than 20 people in the Tolei Fiefdom were distributed in hundreds of miles in all directions with Helin City as the center.

I wonder how many herdsmen could escape? I wonder how many herdsmen will be murdered by the Song people? Luheteni was very worried.

Soluheteni's worries are not unreasonable, because they only sent people to notify the surrounding areas yesterday, and they prioritized pastures and more populated areas.

But herdsmen migrate very slowly, and many people are reluctant to part with their cattle, horses and sheep.

Yesterday they were only sure that someone was coming, not sure it was the Song Army. More herdsmen were indifferent and thought it was He Khan who sent troops. Today, they were only sure it was the Song Army before dawn, and there was no time to notify them.

This made Lu Wende and Meng Ying overjoyed.

At dawn in the morning, the Song army first surrounded Helin City. Some were setting up camp and some were building siege equipment. At the same time, more than 20,000 people were divided into 20 teams to plunder.

Before dark, seven or eight teams returned one after another, bringing back more than 13,000 herdsmen, countless cattle, horses, sheep, and various supplies.

Lu Wende immediately ordered the herdsmen to dig holes and build walls.

According to the previous routine of the Song Army, they must dig several ditches and build several walls along the outside of Helin City.

But this is not the case now. The herdsmen dug ditches and built walls outside the Song military camp, and only one or two of them were needed to protect the fusiliers from firing.

The fusilier stood in the ditch, with the wall up to his neck, with only half of his face and eyes exposed. It was very safe to fire, and he didn't even need a gun and shield soldier.

This kind of trench is easy to dig, just pile it up while digging, and it was dug in the entire Song Army camp the next day.

After digging, Lu Wende gave the order to cut down all these people without saying a word. Keeping them would be a waste of food.

In the next two days, people from the Song Army returned one after another, bringing back a large number of cattle, horses, sheep and herdsmen.

Harahelin is the capital and base camp of Mongolia's holy city. It is surrounded by people who raise war horses and farm fields, as well as various craftsmen.

The Song army doesn't even need the craftsmen now, so they just cut them down.

Most of these people had no time to run and were unwilling to run empty-handed.

In fact, as long as they only brought some food and war horses, many herdsmen could escape the Song army. However, almost 90% of the herdsmen were unwilling to give up their cattle, horses and sheep. They could not walk fast with their cattle, horses and sheep, and they were gradually overtaken by the Song army. Many people did not leave at all and still wanted to resist.

After the Song army arrived, they looted and killed everywhere, sweeping across like locusts within five hundred miles, plundering countless cattle, horses and sheep, and more food and supplies than they could finish transporting.

Moreover, there are grain fields around Harahe Forest. Lu Wende finally left three thousand herdsmen to continue farming, because the autumn harvest would be available in two or three months.

In the first three days alone, the Song army killed at least 70,000 to 80,000 people.

Horse breeding households and craftsmen households in Greater Mongolia suffered heavy losses, and their basic industrial and agricultural capabilities were severely damaged.

"This damn Song Army, damn Zhao Yurui, they are so crazy." Kublai Khan was currently on a pasture more than 200 miles south of Helin City.

Behind him were seven to eight hundred defeated Mongolian troops.

The day before yesterday, they encountered a group of Song troops who came out to plunder. The Song troops formed a group of more than a thousand people. Kublai Khan, relying on his own strength of more than a thousand people, went up to meet the enemy.

The result was a disastrous defeat. Kublai Khan ran away without saying a word and managed to get rid of the Song army. It should be said that the Song army was in a hurry to grab supplies and heads and had no time to pay attention to them.

There was no way, they really couldn't beat them. The Song cavalry on the opposite side had fought several tough battles with the Mongols, otherwise Zhao Yurui wouldn't have transferred them from Xixia territory to the east.

Moreover, Kublai Khan's troops included the households he had been assigned to since childhood, and others were transferred from Helin City. These people had not fought in Helin City for many years and were no match for the Song army.

At this time, Kublai Khan was planning to run to Heishui City in the south, look for reinforcements there, and arrange his family in Heishui City.

But this pasture had just been plundered by the Song army.

There are usually thousands of herdsmen here, raising tens of thousands of horses and tens of thousands of cattle and sheep.

Now there are only corpses scattered on the ground. The scene is quite tragic. The Song army was even more ruthless than their Western Expedition. They killed almost all the people on the ranch, and then drove away all the cattle, horses and sheep, and even all kinds of food and wine from each household. .

Kublai Khan also went to the tent to see that the Song army did not take any money, but only grain, cattle, horses and sheep.

Whether the Mongols went west or fought a war, after winning, they would first take money and people.

Song Jun, who didn't even take any money, was obviously even scarier.

"Looking at the speed of the Song Army, all the craftsmen on our grassland will be killed." Blue Hague also gritted his teeth.

He was in charge of Yanjing Road, Zhongshan Road, and the craftsmen in Halahelin.

Hara Helin is the place with the most Mongolian craftsmen. In just a few days, Bru Hague felt that he was about to be killed by the Song army.

Is Song Jun crazy?

Even the Mongols would not kill craftsmen every time they captured a place. The Song army even killed craftsmen.

Of course, they can also understand Song Jun's thoughts. Song Jun goes deep alone and tries not to bring any burdens with him.

The Mongols went west to conquer, and the Song army came to kill and destroy.

If the Song Army does this, Mongolia's ability to raise horses and build horses will be severely damaged.

How many people were there in Mongolia at this time?

Not counting the population of the occupied areas, nor the Han people in Hebei or Shanxi, the number of Mongolian herders in Greater Mongolia is only about one million.

The Song army broke into Haraholin this time, and including those killed along the way, they could kill at least hundreds of thousands.

Mongolia was definitely hit hard.

Kublai Khan gritted his teeth: "Zhao Yurui doesn't look like a Han at all."

There are no Han emperors who are so cruel, and there is no such thing in history. There are many Han emperors who are stupid, but there is no one like Zhao Yurui who goes on a killing spree and has no humanity.

Just as he and Blue Haiya were biting and scolding Zhao Yurui, someone ran over not far away.

"Tiji, there are no survivors, probably more than 2,000 people were killed - the Song people are such beasts." Even Kublai Khan's subordinates were scolding them.

"Zhao Yurui, Zhao Yurui this dog emperor——" Blue Hague continued to curse.

"Let's go to Heishui City." Kublai Khan turned the horse's head and led the men and horses to Heishui City.

A few days ago, Luheteni had sent a quick cavalry to notify Heishui City. After the peace negotiations between Song and Mongolia, Heishui City became a place where the Mongolian army gathered heavily, with 30,000 elite troops stationed there.

Because this is the only way to stay in the Hexi Corridor and Mobei.

If the Song army wants to attack Mobei from the south, they must go to Heishui City.

But no one expected that the Song Army actually came from the east.

It stands to reason that Blackwater City's soldiers and horses should have gone north to support Mobei and Halahelin.

But a few days passed, and the herdsmen on the grassland suffered numerous casualties, but there was no trace of the reinforcements from Blackwater City.

(End of this chapter)