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

Chapter 439 Wooden Castle

For a time, several big cities along the Persian Gulf, such as Batak, Ramad, Khrom, Shira, and Lamu Port City, had frequent trade and business, and the city lords and nobles also made a lot of money. The bowl is full, and now the Song Army has announced a blockade order. Not to mention the ships in these cities, even the ships entering and leaving these cities have been sunk.

No merchant ships traveling around Persia dared to enter these cities. The nobles were frightened and begged the Song army for mercy.

Ruan Heng used an excuse to sink several passing merchant ships. The entire Persian Gulf trembled and maritime trade plummeted.

When all the city lords along the coast surrendered, the people of Song Dynasty announced at this time, how much tribute you paid to the Mongols every year in the past, how much tribute you now pay to our Song Dynasty.

The nobles were dumbfounded. This meant they had to pay double portions every year.

Of course, they could also refuse to give a double share, or completely fall out with the Mongols and join the Song people.

However, there were too few Song people in Persia at this time, only a few thousand people. The locals were afraid that the Song people would eventually be beaten back by Choermahan, so they did not dare to fall out with the Mongols immediately.

At this time, everyone in South Persia is waiting, waiting for the Mongols to come back and fight the Song people, and whoever wins will join them.

But there was no movement from the Mongols, and they were silent for a long time after returning to Lai City.

There was no other way. The base camp of the Mongolian army's Western Expedition was having a fierce argument with Choermahan and the others, deciding whether to return eastward or continue the Western Expedition.

Compared with the siege of Haraholin and the all-out war between Song and Meng, the Song army's occupation of Gonbulun became a trivial matter, which gave the Song army ample time to operate here.
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In September last year, the Song army used the Mongolian army to burn the Song emperor outside Cangzhou City as an excuse to preemptively launch a full-scale war between Song and Mongolia.

The Song army launched operations on four fronts at the same time in Liaodong, Shandong, Henan, and Shaanxi. Before this, Xixia had already been fighting in full swing.

Only then did everyone in Mongolia realize that they had been tricked by the Song emperor Zhao Yurui. Zhao Yurui had no intention of negotiating peace and had long decided to attack Mongolia. Moreover, because of what happened outside Cangzhou City, people all over the world criticized him, saying that the Mongolian Khan Wokuotai There is no faith.

It is clear that Zhao Yurui is despicable and shameless, but everyone in the world is scolding Wo Kuotai.

This poor man from the grassland in Wogetai is so aggrieved that he almost cries just thinking about it.

The Song Army's offensive was fierce, but the Mongolian army soon discovered that the Song Army's strength in Liaodong, Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi and other places was not very strong. The Song Army was mainly in the direction of Xixia.

Liaodong, Shandong and other places were designed to contain the Mongolian army's military strength.

But knowing this, Wokuotai didn't have many people available.

The Mongolian army in Liaodong, Hebei, and Shanxi had to guard against the Song army, rescue Harahelin, and encircle and suppress the Song army's incoming lone army.

In October, news reached Wo Kuotai in Datong.

After the Song army's Lu Wende and Meng Ying troops surrounded Harahe Forest, they broke through Harahe Forest in less than twenty days. Wo Kuotai's eyesight went dark, and he and the Mongolian nobles cursed one after another.

In August, the Song army surrounded Harahe Forest.

Because the Song army did not bring siege equipment, Luheteni originally thought that the Song army would only besiege but not attack.

Unexpectedly, the Song army forced the captured herdsmen to dig tunnels, and some of the outer city walls of Halahe Forest were not completely built.

The Song army dug tunnels under the city, buried explosives, and destroyed the city in an instant.

Tens of thousands of households from Mongolian, Turkic, Han, Khitan, Jurchen and other tribes in the city were captured alive by the Song army.

Among all ethnic groups, except for a few young and beautiful women who were left behind, the rest were all beheaded just to save food. Only thousands of Han craftsmen were spared.

About ten days after the city was broken, Prince Kuo Duan led 30,000 elites from Wu La Hai City to the outside of Hara Helin City.

The Song Army has repaired the sections of the city wall that were blown up.

Seeing that the Mongolian army was few, Meng Ying originally wanted to lead his troops out to fight, but Lu Wende wanted to reduce casualties and refused to let Meng Ying go out and wait for the Mongolian army to attack the city.

Of course Kuo Duan was not stupid. He didn't have enough soldiers and horses. It was estimated that the Song army would not stay in the city for a long time. After all, food and grass were limited, so he waited outside the city for reinforcements.

A few days later, Aotun Shiying arrived with 20,000 horses from Blackwater City.

The combined force of the two Mongolian armies amounted to 50,000, but it was still less than the Song army. Kuoduan was still waiting for reinforcements from Keyimen. He waited for several more days without receiving reinforcements, but waited until Aotun Baohe was brought out from Heishui City. The defeated army, and then heard the shocking news that Keyi Gate was breached by the Song Army, and hundreds of thousands of Song troops entered through Keyi Gate.

Oh, let me go. Kuoduan almost fainted at that time.

This situation is quite dangerous.

Originally, he planned to gather heavy troops to surround Lu Wende, but he did not expect that he might be surrounded and suppressed by the Song army.

At this time, he had about 70,000 to 80,000 troops, because some Mongolian troops came one after another from the territories of Batu and Ogedai, but they were not large-scale. There was no way. There were no large-scale Mongolian troops in these two places. You have to leave some troops to defend your own territory.

After the Song army broke through the Keyi Gate with more than 100,000 troops, they could divide their troops into two groups, go all the way to break Wu Lahai City, and pursue them all the way from Heishui City.

At this time, Kuaduan had to consider staying on his own instead of besieging Harahe Forest.

Moreover, with so many soldiers and horses out there, supplies would be more difficult than for the Song army.

The Song army had already robbed everything within a few hundred miles of Harahe Forest. Everything that could be robbed was taken by the Song army. Now that the Mongolian army was in the wild, supplies were not easy. The longer the delay, the more disadvantageous it would be to the Mongolian army.

Sure enough, within a few days, some defeated soldiers escaped from Wu Lai Hai City, saying that the Song army had attacked Wu Lai Hai City all the way, and the Mongolian troops in Wu Lai Hai City had fled in all directions and were coming this way.

The entire Xixia had been lost, and Kuoduan immediately decided to retreat first.

The nearest big city is Qianqianzhou, which is the base camp of Mongolian army craftsmen and agriculture and animal husbandry, second only to the existence of Harahe Forest. Now that Harahe Forest is destroyed, Kuoduan must keep Qianzhou.

In late September, Kuoduan arrived in Qianzhou with 70,000 to 80,000 horses. Before he could get too hot, he heard another shocking news.

There are also hundreds of thousands of Song troops in Chagatai's territory. Chagatai cannot defeat them, so he is retreating to Qianzhou with his entire clan.

The Mongolian nobles at the scene were stunned. The Song Army was full of troops and horses, and they didn't know how many troops the Song Army had dispatched.

But it must be that the Song army in the direction of Heishui City and Wu Lahai City should be the same one, numbering hundreds of thousands, and Chagatai Pigu is also followed by hundreds of thousands.

This amounted to more than 200,000 people. Including those from Harahelin, the Song army had nearly 300,000 horses entering the grassland, or was entering the grassland.

This is the purpose of destroying the country. The Song army wants to raze all the nearby Mongolian fiefdoms.

At this time, Kuo Duan has to consider where to run?

Now he still has a chance to run east and join his father O Kuotai in Shanxi, but he must prevent being intercepted on the road by the Song army coming out of Wulahai City.

Of course, he is not very afraid of the Song army in field battles. The key is that Chagatai is coming later.

The wide end will just have to wait.

In early October, Chagatai and Qianfeng entered Qianzhou, and the two uncles and nephews embraced each other in tears.

The once arrogant Mongol Empire was now being pursued by the Song people like a lost dog.

Jaghatai brings good news and bad news.

The good news is that not all of the hundreds of thousands of Song troops who were chasing Chagatai were pursued. About half of the troops were divided to pursue Ye Mili. It won't take long before Ye Mili will definitely not be able to hold it. After Ye Mili, there is Qianzhou. Well, the Song army was not very far away from them.

The bad news is that the other half of the Song army is heading towards the territories of Wokuotai and Batu, and they are all rushing to raze them. They will kill anyone they see and those who refuse to surrender.

In fact, what Chagatai said was not very accurate. The Song army only had 30,000 soldiers and horses arriving at Ye Mili. They just wanted to defend Ye Mili and prevent the Mongolian army from entering Chagatai's territory again.

In addition, more than 90,000 Song troops began to push toward the northwest, specifically hunting the ethnic groups in Wokuotai and Batu territories.

At this time, the Song army fought in the same way as the Mongols, with one man and two horses, and a large amount of siege baggage. Although they were moving slowly, there was no problem with supplies, and they could be looted along the way. This would be the peak period of the Mongols, and Mobei No matter whether it is Batu or Ogedai territory, there are herdsmen of all ethnic groups everywhere.

The herdsmen raise cattle, horses and sheep, and they can't let go of them even if they want to run, nor can they run fast.
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In the seventh year of Yuanzhen, Song and Mongolia went into full-scale war. The Song army sent troops to various parts of the original Xixia, Shandong, Liaodong, Henan, and Shaanxi to launch a three-way attack on Hebei, Shanxi, and Liaodong occupied by Mongolian Wo Kuotai.

With the Song army's gasoline bombs, flintlock guns, and artillery combined, the Mongolian army was retreating steadily and was completely unable to defend the cities.

All of Wokuotai's hopes were pinned on the main force of the Mongolian army in the Western Expedition, but the main force of the Mongolian army was still missing, which frightened the entire Mongol Empire.

So where is Batu now?

In the spring of the fourth year of Yuanzhen, the Mongolian army basically conquered the principality of Rus. Batu recruited more than 100,000 troops in the principalities of Rus. Then he came to Galicia (today's Uklansi) to rest and recuperate. This rest lasted longer than in history, because The Mongolian army did not originally bring so many servants.

This time, in order to expand the army, Batu recruited 100,000 more troops from the Rus' Principality, and then carried out a half-year-long rest and reorganization in Galicia. For every 10,000 households of the Mongolian army, a small half were servants, combining the Mongolian army and The servant army was disrupted and reorganized, and the Mongolian army led the servant army. This made the servant army of the Principality of Rus become stronger and more elite in the subsequent battles with the Mongolian army.

In the autumn of the fourth year of Yuanzhen, the Mongolian army sent out troops again after reorganizing. There were more than 200,000 Mongolian troops and about 60,000 remained in various parts of the Rus Principality. About 170,000 followed Batu to the west.

Batu's troops were divided into three groups as in history.

The main force was personally led by Batu and Subotai, and drove directly to the Magyar Kingdom (Jiyali), because Xiyali is the westernmost extension of the grassland zone and can be used as an excellent base for the Mongolian cavalry to fight in Central Europe in the future.

One route was led by Batu's brother O'erda, Chagatai's son Baid'er, and Subutai's son Ulianghetai, heading northwest into Borel (Bolan), and the other was led by Ogedai's son Hedan. The army was in the south, mainly to guard against Bohemia (later Jack's area) and the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II's support to Fali.

At the beginning of the fifth year of Yuanzhen, the Mongolian troops from Orda and Baidaer broke through Sandomier City and arrived at Krakov. Henry II, the king of Bolier, abandoned the city and fled. The Mongolian army burned the city after entering.

In March, Orda and Badar received instructions from Batu. If they occupied Bolan, they should not continue to go deeper into Molwila (the area around Jack and Slovak). As long as the threats on the flanks were eliminated, they would launch their troops. Head south to join forces with the fierce Mongolian army.

In early April, the Mongolian army crossed the Vistula River near Sandomir and defeated the Polish and Blue Army led by Boleslaw near Khmelnik on the 18th. In early May, after the Mongolian army captured Krakow, they again This big city was burned to the ground. In early June, the Mongolian army took Frauclav, the capital of Silesia, a Polish vassal state. This place is known as Little Poland. However, the Mongolian army encountered fierce resistance here. The Mongolian army carried out two battles. After many months of siege, the city was finally broken, and then Xiao Bolan was massacred, and the entire city was also burned to the ground.

After the news of the destruction of Xiaobolan spread, there was great panic in the country of Bolan. The ferocity of the Mongols deeply shocked Europeans.

After razing Xiaobolan, Orda and Badar took a long rest, also for the purpose of reorganizing the army.

This time the Mongolian army went west to expand its strength, so it recruited troops everywhere along the way.

When O'erda and Beida'er came in, there were only 50,000 soldiers and horses in this group. However, after fighting for more than half a year, when Xiaobolan was razed, the number of troops in hand reached 80,000, but there were 30,000 more surrendered troops.

The surrendering army was mainly composed of Soler people (ie Bolan people).

At this time, both Bolan and Heyali had a large population. In 1200, the population of Heyyali exceeded two million, which was a large number in Europe at that time. The ruler of the Heyyali Kingdom was also the most important in Europe. One of the big shots.

There were four monarchs in Poland at that time, all descendants of the Piast dynasty, and they were actually divided into four. Boleslaw V was the co-owner of the principality, but Grand Duke Henry II was the Duke of Silesia. He is also the most powerful in the entire Bolan.

At that time, the combined population of the four principalities of Poland was about one to two million, which was considered to be the most populous in Europe. This was also the basis for the rise of the Eastern European powers that later competed with the Teutonic Knights for hegemony.

However, King Henry II of the four principalities performed too poorly in the early stage. He first escaped from Sandomier City and allowed the Mongolian army to directly attack Sandomier City. Later, he ignored Krakow and allowed the Polish city to be burned down. All naked.

However, there is a saying in history that Henry II traded space for time to gain time for himself to gather a large number of troops for a decisive battle with the Mongolian army.

In order to integrate their troops, Orda and Badarhe conducted a long period of rest near Frauclav, allowing the Mongolian army to rest and strengthen their strength.

Since entering Central and Eastern Europe, the Mongolian army seemed to have discovered the New World. This may be why Batu didn't want to go back and wanted to continue conquering Europe.

At this time, many principalities in Europe had just entered feudal society. Several important cities in Poland, such as Sandomier and Krakow, were all made of wooden castles.

Among the four principalities of Poland, only Henry II's Frauclav City had mud and stone walls, but the height was only five or six meters.

This is completely different from the situation encountered by the Mongolian army in the battle with the Jin and Song Dynasties.

Compared with the Jin and Song Dynasties, Europe at this time was like undeveloped aborigines and savages. Wooden castles could be destroyed in front of the Mongolian cavalry, so after the Mongolian army invaded, they burned them all.

After capturing Frauclav, Orda, Baidaer and others had only one feeling, that is, the Europeans were vulnerable and really much easier to fight than the Song Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)