Tumeng: I am a national advisor in the Golden Family

The words were slightly insulting, which made the envoy of the Holy Roman Empire very angry, because everyone knew that the Queen of Jerusalem of the previous generation married the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Frederick II, and became his second wife.

However, a few years after the two got married, during the Crusades, the Queen of Jerusalem died of illness.

The Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II also inherited the title of King of Jerusalem from her. Although no bishop or pope came to canonize him, the emperor still proclaimed himself King of Jerusalem.

A few years later, the throne was passed to Conrad, his son by himself and the Queen of Jerusalem, who truly had the blood of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, making him officially the King of Jerusalem.

"She is the husband of the previous queen, the youngest daughter of King John the Elder. She has now surrendered to Mongolia and has been named the Queen of Jerusalem by us." Zhang Yong smiled and said.

"King Guanzhong, you mean the queen of the Latin Empire, she, she is not dead?" The envoy of the Holy Roman Empire changed his face and asked.

"That's right! That lady did not die. Instead, she accepted the gospel of the true Lord and planned to marry Guyu, the son of the Mongolian Khan Ogodei, one of our Mongolian clan kings.

And in the future, their son will inherit the position of King of Jerusalem, and that false king of yours will abdicate soon. "Zhang Yong smiled and said.

You can laugh at me for calling myself King John but not the Great Khan of the Mongols, then I can laugh at you, we have to reciprocate as courtesy, and don't be too proud, I will become the real Great Khan of the Mongols and the Emperor of the Central Plains before long.

"Old King John was just the husband of the previous Queen of Jerusalem. His current youngest daughter was also born to his second wife after the death of the old Queen. She does not have the royal blood of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

People used to call her Princess of Jerusalem, but that was just because her father had been king.

But if she wants to become the Queen of Jerusalem, she is not yet qualified. "The envoy of the Holy Roman Empire said.

"Whether you are qualified or not is not up to you, but mine. You have to understand this.

And don’t think that just as Frederick II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, knows the history of Mongolia, I also know your history.

The first king of Jerusalem was, to put it bluntly, just an ordinary Frankish nobleman. He was able to inherit the throne only thanks to some support.

Moreover, since the death of the Leper King Baldwin IV, the true bloodline of the King of Jerusalem has been severed, and everyone knows this.

Need I say anything more? And in the current Jerusalem area, you only occupy the city of Acre and a few ports. Everything else is the territory of the Ayyubid Dynasty. "Zhang Yong said.

Just kidding, do you think I really don’t understand your Western stuff? The Leper King was only 24 years old when he died.

He left no heirs at all, but passed the position of king to his nephew, his sister's son.

In fact, this is already a foreign relative, and the little king died unexpectedly when he was only eight years old.

after. The throne was reversed several times and fell directly into the hands of outsiders. The Queen of Old Jerusalem was, to put it bluntly, nothing more than an outsider.

As long as they are slightly related to the Jerusalem royal family and have been married, they can actually be counted as the Jerusalem royal family. Zhang Yong is very sure that this little princess can be wise.

Seeing Zhang Yong understand their history so well. The envoy of the Holy Roman Empire did not say anything more in defense.

Instead, he snorted coldly and said. :
"Then we can only meet on the battlefield. Our emperor originally wanted to make friends with you, but it seems that you want to reject His Majesty's kindness."

"Of course, I hope your king can withstand it. By the way, do you want to stay for a wedding? I think your emperor may not come." Zhang Yong asked.

"No need, this wedding is neither blessed nor accepted. No monarch in the West will recognize the legitimacy of this wedding."

"I don't expect you to admit it. Since there is nothing more to say, let's see the guests off!" Zhang Yong waved his hand and asked someone to take the envoy of the Holy Roman Empire out.

"My king, are you sure? Are you sure you can defeat the current Holy Roman Empire? They? They want to gather the power of the entire Europe." Eupracia sat next to Zhang Yong and said anxiously .

"Of course I'm sure, and don't worry, this battle is not as difficult as you think. We have an absolute advantage." Zhang Yong smiled and said.

Just kidding, in the original history, hundreds of thousands of Mongolian troops could defeat the Europeans.

Now Zhang Yong has an army of 120,000 people, while Batu has an army of 150,000 people. Unless the Europeans gather together, they will only have an army of 400,000 people.

And they have more than 100,000 cavalry, otherwise they would have no possibility of winning against the Mongolian army.

Besides, Zhang Yong still has a secret weapon but it’s useless!
Zhang Yong is also happy to see this all-out decisive battle with the Holy Roman Empire, because all the armies of all European countries have been gathered here. The Mongol army could wipe them out in one go.

Later, when the Golden Horde or other khanates rule here, the pressure will be much less, and the country that they support will have more room for survival.

Batu and others will stay here to establish their own khanate, but Zhang Yong will not.

Zhang Yong will return eastward with his army, and part of Guyu's army will also stay here. It will not be a problem to protect some of the industries Zhang Yong left here.

"Actually, if you are willing, you can wait for another two or three years, and my father should be able to rule the entire Roman Empire again.

At that time, reinforcements from the Roman Empire can come to help you, and my father can at least organize an army of 100,000 people to come and support you. " Eupracia said.

"We in Hungary can also recover to a certain extent and can at least support your army of 10,000 to 20,000 people." Queen Maria, who was sitting aside, said.

Coupled with the troops from Croatia, Serbia, and the Rus region, Zhang Yong's army will increase by at least 150,000 by then.

"No need, this time I will lead an army of 100,000 people to go out, leaving 10,000 troops to guard, 20,000 Russian coalition forces, and reinforcements from Serbia and Croatia will come. By then, we should be able to gather more than 100,000 troops." Zhang Yong He spoke.

He has already calculated all the problems, and there is no need for these two women to worry about it.

In the next nearly half a year, I will make good preparations for war, reserve military rations, and have the royal Mongolian gunpowder stones collect nearby materials to start preparing black powder and making new explosive bags.

During this half year, he still needs to reserve food and grass. The first place to attack the Holy Roman Empire is Austria. It is different from Poland and Hungary. The terrain has begun to become complicated.

At the same time, Zhang Yong also plans to return to the Rus area and deploy 5,000 Han troops to maintain law and order in Hungary. The remaining 10,000 Han troops will continue to be stationed in the Rus area to carry out farm work and continuously provide food and grass for Zhang Yong's army. .

It is worth mentioning that after Zhang Yong stayed in the Rus area for a few years, basically everyone of the Han troops who stayed behind married a Rus wife, as well as a Kipchak wife.

After all, they are all men. It has been two or three years since the Western Expedition, and these big men have become extremely angry.

Although these Western women do not conform to their aesthetic standards, as the saying goes, after three years in the military, a sow will turn into a Diao Chan, a little taller but with fair skin, and she will look the same even if the lights are turned off.

What's more, these people were a group of prisoners before! Now that I can find a young and beautiful Western wife, God has opened my eyes.

However, it was precisely because of marrying many local women that some Russians launched riots. In the past two years, these Han armies have not been without any fighting. They basically put down the riots in the Ross area.

As for the 2 Russian troops who followed him on the Western Expedition, Zhang Yong was also very good to them. After all, if you really use them as a slave army.

Then putting it next to him is a time bomb, so when attacking the Bulgarian Empire, Zhang Yong also rewarded these Russian troops with captured women from the Bulgarian Empire. And they have been given military pay. After this group of people returns to the Ross area, they will become a huge help to themselves. At least in the eyes of their Ross compatriots, this group of people is already their lackeys.

Batu also sent an envoy to tell Zhang Yong that they would soon take care of the Teutonic Knights, as well as Prussia and the Principality of Lithuania, next spring.

Then you can send troops together with Zhang Yong to launch a fierce attack on Austria. At that time, the two Mongolian armies will meet under the city of Vienna.

While Zhang Yong was arranging a new round of war preparations and planning a decisive battle with the Holy Roman Empire, the situation in the east was also undergoing subtle changes.

The first is the Northern Expedition in the Southern Song Dynasty. Zhang Yong's Chongqing Mansion and Hanzhong Mansion were heavily guarded and did not allow the Song army to gain any advantage.

These two areas, before Zhang Yong left, had experienced various city defense reinforcements on the city walls, and even installed a large number of Zhang Yong's latest heavy artillery.

The Southern Song Dynasty's army was unable to shake these two strategic locations. Zhang Yong's Sichuan-Sichuan base area and Hanzhong Pass base area were both extremely safe.

After the Southern Song Dynasty began its Northern Expedition, it began to attack all the way. According to Zhang Yong's previous strategy, the Guanzhong army did not want to confront the Southern Song army head-on, but only needed to hold on to a few important checkpoints and wait for the arrival of grassland reinforcements.

Turan ordered the generals under Zhang Yong to shrink their troops, and then gave up Henan Prefecture and Kaifeng Prefecture. However, the people in the two prefectures had been moved to the Guanzhong area in advance by Tulan Lun, leaving only two people behind. It's just an empty city.

This allowed the Southern Song Dynasty army to successfully occupy Kaifeng Mansion and Henan Mansion. However, after occupying these two empty cities, the Southern Song Dynasty army could not get any supplies, and there was not even a single civilian in the city.

However, occupying Kaifeng Mansion and Henan Mansion really cheered up the entire Southern Song Dynasty. After all, they finally succeeded in taking back the old capital.

After getting the news that Kaifeng Mansion was restored.

Emperor Zhao Yun of the Southern Song Dynasty bathed and changed clothes that day, then entered the Ancestral Temple and told the news to his ancestors, the emperors of the Song Dynasty.

He also informed the world and announced an amnesty for the world. The Northern Expedition of the Song Dynasty achieved a great success, successfully entering Kaifeng Mansion and regaining the old capital.

"Hahaha! What a blessing! I, the Heavenly Master of the Song Dynasty, defeated the Mongolian army with just a few moves, and successfully recovered the lands of Henan and Kaifeng." A scholar said.

is not that right? When the Northern Expedition first began, most literati were actually not optimistic about it, and felt that this time the Northern Expedition was yet another failure.

There will be no decent results at all. But who could have imagined that after the war began, the Song Dynasty's army would be so sharp. They made great progress all the way and actually took advantage of the situation to capture Kaifeng Mansion.

"After several Northern Expeditions over the past century, this battle has finally achieved decent results. God has blessed me. The Song Dynasty is finally proud of itself." Throughout the streets and alleys, whether they were traffickers or literati, they were celebrating wantonly. Celebrating this rare victory.

"The only pity is that we failed to recapture the Sichuan-Sichuan land and the Guanzhong land this time."

"What are you afraid of? We have already captured the Central Plains and Kaifeng Mansion. Then we can take the opportunity to cut off the connection between Guanzhong, Sichuan, and Mongolia. Guanzhong is not ours yet."

"Yes, now Kaifeng Prefecture has been recovered. The officials should continue to send large armies, continue the Northern Expedition, expand the results, and strive to take back the sixteen states of Yanyun."

Slightly different from the joy among the people, at this time there was another fierce dispute between the court and the public in the Song Dynasty.

This time the Northern Expedition did make a breakthrough and recaptured Kaifeng Mansion, but the Southern Song Dynasty's front line was infinitely stretched, and logistical supplies became a huge problem.

"Officials, it is not appropriate for us to march again now. The best way is to quickly stabilize the newly recovered areas, then send reinforcements there, and then move some people there.

It is said that Kaifeng Prefecture, Henan Prefecture and Hezhong Prefecture now have no common people. All the people there have been killed by the Mongols. "An old minister said.

"It is said that they were not completely killed by the Mongols. It's just that the people in the Central Plains have been moved into the pass. What the Mongols left behind are just a few empty cities." A military commander said.

"Now that Kaifeng Mansion has been recaptured, the matter cannot be let go. Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures will think about it later.

But the most important thing now is to quickly stabilize the Central Plains and Kaifeng Mansion. I plan to send some more reinforcements and transport a large amount of food and grass there. "Zhao Yun sat on the dragon chair and said with a blushing face.

This time the Northern Expedition made such breakthrough progress that he, the emperor, finally sat firmly on the throne. The people, civil servants and generals all over the country have recognized him as the Emperor of the Song Dynasty.

Finally, he was no longer a puppet supported by a powerful minister.

"Officials! We still need to be careful. At this time, we should strengthen the defenses of the newly occupied cities. The Mongolian counterattack will come soon." A military general stood up and said.

Although the main force of Mongolia is on an expedition abroad, there is not a single person on the Mongolian grassland. Mongolia still has a large number of troops and the army of Han Shihou. The next Mongolian counterattack will be very cruel.

"Of course I will not be careless. I will prepare a batch of food and grass and send 10,000 troops to Kaifeng Mansion to provide food for the soldiers on the front line." Zhao Yun said.

After occupying Kaifeng Mansion for more than a month. Southern Song Dynasty. The imperial court finally sent a support army, escorting a large amount of food and grass to the front line for support.

On the Tulan Lun side, more than 10,000 Mongolian cavalry were sent and began to continuously harass the Song Army's supply line along the way.

Feel sorry! It is impossible to transport this food and grass to the frontline soldiers. In addition to 5000 Mongolian cavalry, Turan Lun also sent heavy armored cavalry that Zhang Yong spent a lot of money to train.

These heavy armored cavalry, combined with the Mongolian cavalry stationed in Qinghai, successfully cut off the connection between the Southern Song Dynasty court and the Northern Expedition army.

On the other side, the monkey army of the Han Dynasty in the direction of Hebei also gathered at this time. And under the leadership of Shi Tianze, he crossed the Yellow River and launched a fierce attack on the Southern Song Dynasty army that occupied Kaifeng Mansion.

Some villages and small towns around Kaifeng Mansion surrendered immediately after the Hebei army arrived. These northerners really didn't have much affection for the Southern Song Dynasty court.

On the other side of the Mongolian grassland. The reinforcements sent by the Mongolian Khan Ogedei had also arrived at this time. After traveling thousands of miles to the main battlefield, they joined the Hebei army.

After the two reinforcements arrived, Tulan Lun immediately ordered that the Guanzhong army came out in full force. Together, the three armies completed an encirclement of the Song army in Kaifeng Prefecture.

The helpless Southern Song generals could only order that the main force of the Song army withdrew into Kaifeng Mansion and relied on solid city walls to defend the Mongols.

At this time in the Southern Song Dynasty, more than 100,000 Northern Expedition troops were not only cut off from supplies, but were also completely surrounded in Kaifeng Mansion. A full 100,000 troops were trapped in an isolated city.

After the Mongolian army surrounded the city, they did not launch an attack at all, because everyone knew that there was no food in Kaifeng Mansion, and the Southern Song army would soon collapse.

After being surrounded by the Northern Expeditionary Army, the Southern Song Dynasty regime was immediately frightened and wanted to organize an army to break through the defense lines set up in the Guanzhong area and go to support the Northern Expeditionary Army.

But it is a pity that the Southern Song Dynasty army faced 10,000 Mongolian cavalry, 5,000 heavy armored cavalry, and a large number of Guanzhong troops.

The Southern Song Dynasty government and the public fell into a kind of despair at this time, which no one expected.

The war situation unexpectedly took a turn for the worse. The Northern Expedition, which had been so smooth, turned out to be an encirclement woven by the Mongols. Kaifeng Prefecture and Henan Prefecture were all used as bait for the Mongols.

Now hundreds of thousands of Northern Expedition troops are actually trapped in Kaifeng Mansion. (End of chapter)