The Super Summoning System of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1216 Temujin died of illness

Xun Yu cupped his hands and said, "There is no news yet, but according to Li Jing, governor of Bingzhou, and Xue Rengui, governor of Youzhou, it should be Temujin who died of illness."

"Tiemuzhen died of illness?" Liu Bian stood up upon hearing this.

Without ordering anyone, Liu Bian strode directly to His Royal Highness, took the urgent letters from various states from Liu Bowen and Xun Yu and others, and read them.

The governors of the four prefectures all agreed that the Hu people in the northern border had migrated on a large scale, and they all speculated that Temujin died of illness, civil strife broke out in Mongolia, and the Hu people migrated to avoid the front of the Han.

In fact, the guesses of several governors are not unreasonable.

Because as early as last year, Temujin fell ill, very seriously ill. At that time, Temujin led an army of more than [-] troops to attack the big man in four directions.

However, several armies were defeated one after another, and Okuotai's death made Temujin anxious.Later, when he returned to the royal court, he learned that the royal court was raided by the Han army, and all the princes and nobles of the royal court were taken captive by the Han army. Temujin was even more ill.

As for whether Temujin is dead or not, there is no latest and true news yet.

"Your Majesty, if Temujin is really dead, now is a good opportunity to send troops to the grassland. People must be panicking in the grassland at this moment. If the grassland settles down in a few years, it will be difficult to deal with."

"Yeah, the harvests in the four prefectures were good last year, enough to meet the use of troops this year. Now that spring has begun, new grasses have begun to sprout on the northern grasslands. By the time the troops are dispatched, the horses will be able to eat, and the cavalry will not be needed at all. Fodder can save a lot of money.”

A group of courtiers persuaded Liu Bian to use troops on the grassland.

"The Mongols don't stand there for you to fight like the princes in the Han Dynasty. Attacking Mongolia is not that simple. Emperor Wu fought for his whole life, but he didn't completely wipe them out. I'm afraid that Temujin will die. We will go to the Northern Expedition. It's hard to take advantage of anything, I'm afraid he had arranged everything before he died."

Liu Bian saw that all the ministers persuaded him one after another, but he didn't take it seriously, thinking that now is not the best time to attack Temujin.

Originally, he planned to wait for a few years to recuperate after leveling Jiangdong, and to accumulate enough strength to invade the grassland on a large scale.

But now that the generals of all the states have called for the battle, he will naturally not allow it,
Liu Bian murmured, "Liangzhou soldiers and horses have just participated in the battle of entering Sichuan, so there will be no Northern Expedition this time, and Shuozhou was established not long ago, with few people, so it is difficult to launch a big war.

Let Bingzhou and Youzhou send troops, each with [-] cavalry on standby. After the beginning of spring, Li Jing will go out of the clouds, Xue Rengui will go out of Shanggu, and enter the grassland. "

Liu Bian did not follow the law of killing. He planned to capture the man as a labor force. Now that the big man is developing rapidly, a lot of labor is needed to build roads and open canals.War is the best and most direct way to supplement labor.

As for the women, they were naturally rewarded to the soldiers of the big man.

"No!" All the ministers bowed their hands and took orders, and went to issue orders.

Liu Bian actually didn't plan to gain much this time. At present, Temujin's life and death are unknown, and the Mongolian tribes have moved inward.This is either a conspiracy against the big man, or a large-scale retreat to Mobei.

Needless to say, the conspiracy, the big man still needs to be on guard to be able to save the day, and if he retreats.The Mongolian side must have already made preparations. If the big man wants to attack, it may not be so easy.

But fighting must be done. The grassland stretches across thousands of miles. Liu Bian didn't plan to defeat Mongolia in one go. He thought that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had beaten the Xiongnu all his life.Right now, if you can kill one more, you are one, and if you can plunder more resources, you are some resources.

However, when attacking the grassland, Liu Bian did not plan to conquer the grassland himself, but handed over the full power to the governors of the states.

Half a year later, the governors of each state successively received orders from Liu Bian and began to get busy.

However, Chang Yuchun, the governor of Liangzhou, and Lin Yu, the governor of Shuozhou, did not receive the order to send troops, but received the order to recuperate.

They were not happy, and wrote to Liu Bian one after another, requesting to send troops.

Liu Bian had no choice but to write back a letter to the two of them, saying: "I can understand your love for killing the enemy and serving the country, but Liangzhou and Shuozhou are both places of bitter cold, and the people's life is not rich. Right now, Liangzhou has just returned from conquering Yizhou, and the soldiers are exhausted. Shuozhou has only been established for less than two years, and the people are poor. The two states are tight, and indeed they can barely send troops.

However, attacking Mongolia at this time cannot be determined in one battle. I am only sending troops to test it out.When I want to wipe out Mongolia on a large scale in the future, your two states will not have the strength to use troops.Don't miss the large-scale war in the future because of the small fights in front of you. "

And when Chang Yuchun and Lin Yu received the letter, they really gave up the idea of ​​sending troops.

The two men took Liu Bian's letter and said to the general: "Your Majesty is only attacking the grassland tentatively. The Mongols have already retreated. I am afraid that the two governors will have difficulty finding the main force of the enemy. If the food and grass are exhausted, they will retreat." return.

We will not participate in the peace, so as not to find the enemy, not to mention a waste of food and grass, but also hurt our people's strength, and delay the real large-scale attack on Mongolia in the future. "

In this way, the generals in Liangzhou and Shuozhou are no longer arguing about attacking Mongolia. After all, it will take time to recover if the people's strength is consumed this time.When they attack next time, they might miss the real battle before they recover, which no one wants.

At the same time, Liu Bian also received the latest definite news from the Mongolian side that Temujin, the Great Khan of Mongolia, died of illness in December last year, and was succeeded by Temujin's fourth son Tuo Lei.

Although Tuolei was broken by Li Cunxiao's arm, his heroic talent can be regarded as the crown of Temujin's sons, not to mention that now two of Temujin's four sons have died, and only one Chiju is left. Incompetence can't compete with tow mines at all.

After Tuo Lei inherited the Mongolian Khan, he was worried that the Han army would send troops, so he ordered the grassland people on the border of the Han Dynasty to be moved to the depths of the grassland.After all, the grassland is so big that it belongs to the territory of Mongolia, and it can completely avoid the Han army.

And Tuo Lei also changed the location of the royal court again, and the whereabouts of the royal court tribe have been uncertain since then, even many Mongolian tribes don't know where the Mongolian royal court is.

At the beginning of March, Li Jing led an army of [-] out of Qishan, and Xue Rengui led [-] cavalry out of Shanggu to attack the hinterland of the grassland.

It's just that the entire grassland is completely uninhabited, not to mention people, even a single livestock is hard to find.

If no one can be found, there will be no guides, and without guides, no important tribes will be found to attack.

Fortunately, the Han army has a compass, so they won't get lost on the vast grassland.

The two armies of Li Jing and Xue Rengui only carried two months' worth of food, that is to say, they could only search for one month on the grassland before returning, otherwise they would be trapped on the grassland when the food ran out.

Li Jing and Xue Rengui experienced the cunning of the Mongols for the first time, and they also tasted the taste of frustration.

The Mongols invaded the Han, and the defense of the Han was as stable as Mount Tai. Now that the Han army invaded Mongolia, the defense of the Mongols was also impeccable.

No one could be found, no matter how many soldiers and horses there were, it was useless, and he slammed a heavy punch, as if hitting cotton.

The two armies ran around day and night, looking for the main force of the Mongols, and at night they set up camps, and at the same time sent a few scout cavalry to go out to look for them.

In the past month like this, half of the food and grass of the two armies had been used up, so they had to lead their troops back.

However, Li Jing and Xue Rengui were not in vain. The army cast their nets everywhere and found some Mongolian tribes, but the scale was not large, ranging from ten thousand to few thousand.

A total of more than one million cattle, sheep and war horses were seized, 3 or [-] Mongolian women were captured, and more than [-] men were captured.

It's just that the main force of the Mongolian army has not encountered it, and the Mongolian people encountered are also ignorant.It seems that most of the Mongolian tribes have gone to Yuandun Mobei, and only a few who are unwilling to leave stay in Monan.

When the food and grass were exhausted, the two had no choice but to lead their troops back to Dahan.

On the surface, each of the two prefectures harvested millions of cattle, sheep and war horses, and tens of thousands of women and men, as if they had won a complete victory.But Li Jing and Xue Rengui knew in their hearts that this time the troops were actually defeated, because they couldn't even find any trace of the enemy, and they could only plunder some ordinary small tribes, which was not a big gain at all.

(End of this chapter)