Chapter 205 Reaction of all parties
When Li Quan from Yidu received the army from the East Mongolian, he had already crossed the sea and landed in Dengzhou, Penglai/Huang County, under the jurisdiction of Dengzhou, was already trapped in the enemy's attack. Laizhou, which was close to him, also received news of enemy scouts entering the country. It seems that it is not far from the army's attack.
It rained all night!
The Mongols in the east moved, and the Mongols in the north moved. The Mongols set out from the city and directly ran through Cangzhou from north to south. Binzhou was the first to be hit, and the defensive envoy directly killed the soldiers and horse envoys in the state and led the people of the whole city to surrender to the Mongols.
It can be said that this situation is very dangerous. If you don’t deal with it well, you will be in danger of being doomed.
At this time, the bet between the Mongolian Khanate and the Eastern Mongols was also heard by Li Quan earlier.
"Extremely shameless! Extremely shameless!" Li Quan, in front of all the generals, could only dispatch troops and angrily.
First of all, Dengzhou in the east must be recaptured as soon as possible!
As long as the Eastern Mongols are driven into the sea, the crisis in the east will be temporarily resolved.
Therefore, he sent Guoanyong, the general who started his own business in his early years, and asked him to lead an army of 50,000 to Dengzhou to lift the siege of Shandong.
But in the north, Li Quan mainly guarded the guards. After all, the Mongols in the north are different from Eastern Mongolia. They have a large number of troops in Zhongdu. This time, the Han marquis who had already surrendered to the Mongols were all in front of each other, and they wanted to take them as their own fathers, so it was almost impossible to defeat them.
My family knows their own affairs!
Li Quan only hoped to defend the defense line in the north and not let the Mongols go deep into the hinterland of Shandong.
In this way, the response strategy for the north defender and the east attack was also revealed.
In addition, the support you need is also needed!
Shandong is the nominal Jingdong Road in the Song Dynasty! Now that Mongolian soldiers invade their own territory, the Song court can only watch the show with their eyes open?
Although Li Quanxin really didn't expect the Song people to send troops in his heart, it was also good to just provide material support.
Now in the northern part, although the reputation of the Song court is a little poor, there are still many Han marquis who are waiting and watching. As long as the Song court still wants to recover the lost territory in the north, they cannot ignore the war in Shandong.
With this idea in mind, the messenger who asked for help also rushed to the Song court in the south, hoping to get some assistance.
In fact, there was no need for Li Quan to send a letter, Song Ting in the south had already received the news.
The Mongols attacked Jingdong Road. Although it was just the nominal Jingdong Road, the Red Coat Army led by Li Quan was the one who actually managed the local area. However, it still shocked the Song court, who had weak military equipment.
So in Lin'an and Da'ini court, the debate over this matter became the most important point at the court meeting.
However, the main point is whether to send troops.
Basically, there are two factions. Among them, the peace faction headed by the powerful prime minister Shi Miyuan, and the war faction headed by the prince Zhao Guihe.
In the eyes of the Lord and Peace faction, Li Quan from Shandong has become a big shot, and it is like a waste of money to Song State. Moreover, the Mongols are powerful, and even the Jin State, which has been suppressing Song State for more than a hundred years, has been driven to the south, so Song State can't get into evil with it.
In addition, the reason for this war was that Li Quan killed the merchants from the East Mongolian, which was called self-defeating. Therefore, being beaten by the East Mongolians was also called worthy of it.
Some people even suggested that they would take advantage of the opportunity of the Mongols attacking Li Quan and send troops to Shandong together. It would be good to not seek to restore the entire territory of Shandong, but to seize Haizhou back. Before, since Li Quan had already bowed his head, Song Ting couldn't openly reach into Li Quan's territory.
Now that there is this opportunity, it just happened to move the front north.
More importantly, we can make friends with the Mongols because of this. In the future, the Mongols will go south to attack the Jin Kingdom, and they will also send troops together to recover the Central Plains.
Therefore, the failure of the Kaixi Northern Expedition in the previous period led to almost no one in the court that the Central Plains could be recovered by the power of the Song State alone. This was also a long time since most people lost the ambition and backbone of their ancestors.
As for the pro-war faction, it was believed that Li Quan had been granted the title of Song State, which was the minister of Song State. The land of Shandong also became the Jingdong Road of Song State. This time, the attack on Shandong State was the invasion of Song State.
It is also reasonable to send troops to counterattack. Moreover, even though the Mongols knew that the Song court had accepted Li Quan's surrender, they still sent troops to attack Shandong, which was to be an enemy of the Song court.
In such a situation where the enemy is provoking first, it is meaningless to just seek peace.
However, compared with the call of the pro-peace faction, the power of the pro-peace faction is significantly smaller. This is also in the court, and the power of the prince Zhao Guihe cannot be compared with the cunning Shi Miyuan.
So in the end, the suggestion of the pro-peace faction was approved. At the fastest speed, it was announced that the Red Coat Army led by Li Quan was a bandit army, and the land in Shandong under its jurisdiction had nothing to do with the Song court. At the same time, it also sent envoys to go north to contact Eastern Mongolia in the name of the Song court. If it could be sold to Shandong and get some cheaper, it would not be impossible.
Anyway, the Song court never collected a single cent of taxes in Shandong. Instead, they had to constantly give money and food, which was simply a bottomless pit. If they abandoned this nominal burden and gained actual benefits, there would be profitable for the imperial court.
Of course, if we really do this, the people in the north of Song Ting will be left without any remaining hearts.
Compared with Song Ting's reaction, the Jin Kingdom, which was surviving, was almost celebrating.
Jinting's life was really hard these years. He was suppressed and beaten by the Mongols earlier. After finally, the Mongols' power slowed down and was attacked by the Marquis of the North, which was gathered by the Mongols. The Song Kingdom in the south was not peaceful, and it can be said that it has been in a state of war.
Among them, Li Quan from Shandong can be said to be the most powerful person in attacking the Jin Kingdom! With the support from the south, he almost had to take the entire Shandong area into his arms. Now only a few prefectures such as Dongping Prefecture/Jiju/Xuzhou are still under the control of the Jin Kingdom.
Now that the Mongols want to teach Li Quan a lesson, the Jin Kingdom can take the opportunity to send troops to capture more Shandong Prefectures.
The Eastern Mongols could not have expected this idea. Ignoring it at this time does not mean that the accounts will not be settled in the future.
As long as they dare to reach out, they don’t want to deal with things so easily.
Eastern Mongolia/Liaoning Province/Dalian Port.
Sea boats are quietly docking at the port dock. Not only military docks, but also civilian docks are full of sea boats. This has forced many merchant ships from the south to wait outside the port, hoping that there will be berths to be vacant early so that they can dock.
Teams of East Mongolian soldiers wearing thin clothes and short shirts lined up like orderly ants, forming long queues into the trunk of the boat. This was a troop transport ship. When Zurbe also sent a message that Shaman Island had been taken down, the Western army at Dalian Port had already begun to move.
Now there are 10,000 soldiers taking the lead and are already on the way to Shamen Island. After receiving the news that Penglai County has won, the remaining soldiers began to board the ship and set off one after another.
Chapter completed!