Sections 647, 648 Kublai Khan's Westward Expedition
The Three Kingdoms fled, and the Tang army was in a state of unstoppable power and cleaned up a golden bowl.
Last month in February, the Tang army entered Guangzhou, crossed the Qiongzhou Strait, and took over Qiongzhou. They took all the Guangdong and Hainan in later generations.
Wu Yan, a general of the Tang army, continued to expedition westward, occupied the southern part of the Liang Kingdom (later Guangxi), and then attacked Sizhou, defeated Tian Jinxian, and conquered the southern part of Guizhou in later generations.
Xiao Bei led his army west into the important town of Ezhou. The general who defended Ezhou was a spy from the Tang Dynasty. Although there were 30,000 troops defending, he couldn't wait to open the city and "surrender".
Xiaobei headed westward, and the cities along the way took the initiative to surrender. When he arrived at Jiangling, Jiangling City had been controlled by the major spy Gao Lang, and the 50,000 Liang troops guarding Jiangling "surrendered".
All the noble ministers who were imprisoned by Gao Lang and others became prisoners.
Shao Zhong's more than 10,000 Dongting Navy "surrendered".
The important town of Xiangyang also took the initiative to "surrender".
In fact, even though Xiao Yan was wiped out in Jiangxi, there were still 200,000 troops guarding Liang State, but there was almost no resistance under the influence of spies from various places.
The main ones who resisted were the rich families in various places. However, their force had been destroyed in Jiangxi, how could they still resist? Either they were suppressed after being resisted by a chariot, or they surrendered obediently.
The situation in Dali is similar. After the Dali court fled, the power vacuum between Cangshan and Erhai Lake became a power vacuum. In addition, the force of the leaders of various races was destroyed in Yizhou, so there was no force to resist the Tang army. Wherever the Tang army went, all over the place also surrendered.
The Tang army did not violate any crime. Not only did they not burn, kill, loot, but they also took the initiative to appease the people of all over the country and suppress the bandits and waterways.
The focus of the Tang army's combat has changed to public security wars. Li Luo ordered the Tang army in various places to form bandit suppression teams to disperse and suppress bandits that have become increasingly rampant in recent years.
Conservatively estimated that there are more than a thousand bandits in the territory of the Three Kingdoms, which is as numerous as a bull. Many of these armed forces are composed of deserters, with dozens of small ones and hundreds of large ones. The disaster is very serious, and it has long been a great disaster in the local area.
These bandits spread all over the world are also a big trouble for the new arrival of the Tang army.
After all, bandits usually appear in mountains, forests, waters, and occupy the advantage of the territory. They are local snakes who are familiar with the local area. And many of them have hidden identities or have connections with various parties. They are not easy to deal with.
Especially the people with strong customs and remote areas, many of them usually work as farmers. They become bandits, and they are in slack farming, and they are in tandem with giant bandits and collude with them.
Often, the situation is complicated and the situation is complicated. There are many connections. Of course, it is okay for a large army to kill all the way? However, they will kill many people who should not be killed in one-size-fits-all manner, which is not what the benevolent king does.
Therefore, public security wars and regular wars are all different things.
Cui Xiuning personally formulated the "Regulations on Suppressing Bandits" and issued it to the Tang army to guide them in the military campaign against bandits.
At the same time, many spies and policemen also set out with the army to assist the army in suppressing bandits.
The Regulations on Suppressing Bandits stipulate how to understand the situation from the local people? How to investigate the thief nests, how to dig out people who collude with the thief? How to identify whether it is a thief or a commoner, and also requires the use of the local people to eliminate the bandits.
Cui Xiuning also divided the bandits into different levels according to the scale and nature of the bandits. The methods of suppression were also different. Those who committed many evil deeds should be executed decisively. Those who did not commit too much crimes could be arrested and detained, or served labor.
While suppressing bandits and Anmin, the Tang army suppressed the powerful and dispatched local officials to pave the way for the next order of equal fields.
A large number of poor scholars who passed the imperial examination last year were transferred to a new yamen to serve as officials.
For the Tang Kingdom, the southern form was very good, with rapid progress and in full swing.
But at this time, the north was not idle. After nearly a year of preparation, he mobilized to Anduo area (Nan Qinghai) and took the initiative to detour the Yuan army heading south of Tubo, and suddenly turned around and went straight to the Western Regions!
Li Luo had received the information long ago, so it was no surprise.
Kublai Khan used the prince's real gold to supervise the country, and the Privy Councilor Bo Yan was responsible for the defense of the river, and personally led the army to the west.
In order to confuse the Khanate of the Western Dao, the slogans of the Yuan Dynasty's southern expedition were clamoring. Even the Yuan Dynasty ministers thought it was really the Southern expedition.
But Kublai Khan had already gone to the northwest one month ago on the grounds of expedition in the south.
The Khanate of the West Road thought that Kublai Khan was going to personally conquer Li Luo, so he didn't take it seriously at all. They were still fighting each other endlessly.
These big men from the Golden Family did not expect that Kublai Khan was not in the southern expedition, but in the western expedition. If he wanted to do something outside, he would first settle the inner expedition.
The Yuan army in the Western Expedition had 100,000 Mongolian Seme cavalry, 100,000 Han army equipped with horses, 20,000 Korean army, and 30,000 Japanese army. The number was as high as 250,000.
With the troops of the Anxi King stationed in Liupan Mountain, the number of the Western Expedition Army reached more than 300,000.
Since Mongolia rose and expeditions to the west many times, its military strength has never been as strong as this time.
Just as the Three Kingdoms attacked the Tang Dynasty, Kublai Khan divided his troops into three groups and attacked the Western Regions!
The Eastern Route Army, led by Anxi King Ananda, set off from the former Tuyuhun land in the Qilian Mountains, passed through the northern foot of the Altai Mountains, entered Ruoqiang and attacked the Ogedei Khanate. This was the route of the Tang Empire and the Western Xia to conquer the Western Regions.
The Central Army was the main force, led by Kublai Khan, from Qiang and Tang Dayangtong to go west to Kashmir (in ancient times, it belonged to Tubo, not India), passed Aksaichin, entered Khotan, and attacked the Chagatai Khanate. This route was the route of conquering the Western Regions in the history of the Tubo Empire.
The Western Route Army, led by King Yeshen Timur of Yunnan, went down the plateau, went west from Kashmir, walked into the Wakhan Corridor, and suddenly entered the Il Khanate. In fact, the Il Khanate still obeyed the Yuan court on the surface, but Kublai Khan was still determined to use his troops to him.
Otherwise, the Great Mongolian Kingdom could not be truly unified.
In addition to the more distant Khanate (King Horde), all the three Khanates encountered the front of the Yuan army.
In ancient times, it took a long time to prepare for a war. The three Khanates were deceived and confused by Kublai Khan's strategy and were not prepared at all. When they received the news of Kublai Khan's Western Expedition, they were all shocked.
Haidu waited for the Khans to send messengers to various places with arrows to dispatch troops, while hurriedly organizing troops to resist the Yuan army.
But, it was a little late after all.
When the Yuan army swooped over from Tubo, their troops had not yet been mobilized together and their defense was not sufficient. However, the Yuan army came from afar, but they were prepared.
First, the 100,000 troops of Annangda, the Anxi king of the Eastern Route Army, came to Pajian Gushan in early March. Haidu hurriedly organized 30,000 to 40,000 Khanate cavalry and rushed to block the attack.
According to the military strategy granted by Kublai Khan, Annan answered that he first invited 10,000 Japanese troops and 10,000 Han infantry soldiers to attack, attracting the attack of the sea who was eager to win.
When Haidu saw Ananda attacking with infantry, he thought the opportunity was rare, so he immediately sent 10,000 cavalry to attack.
However, this is a trap.
When the cavalry in Haidu attacked, the firearms hidden in the Yuan army suddenly fired. The firearms of the Yuan army were incomparable to the Tang army, regardless of their power, range and reliability, and were far behind them.
But suddenly, as a killer weapon, it is enough to make Haidu suffer a big loss.
The Han army equipped with inferior firearms launched together. The huge explosion and dense rain of bullets immediately caused heavy casualties to 10,000 cavalrymen in Haidu, especially the war horses were frightened.
Haidu's troops rushed to fight, and they were not very morale at all. Suddenly, they were hit hard by such a sharp firearm and panicked.
The cavalry that had prepared tens of thousands of yuan long ago took the opportunity to launch a full-line attack.
Haidu Khan was defeated, and more than 30,000 of his troops were killed and surrendered. He himself led only thousands of cavalry to flee west.
Ananda chased after him all the way to Yemili City, the capital of the Ogedei Khanate, and bombed Yemili City with cannons, capturing all the families of Haidu Khan.
In late March, Haidu summoned 50,000 cavalry to recapture Yemili City. Ananda replied that the captured Haidu family and officials were pushed to the top of the city to show their support, and then announced the imperial edict of Kublai Khan, proclaiming that Haidu was rebelled, and then bombarded the city with artillery, and finally dispatched cavalry to counterattack.
When the Haidu troops saw the hostages, heard the imperial edict, they were frightened by firearms, and were defeated again due to the disarray of their morale. However, Haidu was not bad at running away. He led tens of thousands of cavalry and fled to the Chagatai Khanate in panic.
Haidu Khan, who claimed to be in charge of the 100,000 yuan and had fought with Kublai Khan for many years, was defeated twice in less than a month. Most of the soldiers under his command surrendered to the Yuan court, and a few died in battle.
However, what Hai didn't know was that the situation was also bad when the Chagatai Khanate was attacked by the main force led by Kublai Khan.
The Chagatai Khanate is the second most powerful Khanate among the four major Khanates after the Khanate Khanate. It occupies most of the central rivers and is known as the control of the strings of 200,000.
But the problem is that the Chagatai Khanate was seriously insufficient in war preparations. With such a large territory, it would never be possible to concentrate all its troops in the short term.
In late March, Kublai Khan crossed the Tarim River and fought a decisive battle at Kuche and Khagatai Khan Duwa. Before the war, Kublai Khan first conveyed an imperial edict to Duwa, saying that he was ungrateful and was a rebellion of the Great Mongolian Kingdom, which made him surrender.
Duwa was shocked and frightened, and his generals were hesitant. After all, Kublai Khan was the Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty. Although they opposed Kublai Khan, they were directly facing the army led by Kublai Khan, and still felt the difficulty of resistance.
But Duwa still decided to fight. He still hoped that if he didn't fight, he would have to be sent to Dadu, and his Khanate would also be annexed by Kublai Khan.
So, the Kuqa War broke out.
This is the largest cavalry decisive battle in the world in decades.
Kublai Khan used the tactics he learned from Li Luo to use firearms to severely defeat Duwa's morale, and then used cavalry to encircle and cover the Han munitions with infantry formations. The combination of the three continued to advance and bombard Duwa's morale and constantly bleed Duwa.
Finally, a general began to betray Duwa and surrendered to Kublai Khan with thousands of cavalry.
On the third day, Duwa was forced to start a decisive battle.
The result is conceivable. Duwa was defeated, with tens of thousands of casualties and surrendered to tens of thousands. Even Duwa himself was shot by the Goryeo general Gao Ming and finally led only thousands of cavalry to escape.
Kublai Khan took advantage of the victory to head north, crossed the Tex River, and approached the capital of the Khanate of the Hotai: Apple City (Alimari).
Seeing that Apple City was not defended, Duwa had to flee with his family and Khan officials while summoning other troops.
When he fled into the Haidu of Chagatai Khanate, he was shocked to hear Duwa was defeated and fled westward, and he did not dare to go to Apple City again, so he had to escape westward.
So, Kublai Khan was in the south and King Anxi was in the north. The grandparents and grandchildren were chasing westwards one by one. Haidu Khan and Duwa Khan fled west together.
In early April, Duwakhan, who fled to the important town of Henglus in Hezhong, finally gathered around him more than 80,000 soldiers and horses who came to join him, and then he was shocked.
After hearing the news, Haidu Khan also fled to Hengluo. The two armies joined together, leaving only 100,000 people.
In mid-April, Kublai Khan's army finally arrived at the east bank of the Henglus River, less than ten miles from Henglus City.
At the same time, Kublai Khan, who was sure to win, sent a quick horse to tell his grandson, King Anxi, not to join the Hanluo, but to cross the Ili River, bypass Lake Balkash, and invade the Chincha Khanate, attracting the main force of the Chincha Khanate from the east.
Kublai Khan knew very well that it was too late for Ogedei Khanate and Chagatai Khanate. Duwa and Hai were both defeated, and trapped in Conservation Ross, and could no longer make out his palms.
His imperial edicts flew out every day, and the nobles of the two Khanate countries had already been ordered to submit to the court. Duwa and Hai were in a desperate situation, and the tribes were rebellious, so there was no need to worry about it.
The Irkhanate did not dare to resist the court. As soon as the army of the King of Yunnan arrived, as long as the news of Duwa and Haidou's defeat, Irkhan could only obediently withdraw the vassal states and then follow the army to expedition the west.
Next, three armies fought west together to attack the strongest Qincha Khanate.
After several months of hard-working expedition, he finally saw the hope of unification of the Great Mongolian Kingdom!
He will establish six provinces in the territory of the four Khanates. The four Khanates will no longer exist! Tens of millions of people will be under the control of the Yuan Dynasty!
Kublai Khan looked at Henglus City not far away and showed a cold smile.
He suddenly thought of Li Luo, and his old smile slowly faded.
Speaking of which, the reason why he was so easy to connect with the great victory was that he "harvested" the glory of this traitor.
He used Li Luowei, a southern expedition to cover up, confuse Haidu and others, and used a new tactic of combining new firearms and cavalry to destroy Haidu and others' courage.
If there were no new firearms, he would not have led his army to the west at such an old age.
"Tell me my will to set up a floating bridge for the Japanese and Goryeo soldiers. Within half a month, I will see Haidu and Duwa crying like babies, kneeling in front of my horse and asking for forgiveness!"
"Zhe!" A Mongolian general led the order and urged the Japanese and Korean soldiers to set up pontoon bridges to prepare for crossing the river.
"My good literati, write down a few imperial edicts and shoot them into Henglus City. Tell your Mongolian warriors that I am the great khan of the Great Mongolian Kingdom. Since they still consider themselves descendants of the Cang Wolf and White Deer, since they want to respect the great Genghis Khan, they should be loyal to me and their Xue Chan Khan!"
"Tell them that their lands will not be reduced, their slaves will not be reduced, and what they have received will only be more in the future. Let them make wise choices! Either wait for my reward and forgiveness, or wait for my anger. If they make the wrong choice, then the immortal heaven will not bless them!"
After following the army, the Mongolian Hanlin people immediately obeyed the order and said, "Zha!"
Immediately, they wrote the Mongolian imperial edict, which was very beautiful. As long as they read it, it would be like the melody of the songs on the grassland.
Chapter completed!