Temujin, who is over fifty years old, is already old, but his eyes are still sharp. Some people, no matter how old they look on the outside, are still young at heart, and they still want to dominate the sky like that eagle.
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At this time, Temujin was no longer young, but his ambitions and ambitions had not diminished at all. Compared to when he was young, they could even be said to be getting more intense.
A full-scale war is about to break out between the princes of the Han Dynasty. Under the background that the world will be filled with smoke, these three overlords on the grassland, plus the one from Li Tang, are like cats that have smelled something fishy.
, has already started to get a little ready to move.
As the most powerful of the three overlords on the grassland, Temujin also started a heated discussion about where Yuan Meng and he should go in this battle.
In this discussion, it was roughly divided into three factions.
A group headed by Kublai Khan and Yelu Chucai advocated conquering the west, taking advantage of the fact that the Jin army could no longer support Su Dingfang, and swallowed up Wusun and other countries in the Western Regions.
Kublai Khan originally followed Murong Ke in the frontline battle, but due to the stalemate, Kublai Khan's advice was needed for the reform of Yuan and Mongolia in the rear, and he later returned to the rear of Yuan and Mongolia.
Previously, after Su Dingfang conquered the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions one by one, all that was left were the powerful Western Region countries like Wusun. What was even more serious was that at this time, Temujin also sent Murong Ke to join the battlefield.
Since then, Su Dingfang and Murong Ke have won and lost each other, but they have been small wins and small losses, and neither one has been able to achieve a critical victory over the other.
On the contrary, the alliance of various countries, which seemed to be the most powerful at the beginning, was defeated many times by Su Dingfang or Murong Ke.
However, both Su Dingfang and Murong Ke were wary of each other, and they both knew that due to various reasons, it was impossible for them to send stronger forces to the rear, and they would not let this local war turn into a conflict between both sides.
A massive, all-out battle.
Both sides were wary of each other, and neither dared to use all their strength to deal with the Chinese alliance. As a result, on this site in the Western Region, a strange balance was displayed, showing a three-legged confrontation.
status.
The idea of a group headed by Kublai Khan and Yelu Chucai was to take advantage of the situation when the Jin army was launching a full-scale war and its forces were stretched thin, so it was impossible to give Su Dingfang any more military support. On the one hand, they took advantage of this opportunity to
Murong Ke came to restrain Su Dingfang.
On the other hand, another powerful general will be selected to lead the second line of troops to pacify the alliance of countries in the Western Region and take these territorial grounds into his own hands.
Even if everything goes well, it might be possible to work with Murong Ke's troops to drive Su Dingfang out of Xizhou, that is, the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions.
Originally, Li Xiang was waiting for Su Dingfang to resolve the alliances of other countries before establishing a Western Province. However, since it was not suitable to send additional troops at that time, the possibility of doing this was extremely slim.
Therefore, Li Xiang used the original 36 countries in the Western Regions as the sixteenth state of the Han Dynasty, Xizhou, and Su Dingfang acted as the governor of Xizhou.
After all, speaking of it, the territory of the thirty countries in the Western Regions is already most of Xinjiang today, and most of the areas in the alliance of countries are not within the scope of today's jurisdiction.
The group headed by Gaisu Wen, Zhebie, Mu Huali, and Murong Chui appeared to be even more aggressive. They scorned the ideas of the group headed by Kublai Khan and Yelu Chucai. Their idea was to invade in large numbers.
The land of rivers.
The alliance to defeat Shu and resist the other princes of the Han Dynasty left the Jin army with no spare capacity to send reinforcements to the northern border. After all, if this battle really breaks out, whether it is in the direction of Jingbei or Hulao Pass,
The troops are all stretched thin, and reinforcements may be needed.
At this time, if the hundreds of thousands of Yuan and Meng cavalry move south with all their strength, the Han Dynasty will be directly opened up by them. After the Jin army falls, which prince in the world can resist their hundreds of thousands of cavalry?
Liu Che could do this by using the natural barrier of Bashu, and Zhu Yuanzhang could also do this by using the natural barrier of the Yangtze River. But apart from these two, if Yuanmeng was really beaten in, which of the remaining princes would still be able to do it alone?
Resist Yuan Meng.
As for the remaining lineage, led by Mahamu, Ye Xian is the leader. Again, their idea is to take advantage of the fact that the Han Dynasty is unable to intervene in the grassland situation at this time, and once again unify the grassland.
of war.
"From what I've seen, Tuoba and Aixinjueluo work together, how long do you think it will take to unify the grassland?" Kublai Khan and Yelu Chucai's family took off their beards and said.
The long-lasting war before had told them that with the cooperation between Tuoba Wei and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the fact that the princes in the Central Plains were always at odds, it might be possible for them to gain some advantage in fighting with them, but
If you really want to annex all the other tribes and completely unify the entire grassland, it is simply impossible to achieve this.
This time, although those in the Central Plains certainly have no spare capacity to pull off any further confrontations, and are definitely dealing with their own affairs in a hurry, once Yuan Meng and Yuan Meng send out their troops with all their strength again, Tuoba Wei and the Manchu Qing will join forces again.
certain.
All along, Yelu Chucai and his family have been trying their best to drive a wedge between Tuoba Wei and the Manchus, and they are also trying every means to stir up conflicts within the Manchus. Only in this way will they be truly unified.
Opportunities across the prairie.
However, at least for now, Kublai Khan, Yelu Chucai and others do not think that this opportunity has come.
"It's not appropriate to march eastward, and it's also inappropriate to go south!" Feng Yi said succinctly.
"Why is it inappropriate?" Zhebie asked eagerly.
In his opinion, this time the Jin army was attacked in groups, it was also the best opportunity for Yuan and Meng to solve a serious problem, not just to capture the sacred lands of Binghe and other states.
In these years, Yuan Mengke has never taken advantage of the Jin army. Even the men of the grassland will be a little wary after hearing about the power of the Jin army.
At the same time, Zhebie was even more annoyed that a Han like Feng Yi dared to oppose their opinions! As a typical prairie man, Zhebie had never had a good impression of these Han people.
Just like in the original history, Kublai Khan also paid more and more attention to the role of the Han people and tried every means to utilize the power of the Han people.
Especially in the Tuoba Wei and Manchu Qing Dynasties, the Han people became a very important group among the two grassland forces, and they also played a huge role. Kublai Khan's power over the Han people became even stronger.
