"All orphans aged seven to twelve years old in the army join the Children's Army."
In the Xinhui County government office, Li Yunze, who had reversed the established history, began to consider arranging many important things.
He understands the advantages and disadvantages of rogue tactics very well.
Needless to say the advantages, the most important disadvantage is that it will lead to a large number of military leaders.
He, Li Yunze, is still just an ordinary human being, not a super human or anything, and he cannot fully control the army that has expanded to hundreds of thousands.
It is necessary to arrange manpower to divide the departments.
As time goes by, these people and the people they bring will naturally grow into military leaders.
This cannot be changed.
Also, when implementing bandit tactics, there is no need to govern the place.
But you can’t live in exile for a lifetime, and you still need to make necessary preliminary preparations.
Now, Li Yunze is focusing on the education of orphans, so it is natural that he is making various arrangements.
Naturally, no one among the generals in the army would object.
The main use of the Boy Army is certainly not for fighting.
What they have to do on a daily basis is study.
First comes literacy, followed by basic knowledge education, and finally moral development.
Moreover, we still need to cultivate students in both civil and military fields.
When they grow up, they can not only take over the army, but also work in various places.
They are just the first batch, and they will definitely make further arrangements after they have the first more stable territory.
With the destruction of Zhang Hongfan's troops, the entire Mongolian army south of Wuling was organized, and only the Mongolian Yuan reinforcements at Shaozhou Pass remained.
Being born in the local area, Lao Changtan naturally felt that it would be good to stay here.
This is normal. Not many people are willing to live in exile. Most people still have their minds set on it.
It's just that Li Yunze thinks more, and now is not the time.
Another advantage of being in exile is that it can drive the Meng Yuan to completely smash the original local system of gentry and power.
Even if Meng Yuan shows mercy, Li Yunze will smash them all on charges of colluding with Meng Yuan.
Those so-called scholar-bureaucrats must never be allowed to stay.
Nowadays, there are many speculators in the army. Basically, they come from many scholar-bureaucrat families, who come to ask questions and make early investments.
Li Yunze has no intention of reusing them at all. They all work below and even go to the battlefield.
He was really unhappy with the turbans, so he simply didn't give them a chance.
Look carefully at the map, from Chengdu Prefecture to Kuizhou Road, then to Jinghu North Road South Road and even Guangnan East Road. In such a large area, after sweeping back and forth, there are no big headscarves.
Next, it’s time to move to a new place.
Li Yunze's eyes naturally fell on Jiangnan West Road, Jiangnan East Road and Liangzhe Road.
This is the traditional Jiangnan area in the true sense, and it is also the base camp of the turbans.
After some repairs, the invading army broke camp and set off again, this time going directly north and returning along the original route.
The Mongolian reinforcements previously stationed at Shaozhou Pass ran away without any hesitation, looting and killing all the way.
The people along the way were already in poverty, with nothing left except their lives.
And because they have nothing, they can run away at any time.
Those who are truly unlucky are those who have families and businesses, especially wealthy families.
Your yard is so big and beautiful, you must have money and food.
Just like that, the Mongolian army looted all the way in front, and Li Yunze led the intruder army to chase after them.
When we came back again, there were countless times more people from all over the country than when we went south.
Not only the penniless commoners were willing to follow, but even the gentry and landlords who had lost their families also took the initiative to join in.
The Mongolian army never cares about who you are, only whether you have money or not.
"Huanglingshen." Li Yunze called over his most trusted general, "Pick out a cavalry team and equip it with more horses to go north around the road and reach the general before the Mongolian army. Everyone brings a few bags of copper coins and drives them across the river along the way to Jiangling Mansion.
Buy all the ships on board and partition them
Dajiang, don’t let them escape.”
Huang Lingshen naturally accepted the order immediately.
They went all the way north and fought their way back to Jiangling Mansion. Tens of thousands of Mongolian troops were blocked by the river because of lack of ships.
The Mongolian army in the south wanted to cross the river, and the Mongolian army in the north wanted to rescue them. However, there were no ships on both sides. Even if they collected a small number of ships, they would not be able to compete with the invading army equipped with firecrackers.
When Li Yunze led a large group of troops to catch up, the Mongolian army had no choice but to go eastward along the river.
Li Yunze continued to chase, constantly spending money to buy ships along the river or letting them hide for a period of time, not giving the Mongolian army a chance to cross the river.
After chasing all the way to Jiankang Prefecture, the Mongolian navy finally assembled and a decisive battle broke out with the Chuang navy in the Caishiji area.
The Mongolian navy had the upper hand in terms of number of ships, troop strength and even experience.
Moreover, the commander of the Mongolian navy was Jie Cheng, a famous general like Zhang Xi who was good at commanding the navy.
The navy of the Southern Song Dynasty, which was famous for its strength, was defeated by them.
But the final result of the battle ended with a disastrous defeat of the Mongolian Navy.
The reason is very simple, there is a generational difference in equipment technology between the two sides.
The main method of warfare of the Mongolian navy still relies on gang fighting and arson of ships.
But here, almost all the troops in the navy were armed with muskets, and even emergency cannons were installed.
What's even worse is that Li Yunze distributed gunpowder packets to them.
This ten-pound bag of gunpowder can even be thrown directly into the opponent's boat by someone with sufficient arm strength.
As for the arson boats, the invaders' ships were all coated with fire-proof mud and cross-bar baffles. Moreover, they were traveling downstream, so it was very difficult for the arson boats to get close.
One side uses bows and crossbows as cold weapons, and the other side uses gunpowder weapons.
The final result is naturally self-evident.
After a whole day of fierce fighting, the Mongolian navy was completely defeated.
General Jie Cheng was killed by shelling, and no body was left behind.
Zhang Xi, after his boat was sunk, swam ashore and saw the tragic situation of almost annihilation of the entire army, and finally committed suicide.
Of the more than a thousand Mongolian ships, not even one out of ten was able to escape.
The disastrous defeat of the navy meant that the Mongolian troops located in various places south of the Yangtze River were completely cut off from their return.
More than 100,000 Mongolian troops from various places in the south of the Yangtze River defeated Jiankang Prefecture in the first place and Lin'an in the second defeat. After that, they were completely disorganized.
After that, Li Yunze was stationed in Jiankang Prefecture, and sent troops and horses to sweep the south of the Yangtze River. While clearing out the remnants of the Mongolian army, he also thoroughly sorted out all the places.
The so-called scholarly public opinion that could easily influence the Song court's decision-making in the past had no voice at this time.
There were no people left, so where did the sound come from?
The invading army finally stopped moving around. Relying on the powerful navy to block the rivers, the people began to divide their fields and gradually stabilized.
The Mongolian army could also attack from Shu, but they were already stunned.
We are busy mobilizing craftsmen to develop firecrackers, artillery and other ordnance.
I won't come back until I'm fully equipped with these things.
Li Yunze finally learned the news about Song Ting.
"Mr. Lu." Seeing Lu Xiufu again, Li Yunze was still very enthusiastic, "Long time no see."
Lu Xiufu's expression was a bit complicated, ranging from shame to anger.
What is shameful is that Song Ting betrayed Li Yunze just to live in peace.
Angry, Li Yunze kicked them away after using Song Ting's name to come forward.
"I've met the Imperial Master." Lu Xiufu's reason for coming was very simple, that is, he wanted to bring back the wandering Song Ting. After all, Jiangnan had been recovered, and the turbans who were around Song Ting began to have sweet dreams again.
"Your Majesty is willing to make the Imperial Master King." Among the conditions Lu Xiufu brought, the most attractive one was that "the land in the north of the Yangtze River can be taken by the Imperial Master himself."
After all, it is still the same set of tricks and tactics from south to south, north and north.
People in turbans are not good at running a country, and they are not good at fighting a war. But when it comes to doing these things, they are all professionals.
Many generals in the lobby sneered.
Let King Chuang give up Jiangnan, which he finally conquered, and let you losers go to the north to fight against Meng Yuan?
How could you say it with such dignity!
Li Yunze didn't show any anger at all, because he already knew what Song Ting's turbans were.
"Where did Xing Zai go?" Li Yunze was curious about this. "There has been no news for such a long time."
"Ashamed."
Lu Xiufu shook his head repeatedly, "After being defeated by Zhang Hongfan in the past, he had to sail on the sea. After traveling to many islands, he docked at Tamna (Jeju Island)."
"Mr. Lu." Li Yunze said with a smile, "Song Dynasty has died, and the people of the world no longer recognize Song Dynasty. Aren't you ashamed if you want to come back and continue to rule the people of the world at this time?"
Lu Xiufu lowered his head and said nothing. He was indeed very ashamed, but there was nothing he could do about it.
How can a hundred thousand soldiers and civilians be fed in that remote place of Tamra? Even the emperor now has to eat seaweed and fish.
Moreover, we learned that after Jiangnan was recovered, a large number of people had already sailed back to join Li Chuang, and it was impossible to survive there.
"Don't say that I don't give you a way out." Li Yunze smiled again, "If you go there, you can send troops to the Japanese country. First occupy Kyushu, and then conquer the main island. From now on, we can continue to exist there under the name of Song Dynasty."
Lu Xiufu also knew that it was nonsense to ask Li Chuang to give up everything he had and hand it over to Song Ting who had nothing.
It would be a good idea to get his support and go to Japan to create a new world.
"The troops here are exhausted and we may not be able to defeat the Japanese."
"They can't even defeat the Japanese." Li Yunze's eyes flashed with a hint of contempt, "You guys have been destined to end today since the moment when the military power was released over a cup of wine, and since the scholar-bureaucrats came together to rule the world. That's all, it's time, let's talk about this
It doesn’t make any sense.”
"Huang Lingshen."
"The end will be here."
"You lead the fleet there to help Song Ting capture Kyushu Island." Li Yunze looked at Lu Xiufu, "I have done my best to be benevolent and righteous. I hope that you can use your holy words to educate the barbarians in the Japanese country in the future.
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What else could Lu Xiufu say, except to say thank you.
The Song court did not have no other actions. Many envoys were active in various places in the south of the Yangtze River.
But those who are willing to support them are mainly gentry. Now that the gentry is basically extinct, naturally there is no one to help.
As for asking Mongolians for help, considering the cowardly scholar-bureaucrats' lack of bottom line, it's not impossible.
As long as he can recapture Jiangnan, he will have no problem becoming a brother or a son to the Mongols.
But now it was Li Chuang who had the upper hand on the water. His fleet even went north to block the coastline and harassed them everywhere from time to time.
Even if Song Ting wanted to surrender to the Meng people, they didn't even have a chance to get over.
With no choice but to bite the bullet and go to Japan to conquer the world.
After completely putting an end to the lingering poison in the Song Dynasty, Li Yunze began to make arrangements for the Northern Expedition.