This large-scale military operation was managed by tow mines before and after.
In the Mongols' still crude ruling system, it was difficult to maintain the top secret of this plan, and Genghis Khan himself had doubts about the feasibility of the plan.
So when Tuo Lei proposed this plan, he immediately stayed away from Genghis Khan and used his own group of people to promote it, so as to ensure that there was no risk of leaks and no need for the Mongolian headquarters to bear the losses of failure.
At that time, no one knew what Tuo Lei was doing after being kicked out of the inner circle by his father Khan, and many people were full of contempt for Tuo Lei.
It wasn't until the plan was suddenly launched and the army began to rumble into conquest that everyone understood more or less how deeply the hidden lines had been laid, how important it was to be patient in the early stage, and then estimated how much involvement the tow mines had in the Xia and Song countries.
How much effort did you put into running it?
In the Xia Kingdom alone, the material supplies obtained by the Mongolian army exceeded the sum of the previous two expeditions to the Xia Kingdom. Just along the march of the army, the Xia people contributed from the Heishan Weifu Army Division to Zhuoluo and the Nan Army.
The arsenals of the seven military supervisory departments of the division provided more than 4,000 sets of iron armor, divine arm bows, three-edged arrows and other sophisticated weapons.
You must know that after Genghis Khan destroyed the Kelei tribe and merged with the other Mongolian tribes, he first attacked the Xia Kingdom before he convened the Khulil Tai, the Great Khan. Before attacking the Jin Kingdom, he had already pinned the Xia Kingdom to the ground and beat him over and over.
Three times, the number of casualties caused exceeded one-tenth of the total population of Xia Kingdom!
Based on this calculation, the Xia Kingdom and Mongolia really have a deep hatred. But Tuo Lei was able to seize the opportunity of the Xia Kingdom's party nobles and powerful ministers to have constant internal strife, and several generations of kings have been unfairly appointed, and forcefully brought down the current Xia Kingdom.
The king forced himself to become a Mongol collaborator.
How large and complex a circle of friends did Tuo Lei arrange to achieve this level?
Not to mention the countless passes that belong to the Song Dynasty that are about to be passed.
The Mongolian nobles generally don't know much about the Song Kingdom, but they at least know that the Song Kingdom was a big country that existed side by side with the Jin Kingdom and the Xia Kingdom for hundreds of years. And its scale was huge, no less than that of the Jin Kingdom. The Mongolian army conquered the Jin Kingdom in the past few years.
, although it was a great victory at first, what was the final result?
The experience of those failures still makes many people feel scared. Thinking about it from this, the Song Dynasty should not be underestimated.
But Tuo Lei was able to win over senior officials of the Song State and let him come to see Genghis Khan in person to express his goodwill! This Song man named Dong Juyi was no ordinary person. He was a big shot in charge of the defense of the entire western Song State. He had 100,000 troops under his command.
There are a hundred iron-like passes!
With this position placed in the Yeke Mongolian Uluth, why should he be a left-wing captain of ten thousand men? That is already a terrifying big shot!
Even if he steps down now, it is said that his successors will still be from his party. His coming here to bow the knee to Genghis Khan represents the opening of countless great gates in the south to the Mongols, and represents the Song people who did business with Zhou Guoda to attack their partners who made a fortune together.
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Who could have imagined such a thing earlier? Even though the Mongolian army destroyed countless countries in the Western Regions, they never saw the army standing still. Only a few people and a few mouths could introduce such help!
Everyone was shocked by this and became confident of their own victory.
It turns out that from the first day Genghis Khan returned to the grassland, the harassment and fighting of the three recruiting divisions from the northeast to the southwest along the Great Zhou border were all planned. As the plan progressed, the Mongol Uluths also gave great power.
Zhou's pressure was so appropriate that Zhou took it for granted that he could turn the northern border into a meat grinder for the Mongols.
What is even more satisfying is that during this period, the Zhou Dynasty also severely purged the troops stationed on the southern border. For example, in the Tongjun Division stationed in Kaifeng Prefecture, Nanjing, many of the soldiers who were clamoring for war were eliminated.
It was thrown away to a country called Goryeo beyond the East China Sea.
The number of troops that any regime can control is limited, and it is impossible to control all aspects of the border. Therefore, no matter how complete the Zhou army's layout in northern Xinjiang is, and how far-reaching its control on the sea is, they have in the south
How weak.
Who could have imagined that a powerful blow from the Mongolian army would explode from the hinterland of Zhou?
This military operation is advancing rapidly, and as it progresses smoothly every day, Tuo Lei is getting more and more praise and admiration from people every day.
After Tuo Lei reported the next steps one by one, he left Genghis Khan's palace tent. He didn't know whether it was to make up for the indifference he had received in the previous years or for other reasons. It wasn't until his horse was galloping that someone was urging it.
Follow, either chat enthusiastically, or just say goodbye politely.
It wasn't until Tuo Lei repeatedly waved his hands to signal everyone not to send any more gifts that they slowly turned their horses around, just like a flock of sheep branching off and then merging together.
Genghis Khan squinted his eyes, feeling very happy seeing his son being so respected.
Outsiders generally believe that because of Tuo Lei's lack of battlefield achievements in recent years, Genghis Khan has become more and more distant from his son, and he is far less important than his elder brother. In fact, they are all wrong.
Deep in Genghis Khan's secretive heart, he and Tuo Lei had one thing in common. That is, they were both losers on the battlefield in the Central Plains, and both were defeated by the Emperor Guo Ning of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Therefore, in the past few years, all the ridicule of Tuo Lei by those Mongolian nobles was almost a slap in the face of Genghis Khan. However, Genghis Khan used his glorious victory in the Western Expedition to make outsiders forget this commonality.
Therefore, Genghis Khan appreciates Tuo Lei's efforts more than anyone else, and looks forward to the victory brought by this long drive to the abdomen more than anyone else. For him, this victory will wash away the shame of Tuo Lei and not just Tuo Lei.
Genghis Khan has always been willing to make great efforts to investigate enemies who have brought painful memories to him, in order to analyze their strengths and weaknesses. He has already calculated this war more than ten times on his own.
The Zhou army is an army that relies heavily on logistical support.
This army has no shortage of war horses, so it seems to have the ability to advance at a long distance. However, in the eyes of Genghis Khan, the reason why Guo Ning was rampant in Northern Xinjiang was because Northern Xinjiang was close to the capital of the Han people, and his army was able to fight in battle.
All kinds of materials are squandered like no money. Including a large number of vehicles, armors, weapons, arrows and gunpowder consumed in combat, etc., they can be mobilized nearby, and even continuously drawn from the vast territory of the south.
However, these materials have been transported to the north for many years, and it is impossible to fly to the south with wings. If these materials were stripped away and the main force of the Zhou army traveled a long distance and returned from northern Xinjiang with light equipment, then they would have no advantage over the Mongols.
What's more, it's still unknown whether they have the possibility of turning back.
Muhuali, with many servant tribal troops in northern Xinjiang, will entangle the main force of the Zhou army at all costs; Genghis Khan himself will wait for the Zhou army Li Ting's troops stationed in Fengxiang, Jingzhao and other places to move.
Then launch the most ferocious tail-to-tail pursuit.
If everything goes well, the main force of the Zhou army rushing back from the border to the Central Plains will be a bloody road. Most of them will die on the road.
Even if they come back, all they will see is a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. Because the elite Mongolian army that has been driving all over the country will completely destroy the Central Plains.
It is not the instinctive plundering and massacre of the nomads, but the freedom to roam the enemy's territory under the strict constraints of military law, constantly avoiding the strong and attacking the weak, and carrying out planned and complete destruction. This kind of destruction is what the Mongolian army
His true skills were honed during the Western Expedition.
The Mongolian army once slaughtered villages, bulldozed buildings, and trampled the living people in groups to make meat paste for fertile fields; they once soaked the streets with human grease and then set them on fire; they once spread salt to destroy the fruits of farming, dug dikes, washed away fields, and destroyed everything.
They have all returned to the state of wilderness and grassland thousands of years ago; they once drove the common people as vanguards, forcing ordinary people to turn into crazy beasts and kill each other, cutting off any possibility of maintaining order and rule.
In Genghis Khan's view, the Mongol army's invincibility during the Western Expedition was largely due to the destruction along the way.
Because no army can remain calm when their homes are destroyed and their families are massacred. As long as the Mongols' evil reputation spreads, any army will only have two states when fighting against the Mongols, or it will become a cowardly yellow sheep.
Or become a stupid wild boar.
Yellow sheep and wild boars are the prey of the Mongols. Their weaknesses are so obvious that they are easy to hunt.
The more young the soldiers are, the more so. How can Guo Ning's army be an exception? Genghis Khan was very curious. When they rushed back to the Central Plains and found that their homes and relatives no longer existed, they would turn into yellow sheep or wild boars.
In short, everything has been arranged. This blow will definitely break the hearts of the Han people, and then it will definitely kill the Han people's army. Genghis Khan even thought about how to treat Guo Ning after winning the victory.
He was once filled with anger and wanted to cut off Guo Ning's limbs and head, and then send them around to tell everyone that he had severely punished the enemy and washed away the shame of previous defeats. But now he
Full of ambition, he felt that he was gradually grasping the victory in his hands, so he swung his horse whip and asked the Bijiachi around him:
"What do you think we should do if we catch Guo Ning?"
The Bijachis all talked a lot and said many thoughts in an instant, some of which were extremely humiliating and some of which were very cruel. Only one of them replied: "In any case, the Emperor of Zhou is a rare hero in the world. I
Thinking that he is qualified to enjoy the glory of dying without blood like Jamukha."
This sentence not only elevated Guo Ning, but also well explained the previous defeat of the Mongolian army. It undoubtedly spoke to Genghis Khan's heart.
Genghis Khan leaned over slightly, wanting to give him a reward, but found that the person speaking was Tuo Lei's old subordinate, the Jurchen who once held great power in the Western Regions, Lian Zhongshan.
I don't know why, Genghis Khan's good mood suddenly faded a bit, and he suddenly became uninterested.