The Mongolians who once regarded marching and fighting as hunting, singing happily on horseback, have now been molded into cold steel by the continuous war. At this time, the whole army was moving rapidly, except for the sound of horse hooves on the ground and the occasional war horse.
Apart from the neighing, there was no noise at all.
So Genghis Khan's laughter was particularly sudden and could be heard far across the valley. The Mongolian nobles on the left and right looked at each other, wondering what he was enjoying.
After a while, seeing Genghis Khan laughing so hard that he almost coughed, Qie Xue who had asked the question before came closer and beat his back.
"Sweat?"
Genghis Khan gasped and reached for the water bag to drink. The water bag was placed under the saddle by Qi Xue, close to the horse's back to keep it warm, so the water was hot. But the place where the water bag was tied tightly with a rope was exposed.
Blow by the cold wind, large pieces of ice formed.
Genghis Khan took a big gulp of water and chewed the ice crumbs without hesitation. After a while, he said with emotion: "It's Guo Ning! Guo Ning led his troops to the front... What a Guo Ning!"
In the past few years, everyone knew that Guo Ning was the great enemy of the Mongolian Uluth, but this name was rarely mentioned by the Mongolian nobles. At this moment, Genghis Khan suddenly said Guo Ning's name, with difficulty.
Believing and admiring at the same time.
The Mongolian generals, nobles and Batu children who surrounded Genghis Khan could not understand the admiration for the moment. They only felt that the news was too shocking. Everyone's attention was attracted.
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Borshu gasped: "How is that possible? Let me check more carefully!"
"Mu Huali sent someone to report earlier, saying that he had attracted Guo Ning and the main force of the Zhou army to Yehu Ridge! How is it possible that there is another Guo Ning here? Could it be a lie?"
When another person said this, he remembered that his fourth prince Tu Lei was fighting in the Central Plains just to attract the Zhou army to return quickly for reinforcements, so he said: "Even if he withdraws his troops and comes back, he should go south from Hebei, pass through Damingfu, and Huazhou
, crossed the river at Ligu to reinforce Kaifeng, how could they turn west and come here?"
This man was obviously a veteran who accompanied the Mongolian army to sweep through Dajin. Even after many years, he still remembered the place names of the Han Dynasty in the Central Plains very well. The southward route of the Zhou army he mentioned was exactly what the Mongolian generals had confirmed countless times.
, the only feasible route that can rescue the Central Plains in the shortest time. However, Guo Ning's action route and rhythm are completely different from what the Mongols imagined.
Borshu sent out more than ten teams of soldiers at once to let them conduct reconnaissance, and then he circled back. During the time when the horses took more than a hundred steps back and forth, there were several more urgent reports from reconnaissance riders.
There were people from Shuchi and Chagatai on the reconnaissance cavalry; some were holding military reports written in Huihui script, and some were describing what they saw and heard in songs according to the old customs of the Mongols.
With reports from several groups of people gathered in one place, there is no need to doubt the authenticity of the enemy ahead.
Seeing the different expressions on his companions, Borshu coughed a few times and said, "It's true that Guo Ning is here... there's nothing wrong with him. He has traveled thousands of miles back and forth on this long journey, so he must be extremely exhausted. Those guys must be extremely tired." It is impossible for him to carry the things that the army cannot live without, whether it is iron artillery, iron chariots, or heavy armor. How is this different from our previous plan?" loadAdv(5,0);
"Hiss...that makes sense!"
"That's not necessarily the case." A Mongolian Qianhu looked gloomy: "What if Guo Ning didn't go to Yehuling at all? What if Mu Huali was deceived, and the person fighting him was not the main force of the Zhou army!"
In that case, wouldn't it be a repeat of Hebei's defeat? We thought we had seized the enemy's flaw and launched a long-distance attack. But instead, Guo Ning waited for work and led the Chinese elite to attack head-on!
I can't think about it anymore, I don't dare to think about it. After that defeat, the Mongolian army had to launch a Western Expedition. How much hardship did it endure and how much blood was shed before it was able to reunify people's hearts and restore the power of the conquerors? How many things did it do afterwards? After being prepared, he made up his mind to return and defeat this powerful enemy who was deeply feared?
If so much hard work only results in the same situation as in the last war, then what on earth are we busy with? What have we become in the eyes of the Han people? Are we a joke?
There was silence all around.
After a while, Genghis Khan said slowly: "Don't worry, the one fighting Muhuali in northern Xinjiang must be Guo Ning himself. He and his men discovered that there was trouble in the Central Plains, and traveled two thousand miles to show up. I don’t know if it took fifteen or twenty days here...I guarantee that they are all exhausted."
"Khan, how did you know?"
Genghis Khan was speechless.
Sometimes he would feel that he and Guo Ning would be able to understand each other's situation. Both had risen from a messy situation, and both had relied on their powerful military achievements to subdue thousands of opponents. Both had used force, and Those who provide force must be satisfied.loadAdv(5,0);
Why Guo Ning himself must have led troops to Northern Xinjiang is a very easy question to answer.
A strong ruler must not show weakness and must not avoid war with a strong enemy. As far as Changshengtian can see, the only one who is qualified to become Guo Ning's strong enemy is Genghis Khan. Just as Genghis Khan swept through dozens of countries in the Western Region, the only one he really feared was the east. This Han emperor.
When Muhuali created a huge momentum in northern Xinjiang and showed that the Mongolian army headquarters was about to attack fiercely, Guo Ning had no other choice but to personally lead the army to resist.
It is impossible for Guo Ning to hand over this responsibility to others. Just like Genghis Khan now regrets that he should not have entrusted a lot of authority to lead the army to his son... There is no need to say this to others. And authority It was useless for Genghis Khan to regret what he had done. After all, he had begun to age.
When they attacked Samarkand two years ago, he could still climb the ice and lie in the snow with the Mongolian army, marching hundreds of miles every day, eating only half-cooked horse meat and drinking fresh horse blood. Not long after that, he suffered from asthma. He lay in bed with bone pain for more than twenty days. Later, he found that the shaman's treatment was ineffective, and a doctor from Khwarezm was specially selected from among the captives to diagnose and treat him.
After he recovered from the illness, he never returned to his original appearance. For a while, he even struggled to mount his horse, so he had to ask his close friend Xue Gai to secretly help. A few days ago in Xia Kingdom, he tried his best to hold up the mighty Xiongfeng, and then
I have been suffering from lower back pain, and my calves also have throbbing pain from time to time.loadAdv(5,0);
Many Mongolians are like this. When they were in their thirties or forties, they were as strong as ferocious beasts, but suddenly their energy and energy were drained away, and they turned into dying people. Genghis Khan was very anxious about this.
The more anxious Genghis Khan was, the more likely he was to think of Guo Ning.
He felt that Guo Ning was just like himself when he was young, fierce, powerful, and endlessly energetic. He often thought, after his death, would his sons be Guo Ning's rivals? Mongolia has gradually shown signs of being addicted to hedonism.
People, are you still willing to continue the pace of conquest?
Every time he thought about it, there was no good result. Once Genghis Khan even thought that if the Mongols were satisfied with the plunder in front of them, one day they would become useless people who dare not fight. In the future, they would only be able to show their ability to sing and be good in front of the rulers of the Central Plains.
The ability to dance.
This is absolutely not okay.
That's why Genghis Khan must defeat Guo Ning and eradicate Guo Ning's Zhou regime. For this, he did not hesitate to do so at any cost.
It now seems that the strategy formulated by Tuolei was very successful. Guo Ning and his elite troops first went north from Zhongdu, and then turned back from northern Xinjiang. Borshu said that it was a thousand miles back and forth, which is actually not accurate. Genghis Khan got several versions
After carefully calculating the information, Guo Ning must have traveled more than 2,500 miles back and forth.
When the Mongolian army first invaded the hinterland of the Jin Kingdom, the headquarters led by Genghis Khan marched while fighting. It took a month and a half to cover almost the same distance. By the time winter came, the soldiers were all exhausted.loadAdv(5,
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Such a long-distance march is the ability given to the Mongols by Tengger. Apart from the Mongolian army, what other army can support a two-thousand-mile march without collapse? Who else can muster the courage and strength to fight after such a long distance?
Even if the Han were as hard-working as the Mongols and had the same determination to fight as the Mongols, their physical strength and energy had their limits. Genghis Khan was absolutely convinced that Guo Ning himself, and even the people who came here with Guo Ning, were exhausted.
In this case, even if they control the Yellow River crossing in advance, so what?
The reason why Guo Ning arrived in such a hurry may be because he thought that as long as the Emperor of the Zhou Dynasty arrived here, he could urgently mobilize the garrison of Jingzhao Mansion to make up for the loopholes in the defense line on the east and west banks of the Yellow River as soon as possible and restore the embarrassing situation faced by the Zhou Dynasty.
Or maybe he thought that as long as he blocked the direction of the main force of the Mongolian army, he could buy time for his subordinates to first eliminate the tow mine troops and then turn back for a decisive battle.
But Genghis Khan didn't care about the Great Zhou at all. Whether the regime south of the grassland was called the Great Jin or the Great Zhou, he didn't care even if it changed the name of a hundred dynasties. He knew very early on that no matter what the regime looked like,
How huge and terrifying it is. Once it loses its powerful leader, it is just a yellow sheep waiting to be slaughtered by the Mongols.
Genghis Khan didn't care about Tuo Lei's life or death. On the way to the rise of the Mongols, Genghis Khan had killed his father, his uncle, his younger brother... and he killed him himself. So, what if his son died?loadAdv(
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All Genghis Khan cares about is Guo Ning himself.
Even if Guo Ning is extremely vigilant, even if he sees through the Mongols' internal conspiracy, it doesn't matter. The final result is what it is now. The most important goal of this war came to the Mongolian army on its own initiative, and it also saved the Mongolian army from crossing
In the military prefectures east of Hedong, someone sought an opportunity for the main force to fight decisively.
This is great!
Guo Ning is just like Genghis Khan when he was young. He is not only brave, but also energetic. He seems to be the fierce dog who always rushes to the front... Unfortunately, this fierce dog is too confident. Today is the day he dies!
Thinking of this, Genghis Khan couldn't help but admire his powerful enemy and once again praised: "What a Guo Ning!"
Inside the Daxing Mansion in Zhongdu.
Lu Han looked at Guo Jing who was playing with sand in the martial arts field, and turned around and said: "Your Majesty will not wait for the Mongols in Hebei. Regardless of whether Wanyan Congtan has second thoughts or not, Your Majesty will quickly cross Hedong and block Qinlong
Live the main force of the Mongolian army."
After a pause, she continued: "I know Liulang very well. The people of the Central Plains have shed a lot of blood. He will not allow the Mongols to rush into our hinterland again... Moreover, even if Qingqi goes out to Qinlong, he can win
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Yelu Chucai bowed slightly: "In this case, the subsequent military supplies will be sent to Qinlong as the end point. After your Majesty's victory, he will definitely continue to pursue it for a long time. Additional manpower and material resources will be needed. They will be ready today at the latest, so there will be no delay.
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Outside Kaifeng Mansion, Nanjing.
Yang Miaozhen impatiently raised the pear blossom gun high, made a few circles, and then rode on his horse: "Soldiers are very fast! Soldiers mount their horses! Let's go!"
Her valiant gesture caused many soldiers to cheer loudly. Some veterans of the Red Coat Army were so excited that they shouted and couldn't help but choke, as if they were reminded of the grand occasion when Shandong heroes dominated the world.
Liu Ran looked at it from a distance and couldn't help but asked in a low voice: "Is this appropriate?"
"Ahem..." Guo Zhongyuan coughed a few times and said sternly: "We are facing a formidable enemy, so don't mind your own business. Just go and ask those Song people. Make a decision as soon as possible whether you want to go or not."
Guo Zhongyuan didn't care, and Liu Ran naturally didn't care. Yang Miaozhen's cavalry played a huge role in the battles in the past few days. Liu Ran felt a little admired and a little grateful. But he just thought that this troop would be stationed for a long time.
In the Song Dynasty, I have a strange identity, so I will ask more questions out of habit.
He strode to his mount and jumped up. The wound on his back was newly applied with medicine, and it started to hurt instead of being numb before. The pain made him grunt and tighten the bridle.
The soldier leading the horse loosened the reins, whipped the horse, and bypassed the chaotic queue of soldiers nearby.
There were too many newly recruited soldiers, and the queues and orders were a bit chaotic. In the chaos of more than ten days, many soldiers and civilians died in various military states in the Central Plains. Many people died in front of Liu Ran. Liu Ran, who ordered them to die, could not remember
They all have names. But he will definitely remember how much power these humble ants burst out in order to defend their lives. When their anger is aroused, it is enough to crush all enemies.
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The direction Liu Ran galloped towards was a newly established military camp.
In the barracks, young Meng Gong stared at the two rows of Song soldiers in front of him.
These soldiers were all reformed men, bold and fierce. During the chaos in the Central Plains, they secretly left the camp despite Zhao Fang's orders and participated in the battle with the Mongols. Now that the battle has come to an end, Zhao Fang sent Meng Gong
He came here with the intention of gathering some of these people who had not died in the battle and bringing them back to the Song Dynasty. But these soldiers were not happy.
"Inspection, the emperor of the Zhou Dynasty is going to fight the Mongols! Don't you want to go and see it?" someone asked.
Meng Gong felt like hundreds of ants crawling in his heart. He had a straight face, but he could hardly control his expression.
In the Song Dynasty, Lin'an was traveling.
Li Yun put his hands behind his back and adjusted his expression slightly. His posture was very serious and solemn, but his eyebrows were raised, and there was a sneer at the corner of his mouth, showing a bit of contempt.
Maintaining his posture for a while, he moved closer to the bronze mirror, and with the reflection of the sunlight, he adjusted his expression to a bit more reserved.
He confirmed with some regret that after all, he had not studied enough, and his temperament was always not as good as the people of the Southern Song Dynasty. So he refreshed his expression again, making himself look more steady, and there was a sense of majesty in his stability.
The subordinates came in and reported: "Li Langzhong, everyone has been settled. Those from the palace are in Sijingtang; those from Prince Yi's Palace are at Shangyoutai; over there in Qingyuan Palace, Lord Ti Juzhang from East Zhejiang Province is in person.
Here we are, now at Chongbo Xuan. As for the Prime Minister’s Mansion, Mr. Xuanzhen has been here. According to your wishes, hehe, he was rejected.” loadAdv(5,0);
Li Yun nodded slightly: "Let those people wait... we wait for the price, they are the ones who are anxious."
Northern Tongzhou.
The fluttering snow spots in the sky suddenly became denser, and in a blink of an eye, they turned into heavy snowflakes sweeping from north to south. The sky and the earth seemed to be filled with gray-white snow and sand dust. However, the advance speed of the army was not affected. Many soldiers were originally riding.
I was shaken on my horse and aroused by the heavy snow, but my spirit was stimulated.
Slowly, there was another kind of roar in the rustling sound of the flying snow. It was the sound of tens of thousands of horses galloping at high speed in the wilderness. As the roar became louder and louder, groups of black figures began to appear at the end of the sight.
On the hillock.
"The Black Tartars are coming!"
The soldiers seized the time to prepare their weapons.
Guo Ning, who was in the Chinese army, mentioned Tieguduo.
Although Guo Ning has been diligent in exercise and maintenance in the past few years, the old injuries he suffered when he was running on the battlefield in his youth have gradually affected his body. For example, at a certain moment when he lifted the iron bone flower, his shoulder muscles were a little weak at a certain angle.
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Fortunately, he was not fighting alone. Beside him and behind him were Li Ting, Ni Yi, Xiao Mo Le, Gao Xin and other generals, who also grasped their weapons. Farther away, countless soldiers who had experienced hundreds of battles
They cheered and rode their horses. Their fighting spirit was higher than anyone could imagine.
Guo Ning did not do any pre-war mobilization. Every soldier in the Zhou Dynasty knew that the emperor had always regarded Mongolia as a life and death enemy, and all he had to do now was fight. However, fighting before was to survive. Now, it is
In order to defeat barbarism with civilization.loadAdv(5,0);
Guo Ning feels that the dynasty he is building now is, at best, a fine-tuning of Chinese civilization. Many years later, the history books will conclude that whether this fine-tuning can be regarded as progress in civilization, he is not sure. Perhaps it was at the beginning of the establishment of the new dynasty.
Mixed with too much greed and too little idealism, it is not that pure in itself.
But he was sure that the new Zhou Dynasty had equipped the Han people with sharp teeth and claws, re-stimulating their ferocious energy. A ferocious civilization was also a civilization, and it was suitable for fighting against barbarism.