Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 2303: Gaisu Wen's troops arrive in Dunhuang, Maodun takes over Tuolei's power

Dunhuang.

At this moment, this place has almost turned into a pile of ruins. The city walls have long been dilapidated and are obviously in a shaky state.

The soldiers on the city wall were lying in random places, each of them was sweating and panting. It was obvious that they had just experienced a brutal battle.

Everyone was cheering for them for once again repelling the Yuan Mongols' attack.

During this period of time, Tolui used every method he could think of.

He mobilized as much of the siege and defense equipment he had obtained from conquering the other counties as possible.

Having used the method of driving the people to attack the city before, he certainly wouldn't mind using it again.

Jia Fu, the last valuable prisoner in their hands after abandoning Wang Xiaojie, had been tied to the chariot by him as a shield more than once.

However, after trying all these methods, they were still useless.

Dou Xian had enough confidence to ignore this, and Meng Ao could do the same. In the Meng family, there was a Grand Commander Meng Tian and a Censor Meng Yi. When the necessary moment came, he also had the confidence and courage to make a firm decision.

The soldiers fell on the city wall, lying in all directions to rest, but Meng Ao and Ma Yuan did not dare to rest. They kept their eyes on the Yuan Mongolian troops who were retreating step by step.

They knew that it must be the appearance of the Golden Fire Cavalry that forced the enemy to retreat once again at a critical moment.

After that battle, Dou Xian tried his best to avoid another battle with the Yuan and Mongolian troops, except when he occasionally needed supplies.

However, although he did not initiate a confrontation, Dou Xian also had to constantly show his presence. As long as Tolui felt that there was a threat behind him, he would not dare to attack Dunhuang with all his strength. Otherwise, the Golden Fire Cavalry would suddenly attack from behind them, and Tolui's end would definitely not be good.

It is precisely because of the repeated appearance of the Golden Fire Cavalry that Dunhuang can hold on at critical moments again and again.

However, a moment later, something happened that made them palpitate.

A red kite appeared in the sky.

This was the signal agreed upon by Ma Yuan and Dou Xian when they separated. The Golden Fire Cavalry was responsible for scouting for them while they were wandering around. Different signals were used to indicate different contents.

The red kite represents the appearance of more Yuan Mongolian troops.

Therefore, both Dou Xian and Ma Yuan felt depressed.

Not only Dou Xian and Ma Yuan were in a bad mood, Tolui was in a bad mood too.

Although the territory that Yuan Meng had conquered in Liangzhou was basically conquered by him, the difference in the strength of the two sides in this battle should have been a draw, but he made it confusing, and the time was repeatedly delayed. Now, it has been impossible to conquer here for a long time.

In the previous battle with Dou Xian, he mobilized all the Tanma Red Army, a total of 15,000 people, and Dou Gu's Golden Fire Cavalry was said to have 10,000 people, but in total, there were only 8,000 people.

This was almost a two-fold difference in military strength. However, after such a battle, instead of inflicting heavy damage to the enemy as expected, their own casualties were 1,000 more than the enemy's. Although they defeated 2,000 of the enemy, they themselves lost 3,000 men. After hearing this result, even Temujin issued an imperial edict to reprimand him.

Since the war began, he had received more than one imperial edict scolding him.

What really made him look unhappy was the reinforcements sent by Temujin. This was enough to prove that Temujin no longer believed in his ability.

What made him even more embarrassed was that Temujin sent Gaisuwen to lead an army of 30,000 into Dunhuang. If that was all, it would be fine, but Maodun also came with Gaisuwen.

And it is possible that Maodun came to be his subordinate. In fact, he came to take over his military power.

Maodun was indeed a remarkable figure, so much so that Temujin was reluctant to kill him. However, after so much time had passed, although Maodun was no longer as unruly as he was at the beginning, he still had not completely returned to him.

This time, Temujin really shed blood in order to make Maodun fight for him with all his strength.

Temujin had the idea of ​​establishing a Khanate long ago!

At the beginning, Temujin had been planning to split up several khanates and reward them to his sons in order to ease the conflicts within the Yuan Dynasty.

However, he never expected that he had not yet rewarded his own sons, but this first Khanate was awarded to Maodun under forced circumstances.

Yes, in order to make Maodun fight for him wholeheartedly, Temujin promised to reward Maodun with a Khanate. Temujin named the land to the north of Kangju, including Lake Balkhash and the land to the south of Lake Balkhash as the Khanate of Maodun, and named him the Khan of Maodun.

Not only was he given autonomous administrative power, but he was also given the right to go to war.

It can be said that this is almost a separatist kingdom.

He was also very clear that there was a gap between him and Maodun. This was no secret in the Jin army. Over the years, the Yuan Mongols had captured Jin spies who were active in Maodun's place. Maodun even captured a few of them himself and handed them over to Temujin to show his sincerity.

However, he also believed that even if the Jin army wanted to separate them, they would never be able to offer them greater benefits than this. After all, even if Yuan Meng was defeated in this battle, or even if he died, Maodun would not benefit from it.

Over the years, the actual power in Maodun's hands was constantly divided and drawn together. Moreover, under the advice of Kublai Khan, the pastures of the former old Xiongnu nobles were basically close to the territory west of the Bingliang River. It is unknown how much they have lost over the years.

When Dou Xian killed Liu Yuan, Wang Baobao of Bingzhou caused destruction on the grassland in that battle. Although the attack was indeed directed at Yuan Mongolia, the targets within Yuan Mongolia were actually these old Xiongnu nobles.

Therefore, with Maodun's current power within Yuan Mongolia, even if he was defeated in this battle, he would not be able to seize any power.

Kublai Khan, Tolui, Jebe, Subutai, Murong Ke, Murong Chui and others were all obstacles he could not overcome.

Furthermore, Temujin never doubted that Maodun would not harm the interests of the Xiongnu. Although the Yuan Mongols were not completely Xiongnu, they were still based on the Xiongnu.

Therefore, Temujin dared to throw out such a piece of fat meat and then release this ferocious wolf. As for the hidden dangers afterwards, they would have to wait until after this battle.

(End of this chapter)