In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 465 Dare to be angry but dare not speak
Great Mongolia finally reached a unanimous agreement, and the entire clan retreated to Guanshan in Mongolia (near Ulanqab).

The reason why they retreated to the grassland was not only for the shaman's sacrifice, but also because the Song army had heavy artillery, which was not conducive to trekking thousands of miles. If they fought on the grassland, the Mongolian army would have an advantage.

This is indeed an excellent reason to retreat to the grasslands.

Guanshan is still too close to Datong, and Wo Kuotai still has to consider a decisive battle with the Song army.

So they discussed again and decided to join forces with Chagatai first, and then persuade Batu.

As long as the three Mongolian armies join together, Mongolia will be able to return to its peak almost instantly.

Knowing that a large number of Song troops were in the Mobei area, Wokuotai and the nobles, after careful consideration, planned to go straight north first, crossing the Kerulun River six to seven hundred miles east of Ulaanbaatar, and bypassing Ulan Bator. Bator, thus avoiding the main forward of the Song army, and then headed to the vicinity of the Atai Mountains to join forces with Chagatai and the others.

The Kelulun River was the fiefdom of King Zong Yianchitai, but now it is also under the attack of the Song army.

However, the Song Army's control has not yet reached these places, including Ulan Bartuo, where the Song Army also passed by. The Song Army also penetrated hundreds of miles north of Ulan Bartuo. However, due to supply problems, the Song Army usually moved quickly Passing through, they mainly focus on plundering and searching, and will not stay for a long time. This gives the Mongolian army an opportunity to avoid the Song army.

Ulanbatuo was the city with the most concentrated population in Mongolia in later generations, but it had not yet become the most important city on the grassland. The nearby population was sparsely populated, and whether the Mongolian or Song armies passed by, they needed a lot of supplies.

Xinzhou, Taiyuan and Shouyang are the places where the Mongolian army has the largest number of garrisons in Shanxi, and they are also the strongest cities.

Song Jun responded to him that he could keep gold and silver treasures and shops and houses, but he could only keep 500 acres of grain fields, and the rest had to be handed over.

There was no way, Xinzhou was heavily guarded by Mongolian troops, the city was strong and tall, and there was a wide moat.

Gao Zhong was adjusted from the first general of the Gucheng Army to the first general of the Taiyuan Army.

The scale was larger than that of Batu's Western Expedition, and it was almost all their trump cards in the east.

However, the leader of the Han army was a local tycoon. He knew that the Song army had the habit of raiding the homes of rich and powerful people, so he naturally refused. As a result, some low-level Han troops in the city colluded, suddenly killed the Han army commander, and Kaicheng surrendered.

In fact, most of them were killed by the Song Army, and some of them are now in the territory of the Song Army.

In mid-June, the Han army and people in Xinzhou City wanted to come out to harvest summer grain.

The Song army replaced all local officials and staff, and all local officials and staff moved their families to Jeju, Dayuan, Hainan and even other places overseas for land reclamation.

Once these places were surrendered, basically everything south of Datong in Shanxi Province returned to the hands of the Song Army.

Anyone who does not comply will be directly killed without mercy.

At this time, the Taiyuan garrison finally realized that he had been betrayed. He sent people to the Song army to ask for surrender, and asked the Song army not to search his property.

The Song army did not want to attack by force and sacrifice their troops and horses in vain, so they quickly cleared the surrounding counties and isolated Xinzhou.

The guard general of Taiyuan was Wo Kuotai's confidant Oh Chen Nayan. Wo Kuotai had also secretly trusted Oh Chen Nayan to leave Taiyuan as soon as possible and follow him back to the grassland.

Soon the Taiyuan garrison learned that Daizhou had been captured by the Song army, but Chen Nayan did not come back and ran away with all the cavalry.

Most of these people are infantry and cannot follow them for long distances.

The Song army is attacking Hebei and Shanxi with all its strength. There are still many Mongolian troops stationed in various places. They are surrounded by the Song army. About 60,000 to 70,000 people cannot be taken away.

After the Northern Song Dynasty lost its territory and the Jin Kingdom was occupied by Mongolia, both Jin and Mongolia continued to use local officials.

Then I watched helplessly as the Song army collected grain.

In late June, Wokuotai was still gathering troops and received news that the Mongolian army in Xinzhou was forced to surrender by the Song army.

Along the way, people from the fiefdoms of various sects and kings also need to be collected. If we add the people who came back from Hebei, Yelu Chucai estimates that if they did not encounter Song army attacks along the way, they should be able to gather together when they reach Altai. About half a million people.

Adding these to the Mongolians in Altai and the Mongolians in Batu territory, excluding the servant army and other ethnic groups, the total population of the Mongolian people alone should be close to 1.5 million, and then adding the servant army and pure combat soldiers of other ethnic groups. Altogether, it is estimated to be more than half a million.

It sounds like a strong army, but at its peak, Mongolia had a population of more than two million and controlled tens of millions of people in Hebei and Shanxi.

Then the officials were dispatched from other places by the court, and the officials were selected from the garrison who had been slightly injured or who were old enough to retire, and their families moved to these cities.

They have been planting this batch of summer grain until now. When they were planting it before, the Song army didn't care about it at all. When they left the city to harvest it, the Song army's cavalry roared in. The Xinzhou Mongolian army was forced to come out and fight with the Song army. As a result, they were defeated outside the city. And when you return, quickly return to the city.

After careful planning, the Mongolian army's retreat route to Mobei was basically determined, but the journey was quite long, and they had to bypass the Kherulun River, and then first enter the territory of the later Great Russia, then bypass Lake Baikal, and finally reach The total journey in Altai is about 6,000 miles.

Among the 200,000 people gathered in Wokuotai, there were only just over 100,000 pure combat soldiers, and there were also hundreds of thousands of herdsmen and civilians.

Song Jun's approach was different from that of Jin Meng before.

Chen Nayan ordered a Han army to garrison Qianhu, and left Taiyuan with 10,000 cavalry in the name of reinforcements for Daizhou.

Wokuotai finally gathered about 200,000 people and brought nearly 600,000 horses and mules.

Gao Chong entered Taiyuan with a general of 3,000 troops.

After Xinzhou was lost, Taiyuan quickly surrendered.

The Mongolian army in Xinzhou City took a large group of cavalry and all the horses to retreat from the city that afternoon. After the Han army stationed in the city learned about it, they wanted to surrender to the Song army.

Early July.

The Song army was not in a hurry to gain so many places at once, and continued to fight steadily. They first consolidated the newly acquired territory, stationed troops to garrison, and replaced officials.

The Taiyuan guard had no choice but to grit his teeth and nod in agreement.

At this time, Datong gathered all the Mongolian troops who could fight in Wokuotai, and then took away the Han troops in Shanxi and Hebei.

At the end of June, Taiyuan fell, and then Shouyang also fell.

Of course, there are still many Mongolian troops who cannot be taken away.

Now they are forced to abandon Hebei and Shanxi, and their population has dropped to about 1.5 million. It can be seen that they have suffered heavy losses in the past few years in the fight with Zhao Yurui, losing at least 500,000 herdsmen.

At this point, the defender knew that Xinzhou City could not be defended, and at this time he had received news from Wo Kuotai, asking him to lead the cavalry out of the city as much as possible, flee to Datong, and retreat to the grassland with most of the Mongolian army. .

He is still a general, Dong Wenwei is a deputy general, and Ma Jian is a reserve general.

On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, the second general of the Taiyuan Army, composed of one thousand Song troops and two thousand surrendered troops, also entered Taiyuan.

The garrison of Taiyuan was six thousand people.

The person in charge is still Gao Chong.

Previously, the Mongolian army stationed 40,000 troops in Taiyuan, but the Song army surrendered 30,000 troops.

The Song army selected more than 10,000 strong men from 30,000 people, and the rest were sent to the common people, and the land confiscated from the powerful landlords was distributed to them.

On the eighth day of July, Wo Kuotai gathered more than 200,000 horses in Datong and left Datong with nearly 500,000 district war horses. He gave up the country that his father Temujin had worked so hard to build, with a face full of unwillingness and anger. heading north.

Before leaving, he looked at the thousands of miles of mountains and rivers south of Datong, silently thinking that the withdrawal this time was for a better fight back next time.

When I come back next time, I must attack Lin'an City.

On the day Wokuotai left Datong, Gao Chong was convening a meeting with officials and wealthy businessmen in Taiyuan City.

There are too many officials and wealthy businessmen in Taiyuan City, and there are certain standards for those who can come in today.

At this time, Gao Chong was looking down at the book in front of him. Yelu Chucai did one thing when he was in the north. He counted the local records, population and land, and then collected taxes for Mongolia.

Now Song Jun just borrowed local data temporarily.

When Yelu Chu was trying to make a detailed assessment, he also encountered a lot of resistance. He was quite unable to deal with some Mongolian Qianhu Nayan, so many data were not very accurate, and there were basically under-reporting and under-reporting.

Gao Zhong has just started, the local officials have not yet arrived, and the imperial court is dispatching officials from all directions.

Taiyuan City is currently under military control, and he wants to give these people a break first.

"Taiyuan also belonged to our Song Dynasty before." At this time, Gao Zhong said while looking at it: "You can basically be regarded as descendants of the Song people--"

As soon as Gao Chong finished speaking, the scene immediately became noisy.

"General Gao, we are all from the Song Dynasty."

"We are Song people, not descendants of Song people."

"The King of the Song Dynasty returns to the north, and the people eat pots of pulp. We have all been looking forward to it-"

The officials and businessmen at the scene, of course, had known about the Song Army's misdeeds in various places, and they quickly expressed their opinions.

Some people burst into tears, wishing they could dig out their hearts and show them to Gao Zhong. We are all from the Song Dynasty.

Some people are scolding in their hearts, you couldn't beat them before, you were too weak, but now that you beat them back, you will start to divide the Song people and the Mongolians and the Jin people, right?

But despite the scolding, on the surface he still praised Song Jun desperately and called himself a Song Dynasty person.

"Don't make any noise." Bang, Ma Jian next to him slammed the table, and the scene suddenly became quiet.

"Listen to what General Gao has to say. If you make any more noise, go out and chop him down." Ma Jian was not polite. After these words came out, there was complete silence below.

The officials and businessmen of Taiyuan City had naturally heard about Song Jun's cruelty and lack of martial ethics, and they were both Han Chinese. Now everyone was so frightened that they did not dare to hum.

At this time, Gao Zhong glanced at the crowd. There were more than two hundred people in the crowd. Many people were crowded in the back, and they might not be able to hear what he said. Moreover, this was still part of Taiyuan Prefecture, not all wealthy businessmen and officials. .

Because there were so many people, we had to come in several batches.

At that moment, he stood up and walked around the perimeter of these people while loudly saying: "I am a rough man and I don't like to mince words when I talk."

"According to imperial policy, all officials, relatives and family members of Taiyuan Prefecture and County have all moved to other places."

Ah, there was another sound of frying pots at the scene, and the faces of many officials changed drastically, and some looked like they were crying.

"General Gao, how can you do this? When the Song Dynasty lost Taiyuan and the Jin people entered the city, we Han people were still used as officials." A fat official shouted immediately.

There were nods all around, and there was another murmur. What everyone meant was that Jin Meng had come to rule Taiyuan before, and no one had come in and replaced all the officials like you.

You won't win the support of the people.

People's hearts? Gao Chong listened and sneered in his heart. If your Majesty wants to win the hearts of the people, why do you need officials like you?

He looked at the man coldly: "What's your name?"

"I will be lowered to the post of Lu Gao, the magistrate of Taiyuan."

Lu Gao said proudly.

The Lu family was an aristocratic family in Taiyuan, and they were local officials in Taiyuan during the Northern Song Dynasty. Later, Jin and Meng came in one after another, and they all used people from the Lu family.

The Lu family is considered a century-old family in the local area. The family power is deep-rooted, and the relationships between relatives and friends are even more complicated. Originally, Lu Gao thought that after the Song Dynasty surrendered, their family's power would be at least as important as the Dong family.

Dong Wenwei was also from a local wealthy family. The Dong family only had a history of a few decades. After the surrender to the Song Dynasty, Dong Wenwei was no longer a general now.

But the Dong family held heavy troops, which Lu Gao could not compare with.

He was completely unaware and thought that the Lu family's local influence was enough to influence the Song people.

"In the entire city of Taiyuan, there are not even 10,000 but 8,000 people living with our Lu family. Does the imperial court want to move them all away?" Lu Gao said loudly.

Gao Zhong said that he would move all their relatives and family members, so Lu Gao threatened. There are not even ten thousand but eight thousand people in the city who are related to our Lu family.

Of course, this is an exaggeration. Those who rely on the Lu family for their livelihood can have eight hundred if not one thousand.

Unexpectedly, Gao Zhong showed no expression after hearing this, and asked him back: "Did you hear clearly what General Ma just said?"

"What?" Lu Gao was stunned for a moment.

Gao Zhong turned around and looked at Ma Jian.

Ma Jian said with a ferocious smile: "I just said that you should listen to General Gao before speaking. If anyone talks too much in the middle, I will pull him out and chop him."

"...hiss" Lu Gao gasped, with an incredible expression on his face.

"Come here." Before he could react, Ma Jian shouted loudly, and several powerful Song soldiers in armor swarmed up and directly grabbed Lu Gao's arms.

"What are you doing, what are you doing, General Gao - Taiyuan City surrendered, my Lu family has made meritorious service -"

Lu Gao became anxious and screamed in shock and fear.

Many of the Han troops in Taiyuan City were from the Lu family, so he was right to say that they had made meritorious service.

But now that the city has surrendered, Gao Zhong has already transferred the Lu family's generals to deal with it, so he would be afraid of what he said.

"Drag it out and chop it up." Ma Jian waved his hand.

Amid Lu Gao's frightened screams, Song Jun dragged him to the door. After a while, someone walked into the yard carrying Lu Gao's head.

There was silence all around, deathly silence.

The Taiyuan officials and businessmen who had been so excited just now were all too frightened to speak.

Gao Zhong looked calm and said: "When I have finished speaking, if you have anything you want to ask, please announce your home address one by one, raise your hands and get permission from me before asking."

Everyone was trembling and dared not speak out in anger.

"All officials and relatives of the original Taiyuan Prefecture, whether direct relatives or close relatives, must move with their families in accordance with the requirements of the court."

"I'll give you five days to sort out your belongings."

"Five days later, officers and soldiers from the imperial court will come to your door and take you away in batches. Anyone who resists and disobeys will have their whole family executed."

Hiss, there was a gasp of air-conditioning at the scene. Some people stared and cursed in their hearts. Without officials like us, let’s see how you manage Taiyuan, which is a big city.

"After arriving at the new place, the court will allocate shops and properties according to what is recorded in your register."

"No matter how much your land in Taiyuan is, when you arrive in the new place, you can only get ten acres of land for each person in your family based on the population."

The crowd was in an uproar again, but with Lu Gao in front, everyone still dared not speak out.

(End of this chapter)