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

Chapter 528: Set off for the Western Expedition?
Torregna first called Hedahai. She happily praised Hedahai for his support, and then asked, where is the territory he needs?

He replied: "I want the fertile land from Rai to Tabriz."

"Batu and Meng Ge will not reach the other side for two days. You immediately lead the troops to Rai City, capture Kublai Khan, and capture Rai City. Rai City will belong to you from now on."

Heda Hai was overjoyed, and immediately went back to rectify the troops at Chagatai. Anyone who refused to surrender was basically killed, leaving behind only his confidants. He quickly organized a wave of troops and headed to Lai City overnight. go.

This place is more than two thousand miles away from Rai City. It's okay. Meng Ge's troops are also more than two thousand miles away from Rai City. He has to stay in the river for two days, and it will take another two or three days to find his troops ashore.

Therefore, Hedahai has plenty of time. His question is how many people can be gathered and how many can be used by him.

And we have to gather as soon as possible.

As a result, Heda Haidong scraped together and managed to gather two thousand elite cavalry. The number was a bit small. In order to hurry up, he did not continue to recruit people. Instead, he took Guyu's decree as the Khan and rushed forward. Go to Yicheng.

Before Hedahai left, Sajisi Buhua had already organized his troops. He mainly gathered his troops around the palace tent.

Guyou was on the north side of the Ishim River, reorganizing the troops who had returned from his last western expedition, and adding more, bringing the total to 50,000.

They will quietly go around the copper mine belt to the north of Batu's men and horses, trying to beat Batu's men and horses before Batu comes ashore.

"Ask Guiyou to set off tonight, taking advantage of the night, not to stop, and to speed up."

"I'm afraid something will go wrong if we march at night." Sajith hesitated.

"You have to be quick. Now let's see who reaches the other side first." Torrege said in a hurry.

Guyou's soldiers and horses have been on the north bank of the river to prevent the Batu troops. They are about three hundred miles away from the Batu troops. According to the speed of the Mongolian army, if it is not dark now and they run with all their strength, they can reach there in a day.

Batu's boat would reach the other side of the river within one to two days, so they had to run more than three hundred miles in one day to reach the other side first, and then attack Batu's troops.

As long as Batu's men and horses are defeated, it will be useless for Batu to go ashore.

Then deal with Wu Lianghetai, which is more than 400 miles away, and Meng Ge, who is a thousand miles away.

As long as Hedahai takes the city of Lai, Guyu does not have to defeat Meng Ge. After occupying Lai City, Meng Ge's troops will soon lose supplies, and the ferocious teeth are sharp. With the Kudu Tiger occupying Buda City, Wuliang Hetai There is no place for supplies either.

These two armies either surrendered or wandered around.

Of course, if these two armies defeat Guyu, it will not be a good thing for Tolego. Fortunately, he still has Kuo Duan and Sajisi Buhua by his side.

The two are integrating their troops.

They retreated from the Han north and brought over 700,000 to 800,000 people.

Now is a critical time, and there is no problem in gathering an army of 100,000 casually.

Torregona asked Sajisi to raise an army of 100,000 servants at no cost, and gathered 50,000 Mongolian elites at the broad end.

A reserve force of 150,000 people went around from the south of the Ishim River and attacked Guyu from the north. They defeated the three main forces of Batu, Ulianghetai and Mengge, completely ruling Mongolia and making Guyuk become the leader. A real sweat.

And everything depends on who is faster.

Which one of your troops and horses should reach the other side first, or Batu who should reach the other side first.

At this moment, Yelu Chucai and his son were standing next to her.

When Yelu Chucai heard this, he said in a deep voice: "Great Mongolia is torn into pieces. Brother Meng and his younger brother Mo are stationed in Damascus. Even if Batu and his three armies are wiped out, there will be fierce Yalibda, Rus Principality, and Kiev Principality." Neither Batu’s old troops nor Brother Mo in Damascus will give in easily.”

"If the Song army really raises troops by then, we will be attacked from both sides."

But I heard Odu Laheman smile at this time and say: "We have established good contact with the Song army. Song and Meng have been close for hundreds of years. Let's destroy Batu and Meng Ge together first."

"What?" Yelu Chucai couldn't believe it.

Unexpectedly, in order to obtain the position of Great Khan, Toljegna secretly formed an alliance with the Song people?
"The Emperor of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Yurui, was famous for his bad faith. How could you actually believe him? Yelu Chucai was about to cry. When Chagatai led his people to escape from the north, he didn't even notice. Great Mongolia will be finished, but now it really feels like Great Mongolia is going to be finished.

"We have made an agreement with Zhao Yurui that the princess must be married to Zhao Yurui. The marriage between Song and Meng will last for a hundred years."

"Bounded by the Caspian Sea, east of the Caspian Sea and north to the end of the Volga River (that is, the Piltum border area, plus the Komi area in the north, all belong to the Song Dynasty)."

"The west of the Caspian Sea, including Moskow, and the Principality of Kiev belong to Dameng."

"The two sides will sign a century-old agreement on the banks of the Volga River to non-aggression against each other."

What Zhao Yurui meant was to use the Volga River and the Caspian Sea as the dividing line to divide the Rus Principality into two parts from east to west. The east part from now on would all belong to the Song Dynasty, and the west part would belong to Mongolia.

This will not cause any loss to Mongolia, because the east is actually now under the control of the Song Dynasty, and only the copper mines in the Iximu River will be allocated to the Song people.

"In this way, we lost the largest copper mine and the freshwater lake of the Yiximu River." Yelu Chucai said.

"What's not there in the west? There's a lot of land waiting for us in the west." Sajisi Buhua said: "We continue to march westward. I heard from Zhao Yurui that there is an island country called Britain in the west. It is rich and has countless people. For gold, we can go west in the future.”

"In these bitter and cold places in the east, there are still people from the Song Dynasty left."

Yelu Chucai said: "Even if the people of Song Dynasty don't keep their word."

The people of Song Dynasty knew that Batu was difficult to defeat, so they first agreed to join forces with Tolegena to deal with Batu.

Torregona and Guyu were blinded by their position as the Great Khan, and they actually joined forces with Song Dynasty, which was tantamount to seeking skin from a tiger.

He strongly disagreed, but now he no longer had any right to speak.

Odula Heman had replaced him and gained the trust of Toregena. It was he who went to the Song Dynasty and negotiated a peace treaty with the Song people.

Yelu Chucai was silent when he heard this. What did the people of Song Dynasty want those bitter and cold places for? When you conquer all parts of Europe in the west, the Song people will only continue to press westward, and the Song people will not let you go.
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Torregna was fighting for time with Batu.

Batu and Meng Ge were on the boat. There were several boatmen on the boat, rowing desperately to the west coast.

Meng Ge's younger brother, Batu's younger brother and his confidants also joined in from time to time to help.

Just now, Toljegna had a sudden attack, and the scene was full of casualties. Brother Meng's brother Ali and Brother were shot dead, and many of Batu's confidants died. Both of them were bleeding in their hearts now, and they were both crazy about revenge.

After all, no one thought that this crazy woman, Brother Tulie, could actually do such a thing.

"If a businessman hadn't reminded me, I almost wouldn't have gotten out." Batu said on the boat at this time.

"?" Brother Meng was surprised.

Batu said that there was a Semu man who often helped him do business. He had been doing business with the Song Dynasty and Western Europe all year round. Before coming this time, he reminded himself that he had received news that the Song Dynasty people seemed to have some secret agreement with Tu Lege. , but I don’t know the specific agreement, I just want to be careful.

Batu then prepared a small boat, and after dragging it ashore from the Caspian Sea, he dragged it all the way to the Ishim River. This ensured that they could jump into the river in time and rescue them on the boat.

Batu really didn't expect that a woman like Tolege would dare to do such a thing, and he brought tens of thousands of troops here.

At that time, he didn't even think about taking a boat. It was his elder brother Or'er who told him to take one, which saved their lives. "What should we do now? I'm afraid they will soon control the whole place and then concentrate their troops to deal with us?" Hulagu asked.

"It takes us about a day or two to get to the west coast. Everyone is helping us row, speeding up, and trying to reach the other side in about a day."

"That woman doesn't dare to gather troops and horses in front of me. It will take a day or two for her to gather her troops and reach my garrison. Let's see who gets there first."

"The two of you (referring to Meng Ge and Wu Liang Hetai) are far away from each other. After landing, you should immediately go find your own troops."

"Don't be in a hurry to duel with her. Retreat to Sarai City first. I will also try my best to lead the troops back, then reorganize and then fight back together."

Batu thought that Tolegena was well prepared. Although they had many people and horses, they brought limited food and grass resources. They would go back to Lesa City first, and when they were ready, they would come back to teach Trigena a lesson.

If you fight in a hurry, once you lose, the whole situation will be turned upside down.

Meng Ge and Wu Liang joined the stage and expressed their agreement.

"Brother Tulie asked Kuduhu to replace me. All our troops and horses in the fierce fangs are also in her hands." Wu Lianghetai said at this time.

"Kuduhu is a loser, don't worry about him for now. As long as we defeat Guyu, he will definitely surrender." Batu looked down on this famous late Mongolian general at all.

"If he dares to return to the army, we will beat him first."

"Quick, help, let's paddle together." Batu put the knife in the water at this time, and everyone joined in paddling, trying their best to speed up the boat.

They have to buy time to get back to shore first.
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Just when Batu and Guyu were trying their best to gain time.

Thousands of miles away, outside Taibei City, densely packed soldiers and horses were gathering outside.

The second general, Li Liang, took his son Li Zongwang to the front of the army.

Troops are gathering outside the city, and there are people everywhere.

He took his son and a group of soldiers forward to find his immediate boss, Lu Wenhuan, the commander of the Northern Thai Army.

Lu Wenhuan is Lu Wende's cousin and is currently in charge of the First Army. At this time, he is also integrating troops outside the city.

All the Song troops wore flintlock rifles and new cotton armor, and almost no longer wore Zha armor.

There are three war horses per capita, and each person has to ride one and lead two. Regardless of how many horses per capita, Mongolians can bring up to four horses per capita, which is quite troublesome. These three horses usually have to run together. After living together and getting used to it, they don't need to be held when going on an expedition. They can automatically follow their owner and the horse in front of them.

"Report, the three generals have gathered."

"Report, the four generals have gathered."

"Report, the two generals have finished gathering." Li Liang ran over and saw that everyone else had finished gathering, so he also called out quickly.

"Damn it, Batu and Guyu are about to start a fight. You guys are just dilly-dallying, hurry up, hurry up." Lu Wenhuan scolded with a smile.

After a while, following his order, one general went first, then two generals, with ten thousand civilians in the middle carrying a small amount of baggage and tens of thousands of sheep. The Northern Tai army went to Qianzhou first, and then joined the Song army in Qianzhou. Let’s set out for the Ishim River.

At this time, the Song Army dispatched six armies with 36,000 men. There were not many people and horses, and the artillery only brought four heavy artillery pieces.

In addition to necessary supplies, try to be as light and simple as possible and in the fastest time.

But because the journey was too long, five to six thousand miles, it was actually quite a hurry on the way. I was afraid that the victory of Batu and Guyu would have been decided before the Song army arrived.

"Lü Tongzhi." After receiving the order, Li Liang immediately stepped forward and asked, "I heard that there are few sheep belts, and we are in a hurry on the road. Are you not afraid of being ambushed by the Mongols?"

Grasslands and wilderness are the battlefields that the Mongols are best at. Li Liang fought against the Mongols many times, all of which were based on positional warfare and defensive warfare. Although the Song Army's weapons have been updated and become more powerful, they do not want to be defeated by the Mongols. And strike.

"The news came back from the eight hundred miles ahead. Batu and Guyu have officially fallen out. The Mongols are good at internal coaxing and will definitely start a fight. Don't worry, no one will come to harass us."

The journey from Qianzhou to the Ishimu River is thousands of miles long. It was all occupied by the Mongols in the past, but was later moved away by the Mongols. There are almost no people there. To the north is the territory of small principalities such as the Rus Principality, which will also be conquered by the Mongolian army. There is little strength. Except for the Mongolian army left behind, it is impossible for a large group of Mongolian troops to attack the Song army.

Moreover, the Song army had an agreement with Torregona on the surface to attack Batu together, but in fact they were mainly going to seize the territory. Zhao Yurui wanted to seize control of the Ishim River and the copper mines in the north, and sit on the mountain to watch. Tiger fight.

If Brother Tuo Lie did not commit suicide and wanted to put Guiyou in power, he would definitely not fall out with Song Jun at this time.

Li Liang refused to give up and asked again: "Will the Mongolian army imitate us and deliberately pretend to be coaxing, waiting for us to fall into their trap?"

"Nite girl talks so much nonsense." Lu Wenhuan was furious: "At the Khuliletai conference that day, there were people from our Intelligence Department present."

"The two sides really started fighting. Brother Meng's brother Alibu was killed, Chagatai was killed, and a lot of people around Batu died. Can this be fake?"

"What, it's true." Li Liang believed this. He didn't expect that people from the Song Dynasty Intelligence Department would actually enter the top management of Mongolia and participate in the Khuliltai Conference.

"Is it true that His Majesty's Intelligence Department has been playing tricks for more than ten years?" Lu Wenhuan said angrily: "Originally, I couldn't talk to you generals about this kind of thing. Are you satisfied now?"

"I'm satisfied, I'm satisfied, hahaha, let's go now, let's go now." Li Liang said haha, turned around and ran away.

I didn't think so.

Li Liang joined the Song Army from the Kingdom of Jin and fought step by step from a small soldier to the position of a general.

You Lu Wenhuan just have a good cousin, Lu Wende, otherwise you are nothing.

However, Li Liang still admired Lu Wende in his heart. At that time, Lu Wende dared to lead tens of thousands of horses and imitate the Mongols in marching thousands of miles to attack the Harahe Forest. Although there was support from the Song army in Ningxia from south to north, if the attack failed, the whole army would be destroyed. Submerged.

Both Lu Wenhuan and Li Liang participated in the attack. Lu Wenhuan still performed well, taking the lead and leading the troops to attack the city of Harahelin first.

Li Liang was also present that day. Lu Wenhuan originally did not want to go into battle in person. It was Lu Wende who ordered that either he or Lu Wende go into battle in person.

Although Lu Wenhuan relied on connections to get to the position, he did have real abilities, and Li Liang had to admit it even if he refused.

Returning to his second general, there are more than 3,000 horses in five battalions, and more than 9,000 horses have been prepared.

This time the army brought 10,000 civilians, and they divided the generals into 2,000, with a small amount of baggage and carriages at the back. The only four cannons in the army were carried by Li Liang's general.

Li Liang also took a look at the new carriage.

The new carriages are all rubber-coated with steel tires. Each carriage is pulled by three horses. The three horses form a triangle and have a strong pulling force. Three horses are rotated every half hour. With this configuration, the carriage can carry a heavy load and has a high speed. Fast, able to keep up with their speed.

Li Liang was high-spirited and waved his hand: "Let's go, start the western expedition."

"Western Expedition."

"Western Expedition"

"Western Expedition"

Soon, the entire wilderness was filled with the roar of the Song Army's march to the west.

(End of this chapter)