At the end of Song Dynasty: I want to be the master of ZTE

Chapter 364 Dadu
As the twelfth lunar month is coming to an end, the weather is getting colder and colder. The Yuanting people feel freezing to death, but the Song army feels warm.

The temperature is the same, and it is naturally the mood that determines whether it is warm or cold.

Yuan Ting was facing a life and death crisis, so it was naturally cold to the bone, but the Song army was the dominant side, and the emperor was about to arrive at the front line, so he was naturally like a raging fire.

The emperor was in Waqiao Pass, 270 miles away from Dadu. He was indeed on the front line in person.

The Waqiaoguan area is low-lying, full of rivers and lakes and saline-alkali ground. There are few residents and it is easy for the enemy to take advantage of it. In the late Tang Dynasty, it was set up here to prevent the Khitan.

In the second year of Emperor Zhenzong's Xianping reign, the Khitans invaded the south. He Chengju said: "Because of the land of Pize, the Zhishui River is a blockage." Then the Xu, Bao, Sha, Tang and other rivers in the Jiuhe River were blocked, forming many water pools, and the rivers were connected, which was impressive. Form a north-south defense line.

After that, the water area gradually expanded, and finally it became a Great Wall on the water that meandered for [-] miles along the river and was [-] miles wide. This was the original Baigou River defense line.

After the Chanyuan Alliance, there was no war between the Song and Liao Dynasties for a long time. The soldiers and civilians dredged the rivers and reclaimed the tidal flats. The lakes and rivers gradually disappeared. When the Jin people moved south, there was no need for this line of defense. Today, among the many big lakes, only Baiyangdian is left.

In the twelfth lunar month, the river was frozen, but the Yuan army was prepared early and took advantage of the severe cold to build many fortifications. If there had not been a sudden mutiny, they would have paid a heavy price.

At this time, Zhao was meeting with Zong Er, who was the first to initiate the mutiny, and a group of people who had contributed to the response.

"That day, when it was time to eat, all the Mongolian soldiers had meat, and the villain was the leader. They still had grain porridge, just like ordinary Han soldiers.

The cold weather was already unbearable, but the villain couldn't help but question him if he didn't have enough food.

But I didn't expect that the Mongolian soldier supervising the army was furious and wanted to kill the villain to establish his authority. If it were before, he would have no choice but to be killed, but now he has a gun. Who is afraid of whom?

The villain was so angry that he shot and killed the supervisor, and then encouraged his brothers to rebel together.

On weekdays, Han soldiers do the hardest and most tiring work, but the food is the worst, and their military pay is in arrears for a long time. They are full of resentment. In addition, the villain is not bad at popularity, so there are many followers..."

Zongji briefly explained the process of the mutiny.

It has nothing to do with national justice and no national consciousness. It is just a simple lack of money and food.

Very normal.

Throughout the dynasties, if the money and food are enough, the gods will be crushed. If the money and food are insufficient, the Shangguan will be crushed.

"The reason why you are treated differently is that foreigners do not regard you as one of their own. This is the difference between ethnic groups." Zhao Shi said simply and handed out rewards.

The baron rewarded those who were unwilling to surrender to their hometowns with money, and those who were willing to surrender had to be reorganized and trained.

After dealing with this matter, Zhao decided to go to Dadu City.

"Your Majesty, Yuan troops are returning to support Dadu everywhere. There are wars everywhere, and we are only afraid of danger.

For safety reasons, it is better to stay at Waqiao Pass. "Yu Ji advised.

"It doesn't matter." Zhao Shi said: "Eight thousand personal guards with the army can reach [-] troops. How can the puppet Yuan have such a large army?"

"Your Majesty, the situation of the country is very good, there is no need to take risks." Yu Ji still advised.

The Emperor of Song wanted to go to the front line to boost morale, and the Emperor of Yuan did not hide in the palace.Zhenjin received Confucian teachings since he was a child, and he has a high degree of Chineseization, but after all, he grew up on the grasslands. He is proficient in bow and horse and martial arts, and is not afraid of going to the battlefield.

However, there were [-] enemy troops outside and only [-] defenders in the capital city. Zhenjin was determined to defend to the end.

Looking at the endless camps in the distance, Zhenjin turned to look at An Tong and asked: "Is it possible that the Privy Council decided to block the Song army from outside the city?"

"Your Majesty, if we abandon the outer city, I am afraid that the whole army will be shaken and the inner city cannot be defended." An Tong replied.

After Kublai Khan ascended the throne, all of the above cities were originally capitals, but Xanadu was located in the north, which was not conducive to controlling the Central Plains. Therefore, after solving Alibu brother, Kublai Khan decided to move the capital to the Yanjing area.

At that time, there was the Jin Zhongdu Ancient City in the Yanjing area. However, this city experienced the wars in the last years of the Jin Dynasty. Since it was captured by the Mongolian army, most of the palaces in the city were demolished or burned, and the source of the city's water supply is the Lianhua River system. There has already been a shortage of water, unable to meet the daily needs of the capital.

In August of the first year of the Yuan Dynasty (1264), Kublai Khan issued an edict to change Yanjing to the central capital and designate it as the accompanying capital. Three years later, he decided to move the capital to the central capital, and later renamed the central capital Dadu (called Khanbali in Turkic language, the imperial capital meaning), Xanadu will be used as the companion capital.

After Kublai Khan moved his capital to Yanjing, he first lived in the Jinli Palace - Daning Palace. In the fourth year of the Yuan Dynasty, he started the construction of a new palace and capital outside the old city of Zhongdu.

In the 22nd year of the Yuan Dynasty, important buildings such as the palace, palace walls, and water sources in Dadu were gradually completed, and residents of the old city were moved in. However, the edict stipulated that the wealthy and those who held official positions must be given priority when moving into the new city of Dadu. As a result, A large number of ordinary people had no choice but to stay in the old city of Zhongdu, so the new and old cities were often referred to as the "North and South Cities".

There were few residents in the north of the city and the terrain was empty. In order to facilitate defense, the Yuan Dynasty envoys built an additional earth wall in the north of the city and turned the city wall into a "sun" shape.

Today, the city defense system of Dadu includes city walls, city gates, and moats. The city walls are made of rammed earth, with a circumference of sixty miles and 240 steps (28.6 kilometers), a height of three to four feet, a base width of six to seven feet, and a top width of three to four feet.

Although the city wall is an earthen wall, the permanent wood is first installed inside the wall, and then the horizontal wood is added, and then the earth is rammed. As long as there are no blisters, it is difficult to damage.

At the beginning of the construction of the city, it was proposed to cover it with bricks and stones, but it was rejected due to insufficient financial resources. Later, the Yuan court specially dispatched troops to harvest reeds and weave reed mats. Every summer, reed mats are used to cover the city walls, which is called "Reed City". ", commonly known as "city covered with coir raincoat".

Because the Yuan Dynasty used force to pacify the world and there were no external threats, the urn city was not built. Now, in order to cope with the Song army's attack, the [-]-gate urn city was hastily built, with a wooden suspension bridge outside the city gate to span the moat.

But the sixty-mile city wall, even if there is one soldier per step, [-] troops are not enough to fill it.

“Instead of waiting for the Song army to capture the city wall, it is better to give up and gather troops to defend the imperial city.

I sit in the center and can boost morale. If I provide gold, silver, food and cloth to the treasury, the armies will fight to the death. " Zhenjin said.

"But it depends on His Majesty's arrangement." An Tong surrendered to reality.

Just as the two were discussing, a horseman came galloping over and said, "Your Majesty, Yuwa has lost [-] troops and is returning to the rescue. They have arrived outside the city."

"I no longer have anything outside the pass!" Zhenjin was not happy but worried.

Yuwa lost his troops and returned to support, indicating that Yuxi Timur had abandoned the defense line of the Great Wall and the cities outside the pass. Although most of the defenders had more troops, Lu Wu could also send his troops south.

At present, the Song army of [-] cannot even besiege the city. If there are tens of thousands more Lu Wu, they can attack from all sides.

Zhang Shijie also received news of the arrival of Yuan army reinforcements, but they were blocked by the city and could not stop them, so they could only watch.

Therefore, a large city also has great benefits. When the enemy's troops are not strong enough, there can still be unhindered communication inside and outside the city.

(End of this chapter)