choke element

Chapter 145 Blocking
Ever since the group decided to host King Sheng and come to Zhongdu, the movement of the Mongolian army seems to have been forgotten by everyone.

It is true that the situation in the central capital is turbulent. Although Guo Ning's troops entered the game with strong force, they could not really penetrate into the subtlety of the entire coup.They are always outsiders, living in an environment with dark tides and turbulent tides, and they need to be more cautious, walking on thin ice, almost everyone is focused and ready to deal with it at any time.

But the actions of the Mongolian army will not stop just because everyone is not paying attention.

Compared with the Mongolian plateau, the fields in Hebei seem to be less open, but more fertile.In the eyes of Mongolian knights, those scattered villages and cities are infinite wealth.

Moreover, this is wealth in the hands of the enemy, apart from looting, it can only be destroyed.

This is not cruelty, but the truth that the nomads on the grassland have been fighting and fighting for thousands of years.On the grasslands, there is no division between soldiers and civilians, and no division between war and peace. Therefore, there is no division between the massacre of the enemy and the destruction of the enemy's war potential.

Since crossing the Bauhinia Pass and entering Hebei, the Mongolian army has been running wildly in just one month, attacking like fire, as if urging a mighty wind of death, breaking down cities one after another, flattening fields one by one. The Daohe canal burst open, and buildings and houses burned down everywhere.

As for people... the massacre of people is the easiest.Perhaps in the eyes of the people of the Central Plains, Hebei has become so destitute, but in the eyes of the Mongolian cavalry, there are still too many people in the Central Plains.

For the Mongolian army, the Hebei area of ​​the Kingdom of Jin should have been an unfamiliar area.It took Genghis Khan three years to find out the details of the northern frontier of the Jin Army, and it took another two years to completely destroy the Great Wall defense line of the Jin Kingdom. bedding.

However, with the military victories over the past few years, the vassal tribes that had originally clustered under the banner of the Jurchen army began to turn to the Mongols.

After all, it has only been a hundred years since the Jurchens rose to decline. They control the Northeast with one hand and the Central Plains with the other. They seem to have the benefits of both. In fact, their control over various places and tribes has never been stable.

When the Jurchens were strong, all contradictions were covered up, and once the Jurchens' force began to waver, those Bohai people, Xi people, Khitan people, and even Han officials began to invest in large-scale newly-emerged powerful nations in the north .

Many of those people knew the inside story of the Kingdom of Jin, the geography of mountains and rivers, where to station troops, where to find food roads, where to plunder, where to bypass, and where to pass.

Under their guidance and guidance, the Mongolian army, which was divided into three groups, traveled like a dragon swimming in the sea in each route.Tens of thousands of cavalry mingled like water within a range of hundreds of miles, constantly tearing apart the resistance of the Golden Army everywhere, creating unimaginable damage.

Urgent documents from all over the country were handed over to Zhongdu like snowflakes, but the city of Zhongdu was busy with a coup d'état.

Even a capable and far-sighted minister like Tu Shanyi can only suppress the scope of the coup's influence to the minimum, so that the coup can be completed in the shortest time.But when he freed his hand and wanted to clean up the situation outside the central capital, the situation had already become unimaginably bad.

Right Prime Minister's Mansion.

Early in the morning, Xu Ding came to see Tu Danyi.

The massacre last night made Xu Ding admire Tu Danyi's methods even more.He and the political forces headed by him generally continued the political line of the Xu Chi Kingdom back then, and they had frequent conflicts with those Zongwangs.The two sides were smiling when they met in the court hall, and secretly cursed each other no less than a thousand times.

Now that King Zong's power has been completely eliminated overnight, King Sheng and Tu Danyi's sincerity in cooperating with Han Chen can be said to be fully revealed.But the sharp blade in Tu Danyi's hand turned out to be more than Guo Ning's, which shocked Xu Ding and overestimated Tu Danyi's power a lot.

It seems that for quite a while in the future, it will be a must for Xu Ding to come to Tu Danyi's mansion every day to ask questions.

But at this moment, Tu Danyi in Xu Ding's eyes did not have the slightest hint of joy that his wish would be fulfilled.

In the past two days, Tu Danyi has aged a lot. His face was already covered with wrinkles, but now, those wrinkles are about to hang down, and his skin is covered with age spots.His gray beard and hair became whiter and thinner visibly to the naked eye, and even his eyes, which often flashed sharp light, were obviously cloudy.

When he saw Xu Ding, he didn't say much. He pointed to the documents scattered on the desk and motioned Xu Ding to take a look.

Xu Ding is the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs who is busy doing things. Even if he became a political adviser not long ago, he kept his secrets and rarely came into contact with military aircraft.But after the new king came to the throne, Xu Ding must be one of the prime ministers who wielded real power, and he had to keep abreast of many military trends in time.

A copy of military newspapers, some are messy, some are dirty, and some are even bloody.

In the past few days, all the bigwigs in the imperial court have been watching the changes in the court, but someone must read the military newspaper, and bad news will always be known.

Xu Ding looked at them one by one, his face gradually paled.

"Enzhou, Jingzhou, and Xianzhou have all been lost, and the water transport from Daming Mansion to Zhongdu has been completely cut off? Linqing and Liting in Enzhou, Jiangling in Jingzhou, Hecang belonging to Dongguang counties, A total of 200 million shi of stored grain, all of which fell into the hands of the Mongolian army?"

With trembling hands, Xu Ding put aside these military newspapers and looked at the next pile.

"The situation on the southeast and north roads of the river... After Pucha Ali's fine cavalry was defeated by the Mongolian army, our army stayed in the Zhending area and did not dare to advance an inch. On the contrary, Ze, Lu and other prefectures in the south were empty, and Pingyang Prefecture was lost one after another. Today Taiyuan and Xindai were shocked by dozens of times a day. The Xijing province was attacked on three sides. With Xijing staying behind and wiping all loyalty in their hands, there is only one Datong Prefecture left? In addition, Jizhou, Xizhou, Lanzhou and other places have long since lost their troops. The newspaper, I guess it has been lost too?"

Xu Ding's voice of chanting became lower and lower.He put aside the pile of military newspapers and flipped through the third dial.There are only two copies of this batch of military newspapers, and the content is brief:
One said that Wanyan Chenghui, who had been appointed as the military envoy of Shandong Road earlier, intended to go south, but the army blocked Cangzhou, and the road was cut off and difficult to travel.

The other one said that the current Shandong Army Commander Wanyan Sara led an army of [-] to Dezhou and was defeated in a battle with the Mongolian army.

Think about it calmly, there are two east and west roads in Shandong, such a vast place, apart from these two, there are no other military newspapers?
If there is no military report, it proves that something big happened!

Xu Ding let out a long sigh, and looked at the next one, but it was not a military newspaper, but a family letter.

Obviously, such a large number of military affairs made Tu Shanyi very headache. His old man's desk was in a mess, and his personal letters and official documents were mixed together.

Xu Ding took out this family letter and placed it in front of Tu Danyi.

Tu Danyi lowered his eyes, his cloudy eyes remained motionless.

Xu Ding thought that Tu Shanyi was dozing off again, so he leaned over slightly, wanting to call him.Tu Shanyi said slowly, "I've seen it."

"what?"

"This is a letter from Monk Zhang, please read it."

Xu Ding knew that the one called Zhang Seng was Tu Danyi's nephew, the current governor of Anzhou, Tu Shanhang.Previously, the political dispute between Tu Shanyi and Wan Yangang was unfavorable, and many party members in the six departments were unlucky one after another.Together with Tu Shanhang, he was kicked away from the position of Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and fell directly to the barren and poor Anzhou as the governor.

Tu Danhang himself was very unwilling, so he thought of many ways.Tu Danyi has always liked this nephew, and has been trying to create opportunities for Tu Shanhang.

Xu Ding opened the letter, and there were only a few words on it.At the beginning, I greeted Tu Danyi a few words, and then said that the Mongolian army traveled on light cavalry, hundreds of miles away, and could arrive at any time.Although the army went south around Baozhou and Lizhou, Anzhou was inevitably attacked.The second son-in-law of the Tushan family, who received the country's great favor, must not surrender, but die with the city.

Seeing this, Xu Ding was a little surprised, but he heard Tu Shanyi say slowly: "Meng Zhang has always been a bit soft-tempered, but he likes to bluff. To be honest, he is harsh and soft-hearted. But this time, it is rare to be a little bit tougher." .”

"Could it be Anzhou..."

"Anzhou was besieged ten days ago. Zhang Seng led his troops to defend for five days, and finally fell. He, his wife and family members have all hanged themselves to death."

Xu Ding sighed and said a few words of comfort to Tu Shanyi.

There were so many military newspapers on the table, he had read less than half of them, and there would be no good news for the rest.Obviously, with so many cities changing hands, the connection between the central capital Daxing Mansion and the vast territory of Dajin is being rapidly cut off.In the next few months, how to maintain the situation in Daxing Mansion, and how to persist under the fierce invasion of the Mongolian army?
That was so hard.

He thought for a while, and then asked: "My lord, since the situation is like this, why send Guo Ning's troops to Shandong? In my opinion, it would be better..."

Tu Danyi smiled hoarsely: "Hezhi, don't you know? That's because they want to go."

(End of this chapter)