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Chapter 164: Yuan Ting Incident, Chu Shizhao recovered Dajing!

And Chu Shizhao obviously also knew how terrifying the Mongolian royal court was in its snowballing ability.

At the beginning, the Mongolian royal court was advancing all the way and almost took over the entire northern part of the Dajing Dynasty.

If the early Mongolian rule had not been unstable enough, with former Zhou officials rising up in various places, and if Mongolia had really taken over these territories, Chu Shizhao would most likely have been wiped out.

Judging from the values ​​in various places.

The soldiers recruited from different places have different initial abilities.

For example, among the soldiers in the north, three out of ten can acquire the basic ability of [Riding].

As for the soldiers in the south, three out of ten can spawn the basic attribute [Water Battle].

Soldiers from different regions have different values. The fighting power of soldiers in the north is generally slightly higher than that of soldiers in the south.

The ability values ​​of generals and ministers' cards are not restricted and there will not be too much deviation, but there are still great differences between the soldiers on both sides in these more basic abilities.

The fact that southern soldiers rarely have the basic skill of riding makes it impossible for Chu Shizhao to maintain his cavalry.

If Chu Shizhao wants to raise cavalry in the south, he must first cultivate the riding skills of these soldiers, which will take half a year longer to train than normal recruitment.

There are also differences in the quality of the militia in the northern region.

In places close to the border, such as Liangzhou, the basic military strength of the recruits may be higher than that of the militia recruited by many large towns in the north.

What gave Chu Shizhao the most headache was the terrain design in the simulation.

When soldiers from the south go to the north to fight, they will be in negative status and will also be affected by the map effects of being unfamiliar with the terrain, so they will easily suffer a setback if they are defeated.

Similarly, soldiers from the north who go to the south to fight are also prone to being infected with plague, which makes it difficult for them to fight.

But the problem is that as the main attacker in the Northern Expedition, Chu Shizhao knows very well that if he continues to waste time, his side will suffer even more.

Don’t underestimate the natural defenses that can be defended when crossing the river.

As far as the population of the north and south of the Zhou Dynasty is concerned, the north was more prosperous and had a larger population.

If this continues for a long time, Chu Shizhao will definitely be the losing party.

In this simulation, Chu Shizhao had only one way out, and that was to fight and grind. Fighting meant consuming the Mongolians' manpower and ensuring that they could not digest the northern part of the Great Zhou Dynasty in a short period of time. Grinding was because Chu Shizhao knew that he could not defeat Mongolia in one go, so slowing down the opponent's development speed and giving himself room to grow were the core of the strategy.

Facts have also proved that the Mongols' ability to govern local areas was a mess.

In five years, productivity in the south has grown dramatically. Chu Shizhao's policies have always encouraged production and promoted trade.

The main source of economic income for the Mongolian royal court was trade. Most of the taxes and grain collected in the north had to be paid to the Zhou gentry and landlords.

In terms of the survival pressure on local people, the rule of Chu Shizhao was relatively comfortable, but the north under Mongolian rule was not very peaceful. Frequent uprisings also continued to provide Chu Shizhao with food.

At this stage, the Mongols were forced to march westward. It was not that they did not want to fight Chu Shizhao, but that the Mongols had no choice.

Chu Shizhao's defensive strategy was too solid, and firearms such as the Thunder Bomb were becoming increasingly sophisticated.

He never blindly chose to engage in a field battle with the Mongols. Instead, he used the range of his thunder bombs and city defenses to constantly suppress the Mongols' siege routes.

It was impossible for the Mongols to use their elite troops who were skilled in riding as cannon fodder. The only ones responsible for the main attack on the city could be the Zhou infantry troops.

To be honest, in the ancient battlefield, if you fight in a favorable situation, everyone will be braver than the other. But if you fight against an unfavorable situation, after fighting once, it is impossible for them to fight for their lives afterwards.

Why do nomadic peoples fight?

Because they are poor, if they win the war they can rob other people's things.

Fighting all the time but not being able to advance, and watching colleagues around you die in the war, the pressure is really too great.

The northern clans are not fools.

You will only work hard when there is profit. If you can't fight, and you keep wasting your manpower every day, then you are giving others the opportunity to take advantage of you.

Strength is the guarantee and foundation of one's own status.

Preserve your strength and fight symbolically. If you fail, tell the Mongols that it is really difficult to defeat them.

It was impossible for the Mongols to force them to death and drive them to Chu Shizhao's camp.

A nation like Mongolia, which makes its living from war, will keep advancing as long as it can win the battle. If it can only consume the enemy's energy and fail to win, it will naturally collapse.

Were the Mongols the ones who chose the Western Expedition?
Since they can't defeat Chu Shizhao and can't advance, they can only try another route.

However, the more the Mongols advanced on their westward expedition, the more difficult it seemed for Chu Shizhao's side to deal with.

Now it was a matter of Chu Shizhao and the Mongolian royal court competing with each other in terms of their military capabilities and qualities. The armies they pulled out were all extremely powerful.

[In February of the 15th year of Shengwu, Temujin once again marched westward. In May, the Mongol army, the Russian army, and the Kipchak army met east of the Kalka River. Because the Russian princes were not united and could not fight together, they were eventually defeated one by one by the Mongol army. Tolui and Jebe led their troops to plunder southern Russia and then returned east. They crossed the Volga River and attacked the Bulgars, and then returned to the Mongolian grasslands from the north of the Caspian Sea and the Aral Sea.]

[This expedition allowed the Mongolian army to reach as far as the Crimean Peninsula. After achieving such a great success, Temujin regained his confidence.]

[In August of the 15th year of Shengwu, Temujin went south from Mobei and attacked the Dajing Dynasty again. During this process, Temujin promulgated grammar, began to establish the culture of the Mongolian royal court, and also granted fiefs to his sons.]

[The land conquered on the way to the west was divided among Temujin's sons. In the process of conquering various countries, Temujin absorbed the surrendered troops and forced the people of the conquered areas to serve as soldiers, which greatly expanded the number of troops. The strength of the Mongolian royal court increased from 100,000 to more than 300,000.]

[However, in addition to the 100,000 cavalrymen of the Mongolian headquarters, there are more than 200,000 troops, all of which are surrendered troops.]

[In September of the fifteenth year of Shengwu, Chu Shizhao strictly controlled the circulation of weapons outside, effectively preventing the Mongols from learning new equipment.]

In the history of the Yuan Dynasty, there was an important step in the process of its rise, which was the annexation of the Jin Kingdom.

The first thing the Jin people did was to be a thief, and the second was to send equipment. To say that they were a thief was because they knew that Mongolia was powerful, but they were beaten by the Mongols, so their priority was to take back the benefits from the Southern Song Dynasty, which was like robbing Peter to pay Paul.

There is nothing to say about sending equipment.

During the war with the Southern Song Dynasty, the Jin people learned a lot of weapons technology from the Southern Song Dynasty.

When the Mongols conquered the Jin Dynasty, they completely absorbed these things, which can be described as a tonic. Moreover, in history, the Mongols made extremely high use of firearms.

The Mongols were not the kind of people who only used cavalry and archery weapons as people usually thought; they also used firearms.

Otherwise, the Mongols would not have brought firearms to the West during their westward expedition.

This tonic pill to destroy the Jin people gave the Mongols an opportunity to improve in all aspects. The entire early period of the Yuan Dynasty was like killing monsters and leveling up.

From the beginning, he was a stray dog, kicked wherever he went, especially being trained like a dog by the Jin people, and then he fought back all the way and took over the entire Central Plains dynasty.

It is a process from weak to strong.

Chu Shizhao did not give the other party this opportunity. The Mongols' current technological advancement was also imitated from Chu Shizhao's technology.

In terms of actual effects, the two sides are far apart.

Chu Shizhao is not in a hurry at all now. You know, after so many years of operation, the annual tax revenue of the Dajing Dynasty has surpassed the peak period of the Dazhou Dynasty.

You have to know that Chu Shizhao only had half of the Great Zhou Dynasty in his hands, and it was the relatively poor south.

As early as three years ago, Chu Shizhao had been secretly raising horses, raising cavalry, and training the Beiwei Army to fight against the Mongol cavalry.

He was waiting for the chance to make the final decision. There was a hammer to the east and a hammer to the west of the Mongolian royal court. He could only wait to die here.

[In October of the fifteenth year of Shengwu, your Beiwei Army was finally organized. You recruited more than 30,000 cavalrymen.]

[After ten years of development, the musket finally developed a new line - the fire gun. 】

[In November of the fifteenth year of Shengwu, you began to strengthen the Beiwei Army's cavalry and archery capabilities. Each Beiwei Army soldier was equipped with a strong bow and fifty arrows.]

[In December of the fifteenth year of Shengwu, Chu Shizhao trained the Beiwei Army's joint attack capability and implemented the 50-50 system of joint tactics.]

[For this vertical and horizontal tactic, Chu Shizhao required the soldiers of the Beiwei Army to form a small group of five people, and five groups formed a town. ]

[During the battle, the five soldiers divided the work and cooperated with each other. Two of them were responsible for suppressing the firepower of the cavalry and archery, and the other three were responsible for attacking, covering and supporting, taking turns to use the firepower of the cavalry and archery.]

[In order to ensure that each group has combat effectiveness, Chu Shizhao has been training these people on tactical application and coordination for a long time. ]

[This will also ensure that when the group is left alone, the soldiers in each group can fight on their own and still have excellent counterattack capabilities. ]

[In this kind of joint attack tactics, the premise of the attack is to preserve one's own manpower, so as to ensure that they will not be easily destroyed by the enemy under any circumstances. Once a problem occurs, someone will be responsible for covering the teammates' retreat. ]

[The core is to make detours and infiltrate, surround and attack reinforcements. ]

[When you encounter the enemy's main force, you should focus on engaging them. When you encounter a small force, you should infiltrate and encircle and annihilate them. ]

[In March of the 16th year of Shengwu, Chu Shizhao led his army to the north. This was the first time that Chu Shizhao gave up the city defense and took the initiative to attack after several years of stability.]

[On March 13, the 16th year of Shengwu, Chu Shizhao's Beiwei Army encountered Mongolian cavalry in the wild. The two sides deployed on the spot. The Mongolians used their usual roundabout tactics very skillfully, relying on their range and superb riding skills, trying to pull the enemy by positioning, and then suppress Chu Shizhao's Beiwei Army with firepower.]

【But something unexpected happened. 】

[The Beiwei Army copied the tactics of the Mongolian cavalry. They also used the tactic of roundabout and interspersed, bypassing the encirclement of the Mongolian cavalry and then encircling the enemy in return. At close range, the Beiwei Army took out fire guns and fired on the spot. Its accuracy was far better than bows and arrows. At long distances, they took out bows and arrows to shoot on horseback to ensure that they could inflict damage from a safe position.]

[Most Mongolian cavalry had no protective gear and relied entirely on mobility. When they encountered heavy cavalry like the Beiwei Army, if they could not win in a head-on fight, they should have fought with their cavalry out of the way. However, the Mongolians, who had never fought against the Dajing cavalry, took the initiative to attack in order to test the opponent's strength, and were suppressed in all aspects.]

[On March 19, the 16th year of Shengwu, the Beiwei Army defeated the Mongolian cavalry on the front battlefield, and Temujin was shocked.]

[On March 23, the 16th year of Shengwu, Zhebie and Tolui personally led an army of 100,000 to engage Chu Shizhao's Beiwei Army. Chu Shizhao responded flexibly, avoiding Zhebie and Tolui's army, breaking up the Beiwei Army of more than 30,000 into small groups and harassing the ruling area of ​​the Mongolian royal court.]

[When the Beiwei troops arrived at the place, they followed Chu Shizhao's instructions and first pacified the people in the north, telling them that the king's army in the south would soon recover the country. If they could recover the country, they would be exempted from taxes in the north for the next year to use for production in order to recover their homeland and take care of the people in the north who had suffered from the war.]

[If you encounter Mongolian cavalry chasing you, find a way to break through and avoid the frontal battlefield. ]

[In April of the 16th year of Shengwu, Chu Shizhao's heavy infantry corps arrived at the battlefield. A hundred thousand infantrymen advanced to the front battlefield. With the cooperation of the Beiwei Army, they achieved the effect of infantry and cavalry coordinating operations. Chu Shizhao, who originally only had infantrymen, often had no opponents for direct confrontation and was dragged to death by the Mongolian cavalry. However, with the support of the Beiwei Army, these infantrymen were guaranteed to attack the city.]

[In May of the 16th year of Shengwu, Temujin used most of his troops to march westward and suppress the western countries that had just been conquered. Most of the troops in the north were from the northern gentry and powerful people. If these people did not contribute, Temujin would be exhausted from defending. It was not as easy to fight as imagined, especially when Chu Shizhao transported thunder bombs to attack the city, and he continued to attack the city and capture the stronghold at a speed of nine cities a day.]

[Under Chu Shizhao's pre-arranged appeasement, the people's resistance to Mongolian rule has reached a critical point. Under such circumstances, Temujin can only rely on the high pressure of the northern regime to control the people. Now that he has suffered a defeat, the people's riots are even more obvious. ]

[In June of the 16th year of Shengwu, the Jing army approached Chang'an. Temujin led the soldiers and concubines of the three armies, took Zihan and others, fled Chang'an, and fled to the royal court in Mobei via Tongguan. ]

[The Mongol rule in the Central Plains finally came to an end, and Chu Shizhao gained control of the area within the Great Wall. The Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, which had been lost for more than twenty years, were finally recovered by Dajing.]

【In view of the erratic nature of the grassland forces and their ambition to seize the fertile land of the Central Plains for many years, Chu Shizhao decided to accumulate strength and march north to fight again and completely eliminate the nomadic forces headed by Temujin.】

[When Temujin heard the news, he knew that the Great Jing Dynasty was on the rise and could not be stopped, so he marched west again and continued to attack the weak western army. This strategy indirectly led to a radical change in the world situation.]

[It is called in history - the 'Yuan Ting Incident'. ]

[These Mongols who chose to avoid Chu Shizhao and temporarily escaped adopted the strategy of "marching westward". They first raided the Black Sea and Danube River in Europe, and then continued to invade westward with the Goths and others there until they reached the gates of Rome, which eventually led to the collapse of the ancient Roman Empire under the strong military pressure of many "barbarians".]

【Chu Shizhao's great victory over Mongolia not only affected the history of the Central Plains dynasty, but also indirectly promoted a new historical process.】

[In July of the 16th year of Shengwu, Chu Shizhao recovered Dajing and ascended the throne for the second time in Chang'an to pay tribute to his ancestors. This is known in history as "Emperor Jing ascended the throne" and "Emperor Shengwu ruled."]

【After Chu Shizhao, who had just conquered Chang'an, performed a short Fengshan ceremony and returned to the throne, he paid tribute to his old friend Yang Fang in the suburbs of Chang'an, which made the officials loyal to the Great Zhou Dynasty burst into tears. The officials who had served the Great Zhou Dynasty and did not recognize the legitimacy of the Great Jing Dynasty finally re-attached themselves to the founding emperor who had unified the country again. This page finally opened the chapter of the Great Jing Dynasty's journey towards a prosperous empire.】

(End of this chapter)