Blue and White Society Chapter 599: The man who meets Kublai Khan at night
If you are trapped in an isolated city without reinforcements, you will often die.
However, Diaoyu City is different. It can last for thirty-six years, not because of the thirty-six years of grain stored in it.
Its geographical location is special, it is entrenched on a mountain, surrounded by rivers, the enemy army either attacked the city across a river, or crossed the river to attack the city.
But the city is only a few hundred meters away from the riverside, so it is not possible to create a large formation. If a fort is placed under the city, it will be a target, and it can be demolished with a few shots from the top of the city.
Conversely, if the fort is placed on the other side of the river, it will be too far away, not to mention the threat to the city wall, and it will be particularly easy to hurt your own people who are attacking the city.
In other places, there are even more rugged mountains and cliffs. In the era of cold weapons, this city could not be attacked by force.
There are only a few ways to break the city. If you can't attack by force, then besiege to death.
Generally, the grain and grass stored in a city are limited after all. As long as the siege troops outside continue to besiege, even if the siege does not attack, the grain and grass in the city will be exhausted one day.
But in Diaoyu City, there is the ability to produce food independently. One is that Diaoyu City is surrounded by mountains and rivers. The outer wall covers a large area of mountains, and there are many mountain springs and wells. Cultivate the land on the mountain to grow crops.
Secondly, there are two Tianchi in the city, large and small, and there are springs feeding into the Tianchi. Fish are produced in Tianchi, which can be used for fishing and eating. Tianchi itself is also running water, which can be drunk.
During the siege, the city is self-sufficient, and it can take a long time to save a lot of food and clothing, but the army outside the city can't afford it.
Due to the geographical location of Diaoyu City, it is impossible for the Mongolian army to surround this mountain city anytime and anywhere, which requires a lot of manpower.
To maintain a large military force, the troops will have to be withdrawn for a year or so, or a small number of troops will be left to patrol the surroundings of Diaoyu City.
Once the army is withdrawn, it is very easy to get out of the city. The terrain of Diaoyu City is complicated, so you can climb out at any place, and you can go straight to Ciqikou.
There are dense bamboo forests, and there are many grasses on both sides of the Jialing River, which can hide people and boats.
As long as the monitoring of the Mongolian army is not strict, they can send people to lie down day and night, go down the river, and get some supplies and even soldiers from other places! Because there are too many people in the middle of Shu who are willing to help the Lord Song.
The story of "Zhang Shijie shook the cliff mountain to save the Zhao family, and the three gods will **** the new king thousands of miles away" has spread all over the country.
Everyone knows that there is an emperor in Diaoyu City, and the emperor of Song Dynasty is in Shuzhong.
Even though the Great Yuan has conquered the whole world, as long as the Zhao family sticks in Diaoyu City like a nail, the Great Song Dynasty will not perish.
There were rebellions from time to time in Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Hu, Shu and many other places, mostly under the banner of Emperor Song.
Although because of the death of the three **** generals, a basin of cold water was poured on all the righteous men in the world, and many speculators died down.
However, there are still uprisings in many places, and these people, regardless of whether the Three Gods will die or not, cannot bear to be reduced to the fourth-class people.
You must know that in another world, after the defeat of Yashanhai, 100,000 scholars in Jiangsu and Zhejiang died for their country, and 50,000 in Fujian and Fujian, and there are many scattered in various places.
These scholars who were supposed to die for their country now chose to survive because of the existence of Emperor Hongguang. They either hibernated in secret and made troubles, or simply raised their flags and defected to the small rebels who were still resisting.
There are even more farmers, and the people don't have any plot to die for their country, and they directly gather to riot.
Many prefectures and counties were officials from the Southern Song Dynasty. They surrendered to protect themselves and did not dare to fight against the Mongolian and Yuan swordsmen. On the other hand, it was also because Emperor Deyou surrendered and issued an edict to make all regions surrender.
The mentality of officials like them is very simple, follow whichever side is stronger, if the wind direction is not right, the city may change the king's banner at any time.
After all, they used the emperor to let them surrender as a reason. Naturally, they could also use Emperor Hongguang of Shu Song Dynasty as an excuse to rebel against Meng Yuan.
It is conceivable that they will try their best to suppress the small uprisings in various places? Basically, he turned one eye and closed one eye, and was very perfunctory to the Mongolian and Yuan courts.
In another world, Kublai Khan valued Wen Tianxiang so much, but he still killed him in the end.
Because more than three years after the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, there were rebellions everywhere. There was a madman in Zhongshan who called himself "Song Lord" and gathered thousands of people to rescue Wen Tianxiang.
The capital also found an unsigned letter, mentioning the burning of Chengwei, which drove the two wings of the capital guarding the capital to riot and respond to the prime minister.
Although this little turmoil can be broken sooner or later, Liu Mengyan, the prime minister of the Yuan Dynasty at that time, said: As long as Wen Tianxiang is still alive, the Song people will not give up, and they always think about saving him and restoring the world. kill?
So Kublai Khan had no choice but to kill Wen Tianxiang.
Zhao Song has been dead for three years, a Wen Tianxiang can make people think about raising troops all the time, let alone Emperor Hongguang now?
Without an emperor, some people would rebel against the slogan of saving the prime minister. It is conceivable that now that there is an emperor sitting firmly in Diaoyu City, Da Yuan must be in a lot of trouble.
Now the kings in the north are rebelling, and people in the south are thinking about Song Dynasty again.
Rebels from all over the country fled around. No matter how fierce the Mongolian and Yuan soldiers were, they could not stop the unrest. The anti-Yuan forces were scattered in thousands of states and counties in the south of the Yangtze River.
As soon as the army arrived, they were all obedient civilians. As soon as the army left, they raised the flag and rebelled.
Kublai Khan was in a state of desperation, and wished he could give up Jiangnan.
Conquering the world is easy. The Mongolian army swept Jiangnan in a few years, but the following governance found that it was not the case. Local officials are obedient and vicious, and people's hearts are fluctuating everywhere.
Jiangnan has already held back his 200,000 troops. If they were transferred away and went north to suppress the rebellion, he suspected that the south would basically be in vain.
"Diao Ali Haiya's army, and Fan Wenhu's army, don't worry about the small chaos in the local area, join Ashu, and break the Diaoyu City first!" Kublai Khan said angrily.
"Khan think twice, the false emperor of Diaoyu City is simply unable to send troops. If the world is settled, it will perish without attack!"
Just kidding, is Diaoyu City so easy to fight? If it is to be broken, it will be broken long ago.
Ashu, Ali Haiya, and Fan Wenhu's combined soldiers were only 200,000, but Meng Ge used 400,000 troops to attack Diaoyu City, and the final result was that Meng Ge died...
If it wasn't for Mengge's death, what would happen to Kublai Khan?
"The Hongguang Emperor took root in Sichuan, how can the world be settled?" Kublai Khan said angrily, he knew very well that the emperor was the root cause, if not, Nan Xin died, how dare he rebel, and who can he support?
Only when the days of the Yuan Dynasty are declining, will there be people like Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang who can support themselves. But at this time, the Yuan Dynasty is in full swing, and the anti-Yuan forces in various places are just small forces. If everyone supports themselves and there is no unified support object, it will be a mess, which is nothing to worry about. I'm afraid that they are all for the same goal.
Kublai Khan is indeed a hero of a generation, knowing that if Diaoyu City is not settled, Jiangnan cannot be stable.
He knew it would be difficult to fight, but no matter how difficult it was, he still had to fight: "Tiao Boyan's 200,000 troops marched south! I personally sit in Dadu, and the north will be fine!"
The officials were in an uproar, Boyan was destroying the rebel kings in the north, leaving the rebel kings in the most dangerous city alone, mobilizing 200,000 troops to go south to Ashu, a total of 400,000 to fight Diaoyu City.
What a bold decision, how could it be made by an ordinary emperor?
Any emperor pays attention to the crisis of the capital's confidantes, concentrates his forces to deal with those around him, and temporarily spares the remote enemies.
But Kublai Khan went in the opposite direction. He regarded the city of Shu in the south as his heart's trouble. Instead, he was confident that many rebellious kings in the north were nothing to worry about, so he moved the army around him far away.
Seeing that he had made up his mind, everyone dared not say anything to stop him.
In fact, Kublai Khan was confident on the surface, but he was also anxious in his heart: "It's another 400,000... I won't be like my brother, planted in Diaoyu City, right?"
He couldn't sleep at night, looking at the map and calculating how long most of the 200,000 troops could last without Boyan.
At the same time, he looks towards the door from time to time, as if expecting someone.
Sure enough, in the middle of the night, someone walked into the Purple Pavilion majestically, but no one noticed him.
"Don't think about it, if you insist on making this choice, Da Yuan will be ruined." A voice said.
Kublai Khan raised his head quickly, only then did he realize that a Semu person had unknowingly stood in front of his desk.
The **** serving at the side seemed to have just seen it, and the corner of his mouth twitched, but he didn't shout.
Because this is not the first time this person came here. When he came for the first time two months ago, he was knocked out just as he wanted to yell. I often meet him here at night.
This color-eyed man regards the forbidden area of the palace as his own backyard, and there is no trace of entering and exiting. Kublai Khan secretly ordered people to ambush him and thoroughly searched for this person's traces, but they found nothing, and he always stood there unknowingly. in front of.
Kublai Khan simply maintained his sweaty demeanor and chatted with him.
This person made clear what was going on in the South two months ago, and after a long time, when his people rushed to send information, he realized that what this person said was true.
And it is the version of the truth, not the version spread by the people. Not only that, including some things that are happening in the West at the same time, even if they are thousands of miles apart, he can still talk about them.
It seems that this person has the ability to visit Cangwu in the morning and live in the East China Sea in the evening. He is still in the south in the morning, and he comes to the north to tell him stories at night. Sometimes they bring some fresh lychees from Jiangnan, or fresh grapes from Tubo...
Not only that, but he often tells stories. The stories he tells are extremely attractive and beyond his imagination. They are completely different from the stories of operas and folklore.
The vision often dominates the overall situation, and the high-level buildings are at the extreme, talking about the world's affairs at every turn, and the stories of "The Great Khan Bows the Bow and Shoots the Eagles" and "The Yue Family Army Breaks the Zhuxian Town" are not in the same field of vision.
In particular, some examples of doom are often cited, which makes Kublai Khan seem to have opened the door to a new world.
Doomsday Wasteland? And this kind of story?
Kublai Khan is addicted to listening to stories, and he loves and fears this mysterious person with a unique face.
For a few days, the other party seemed to have something to do and did not come, Kublai Khan would wait in this room all night, and then dove the morning of the next day angrily.
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