Tumeng: I am a national advisor in the Golden Family

to be honest! Zhang Yong expected that there would be a great famine in the Central Plains area ruled by the Jin Kingdom and that he would see the victims in large areas, but the reality was far beyond his imagination.

I didn't see the scene of victims all over the place, because the survivors who could survive had already fled to Guanzhong or to the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty. Those who could survive had already run away, and those who could not survive, now only the bones were left.

Along the way, Zhang Yong saw small villages full of victims who had starved to death, and many crows and vultures were eating their bodies.

The army walked for so long, but they didn't find a single living person.

He had seen this kind of scene once when he first traveled through time, but that was in Khwarezm. He didn't expect that he would see such a tragic situation again in the Central Plains.

If he didn't change something, then the same scene as in the Central Plains should have happened in Guanzhong and even Sichuan and Shu.

However, what surprised Zhang Yong was.

Whether it was the Mongolian army under Wo Kuotai's command, the Han army from Hebei that came to join them, or the Han army under his own command, such scenes were no longer strange and commonplace.

Even the army in Hebei, as well as the Han army in Guanzhong that they brought with them, even had a trace of joy in their eyes after the tragic situation in the Central Plains. It seems that I am glad that this is not my hometown, and such human tragedies have not happened in my hometown.

Because they have seen this kind of scene too many times, and they are now in an era of war and the end of the dynasty.

Last year, the Mongolian army attacked the Jin Kingdom. Although it was unsuccessful, it caused unprecedented huge losses to the Jin Kingdom. Spring plowing and autumn harvest could not be carried out.

In ancient times, if the grain harvest was not good one year, people would have nothing to eat in the winter, and the result would be starvation.

"Zhang Yong! Zhang Yong!" At this time, Wo Kuotai suddenly shook Zhang Yong's shoulder.

"Sweat!"

"What are you thinking about? I see you've been dazed!" Wo Kuotai asked curiously.

Ever since the army gathered and entered the Central Plains area, Zhang Yong seemed a little absent-minded, with his brows furrowed all the way.

"Bhan! I think in order to prevent the plague from happening, we'd better clean up the corpses around them, bury them together, or cremate them." Zhang Yong thought for a while and said.

Piling up a large number of corpses can easily cause plague. It is spring and the weather is getting warmer. If these corpses are placed here, the situation will be bad.

The main reason was that Zhang Yong wanted to find a reason to bury all the bodies of the dead victims, or cremate them and then bury them.

"Well! What you said makes sense. We really can't leave these corpses alone. If a big plague breaks out, the whole army will be in trouble. But with so many people dying, we don't have that many manpower!" Wo Kuotai said.

There were many corpses and there was a plague. The Mongols knew about this situation. After all, when they attacked the Western Regions, they did a lot of things like massacre. The method of disposing of corpses is to burn so many corpses in one fire, which is indeed not very safe in the wild.

But along the way, there were victims in every village, and it would take them a lot of time to clean them all up.

"Great Khan! This is a God-given opportunity, a good opportunity for us to defeat the Kingdom of Jin." Zhang Yong thought for a moment and said to Wo Kuotai.

"?? What are you talking about? Burying these corpses will at most prevent the whole army from getting plagued. How can it be a God-given opportunity?" Wo Kuotai asked in confusion.

"Great Khan! We have taken away our hometown in the Northeast of the Jin Kingdom. The local Jurchens in the Jin Kingdom can be said to be very rare. Now more than 90% of them are Han people, and the remaining 10% are Jurchens." Zhang Yong said.

"This is true, but these Han troops are also helping the Jurchens fight the war." Wo Kuotai said.

"Great Khan! Do you still remember when we attacked Guanzhong a few years ago? At that time, we captured a large number of Han soldiers. In the end, those Han soldiers became our own." Zhang Yong said.

"Yeah! I remember that I gave you the management of these Han armies at that time. A few years later, they became your own people. Can you turn the Han people in the Jin army into our own people?" Wo Kuotai's eyes lit up and he asked.

The Mongols launched countless wars, but they understood the cruelty of war better than anyone else. Therefore, wherever they went, before attacking a city, they would send envoys to persuade them to surrender. They would not use force if they could.

If Zhang Yong could really persuade the Han soldiers in the Jin army to surrender to Mongolia, then this war would be much easier, and they would only need to deal with the Jurchen army.

"Great Khan! According to the reports from the expedition horses in the past two days, almost all the people in the small villages near the Kingdom of Jin have died, and those who survived may have fled. Most of China's population is now concentrated in cities.

We can send people to clean up the corpses around and convey a message to the surrounding Han soldiers that your army, the Khan, is collecting the corpses around so that the people can be buried in peace.

As long as you surrender to the Mongolian army, you can get some food and farm at home with peace of mind.

Tell all the Han soldiers that the reason why these people are starving to death is because the Jin people have done nothing and have been collecting extremely heavy taxes, but they don't care whether the people live or die. "Zhang Yong said.

Since ancient times, the top military strategists have firmly believed in one sentence, that is, attacking the city is the bottom and attacking the heart is the top.

Being able to defeat the enemy without fighting is the best result. Now the Jin Kingdom's army is gathering together, intending to attract the main Mongolian force to come for a decisive battle.

There are not many defenders in some of the surrounding small counties. It will be very easy for Wokuotai to capture them in these areas and capture them all.

Squeeze the living space of the Jin people and arouse the hatred of the local Han people towards the Jin people.

"Then let's test your idea in the nearest city. Send an order to the three armies to gather all the corpses around, burn them, and then dig a hole to bury them.

If there are any alive, give them some food and let them go to the Guanzhong area. "Wo Kuotai nodded and said.

After thinking about it carefully, Wo Kuotai finally agreed with Zhang Yong. After all, this boy has followed him until now. His ideas never fail.

"The Great Khan is wise!" Zhang Yong said.

Soon, the Mongolian army began to take action, including Han soldiers from Hebei and soldiers brought by Zhang Yong himself.

Starting from village to village, all the bodies in your body will be gathered together, then set on fire, and then the ashes will be dug into a pit and buried.

Such a carpet-like search did find some villagers who were still alive, mostly old and weak women and children, and some adult men hiding in some cellars.

Zhang Yongtong did not harm these people, but ordered the soldiers to give them some food and then let them walk to the city.

Tell all the Han people in the city that as long as they are willing to open the city and surrender, the Mongolian army will distribute some food to them and will not massacre the city.

After a few days of hard work, Zhang Yong and Wo Kuotai led the army to pass through several counties. After the Mongol army arrived, the counties they passed basically did not offer any resistance and directly sent people out of the city to surrender.

Even some small towns did not need Wo Kuotai to send envoys. Before Wo Kuotai's army arrived, people had already been sent to Wo Kuotai's military camp to express surrender.

Zhang Yong took a small number of Mongolian troops to these surrendered cities and distributed some food to all the people in the city to further win over people's hearts.

Suddenly, Zhang Yong's reputation in the Central Plains region skyrocketed, and people said that the King of Guanzhong was a wise king.

Some of the previous victims of the disaster in Guanzhong were young and strong, and Zhang Yong had already formed a team of civilian workers, and they were continuously transporting food along the Jingzhao Mansion.

Zhang Yong also transported part of the food from Sichuan and Sichuan. Now Zhang Yong is really not short of food. What he lacks is just the manpower to transport the food.

And now, these disaster victims are the best main force for transporting food.

"Your kid's plan works! How long has it been? A large number of cities in the southern part of Jin Kingdom have already surrendered to us.

And some of them surrendered on their own initiative without me even sending envoys to persuade them to surrender. "Wokuotai said with great satisfaction in the military tent.

"Great Khan! You can use the people of the Central Plains a little, and they will be your help. Help you deal with the Kingdom of Jin. These people, as long as you can keep them full, they will be grateful to you." Zhang Yong said.

To put it bluntly, it is the simplest truth, those who win the hearts of the people win the world. Now the people of the Central Plains, as long as you can make them eat well, they will be satisfied.

And now anyone with a bit of discernment can see it. The Jin Kingdom is completely finished. Instead of hanging on this tree, it is better to surrender early, and the conditions given by the Mongols are generous enough.

"Zhang Yong, do you think we can go to Kaifeng Mansion now? Then we will have a decisive battle with the Jin army." Wo Kuotai asked.

Hearing this, all the Mongolian generals present were gearing up.

"No! No! We are going to create a huge encirclement. The emperor of the Jin Kingdom will not be able to escape. We will trap him to death." Zhang Yong said.

Now if we go to besiege Kaifeng Mansion and annihilate the defenders of Kaifeng Mansion, it will not be a big problem for the Mongolian army.

But the Emperor of Jin could take advantage of this opportunity to escape and then wander around. It would take a lot of effort to deal with him then.

Instead of doing this, it would be better to leave the Kingdom of Jin with only one lonely city, Kaifeng. I will not let you go to Caizhou City!

Just die in Kaifeng Mansion! Your Jin Kingdom took away Kaifeng Prefecture to establish the country, and you also destroyed Kaifeng Prefecture for me.

"I understand what you mean. The people of the Jin Kingdom can indeed run away, especially their emperor. When we conquered the capital of the Jin Kingdom more than ten years ago, we originally thought we could completely destroy the Jin Kingdom.

Unexpectedly, the Emperor of Jin changed hands and ran to Kaifeng Mansion. Now, if we take away Kaifeng Mansion, they will run to other places, and they will continue to waste time. Subotai nodded and said.

Sixteen or seventeen years had passed since the first war with the Jin people. Back then, he followed Genghis Khan across the Wild Fox Territory.

I thought I could destroy the Jin Kingdom in one go, but I didn't expect that this battle would last for more than ten years.

"Great Khan! We can divide our troops into several groups and encircle all parts of the Jin Kingdom. We can also use my previous tactics and tactics along the way.

The main thing is that you and I are going to lead an army to the south. Completely cut off the connection between the Southern Song Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom, and completely cut off their escape route. "Zhang Yong said.

"Well! Then we will divide our troops into several groups. Zhang Yong and I, you will lead the army to the south, and then cut off the connection between the Southern Song Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom." Wo Kuotai said.

He didn't care about anything else, but Zhang Yong proposed to cut off the connection between the Southern Song Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom, which he very much agreed with. The previous general named Meng in the Southern Song Dynasty had caused great difficulties to them.

"Meng Gong only had tens of thousands of troops, and the Southern Song Dynasty was not of the same mind as the Jin Kingdom. Their goal was not the Jin Kingdom at all." Zhang Yong said.

Before, envoys from the Southern Song Dynasty came to seek peace. Zhang Yong also knew about this and wanted to stab his friend behind his back. It would be strange if the Jin Kingdom did not lose.

As for the real target of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhang Yong now knows it with his buttocks, and it must be his own Hanzhong.

OK! Then go ahead! I have prepared a great gift for you in the land of Hanzhong, go and step on it slowly!

Wokuotai nodded, and then divided the Mongolian army into several groups and attacked various parts of the Jin Kingdom at the same time. Gradually, an encirclement was formed, and the destination was Kaifeng Mansion.

In the next more than a month, Wo Kuotai led the Mongolian army under Zhang Yong's strategy.

They did not fight with the main force of the Jin Kingdom at all, but moved to various parts of the Central Plains of the Jin Kingdom, and even advanced to the Caizhou area of ​​the Southern Song Dynasty, capturing all the cities close to the Southern Song Dynasty.

Most of these towns chose to surrender. After all, the conditions given by the Mongolian army were too generous compared to those of the Jin people.

But some chose to resist. After the army of these resisting towns was defeated, Zhang Yong immediately used his authority over twenty cities to save the people in the whole city.

It's been more than half a month.

At this time, the southern region of the Jin Kingdom had been completely captured by himself and Wokuotai. The defenders in various places had no intention of resisting and simply surrendered.

As for the army guarding Kaifeng Mansion, the capital of the Jin Kingdom, Wokuotai asked Tuo Lei and his troops to stay there.

This time Wokuotai only gave Tuo Lei 30,000 cavalry. Tuo Lei's purpose was also very simple, which was to contain the main force of the Jin Kingdom.

Buy yourself time to seize the southern part of the Jin Kingdom and completely cut off the connection between the Jin Kingdom and the Southern Song Dynasty.

Now the entire Henan Prefecture, Hezhong Prefecture, Guide Prefecture, Daming Prefecture, Pingyang Prefecture, and Dongping Prefecture of the Jin Kingdom have all been occupied by the Mongolian army.

It has only been more than two months since the war began, and even the Mongolian army captured these areas without much loss.

"Great Khan! Now the entire Jin Kingdom only has Kaifeng Prefecture. As for Dengzhou, Tangzhou, Caizhou, and Yingzhou, they are all in the hands of the Southern Song Dynasty." Zhang Yong looked at the map on the table and said.

I have to say that the operation of this Southern Song Dynasty is really speechless.

The emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty actually ordered Meng Gong to capture all four prefectures and counties of Dengzhou, Tangzhou, Caizhou, and Yingzhou in the name of protecting his allies.

What a great teammate of the century! Seeing that the Jin people were completely ruined, and now there was only one Kaifeng Mansion and one city left, the Southern Song Dynasty simply stopped pretending.

In the name of protecting the territory of the Kingdom of Jin and the people of the Central Plains, the four states of the Kingdom of Jin were occupied, and they have been strengthening the city defenses. It seems that they intend to form a line of defense around the surrounding areas.

"The Song Kingdom actually took away the land of the four states while we were at war with the Jin Kingdom. Great Khan! Tululu asked you to fight and let me lead troops to attack the Southern Song Dynasty and take back the land that originally belonged to us. ." A Mongolian general knelt on the ground and said.

"Hahaha! I already understand what you mean, Zhang Yong, tell me, how will we fight in this next battle?" Wo Kuotai asked.

"Great Khan! Now there is only one Kaifeng Mansion left in the Jin Kingdom. The four southern states and counties have been captured by the Southern Song Dynasty. We don't care about these areas for the time being. The most important goal now is to surround Kaifeng Mansion and completely capture it. Next, completely destroy the Jin Kingdom." Zhang Yong said.

The Southern Song Dynasty now only defends the city. Dengzhou, Tangzhou, Caizhou, and Yingzhou, if you take it, you can take it, but sooner or later I will make you spit it out.

There are no natural dangers in these four states and counties that can be defended. Once the Jin Kingdom is defeated, the army can even go all the way south and fight near Xiangyang Prefecture.

"Well! We will leave tens of thousands of troops here to watch. The Southern Song Dynasty army will stay in Xuzhou City and Guide Mansion. Then you and I will lead the troops north to Kaifeng Mansion to completely eliminate the gold." Wo Kuotai said.

Guide Mansion is only over a hundred miles away from Kaifeng Mansion. It only takes them a day or two to reach it with their army.

Just as everyone was discussing strategies, a messenger ran in quickly, with excitement written on his face.

"Report! Report to Gao Dahan, a great victory for our army on the front line, a great victory for our army on the front line." The ordering soldier knelt on the ground and said excitedly.

"Oh! Tell me about which route the army won the victory." Wo Kuotai asked.

"Report to the Great Khan! Master Tuo Lei led the Jin Kingdom's last 100,000 troops in Kaifeng Mansion, and wiped out all 100,000 Jin Kingdom troops outside the city.

After killing several famous generals of the Jin Kingdom, the main force of the Jin Kingdom has now been defeated by Master Tuo Lei. "The messenger said with great excitement.

It's just that he didn't notice that Wokuotai's face was very ugly at this time, even extremely ugly.

His whole face turned black and he looked in disbelief.

Even Zhang Yong standing aside was a little in disbelief.

Is there any mistake? Tow Thunder dude!

We have just taken care of the entire southern part of the Jin Kingdom, and you just wiped out the entire main force of the Jin Kingdom.

You are hastening your own death! Look at Wo Kuotai's face.

"Toolei only has more than 30,000 people! How did he defeat the Jin Kingdom's 100,000-strong army?" Wo Kuotai asked. (End of chapter)