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Chapter 251 [Battle of Red and Black]

On the first day of May, the dynasty will turn into a major assassination. Prince Zhenjin and Ahma were killed at the same time, and the murderer escaped without a trace. This shocking case caused a storm of waves in the entire Great Yuan Dynasty.

How furious was Kublai Khan? It can be seen from the fact that he executed the prince's entourage on the spot, with a total of 112 ceremonial guards, and the thirty-seven palace guards present at that time. And this was just the beginning of the massacre.

All the guide palace servants, all the chariots, horses, guards, and drivers on the court that day, whether their master is a sect king or a first-rank minister, were useless and were tortured at once.

The breakthrough of the case was first opened from a left custody gate named Lu Jiucheng. According to Lu Jiucheng's confession, after the assassination, he accidentally glanced at him and saw several black shadows rolling out from the bottom of the car of Zhang Hongzhong, the doctor of the Left Division and Zhang Hui, the Right Chief of the Secretariat, and was stunned for a moment. Then the scene was in chaos and the traces of those black shadows were lost.

As soon as Lu Jiucheng confessed, Zhang Hongzhong, the doctor of the Left Department, and Zhang Hui, the Right Secretary, were in trouble. The two were arrested and imprisoned at the same time, and tortured and tortured. Their mansions were also investigated, and more than 400 people in the whole mansion were taken to prison.

Afterwards, You Xuanfu and forty-five left guards were found, causing another shock. Following the clues, he led out the Qianhu Wang Zhuo of Yidu, Yan Yi, commander of the Privy Council, and others. At the same time, Zhang Yi, deputy Privy Councilor who was authorized to send troops, was also implicated and imprisoned.

Next, the already storm of blood was hit by a huge rock and the blood waves were smashed into a high wave - the assistant minister, Brother Sang, hanged himself at home.

Since then, the case has been involved in more and more. Kublai Khan, who was hit one after another, almost lost his mind. Almost every day, criminals were killed and then chopped into meat sauce. Most of them were in a bloody storm.

...

The turbulent and ripples in the capital inevitably affected the Marshal's Mansion of the Nandu, thousands of miles away.

On the seventh day of the fifth month, Prime Minister Boyan, who received the urgent report on the situation in Dadu, was worried and suppressed his thoughts of rushing back to Dadu immediately. He first wrote a memorial in person, and sent it out in a hurry for 400 miles, and then summoned all the generals and generals in the southern expedition who had not arrived in Liangzhe in time to discuss matters.

Boyan's first sentence was: "It's May now, and before the autumn of September at the latest, the war in the southern expedition must end. The sea in Chagatai will not allow us to calm the south of the Yangtze River in a year or two, and the situation in Dadu is the same... And I would like to remind everyone here that because Ahma and Sang Ge accidentally died one after another, the taxes of the imperial court will be in a short time and will not affect the rewards of the food and grass and the transfer of military funds in the southern expedition. However, if the war is delayed for a long time, it will be affected... Therefore, this battle must be completed within three months!"

The generals in the tent looked solemn and felt the pressure doubled.

"Now look at the enemy situation our army is facing." Boyan didn't say nonsense and opened the map. The three red arrows on the map were particularly dazzling. Boyan pointed to the red arrow above and said, "At the end of April, the Prime Minister of Song State Wen Tianxiang led a Song army to appear in Zhangzhou and form an alliance with the rioters Mrs. Xu, Chen Diaoyan, Huang Hua and other chiefs. When he went north, his troops had only a hundred people, but now he had tens of thousands of troops from all directions, and his momentum was greatly increased."

Boyan moved his finger downward and pointed to another red arrow: "This is the main force of the Song army, commanded by Song lord Zhao Lie himself. He is sweeping all the way north and is about to reach Chaozhou. Once the Song army breaks through Chaozhou, the two states of Chao and Zhangzhou will be connected together, Quanzhou will be difficult to protect, and Fuzhou will be in danger."

Boyan finally pointed to the red arrow below: "This is the troops of Su Liuyi, the governor of Guangnan of the Song army. His troops were originally vanguards, but were defeated by Deputy Marshal Li Heng during the battle to attack Guangzhou. Most of his troops were righteous and brave, and they were useless, so they were kept by the Song Lord to serve as the rear, governor of the Song army's food and fodder and soldiers to supplement the troops."

After the introduction, Boyan's thin eyes showed a sharp edge that was inconsistent with the elegant appearance: "The enemy is fierce, what do you think you should do?"

All the generals said: "Please ask the Prime Minister to give me a strategy."

Boyan looked around and nodded slowly: "Okay, I want to attack with attack, first break the enemy's wings, and then take the enemy's head. In this battle, the Lord of Song will be bound to the Khan's stairs to sacrifice to the crown prince!"

The generals said in unison: "The Song Lord must be tied up at the steps of the Khan to sacrifice to the crown prince!"

"Okay, let's see the strategy below." Boyan used ink brush to draw three black arrows from Ganzhou, where the Marshal's Mansion of the Nandu was located, pointing to the three red arrows representing the Song army, as if in a tit-for-tat manner: "Happy, Wang Weiyi obeyed the order."

"Subordinate is here."

"With the marching of thousands of households, Wang Weiyi was the left army, led 12,000 troops to Zhangzhou, joined forces with the troops from Zhangzhou, and captured and destroyed the Wen Tianxiang troops of Song State and Mrs. Xu, Chen Diaoyan's She Army, and broke the left arm of the Song army."

"The order of commander of the subordinates will not let down the Prime Minister's entrustment."

There were more than 100,000 She troops and only more than 10,000 Yuan troops. Even if the army and horses of Zhangzhou were added, it was only 30,000. It seemed that the enemy was too few, but whether it was Boyan who issued the military order or the happy person who received the order, Wang Weiyi knew very well that the She and the Song army were not the same. These hundreds of thousands of She troops were divided into dozens of commanders of big and small commanders. These heroes were rebellious by nature, each with different commands, and had different orders. Even if Wen Tianxiang's prestige was to be suppressed, it would be fine if he was fine on weekdays. Once he went to the battlefield, he would definitely not be able to suppress it by his prestige and without a strong army suppression.

Gao Xing was praised by Bo Yan as a "wise and brave general", and Wang Weiyi even captured Wen Tianxiang alive in the battle of the empty pit. Both of them were full of confidence to defeat the more than 100,000 mobs and captured the Prime Minister of Song again alive.

Boyan took another command arrow: "Li Heng, everyone who finishes it will obey the order."

"The last one will be there."

"As Deputy Marshal Li Heng, who was the one who marched tens of thousands of households, led 5,000 cavalry each, crossed Dageng Ridge in two directions, went south along the Zhang River and Tao River, and captured Yingdezhou. After that, he waited for an opportunity to annihilate the Song army under Su Liuyi and cut off the right arm of the Song army. In the event of failure, he would also capture Zengcheng and Boluo and cut off the Song army's food route."

"The last general leads the army."

Li Heng had three thousand Red Army troops who were probing horses, one thousand of which were Iron Harriers, all of which were elite cavalry no less than the Mongolian Iron Cavalry. In the end, they were even more powerful generals known as "Badulu". They had the power of shooting eagles to fight against tigers. They once led the Red Army (the prime minister's guard) in front of the tent, and were good at running cavalry assault. For several years, he served as Daluhuachi on Gaoyou Road, he had maintained a team of thousands of Mongolian elite cavalry teams. The last time he defeated Mrs. Xu and Chen Diaoyan and broke the siege of Zhangzhou was his masterpiece of leading the elite cavalry to rush forward for thousands of miles.

Boyan took advantage of the advantages of the Mongolian and Yuan cavalry to carry out a large detour, cut off the Song army's retreat, and cut off its food route. It is ruthless.

"In the end, I led an army of 200,000 to rush to Chaozhou and fight against the Song Lord in the sea and land!"

The generals stood up with a loud bang, and the Jiaye clang sounded, forming a solemn battle: "In three months, destroy the Northern Invasion of the Song Army and capture the Song Lord alive!"
Chapter completed!
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