Blue and White Society - Chapter 609

[Chapter 599]

If you are trapped in an isolated city without reinforcements, you will often die.

But Diaoyu City is different. It can last for thirty-six years, not because it has stored grain for thirty-six years.

But its special geographical location, it is entrenched on the mountain, surrounded by rivers, the enemy either attacked the city across a river, or crossed the river to attack the city below the city.

But the city is only a few hundred meters away from the river, so it can’t be too large. If a fort is placed under the city, it will be a target, and it can be dismantled 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 is especially easy to hurt the siege’s own people.

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.

After all, the food and grass stored in a general city are limited. As long as the siege troops outside continue to besiege, even if the siege does not attack, the food 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.

The second is that there are two large and small Tianchi in the city, and there are springs that feed water 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 food and clothing, but the army outside the city cannot 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To maintain a large military force, the troops must be withdrawn in a year and a half, or a small number of troops must be left to patrol the surroundings of Diaoyu City.

Once the army is withdrawn, it is very easy to get out of the city.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, and 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 Yashan mountain to save the Zhao family, and the three gods will escort the new emperor 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 world, as long as the Zhao family sticks in Diaoyu City like a nail for a day, 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 god generals, a basin of cold water was poured on all the righteous men in the world, and many speculators died down.

But there are still uprisings in many places, and these people, regardless of whether the three gods will die or not, can’t 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 hid in secret and made troubles, or simply raised their flags and joined the small rebels who were still resisting.

There are even more farmers, and the people have no plot of martyrdom, and they directly gather mobs to riot.

Many prefectural and county officials were officials from the Southern Song Dynasty. On the one hand, they surrendered to protect themselves and did not dare to fight against the Mongolian and Yuan soldiers.

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 “Lord Song” and gathered thousands of people to rescue Wen Tianxiang.

An unsigned letter was also found in the capital, mentioning the burning of Chengwei, which drove the two wings of the guarding the capital to riot and respond to the prime minister.

Although this little turmoil could be resolved 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 people of Song Dynasty will not give up. They always think about saving him and restoring the world. Why not kill him?

So Kublai Khan had 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?

There was no emperor, and people would rebel against the slogan of rescuing 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.

Rebel armies from all over the country fled around. No matter how fierce the Mongolian and Yuan soldiers were, they could not stop the unrest in the hearts of the people. Anti-Yuan forces were scattered in thousands of counties in the south of the Yangtze River.

When the army arrived, they were all obedient citizens, and when the army left, they raised the flag to rebel.

Kublai Khan was so devastated that he wished he could give up Jiangnan.

Conquering the world is easy. The Mongolian army swept Jiangnan in a few years, but the subsequent 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 these 200,000 troops are transferred to the north to suppress the rebellion, he suspects that the south will basically be defeated.

“Diaoli Haiya’s army, and Fan Wenhu’s army, don’t worry about the local chaos, join Ashu, and break Diaoyu City first!” Kublai Khan said angrily.

“Think twice, the false emperor of Diaoyu City is powerless to send troops. If the world is settled, he will perish if he does not attack!” Hearing that Diaoyu City will be stormed again, some civil servants immediately persuaded him.

Just kidding, is Diaoyu City so easy to fight?

If it is to be broken, it will be broken long ago.

A Shu, Ali Hague, 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 Meng Ge’s death, what would happen to Kublai Khan?

“Then Emperor Hongguang took root in Sichuan, how can the world be stable?” 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 Great Yuan is 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, it is impossible for Jiangnan to be stable.

He knew it was 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 ministers 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 join Ashu, a total of 400,000 went to fight Diaoyucheng.

What a bold decision this is, how could it be made by an ordinary emperor?

Any emperor would pay attention to the crisis of the capital’s confidantes, concentrate his forces to deal with those around him, and temporarily let go of distant enemies.

Kublai Khan went in the opposite direction, seeing a city in Shu in the south as a worry, but 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 grandly, 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 quickly raised his head, only then did he realize that a Semu person had unknowingly stood in front of his desk.

The eunuch 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 has come. When he came for the first time two months ago, he was knocked out just as he wanted to yell. , After that, Khan often met 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 once secretly ordered people to ambush him and thoroughly investigated his traces, but they found nothing, and he always stood in front of him without knowing it. .

Kublai Khan simply maintained his sweaty demeanor and chatted with him.

This person had 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 circulated among 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, and they are completely different from the stories of operas and folklore.

The field of vision often dominates the overall situation, and it is extremely high-spirited, talking about world affairs at every turn, and it is not in the same field of vision as stories such as “the sweat bends the bow and shoots the eagles” and “the Yue family army breaks the town of Zhuxian”.

In particular, some examples of the end 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 was a bit addicted to listening to the stories, and he loved and feared this mysterious person with a unique face.

For a few days, the other party seemed to have something to do 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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[End of this Chapter]