Chapter 1239 The battle to bet on national destiny
Chapter 1237: A battle to bet on national destiny
Temujin is full of confidence in winning the three Hetao counties. After all, he has won the more difficult Zhenbei Pass. In his opinion, he is simply vulnerable to the three Hetao counties.
Temujin appointed Yang Silang as the pioneer in attacking Yinshan County. First, he wanted to see a good show of brothers fighting each other; second, he was to hit the morale of the Jin army; third, he was also confident about his own huge military strength.
But in the end, Temujin saw the good show of brothers killing each other, but he couldn''t laugh at all.
Among the ten counties in Yinshan, except for two counties who voluntarily surrendered, the other seven counties were forcibly captured, and the resistance was even greater than the other. In the end, Yuan Meng also hit a big nail under Yinshan City.
The people and the whole people in each city of Hetao were soldiers, and men, women, young and old participated in the defense of the city. This also caused thousands of elite soldiers to die for every city that captured a city.
If Yuan Meng followed this trend and conquered one city by one, even if he could finally win the three Hetao counties, he would probably have to pay the loss of a army of 100,000 or 200,000 troops, which would be a loss for Temujin.
Temujin would naturally not be frightened by the Jin army''s strategy of being a soldier. In order to scare the Han people in the city so as to reduce the resistance of the Han people and surrender to the city without fighting, Temujin ordered the city to be massacred and deter the Han people.
Temujin''s order was deeply in his heart, and this also caused the Yuan and Mongolian army to slaughter three cities and kill nearly 100,000 innocent people when attacking Yinshan County.
Faced with the massacre of foreign troops, the people of Yinshan were crying and screaming, but what Temujin did not expect was that the iron-blooded deterrence did not make the Han people frightened, but instead aroused the people of Hetao to resist stronger.
All the people in Hetao hated Yuan Meng very much, and a large number of light and strong people took the initiative to join the Qin army''s militia.
When did the Han people like sheep have such courage?
Temujin was puzzled by this, but in the end it can only be attributed to the fact that the Jin army has won many battles against foreign races over the years, which has led to a sharp increase in national confidence among the Han people. Therefore, these lower-level people are not afraid of Yuan Meng.
Driven by hatred, the people of Hetao joined the army were extremely excited, and the militia of the Jin army continued to grow. Finally, when it reached the level of 200,000, it was stopped by Qin Wen and Wang Meng.
There are still many people who want to join the army to fight against the Yuan Dynasty, but the Jin army can no longer afford it. After all, militias are also soldiers, and once they die in battle, they will also need to pay pensions. Although the militia''s pension is much less than that of the regular army, this is still a huge burden for the Jin army, and 200,000 militias are already enough, so the militia team of the Jin army will only be maintained at the level of 200,000.
With the cooperation between the regular army, militia and the people of the Jin army, Yuan Meng only captured fourteen ordinary county towns, and even one county town had lost 60,000 elite troops before they even captured it.
Although the Jin army suffered greater casualties and the militia alone died for 120,000 years, the militia was almost everything for the Jin army, and it was soon re-enlisted and recovered.
The Jin army relied on militia to consume the elite of Yuanmeng, while the elite of the Jin army preserved their vitality.
As one goes up and down, even if Yuan Meng has 400,000 cavalry, he will be wiped out less and less. In the end, the Jin army overtook and lost this battle.
After realizing this, Temujin ordered the slaughter of the three cities after slaughtering the three cities. The resistance of the Han people was too great. Although stopping the slaughter of the city at this time would not resolve hatred, at least he would not continue to increase hatred.
In this way, in the first wave of battle with the Jin army, although Yuan Meng seized the land of the thirteen cities, he lost 60,000 elite troops. With the arrival of 150,000 Qin troops in Yinchuan, the number of Han troops has increased instead of decreasing, and now it has reached an astonishing 580,000, which has also made Temujin feel extremely pressured.
Since losing to Qin Hao at Yanmen Pass, Temujin has never lost a battle in the east and west battles. The current huge pressure has not only not defeated Temujin, but has also made him excited.
We must win this battle to clean up the shame of losing to Qin Hao. Temujin swears secretly in his heart.
The total number of the Qin and Jin coalition forces was as high as 580,000. Although 200,000 were militias and only 380,000 regular troops, their troops still exceeded that of the Yuan and Meng.
Even Temujin had to admit that although Ka Yuanmeng was in an offensive on the surface, the Qin and Jin coalition forces could only be passively beaten, but in fact, Yuanmeng was struggling in Hetao.
The 580,000 Qin and Jin coalition forces defended Hetao like an iron wall, and it was difficult to fight even ordinary county towns, let alone county towns guarded by heavy troops.
Continuing to attack the city will only consume your own troops. If you don’t attack the city, it will consume food and grass. Yuan Meng is already in a dilemma.
Who is Temujin? He is Genghis Khan. With 340,000 elite cavalry in his hands, how could he be stumped by such a small problem?
The main problem facing Yuan Meng is the shortage of troops. As long as he can continue to increase his troops and gain superior troops, he may not be able to crush the Qin and Jin coalition forces.
But the Yuan and Mongolian troops were only 200,000 troops left, and they also needed to guard against Nurhaci from the Qing Dynasty in the east. If they continued to recruit troops, the rear might be unstable.
After weighing the pros and cons, Temujin finally decided to continue to mobilize troops from the country. After all, both Qin Wen and Qin Hao have mobilized all the forces under his command. If he doesn''t do his best, how could he stop the Qin and Jin coalition forces from the next full counterattack?
Temujin is neither lacking courage nor courage, so he is preparing to have a battle with Qin Hao: to bet on the national destiny and make every effort to achieve his achievements.
If you win, you will naturally get everything from the other party, step on the enemy''s corpses, sweep across the Central Plains and be invincible in the world;
If you lose, the Yuan and Meng national base will be shaken, and may even be destroyed.
"If you pass the order, you will recruit 100,000 veterans from the country to go south, and you will recruit 200,000 new troops."
As soon as Temujin said this, the senior officials of the Yuanmeng were shocked. Tolei stood up first and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, don''t do it. If you are dispatching troops, the domestic force will be reduced to 100,000. If the Qing Dynasty is fighting, what can we do to resist? With those 100,000 veterans and 200,000 new troops, the Qing Dynasty cannot stop it."
A trace of determination flashed in Temujin''s eyes, and he said in a deep voice: "The Battle of Hetao is a battle where both the enemy and us bet on the national destiny. Now that Qin and Jin have already burned their boats, Yuan Meng, naturally, have to put it to death to win this battle.
Now I order that before the end of the Hetao Battle, all the people of our great Yuan Kingdom should also fight for the national crisis together. ”
Tuolei opened his mouth when he heard this, but in the end he was speechless. He knew that what Temujin said was right, that is, to bet on the national fortune and fight, which was too hasty for a country.
(This chapter ends)