The Reborn Lao Tzu Is the Emperor

Chapter 1515 War on the East Road

"The minister takes orders!"

Li Goudan bowed his hands solemnly again.

Zhao Dongting smiled and waved his hands, and said: "Then you can go down now and devote yourself to inventing. For the rest, you don't need to pay attention to the official infighting, I will take care of it for you."

Li Goudan bowed and slowly exited the imperial study.

Zhao Dongting's eyes fell back on the few stacks of memorials in front of him, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Today's Song Dynasty has gradually acquired the embryonic form of the society of later generations, and what is needed is probably only the accumulation of time.

And that was not something he could do.

He vaguely remembered that the history books said that the population in the Southern Song Dynasty was about 8000 million.Even if this is just a parallel world, it should be pretty much the same after all.

Later, he was slaughtered by the Yuan army, and the ten rooms were empty, especially in the northern region and central Sichuan.

After Zhao Dongting implemented the New Deal, he conducted a national population census.After rough calculations, there were probably no more than ten million people in the entire Southern Song Dynasty.

But now, with the passage of ten years, he vigorously encouraged childbirth, and now there are nearly [-] million people in the Southern Song Dynasty.

He was able to solve the food ration problem of nearly [-] million people, and he still had surplus food, which is enough to be proud of.It is almost the limit of what he can do with the knowledge he brought from his previous life.

A few days passed by.

Ba Tong led his army outside the city of Guolue.

Zi Gaoyi, the magistrate of Guozhou, really led the city officials and defenders out of the city to surrender.

None of the [-] defenders wore armor or weapons.

Outside the city, there are several piles of weapons and armor piled up like hills, as well as neatly arranged knives, chariots and other things.

After Ba Tong led the army to arrive, Zi Gaoyi led the civilian and military generals in the city to greet him quickly.

Before arriving at the army, he bowed to Batumi and said, "Zi Gaoyi, the magistrate of Guozhou, led all the officers and soldiers in the city to surrender, and I ask the president of Batumi to accept him!"

But Batumi also read Zi Gaoyi's information.

This Han Zhizhou is an official in Guozhou and is quite famous.According to folklore, he loves the people like a son, which is why he, who is originally talented, has never been promoted.

At the beginning, the Yuan Dynasty plundered the two states of Asia and Europe with iron hooves, doing its utmost to plunder.What they want is not that all the people in the world can live in peace, but to gather all the resources in the world for themselves.

On the other hand, Zi Gaoyi tried to benefit the common people in Guozhou, so he was not liked by the upper echelons of the Yuan Dynasty.

If Guozhou hadn't been governed really well, and there had never been any riots in Guozhou, he would have been unable to stay in this official position long ago.

Batumi was also much more polite to Zi Gaoyi than to the county magistrate of Zhuyang, got off his horse and said with a smile, "Zizhi Prefecture doesn't need to be polite, there is no need to be polite."

Zi Gaoyi heard the words and said: "From the moment Zi XX led the army out of the city, he is no longer Zhizhou."

"Ok!"

Batum was slightly taken aback, then smiled and said, "That's true."

After the soldiers of the Tiangui Army received the weapons and armor outside the city, Batumi and others led the army into the city with Zi Gaoyi.

Perhaps it was Zi Gaoyi's reason, the people in Guolue City not only did not have any hostility towards the Imperial Guards of the Song Dynasty, but welcomed them very much.

There are common people lining the streets in the city to greet them.

Under the rule of the Yuan Dynasty these years, they have not had a good time.For them, the arrival of the Imperial Guards of the Great Song Dynasty was not a kind of hope.

Zi Gaoyi followed Batumi, and seeing this scene, there was a look of relief and relaxation in his eyes.

He didn't care about personal honor or disgrace until now, as long as the people in the city could understand and support his decision, he felt satisfied.

Then he asked Batong: "President Batong, I wonder when your army will come to Guolue?"

Batumi was slightly startled when he heard the words, then he shook his head and said, "Our heavenly noble army was ordered to capture and guard the land of Guozhou. In a short time, we will not have our Great Song Forbidden Army coming over."

Zi Gaoyi showed some anxiety in his eyes, and said: "But Hezhong Mansion and Henan Mansion are not far from Guozhou. If the army of these two mansions comes to seize the city, will the president be able to stop it?"

Batumi chuckled and said, "I don't think they might have the guts."

Seeing Batumi's confident appearance, Zi Gaoyi was suspicious, but he didn't ask any more questions.

Although he has surrendered, but before he is fully accepted, there is no reason to get involved in these matters.

He didn't know that Zhang Guangbao in Shangzhou had assigned Yuan Kangbo to lead the Tianbao Army to guard Luonan County.

In Shangzhou and Guozhou, there are a total of [-] soldiers from Tiangui, Tianbao, and Luzhou garrison.Such a force is definitely not small.

Even if the Yuan army of Hezhong Mansion dared to invade Guolue City, Yuan Kangbo would have enough time to provide support.

In Shangluo, Luonan, and Guolue, the Song army has already formed a battle line here.

And Shi Kaiji also led the four armies of Tianshang, Tianmeng, Tiankui, and Tianqiao, as well as the garrison soldiers of Chengdu and Jiading, from Qianyou Town, and they were already approaching Languan at the border of Jingzhao Mansion and Shangzhou.Ganyou Town was only guarded by hundreds of soldiers.

Languan can be said to be an important place for military strategists.The Yuan army deployed heavy troops here.

But if those heavy soldiers want to block Shi Kaiji's nearly [-] army, it may be difficult.

At this time, Yuan Yushi Bing Wenxuan, who was in Jingzhao Mansion, had also seen Shi Kaiji's intentions, and dispatched an army from the ancient capital Xianning to Languan for support.

Here, I am afraid that a war will break out.

Because it is much easier to go from Shangzhou to Jingzhao Mansion only after the soldiers of the Song Dynasty take the Languan, and there is no need to go back and forth.

Just before Shi Kaiji led his army to Languan, the war also broke out in the northern part of the Song Dynasty's Jiankang Military Region.

Calculating the time, it has been more than a month since Huang Hua led the forbidden army of the Xingguo Military Region and the garrison troops of the Longxing Mansion, Fuzhou, and Jianning Mansions to Chuzhou.

Such a long time is enough for him and Su Quandang to deploy.

In the past, the Jiankang Military Region only occupied four weeks and did not move northward, but this time, just entering the territory of the Yuan Dynasty was an earth-shattering battle.

The Xingguo Military Region has 12 forbidden troops and [-] garrison troops, a total of [-] soldiers.

The Jiankang Military Region also has 12 soldiers here.

This is a full 24 soldiers.

Before the Yuan Dynasty, when there were no such things as Shenlong guns, the Imperial Army of the Great Song Dynasty could be called invincible.Although the Yuan army now has Shenlong guns and other items, it is of course difficult to have the same strength as the imperial army of the Song Dynasty.This is related to many factors, such as training, policies, etc., and it is not easy to catch up.

First of all, the Imperial Army of the Great Song Dynasty had faith.The blood-red national flag is their belief.

Furthermore, the treatment enjoyed by the Imperial Army of the Song Dynasty is not comparable to that of the Yuan Army.

There are also many incentive policies in the military.

The Imperial Army of the Song Dynasty can be exchanged for military merits by beheading enemy troops, military merits can be promoted, exchanged for money, and exchanged for house foundations, all kinds of things.

These are all policies that did not exist in the Yuan Dynasty army.

Just imagine that when two armies like this fight, how can their morale be the same?

The 24 Song army was enough to make the Yuan army in the two roads of Shanxi East Road and Shandong East Road in the Yuan Dynasty feel chills.

Even when the army of the Jiankang Military Region and the Xingguo Military Region showed no signs of attacking, the censors of these two routes were already rushing to the Central Capital for help one after another.

Now that the Jiankang Military Region and the Xingguo Military Region are moving together, it is even more serious.

The tens of thousands of troops on the East and West Roads of Shandong hastily gathered troops in Suqian, and those on the East and West Roads of Shandong Province gathered troops in Shuyang.

They probably also knew that they were the opponents of the Great Song Imperial Army, and wanted to temporarily block the Song Army's footsteps here, waiting for reinforcements to arrive.

In response to the layout of the Great Song Dynasty in northern Xinjiang, Emperor Zhenjin of the Yuan Dynasty had gathered his troops on Damingfu Road and Hebei East Road at this time. Xinjiang came.

According to rumors, Halbala has a full army of 40.

Of course, this was specially designed to resist the troops of the Xingguo Military Region and the Jiankang Military Region.

Up to now, the imperial guards of the Great Song Dynasty have divided into three groups, and the intention of using Jingzhao Mansion, Nanjing Road, Shandong East Road, and Shandong East Road as breakthrough points is already obvious.

The Yuan Dynasty had no reason not to respond.

Zhenjin ordered that Halbala lead the army as the East Route Army to block the Jiankang Military Region and the Xingguo Military Region.

At the same time, more than [-] troops were gathered for Yuanwuqi to serve as the Central Route Army to block the army of the Xianglong Military Region in Nanjing Road.It's just that the coach is of course no longer Yuanwuqi.

Zhen Jin appointed Zhan Butai, a veteran who had not been on a war in the court for many years, as the coach.

Speaking of Zhan Butai, his seniority is even higher than Boyan and Ye Su'er.In the past, he had outstanding military achievements and was no longer under Boyan.Only later due to injuries, he rarely appeared in court again.

But his prestige in the army remained.

Zhenjin has now re-appointed him as the commander-in-chief, probably because there are not many generals in the Yuan Dynasty who can be used anymore.

It turned out that the predicament that the Great Song Dynasty faced had already laid hidden dangers in the Yuan Dynasty.In their confrontation with the Great Song Imperial Army in the past few years, they lost too many generals.

(End of this chapter)