Tumeng: I am a national advisor in the Golden Family

Leaving with them might be the best option. After all, if they stay here, they will all be wiped out.

After all, the morale of the army had been completely broken, and Kublai's army still had the advantage in numbers, and even Batu in the west was eyeing them covetously.

Therefore, there was no problem in following the eldest prince away. After all, he was also a member of the Golden Family, the grandson of Genghis Khan, and the son of Zhang Yong, the King of Guanzhong and the national teacher of Mongolia.

These remnants of the Chagatai family were also willing to follow the other side. Now that Chagatai's bloodline was completely wiped out by Kublai Khan alone, they also lost their loyalties.

If the Mongolian Khan was willing to take them in, their lives would not be too bad thanks to the relationship between the two families.

However, as former generals of the Chagatai family, they must seek justice for their former master; their master's bloodline cannot be cut off like this.

So these soldiers decided to ask for a specific time, at least a time that would allow them to return to the West during their lifetime and teach Kublai Khan a lesson.

The land belonging to Western Liao was not in a bad condition under Zhang Yong's rule, and many people were even very willing to accept it. At least some relatives of the Mongolians living under Zhang Yong reported that they were living a very good life.

"In five years, at most five years, or even three years, I will launch a western expedition. At that time, I will personally lead the army and lead you to fight back." Zhang Dingguan said after thinking for a moment.

There will definitely be another Western Expedition. As long as his father becomes emperor and settles domestic affairs, he can take action.

Moreover, he also had to fulfill his uncle Guiyou's last wish, which was to destroy the Golden Horde and allow the Ogedei family to take root there, so the Western Expedition was definitely necessary, and there was nothing to say about it.

As for the specific time, if it is fast, it will be distorted in three years, and at the slowest it will not exceed five years. My father will definitely be distorted.

After hearing this answer, everyone in the Chagatai family nodded with satisfaction. This answer was very good and very pertinent.

The Western Expedition will be launched in five years at the slowest, and three years at the fastest. The older generation of generals will then be able to participate in the war and avenge their master.

"Grand Prince, we believe what you said, and we are also willing to believe the Imperial Master. We are willing to follow you and thank you for taking us in." A large group of generals from the Chagatai family knelt on the ground.

"My Lord, our army has a total of 26,000 people, which is about 17,000 households. Together with their families, there are nearly 70,000 to 80,000 people. But we also have some cattle and sheep."

There are many Mongolian families where fathers and sons, or even brothers, serve in the army together. The total number of livestock of these herdsmen is over 100,000.

There was also enough food for this great migration.

"Okay, now go and gather all the soldiers and ask them to pick up their families. I will take you back to the east." Zhang Dingguan said.

All the generals nodded, and after discussing the specific details of the withdrawal, that evening, everyone followed Zhang Dingguan and set out on the journey back to the east.

Kublai Khan, just wait for me, and Badu. When I come back next time, I will definitely kill you two and fulfill Uncle Guyuk’s wish and my father’s wish.

I couldn't defeat you this time, but you couldn't defeat me either, Kublai Khan, you seized the Chagatai Khanate.

But after I took away the main force of the Chagatai Khanate, you recaptured part of the Tolui family's army, but I made the Tolui family's army loyal to me and even more loyal.

Just wait for me, I will definitely take care of you.

Along the way, Zhang Dingguan led his army on the road with great fanfare and was not afraid. Kublai Khan came to attack, after all, with such a small number of people, he would not know how he died. Now the troops here are quite large.

A few days later, Zhang Dingguan received a message that Kublai Khan had no intention of chasing after him. He led his army directly to the heartland of Western Liao to conquer those other ethnic groups.

Faced with the well-equipped Mongolian cavalry, these Western Regions peoples had no ability to resist at all. If they were unwilling to surrender, they would be killed. After surrendering, all the men would be called vassal soldiers.

Kublai Khan was carrying out a bloody campaign of conquest to expand his military forces and accumulate strength for himself, as for Batu.

After receiving the news from Kublai Khan, he immediately recalled his troops and withdrew directly back to the Golden Horde.

But before leaving, he occupied part of the land that originally belonged to the Chagatai Khanate and divided it among his sons.

The Chagatai Khanate has now become a big cake, a fat sheep with no one to guard it. When facing a group of hungry wolves, it has no chance to fight back at all.

The country was soon completely divided up.

At the same time, Batu also sent a message to all Mongolian nobles. The content of this message was very simple.

The Golden Horde had no intention of attacking the Chagatai Khanate. All of this was decided by Kublai Khan, the rebel king of the Tolui family.

The internal strife of the Golden Family and this bloody massacre have not yet spread throughout Mongolia, but as time goes by, Kublai Khan is very clear that he will face enormous pressure from public opinion, and the whole of Mongolia will speak out to condemn him.

It's okay for the Golden Family to fight among themselves, but if you kill everyone in the family, and do it without declaring war, that's too much.

This was an absolutely shameful sneak attack, and no Mongolian noble would forgive him.

"Kublai Khan, the number of our vassal troops has now reached 50,000, and more than half of the territory of the entire Chagatai Khanate has been occupied by us." A general from the Tolui family rode up on horseback and said excitedly.

In just a few days, they captured a large amount of land, captured a large number of troops, and their strength expanded unprecedentedly.

"Well! Tell your men to be nice to these vassal troops, at least let them have enough food, and tell them that I am a benevolent monarch. As long as they obey my orders and are willing to be my subjects, I will never harm them." Kublai Khan said.

If you want to win the hearts of a nation, you must make this nation recognize you from the bottom of their hearts. You must find a way to win over these Western ethnic groups.

"Yes, Kublai Khan, we get it."

"Listen to me, everyone. From now on, the imperial guards will not be allowed to burn, kill, or loot, even if the enemy has not surrendered to us and we have conquered the city.

I will only kill the main garrison commander and his generals. I will pardon all other soldiers and ordinary civilians. Do you understand?" Kublai Khan said, looking at his generals.

He learned this trick from Guanzhong King Zhang Yong. The method used by his grandfather Genghis Khan was indeed easy to deter the enemy, but it also had great drawbacks.

When the people are extremely afraid of you, you will lose the support of the people. Guanzhong King Zhang Yong did a very good job in this regard when he attacked the Southern Song Dynasty.

Even when attacking the Jin Dynasty, he did not carry out any massacres. He only killed the generals defending the city and their families. Ordinary people will love you, and as for those damned generals, there is no need to keep them.

Kublai Khan had learned Zhang Yong's tactics. If he was going to massacre a city, he would only massacre the local nobles and ordinary people. Killing them would do no good and would only tarnish his reputation.

Moreover, the people in the Western Regions were already extremely poor.

"But Kublai Khan, aren't we following Mongolian rules?"

"My words are the rules. From now on, this is the Kublai Khanate. They are all my people, so I naturally cannot kill them." (When Kublai Khan's Yuan Dynasty army attacked the Southern Song Dynasty, it did not cause too much killing, especially when attacking the Jiangnan region. The Diaoyu City where Mengge died in the battle was not massacred.

It is much better than the Qing Dynasty, which was the one that caused the most bloodshed, such as the Ten Days of Yangzhou and the Three Massacres of Jiading. I won’t mention these.)
"It's Kublai Khan. Once we know it, they will be our people."

"Well! Go, gather all the soldiers, expand the territory for me, conquer this land for me. This land is ours, it belongs to our Kublai Khanate." "Kublai Khanate, Kublai Khanate."

All the soldiers burst into amazing cheers. Kublai Khan did not disappoint their hopes and led them to conquer a piece of territory in this western land.

After pacifying his men, Kublai Khan came to the grassland. Looking at the vast grassland and the herds of cattle and sheep, he felt a wave of emotion in his heart.

"Just wait, after I conquer these countries in the Western Regions, one day, I or my descendants will return to Mongolia and take back everything that was taken away from Genghis Khan." Kublai Khan looked to the east and spoke slowly.

One day, I will lead the Mongolian army to fight back, and I will prove to everyone that I, Kublai Khan, am the true successor of Genghis Khan, and I am the future Khan of Mongolia.

Even if I cannot fulfill this wish myself, I will tell my son, my grandson, and my grandson's grandson about this wish so that they will always remember it.

Their grandfather and their father were driven out. After conquering the entire grassland area, Kublai Khan led an army of more than 80,000 and marched westward. Most of the troops in the army were Turkic troops.

Part of the land that once belonged to Khwarezm now belongs to the Chagatai Khanate, and this is the main farming area of ​​the Chagatai Khanate and also the gathering place of major cities.

After Kublai Khan's army arrived, some cities resisted, but some cities simply opened their doors and surrendered.

The last Mongol invasion of the West took place more than 20 years ago, and many of them witnessed the conflict with their own eyes.

They were so frightened of the Mongolian army that they dared not resist at all. The ethnic groups in the West Asia region began to surrender one after another. Even some Western Liao troops joined in at Kublai Khan's call.

A month later, Kublai Khan completed some of the things Genghis Khan had done and conquered all the cities in the Western Regions.

We arrived at Samarkand, the former capital of Khwarezm. After more than 20 years of recuperation, this ancient city has recovered some of its vitality and now has a population of several hundred thousand.

Kublai Khan moved all the Mongols, as well as some of the Khitans and Turks from the Western Liao Dynasty who were subject to him, to this city.

"Kublai Khan, Khan, aren't you going to build your own royal court on the grassland? Why did you come to this city?" A general of Tolui's family asked in confusion.

After finally conquering the land of the Western Regions, according to their Mongolian rules, they should naturally establish a royal court on the grassland. Then they should raise the Khan on the grassland and let the people in these cities provide them with food.

"You don't understand. I want to build this place into the capital of Kublai Khanate. This will be my political center in the future.

This place is far away from the East. It takes a year to send troops here! And it is also a strategic location.

There is a reason why the king of Khwarezm gave up Yulong Jiechi and settled in Samarkand. This city is very good. "Kublai Khan said.

Samarkand is a very nice city with an excellent geographical location. It has mountains, water, and large grasslands. It can easily feed millions of people, let alone hundreds of thousands of people.

This is a very suitable location for the capital. Although it is not as good as the capital in the East or even the Jin Dynasty, it is much better than those royal courts on the grasslands.

Chagatai, Batu, and even Jochi were all good at fighting, but they did not know how to choose their own capital.

Yulongjiechi, Samarkand, Hashgar, and Bukhara are not much worse than some cities in the Central Plains, and are only weaker than those former ancient capitals.

Shuchi should have built his capital here instead of abandoning it and running to the grassland.

If you don't want such a good place, then I, Kublai Khan, will take it. Kublai Khan, who had been influenced by Han culture since childhood, understood how important it was for him to establish his own capital in a suitable city.

The Mongols of the past did not understand this point. They could fight wars but they could not govern a country. What was truly suitable as a capital of a country was not a big tent running around on the grassland.

This will make it easier to be attacked and forgotten by the people. Only by establishing a capital in one place and a political power core can the country exist for a long time.

Although this approach would make many Mongolian generals dissatisfied, Kublai Khan still decided to do so. After occupying this place, the ancient trade route connecting the east and the west was also under his control.

Zhang Yong, if you still want to do business with the West, either you kill me or you have to do business with me.

The Chagatai Khanate once did business with the Golden Horde, the Mongolian nobles on the grasslands, and even with more Western countries. We must make good use of these.

Kublai Khan now had to gather all the resources under his control. Half a month later, Kublai Khan announced to all the soldiers that he would establish his capital in Samarkand and formally establish the Kublai Khanate.

He also declared Allah as the state religion, because the people here all believed in Allah. If they promoted another religion, they would be seeking death. Now he understood Batu a little.

The news of the establishment of the Kublai Khanate spread quickly, and some countries in the Western Regions took the lead in attacking the Kublai Khanate and refused to recognize it.

Anyway, as long as it is a country established by Mongolia, no matter whether you are a rebel king of Mongolia or not, you are not one of them.

The relationship between the Golden Horde and Kublai Khan was extremely cold. Batu didn't even send anyone to congratulate him. Kublai Khan had already been labeled a rebel king on the Mongolian grasslands.

He was happy to establish his country, but no one came to cheer for him. Kublai Khan could only swallow the bitterness alone.

He led the soldiers of his family to celebrate the establishment of the Kublai Khanate.

Two months later, Zhang Dingguan successfully returned to the territory of the Ogedei family with an army of more than 100,000 and hundreds of thousands of civilians. This expedition lasted a total of half a year and did not achieve any results.

But the good thing is that this time no soldiers died because they did not experience even a decent war.

After returning to the grassland, Zhang Dingguan immediately announced a bombshell news to the whole of Mongolia.

The Mongol Khan Guyuk had died of illness on his way to the Western Expedition, but in order to stabilize the morale of the army, they chose to announce the death of the emperor in secret, and did not make the news public until they returned to the Mongolian grasslands.

This news caused a huge sensation on the Mongolian grasslands. No one expected that this Western Expedition would result in the death of the Mongolian Khan.

More explosive news came later that Wang Zhangyong, or the current emperor of the Daqian Empire, Zhang Yong, also came to the grassland with an army of 100,000 and joined forces with his son.

After receiving the letter from his son and the news that he was going to become the Great Khan of Mongolia, Zhang Yong did not delay at all and took his several wives with him.

He led a large army all the way to Karakorum, the headquarters of Mongolia, and successfully took over the city.

"Father, this is what happened. Kublai Khan established the Kublai Khanate and destroyed the Chagatai Khanate. I, your son, failed to stop him." Zhang Dingguan knelt in front of his father and spoke.

"Well! I know everything. Overall, you did a good job. At least you brought these people back, and also brought back people from the Chagatai Khanate." Zhang Yong looked at his eldest son after more than half a year. The boy had grown a lot taller, and his whole body was tanned like a charcoal because of Xizhen.

"Father! Are you willing to accept the position of the Great Khan of Mongolia?"

"Besides me, is there anyone else who can calm the situation? Don't worry, I have the army with me, plus the army you brought.

No one can resist me anymore. I have the final say here. The opinions of the Golden Horde and Kublai Khanate are not important at all. "Zhang Yong said. (End of this chapter)