Siheyuan: a game system with you

Chapter 121. 119. Fake imperial decree
Seeing that Li Yongxuan didn't listen to his order, the father-in-law in charge of the army sneered, and read out a secret decree in public: "The edict said, Qin ordered Eunuch Chun to supervise the army in the Northern Expedition..."

After a while, he found that the content of the imperial decree seemed wrong, and he was stunned.

Li Yongxuan had long discovered that Eunuch Chun was carrying a secret decree, and after reading the content, he dropped the decree without anyone noticing it.

The secret decree handed over to Eunuch Chun by Emperor Song stated that as an imperial envoy, Eunuch Chun has the right to mobilize all the troops in this Northern Expedition as long as he presents the secret decree.

Doing this is nothing more than fear of Li Yongxuan and Meng Gong's self-respect, and Eunuch Chun is a father-in-law, so there is nothing to worry about.

After reading the imperial decree, Li Yongxuan burned it down calmly, and then he randomly made a fake imperial decree to replace it.

Eunuch Chun saw that the imperial decree in his hand was wrong, he guessed that Li Yongxuan had tampered with it secretly, and was about to get angry, so he heard Li Yongxuan shout: "Wait a minute! Your secret decree is not quite right!"

While speaking, Li Yongxuan snatched the imperial decree from Eunuch Chun's hand and showed it to everyone present: "Look, everyone, the imperial decree is fake! Eunuch Chun, how dare you pass on the imperial edict!"

"Come here! Take him down, escort him to the capital, and wait for his punishment!"

Li Yongxuan detained Eunuch Chun involuntarily, and immediately sent someone to escort him to the capital.

He didn't want to turn his back on him completely, otherwise he would kill Eunuch Chun directly.

He was not in a hurry to pursue the victory, except that Li Yongxuan was not sure, and more importantly, he needed to reorganize the [-] elites collected in Dengzhou, which was completely different from the Mongols' attack on the Song Dynasty.

Whenever the Mongolian army captured a Song Dynasty city, they would wantonly burn, kill, loot, or even massacre the city, never considering stationing the city.

No matter whether Li Yongxuan regained any city, he would do nothing to the people, he would only deal with resisting soldiers and occupy the official grain and supplies.

This is also the main reason why many people are willing to join the Northern Expedition. In one year, it expanded from the initial 7000 people to 8.

By the time Chahan and Zhang Rou led their troops to Dengzhou and Tangzhou, it was already the beginning of [-], more than half a month had passed since Li Yongxuan took Nanyang.

In order to thwart Li Yongxuan and Meng Gong's Northern Expedition, Cha Han and Zhang Rou quickly assembled an army of [-], preparing to completely defeat the Song Army with a thunderous force.

Li Yongxuan led 3 troops to station in Nanyang, leaving [-] troops to Guo Jing and Yeluqi, who stationed in Rangcheng for reorganization.

When attacking Rangcheng, he found a brave man. When he asked his name, he turned out to be Liu Zheng, who was from Rangcheng.

Liu Zheng is a general of Lu Wende's department. During this Northern Expedition, he took the initiative to volunteer and fought bravely.

After chatting, Li Yongxuan discovered that Liu Zheng was not only resourceful, but also very good at riding and shooting, and what was even rarer was his strategic vision.

Although Liu Zheng is not very loyal, he is generally not bad.

After a few days of inspection, Li Yongxuan reused Liu Zheng and asked him to form a cavalry.

Since launching the Northern Expedition, Li Yongxuan has successively obtained thousands of war horses, especially in the capture of Nanyang, Dengzhou, where he captured hundreds of war horses at a time.

Wouldn't it be a waste of resources to have so many war horses in hand and not use them?
Li Yongxuan didn't find a suitable general before, so he could only shelve the plan to form a cavalry for the time being.

Now that someone was available, he immediately began to implement the plan and form the cavalry.

In fact, there is one person who is more suitable to be the general of the new cavalry than Liu Zheng, and that is Guo Jing.

Guo Jing is not only proficient in riding and shooting, but also very powerful in martial arts. He has a good wife, Huang Rong, to assist him. As a general, he couldn't be more suitable.

The problem is, Guo Jing is the leader of the martial arts alliance in the Central Plains, and Li Yongxuan is the deputy leader of the martial arts alliance.

Seeing that the Song army had successfully recovered Dengzhou and Tangzhou, Meng Gong led an army to Xiangyang to help out, and at the same time wrote a letter requesting Emperor Song to send troops to recover the Central Plains.

It can be said that the situation is very good at the moment. Dengzhou and Tangzhou have been won here, and they are approaching Luoyang. The eastern front has taken Shouzhou, threatening Bianliang.

As long as they echo each other from a distance, the Mongolian army stationed can be exhausted, and it is not impossible to recover the Central Plains.

Unexpectedly, after much difficulty, when the news came, it was not for Meng Gong to lead his army northward to restore the Central Plains, but for him not to be greedy for meritorious deeds.

To put it bluntly, Emperor Song was worried about the failure of the Northern Expedition, losing troops and losing generals, and even more afraid that Li Yongxuan and Meng Gong would expand their power and threaten the court.

When Meng Gong heard the news, he was disheartened, and because of his illness, he simply submitted a petition to resign.

Emperor Song immediately approved it, and at the same time let Meng Gong retire in the name of the junior division of the school and the military governor of Ningwu Army, and sent his confidants to take over Meng Gong's position.

Immediately afterwards, Emperor Song ordered people to cut off Li Yongxuan's supplies.

He didn't rush to order Li Yongxuan to retreat, he wanted the Mongolian army to consume Li Yongxuan's power.

Li Yongxuan was not surprised by Emperor Song's reaction.

Although there is no support from Song Ting, Li Yongxuan still has a lot of food and grass in his hands, which is completely worthwhile.

To be honest, what Li Yongxuan was afraid of was that Emperor Song sent people to join forces with Mongolia to attack him, and it would be uncomfortable to be caught in the middle.

Of course, if Emperor Song really dared to do this, Li Yongxuan would not mind turning his head and joining Mongolia to destroy the Southern Song Dynasty, and then he would raise troops against Mongolia again.

This is a bit similar to Wu Sangui, whose reputation is definitely not very good, and the difficulty of success is quite high.

Unless it is absolutely necessary, Li Yongxuan will still not choose to take this path.

In the past few days, not only this bad news, Li Yongxuan also received a huge piece of good news.

As the Song Army recently recovered Shouzhou, Dengzhou, and Tangzhou successively, Fan Yongji, the former general of the Northern Army of the Song Dynasty and then in Henanxing Province of Mongolia, betrayed the Mongols and secretly asked Li Yongxuan to surrender.

Although Li Yongxuan had already contacted Wan Yanping with her father's relatives and former ministries, letting them lurk in the two cities of Bianliang and Luoyang, the influence was far less than that of Fan Yongji.

Li Yongxuan did not ask Fan Yongji to rise up immediately, but asked him to make preparations first, and then lead his troops to respond when the Mongolian army attacked Nanyang.

In this way, it not only caught the Mongolian army off guard, provided convenient conditions for Li Yongxuan to defeat them, but also reduced the risk Fan Yongji encountered when he started an incident.

After Fan Yongji got the reply, he was overjoyed and readily agreed.

With Li Yongxuan leading the army to contain the main force of the Mongolian army, Fan Yongji didn't have to worry about being encircled and suppressed by the Mongolian army when he rebelled, which greatly reduced his risk.

Three days later, Chahan and Zhangrou led an army of [-] to Dengzhou.

When they learned that Li Yongxuan led [-] main forces to garrison Nanyang, they did not forcefully attack Nanyang, but planned to go around to the rear to attack Biyang and Rangcheng, trying to cut off the connection between Nanyang and Xiangyang, and let Li Yongxuan's troops become a lone army.

Either go out of the city to start a decisive battle, or sit in the isolated city and wait to die.

As everyone knows, Li Yongxuan transported 120 pieces of artillery and [-] burst guns to Nanyang City, almost sending over half of his belongings.

Seeing that the Mongolian army had no intention of attacking the city, he decided to take the initiative to go out of the city for a decisive battle.

Li Yongxuan was worried that it would take too long, and there would be another change in Song Ting's side, so it would be better to solve it quickly.

Mongolia regards Nanyang as a supply station for attacking Xiangyang. It has been in operation for many years, and the city has high walls and thick walls. If it wants to attack the city, it needs at least 20 horses and horses.

Nanyang is located at the confluence of Meixi River and Baishui River. The waterway is smooth, and the moat built is deep and wide. When the city gate is opened, there is no need to worry about the Mongolian army rushing in in a short time.

Li Yongxuan put [-] spear and shield soldiers in front, followed by [-] musketeers, and [-] cannons lined up at the head of the city.

Seeing that the Song army sent troops to fight, Chahan and Zhang Rou were overjoyed and prepared to fight.

They are even more afraid of delaying time and changing people's minds.

At that time, internal and external troubles will be even more difficult to deal with.

Cha Han and Zhang Rou got the news from the rout, saying that Li Yongxuan had a lot of artillery, which was very powerful, and they captured Nanyang in just two days, and they didn't have time to rescue them.

They did not dare to get too close to the city wall of Nanyang to avoid being attacked by artillery.

First, a team of [-] people was sent to attack and test.

Unexpectedly, the NMG army, which was not within a hundred steps of the Song army, was severely damaged, with heavy casualties.

Of the 1 people, at least [-]% were killed by the guns of the Song army.

Since the improvement of muskets, Li Yongxuan had the soldiers practice six-stage shooting many times.

There are spear and shield soldiers in front as a defense, and [-] musketeers behind them step forward to attack one by one.

The [-] Musketeers dealt with the [-] Mongolian Army with ease, and half of them had no chance to shoot, and the [-] Mongolian Army was completely defeated.

The Mongolian army that attacked this time was mainly infantry, and their speed was very slow. They were completely reduced to the live targets of the Musketeers.

Although the casualties were not very large, the two sides had not formally engaged in a battle, and they suffered more than 3000 casualties, while the Song army had no casualties, which dealt a great blow to the morale of the Mongolian army.

Seeing the tragic death of their companions on the spot, many people were frightened and panicked.

Most of them are Song people or Jin people who surrendered to Mongolia, and there are also a small number of Xixia people, Mongolians and so on.

Chahan and Zhang Rou saw Li Yongxuan's Song army bringing down the Mongolian army row by row with muskets, their eyes were tearing apart, and they were very shocked.

They did not continue to attack, but quickly gathered the defeated soldiers, retreated a few miles, and began to discuss countermeasures with everyone.

Not to mention that the morale of the Mongolian army was greatly frustrated. Even if it was not affected, they would not have much chance of winning in the face of dense muskets.

It didn't take long for the Mongolian army to come up with a countermeasure.

The first one is to send Mongolian iron cavalry to charge forward, take advantage of the relatively low frequency of musket firing, and give full play to the advantage of the fast speed of the horses to approach the enemy, killing the enemy and breaking the formation.

This strategy is good, but the problem is that if you want to get close to the Song army, you have to pay a heavy price, and the Mongols will definitely not be happy.

In the consciousness of the Mongols, it doesn't matter how many people die, as long as they are not Mongols.

The Mongolian iron cavalry galloped across the world, and I don't know how many people were slaughtered.

They don't treat other people as human beings at all, so how could they let the Mongolian cavalry go to death?

The second is to bypass Nanyang City and not attack, and go to Rang City or Biyang.

The third one is to lure the snake out of the hole, pretend to attack Rangcheng and Biyang, and wait for Li Yongxuan to lead the army to rescue, then turn around and fight in the wild.

After discussion and research by everyone, Cha Han and Zhang Rou finally decided to bypass Nanyang City.

If Li Yongxuan goes to the rescue, then they will fight decisively in the wild; if not, then they will take Rangcheng and Biyang, cut off the retreat of Li Yongxuan's army, and turn it into a lone army.

It's a pity that they didn't count Fan Yongji's surrender.

As a result, instead of leading the army to cut off Li Yongxuan's retreat, Cha Han and Zhang Rou had their lair taken away.

Their 10 horses were reduced to bereaved dogs, and they were in a dilemma for a while.

Chahan and Zhang Rou had no time to attack, and were ready to lead the army back to put down Fan Yongji's rebellion.

Li Yongxuan had expected this for a long time. When Chahan and Zhang Rou led their troops south, he led an army of [-] to attack to stop the Mongolian army.

4 people, [-] pikemen, [-] musketeers, nearly [-] artillerymen and [-] cavalry.

Knowing that the Mongolian army had given up their attack and wanted to turn around and go north, Li Yongxuan led the main force to block it, and ordered Liu Zheng to lead the cavalry to harass.

Although there are nearly ten thousand Mongolian iron cavalry, they have nothing to do with Liu Zheng's cavalry.

Liu Zheng never had direct contact with the Mongolian iron cavalry at all, but only harassed the Mongolian infantry from a distance.

He didn't think about defeating the Mongolian army with this cavalry, but just slowed down the speed of the Mongolian army's march and hit the morale of the Mongolian army by the way.

Li Yongxuan didn't dare to leave the city too far, if he was surrounded, his entire army might be wiped out.

He still has a bit of self-knowledge, and he doesn't think that with the 4 horses in his hands, he can compete with the brave Mongolian 10 horses.

Cha Han and Zhang Rou wanted to drag Li Yongxuan's army into the wild and wipe them out, but Li Yongxuan was not fooled at all.

They have to go back as soon as possible to quell Fan Yongji's civil strife, otherwise it will become more chaotic and the situation will get out of hand, how dare they continue to delay?

Knowing that Cha Han and Zhang Rou split up and went to Bianliang one way and Luoyang the other way, Li Yongxuan immediately led his army northward.

Two days later, Li Yongxuan stayed behind with 5000 troops to stay in Nanyang, and personally led the army into Ruzhou.

Junzhou, Xuzhou, Caizhou, and Chenzhou surrendered in anticipation, and the Mongolian army slaughtered and looted wherever they went. Now that Li Yongxuan led his army to the Central Plains, even Fan Yongji betrayed the Mongols, let alone the ordinary common people?
Although Li Yongxuan did not dare to engage in field battles with the Mongolian army, he was not afraid to fight as long as he had a reliance.

Every time he led an army to attack a city, he would avoid the main force of the Mongolian army. As long as the city was successfully captured, even if the main force of the Mongolian army surrounded the city, there was no need to worry.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Yongxuan selected another [-] strong troops to expand his force, bringing the total force to [-].

After a little reorganization, he led an army to attack Bianliang.

Zhang Rou led his army to Bianliang City, but could not enter the city.

He also wanted to persuade Fan Yongji to open the city gate and surrender, but Fan Yongji in turn persuaded Zhang Rou to abandon the dark and turn to the bright.

Zhang Rou refused to listen, and wanted to lead an army to forcibly attack Bianliang City, but received news that Li Yongxuan led 6 horses to Xuzhou.

In order to avoid the enemy, Zhang Rou had no choice but to give up attacking Bianliang, and immediately led his troops to Luoyang to join Chahan.

At this moment, the morale of Zhang Rou's soldiers and horses was low, and people were in panic. There were less than 5 horses, and they were really not sure of defeating Li Yongxuan's [-] troops with high morale, muskets, and artillery.

Once encountered, there is no doubt that you will lose.

(End of this chapter)