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Chapter 53 Kublai Khan's Personal Expedition

Wu Guo's swift and decisive offensive, like a thunderbolt sweeping away fallen leaves, left Yuan Meng with no time to react.

When Kublai Khan learned that the 100,000 Mongol troops he had gathered outside Xiangyang had been completely annihilated by the Wu Kingdom's army...

He was nearly sixty years old when he was so shocked that he almost passed out.

Because very few Yuan soldiers escaped during the battles around Xiangyang.

Even now, Kublai Khan still doesn't understand the details of that battle.

During this period, he was trying to win the loyalty of Möngke's subordinates after his death.

Unexpectedly, before he could even recruit anyone, the Han Chinese court was the first to send him this great gift.

Although Mongolia was still powerful at this time, it had been divided into five major regions: the four Khanates and the Yuan Dynasty.

Apart from Ilhan.

The other khanates simply didn't respect Kublai Khan.

They even continued to provoke Kublai Khan in the northwest, trying to hinder him.

The loss of 100,000 elite troops in Xiangyang dealt a severe blow to Kublai Khan's foundation.

Most importantly, the three armies of the Wu Kingdom marched north together and recovered large swathes of territory occupied by the Yuan Dynasty.

Even Chengdu, a strategically important location for southward expansion, was lost.

Grassland tribes were not good at farming or forging.

In recent years, during the wars with the Song Dynasty, most of the war supplies actually came from Han territory.

Even among his troops, Han Chinese swordsmen made up a large proportion.

Now that large swathes of Han territory have been gained and then lost, the Yuan-Mongol war potential has been greatly weakened.

Kublai Khan, as a great ruler, naturally understood this even better.

So almost immediately after receiving the news, he began to conscript a second army to march south.

The Ilkhanate, which was on Kublai Khan's side, also sent a large number of reinforcements after receiving the news.

However, the majority of Kublai Khan's army consisted of Jurchen, Goryeo, and Han Chinese servants.

In just a month and a half, Kublai Khan had once again assembled an army of 150,000.

Among them was the Ilhan State, and his 50,000 elite Mongol light and heavy cavalry.

Mongolians are known as a people on horseback, growing up on horseback from childhood.

Archery and horsemanship are trained from childhood to adulthood, and every Mongol is an elite cavalryman who can fight as soon as he mounts his horse.

Nearly 50,000 elite Mongol troops, in a normal field battle...

They relied on kite tactics and heavy cavalry charges.

They could defeat even enemy soldiers who outnumbered them several times over.

This time, to ensure everything went smoothly, Kublai Khan even personally took command.

At fifty-seven years old, he was no longer as brave and skilled in battle as he once was.

But as the saying goes, old age makes one stronger.

Now, having been tempered and victorious in countless battles, the army under his command has long since become a formidable force.

That was the confidence and faith that an army developed after thousands of victories.

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When the Mongol Yuan dynasty wanted to attack Wuguo, Chengdu was always the first stronghold they had to conquer because of the Yangtze River.

In the past, perhaps we would have avoided the enemy's sharp edge.

However, after accepting the surrender and annexing the rebels, the Wu Kingdom now has a main force of over 200,000 troops.

Therefore, Mo Fei may be planning a positional war with Yuan Meng this time. Since Wu Kingdom is on the defensive, Mo Fei naturally cannot concentrate all its forces in one place.

Therefore, after discussing with the generals...

Could it be that Xue Gang has been ordered to lead an army of 100,000 to defend the Yangtze River region?

Mo Fei personally took command, appointing two veteran generals who had fought against the Mongols, Lü Wenhuan and Liu Zheng, as his deputies, leading 100,000 elite troops of the Wu Kingdom to garrison Chengdu.

The mountainous terrain of Sichuan makes roads difficult to traverse, which is an advantage for the defenders.

However, the Yuan Mongols had already breached Chengdu several times, leaving the city's defenses and supplies in a very dilapidated state, which greatly increased the difficulty of defending the city.

And Mo Fei, who possessed the secret weapon, didn't intend to stay cooped up in the city forever.

To completely dissuade the Yuan Mongols from their invasion plans...

The only way to achieve Mo Fei's goal is to defeat him once and for all his elite troops.

So he ordered the construction of two auxiliary camps outside Chengdu, forming a triangle with Chengdu to mutually protect and defend the city.

Under Mo Fei's instructions, the camp was built in two sections: an inner camp and an outer camp, with the roads within the camp arranged in an S-shape.

To ensure victory in this battle, Mo Fei mobilized the entire army, erecting countless arrow towers and high platforms within the camp.

When Kublai Khan arrived in Chengdu with his army.

They saw the Wu Kingdom army, which was already ready for battle, and two auxiliary battalions armed like hedgehogs.

For a time, they found it extremely difficult to handle.

"Bayan! How do you think we should fight this battle?"

Kublai Khan turned to a Mongol general with a bushy beard who was sitting below him in the tent and asked him for advice:

Kublai Khan had two generals with outstanding military achievements, named Uriyangqatai and Bayan.

Since Uriyangkhadai passed away two years ago.

Kublai Khan then relied even more heavily on Bayan, who was now in his prime.

Bayan was the grandson of Ara, a founding hero of the Mongol Empire, and the son of Xiaogutai.

Born in the Ilkhanate. Known for his profound insight and keen judgment.

If Mo Fei hadn't appeared, Lin'an, the capital of the Song Dynasty, would have been captured by him, and the emperor and empress dowager of the Song Dynasty would have been captured again.

"Great Khan! The newly established emperor of the Han dynasty is truly extraordinary."

Compared to the weak and incompetent Song dynasty of the past, they are utterly incomparable.

"Judging from his arrangements this time, he clearly intends to fight us head-on."

Given the character of the Han people, his subordinates believed that he must have something to rely on.

Therefore, I suggest that our army first launch a probing attack, and then formulate a targeted strategy after ascertaining the enemy's situation.

Kublai Khan greatly approved of Bayan's suggestions.

He then ordered one of his ten thousand men to go ahead to Chengdu and launch a probing attack.

As the powerful drumbeats of the march began.

Nearly three thousand Yuan-Mongol light cavalry were the first to launch probing shots at the camp south of Chengdu.

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