Chapter 25 8. Putting up doubts, Emperor Shizu of Yuan Dynasty quelled chaos

After Boyan defeated Heping King Xiliji and rescued the captured Beiping King Namhan and Prime Minister Antong, he was about to take advantage of the victory and pursue him. He suddenly reported that Emperor Kublai Khan had summoned him, and immediately set off to Yanjing to meet Yuan Shizu Kublai Khan. Seeing Boyan, Kublai Khan first praised him, and then said to him worryingly: "The rebellion in Haidu has not subsided yet. According to secret reports, Naiyan, the king of the east, has revealed his rebellion. Wang Lianhe has formed a situation of attacking Lingbei and the company's troops going south. It will be difficult for our general to control the situation in a short period of time. Therefore, on this issue, I want to hear your opinion."

Boyan listened to Shizu Yuan's words, thought for a while, and then asked: "The emperor's kindness to the kings of the East is as great as a mountain, how could Naiyan conspire to launch a rebellion? Is it a rumor, or is there real evidence?" Kublai Khan said: "Naiyan recruited soldiers many times behind my back. I have ordered the provincial official Jari Timur not to send troops without my order. I heard that Naiyan was very strict with my order. Dissatisfied, murmuring, dissatisfied, and from this, he has the heart of rebellion." Boyan said: "That's how it is. Your Majesty, although this is the case, you can't be sure that he will rebel. We can't wrong a good person, and we will never let a bad person go. The current emperor is starting a career, and it is time to employ people, so we should be cautious." That's good. I think it's better to appease him first, observe his words and his actions, and it's best not to fight! If he has decided to rebel, then it's not too late for us to make a decision."

Kublai Khan said: "Then, who do you want to appease?" Boyan replied: "I am willing to do the work of dogs and horses!" Kublai Khan said: "Okay! However, the future of this trip is full of dangers, and I am afraid that my life may be in danger. Aiqing should be cautious, so that you can take care of yourself." Naiyan is the great-grandson of Belgutai, the younger brother of Yuan Taizu Genghis Khan.The fiefdom of Belgutai was the area between the Onan and Kerelun rivers, and Naiyan was hereditary as king.Like other rebel kings, Kublai Khan used the measures of the Han people to promote Han law, which made this person who had always maintained the old living habits and ways of thinking of the Mongolian grassland tribes extremely indignant. It happened that Haidu launched a rebellion. After he lobbied, Naiyan wanted to recruit soldiers to help the rebellious army and betray the court.

After Boyan received the order, he knew that the crime would be more dangerous, so he made careful preparations.He believes that the transportation when he fled back is the key to returning safely.Therefore, he did not bring a brigade of guards, but only brought a few trusted family members, prepared enough gold and silver beads to play with, precious fur and soft clothes, and entered Naiyan's realm.After arriving in the area controlled by Naiyan, Boyan gave these leather robes and jewels to the officials of the post station every time he went to the station. The officials in the post station were very grateful for his kindness, and he made many friends along the way.

Naiyan has made up her mind to turn against him, and she also understands Boyan's reason for coming, so she devises a plan to arrest him at the banquet and get rid of Boyan.The clever Boyan observed Naiyan's plot and discovered Naiyan's plot. Before they had time to do it, he found an excuse and escaped with his followers in three ways.The officials in charge of the inn became his friends because of his benefits. Not only did they not stop him, but they scrambled to dedicate the strong and fast horses to him, so he escaped successfully. When Boyan returned to the court, he immediately reported the situation to Kublai Khan.

"Is there any movement from Naiyan?" Kublai asked. "Naiyan's rebellion has been decided!" Kublai Khan was not surprised, but his expression was dignified, his brows were slightly furrowed, "What is Aiqing's plan to defeat the enemy?" Boyan replied: "I think that if you want to destroy Naiyan, you must first isolate him and prevent him from uniting with the kings of the Western Dao. Therefore, the emperor should send someone who can speak out of the Western Dao to appease the kings of the Western Dao so that they cannot If you have unreasonable thoughts, don't dare to act rashly. Then we can go all out to deal with Naiyan."

"Okay, then send Asha Buhua to the kings of the West Dao, threatening to say that Naiyan has given up the rebellion plan and will surrender to the court. After the kings of the West Dao heard the news that Nai Yan had given up the rebellion, they dared not I had a bad idea." "The emperor is wise!" Ashabuhua comforted the queens of the West Road and reported to Kublai Khan, and Kublai Khan decided to conquer Naiyan himself. On the ninth day of May in the twenty-fourth year of Zhiyuan (1287), Emperor Kublai Khan, who was already 73 years old, rode an elephant chariot in person and entered Daxing'an Mountains with lightning speed.

Naiyan never dreamed that Kublai Khan would gather hundreds of thousands of troops at such a fast speed, let alone that Kublai Khan, who was old and suffering from severe wind disease, would personally conquer. On June 3, Kublai Khan's army rushed to the land of Sartulu (sartulenghuduk, southeast of Hulun Lake), and Naiyan Tongdang Tabutai led 60,000 cavalry from his troops.Subsequently, the rebel generals Huang Hai and Jin Jianu led the rebels to surround the Yuan army aggressively.At that time, it was the flood season in Daxing'an Mountains, and the Yuan army was exhausted from the long-distance raids. In addition, the Yuan army was at a disadvantage in number and lacked food in the army. Therefore, the two armies fought, each winning or losing.

In the imperial tent, Kublai Khan discussed with the generals how to defeat the enemy. Ye Li Mi, the prime minister of the left, said: "Looking at the recent battles, most of our Mongolian soldiers are familiar with the rebels, and they may not be able to fight. According to the art of war, the most important thing is to win by surprise. It is not as many as possible, but as the same enemy. The minister thinks, It is better to activate the Han army and use the Han people's method of commanding the battle, and we will surely win." "Quasi-playing. Order Prime Minister Zuo to lead Li Ting and other Han generals to serve as vanguards. Use Han law to set up a formation, line up the horses, and prepare for battle."

The two armies fought again, and Li Ting arranged his troops in Han and French.There are artillery positions in the front, the Han army formation in the middle, and cavalry on the left and right. Emperor Kublai Khan sat on the big wooden building where the four elephants were guarding, and personally supervised the battle. Suddenly, I saw dust flying and sand rising in front of me. It was Yan Bing who came to swallow the sky and fertile sun like a dike breaking.The left army is Tabutai, the right army is Jin Jianu, and Naiyan leads the middle army by himself. The three-way army is called 100,000.

The two armies faced each other across the river, hundreds of meters apart. Seeing that Naiyan's army hadn't established their position yet, Li Ting ordered the Han army to open fire, and the dense cannonballs flew towards the enemy's formation, instantly smashing the enemy's formation into chaos and bewildered.The enemy cavalry was caught off guard, and the cavalry fell off their horses, and many died, and the corpses were scattered all over the field.When Naiyan commanded to charge, the Mongolian cavalry had already copied up from the two flanks and fought with the enemy. The Han infantry took the opportunity to meet the enemy and fought with the enemy.In an instant, the sky was dark and the earth was shaking.The infantry of the Han army did not suffer at all in close combat with the enemy's cavalry. They used long spears at a distance, and the cavalry had already been picked out by the guns before they came close; Make up for it with a knife.Naiyan saw that it was not good, so he immediately withdrew his troops, retreated more than ten li, and defended according to the dangerous place. On the second day, Kublai Khan wanted to fight again, but Yan Jianbi did not come out.It turned out that he adopted Tabutai's strategy and held on to the danger. He wanted to exhaust the Yuan army's food and grass, so he broke down without attacking.Therefore, Naiyan turned a deaf ear to no matter how the Yuan army called for formation, and just hung up the "free battle card". Seeing that the Naiyan tribe did not go out to fight, and the Yuan army's food was becoming increasingly scarce, Kublai Khan had no choice. Brother Xiangnong Si Tie offered a plan and said: "The enemy's army is in danger and refuses to fight. They want to attack us when our army's food and grass are exhausted, our will is depressed, and our fighting spirit is lost. If we continue to hold on to him, we will hit the right spot. Their trap. It is better to follow the plan, set up a puzzle, disturb the enemy's morale, and make them leave without hope, and then our army will take advantage of the enemy's retreat and annihilate the enemy in motion." Kublai Khan hurriedly asked, "What's Aiqing's plan?" Brother Tie said: "It only needs to be like this." Kublai Khan was overjoyed, and immediately ordered to follow the plan. Although Naiyan stayed behind closed doors and did not fight, he was on the sidelines with the Yuan army, but he was not idle, and was scouting the movements of the Yuan army every day.On this day, Naiyan received a report from a secret agent, saying that Kublai Khan and his ministers were having a big banquet in the tent, and they had nothing to do to drink.The soldiers were also very leisurely, in groups of three or four, playing games and entertaining, as if they were going to be stationed here for a long time and had no intention of leaving at all. After hearing the spy's report, Naiyan murmured in her heart: If this is the case, then our strategy of fortifying the wall to clear the field and dragging down the enemy army will not only fail to drag down the enemy army, but drag down ourselves instead.Now stealing the camp, the Han army's tactics are unique, our army will be scared when we see it, what should we do?Therefore, he immediately summoned Tabutai and others to discuss countermeasures. Tabutai said: "Kublai Khan and the others are so leisurely and at ease. They must have enough food. If we continue to fight with him like this, we will be controlled by him and will be wiped out by him in the end. Why don't we retreat to the old forest now and wait for Kublai Khan to fight?" The squadron has gone back, how about we raise our troops again? As the saying goes, as long as the green hills remain, we don’t have to worry about no firewood. As long as we have the strength, we are not afraid that Kublai Khan will not surrender. Without further ado, our army will quietly retreat tonight Go, guard the dangerous pass, and look for opportunities to fight later." Naiyan was a person without much resourcefulness and opinions. What Tabutai said made sense to him, so he accepted Tabutai's suggestion and ordered the troops to retreat quietly.This happened to Kublai Khan's strategy. Naiyan's soldiers were ordered to retreat, so they naturally had ten thousand wishes in their hearts.They can't wait to grow a pair of wings and fly back now.How did Naiyan know that soldiers who are eager to return home are not easy to control, so why are they willing to fight hard?And this just hit Kublai Khan's trick.All of a sudden, Naiyan's camp was chaotic and disorderly. The hectic situation in the Naiyan barracks had already been reported to Kublai Khan by the scout army.Therefore, Kublai Khan ordered all the ministries to prepare for battle. Once the enemy troops withdrew from the camp, the cavalry would cover up and kill them. The night fell quietly, and under the cover of the night, the Yuan army covered the Naiyan army with a big net of death. The soldiers of Naiyan's army hung up and down, looking like they were moving. Although they were silent, they had no combat effectiveness.They returned home like an arrow, and they were glad that they were far away from the terrible gunfire, and they were able to go back alive to see their wives and children. Just when they were secretly happy, a cannon shot suddenly, and then dense cannon stones fell into the team again, and then there were shouts and killings, like thunder, shaking the sky, the soldiers were terrified, and suddenly became a mess, coaxing And scattered. Li Ting led the Han army forward bravely, and then the Mongolian cavalry led by the Mongolian general Yuxi Timur arrived. The Naiyan army retreated quietly. It's like a tiger in a herd of sheep, only to be slaughtered. The soldiers of the Han army were all brave, picking with spears, slashing with swords, stabbing with swords, and chopping with sabers. Split arrows and shoot.Naiyan soldiers fell off their horses one after another. Although they rushed from left to right, they still couldn't get out of the Yuan army's encirclement. In addition, the night was dark and the horses couldn't see well, so the Naiyan soldiers ran around in the crowd like headless flies. Fleeing to the east, he was blocked by the Han army, and when he ran to the west, he was resisted by the Mongolian army. He was like a bird in a cage, surrounded on all sides, unable to fly.Countless people were killed and shot to death, and there were not a few who were trampled into flesh by horses just because they fell down. In a scuffle, Naiyan's troops suffered heavy casualties.Tabutai was hacked and killed by the Han army, Jin Jianu was trampled into a pulp, Naiyan was at the end of the road, he managed to kill a bloody road, and fled in embarrassment with a few cronies. There are no soldiers to follow.Naiyan raised his head to the sky and howled, with grief from his heart, not wanting the road to be rough and the horses exhausted, he stepped into the mud with his men and horses. Kublai Khan quickly executed Naiyan.Yuxi Timur led the army and turned back to the Harha River to sweep the Hulun Buir Grassland.The Yuan army went up against the Yimi River (now the Yimin River), reaching the Hailaer River in the north, crossing the Harawen Mountain in the east, and entering the Nawu River, that is, the Nen River Basin, and pursued the Naiyan Yu Party.Hadan Tulugan surrendered, rebelled soon after, and then fled to Korea, where he was put down in the 28th year of the Yuan Dynasty. After the Naiyan rebellion was put down, Kublai Khan confiscated the people and property of the rebellious king, and distributed them to others. He also ordered Zhaozhou City to be established in Naiyan's old place, which is today's Zhaoyuan County, Heilongjiang, and the people he led Part of the Mongolian army was placed in Henan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Huguang, and Jiangxi provinces. After this blow, the power of the host kings was greatly weakened, and they finally accepted the restraint of the provinces placed by the imperial court. In this battle, Kublai Khan fought in person with a longevity of more than 70 years, which itself was an encouragement to the soldiers.In combat, he was able to follow his tactics, skillfully set up suspicious formations, caused the enemy's staff to make mistakes, and gave up his advantages. At the same time, he boldly used the Han army to give full play to his advantages in close combat.