Chapter 54 Seven, Northern Expedition!Northern Expedition!

On the ground in Henan, when the regular army of the Yuan Dynasty was beaten to pieces by Liu Futong, some militia armed forces supporting the Yuan Dynasty gradually developed, the most famous of which were the troops of Chahan Timur and Li Siqi. Chahan Timur's ancestors were from Weiwuer. His great-grandfather moved to the Central Plains in the early years of the Yuan Dynasty and settled in Shenqiu, Yingzhou. Chahan Timur himself once visited the Red Army for Shenqiu.Li Siqi was born in Luoshan, Xinyang, and was originally a canon historian of Luoshan County.After Luoshan was occupied by the Red Scarf Army, they organized local heroes to form a "rebel army" to attack and occupy Luoshan City.The government of the Yuan Dynasty greatly praised this, and awarded Chahan Timur as the Daluhuachi of the Runing Prefecture, and Li Siqi as the Zhiruning Prefecture. This armed force quickly became the banner of the nearby anti-red scarf armed forces. Come and meet".This was the military force of the Yuan Dynasty that threatened the Red Turban Army the most in Henan at that time.In the fifteenth year of Zhengzheng, the Yuan Dynasty once again mobilized a large army to surround Liu Futong, using Chahan Timur, Li Siqi, Dashi Batulu and other ministries as mobile forces, preparing to wipe out the Henan Red Turban Army in one fell swoop.

In order to unify the various departments of the Red Scarf Army, Liu Futong welcomed Han Lin'er, the son of Han Shantong, from Dangshan to Bozhou in February of that year, and established him as emperor.And because Han Shantong once called himself "Ming King", Han Lin'er was also called "Little Ming King" to fit the meaning of "Ming King was born".In the Dragon and Phoenix regime, Du Zundao and Sheng Wenyu were the prime ministers, Luo Wensu and Liu Futong were the Pingzhang, and Liu Liu knew the affairs of the Privy Council.Du Zundao was immediately killed by Liu Futong, who has since become the actual leader of the Dragon and Phoenix regime.In terms of base area construction, the Dragon and Phoenix regime successively set up Xingzhongshu provinces, government offices, and county local administrative agencies; on the military side, the Xing Privy Council was gradually established to govern the Marshal’s Office of the Commanding Army, the General Administration Office of the Army, and the Wanhu Mansion of the Army. Upward belongs to the Privy Council.Military positions vary from Marshal of the Commanding Army, General Manager, Ten Thousand Households, Thousand Households to Hundred Households.

After Liu Futong and others established the Dragon and Phoenix regime, they also demolished the Taiqing Palace in Luyi County, transported the building materials to Bozhou, and built a palace for King Xiaoming.Now that Maitreya and Mingzun are in power, we can't blame the Taoists for being unlucky. In June of this year, the Yuan Dynasty took the loss of Batulu as a matter of peace in the Henan Province, and commanded Taibuhua and other princes and feudal generals to attack Liu Futong at a low price.In September, Batulu and Liu Futong fought in Changge, Xuzhou, and the Yuan army was defeated.Answer: Badulu withdraws troops and retreats to Zhongmou. Before he can gain a foothold, he is robbed by Liu Futong's Qingqi cavalry. He is defeated again and loses all his supplies. Even his son Boluo Timur is captured alive by the Red Turban Army.But the victory of the Red Turban Army was not thorough enough. They were subsequently ambushed by Yuan general Liu Harabuhua. Not only did the stolen goods change hands, but they also paid a lot of money. The senior prisoner Polo Timur also took the opportunity to escape—— However, the escape of this prisoner did not seem to be a lucky thing for the Yuan Dynasty.In the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, it was he and Kuo Kuo Timur who fought for power and even fought each other, ruining Can Yuan's last hope.Generally speaking, at this stage, the two sides were attacking and defending each other, and the Red Turban Army had a slight upper hand, but the Yuan Army gradually became more tenacious, sweeping away the initial decadence.

After the defeat of Badulu, Liu Futong immediately sent Zhao Mingyuan to lead the army to capture Songzhou, Ruzhou, and Luoyang, cross the Yellow River from Mengjin, and break through Huaiqing in November, shaking Hebei.The Yuan Dynasty urgently dispatched Chahan Timur to defend the land of Hebei. Zhao Mingyuan was defeated and the whole army was wiped out.In December, after a rest, Batulu fought repeatedly, and marched to attack Bozhou, the capital of the Longfeng regime. Liu Futong was defeated in Taikang, the Yuan army entered Bozhou, and Han Liner moved his capital to Anfeng.In March of the following year, Liu Futong fought with the siege for several months. The Yuan army, which had blunted its vigor, fought a decisive battle under the city of Bozhou.When Badulu fell off his horse, his son Polo Timur helped him onto the horse and went first. After breaking his bow and arrows, he shot and killed many pursuers one after another, and the father and son escaped.The Red Turban Army won a complete victory in this battle, and the remnants of the Yuan Army fled to Chenliu.

After Bozhou was relieved of the siege, Liu Futong rested his troops while planning an attack.In the sixteenth year of Zhengzheng, in September, he sent Li Wu and Cui De to lead the army to the west to attack Shaanxi; in November, he sent Mao Gui to lead the army to attack Shandong.The Eastern Route Army is progressing quite smoothly, opening up territory and winning consecutive battles all the way; the Western Route Army is a little more difficult, but the record is not bad.Encouraged by this, in June of the following year, Liu Futong sent Bai Buxin, Dadao Ao, Li Xixi and other generals to the west to reinforce Li Wu and Cui De; Lead the main force to go northward, attack Hebei and Shanxi, and prepare to attack the confidant of the Yuan Dynasty.

In September of the 16th year of Zhizheng, the troops of Li Wu and Cui De of the West Route Army went out to conquer Shanzhou for the first time.On September 3rd, the West Route Army defeated the Yuan Army, killed Shen Zhizheng Shi Shulujie, and broke through the Tongguan Pass in Shaanxi Province. Since then, the two sides have fought endlessly around Tongguan.On the 5th, the Yuan army counterattacked, and Tongguan changed hands.On the 19th, the West Route Army defeated the general guarding Tongguan in Yuan Dynasty, and Bo Jianu, the political affairs officer of Pingzhang in Henan Province, captured Tongguan again.The king of Yuan Yu, Alatina, attacked again. The Red Turban Army was defeated, and Tongguan was taken by the Yuan Army... The West Route Army went deep alone, unable to fight such a war of attrition, so they returned to attack Shanzhou and Guozhou.The head coach of Henan in the Yuan Dynasty knew the affairs of the Privy Council and restrained the troops in Henan. He answered that Badulu investigated Han Timur and Li Siqi's army to assist Shaanxi in the west, and he planned to eat this lone army.After Chahan Timur and Li Siqi's troops were transferred, the balance of power between Shaanxi and Henan immediately favored the Yuan Dynasty. The Western Route Army, which was at a disadvantage, lost its bases in Shanzhou and Guozhou one after another, crossed the Yellow River north, and captured Pinglu , Anyi, but was attacked by the Chahan Timur army and suffered heavy losses.

In February of the 17th year of Zhengzheng, the rested West Route Army bypassed the main force of the Yuan army and invaded Shaanxi from Wuguan, broke Shangzhou, captured Qipan Mountain, and occupied Lantian. In the eyes.Wang Sicheng, the guardian of Xi'an, organized resistance and asked Chahan Timur and Li Siqi for help.The West Route Army was defeated by Chahan Timur who chased into Tongguan, and Li Wu and Cui De led the army south to Xingyuan (now Hanzhong, Shaanxi).In October of the same year, reinforcements from Bai Buxin, Dadao Ao, and Li Xixi entered Shaanxi and captured Xingyuan and Fengxiang. Chahan Timur and Li Siqi came to attack. The Red Turban Army was defeated again and retreated into Sichuan.Soon after, this red scarf army reentered Shaanxi, attacked Qinzhou and Longzhou to the northwest, occupied Gongchang Road, and returned to surround Fengxiang.In Fengxiang City, Chahan Timur's strategy of internal and external attacks, suffered an unprecedented defeat, beheaded tens of thousands of levels, and lay dead for more than a hundred miles.Li Xixi led the remnants to go south to Wuchang, and took refuge in Chen Youliang; Li Wu and Cui De moved to fight between Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia, and they lasted until May of the 21st year before surrendering to their old enemy Li Siqi.

The Eastern Route Army was one of the main forces of the Northern Expedition of the Red Turban Army, and its commander was Mao Gui.Mao Gui was originally a general under Zhima Li in Xuzhou. In the twelfth year of Zhengzheng, Yuan Xiang Tuotuo led an army to attack Xuzhou. Although Zhima Li escaped, he was captured a month later and was immediately sent to the capital by the joyful local officials.However, when Tuotuo attacked Xuzhou, he fooled the emperor into claiming that he had captured Sesame Plum, so he was very troubled by this real "Sesame Plum" that suddenly appeared.Master Xiang thought about it, and finally ordered him to be dealt with secretly, so Zhima Li came to Xiongzhou, and was killed in a daze.

Zhao Junyong and Peng Da (that is, Lao Peng in the south of Xiaoxian County) broke out and fled to Haozhou, where they were taken in by Guo Zixing, Sun Deya and others.But Mr. Zhao is used to being the eldest brother, and he is not used to being subordinate to others—he caused troubles in Haozhou City, turned against customers, and instead pushed his master Guo Zixing and others aside.Guo Zixing and Peng Da got along well, while Sun Deya and others flattered Zhao Junyong, and the conflict between the two sides deepened day by day.One day, Zhao Junyong even sent someone to arrest Guo Zixing, handed him over to Sun Deya to beat him up, and planned to kill him.Thanks to Guo Zixing's son-in-law who is both wise and brave, he persuaded Peng Da to come forward and snatch Guo Zixing away.This godson-in-law is Zhu Chongba, a trainee monk in the Huangjue Temple in front of him. After he married Guo Zixing's goddaughter, Miss Ma, he became a person of status, so he also had a polite name, "Yuanzhang". .Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhao Jun had no way to work together with this group of people, he had to leave Haozhou with his twenty-four hard-core brothers and stand on the top of the mountain.

After Zhao Junyong and others ate up the food in Haozhou, he had to move him there, and broke through Huai'an Road in the 16th year of Zhizheng.The Dragon and Phoenix regime set up Huai'an and other places to run the Central Secretariat, and Zhao Junyong was used as the provincial seal. Mao Gui, who followed Zhao Jun's use, has since become a member of the Dragon and Phoenix regime.In February of the 17th year of Zhengzheng, Mao Gui was ordered to lead his army to sea from Haizhou, and landed on the Shandong Peninsula by sea boat. He conquered Jiaozhou on the 27th, Kelezhou on March 12, and Yidu, an important town on the 26th. Road, Banyang Road, the momentum is booming.

Seeing that the situation in Shandong was not good, the Yuan Dynasty dispatched Dong Tuanxiao, deputy envoy of the Privy Council of the Jianghuai Bank, as an envoy to comfort Shandong. Together with Bran Xi, a member of the Privy Council, they led an army into Shandong, but were repelled by Mao Gui.At the end of April, Maogui's troops conquered Juzhou and Binzhou, and attacked westward to occupy Jining Road, Dongping Road, Daming Road, Dongchang Road and other places. Tian Feng, the general of the Yuan Dynasty's civilian army defending the Yellow River, also surrendered to Maogui.Mao Gui's army cut off the economic lifeline of the Yuan Dynasty and connected the North-South Grand Canal, which dealt a heavy blow to the Yuan Dynasty economically. The court had no choice but to recruit the rebellious pirate Fang Guozhen, and he was responsible for transporting grain from the south of the Yangtze River by sea. Ship to Haikou in the north to transfer to supply Dadu. By the end of February in the eighteenth year of Zhengzheng, Mao Gui's army captured Jinan and gained a firm foothold in Shandong.The Dragon and Phoenix regime immediately set up Yidu and other offices to run the Zhongshu Province, with Mao Gui as the official seal.Mao Gui was a rare military and political talent in the Dragon and Phoenix regime at that time. Through his painstaking efforts, Shandong became a stable base for the Red Turban Army.After capturing Jinan, Mao Gui continued the Northern Expedition, entered Hebei, and fought against Yuan general Dong Tuanxiao in Nanpi.Dong Tuanxiao was one of the famous generals of the Yuan Dynasty at that time. He made great contributions in the battle with Peng Monk and Xiang Pulue's Red Turban Army in Zhejiang. In this battle, he personally drew his sword to supervise the battle and was stabbed to death by the Red Turban Army.Mao Guijun captured Qingzhou, Cangzhou, Hejian one after another, and occupied Changlu Town.In March, Maogui advanced both by land and water to conquer Jizhou. The striker arrived at the jujube forest and willow forest in today's Tongxian County, Beijing, and killed Da Guozhen, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council of the Yuan Dynasty, only 120 miles away from the capital. Shocked by the Yuan court, Emperor Shun issued an edict to Qin kings everywhere, and some timid officials even suggested moving the capital.However, Mao Gui was at the end of his battle, and the elite Yuan army from Henan rushed over. The two sides fought in Liulin, and the Red Turban Army was at a disadvantage.In addition, the Central Northern Expeditionary Army of Mr. Guan and others failed to arrive for reinforcements, Mao Gui then retreated to Shandong, and the occupied counties and counties in Hebei were recaptured by the Yuan army. Led by Mr. Guan, Potou Pan, Feng Changjiu, Sha Liuer and others, the Central Route Army crossed Taihang Mountain in September of the 17th year of Zhizheng and entered Shanxi.They captured Lingchuan, Gaoping, Luzhou and other places in succession, threatening Jining Road (now Taiyuan).The Yuan Dynasty transferred the Chahan Timur Army from Shaanxi to the east to aid. The Red Turban Army was frustrated in its attack and retreated to the Taihang Mountains to rest.In the spring of the eighteenth year of Zhengzheng, Mao Gui led the Eastern Route Army into Hebei, attracting a large number of Yuan army northern aid.The pressure on the Central Route Army dropped sharply, and they also took the opportunity to divide their troops to attack Jiangzhou, Qinzhou, Jining, Datong and other places. Most of the suburbs were blocked and had to return to Shandong. After Mao Gui withdrew, all Yuan armies in the north immediately entered Jin to attack the Central Route Army.On May 1st, Chahan Timur sent troops to capture Jining; on May 8th, Guan Bao defeated the Red Scarf Army in Gaoping; on June 13th, Mr. Guan and Potou Pan captured Liaozhou.Hulin Chi led the army to attack, Mr. Guan waited to go west, and then conquered Jining Road; in September, Mr. Guan attacked Baoding Road, but failed, so he broke through Wanxian in the west.In view of the fact that it was no longer possible to join forces with the Eastern Route Army, Mr. Guan and others decided to attack Datong and Xinghe in the north and march beyond the Great Wall.In October, the Central Route Army broke through Datong. On December 9, they conquered Kaiping City, the upper capital of the Yuan Dynasty, and burned down the magnificent palace there. Shangducheng was the political center of the Yuan Dynasty outside the Great Wall, and the emperor spent half a year here to escape the summer heat and work there every year.The fall of Shangdu was a severe blow to the Yuan Dynasty, and everyone questioned whether the dynasty could continue to exist.The departure of the Red Turban Army also aroused the response of the Mongolian Wanggu tribe. Yuan Zhao Wang Mazhahan was so surprised that he fled in disguise. The Central Route Army stayed in Shangdu for seven days, turned eastward, broke through Quanning Road, and burned Yuanlu Palace.On the 13th day of the first month of the 19th year of Zhengzheng, Liaoyang Road, the capital of Liaoyang Province in the Yuan Dynasty, was captured and Lu Zhen, the general manager of Yizhou Road, was killed.Yuanzuo Prime Minister Taiping thought through research that the red scarf army marched thousands of miles north and did not occupy the city. This time the capture of Liaoyang would inevitably give up soon, so he suggested to Emperor Shun to send his son Yehudu as the commander-in-chief General, led the army to attack Liaoyang, thinking that he could get a big deal.But when they arrived in Liaoyang, they found that Mr. Guan and Potou Pan and his gang were "war horses of Japanese rule"-in modern terminology, they inspected tanks every day-apparently they didn't want to leave for a while.Seeing this gang of vicious guys, he suddenly became frightened, and his army collapsed without a fight.