At the end of October of the second year of Zhenyou, the war in Shandong and other places had just come to an end. Dadingfu in Beijing has been stable for half a year.
On this day, Mu Huali and his Nake children came out of the official office next to Zhuxia Gate in the south of the city and went straight to Yangde Gate in the inner city of Dading Prefecture.
Wherever he and his men passed, residents on both sides of the road fell to their knees and buried their foreheads deeply in the muddy ground.
This scene is like riding a horse on the grassland and seeing the strong wind blowing the tall grass. Even the depressed and timid expressions of these people are no different from the dejected slaves on the grassland.
However, these residents knelt on both sides of the road, which prevented the horses from galloping. The pile of buildings behind them, as well as the stone towers and wooden towers standing behind the buildings, fell into Mu Huali's sight, as if wild dogs had bitten the skyline, and made Mu Huali feel very uncomfortable. .
It has been less than half a year since he led his troops to Beijing Road, but Mu Huali is still not accustomed to the cities of Han Dynasty. These layers of artificial creations are too abrupt in the eyes of a Mongolian.
Previously, Shi Mo also built a luxurious mansion for Mu Huali in Dading Mansion, Beijing. Only two days after Mu Huali settled in, he mobilized his troops to demolish the entire building, and the large open space behind Yangde Gate was Set up a truly comfortable felt tent.
Later, Mu Huali rarely even went in and out of the city, and moved to the Xia Bo Palace of Emperor Liao at the foot of Qijin Mountain in the north of the city. Although that area is barren and full of ruins, the pines are long and the wild grass is plentiful for livestock. The scenery is like the depths of the prairie.
There, Mu Huali seemed to see the endless green grassland. The scenery was so beautiful that it was intoxicating, as if he was drinking wine; those mountainous, hilly areas and dense woodlands were also the same as those on the grassland. Those trees have grown for a thousand or ten thousand years, and are tall and dense. The breeze blows over, bringing the unique and vibrant atmosphere of the forest.
Only the Gobi and desert are missing. Sometimes when Mu Huali dreams, he will think of the impact of loneliness and grandeur, which will make people roar loudly and run around, wanting to see what is at the end of the endless horizon.
However, since I have been ordered to stay in the territory of Jin people for a long time, even if I am not used to it, I can only overcome it slowly.
After the Mongolian army took control of Dadingfu in Beijing and more than 30 surrounding cities, they actually faced an extremely severe external situation. Its west side directly faces Daxing Prefecture, the central capital of the Jin Kingdom, while its east side faces the Jurchens' hometown of Baishan and Heishui.
The enemies on both sides are only more than 600 miles apart from each other, but the line of contact with the Mongolian army stretches for more than 2,000 miles.
It is not easy for Muhuali to maintain deterrence and control in such a vast area. What's more, the troops of Wutouxia tribe are not enough.
Although Genghis Khan directly assigned them, the Uluru, Mangwu, and Yiqili tribes together only produced more than 3,000 people. The Hongji tribe tried their best, but several thousand families of this tribe had gone deep into the interior of the Jin Dynasty and had suffered a huge defeat in Shandong. They suffered a lot of losses, so the number of troops currently dispatched was only a little over 2,000.
Mu Huali originally thought that relying on these five or six thousand men would not be able to control the huge Beijing Road for a long time, and Genghis Khan would definitely need to send another army from the plateau to succeed him.
But he did not expect that the Jurchens on the east and west sides did not launch a strong counterattack. The Jin army in Liaoyang Prefecture and Guangning Prefecture was more fierce. Their kidnapping horses and Qingqi occasionally fought with the Mongolian army on the border.
As for the Jin army on the other side of Zhongdu, it would be easy to just run away. One time, Bo Lu, the son of Mu Huali, led a centurion sentinel. The Jin army did not dare to stop him along the way, but he unexpectedly rushed to the gate of Zhongdu City in one breath!
Therefore, Mu Huali sent a message to the grassland, asking Genghis Khan to rest assured that he would be stationed on Beijing Road without any courtesy.
He can be regarded as an arm of Genghis Khan, and he is an extremely smart person. Once you stay for a long time, you will have the experience of staying there for a long time.
Even though the Mongolian rule was extremely ferocious and they frequently massacred cities and annihilated people, this was always the case with the rise of powerful northern tribes in every generation. In the eyes of countless soldiers and civilians on Beijing Road, it was nothing more than a repeat of the old story of the Jurchens replacing the Khitans. Therefore, as long as the Mongols gave them a way to survive, they were very willing to obey.
At least, the people in Dading Mansion in Beijing and the surrounding areas have now adjusted their emotions and slowly returned to normal life from the ruins and piles of dead people.
The number of these common people is a bit larger, the distribution is a bit denser, and the customs are also a bit different from Mongolia, but how can the shepherds be afraid of too many sheep or that the sheep are disobedient?
As long as there are enough shepherd dogs and the whip is strong enough, any difficulty can be overcome, and Muhuali can get a steady stream of benefits from the sheep.
So in the past two months, Mu Huali suppressed his temper and slowly sorted out the political affairs of the entire Beijing Road, paying special attention to the soft methods of differentiation and win-win, rather than simply killing.
He successively promoted Khitan Shi Moyexian, Han Chinese Zhang Jing, Zhang Zhi, Shi Tianying and others. According to Han's custom, he awarded them the positions of censor, prince, marshal, general and so on, allowing them to serve as Mongolians. A human shepherd dog, to manage the sheep well.
Shepherd dogs generally work hard.
For example, Shi Mo also had civil and military talents and could take charge of one side, so Mu Huali made him the imperial censor and the governor of Xingzhong. He also led Daru Huachi in Beijing and commanded ten governors in Dading Prefecture, totaling one The Han army of 16,000 people.
There were several Zhang Jing brothers and they were very effective in managing the Jinzhou area, so Mu Huali asked him to recruit troops in Jin and Zong. Zhang Jing quickly formed an army composed mainly of Han and Bohai people, with a strength of more than 12,000. Because black flags were mostly used, the army was called the Black Army.
Shi Tianying was originally Zhang Jing's subordinate. Because his riding and shooting skills were similar to those of the Mongols, he was suddenly promoted by Mu Huali. More importantly, Shi Tianying is very good at making various siege equipment.
Just now, Mu Huali went to the military camp in the south of the city and saw the facilities such as battering rams, ladder trucks, and arrow towers built by Shi Tianying. He also asked him to demonstrate on the spot how to use these tools to break through city walls and moats.
These instruments are all huge. The wooden wheels of some ladder trucks are higher than an adult. The wooden ladders for people to climb are four to five feet long. The entire vehicle requires hundreds of people to push it.
This huge structure itself was vaguely exquisite, which shocked Mu Huali, who had never seen siege equipment before.
Surprised, he immediately issued three orders.
The first is to quickly recruit craftsmen within Beijing Road. Not only blacksmiths, but also carpenters who have not been taken seriously before, must also be collected for unified management.
Article 2: Shi Tianying was given the hereditary official position of a hundred households in the Han army on the spot, and he was asked to follow the Mongolian generals to seize Hulancheli and build these facilities as soon as possible regardless of the cost.
Finally, he sent another Nake'er to compile a libretto about everything he saw today, and immediately returned to the grassland. He wanted Nan Ke'er to tell Genghis Khan that the iron-like Zhongdu City was no longer an obstacle, and the loyal Mu Huali had found a way to destroy it.
After the order was decided, he left the military camp and prepared to return to his big tent at Yangde Gate.
But just as he was galloping, he suddenly saw something out of the corner of his eyes.
He suddenly reined in his horse and stood in the middle of the street.
His younger brother, Mongolian Qianhu, came up and said, "Brother, what's wrong?"
"There!"
Muhuali raised his whip and pointed: "Someone looked at us in that direction and looked wrong. They looked at us as enemies, just like when we crossed the Buheidu Erma River, the Naiman tribe's people were upstream. Look at us the same way."
Buhe held down the scimitar at his waist: "I'm going to kill them!"
The expressions of several officials who followed Mu Huali changed suddenly, and some shed tears instantly, but they did not dare to speak anyway.
Mu Huali nodded calmly.
"From here, to there." He continued to point with his whip: "Kill these two people from Lifang."
