Zhao Bing coaxed and Meng finally solved the scholars. At the court meeting in the fourth year of Xiangxing, he announced the implementation of a policy of equal civil and military ranks, and required that the provincial examination be organized immediately after the first month to prepare for the opening of the subject. He finally agreed to hold a spring lecture for the ceremony.

After the New Year, the Minister of War Jiang Xu requested to open a naval army training camp on Puhaitian Island, Haikou to train grassroots officers and non-commissioned officers of the navy; and requested to draw grassroots officers from each division into the new military camp for rotation training, learn the new regulations, and build a new recruit training base in Yashan. Xu Zongren of the Ministry of Rites requested to hold a provincial examination in various prefectures on February 15, a prefecture in May, and a ministry examination in October. Everyone is so motivated, Zhao Bing and the Secretariat's Provincial Hall to discuss, and they all agreed to prepare immediately.

Lu Xiufu and Wen Tianxiang jointly requested to report that some unemployed scholars would be added to the army as staff and clerks. Zhao Bing of course knew the two of them that they wanted to use this opportunity to infiltrate the army so that they could master military affairs. He was reluctant to add some intellectuals to the army, so of course he could take the initiative. But there was also an additional condition, that is, these scholars must enter the New Army training camp to pass six months of basic training and receive six months of military professional training, and only then can they pass the exam can be joined.

It was March after dealing with these matters. Zhao Bing held several discussions on this year's policy. He thought that the war this year would calm down. Xingchao should seize this rare opportunity to consolidate the foundation, strengthen agricultural production, and strive for self-sufficiency in food. In addition, it increased its efforts to attract mainland and foreign merchants to trade in Qiongzhou and increase tariff income. In addition, it was necessary to expand military production, especially the production of firearms, so as to ensure the need for military replacement.

After several revisions, the square formation was finally confirmed, but everyone was still worried. Who can guarantee that the Tartars would not invade Qiongzhou again? However, Zhao Bing was indeed full of confidence. He knew that Kublai Khan would not have a good life this year. If he did not take the initiative to raise trouble, there would not be a major war within three years, which would allow him to obtain a rare period of development and layout.

At present, Chen Diaoyan's mountain village had already broken through fifteen villages with heavy encirclement and suppression of the Yuan army and Huang Hua's cooperation, killing and injuring more than 20,000 people, forcing them to shrink their defense and turn to the mountains to defend, but there were still 100,000 troops. The Yuan army gradually narrowed the encirclement and continued to work hard to clear it out. However, Zhao Bing knew that it was not easy for the Yuan army to win a complete victory, and it could at least restrain them for two or three years. At that time, he had already established a solid base in the Fujian-Guangzhou area.

In addition, in order to relieve the pressure in Qiongzhou, Zhao Bing used Liu Mengyan to implement the counter-espionage plan to use Liu Mengyan to attack Zhancheng. Last year, Sodu and Liu Shen were ordered to attack Zhancheng. It can be said that the two fights were quite smooth at the beginning. Facing the 200,000 troops of Chameng, Sou was not afraid of the huge gap in strength between the two sides. He personally led a suicide squad to fight and rush, and soon defeated the Chameng Army and killed more than 50,000 soldiers. The two armies fought again at Dalang Lake, and the Chameng Army was defeated again, beheading 60,000, and suffered heavy damage. The Yuan army took advantage of the victory to capture the Buddha's capital.

The royal family of Chameng fled into the deep mountains and dense forests of the Xiyuan area and launched mountain guerrilla warfare based on favorable mountainous terrain. Sodu was repeatedly plotted by the delayed military plan of Chameng. He suffered losses and encountered walls when fighting in the mountains and forests, and had to retreat to the harbor. Although the war was not going well, Sodu and Liu Zheng still followed Kublai Khan's instructions to build Foshi into a base for further operating overseas countries. Later, Sodu was ordered to be the governor of Chameng, so he built a wooden camp as the garrison in Chameng province, and asked soldiers to farm and solve the supply of military rations, and prepared to operate here for a long time.

Champa and Vietnam were originally a feud, but when they faced the military threat from the Mongolian Yuan, Zhan and Vietnam temporarily turned their enemies into friends and showed some intention to form an alliance to resist the Yuan Dynasty. The two sides held a high-level meeting to discuss how to deal with the increasingly severe Vietnam-Yuan relations, "discuss the key points of attack and defense", the Chen Dynasty ruler and minister made a decision and secretly sent 200 military ships to Champa to support its anti-Yuan struggle. The two nations had to fight together when facing the crisis of invasion of the Yuan Empire.

Kublai Khan soon learned that the Zhan people refused to surrender, and he heard that the two countries had a very hot secret communication, so he sent Ezhou Road Daluhuachi Zhao to Annan and "instructed Annan to fake roads to help the army provide food" on the grounds that the Yuan army went to Chameng City. Chen Shanghuang made a statement that the country was a small country and the people were poor and the food was insufficient, and he only agreed to provide a small amount of food supply in Yong'an Prefecture on the border.

At this time, the Song army in the north "retreats", and King Zhennan was defeated. Although Ali Hague was punished for him, he was still in danger of losing favor. In order to show his ability, he took the initiative to go to the expedition to Annan and obtained Kublai Khan's approval. Just when he was mobilizing his troops, he was discovered by Annan's spies. With the war about to break out, the Shenglong court stepped up the implementation of two-sided methods. In August, Chen Guojun gathered various Chen royal army troops to parade at the East Butou, and decided to divide his troops to guard all places. In November, the Shanghuang Emperor Chen Shengzong sent doctors Chen Fu and Chen Jun to the province of Jinghu Chameng, requesting a slack army, but the Yuan Dynasty officials refused.

In December, Chen Fu returned to Hanoi and reported to the Chen monarch that the Yuan Dynasty King Zhennan and others pretended to conquer Champa and were determined to cross the border. The Chen family sent two groups of envoys again, including Duan Yan and Li Gui, who went directly to Beijing to pay tribute, argued in person to Yuan Shizu, begging the Yuan court to protect Vietnamese creatures from being damaged, but at this time Huantuo led his army and was unrestrained. Duan Yan and Li Gui were instead convicted in Dadu.

The Yuan army divided into two teams to advance towards the Vietnamese border. On the west side, the Yuan army was led by Wanhu Bolohadaer and others, pointing to the direction of Qiujiling; on the east side, the Yuan army was the main force, with Wanhu Li Bangxian as the vanguard, and King Tuohuan of Zhennan personally led the rear army and pointed to the direction of Keli Pass. Until now, the Yuan army had been under the guise of crossing Vietnam to fight against Zhan Po, and it was impossible to determine whether the Chen Dynasty would resist the "official army".

However, Huantuo quickly understood that the Yuan army was attacked by the Vietnamese army everywhere, so they could only forcefully seize the road and pass by force. The second war between the Yuan Dynasty and the Great Yue Empire broke out. Tuohuan was furious and immediately led his army to attack the Red River defense line. On the ninth day of the first lunar month, the Yuan Dynasty and the Vietnamese army launched a fierce battle across the Red River. After the Red River defense line was broken, Shenglong City had no danger to defend. Fortunately, the King of Annan was prepared for this. With the escape experience accumulated in the first anti-Mongolia War, the father and the two quickly moved, quickly withdrew the court, warehouse, and people in the capital, leaving an empty city to the invaders, and at the same time changed their tactics to fight guerrilla warfare with the Yuan army.

Although the Yuan army defeated the Yue army several times and captured Hanoi, the overall situation of the war was not optimistic. Since the Mongolian and Yuan army destroyed the Song war, the number of Han soldiers and generals in the army has increased, far exceeding the Mongolian soldiers and becoming the main force of the Yuan army. The Han army has always attached importance to supply and relied on food and fodder in combat. This time, the Yuan army entered Yue, and could only change the way of driving straight in the past. They could only take the method of step by step to stabilize the rear, from Yongping to Hanoi, set up military camps, post stations, and sent troops to garrison.

However, this approach increased the contradiction between concentration and dispersion of the Yuan army and limited the combat characteristics of the Yuan army's rapid maneuver. Although the Yuan army defeated the heavy troops of the Yue army twice in Wanjie and Honghe, they were both defeated rather than annihilation wars. Most of the Vietnamese soldiers escaped from the battlefield. These defeated soldiers gathered again and soon became a huge threat to the Yuan army.

Huantuo and the generals believed that the war must be strengthened and forced the Chen court to submit. It would be best if the Chen monarch was captured, so that the war would end smoothly. So Tuohuan ordered Wanhu Bolohadaer to lead the water infantry army, the left chief Li Heng, Wumaer and others to lead the navy to chase the fleeing King Chen. At the same time, he sent an order to Pingzhang Nasuladin, Yunnan, and ordered him to command his troops to join the Vietnamese war. He also notified the Dada in Zhanpo to station in Sodu to drive troops north and south, planning to launch a north-south attack on the Chen court...

Although Zhao Bing failed to grasp the details, he still learned the situation of the war between the two sides through the Affairs Bureau. Many of them were brought back by the military and civilians who fled to Cham City with Chen Yizhong. It was not easy for them to live in Cham City. Although they helped them resist the invasion of the Yuan army and made sacrifices, they were still regarded as inferior people and cannon fodder by the Cham City people. Seeing that Cham City was retreating step by step, they also realized that Cham City could not stay, so many people managed to arrive in Qiongzhou.

Zhao Bing did not settle the accounts after the fall, but properly arranged the people. Of course, if you want to become an official, you have to go through the test. But from the news that Sodu went north, he knew that this had become a key point in the turning point of the war. Zhao Bing thought that the strategy of the Yuan army was still right before this, and the Yuan army always maintained the initiative in the war. Whether it was seeking to annihilate the main force of the enemy or intending to capture the two emperors of the Chen family, it was consistent with the quick battle and beheading tactics in modern warfare.

However, the Yuan army still underestimated the role of guerrilla warfare. The helpless Chen Dynasty seemed to be familiar with the various escape techniques from the emperor to the soldiers. Once the war was unfavorable, they either rushed into the vast forest, hid in dangerous mountains with complex terrain, or floated into the sea. The Mongols had never seen such a tactic, just like a furious lion, looking around, but unable to find a target, and fell into the same dilemma as the American emperor, especially under the conditions of underdeveloped technology in ancient times.

In addition, the Yuan army was trapped in the food shortage that was trapped by it. Although the Yuan army intentionally set up a special line for grain transport from Yongping to Shenglong, due to poor access and failure of turnover, coupled with the attack and destruction of guerrillas, the supply line was paralyzed. From the mountainous areas to the plains, from the Honghe Plain to the Qinghua-Yi'an area, solid walls and clearing the fields everywhere, cutting off the source of the enemy's robbery of grain and falling into internal and external difficulties.

The joy is still too tender. I just want to conquer Cham and Annan as soon as possible, but I don’t consider climate matters. After April, I will enter the humid and hot rainy season, and the Mongols feel so hot that they can’t stand the heat in Beijing. They have to go to Helin to escape the summer heat. I want to fight in this breathless sauna sky. The harsh environment will always consume their fighting will. In addition, they have to face the strange rainforest environment, mosquitoes, poisonous snakes, and humid and hot miasma will kill them at any time.

Therefore, Zhao Bing concluded that it was a great blessing for those who Huantuo to walk out of Annan alive, and the complete victory was purely a luxury. However, Zhao Bing hoped that they would continue to fight endlessly, because this war was a bottomless pit. Thinking about the money of the US was exhausted, and the fiscal deficit soared, he had to take the initiative to withdraw from Vietnam. The Mongols are no longer as glorious as before, and Kublai Khan is also worried about money.

How could Zhao Bing know? Of course, in addition to his large-scale trafficking of smuggling smelting salt and manufacturing counterfeit currency to disrupt the economic order in Jiangnan, there was also a news that made him sure that Kublai Khan was short of money. Since the New Year, news has been heard that Kublai Khan issued an edict to build thousands of warships in the Goryeo, Ganzhou, Quanzhou and other shipyards, and recruited a large number of new Jiangnan affiliated troops. The troops were recruited from all over China, Mongolia and Goryeo to receive landing combat training, and the expeditionary troops' food and fodder supply was also continuously collected from all over the country. At the same time, the shipyards on the southeast coast of Goryeo and China also worked day and night to build large and large warships and troop transport ships.

After hearing the news, the ministers in the court were worried that Kublai Khan would conquer Qiongzhou again. The reason was obvious that there was no overseas place except Qiongzhou. In the past two years, they died and injured in the conquer Qiongzhou. With his character, he would definitely send troops to retaliate and destroy them quickly. Zhao Bing was not in a hurry because he calculated the time. Kublai Khan made a large-scale warship to attack Japan again. Although he has changed the direction of history, he still firmly believes that it is not for him. There are two reasons:

First, Kublai Khan insisted on controlling Japan in order to show that he was the ruler of the world and was majestic all over the world. After the first war of invasion of Japan ended, he believed that the Japanese had learned the power of the Mongols, so he sent envoys to Japan again to demand surrender, but the Japanese simply beheaded the Mongolian envoys. Kublai Khan naturally would not swallow his anger. After pacifying Jiangnan, he began to prepare for a second sea invasion.

Second, Kublai Khan had many more practical considerations. Although the Mongolian Khan was rich in the world, because of the strong demand for luxury goods by the Mongolian nobles and the Mongols' poor financial management, the Mongolian Empire's finances were often short of money. The two Khans before Kublai Khan Guiyou and Mengge were both known for their excessive squandering. They mainly paid for luxury goods with precious metals, and even mortgaged some of the debts that were owed to the future spoils.

Kublai Khan and Alibuge fought fiercely for the Khan throne for four years. The civil war between the Mongols was unprofitable, which naturally worsened the financial situation of the Mongol Empire. Japan has been the largest silver producer and exporter in the world for hundreds of years. This wealthy island country is undoubtedly a piece of fat in the eyes of the Mongolian nobles who urgently need hard currency. The land of Qiongzhou has always been known for its barbarism, and it is so poor that it is not beneficial to him.
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