Chapter 476: Civil War in the Yuan Dynasty

In ancient times,

Once the army fell into a rout, it was almost irreversible. ‘

Even the battle-hardened Yuan army soldiers could not reverse the decline.

As the saying goes, to escape, you only need to run faster than your companions.

In order to survive, the weapons and armor abandoned by the Yuan army along the way were scattered all over the ground, just like their broken faith and dignity.

At the same time.

Yue Fei, who had been the commander of the Beiwei Army in a daze, began to lead the people to pursue the Yuan army.

He knew very well the intention of His Royal Highness the King of Tang, which was nothing more than to let the Yuan army die as much as possible during the escape.

After all, although the Yuan army was defeated, the main force did not lose much, and there were still more than 300,000 people, which was still a force that could not be ignored.

Of course.

Only Lin Chen knew in his heart that the new empire of the Great Yuan Dynasty was no longer a climate.

This was also the reason why he did not personally pursue the fleeing Yuan army.

Once the news of Kublai Khan's death was passed back to the grassland, there was no need for him to continue to lead the army to the north, and the entire grassland would be caught in a power struggle.

After all, there are still many descendants of the Golden Family.

Among them, there are even direct descendants of Temujin, who have long been dissatisfied with Kublai Khan's rule.

But Kublai Khan is so powerful that they can only endure it.

But now that he is dead, do we still need to be afraid?

It is conceivable that

the descendants of the grassland Golden Family will fight to the death for the position of Khan.

Although the Yuan Dynasty, which holds the Sixteen Prefectures of Youzhou and Datong Prefecture, is still strong, its future is not optimistic under the attack of internal and external troubles.

According to the original history.

Most of Kublai Khan's sons are now adults.

The eldest son died early, and the second son Zhenjin was made the prince early.

Among Kublai Khan's descendants, Zhenjin is the most advocating sinicization and has close relations with Han ministers such as Wang Wentong.

It seems that Zhenjin will have no problem succeeding the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty after Kublai Khan's death.

However.

Kublai Khan's other sons are not easy to deal with.

Although Zhenjin was made the crown prince, Kublai Khan's accidental death this time could not guarantee that there would not be people with second thoughts.

Therefore, the Yuan Dynasty will not pose much threat to Lin Chen in the short term.

It can be said that now is the best time for him to consolidate the results of the Northern Expedition.

At the same time.

The battle under Bianliang City spread all over the world!

Everyone in Yanyun was shocked, while people in Lin'an were ecstatic!

For the southern Han people who were used to unfavorable wars, the record of the King of Tang was really like the reincarnation of a military god!

Who would have thought that he would even kill the leader of the Tartars!

Therefore, the Yuan army from various prefectures in the northwest of Beijing had no intention of fighting.

The Mongolian nobles led their own soldiers and fled north by all means.

Only the Han lords in the north had second thoughts.

Now that the Tang army is powerful, why not make good use of the King of Tang?

But these Han lords may have made a mistake.

They were beaten dizzy by the left-wing army led by Yang Zhi in Junzhou, so how could they bargain with Lin Chen?

And now both the Jingxi and Jingxi routes are in Lin Chen's hands, and the Tang army is approaching the Yellow River.

With the power of a great victory, it is easy for the Tang army to cross the river and take Yingtian Prefecture and then Daming Prefecture.

Indeed.

After two days of rest, the right-wing army where Wei Qing was located led 100,000 Tang troops across the Yellow River and headed straight for Yingtian and Daming Prefecture.

For the newly born Yuan Dynasty, it is undoubtedly a double whammy.

But compared with the death of Kublai Khan, the vacant throne made those who were interested in it more eager to move.

Among them, the most responsive faction was the Zhenjin prince's faction.

After all, Wang Wentong and other civil officials who controlled the Yuan Dynasty were all of Han origin, and they naturally hoped that the crown prince Zhenjin, who was close to Confucian education, could ascend the throne.

In this way, although the Yuan Dynasty was founded by the Golden Family, it may eventually fall into the hands of Han Chinese officials.

This is not a difficult matter for these officials who have summed up their experience from the Song Dynasty for hundreds of years.

It's just that Wang Wentong and other northern officials forgot one thing.

That is, although officials are good at talking, the land of barbarians cannot be solved by verbal disputes.

Manggeci is the third son of Kublai Khan and is quite favored by him.

In his early years, he was ordered to guard Anxi, the throat of the Western Regions.

You know, as the throat of the Western Regions, Anxi's status is comparable to that of the Yuan Dynasty.

It can be seen that Kublai Khan values ​​Manggeci.

Therefore, most of the Mongolian nobles who are dissatisfied with Prince Zhenjin's trust in the Han people gathered under Manggeci.

As for Wang Wentong.

As soon as he received the news of Kublai Khan's death, he secretly went to the Prince's Mansion to meet Zhenjin and told him the news.

Zhenjin was so sad that he fainted.

After waking up, Wang Wentong quickly explained to him the turbulent situation in the Yuan Dynasty.

The Tang army crossed the Yellow River in front of him, and they were about to head straight for Yanyun.

There were also Mongolian dignitaries in the court who were dissatisfied with the status of Prince Zhenjin.

Although Wang Wentong did not explicitly say that Manggeci would rise up to fight for the throne, Zhenjin was not a fool and naturally understood Wang Wentong's implication.

"I hope you can teach me!"

Among Zhenjin's Han teachers, there was Wang Wentong.

"Your Highness, don't worry. Your Highness is the prince appointed by the previous emperor. You only need to go to the palace to meet the queen, summon the ministers, and choose a day to ascend the throne."

For Wang Wentong, this set of procedures was too familiar.

As long as Zhenjin had the title of ascending the throne, even if Manggeci had other ideas, he could only suppress them.

Zhenjin was overjoyed when he heard this and agreed repeatedly.

However, while Wang Wentong and other Han officials were running around and planning, the Mongolian nobles who also got the news were all dissatisfied.

The main reason was that Zhenjin was too close to the Han officials. Even when the previous emperor was alive, he had warned him many times, but Zhenjin did not restrain himself.

Now he trusted Wang Wentong and other Han officials, which made the Mongolian nobles feel uneasy.

If Zhenjin ascended the throne, how would their status and interests be guaranteed?

Therefore, they decided to take action to let these Han officials understand that the Mongolian world would eventually be dominated by the Mongols.

So.

Kublai Khan's third son Manggeci, with the support of many Mongolian nobles, led a large army into the Yuan capital in the name of treacherous people in the court.

This sudden change caught Wang Wentong off guard, and the situation became tense in an instant.

What was even more unexpected was that.

Wang Wentong, the backbone of the Han officials, was assassinated by an assassin on the second day after Manggeci entered the city.

Some Han officials who were close to Wang Wentong were also not spared and were all killed.

This series of changes made the Han officials in the Yuan capital wake up from their dreams and realize that the political struggle of the Yuan Dynasty was much more cruel than they imagined.

These Tartars acted more decisively and ruthlessly, and spoke directly with knives!

Of course, even if Wang Wentong and other close associates of Zhenjin were killed, there were still some Mongolian veterans standing on Zhenjin's side.

Because Zhenjin was the prince who was personally appointed by Kublai Khan, he had an undisputed orthodox status!

In front of this group of Mongolian veterans, Manggeci finally failed to get what he wanted and could only return in disappointment.

Zhenjin successfully ascended the throne as emperor, but there were countless casualties in the Yuan capital, and they were all Han officials.

This can't help but make people wonder whether those Mongolian veterans finally stood up to support Zhenjin in order to use Manggeci's hands to clean up the Han forces such as Wang Wentong?

After all, without the Han officials, Zhenjin can only rely on these Mongolian veterans.

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