Chapter 557: The Black Death
After the Mongol army withdrew from Dali, the Song army immediately invaded Kunming, and Duan Qing, the former Mongolian Yunnan Zhulu Xingzhongshu Provincial Governor, and also the heir of the Dali Duan clan, retired Dali, and announced that Dali was restored to the country and proclaimed himself the king of Dali, trying to claim the vassal to the Great Song Dynasty in exchange for secession.
But was rejected by Da Song.
Then the Great Song Dynasty Qianzhong system made Yang Bangxian lead the army to arrive at Longwei Pass, and threw a giant thunderbolt bombardment with trebuchets, the defenders surrendered on the same day, Yang Bangxian marched under the city of Dali, because during the Mongol occupation of Duan Zhixing, Duan Shi, Duan Qing three generations of Duan family leaders, all of them were in charge of Mongolia and bloodily suppressed the resistance of the people in the territory, coupled with the people's desire for immortal seeds, the Song army was in the city when there were no people to fight, and even opened the city to welcome the Song army. Knowing that the general trend has gone, Duan Shi committed suicide by fire, his people surrendered to the Song army, Dali was officially incorporated into the territory of the Great Song Dynasty and became Yunnan Road, the descendants of Gao Taixiang who fought to the end for Dali were appointed as the Yunnan Road Xuanfu Envoy, Yang Bangxian moved to Kunming, reappointed as the Yunnan Placement Envoy, and was no longer the military frontier of the Qianzhong Residence Envoy revoked, including Yang Bangxian's Banzhou Yang family, including the Tusi of various places began to change the land and return to the stream.
Because Dali was still a territory of the Yuan State, Kublai Khan sent an envoy to condemn him, but he was expelled by Yang Feng.
In the same year, Goryeo declared itself a vassal to the Great Song Dynasty.
But immediately after Kublai Khan's order, of course, mainly driven by the desire to sack Goryeo, with the support of the Yuan army, the Huli reroute troops led by Sudadah attacked Goryeo and drove straight into Pyongyang, the king of Goryeo sent an envoy to the Great Song Dynasty for help, and during the Song army mobilized troops to prepare for reinforcements, Sudadada broke through Seoul, and the king of Goryeo fled to Ganghwa Island again. Then the Song army landed at Incheon, and by this time the heavy infantry of the Song army, which had almost completed the plate armor, defeated the cavalry of Sudadada in the field battle by the Han River, and then recaptured Seoul, and then the Song army, together with the Goryeo servants, spent three years expelling Sudadada from Goryeo and attacking the lower reaches of the Songhwa River occupied by the latter. Shui Dada asked to surrender but was rejected by the national teacher, and then for ten years the Great Song Dynasty has been in the northeast and Huligai tribes to carry out wars, until the entire south of the Heilongjiang River was completely swept away, although some remnants fled to Lingbei, but there is no longer anything to worry about.
During this period, the Great Song Dynasty navy crossed the sea to seize Sado Island in the Wa Kingdom, and there were also large areas of land in the area of Iwami and Izumo in the Wa Kingdom, and the discovery of gold and silver mines in the two places led to a large-scale attack by the allied forces of the Wa princes.
However, the latter ultimately failed miserably.
During this ten-year war, because Goryeo was always the most important base, the country was completely controlled by the Great Song Dynasty, and during the 30th year of Harmony, the king of Goryeo, the king of Qi, and the conquered king of Annam, the king of Champong, and other vassal kings in the south took land together and moved to Nanjing. However, during this long war, the Song army never crossed the line of Qinling and Daba Mountain in Taihang Mountain, but only forced the Han army marquis of Guo and Di in Henan, while the Mongol army abandoned Luoyang and retreated westward over Kunshan. There was no large-scale battle between the two sides, including in the northeast, the main force of the Mongol army did not actually participate in the war, and even the Mongol tribes of Liaoxi moved westward to the Western Regions, but the Song army did not cross Liaoxi.
This strange state of no war and no peace between the two sides lasted until the twenty-eighth year of harmony, that is, in 1292.
Harmony for 28 years.
The national division, which has not been active for nearly 30 years, led a whole army of cavalry, from Luoyang to the west, almost like a bamboo, broke through a series of dangerous passes one after another, and broke through the last line of defense of Tongguan and smashed into Dadu. Although Kublai Khan, who was already seventy-six, abandoned Dadu and fled to Longyou as quickly as possible, he was eventually caught up by the national teacher in Fengxiang, and Kublai Khan was captured by the national teacher in an attempted suicide. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of Song troops from Sichuan, Hebei and Liaoxi swept through Hanzhong, Guanzhong, Shanxi and Xuanda with a devastating momentum, and the Han troops surrendered one after another.
Kublai Khan died of illness on his way to Nanjing.
Kublai Khan's grandson Temur succeeded to the throne in Xijing, and changed the name of the country to Mongolia, and then the Song and Mongolia resumed peace talks, Mongolia claimed vassal to the Song, and the Song and Mongolia restored peace and even more friendly than before, and the trade between the two sides prospered, and a large number of weapons, including plate armor, flowed into Mongolia through trade.
Relying on the selfless support of the Great Song Dynasty and the tribesmen who fled from the East to the Western Regions, Temur quickly annexed the Chahatai Khanate and the Ilkhanate, and then forced the Golden Horde to surrender through a three-year war, and the Timur the Great unified Mongolia, and the new Mongol Empire spanned Eurasia, Transoxiana, Persia, Afghanistan, the upper Indus, the Caucasus and Eastern Europe, all under the control of this vast empire. Immediately afterwards, Temur the Great defeated the Mamluks with heavy cavalry and gunpowder crossbows in full plate armor, and once again bloodied Baoda and Damascus, the waters of the Tigris River were stained red with blood, and a Mongol cavalry even swept south to sweep the peninsula, while the main Mongol army continued to advance, and the Mamluks defended Jerusalem, but in the end they were still unable to defeat the giant thunderbolts thrown by trebuchets.
Jerusalem falls.
The Mongol cavalry crossed the Sinai Peninsula and officially set foot on the Nile Delta, although the coalition forces of the North African tribes were brave and good at fighting, but after all, the gap in strength could not be bridged, with the Mongol cavalry as the core, including the Persians, Turks, Indians, and even the Eastern European Slavs of 300,000 troops swept across the Nile Delta, millions of corpses floated on the Nile, and less than 1,000 people were killed in Cairo. But Alexandria had too many dead bodies, which eventually created a terrible plague that forced the Mongol army to retreat to Jerusalem and cut off the land passage to the Sinai Peninsula, because the Mongol army had a large number of doctors from the East, and although the plague known as the Black Death also caused some losses, it was quickly brought under control because of the efforts of these doctors and the climate.
But no one knew that more than a dozen European merchant ships that had fled Alexandria in a hurry had already sailed to major European ports with the virus of the plague.
The Mongol army had to turn south because of the plague outbreak in Egypt, and the locust-like army swept along the Hejaz Mountains to Yemen, leaving few chickens and dogs along the way, and crossed the sea in Yemen to take control of Somalia.
Just as the Mongol army on the western route swept the Arabian Peninsula, another Mongol army also entered the Delhi Sultanate again, and the latter's bloody battle was still no match for the Mongol iron cavalry, which was close to the level of the late Middle Ages. Not only did they break through Delhi again, but they also fought along the Ganges River all the way to Agra, and this time the Mongol army did not finish killing and left, and the former Chahatai Khanate, who commanded the Indian theater of operations, Duwa, rebuilt the Chahatai Khanate in Lahore, but still submitted to Temur, who was busy preparing for the westward expedition to Europe, chose to forgive him.
But then Temur found out that he couldn't go west to Europe.
Because the Black Death was sweeping across Europe.
Eight European merchant ships sailed back from Alexandria to their homeland, namely Barcelona, the capital of the Kingdom of Aragon, Marseille, Genoa, Naples, Venice, and Constantinople in the southern French ports, and two ships to London and Hamburg, passing through many different ports along the way, and then they waved their sinful little hands like those girls who waved at the docks to welcome them, and kept spreading the pollen of the plague in the harbors. Thus the shadow of darkness began to spread from the coast to the depths of the European continent.
When Yang Feng knew the news, it was already two years later.
When he knew that after the outbreak of the Black Death in Europe, the Song army, which had entered the age of firearms, did not hesitate to kill out of the Yumen Pass, squeezed the Mongols to the epidemic area with the most ferocious offensive, and continued to resist the Song army in the Tianshan Mountains for a year After the final defeat, Temur of course would not flee to Europe where the Black Death was rampant as Yang Feng thought, he led the main force of the Mongol army to abandon the western capital and flee south, and was completely expelled from the river in the pursuit of the Song army for three years. Temur led the main force south to the Fertile Crescent, where he joined the Mongol army there to use the Persian Plateau as a barrier to stop the Song army, and another Mongol army went south to join Duwa, the former ruled the Persian Plateau and the Fertile Crescent and Egypt for decades, but because of internal contradictions, like the Great Food Empire back then, it eventually fell apart into several small states. Among them, Kublai Khan's fifth grandson Tutuo Timur led a tribe to the steppes of central Africa, and conquered a large number of black tribes to establish a slave empire, which lasted for hundreds of years, and even established friendly relations with the Great Song Dynasty for the slave trade, their life was not bad, because slavery also maintained the purity of the bloodline to the greatest extent.
As for the Chahatai Khanate, like the Mughal Empire in its original history, they eventually turned India into hundreds of small states through a century-long war with the Delhi Sultanate.
Then it was colonized by the Great Song Dynasty.
The Golden Horde was eventually destroyed by the Great Song Dynasty, but because of the Black Death in Europe, the Song army did not continue to advance, after all, Yang Feng could not vaccinate the Song army or get a bunch of antibiotics.
As for Europe, they had to continue to struggle in the devastation of the Black Death, until Yang Feng left this time and space, it was still a forbidden area, and at that time, this terrible plague had actually lasted for a hundred years, and it was estimated that they could still struggle for a hundred years, and not only the Black Death, but also some other inexplicable plagues were also breaking out, and later even the Mongols in West Asia and North Africa regarded Europe as a forbidden place.
End of this volume.