Khutula stayed behind and left with two thousand horsemen near the royal court.

Does it really work for him to stay? Facts have proved that although he is the first wise man of the grassland, he can't really guess Liu Xing's thoughts at all.

With one successful blow, Liu Xing's strategy was to withdraw immediately. Where to evacuate? Evacuate to the vicinity of the Eastern Lord's fiefdom. Just as he swept the grassland in one go, why did Liu Xing let Yue Fei retreat?

Because what Liu Xing was worried about was not the Kutula of only 2,000 people, but the people of the four tribes in the northwest of the grassland, who had completed the strategy of "fighting the grass and startling the snakes" and used 120,000 vanguard troops to alarm.

The Mughal kingdom was destroyed, and the Tatars were also destroyed, so how could Liu Xing worry about those steppe tribes farther away?

In fact, there are two main reasons, the first of which comes from the inside. After returning to the grassland, those lords will definitely sort out and rule their territory by themselves.

Once the lords enter the stage of establishing and governing the territory, they will inevitably be unable to gather troops and create a complete logistics support channel for Yue Fei from behind.

Taking precautions and thinking about protection before war is the strategic policy that Liu Xing has always believed in. It is said that it is to feed the war with war, but looking back at the battles deployed by Liu Xing in the past few years, none of them really allowed the Great Song army to attack and take risks without basic support.

It is precisely because Liu Xing has this kind of pre-thinking and ensuring the deployment of logistics that the Great Song army started by the Ghost-faced Red Turban Army has never encountered a huge loss in a war.

Even in the battles of tens of thousands of people against hundreds of thousands, the Great Song Dynasty royal division under the unified command of Liu Xing has never lost more than 50,000 people in a single battle.

Therefore, the lords were going to establish and govern the territory, and Liu Xing had to temporarily stop the advance of Yue Fei's subordinates, in order to ensure that there would be no careless loss of Jingzhou and cause his soldiers to suffer heavy losses in the first battle.

The second point comes from the four tribes in the northwestern part of the steppe, which are different from the Mughal kingdom and the Tatar tribe. The four tribes are good at cruising between mountains and grasslands, hills and plains, and fighting in a dispersed pattern.

The biggest difference between those four tribes and the Mughal state is that the biggest reason why they have survived to this day in the face of the rise of the Mughal state and the threat of the Tatars is that they do not have an accurate definition of the person who controls the strings.

Men can use horse-drawn bows at the age of twelve, and girls have all developed excellent riding and archery skills before they get married.

It may not be terrible for all the people of one tribe to be soldiers, but all the people of four tribes are soldiers. From thirteen or fourteen-year-old boys and girls to sixty or seventy-year-old men, Liu Xing didn't know how powerful the four tribes in the northwest were.

In addition, the place where the four tribes lived was a region of swamps, hills, and mountains, and there is no complete and credible map of those places in the Great Song Dynasty to this day.

It is not terrible to lose the geographical advantage, but the fear is that if you don't even know the basic topography of the place, no matter how powerful the firearm is, once it encounters mountains, ravines, swamps and quagmires, it will not be able to exert its power.

Having lost his firearms, Liu Xing was not sure that the hundreds of thousands of soldiers under Yue Fei's command would still be as brave and invincible as before. Even if it can defeat the four tribes in the northwest, it will inevitably be a victory with great losses and extremely miserable.

That kind of victory Liu Xing didn't want, combined with the previous point, Liu Xing decided to let Yue Fei retreat and rest. At the same time, a new military commander was selected from the rear to rotate with Yue Fei to prepare for the next wave of more fierce attacks.

So is Liu Xing really not ready to use force against the four tribes in the northwest of the grassland? Zhe Yanzhi is still there, Liu Xing will not give up the army of 180,000, right?

The answer, of course, is no, and Liu Xing just wants to make the four tribes move in shock. As long as they move, they will inevitably give Zhizhi the opportunity to block the entrance of the cave and smoke the fox and force the big snake out of the hole.

Once the troops of the four northwestern divisions left the place where their headquarters belonged, Liu Xing was sure to activate all the chess games in the northwest of the grassland, which made many worries lessen a lot.

And as soon as the strength of the four tribes came out, then both Yue Fei and the lord coalition army had the opportunity to surround and beat them on the already familiar central grassland, until they were completely annihilated.

It's easy to kill the troops that have come out, and then go and fight the four tribes. If the four tribes came out directly or the main force, it would be more in line with Liu Xing's intentions......

In addition to these, Liu Xing naturally would not let go of Wang Kai, the lord of Goryeo.

Wang Kai led his army of 200,000 and used more than 90,000 people to remove more than 170,000 heads of the Mughal Kingdom and the Tatar tribe in the valley, and Liu Xing was going to prepare a reward of nearly 3 million dragon coins for him.

Since more than three million yuan is destined to be spent, Liu Xing will not cheapen him. So when Yue Fei began to retreat, Liu Xing gave Wang Kai another order, asking him to quickly assemble and advance westward with the Goryeo army that had no time to rest and had less than 120,000 men.

"All the treasures of the court of the Mughal kingdom shall belong to you, and the women of the steppe, and the cattle and sheep shall not be expropriated." Liu Xing gave Wang Kai such a clear word in the order, telling him that there were still many treasures in the Mengwu royal court. There were also many women and cattle and sheep.

Go grab it, kill it. Heads are money, treasures are money, cattle, sheep and women are money.

When an abnormal war evolves into a war of killing and plundering by one or several peoples, one or more forces, the active side and the superior side often become blind, and that blindness stems from greed.

In order to obtain more wealth, Wang Kai also became blind and arrogant after receiving Liu Xing's Tianshu order, forgetting that he was exchanging 90,000 talents for 170,000 heads, and immediately urged his army to move westward.

So, when Yue Fei retreated with a large army to the vicinity of the lord's fiefdom, he began to buy grain and grass from the lord and get firearms from the rear.

As soon as Wang Kaicai led his troops to the vicinity of the royal court, he was first ambushed by the fierce Kutula. After 2,000 men killed his tens of thousands, Kutura actually led the remaining 500 people to fight with Wang Kai, who was unfamiliar with the vast grassland, and dragged the Goryeo army into a quagmire of cruising warfare.

When Wang Kai was overwhelmed by Kutula, Hebul and Iba arrived with three thousand other soldiers and horses from their headquarters to the tribes in the west who were still subject to the Mughal Kingdom.

As soon as some troops were assembled, I Ba Boy reciprocated and ordered Hebul to send out another three cavalry armies of 10,000 men each in the direction of the royal court.

After the three 10,000 cavalry archers returned to the Mengwu royal court, Wang Kai knew that the men of the grassland were not easy to mess with, because he and his Goryeo army were caught in a continuous battle that could not sleep at night and counterattacked the raids of the steppe cavalry day and night.

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