"Looking back now, I was a little naive at the time."

The lights in the room were like beans, and Li Xia and Han Chengxu sat opposite each other, holding the secret letter and talking.

Li Xia would not talk to Li Yong about matters in the north, but could only talk to Han Chengxu.

"When we were in Kaifeng, Duke Yang told me that if the Song Dynasty could defeat the Mongolian army several times, it might be possible to cause the princes in the north to rise up against the Mongols. I didn't see anything wrong with this."

Han Chengxu squinted his old eyes and said: "Looking at the things mentioned in the letter, there are indeed clues... What Li Fenzhi did last year shows that he has a strong intention to fight against Mongolia, and he dared to blatantly cut off the Mongolian army's logistics.

How is this move different from an open secession? He dared to do this, and he must have contacted many princes, so Yang Gong made such a judgment."

Li Xia said: "The more this happens, the more worried I am."

Han Chengxu understood and sighed: "What Li Fen did is just like Alang's rebellion in Qingfu County today, before the heat has come. Even if Tachaer was allowed to go to Lianghuai to fight a war last year, he did not cover it up."

"My strength is far from comparable to that of Li Fen. But he is too crazy and it is destined to be difficult for him to achieve great things."

"The Mongolian people are not moving him temporarily. It is just that Brother Meng wants to destroy the Song Dynasty as soon as possible and also wants to deal with Kublai Khan. When he is free to take action, he will definitely get rid of Li Fen."

Li Xia said: "If you are a noble prince in the North and have any anti-Mongolian thoughts in your heart, would you dare to seek trouble with people like Li Fen?"

Han Chengxu smiled bitterly and said, "Not everyone can see this."

Li Xia said: "Which one of those who can become a great prince is someone who has matured with age?"

"Alang is worried about Mr. Yang?"

Li Xia pondered and said slowly: "Since I became an official, I have fought several battles with the Mongolian army, and I view the current situation a little differently than before... To incite the princes of the North to take action, a small victory is not enough. The Song army has been defeated every year.

We are winning the battle, but it is not yet time to reverse the situation.

We need a great victory to recapture Chengdu, recapture Hanzhong, march into Qinlong, and watch the Central Plains. Only in this way can we give the Northerners confidence. But as Yang Gongxin said in the letter, Meng Ge went to the Central Plains, and all the officials in Han Dynasty were panic-stricken.

'This is a great opportunity, I hope you can seize it'."

Han Chengxu said slowly: "With this information, Jia Sidao will be able to defeat Tacha'er on the Jinghu battlefield this year. According to Yang Gong's assumption, the commander of the Mongolian army in the Central Plains has just been rotated and suffered another major defeat. Li Fen launched an attack.

The princes of the Northland were panic-stricken and responded..."

"Mr. Yang is wrong." Li Xia said: "I said that the troops marched into Qinlong and the tigers stalked the Central Plains to make the northerners fear us. It is true that people in the northern region are fearful now, but it is the fear of the Mongols. The Han Dynasty

The princes still despise the Song Dynasty, but Li Fen's ambitious people are ready to take action. How can he succeed?

Yang Gong took this as an opportunity and sent information to Jia Sidao one after another, but he saw no movement from the great prince behind him. I am afraid that those people will see the situation clearly, change hands and sell Yang Gong."

Han Chengxu sighed: "It's a pity that I have a bloody heart. In the end, I only became the minister of Song Dynasty with little merit and the scapegoat of the prince."

"If I had not gone to Kaifeng and Mr. Yang burned the information in frustration and stopped taking action, I might have been able to survive this hook test without incident."

"Alang, you don't have to think so." Han Chengxu said: "You defeated Wu Lianghetai, asked the ministers of the DPRK and China to contact him, and kept fulfilling the promise to him. This time, Mr. Yang was too impatient. His poems were beautiful and rich.

Literary talent, but not a minister who plans things."

"No, it's not that he is impatient. The Goukao Bureau has moved south. It's because I didn't do it." Li Xia murmured: "I was too slow. In the battle of Chengdu, if I had the troops to defend Jianmen Pass, maybe there would be more

With the possibility of counterattacking Hanzhong, Yang Gongzhi's situation is completely different... It's really a slow step, a slow step."

"Alang?"

"I owe him." Li Xia said.

Han Chengxu said: "The formation of the Qingfu Army is already a quick victory, but the defeat of Wulianghetai is already extremely difficult. Alang has already reached this point, what else can he do?"

"We should do better..."

Li Xia's eyes didn't know where they were looking, and he was stuck in thought.

Han Chengxu said: "With Alang's official position, it is extremely difficult to do these things. We have to look at Jia Sidao..."

"Do you know why Jia Sidao gave me this information?" Li Xia came back to his senses and asked.

"He's beating Alang."

"Well, he is telling me that he is the only one in the court who values ​​these things. He reminds me that I must rely on him to get things done."

“So how do we respond?”

Li Xia thought for a while and said: "I wrote a letter to him, asking him to send people north. If Mr. Yang is in trouble, he will try to rescue him... The next festival is the Double Ninth Festival. I went to the street to buy a cricket cage as a gift.

And give it to him."

"Cricket cage?"

"The gift is not important, as long as I understand what he means. By the way, there is no need to tell Li Xiling about this."

Jia Sidao only sent a nasty scholar instead of an elite soldier. This was to show that he had no ill intentions towards Li Xia and Li Yong.

Li Xia knew this in his heart, and at the same time he also knew that Jia Sidao could not let Wu Qian go and abolish the establishment.:.

For the time being, the two have similar positions, so let's just express our opinions.

…

Li Xia opened the door and left the public room, feeling inexplicably heavy.

Some of the information Yang Guo gave him has already been used, such as Wu Liang's plan to attack Shu and Tacha'er's plan to attack Lianghuai; some of it made him understand the current situation more clearly, such as when he took the opportunity to see Li Fen's thoughts.

There are still some things, such as the taxation of people's hearts in the north, Hulagu's western expedition, the fighting spirit of the Khan's court, etc., which are not used for the time being, waiting for the future.

At that time, it was the restoration of the Han family that they had dreamed of together.

Li Xia is still young and is still growing stronger and waiting for better opportunities; but Yang Guo is already old, a man who has subjugated his country and no longer knows how many opportunities he will have in his life.

"Let Jiang Fan come to see me." Li Xia summoned a clerk in the corridor and ordered.

After a while, Jiang Fan hurried over. Instead of a hook, his severed arm was equipped with an iron fist. As soon as he saw him, he cupped his fist and saluted.

"I've met the magistrate."

"That assassin from the Quanzhen Religion...Yu Dechen, how are you doing lately?"

"Reporting to the county magistrate, he was imprisoned for more than half a year and just meditated every day."

Li Xia said: "You think of a way to let him escape from prison..."

The next day, Qingfu Military Camp.

The prisoner named "Hu Legen" said to Song He in Chinese: "It's not that I can't raise it well, it's that this breed of horse is not good."

He was captured during the attack on Qingfu County in December last year. It has been more than nine months since he arrived and he can speak Chinese very fluently.

"I think you are unwilling to do your best." Song He said.

After Yu Ping died in the battle, another one of Ma Jun's generals was replaced by Yang Ben. The two did not get along well, and Song He always had a cold face.

"No." Hu Legen said: "The best is the Mongolian horse, followed by the Dali horse. This horse breed is too bad."

With a "pop" sound, Song He gave Hu Legen an ear melon seed and said: "Give you three days, these horses are still so weak, get back to the dark room."

Hu Legen glanced at Song He secretly and did not dare to refute, so he agreed.

Yang Ben glanced sideways, knowing that it was indeed a problem with the horse breed, but he was too lazy to offend Song He for a Mongolian prisoner. He only waved and said: "General Song Bai, come here..."

Over there, Hu Legen took his horse to wash. At dusk, he glanced around and found that the soldiers guarding around him had disappeared.

He was stunned for a moment, looked around again, and gradually began to think of running away.

He was shackled and walked behind the stable, going around and around, and found a small hole in the camp.

"Hulgen" means mouse in Mongolian. The reason why he has this name is because of his short stature.

For most of the past six months, he taught the soldiers of Qingfu Army how to speak Mongolian. People often mentioned this and asked him why he was so short.

"Not all Mongolians are tall, of course there are some who are short." Hulegen was very tired of these questions and felt that these Han people were really ignorant.

In the past, Hu Legen was quite strong, but now that he has lost a lot of weight, he can barely squeeze out of this small hole.

This was something he had planned for a long time, and he finally found the opportunity today.

After getting out of the small hole, he ran into a small forest and breathed a sigh of relief. He was secretly glad that the passing crowd in the distance did not notice him.

After a while, Hu Legen found a big stone and wanted to smash the shackles on his feet.

He just lifted the stone, but he was stunned for a moment.

Where did you go after escaping?

He would definitely not go back to Dali, not to mention the distance. It was hot, humid, and full of bugs, so he didn't like staying there for a long time.

To join other Mongolian troops? How could one person go so far in the Song Dynasty?

If you are caught, you will have to be locked up in that dark room again...

Hu Legen's heart turned over and over again, and he looked around. He really didn't know how to escape, so he had to sigh, put down the stone, walked back to the small hole, and tried his best to get through.

He was stuck at the entrance of the hole for a long time, and while he was struggling, a pair of boots suddenly appeared in front of him.

Hu Legen was startled, raised his head, and saw Li Xia.

"This is the third time. I said you can't do anything more than three times. Next time you run away, I will skin you off." Li Xia said in Mongolian.

"No, no, no... no, Magistrate Li, I didn't escape." Hu Legen said in Chinese: "I'm going to pick... to pick some fodder to feed the horses."

"I've been watching you escape."

Hu Legen was startled again and said hurriedly: "I, I, I'm back...I'm back."

Li Xia asked: "So? Do you want me to lose weight again?"

"That's right...ah, no, no, no, I will definitely not run away again. There will definitely be no next time."

"You speak Chinese well."

"Yes, I like to speak Chinese now. I also know idioms... Be honest and peaceful, be honest and peaceful."
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