The horse's hooves stirred up the dust on the ground, and after walking ten miles, the knights seemed to have eaten two kilograms of dirt.
Baijianu sent many scouting horses to spread out, bypass the Song army, and observe the battlefield from a distance.
He himself led the main force, marched at a slow pace, and slowly approached the east of the Song army.
At this time, there was still a large formation of the Song army between him and Li Xia.
In this case, Li Xia could see his dust, but he couldn't see the situation on Li Xia's side, so he could only report through the detective horse.
Finally, the scout came back, and Baijia Nu couldn't wait to ask, "Is Li Xia dead?"
"Not yet! The Song army on Changgan Ridge failed to prevent Li Xia and Liu Yuanli from joining together, but was defeated. Fortunately, Lu Wende sent troops to bypass them and the two sides were engaged in a decisive battle."
"What an incompetence!"
Baijianu complained to Lu Wende, but considering that the old man was seriously ill, it was understandable.
"Continue to explore." He turned to the other detective horses and asked, "What was Song Jun's reaction?"
"Manager, Lu Wende sent someone...
When Bai Jianu was asking questions, he gave Chen Yuanbin a cold look from the corner of his eye, disgusted with the fact that this bastard could not keep his temper.
According to his idea, Chen Yuanbin should stay with Lu Wende at this time and encourage Lu Wende to attack Li Xia with all his strength. It would be best to kill Lu Wende after Li Xia is dead.
As a result, Chen Yuanbin, a coward, ran away early. He did not dare to go to war with Lu Wende at all, but instead led his people to defect.
According to the temperament of the slaves, I wanted to kill Chen Yuanbin to vent my anger. However, those who had made great contributions and surrendered had to be treated favorably for the time being, so that others could see Dayuan's generosity.
"General manager."
As soon as Chen Yuanbin heard that Lu Wende sent someone, he stood up and made suggestions, saying: "Lu Wende is extremely greedy for money and wants to trade with Dayuan. He definitely dare not start a provocation without permission. If he sends someone here, he will definitely question him verbally.
"Yeah?"
"The villain can conclude that Lu Wende must promise to annihilate Li Ni immediately and ask the general manager to withdraw his troops. The general manager can promise him verbally and retreat when he sees Li Xia's head. As soon as Li Xia is dead, he will send troops to sneak attack Lu Wende."
This plan was exactly what the slaves wanted. He nodded.
Chen Yuanbin added: "By then Lu Wende will be so angry that he will have gangrene on his back, his heart will be hot and stuffy, and the pus will become 10%. He will die within three to five days."
"are you sure?"
"This villain knows medical skills. He was sure that Lu Wende must die, so he came here to report to the manager..."
Baijianu glanced sideways at Chen Yuanbin, feeling even more contemptuous.
However, Lu Wende's envoy soon arrived. As Chen Yuanbin said, Lu Wende promised to kill Li Xia immediately and asked the Yuan army to leave.
"Tell Lu Shaobao that the Yuan Dynasty and the Song Dynasty have an alliance. Of course I will not break the alliance. I just want to annihilate Li Xia as soon as possible."
Baijianu promised to retreat, but smiled in his heart.
At the same time, his anger and murderous intention towards Chen Yuanbin also dissipated, and he believed that the dog was still useful.
"Boom, boom, boom, boom..."
The war drums in front are getting louder and louder, creating a solemn atmosphere. In the sound of the drums, it seems that two soldiers and horses are fighting to the death.
The Yuan army, like supervising a battle team, began to rest and rest, waiting for the results of the battle.
"Song people are so timid."
Baijia Nu recruited Chen Yuanbin again and chatted: "I heard that you were like this when you faced the Jin people back then. You were humble and cautious, for fear of conflict, right?"
Although he had only negotiated peace with Song Ting for a few months, he enjoyed the feeling of being able to respond to requests.
If you want, you can take the coins, if you want, you can open a business, if you want, you can build a fortress in Lumen Mountain. Now they have all brought their troops to Lu Wende, and Lu Wende can only ask him to leave with his mouth."
"That's what the manager said." Chen Yuanbin said with a careful smile: "Back then, the Jin people went south and abducted the two emperors of Zhao and Song Dynasty, as well as the female relatives of the clan, and took them to the north to perform the sheep-raising ceremony. The Zhao family was frightened."
Bai Jianu laughed and said: "Lü Heitan is dead one by one, the Song Dynasty is not far away, and your benefits are indispensable."
"Don't worry, manager, Lu Heitan will definitely die. I have been with him for eight years, and I know best what kind of person he is."
Baijianu was very interested and said, "Tell me about it."
"Yes." Chen Yuanbin smiled flatteringly, leaned in front of the horse, and spoke in detail.
"For eight years, the villain has listened to him talking about getting rid of Li Xia every day. He is the last person to see anyone with more merit than him. He..."
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"Dong, dong, dong,..."
He Fu, the Song military general who was standing behind the Lu family's army, gradually became irritable as he listened to the war drums.
There are many people with the single name "Fu" in Lu Wende's army.
Because most of the soldiers and horses in Jinghu were the generals left behind by Meng Gong and their children, especially the group of people around thirty years old, the name was chosen just when Meng Gong had the greatest hope of restoring the Central Plains.
Going back further, Meng Gong's great-grandfather Meng An and grandfather Meng Lin were Yue Fei's generals.
Although the Song Dynasty did not want the Northern Expedition, these soldiers passed down the ambition of recovery from generation to generation, from grandfather to father, and father to son.
However, it is inevitable that this ambition has faded a lot by He Fu's generation.
He Fu named his son He Jinxiu, hoping that when his son grew up, he would be able to write beautiful articles or live a luxurious life.
Anyway, peace has been negotiated with Yuan Ting, and Li Ni will be put down soon. There will be peace in the future.
However, as I watched the Yuan army getting closer and closer that day, some of the thoughts my grandfather and father had left in He Fu suddenly appeared like flames.
Three miles, two miles, one mile... The dust and smoke raised by the cavalry drifted over, and the dust even fell on He Fu's face.
"Pooh."
After spitting out the dust in his mouth, He Fu opened his eyes and looked eastward.
He stood at the easternmost position of the Song army. When the dust and smoke fell, he could even see the expressions on the faces of the front row of Yuan army cavalry.
The kind of arrogant, contemptuous expression that belongs to a winner or a plunderer, aloof.
He Fu felt threatened.
"The Mongols have arrived in the territory and are blocking the way between the army and Xiangyang City."
He was born in the Jinghu Army, came from his family education, and even had a certain kind of vigilance against the enemy that came from his blood, causing goosebumps to appear on his back.
Holding the bow in his hand, He Fu subconsciously wanted to hold the bow to confront the Yuan army.
However, the order from the Chinese Army was not to engage in border provocations without permission.
"Song and Yuan have an alliance, and the Yuan army will retreat soon."
These soldiers who were closest to the Yuan army did not even turn around, their toes were still pointed to the west, waiting to be thrown into the battlefield where Li Ni was surrounded or pursued.
After that, the war drums kept sounding, but the flags in the Chinese army camp did not waver. Perhaps it was because Li Ni had been surrounded and the army was in the final killing spree. No orders were needed, only the drums were beaten for encouragement.
He Fu couldn't feel the intensity of the counter-insurgency battle in the west at all, just because the Yuan army in the east felt more and more nervous.
Unconsciously, his nostrils opened and closed, and his breathing became heavier and heavier.
"Old He."
Suddenly a low shout sounded, and He Fu turned his head, only to see his general striding towards him with a knife in his hand.
"General, the Yuan army has entered the country, we..."
He Fu just spoke, and a hand was already placed on his shoulder.
"Shut up, just do what the military order says..."
~~
Chen Yuanbin was still talking about Lu Wende's luxurious life in his ears, and Baijianu took out a telescope and wiped it with his own hands.
The cavalry is like this. They have to face sand and soil all day long, and even the sight tube placed in their arms can get dirty easily.
I raised the lookout tube and finally saw a scout horse galloping back in the distance.
Then he turned his eyes and saw some of the reactions of the Song army in front. Baijianu frowned, flashed some doubts, and shouted to Tan Ma who rushed in front of him:
"What took so long?!"
"The Song army has been mobilizing. They need to go to a higher place to see the battlefield clearly...Li Xia fled to the Han River!"
Baijianu was shocked and asked:
"Can't even the Song army surround you?"
"It seems that Lu Wende was ill for a while and failed to stop the rout. The Chinese army was overwhelmed and retreated a lot. Li Xia made a move to charge Lu Wende's main formation and suddenly rushed towards the Han River."
"Then what?" Baijianu glanced at Longzhong Mountain to the south, wishing he could climb up and have a closer look. "
"There were not many Song troops on the Han River. When they saw Li Xia coming to kill them, they fled."
"Why? Lu Wende is famous all over the world, but is he such a waste when it comes to fighting?!"
"The Tang army's warships were supported by artillery and crossbows, but the Song army did not dare to concentrate on the riverside for defense.
Chen Yuanbin stepped forward and interjected: "Perhaps Lu Wende thought that it was impossible for Li Xia to escape up the river, so he deliberately let him escape back to the river boat. When Baijia Nuo turned his head, he saw Bo Luo Huan giving a signal and leading his troops along the Han River.
He went to kill Li Xia's men."
~~
At this time, only the soldiers of the Song Army standing on the watchtower of Longzhong Mountain could see that the Song Army's formation was shrinking, as if the palm of its hand with five fingers spread out was slowly clenching into a fist.
"And the rebels fled like running water towards the Han River."
Looking at the Han River, most of the rebel ships are still stuck in the middle of the river. It is impossible to get the rebel soldiers on board in a short time.
At the same time, as the Song army shrank, a sufficiently wide plain was left beside the Han River.
So the Yuan army attacked the rebels like an arrow from a string...
"Lü Shaobao was conserving his strength and deliberately allowed the Yuan army to fight the rebels." The Song sergeant on the watchtower immediately made a judgment.
In the situation before him, the Song army looked like a man who suddenly curled up on the ground holding his stomach, allowing the Yuan army rebels to continue fighting.
But he never thought about why Lu Wende dared to shrink his troops...
At the same time, Lu Wende cursed to himself.
"Damn it, Li Ni is as vicious as a mad dog, go to hell."
Because right in front of him stood a rebel soldier who had said something coldly not long ago——
"At worst, my emperor will first kill Lu Shaobao and defeat the Yuan army, and then go down the river and take Lin'an..."
"Crazy? Crazy, you mother! I'm fucking a donkey ball stuffed with a fucking piece of shit!"
Lu Wende clearly knew that Li Xia couldn't do it. When he had just proclaimed himself emperor and nothing had been straightened out, it was absolutely impossible to fight in the south of the Yangtze River with those exhausted soldiers and that little food and grass. Otherwise, it wouldn't be long before the Yuan army could conquer Chang'an.
Come down.
It’s just that there is no need to gamble on the fate of the Song Dynasty and his fame.
It's just a matter of admitting that little beast is the emperor. If it doesn't work, just admit it, the mad dog will pounce on him.
So, he ordered someone to bring up the rebel soldier who called him stupid, and then sent a message to Li Xia.
"The Yuan army is here, let's call it a truce..."
Let the new Tang emperor and the Yuan army fight, everything is under control...
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"wrong!"
On the other side of the battlefield, Baijia Nu suddenly put down his telescope and shouted: "Tell Bo Luo Huan that the Song army is cheating."
"Manager, how..."
Chen Yuanbin stepped forward to make suggestions again.
Baijianu suddenly lashed out with the whip.
"Go away! You bitch! Is this what you mean by understanding Lu Wende?!"
Although Baijianu could not see the entire battlefield, he already felt that something was wrong with Lu Wende.
Lu Wende was simply pretending not to start a war with the Yuan army, but in fact he was mobilizing and shrinking his troops to delay the war and open up the battlefield with Li Xia.
Those war drums and those frequent movements are all cover-ups.
Suddenly, the war drums ahead stopped.
A hoarse voice sounded.
An individual's shout seems very small on the huge battlefield.
But because it was not far ahead, Baijianu heard it.
And he said that
I am very familiar with it. I have listened to it all year round since I was stationed in Caizhou.
"The pirates invaded the territory! Kill the prisoners!"