After leaving the military meeting tent, Yang Ben returned all the way to the barracks, where he saw Wang Mancang leaning under the hay pile and chatting about the mountains with others.
"I really followed His Majesty to kill the enemy side by side. You still don't believe it. Didn't I get a knife on my shoulder? I was lying in the camp recovering from my injuries that day. Because my shoulders were wrapped in cloth and I didn't wear any armor, the Yuan army suddenly kicked the camp.
Come in, damn, come right to my tent."
"Then what?"
"Then His Majesty and the Selected Front Battalion charged directly into the Yuan army. Tsk tsk, it was so fierce. I really want to enter the Selected Front Battalion."
"Stop thinking about it, you bastard. The way General Huo looks at you must be disgusting with your bad mouth."
"Haha, bring your penis over and let me weigh it, you know? His Majesty's penis weighs twenty kilograms more than yours. It is held in one hand, and it can be poked randomly like this. God, God."
"Didn't you hear what General Yang said? Your Majesty's training is much more ruthless than ours. In this way, you were saved by Your Majesty, shameless boy."
"Haha, that's right. If I were a beauty and was rescued by His Majesty's heroes, I would enter the palace and be a queen. I would be a good match for this stinking general... The general is here... I've seen the general!"
"General."
Everyone stood up quickly and saluted Yang Ben who was approaching.
Wang Mancang hurriedly explained: "The last general didn't say naughty words. They were all wounded soldiers. They thought what I said was interesting, so they chatted for a few words while they were recovering from their injuries."
Yang Ben had the same cold face all day long and asked: "We can't completely defeat the enemy. If His Majesty is attacked, he has to go into battle in person. Are you not ashamed of it, but proud of it?"
"No!" Wang Mancang responded loudly: "Except for Kublai Khan, no matter which captor comes next time, the general will beat the shit out of him!"
"Why except Kublai Khan?"
"Leave Kublai Khan to your majesty to defeat him personally, and the general will not be embarrassed."
Yang Ben chuckled softly, laughing at him for saying boring and stupid things, and then said in deep thought: "Your Majesty said I am a bit funny, what do you think?"
"ha?"
Wang Mancang thought he had heard something wrong and asked in surprise: "Is General Yang funny?"
"Isn't it funny?"
"Yes, the general is really funny."
Yang Ben was quite satisfied and seemed to think it would be good to change his temper.
Although he wanted to change, he still kept a cold face as usual and shouted: "Stop talking nonsense, cheer me up, we will storm the Tachaer camp in the next two days! Don't let him escape this time, let's fight quickly!
"
"So fast? Didn't the general say that the enemy's reinforcements have just arrived and we are also waiting for news from other routes? Why is the battle suddenly decided quickly?"
"Why do you ask so many questions?"
"The last general takes command!"
~~
Bayannur.
Ai Buhua got off his horse and strode towards Tachaer.
Both of them were Mongolian clan kings, but Tachaer was older in terms of age and prestige, so Aibuhua bowed first.
He is indeed a very graceful prince, otherwise he would not have tolerated Tachaer sitting in his fiefdom in the past two years.
But after He Shanlan's defeat in the first battle, something was obviously different.
"I didn't expect that the king would be defeated by Li Xia accidentally."
Tachaer's face did not change when he heard this, he shook his head and said: "It rains continuously, the Yellow River is overflowing, and Dong Wenbing has just suffered a major defeat, and the morale of the army is unstable. I have long known that this battle is likely to be defeated."
"That……"
"If it wasn't to save King Yan, why would I have to fight Li Xia in that situation?"
Ai Buhua originally wanted to question Tachaer, but she didn't realize that she was grabbed by Tachaer as soon as she opened her mouth. She asked with concern: "What's wrong with King Yan?"
"It's in Li Xia's hands, so I have to fight him."
"I asked around and heard that some soldiers who had escaped from the desert said that King Yan was lost."
"You mean King Yan died in the desert?"
Ai Buhua said: "I mean, have you sent anyone to find King Yan?"
"We found it. King Yan is in Li Xia's hands." Tachaer repeated it and asked, "Don't you believe it?"
Ai Buhua sighed helplessly and whispered to himself: "I can't believe that within a few years of the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, there are more party disputes than the Han people."
"It has been sixty years since the founding of the Great Mongol Kingdom, and there was no party struggle until the Han Dynasty was adopted."
"Ah."
Love is speechless.
In any case, Tachaer is neither a stubborn Mongolian old school nor a Sinicization school. He is someone who needs to work hard to win over the King of Yan and his party.
After calming down a little, Ai Buhua said again: "Your Majesty, there is no need to be angry. I am too worried about King Yan."
After losing the real gold, Tacha'er also looked a little worried and said: "King Yan has lost it. The only way is to capture and kill Li Xia. But I just experienced a big defeat and my morale is low."
"So I'm here to support the king."
"Not enough." Tacha'er said: "We still have to move the herdsmen and cattle and sheep from Hetao, attract Li Xia to the Qiantao grassland, and lengthen his luggage, so that we can surround and get rid of him."
Finally, he added another sentence.
"Rescue King Yan."
"No!" Ai Buhua said: "Once the Tang army is allowed to occupy the Hetao, if they take Yanjing directly, has your Majesty thought about the consequences?!"
"Then let Li Xia try." Tacha'er was not surprised but overjoyed. He was eager to drag more people into the water to share the responsibility. "At that time, it will not only be our army that surrounds Li Xia, but also Zhongshu Province, Shanxi, and Hebei
Wait for all roads to surround him and defeat him in one fell swoop."
"It's too risky. Zhang Jue is attacking Yang Wen'an fiercely. What if the Tang army occupies the Hetao and refuses to retreat? It's better to defeat Li Xia now and rescue King Yan, and win a quick victory."
"Now you take these 30,000 people to fight Li Xia. Losing troops and generals is a risk!"
"I can't possibly lose an army or a general." Ai Buhua said in a sonorous tone.
He was still young and energetic, staring at Tachaer with confidence in his eyes.
"The Great Mongolia once had four heroes, four mastiffs, four tunes, four brothers, four adopted sons, Youzhebie, Muhuali, Subotai, and other famous generals, including my grandfather Alagos who helped Genghis Khan defeat
The sun is sweating, and my mother is a heroine who is not inferior to these famous generals. Now it is time for our generation to stand up!"
Tacha'er was not polite. Facing Ai Buhua's gaze, she stepped forward and said, "You're still young, kid."
"Newborn wolves are still wolves, and no matter how old they are, cattle and sheep are still cattle and sheep..."
Conflict and struggle are inevitable.
Because the Great Mongolia established by Genghis Khan was "prosperous", they prospered very quickly. There was no screening at all in the process of prosperity, and they absorbed a large number of forces without establishing an effective management system.
If someone surrenders, he will be absorbed without distinction of good or bad; if there are relatives, he will be enfeoffed without distinction of good or bad.
Ai Buhua is the former, and Tachaer is the latter. Each has great power, and no one can convince the other when there is a conflict.
~~
On the bank of Yanhe River, the Tang Army camp.
A homing pigeon flew over with fluttering wings and landed on Zhang Jue's hand.
Liu Jinsuo was greatly surprised by this scene. He opened his eyes wide. He wanted to praise him, but he burped inexplicably. He forgot what he wanted to say and said involuntarily: "This pigeon is so fat."
"No wonder everyone calls you Liu Da Fool."
"I just want to say that this homing pigeon is really useful."
"It can't be used everywhere. Here on the Loess Plateau, it's perfect to use homing pigeons to kill horses in Wangshan Mountain. I've been raising them for several years...you can't even think of eating them."
"I didn't want to eat it. I didn't eat anything in Chang'an."
Zhang Jue smiled, opened the letter, and saw that it was all cipher text. He went back to the tent to decipher it, and finally moved a few war games on the map.
"Let all the generals come."
After a while, all the generals under his command arrived.
Liu Jinsuo was the most senior and stood at the front, followed by Aji, the widow of Luo Wangshan, the leader of Majun Village in Diaoyu City.
Although Aji is a woman, she is extremely powerful. After the Battle of Diaoyu City, she first followed Zhang Jue to regain Hanzhong, and then followed Li Xia to ambush Wang Liangchen on Qishan Road. After that, he stayed in Chang'an and guarded it. This time he followed Liu Jinsuo to lead
Soldiers came to reinforce.
Standing behind Aji is Yang Dajie, who surrendered to the enemy.
At the end of the team are two young generals, Shi Zheng and Wang Li, who were children who grew up in Diaoyu City and are now young men in their prime.
If the Tang army must be divided, it can actually be divided into factions, such as Yuancong, Qingfu Army, Diaoyucheng, Beiguiren, Guihuaren, etc., but the differences between them are not obvious. Generally speaking,
Still very united.
The reason is that all the generals followed Li Xia and grew up in hardships and hardships, and were part of the entire system from the beginning.
For example, Zhang Jue never held military and civilian power like the Mongolian princes. His food and grass were supplied by the Chang'an center, and his strategy coordinated with all Tang armies.
"There's good news, and there's bad news."
When Zhang Jue saw all the generals gathered, he said: "I just got the news that your Majesty has defeated Tacha'er in Helan Mountain. We finally formed a situation where two groups attack Hetao together."
Liu Jinsuo looked around and saw Zhang Jue pointing at the map. One group of troops went north and westward from Xingqing Prefecture along the "Ji" characters of the Yellow River, and the other route went north directly from Yan'an Prefecture along the Qinzhi Road.
He couldn't help but ask: "Why are we walking like this? Isn't the word "Yellow River" empty? Can't we walk?"
"This area is the Loess Plateau, and we cannot march." Zhang Jue said, "Therefore, there are only two roads that are best to take."
"Oh." Liu Jinsuo understood roughly and nodded without asking for further explanation.
"Let's talk about the bad news." Zhang Jue picked up several more war chess pieces, placed them on the westernmost side of the map, and said: "The Yuan Army's 150,000 troops in the Western Regions have returned early."
There was silence in the tent, and all the generals were deep in thought.
Liu Jinsuo turned around and saw that even the female general A Ji and the young general Wang Li were thinking.
Only he didn't know what they were thinking, so he simply asked: "Is there any problem with this?"
"We don't hope that Brother Zhula, Tuohu can destroy Uluru Hunai and Haidu. The purpose of attacking Hetao this year is to prevent the Yuan army from successfully taking over the Western Regions and force them to return to their divisions, making them run back and forth in vain.
Consumption.”
"Yes, so now they have returned to the army, what's wrong with that?"
"too early."
This time it was young general Wang Li who spoke.
Wang Li came out of the queue and gave Zhang Jue a fist. When Zhang Jue nodded, he walked to the map, pointed at the Hetao, and said: "According to our original idea, the Yuan army in the Western Regions would not gain access to the Hetao until we captured the Hetao."
In this way, we can relieve the allies in the Western Region. At the same time, they are cut off from the retreat. They are in a dilemma and their morale is low. If they return to the army, they will only be defeated by us waiting for work. But it is too early now, we have not yet
Take the Loop."
"Then why did they come back so early?" Liu Jinsuo became even more confused.
"Yes." Aji said: "Counting on time, the news of Tachaer Helan Mountain's defeat will not spread to the Western Regions so quickly, right?"
Zhang Jue looked at Wang Li and motioned for him to continue.
Wang Li pondered for a while and said: "Then... Brother Manla didn't choose to return to the army because of the defeat at Helan Mountain. We missed the reason for his return to the army before?"
"Real gold." Zhang Jue finally reminded.
Wang Li suddenly realized and shouted: "That's it! The reason why Brother Mangla returned to the army was an accident. Even we never thought that we could capture the real gold at the beginning. Then this news was spread directly from Hehuang to the Western Regions,
That’s why Brother Manla is so well-informed.”
"good."
"Brother Manla got the news that the real gold was missing. So he had no intention of attacking Haidu again. He wanted to come back and surround His Majesty? Or even find the real gold?"
Zhang Jue nodded again and said thoughtfully: "If I were busy brother, I would also make this choice."
Liu Jinsuo was a little surprised, and murmured to himself: "Being a general only kills people in battles, but you also need to know these things."
"One piece of good news, one piece of bad news." Zhang Jue continued to point out: "Originally, His Majesty only had to confront Tachaer's army and wait for us to break through Yang Wen'an's defense line, but now, we cannot plan for it slowly like this.
"
After saying that, he looked at Yang Daqi, who had been silent, and asked: "Is the contact complete?"
Yang Daji hesitated for a moment, then cupped his fists and said, "We have made good contact, and we can capture Ansai City for the commander-in-chief."
Following his words, Liu Jinsuo, A Ji, Shi Zheng, Wang Li and others came out one after another, cupping their fists and shouting.