Shi Gang waved his riding whip desperately to whip the horse.
Originally, he still had more than a thousand troops, and he might be able to kill Li Xia. But he didn't want to try. Uncle Shu Zhen surrendered to Li Xia as if his head had been drained, leaving him with no confidence to continue the fight.
He wanted to obey his father and not die on the battlefield, which would deepen the hatred between Shi Jia and Li Xia. Also, he did not want to be captured.
Because Shi Tianze had said that he would die for Dayuan, Shi Bang understood what his father meant and did not want to embarrass his father because he was captured.
"Quick! I have to escape!"
However, the more panicked he became, the fewer soldiers and horses he had left.
Finally, the rustling sound behind him became louder and louder, and a lasso was thrown from the sky. "Hey!"
Shi Gang fell to the ground and immediately pulled out the dagger to commit suicide. The cold blade touched his skin, but he became frightened.
"Kill me! Kill me quickly!"
No soldier could care to listen to his order, because the cavalry behind him had already surrounded him. Shi Gang looked up and begged: "Chief Shu Zhenbo, please let me go, I can't be captured." "I."
If I let you go, who will let me go?"
"Go after Wang Yong. Wang Jian's damn son has run away. Go after him. Let me go?"
Shu Zhenbo's riding skills were superb. His fat body sat on the horse, but he looked light and deft. He circled around Shi Gang and said again: "I have thought clearly, you suffer, I suffer, everyone suffers, then
It is better to let Kublai Khan suffer alone."
Shi Gang lay on the cold ground, chewing these words silently.
He didn't expect that he would be a little bit convinced by this stupid Mongolian nobleman.
After being dragged to the camp like a dead dog, Shi Bang looked around and saw Li Xia sitting by a bonfire.
There was blood dripping on his head. When he looked up, he saw Wang Jian's head still dripping blood on a long pole. "Damn, you dog Korean Yelang is so arrogant that he will kill me."
"I heard that you like to practice Taoism, are good at painting, and are an elegant person."
Shi Gang had to face Li Xia, but he hadn't figured out how to deal with it yet and stuttered a little. "Have you heard of it? Have you heard of the name of the foreign minister?"
"I have an old relationship with your ninth brother Shi Zhang."
Shi Gang thought to himself, you and my brothers Shi Shu, Shi Ge, and Shi Quan are older, so it is best to let their ghosts come and kill you. "So, the foreign minister really likes the learning of Lao and Zhuang. He has no intention of pursuing an official career.
"Please, Quexianeng." "Yes." Li Xia said, "I can let you go, as long as you tell me all the information you know, so what's the point of letting you go?" "Really?"
Shi Gang couldn't believe it, but soon realized the risks behind this incident.
He felt that his mouth was getting dry, and he began to hesitate whether to go back and risk his family being held accountable, or to die. At this point, except for death, there was no way to completely let go of the family.
Shi Gang then looked at the tent next to him, meaning that he could tell Li Xia secretly. "What does your Majesty want to know? How about I start with the battle in Xingqing Mansion?" "Yes."
"Kublai Khan personally attacked Xingqing Mansion in October, and now it is Li Zengbo's defeated troops who have escaped Helan Mountain. At the beginning of this battle, we thought we would be able to break the city soon, but we didn't expect it."
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A war game is placed on a simple map.
Saji thought: "Please see, Your Majesty, these three thousand cavalry are the Tang army. They took advantage of our confrontation with Uluru Hunai and bypassed Mount Hatu in an attempt to rescue Li Zengbo."
"Then they have more than 33,000 troops, more than me." Tachaer asked, "Don't they want to defeat me?" "Their troops are tired and want to go back to rest and fight again."
There was a look of embarrassment in Tachaer's eyes.
His only strategy in this battle was to wait until Kublai Khan sent a large army.
The news has been sent out, but we don't know when the army will arrive.
Now the only bargaining chip he has to contain the enemy is Li Zengbo. He can neither let Li Zengbo run away.
We can't let them escape. Instead, we have to put them there like bait to catch the two fishes, Li Xia and Uluru Hunai.
"Your Majesty." Someone hurried over from outside the tent.
Tachaer was a little unhappy and said, "What's the matter? The king and I are discussing something." "The Great Khan has arrived."
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Li Zengbo stood on the top of the mountain and looked at Tachaer's camp in the distance for a long time. His hands were almost frozen on the lookout tube with ice and snow. "Commander, the Yuan army has not attacked the mountain today, so they probably won't."
Pang Pei came over and said, "He seems to be besieging us on purpose."
"The Chinese New Year will be here in a few days, right?"
"Yes. But it is obvious that the Yuan army did not attack the mountain just to celebrate the New Year. The general is wondering if they want to encircle the point for reinforcements?" Li Zengbo nodded and said, "It must be for the purpose of encircling the point for reinforcements."
"Then when we escaped here, didn't we become bait for the Yuan army?" Pang Pei was confused and his face became anxious. If escaping would ruin the overall situation, he would rather die in Xingqing Mansion City.
Li Zengbo said: "We are bait, can your Majesty be the fish? Don't worry, the reason for escaping is due to the agreement between Lian Shanfu and I."
He didn't say what they discussed, but it was just that the terrain of Qingtong Gorge was not easy to defend, and it contained part of the main force of the Yuan army.
At the strategic level, although Li Zengbo, Lian Xixian, and Li Xia are far apart and their communication is not smooth, they have a tacit understanding with each other. If they can't bear it on this road, they can spread the pressure a little more to see if they can't bear it on that road.
After staying, I will take the initiative to help and bear more.
It was this kind of cooperation that allowed them to kick the Yuan army back and forth like a ball between the three points of Xingqingfu, Xiyu, and Hetao, eliminating a lot of the gap between the enemy and ourselves.
"Commander!"
Suddenly a soldier shouted: "Commander, look over there!"
Li Zengbo quickly climbed higher and looked southeast from the top of the mountain.
His legs and feet are already very inconvenient.
He raised the telescope and squinted his eyes. The wrinkles at the corners of his eyes became deeper, but he couldn't see anything in the wind and snow. "Where?"
"That!"
With great difficulty, Li Zengbo finally found a black spot at the junction of heaven and earth. Gradually, the black spot became bigger and bigger, and finally became a black line.
For a long time after that, they watched it slowly spread out in the snow, endlessly, until a nine-blade white flag appeared in the lookout tube.
Li Zengbo opened his mouth, his voice was a little hoarse.
"We used this bait to lure Kublai Khan here too."~~
A huge wooden stake was driven into the snow to secure the sweat tent.
Tachaer entered the sweat tent, walked all the way to the front of the row of Mongolian clansmen, stood still, and bowed deeply to Kublai Khan.
"Great Khan. Winter is about to pass, and spring will come soon. I wish the Great Khan a triumphant return."
Kublai Khan did not have much reaction and said calmly: "When this Khan first arrived in the Hetao Grassland, Li Xia had less than 10,000 people with him. Now he has more than 33,000 troops. The more he fights, the more powerful his soldiers and horses become.
When will this Khan return in triumph?"
Tachar was ashamed and replied: "I am such a waste." Kublai Khan was noncommittal.
In other words, Tachar was the leader of the host kings and the most important clan figure who helped him ascend to the throne of Khan. Otherwise, based on Tachar's performance in these battles, he would definitely take away Tachar's military power.
"The Chinese New Year is coming soon. Li Xia must really want to return to Chang'an, and his mood is as anxious as an arrow."
"Don't worry, Khan, we will definitely keep Li Xia in Mobei." Tacha'er explained at this time: "In fact, Li Xia's military strength has not increased. His Tang army has only three thousand cavalry left.
Come to support Li Xia. This is a good thing for us."
"A good thing?" Hu Lahu'er asked back, "Then it's also a good thing that you keep losing battles. It will make it easier for us to control less territory."
Tacha'er said: "Ulu Hunai left the Ili River Basin and happened to encounter the Great Khan's personal expedition. He defeated her and Li Xia in one go, so as not to send another large army westward and save rations. Of course it is a good thing."
Kublai Khan said: "Bala, do you think
What do you think?" A young man among the sect kings stood up.
His name was "Bala", and he was the great-grandson of Chagatai. He was a cousin of Mubal Cisha, the son of Ulugh Hutai, and he had always followed Kublai Khan.
In other words, he is the person most qualified to inherit the Chagatai Khanate now.
"Great Khan, I think Uluru Kunai has not regarded herself as a woman of the Golden Family. It was she who killed my uncle and now my cousin, but she blamed all this on the Great Khan.
head. I am willing to lead the troops to defeat him and serve the Great Khan loyally forever."
"Very good." Kublai Khan nodded appreciatively and said, "The foal on the grassland has grown into a steed. Go get ready and wait for the Khan's order."
"yes!"
Ba Ci was overjoyed, bowed deeply, exited the tent, and prepared for the expedition. He was determined to kill Uluru Khunai and seize the throne left by his ancestors.
Kublai Khan took a look inside the tent and said, "Brother Sui is staying, and the others are leaving."
Brother Sui was his younger brother from a concubine, and was not good at arching and horsemanship. The reason why he was taken into the army was probably because Kublai Khan did not want his brothers to sit in the rear.
"Do you remember Uluru Hunai?" asked Kublai Khan.
Brother Sui responded: "Remember, when I was young, she came to seek refuge with our Eji. She was very beautiful, her eyes were as bright as gems, and her breasts were as full as mountains."
"Go see her and ask her if she still remembers the kindness the Tuo Lei family has shown her." "I won't go." Brother Sui said, "She will kill me."
"She won't kill you. You have begged for her mercy and are kind to her." "No matter what the Khan says, I won't go."
"Your wife is going to die of illness, right? You can marry her." Brother Sui was stunned for a moment.
Kublai Khan had already stood up, walked up to him, patted him on the shoulder, and said: "Tell Uluru Hunai that Ben Khan has agreed not to interfere with your Uluru Si again. Ask her if she wants to attack
Do you want the soldiers and horses of the Eight Thorns, or do you want the head of the Eight Thorns?"
Brother Sui was stunned again, surprised by Kublai Khan's statement.
As long as Uluru was willing to surrender, Kublai Khan was willing to kill him eight times. That day, when he walked out of the sweat tent, there was only one sentence left in his mind.
"Our Uluse? Our."~~
Chabi walked down from the second floor of the Khan tent and said, "Great Khan, Uluruhu will not agree."
"It doesn't matter." Kublai Khan said: "She is a person who misses old friendships and will not kill Brother Sui. As long as Brother Sui can see her, that's enough."
There was a look of contemplation in his eyes, and he added: "Li Xia only has three thousand people left. This is the only thing Tachar said that is right."
"Isn't the Great Khan worried about Zhenjin and Mangge's assassination?" Chabi asked.
"How could a father not be worried about his son?" Kublai Khan said with steely eyes, "Only by defeating Li Xia this time can we rescue Mang Ge La and find the real gold."
As he said this, he already looked at the map on the desk.
This map was marked by Tachar and Sargis, and clearly marked the military situation to the west of Helan Mountain. But Kublai Khan's eyes could see the entire battle situation through the map.
He suddenly murmured, "How biased."
"What did the Great Khan say that was so biased?"
"The battlefield is too far away." Kublai Khan said: "I originally thought that the decisive battle with Li Xia would be in Chang'an, or at least in Shaanxi. But now, why are you running to the west of Helan Mountain?"
"Is there something wrong?"
"Of course not. The battlefield is in Shaanxi. Only Li Xia has scruples and fears, and he will be restrained when the war begins. I was supposed to attack Tongguan, Yan'an Prefecture, and Liupan Mountain, but he led me here."
Kublai Khan's eyes were very deep.
He had already seen through Li Xia's thoughts.
But as long as we can defeat Li Xia, no matter where the battlefield is, it will be fine.