Lian Xixian turned around eagerly and asked: "Coming?! Who is coming?"
The guard outside the door turned sideways and welcomed a dusty man in.
The man took off his hijab, revealing a young, delicate and haggard face.
"Junshi?"
Lian Xixian knew Lu Xiufu, and they met only a few times. After Li Xia came to the throne, Lu Xiufu resigned and went to Longxi to teach.
Someone listed a few celebrities in the world who are young, talented and famous, including the two of them, Zhang Fanhong, Wen Yunsun, and perhaps this year there will be an additional Boyan who has been the prime minister of the Yuan Dynasty.
When they met at this time, Lian Xixian was deeply surprised.
"It's really Junshi, why are you here?"
He took a detour and finally occupied the valley. What he had to do now was to completely defeat the Tang army that fled to the top of the mountain. There were only more than a thousand people left.
"Military information, can you still talk about it?"
"Does the Tang army only have follow-up troops? Hehe. After all, Tuohu has gathered his troops and horses, and is he in the rear?"
"Yes. The mountains to the south are not high. There is a river after climbing over it. I have tried exploring the horse. The river looks very dangerous, but as long as you avoid a few dangerous shoals, you can swim across the river. Then you can cross a cliff valley."
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Xingqing Mansion.
The formation and march of the troops in each group have been almost completed, and the fighting in various small battlefields is becoming increasingly fierce.
"You remind me of Shi Shu." Shi Tianze sighed.
"We and Li Zengbo came on a hasty march, and we didn't bring much luggage." Zhang Hongfan began to talk about the battle situation.
A scout horse came from the east side of the valley.
But no one knows which team will be the first to defeat or win. Everyone can only be cautious and wait.
"He has soldiers under his command, so I thought I couldn't understand the Shu people."
"It's best not to joke." Lu Xiufu said, "Meng Yuan is trying to recruit you to surrender?"
Lu Xiufu was halfway through his words when his eyes fell on the desk and suddenly froze slightly.
"It's a great place. It's backed by the Helan Mountains and faces the Yellow River. It's dangerous and close to the south of the Yangtze River. It has fertile water and soil. It's much better than Ansai City... but the population is too small."
Shi Tianze asked: "Can we get around it?"
Zhang Hongfan squinted and saw the arrow on his armor. He quickly stepped forward and whispered: "Pull out the arrow...have you encountered the Tang army?"
Lian Xixian occupied this place, so that Yang Wen'an could not cut off the Tang army's supplies, but he also did not dare to leave Xingqing Mansion to support Kublai Khan.
"If Kublai Khan wins this battle, can he make me the general manager of the military and civilians of this place?"
I don’t know which dynasty built the Pingqiang Fort. It was named after the purpose of quelling the Qiang invaders. It faces Sanguankou Post Road to the west, Xingqing Fucheng to the north, the Yellow River to the east, and the only way to go south.
road.
"What do you mean? Who has control over it?"
Li Xia, who was fighting as a whole nation for the first time, was not very good at strategic command and sometimes found it difficult to grasp.
"There is no time." Lian Xixian said: "I will take the responsibility and order the generals to continue heading north without delay!"
Zhang Hongfan strode across the battlefield, raised his telescope and looked toward the mountaintop to the north.
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Sanguankou, Hongjinggou.
"Thank you."
The Sanguankou Post Road is an east-west official road that passes through a valley in the Helan Mountain section. Dead Man Mountain is at the far west of the valley. Zhang Hongfan was referring to a place called Hongjinggou.
Before entering the topic, Zhang Hongfan pointed to the east and said: "Yang Wen'an gave me a nickname behind his back and called me a loyal dog."
Yang Wenzhong turned his head and asked: "You just said 'if we win', do you think there is still a possibility of defeat for His Majesty to conquer personally?"
He knew that this was the last moment. Whether he would win or lose, the dice had already been rolled out. He just waited to open it this time, so there was no need to lose momentum.
Shi Tianze said: "This is a good nickname. I envy you very much."
Basically, it can be said that he has completed the preliminary strategic concept.
Yang Wen'an did not answer, but frowned and looked at the sky, muttering: "Yes, can we?"
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The tenth day of February.
"Let's go, I'm willing to admit defeat." Li Xia murmured in his heart.
The valley is littered with corpses.
Yang Wen'an and Yang Wenzhong stood on the top of the city and pointed in the direction of Pingqiang Fort in the south.
Zhang Hongfan said as he clicked on a location on the map.
"Did Zhang Wenqian go to recruit Lian Xixian again today?"
It was agreed upon that Zhang Hongfan would leave most of his troops to attack Shirenshan under the command of Shi Tianze, and personally lead a partial division to sneak attack on the rear.
"It's difficult." Yang Wen'an shook his head to get rid of this thought.
"We," Yang Wen'an said, "we have various generals."
The two-day offensive was just a test. Shi Tianze and Zhang Hongfan quickly figured out the actual strength of Li Zengbo's troops, and they immediately started discussions after withdrawing their troops that day.
"Li Zengbo is counting on the baggage sent from the east, and I have already sent scout horses to investigate. We only need to capture the mountain pass to the east to cut off Li Zengbo's baggage line and rob the baggage on this road."
At this juncture, the two of them trust each other and are both very capable. This battle is already certain to be won.
"Counting the time, it's almost time."
Lian Xixian took two steps and made some gestures on the map with his finger.
He saw that it was a letter from home, signed "Lian Ximin" and the beginning of the letter was "My brother Xixian".
"The villain climbed up and looked at it. The follow-up reinforcements from the Tang Army have arrived and are expected to arrive tomorrow."
"Understood." Yang Wenzhong said: "If we can defeat Lian Xixian, can we help His Majesty defeat Li Xia?"
On the entire battlefield, perhaps all commanders understood this truth.
"good."
"yes……"
"With Lian Xixian's reputation, it won't happen. He is just dragging it out, waiting for the follow-up troops."
Of course, this is only the most ideal situation. The actual situation is that half of his army is infantry and there is a lot of baggage. Once he leaves the camp, he is more likely to be defeated first.
But in the current situation, if there is no chance of victory again, and if we just want to survive, it seems that abandoning the camp and heading south is the safer way.
…
"How did you know?"
"This is?"
"Continue heading north."
What could be seen everywhere was the Tang Army's wheelbarrow lying on the ground, and fodder scattered in a pool of blood.
Yang Wen'an turned to look at Helan Mountain, thought for a while, and drew a rough situation map on the wall with a dagger.
Finally, he shook his head and steeled himself again.
"What do you think?"
He tapped his fingers in several places.
"Can we?"
The two of them had a tacit understanding and both understood the meaning of this matter. It was just that Yang Wen'an was unreliable and he had to rely on himself to win. In addition, Zhang Hongfan also expressed his determination to conquer the third pass with all his strength.
Lu Xiufu was silent for a moment.
Moreover, as they said before the war, they would not let any factors outside the battlefield ruin the situation of the war.
"I don't really want him to come." Yang Wen'an suddenly changed the subject and asked, "What do you think of Xingqing Mansion?"
"Keep your breath, doesn't Kublai Khan feel anxious? He can keep his breath better than him."
Lu Xiufu looked at him deeply and resisted not turning his head to glance at the letter on the case.
"Brother Shanfu has made the decision. Do you want Your Majesty to make a decision?"
Lian Xixian understood the idea and hurriedly pushed back the people around him. He then said, "But something happened in Guanzhong? The troops sent by Liu Yuanli should have arrived long ago. Why didn't they arrive?"
Momentum is not something that can really be achieved by riding an elephant.
"I don't know if Lian Xixian has met him or not. Even if he agrees to surrender, who knows if it's a counter-intuitive plot."
Everyone on the entire battlefield was waiting for this news.
The war has been raging for some time.
He used his troops carefully and would not be taken advantage of by the enemy's reinforcements during a fierce battle. Even in a sudden attack, the scouting horses dispersed unusually far.
Li Xia thought about it over and over, and suddenly began to hesitate.
The national destiny of the two countries has been placed in their hands.
Now in the various small battlefields on the east and west sides of Helan Mountain, as long as there is one place that determines the outcome first, it can affect the whole body.
"good."
"Yes, Zhang Wenqian is in Xingqing Mansion, and letters of persuasion to surrender are sent every day." Lian Xixian admitted frankly, saying: "If I had other intentions, I would have just collected these letters and seen Junshi again."
"Say it softly."
"I knew Brother Shanfu was worried, so I came here to ask him a question in person..."
"Brother, you see, what the Mongols are best at is plundering and plundering, wiping out all the enemy's national power. But this time, Kublai Khan was either afraid of the Tang army's artillery or thought he could
It doesn’t matter if we surround and kill Li Xia in one fell swoop. Now it has become a decisive battle, and with the situation like this, the victory or defeat is no longer in the hands of Kublai Khan and Li Xia."
Finally, he added: "The news is not yet accurate at the moment. General Xu doesn't know whether to wait for Marshal Liu's order or to continue heading north. We don't dare to say anything for fear of shaking the morale of the army, so we just came to ask you."
Zhang Hongfan didn't like this comparison, but knowing that Shi Tianze meant no harm, he still said "Thank you".
Fortunately, Yang Wen'an was good at defense and defended the city without giving Lian Xixian a chance to break the city.
As the Yuan army began to attack, the Mountain of the Dead became a veritable mountain of the dead.
Zhang Hongfan just nodded, his expression calm.
"Brother Shanfu." Lu Junshi caught up quickly, looked around, and seemed to be whispering secretly.
"Handsome."
"yes."
Lu Xiufu nodded and whispered in Lian Xixian's ear.
Lian Xixian smiled and said, "Junshi came here specially and asked me face to face what this is?"
He actually has another way - if the war situation is unfavorable, he can abandon the Dingyuan camp in Panpan Mountain. Concentrate his troops and go south, first join forces with Kong Xian to defeat Hu Lahu'er in the south, and then join forces with Li Zengbo to defeat Shi Tianze.
Zhang Hongfan.
Thanks to this, he now still has one night to capture the top of the mountain and set up a defensive line to block the three-pass post road.
This opportunity to decide the outcome in a battle finally fell on his head.
As for the opposite side, Zhang Hongfan once again raised his lookout tube and looked at the general flag of the Tang Army. The word "Pi" was written on it.