There were many documents scattered in the hall. Li Xia sat alone by the desk and looked at the map when he heard footsteps coming from behind.
The sound was very soft, it was obviously someone walking on tiptoes, and there was a faint familiar fragrance wafting to the tip of the nose.
Then, Zhao Jin hugged his waist and asked, "What are you thinking about?" "Do you know where the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun is?"
Zhao Jin was stunned for a moment, and suddenly lost his interest in playing, and responded with some uneasiness: "I don't know."
"Huh? I really don't know?"
Zhao Jin had already come to the front, stood aside and looked at the map, and whispered: "Although I have always heard people talking about recovering the Sixteen States of Yanyun in the past, no one has ever told me which ten are.
"Liuzhou." "Maybe it's because they never really wanted to take it back."
Li Xia was too lazy to discuss Song Ting's attitude towards this matter. After all, Lin'an was still too far away from Yanyun.
"Your Majesty." Zhao Jin asked cautiously: "How many states have you recovered now?" "Counting the time, there should be two."
"two?"
Zhao Jin was very surprised and said: "We have already reached so far north, why are there only two of them?" "If Zhang Jue's march goes smoothly, he should have recovered Yingzhou and Mozhou." Li Xia clicked on the map.
, said: "That is, Hejian Prefecture, Renqiu, and Moting County areas."
He moved his finger up and mused: "If Kublai Khan continues to shrink his troops, Zhang Rou may have entered Zhuozhou by now."
"That is to say, we have just begun to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun." Zhao Jin looked at the vicinity of Yanjing on the map and wondered: "Where are they?"
"There are seven east of Juyongguan." Li Xia drew a circle on the map with his finger and said, "And in the area north of Shanxi and the border with the grassland, there are nine."
The area he painted stretches from Zhangjiakou to the north, Yanmen Pass to the south, Hetao to the west, and Juyong Pass to the east.
"It turns out this is here." Zhao Jin was quite surprised. "I always thought that the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun was in Hebei, but it turns out that more of them are in Shanxi. Why are you looking at this? I mean, aren't we going to capture Yanjing now?"
"In comparison, Yanjing is more of a symbol, the crown on Kublai Khan's head, and this area is the neck that needs to be strangled."
"Hmm...it's so hard to understand."
"Look, there is a vast grassland up here. This is Yanjing, and Yanshan Mountain blocks here. Which is the best and most guarded road from the grassland to Yanjing?"
"Ah, I understand. So why are the Sixteenth State of Yanyun so important?"
"If the Central Plains had not lost the Yanyun Sixteenth Prefecture, how could it have been humiliated so easily for more than three hundred years?" Zhao Jin looked around and gradually understood what Li Xia was doing.
Based on the intelligence on the front line and the situation of supplies and food in various places, he traced on the map where the large or small groups of soldiers and horses were, what the supplies and casualties were, and then deduced various possible situations and made judgments on the situation.
For example, a map of Yanmen Pass is filled with dense small characters, and there are also several pieces of information about the generals of both sides posted next to it.
She wanted to help more, but she knew too little... Then she remembered to take out a letter from her sleeve.
"Oh, you asked me to write the letter to my uncle."
Li Xia took it and put it beside the case, preparing to send someone to send him away later. Zhao Jin asked, "Can you surrender him?"
"You know what kind of person he is, so just give him one more choice.
Now Jia Sidao has not withdrawn his troops from Sichuan and Sichuan, at least Li Xia has not received the news. However, Li Xia believes that the Song army can no longer make too big a storm for the time being.
He analyzed the situation before and believed that when the three parties reached a stalemate, everyone was like a tight string. It would depend on who made the first mistake and whose string broke first.
Therefore, Li Xia chose the safest way, that is, to come back and take charge of Kaifeng, which is like the Tianyuan position on the chessboard.
As expected, Song Ting was the first to burst.
As soon as Lu Wenhuan shrank, the Song court immediately fell into chaos, fighting among themselves and suing for peace. With a "boom", Jia Sidao's string was broken first.
The biggest mistake Kublai Khan made was
They hoped that the Song Army would help contain them. Due to this influence, they were at a disadvantage when facing Li Xia alone and could only retreat further.
At this stage, what Li Xia wants is not to give Kublai Khan a chance to stand up. So, the key to this stage lies in the north of Shanxi, where the three provinces of Shanxi, Yixi and Inner Mongolia meet. Li Xia not only wants Zhang Hongdao, but also Zhang Jue to
With both main forces heading north, Liu Yuanli still needed to break through Yanmen Pass and Juyong Pass to completely surround Kublai Khan.
After thinking about the map all day, in the evening, Li Xia walked past Lin Zi. After a while, Lin Zi entered the palace.
"Your Majesty, this is the military information delivered today." "Has there been any battle report from Nie Zhongyou?"
Lin Zi said: "I haven't received it yet."
Li Xia pondered for a while and said: "Send a fast horse to convey the order to him, and then tell him that I need him to ensure that the Yuan army cannot sneak attack Guanzhong, and at the same time, I also need him to cross the Yellow River from the north and capture Yunzhou, Shuozhou and other places.
, to help Liu Yuanli break through Yanmen Pass."
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The first day of September, Juyongguan.
A group of cavalry rushed into Guancheng in the evening.
The leader, Ai Buhua, was wearing luxurious furs and majestic equipment. He climbed up the tower and looked eastward with longing eyes.
"Your Majesty, you can eat now." Tsukino came over and reminded.
Ai Buhua raised her hand and pointed, saying: "I'll leave the customs early tomorrow. Can I reach Dadu before dark? I don't know if the princess has made it to Dadu from Kaiping."
Yue Naihe was silent for a moment, but couldn't help but said: "Even if the king does not come to Dadu in person, the Great Khan will definitely send the princess to the Wanggu tribe."
"How could it be?" Ai Fuhua said, "In the past two years, I have asked the Great Khan many times, but he has never agreed."
"But it's different now." Yue Nahe said: "Your Majesty, you should know that the situation is changing like water. Ever since the Tang army conquered Taiyuan, the Great Khan's attitude towards Wang Gu's tribe has changed. Does your Majesty know that the situation is changing like water?
Didn't you notice?"
"That's a good thing, isn't it?"
"On the contrary, I don't think this is a good thing. When the Tang army attacked Yanmen Pass, it meant that other soldiers and horses, including the Shanxi princes, could no longer defend the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun. The Great Khan needed the herdsmen of the Wanggu tribe to come forward.
The battlefield. And after these defeats, how many herdsmen can the king have left?"
Ai Buhua sighed and said: "I understand what you said, but I am the grandson of Genghis Khan and the son-in-law of the Great Khan. The more critical the situation, the more I should share the worries of the Great Khan."
Yue Nahe glanced around, lowered his voice and said: "Even so, the king should not go to Dadu. He can stay in Yinshan and guard the retreat for the Great Khan. If the Great Khan is defeated by the Han people, he can go north to Yanshan.
The road is too narrow, and the best retreat is through Juyongguan... And here, we now need to rely on the Wanggu tribe to guard it."
"What do you mean?"
"In this case, the Great Khan should send Princess Yuelie to the grassland to marry the king instead of letting the king go to Dadu."
Ai Fuhua was displeased and asked, "You want me to force you to sweat?" Yue Noga looked embarrassed and wanted to say something else.
"Stop talking." Ai Buhua ordered, turned around and left.
The second day of September. Yanjing, Dadu New Town.
When Kublai Khan came back this time, he no longer stayed in the Daning Palace in Jinzhongdu, but moved to the newly built capital city.
Although the city walls and palace walls of Dadu have been built, most of the palaces have not yet been completed. Kublai Khan did not hesitate and directly set up his sweat tent.
What has to be said is that the Yuan army's cavalry was still marching faster than the Tang army. When Kublai Khan arrived, Zhang Jue was able to march to the vicinity of Anxu.
The two armies encountered each other, and after a brief battle between the vanguard troops and horses, Zhang Jue set up camp on the spot and remained defensive, unwilling to engage in an immediate decisive battle with the Yuan army.
Kublai Khan became vigilant about this. He did not immediately send a large army to attack Zhang Jue's camp because he had expected that the Tang army was waiting for more troops.
But the Tang army was almost gathering 100,000 troops in Hebei. "Here!"
The map was spread out, Kublai Khan scanned it with keen eyes, and immediately clicked on a place: Yanmen Pass.
"Pass this Khan's order to
Marshal of the Datong Military and Horse Command pressed Zhu'er and asked him to return to Fangyanmen Pass immediately... ""
When Kublai Khan issued these orders, he also felt another problem, that is, the Great Mongolia had been too tolerant of various Uluses in the past, making him unlike Li Xia who could command the marshals under his command.
When Mongolia was conquering gold, these Wanggu generals surrendered. Now who knows if they will surrender to Li Xia as well?
Just as he was thinking about this, a timid soldier Xue reported: "Your Majesty, King Aibuhua has arrived." Kublai Khan couldn't help but feel relieved upon hearing this, knowing that at least the leader of the Wanggu tribe had no intention of defecting "for the time being"...