The main force of the Mongolian army began to evacuate in batches in early March. In the eyes of many Mongolian army generals, they thought that Li Xia did not know that they were quietly retreating.
But in fact, only on the fifth day of March, Li Xia had already moved into Guanyao in Yanzhou City.
The hoop kiln is made of adobe, wheat straw and yellow mud. It looks like a house from a distance and a kiln from afar.
There are more hoop kilns in Yanzhou City, while outside the city there are more cave dwellings dug in the mountains.
This place is truly desolate and barren.
When Li Xia regained Guanzhong, there were very few Mongolian troops stationed in this area of northern Shaanxi, so it would not be difficult to capture Yanzhou once Liu Heima switched sides.
On the contrary, over the past year or so, Yang Dayuan led troops to invade, build a fortified city, and captured many refugees and Qiang people scattered on the Loess Plateau. Only a little smoke and fire started to appear inside and outside Yanzhou City... just a little bit.
As the commander-in-chief of one party, Zhang Jue arranged for Li Xia the most decent courtyard in Yanzhou City, and it also looked very simple.
There may have been more luxurious mansions in the city, but they were all demolished and built into the city.
The young general who led Li Xia to rest was only seventeen years old, his name was Shi Zheng, and he had met Li Xia once in Diaoyu City.
Shi Zheng admired Li Xia a little. He stuttered a little when he started speaking, but he slowly straightened his tongue.
But if I’m too nervous, I can’t speak out of my mind.
"The posthouse was demolished by the marshal a few days ago. Who allowed it to have big wooden beams? It's just in time for the cannons to be fired. Please ask the prince to live here. The marshal said, it's only for a day or two anyway, so we can make do with it."
The two soldiers on the side glanced at Shi Zheng in surprise, secretly saying that their team did not plan to be promoted.
"That's fine," Li Xia didn't care and said, "Bring Hao Tianyi here."
~~
"Bring over the defeated general!"
A group of prisoners were building city defenses, kicking the rammed earth with their feet. Despite the cold spring weather, sweat was still dripping on the loess.
Hao Tianyi was among them and turned around when he heard someone shouting.
He was in his thirties, tall and muscular. Although his hands and feet were shackled and he looked very embarrassed, he still stood out among the prisoners. He was full of aura, making the two soldiers guarding the prisoners look like his followers.
He was also very annoyed at being held here to do labor.
Generally speaking, when a general is captured, he will either kill him or show mercy and persuade him to surrender. Let the dignified Taiyuan Route Army have all the households in charge of ramming the soil. How much soil can be rammed?
It's simply humiliating.
Mongolians are not so rude.
Someone finally saw him today. It seems that Zhang Jue still remembers that he, Hao Tianyi, is a prince...
After being escorted into a newly cleared courtyard, Hao Tianyi saw the tight security outside and immediately guessed that the person who wanted to see him was not Zhang Jue, but his status was not low and he had not been in Yanzhou City before.
Sure enough, a young man was washing up in the yard. His boots were full of mud. He had obviously traveled a long way today.
As soon as the young man turned his head, he had a handsome face, a graceful manner, and a calm and confident expression... Hao Tianyi immediately had a vague guess in his heart.
"Do you know that the Mongolian army has withdrawn?"
"Retreat? Impossible."
"Do you know who I am?"
"Li Xia?" Hao Tianyi made a test question, then shook his head and said, "I don't believe it."
Li Xia smiled, took off his boots and sat there soaking his feet to wash away his fatigue. He leaned there and picked up the military map of Yan'an and looked at it.
Hao Tianyi dragged the shackles forward and said: "I don't believe that Li Xia will suddenly come to Yanzhou City with a large army surrounding him, unless the Mongolian Empire has increased its troops in northern Shaanxi."
"It doesn't matter if you believe it or not, I can let you go back."
"What?"
Li Xia did not repeat it again. Obviously, Hao Tianyi had already heard it.
"Can you let me go back?"
"I will meet Yang Dayuan tomorrow. You can go with me and I will let you go."
"you……"
Within a few words of the meeting, Hao Tianyi was completely stunned.
He had to stop and think about what the current situation was and what Li Xia's purpose was.
"You, you want to recruit me? Don't be wishful thinking."
"Let me tell you frankly." Li Xia said, "I let you go back just to alienate you. Naturally, some people will wonder why I let you go back. It's up to you to explain it how you want."
"You made the wrong calculation..."
Hao Tianyi was about to refute, but when he stopped talking, he thought of refuting Li Xia. He didn't know what to do, so he kept silent.
The aura was completely covered by Li Xia.
Although Li Xia is young, he has transformed his title of Wang Jue into a kingly aura.
"Maybe. But it doesn't matter whether you surrender or not. I'll let you go back. The only thing I want to separate is all the princes and Kublai Khan. Do you understand? Kublai Khan has lost a battle, and people's hearts must change. You go back,
Just bring this change back.”
This was a hard word to say, and Hao Tianyi didn't understand it right away.
But he could feel a hint of domineering in Li Xia's tone, the kind of domineering that belongs to a winner.
Even if it is a small victory, a tragic victory, a narrow victory, a victory without force, a victory is a victory.
Back then, the Mongols were able to subjugate countless heroes from the Central Plains. Wasn't it because of the kind of tyranny accumulated through continuous victory?
…
The sky quickly darkened.
Li Xia rushed to Yanzhou City for three consecutive days. After a long journey, he sat under the sunset and said these few words to Hao Tianyi before going to rest.
Hao Tianyi rarely had to work tonight, so he was taken down to settle down, and he would follow Li Xia out of the city to meet Yang Dayuan at dawn.
He couldn't sleep.
Li Xia was so arrogant because he had not yet accepted the Mongolian withdrawal.
"It doesn't actually matter whether you surrender or not."
Li Xia's words always echoed in his ears.
It makes people feel slighted.
Also, in this battle, I lost my way first, and ended up being captured before the results were achieved.
If you have bad luck once, you may be known as a mediocre person for the rest of your life.
Hao Tianyi couldn't help but feel sad.
After that, I thought of his father, Hao Monk Batu.
What's the shame in being captured? My father was a prisoner since he was a child, and didn't he become a famous general in the end?
Hao Tianyi couldn't help but be startled by this thought.
It wasn't that I wanted to vote for Li Xia, but I started thinking about things I had never thought about before, like a piece of porcelain cracking.
…
When the sky started to dim, Hao Tianyi was called out and escorted out of the city with Li Xia.
The Loess Plateau is vast and desolate, and a group of people are riding their horses northwest along the Yanhe River.
Surrounded by horses galloping into the distance, you can still faintly feel the sound of horse hooves behind you. It is Zhang Jue who is holding the battle for Li Xia. If Yang Dayuan wants to attack Li Xia, he is afraid that Zhang Jue's desire to fight in the field will be fulfilled.
Traveling with Li Xia is not boring.
Generally speaking, the younger the superior, the more nervous he is, fearing that he will not be able to control the situation. But this young prince did not put on airs and was quite friendly towards his soldiers.
After talking about the customs and customs of that year, some soldiers from the local area responded to Li Xia's inquiry and sang Xintianyou.
He was a young soldier under Shi Zheng's command. He was completely characteristic of northern Shaanxi people. He was dark-skinned, cheerful and carefree.
He held the rope with one hand, raised his head and sang loudly.
"Oh my God! Oh my God!"
The high-pitched singing voice seems to pierce the sky, as if to vent all the emotions.
"Home! People!"
"The burning clouds in the sky, the green wheat sprouts on the ground..."
~~
"It rains in the east and sunny in the west. How long does it take for people to suffer before they can live a good life?!"
"..."
On the north bank of Yanhe River, Yang Dayuan stood on his horse and heard the singing coming from far away.
His ancestral home is Qinzhou in Longxi Province, but he arrived in Sichuan and Shu very early and has already adapted to the beautiful mountains and clear waters of Shu and the warm and humid winters. Northern Shaanxi is too dry for him.
Only the folk songs here are similar to those in Shu, making people miss their hometown every time they listen to them.
In fact, when he surrendered that year, he thought that Mongolia was going to destroy the Song Dynasty in one fell swoop. After all, Meng Ge Khan personally conquered the country and was coming fiercely, and the Song Dynasty was in danger.
Then he thought, there was nothing he could do, he could no longer defend the country, and for the sake of the people in the city and his family, he had no choice but to surrender.
The reason why Wang Jian persisted was because he was determined to die for his country and did not expect to win.
At that time, no one expected this result.
God's will plays tricks on people.
Yang Dayuan was filled with these complaints and reluctance.
He squinted and finally saw Li Xia's team coming this way.
Both sides stood on one side of the river, and their soldiers were still on guard.
Yang Dayuan squinted his eyes for a while, and when he was sure that Li Xia was really here, he got off his horse and walked forward.
This move startled Yang Wenzhong behind him.
"Uncle! You..."
"Don't worry about me! Wait! Don't worry, Li Xia won't kill me."
Yang Dayuan raised his hand and without looking back, he stepped onto the small raft on the Yanhe River alone and rowed towards the other bank with his own pole.
~~
Hao Tianyi was still holding on to luck, thinking that Li Xia was just tricking him, but in fact he did not repel the Mongolian army.
But when I saw Yang Dayuan rushing over in such a hurry, I couldn't help but be shocked. I secretly thought that if Yang Dayuan rebelled, it would be a big shock to the people of the north.
Hao Tianyi wanted to curse a few words, such as, "Yang Dayuan, you coward, I invited you to attack Zhang Jue together, but you refused to save him."
But he understood that taking it out would only embarrass himself and increase Li Xia's prestige.
This scene and situation make people extremely uncomfortable.
What Li Xia wanted was to make these people who served Mongolia feel uncomfortable. He glanced at Hao Tianyi, let him watch, and walked towards Yang Dayuan.
Judging from the fact that Yang Dayuan killed the Mongolian envoys to persuade them to surrender, Li Xia knew that his people were not willing to surrender to Mongolia.
~~
Semen Village.
"Report to the general! It has been discovered that Zhang Jue leads more than a thousand troops and is more than ten miles away from Yanhe Ferry..."
Yang Wen'an narrowed his eyes, thinking that he could give Li Xia a try, then he raised his hand and said, "Let's go."
He had already put on a suit of armor and was sitting astride a war horse, with hundreds of fine horsemen behind him.
The gate of the village opened, and the leading cavalry poured out like flowing water.
"Hush!"
Another Xinma arrived from behind and approached Yang Wen'an and said something.
"General, Duke Xu, the angel of Yanjing, is arriving soon."
"I know. I asked Wen Can to go and greet him first. Then he said that there was a war crisis and he respectfully asked Mr. Xu to wait a moment."
"This... the deputy commander has told Mr. Xu about Li Xia. Mr. Xu asked the general not to attack. He has his own plans."
~~
At the same time, Xu Heng was sitting in a carriage on Qinzhi Road to the north.
He had heard about Li Xia's sudden arrival in Yan'an, but he commented calmly.
"Back then, Yang Dayuan first killed Wang Zhong, as if he was determined to die for the Song Dynasty, but in the end, didn't he still choose to surrender? Look at what he wants, not just what he says, but how he chooses in the end...
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