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Chapter 1103 Cobweb
Shaanzhou.

Also on the banks of the Yellow River, the Shanzhou section is much more turbulent than the Hetao, just like "the peaks are gathered together, and the waves are like anger".

The fight outside the city continued until the dawn, when more than a dozen people suddenly rushed out of the Yuan army's defense line.

"Stop them!"

"Fire arrows!"

After chasing for not long, a rain of arrows came from the front, shooting down the Yuan army who was chasing at the forefront, and the rest of them reined in their horses and retreated, scolding endlessly.

"The Tongguan defenders have come out."

"Withdraw, let them go..."

At the gate of the city, He Wei looked at the retreating soldiers with a cold face, his face was ugly, and he was about to shout, when a close friend stepped forward and said in a low voice: "Boss, Prime Minister Boyan has arrived."

"So fast?" He Wei was slightly surprised, and said, "You guys continue to search, and I'll go see the prime minister."

He turned around and entered the city gate, but he climbed up the tower first. Looking around, the sun just came out of the sky. At the end of the official road in the east of the city, he could already see the rumble of chariots and horses, and soldiers and horses were being mobilized.

……

"He Wei, the head of Henan Road Control Eagle Guard, has met Prime Minister Boyan!"

"Zhong Yun doesn't need to be too polite."

Unexpectedly, Boyan, who was born in Mongolia, was able to call out He Wei's name, speaking in Chinese, and his tone was very gentle.

"Prime Minister, please forgive me." He Wei said: "Last night, the Military Intelligence Division broke through the siege, but the general failed to stop it."

"Don't rush to talk about this." Boyan climbed to the top of the city in a hurry, and said: "I have been in Henan for more than three months, and today is the first time I saw Zhong Yun. I heard that you are the number one in controlling the Eagle Guard. The batch of thousands of households, as soon as they arrived in Henan, they found out the eyeliner Guo Hongjing, and he was young and brave."

"Thank you, Prime Minister, for your praise."

"I heard that your father once worked in Zhang's Sheshuai's residence in Baozhou. He was Marshal Zhang's deputy?"

He Wei quickly shook his head and said, "My father was recruited by Emperor Xianzong very early on, and he broke away from the Zhang family."

Boyan took a deep look at He Wei, and suddenly asked: "Then if the Zhang family rebelled, what would you do?"

"Please rest assured, Prime Minister, more than three years ago, when the general set off for Henan, he was received by His Majesty."

Boyan laughed loudly and said, "You have been in Henan for three years, and I have only been here for three months."

"The end general didn't mean that..."

"It doesn't matter." Boyan said: "The reason why I ask this, do you know what I mean?"

He Wei frowned, thinking of something, but refused to answer first, and replied: "Please advise, Prime Minister."

"In the past few years, Li Xia has been well-informed. Whenever there is any trouble in Dayuan, he will know it early. It can be seen that someone in the north must have been sending him news. Who do you think?"

"The end will not know."

"Don't know." Boyan suddenly raised his voice, "It's nothing more than the princes headed by the Zhang family and the Dong family who open their eyes and tell lies for a little benefit, saying that they maintain the smuggling with Guanzhong in order to send spies to Guanzhong. Three It's been a year, what did you spy on the Eagle Guard?!"

"Prime Minister calm down." He Wei didn't panic, and said: "This is the strategy set by Mr. Dong, and the general will just obey orders."

"Dong Wenbing is dead, he died in July."

He Wei was shocked, and there was sweat on his forehead, and said: "It's not because of collaborating with the enemy that I was..."

If Dong Wenbing colluded with the enemy, he, the head of the Henan Road Control Eagle Guard, hadn't noticed it all this time, then he would be finished.

Fortunately, Boyan said: "He died in the northwest."

He Wei breathed a sigh of relief.

After a dismount, Boyan patted He Wei on the shoulder and said, "Since I took office, you have done a good job."

As soon as he arrived in Henan, he immediately ordered a strict investigation of smuggling with Guanzhong, prohibiting anyone from passing through Tongguan, and strictly preventing the Military Intelligence Department from passing information to Guanzhong.In this matter, He Wei did a good job.

In the past two months, on the way from Shanzhou to Tongguan, even birds were not allowed to pass.

It is for this reason that Boyan has planned to introduce He Wei as his confidant.

"Thank you, Prime Minister, but last night, General Mo let the Military Intelligence Department break out." He Wei said.

"Military intelligence is everywhere, you have blocked it long enough."

"It is said that it is pervasive, but in fact there is a thread to escape. Its news channels are nothing more than Henan and Shanxi. As long as these two roads are blocked..."

"Let's not talk about these, the information they took away, do you know what it is?"

He Wei nodded and shook his head, took out a piece of bloody letter paper from his pocket, and said: "This is the information intercepted by the general, but I still don't understand it."

Boyan took a look at it, and saw that it was like a ghostly talisman, and asked: "Three years, how many eyeliners do you have in Guanzhong?"

"Yes." After a little hesitation, He Wei said, "But I'm afraid it's not as many as the Military Intelligence Division sneaking into Henan."

Boyan said: "Can you help me attack Tongguan together?"

He Wei didn't answer, but said in surprise: "The Prime Minister is attacking Tongguan at this time, I'm afraid the timing..."

Boyan raised his hand and interrupted the following words.

He was one of the people who knew the most about everything, and he sighed as he recalled everything after returning from the Ilkhanate.

"Do you know... how angry His Majesty is?"

When His Majesty was mentioned, He Wei dared not answer.

Boyan said: "I arrived in Kaiping City in Shangdu last year. At that time, envoys from all over the world gathered in Shangdu to congratulate His Majesty on putting down the rebellion against Brother Alibu and becoming the only great Khan in the Mongolian Kingdom. At this time, someone brought back After receiving the news, it said that Tianchi held the Kuliletai Conference, and Haidu and the kings supported Xiriji as the Great Khan.

His Majesty quickly taught Li Xia a lesson, making Song Guo and Li Xia turn against each other.At the beginning of this year, King Anxi was ordered to lead his troops to quell the chaos in the Western Regions, and King Yan was ordered to control Tubo, all of which were countermeasures.But Li Xia only returned to Chang'an from Song State in March, and had already appeared in Xingqing Mansion in May.By the time we got the news, King Yan had already disappeared. "

He Wei lowered his head.

He admitted that his news was too late.

King Yan's disappearance and Dong Wenbing's death in battle, if we really want to investigate carefully, it may not be impossible to investigate the Eagle Guard.

"You said Li Xia was so desperate to go to Xingqing Mansion to attack Dong Wenbing, why?"

"For King Yan?"

Boyan shook his head, but didn't say the answer directly.

This problem may not be seen by others, but some people can know it as long as they hear the news.

When Li Xia returned to Chang'an from the Song Dynasty, what could he do if he went straight to Xingqing Mansion without even sitting on his butt?Apart from the key point of Hetao, what else can it be for!
He took out the map and handed it to He Wei.

He Wei took it and spread it out for a look, and immediately asked tentatively, "Hetao?"

He had already seen on the map that Boyan had drawn a line from Jiuyuan City in several directions, like a spider web.

Interestingly, Jiuyuan City is about the same distance from Kaiping to the northeast, Yanjing to the southeast, Yan'an to the south, and Xingqing Mansion to the southwest, basically about a thousand miles.

Only it is more than two thousand miles away from Hara and Lin, and there is wilderness on the way.

"That's right, Hetao." Boyan said: "In addition to King Anxi leading the army to quell the chaos in the Western Regions, at the beginning of the year His Majesty also named the four princes the King of Beiping, and led the army to Hara and Lin to appease the Mongolian tribes together with King Yixiang. Once these two armies leave, apart from the defenders in Shanxi and Henan, there will only be His Majesty's Qixue Army and the defenders in Hetao."

This is not a secret, I am afraid that even Li Xia can calculate the approximate distribution of the Yuan army's strength.

A battle for sweat position was over, and another battle for sweat position started again, and at least two hundred thousand soldiers and horses were restrained in one north and one west.

"What's worse is that Tachar sent troops without authorization." Boyan said again: "He sent troops in June, but he still couldn't stop Dong Wenbing from being destroyed."

"Prime Minister means... Li Xia might win the Hetao?" He Wei was startled at this moment, and said in surprise, "In this way, if Li Xia invades the Central Plains from the north..."

"That's right. Once he gets a foothold in Hetao, the Central Plains' troops will be stretched."

What Boyan said was light.

If it is serious, he can say that once the Hetao is lost, Hebei will be lost, the Central Plains will be lost, and Dayuan may even be driven back to the grassland directly.

Da Yuan knew better than Li Xia how serious the consequences of losing Hetao would be.

After all, Boyan was only short of saying those four words directly - endangering life and death.

However, He Wei had already realized it, and said in a deep voice, "So we want to attack Chang'an, encircle Wei and save Zhao?"

"Your Majesty will never allow Li Xia to attack the Hetao." Boyan's face became more serious, and he said, "Li Xia's aggressiveness has completely enraged His Majesty, this time, even if he abandons the Western Regions, His Majesty will annihilate Li Xia with a thunderbolt. "

He Wei froze, then looked at the map, and saw Boyan's finger pointing from Kaiping to Jiuyuan.

With a start, he clasped his fists and said: "The general understands, and will fully cooperate with the prime minister to capture Tongguan!"

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It's late September, autumn and winter.On the grassland north of Yinshan Mountain, the cold wind blows like a knife.

Ai Buhua ran all night, the sweat on her body was blown by the wind, as if all the heat had been sucked away, she shivered on the spot.

But he stared at the big banner bathed in the morning light on the mountain in the distance, and his heart was full of fire.

Even though he admired Confucianism, he couldn't help blurting out a "profuse sweat" at this time.

"Is the royal conquest in person?"

The sound of gold ringing sounded again behind him. It was obvious that the Tang army's pursuers had noticed something was wrong and were retreating.

Ai Buhua quickly understood the situation.

Yinshan is divided into east and west sections, separated by Wuliangsuhai in the middle. He was stationed at the Urad Ranch in the eastern section of Yinshan last night.When the Tang army attacked him, he circled north, and then turned northeast to escape to Zhaowangcheng.

So he was in the north of Yin Mountain at this time.

And the Tang army who attacked him from the east was obviously Zhang Jue's soldiers and horses coming from the south, and they must be south of Yinshan Mountain.

In other words, His Majesty the Great Yuan Emperor was north of Yinshan Mountain in the eastern section, Li Xia was south of Yinshan Mountain in the western section, and Zhang Jue was south of Yinshan Mountain in the eastern section, so the two sides had not found each other for the time being.

If you have to take back the Urad Ranch, then you can prevent Li Xia and Zhang Jue from meeting and attacking each other.

"Li Xia is in the west!" Ai Buhua shouted immediately.

As he galloped his horse towards the Jiubaibai in the northeast, he asked the soldiers to remind the reinforcements ahead.

In this critical moment, he appeared very calm, proving that he was worthy enough to be the son-in-law of Emperor Dayuan.

Horseshoes thundered ahead.

Soon a fine horse appeared in front of Aibuhua.

"Break troops to the left and right! Those who dare to charge will be killed without mercy!"

First there was a shout in Mongolian, and then the soldiers shouted again in Chinese.

Ai Buhua hurriedly drove her horse to avoid it.

The sky was full of dust and smoke, and he looked up, and saw a big banner with the words "Shuntian Yidu Waiting for the Road to March Marshal Zhang Hongfan of Wanhudu".

In the blink of an eye, the big flag had already moved west quickly and disappeared into the dust and smoke.

To the east, the Yinshan camp of the Yuan army, Tachaer turned his head and saw the two Yuan armies passing by like a torrent, and whispered to Sajisi: "That boy who loves flowers is lucky, I thought he was dead this time."

"Yes, he escaped unharmed."

Tachar smiled, rubbed his face again to put away the ridicule, and walked towards the big tent with a solemn expression.

It was still An Tong who was guarding the tent door with a knife.

When he entered the tent, he didn't dare to raise his head, only dared to stare at Kublai Khan's boots and bowed deeply.

"Khan, I've lost King Yan, and I'm here to apologize..."

"Is your crime just losing real gold?"

A prestige voice interrupted Tachar, his tone was still calm, but it contained great anger.

"For the sake of my son, you don't even guard the Hetao. Do you think our Golden Family can give up the Central Plains? Answer me, is that right?!"

(End of this chapter)