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Chapter 1107 Escape

The huge nine-headed white banner has been removed from the Yin Mountain and stands erect in the camp again.

Kublai Khan marched here the day before yesterday and camped here. He heard about Tachaer and Aibuhua's demise at night, and only then ordered people to move the white banner to the high mountain, and finally gathered the defeated army at dawn yesterday.

Yesterday the army did not set off again, with Zhang Hongfan as the vanguard to fight, and scattered out to scout horses to understand the situation first.

In the night, Heli Huosun went to Zhang Hongfan's camp to deliver news twice, and finally returned to the camp after dawn...

Two elephants were walking around in the camp. As they moved their thick legs, their ears flapped and their trunks swayed, looking very mighty.Anyone who came to play in the sweat tent would feel shocked when they saw it.

Kublai Khan was very fond of elephants when he marched south to Dali, so he brought them back specially, and asked Dali to pay tribute to the elephants before leaving... However, after Wuliang died in battle, the matter of tribute elephants disappeared.

A golden-roofed sweat tent as big as a palace is in the center of the camp.

The tent is supported by 36 gold pillars and fixed by [-] ropes, and it takes more than [-] steps to walk from one end to the other.It's two stories high, with stairs going up and down.The top of the tent is covered with golden brocade, and there is a lifelike golden eagle at each corner, surrounded by brocades of various colors.

There are two big flags standing in front of the tent, one side is written with "Dayuan" in Chinese characters, and the other side is written with "Great Mongol Kingdom" in Mongolian script. This number is still used in the document.

And this khan tent was only inhabited by Kublai Khan, and there were several relatively smaller tents behind it, which were the Oruduo tents of Queen Chabi and other queens and concubines.

Heli Huo Sun led several people onto the soft carpet and walked into the sweat tent all the way.

They didn't come early, and many people had already gathered in the tent. Many generals smelled strongly of alcohol, sweat, and horse manure, which mixed with the incense in the tent, forming a strange smell. smell.

This taste is like the status quo of this great Yuan today, fusion.

Heli Huosun believes that this fusion is precisely the greatness of his emperor.

The Han courtiers in the tent stood on one side, while the Mongols stood on the other. After hesitating for a moment, he still stood on the side of the Mongolian courtiers, but he stood closer to the side.

After waiting for a while, Kublai Khan slowly came over from the small tent behind him.

He was dressed in a white robe trimmed with gold, and he was of great build.With a round face and a big beard, the flesh on his face trembles slightly when he walks.

Like an elephant.

But he is more majestic than the two elephants outside the tent.

Finally, Kublai Khan sat down, and Chabi sat on the left and right with five other queens accompanying him.

"You are all here."

He spoke nonsense, and everyone hurriedly held their breath to listen.

In the past, the Great Khan of Mongolia did not discuss affairs like this. Whether it was the reign of Wo Kuotai or Meng Ge, all the kings kept saying that you and I kept talking, and regarded the Great Khan as the head of the family, but Kublai Khan was not only the head of the family. , he is still the emperor.

What he pursued all his life was the majesty of the emperor, but everyone was afraid of him, so he showed a kind and benevolent appearance again.

"Just now I was saying that the enemy Li Xia is like when I was young." Kublai Khan continued: "I don't like wine and beauties, I don't like gold, silver and jewelry, and I don't do ridiculous things. Larger territory, build the greatest empire in the world."

A general interpreter followed him to translate in Chinese for him.

"Li Xia is like me when I was young, he didn't like drinking, sex, and luxury..."

It has to be said that Kublai Khan is indeed similar to Li Xia in terms of his boring personality.

He is not like Genghis Khan who likes to snatch the enemy's wives and daughters, and he is not like Wo Kuotai who is addicted to wine and sex. He also does not have Meng Ge's obvious personality traits such as coldness, irritability, and stubbornness.

In the face of grand ambitions, his temperament, preferences, and beliefs can all be compromised.Believe in Buddhism, Taoism, or Confucianism?Use Mongols, Han people, or Semu people?None of it matters.

Most of the people in the tent could understand Mongolian, and by this time they had begun to think about what Kublai Khan meant.

Zhang Wenqian responded first: "Li Xia is far from worthy to be compared with His Majesty."

"No." Kublai Khan said: "I will not be stingy in praising him, just to let you know what a terrible enemy this is."

One sentence set the tone, and everyone responded one after another.

"Khan can rest assured, we will not let Li Xia go again."

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, the ministers will not despise Li Xia."

Kublai Khan said: "Then let's talk about how to hunt him down. Heli Huosun, you have returned from Zhang Hongfan's camp."

He Li Huo Sun hurriedly responded: "Yes, I have already conveyed His Majesty's will to Jiu Batu."

"Tell them too."

A huge cloth map was carried up and hung in the sweat tent.

The mountains, rivers and rivers on the map are relatively concise, but for the Yuan army, it is enough.

In the past, when the Mongolian cavalry marched eastward and westward, no matter what it was, glaciers, grasslands or mountains, they just stepped over.

Heli Huo Sun first said: "Your Majesty, Jiubadu also inquired about some military information last night, and sent his generals to report."

"Say."

A young general came out from behind Heli Huo Sun, bowed and said: "The last general, Li Ting, is named Laoshan. The Jurchens, whose original surname is Pucha, changed their surname to Li because they lived in the Central Plains."

If you are lucky, if you report your name like this, you can get the Mongolian name bestowed by His Majesty.

But Li Ting was out of luck today, Kublai Khan just asked him to tell him about the military situation he found out.

"Last night, General Mo interrogated the captives. He heard that Zhang Jue had already crossed the Yellow River. He brought more than 2 Tang troops with him and rushed all the way from Yan'an to Hetao. After crossing the Yellow River, he was still resting. Near Nanhaizi Wharf outside Jiuyuan City..."

Speaking here, Heli Huo Sun began to mark on the map.

"Zhang Jue is here, and Li Xia is at the Urad Ranch. There are seven to eight thousand people."

"I can't believe that just such a little Tang army can defeat the army of King Tacha'er and Aibuhua's son-in-law."

It was Zongwang Hulahu'er who spoke.

He is one of the grandsons of Genghis Khan's third brother, and also the king of the Eastern Dao. He has long refused to accept Tachar's status. He has endured it for a day and a night, and finally began to sarcasm.

Tachar was furious, and said, "It's because after the battle between me and Li Xia, he only has 8000 people left!"

"Then tell me, how many soldiers and horses have you killed Li Xia?"

"I killed him at least 2 people!"

Hulahu'er said: "The head was not chopped off, I don't believe it..."

"Don't even talk about it." Kublai Khan yelled, glanced coldly at these brothers, and said, "Heli Huosun, I want you to talk about it."

Heli Huosun was just a cowardly Hanlin waiter, he was very afraid to be sandwiched among these golden family patriarchs, so he continued talking cautiously.

"Your Majesty ordered Marshal Zhu'er, Marshal Zhu'er, to lead the troops here, and go south of Yinshan Mountain to block Li Xia's way to retreat to the east. But Zhang Jue is here, and Marshal Zhu'er will meet Zhang Jue first... "

"Sweat!"

Before saying a few words, another person entered the sweat tent, but it was the Mongolian Wanhu who was busy with the ancient belt.

"Khan, the military situation in Shanxi has arrived, and Ahema ordered someone to go to Yunnei Prefecture to send it."

Kublai Khan looked at it, looked up at the big map hanging in the sweat tent, and said slowly: "Yang Wen'an has not been annihilated, and has retreated to Qikoudu of the Yellow River. Order him to cooperate with Zhu You to surround Zhang Jue from the south." Ministry."

It was marked on the map again.

The situation on the battlefield changed rapidly, and with the arrival of two pieces of news, it was somewhat different from the one shown to Zhang Hongfan last night, but the encirclement circle was still the same.

Heli Huosun spoke again under Kublai Khan's gesture.

"Marshal Shi Tianze has already marched along the Yin Mountain, blocking the north of Li Xia. Marshal Hu Lanji is bypassing Wuliang Suhai to outflank Li Xia..."

More and more arrows are marked up.

On the map, Li Xia and Zhang Jue became two points, and the arrows pointing to them around them were already airtight.

The general situation is over.

Kublai Khan looked at Zhang Wenqian and said, "You are familiar with the terrain of Xixia, what do you think?"

Zhang Wenqian raised his hand and pointed at the map, and replied: "Your Majesty, the Holy Spirit, has laid out a net that will surely defeat Li Xia."

The topic changed, but he said again: "However, when Yu Jia first arrived at Hetao, the imperial edict was issued. This net can only be regarded as opened, but it has not been covered yet. I thought that Li Xia must escape before it is covered. "

Tacha'er stepped forward to look at the map, and said, "Li Xia will definitely flee, but he will not flee to the east, he will definitely flee to the west, and then return to Xingqing Mansion."

Hulahuer immediately sang the opposite tune, saying: "How do you know? I think Li Xia will definitely go east to join Zhang Jue, then cross the Yellow River south and flee back to Chang'an."

"You're ridiculously stupid." Tachaer sneered, "The problem is to cross the Yellow River here. How many boats does Zhang Jue have? How many people can he cross at one time? Li Xia didn't have time to cross the Yellow River, so he had to return to Xingqing Mansion."

"I also think that Li Xia will return to Xingqing Mansion." Aibuhua stood up, pointing to the map as well, and said: "If he meets Zhang Jue eastward, the target is too big, and he will definitely be surrounded by us. Only then can we disperse our troops and create the possibility of escape."

When all the ministers were discussing like this, only Kublai Khan's pair of very small but majestic eyes showed suspicion.

He raised his hand to stop the discussion, and asked, "Why are you so sure that Li Xia will escape?"

"Your Majesty, Li Xia is Xiao Xiao's generation."

Zhang Wenqian first answered in Chinese, and then explained in Mongolian.

"Li Xia was born in Song Tingxi. He is good at assassins and stealing. He has little courage and wisdom, but he has no courage! He may be able to mobilize hundreds of thousands of people and swallow thousands of miles? He can't do it. Only His Majesty has such courage. !"

Maybe he really thought so, maybe it was to highlight Kublai Khan again, Zhang Wenqian became more and more eloquent when he said it.

"What Xiaoxiao's people did was to take advantage of the civil strife in the Yuan Dynasty to instigate, alienate, and instigate rebellion. While the Yuan army was out, they sent more than ten thousand people to steal Hetao. This is an act of thieves! Just ask, a thief was hit by a big hero Broken, can you not escape?!"

"Hahahaha!"

All the officials in the Khan Tent, no matter they were Mongols, Semu people, or Han people, all burst into laughter.

They felt that what Zhang Wenqian said was on point.

Pointed out Li Xia's pettiness to the point.

"Hahahaha, how can a thief not escape?"

"..."

Only Kublai Khan's face became more and more ugly.

When he saw these courtiers today, the first thing he said was that Li Xia was very similar to him, in order to remind them not to underestimate the enemy.

But these courtiers ignored it.

Talking about Li Xia's pettiness, he laughed at Li Xia's inability to raise hundreds of thousands of people and swallow thousands of people... But he forgot how the Golden Family was able to raise millions of people, and how much hardship a hero has to go through to achieve success.

They thought that power and strength were innate, and they ignored Li Xia's narrow escape in ten years.

That would be tantamount to ignoring the perils and hardships that Kublai Khan has faced along the way from an unnoticed Zongwang to the Ninth Five-Year King!

Whoever started with hundreds of thousands of teachers, he almost died on the road to Dali in the south, almost died by the knife of his own brother!
thief?

He is also a thief.Stealing the position of the Great Khan of Mongolia, stealing the whole world!

The more he thought about it, the more Kublai Khan became angry at these courtiers' underestimation of the enemy, and finally knew why they were defeated by Li Xia time and time again.

He was about to point out that Li Xia should not be underestimated, and Li Xia might not withdraw.

The next moment, Zhang Hongfan's messenger arrived.

"Report! Your Majesty, Li Xia has moved his camp to the west..."

(End of this chapter)