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Although it is only the first ten days of October, the busiest farming season of the year has passed, and the common people have long been looking forward to the New Year's Eve.

The lands of the Six Routes of the Tang Dynasty are the places that have suffered the most from the wars in the past few decades, and what the people want is to recuperate.

They feel that the past two years have not been bad.

Although Li Xia crusaded against Song State in the first year when he became emperor, he sent troops out of Hetao in the second year.Fortunately, these were only small wars involving no more than 3 people, and did not bring too much burden to the people.

Today, people walking on the streets of Chang'an are still thinking about buying new clothes and household belongings. Few people realize that a difficult national war may befall them and change their lives.

Even if there are people who pay attention to current affairs in restaurants and tea shops, what they say when talking about national affairs is somewhat outdated.

"I heard that the officers and soldiers are attacking Hetao. I don't know if they have regained it."

"I didn't know where the Hetao is until I heard it from someone a while ago. You said that there is not enough land in Guanzhong. What are you going to do to recover that far away place?"

"What are you doing? Are you eighteen? I'm afraid you have forgotten the suffering of the wars in the past few years. If you don't unify the world, can you live in peace for the rest of your life?"

"Ah." The old man in the middle of the story sighed, and he also taught the little boy who had just spoken, saying: "It is reasonable for the officers and soldiers to attack Hetao. You can't be like those people in the Song Dynasty. They only want to be at ease. In the end, it's about death."

"Well, sixth uncle, third uncle, how did you learn these principles, one set of one set."

"Of course I heard it in the newspaper!"

"..."

The dusty Lu Xiufu walked past the tea shop, frowned sadly when he heard the people's discussion, and quickened his pace.

He rushed all the way to the Ministry of War, bowed his hands to the officer guarding the door, and said, "I'm at Gongchang Academy Lu Xiufu, I want to see Mr. Han, please pass it on."

When Li Xia became emperor, Lu Xiufu resigned.

At that time, Li Xia said that he didn't want anyone to die for Zhao Song under the rule, and he didn't want to let them go back, so he asked him to stay and teach.

In the blink of an eye, more than a year passed, and two months ago, Lu Xiufu heard that his teacher Wang Yinglin had also joined him, and his mood was quite complicated.

When he arrived in Jiangling, he wrote a letter to ask the teacher his views on the general trend of the world and integrity.

Wang Yinglin's reply didn't arrive until the next day, and Lu Xiufu heard an important event from Dong Kai, a friend of the same year.

Dong Kai is now the magistrate of Gongchang Mansion on Gansu Road. He is quite well informed and directly told Lu Xiufu the news of Kublai Khan's personal conquest.

"Junshi, great changes are about to occur. Your Majesty is still in Hetao. The country is employing people. You should recover. I can't give you high-ranking officials to let you display your talents. Go back to Chang'an. You are a great man in the world. You should have a great future." As."

At that time, Lu Xiufu did hesitate, but after thinking about it carefully, he still came.

……

Just recalling here, Lu Xiufu's eyes flickered, but the little official had come back and said: "Han Xianggong is not here, Marshal Liu invites Lu Xianggong in."

"It's not a husband anymore." Lu Xiufu walked into the military department, and said with a serious look: "Lu is just a man now."

The little official is puzzled, and has nothing to say with this scholar.

All the way to the lobby, I heard Liu Yuanli's scolding from afar.

"Then adjust the rations! This commander is not the head of the household department, he only needs rations, and the military pay must be ready within two months..."

Having said that, realizing that someone was coming, Liu Yuanli stopped talking, looked around, and narrowed his eyes slightly.

Of course he recognized Lu Xiufu.

When he was still Li Xia's enemy, he led a surprise attack on Hanzhong. In front of Yangping Pass, it was Lu Xiufu who fired a cannon that defeated him.

"What are you here for?"

When Lu Xiufu arrived in front of him, Liu Yuanli spoke calmly, full of majesty.

In the past, he was captured by Li Xia twice. At that time, Lu Xiufu was Li Xia's right-hand man. One of them was a prisoner and the other was a high-ranking official.

Now one is Baishen, the other is Marshal, and they are very different.

"I've seen Marshal Liu." Lu Xiufu saluted and said, "Lu wants to contribute to the country, and just now he went to Zhongshu to ask to see Mr. Han. I heard that Mr. Han has come to the Ministry of War."

"Old Mr. Han has already left," Liu Yuanli said.

"May I ask where he went?"

Liu Yuanli suddenly asked: "Do you want to contribute to the country?"

"Yes."

"What is it to be a Tang court? If you are unhappy, you will resign, and if you want to be an official, you will come back."

Lu Xiufu was silent for a while, and said: "Your Majesty once said something to me, how about sharing with Marshal Liu today?"

"Appreciate further details."

"There is a subjugated country, and there is a subjugated world." Lu Xiufu recalled Li Xia's words. Because he thought it was too vernacular, he couldn't help switching to his own style of words and sentences. Beasts cannibalize people and poison living beings, which is called perishing in the world.”

"so what?"

"Is it to protect the world or protect the country? Your Majesty said that the one who protects the country is the monarch and the ministers, and the meat eater seeks it out. But the one who protects the world..."

As Lu Xiufu said, he straightened his sleeves and said, "Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world. Now I am no longer a courtier of Song Dynasty, but just an ordinary man. When the world is in trouble, I should stand up."

Liu Yuanli snorted lightly and said, "Scholar."

~~
An hour later, a military meeting was held in the camp of the Guanzhong Army outside Chang'an City.

The elite soldiers have already stood in a row outside the big tent, guarding against death and not allowing anyone to approach at all.

Looking at this posture, it seems that even birds can't land on the top of the tent to listen to what is being said inside.

Not long after the generals gathered, they saw Liu Yuanli striding into the account with his sword in his hand.

"Big guy!"

"Put the map on."

"Yes."

A general turned his head again, and when he saw a person following Liu Yuanli, he was stunned for a moment.Kindly stepped forward and reminded in a low voice: "Commander, today's military meeting is no small matter, it's better not to bring new staff."

"He's not under my command." Liu Yuanli said, "Lu Xiufu, you've just recovered, and your official position hasn't been decided yet."

"The last general has heard of Lu Xiufu's name, and he is worried that this person is Zhao Song's master."

Liu Yuanli said indifferently: "His Majesty personally taught him his skills on the battlefield."

In a word, the generals in the account will no longer talk about this matter.

Soon, the map has been spread out.

Liu Yuanli stepped forward, glanced at the generals, and reconfirmed that they were all trustworthy confidants.

"The situation in Hetao, His Majesty has sent a message back. Although Kublai Khan is now personally conscripting, in fact, the Yuan army's strength is at most about [-]. Whether it is going south along the Qin Road or attacking Xingqing Mansion first, he must divide his troops. Then Guanzhong As long as another [-] reinforcements are sent northward, it may be possible to defend temporarily until the follow-up reinforcements arrive. Now His Majesty has mobilized the entire territory of troops, which is no different from the Yuan army."

While speaking, Liu Yuanli had marked the approximate distribution of troops on the map, and then subconsciously glanced at Lu Xiufu.

Sensing his gaze, Lu Xiufu asked, "Marshal Liu hasn't said where His Majesty is yet?"

Liu Yuanli ignored him again, and said, "Continue with what I said just now, since we and Meng Yuan's military strength are not too disparate, where is the biggest threat of Kublai Khan's personal conquest?"

He clicked on the Western Regions and drew an arrow from the Western Regions to Xingqing Mansion.

"This is the main force of the Yuan army, a total of 15 troops. At that time, the Yuan army will have 25 troops, plus the troops from Shanxi and Henan, and the whole country will have more than [-] troops. If you come out, it will be difficult to win."

Lu Xiufu looked at the map, a little dazed.

He fought with Li Xia in the battle of Qishan Road, and he knew Li Xia very well, and he had already vaguely guessed how Li Xia wanted to fight.

Too risky... that was his first reaction.

But he shook his head and thought again, since Qi Shandao could fight in the first battle, why didn't he dare to fight in today's battle.

The former Marshal Li has become today's His Majesty, can he even lose his combat power?
Lu Xiufu didn't realize that he might already be willing to call Li Xia Your Majesty in his heart, but he just stared at a location on the map, waiting for Liu Yuanli to continue.

He was looking forward to it, maybe he was expecting it to be right, maybe he was looking forward to something else.

Sure enough, Liu Yuanli raised his hand and clicked on the location on the map.

"We need to be prepared, if His Majesty defeats the 15 yuan army first..."

~~
The wind howled.

Thousands of miles above the desert are barren.

The son of Kublai Khan and King Anxi of the Great Yuan, Manrago rode his horse on the way back from the Western Regions.

He is young and heroic, with a sea dongqing parked on his shoulder.

With a roar, Hai Dongqing soared into the sky and flew eastward.

In the distance, its sharp eagle eyes seemed to see something, and it swooped down for a while.

It was on the other side of the red mountains, and there was a troop marching.

This army is huge, it has nearly [-] horses, and it is billowing in dust and smoke when it gallops, but the number of people is only more than [-], it can't be called a large army.

The Haidongqing flying in the sky still felt something different, it seemed that even it could realize that the murderous aura was not friendly to its master...