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Chapter 1114 Traces of the Tang Army
"Did you find Tang Jun?"

Zhang Hongfan quickly glanced to the northwest, but he could only see the rolling mountains. He was surprised that the news came back so quickly, and asked, "Where is it?"

"It's north of Wuliangsu Lake."

"Where?" Zhang Hongfan was even more surprised, with some doubts in his eyes, he said to himself: "Is Li Xia really going to sneak attack His Majesty?"

With such an expression on his face, Shi Bang raised his hand and pointed at Zhang Hongfan, and said, "This is the result of your pursuit of Tang Jun. If my father hadn't been vigilant, Tang Jun would have almost disturbed His Majesty."

Zhang Hongfan still didn't quite believe it, and said: "I defeated a Tang army before, and some of the defeated soldiers fled to that area. Could it be these defeated soldiers?"

"According to the report from the detectives, this Tang army has been formed and has at least 500 people. It attacked our one thousand household team. It doesn't look like a broken army, so I worry that it is Li Xia's vanguard force."

This news made Zhang Hongfan temporarily forget the strategy that Li Xia might implement just now, and began to think about it.

Shi Gang couldn't wait to return to Shi Tianze's army to make contributions, so he turned around and left without even saying hello.

When he turned around, he saw a rather unique scenery from a distance. He raised the binoculars to take a look, and couldn't help but let out a "Huh" and said in surprise, "That said?"

"Rengen Peak." Zhang Hongfan said calmly.

It was a huge reddish-brown stone pillar standing majestically, pointing directly at the sky.

"Haha, isn't this too similar?" Shi Bang said, "It's as big as mine."

"It is said that it was left after Fuxi and Nuwa created humans, to keep your descendants alive."

"interesting."

Shi Gang smiled, got on his horse, and galloped away.

~~
To the north of Wuliangsu Lake.

A remnant of soldiers was leading a horse through the reeds.

"Are you still a chick?" Wang Mancang, who was still chatting with people while walking, suddenly asked in surprise, then smiled, and said: "There are two wonders on the other side of the back cover. , the two mothers said that Fuxi and Nuwa gave birth there, and then left the words, you can go and have a look later, it is very interesting."

"I didn't want to read it. I just said one thing and I haven't asked my wife yet... Besides, what Empress Nuwa left behind...then...you can't watch it, right?"

"The locals are just talking nonsense, coaxing childless people to pray for blessings." Wang Mancang was silent for a moment, and said: "It's useless to lie."

"Ok."

"As long as I live, there will be a wife."

"Stop talking." Wang Li finally got impatient, turned his head and said in a low voice, "Aren't you afraid of being discovered by Yuan Jun?"

After they were defeated by Zhang Hongfan, they gathered together the defeated soldiers and managed to pull up this team of nearly 500 people.

But basically everyone is wounded, and their combat power is not high. What they want to do now is to return to the main force.

They were heading west. Two days ago, they encountered a group of Yuan army scouting horses. Fortunately, they were the first to discover each other at that time. After dark, they made a sneak attack and robbed some luggage.

After interrogating the captives, they learned that the west was blocked by Shi Tianze's army, so they decided to turn south and find a way to cross the Yellow River back to Shaanxi.

As we walked, Mongolian singing could be faintly heard in front of us.

Wang Li immediately became alert and raised his hand to signal everyone to silence.

He and Wang Mancang looked at each other, and Wang Mancang made a gesture to make him wait in place, squatted down, and walked forward slowly.

Pushing aside the reeds, you can see more than a dozen herdsmen hunting by the lake, each with a bow and arrow.

After observing for a while, no trace of Yuan army was found around.

Wang Mancang greeted his comrades with gestures, raised his crossbow arrows, and started a killing.

"Puff puff puff..."

Amidst the screams, someone suddenly said: "General, here is a child."

Then there was a childish voice begging for mercy in Mongolian.

"Don't kill Drorick, Drorick is your excuse and your property..."

Wang Mancang turned his head and took a look. Seeing that no one else was cutting the child kneeling on the ground, he raised his knife and stepped forward.

In the end, Wang Lixian stood in front of the child and asked in Mongolian, "You are hunting here. Where is the tribe's residence?"

"Sucha Hetan over there."

"South?" Wang Li asked again: "Is there a Yuan army in the south?"

"Have!"

Although Zhuo Like was young, he looked very sensible, and immediately said: "There are many, many Yuan troops in our tribe, and they are here to look for the Han emperor."

Wang Li was taken aback.

He didn't understand why the Yuan army was looking for Li Xia here, but when he asked again, Zhuo Like didn't know anything else.

"Kill him." Wang Mancang stepped forward and said, "This little captive looks young and very cunning. In order to protect his tribe, he lied to us that there are a large number of Mongolian troops to the south."

"I didn't lie to you, you defeated the master, Drorick is your excuse, I won't lie to you..."

"Excuse me? Where is your father?"

"My Abu was conscripted by the Great Khan before. In order to buy a saddle, he sold Erji, and Erji later gave birth to me..."

"Don't believe him, he's a Mongolian." Wang Mancang said, "Let's go, we don't have time to listen to this little captive boy tell stories."

Wang Li thought for a while and said, "But there are a large number of Yuan troops in the south."

"Can you trust him?"

"As generals, we have to find out the real news from all kinds of true and false battle reports." Wang Li said: "Trust me, I can tell the real news from the fake news."

Wang Mancang took two steps and said, "Okay, what do you say."

"We're going north."

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The sound of eagle chirping startled the sky and suppressed the clouds.

"Xionkuru is back!"

Brother Mang stabbed out of the tent, and saw his Haidongqing landed on the shoulder of the eagle keeper.

His sharp eyes narrowed slightly, and immediately became angry.

"My lord, Xiongkulu is injured!"

The eagle breeders are not the grooms that people in the south think they are. They belong to the Kexue army, and they are the most distinguished unit in the Kexue army, named Yabaochi.

In order to deal with Li Xia's military intelligence department, Kublai Khan even bestowed the name "Yabaochi" on his own intelligence agency because of the honor of the name.Those spies translated Yabaochi as Eagle Guard, and they felt very proud of it.

Even people who raise eagles have such a status, let alone the eagle itself.

At this time, Hai Dongqing who stopped there seemed extremely dissatisfied, and beeped twice.

Brother Mang looked where he fell, and saw that its claw was cut, and it was hit by an arrow... an arrow?

He stepped forward, took the arrow, weighed it carefully for a while, and suddenly shouted: "Tanma is back?!"

"not yet."

"Send scouts to the east again!" Brother Mang yelled sharply, "There must be Tang troops ahead."

"How can you be sure, Your Highness?"

A Han scholar got up from the campfire and walked over.

This person is only in his thirties, his body and appearance are all extraordinary, he is Mang Ge's Prime Minister, Li Dehui.

Li Dehui became an official at the age of 16.More than ten years ago, when Wang Dechen stationed troops in Lizhou, he relied on him to dispatch and supply the military rations. At that time, he had already made his mark at a young age, and he even attracted the attention of Alan Da'er, and he was imprisoned during the exam.

After Kublai Khan ascended the throne, Li Dehui served as the Xuanfu envoy of Yanjing.

He was also one of Zhenjin's teachers, but after Mangala was named King Anxi, he asked Li Dehui to be his assistant minister, and Kublai Khan then ordered him to be Mangala's prime minister.

"Teacher, please look at this arrow."

At this time, busy brother Raben was about to throw the arrow over, seeing Li Dehui coming, he changed it to handing it out with both hands, and said in Chinese: "There seems to be Tang Jun in front of us."

"Tang Jun?"

Li Dehui took the arrow and looked at it for a while, then looked to the east, and said: "Your Highness might as well order to march slowly, and make plans after our scout horse and His Majesty's messenger arrive."

You must be careful, but Li Dehui is a prudent person, he will not go to war just because he sees an arrow, and he puts forward a safe proposition.

"I'll listen to Wang Xiang." Brother Mang replied sharply, his tone seemed a little refined.

But in fact, he is not as good at Confucianism as Zhenjin.

He is more like Kublai Khan, brave and heroic.

He is almost 23 years old, but in fact, he did not have his first Han Chinese teacher until he was 20 years old, and he was a real celebrity Li Pan.

Because Li Pan had been a lecturer of Ali Bak, when Mangge chose Wang Xiang, he chose Li Dehui who was more practical.

It can be seen that what he loves is not Sinology, but the throne.

Of course, Li Dehui could see this, and he always felt embarrassed.But the news that came not long ago made him change his mind.

Zhenjin, the King of Yan, is missing, and he may even be dead, but Manggela shows more and more inclination to get close to Hanchen, and proposes to return to the east.

The original words are "Dayuan should first pacify the Central Plains, and then settle down in the Western Regions. I don't want to be an Anxi king who only cares about occupying his own Ulus. I would like to be my father's emperor, the Qin King, first restore Guanzhong, and then set up Jiangnan to unify Prosperity."

This young man already knew how to impress the scholar-bureaucrats in the north, and he was more heroic than real gold, and he was more pleasing to Kublai Khan.

Li Dehui has been assisting him more and more attentively.

"Your Highness thinks, who is the Tang Jun in the east?"

Brother Mang took two steps and thought about it. A few days ago, he had received the news of Kublai Khan's personal conquest, so he thought about it...

"Could it be the Tang army defeated by the emperor?"

"This is a possibility." Li Dehui said, and after waiting for a while, seeing that Manggela had no more thoughts, he continued: "There is also a possibility that Tang Jun didn't want His Highness to lead the army to join His Majesty, so he went ahead ambush."

"Huh?" Brother Mang was surprised, and said, "Will you?"

"Li Xia's current momentum cannot be judged by common sense." Li Dehui said: "However, as long as we march in a disciplined way, don't take it lightly, don't let go of scout horses, and don't rush forward, we won't fall into ambush on the desert. .”

"What Wang Xiang said is good, I will listen to what Wang Xiang said."

Seeing King Anxi's attitude, Li Dehui couldn't help nodding.

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The 15 troops conquering the Western Regions were not transferred back in one go, but the impatient Busy Brothers led 5 people in front, and Tuohu led 7 people including Olu in the back, leaving some behind. The soldiers and horses temporarily stationed in Gaochang can be transferred at any time.

Mang Ge's march was not slow, and he traveled more than a hundred miles in two days.

On this day, a scout suddenly came back and said, "Your Majesty, you have found Tang Jun..."

(End of this chapter)