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A watchtower was built only in the evening, and it was extremely strong, and the cowardly soldiers around were all brave and brave.

Kublai Khan looked up and saw Shuzhenbo's banner.

He put down the binocular, and whispered a command to Ke Xue beside him.

"Prepare some hand meat and pick the fattest sheep..."

Not far away, Zongwang Hulahu'er had very good ears. Hearing this, he laughed and said, "The Great Khan is not as good to us as he is to Master Shu."

Kublai Khan ignored Hulahuer, but said to Brother Sui: "Shall I find a good marriage for your daughter?"

"Thank you profusely."

Brother Sui also saw Shuzhenbo's banner, thinking that this old man whose wife died is actually going to marry his young daughter.

He also hoped that the marriage with Ulu Khurnai would work out instead of fighting a damn battle here.

"Li Xia is so disappointing. It's like a tortoise crawling and crawling. When it met us, it immediately retracted into its shell."

"Yeah, such a sudden shrinking of the head makes people unable to find a place to speak."

"Don't forget that this is Mobei, the turtle will dry out sooner or later."

"Dry it and smash its shell."

The kings were discussing this, but Kublai Khan felt more like playing chess with Li Xia.

In the Battle of Hatu Mountain, Li Xia pushed [-] troops onto the battlefield, like a novice who didn't understand the rules, and took several steps at once; now Kublai Khan wanted to teach him a lesson, but this kid took all the chess pieces They all shrunk back, and refused to move the chess pieces as if they were cheating.

This is an opponent who does not follow the rules and is difficult to deal with.

Unlike Brother Ali, who looks scary, in fact, he has only one muscle in his mind and can't turn corners when doing things.

"Khan, there is news."

A timid Xue soldier hurried up to the high platform and said: "King Tuohu sent someone to see the Great Khan."

"Tuohu?"

The kings scolded one after another.

"This trash who lost a big battle should send his head here to apologize to the Great Khan."

However, Tuohu sent people not to plead guilty, but to report the details of the battle with Ulu Hunai and the current situation in the Western Regions.

"..."

"At that time, King Tohu was about to conquer the Yili River Basin. King Anxi suddenly wanted to return east. King Tohu did not agree at all, but King Anxi took away fifty thousand troops alone. King Tohu heard that the traitor Haidu had sent troops. To attack Hara and Lin, we have no choice but to return east."

Kublai Khan asked: "Haidu didn't help Ulu Khurnai, but chose to attack Hara and Lin instead?"

"Yes. King Tuohu was not defeated by Li Xia. He had just rushed to the battlefield. King Anxi had already been captured by Li Xia, and the army was scattered. King Tuohu had no choice but to send Uncle Shu to gather King Anxi At this moment, Ulu Hunai arrived, King Tuohu didn't expect her to come."

"Why didn't you think of it?"

"Because of Haidu. If Ulu Hunai leaves the Ili River, Haidu, which cannot capture Hara and Lin, will immediately turn around and snatch her territory. King Tuohu overestimated a woman's reason after losing her son, and underestimated her. Collusion with Li Xia. Seeing that King Tuohu could not rescue King Anxi, he had to go north to intimidate Haidu. At that time, the king sent a villain to Hetao to meet Da Khan, and the villain only knew that Da Khan was here when he arrived in Hetao..."

These are all Tuohu's one-sided words, Kublai Khan didn't believe them all, but he knew that there were some things that Tuohu didn't dare to make up.

For example, there will inevitably be losses of soldiers, but if they can withdraw from the battlefield in time, the main force should still be preserved. Go north to the grasslands to forcefully recruit some herdsmen.

"It's good news." Kublai Khan commented.

It was getting dark, and he was going to step down from the lookout.

However, something else occurred to him, so he turned his head and raised the binocular to take a look.

On the battlefield, Shi Tianze had withdrawn his troops for the time being, and a troop of cavalry farther away merged into the Tang army camp that had been hidden in the darkness.

Kublai Khan suddenly thought of the look in the eyes of the lost neighbor princess after her death.

Emotional and angry, he didn't say anything about Uncle Shu, but just walked down the watchtower.

And everyone seemed to have forgotten about it, and never mentioned it.

After a while, Boerchi, who was in charge of food, rushed over and asked Xue Changantong, "The meat is ready, where are you going?"

"Shut up!" An Tong raised his hand to give him a slap, then lowered his hand after a while, and said something lightly.

"Bring it to my tent and feed it to me."

~~
That night, Shu Zhenbo stood in front of Li Xia, expecting that the young Emperor Tang in front of him would praise him.

but no.

Li Xia just said indifferently: "It's good to be back, take the soldiers to rest."

"Here."

Shu Zhenbo turned around, and turned around again.

"Sweaty."

"Ok?"

Shu Zhenbo seemed to feel that Li Xia needed some response for his dedication, and obviously didn't want to end the meeting so simply, he hesitated for a while, and put forward his thoughts on the way back to the camp.

"Those Han people want to make Kublai Khan their emperor. They think it is loyalty. Then I let Emperor Tang become the great Khan of the Mongols. Is this also loyalty?"

Li Xia said: "Emperor Tang was originally Tian Khan."

This natural tone made Shu Zhenbo feel that his contribution did not seem to be that great.

Shu Zhenbo was of course very loyal. He knew very well that it was difficult for Emperor Tang to rule the grassland directly, so he could only entrust the grassland to the Mongolian nobles who were the first to submit.

Li Xia knew exactly what he was thinking, pondered for a while, and said: "The real test has not yet begun. Maybe in five or six days, you will regret today's choice. But remember, when we win, I will fight with you." You share in the victory."

Shu Zhenbo doesn't quite understand.

He just regarded following Li Xia as speculation.

And Kublai Khan would make him understand that speculation is not that easy.

Only by surviving Kublai Khan's offensive can he become a comrade in arms.

~~
Khubilai showed no anger.

But everyone felt his anger.

The Yuan army gradually began to launch an offensive, like raising a sledgehammer, and began to smash the tortoise on the ground.

"Oh!"

A stone went over the earth wall and hit the soldiers behind the earth wall holding their shields.The shield shattered, and the soldier fell to the ground bleeding from his head.

This is the fifth day when the Yuan army attacked the camp.

The Yuan army cut wood from the west slope of Helan Mountain, more than [-] miles to the east, transported it to the camp, set up artillery carts, and began to smash the camp.

Shu Zhenbo didn't think it was necessary. He didn't think the cannon carts were needed at all. In just a few days, the Tang army would be defeated.

To be honest, he already regretted choosing to surrender to Li Xia...

"what!"

When a soldier saw the crushed comrade, he yelled, threw away his spear, turned around and ran away.

Shu Zhenbo shouted loudly: "Stop him!"

"let me go!"

"Stop him..."

Before it was too late, the soldier had already jumped up the earthen wall and shouted at the opposite Yuan army: "Don't kill me, I'm going to surrender!"

"puff."

A sharp arrow shot him dead.

Uncle Shu closed his eyes, wanting to raise his knife and chop off Li Xia's head to surrender to Kublai Khan.

He couldn't recall at all what he thought when he made his choice five days ago.

People's hearts are extremely fickle.

But Li Xia's words came to mind again, "Maybe in five or six days, you will regret today's choice."

Shu Zhenbo scolded: "E Xiute, fight for two more days."

At the same time, there was no way out for this kind of battlefield, which made him cry out in pain.

"Ah! It's so annoying! Why should I suffer like this!"

……

It was the night of the seventh day when the Yuan army attacked the city.

"Wars are not fought like this on the grassland! I want to leave this damned place, there is a vast grassland outside, and I want to run like a wild horse!"

Suddenly someone rushed out of the tent, yelled like crazy, and ran towards the direction of the horses.

"I want to go back to the clear Ergun River! No one can stop me!"

"Go back, go back!"

Soon, his madness infected other nearby soldiers, and more people rushed out.

When they marched in the wind and snow and in the desert, they experienced severe cold, scorching heat and hunger, and there was still hope at that time.But the defensive battle in the past seven days has gradually made people see no hope.

"We don't want to die for the emperor of the Han people!"

"Let's go..."

"puff."

"puff."

A group of Tang troops rushed out quickly, slashing at these crazy deserters with their knives, as if they were afraid that it would cause a roar in the camp if it was too late.

Uncle Shu walked out of the tent and stood by the bonfire watching the killing, the temperament that only the grassland nobles had in his eyes gradually lost.

The scariest thing about murder is not the blood splashed from the meat cut by the knife, but the pair of eyes that are still full of desire to live before death, and the crazy roars that carry the yearning for their hometown.

"puff."

"puff."

at last.

"vomit."

Shu Zhenbo bent down and vomited out.

The stinking vomit contained only mare's milk and chewy jerky.

He fell to the ground and murmured, "Wine."

I miss the Onan River so much, I miss the wine and beauties along the Onan River.

……

Shu Zhenbo fell ill like this.

He was so weak and dizzy that he could only lie in the tent and moan every day.

He finally freed himself from the distress of who he surrendered to, and no longer thought about who he should bet on between Li Xia or Kublai Khan.He doesn't want any great achievements, glory and wealth.

In this way, he felt extremely peaceful in his heart.

Li Zengbo took the opportunity to start compiling his cowardice, and Shu Zhenbo didn't care when he heard about it, thinking that it's ridiculous that the old man is so old, and he still seeks for these powers.

In a drowsy state, the Buddhist teachings of Master Basiba echoed in his mind, drowning out the sounds of fighting outside the tent.

Three days later, Uncle Shuzhen, who was better, did not dare to leave the tent again.

"This is hell, a slaughterhouse."

Occasionally, he could see the stumps scattered on the ground through the gap in the curtain, and the screams became more and more piercing.

"Om Mani Padme Hum, empowered by the hearts of all Buddhas, eliminate my suffering of life and death, eliminate my suffering of struggle, eliminate my suffering of birth, old age, sickness and death, and eliminate my suffering of cold, heat and hell..."

~~
Finally, fifteen days after the Yuan army attacked the camp, the snow in Mobei melted.

Like the blood, the snow water was drank by the earth.

Due to the blocking of the Helan Mountains, the humid monsoons from the southeast cannot blow to this land. It is the snow water that supplies it with water for a year or even several years, so that the grass can grow.

There is no river in Li Xia's residence.

In other words, after the snow melts, the water source will gradually become a problem. After the wounded cannot receive medical treatment, the arrows are exhausted, the fodder is insufficient, the horses lose weight, and other problems.

On this day, Ulu Hunai rode his horse around the camp, watching that the number of soldiers he brought from the Ili River became less and less.

So even she felt bored.

In the evening, when the fighting finally came to an end, Ulu Hunai rode his horse to the side of Li Zengbo, and asked in Chinese, "Can we really wait for reinforcements if we hold on like this?"

"Yes." Li Zengbo said.

"Even you don't believe it, Li Xia is a gambler. He made his fortune by gambling his life, and he is still gambling his life." Wulu Hunai said: "Sooner or later, he will lose one day, maybe this time."

"Ketun. Lian Xixian is a trustworthy person. I believe he will mobilize the army soon."

"Lian Xixian was once loyal to Kublai Khan." Ulu Hunai said, "His father and brothers are still under Kublai Khan's command. But Li Xia is still here waiting for his support? Use my warriors lives to support."

"The war has come to this point, what does Ke Dun want?"

"Let's take Li Xia to break through and return to the Tang Dynasty. I need to let the soldiers rest and replenish, and I will still help my allies in the battle. It is easier to defeat Kublai Khan in the Tang Dynasty."

Li Zengbo asked: "Then Ke Dun took the spoils and left through the Hexi Corridor."

"Yes, if we survive."

Li Zengbo was silent for a long time, the wrinkles on his face were as deep as a knife.

Wulu Hunai said again: "If you don't agree, I'll go by myself. Or you and Li Xia can try to steal my military power too."

"Five more days, okay?"

Wulu Hunai frowned, nodded coldly, and rode away.

Behind her, soldiers rushed to Li Zengbo's side.

"Marshal, this is wound medicine. There are not many wound medicines in the army. His Majesty specially gave it to you, and the general will apply it to you at the end."

"Don't worry, give it to me, I'll come by myself when I'm done..."

(End of this chapter)