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To the west of Helan Mountain is a hill called Yingpan Mountain. According to legend, Banchao, the Marquis of Dingyuan in the Han Dynasty, once stationed here, so this place is also called "Dingyuan Camp".

On the top of the mountain, Song He was still watching the formation, when he suddenly heard someone say: "General, Secretary Lin is here!"

Song He turned around and took a look, then strode towards the mountain road to meet him.

"Have you found His Majesty?!" Lin Zi asked before approaching.

"Not yet, but it's coming soon." Song He handed over the binoculars in his hand and said, "Take a look."

Lin Zi raised the binoculars to look northwest, and at the farthest point of sight, he saw the nine-pronged white flag.

It has become a small point.

"It is indeed Kublai Khan's camp. How many troops are there?"

"Exploring the horse is still exploring. It is said that several camps have been opened, and tents have been set up for more than ten miles."

"With so many troops, His Majesty must be there!"

"It must be. We all know that Kublai Khan turned to the northwest, and he must have gone down towards His Majesty. Then His Majesty must be nearby. Now it's just a matter of Gu Ben's direction."

"You haven't contacted His Majesty yet?"

Song He nodded and looked at Hu Legen.

Hu Legen's face was as wrinkled as dried orange peel, and he said with a mournful face: "The Yuan army is too tight. In the past two days, we tried to break out from these two directions, and nearly hundreds of people died. Afterwards, send People went around from the north and west, but were driven into the desert by the cavalry of the Yuan army."

"Can I see His Majesty by going around the desert?"

"Maybe, but in about three days."

"It's been too long." Lin Zi frowned and said, "How far is it? Can't we send someone to break through?"

"Generally speaking, when the two armies face each other, the camps are separated by sixty miles. The vanguard troops are separated by more than ten miles in order to be able to fight at any time. We are more than ten miles away from Kublai Khan, and the camp of the Yuan army occupies an area of ​​more than ten miles. Then Your Majesty It is a hundred miles away. It may be closer, but to break through, you have to run for at least fifty miles, and you will be attacked by the Yuan army along the way."

"Then kill it."

"The infantry and supplies are still on the way. If we rush up rashly with our strength, we will be surrounded and unable to support. If the camp mountain is taken away, the soldiers and horses behind will lose their ground, and this battle will really be fought. Not winning."

Song He pointed to the northwest direction again, and said: "This is the first time I have seen the formation of hundreds of thousands of people fighting on the plain. It is too far away, and the formation can't be seen at a glance. Even if we fight the Yuan army, Your Majesty will I can’t see it. There’s a 熢石 every ten miles, but the camp of the Yuan army is more than ten miles away.”

Lin Zi took a few steps and said, "I'll contact the secret agents in the Yuan Ying first, and let them find a way to report to His Majesty."

Song He asked, "How long will it take?"

"I don't know yet. I need to know where the generals of the Yuan army are stationed first."

"Okay, Tanma has been inquiring about this for the past two days, and we will know soon."

"Where is Lord Lian? How long will it take to gather all the troops?"

Song He pointed to the map and said: "Yuan army Yang Wen'an retreated to Xingqing Mansion, blocked several passages in Helan Mountain, and attacked our supply line from time to time. Lord Lian is still confronting him. In five or six days, the first batch The troops are assembled and Helankou is occupied, so we dare to fight the Yuan army."

"But we don't know if His Majesty's situation is critical."

"So, the more it is like this, the less chaos it will be. Mr. Lian has repeatedly told us not to miss the opportunity because of impatience."

Several people were still discussing, and another soldier came forward and said: "General, the Suzhou army has arrived!"

This time it was Desu'am who led [-] cavalry into the Tang army's camp, and at the same time began to expand the camp.

When De Su'am saw Song He, Lin Zi, Hu Legen and others, he immediately asked, "Have you contacted His Majesty?"

"not yet."

"Mr. Lian asked me to bring a sentence. You don't have to panic. As our troops increase, the Yuan army will inevitably make adjustments. Your majesty can see that the best and safest way to rescue your majesty and win is to hold the camp. , Gather troops until you have the strength to confront the Yuan army head-on."

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Li Xia looked at the opposite camp, then put down the binocular, looked up at the sky, and murmured: "Shi Tianze is late today."

"Your Majesty, Ke Dun is here."

Li Xia looked back and saw Wulu Hunai boarded the watchtower and walked towards him.

"It's been a while since dawn, and Shi Tianze hasn't started to attack yet." Li Xia said: "This is even more terrifying, and a fierce attack is necessary next."

"Aren't you afraid that I'm here to take your head?" Ulu Hunai said, "I'm ready to surrender to Kublai Khan."

Li Xia smiled wryly, but did not answer.

Ulu Hunai said: "I really planned that last night, but when we were negotiating terms, I found out that Kublai Khan wanted to kill me."

"Really?" Li Xia's eyes moved, and he pondered: "It can be seen that Kublai Khan panicked. My judgment is good. My soldiers and horses will arrive soon."

"Are you not afraid that I will kill you?"

"If you are afraid that you can help me win, yes." Li Xia responded casually, still thinking in his heart, and said, "So Shi Tianze is late today? Was he called to teach me a lesson?"

"Madman, such a little sign can't prove anything at all..."

At this time, the horn sounded ahead, and the Yuan army's new day's offensive began again.

Wulu Hunai closed his eyes and shook his head, feeling that he really couldn't hold on anymore.

But suppressing the extremely painful feeling, she still asked: "Can I trust you?"

"You just have to trust me."

Wulu Hunai cursed some dirty words in a low voice, and then asked Li Xia, "What about you? Do you just trust me like that?"

"I have no choice either." Li Xia said, "So I can only trust you."

The wind blew from Kublai Khan's camp from the east.

It reminds people of the past on the grassland.

Temujin and his Antazamuhe used to trust each other so much when they were in their infancy, but in the end, Zamuhe was executed by Temujin.

Ulu Hunai sighed, "It seems that our covenant is strong because we are all weak."

"Maybe."

"Three days, if I can't see your soldiers and horses with my own eyes, I won't help you again."

Ulu Kunai dropped this sentence, hurried down from the watchtower, and rushed to the south to defend her line of defense.

Li Xia looked at her background, thought for a while, then returned to his tent, took out his pen and ink, and tore off a blank sheet of paper from the battle report.

Holding a pen in his left hand, he scribbled a few words.

"The army has arrived at Helan Mountain, and they will come to relieve the siege in a few days."

Holding this piece of paper, when Zhi Leng walked out of the big tent, Li Xia's footsteps stopped for a moment, but it was just that.

Not far away, in the tent belonging to Uncle Shu, the nobleman from the Mongolian grasslands still refused to join the war, and sincerely worshiped the Buddha.

In fact, this is also good, no matter whether Li Xia or Kublai Khan wins this battle, they should not kill Shu Zhenbo.

He raised his head and looked at the high pole in front of him. Manggela was still hanging there, as thin as if he was about to be air-dried, looking very pitiful.

Li Xia stood on a battle platform, looked up through the binoculars, and found that today's Yuan troops did not use soil to fill the horse trap dug last night, but drove their cattle and sheep up.

"Moo!"

The cattle and sheep were driven into the ditch, and the soldiers of the Yuan army behind threw down their shields and stepped on them towards the low earthen wall.

"madman."

"prick!"

Tang Jun stabbed out his spear, and while the Yuan army was still on the other side of the earth wall trying to jump up, he stabbed down the jumping Yuan army soldiers.

There was also a soldier of the Yuan army who jumped up on the small earthen wall and slashed down at the soldier of the Tang army with a knife.

In the past, soldiers of the Yuan army often occupied high places like this, but it was often in the afternoon, and there were no more troops to make up for it.At that time, the strategic purpose of the Yuan army was more to consume the morale of the Tang army and make tens of thousands of people surrender and be defeated, rather than killing them all or killing them from tens of thousands of people to Li Xia.

Today is different, today's offensive does not care about casualties at all, and is more violent.

Li Xia then ordered: "Choose the front battalion and supplement the defense."

"Your Majesty." Huo Xiaolian objected to Li Xia's order for the first time, saying: "There are too many soldiers in this camp, and the front-selection battalion is by His Majesty's side, so they dare not make mistakes..."

"Go and defend." Li Xia said.

"Here!"

"And this, return it to me after the war."

"Well..."

Soon, hundreds of elites rushed onto the battlefield.

Li Xia stood there alone, with soldiers running past him from time to time, all of them were newly recruited soldiers.

After half an hour, a Yuan army general near the low wall in front realized that the elite defense was Li Xia's personal guard, and immediately shouted.

"Warriors on the grassland! Kill Li Xia and join the real Khan!"

The sound was not noticeable at first, after all, the sound of fighting was everywhere on the huge battlefield.

But gradually, more and more yuan troops followed suit and shouted.

"Kill Li Xia, there are many rewards..."

When the shout spread from the front line to the vicinity of the battle platform, from time to time, newly attached soldiers turned their heads to look at Li Xia.

Li Xia met their gazes calmly.

In December last year, he captured these soldiers and horses, distributed food and grass to them, defeated Wang Chen once, and rescued Li Zengbo. He marched so far and was besieged until No. 20 for three days. He was neither familiar nor unfamiliar with these people.

It has been very difficult since being besieged these days.

From the perspective of Shuzhenbo, Ulu Hunai, and many others, Li Xia treated them badly, and those who wanted to escape or rebel were mercilessly killed.

Selfish, cold-blooded, and crazy, he used their lives to drag the Yuan army in order to realize his own revenge.

But things in the world sometimes have good things happening at the same time as bad things happen.Then, outside the perspective of Shuzhenbo, Ulu Hunai and others, what happened to these newly attached soldiers?

On the battlefield, Li Zengbo, Yang Ben, Pang Pei, and other Tang army generals of different ranks were also looking at the soldiers, as if they were really afraid that they would kill Li Xia...