end song

As night fell, Kublai Khan stepped down from the high watchtower. "Khan, reinforcements from the Tang army have arrived."

"Let the warriors camp and eat, and fight again tomorrow."

In the end, they still couldn't complete the battle today, the generals were worried that Kublai Khan would get angry, but when they took a sneak peek, they found that his face was very calm.

That's right, after all, he was undefeated, and he always fought against Li Xia.

Zhang Yi stepped forward and reported in a low voice: "Your Majesty, there are two troops from the Tang Army. According to the banners, one is the Ningwu Army with more than [-] infantry. The commander is called Pi Feng. He was originally a soldier of the Song Army. In the early years, he guarded Yunding City in Sichuan. Now that the Ningwu Army has appeared, it means that Li Xia has transferred all the troops in Hanzhong and Lizhou to the north, and I think that Kong Xian is likely to lead the troops behind. "

Speaking of this, Zhang Yi sneaked a glance again, worried that Kublai Khan would be impatient to listen to his introduction of these Tang generals.Seeing that Kublai Khan's face was slightly cautious, he continued to speak.

Who would have thought that these once unknown shrimp soldiers and crab generals would one day need to be understood in such detail by the Emperor Dayuan.

"Kong Xian was originally the defender of Yunding City. Later, some in-laws with Li Xia rebelled against the Song Dynasty. These Sichuan generals are best at defense."

While saying this, the sweat tent has already been transported over.

Kublai Khan walked into the sweat tent, motioned An Tong to spread out the map, raised a pen with his own hand, and wrote the names and distribution of each general of the Tang army.

"The other supporting army is the cavalry, with more than [-] men." Zhang Yi said after Kublai Khan, his tone gradually became dignified, and said: "This Tang army is a new army that was reorganized last year."

"New Army?"

"Since Li Xia formed an alliance with Ulu Hunai, some of the cavalry guarding Hexi were transferred away. First, they went south with him to attack the Song Dynasty. Afterwards, the cavalry was reorganized in Guanzhong, expanded with the old soldiers in Hexi as the skeleton, and organized into Shaanxi. Yongxing Army. The leader of this team is called Lu Xiaoyou, and he is also a commoner with no family background."

Kublai Khan looked at the crooked names he wrote on the map himself.It's the first time I've heard of all of them today, and they're all from humble backgrounds, and he appreciates them all.

But he said with emotion again: "Li Xia is lucky to get so many talented people left behind."~~
The camp was busy.

Beside the bonfire, the generals finally rushed to Li Xia one by one, and they all bowed their hands together. "Meet Your Majesty."

Li Xia glanced across their faces, because there were too many things to ask, but he didn't know where to ask them for a while.Many of them hadn't seen each other for many years, and they didn't know how to reminisce about the old days.

Finally, he couldn't help laughing. "Hahaha." All the generals laughed.

"Your Majesty, the last general heard that Kublai Khan had personally conscripted. He stayed in Lanzhou for several days but did not see the Yuan army attacking. It turned out that he was led here by His Majesty, hahaha." Bao San said loudly.

He had been to Li Xia since the afternoon, but when the Yuan army kept attacking him, he was very nervous, and his whole body was in a tense state, and now he was a lot more relaxed.

"That's right, before Kublai Khan went on his own expedition, he probably never thought that the battle with us would be in this area." Li Xia said, feeling a little relieved by Bao San's words.

He first helped Li Zengbo sit down on the saddle, and told all the generals to sit down, since most of the army is wounded.Afterwards, he spread out the map on the ground and pointed at Helan Mountain.

"On the bright side, when we go out to fight him in the field, we can't use high walls, artillery, and various defense equipment. This is to use our own weaknesses to attack the other's strengths, which is in his arms, so he is willing to enter In this battlefield, we hope to eliminate our main force with a single battle, so we were beaten by him.”

When Li Xia said this, the generals' eyes were burning, and they were all waiting for the word "but" behind him.

"But on the other hand, the battlefield of this main battle is chosen by us, so that the Yuan army cannot enter our hinterland to destroy and plunder. This is more important and beneficial to us. It is like a tree whose roots are still there. , so why be afraid of being cut off? So far, we have defeated the 15 troops brought back from the Western Regions by the Yuan army, and then selected a battlefield. This is a major strategic victory.”

"it is good!"

胡勒
Gen has always been the most supportive. Although he didn't understand what Li Xia said, he understood the four words "major victory" in the end, and he stood up and cheered: "Wan Sheng! Your Majesty's destiny! Returning, it is the emperor of the Central Plains and the Khan of the Grasslands descended from the Changshengtian, who will surely defeat Kublai Khan. From then on, wherever the horseshoe goes, it will be your majesty's territory."

Li Zengbo scolded with a smile: "You just say these things now, and when you win the big victory, let's see what else you can say." "Haha, don't worry, Marshal Li." It is a beautiful word like poetry.”

"That's not the way to use the four characters of the words of praise." Li Zengbo shook his head endlessly, and said, "Sit down, and don't mention your crooked poems again." "Hehe."

No matter what, the morale, which had been lowered by casualties and exhaustion, rose a bit.Li Xia smiled slightly, and continued to talk about strategy.

"As I said just now, the reason why Kublai Khan is willing to fight here is because he thinks that cavalry field combat is Meng Yuan's strong point, and he will definitely win."

"He has a good idea." A general cursed softly in a very low voice.

"That's right, he just wants to be beautiful." Li Xia heard it, and answered this sentence in public, and said: "Then the next battlefield is nothing more than two situations. One, we are no match for Meng Yuan, and we need to fight against Meng Yuan." retreat and hold the line of defense in Gansu; secondly, if Meng Yuan is no match for us, then Kublai Khan will give up the idea of ​​a decisive battle with us and attack our hinterland instead. In this way, the key positions of the entire battlefield are totally There are several places."

Li Xia first refers to the official road south of Helan Mountain.

"Three Passes, this is the most important point. You can rush over to support me because Lian Xixian seized the Three Passes when Kublai Khan's army came to surround me."

Song He and Bao San clasped their fists together and said, "Yes, Your Majesty, all our troops, horses and luggage are transported from the post road at Sanguankou."

Li Xia said: "Linzi, you cooperate with Hu Legen and send scouts to expand the investigation to the west. I am worried that the Yuan army will detour through the third pass and cut off our supplies and retreat."

"Here!"

Sanguankou Post Road is a section of Wuyin Expressway in later generations. Although the Great Wall and passes here were not built until the Ming Dynasty, they have been strategically important since the Western Zhou Dynasty.After the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, Tubo entered Guanzhong from here.

Li Xia attaches the most importance to the management here, and must ensure the connection between the main force and the rear. This is not only a passage for supplies, but also a way to retreat in case of defeat.

"Secondly, these passages through Helan Mountain, Gunzhongkou, Suyukou, Helankou, and Dawukou, guarding these passages can restrain Yang Wen'an, who is now in Xingqing Prefecture, from attacking Kubi. With fierce support, split them in two."

"Your Majesty." Bao San was puzzled and asked, "Even if the passage through the mountain is guarded, Kublai Khan can still bypass the northern end of Helan Mountain, and Meng Yuan can also support him from Hetao?"

Yang Ben looked at Li Xia, and explained, "The journey is different from the time. If Kublai Khan mobilized troops, horses and fodder from Hetao, it would be [-] miles one way, but if he passed Helan Mountain to Xingqing Mansion, it would only be more than [-] miles. miles, and a round trip is a distance of more than a thousand miles.”

Bao San suddenly realized, stretched out his fist and lightly hit Yang Ben's armor, and praised: "Good Yang Ben, I haven't seen you for a few years, and you've improved even more. I said you were born to fight."

Yang Ben grinned, and he was no longer the stinky face he used to be.

No matter how indifferent he was, after going through life and death, he couldn't help smiling when he saw his comrades who lived and died together ten years ago, before continuing to talk.

"Your Majesty means that as long as Kublai Khan loses a little bit of the wind in the battle, he can turn to attack elsewhere, so even if he loses, he is still 'undefeated'."Only by keeping these roads can we truly defeat him. "

"Understood." Pi Feng said, "This is Pu Shuai's method of 'closing the door and beating dogs'."

"That's right." Li Xia said, "In the battle to recover Chengdu, Pu Shuai first recovered Jianmen Pass and then attacked Chengdu. He locked the dogs in the house and fought."

With Li Xia's honor today, it is actually inappropriate to call Pu Zezhi "Pu Shuai" in front of his subordinates, and he really didn't realize it at this time.What I think in my mind is that a lot of the experience of the Anti-Japanese War was in Sichuan that year.
It was learned in Shu Dynasty.

"But today is different. Today we are beating dogs outside the house. It is also necessary to close the door of the house, so that the vicious dogs will not rush into our house and bite our family members in a hurry."

Hu Legen, Desuam and others needed such a metaphor, and they suddenly realized it when they heard this. "Your Majesty, we understand. Close the door and beat the dog outside."

"This battle, we are Cao Youwen back then. Only by defending can we keep our homeland behind us, understand?" "Understood!"

"Mengyuan used troops, preferring to attack but not to defend, so they would not set up too many troops on these passes. Moreover, these passes are often narrow, and one man guards the pass, and ten thousand men are invincible. I intend to send dozens of elites to each pass, Jump across the trench and seize the key points first, and wait for your respective nominees."

Yang Ben first glanced at the wounded generals behind him, and remained silent.He thought that it would be great if Wang Mancang under his account was still there.

However, Pi Feng recommended several generals and generals under his command one after another, saying that all of them were men who climbed mountains like flying from the Bashan Mountains of the Qinling Mountains.

At this point in strategy, it can be said that victory is considered before defeat is considered.

Obviously still at a disadvantage, but first arranged how to prevent Kublai Khan from shifting the battlefield.After that, Li Xia mentioned the frontal battlefield.

"I talked about how to close the door, now let's talk about beating dogs. Now our troops have not yet assembled, Lian Xixian, Kong Xian and other ministries have not yet arrived on the battlefield, so we need to retreat to the Panshan camp and defend until the troops are gathered before counterattacking. It’s what we do best.”