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Chapter 1166 The end of the era

"Kublai Khan."

Li Xia looked at the prisoner in front of him and said.

"Beside Kublai Khan, there is a Hanlin waiter who is also a living officer, named 'Heli Huosun'. You told me about his information before, do you still remember?"

It turned out that he was asking Lin Zi, not the prisoner on the other side.

He also speaks Chinese.

"Heli Huosun is a Mongolian. Kublai Khan's Qixue army was born. He is proficient in Sinology and good at painting. He has painted several portraits for Kublai Khan. Including the one in your hand, it is from the hands of Heli Huosun. "

Lin Zi froze for a moment, then looked down at the portrait in his hand.

Li Xia said: "This person is very similar to the portrait, but in spirit, not in shape."

Lin Zi reacted, looked carefully, and said: "Your Majesty is right. Kublai Khan has a wide and round face, narrow eyes, and high cheekbones. A wide and round face is a common feature of many Mongolians, but this man's eyes It was squinting on purpose."

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, the veteran is not Wu Luzhai." Li Zengbo emphasized again.

Lu Xiufu was sorting out the results of the day's registration, saying a few words from time to time.

He has been desperately pursuing achievement all his life, but he didn't realize that he was neglecting the people around him.

The only thing he hadn't been able to experience for himself was what it was like to grow old.Because he didn't experience it personally, he was young and strong and always felt that the old man could stand up again.

"Snapped!"

This night the army was already registering their military exploits, cheers everywhere, celebrating the great victory in the Battle of Helan Mountain and the capture of Kublai Khan.

"Is there no more?"

Li Zengbo murmured: "That's great, I just hope that tonight will not pass, and I can't finish reading the battle results..."

An Tong was still laughing.

There are still many people who just follow the fun, look forward to it, and get nervous together.

Li Xia nodded and said, "Let's watch Li Qing decapitate together."

"it is good."

"He has read a lot, but he is dull. Your Majesty can let him take up some civil positions, but don't entrust him with heavy responsibilities. The old minister is afraid that he will make a big mistake and suffer disaster instead."

Li Xia stood there watching and listening, suddenly feeling guilty.

He got up to salute, but Li Xia motioned for him to go out first.

"The old minister's ancestral home is in Qinyang, Henan. When His Majesty recovers the Central Plains, can you give that piece of land to the old minister..."

However, the concepts and beliefs of countless people collapsed at this moment.

"Where is Li Qing?"

After all, Li Zengbo himself laughed first.

Countless soldiers and captives lined up, stretching their necks and looking up.

"It can't compare to His Majesty's poems... His Majesty's ambition is not here, otherwise the old minister really wants to discuss poetry with His Majesty, and has never been able to find time."

"But the old minister is 70 years old... It's rare to live at seventy years old. What's more, the old minister can have such a big victory in his old age. How lucky he is. When he was dismissed back then, the old minister thought that this would be the case in this life."

"Li Qing, don't worry too much. I will act rashly, and I need to make plans after Li Qing recovers from her injury. This battle has already been won, and I intend to let you go back to Chang'an to recuperate tomorrow, okay?"

Not even the head of Kublai Khan.

Heli Huo Sun and An Tong were taken aback for a moment, and laughed endlessly.

In fact, it was because in the past, what he and Li Xia talked about were wars, wars.Only after today's big victory will I have the time and thought to say these things.

There was a "bang" sound, and a human head was hung high.

"Over there with Lu Xianggong to settle the results of the battle."

In the camp, Song He rushed to Li Xia and asked in a low voice, "Your Majesty, the general is worried about what is happening now. If Kublai Khan returns alive in the future, will the soldiers be disappointed?"

The next moment, thinking of the long journey to Chang'an, his smile became unconfident again.

"Your Majesty, the dog Li Piao is now an official in Chang'an."

"Ha ha ha ha."

"so what?"

In their hearts, the era of Meng Yuan's invincibility has come to an end.

As Heli Huosun said, more and more soldiers and horses from the north have been withdrawn.

When they were brought to the edge of the desert, they heard An Tong crying and shouting "Khan". After taking the lead, all the prisoners started shouting.

"Okay, okay, Your Majesty has a plan in mind, so the old minister can rest assured."

For a long time after that, Li Zengbo talked almost all of these small and trivial matters.

As for injuries, Li Xia hoped that Li Zengbo could recover slowly.I think that after the war is over, I can naturally recover slowly.He also believed that when the world was unified, Li Zengbo would be in a better mood and be able to take care of his life better.

"Your Majesty said, don't order Nahu Legen to write some crooked poems to dismiss the veterans."

More than [-] people were waiting, but it was so simple.

"More, more. There are so many victories, and the students can't finish finishing when they are tired."

Li Zengbo seemed to be asleep.

"Did Li Qing ask you to ask?"

After chatting all night, it was already daylight.

Lu Xiufu turned his head, and suddenly saw Li Xia walking in.

Li Xia put on a serious face, and said: "You and I have to do more than that, don't lose heart."

Sometimes when Lu Xiufu was finishing up and hadn't spoken for a long time, Li Zengbo would read a sentence when he was bored waiting.

When Li Zengbo was asked to guard the third pass, he knew that the old man was already injured and sick.What he thought at the time was that it was a kind of trust to entrust him with such important military affairs, and it was also the fulfillment of the common ambition of the two of them.

What the generals of the Tang Army want to see is to finally have a chance to vent their anger after more than 30 years of hard struggle; what the Mongolian and Yuan prisoners want to see is that their authority will be shattered and they can rearrange their lives.

Li Xia nodded.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Li Zengbo smiled and said, "When we arrive in Chang'an, I will wait for Your Majesty's new words."

He said so many words, although the speed of speech was slow, but the order was very clear, as if he wanted to prove that he was in good health and much stronger than Wu Qian.

Every time he finished speaking, he would ask the last sentence.

"Your Majesty is wise."

Many of the captives did not necessarily want to deceive Tang Jun, but really regarded Heli Huo Sun as a profuse sweat.

"Do you think you are very smart? But I thank you for everything you have done to speed up the demise of Meng Yuan."

Pointing around with his chin, he said, "Although I am not talented, I still attracted pursuers for Da Khan."

"Hahahaha, you bastards still want to catch my Khan, who is blessed with longevity. You idiots are so stupid, hahaha..."

The curtain was lifted a little, and before Lu Xiufu left, Li Zengbo murmured: "Your Majesty is coming? Old minister..."

Li Zengbo's eyes lit up, and he had anticipation again, and he tried to stand up for a while.

~~
Li Xia returned to the camp at night.

The two young men seemed to have seen some kind of omen.

Li Xia said: "There are still a few good poems, let's write them after returning to Chang'an."

Desu'am also reacted, frightened and angry, and gouged Heli Huo Sun, An Tong and others several times.

"Look at his hands again."

He Li Huo Sun could no longer laugh.

Li Xia thought of seeing Li Zengbo during the day, and froze for a moment.

"It's a trace of paint." Lin Zi said: "This person is Heli Huosun?!"

"Is Old Marshal Li satisfied?"

Beside the bonfire, Li Zengbo was lying on his back with his eyes closed, but he was not asleep. It was obvious that he still had a smile on his face.

If you don't know him well and just listen to the second half of the conversation, you may feel that his mind is full of private schemes.

"Your Majesty wants to go back to Chang'an first? Or attack Hetao again?"

Although Li Zengbo's spirit looked good, his old body revealed too many bad signals.

Li Xia looked at the prisoner in front of him and said, "You can understand Chinese, so you don't have to pretend, someone will tell you right away."

In short, before De Su'amu could confirm the identity of the captive, there was already too much commotion, and now it even made him lose face in front of Li Xia.

He Li Huo Sun got hit, although he was not as arrogant as An Tong, but his eyes were equally proud.

This blow knocked out half of An Tong's teeth.

The Uighur was also straightforward, pointing to Heli Huosun and An Tong, and asked Li Xia, "Your Majesty, can the last general beat them?"

"Your Majesty, the chieftain has been killed." A general reported from outside the tent.

"It's not impossible. But the nine white scorpions are real, the sweaty robes are real, the accessories are real, and Xue Jun's crying is even more real. Let's be Kublai Khan and see who is more disappointed." .”

Lin Zi got off his horse and walked towards An Tong.

late at night.

Just as he was about to speak, he heard a "dong" sound, and there was a drum beating outside.

To be a little stronger than his old friend may be his last bit of stubbornness.

After all, people who can see Kublai Khan at close range are also a minority in Dayuan.

He raised his hand to stop the guard who was about to salute, and stood there looking into the curtain.

~~
Only somewhere in the desert, there are still people who are not reconciled.

Li Xia once again said something to Heli Huosun in Mongolian.

"Your Majesty, be at ease." Li Zengbo said slowly: "The old minister is not like Wu Luzhai, who can exhaust himself in a single battle. Luzhai is a literati, and the old minister is a general."

Soon, the generals of the Tang Army shouted: "Take the captive chief back, and kill the head and light the lamp tomorrow morning! To comfort the world..."

"No, Commander... His injury has been deteriorating, and he has been holding on to it all the time. The general dare not bother him with this matter. I want to ask His Majesty, is it better to keep it from him? "

"Satisfied." Li Zengbo smiled every time and said, "Very satisfied."

"I agree to both, but Li Qing still needs to contribute to the recovery of the Central Plains."

Even Yang Ben's flag is moving from north to south.

"Guanzhong needs soldiers and horses to come back, and if Kublai Khan is killed tomorrow, Henan and Hebei will be recovered. Hetao will leave another partial division, and this time we will attack in two ways."

……

An Tong, however, grinned, revealing a mouthful of blood, and the more he smiled, the more complacent he became.

Li Xia froze for a moment, then turned his head.

Only then did Li Xia feel relieved, thought for a while, turned around and walked to the desk, and picked up a pen to write the first word.

Li Xia walked towards the tent, and heard someone talking outside.

These people loyal to Kublai Khan successfully escorted away their Khan.

With a reply in Chinese, Heli Huosun, who was captured dressed as Kublai Khan, laughed.

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Li Xia gave two more instructions.

The vast majority of people can't actually see anything, but they still stand on tiptoe full of expectation.

What he has more is to make An Tong not laugh.

"I know, what does Li Qing want me to reward him?"

Then Desu'am walked towards An Tong, raised the handle of the knife and slammed An Tong in the face.

However, a slight voice behind him murmured: "Wu Luzhai didn't live to be 70 years old."

at last.

For a while, they talked about how many supplies and how much gold and silver were seized from where, and for a while, they said which troops of the Yuan army were captured.

"Heli Huosun has been following Kublai Khan closely, and has painted portraits. He is the person who has observed Kublai Khan most carefully, so he can achieve a similarity. He saw that Kublai Khan was being chased closely, so he changed his clothes to attract the pursuers. .”

An Tong was still laughing.

~~
Camp under the mountain.

"Li Qing just lie down."

"Li Qing's Ci is very good, he is not an ordinary general."

He was so excited because his mind was full of catching Kublai Khan before, and he didn't turn his mind around. At this time, he finally recovered the power of observation that a spy should have.

Desu'am became more and more angry, worried that he would beat An Tong to death, so he turned to He Li Huo Sun and lashed out again.

After he picked up Kublai Khan's robe, he followed Yang Ben all the way to chase, and finally saw a group of timid Xue guarding a man in sweaty single clothes, so he desperately chased and captured him alive.

Zhang Yizheng was walking hard with a ragged man on his back.

"You are the most loyal warrior." The person being carried said in Mongolian.

He was shaved very short, and the stubble on his face was ridiculous.The heavy body was on Zhang Yi's back, as if it would crush Zhang Yi at any moment.

"Longevity Witness, Ben Khan will never forget your loyalty..."

(End of this chapter)