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Chapter 288 The Road
Li Xia looked at the map and didn't make a decision right away.

He reached out to take the pen from Gao Mingyue's hand. When doing this, their hands touched slightly. Gao Mingyue lowered her head, looking very gentle.

Even though he is a person with rich experience and a firm mind, Li Xia is also slightly dazed.

He quickly focused on the map again, marking a few place names he was more familiar with.

Right now there are probably three paths.

One is to go south first, then go east, pass Weichu City, Shanchan City, and then go north to Wumeng.Li Xia wrote down the three place names "Chuxiong", "Kunming" and "Zhaotong".This is the shortest way, but Weichu is guarded by heavy troops, Shanchan must have been recovered by the Mongolian army. There are six or seven thousand troops in the two places, including a thousand Mongolian troops.Before the Mongolian army was still attacking the city, it was easy to rush over when they were unprepared, but now it is very difficult to go back;
The second is to go south first, then go west, pass through Yunnan City and Dali City, and then go north to the Jinsha River.Li Xia wrote down the two place names "Xiangyun" and "Dali".However, it is hard to say whether we will be able to find a boat that can carry more than a thousand people, and the Jinsha River is fast-moving, and the boat sails in a hurry. If it is attacked, it may be stuck in the dangerous shoal;

The third is, after arriving in Dali, cross the Jinsha River, take the Lingguan Road, go to Yazhou, and then return to Xuzhou along the Minjiang River.Yazhou, also known as "Ya'an", belongs to the western Sichuan area, close to Chengdu, and is now under Mongolian rule.This route detours for thousands of miles and penetrates into an enemy territory that is more dangerous than Dali. It seems to be the most dangerous...

"It's too crazy to walk the Lingguan Road." Gao Changshou shook his head while looking at the map, and murmured: "Instead of taking the Lingguan Road to the west of Sichuan, it's better to fight with Duan."

Li Xia said: "Bao San, one of my hundred generals, is familiar with the terrain of the Minjiang River. As long as he bypasses the Mongolian army's garrison point from the mountains, he may not be able to go back."

"It's impossible." Gao Changshou shook his head.

On this matter, Gao Changshou and Bao San, Xiong Shan and others have obviously different views.

Gao Changshou is from Dali, and he is more familiar with Dali. The choice in a difficult situation is to die in Dali;

"There are only two land routes and one water route." Li Xia said: "Of course the best way is to go five feet east, but the trouble is that the rebel army is too powerful and alarmed the Dali army."

If there hadn't been this incident, it would have been easy for Li Xia to go as a teacher, just like when the Mongolian army attacked Dali, they passed through the Song Dynasty.

However, due to the chaos of war, the Mongolian army and Dali army from all over the country blocked the city and strangled the checkpoints.

Gao Changshou thought for a while, then murmured: "If you let me choose, it's the safest way to go along the Jinsha River."

Li Xia said: "We are surrounded now, and we cannot let the enemy guess our way. The important thing is to be 'flexible' and not rush to choose a path."

He raised his hand and clicked on the map, and said: "These three roads are unchanged, but the enemy troops blocking the road are alive. The situation on the battlefield is ever-changing. We can mobilize their forces and disrupt them. Then we will look for the most favorable path, wait for them to show their flaws, and jump out of Dali in one fell swoop..."

Gao Mingyue quickly understood Li Xia's meaning, looked at his face, looked at his face, and shifted her mind from strategy.

She used to see him seriously, and she always told herself "I didn't like him, I didn't like him", but once she admitted it, she felt... She liked him too much.

After Li Xia finished speaking, she seemed to feel Gao Mingyue's gaze, and looked back at her, as if telling her, "Don't worry, we will be safe and get married..."

Just looking at his determined eyes, Gao Mingyue couldn't help but blush.

"Ahem..." Gao Changshou coughed a few times, his expression sluggish.

He wasn't trying to remind Li Xia and Gao Mingyue to be careful, but he really affected the injury.

This incident is strange to say, Gao Changshou was seriously injured two days ago, but he was still able to hold on.On the contrary, when Li Xia came today, he was discouraged and couldn't hold on anymore.

When talking about the plan just now, Gao Changshou was very dizzy. After the chat, he entrusted his subordinates to Li Xia. He relaxed his will and finally passed out.

Li Xia inspected Gao Changshou's injury, and said to Asha, "Give him some anesthetic, is there any more?"

Asahina agreed, took out a piece of cloth and pressed it between Gao Changshou's mouth and nose.

Gao Changshou was still murmuring a bit, rolled his eyes, and passed out completely, so Li Xia treated his wound again.

After finishing the work, Li Xia breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Gao Mingyue, "It's all flesh and blood injuries, so there is no danger of life."

Only then was Gao Mingyue relieved, feeling sorry for Li Xia's fatigue, and said, "I'll arrange a house for you... There are few houses in the village, so you can live with your second brother, and I'll let my sister-in-law live in my house."

Li Xia shook his head and said, "No need, the soldiers and I can camp outside."

Gao Mingyue sent him out, thinking all the way, if the house is not arranged properly, Asha will follow him again...

Then she blamed herself for always thinking about all these things... "Gao Mingyue, at such a critical moment, the second elder brother is seriously injured and he has so many things to worry about. You are so narrow-minded, you are so narrow-minded." .”

Talking to herself in a mess, seeing that Li Xia was about to walk out of the gate of the village, she couldn't help feeling a little melancholy.

I feel a bit reluctant, even though it's only one night, the distance is not far away.

Li Xia stopped, hugged her, lowered his head and kissed her forehead, and said in a low voice, "You've been too tired recently, take a good rest, don't worry about anything..."

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In Gao Changshou's old department, there were only a hundred young men and two hundred women and children left, and Li Xia reorganized them.

After resting for another day, the soldiers recovered their physical strength, and they planned to move.

It can only be transferred, because the food is almost finished...

Yang Yuan led [-] Dali troops to surround them again.

He didn't attack the mountain immediately, because he didn't know the truth of the Song army, and worried that they had more firearms, so he ordered to block the mountain road.

Yang Yuan expected that there was not much food and grass on the mountain, and knew that as long as he guarded them, he could trap them to death.

But there are three mountain roads in Dajian Mountain, so Yang Yuan had to divide his troops to guard it.

In addition, there is a deep valley to the west, which is also guarded by a small number of Dali soldiers.

……

March [-], late at night.

Luhu and Xiongshan led 200 men to quietly climb down the deep valley to the west, and launched a surprise attack on Yang Yuan's camp in the north.

At the same time, there was a lot of killing on the mountain. It seemed that the Song army was planning to attack Yang Yuan's camp from both sides.

Therefore, 500 Dali troops from the south went around to the west, trying to attack the two hundred Song troops from behind.

But at this time, Li Xia had already led the troops to kill from the mountain road in the south, and quickly defeated the remaining [-] Dali troops in the south by taking advantage of their numbers and the condescending terrain.

After that, Luhu and Xiongshan immediately turned around and joined forces with Li Xia to support the Dali army in the north.

When Yang Yuan reacted, Li Xia calmly withdrew to the southward road...

(End of this chapter)