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Chapter 1272 Not Many Soldiers
There was fire in Kublai Khan's eyes.

It was the bonfire burning in the sweat tent reflected in his pupils.

But when he looked away, his eyes were still very calm.

"Khan, the burning of Wusui City by the Tang army just shows that their strength is tight and they cannot cope with such a long front."

The person standing in front of the map and analyzing the situation was replaced by a young Mongolian.

His name is Naiyan, and he is the grandson of Tachaer, the head of the kings of the East.

Since Tacha'er died in battle on Helan Mountain, his fief has been inherited by his son Amulu.

Amulu is mediocre and addicted to wine and sex. This time Kublai Khan called the princes of the fiefs again, and Naiyan led the army to come.

Naiyan is only 28 years old this year, she is full of vigor, her eyes are a little hanging up, giving people a very difficult feeling.

"The Tang army will definitely defend the cities of Baozhou and Zhending in the south. In addition, they have to deal with Boyan, Song army, and Tubo. They must not have many soldiers scattered in each city."

"How to be sure?"

"We can try it out."

Naiyan turned her head to look at Brother Yixiang, and found that King Zong was standing aside with a gloomy face and did not speak, so she replied, "If Brother Yixiang's guess is correct and Tang Jun is really in the Central Plains, You can send cavalry deep again to grab their food and grass, and see how many soldiers and horses Baozhou City can send to pursue."

"Brother Phase Shift, what do you think?"

After being called by Kublai Khan, Brother Yixiang stood up and said, "I have sent troops south many times before, and it is easy to be attacked by the Tang army from various cities. That's why I let the cavalry detour from Cangzhou."

"It's not the same." Nai Yan said: "This time, we are going to counterattack Baozhou and kill Zhang Rou!"

After all, young people are more vigorous.

Brother Yi Xiang looked at it, thinking that perhaps what Da Khan wanted was Naiyan's vigor, so he nodded and didn't say any more.

~~
Because after Li Xia left, the Yuan army had been increasing troops on the Baigou battlefield, so Zhang Rou shrank his defense and retreated to Baozhou.

With the fall of Wusui City, Baozhou City once again became the front line.

On August [-]th, Zhang Mansion.

There was a hasty knock on the door.

"Father...father?"

Zhang Rou opened her eyes, and after a while, she said, "Come in."

He glanced around with his old eyes, and saw that there was still half a piece of moon cake pressed on a letter paper on the case, and he picked it up and stuffed it into his mouth.

While chewing, he looked up, only to see Zhang Twelve Lang and Zhang Hongyi coming.

"I thought that the eldest sister would come back, but in the mid-autumn festival, even the second sister is not here." Zhang Rou murmured before remembering to ask: "What's the matter?"

"Father, it's not good, the fifth brother and the sixth brother have returned!" Zhang Hongyi said in a panic: "I heard that Wu Sui City has fallen!"

Zhang Rou's expression remained unchanged, but she picked up the letter paper on the case, folded it, put it in her arms, and said, "The fifth and sixth are here? Help me get up."

Seeing that he was so calm, Zhang Hongyi thought he was old and confused, and hurriedly said: "Father, I heard that the Yuan army is about to attack Baozhou again, what should I do?"

Zhang Rou snorted coldly, and said, "You don't want to take care of these things, you just want to travel around the mountains and rivers, so why ask?"

"Aren't you... afraid, baby?" Zhang Hongyi was honest.

Zhang Rou was too lazy to take care of this useless son, she drove him away after leaving the house, and headed all the way to the north of the city.

I saw Zhang Honglue looking northward through the binoculars.

"Where are the Goro people?"

"On the tower, the child helped his father up."

Climbing up to the tower, Zhang Hongdao was covered with wounds and was sleeping soundly on a chair with his head up, his face very tired.

Zhang Rou stretched out her foot and kicked him, saying: "You can still sleep. A father who is almost [-] is more energetic than you."

"Father."

"How is it?"

"Exploring the horse and reporting back, the Yuan army has already attacked."

Zhang Rou nodded, took out the paper from her pocket, and said, "Look for yourself."

"Yes."

Zhang Hongdao got Zhang Rou's message after entering Wusui City, but the more detailed content is still in the letter Zhang Rou received.

After watching it, he didn't say anything about the battle, but murmured in surprise.

"Is the father-in-law here?"

~~
August [-]th.

Naiyan's soldiers and horses have arrived at the city of Baozhou.

"Report! Qianhu in Maduli has led his army around the city and headed south!"

"Is Baozhou City sending troops?"

"no!"

Naiyan then recruited another group of scouts, asked more carefully about the distribution of the defenders on the top of Baozhou City, and finally said to himself: "That's right, the troops of the Tang army have all been withdrawn to guard and collect food, Baozhou Not many soldiers and horses."

"My lord, are you going to attack the city?"

"What's the rush? Wait until Maduli gets the food first." Naiyan ordered: "Surround Baozhou City for me, and cut off Baozhou's supplies."

~~
In the camp of the Yuan army, Brother Yixiang was also listening to Tan Ma's report.

He frowned and asked, "Is it possible that Zhang Rou released the fake news? To trick us into retreating."

"I don't know."

At this time, Brother Xiangyi was holding an urgent letter from the southeast.

It was reported by Wan Huji, who he sent to Cangzhou, that he had encountered a small group of Tang troops near Wen'an County, and some scouts had been attacked.

But Brother Yixiang thinks it's impossible. The strength of the Tang army is not enough to defend the front line of Baozhou, so why would they send troops to the east?
Although the Yuan army has not placed too many soldiers and horses in the east since the Li Fen Rebellion, but with Boyan holding back in the south, the Tang army should not be able to spare the rest.

"If it's fake news..."

"Your Majesty!"

Suddenly a cry was heard in the tent.

Brother Phase Shift had a premonition that something was wrong, so he got up and made a big deal.

I saw a timid Xue rushing over, pointing to the south and saying: "There are cavalry...cavalry...returning to the camp."

At this point, the dust and smoke can already be seen.

If there is nothing urgent for the cavalry to return to the camp, it is obviously not that simple this time.

Brother Yi Xiang rushed to the south to look, sure enough, what he saw was a group of remnants of soldiers.

"My lord! Tang Jun is here! Tang Jun is here..."

A cavalryman who lost his armor and armor rushed to the side of the camp, scrambled forward, and shouted: "At least [-] Tang troops are here."

"Exiut."

Brother Yi Xiang stepped forward, grabbed the soldier by the collar, and shouted: "What Tang army is here?! Which Tang army has so many people?!"

"Zhang……"

Hearing the soldier say a Chinese surname with difficulty, Brother Xiangyi thought it would be Zhang Rou.

However, what he heard was another name.

"Zhang Jue? You mean Zhang Jue?"

"Your Majesty, it's Zhang Jue! I heard the Commander shout that Zhang Jue is here."

Brother Phase Shift stared and couldn't help being stunned.

He still didn't quite understand why Zhang Jue appeared near Wen'an County.

If so, then... what about Boyan?

At this time, he didn't have time to think about it, so he hurried to the Khan tent to report the news to Kublai Khan.

Half a day later, a fast horse galloped out from the Baigou camp.

"drive!"

"drive!"

They want to pass the news to Naiyan.

~~
"what?!"

It was the next day when Naiyan received the news, her eyes were wide open, shocked and fierce at the same time.

"E Xiute, this is Boyan who was promoted to prime minister as soon as he saw the sweat, trash, what a trash."

Naiyan cursed in a low voice, but did not hide her dissatisfaction.

He has decided that he can no longer surround Baozhou.

The Tang army deliberately concealed the news of the great victory in the south and abandoned Wusui City. It must be to lure the main force of the Yuan army to go south and annihilate them one by one.He didn't want to be the first to fall into the trap.

"Send the fastest scout horse to catch up with Maduli, tell him not to go any further, and withdraw back for me!"

"Yes!"

Soon, some Yuan army cavalry flew out of the camp, bypassing Baozhou City and galloping south.

……

More than a hundred miles to the southwest of Baozhou, there is a Yuan army exploring horses driving up a small hill.

Looking from this position, one can see a grain transport team on the official road in the distance.

The probing horse watched for a long time, then descended the hill and galloped across the wilderness for a few miles, only to see a Yuan army cavalry resting in front of them.

"Qianhu, we found the Tang army's supply team!"

Sitting on the horseback, Maduli opened his eyes and said, "Speak carefully."

"There were at least 2000 people, and everyone was pushing a wheelbarrow with a sack on it..."

Then the whistle sounded.

The war horses lying on the ground stood up one after another, and the soldiers of the Yuan army who sat straddling them seemed to be one with the horses, and they steered the horses to the south with great flexibility.

The iron hooves rolled over, and gradually saw the team transporting grain on the official road.

"kill!"

The Yuan army roared, and opened their bows and arrows while riding their horses.

However, what surprised them was that the peasants who transported the food did not rush, and began to gather, and took out their shields one after another.

"Array!"

At the same time, those peasants also shot something into the air, and with a sharp noise, a group of red clouds exploded in the air.

"Whoosh whoosh..."

Under the rain of arrows, the Yuan army had rushed within dozens of steps.

But those peasants have already drawn their weapons from the unicycle formation.

A crossbow was raised and buckled down.

The crossbow arrows shot out.

"Whoosh whoosh..."

"Grenade!"

"Oh!"

The horse neighed, and the formation of the Yuan army's cavalry was in chaos.

When they finally rushed to the formation of those civilian men, they were greeted by dense spears.

Ma Duli was taken aback, and quickly pulled the rein. Although he didn't know why this happened, he realized that he had been tricked.

"withdraw!"

He blew his whistle again, this time to retreat.

"Withdraw! The one behind me will follow!"

It was easy to charge, but difficult to retreat. It was hard to lead some cavalry to turn first, and Ma Duli immediately fled north.

With the sound of hoofbeats, they turned around a hill called Gushan in front of them.

Suddenly an arrow "swished" and hit a soldier in front of Maduli.

"Shut up!"

Taking a closer look, there was actually a cavalry of hundreds of Tang troops coming in front of them.At the same time, the Tang army's infantry behind have also caught up.

"Why so fast?" Maduri couldn't help exclaiming.

He looked around again, only to realize that he had nowhere to escape...

~~
"puff."

A small battle ended, and Fan Xueyi chopped off the heads of the Yuan army's thousand households with one blow.

"Hang up!"

He threw the head to Hao Gou'er behind him, and panted to wipe the blood off his face.

"General, why don't you give him a chance to surrender?" Hao Gou'er asked.

"Whoever leads troops into the country to rob people shall be beheaded as an example to others."

After Fan Xueyi answered briefly, he strode towards the cavalry in front, and said to the one-eyed cavalry general, "Thank you, General!"

"We are all in the same robe, no need to thank you." The other party spoke with a strong Gansu accent, clasped his fists and said: "Xining Army Commander, Li Bing."

"Feng Yijun Commander, Fan Xueyi, met Li Tongzhi."

"Let's go, Baozhou is not far away."

"Yanjing is not far away."

"Yes." Li Bing laughed loudly, "Yanjing is not far away..."

(End of this chapter)