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Chapter 1274 Yan Yun
Kaifeng Palace.

There were many documents scattered in the hall. Li Xia sat alone by the table and looked at the map, and heard footsteps behind him.

The voice was very soft, it was obvious that someone was walking on tiptoes, and there was a faint familiar scent wafting to the tip of the nose.

Then, Zhao Jin put his arms around his waist and asked, "What are you thinking?"

"Do you know where the Sixteen States of Yanyun are?"

Zhao Jin was stunned for a moment, and immediately lost the interest in playing around, and replied with some unease: "No... I don't know."

"Huh? I really don't know?"

Zhao Jin had come to the front honestly, stood by the side and looked at the map, and said in a low voice: "Although I always heard people talking about taking back the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, but no one has ever told me which ten states it is. Six states."

"Maybe it's because they never really wanted to take it back."

Li Xia didn't bother to discuss Song Ting's attitude on this matter, after all, Lin'an was still too far away from Yanyun.

"Your Majesty." Zhao Jin asked cautiously, "How many states have you recovered now?"

"Counting the time, there should be two."

"two?"

Zhao Jin was very surprised, and said: "We have all fought so far north, why are there only two?"

"If Zhang Jue's progress is smooth, he should have regained Yingzhou and Mozhou." Li Xia clicked on the map and said, "That's Hejian Mansion, Renqiu and Moting counties."

He moved his finger up, and pondered again: "If Kublai Khan continues to shrink his troops, maybe Zhang Rou has already entered Zhuozhou at this time, I don't know."

"That is to say, we have just begun to recover the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun." Zhao Jin looked at the vicinity of Yanjing on the map, and asked in confusion, "Where are they all?"

"Seven to the east of Juyongguan." Li Xia drew a circle on the map with his fingers, and said, "And the area north of Shanxi bordering the grasslands has nine."

The area he painted extends from Zhangjiakou in the north, Yanmen Pass in the south, Hetao in the west and Juyongguan in the east.

"It turned out to be here." Zhao Jin was quite surprised, "I always thought that the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun were in Hebei, but it turned out that more were in Shanxi. Why are you looking at this? I mean, isn't Yanjing going to be captured now?"

"In comparison, Yanjing is more of a symbol, the crown on Kublai Khan's head, and this area is the neck to be strangled."

"Hmm... so hard to understand."

"Look, here is the vast grassland, here is Yanjing, and Yanshan is in the way. Where is the best and most guarded road from the grassland to Yanjing?"

"Ah, I see. So Yanyun Sixteen States are so important?"

"If the Central Plains hadn't lost the Sixteen States of Yanyun, how could they have been humiliated so easily for more than three hundred years?"

Zhao Jin looked around and gradually understood what Li Xia was doing.

Based on the front-line intelligence and the situation of supplies and food in various places, he figured out where the large or small units of soldiers and horses went on the map, and the conditions of supplies and casualties, and then deduced various possible situations to make a judgment on the situation.

For example, a map of Yanmen Pass is filled with densely packed small characters, and a few pieces of information about the generals of both sides are pasted next to it.

She wanted to help, but she knew too little about the facts... Then she remembered to take out a letter from her sleeve.

"Oh, you asked me to write the letter to my uncle."

Li Xia took it and put it beside the case, ready to send someone to send it later.

Zhao Jin asked, "Can you recruit him?"

"You know what kind of person he is, so just give him another choice..."

~~
Now Jia Sidao has not withdrawn his troops from Sichuan and Shu, at least Li Xia has not received the news.

However, Li Xia believed that Song Jun could not cause too much trouble for the time being.

He analyzed the situation before and thought that at the stage of the three-party stalemate, everyone is like a tight string, and it depends on who makes a mistake first and whose string is broken first.

Therefore, Li Xia chose the safest method, that is, to come back and sit in Kaifeng, which is like a chessboard Tianyuan.

As a result, it was Song Ting who was the first to crack.

As soon as Lu Wenhuan shrank his head, the Song court immediately fell into chaos, fighting among themselves and seeking peace, and with a "boom", Jia Sidao's strings broke first.

And one of the biggest mistakes Kublai Khan made was to rely on the Song Army to help contain him. Affected by this, he was at a disadvantage when facing Li Xia alone, and could only shrink back.

At this stage, what Li Xia wanted was not to give Kublai Khan a chance to stand up.

Then, the key to this stage lies in the north of Shanxi, where the three provinces of Shanxi, Hebei and Mongolia meet.

Li Xia not only wanted the two main forces, Zhang Hongdao and Zhang Jue, to go north, but also needed Liu Yuanli to break through Yanmen Pass and Juyong Pass all the way to completely surround Kublai Khan.

After thinking about the map all day, in the evening, Li Xia recruited Lin Zi.

After a while, Lin Zi entered the hall.

"Your Majesty, this is the military message delivered today."

"Does Nie Zhongyou have a battle report?"

Lin Zi said: "I haven't received it yet."

Li Xia pondered for a while, and said: "Send a fast horse to deliver the decree to him, and then tell him that I need him to ensure that the Yuan army can't attack Guanzhong, and at the same time, I also want him to cross the Yellow River from the north and take down Yunzhou, Shuozhou and other places." to help Liu Yuanli break through the Yanmen Pass."

~~
On the first day of September, Juyongguan.

A group of cavalry rushed into Guancheng in the evening.

Aibuhua, who is the leader, is wearing a luxurious fur and looks imposing. He climbs the tower and looks eastward, his eyes longing.

"Your Majesty, it's time to eat." Yue Naihe came over and reminded.

Ai Buhua raised her hand and said, "Leave the customs early tomorrow, can I reach Dadu before dark? I don't know if the princess has arrived in Dadu from Kaiping."

Yue Naihe was silent for a moment, but couldn't help but said: "Even if the king doesn't go to Dadu in person, the Great Khan will definitely send the princess to the Wanggu tribe."

"How could it be?" Aibuhua said, "In the past two years, I have asked Khan many times, but he has not agreed."

"But it's different now." Yue Naihe said: "Your Majesty should know that the situation is changing like water. Since the Tang army broke through Taiyuan, the Great Khan's attitude towards Wang Gu's tribe has changed. Didn't you notice it?"

"It's a good thing, isn't it?"

"On the contrary, I don't think this is a good thing. When the Tang army attacked Yanmen Pass, it meant that other soldiers and horses, including the prince of Shanxi, were no longer able to guard the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, and the Great Khan needed the herdsmen of Wanggu's tribe to go up. The battlefield. And after these defeats, how many herdsmen can the king have left?"

Ai Buhua sighed and said: "I understand what you said, but I am the grandson of Genghis Khan and the son-in-law of the Great Khan. The more critical the situation is, the more we should share the worries of the Great Khan."

Yue Naihe glanced around, lowered his voice, and said, "Even so, the king shouldn't go to Dadu. You can stay in Yinshan and guard the retreat for the Great Khan. If the Great Khan is defeated by the Han, it is better to go north to Yanshan Mountain." The road is too narrow, and the best retreat is to go through Juyongguan...and here, we need to rely on the Wanggu Ministry to guard it now."

"What do you mean?"

"In this case, the Great Khan should send Princess Yuelie to the grassland to marry the king instead of letting the king go to Dadu."

Unhappy with love or not, he asked, "Are you asking me to force you to sweat profusely?"

Yue Naihe looked embarrassed, and wanted to say something more.

"Stop talking." Aibuhua ordered, turned and left.

~~
The second day of September.

Yanjing, Dadu New City.

When Kublai Khan came back this time, he did not stay in the Daning Palace in the capital of Jinzhong, but moved to the newly built metropolis.

Although the city walls of Dadu and the city of Miyagi had been built, most of the palaces had not yet been completed.

What I have to say is that the cavalry of the Yuan army still marched faster than the Tang army.

When Kublai Khan arrived, Zhang Jue marched to the vicinity of Anxu.

The two armies met on scouting horses, and after the vanguard soldiers and horses fought for a while, Zhang Jue set up camp on the spot, pretending to hold his ground, unwilling to fight the Yuan army immediately.

In this regard, Kublai Khan became vigilant.He did not immediately send a large army to attack Zhang Jue's camp, because he had expected that the Tang army was waiting for more troops.

But the Tang army is about to gather [-] soldiers and horses in Hebei.

"here!"

The map was rolled out, and Kublai Khan scanned it keenly, and immediately clicked on a place.

Yanmen Pass.

"Pass down Ben Khan's order to Marshal Zhu Er of the Datong Military and Horse Capital, and let him return to Fangyanmen Pass immediately..."

When Kublai Khan issued these orders, he also felt another problem, that is, the Great Mongol Kingdom used to be too lenient in controlling the Ulus, making him not as capable of controlling the marshals under his command as Li Xia was.

When the Mongols attacked gold, these generals of the Wanggu tribe surrendered in anticipation.Now who knows if they will also look down on Li Xia?

While thinking about this, a timid soldier Xue said: "Your Majesty, King Aibuhua has arrived."

When Kublai Khan heard this, he couldn't help but feel relieved, knowing that at least the leader of the Wanggu tribe had no intention of turning against him "temporarily"...

(End of this chapter)