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Chapter 436
Li Xia is no stranger to the name Yang Dayuan.

Last year, Yang Dayuan followed Pu Zezhi to conquer Jianmen Pass, and then defended the pass city until the Song Army was defeated at Jiantandu and Lingquan Pass. He was unable to defend Jianmen Pass, so he withdrew to Dahuo City.

In that battle, among the generals sent by Pu Zezhi, such as Liu Zheng, Duan Yuanjian, Yang Dayuan and others, Yang Dayuan fought the best.

But now that Pu Wei mentions this name again, he already despises it deeply.

"At that time, when Yang Dayuan beheaded Wang Zhong, his uncle praised him for his loyalty. Unexpectedly...heh."

Li Xia said: "I think at that moment, Yang Dayuan still wanted to live and die with Dahuo City. I am afraid that in the end, he really can't hold it anymore?"

"I can't find out the specific situation." Pu Wei shook his head, and said: "Except for his elder brother Yang Daquan who died in the battlefield of Syria and Lu in his early years, Yang Dayuan's family is all in Dahuo City. It must be to protect the family. In short, the Mongolian army It is an ironclad fact that they surrendered Dahuo City, and now they have entered Qingju City, showing off their power all the way."

"The surrender of such a general will have a very bad impact on the situation."

"Very."

Pu Wei took a deep breath, and said slowly: "Yang Dayuan has successively served as the commander of the horse infantry on Kuizhou Road, concurrently in charge of persuading farmers and field affairs, envoy of the garrison horse system, envoy of East Road appeasement, governor of Jinzhou, and Zhilangzhou.

When Yu Shuai was there, he ordered Yang Dayuan to build Yunshan City in Pengzhou and General Wang Jian to build Dahuo City.Later, feeling that Dahuo City and Diaoyu City were heavy fortresses in the middle of Sichuan, General Wang Jian was moved to guard Diaoyu City, and Yang Dayuan was moved to guard Dahuo City.

Hezhou Diaoyu City is the barrier of Chongqing government, and Cangxi Dahuo City is the "Shukou", which is an important channel for defending the Mongolian army from north to south to Dongchuan.

It can be said that among the Eight Pillars in Central Sichuan, Dahuo City is the most important, only under Diaoyu City.Once Yang Dayuan came down, it would first cause the defense line of Jialing River to collapse completely, and then affect the defense line of Qujiang River...the consequences would be disastrous.After my uncle heard the news, he said, "The defense of central Shu may be destroyed by the hands of Da Yuan." "

Pu Wei really wanted to tell Li Xia what kind of predicament Pu Zezhi was facing.

But the language has never been able to fully express Pu Zezhi's internal and external difficulties. He was suspected by the court at the top, betrayed by the generals at the bottom, and the Mongolian Khan personally brought [-] troops to kill him.

Li Xia closed her eyes, as if she could see the old man struggling to support his sick body.

It's not that he has no choice, he just needs to be the minister of the Ministry of Rites with peace of mind in the court, and not take over the hot potato of Sichuan and Shu.

After Pu Wei talked about it, his hatred for Yang Dayuan became more and more intense.

"My father is now guarding Daliang City alone and strangling the defense line of the Qujiang River. Because of Yang Dayuan's surrender, he is alone. If... if my father dies in battle, then Yang Dayuan will be my sworn enemy, and I will kill him sooner or later."

Li Xia nodded, and looked at the map again.

In short, in front of the important town of Chongqing is Hezhou Diaoyu City.The most important barriers in Diaoyu City have almost been broken by Meng Ge.

Qingju City guarded by Duan Yuanjian probably won't be able to defend it. It just depends on whether Pu Yuangui can hold Daliang City and block the Mongolian army in the northeast for Diaoyu City.

"Then let's go."

Li Xia stood up and said, "Brother Pu, please accompany me to Jiading Mansion, okay?"

Pu Wei was taken aback.

He actually didn't quite understand why Pu Zezhi sent him to find Li Xia at this moment.

Just to tell this little magistrate the latest battle situation?
What's the use of telling?
But since Pu Zezhi proposed to let Li Xia find a way to be transferred to Jiading Mansion, he must have a deep meaning.

Pu Wei then asked: "But your place of duty is in Junlian..."

"Brother Pu, don't worry, I have already asked Zhu's comforter." Li Xia said, "He has given me the military talisman..."

~~
Jiading Mansion refers to the area of ​​Meishan and Leshan.It is located in the north of Syria, on the upper reaches of the Minjiang River, bordering on Chengdu.

This is one of the most ravaged places in the more than [-] years of the Mongolia-Song War.

The first time Jiading Mansion fell was when 140 million people were slaughtered in Chengdu. In that year, seven or eight out of ten people in western Sichuan died under the butcher's knife.

Afterwards, Mongolia and the Song Dynasty saw each other in Chengdu, and Jiading Mansion, as the main battlefield in western Sichuan, was even more rare.

The former hometown of Su Dongpo, "the city of poetry and books for thousands of years, the first state of humanities", has almost become a ghost town.

There are only two mountain cities, Sangui and Jiuding, strangling the upper reaches of the Minjiang River and relying on them as the gateway to Syria.

Last year, Pu Zezhi survived a major defeat. When he withdrew from Chengdu, he sent more troops to Sangui and Jiudingcheng in order to ease the situation in western Sichuan.

There are not many troops, and the two mountain cities add up to no more than a thousand people.

Li Xia's strategic purpose is very simple, to integrate the forces of Qingfu, Xuzhou, Luzhou, Jiading, and Yunding to regain Chengdu again.

From the beginning, he was reluctant to go to the main battlefield of Hezhou, where there were countless high-ranking officials and generals, who could easily take away his military power.

Instead, taking advantage of Niu Lin's defeat of Zhang Shi, the Song army in western Sichuan was leaderless, allowing Li Xia to take the opportunity to integrate the garrisons from various places.

Like a cautious thief, he watched Meng Ge's army attack the hinterland of Sichuan and Shu, and circled up from the edge.

Once Chengdu is recovered, the Min and Tuo river basins can be controlled from the upper reaches, and troops can be sent to attack Mengge's rear at any time, or go straight into Hanzhong.

Relying on the isolation of the Tuojiang River and the Longquan Mountains, it was difficult for the Mongolian army to recapture western Sichuan.

……

Resting for more than [-] days is not enough. In addition to allowing the soldiers to recover their physical strength and recuperate their injuries, Li Xia also needs to find ways to better control the Syrian and Lu armies, so as to command them like arms.

It's hard.

In his heart, Li Xia missed Gao Mingyue a little, and wanted to go back to Qingfu to take a look, but he was too busy with his business.

And with the bad news coming from the Eastern Sichuan battlefield, there was no time to prepare for Li Xia.

Just on May 27th, soldiers sent out to the Minjiang River, heading north to Chengdu...

~~
The trackers dragged the boats on the Minjiang River, and the soldiers walked along the river.

A commander of the Luzhou Army stopped, glanced at the team, and beckoned Wang Datou.

"Did you ask?"

Wang Datou was stunned for a moment, and said: "The Commander said, let me ask Brother Liu about Li Zhizhou?"

"Nonsense, which state do you know?"

"Brother Liu said he didn't know how to pronounce those words."

Sha Bao casually slapped on Wang Da's helmet and scolded: "You idiot, you have such a big head."

"Commander Sha, what are you thinking about?"

"Damn it, I think there's something wrong with the order."

"No, didn't the commander see the soldier talisman?"

"See you." Sha Bao said, "There are transfer orders and military talismans, but I don't know what official Li Zhizhou is."

As he said that, he took out the transfer order from the armor with great difficulty.

Wang Datou wondered: "Hey, aren't you illiterate, Commander?"

"I asked Er Dai to read it, but he didn't understand the words."

Sha Bao looked at the "Quan Zhijun's Lianzhou affairs" on the transfer order, frowned in embarrassment, and said: "Er Dai only recognizes the word 'lian', but the brothers don't know where this Lianzhou is. .”

"I see the way Li Zhizhou and Jiang Tong judge are talking, Li Zhizhou's official is much older than Jiang Tong judge?"

"Nonsense. Zhizhou is of course better than Tongju."

"The commander is still thinking about it. You have the transfer order and the soldier talisman. Li Zhizhou is fast and rewarding. Isn't it good to listen to him to win the battle?"

Sha Baodao: "You know what. In the past, generals were appointed as defense envoys. I didn't hear these words this time, and there is no such thing as a general."

Wang Datou said with a smile: "It turns out that the commander wants to be promoted."

"roll."

Sha Bao cursed again, kicked Wang Datou away, and meditated alone.

He is a vulgar and uneducated martial artist, but as a high-ranking general, he is familiar with the process of leading troops.

A magistrate under the age of 20...or a magistrate of the prefecture suddenly commanded troops to recapture Chengdu, no matter how you think about it, there is a problem.

After thinking like this for two days, the soldiers and horses have left Meishan.

Sha Bao couldn't suppress the doubts in his heart, and finally planned to ask Li Xia to clarify...

~~
Pu Wei also planned to ask Li Xia to clarify.

Because, Li Xia took away the only thousand remaining troops in Sangui and Jiuding City of Jiading Mansion, and it was in the name of Zhu Yusun.

Now that the news of Pu Zezhi's dismissal has not yet spread, the Jiading garrison was originally sent by Pu Zezhi, and some of them recognized Pu Wei, so they obeyed Li Xia obediently.

But Pu Wei felt that Li Xia's transfer order was probably fake.

At the beginning, they only said "go to Jiading Mansion", but no matter how you look at it now, they are going to attack Chengdu.

How could Zhu Yusun have the courage to make such a claim?

But Pu Wei thought about it again, does Li Xia have the guts?It is definitely a serious crime to deploy troops without authorization...

He was still marching today, Pu Wei rushed to Li Xia's army, just as Sha Bao was also striding towards him.

"General Sha also wants to see Li Zhixian."

"Yes, Mr. Pu Lang too?"

……

Over there, Li Xia was still riding his horse, turned his head to glance at the two, and said loudly, "Come here together, both of you."

Sha Bao was more straightforward, strode forward, cupped his hands and said, "Li Zhizhou, dare to ask..."

"I know what you are going to ask." Li Xia said straightforwardly: "Fight with peace of mind, Niu Lin only has [-] remnants left, let's take back Chengdu. If we win, all the soldiers will have made great contributions. If we lose, we will not be able to pay for our crimes." on your heads."

In a word, Sha Bao was full of doubts and couldn't ask, standing there felt uncomfortable.

He is a general, and he really doesn't know what else to say in front of civil officials.

"Ha, it's all right..."

The next moment, I saw a horse galloping back in front of me.

"Report! I saw the Mongolian sentry horse! It's just ahead...the Mongolian army has spotted us!"

Before Pu Wei could open his mouth over there, Li Xia had already steered his horse to the mountain city next to the road, and ordered: "Send the order, the ships will stop advancing immediately, unload the luggage on the spot, and set up camp!"

"Yes!"

"Yang Ben, Song He, chase and kill the sentry horse of the Mongolian army!"

"Yes!"

"Liu Jinsuo and Yu Tian, ​​guard the road to the north and cover the army camp; Xu Kui and Mao Yi'er lead people to occupy the commanding heights. Sha Bao, take the whole army to the village..."

Sha Bao was still in a daze, but when he looked up again, he saw that Li Xia had already arranged the generals.

He didn't care too much anymore, and hurriedly ran towards the team under his command.

For this sake, I still don't care about the transfer order, let's take Chengdu first and then talk about it...

~~
This place is already within the prefecture of Chengdu. On the upper reaches of the Minjiang River in the distance, Mongolian sentinel horses are galloping fast, and the sound of sharp blares can be heard everywhere.

Soon, smoke rose from the top of the mountain.

……

On the top of the city of Chengdu, Niu Lin is still thinking about how to save the situation, and then report the defeat to Meng Ge.

Unexpectedly, Song Jun would counterattack so quickly.

In the situation in eastern Sichuan, if the Song army didn't go to rescue Chongqing, they actually came to Chengdu?
"Hurry up, ask the Great Khan for help!"

"咴咴咴..."

The horse's hoof immediately raised gray smoke, bypassed the Longquan Mountains to the north, turned to the southeast, and galloped away.

Niu Lin drew out his scimitar and shouted: "The Mongols will never be trapped in the city, follow me to defeat the Song army."

One by one, the Mongolian soldiers ran across the school grounds and led their horses to meet in the south of the city.

Even though there were only [-] remnants, Niu Lin still didn't plan to defend passively, but decided to make a surprise attack while the Song army was not yet firmly established.

For him, Chengdu is not important, only flexible tactics can bring down the Song Army...

(End of this chapter)