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Chapter 456
Luzhou, the city of the gods.

There are nearly 2 troops on Chengdufu Road and Tongchuanfu Road, including all defenders in Yunding, Jiading, Xuzhou, Qingfu, Luzhou, and Lingxiaocheng.

More than [-] of them have been transferred to Chengdu by Li Xia, and have fought against Niu Lin and Liu Heima one after another. They are so exhausted that they must rest and guard Chengdu.

The soldiers in Chengdu are tired and can rest.

However, Li Xia rushed to Luzhou non-stop, and took aim at the nearly ten thousand people who had already rested... Zhu Yusun's [-] troops left in Luzhou, as well as the Changning Army.

In the name of Zhu Yusun, he began to seize military power.

At the beginning of August, soldiers and horses finally gathered in Shenarm City.

It looks very adequate.

However, there are only 4000 elite soldiers among them, and the rest are temporary auxiliary soldiers, village braves, and folk strong.

As a result, Western Sichuan and Southern Sichuan are extremely empty...

And this is the only family property left in the entire Tongchuanfu Road. Less than [-] people have to guard the rear of Chengdu and the upper reaches of Chongqing, covering two prefectures and fourteen counties.

Once transferred away, any small group of Mongolian troops can drive straight in.

Then, if Xu and Lu are attacked and Chengdu becomes an isolated city, it will inevitably fall.As a result, western Sichuan and southern Sichuan were destroyed.

Zhu Husun ​​believed that Li Xia's seizure of military power was to consolidate the defense of Syria and Lu, and then consolidate the victory of Chengdu.

He didn't expect that after Li Xia gathered his troops, he proposed to lead them away.

"Does Feiyu understand the consequences? Even Pu Shuai dare not easily mobilize the troops of Xu and Lu. Why? Once Xu and Lu fall, it is equivalent to giving up the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and the situation will only get worse!"

"I understand." Li Xia said: "But please rest assured Zhu's envoy, Liu Heima, the current Sichuan West coach of the Mongolian army, will never send troops to attack easily."

"That is, he has only one soldier left, and Brother Meng still has more than one hundred thousand troops. You are not too arrogant."

"I mean, Liu Heima is unwilling to attack."

"What's the reason?"

"It's inconvenient to inform the comforter."

Li Xia dealt with Zhu Yusun so straightforwardly and casually.

It's not that he's pretending to be mysterious.

Instead, negotiating with Liu Heima, using Kublai Khan's conspiracy to defraud Liu Yuanzhen... These things cannot be clearly stated to others.

Guiding this trend and deterring Liu Heima made western Sichuan and southern Sichuan temporarily stable, allowing troops to be gathered in one place.

But what's next?
Meng Ge is not dead, and all subsequent plans cannot be implemented.

Of course Li Xia can wait, take a rest slowly, and slowly accumulate strength...

The fact that Wang Jian beheaded the national treasure of Jin has already been reported through Pu Zezhi's information.The guard has such a firm will, and with the terrain of Diaoyu City, he may be able to guard for a long time.

If Meng Ge will die, Diaoyu City is the most likely place.

This is Li Xia's conjecture based on the knowledge of later generations.

However, once there is a change, all kinds of possibilities are available.

For one thing, Diaoyu City is not without the possibility of being breached.

Its terrain is extremely dangerous, but Dahuo City, Qingju City, Yunshan City, Daliang City, which one is not dangerous?Wang Jian is determined, but Zhang Shi, Yang Li, Wang Zuo, and Duan Yuanjian, which one is not determined?

In case any weak-minded General Song was replaced by Li Xia, stayed in Diaoyu City, and cut off Wang Jian's head...

Second, if Diaoyu City can be defended for a long time, will Brother Meng still die?

Just as Li Xia and Yi Shiying once said, "When Lin'an City is broken and the Song Dynasty is destroyed, Lingxiao City may still be there." The same is true for Diaoyu City, which is an extremely important strategic location.

But no matter how important the location is, it's not impossible to get around.Bypassing Diaoyu City, going to Wanzhou or Kuizhou, you can also go straight down the Yangtze River to Jinghu Lake.

There are too many variables.

……

Li Xia walked up to the top of God's Arm City and looked at the mighty Yangtze River.

He looked far and wide, as if he wanted to find some clues in the torrent of history, but he couldn't find it.

Meng Ge, this is the person who rules the most territory and holds the most power, making everyone in the known world tremble and fear because of his scimitar and iron hoof.Throughout human history, no one can match it.However, compared to the famous names in the history books, he seems so unknown.His name is not recorded in history textbooks, and most people in later generations only know Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan.

Wang Jian, the governor of Xingyuan Mansion, also knows Hezhou, his official position is not high, and his status is not high.When all the kingdoms of the world were crushed by Mongolia's iron hooves, he stood alone in Diaoyu City, beheaded the envoys to show his determination, and faced the most powerful soldiers and horses in the world. How brave is he?However, there is no separate biography for him in the annals of history, and little is known about him.Most people in later generations joked that Yang Guo killed the Mongolian Khan, but how many people knew Wang Jian's name.

This battle, buried in layers of fog, has not been discussed worthy of it in the torrent of history.

Li Xia really wanted to see its magnificence through the fog.

Of course, it must have changed because of Li Xia, although I don't know how much it has changed.

……

Li Xia didn't know at first that Meng Ge's attack on Shu had been advanced by more than half a year.

Because of the death of Wuliang Hetai.

The news that Meng Ge's closest general died in Shunan made Meng Ge start preparing to attack Song Dynasty earlier.

Afterwards, it was Zong Wang A Bugan who died in Chengdu, which prompted Meng Ge to decide to conquer the Song Dynasty in advance...

~~
This year is the Wuwu year.The six years of Xingchang in the Great Song Dynasty and the eight years of Mengge Khan.

In August, the Mongolian army had surrounded Diaoyu City for two months.

Meng Ge's garrison is in Shizishan, five miles east of Diaoyu City;

Wang Dechen was stationed in the west of Diaoyu City, responsible for the initial main attack;
Shi Tianze was stationed in the south, spreading his troops along the Jialing River to prevent the support of the Chongqing Song Army.

More than [-] Mongolian troops surrounded the mountain city tightly.

In the past two months, Meng Ge did not order to storm the Diaoyu City, but first took down the navy pier south of Diaoyutai, blocked the connection between the mountain city and Chongqing, and destroyed and captured hundreds of warships of the Song Army.

After that, the Mongolian army surrounded and rested to avoid the hot summer weather and annoying mosquitoes.

Arriving at the foot of Diaoyu City in this season has both disadvantages and advantages for the Mongolian army.

The downside is that the northerners are obviously not used to the scorching heat in Chongqing, malaria is rampant in the army, and there have been a large number of casualties before the war started.

But since Mengge entered Shu, he has won successive victories, which is when morale is boosted, and malaria's blow to the morale of the army is not fatal.

It just so happened that after a long march and attacking the fortresses along the way, the soldiers really needed to rest and reorganize, and they could oppress the defenders of Diaoyu City.

Finally, as soon as the dog days passed, the weather gradually cooled down.

Next came the long autumn and winter, and there was a lot of time for Meng Ge to attack Shu.

……

August [-]th, cloudy.

The horn sounded, and the Mongolian army began to storm Diaoyu City again.

Wang Dechen took the lead in attacking Zhenximen.

This city gate is built on a hill, the hill is extremely steep, and there is only one ridge going up the hill.

The artillery vehicles of the Mongolian army could not be thrown up, so they could only carry the ladder and try to climb the city on the steep hillside.

Casualties are naturally great.

From time to time, people fell from the cliffs, and the sky was full of shouts from the Mongolian army...

In the big camp on Shizishan, Meng Ge sat in the big tent, motionless.

Except for drinking, he is not greedy for pleasure, and is always taciturn, majestic and deep.

"Big Khan, Liu Heima sent someone to report the battle situation. He was still fighting against the Song army in Chengdu, winning several battles in a row. But when he arrived in Chengdu, Niu Lin was dead in battle. He only had cavalry support and could not attack the city. We are planning to transfer troops from Shaanxi to capture Chengdu for the Great Khan, and rush back to Chongqing as soon as possible..."

Whenever he heard about the situation in Chengdu, Meng Ge felt annoyed.

He is not at Liu Heima, but at Niu Lin.

Niu Lin, led by Shanzhu, is both wise and brave, and Meng Ge has high hopes for him.However, from last year to this year, this was his third major defeat, and he lost his life and the warriors under his command.

"Niu Lin has failed his Khan, Chang Sheng Tian will punish him, tell Liu Heima, don't let me down again."

"Yes." The messenger withdrew.

But after a while, someone came in from outside the tent, whispered something to Meng Ge, and could faintly hear the word "Kublai Khan".

Meng Ge frowned, displeased, and said lightly: "Go on."

Soon, the next courier crawled at Meng Ge's feet.

He was dusty, but with a look of fear on his face, he shivered under Meng Ge's gaze.

"Great Khan...Zong Wang Tacha'er..."

Meng Ge said in a deep voice: "Tachal lost again?"

"Yes, King Zong still failed to capture Fancheng..."

After hearing such bad news, Meng Ge was not too angry, at least his face was very calm.

"The descendants of Genghis Khan, waste has appeared." He commented like this, and ordered: "Send someone back to Kublai Khan to command the left-wing Mongolian and Han troops to conquer Jinghu. exist."

Following this order, the Shizishan camp became even more busy, drafting the edict of the Great Khan, sending the fastest horses to the grassland...

Last year, the vigorous Gou Kao in the Central Plains made Kublai Khan lose all his authority.However, today, suddenly, Meng Ge decided to use this fellow brother again.

Many people have no idea why the Great Khan did this.

But those who are interested can faintly feel that behind this war, there is an undercurrent surging.

~~
A few days later, Liu Heima received Meng Ge's order, and at the same time heard the news that Kublai Khan had returned to command the army.

He broke out in a cold sweat.

"What did Da Khan notice?"

Liu Yuanzhen was also terrified, and he murmured after a long time: "The Khan has too many reasons for doing this, maybe he has a premonition that attacking the Song Dynasty will be unfavorable, so he has no choice but to use King Monan."

"Maybe the Great Khan heard that King Monan was going to do something and transferred him away from the grassland."

"No." Liu Yuan shook his head, "Maybe this is King Monan's plan? We guessed right...we really guessed right."

"It's too dangerous." Liu Heima murmured.

"No matter what, Monan Wang Dongshan has risen again." Liu Yuanzhen swallowed.

Because of the confrontation between Meng Ge and Kublai Khan, he was clearly afraid, but he still believed in his own judgment.

"Did you see it, Father? The King of Monan has survived. Suspicions and tests... Even the Great Khan has to admit that only the King of Monan can win the hearts of the Central Plains. This time, I believe I must have guessed right."

He was unwilling to give up his conjecture, both terrified and excited.

"Believe me, baby, soon, it will be time for us to bet..."

(End of this chapter)