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Chapter 463

The next day, the battlefield was counted.

More than [-] people were killed, wounded or captured in the Shishu Department, dozens of ships were all detained, and more than [-] sailors surrendered.

The Song army also suffered heavy casualties, because the Mongolian navy could throw a large number of cannon stones and arrows on the ship, causing damage to the Song army on the shore.

After World War I, the two armies began to confront each other.

The "Lv Wende" Department of the Song Army was stationed in the Jinyun Mountains and fired artillery stones to block the Mongolian army's way down to Chongqing.

Shi Tianze of the Mongolian Army was stationed in the Yunwu Mountains in the upper reaches of the Jialing River, blocking the Song Army's support for Diaoyu City.

Shi Tianze was obviously very angry because of Shi Shu's death, but at the same time remained rational.

After being ambushed, he became more cautious and no longer gave the Song Army a chance to sneak attack, and successively defeated the Song Army's tentative offensives that wanted to go upstream to support Diaoyu City.

Yi Shiying and Li Xia gradually understood that they were definitely not Shi Tianze's opponents.

In terms of military strength, Shi Tianze has more than 1 people, and they are less than [-].

In terms of terrain, Shi Tianze was based on the upper reaches of the Jialing River, and they were based on high mountains, with more than enough defense but not enough offense.

More importantly, Shi Tianze was stationed not far from the Mongolian army camp, and he could get support at any time; on their side, Beizhou did not have strong troops, and Chongqing was also stretched, so it was difficult to form support.

Even if we only talk about his personal ability, Shi Tianze has fought all his life, experienced the battle of destroying gold and attacking Song Dynasty, and he is a famous general in the world.

Yi Shiying was born as an officer and has been in the army for more than ten years. He only has experience in suppressing small groups of Bo people and defending small cities.

As for Li Xia... he has always only played opportunistic battles.So far, there are only two styles of play that are good at.

First, relying on Shi Jun, Pu Zezhi, and Yi Shiying to contain the Mongolian army on the frontal battlefield, he used a small force to break through the Mongolian army's side divisions, creating opportunities and results.

The second is to use the terrain, and the infantry quickly interspersed to lead the Mongolian army into the narrow valley terrain, forming an ambush and encirclement.

In short, he only plays when the situation is favorable.

Faced with Shi Tianze head-on, Li Xia asked himself that he didn't have the ability, and he was still far behind.

One-on-one would dare to give it a try.

……

After a few days of confrontation, the Song army no longer dared to send troops to test whether they could break through Shi Tianze's defense line.

"In the current situation, it is impossible to advance." Yi Shiying stood on the top of the mountain, looking north, and said: "It is not easy to defend the defense line of Jinyun Mountain."

Li Xia said: "In terms of terrain, Jinyun Mountain is far inferior to Diaoyu City. If Diaoyu City is lost, Jinyun Mountain will have no defensive value."

They stationed troops here to support Diaoyu City, but it was difficult to break out.

If you think about it carefully, it's better to return to Chongqing to preserve your strength, so that they will not be surrounded alone after Diaoyu City falls.

But neither Yi Shiying nor Li Xia mentioned this idea.

"It's good to keep Shi Tianze in check." Yi Shiying said, "Although the 2 people are a drop in the bucket for the Mongolian army."

Today, Li Xia seemed to have considered some plans, and said: "General Yi, please continue to contain Shi Tianze here. How about giving me more than a thousand elite soldiers?"

Yi Shiying turned her head and asked, "What's your claim?"

"We are far from Shi Tianze's opponent in a head-on confrontation, so let's try my best style of play..."

~~
If you look at the map, you can see that there are folds of mountains at the junction of Sichuan and Chongqing.Separate the Pinggu in central Sichuan from the mountains in eastern Sichuan and Chongqing.

Only the Jialing River cuts off these folded mountains and flows into the Yangtze River, forming the most convenient and flat road from eastern Sichuan.

This is one of the reasons why Chongqing Prefecture can become an important town.

In addition to the Jialing River waterway, to enter Chongqing, you must cross mountains and mountains.

There are Yunwu Mountains and Jinyun Mountains on the west bank of Jialing River.On the east bank, the first line across the front of the Mongolian army is the "Huaying Mountains".

Of course, if the Mongolian army is willing to cross the Huaying Mountains, they can also bypass Chongqing, take Wanzhou, and go down the Yangtze River.

But Meng Ge Dahan will not be like this.

He wants to break through the high fortifications of the Song army all the way, and wipe out all the enemies standing in front of him.

There is no need to detour.

Although he didn't intend to cross Huaying Mountain, after Mengge's soldiers surrounded Diaoyu City, they still sent troops to clear the Song Army's stronghold at the western foot of Huaying Mountain, that is, Liyi Mountain City in Quzhou.

The general of the Mongolian Army who helped Meng Ge break through Liyi Mountain City was called "Li Tingyu".

Li Tingyu is from Longxi and claims to be Li Keyong's successor.

His father's name was Li Jie, and he was a general under the command of Wang Shixian, Wang Dechen's father, and he followed Wang Shixian to Mongolia.

Therefore, Li Tingyu has now become the governor of Wang Dechen's commander-in-chief, receives the silver amulet, and serves as the commander-in-chief of the Mongolian capital.

Both he and Wang Dechen were given Mongolian names by Meng Ge. Wang Dechen was called "Tian Ge" and Li Tingyu was called "Hulanji".

Whether Li Tingyu or Li Hulanji, although they have a Mongolian name, they are very elegant.

When the mountain city of Liyi was breached, Zhang Zi, the magistrate of Quzhou in the Song Dynasty, committed suicide and died for the country. Li Tingyu collected Zhang Zi's body for a funeral.

In addition, he did not order the burning of the mountain city, but stationed troops in the city to appease the soldiers and civilians who surrendered...

September [-]th.

Li Tingyu received a report from the sentry horse, saying that there was a Mongol-Han army of more than a thousand people coming from the north.

He took a look at the other party's order and was a little surprised.

"Shi Ji?"

……

If you ask who was the most famous historian 30 years ago?Not Shi Tianze, but his elder brother Shi Tianni.

Shi Tianni built the Qing Yue Army, which was invincible and conquered the entire Heshuo for the Mongolian Kingdom.

Until Zhong Wuxian's plan, he died in a young age.

After Shi Tianni's death, Shi Tianze took over as commander-in-chief. After the gold was destroyed, he asked Wo Kuotai to dismiss him and returned the commander-in-chief to his nephew Shi Ji.

Shi Ji is the son of Shi Tianni and the eldest grandson of the eldest son of Shi Tianni.

He inherited Shi Tianni's meritorious service, and was granted the title of Chief of Ten Thousand Households in Zhengxing, Chief of Zhending Bingdu, and a Golden Tiger Talisman.

This is also Shi Tianze's cleverness, so Meng Ge trusted him, and awarded Wulu Wanhu, Zhongshu Youchengxiang, and a golden tiger talisman.

Not long ago, Shi Shu, the son of his second brother Shi Tian'an, took the bitter bamboo pass by clever means, and Meng Ge also gave him the Golden Tiger Talisman.

As a result, historians have a family of [-], which is extremely prominent.

In the war, Shi Ji must be willing to be under Shi Tianze's command, but his title is not lower than Shi Tianze's.

When such a person arrived, Li Tingyu didn't dare to neglect, and hurried down the mountain to meet him.

Looking out, I saw a large flag embroidered with the words "The Chief of the Ten Thousand Households and the History of the Zhending Military and Horse Capital" embroidered on it. More than a thousand soldiers and horses came from the north, and the black leather armor was full of dust.

Li Tingyu squinted his eyes, waited for the opponents to march close, and took a closer look, and saw that all of them were tall, powerful and elite soldiers.

It is worthy of being the heroic army of the North...

~~
"The last general Li Hulanji, the chief of the capital of Lizhou, has met the chief of the capital." Li Tingyu greeted Shi Ji and saluted with fists.

"Don't be too polite."

Shi Ji was about 37 years old, with a broad top and a narrow bottom, a thin, stern face, large eyeballs, some bulging out, exuding a murderous look, quite the style of a general.

He was unsmiling, and threw the golden talisman casually to Li Tingyu for verification.

Li Tingyu quickly took it, looked down, and saw a tiger's head engraved on the gold talisman, and under the tiger's head was a row of Uighur words "General Manager of Ten Thousand Households", with the word "History" behind it.

After the verification was correct, he hurriedly handed back the golden talisman, and then handed over his own silver talisman.

Shi Ji didn't answer, and turned his head to glance at a young general behind him.

The young general stepped forward, checked the silver talisman, handed it back, and said with a smile: "General Li is under the command of General Wang?"

"Yes." Li Tingyu took back the silver amulet and asked, "I don't know who your lord is?"

"Shi Zhang, the word Jingxian."

Shi Zhang was halfway through speaking, seeing that Li Tingyu didn't react much, so he said again: "My father taboo name 'Tianze'."

"It's Mr. Shi Lang who was in front of you, so you're being rude." Li Tingyu was startled, and hurriedly saluted again.

Shi Zhang smiled, he didn't talk much, and he was quite the demeanor of a child of an aristocratic family.

"Zhending is thousands of miles away from Hanzhong. If it weren't for the Khan's personal conquest this time, he would almost miss the chance to meet the historian Yingjie."

Li Tingyu exchanged greetings, arranged for Shi Ji's soldiers and horses to rest in Liyi Mountain City, and hosted a banquet for the two cousins, Shi Jia.

After being busy for a long time, the three entered the hall and sat down.

Shi Ji took the main seat, and Li Tingyu and Shi Zhang sat on the left and right.

Li Tingyu made a toast first, and said: "I just met Shi Dashuai and General Shi Shu a few days ago, and I heard that they divided their troops to attack Chongqing."

Shi Ji was obviously a little arrogant and didn't speak.

Shi Zhang asked, "Oh? How are my father and cousin doing now?"

"It seems that we are still confronting the Chongqing Song army." Li Tingyu replied, "Even if there is news, it will not reach the general. But the sentinel horse can see soldiers and horses stationed on the other side of the Jialing River from a distance. It seems to be Shi Shuai's camp."

Shi Zhang nodded, and said, "I haven't seen my father for more than half a year, and Chief Li laughed at me."

He speaks with a slight Henan accent, perhaps because he has been in Kaifeng for a long time.

Li Tingyu asked: "Since Shi Shuai has led the army to follow the Great Khan to conquer Shu, how can he send troops again?"

Shi Zhang said: "Commander Li doesn't know something. My father is stationed in Kaifeng, and my cousin is stationed in Dengzhou. They are closer to Shu, so they will arrive earlier."

As he spoke, he turned to Shi Ji and took a look.

Shi Ji reluctantly said: "A certain Zhuzhending, the road is long, so I came late."

Li Tingyu said: "So that's how it is."

Shi Zhang laughed again: "I am different from my cousins. I usually only like poetry, prose and drama, but I don't know military affairs. This time, my father was worried that my cousin was not good at communicating with people, so he ordered me to stay in Kaifeng and accompany my cousin. Come."

Li Tingyu said with a smile: "I don't know about military affairs? Mr. Shi Lang is humble, obviously because of his vigorous skills."

"Oh?"

"I'm offended." Li Tingyu looked at Shi Zhang's handsome and extraordinary face, squinted his eyes, and said with a smile: "Lang Jun looks thin and wears armor, but he has a waist like a wasp, broad shoulders, and a broad back. I can tell."

Shi Zhang said: "My father was strict in discipline and forced me to practice martial arts to keep fit. This is the family tradition."

His calm demeanor is easy to get close to.

After a short time together, Li Tingyu also admired his demeanor, offered another glass of wine, and said, "If you and the governor are not in a hurry, why don't you take a rest for a few days, and then go to see the Great Khan with the general, how about it?"

"Isn't Chief Li stationed here?" Shi Zhang asked.

Li Tingyu said: "The final general is under the command of Commander-in-Chief Wang. If we break through this place, we will soon have to move people and supplies back to the camp."

Shi Zhang said: "Will you not set up troops in Liyi Mountain City?"

"Why set up troops?"

Shi Zhang thought for a while and asked, "Aren't you afraid that the Song army will attack from here?"

Li Tingyu shook his head and smiled, raised his hand and pointed to the Huaying Mountains to the east.

"Mr. Shi Lang doesn't know the terrain of Sichuan and Shu. To the east, there are five or six layers of high mountains like this. If the Song army wants to cross the mountains and ridges to support Diaoyu City, how will the luggage be transported?"

"What if the tens of thousands of Song troops transported the luggage?"

"The sentry horse will naturally get the news."

Shi Zhang asked again: "Then, what if a small group of Song troops interspersed?"

Li Tingyu smiled and said: "A small group of Song troops crossed Huaying Mountain and fought against our Mongolian cavalry in the plains? The general hopes that the Song army will come to die."

Shi Zhang breathed a sigh of relief and said, "So, it's impossible for Song Jun to appear in Quzhou?"

"exactly……"

(End of this chapter)