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Chapter 470
After meeting Wang Jian, Zhang Jue was about to take Li Xia to set up troops.

But Zhao An ran back from the outside and said, "General Zhang, there are a group of children crying outside the door."

"Crying?"

"They are all the sons of the brothers who died in the battle last night, and the last general is not easy to drive away..."

This matter is a trivial matter, but if it is not handled well, it will cool the hearts of soldiers in the army.

Although Zhang Jue was busy, he rushed to the outside of the general's mansion immediately.

Li Xia walked behind, and saw more than a dozen half-grown boys kneeling there neatly.

The youngest of them were no more than five or six or seven years old, and the older were no more than eleven or twelve years old. They all wore white cloths on their foreheads and tears on their faces.

"General Zhang is here..."

Zhang Jue recognized these juniors in the army, raised his hand, and pointed to them one by one.

"Wang Li, Shi Yan... your father and brother sacrificed their lives for the country, and the imperial court has its own compensation. General Wang will never treat orphans and widows harshly, so there is no need for you to make trouble!"

"General Zhang, I'm not here to cause trouble." The leading boy named "Wang Li" raised his head and said.

He was only seven or eight years old, his little face was tense, he tried his best not to cry, and said: "I'm going to join the army!"

After all, he kowtowed heavily.

Zhang Jue was slightly taken aback when he heard this.

"You brat, you're talking nonsense."

"General Zhang, please allow me to join the army and kill the captives!" Wang Li threw the ground with a loud voice.

Zhang Jue's tone finally softened, and he waved his hand, "We'll talk about it when you grow up."

"I want to kill the captives! My father said that he must defend Diaoyu City. Meng Ta will defend for one year, ten years for ten years, and twenty years. Then I will take over."

Wang Li's voice was still a little choked up, but his eyes were full of determination.

"Now... Now that Dad is gone, I will guard!"

"Yes, we are here to guard!" A group of boys cried out one after another.

"Big words." Zhang Jue scolded softly, stepped forward, pressed Wang Li's head on his lapel, and wiped his tears and snot.

……

After finally calming down these children and letting Zhao An send them away, Zhang Jue still sighed as he looked at those figures from behind.

"Wang Li, this child, is not easy at such a young age... His father, Wang Chuan, died in the battle last night while supporting Ma Junzhai."

Li Xia nodded. He saw Wang Chuan's body when he entered the city.

Zhang Jue sighed and said, "I joined the expedition, went up the mountain, and stayed for 15 years... These children grew up here since they were young, and I don't know how many more years to stay."

Li Xia asked: "General Zhang has never thought that one day he will no longer have to guard the mountain city?"

"How can we not defend it? In the terrain in the middle of Sichuan, only the mountain fortress can defend against the Mongolian cavalry." Zhang Jue said: "General Wang and I have made preparations to guard the mountain for the rest of our lives... the premise is that if we don't die in battle."

In the situation in the Song Dynasty, no one dared to say the word "recovery".

For these generals, they don't think that the Song Dynasty will perish, so of course they can only keep going.

Thinking of this, Zhang Jue couldn't help feeling even more emotional.

"Although I die, there will still be sons. Sons will beget grandsons, and grandchildren will beget sons. There is no limit to children and grandchildren... In ancient times, there was a foolish old man who moved mountains. Today, we guard the mountains and the country, only with the ambition of the foolish old man."

This is probably a self-deprecating joke among these Diaoyucheng generals.

Li Xia didn't find it funny.

These talented generals should not have been trapped in this mountain city, but should have gone to a bigger world to display their greater ambitions.

Wei Qing went straight to Longcheng and regained Heshuo; Huo Qubing drove away to Mobei, and sealed the wolf to live in Xu... This is the ambition that a general should have.

In the generation of Wang Jian and Zhang Jue in the Song Dynasty, these ambitions have been stifled by something.

Then when children like Wang Li grow up and work hard, how much can they accomplish?

Li Xia hopes more and more that the fate of these people can be changed.

"Has General Zhang thought about it? If one day we can counterattack Hanzhong, we don't have to defend it anymore."

"Feiyu is too young to think simply."

Zhang Jue waved his hand, obviously not agreeing with Li Xia's attitude at all.

Both he and Wang Jian were the specific executors of Yu Jie's strategy of "building a fortress and defending Shu".

In terms of understanding of the Sichuan-Shu war situation, few people can match them.

Counterattack?

Is there any possibility of counterattack?

Zhang Jue couldn't help reminding Li Xia, saying: "When doing things, you must be down-to-earth, and you must not be too ambitious... Ha, it's the first time I saw you today, so don't blame me for being long-winded."

"General Zhang was able to mention me because he treated me sincerely. Thank you before it's too late."

Li Xia changed the subject and said again: "It's true that Yu Shuai built the base back then to defend Shu. But right after that, he will plan to restore Hanzhong, right? Defending and counterattacking, how can we only defend and not counterattack?"

"It's easy to say the truth, but it's false if you can't do it." Zhang Jue smiled wryly, not wanting to talk about this useless matter.

He is still very busy.

Li Xia didn't stop there, deliberately keeping this point of conflict with Zhang Jue.

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In this way, Diaoyu City showed Li Xia its magnificence, its helplessness and limitations little by little.

And the [-] Mongolian troops surrounding Diaoyu City at the foot of the mountain seemed to want to ruthlessly rub Li Xia's fate with this mountain city.

It's a day, and the rain hasn't stopped.

Some soldiers of the Mongolian army fled back to Wang Dechen's camp, and passed the news to Wang Zhongchen one by one...

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Speaking of the Wang family in Longxi, it was Wang Shixian who made their fortune.

After Wang Shixian's death, the title and official position left by him should have been inherited by his eldest son Wang Zhongchen.

But Wang Zhongchen thought that his ability was far inferior to his second brother Wang Dechen, so he gave Wang Dechen the positions of Spyker and Commander-in-Chief of the Twenty States Capital.

That year Empress Naimazhen was in charge, and she admired Wang Zhongchen's mind very much, so she appointed him Marshal Gongchang and Deputy Chief Marshal.

After this incident, Wang Zhongchen felt... as if he was not very capable.

But in fact, Wang Shixian was able to behead Cao Youwen, a famous Song Dynasty general, and Chen Longzhi, a Sichuan envoy, all thanks to Wang Zhongchen.

Even when Cao You heard that Zeng Bing surrounded Wang Shixian, he almost killed the Mongolian army commander-in-chief. It was Wang Zhongchen who rushed into the Song army's formation, beheaded more than ten people himself, and desperately rescued Wang Shixian from the encirclement.

This is the side of him that is good at fighting.

When Kublai Khan was on his expedition to Dali, Wang Zhongchen supervised the Jialing River water transport and transported the luggage to Kublai Khan under the eyes of the Song army.

This is the side of him that is good at governing.

In short, Wang Zhongchen is by no means incompetent.

It's just that he doesn't want to work as hard as Wang Dechen when he does things.

This time Wang Dechen personally led the elite to attack Diaoyu City, and the deputy commander-in-chief Wang Zhongchen was in charge of the camp, preparing to lead the follow-up troops to attack the mountain.

Unexpectedly, Song soldiers suddenly launched a sneak attack in the camp.

The Song army startled all the horses and made the horses step into each tent, trampling and injuring countless Mongolian soldiers.The Mongolian army who was still in formation was caught off guard. They didn't know where the Song army came from and how many people there were.

The elite of the battalion had been taken away by Wang Dechen, Wang Zhongchen could not calm down the miscellaneous soldiers, so he immediately gathered his own soldiers and rushed to the south camp to ask for reinforcements.

He reacted quickly enough to avoid losses to the greatest extent.

He was busy until dawn, and when Wang Zhongchen came back from another Mongolian army, the Song army had already boarded Diaoyu City.

At this point, he knew very well that Wang Dechen's night attack plan must have failed.

But this is also a helpless matter, Wang Zhongchen only hopes that the second brother can return safely...

Waiting is another half day.

Finally, a soldier came back and reported Wang Dechen's whereabouts.

"Report! The deputy commander-in-chief, the commander-in-chief... the commander-in-chief was put on the door of Qisheng by Song people..."

"what?!"

Wang Zhongchen still couldn't believe it.

"Sunsuke...Sunsuke...impossible..."

He muttered, shaking his head endlessly.

"It's impossible for you to die... Since you were young, the more dangerous things you have to do, the more dangerous things you have to do, and you can turn danger into good luck every time... You said that you are favored by the Longevity Heaven... Shunfu..."

There was no time for Wang Zhongchen to mourn the death of his second brother.

Soon, Meng Ge ordered Wang Zhongchen to go to see him.

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"Oh!"

Wang Zhongchen had just arrived outside the big tent when he heard the sound of something being smashed inside.

The Great Khan can also be heard roaring in Mongolian.

"Who gave them the courage to resist?! After breaking the city, slaughter them all, so that there will be no grass, no tree on this mountain, let alone a Song person who can breathe! Let them understand that the Great Khan of the Mongolian Kingdom will not be disobedient , no one can stop Mongolia's iron hoof scimitar..."

Mongolian is very suitable for using metaphors and parallel sentences.

Meng Ge is usually unsmiling, but when he gets angry, his anger can flow like a parallel sentence, which is breathtaking.

Wang Zhongchen didn't dare to go in right away, and waited outside the tent for a while before entering the tent, prostrate at Meng Ge's feet and weeping.

"Sweat! My second brother... Brother Tian... Brother Tian was smashed into mud!"

"stand up!"

Wang Zhongchen got up quickly.

Meng Ge's voice was like iron, and said: "Don't cry and cry. You will succeed the commander-in-chief and be responsible for breaking the Diaoyu City."

Wang Zhongchen sincerely did not dare to disobey Brother Meng, but he still said: "I am incompetent, I would like to recommend Wang Weizheng, the son of my second younger brother, as the commander-in-chief."

At first hearing these words, it seemed that Wang Zhongchen was afraid of taking responsibility.

His name is "Loyal Minister", but he seems not as loyal as "De Chen".

The atmosphere in the big tent froze.

Obviously, Meng Ge was displeased.

In fact, he understood that the five thousand elite of the Wang family army were severely defeated, and it was impossible for Wang Zhongchen or Wang Weizheng to be as easy to use as Wang Dechen.

Wang Zhongchen hurriedly said again: "I will assist Wang Weizheng to win Diaoyu City for the Great Khan!"

Meng Ge sat down slowly and gradually regained his composure.

It suddenly occurred to him that Wang Dechen had just died in battle now, if the title of Spokesman and commander-in-chief had not been handed over to his son, the general's heart would have been chilled.

I was dazzled by anger just now, and almost made a wrong decision.

Fortunately, Wang Zhongchen took care of the overall situation.

Thinking about it this way, Wang Zhongchen is indeed a loyal minister.

"Call Wang Weizheng to enter Shu and accept the position of commander-in-chief."

"Yes, Great Khan is wise."

Meng Ge's face is still not good-looking, but he is no longer directed at Wang Zhongchen.

Instead, anger at Diaoyu City made him lose his cool.

He opened his mouth and ordered: "Order Shi Tianze to return to Diaoyu City and take charge of the main attack..."

"Sweat!"

Before the words fell, someone came out and interrupted Brother Meng.

This is something that has never happened since Meng Ge massacred the Okudei Khan family.

After Wang Dechen died, Meng Ge finally felt that his majesty had been challenged.

This is why he is angry...

At this time, it was Meng Ge's favorite general, Shu Su Huli, who was talking.

Shusu Huli is a rare wise general in the Mongolian army, and he can talk endlessly when he opens his mouth.

"The Great Khan has captured most of Sichuan and Shu, and there are only a few small cities that have not yet returned. Diaoyu City and Chongqing are like bones that even wild dogs find difficult to chew. It is not worth spending precious time here. It is better to send someone with The prestigious veteran led [-] elite soldiers to surround Diaoyu City and echoed Liu Heima's troops. The Great Khan can lead the army eastward..."

(End of this chapter)