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Chapter 634 Human Heart
Long Yuan.

After Alan Da'er led the army to the west, Liu Yuanzhen rested his troops and horses to prepare to counterattack the Jieting pass, and at the same time sent scouts to Chang'an, admonishing Lian Xixian and Shang Ting to be cautious.

For the next three days, he looked to the south of the Qianhe Valley again and again, waiting for news from Guanzhong.

No news.

Lian Xixian and Shang Ting only sent one piece of information, and after that, they neither sent a letter asking for help, nor sent a letter reporting victory.

How many Song troops did Jingzhao Mansion encounter?There was no follow-up news.

Liu Yuanzhen had an idea in his heart that he couldn't restrain himself.

"Second Uncle, Jingzhao Mansion will not be lost, right?"

Jia Hou was in a daze, he came back to his senses and asked, "What did Da Lang say?"

"There is no response from Jingzhao Mansion, so it won't be lost?"

"I don't believe that Li Xia can capture Chang'an City from Ziwu Valley." Jia Hou said slowly, "With Lord Lian and Lord Shang, it is impossible to fall so quickly."

Liu Yuanzhen asked again: "Did the second uncle find out? For two days in a row, some explorers who went south never came back."

"Da Lang is saying that the road back to Guanzhong is blocked?"

"It's possible." Liu Yuanzhen said, "Li Xia doesn't want us to rush to help, he is buying time."

"Hey, let's talk about recovering the Jieting Pass..."

The two stood on the top of the mountain and looked towards the battlefield ahead.

After being silent for a while, Liu Yuanzhen spoke again.

"What was Second Uncle thinking just now?"

Jia Hou sighed, and murmured: "Li Xia said that he wanted to clarify Emperor Yu and Kang Ji's creatures... I was thinking, is he crazy? Or does he really think so?"

"He doesn't have this strength, he's far behind."

Liu Yuanzhen made a comment, his eyes dimmed a bit, and he said: "I have to admit that he is better than me...much better than me, but his strength is far from being the best in the world."

"Does Da Lang think he is crazy?"

"He's conceited." Liu Yuanzhen sighed in a low voice, "He's conceited, he's not crazy, but I'm about to go crazy... It's worrying not to see Chang'an."

It is difficult for them to focus on the Jieting pass.

Counting the time, the decisive battle in Lintao is already over. If our side wins, the Mongolian army on the pass is nothing to worry about; but if they lose, then Hunduhai can enter the pass, everything is over, so what else to consider?

Finally, the sound of horseshoes and shouts came from afar.

"Hunduhai and Alan Da'er have been defeated!"

"..."

Liu Yuanzhen's eyes turned red immediately.

"It's not easy to win the main battlefield."

If it weren't for Li Xia, he would be ecstatic now.

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After grabbing back to Jieting Pass, Liu Heima looked around the battlefield.

Wherever he looked, he saw that Liu Yuanzhen had suffered heavy casualties along the way.

Sadness came from it, but he coughed heavily.

"Cough cough! Cough cough..."

"Father!"

"It's okay, what about the battle in Jingzhao Mansion?"

"The message is broken."

"broken?"

Liu Heima looked to the southeast, and murmured: "The road was blocked by Li Xia...is it Dasan Pass?"

"Very likely."

"There are so many troops in Chuanshu?"

Liu Yuanzhen said: "If you count all the garrison troops, Li Xia can also have tens of thousands of troops. However, he can only mobilize more than [-] troops to go north."

Of course Liu Heima knew that he didn't need his eldest son to explain everything so clearly.

"Ahem...I'm asking, how many troops are attacking Jingzhao Mansion?"

"I don't know, but Li Xia needs at least [-] elite troops to attack the city." Liu Yuanzhen had thought about it carefully, and said, "Now, he intercepted Qianhe River Valley, and may have even captured Fengxiang Mansion, so he must mobilize the garrisons from all over Hanzhong. "

"He has a lot of guts."

"Father, I was thinking, Hanzhong..."

Liu Heima raised his hand, stopping Liu Yuanzhen's chatter.

He strode forward with the knife, recruited two generals, and shouted orders.

"You lead two thousand-man teams, as the vanguard, go to the front to explore first!"

"Yes!"

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double zenith.

This mountain is at the southern end of the Qianhe Valley, and to the southeast is Fengxiang Mansion.

To the south of Fengxiang Mansion is the Qinling Mountains, facing Dashan Pass on Chencang Road.

As early as Li Xia regained Hanzhong, one of the things he did immediately was to occupy the Shu road pass.

Among them, Yang Ben was stationed at Ziwu Pass, Song He was stationed at Xiegu Pass, and Xu Kui was stationed at Dasan Pass.

Now that there is a war in Longxi, Yang Ben is bluffing around Chang'an City.

Song He led a small group of cavalry to attack Fengxiang Mansion in a feigned attack, frightening the defenders in the city to close the gates.

At the same time, Lin Zi had led the Hanzhong garrison to Dasan Pass, and separated with Xu Kui out of the Qianhe and Weihe valleys.

When the Mongolian armies of the two sides fought in full swing in Longxi, they did not encounter enemy attacks, nor did they attack any cities, and their main job was to transport supplies.

Lin Zi went to the Wei River Valley.

Xu Kui chose the Double Zenith in Qianhe Valley.

He led people to transport the luggage to the mountains in the valley, built camps, garrisoned, dug ditches, set up ambushes, and fired artillery.

When doing this, there are many big temptations... For example, if 6000 people attack Fengxiang Mansion, which is empty of troops, they may be able to take it down.

Of course, I can't keep it.

This time, the first item of Li Xia's military order is——

"No wild battles! No wild battles! No wild battles!"

Xu Kui wakes up every day and reads this sentence three times.

The infantry should honestly do what the infantry should do, block the road, set up the lookout point, dig the horse trap, spread the barbed wire, set up the artillery carriage, prepare the wood, stone and thunder, and the crossbowmen Ambush well...

When an enemy messenger came, the crossbow shot him off the horse.

Do not let Longxi and Guanzhong communicate with each other.

Xu Kui didn't think about the situation at all. He only knew that his task was to wait for the main force of the Mongolian army to return and block the opponent for ten days.

The luggage, armaments, and wood and stones he brought could only be blocked for more than ten days.

Finally, on the second day of April, looking north with a binocular, two thousand cavalry came galloping.

Xu Kui waved his hand violently.

"put!"

Flags waving.

The fuse on the sky-shattering cannon was ignited.

The artillery cart threw out the sky-shattering cannon and fell towards the trench.

The terrain of the Double Zenith is not precarious, but it is condescending, and it is prepared but unprepared.

"boom!"

"boom……"

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Liu Heima frowned when he heard the movement ahead.

Zhentianlei Fengxiang mansion has it, the key is to throw it with a cannon cart, or throw it on the city wall.

Although Li Xia's shocking thunder was much louder than what he had seen before, it was not unusual.

The problem is that the dominant terrain is occupied, and it will take a lot of work to cross the Qianhe Valley.

bother.

I guessed wrong, the kid wasn't going to come up and poke the two big guys while they were fighting.

But he had just finished beating another big man, and when he was weak, the door of the room was closed with a "bang" by that annoying child.

"I won't let you go home, I won't let you go home, slightly slightly."

Kick it in, what else can I do...

"Pass the order! The captives are on the way, and the Song army will be consumed!"

Liu Heima gave the order, and Liu Yuanzhen came over again.

"Father."

"En." Liu Heima responded lightly.

"Father, don't worry, since the Song army intercepted our army, Jingzhao Mansion should not be lost. With Lord Lian and Shang Gong in charge, even if Li Xia has a trick, he won't capture Jingzhao Mansion too quickly. He is buying time. .”

"I know."

Liu Yuanzhen said again: "Baby, looking at the situation, Hanzhong must be empty..."

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Liu Yuanzhen patted Liu Heima's back lightly, and said again: "My child thought that we were played by Li Xia before, and completely guessed his layout wrong. We can't be led by him anymore."

"How are you doing?"

"You shouldn't follow Li Xia's thinking anymore." Liu Yuanzhen said: "This time, we have broken through the blockade, and the way back to aid Jingzhao Mansion will still be planned by him. It's better to jump out of the chessboard and let him hit him. I hit mine."

Liu Heima sighed.

Liu Yuanzhen persuaded again: "Li Xia had a plan long ago, and his calculations were too deep. He can judge that I will judge him to follow the Qishan way, so he can't fall into his tricks again. You can't indulge him in Hanzhong anymore, you should get rid of him as soon as possible! "

Liu Heima suddenly asked slowly: "Do you think...he really has the ability to compete for supremacy?"

"At least, he is bound to take Jingzhao Mansion."

Liu Heima nodded, convinced of this.

Li Xia has shown his determination to win.

Liu Yuanzhen said again: "It is impossible for Li Xia to calculate the situation of our battle with Hunduhai, so he is also betting. He is too risky."

At this point, Liu Yuanzhen repeated it again.

"Li Xia took risks every time he acted. He couldn't be sure about the battle situation in Longxi, but he dared to bet... Hanzhong was empty... Let's just put all our efforts into one battle and go straight to Hanzhong!"

Liu Heima asked: "Have you ever thought about it, if you go straight to Hanzhong and fall into the trap again, so what?"

"will not."

Liu Yuanzhen has regained his confidence.

Pointing to the south, he said, "Attacking Hanzhong was a sudden thought of my child. This is not Li Xia's plan, Li Xia's arrangement, there is no reason for us to attack Hanzhong. Therefore, this is the only way not to be calculated by him... ..."

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"I'm not calculating their minds at all."

On Qishan Road, Li Xia was still discussing with Lu Xiufu, saying: "When you go out of Qishan Road or Ziwu Road, I have never thought about how they would guess. Anyway, they are all false soldiers. No matter how they guess, they will guess wrong. Everyone will feel that I have counted."

"Understood, it's actually really simple." Lu Xiufu said: "All the arrangements are nothing more than telling them two things. One is that Jie Shuai is bound to win Guanzhong; the other is that Hanzhong is empty."

"Yes, the key is that I only have this opportunity. They have just finished the battle and they are at their weakest."

Lu Xiufu said: "That's why Jie Shuai wants to make him realize the emptiness in Hanzhong at this time."

"That's right, I only have this opportunity to attack key points, and it makes them think that there is only this opportunity to attack Hanzhong."

Lu Xiufu was filled with emotion.

Speaking of which, the whole plan is really simple.

Use the battle to weaken the enemy, then attract the weakened enemy to enter the predetermined battlefield, and finally wipe out the main force of the enemy with superior terrain and tactics, and win the pass.

"The idea is really simple. The complicated ones are all blindfolds, in order to prevent the enemy from seeing the key."

Li Xia asked: "If it were you, would you come?"

"meeting."

Lu Xiufu thought for a while, then nodded vigorously.

"If it were me, I wouldn't be able to refuse such an opportunity."

Li Xia felt relieved.

"Yeah, if it were me, I couldn't help it. People's hearts are always greedy, and they have to look back at Sichuan..."

At this point, I am still not sure.

It is true that the human heart is greedy, but the human heart is also the most difficult to calculate.

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Thousand River Valley.

Liu Heima coughed again, raised his head again, waved his hands, and murmured: "That's all."

"That's all?" Liu Yuanzhen was taken aback, "Father, why?!"

"There is no reason." Liu Heima murmured: "It's too far... I don't know when the war will stop when I go around Qishan Road to attack Hanzhong."

"Too far away?" Liu Yuanzhen was at a loss, and asked again: "Wait for annihilating the Song army in front, attacking the scattered army, and taking Chencang Road..."

"Annihilation? Won't they withdraw to Dasan Pass? While fighting and advancing, won't Hanzhong transfer troops from Lizhou and Chongqing?"

Liu Yuanzhen said: "Therefore, the boy thinks that we should attack from Qishan Road by surprise."

"You have come back again. For the father, you mean...not to attack Hanzhong."

"Father!" Liu Yuanzhen couldn't believe it, and said in surprise: "Such a good opportunity! Half a year, only half a year, the Southwest can be decided in one battle!"

"I can't say why for my father... I just don't want to go."

Liu Heima murmured, looked up to the south, and said, "Break through the Song army in front and return to Jingzhao Mansion, that's it."

Liu Yuanzhen was still not reconciled, and wanted to persuade him again, but was pulled back by Jia Hou.

"Dalang, stop talking."

"Second Uncle, don't you think this is a great deal..."

"Brother-in-law is injured." Jia Hou reminded in a low voice.

Liu Yuanzhen was taken aback.

Looking at Liu Heima's back, he suddenly realized that his father had lost his temper.

Maybe it was because Longxi was successful in the first battle, so he didn't have any more expectations; Xu looked at the heavy casualties of his subordinate Erlang, and felt compassionate and unbearable; maybe it was because of multiple injuries; maybe he was tired from being tortured by Li Xia; maybe he was just tired of it ...

People, can't tell why.

Liu Yuanzhen couldn't help feeling lost...
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(PS: I asked a friend to make a map, which can be found in the book circle.)
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