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Chapter 635
After Liu Heima led the troops to arrive, Xu Kui stayed at Shuangtianding for ten days.

This kind of mountain warfare was originally a war of attrition in the initial stage. Naturally, Liu Heima could not and did not plan to break through the mountain in a short time.

Ten days later, Xu Kui saw that the weapons and supplies were almost exhausted, so he prepared to lead the troops to evacuate.

He knew that the most important task of his team was to make the enemy think that Hanzhong was empty.It's done when they show up.

They laid out all the remaining Thunderbolts and lit the fuses.

"Boom! Boom! Boom..."

The mountain collapsed, and the gravel rolled down from the top of the mountain.

On the plain, hundreds of cavalry from Song He's troops came to meet them, and encouraged Xu Kui's remaining nearly [-] Song soldiers to turn south.

After rushing for a whole day, Xu Kui turned back to Dashan Pass.

At this time, there were only 200 defenders in the Guancheng. Seeing the defenders return, they finally felt relieved.

Half a day later, Lin Zi led another 3000 people back to Dasan Pass.

They did not continue to retreat back to Hanzhong along Chencang Road, but set up a formation in Guancheng to defend against the Mongolian army's sneak attack on Hanzhong along Chencang Road.

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"What's going on? Has Liu Heima returned to Fengxiang Mansion?"

Xu Kui nodded sullenly.

Lin Zi frowned, looked around, pulled him over, and asked in a low voice: "During the ten days, did he think of going around Qishan Road to attack Hanzhong?"

"No." Xu Kui said: "Just keep driving the captives to attack the mountain and eat my cannon."

"How many people are left of him?"

Xu Kui took out a stack of crumpled papers from his pocket and handed them over, saying, "I watch his army formation with a binocular every day and write down the numbers."

"Your handwriting is really ugly."

Lin Zi grumbled, squatted on the ground and counted, and finally let out a "hiss".

"Liu Heima's casualties this time are too miserable, right? With 5000 troops, there are only [-] left who can fight right now?"

He didn't mean that 5000 people died in the battle, and the casualty ratio would collapse again.

After a series of big battles, small battles, and encounters, some of the slightly or seriously injured soldiers survived, and some could not... In short, the combat power under Liu Heima's command, estimated by Lin Zi, would not exceed [-] The number of five thousand.

Xu Kui said: "I caught some captives and interrogated them. I record them here. You can see... The biggest loss was in the Battle of Longyuan. Liu Yuanzhen's 2 people were ambushed by Alan Daer with 4 people. If it wasn't for Alan Daer First of all, we must seize the Jieting pass, and with the narrow mountain road, he will be completely wiped out. Liu Heima personally led 2 people to the Lintao battlefield, and suffered heavy casualties."

"Xu Guidou, you can do it now, and you can analyze it." Lin Zi muttered, and began to write information.

He is now in charge of military affairs, and all he writes are cipher texts, which only Li Xia can understand.

"I'm just...hehe." Xu Kui smiled, and quickly became nervous again and asked in a low voice, "Is it because I didn't beat Liu Heima hard enough to force him to detour to Qishan?"

"It's none of your business, we just need to block it. Who the hell can say the rest?"

That being said, Lin Zi was disappointed after all.

The whole plan seems to have failed.

"Where are you?"

"I didn't fight much, just 5000 people came, the main general Wang Qingchen." Lin Zi said: "I fired two rounds of thunder, and then he retreated. The remaining firearms I blew up the entire road."

He spat and cursed again.

"In this way, even if the plan fails, the Mongolian army in Longxi will not be allowed to easily support it when the strong attack is underway."

Xu Kui turned his head and looked north again.

If the plan fails, if he really wants to attack the key points, it is hard for him to imagine that he can face the cavalry attacks from Longxi, Shanxi, and Henan in the plains.

"What is Liu Heima thinking? Why don't you make a detour?"

"Who knows, old man."

Lin Zi cursed, took out a seal from his pocket, stamped it on the secret letter, sealed it with wax pills, and recruited four confidantes.

"It's urgent, change the horse but not the person, send it to Qishan Road..."

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Qi Shan said.

Li Xia read the secret letter, frowned, and walked to the top of the mountain.

"Master."

"Master..."

Li Xia walked past the ambushed soldiers one by one, and walked to a small mountain pass, staring at the big thing there in a daze.

What I think in my heart is - if this has to be moved to Dashanguan, it will be very troublesome.

In front of him was a...cannon weighing tens of thousands of catties.

It was built at the end of last year. When Li Xia arrived in Hanzhong, he and Hao Xiuyang went to the ordnance field to see this.

After that, they went to the Bashan Mountains to test the guns.

Therefore, when Li Xia came down the mountain, he said that this was already his longboard.

Compared with the blunderbuss, the artillery process is much simpler. The shells are pushed out through the chamber pressure generated by the combustion of gunpowder, and the chamber can be prevented from exploding by increasing the wall thickness...but it is too cumbersome.

It also costs too much.

The iron core copper body is cast, nine feet long, and the cannon body alone costs more than [-] copper coins.

It's copper coins, not clubs.

It does not include mining, building workshops, and transportation.

Counting the cannonballs, Li Xia combined all the spare power of Hanzhong and only produced four cannons in total.

Therefore, Hao Xiuyang said at the time, "With the national strength of Mongolia, if we imitate it, we will be the ones who suffer. If we have to do it, we dare not show it to others."

Don't dare to show it to others.

Li Xia hoped that he could hit the enemy a few times on Qishan Road.

It's hard to say what will happen if you transport the heavy artillery to the plains...

Just thinking of this, someone called from behind.

"Jie Shuai."

Li Xia turned around, saw that it was Lu Xiufu, and said, "After all the calculations, Liu Heima will not come."

Lu Xiufu was taken aback, and stood there blankly.

Out of the corner of his eye, he could still see that everything was properly arranged.

One by one soldiers ambushing in the mountains and forests.

Cannons, cannon stones, kindling objects, thorns, repelling horses... It took countless sweats for the soldiers of the Song Dynasty to set up these ambushes on the Qishan Road after stationing in this mountainous place for more than a month.

"Not coming? But... Hanzhong is empty." Lu Xiufu murmured, "Has he not considered..."

"He certainly won't come."

Li Xia shook his head, and said: "My information has been delivered, counting the time, Liu Heima may have already arrived in Chang'an City, and is checking Yang Ben's strength, so he will soon see through my plan."

"Why?"

"I don't know... I can't guess what Liu Heima thinks." Li Xia said: "People's hearts are unpredictable."

Lu Xiufu was already sitting on the ground slumped.

He knew that the battle between Guanlong and Liupan Mountain was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Everything Li Xia did was to seize this opportunity.

If this opportunity is lost, when the enemy regains its vitality, it may never be possible to return to the north again.

"If the plan fails at this time, maybe...you will never have the chance to see Guan Long's style with your own eyes, right?" Lu Xiufu murmured.

"Yeah." Li Xia nodded and laughed at himself, "Then look at the sea."

Lu Xiufu didn't understand, nor did he care.

He just sat there blankly, looking at the cannon in front of him, recalling how he moved it up the mountain little by little.

Some worms crawled up his feet and up to his knees.

A tear fell, startling it away.

"What? Discouraged?" Li Xia asked.

"In the end...it's too disappointing."

Li Xia patted Lu Xiufu on the shoulder.

"stand up."

"Jieshuai, I... I just... I'm really frustrated."

"You are not allowed to be discouraged, but it has been enough to adjust for so long. Get up, don't make me say it a third time."

Lu Xiufu was taken aback and stood up.

Li Xia looked at his expression for a while, and said: "If you want to do things that human beings can't do, don't treat yourself as a human being, and throw out discouragement, disappointment, and frustration. This kind of broken emotion is a quagmire, and it will only make you feel sad. You're getting deeper and deeper."

Lu Xiufu took a deep breath.

For his current state of mind, Li Xia was really a bit harsh.

Li Xia was also looking at Lu Xiufu, only to see if the other party could bear this severity.

Finally, Lu Xiufu asked: "Next, are we... in the process of tackling the problem?"

"Okay...this is a compliment to you." Li Xia said: "If you can't wipe out the enemy's main force in the mountains first, there is almost no chance of winning the pawns entering the Guanzhong Plain. Of course, the Wang family's casualties in the battle of Longxi are not yet high. Be clear, and make a decision after inquiring clearly."

"Yes. Now send out scouts..."

"No, wait a little longer." Li Xia remained calm and said, "Wait and see..."

"Master."

Huo Hu half-bent, hurried over.

Li Xia only looked at his movements, and his eyes changed.

He held Lu Xiufu's shoulders, knelt down, and asked, "Are you here?"

"Here we come!" Huohu was very excited.

"how many people?"

"I don't know yet, the first is the vanguard of the two Thousands."

"Pass the order, everyone is silent, hang the cakes around their necks, move quickly... I will go to the top of the mountain to have a look."

"Marshal, here, the lookout..."

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A "Wang" flag slowly appeared on the mountain road.

Wang Liangchen rode his horse and was taking a nap on the horseback with his eyes closed.

He had just defeated the Mongolian elite in Liupan Mountain, and he was so powerful in the north, he could not help but be a little proud in his demeanor.

This is not deliberate arrogance, but the majesty given to him by a big victory.

I thought a lot about it.

In the past, the Wang family was not trusted by His Majesty, and the second brother was Mengge Khan's favorite general.

The First World War established the position of the Wang family in the new dynasty.

This is materiality.

Only when you have strength, you will want a good name... There is also.

Defeating the enemy in Lintao reminds people of the song that is often sung near their hometown.

"The Seven Stars of the Big Dipper are high, and Ge Shuye is carrying a knife. Up to now, he has seen the herding horses, but he dare not pass Lintao."

Ge Shuhan is from Anxi and Western Turkic people; Wang's ancestors are from Shatuo.

The same thing is that they all put down the Hu Kou for the Central Plains Dynasty.

It can be said that it has become famous all day long.

If there is any shame in my life, I will lose the Hanzhong matter.

Others may have forgotten that Hanzhong was lost in Wang Liangchen's hands, but he himself could not forget it.

At that time, Mengge Khan died, Li Xia restrained the Mongolian main force in Lizhou, and Zhang Jue raided Hanzhong... After that, he retreated to Longxi in shame.

Now that the enemy has been defeated in one battle, it should be the time to wash away the shame!

Go straight to Hanzhong, kill Li Xia as a sacrifice to his second brother, and make an indelible achievement...

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"Look at the banner...it's the Wang family?"

Lu Xiufu was lying on the top of the mountain, put down the binocular in his hand, leaned into Li Xia's ear, and asked in a subdued voice.

"Ah."

"Why is it the Wang family?"

Li Xia didn't answer, he lay there and saw a flag through the binocular.

"Wang Liangchen."

Looking back on Lin Zi's information, he was able to trace back the general context of the matter.

Wang Qingchen led [-] cavalry from the Wei River Valley to support Chang'an City, but the road was blocked, so he returned to Wang Liangchen.

Wang Liangchen calculated that Hanzhong's troops were insufficient, so he sent troops to Qishan Road for a surprise attack.

It is difficult to grasp the timing of luring the enemy.

For example, if Li Xia gave Liu Heima a reason why he had to go to Qishan Road to fight Hanzhong, Liu Heima, who had suffered a lot, might murmur in his heart.

And sometimes, it is precisely because there is no necessary reason that the other party feels that this is an opportunity for sudden discovery.

Therefore, Li Xia showed all the tricks to the Liu family and never contacted the Wang family.Therefore, in Wang Liangchen's eyes, he would instead think that he is "a bystander who knows clearly" before he can attack decisively.

This is also a gamble.

People's hearts are difficult to grasp, but people's hearts always have characteristics.

Not everyone is greedy, but there will always be greedy people.

Even if Liu Heima and Wang Liangchen are not greedy for Hanzhong, Wang Zhongchen, Wang Zhichen, Wang Hanchen, Wang Zuochen, Wang Qingchen... the bet is that someone will always come.

"Jie Shuai..."

"Stop talking, you are the logistics officer, stay away."

"Yes."

No longer daring to raise the command flag, Li Xia cautiously raised his hand to beckon the messenger.

"Pass down the order and let the enemy forward go."

"Yes."

"Gao Nianfeng, prepare to blow the whistle."

"Yes."

Gao Nianfeng quickly put down the whistle, carefully wiped the sweat from his hands, for fear that it would be blown by accident.

Li Xia picked up the binocular again and looked at the mountain road in the distance of the canyon.

Looking at it, it took a long time.

"How many people are here..."

　There are two more leaders, today and tomorrow will be updated~~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)