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Chapter 665
"People with wives and concubines can't stand it for a few days, so they have to go to brothels?"

"I'm not."

Liu Yuanzhen was still lying there grinning his teeth in pain, and felt wronged when he heard Li Xia's lesson.

"Listen to my explanation. I didn't go to Pingkangfang to go whoring... I also heard about Hu Zhiyu's fame in the early years. , hang all the clouds and rain', I will check her."

"Since you were prepared, why did you still get assassinated?"

"If I hadn't been prepared, I would have died."

Liu Yuanzhen still wanted to stand up in a coquettish posture, touching the wound, and the flesh on his face twitched.

"Zhu Lianxiu hasn't played the qin for several years. Today, because I, Mr. Liu, have gone, I am willing to enjoy the face and play a song. How can I say this is the demeanor of the number one qin girl in the capital?"

At this point, Liu Yuanzhen was short of words for a while, and said with emotion: "It is true that there is only one poem by Hu Zhiyu, which can tell the beauty of a beautiful woman..." Lingling made a sound, fell to the beams and dust, and did not let the colorful clouds fly. Throw ten thousand dendrobium pearls', ha, two arrow wounds, you have to listen to a song, it's worth it!"

After speaking, his face became paler, but his expression was still free and easy, with a romantic and heroic spirit.

The literati in the south and the north have the same habits in this kind of matter.

Li Xia was not interested in this, and asked, "And then?"

"I saw that Zhu Lianxiu was concentrating, but she was also on guard against the assassin. I don't want to, the assassin was not her, but a servant who delivered tea. She stabbed him and was blocked by my guards... There was a sound of fighting at the front door. I Going out of Pingkangfang from the back door, there are arrows raining in the houses, and I was hit by two arrows."

"Why don't you wear armor?"

"I still wear armor in the land of wind and moon, so people underestimate me."

"I think you underestimate the people of the world." Li Xia was displeased, and said: "I don't change my old problem, I always feel that Lian Xixian is not good, so you just want to meet him."

In a word, Liu Yuanzhen's free and easy posture was knocked out again.

Liu Yuanzhen coughed and said, "Aren't you also meeting Lian Xixian?"

"Oh, you see that I can fight him, so you think you can too?"

"Why didn't you check on Zhu Lianxiu when you found Hu Zhixuan?"

"Hu Zhiyu has experienced countless clues in his life, and it's just a blindfold." Li Xia said: "You don't have the talent for intrigue, so just follow civil and military justice honestly."

Liu Yuanzhen sighed.

These things, he heard Li Xia's unraveling, he thought it was not difficult. He was still laughing at the two scholars before, but he didn't expect that he had just tried a small knife today, and immediately fell into a big fight.

It was exactly the same as when Hu Zhiyu was taken down by Li Xia.

This is a fight between Li Xia and Lian Xixian, not something that a "handsome" like him can learn after listening to a few words.

~~
When Li Xia walked out of Liu's other courtyard, Lin Zi had already led the guards to come up.

When he went out in Hanzhong, he never had such a big battle.

"Marshal, it's my fault that I didn't find Pingkangfang." Lin Zi said, "Liu..."

"It's good to let Liu Yuanzhen suffer a little bit, but I can't figure it out just by talking about it."

Lin Zi replied: "Yes, even I only know today that the commander-in-chief's methods are different from ordinary people."

"Lian Xixian left behind so many dead men that we can't catch them all. It will also cause chaos in Chang'an and arrest the person in charge."

"Yes, I have caught two more assassins today, and they are not from the same group as Hu Zhixuan and Yeluyou."

"Where is Yelu Youshang? Why hasn't he been caught yet?"

"I haven't found any trace of him yet." Lin Zi said: "Chang'an is not like Hanzhong, it is difficult to search and visit, most of them are searched by spies."

Li Xia walked through the long street and turned around, but still couldn't feel the enthusiasm of Chang'an City.

The clothes worn by the people walking around, with short skirts and narrow sleeves, are all left lapels, which is different from that in Song Dynasty.When they saw the guards of honor, they avoided them one after another, their eyes numb with alienation.

The Jin Kingdom has been governed for more than a hundred years, and the Mongols have been governed for more than [-] years. This is an enemy country, and Lian Xixian's ability to act as a spy is the appearance of these.

It’s not just a few days that will clear the wall.

If you think that Chang'an is so easy to control, you are making the same arrogant mistake as Liu Yuanzhen.

"Prevention alone is not enough. It's time to rule Lian Xixian... Have you found Lianping?"

"There are some clues."

Li Xia squinted his eyes, suppressing the emotions in his heart.

"Go back and say..."

~~
"Near Chang'an, there are several places named 'Lianping'. The most famous one is Huashan's 'Lianping Pine Column'. There is a Taoist temple nearby called 'Lianping Temple', which are all female crowns..."

"Since ancient times, there is a road in Huashan, which is a good place to ambush me."

"Since the commander has guessed it, Lian Xixian's ambush is meaningless."

"Send someone to check carefully first."

Li Xia looked at the map and thought for a while, then said in a deep voice, "Is Huashan near Tongguan?"

"Yes."

"Okay, then get ready, there should be a conclusion..."

~~
August fifth.

Li Xia made preparations, mobilized the garrisons in various places in Shu, and initially completed the deployment of the prefectures and counties in Guanzhong.

He planned the governance policy of Guanzhong, and handed it over to Liu Heima, Wu Qian, and Yang Guo to start measuring more than [-] hectares of fertile land recaptured from the Mongolian nobles.

Afterwards, Li Xia served as the commander in person, mobilized 2000 cavalry and 4000 infantry from Guanzhong, with Liu Yuanli as the deputy commander, and prepared to attack Tongguan.

In this battle, I planned to use Liu Yuanzhen to fight...not because Liu Yuanzhen is better at fighting, but because Liu Yuanli is more stable and more suitable to lead the defense of Chang'an City.

Although Liu Yuanli had also fallen into tricks of one kind or another, every time he fell into the trap "passively", he would only give it a go when he was forced by the situation to the point of helplessness.

Liu Yuanzhen is different, he always likes to try his skills, so Li Xia originally planned to take him with him.

On the contrary, he was injured this time, so it may not be a bad thing, just put away his conceited temperament, and just follow the steps to defend the city.

For Li Xia, the difference is not big, even easier.

In this battle, he was more of an overseer, and Liu Yuanli let go of the command. Attacking Tongguan from the west is not difficult, and it is still step by step.

On the seventh day of August, the soldiers stationed outside Huazhou City, at the foot of Huashan Mountain.

It was night, Liu Yuanli followed Li Xia to the battle platform and looked towards the high mountains to the south.

Li Xia raised his hand and pointed, and said, "Lian Xixian deliberately released information to lure me to Mount Hua."

"Is there an ambush?" Liu Yuanli mused, "North is the Wei River, the east is Tongguan, and the south is Huashan. This location..."

"Yeah, this position is very subtle, right?"

Liu Yuanli said: "But why did Lian Xixian remind the Marshal?"

"Because we must attack Tongguan and must garrison troops in Huazhou, this cannot be changed." Li Xia said, "Whether we remind or not, we can only garrison here."

Liu Yuanli came over with some understanding.

"Huashan is dangerous, and it is difficult for us to find an ambush hidden by him. But we got the news, and we were inevitably uneasy when we attacked Tongguan. The troops will be wiped out one by one by him. Ignore it, and worry about being attacked when attacking Tongguan?"

"Well, this is not easy to handle. I suspect that Lian Xixian came in person."

"He's on Mount Hua?" Liu Yuanli was startled, "But if he didn't remind us, if we didn't expect the Mongolian army to ambush on Mount Hua, wouldn't it be just to defend Tongguan?"

"It's not enough for him. He was too good at making claims before, which is already a serious crime in Kublai Khan's eyes. If only holding Tongguan is not enough to save the situation, he must kill me and take back Guanlong."

"In order to let the handsome man come?"

"I think so." Li Xia said, "He knows that as long as I get this information, he won't rest assured that you will lead the army alone, so I will definitely come."

"Then how do we do it?"

"Just ignore Zhongmin." Li Xia said, "You can attack Tongguan with peace of mind, and I'm here to deal with him."

Liu Yuanli was much more obedient, unlike his elder brother who insisted on asking why, and replied: "Okay, then I will prepare to attack..."

~~
The next day, the Song army began to attack Tongguan, nothing more than building equipment first and testing Tongguan's defenses.

Li Xia only left five hundred personal guards to guard the camp, and watched Liu Yuanli command with a lookout on the battle platform in the camp.

After a long time, Lin Zi came back and reported in a low voice.

"Marshal, none of the sentry sent to Huashan came back. Two corpses were found in the rift valley. There really was Lian Xixian's ambush on the mountain."

Li Xia frowned and asked, "How many people are there?"

"I don't know yet, it shouldn't be too many."

Li Xia murmured: "There are people who are good at mountain climbing in the north, and Shi Zhang used elite soldiers to climb the mountain and conquer Kuzhu Pass. It is easier for the Tibetan soldiers to mount Huashan, but Lian Xixian can only gather a few hundred for such a warrior at most." People..."

"The Commander wants to attack the mountain?" Lin Zi said, "But Huashan's terrain is really steep."

"No, ignore him."

"Will the commander-in-chief move the camp?"

"No need." Li Xia said, "I'll wait for him here and see who can lose his temper first."

So far, he has understood Lian Xixian's arrangement.

The purpose is simple, to kill Li Xia.

Assassinate first, and prepare the information left after the failed assassination. This information is all conspiracy. Even if Li Xia sees through it, he must care about it.

If Li Xia cared, he would be able to track down Hu Zhixuan, and this process would create more opportunities for assassination, such as Liu Yuanzhen's assassination.

If the assassination still fails, then continue to give information and "invite" Li Xia to Huashan.

This is an invitation.

"Look, I'm assisting in the defense of Tongguan according to the Huashan natural danger. I have news you want to know. I've been assassinating you, and my spies are endless... There are so many things, but you can sort them out as long as you come to kill me. .”

Lian Xixian borrowed Tongguan to divide Li Xia's soldiers and borrowed the terrain of Huashan in order to create a battlefield where he was not that weak and Li Xia was not that strong.

As for all other espionage methods, they are all for this purpose.

The art of war is ultimately aimed at weakening the enemy's momentum and strengthening one's own momentum.

Li Xia is also willing to accept this invitation.

Because he doesn't care where the battlefield is, as long as he can win...

(End of this chapter)