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Chapter 738 Schedule
Gong Chang.

Li Zengbo and Lian Xixian did not get along well.

They each served as appeasement envoys and deputy envoys of the Longxi system, which was the result of a compromise between Li Xia and the imperial court. Li Xia let Li Zengbo come over to serve as an official, and the imperial court appointed Lian Xixian as an official.

Although each has a division of labor, one administers the government and the other leads the army, but both of them are both civil and military, and can speak a few words about matters within the jurisdiction of the other.

Coupled with different backgrounds and positions, it is not pleasing to see the other party...

"A rare visitor, the Duke of Hague rarely comes to our camp, what's the matter?"

"My surname is not 'Hague', we are a father-son name, my father taboo 'Bru Hague', my ancestors taboo 'Gitai Hague', Hague is the father's name, not the surname." Lian Xixian explained here and waved his hands , "Since I have a Chinese surname, Mr. Li can call me a Chinese surname."

"Forgive me, I didn't know you Uighurs don't even have surnames."

Lian Xixian stepped forward a few steps to Li Zengbo's desk, picked up a brush, and wrote a few words on a piece of paper.

"Uighur."

Li Zengbo asked, "What's the difference?"

"The name of our tribe means 'unity and unity'. It is not appropriate to translate it as 'Uygur'. According to Li Junwang's meaning, it is better to translate it as 'Uighur'. This name...beautiful."

Lian Xixian looked at the three words he wrote, and couldn't help but sigh again: "It's beautiful."

He really likes this family name, even if he doesn't get along with Li Zengbo, he doesn't forget to show it off.

Li Zengbo looked down, at least admitting that the other party had good handwriting.

"Mr. Lian likes a good name?"

"Probably." Lian Xixian agreed, thought for a while, and admitted generously: "I really want to make a good name in history, what's wrong?"

Once he admitted, Li Zengbo was speechless.

When the two met each other and exchanged a few words of greeting, they saw many things in each other.

Why did Lian Xixian submit to Li Xia?In addition to strength, Li Xia's governance attitude is actually more tolerant and far-sighted than Kublai Khan's.

Although there is no new system in place yet, Lian Xixian can feel Li Xia's ideas from various small things such as the translated name of "Uighur".

Even if it is to leave a good name in history.

Li Zengbo is also reflecting.

It is true that the Great Song Dynasty has been fighting among the parties for too long. After fighting for a long time, the spirit will become narrow unconsciously.

I have to say that the atmosphere in Sichuan and Shaanxi is different.In Longxi, the sky is high and the land is vast, the scenery is vast, and the people here are also generous.

Lian Xixian is not very generous among Huihui people, but he is still much more tolerant than Jia Sidao...

"Let's talk about business. Mr. Lian is here today for the change of Li Fen in Shandong?"

"Yes."

"One hair can affect the whole body, who would have thought that an incident far away on the shore of the East China Sea would have something to do with the current situation in Longxi?"

"Mr. Li is exaggerating." Lian Xixian said, "Not to mention Mongolia, even the Western Liao Kingdom had a vast territory back then. In comparison, the distance from Shandong to Longxi is really not that far."

Li Zengbo felt ashamed.

As a minister of the Song Dynasty, it's not very interesting to talk about the territory with others.

"Recently, Mongolian horses are often spotted in the northwest." Li Zengbo got up and pointed to the map, "Looking at the movement of the Mongolian army from Huizhou, Lanzhou, to Liupanshan, there may be a tendency to move south."

"Thinking about it, it's not only to contain our main force in Guanzhong, so that we can't respond to Li Fen... but also to plan to enter the country and rob us."

"Since Kublai Khan wants to put down Li Fen's rebellion, can he still spare some troops to attack Longxi?"

"It was precisely because Ali Buge abandoned Hara and Lin and fled that Kublai Khan was able to pacify Li Fen's rebellion." Lian Xixian circled the position of the Hexi Corridor on the map with his finger, and said: "And Ali Buge once If you flee, some of the kings of the Western Regions will turn to support Kublai Khan, and by attacking Longxi, you can also integrate this part of the army."

Li Zengbo's eyes became worried.

Longxi has an open terrain, unlike Sichuan and Shu with many steep mountains, and unlike Jinghu with many rivers and lakes, it is not easy to defend.

What's more, the foothold is not stable now?

"The old man has sent letters several times, please send more reinforcements from Hanzhong and Guanzhong to Long. Today, Mr. Lian came, and he brought a reply from King Li."

Lian Xixian was silent for a moment, and said: "We have to wait a little longer, this time not only is the enemy facing the west, but the defense line in the east is also under great pressure."

"Old man, I heard that King Li captured nearly [-] cavalry successively? There are nearly [-] cavalry in Longxi, Guanzhong, and Hanzhong, and there are still [-] prisoners..."

"Isn't it precisely these 500 captives who support these nearly 150 cavalry?" Lian Xixian said: "[-] war horses, [-] million bunches of grass each year, and [-] million shi. The cost of one ride can be used to raise a step." There are five soldiers in the army, and five laborers, it is difficult to support one cavalry... Mr. Li can't figure this out, so I don't know what you mean by asking this question?"

Li Zengbo smiled wryly.

The reason why he asked this was simply because he still wanted to seize the power of money and food in Lian Xixian's hands.

And by asking this question, Li Zengbo has a more intuitive understanding of Li Xia's current strength.

Li Xia's biggest problem is that he is poor and has no savings.But as long as there are a few more years to resume production in Sichuan and Shu, and let Li Xia reorganize his troops, he must have the strength not weaker than Li Fen's 30 years of accumulation.

No wonder the imperial court and Kublai Khan were so jealous of Li Xia, because it could be seen that if he didn't get rid of it now, it would definitely become a trouble in the future.

But for Li Zengbo, this kind of infighting is no longer the most important thing at present.

The Mongolian cavalry was staring at the northwest.

"Of course I want to defend Longxi." Li Zengbo said slowly, "But how long will it take for reinforcements?"

"I can't tell right now." Lian Xixian said: "I can only talk to Li Gong about the strategy this time. The county king intends to delay the Henan army as much as possible and delay Li Fen's downfall. As long as Li Fen is still there, The Song court...the imperial court can take advantage of this opportunity to send troops to gradually drag the Mongolian army in Henan into a bitter battle, and the Mongolian army's layout in Shanxi will be chaotic. After that, they will take advantage of the chaos to deal with the enemy in the east before they can fully support Longxi..."

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Li Fen, who was far away in Jinan at this time, probably didn't know how far his rebellion had affected.As far as the coastal area in the east, Lin'an in the south, Yanjing in the north, and Gongchang in the west, all forces are affected by him.

But at the beginning of the rebellion, the person who dominated the situation was no longer Li Fen, but Kublai Khan.

After that, Li Xia also began to try to control the direction of the situation.

His thinking is simple... When the opponent wants to push the pressure on him, he will push the pressure back on the opponent without hesitation.

In terms of mentality, Li Xia already seemed very relaxed, at least more relaxed than Shi Tianze and Dong Wenbing.

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Dong Wenbing was indeed annoyed.

He was also a Marquis. Although he was only 45 years old at the time, he looked mature and worked steadily. Even Kublai Khan called him "Brother Dong".

Brother Dong is both civil and military. He once followed Kublai Khan in the southern expedition to Dali and also attacked Ezhou.In terms of government affairs, he has also been able to lead the Qiangu in the Central Plains together with Zhao Bi and Youyou in the past two years.

Last year, Ahema suspected that Zhao Bi and Shang Ting were collaborating with the enemy, so they were forcibly dismissed and sent to Yanjing, and Luoyang was replaced by Dong Wenbing.

How will Li Xia from Sichuan and Shanxi react to this Li Fen rebellion? Dong Wenbing got in touch with Zhongshu Province... According to Liu Bingzhong, sending Wang Fen to Hanzhong is not so much to lure Li Xia to send troops, but to let Li Xia send troops I feel that this is a trick to lure the enemy.

In other words, Liu Bingzhong told Li Xia through Wang Luo, "How dare you support Li Fen? We have set up an ambush."

There was indeed an ambush, but Li Xia came too fast.

Two thousand cavalry, one man and two horses, without any food or grass, were only looking for the Mongolian lord or Aulu official who owned Ulus to rob...

This is the Mongolian army's style of play, but Li Xia is not as good at driving the captives to attack the city as the Mongolian army, so he is destined to fail to achieve the effect of the Mongolian army interspersing the enemy's territory.

Dong Wenbing thought about it and calculated several possibilities after Li Xia captured Yongning County.

One is to return directly to Guanzhong; the other is to attack Luoyang by surprise;

The third is to occupy Yongning and wait for reinforcements from Guanzhong. This is the most likely, because there is a gold mine near Yongning County, which is indeed worth occupying.

Dong Wenbing made a deduction, and ordered his eighth brother Dong Wenyong to detour north to block the Xiaodao, and ordered his eighth brother Dong Wenzhong to lead the troops from Luoyang to slowly advance westward.

More than 2000 soldiers from the two groups surrounded the [-] people in Yongning County... as if two hands were stretched out to swatt a fly, and they just waited for a "snap" to kill the fly in the palm of their hand.

Dong Wenbing also confessed that the two younger brothers acted according to circumstances, even if Li Xia hadn't trapped Yongning, he couldn't let him escape.

This battle is not difficult to fight, Li Xia is indeed too risky...

Finally, Dong Wenzhong came back.

When Dong Wenbing got the news, he hurried to the gate of the mansion, looking forward to it.

Although His Majesty didn't say it clearly, getting rid of Li Xia is obviously a great contribution, such as avenging the late Emperor's death in Diaoyu City, the rewards will never be less...

"Come back so soon? Li Xia's head..."

"Brother." Dong Wenzhong stepped into the hall quickly, but said: "We haven't seen Li Xia's soldiers and horses."

"What do you mean? Could the information be false?"

"When my second brother and I arrived, those two thousand riders were no longer in Yongning."

"Withdrawn to Guanzhong?"

Dong Wenbing had no news of the enemy attacking Luoyang, so he could only infer that Li Xia had withdrawn.

He was a little surprised, and said: "He didn't take the gold mine in Yongning..."

"Brother, Li Xia probably hasn't retreated to Guanzhong. According to the traces detected by the horse, he seems to have turned southeast and headed for Ruzhou."

"Ruzhou?"

Dong Wenbing was even more surprised. He strode to the map and stared at Heluo's road.

He hadn't thought that Li Xia would dare to go to Ruzhou, not because Ruzhou couldn't go, but because Li Xia had no supplies or reinforcements, so going deep alone would be like taking death...

"No, it's not a lonely army going deep..."

Dong Wenbing moved his head closer and rubbed the map, as if there was a fly on it.

"This is... this is the route that Mongolia uses to attack gold? Are you going the other way?"

His eyes widened suddenly.

"Li Xia has reinforcements? He sent troops from Hanzhong? To attack Tangzhou and Dengzhou? To attack Shiquan and force Shishuai to return to defense? Hurry up! Notify Shiquan to be alert, and notify Shanxi to pay attention to whether the Song army in Guanzhong is suspicious..."

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Lin'an.

After reading the letter in her hand, Liao Yingzhong went to look at the map.

"The opportunity is indeed excellent! Li Fen pinned down a part of the Mongolian army in Shandong, and the Mongolian army near Bozhou changed generals. Li Xia sent troops to Heluo again, pinning down the Mongolian army in Tangzhou and Dengzhou...Around the Huaihe River, Almost empty."

"Desirable?"

"Ping Zhanggong has a plan?"

Jia Sidao nodded.

He is a man who is a traitor, but he has never been afraid of fighting or cowardly.

Since I want to be the Duke of Zhou, I don't want to give up this opportunity to help the community easily.

Right now, greater prestige is indeed needed.

"There is definitely a plan, but the treasury is not enough money and food." Jia Sidao muttered to himself: "Such a good opportunity, let's have another reunion..."

(End of this chapter)