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Chapter 739
On the eighth day of April, Li Xia led [-] cavalry to attack from Ruzhou to the southeast, and to the west of Jiacheng County, more than ten miles away, encountered a blockade of [-] Mongolian and Han troops.

The two sides fought and suffered casualties. Afterwards, the Mongol and Han troops were defeated and retreated to Jiacheng County. Li Xia passed the city without entering, and rushed northward to Junzhou.

There is a large iron smelting workshop in Junzhou. Last year, Ahema inspected Henan and found out 50 households with hidden household registrations.

Li Xia invaded Junzhou on the same day, opened warehouses to release grain, distributed all the weapons from the iron workshop to the people, and went north to attack Xinzheng County.

Kaifeng is more than 150 miles northeast of Xinzheng County. Now Shi Tianze sent soldiers from Henan to Shandong to fight the rebellion, and food and supplies were being transferred everywhere. Li Xia killed soldiers and horses, and it was another robbery...

Dong Wenyong led five thousand riders to chase after Li Xia all the way, and was shocked when he found out the news.

Li Fen's rebellion, what Kublai Khan was worried about was never the rebellion itself, but the psychological changes caused by this rebellion to the Mongolian princes.

Once Li Xia is allowed to capture Kaifeng, Henan will be shaken, the whole world will be shaken, and the rebels will be loud.

This area is already an open plain, with a flat plain, Mangshan, Songshan, Jishan, and Waifangshan have been left behind by them to the west.

Dong Wenyong was still chasing Li Xia to the northeast, but Li Xia had turned to the southeast.

On the ninth day of April, Li Xia passed Xuzhou, once again escaped Dong Wenyong's pursuers, and then turned to the southwest.

On the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, Li Xia crossed the counties of Xiangcheng, Fangcheng, and Biyang, entered Nanyang, and approached Tangzhou.

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Nanyang Prefecture is now under Mongolian rule.

The border between Song and Mongolia is in Dengzhou and Tangzhou in the south of Nanyang.

As the junction of Song and Mongolia, the Huaihe River runs from east to west to the source of the Huaihe River in Tongbai Mountain.

Between Huaiyuan and Qinling is the Nanyang Basin, where Henan, Hubei and Shaanxi meet.

This place is Xiangyang if you go south, you can trace the Han River to Hanzhong if you go west, and you can enter Guanzhong by taking Wuguan Road in the northwest... The strategic location is very important.

When Shi Tianze managed Henan, he appointed his two nephews, Shi Quan and Shi Shu, as the chief managers of ten thousand households, and ordered them to guard Tangzhou and Dengzhou respectively.

Shi Shu was the son of Shi Tianze's second elder brother, Shi Tian'an, who made a great contribution in attacking Kuzhu pass during the attack on Shu, but unfortunately, he was ambushed by Li Xia in Jinyun Mountain not long after and died.

Shi Quan is the son of Shi Tianni, Shi Tianze's eldest brother. He was originally guarding Tangzhou, but thanks to Li Xia's blessing, he was able to guard Tang and Dengzhou...

This time, Li Xia's tactic was to attack Tang and Deng prefectures.

He wanted to hold Shi Tianze back not because he thought there were not enough Mongolian troops in Henan, but because Shi Tianze had to go to Shandong sooner or later.Now if we procrastinate for a while longer, Li Fen can hold on longer, and the situation will be better in the future.

But to hold Shi Tianze back, the only way to attack him is to save him.

The Mongolian lords who own Ulus are one, and Shi Tianze's nephew is the other.

Therefore, if Shi Quan is attacked, Shi Tianze must be saved.

On the other hand, Shi Quan was also the best one to fight. Tang and Deng Zhou had already faced the enemy three times, and Li Xia came from the north, like a sharp knife stuck in Shi Quan's back.

Of course, if Sichuan and Shanxi dared to transfer the main force to Nanyang, the Mongolian army in Shanxi would also cross the Yellow River to attack Guanzhong... However, the Mongolian army in Luoyang was led around by Li Xia and is still behind Li Xia.

It is equivalent to using the mobility of cavalry to shake off more than ten thousand enemy soldiers from the entire battlefield.

This is exactly how the Mongols play.

Li Xia even followed the route that Tuo Lei used to cut gold...

Dong Wenbing guessed Li Xia's tactics.

But it was too late. When Dong Wenbing was sitting in Luoyang City and guessed that Li Xia was going to attack Nanyang, Li Xia had already personally led the cavalry through Ruzhou.

When Dong Wenbing sent a messenger to remind Shi Quan, Li Xia had already broken out of the blockade of the defenders in Jiacheng County.

When Li Xia had arrived outside the city of Tangzhou, Dong Wenbing's messenger could pass Ruzhou.

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In terms of military strength, Li Xia not only has two thousand cavalry.

Before he set off, he had ordered Liu Jinsuo to lead 2000 men down the Han River, and Yang Ben to lead [-] riders out of Shangzhou and down the Wuguan Road.

The soldiers and horses of the three routes gathered in Tang and Deng, but there were only more than [-] people. It was not that Sichuan and Shaanxi did not have more troops, but that the main force needed to be left for defense.

And how many troops can be mobilized to go out is more often limited by the ability to transport food and grass.

This is why Li Xia often likes to use small groups of two to three thousand troops to fight. The less pressure on the supply, the more flexible the overall tactics.

Of course, this also means taking risks, and fighting big with small things is an adventure in itself...

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Shi Quan is a famous general.

During these years of stationing troops in Nanyang, he successively fought against the defenders Gao Da and Lu Wenhuan in the Xiangfan area of ​​the Song Dynasty.

At that time, Shi Shu followed Meng Ge to attack Shu, but Shi Quan was different, and followed Kublai Khan to attack Ezhou.

This is a turning point in the fate of the two brothers...

This time Li Fen's rebellion also had an impact on Shi Quan's residence.

Since Li Fen had the possibility of cooperating with the Song State, Shi Quan had to guard against the attack of the Song army from Xiangfan.

He is also on guard against Li Xia's troops in Hanshui and Wuguan...but Shanxi has already prepared to attack Guanzhong, and Nanyang is more prepared to send troops to push into Wuguan Road to cooperate with Shanxi's troops.

Shi Quan was still preparing in Tangzhou when he suddenly heard that Dengzhou was besieged.

For a moment, an extremely absurd idea flashed through his mind.

"Is it Liu Zheng who is preparing to cross the Yellow River to tackle key problems? Liu Yuanzhen, who recruited him back then, has defected. Now, is even his hometown Dengzhou going to fall? Then what's the point of Liu Zheng's surrender?"

Shi Quan shook his head, dismissing this inexplicable thought.

"Dengzhou hasn't been lost yet."

He quickly gathered three thousand soldiers and horses, and went out of Tangzhou to support Dengzhou.

The border between Tang and Dengzhou is a river named Baihe. Before Shi Quan led his troops to Baihe, he suddenly saw a horse galloping towards Baihe.

"Enemy soldiers! Enemy soldiers..."

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By the White River.

The scenery in Nanyang in April is very beautiful, with green grass beside the river.

But panicked horseshoes and footsteps trampled on the grass.

The blood splashed in the mud puddles, gathered, and flowed to the White River, dyeing the river red.

The corpse fell down, and his eyes widened until he died, with unwillingness.

Everyone who died was very unhappy.

Whether it is Han Chinese or Mongolian.

Strangely, in this battle, the Mongols were fighting for the Han, and the Han were fighting for the Mongols.

In fact, they are all fighting for themselves.

"Don't retreat! Reinforcements are coming soon..."

After fighting for most of the day, the two soldiers and horses fell into the final hand-to-hand fight.

……

The long lance in Li Xia's hand pierced the chest of an enemy general again.

The lance was covered with blood, not slippery, but sticky to the hand.

He is leading more than a hundred people to hunt down Shi Quan.

Shi Quan was even worse. His soldiers and horses were already broken up, and he led his bodyguards and fled to the side of the Baihe River. When he turned his head, he stared at Li Xia with wide eyes, then turned back and killed him.

It's normal to lose a war.Shi Quan fought with Gundam and Lu Wenhuan in the past, winning and losing each other, but never before.

Because Li Xia is too crazy.

No probing, no stepping forward.

Li Xia suddenly rushed out from the north, an unexpected direction for Shi Quan, and directly inserted into Shi Quan's formation, dividing his soldiers and horses.

Decisive and ruthless.

Shi Quan was caught off guard.

This is how victory and defeat are determined.

Li Xia took the initiative from the time he left Tongguan until he entered the historical power formation, so his morale was stronger and he had the momentum to win.

Fighting is compared to the psychology of soldiers.

When the soldiers under Shi Quan's command were amazed by the enemy soldiers falling from the sky, they had already lost...

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"Surrender! I won't kill you..."

Shi Quan ignored the shouts of the soldiers in front of him, and still raised his sword to kill Li Xia.

"puff."

Shi Quan was stabbed again and fell to the ground.

Knowing that there was nothing he could do to save him, he raised the knife to his own neck.

Li Xiace immediately stepped forward and asked, "Do you have a reason to die for Mongolia?"

"You kill my brother, I will never be humiliated by the enemies!"

Shi Quan yelled and swung his knife to cut his own neck.

Before he died, he actually said something to himself.

"I'm not convinced..."

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"I'm very convinced."

Hu Ligen said with a smile, got off his horse, stepped forward, and went to cut off Shi Quan's head with his own hands.

While he was doing it, he was still humming a song.

"I sacrificed the fluttering banner, beat the war drum with the cow's leather mantle...Suitian Khan mounted his horse and fought with the enemy!"

Humming and humming, Hu Legen looked up, and saw Li Zeyi sitting on the horse and looking at him indifferently.

This is not the first time Li Zeyi has looked at him like this.

They were all riding horses before, but now that the battle is over, Hu Legen couldn't help asking: "Look what I'm doing?"

"I'm observing you." Li Zeyi said very bluntly, "I'm observing how loyal you are to the county king."

Hu Legen was very surprised, threw the head in his hand to the guards, waved the knife in his hand and shouted: "Do you know how many years I have been with King Jun?! You don't know, because you only came here for two Year, you newcomer!"

"But I am a Han Chinese and my surname is Li, but you are a Mongolian."

"What happened to the Mongols? Compared to you people from Longxi and Lin'an, we are the most loyal. We are all believers..."

"That's right." Li Zeyi said: "If you traitors return to the Mongols again, you will die the worst..."

"It's not because of this, let me tell you, I have endured you for a long time..."

"Shut up!"

Li Xia rode his horse past and shouted, "Take the wounded and rush to Dengzhou immediately!"

He knew that Dong Wenyong was about to catch up again.

After that, there were Dong Wenbing, Shi Tianze, Liu Zheng, Yang Dayuan, Ahema...

Shi Quan is just a small beginning, the first step in disrupting Shi Tianze's deployment.

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at the same time.

Jinghu North Road, Qizhou, Xia Gui, who was then the recruiter of Henan in the Song Dynasty, finally received an edict from Lin'an, and prepared to swear to go north.

On Huainan East Road, Huai'an, Qingyang Mengyan, who was in charge of Huaidong, also received a military order and crossed Lianshui to the north, preparing to support Li Fen.

Huainan East Road, Haizhou, Zhao Ma'er, the commander of the Song Dynasty Navy, was ordered to lead the fleet to Dengzhou and Laizhou, preparing to harass the Mongolian army.

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And in Jinan, the Mongolian Zongwang Hebichi has led seventeen troops to gather, preparing to join forces with Shi Tianze and surround Li Fen.

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If the situation of the world this year is a chess game caused by Li Fen, then in the first ten days of April, all the chess players finally laid out their chess pieces.

(End of this chapter)