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Chapter 764
"Shut up!"

A Shu reined in the reins with one hand, and the galloping horse circled the ground and stopped.

In front, the place that should have belonged to the Mongolian army camp was empty, leaving only a field of horse dung.

Looking back to the southwest again, in the distance, Gongchang City still stands beside the Weishui River, with fire lights on the top of the city.

"Where's the big camp?"

The Mongols were easy to gather. A Shu led [-] soldiers along the horseshoes, horse dung, and the traces left by various armies, and traveled northward for more than [-] miles, and found the army's station.

Only a few tents were set up.

Horses were lying on their stomachs everywhere, and soldiers camped on the ground or slept on their horses.

A horse scout had seen five thousand riders galloping forward, and a few thousand commanders stepped forward to meet them, and they spoke bluntly.

"Marshal, we don't want to fight with Teblai Khan, he has lost face to the Golden Family."

Ashu asked: "What's going on?! Could it be that I left for a month and failed to provide support in time, so you were driven here by an old man who was about to rot."

"Tie Bilie is a coward, not worthy to be the son of King Kuoduan of Liang."

"..."

It doesn't matter for the cavalry to retreat in vain, but today when Teblai Khan fled, he only cared about taking the soldiers and horses from the east and north, but he didn't care about the soldiers and horses from the west and south.

If it weren't for the lack of Song Army troops... In fact, it doesn't matter if the Song Army has more troops. As long as Mengqi doesn't want to fight, he can still escape.

But Teblai Khan's performance is indeed not a hero that can be respected by Mongolian warriors.

At this time, when the generals saw Ah Shu coming back, they couldn't help complaining.

Tie Bilie came out of the tent and heard this, although he was very angry, he didn't say anything.

Although he belongs to the Mongolian clan, his status is not very high...

Although Kuoduan was the most outstanding son of Wokuotai Khan, neither Wokuotai Khan nor Empress Naimazhen wanted him to be a great Khan, but only wanted him to be sealed in Xiliang.

Kuoduan wanted to fight for the position of Khan, but unfortunately, when Guiyu Khan died, he also died of illness.Otherwise, even if you don't win the Khan position, you can build an independent feudal country like the Golden Horde.

As soon as Meng Ge took office, he began to severely suppress Wo Kuotai's family, and he did not forget to exploit Kuo Duan.

Back then, in order to weaken the power of the Tuo Lei faction, Wo Kuotai distributed the Tuo Lei faction's soldiers and horses to Kuo Duan without consulting the kings and ministers, and let him go out of Xiliang.

Now, Kublai Khan, Tuo Lei's other son, sent A Shu to say that he was the commander-in-chief of the military power in the West Road. In fact, he was taking back double the soldiers and horses that Wo Kuotai's family had snatched from Tuo Lei's family back then.

All in all, Tieblai Khan was not favored by Kublai Khan.

He was very polite to A Shu, and carefully explained: "The Song people used terrible cannons on the top of the city..."

"I've heard that, when they enter Gongchang City, the craftsmen will be left behind." A Shu asked, "Where are you going?"

"Of course the exorcising is lost." Tie Bilie laughed and said, "Can we still withdraw the troops with exorcising?"

"If it's useless to exorcise, why didn't I kill them all early? If it doesn't kill them all, it's useful!"

"Then just grab it again, it's a trivial matter."

A Shu spat, and secretly scolded Tie Bilie for being incompetent.

Originally, the Mongols were "whenever attacking a big city, attack the small county first, and plunder its people for driving. Every cavalry must want to plunder ten people." Originally, Ashu wanted to plunder at least 10 people to attack the city, but this time they plundered fifty thousand.

After he arrived in Gongchang, he sent scouts to investigate around Gongchang's mansion, and found that the Song army had already set up defense lines everywhere, and it was very difficult to plunder again.

Better go elsewhere.

But if you want to go elsewhere, instead, you should first assume the posture of continuing to attack Gongchang, surround the points to fight for reinforcements, and then consume some of the Song army, and force the Song army to mobilize the defense line.

"I defeated Lian Xixian, robbed him of his luggage, brought back everything I could bring, set fire to what I couldn't take away, and drove this Semuren traitor to the other side of the Zhang River like a dog..."

~~
In the same night, by the Zhang River.

Lu Xiaoyou rode his horse around for a long time before arriving at Lian Xixian's camp. He was repeating Li Zengbo's words. The reason why he didn't write it down was because he was afraid of being intercepted by the Mongolian army.

"...Ashu has no other ability in fighting, only strong in the word 'finding the way'. Li Gong has defeated Ashu several times, but the battle at Laocangguan allowed Ashu to find the Yining Xiaolu. Although Li Gongzhan was not defeated, he was defeated completely. .

And the so-called treacherous march and detour behind it is nothing more than Ashu doesn't know where to go, even he himself doesn't know, of course we can't guess, and we can't guard against all the routes.

Instead of guessing, it is better to turn passive into active.Ah Shu doesn't know Liu Zheng's defeat yet, so he doesn't know how many soldiers we have, maybe he can lure him to a decisive battle..."

Lian Xixian nodded without asking further questions.

Because Lu Xiaoyou was paraphrasing Li Zengbo's words, there would be no answer if he asked.

When he heard the end, his face remained calm, as if he had made a plan.

~~
The next day, A Shu once again led troops to surround Gongchang City.

This time it was surrounded but not attacked.

After losing his mouth, he is not willing to let the Warriors lose for nothing.

He has begun to look for the direction of the next robbery.

In fact, there is another road, Li Zengbo and Lian Xixian are not able to block it at all, and it is completely possible for Ashu to enter western Sichuan...

Now there are not many Song troops in the west, and after Lintao, the west is not Li Xia's territory.

It is easy to break out and enter the Aba Grassland.

There are two roads going south from the Aba Grassland, one of which A Shu walked, which was the route he took when he accompanied Wuliang Hetai to attack Dali.

The other is the path taken by Kublai Khan.

From the Aba Grassland, follow the west bank of the Dadu River to the south, pass through the Tubo settlements, and cross the Dadu River to the east at Luding, then you can enter Lizhou.

Go further east, enter Yazhou, and then go north to Chengdu.

Li Zengbo and Lian Xixian couldn't guard against this road no matter what, it just depends on whether Ah Shu is willing to go.

Ashu hasn't figured it out yet.

The food should be able to last all the way to Chengdu, although many of the supplies looted along the way were lost by Teblai Khan.

In the Mongolian army, the milk that a mare can produce in a day can also feed three people.

The soldiers themselves would go hunting, eating rabbits, deer, wild boars, and mice. If they had to, they could eat horse meat or human meat.

Mongolian warriors are like lions, as long as they are hungry, they will naturally hunt wild animals.

If you don't have water, horse's blood will work too.

As for forage, the biggest advantage of Mongolian horses is that they can eat everything, including bamboo leaves and bark.

Of course, crossing Tibet in this way is indeed somewhat risky.

The key point is that his Khan did not ask him to do this, but only ordered him to "guarantee that Li Xia cannot respond to Li Fen, and recover Sichuan and Shaanxi provinces before the Northern Expedition to Ali Boke".

Normally speaking, there is really no need to go this way.

But Ah Shu wanted to go this way.

Already irritated, he was excited at the thought of getting out of it again.

He wanted to enter Hanzhong, kill Li Xia's family, and avenge Wu Liang's cooperation.

"Let's go, this is Wu Liang and A Shu's tactics."

"No, it's enough to contain the forces of Longxi, it's not the only force in the attack."

Ashu muttered to himself, and finally made a decision.

"If you come back from exploring the horses today, if you haven't found any flaws in the Song Army, you might as well go to the Aba Grassland..."

~~
Li Zengbo looked at the map with deep thought in his old eyes.

He was analyzing where Ashu could go.

"Nine and familiar roads...Nine and familiar roads..."

This is not the first time Li Zengbo pronounced this name these days.

Jiuhe Shulu is the name he gave to the Mongolian army's route to destroy Dali.

Before Dali was destroyed suddenly and fiercely, the Mongolian army attacked Dali once, and it was a stepping stone.

At that time, Li Zengbo was serving as the appeasement envoy of Guangxi Economic Strategy. He sent his subordinate Xie Tunan to Dali. Sichuan invaded the territory of Dali, broke through three cities, killed three Jiedus, and fought as far as Jiuhe Town in Dali.

Li Zengbo published this memorial four years before Kublai Khan destroyed Dali.

It's a pity that he failed to restore the situation in the Southwest, and only found a familiar road.

"Then... can the Mongolian army go from Tubo to Chengdu?"

Li Zengbo's old eyes became more and more anxious.

Lian Xixian has been worrying about the Yinping Ancient Road, which is almost the extreme that can be budgeted.

But maybe there are roads that are more difficult to guard against than the Yinping Ancient Road...It is hard to guard against.

The best result is that Lian Xixian can lead Ashu to a decisive battle.

Now Li Xia's troops in Sichuan and Shaanxi are different from those before the Song Dynasty, and they have the strength to win in field battles.

If we can find out more tactics of using cavalry to control cavalry in this battle...

"Master! The Mongolian army is moving!"

A notification sounded outside the garrison building.

Li Zengbo hurried out of the garrison building, raised his binoculars and looked out of the city.

I saw groups of Mongolian troops rolling towards the northwest direction, sending dust and smoke all over the sky.

"Xi Mian? Xi Mian... Lian Xixian failed? Failed..."

Li Zengbo froze there, feeling extremely disappointed.

He has kept it all his life.

You can only defend for a lifetime, this kind of battle is too aggrieved, too aggrieved!
This time I lost the opportunity to fight decisively and annihilate the enemy, and I don’t know if I can see the soldiers of the Song Dynasty and the Menglu win the field battle...

"That's all, that's all, send a quick horse and tell them that western Sichuan must prevent Mongolia from entering from Tubo...prevent, prevent, trouble."

~~
Ashu rode on his horse, and the army headed west all the way.

He seems to want to break through Lintao's Song army's defense line and go to Hezhou.

Hezhou is not Li Xia's territory, he can rest in Hezhou, and if Hezhou goes south, he can go to Aba Grassland.

But in fact he did not intend to go to Aba.

Because according to reliable news, Li Xia has already defeated Liu Zheng and rushed to help Longxi. The soldiers and horses have just left Tianshui, and they are looking for a decisive battle...

Ah Shu will not fight decisively.

Song armies were encircling Gongchang, including Li Xia's reinforcements, and the decisive battle was not favorable.

He wants to mobilize the Song army, attract them to the west, and give the Song army the opportunity to surround the Mongolian army again and again.

Then, he suddenly went north and jumped out of the encirclement.

In front of you is the galloping Yellow River, and the horses neighing in the wind.

He wants to bypass the entire Longxi, move thousands of miles, go straight to the Jinghe ancient road, and enter Guanzhong!
As long as he walked [-] miles, the defenseless Guanzhong was in front of his eyes, which was much faster than traveling through Tubo.

Ashu laughed loudly, and raised his whip to the east.

"Warriors! We've had enough of Gong Chang's petty fights. Let's go to Jingzhao Mansion. You will have ten times as much gold, silver and women as you want. The city will not be sealed!"

What responded to him was the roar of the warriors and the thunderous sound of horseshoes trampling on the yellow ground.

The Yellow River, the loess... finally penetrated into the valley of the Jinghe River, and walked along the river for several days, and in front of it was Jingchuan.

Beyond Jingchuan, there is Qianshui Yuan...

(End of this chapter)