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Chapter 780 Lanzhou
Li Xia decided to send troops to occupy the Hexi Corridor in early September.

In mid-September, he completed the mobilization of [-] riders and the preparation of the baggage.

Afterwards, he and Li Zengbo each led 1 troops and sent troops separately.

Li Xia took the east road and attacked Huizhou, Liupanshan and other places; Li Zengbo took the west road and attacked Hezhou, Lanzhou and other places.

The news of Ashu's defeat has not yet spread, and the cavalry of the Song army has already killed them. This kind of surprise attack is indeed overwhelming. Only in early October, they had already swept through the northwestern part of Longxi.

However, the Mongolian army has never paid attention to defense, and the siege of cities and land at the beginning of the war is not something to be happy about.

If one is not careful, it is likely to be defeated like Xia Gui.

The Song Dynasty had the Huaihe River and the Yangtze River as its screen, so it could withstand such a big defeat, but Li Xia couldn't.

He must defeat the Mongolian army in Liangzhou as soon as possible to gain the upper hand.

Fighting another big victory will also make the people of the princes of the North panic.

Therefore, his next step is to join forces with Li Zengbo in Lanzhou, cross the Yellow River, and go straight to Liangzhou.

"Send the order down, let's go, Lanzhou."

The marching horn sounded again, and the Song army who had just captured Liupanshan Palace got on their horses one after another.

"Quick! Go west, go west..."

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Lanzhou is known as "connecting four domains and leading thousands of miles", and it is an important town on the Silk Road.

If the Yellow River flows directly to the southeast here, passing through Longxi and Guanzhong, it can form a straight river.

But Huang He refused.

It must bend to the northeast to form a "ji" shape, and then turn to the south to nourish the Hetao and divide Guanzhong and Shanxi.

Lanzhou is a bright pearl on the bend of the word "ji".

It was called "Jincheng County" in ancient times.

At the end of Tang Dynasty, Lanzhou was occupied by Tubo; after Li Yuanhao defeated Tubo, Lanzhou belonged to Xixia;

Tubo, Xixia, Song, Jin, Mongolia... have suffered endless wars for hundreds of years.

Finally, on the twelfth day of October in the third year of Xianding in the Great Song Dynasty, a Song flag was planted on the top of Lanzhou city again.

The city wall is dilapidated.

Mongols don't like to build city walls, so it still retains various traces of the time when Mongolia destroyed the gold. The city walls were collapsed by huge stones, cavalry could leap over, and the cracks made by kerosene could allow people to walk through.

The wind blows through the sand, exposing the bones under the city wall.

The 30-[-]-year-old white bones have long been broken, but they were piled too thick back then, so they have to be blown a little bit by the wind to show up.

The horse's hoof stepped on the bone fragments, and Li Zengbo on the horse looked up at the Song flag with mixed feelings.

He couldn't tell what it was like to regain Lanzhou with his own hands.

After so many years of extravagant talk about recovering the word, today it finally recovered a big city.

He said he was happy and happy, but the devastated scene made him unable to be happy again.

Without the imaginary scene of the common people eating pots of oatmeal to welcome the king's teacher, the common people in Lanzhou City did not know Song Jun at all.

In 500 years, it belonged to the Song Dynasty for only 50 years, and it has been more than [-] years.

The so-called "remnant people cry in the dust, look south to the master for another year" is just wishful thinking of the generals of the Song Dynasty here...

Li Zengbo thought about this while looking at the banner, and the wrinkles on his forehead seemed to deepen.

He raised his hand, waved it, and drank.

"Enter the city!"

After the cavalry of the Song Army entered the city, teams of Minzhuang also transported supplies into the city.

Lanzhou will be the last stop of these folks on their westward journey.

They transported the luggage to Lanzhou, built ships to help the Song army cross the Yellow River, and then stayed in Lanzhou to build city defenses.

The cavalry of the Song Army would no longer have supplies after crossing the Yellow River.

……

Li Bing walked in Minzhuang's team pushing a wheelbarrow.

He was originally from Tongwei County. Ashu captured him when he invaded Longxi, and was rescued by the Song army under Gongchang City, so he recruited Minzhuang.

After saving the money for this trip, Li Bing was able to return to Tongwei County to renovate the old house and regain his livelihood.But he was still not able to cheer up.

At that time, some of the captives found their lost relatives after being rescued by Song Jun. Li Bing also had expectations for this. Gradually, he felt...he didn't know why he was alive.

He walked into the dilapidated city gate listlessly, feeling a little strange in his heart.

At this time, the corpses of the soldiers of the Song Army had just been taken to be buried, and the corpses of the soldiers of the Mongolian Army were still piled up not far away.The city gate was covered with bloodstains, and some broken flesh and blood could be seen from time to time.

The fishy smell reminded Li Bing of the time when Tongwei County was breached.

He found that he hated the flames of war, and regretted that he should go straight back to his hometown...

The wheels of the wheelbarrow were already stained with bloody mud. When they entered the city, they could see some Mongolian soldiers who were resisting in the distance screaming and being stabbed by rows of spears from the Song army.

There were not many Mongolian troops left behind in Lanzhou, and often more than a dozen soldiers of the Song army stabbed one or two Mongolian troops at the same time.

There are more people in the city who are pale and thin, huddling behind the dilapidated houses one by one, looking at this side numbly.

Li Bing soon realized who they were all—to drive the mouth away.

He has also been an exorcist before, and he is very familiar with this breath of despair and numbness.

This is the Ulus of the Mongolian nobles, and most of the city is the mouth of the Mongolian nobles.

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Hay was piled in front of the stables.

Li Bing wiped the sweat from his forehead, panted and walked a few steps outside, found the water bag left behind, then turned and walked back.

Hearing the rustling sound behind the forage, he went around to look and was startled.

I thought it was some kind of beast, but when I took a closer look, it turned out to be a skinny woman covered in horse manure, who was carefully digging out the sack he had brought.

When she saw Li Bing, she shrank back in horror and hid in a dog hole by the wall.

Li Bing caught up two steps, and looked again, and saw that the woman's face and body were covered with welts, and she was trembling... There was also a skinny child hiding in the dry grass.

At first glance, Li Bing thought it was a little wild cat, but when he looked at the child's yellow eyes later, he roughly understood what kind of situation this woman was in.

She must be the pervert of some perverted person, judging by her age, she is probably still very young, and it is not known whether she escaped or was lost by her master due to the war.

Li Bing took out a piece of steamed bun from his bosom, broke off a piece... after thinking about it, he simply handed it over.

When he turned and walked out, he wondered if the Song army would drive away these mouths like the Mongolian army, and use them as arrow fodder.

He hoped that the Song army was different from the Mongolian army, so that he could say "don't be afraid" to the skinny woman who was protecting the child.

But he was not sure, so he had to let the other party continue to hide in the haystack.

suddenly.

There was a "dong" from the bell tower, and someone shouted in Longxi dialect.

"Folks in the city don't have to be afraid, Master Wang regained Lanzhou, and entered the city without any crime..."

"Master Wang recovered, entered the city without any crime..."

Li Bing listened attentively, and another Min Zhuang bumped his shoulder.

"What are you doing in a daze, Lord Jun asked us to serve porridge."

Li Bing hurriedly followed, and when he saw the city wall ahead, he raised his eyes as if feeling something in his heart, and saw an old general standing on the top of the city, the figure was exactly the same as when he was rescued from the Mongolian army.

He suddenly no longer regretted applying to be a member of the public this time...

(End of this chapter)