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Chapter 828 Mind

The main force of the Mongolian army began to withdraw in batches in early March. According to many Mongolian generals, Li Xia didn't know that they were quietly retreating.

But in fact, only on the fifth day of March, Li Xia had already moved into the hoop kiln in Yanzhou City.

The hoop kiln is made of clay embryos, wheat straw, and yellow mud. It looks like a house from a distance, but a kiln from a close look.

There are more hoop kilns in Yanzhou city, and more cave dwellings dug out of the mountain plateau outside the city.

The place is indeed desolate and barren.

When Li Xia regained Guanzhong, there were very few Mongolian troops stationed in northern Shaanxi, so it was not difficult for Liu Heima to take Yanzhou.

On the contrary, in the past year or so, Yang Dayuan led the army to invade, built the city and fought against it, and captured many refugees and Qiang people scattered on the Loess Plateau. There was only a little fireworks inside and outside the city of Yanzhou... just a little bit .

As the commander in chief, Zhang Jue arranged for Li Xia the most decent yard in Yanzhou City, and it looked very simple.

There may have been more luxurious mansions in the city, but they were all demolished and rebuilt.

The young general who led Li Xia to rest was only 17 years old, and his name was Shi Yan. He met Li Xia once in Diaoyu City.

Shi Yan adored Li Xia a little, but he stuttered a little at the beginning, and then slowly straightened his tongue.

But he was too nervous, and he couldn't speak more than his head.

"The post house was demolished by the general a few days ago. Who made it have a big wooden beam, just in time for the artillery. Please let the county king live here. The general said, anyway, it will only stay for a day or two, and it will be enough."

The two soldiers on the side glanced at Shi Yan in surprise, secretly thinking that their team just didn't plan to be promoted.

"Alright." Li Xia didn't care, and said, "Bring Hao Tianyi."

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"Bring over the defeated general!"

A group of captives were building the city defenses, and they kept kicking the rammed earth with their feet. Although it was a cold spring weather, sweat still dripped on the loess.

Hao Tianyi was among them, when he heard someone yelling, he turned around.

He was in his 30s, with a burly build. Although his hands and feet were shackled and he looked very embarrassed, he still stood out from the crowd of prisoners.His whole body was imposing, making the two soldiers guarding the captives look like his followers.

He was also annoyed at being forced to do labor here.

Generally speaking, when a general is captured, he will either be killed or surrendered with grace.How much soil can be rammed if the majestic Taiyuan Road military and civilian households are all in charge of ramming earth here?

It is simply a humiliation.

Mongols are not that rude.

Someone finally wanted to see him today. It seems that Zhang Jue still remembered that Hao Tianyi was a prince...

Being escorted into a courtyard that had just been cleaned up, Hao Tianyi saw the tight guards outside, and immediately guessed that the person who wanted to see him was not Zhang Jue, but his status was not low, and he was not in Yanzhou City before.

Sure enough, a young man was washing his hands in the yard. His boots were covered with mud. He had obviously traveled a long way today.

As soon as the young man turned his head, he had a handsome face, a graceful demeanor, and a calm and dignified expression... Hao Tianyi immediately had a faint guess in his heart.

"Do you know that the Mongolian army has retreated?"

"Retreat? Impossible."

"Do you know who I am?"

"Li Xia?" Hao Tianyi said something probing, then shook his head again, and said, "I don't believe it."

Li Xia smiled, took off her boots and sat there soaking her feet to wash away her fatigue, leaned there and picked up the military map of Yan'an to watch.

Hao Tianyi stepped forward dragging the shackles, and said again: "I don't believe that Li Xia will suddenly come to Yanzhou City with an army around, unless the Mongolian Kingdom has increased its troops in northern Shaanxi."

"Believe it or not, I can let you go back."

"what?"

Li Xia didn't repeat it again, obviously, Hao Tianyi had heard it.

"Can you let me go back?"

"Tomorrow I will meet Yang Dayuan, you follow me, and then let you go."

"you……"

Hao Tianyi hadn't spoken a few words in the meeting, and Hao Tianyi was completely stunned.

He had to stop and think about what the situation was like now and what Li Xia's purpose was.

"You, you want to recruit me? You don't have to wishful thinking."

"Let me tell you honestly." Li Xia said, "I let you go back just to drive a wedge between you. Naturally, some people will wonder why I let you go back. You can explain it any way you want."

"You miscalculated..."

Hao Tianyi was about to refute, but in the middle of speaking, he thought of refuting Li Xia, what should he do if he doesn't let him go, so he shut up.

The aura was completely covered by Li Xia.

Although Li Xia is young, he has already transformed the title of Wangjue into Wangqi.

"Maybe. But it doesn't matter whether you surrender or not. I will let you go back. It is all the nobles and Kublai Khan who are going to separate. Understand? Kublai Khan lost a game, and people's hearts must change. You go back." , is to bring this change back.”

This was a mouthful, and Hao Tianyi didn't understand right away.

But he could feel a hint of domineering in Li Xia's tone, the kind of domineering that belonged to the winner.

Even if it is a small victory, a tragic victory, a narrow victory, or a victory without force, victory is victory.

Back then, the Mongols were able to subdue countless heroes of the Central Plains, wasn't it because of the domineering accumulated after continuous victories?
……

The sky darkened quickly.

Li Xia arrived at Yanzhou City after traveling for three consecutive days. The horses and horses were exhausted, and he sat in the sunset and said these words to Hao Tianyi, and then went to rest.

It was rare for Hao Tianyi not to work tonight, so he was taken down to settle down, and he was going to go out of the city with Li Xia to meet Yang Dayuan at dawn.

He can't sleep.

Li Xia was so arrogant because he hadn't accepted the Mongolian retreat in his heart.

"It doesn't matter whether you surrender or not."

Li Xia's words echoed in his ears all the time.

Makes one feel slighted.

That's right, he lost his way in this battle first, and was captured before the results of the battle were achieved.

One time of bad luck, I am afraid that I will bear the name of mediocrity for the rest of my life.

Hao Tianyi couldn't help feeling sad.

Afterwards, he thought of his father, Monk Hao Batu.

What's the shame in being captured?His father was a prisoner since he was a child, so didn't he become a famous general in the end?
With this thought, Hao Tianyi couldn't help being startled.

It's not that he intended to vote for Li Xia, but he started to think about something that he had never thought about before, like a piece of porcelain cracked.

……

When the sky was getting dark, Hao Tianyi was called up and escorted out of the city with Li Xia.

The Loess Plateau is magnificent and desolate, and a group of people rode their horses northwest along the Yanhe River.

Surrounded by horses galloping into the distance.He could vaguely feel the sound of horseshoes behind him. It was Zhang Jue who was fighting for Li Xia. If Yang Dayuan wanted to surprise Li Xia, it would only fulfill Zhang Jue's desire to fight in the field.

Traveling with Li Xia is not boring.

Generally speaking, the younger the superior, the more tense they are, fearing that they will not be able to hold back the scene.But the young county king didn't put on airs, and treated the soldiers very kindly.

Talking about the customs of the year, soon some soldiers from the local area responded to Li Xia's inquiry and sang Xintianyou.

That was a young soldier under Shi Yan's command. He was completely characteristic of northern Shaanxi people, dark, hearty, and carefree.

Holding the rope with one hand, he raised his head and sang loudly.

"God! Earth!"

The high-pitched singing seems to pierce the sky, as if to vent all emotions.

"Home! People!"

"Fire burning clouds in the sky, green wheat seedlings on the ground..."

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"It's raining in the east and sunny in the west, how long will it take for the suffering people to live a good life?!"

"..."

On the north bank of the Yanhe River, Yang Dayuan stood on his horse and heard the singing from afar.

His ancestral home is in Qinzhou, Longxi, but he arrived in Sichuan very early, and has already adapted to the beautiful mountains and rivers in Sichuan, and the warm and humid winter. Northern Shaanxi is too dry for him.

Only the folk songs here are similar to those in Shu, making people miss their hometown every time they hear it.

In fact, when he surrendered that year, he thought that Mongolia would destroy Song in one fell swoop.After all, Mengge Khan's personal conquest was menacing, and the Great Song Dynasty was at stake.

Then I thought, there is nothing I can do, I can't defend the country anymore, for the sake of the people in the city and my family, I can only vote.

The reason why Wang Jian persisted was because he had the determination to die for his country, and he never expected to win.

At that time, no one expected this result.

God's will tricks people.

Yang Dayuan is full of complaints and reluctance.

He squinted his eyes and finally saw Li Xia's team approaching.

The two sides stood still on one side of the river, and their soldiers were still on guard.

Yang Dayuan squinted his eyes for a while, and when he was sure that it was indeed Li Xia, he got off his horse and walked forward.

This move startled Yang Wenzhong behind him.

"Uncle! You..."

"Don't worry about me! Wait! Don't worry, Li Xia won't kill me."

Yang Dayuan raised his hand, but without turning his head, he stepped onto the small raft on the Yanhe River alone, and paddled to the opposite bank by himself.

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Hao Tianyi was still lucky, thinking that Li Xia was just lying to him, but in fact he did not repel the Mongolian army.

But at this moment, seeing Yang Dayuan rushing over so impatiently, he couldn't help being surprised, thinking that once Yang Dayuan betrayed Mongolia, it might shock the hearts of the people in the north.

Hao Tianyi really wanted to swear a few words, such as "Yang Dayuan, you coward, I invited you to join forces with Zhang Jue, but you refused to save him."

But he understood that if he scolded him, he would lose his face and increase Li Xia's prestige.

This situation makes people extremely uncomfortable.

What Li Xia wanted was to make these people who worked for Mongolia feel uncomfortable, so he glanced at Hao Tianyi lightly, let him watch, and walked towards Yang Dayuan.

Judging from the fact that Yang Dayuan beheaded the Mongolian envoy to persuade him to surrender, Li Xia knew that he was unwilling to surrender to Mongolia.

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Saimenzhai.

"Report to the general! It has been found that Zhang Jue leads more than a thousand troops, more than ten miles away from the Yanhe ferry..."

Yang Wen'an squinted his eyes, reckoning that he could try to kill Li Xia, so he raised his hand and said, "Let's go."

He had already put on a suit of armor, and was sitting astride a war horse, with hundreds of fine riders behind him.

The gate of the village opened, and the leading cavalry rushed out like flowing water.

"Shut up!"

Another Xinma arrived from behind, leaned over to Yang Wen'an and said something.

"General, Duke Xu, the angel of Yanjing, is coming soon."

"I know, let Wen Can go to greet him first, and then say that the battle is critical, and I respectfully ask Mr. Xu to wait."

"This... the deputy commander has told Mr. Xu about Li Xia. Mr. Xu asked the general not to attack. He has his own calculations."

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At the same time, Xu Heng was sitting in the carriage on Qinzhi Road in the north.

He had already heard about Li Xia's sudden arrival in Yan'an, but he still commented calmly.

"Back then, Yang Dayuan beheaded Wang Zhong first, as if he had a strong heart to die for the Song Dynasty, but in the end, didn't he choose to submit? Look at what he wants, don't look at what he usually says, it depends on how he chooses in the end... ..."

(End of this chapter)