Traveling through the divine eagle: the first sword of Quanzhen

Chapter 224 Father's Love
After drinking a glass of wine, Duan Siying told the story of her and Li Qinglong.

That was more than ten years ago, not long after Duan Siying sat on the throne of Vulture Palace Lord.

At that time, Li Qinglong and his Han troops were temporarily stationed in Dunhuang to exchange defense with the local Mongolian army.As a public security force, temporarily maintain the order from the Western Regions to the Central Plains.

The local Mongolian army was transferred to Europe to attack Kievan Rus at that time.At that time, most of the Mongolian army was transferred to the Caucasus, Eastern Europe and other places to participate in the war.

The Mongols in the Western Regions lacked enough troops to maintain the local rule and order. If the local Semu people were appointed, they might take the opportunity to make trouble.

So Li Qinglong was temporarily named the governor of Dunhuang, and led the Han army from Luoyang in the Central Plains to the Western Regions, echoing the Mongolian army in Xingqing Prefecture and the Han army in Chang'an.Maintain the order and stability of the entire Guanzhong, Hexi Corridor to the Western Regions.

First, you can transfer the Han army away from your homeland to prevent them from taking the opportunity to rebel, and you can also use them to monitor the Semu people in the Western Regions.

Originally, it was just a very common defense change task, but it missed Duan Siying's youth for more than ten years.

At that time, the Western Regions had been conquered by the Mongols' cruel means, so the Han troops under Li Qinglong carried out the task of maintaining order very easily, and they were only responsible for calming chaos and maintaining public order, and the administrative management of the Western Regions did not need them. , maintained by local religious priests and Mongolian officials.

Although Li Qinglong is the governor in name, he still has a Mongol military commander on his head. Although the soldiers under the military commander have been transferred away, he is still responsible for the local military and political affairs.

Therefore, Li Qinglong's duty is to bring his soldiers here, and then he will honestly eat, drink and have fun in Dunhuang.

If something goes wrong, the local officials in the Western Regions will directly report to the Mongol chief of the marching road, and then the chief will bypass Li Qinglong directly and mobilize the Han army brought by Li Qinglong to deal with the problems in the Western Regions.

Therefore, his governor is basically just a decoration, and he doesn't need to do anything, so the natural person will be idle.

Li Qinglong fought for the Great Mongol Empire for many years. Although he always avoided the war passively and fished in troubled waters when facing the Song army and the Han rebel army.

But when facing other foreign races including the Semuren, the Han army under him was invincible.Especially when dealing with the remnants of Khitan and Jurchen, they directly punched heavily.

Over time, the Mongolian Khan also saw Li Qinglong's careful thinking. Although Luoyang was close to the Song Dynasty, the Mongols rarely let Li Qinglong's Han army attack the Southern Song Dynasty. Secondly, I was also afraid that some of them would turn against each other.

But make the best use of everything and make the best use of people.

Although Li Qinglong's attitude was a bit ambiguous when he fought against the Southern Song Dynasty, his ability and loyalty to the Great Mongol Empire are obvious to all.

The territory of the Great Mongol Empire is vast and vast, and Li Qinglong didn't want to "fraud each other", so the Mongolian Khan didn't force it.So he was often assigned to suppress, counter-insurgency, and garrison missions in other non-Han areas.And every time Li Qinglong and his "puppet army" will complete the task brilliantly.

This is why Li Qinglong is not at home all year round.

Although Li Qinglong is not at home, he thinks about his family all the time. What he loves the most is his two sons.

He had five sons under his knees, but he lost three of them before he reached middle age. The pain of bereavement three times made him cherish the remaining two sons even more.

Although Ai Wu and Wu Ta dote on their youngest son Li Qingwei more, it doesn't mean that he doesn't feel sorry for his eldest son who has been sick since childhood.

He traveled all over the world, seeking good doctors and medicines, and only hoped that one day in the future he could heal his eldest son.And when he was wandering in Dunhuang, he got a prescription from a merchant from the Western Regions in the market.

The prescription needs to use Tianshan ice spring supplemented with other medicinal materials, and then combined with snow lotus as a guide, it can treat congenital lung diseases.

Although Li Qinglong didn't know the truth or falsehood, he still planned to try his luck as a living horse doctor.

After all, he invited all the famous doctors that could be found in the world at that time, but all the doctors were helpless, they just prescribed similar medicines with minor differences, and asked Li Qingan to take good care of them.

After a long illness, Li Qinglong became a good doctor. Because Li Qinglong was worried about his son's condition, this old father also gradually learned some medical skills. He looked at the medicines on the prescription, and they were basically warming and tonic medicines. Although he didn't know if they could cure Li Qingan illness, but he knew that these medicines would not ruin him.

And Li Qinglong has traveled all over the market in the Western Regions, and other medicines are easy to find, but the Tianshan Snow Lotus is very precious, and it cannot be bought with money.

Moreover, Tianshan Bingquan has to go to Tianshan to pick it up in person.

So Li Qinglong reported to the general manager of Mongolia, and took a small team of soldiers to Tianshan to look for snow lotus and ice spring.

The Tianshan Mountains are huge, and with the help of local guides, they found the ice spring easily.Taking advantage of the mid-winter season, Bingquan was sent back to Luoyang and stored in the ice storage of the Hou Mansion.

But Tianshan snow lotus is very precious, and if a snow lotus is shipped to the Central Plains for sale, it is worth hundreds of gold.

The character of businessmen is that they would dare to take risks if they had double the profit, would dare to trample all the laws if they had ten times the profit, and would be lucky even if they killed their heads if they had a hundred times the profit.

What's more, most of the Tianshan Mountains are unoccupied land, so for hundreds of years, many businessmen have ventured deep into the Tianshan Mountains to collect snow lotus.Over time, the snow lotus on the Tianshan Mountains has almost disappeared.

However, under the guidance of the guide, there may be snow lotus in one place.

That place is Misty Peak of Tianshan Mountain.

Because the Vulture Palace is entrenched there, and there is a line of barriers, so these merchants on Misty Peak have not been placed in the "extreme household net".

Although Li Qinglong is from the Central Plains, he has also heard about the deeds of the Vulture Palace.After all, the fact that the Mongolian army sued for peace in the first-line battle of Tianchao was still a sensation in the Mongolian military circle.

This is also one of the few defeats of the invincible Mongolian army, so it was remembered by the Mongolians.Moreover, the Privy Council of the Mongolian court specially asked these experienced generals to discuss that battle, and how to fight if they encountered the same terrain next time.

And the result of discussion and discussion was "no solution", but that is also no solution to the terrain of Vulture Palace, because the mountain road leading to Misty Peak is narrow, and the mountain road is only enough for three chariots to walk side by side.The army cannot take advantage of numbers.And a lot of equipment can't be used.

In the past, people, horses, and even carriages were enough to enter and leave the Vulture Palace.But there is no way to start the army battle.And the opponent is not afraid of blockade, even if it is a war of attrition, it cannot beat the opponent.

Because of this impenetrable defense, the Mongolian army has provided a wealth of experience in combat and defense.

In the future, almost all the granaries of the Mongolian army in the mountain battles and the large tents of the Chinese army will be stationed in dangerous places similar to the terrain of the Vulture Palace.Moreover, the outpost stationed for a long time is based on the defense configuration of Vulture Palace.

Although there is no solution to the Vulture Palace, they have also developed a combat strategy against similar terrain, and they have been successfully applied when they invaded the Caucasus and Urals.

As a senior general, Li Qinglong, a prince of a town, also participated in this tactical discussion meeting in the Privy Council.

Therefore, these six words are very sensitive to Misty Peak Vulture Palace.

But because of his son's illness, the old father Li Qinglong still bit the bullet and set foot on the road to Vulture Palace.

(End of this chapter)