In all fairness, if the queen were to travel back to ten years ago, the day before Xu Shiliu went to Jiangnan, she probably wouldn't dare to forcibly leave her son in Jiangbei in order to compete for the position of the prince.

Because over the years, every time there is a big battle, Xu Shiyang has always been in the battle formation, and it is said that many times he has to personally draw his sword and fight with the Tartars!

It's true that Xu Shiyang is not dead, but who dares to say that Xu Shiliu will not have a problem doing the same thing?

As a mother, letting your child grow up safely is the first priority, and as for what the child achieves in life, she has to stand aside in front of this issue.

What's more, from the queen's point of view, the son's biological mother is not alive, so in the future, he will posthumously crown his own mother as the queen mother, and he will not be able to affect her status as the real queen mother.

Therefore, the queen is very hesitant now, and she doesn't know what attitude to use to face His Royal Highness the Prince of Qi Kingdom.

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The Qi army marched extremely fast on its own territory, and on May 18, the Northern Expeditionary Force had already divided into two routes, arriving at the two places of Daoma Pass and Bauhinia Pass at the junction of Ji Province and Jin Province.

Here, Xu Shiyang learned the results of the Battle of Jinmeng in Mobei:

About a month ago, the 8,000 cavalry of the Mongolian army under the personal command of Zamuhe broke out a great ......battle with the remnants of the Jin army led by Wanyan Zongwang near the Troubled River, and then they were beaten by Wanyan Zongwang .......

Faced with the Mongol herdsmen, who had twice the superiority in strength, the Jin army did not meet the battle in a defensive posture as Zamuhe envisioned, but directly charged the Mongol army!

In the face of the Jin army's assault, Zamuhe made a wrong decision that he would regret for the rest of his life: the main armored cavalry and the Jin army charged head-on, outflanked the two wings of the light cavalry, and tried to defeat the remnants of the Jin army head-on.

As a result, the Jin Army armored cavalry was wearing heavy armor, holding a knife in his left hand and a mace in his right hand, and directly rushed into the Mongolian army array, smashing left and right, and almost in one round, he penetrated the most elite Xue Cowardly army array under the command of Zamuhe!

At the same time, Wanyan Zongwang's infantry relied on the few remaining firearms to withstand the outflanking of the Jin army by the Mughal herdsmen.

The battle between the two sides lasted for a total of two hours, and finally Zamuhe's Sulu ingots were cut down by the Jin army, and the Mongolian army completely collapsed!

When Zamuhe fled back in disarray, there were less than 2,000 of the 8,000 Mughal cavalry that followed him......

Of course, not all of those who did not return were killed, and it is estimated that a large part of them should have escaped with the advantage of Mado's tactical mobility.

However, the Mongol army still suffered heavy losses, and the losses that have been determined so far are at least 1,000 killed, and more than 1,000 surrendered to the Jin army or were captured. The loss of horses was estimated at around six thousand, of which at least half fell into the hands of the Jin army, and the rest was able to provide at least some meat for the Jin army.

There is no data on Wanyan Zongwang's losses yet, but it is estimated that it should not be higher than 1,000 people—if it were more than 25 percent, it would have collapsed long ago.

Therefore, after this battle, Wanyan Zongwang not only did not have a big loss, but his strength became stronger .......

"Zamuhe is really a standard transport captain!"

Xu Shiyang really didn't know what to say, in the past, he always regarded the Mughurs as the powerful and terrifying Tartar army at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty in another era, so that Xu Shiyang always felt that the Muguls should be more terrible opponents than the Jurchens.

But in fact, when it comes to fighting, the current Muguls are simply like a pack of wild dogs, which are used as copies by the Jurchens to farm monsters.

However, this is also beneficial, at least the Shanshan Shihou, who has been sheltering the Mughu, should be able to see the situation more clearly.

On May 19, Xu Shiyang himself gave an ultimatum to the 14 families in Shanxi at Bauhinia Pass: within three days, all cities and villages in Shanxi should be unconditionally opened to the Qi army, and all the parents of the Shihou should come to Bauhinia Pass to pledge allegiance to the Qi State, otherwise they would be enemies.

The Qi army came violently, and the people of Shanxi felt a little at a loss.

Some of them felt that they had the strength to fight with the Qi army, even if they couldn't, they had to let the Qi State know their determination to defend their family property, and let them make some meaningful concessions, and there was really no need to be intimidated by Xu Shiyang's ultimatum.

But there are also some people who resolutely disagree with the war with the Qi army, the reason is simple, the Qi army occupied the capital of the Jin country, and the emperor was dragged to Quancheng to scrape alive, and the result was that the Mughuls could not even beat a remnant of the Jin army.

With this kind of combat power comparison, where did the Shanxi Shihou, who has always been a vassal of Mengwu, have the confidence to resist the Qi army?

The Zuo family and the Zhe family hold this view the most, and the Zuo family hopes to have a good talk with Xu Shiyang to see if they can win better merger conditions.

And the Zhe family simply planned to accept Xu Shiyang's ultimatum - after Zhi Keshi went home, he narrated Xu Shiyang's stubborn nationalist plot to the elders of the folded family, as a family with party blood, if they resist with the Han people, Xu Shiyang may not be too harsh on them in the end, but the Zhe family will never show mercy.

The parents of the Zhe family believe that since they have no capital to negotiate, it is better for the Zhe family to simply devote themselves to the Qi State - the only requirement of the Zhe family is that the whole family must obtain at least a civilian political identity.

Moreover, the most desired commander of the Shihou family who wants to resist is Zuo Helin, the son of the Zuo family, who does not want to resist the most.

It's embarrassing.......

While the Qi army was stationed at Bauhinia Pass and Baoma Pass and waiting, Qiao, Chang, Cao, Hou, Qu, Kang, Fan, and Kong in the Shanxi Shihou organized 120,000 strong men, and spent a lot of money to hire thousands of Tartar cavalry from the various departments of Monan Mengwu to help, gathering a total of 130,000 troops, stationed in Lingqiu, ready to resist the upcoming attack of the Qi army.

However, the eight families gathered with soldiers and horses, and the grain and grass were abundant, but the choice of the commander of the coalition forces could not be decided at all.

The best candidate, Zuo Helin, said very simply that he was the captain of Qi State, and if they did not accept the ultimatum, then the Eight Coalition Forces would be their enemies.

The second-best candidate, Zhi Keshi, said that he only listened to his family's orders, which was already planning to accept the ultimatum of Qi State.......

When there was really no way, the eight families had no choice but to jointly elect Fan Yongdou, the strongest head of the Fan family, as the commander and command the army to resist Xu Shiyang.

Sadly, Fan Yongdou had never commanded an army in his previous fifty years of life, and he was able to become the Han army recognized by the Mughurs purely because he was not so bad at the economy that he was always able to scavenge enough wealth in his territory to meet the needs of the Muguls.

Fan Yongdou is indeed a very qualified tax collector, but let him command the army to fight...... Hehe, I can only say that this is better than having no commander at all, and everyone has their own strategy.

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On May 20 of the sixth year of Longdao, Zuo Huyun, the acting head of the Zuo family (Zuo Hufeng, the head of the Zuo family, was unwell and had not come forward to preside over family affairs for a long time) and the head of the Zhe family, Zhi Kexing, arrived at Bauhinia Pass in accordance with Xu Shiyang's ultimatum.