Of course, Xu Shiyang will not completely expose his strategic offensive direction to the enemy.

Although this enemy is weak, weaker than expected, war is war, and one careless one is prone to big problems.

The lion fights the rabbit still needs to do his best, not to mention that the Jin Province has the mobilization ability of hundreds of thousands of strong men.

Therefore, while he put on a posture of advancing from Bauhinia Pass to Datong, he also sent a cavalry battle group commanded by Luan Tingyu to attack Jin Province from the north through the grassland.

As a subordinate of the Mugwus, the Jin Province was undoubtedly very weak in its defense of the north, and the gradually increasing cavalry units of the Qi army were naturally very suitable for military operations on the grassland.

More importantly, the Qi army dared to attack Jin Province through the territory of the Muguls, which dealt a more serious blow to the hearts of the Shihou.

In fact, the Shihou themselves did not think that Batu's thousand cavalry could do much in military affairs, but they could count on using the power of the Muguls to make Xu Shiyang offer a new condition acceptable to both parties.

Well, now that Xu Shiyang has proved that he doesn't care what Zamuhe thinks of his military actions, and even takes the initiative to infringe on Zamuhe's rights in order to make his actions go smoothly.

"The Muguls can't count on it!"

Fan Yongdou gritted his teeth and said:

"But we don't have to be discouraged, there's still a chance!"

After all, Xu Shiyang is the number one general in the world who has just destroyed the Jin Kingdom and is full of spirit, although he dares to completely ignore Zamuhe's arrogance, but it is not completely unimaginable.

Therefore, the generations of Jin Province still have a backhand.

"I have already sent someone to contact Lord Weng, and Lord Weng has promised that the imperial court will call the shots for us!"

Fan Yongdou's backhand was to win over the Great Zhou court and form an encirclement of the Qi Kingdom in which the Mugwu, Shihou, and Great Zhou participated together.

Originally, this encirclement still had to be attended by the Jin State - this was originally the first initiative of the Jin State, but now that the Jurchens are finished, there are only three forces left in the encirclement that can participate.

Fan Yongdou and his accomplices pledged allegiance to the Great Zhou, which would allow the Longdao Emperor to gain the historical honor of recovering the Jin province, and financially they could give the same amount of tribute to the Great Zhou and the Mengwu, except that the Jin dynasty wanted to gain the court's endorsement of his special status.

Weng Shuping, who Fan Yongdou contacted, naturally agreed to the request of the Jin Provincial Candidates, as a celebrity in front of Emperor Longdao, he knew very well that the emperor's vigilance against King Qi was getting heavier and heavier - this kind of vigilance was also very correct, because King Qi was indeed the only person who could and had the intention to usurp the throne of the Great Zhou.

Proceeding from his own interests, Emperor Longdao began to find ways to restrict the development of the Qi State, which is actually very understandable.

"The old man doesn't believe that Xu Shiyang dares to provoke Mengwu, Da Zhou and our three families in Jin Province at the same time!" Fan Yongdou said viciously: "So don't be afraid, it won't be long before Xu Shiyang has to return to the army under the pressure of three sides!" When the time comes, let's prepare another generous gift for him, and he will definitely not refuse! ”

The idea is good, but the premise is that the eight great dynasties of Jin Province must be able to hold out until the Mengwu and Great Zhou react to the military action of the Qi State.

……

On the other hand, the Mughal army, which was advancing eastward to meet Xu Shiyang.

"Master, let's just go to fight Xu Shiyang?" A centurion asked Batu worriedly: "How can our eight hundred people beat Xu Shiyang?" I heard that he ......"

"I heard that the Han people under his command can fight ten Jurchens at a time, right?" The short Batu said coldly: "We can't even beat the Jurchens, and this time we probably can't beat Xu Shiyang." ”

"Then let's ......"

"Gotta hit it." Batu replied: "This time Xu Shiyang brought few soldiers, he didn't know that we were waiting for him here, this is a good opportunity, maybe we can catch their small army and give it a try." ”

"The Great Khan called us here for this, he wants to see who is stronger between our Mughal warriors and Xu Shiyang's men."

Especially after Zamuhe was defeated by Yan Zongwang again in Mobei, the Mughal Gulhan began to worry about whether the quality of his men and the Qi army was too bad.

If the combat effectiveness of the soldiers on both sides was really so different, Zamuhe felt that he had to carefully consider how to get along with Qi in the future.

Therefore, Batu did not come this time simply to protect the subordinate forces of the Mughal people, nor was it simply for the little money and food promised by the Shihou of Jin Province.

Zamuhe ordered him to do a combat test - Gulhan had heard that there was a Jurchen Blue Army Brigade in Qi State, and it was fighting against various Qi troops all day long, so that the Qi army could familiarize itself with the Jurchen fighting methods.

The Mughal people did not have the conditions to organize a "Red Army" similar to the equipment of the Qi Army to do actual combat tests, so it became the only possibility to find an opportunity when the Qi army was not strong.

"So that's what the Great Khan thought." The centurion suddenly said: "It is worthy of our vulture Khan!" ”

"But be careful! You can only catch a small army of Han Chinese, don't touch the big army! Batu said: "Don't fight if you have more than a thousand Qi troops!" Today's people are all the treasures of your masters, and you can't afford to lose! ”

This time, Batu attacked as a thousand-man commander, and his 800 people actually came from 8000 people, because they were all the elite of the most powerful 100-person team selected, all of them were one person and three horses, and they were fully equipped with iron armor, sabers, horse lances, soft bows and hard bows, heavy arrows and light arrows!

With such an elite soldier, there may be less than 10,000 in the entire Mughul now!

So he couldn't afford to lose, so Batu could only try to be careful not to touch an enemy who was too strong.

……

Batu's luck was good, the broken terrain of the Taihang Mountains, and Xu Shiyang's strategic need to be realistic and realistic in the whole province of Kongjin Province gave him many opportunities.

On the fifth day of June, the Qi army occupied Guangchang, on the sixth day of the first month, it occupied Yimaling between Lingqiu and Guangchang, and on the seventh day of the first month, it joined Lin Chong, who occupied Lingqiu.

Then the troops had to divide into three routes, advancing in three directions: Pingxingguan, Hunyuanzhou, and Guangling.

According to the original plan of the General Staff, after the occupation of the three places, the various units will be more dispersed, and eventually several battle groups will be formed with battalion-level troops as the core, and the two core cities of Jin Province will be occupied respectively (the area of these two provinces exceeds 60% of the total area of Jin Province).

In addition, Xu Shiyang can't really ignore Zamuhe completely, after all, this Mughal Khan claims to have 300,000 control strings in his hands, even if he brags, 100,000 herdsmen on horseback can still take it, Xu Shiyang has to send another 20,000 people to form a separate group, responsible for isolating the border between Hebei and Jin provinces and the grassland, to prevent the Mugwu people from taking advantage of the opportunity.

Even the Liaodong direction and Qi Province should be vigilant, the Liaodong direction is still to defend against the Mengwu cavalry, and the Qi Province direction is to prevent the Great Zhou court from taking this opportunity to do something irrational.

The Qi army is so seriously dispersed, Batu naturally has a lot of opportunities to find a small Qi army force to fight well.