Zhuo Mahan's thousand-man team met Kublai Khan's defeated hundred-man team outside the city of Jianzhou.

Seeing Ba Ling's body bandaged into a mummy and lying on horseback, he and Zhang Rongzu, a thousand households of the Han army, were taken aback.

"His Majesty the Prince is not injured, is he?" He asked nervously, looking at Kublai Khan up and down inside and out, for fear that something would happen to this prince: "What's going on?" ”

"It's a bit tricky to encounter a Song soldier." Kublai Khan replied simply, and recounted what happened on the road: "The number of people is a bit large, about 1,000 people, and it occupies the geography of the mountain, so I didn't take it." ”

Seeing Kublai Khan's red-toothed and white-faced appearance, not frightened and injured, Zhuo Ermahan breathed a long sigh of relief.

Every heir of the Golden Family is golden, and once something goes wrong, he can't afford it.

"Pull out the edges, this piece of waste! It must be that he is arrogant and acts on his own, and forgets the mission of escorting the prince, such a brainless fellow, I must sue the marshal of the capital! Djordmahan ordered the guards to pull the gray plucking edge down, and scolded viciously: "Prince, let my men escort you north." ”

"Don't worry, Zhuo Ermahan, I came here quickly, and those Song soldiers are walking on two legs, they can't walk fast." Kublai Khan looked at him and said with a gloomy face: "My warriors of the Great Mongolian Kingdom can't be slaughtered by them like this, you should quickly send people over, intercept them, and destroy these southerners who dare to resist." ”

Zhuo Ermahan patted his head and remembered something: "The prince reminded me that in the past two days, my Red Army has been ambushed and killed by the Song Army, and many people have been lost. Now that I think about it, I guess I met the same group of people as the prince! ”

"It should be, north of Gongzhou, the Song army has been beaten into panicked turtles, and there is no active Song army outside the fortified city, only this one dares to fight with us everywhere." The haze on Kublai Khan's face became a little thicker: "What are you waiting for? ”

Zhuo Mahan hesitated, as if he had some concerns, and Urliang Hatai stepped forward and said: "The prince's safety is in charge of me with the rest of the baling department, you don't need to be distracted, take your people, and do what the prince arranges!" ”

Yao Shu also said: "Chengdu Mansion is close to the left, they are all our people, there is nothing to worry about, the Song army that can fight is only this one, and there will be no second one." ”

Zhuo Mahan was overjoyed and bowed to Kublai Khan: "In this way, the villain will set off immediately!" ”

Kublai Khan waved his hand, Zhuo Ermahan turned over his horse, led his thousand households and several Han army thousand households, and left in the dust.

Seeing the majestic Mongol army depart, Wuliang Hatai ordered the remaining people of the Baileng Hundred Households to continue to march in the direction of Chengdu, and at the same time served Kublai Khan to get on his horse, and Kublai Khan stepped on his knees and jumped on horseback.

"Tahai's method in Sichuan is not clever." Kublai Khan rode on his horse and said to Yao Shu, who was riding side by side: "If you make Sichuan sparse, it will be a hundred times more difficult to restore it in the future." ”

Yao Shu nodded: "In the hearts of the Great Khan and the others, they have no intention of operating this side, it is enough to burn, kill and loot, and take away the population and wealth." ”

"This is not a method, but the idea you said represents the vast majority of people in Great Mongolia." Kublai Khan shook his head and said abruptly: "The purpose of slaughtering the city is to establish authority and make the people of the south give up the idea of resistance, but it is not right to slaughter the city everywhere." Enwei and power, for those who resist to the end, find two typical kills, and the rest, as long as they are willing to surrender, don't do things at any time. ”

"The prince said it well, if Tahai thought the same way, the Song army he met today might not exist." Yao Shu said.

"Yes, isn't the reason why the Jin people have been able to occupy the Yellow River Valley for so many years is because of both soft and hard?" Kublai Khan looked at the black smoke covering the sky in the distance, squinted his eyes and said, "You can't solve the problem by killing people alone." ”

Yao Shu looked at his disciple with satisfaction, and felt more and more that he had not been in vain in the past few years on the grassland, and what he had learned was worth it in the end, so he persuaded him: "It is enough for the prince to see through this, don't be anxious, I can wait for the old man, the prince is in his youth, how can he not wait?" ”

Kublai Khan laughed, raised his horsewhip, and said in a loud voice: "What Master Yao said is, don't you hear the poem that says: The court is Tian Shelang, and the twilight is the Tianzi Hall, and the man should be self-reliant!" ”

"There are many heroes in the world, so what's the matter if it's early or late? Heaven gave birth to me, and it will be useful to me, hahaha! ”

The whip danced slightly, the healthy horse neighed, Kublai Khan took the lead, galloped away, Wuliang Hatai looked bright, bowed deeply to Yao Shu on the horse, and said with emotion: "The prince can meet Yao Shi, it is really a blessing!" ”

Yao Shu's beard was white, but he rode his horse like a young man and followed closely, looked at Kublai Khan's back, and sighed: "Isn't this Yao's blessing, Wuliang Hatai, the prince is not a thing in the pool, assist him, and in the future, among the kings and princes of the Great Mongolia, there will be your and my names." ”

……

Kublai Khan went away and no longer cared about the things behind him, but Wang Kui, who was in a hurry, had to think about his own back road.

A small victory lifted the hearts of the Hanzhou soldiers, and also let the sober Wang Kui know that there was a big trouble.

The Mongols will return, and soon.

So he didn't even cut off the heads of the dead enemy soldiers, and hurriedly led his troops away.

You can't stay here any longer, you can only retreat in the direction of Hezhou.

But how to get it back? Two ways, one is to take the big road, the big road is easy to walk, flat and easy to walk, walk for about two days, you can get to the city of Hezhou.

But the Song army walked easily, and the Mongols walked easily.

Is it enough to compete with the Mongol cavalry on the road on two legs?

Another method is to drill the ravine, go around the mountain, the delay will be longer, but it is safe, the peaks and peaks in the mountains are undulating, and the advantage of the Mongols will be offset by the terrain.

This multiple-choice question is easy to make a decision, and Wang Kui went up the mountain without hesitation.

He felt a little regretful in his heart, the Xuzhou soldiers never found it, and he didn't know where those barbarians went, whether they were dead or alive. The deputy defense envoy Sun Hong, a young man and a bold fellow, had not yet had time to drink a bowl of wine with him.

If he died, wouldn't the kindness of the military rations be repaid at his grave?

Wang Kui shook his head as he walked, hoping that when he returned to Hezhou, he unexpectedly saw that he was already sitting on the head of the city.

But he didn't go long, two hours at most, and the pillars of smoke and dust rising far behind him made him forget all the miscellaneous thoughts in his mind.

The smoke and dust were vast and gathered but not dispersed, and it was clear that only the galloping of the cavalry would stir up such dust.

"Mongols!" Someone recognized it and shouted: "The Mongols are catching up!" ”

Wang Kui's heart suddenly fell to the bottom.

(End of chapter)